Speaker 1: Live on Sky News.
Speaker 2: This is Sharry Good Evening will major news tonight. A
Speaker 2: bombshell racism scandal has hit the Collingwood Football Club. Senior
Speaker 2: executives at the AFL club have been accused of highly
Speaker 2: offensive racial slurs towards Indigenous players.
Speaker 3: And a Jewish colleague.
Speaker 2: This exclusive story on tomorrow's front page of The Herald
Speaker 2: Son reports that the chief executive, Craig Kelly, has been
Speaker 2: accused of joking about putting a live effing possum in
Speaker 2: a special room for Indigenous players and calling an Aboriginal
Speaker 2: elder a dumb old bee. The paper has obtained explosive
Speaker 2: court documents which also claim that Kelly joked about sending
Speaker 2: a photograph of a free Palestine sign to a Jewish
Speaker 2: colleague to wind her up. He is alleged to have
Speaker 2: seen a free Palestine sign in the street and said,
Speaker 2: and I quote quick, take a photo of that, send
Speaker 2: it to Garlit and watch her go off. He was
Speaker 2: reportedly referring to garllit Yeri, Collingwood's executive general.
Speaker 3: Manager for People and Culture.
Speaker 2: In another comment, Kelly is alleged to have said to
Speaker 2: the then First Nation strategy head Mark Kleaver, why do
Speaker 2: you need to use Google Maps. I assume your people
Speaker 2: can navigate with their eyes closed. Victoria Police has also
Speaker 2: been notified over allegations of physical assaults and there's more
Speaker 2: detail on this on the Herald's Sun website right now. Now,
Speaker 2: Sky News and The Herald's Sign are not suggesting any
Speaker 2: of the claims are true, only that they have been
Speaker 2: made in documents before the court. Well known law firm
Speaker 2: Morris Blackburn is taking on this case and their principal
Speaker 2: Daniel Victory. So the allegations call into question whether the
Speaker 2: Collingwood Football Club has learned anything from its racism scandals.
Speaker 2: A report into racism in twenty twenty one led to
Speaker 2: Eddie mcgwai's resignation as Collingwood president after twenty two years. Now,
Speaker 2: the AFL Integrity Unit has been made aware of this
Speaker 2: hr complaint but has deemed it a workplace issue for
Speaker 2: the club. There'll be a court hearing on August twenty seven,
Speaker 2: and this story.
Speaker 3: Is going to be big news. Now.
Speaker 2: As I said, you can head to the Herald Sun website.
Speaker 2: There's a lot more detail on that story. It is
Speaker 2: going to be front page of the Herald Sun tomorrow
Speaker 2: we've got that front page. We're going to bring it
Speaker 2: to you in a moment throughout the show. Now, in
Speaker 2: such a tumultuous time in the world, we need tough
Speaker 2: leaders in charge of our national security. Yet we have
Speaker 2: Anthony Albanesi and Tony Burke, two knock about factional figures
Speaker 2: who were never considered leadership material, and yet somehow one
Speaker 2: is the Prime Minister and the other the Home Affairs Minister. Worse,
Speaker 2: Albinizi has since coming to office got it Australia's premier
Speaker 2: national security.
Speaker 3: Agency, Home Affairs.
Speaker 2: He's stripped ASIO and other critical operational agencies from it.
Speaker 2: Now the move to install Tony Burke in Home Affairs
Speaker 2: has been so controversial that Albin Easy was forced to
Speaker 2: come out today and defend his actions.
Speaker 4: Tony Burke is someone who has been successful in everything
Speaker 4: he has done and undertaken. He already has hit the
Speaker 4: ground running. He's there in Indonesia.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister also launched a scathing attack on the
Speaker 2: highly sensible and talented James Patterson, who was the first
Speaker 2: to point out just how ludicrous Tony Burke's appointment was.
Speaker 3: Yet alban Easy shot.
Speaker 4: Back, James Patterson is a shocking message to Australians that
Speaker 4: all you need to do is to be negative and opposed.
Speaker 4: About time James Patterson stood up for the Australian national
Speaker 4: interest instead of just playing politics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, James Patterson is the one who is clear eyed
Speaker 2: when it comes to national security, not Alban Easy. Tony
Speaker 2: Burke dutifully followed Alban Easy by ripping into Patterson this morning,
Speaker 2: even though it's his own record as Immigration Minister that's
Speaker 2: now under question.
Speaker 5: Can I just say, what an idiotic comment from somebody
Speaker 5: who's clearly never been a minister and has like he's
Speaker 5: made up a way of looking at statistics about me.
Speaker 5: If that's the character of my shadow, then we'll just
Speaker 5: deal with what comes at us. I have never hesitated
Speaker 5: to reject visas or to cancel visus. He'll probably never
Speaker 5: refer to that statistic because it's just irrefutable if you
Speaker 5: go back through the records, is what I did last
Speaker 5: time and the sort of decisions that will happen under
Speaker 5: my watch again.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: I asked James Patterson to respond to these attacks from
Speaker 2: Albanizi and Tony Burke today and he told me I
Speaker 2: understand why the Prime Minister and Tony Burke are sensitive.
Speaker 2: I'd be embarrassed too with that record. Burke led in
Speaker 2: eighty three votes carrying six thousand, six hundred illegal arrivals
Speaker 2: in just eighty days as Immigration minister. Children in detention
Speaker 2: peaked at one nine hundred and ninety two on his watch.
Speaker 2: But Australians are entitled to expect a Prime Minister and
Speaker 2: Minister for Home Affairs who are calm and measured, not
Speaker 2: who resort to unhinged rants when their record is scrutinized. Well,
Speaker 2: Albinizi tried to defend Burke, saying that the six thousand
Speaker 2: asylum seekers who came under him weren't actually his fault.
Speaker 4: It's the only person and group who send messages to
Speaker 4: people smugglers which could give them some heart is the Coalition.
Speaker 4: What we've done is put in place Operation Sovereign Borders
Speaker 4: with more funding than it has ever received since it
Speaker 4: was created.
Speaker 2: Well, let's turn to Tony Burke's own words, because in
Speaker 2: his own words, he admitted that lives were lost while
Speaker 2: he was the Immigration minister in twenty and thirteen.
Speaker 7: I was the shadow Minister for Immigration before the two
Speaker 7: thousand and seven election. I took to the election and
Speaker 7: to this conference a platform that the entire conference cheered.
Speaker 7: I changed our platform so that we stood for the
Speaker 7: abolition of temporary projection visus. I was there for fewer
Speaker 7: than four months, and there are thirty three lives that
Speaker 7: were lost on my watch.
