WEBVTT - Why Kane Cornes is trying too hard 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:08.720 Nine Podcasts. Hello, this is Neil Mitchell. Welcome to My 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.280 View of the world, my weekly view of the world today. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:17.160 How the devil would destroy the world. Perhaps why it's 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.400 time to seriously reform the health system and we've been 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.840 trying for years. Elbow, he's woken up. The hangover's easing, 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.480 but it's not not all good news. And football sports 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.200 reporting has become a blunt sport. We're in the era 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.519 of the football shock jock, and I say that as 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.640 one who was often accused wrongly of being a shock shop. Anyway, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:39.960 take it as you wish. Why can't we just celebrate 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.640 the game a bit more rather than sniping at some 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.040 of the idiots who play it and run it and 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.840 your comments Neil dot Mitchell at nine dot com dot 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.800 are you actually Let's start with sports. Sport was once 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.280 called the toy shop of life, a diversion, a place 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.560 to release passion, to relax, a place of unquestioned loyalty. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.120 Even when your team was read thrashed, you supported them. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.920 There's a sense of tribalism about following a team, and 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.399 we probably need that more than ever. The world is 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.919 too divided and cynical and bitter. Thank you social media. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:18.839 Sport theoretically at least addresses that. With Australian football, rugby league, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.560 cricket in particular, you go along with the mate who 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.160 supports the other side. You watch the game, you stir 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.880 each other up. You don't come to blows, you gon't 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.920 have a drink later and analyze what happened. Soccer not 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.600 so much. At times we build walls between opposing supporters. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.800 But then soccer, in my view, has got a cultural problem, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.880 which is proven by some people who should know better, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:45.000 supporting people lifting, letting off flares in the crowd. Generally, though, 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.040 Australian sport's a healthy thing, so it saddens me to 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:53.440 see sports reporting, particularly on Australian football, focusing so much 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.760 on aggression. I was sports of the ASI newspaper for 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.960 four years a lifetime ago, and although we reported them 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:04.120 politics and the power plays, our main role, we remembered 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.960 was always to highlight the sport, to celebrate the sport, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:13.280 the great tennis matches, the Cliffhanger test cricket, brave football 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:18.560 of any code, world records. Now, particularly around AFL football, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:23.040 there are so many different panel chat programs, postgame, pre game, 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.760 midweek they're scrambling for attention, and some have decided the 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.880 way to get attention is to turn into a footballing shock. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.760 Jock Cane Corn's in particular, the former South Australian champion, 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.800 great player. He's trying so hard. Well, he's trying too hard. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.320 He's been lured to Channel seven from Channel nine because 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.200 of his hard line commentary. That's fair enough. He needs 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.760 to balance it with more praise and more direct enjoyment 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.960 and love of the game. Sometimes seeing his mates will 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.560 jump on the smallest issue and try to develop it 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.840 into outrage when there's no outrage below the boy crying wolf. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.560 When there is outrage, go for it. But if you 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.600 see everything as outrage, nobody's going to believe you when 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.880 you say it. Korns has not lost the plot at 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.200 this stage, but he's in danger heading that way. He's 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.119 even been banned by a number of clubs and han 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.000 a run in with Luke Beveridge, the foots Graate coach 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.000 football commentator. Sports commentary should point out the problems that 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.560 should of course expose and discuss the dramas, but let's 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.600 talk more about the game and the people who are 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:33.080 not in trouble. I think this shock jock approach and 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.440 sport will wear thin. There's nothing wrong with robust debate, 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.440 but there is a danger when you continue to go 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.480 looking for debates that don't exist. Mostly people are doing 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.560 that to match their image. Too often, some seem to 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.000 try to live up to the hype around the commentator, 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:57.920 not the beauty of the game. There's a massive problem 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.280 in Australia's health system. It's a problem which is hurting people, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.720 delaying treatment, aggravating pain and suffering. Now I'd like to 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.880 say this is a new and developing problem. The sad 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.840 thing is it's not new personally. I've been screaming about 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.520 it on radio for thirty years. Various politicians have tried 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.360 and failed to fix it. And but Kevin Rudd said 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.800 the buck stops with me, or was this two thousand 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.719 and seven, the buck stops with me on health? He 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.520 had to give up. He failed on that. The latest 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:31.200 reports out of Victoria should shock her, but they don't. Hospitals, 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:36.000 it's reported, have been falsifying records to meet targets set 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.960 by governments. Northern hospitals been named, but my sources say 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.119 it is not unusual at other hospitals. You simply chop 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.080 a few minutes off the time it takes to get 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.640 a patient from ambulance to emergency department. Bureaucrats are happy, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.920 the government's happy, everybody's happy, except the patient and the doctor. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.479 It is a fraud on good medicine. This was first 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:03.120 exposed in Sydney, believe it on sixteen years ago. Sixteen 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.599 years ago, and it's still going on now. Of course 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.479 the politicians are in are now outraged, and they're going 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.279 to be outraged until everybody forgets about it and we 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.040 go back to the fraud. This is Victoria's Health Minister 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:19.039 Mary Ann Thomas being shocked and amazed. Have her listen 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:19.279 to it. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.760 I want to get to the bottom of it. I've 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.919 also asked the question why who's benefiting funding is not 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.800 tied to any of these performance indicators. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.640 Nonsense. If she didn't know, she's the only one in 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.200 the system who didn't know. Now, maybe they're doing this 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.520 for the right reason, but it's still a dodgy way 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.359 to go around business, or it's only a symptom of 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.480 the disease as well. There are huge problems in emergency 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:48.480 departments and hospitals. It's not unusual for patients to wait 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.080 twenty four hours in emergency before getting a bed. It's 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.120 not unusual for them to wait hours before being seen 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.960 once they've been triached. It's not unusual for people to 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.160 be treated by overwork staff in the corridors. It's not 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.520 unusual for ambulances to wait hours with patients because the 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.440 department is too busy, which of course means an ambulance 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.120 off the road. What else is going on in health? 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.240 Kids with serious problems I'm told of waiting months to 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:20.520 see psychiatrists, by which stage the damage is pretty much done. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.599 In Queensland, in Cans, a distraught woman lost her brother 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.080 and partner to sudden death within weeks of each other. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.039 She's been told to wait four months for any counseling. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.400 Four months it will be too late. Hospitals are full 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.479 bed block. They call it largely because elderly patients has 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.760 got nowhere else to go. Staff struggle to get patients 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.279 into beds, perhaps even in the wrong wards to treat. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.680 Whatever the illness or the problem is, there's a new 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.719 focus now. The focus is not on fixing it, but 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.600 on making the figures look better. Doctors tell me they've 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.000 been told to be aware of the targets and data 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:05.480 is being fiddled to match the times. It's bureaucratic garbage. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.920 Doesn't fix the problems, it fudges them while patients suffer. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.000 I've heard of elderly patients at the end of life, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.760 unable to get to bed and having to die in 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:20.040 the corner of a busy emergency department with their families 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.120 around them. I've heard of mental health patients waiting days 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.640 in emergency, some walking out. On top of that, you've 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.600 got to wait weeks to see a GP and even further, 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.480 none of it's knew. The crisis has been there for years. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.720 It is nationwide. The federal election did nothing to address it. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.080 I'm an elbow showed us his Medicare card every five minutes, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.760 which is not much good if there are no doctors 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.400 to see. We need several things here. We've got to 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.440 fix it, and we need several things. We need a 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.440 full summit. Talk to the doctors, talk to the nurses. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.440 Listen to them. They have ideas to improve the system. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.000 Nobody wants to listen to them. Talk to the patients, 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.200 find out what's really going on on the ground. Talk 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.640 to the bureaucrats who are trying to make the dollars squeeze. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.360 I mean, they're probably not doing the wrong thing. They're 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.440 just trying to do the best thing by everybody. The 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:17.960 state federal duplication in health is absurd. It's wasteful, bureaucratic mess. 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.240 Sort that out sought, the training sought, the resources. In Victoria, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.240 hospitals are literally falling down. The Royal Melbourne, one of 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.320 our major hospitals, is held together with chicken wire, has 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.480 been for years. In New South Wales, private hospitals are closing, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.160 which puts more pressure on the public system. There is 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.320 an urgent need for action, but it's been urgent for years, 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.320 is not it? Starting point? With all this fudging of 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.600 data going on, the health ministers, federal and state should 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:51.000 get together and conduct an information raid. An information raid 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.080 arrive unannounced at a hospital one day, no media, just 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.520 a team to look at the figures that haven't been massaged, 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.679 the real figures. Talk to people, get a genuine grassroots 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.520 idea of what's going on. That'll be a start, but 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.120 they won't like it. But they want to take TV 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.640 cameras with them for a start, for a photo opportunity. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.960 And second, the politicians are part of the con in government. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.880 They prefer to see fudge figures. They want to pretend 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.600 everything is terrific, even when blind Freddie can see it 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.400 is not. What it is is a long running, life changing, 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:37.040 life threatening, massively expensive, inefficient disaster. That's your health system. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.199 Never think about this for a moment. You want to 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.640 use the internet. That might be for fun, might be 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.360 for work, might be just some information to settle a debate. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.560 You sit down at your computer. Before you log on, 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.800 You've got to do three things. One put in a 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:55.679 password that's okay. Two your face must be recognized by 0:09:55.720 --> 0:10:01.319 the computer. Three you provide your finger. Now you meet 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:05.800 all three criteria, you're online. File one, go away, no access. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.679 Is that an assault on freedom? I wonder the scambuster 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.920 I interviewed on my podcast Neil Mitchell asks why reckons 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.439 we need to do it. That interview is available now 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.920 in the usual places, and his argument is this, the 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.120 Internet can be evil, can also be good, but it 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.800 can be evil. It's littered with scams that hurt good people, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:32.000 scams at fun, terrorism, amongst other things. It is basically unpoliced, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.440 and he says this is the way to begin policing it. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.080 This is what he told me. His name is Ken Gamble, 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:43.559 his company is IFW Global, which is a cyber security 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.840 company that operates internationally. This is what Ken Gamble said. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.280 There needs to be better policing on the Internet. There 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:56.280 needs to be more regulation around people using services online. Ultimately, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.679 there should be some sort of national identity. I think 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.440 we all should be identified by our face and our fingerprint. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.200 Oh you should national identity card. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:10.040 Yeah, that and that identity then accesses your use of 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.440 the Internet and everyone that uses the Internet. Because the 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.160 Internet was set up to create freedom, freedom of speech, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.760 freedom of everything, you know, and that was the whole purpose. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.480 And of course criminals have now used it for nefarious purposes. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.839 So I think there needs to be a lot more 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.800 regulation around the Internet moving forward into the future where 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:32.840 it has to be policed a lot more because no 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.600 one's policing the Internet as a whole. Nobody. There's no 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.559 national or international global law enforcement agency that it's policing 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.280 the Internet as a whole. And that's the problem. 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.120 Just just flush out that idea on the card. How 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.400 would that work? You'd need an authority to use the Internet. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.880 Well, you know, it's not a bad idea. But of 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.320 course people will argue, well, that's that's an invasion of 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.800 privacy where you people want to be free to do 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:03.439 aver they like. But when you're dealing with the amount 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.200 of crime that's online, and there's always going to be 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.679 people that will never agree. That's the problem. We live 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.640 in society where people enjoy their freedom, they don't want 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.959 to be having to put their fingerprint into access to 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:20.200 the Internet. But I think that there should be I 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.760 would love to see most self personally, based on everything 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.800 that I've seen, I'd love to see when you log 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.120 into the Internet to use the Internet, that you're identified, 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.000 that your face and your fingerprint. Just like when you 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:37.000 go to a crypto company and you buy cryptocurrency, they 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:42.120 have to identify your face and your fingerprint and they 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.599 have to identify you and in order to use cryptocurrency. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.520 So why should it be a different to the Internet. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.360 You should be identified in order to use the Internet 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.640 and get access to all of those services. It's a 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.320 simple identification of who you are when you log in, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:01.240 your identity is logged in. Of course it can be exploited, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:05.480 but it would be a good start. Probably never could 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.440 be implemented, but I think that's one way of starting 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:15.880 to enforce the law when it comes to Internet and 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.240 actually regulating the use of the Internet. That's the only 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:19.680 real way. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.160 Now my dubt it will happen, but something needs to 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.120 be done. Billions are scam from innocent people each year. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.040 The internet's a huge part of that. Australia is the 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.400 number one target because we are decent, trusting people. That's 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.560 nice that we're decent and trusting, but it makes us 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:39.680 a target. Artificial intelligence is growing and making it more difficult. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.280 There was a version of Anthony Alberanezi recently supporting some 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:48.120 investment plan total fake and now this is a little 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.559 bit frightening. The reports circulating that if you ask chat 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.559 GPT AI, if I was a devil then I wanted 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.120 to destroy a generation? What would I do? If I 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.200 was the devil and I wanted to destroyer generation? What 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.240 would I do? The AI answer effectively, it says, well, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.600 do what's happening? Do things like undermine critical thinking, promote 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:16.240 instant gratification, break down family relationships, flood media with bad messages, 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:22.160 think influences, and exploit the dependence on technology. That's scary 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.800 stuff that AI has identified these things and second that 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:30.760 they're really describing life and the addiction to devices through 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:36.480 clever algorithms. Chat GPT is really describing most online use 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:42.520 and effects as the work of the devil destroying a generation. Now. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.440 I know people said the same thing about television in 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.920 the mid nineteen fifties when it started. We learned to 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.600 live with it, we managed it, but it wasn't as 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.560 insidious or as evil as what's going on here. Potentially 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.560 evil anyway. I asked Australia's best known adolescent psychologist, doctor 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.800 Michael Kargrigg about this. He said, with the kids that 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.320 he deals with, some use AI as a very constructive, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:08.040 superb tool for innovation and self expression, but he said 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.960 it can also deepen social isolation, expose them to harmful content, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.560 and even expose them to cyber bullying through deep fakes. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.760 He said, there needs to be much more understanding of 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:25.960 our eyes, capabilities and risks. Now. I don't know that 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.080 restricting online access at work the nets here to stay, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.680 but I agree with Michael kat Greg we need to 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:37.640 be taught better skepticism, restraint, caution. We need to be 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.960 less trusting of everything we read and see online. Even 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:46.280 the videos can be totally deep, fake, dangerous and destructive. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:50.240 If a generation is not going to be destroyed, they 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.840 have to learn to be skeptical. That's sad. It's very sad, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.640 but it's essential. Well the quick things swrap up and 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.360 remember to keep in touch. Neil dot Mitchell at nine 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.240 dot com dot you Neil dot Mitchell at nine dot 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.040 com dot you. I've thought for a while Free to 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.720 Wear TV had to change