Speaker 2: And then there's the concern that we spoke about last
Speaker 2: night that Tony Burke won't be tough calling out the
Speaker 2: top threat facing Australia Islamic extremists because he's under pressure
Speaker 2: from the Muslim vote in his own electorate. Burke failed
Speaker 2: to quickly condemn the hate preachers who celebrated the Hamas
Speaker 2: terror attacks just twenty four hours after the bloodshed. Will
Speaker 2: Former Queensland Labor State Secretary Cameron Milner laid into him
Speaker 2: over this.
Speaker 8: His own electorate is the epicenter of his Islamic extremism
Speaker 8: in Australia, the center of hate preachers, and yet as
Speaker 8: the local member, he's waved it all through. So Goodness
Speaker 8: knows what he does as our Home Affairs Minister when
Speaker 8: our national security is at stake. Goodness knows when he's
Speaker 8: got the demand for Palestinian refugees in verte Commas to
Speaker 8: come out after the conflict, who will no doubt be
Speaker 8: flooded with Hamas and other g hardy operatives and it
Speaker 8: will wave them through. As a weak Immigration minister, Tony
Speaker 8: Burg is utterly compromised because his own personal endeavor and
Speaker 8: trying to hold on the seat of Watson against the
Speaker 8: Muslim vote will compromise every single decision.
Speaker 2: He makes pretty strong comments and he's probably right. There's
Speaker 2: also concerned that Home Affairs no longer has any operation
Speaker 2: or agencies with the AFP. The acic Ostrak and now
Speaker 2: ASIO all moved out we Albanezi claimed he was moving
Speaker 2: Azeo to the Attorney General's Department to keep it with
Speaker 2: the AFP.
Speaker 4: It was a logical thing to put ASIO together with
Speaker 4: the AFP. We inherited a system that was simply dysfunctional.
Speaker 2: But it's nonsense because the AFP and AZIO were already
Speaker 2: both together under Home Affairs prior to Albanezi becoming Prime Minister.
Speaker 3: So you have to.
Speaker 2: Wonder is he trying to appease Mike Drafis here, the
Speaker 2: Attorney General who many suspect will choose to retire in
Speaker 2: the not too distant future. Well, The Australian's editorial has
Speaker 2: highlighted problems with this.
Speaker 3: They're right.
Speaker 2: The government's other moves, however, especially gutting the Home Affairs Department,
Speaker 2: pose a significant risk.
Speaker 3: To the nation and to the government.
Speaker 2: This weakening of our national security comes at the most
Speaker 2: volatile time in decades. Israel and Hesbelah on the cusp
Speaker 2: of war. Russia is disseminating disinformation on social media, and
Speaker 2: there's an increasingly aggressive Iran and China. More than ever,
Speaker 2: we need to have confidence in our national security team.
Speaker 2: All right, We're just going to bring you now the
Speaker 2: front page of the Herald Sun tomorrow with his latest
Speaker 2: breaking bombshell racism scandal at the Collingwood AFL Club. We'll
Speaker 2: show that to you now. So that is the Herald
Speaker 2: Sign front page tomorrow. This is going to be an ongoing,
Speaker 2: big issue. Those documents emerging in court. Also coming up
Speaker 2: on the show tonight, Israel on the brink of war
Speaker 2: with Lebanon as Australians are told to evacuate immediately. Shadow
Speaker 2: Defense Minister Andrew Hasty will join me live plus all
Speaker 2: eyes on tomorrow's inflation data as the RBA gears up
Speaker 2: for a crucial rates decision. Will have economists Economist Judith
Speaker 2: Sloan give us her prediction and we'll coast live to
Speaker 2: Paris for more Olympics coverage. But first let's bring it
Speaker 2: now Tonight's panel, former Speaker of the House Bronwan Bishop
Speaker 2: and Sky News host Caleb Bond. Thank you both very
Speaker 2: much for your time. Rom When I want to get
Speaker 2: your view on what has been the political biggest political
Speaker 2: issue of the past two days, Albanezi choosing to promote
Speaker 2: Tony Burke into the Home Affairs portfolio.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, people laugh when I said that Tony
Speaker 9: Burke gave the unions everything they wanted because when there's
Speaker 9: a leadership context, when Albow goes.
Speaker 10: Unions will give him the vote and give him the leadership.
Speaker 9: But it's part of the same, part of the same
Speaker 9: mental strategy for Burke. He's now been given the power
Speaker 9: to increase the number of people coming in from Gaza,
Speaker 9: which will in fact is part of his campaign to
Speaker 9: try and stabilize the West where the Muslim movement vote
Speaker 9: movement is growing. He is was a failure absolutely, as
Speaker 9: we've just heard when he had the portfolio before.
Speaker 10: But not only that, the.
Speaker 9: Man is running Leader of the House, which is a
Speaker 9: big job to run the House. He's got all these
Speaker 9: elected a bit like Scott Morrison really is the minister perfectly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he probably does have five ministries. He's still arts minister.
Speaker 2: It's immigrants show tickets. Ye indeed, so you know he
Speaker 2: but he is.
Speaker 10: He is a very ambitious man.
Speaker 9: But he's the only one who talks about him being
Speaker 9: the leader exactly nowadays.
Speaker 2: Thinks he can seriously be the Prime Minister. Except for
Speaker 2: nobody talked about elbow.
Speaker 10: You see, that's why it's a problem.
Speaker 2: No true, Well, let's have a listen to fromer Prime
Speaker 2: Minister Tony Abbott. He was on with Peter Kradlin earlier
Speaker 2: here he was.
Speaker 11: For Tony Burke to have any credibility as a new
Speaker 11: immigration minister, he's really got to begin with a bit
Speaker 11: of an apology, frankly for his previous record, and I
Speaker 11: think a full account of what he did wrong then
Speaker 11: and how it's going to be different now.
Speaker 12: Caleb.
Speaker 2: You know, Tony Burke and Albanezi are trying to spin
Speaker 2: their way out of Tony Burke's record, but you can't
Speaker 2: spin figures. The data shows what the data shows, and
Speaker 2: that's why I've played that grabbed tonight and last night
Speaker 2: of Tony Burke himself saying how many lives were lost
Speaker 2: when he was the Immigration Minister.
Speaker 13: Correct, and roughly one bow to day came to Australia
Speaker 13: during his short tenure, it should be noted before the
Speaker 13: twenty thirteen election as Immigration Minister. He cannot get away
Speaker 13: from that.
Speaker 12: And the idea that this.
Speaker 13: Sort of swaggering, arrogant character that Tony Burke portrays himself
Speaker 13: to be would either be a potential future leader just obsurd.
Speaker 13: But the idea that all the other portfolios has got
Speaker 13: and I know how upset Bronwen would be that Arts
Speaker 13: will sort of fall to the wayside given everything else
Speaker 13: he has to worry about. The idea that he can
Speaker 13: take on Immigration and Home Affairs with the great misses
Speaker 13: that have been created in those two portfolios under the
Speaker 13: previous ministers, and given his previous record, that he's going
Speaker 13: to be able to do anything better than him, I
Speaker 13: just can't see it. And then of course we have
Speaker 13: the news today that the number of patrol flights being
Speaker 13: done around the border to monitor these incoming votes.
Speaker 2: Has reduced and we've had at least.
Speaker 13: Three make landfall since this government was elected. You know
Speaker 13: how is he going to clean any of this up
Speaker 13: if the number of patrols, even though the Prime Minister says, oh,
Speaker 13: we've put more money into sovereign borders than ever before. Well,
Speaker 13: the inflation racks also gone up, so of course you're
Speaker 13: putting more money into it. But we haven't seen any
Speaker 13: action as if Burke is going to be able to
Speaker 13: turn that around, certainly not without the support of the
Speaker 13: Prime Minister.
Speaker 10: Those survey and flights us so important.
Speaker 9: I've actually flown those flights and I know how important
Speaker 9: it is to pick up the illegals, including fishing boats,
Speaker 9: and telephone would telegraph the message back to.
Speaker 10: The naval vessels because when they come in.
Speaker 9: I remember we found a boat and there they're holding
Speaker 9: up their phone saying here, cheer, come and take us in,
Speaker 9: take us into Australia.
Speaker 2: And of course we saw at the end of last
Speaker 2: year that illegal fishing vessels had arrived on Australian and
Speaker 2: it had been four or five days and no one
Speaker 2: had actually picked up that they were there because there
Speaker 2: is less less both aerial surveillance and maritime patrols as well.
Speaker 13: I think it came down to, wasn't it some local
Speaker 13: Aboriginal people who had a drone that they bought from
Speaker 13: JB High Fire were the ones who pointed it out.
Speaker 13: I mean, the heaven's sake, if they can do a
Speaker 13: better job of border patrol than operations sovereign borders, can,
Speaker 13: we've got real problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and don't forget they've stripped Mike Pizzillo out well.
Speaker 2: So this is an emasculating of the portfolio.
Speaker 10: Indeed it is.
Speaker 2: Now a new report by the Low Institute has found
Speaker 2: that the cost of the Orchest partnership will be a
Speaker 2: fraction of the NDIS. The nuclear powered submarines are reported
Speaker 2: to cost around ten billion dollars a year, which is
Speaker 2: roughly one tenth of what the NDIS is predicted to
Speaker 2: cost over the next thirty years. Bronwin, this is a
Speaker 2: big problem. The ndis a clear cost blowout. No one
Speaker 2: says it's not an important initiative, but we've seen in
Speaker 2: recent months that the scheme is being abused and misused.
Speaker 10: Yes it is. And the point that.
Speaker 9: The realization has to be this, if we can't defend ourselves,
Speaker 9: if we can't remain a free and independent nation, there will.
Speaker 10: Be no NDIS nil.
Speaker 9: We have to have our economy structured so that we
Speaker 9: can support those in need.
Speaker 10: But the way it is roarted.
Speaker 9: One of the most terrifying figures I've seen in recent
Speaker 9: times is of all new jobs that were created in
Speaker 9: the last twelve months, thirty percent of them went to
Speaker 9: the ndis now the way in which money is being
Speaker 9: ripped out of the system. There has to be caps
Speaker 9: put on it. But Shorten just talks about it, flaps
Speaker 9: the lips, goes on radio, says oh, I'm doing something
Speaker 9: about it, and never does because he'll get criticized by
Speaker 9: that section of the community. So there has to be
Speaker 9: a strong policy that does put.
Speaker 3: Caps in place.
Speaker 9: It says, he's an allocation of money. It can't go
Speaker 9: above there's the amount. The question of registration has to
Speaker 9: be addressed. But in order that mister Shorten can keep
Speaker 9: his leadership hopes alive, he will do nothing because he'll
Speaker 9: become in for heavy criticism.
Speaker 10: So that is the problem. But the fundamental thing is this.
Speaker 9: The job of the federal government is to protect the
Speaker 9: country and protect the people up and if that fails,
Speaker 9: then all the sorts of wellherd famous we have will disappear.
Speaker 2: No indeed, but Caleb, I think it's extraordinary that this
Speaker 2: is clearly the biggest future issue affecting the federal government,
Speaker 2: and there's just not enough action to even develop a
Speaker 2: path to try and reign in the costs.
Speaker 13: No, and I mean you look at the cost of
Speaker 13: the NDAs and then the cost that they're now putting
Speaker 13: towards trying to stop the ruts at least find some
Speaker 13: of the routers, which is about four hundred and fifty
Speaker 13: million dollars a year, which is about ten percent of
Speaker 13: the entire NDAs budget. So ten percent of the NDA's
Speaker 13: budget is being spent to catch the people who are
Speaker 13: routing the system. If that doesn't tell you the system
Speaker 13: is broken, then then nothing else will. And going back
Speaker 13: to Orcus, you cannot put a price on the defense
Speaker 13: of the nation. And Ronwood makes the point about how
Speaker 13: many jobs have been created through the NDAs, many of
Speaker 13: which are nonsense jobs. There are jobs to be created
Speaker 13: in defense now. Of course, this report also goes on
Speaker 13: to say that there's concern about whether or not we
Speaker 13: have the workforce to complete some of those jobs. And again,
Speaker 13: what are we doing as a country if we are
Speaker 13: so shortsighted that we are willing to spend the billions
Speaker 13: and billions and billions that we spend on the NDAs,
Speaker 13: which is clearly over the top and being rauted, And
Speaker 13: we quibble over how much money is being spent on
Speaker 13: ucas and we're not putting the pieces in place to
Speaker 13: get the people, train up the kids to go and
Speaker 13: build those submarines and do all the other jobs that
Speaker 13: comes with defense.
Speaker 2: Well, we've totally lost the plot we have. Indeed, this
Speaker 2: sort of conversations you do depress you about the future
Speaker 2: of our country. Now something a bit lighter. According to
Speaker 2: a new poll in The Guardian, of all places, they
Speaker 2: say that Australians have warmed to Donald Trump over the
Speaker 2: past four years, with apparently thirty six percent of ozs
Speaker 2: is now saying they have a favorable view of the
Speaker 2: farmer and maybe future president. This is a fifteen percent
Speaker 2: increase compared to November twenty twenty from when I think
Speaker 2: it's so interesting that at the last election there are
Speaker 2: a whole lot of people who were too shy or
Speaker 2: scared to admit that they were Donald Trump fans. We're
Speaker 2: not seeing that now, and including high profile people in
Speaker 2: the tech sector in Wall Street and the United States
Speaker 2: are coming out supporting him.
Speaker 10: There awful good reason.
Speaker 9: They know that America is laughed at with the current leadership,
Speaker 9: and they know that strong leadership is desperately needed. They
Speaker 9: know that Donald Trump has been put through the mill.
Speaker 10: To put it mildly, they've.
Speaker 9: Tried to take him off the ballot paper, They've had
Speaker 9: all these lawfare cases against him, and then he survives
Speaker 9: an assassination attempt and still comes out fighting and capable
Speaker 9: and on top of it. Now, being the leader of
Speaker 9: the free world is complex. To put it mildly, There
Speaker 9: are many issues you have to deal with all the time,
Speaker 9: and they want someone who is able to deal with
Speaker 9: a multitude of issues at a sensible intellectual level with strength,
Speaker 9: which will show the rest of the world that America
Speaker 9: can be a strong leader.
Speaker 10: Again.
Speaker 2: It's going to continue to be a fascinating election. Just
Speaker 2: before we are.
Speaker 10: Less interested in his table manners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed, just before we go Caleb and New Zealand
Speaker 2: has described its carbon emissions reduction targets as unachievable by
Speaker 2: twenty thirty. This is the first major airline to actually
Speaker 2: admit that it's not going to meet its targets. Are
Speaker 2: you expecting to see other companies come out and say, look,
Speaker 2: we couldn't quite get that.
Speaker 13: Well, if they've got the gonades to admit that they
Speaker 13: can't quite get there, I mean in New Zealand has
Speaker 13: just had the common sense to say, look, it's simply
Speaker 13: not possible. It's not possible anywhere. I mean everyone who
Speaker 13: works in the energy sector in this country privately, not
Speaker 13: necessarily publicly, will admit that Australia is not going to
Speaker 13: achieve its renewable targets by twenty thirty and certainly won't
Speaker 13: achieve its net zero targets by twenty thirty because you
Speaker 13: don't have the renewable energy coming online. The energy sector
Speaker 13: knows that, but the government won't admit it. So the
Speaker 13: energy sector is actually scared. People feel scared to come
Speaker 13: out and publicly say leaders from AGL and whatever, that
Speaker 13: we're not going to meet those targets because they worry
Speaker 13: about the retribution that they will face from the federal
Speaker 13: government for doing so, even though they all know it.
Speaker 13: And I think that's what will cause other companies to
Speaker 13: just sort of sit idly by and not admit that
Speaker 13: these problems exist, because you go on, well, you know,
Speaker 13: we'll get to twenty thirty and we'll deal with it then,
Speaker 13: but we all know it's not going to happen. Just
Speaker 13: admit that it won't happen and get on with the job.
Speaker 2: Peter Dutton has said those targets aren't going to be met,
Speaker 2: so he said, you know, we're not going to even
Speaker 2: abide by that connatement Albaniz he attacked him over that.
Speaker 12: But what's going to happen?
Speaker 3: I mean, at what point is Albani? Is he going
Speaker 3: to admit that Australia won't meet.
Speaker 2: The twenty thirty targets and he doesn't even want to
Speaker 2: talk about what the targets will be for twenty thirty five.
Speaker 2: They do have to make a decision on that. Chris
Speaker 2: Bowen's in charge of.
Speaker 13: That one, so I don't think he wants to admit
Speaker 13: it because it's embarrassing and then we know that's the
Speaker 13: last thing that likes in reality. True.
Speaker 2: All right, brother and Bishop Calebon, thank you both so much,
Speaker 2: and Caleb will of course see you ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2: Now coming up after the break, the Albenzi government is
Speaker 2: slashing surveillance of boat arrivals. Shadow Defense Minister Andrew Hasty
Speaker 2: would join me live plus Judith Sloan on whether we're
Speaker 2: winning or losing the fight against inflation.
Speaker 3: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Well, over the past two years, as we've been discussing tonight,
Speaker 2: while labor has been in power, surveillance flights to detect
Speaker 2: illegal boat arrivals have dropped by twenty two percent. Ben
Speaker 2: Packhen reports that the maritime patrol hours will also down
Speaker 2: nineteen percent over the same period. Well, let's bring in
Speaker 2: our shadow Defense Minister, Andrew Hasty. Andrew, great to see
Speaker 2: you again. Look, why do you think the Albenzi government
Speaker 2: is dedicating fewer resources to boat and aerial surveillance.
Speaker 14: We've seen surveillance flight hours and maritime patrol hours go
Speaker 14: down under this government. They're under investing in Operation Sovereign Borders,
Speaker 14: and all that does is send a signal that we're
Speaker 14: not serious about protecting our borders. It signals weakness to
Speaker 14: the very people we're trying to stop, the people smugglers.
Speaker 14: So the best way to deter people smugglers is to
Speaker 14: demonstrate you serious about protecting the borders. And in order
Speaker 14: to do that, you need to have a fairly heavy
Speaker 14: surveillance presence, both in the air and on the water.
Speaker 14: On this government. It's gone down and since the twenty
Speaker 14: two election we've had nineteen voter rivals. Just in the
Speaker 14: last two months we've had about five voter rivals with
Speaker 14: one hundred and fifty odd people illegally arriving in our waters.
Speaker 14: So that's a problem and we're going to see more
Speaker 14: of it, particularly with Tony Burke now the Home Affairs Minister.
Speaker 2: Look, the Prime Minister has said that it's the coalition
Speaker 2: that's talking up this problem, that's sending the message to
Speaker 2: people smugglers, that it's now Labour's now weak on this
Speaker 2: issue and that there'll be more go to rivals. What's
Speaker 2: your response to that accusation.
Speaker 14: I think Anthony Albanesi is not someone who takes responsibility
Speaker 14: and his job as the Prime Minister is pretty simple.
Speaker 14: It's to keep our border secure, it's to keep our
Speaker 14: country safe, and it's to build our prosperity. He's failing
Speaker 14: at the first hurdle. He can't even keep our borders secure.
Speaker 14: So what does he do. He points at the coalition
Speaker 14: and says that we're creating something out of nothing. Well,
Speaker 14: I think the record speaks for itself. The regular Rudd
Speaker 14: years showed people smugglers, that labour can't be taken seriously
Speaker 14: on border protection. And as we've seen since the May
Speaker 14: twenty two election, we've seen nineteen vote rivals. So I
Speaker 14: think the evidence is in this government is week on
Speaker 14: borders and people smugglers are working this Prime Minister out.
Speaker 2: When I spoke to your colleague James Patterson today, he
Speaker 2: accused Albanesi and Tony Burke of launching what he called
Speaker 2: unhinged attacks on him.
Speaker 3: Here's what they both had to say.
Speaker 5: Can I just say what an idiotic comment? Body has
Speaker 5: clearly never been a binister and has he's made up
Speaker 5: a way of looking at statistics about me. If that's
Speaker 5: the character of my shadow, then we'll just deal with
Speaker 5: what comes out.
Speaker 4: James Patterson is a shocking message to Australians that all
Speaker 4: you need to do is to be negative and oppose
Speaker 4: everything about time James Patterson stood up for the Australian
Speaker 4: national interest.
Speaker 2: Andrew Hasty, what do you think about this sort of
Speaker 2: character attack?
Speaker 14: I hear two deeply insecure men attacking my colleague, who's
Speaker 14: very competent, is across his brief and has created all
Speaker 14: sorts of challenges for this government by keeping them accountable
Speaker 14: in his role as shadow Home Affairs Minister. So I'm
Speaker 14: pretty sure James Patterson will be framing those quotes because
Speaker 14: all it demonstrates is that this government hates when we
Speaker 14: call them out. They know he's competent, and as I
Speaker 14: always like to say, the flak is thickest when you're
Speaker 14: over the target. James consistently over the target when it
Speaker 14: comes to Labour's border protection policies.
Speaker 2: Now, what about this decision by the Prime Minister to
Speaker 2: break up the Home Affairs portfolio. I mean he stripped
Speaker 2: now ASIO, the top spy agency, out of it, has
Speaker 2: moved it to the Attorney Generals. His reason that we
Speaker 2: just showed you earlier was because it needs to go
Speaker 2: with the AFP. But ASIO and the AFP were both
Speaker 2: under Home Affairs when he took office. So what do
Speaker 2: you think about this dismantling of dismantling of what was
Speaker 2: once a superministry in charge of our national security.
Speaker 14: They've completely dismembered Home Affairs. They're absolutely right. I think
Speaker 14: this has been on the cards for some time. I
Speaker 14: was the chair of the Intelligence Committee when we passed
Speaker 14: the enabling legislation for the Home Affairs portfolio. Mark Dreyfus
Speaker 14: back then, who was the Shadow Attorney General, he made
Speaker 14: it very clear that he didn't support this, and it's
Speaker 14: no surprise now that he has broken down the Home
Speaker 14: Affairs Minister. He's stripped out the operational agencies, the AFP
Speaker 14: and ASIO. He's brought them into his portfolio, so now
Speaker 14: he gets to run operations and also issue warrants. And
Speaker 14: I think there was a healthy tension at the cabinet table.
Speaker 14: Labor have dismantled that and I think it we're poorer
Speaker 14: for it as a result.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's obviously not something you would announce now,
Speaker 2: but do you envisage that the coalition would strengthen Home
Speaker 2: Affairs again if it did get into government.
Speaker 14: I'm sure that's something that Peter Dutton and James Patterson
Speaker 14: and the rest of the team will be considering in
Speaker 14: coming weeks and months.
Speaker 13: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just finally you are shadow Defense Minister. And there
Speaker 2: are concerns tonight as we got to air that Israel
Speaker 2: and Lebanon are.
Speaker 3: In the cusp of war.
Speaker 2: This after the tragic murder by Hesblah of twelve children
Speaker 2: in Majdal Chams Nettna, who has vowed to retaliate. He
Speaker 2: says it'll be a direct strike and has warned this
Speaker 2: will be coming.
Speaker 3: We don't know precisely.
Speaker 2: When are you concerned that the Iranian backed Hesbela are
Speaker 2: provoking and have been provoking for months now Israel into
Speaker 2: a broader war that could escalate.
Speaker 14: I think Hasbellah, of course, are always seeking to provoke Israel,
Speaker 14: along with Hamas, and if you read both of their
Speaker 14: charters as I have done, they're committed to the destruction
Speaker 14: of the state of Israel. So these aren't people who
Speaker 14: want peace. They're not going to negotiate, and they'll continue
Speaker 14: their attacks on Israel forever essentially, and so Israel has
Speaker 14: to defend itself. We've been very consistent as the coalition.
Speaker 14: Israel has a right to defend itself. Of course, it's
Speaker 14: terrible to see those twelve children killed, innocent kids killed,
Speaker 14: along with all the innocent life that we've seen lost
Speaker 14: over the past nine months or so. But the best
Speaker 14: way to defeat terrorism is to show strength, and Israel
Speaker 14: has every right to defend itself after this last attack.
Speaker 2: And of course Peter Dutton is actually in Israel at
Speaker 2: the moment, a four day trip. He met overnight with
Speaker 2: Israeli President Isaac Hertzog. I mean, Andrew, what does this
Speaker 2: say about the coalition's commitment to Israel and the Jewish
Speaker 2: community here in Australia.
Speaker 14: I think it demonstrates that Peter Dutton is a friend
Speaker 14: of Israel. He's a friend of the Jewish community here
Speaker 14: in Australia. He's been very consistent in calling out terrorism
Speaker 14: and condemning it. He's been very consistent in upholding Israel's
Speaker 14: rights self defense, and I think that demonstrates that we
Speaker 14: are committed to maintaining the one democracy in the Middle East.
Speaker 14: And that's why Peter's gone all the way over there
Speaker 14: to meet with their officials and to demonstrate his support
Speaker 14: in person. There's nothing like a house call, Sharry, as
Speaker 14: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a very significant trip for a huge signal of solidarity.
Speaker 2: If only our Prime minister would have made such a
Speaker 2: trip like many other Western leaders did after October seven,
Speaker 2: Andrew HASTI thank you very much for your time.
Speaker 3: Now, turning to the economy.
Speaker 2: Now, and we're anxiously awaiting crucial inflation data that will
Speaker 2: drop tomorrow and it will influence the RBA's decision on
Speaker 2: whether we need another rate rise. To analyze this, let's
Speaker 2: bring in now economist Judith Sloan. Judith, thank you very
Speaker 2: much for your time. Are you expecting inflation to rise tomorrow?
Speaker 15: Well, let's hope that it doesn't rise, Shari, but the
Speaker 15: key will be at eleven thirty. We can all go
Speaker 15: to the AB's website and have a look at the
Speaker 15: key variable, which is the underlying rate of inflation. So
Speaker 15: that's called, rather arcanely, the trim mean. So if that
Speaker 15: the bank expects it to be three point eight, If
Speaker 15: it's that's an annual percentage increase. If it's three point
Speaker 15: nine or four, then that is very bad news, and
Speaker 15: it carries with it the possibility that the cash rate
Speaker 15: will be raised next week. So you know, we've got
Speaker 15: two very exciting events for economists.
Speaker 12: And possibly other people too.
Speaker 15: So the Reserve Bank meets next week on Monday and Tuesday,
Speaker 15: and they will make the announcement on what they're doing
Speaker 15: about the cash rate early on Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Exciting for US journalists, but nerve wracking for many struggling
Speaker 2: families who'll be very worried that there might be another
Speaker 2: rate rise.
Speaker 3: We've had.
Speaker 2: The economist Warren Hogan on this show, he's predicted two
Speaker 2: rate rises this year. He even says potentially a third
Speaker 2: in November. What do you think about this?
Speaker 15: Well, I think it's all a sort of in play,
Speaker 15: so to speak. And you're absolutely right to talk about
Speaker 15: the families who are bearing the cost of living, precious
Speaker 15: families with large mortgages. But of course there is one
Speaker 15: person who's particularly sweating on this, and that's Jim Chalmers,
Speaker 15: the Treasurer, because I think ultimately his reputation, I mean,
Speaker 15: it's hard to say it just comes down to a
Speaker 15: single point, but in many ways, I think it does
Speaker 15: come down to some signature events, and this will be
Speaker 15: one of them, because essentially what he has been telling
Speaker 15: us is that no inflation. He said this in the
Speaker 15: budget extraordinarily, that he's got inflation under control. It was
Speaker 15: essentially because of the war in Ukraine, but in fact,
Speaker 15: if you look at the monthly figures this year, we're
Speaker 15: basically one of the only developed economies where the rate
Speaker 15: of inflation hasn't come down. So a lot of there's
Speaker 15: a lot riding on his reputation and among caucus, because
Speaker 15: you know, if the mortgage rates start to decline, people
Speaker 15: will I think sie with relief and think, well, maybe
Speaker 15: it is all on track. If that doesn't happen, I
Speaker 15: think it's a different ballgame.
Speaker 2: Well, the Treasurer has said that accusations that big spending
Speaker 2: governments were adding to inflationary pressures.
Speaker 3: He's called that ridiculous.
Speaker 2: But yet we've seen Chris Richardson, another economist, say that
Speaker 2: the start of the Stage three tax cuts, along with
Speaker 2: the new federal and state spending, amounted to an extra
Speaker 2: forty six billion dollars being poured into the economy this
Speaker 2: financial year. He says that's the best part of two
Speaker 2: percent of the national income. And he says, and I
Speaker 2: think this is really interesting. He says, that's a huge
Speaker 2: relative to the amount of money the irba's rate rises
Speaker 2: have taken.
Speaker 3: Out of the economy.
Speaker 2: You know, do you agree with him that they have
Speaker 2: been these inflationary pressures from the Stage three tax cuts
Speaker 2: and the spending in both state and federal budgets.
Speaker 15: Well, absolutely, I mean, essentially it comes down to what
Speaker 15: we call excess demand. That we've clearly had excess demand
Speaker 15: in the economy for some time. That's why the Reserve
Speaker 15: Bank has pushed up the cash rate to try and
Speaker 15: dampen the extenter of excess demand. And you know, essentially,
Speaker 15: while they've had their foot on the break, these governments
Speaker 15: have had their foot on the accelerate. And now Albanezi
Speaker 15: is inclined to talk about the surpluses that they have recorded.
Speaker 15: But the surpluses have just been dumb luck, basically because
Speaker 15: we've had high commodity prices and also surging income tax revenue.
Speaker 12: But the truth of the matter is that if you
Speaker 12: go and.
Speaker 15: Look at spending, the spending growth is very considerable, and
Speaker 15: if you add in what the state governments have been
Speaker 15: up to, you know, you really are having a situation
Speaker 15: where the governments are actually not helping in the inflation fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there's a rental crisis of course, which
Speaker 2: is one of the factors behind inflation remaining high. Clara O'Neil,
Speaker 2: who's been a troubled minister, has now been put in
Speaker 2: the housing portfolio. Judith, does that give you any confidence?
Speaker 15: Well no, but if you think if you go and
Speaker 15: look at the CPI, it's obviously made up of various components,
Speaker 15: and housing is the biggest one.
Speaker 12: So housing it's not house price that.
Speaker 15: Are there, but rents there and construction costs are there
Speaker 15: and that remains a real problem.
Speaker 12: Look, I think one of the things.
Speaker 15: About Claire O'Neil is that she failed in home affairs,
Speaker 15: but somehow we're expected to think she'll be some fabulous
Speaker 15: success in housing.
Speaker 12: I think the housing problem.
Speaker 15: Is really difficult, and one of the things that they
Speaker 15: have to do in which she failed to do when
Speaker 15: she was Home Affairs, is reduced the migrant intake because
Speaker 15: that's putting too much pressure on the housing market. So again,
Speaker 15: I'm not sure I'm optimistic there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I don't think any of us are.
Speaker 2: Just before you go, Judith, we've seen today a big
Speaker 2: story that there are grave concerns for the regional airline
Speaker 2: rex It suspended share trading on the asx it stopped
Speaker 2: selling certain flights earlier today. The Prime Minister spoke about
Speaker 2: this deepening crisis earlier today.
Speaker 3: Let's have a quick look.
Speaker 4: We are concerned about rex. It's an important regional airline.
Speaker 4: What we will do though, is examine any proposals. Rex
Speaker 4: received substantial government support with no conditions attached.
Speaker 2: The finn Review is reporting that e Y is already
Speaker 2: involved with the embattled carry out. We're not likely to
Speaker 2: hear any statement to the ASX.
Speaker 3: Or to the market until tomorrow.
Speaker 2: What are you expecting here and what kind of impact
Speaker 2: would it have on the market.
Speaker 15: Look, I think that was very lukewarm support from the
Speaker 15: Prime Minister, to tell you the truth. He somehow thinks
Speaker 15: that the company is well, it's fine as long as
Speaker 15: it engages in regional travel. But of course what Briggs
Speaker 15: did was to try and take on the big boys
Speaker 15: in the Melbourne, Sydney Brisbane roots.
Speaker 12: And I think, you know, it's pretty.
Speaker 15: Vicious the way the particularly Quantus acted when Rex tried
Speaker 15: to get into it. You just have to wonder whether
Speaker 15: the Albanese government is effectively a friend of Quantus. And
Speaker 15: you know they're happy for Rex to play in a
Speaker 15: small sand pit, but they kind of seem he seemed
Speaker 15: to be critical of the decision which you know was
Speaker 15: actually giving a pretty good deal to consumers of them
Speaker 15: using jets and engaging in those very busy roots.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Or the topic of the Prime Minister's relationship cozy relationship
Speaker 2: with Quantus was examined Thority last year, but there's probably
Speaker 2: a lot more to unpack on it, so perhaps more
Speaker 2: to come. Judith Sloan really appreciate your insights. You are
Speaker 2: always spot on and we love reading your columns.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for joining us.
Speaker 2: Now still to come. Australian university is accused of handing
Speaker 2: out degrees to those who can't understand basic English. Plus
Speaker 2: Google responds to the revelations we spoke about here last
Speaker 2: night that it's censoring searchers on Donald Trump's attempted assassination.
Speaker 12: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Well, lots more to get through tonight, so let's bring
Speaker 2: in our political panel joining me now. LNP Senator James
Speaker 2: McGrath and Sky News contributor Gary Hardgrave, Welcome it to
Speaker 2: you both. Look at investigation by The Guardian has revealed
Speaker 2: quite a shocking story. They're saying that Australian universities are
Speaker 2: being accused of handing out degrees to international students who
Speaker 2: can't speak, write, or even understand basic English. The detail
Speaker 2: in this investigation the Guardians being told that the only
Speaker 2: way to fail a course would be to hand nothing
Speaker 2: in unless universities came up with a coherent institutional response.
Speaker 2: They also say that some of the academics who spoke
Speaker 2: to them so that they were continuing to teach courses,
Speaker 2: where as many as half their cohort didn't appear to
Speaker 2: understand the content, but they still passed. And that they're
Speaker 2: saying once centers of excellence are now profit centers chasing
Speaker 2: enrollments and revenue. James McGrath. There are already rules in place,
Speaker 2: but you know that university students or international students who
Speaker 2: have international student visas are required to have a grasp
Speaker 2: of English. But it doesn't look like this is being followed.
Speaker 6: It doesn't look like it's being followed or enforced. And
Speaker 6: you only have to speak to any university students and
Speaker 6: they will tell you about their experiences with international students,
Speaker 6: students who they are friends with and they like and
Speaker 6: they play sport together. But it is but the failure
Speaker 6: to understand basic English that is not just letting down
Speaker 6: Australian students. It's actually letting down those students from overseas
Speaker 6: whose parents have are paying for their degrees. So everyone
Speaker 6: is being ripped off here apart from the universe, who
Speaker 6: are milking these students as cash cows, and no one
Speaker 6: is benefiting from it. It's one of these things where
Speaker 6: the universities need to have a good hard look at
Speaker 6: themselves and work out what business are they in. Are
Speaker 6: they in the business of ripping off people or are
Speaker 6: they in the business of educating people? And that's what
Speaker 6: universities should be focusing on.
Speaker 2: Someone said something very smart to me on Friday, which
Speaker 2: is that we need people coming to Australia who are
Speaker 2: going to build our country up and not tear it down.
Speaker 2: And so we do want the brightest students coming here.
Speaker 2: So Gary, do you think you know there needs to
Speaker 2: be a new approach where if you want to come
Speaker 2: starty here and you don't know English, then you need
Speaker 2: to have a language course at the same time as
Speaker 2: part of the degree.
Speaker 1: You'd think so.
Speaker 16: When you're Sharry and Jake mcgarra and I both graduated
Speaker 16: from the same university, only a couple of years apart,
Speaker 16: I'd like to add I did it as a mature
Speaker 16: age student. And you know, at my time at griff
Speaker 16: at the university, we saw a lot of people who
Speaker 16: were being given all sorts of assistants all the way
Speaker 16: through those courses that.
Speaker 1: We were competing in. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 16: But look, universities have got this sort of two edged
Speaker 16: sword and they're going to get sliced and dice and
Speaker 16: a better which way they go, because some courses they
Speaker 16: can't run unless they've got a large cohort of international,
Speaker 16: full fee paying students actually in the course. So Australian
Speaker 16: students who on merit get to do that course may
Speaker 16: not find the course available.
Speaker 1: And the universities are so heavily.
Speaker 16: Geared around, like all the state government bureaucracies about paying
Speaker 16: their vice chancellors big dollars, you know, million dollar plus
Speaker 16: fees a lot of them get. We've probably got too
Speaker 16: many universities in Australia, frankly, and I know the Group
Speaker 16: of Eight have got a concern that the old Sandstone Universities.
Speaker 1: They want to see more people coming into the country.
Speaker 16: And there's a lot of reasons for it, but you're right.
Speaker 16: If they can't speak English, they can't participate culturally in
Speaker 16: the country. They're not getting the real Australian experience, and
Speaker 16: there's no point in having them isolated off campus and
Speaker 16: not really involved in Australia while they're studying in Australia.
Speaker 16: So it's a real rethink that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Here, Shari.
Speaker 16: We do need migration to build our country and we
Speaker 16: need the friendship that comes from these university students. But
Speaker 16: if they're not speaking to us in our language, our
Speaker 16: national language, maybe a lot of this is fraught with failure.
Speaker 1: But they're still making money. The university bosses, they're doing
Speaker 1: it well.
Speaker 2: No, indeed, they are weak leadership when it comes to
Speaker 2: social cohesion and protecting students from racism.
Speaker 9: Though.
Speaker 3: Now let's have a look at the story.
Speaker 2: We discussed this last night that Google is censoring search
Speaker 2: results for Donald Trump's assassination attempt, and then overnight Google
Speaker 2: has now responded to this. A spokesman for the tech
Speaker 2: giants said that Google systems and I will knew this.
Speaker 3: Is a bit of gobbledygoog.
Speaker 2: They said that protections against autocomplete predictions associated with political violence,
Speaker 2: which we're working as intended prior to this horrific event.
Speaker 2: And they say they're working on improvements to ensure our
Speaker 2: systems are more up to date. James, this is nonsense.
Speaker 2: I mean, you type in attempted assassination of and there's
Speaker 2: no Donald Trump that comes up. All these other people
Speaker 2: come up, and even when you type in d O
Speaker 2: Nald still doesn't come up. You know, you wouldn't be
Speaker 2: so suspicious except that the tech giants do have a
Speaker 2: history of censoring stories that are firmly in the public interest.
Speaker 2: James McGrath.
Speaker 6: They are censoring stories, whether it's deliberately or it's through
Speaker 6: some algorithms or whatever it is, because we do know
Speaker 6: that the big tech companies have traditionally lent to the left.
Speaker 6: And what we're seeing not just with Google, but Facebook
Speaker 6: also censored that famous picture of Donald Trump with the
Speaker 6: security guard with sorry, with the security guards around him
Speaker 6: and the flag in the background. They censored that. So
Speaker 6: it is a bit of a wake up call. And
Speaker 6: it's good that we've got Elon Musk coming out, someone
Speaker 6: who was formerly of the left and is coming out
Speaker 6: now to call helped call out these big tech companies
Speaker 6: because the danger is if they're prepared to censor Donald Trump,
Speaker 6: what else are they prepared to censor? And what don't
Speaker 6: we know? This is the issue. What don't we know
Speaker 6: that is being censored?
Speaker 2: And Elon Musk are tweeted, I don't know what his
Speaker 2: new word is for xt, but anyway, he tweeted saying
Speaker 2: probably just a coincident, coincidence that Google employees were the
Speaker 2: top donors to Biden, so an accusation there.
Speaker 3: That this is politically motivated.
Speaker 1: Gary, Yeah, and no doubt about it.
Speaker 17: I think even the response from Google you've read was
Speaker 17: actually generated by artificial intelligence, because it is, without a doubt,
Speaker 17: give me a response to to keep Chari markson happy,
Speaker 17: and they've sort of come up with something. So but
Speaker 17: artificial intelligence is better than absolutely no intelligence. They often
Speaker 17: not talked about a NI, but look, Shari, in the end,
Speaker 17: you know we've got to do our search, pick up
Speaker 17: a book, read a book, read papers, read a range
Speaker 17: of stuff. Don't you simply ask Google to separate the
Speaker 17: facts from the fiction then? And the problem is that
Speaker 17: a whole generation of people just now are just so
Speaker 17: used to trusting what comes through the device. I mean,
Speaker 17: Wikipedia has been a classic example in my view that
Speaker 17: people school kids, I think should be marked down for
Speaker 17: using Wikipedia as their only source because you can just
Speaker 17: make stuff up. You can do whatever you like there,
Speaker 17: so you know, get a range of views. But thank
Speaker 17: god for Elon Musk, because he is now the arbiter
Speaker 17: of all fairness in the broad economic reality of the
Speaker 17: social media space.
Speaker 1: As the.
Speaker 2: Thank you always enjoy a compliment. But there are other
Speaker 2: problems on the platform X no question, but we don't
Speaker 2: have time for that now. Gary Hargrave and James McGrath
Speaker 2: think you both very much for your time now still
Speaker 2: to come. We're live in Paris ahead of another jam
Speaker 2: pack day at the Olympic Games. That after the break.
Speaker 12: Let's turn to.
Speaker 2: Paris now where Australia is sitting fourth on the Olympics
Speaker 2: tally with nine medals overall. And I'm joined by Fox
Speaker 2: Spots reporter Hannah Hollis. Hannah, great to see you. Look
Speaker 2: at Big News this afternoon. The men's Olympic triathlon has
Speaker 2: been at postponed.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 18: So wonderful to chat to you, Shari, Yeah, in this
Speaker 18: developing story, and it won't surprise anyone that was paying
Speaker 18: attention and the lead up to the Olympics, because the
Speaker 18: biggest question on the lips of everyone, including organizers was
Speaker 18: will the river send be fit for play? And right now, Sharry,
Speaker 18: the answer is no. Unfortunately, that contamination in the river
Speaker 18: is still unsatisfactory for athletes to get into to perform
Speaker 18: the men's triathlon that was supposed to get underway earlier today.
Speaker 18: So officials have decided we're going to are on the
Speaker 18: side of caution and instead delay that for twenty four hours,
Speaker 18: so now the men will take to the water after
Speaker 18: the women do at eight am the women and then
Speaker 18: ten forty five for the men.
Speaker 12: It's such a shame.
Speaker 18: Because the river sen was supposed to start during this Olympics,
Speaker 18: and we saw the river that connects beautiful parts of
Speaker 18: the city feature in the opening ceremony, but it was
Speaker 18: supposed to also be an iconic place for our tra
Speaker 18: athletes to swim through and it's not looking like the
Speaker 18: case at the moment. But in good news, hopefully this
Speaker 18: hot weather is going to help lift that temperature of
Speaker 18: the water and kill the bad bacteria that's currently keeping
Speaker 18: the river from being in play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a two point five billion dollars I understand
Speaker 2: was spent trying to clean it up. Look, those of
Speaker 2: us who aren't staying up all night to watch the Olympics,
Speaker 2: we woke up to the wonderful news today that there'd
Speaker 2: been an Olympic gold medal and silver in the pool.
Speaker 2: Big day for our Golden girls. It was wonderful.
Speaker 18: Not since two thousand and four showery have Australia gone
Speaker 18: one and two in the pool, and that was Eanthorpe
Speaker 18: and Grant Hacker, But it's all about Morio Callahan and
Speaker 18: Arian Tipmas. They were first and second in the world
Speaker 18: women's two hundred meter freestyle. It's just awesome and Mario
Speaker 18: Callahan set an Olympic record in the process.
Speaker 2: And what about tonight, Hannah, what can we look forward to?
Speaker 2: What events are on later tonight while we're probably all sleeping.
Speaker 18: There's so much good stuff to come. More action in
Speaker 18: the pool. We've just seen King Kyle Chalmers. He's qualified
Speaker 18: sixth for the men's one hundred meter freestyle. We'll see
Speaker 18: him in action a little bit later. But all eyes
Speaker 18: are going to be looking at our Australian boomers. They
Speaker 18: play Canada, who are outside the USA tip to medal
Speaker 18: at this Olympics. That's going to be the boomer's biggest
Speaker 18: test so far. And our women's rugby seven side they
Speaker 18: also play Canada in the semifinal as our twenty sixteen
Speaker 18: rio gold medalists get a one step closer to reaching
Speaker 18: gold again.
Speaker 2: All right, Hannah Hollis, we are out of time. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the update. I'll see you tomorrow at eight. And
Speaker 2: here's poor Murray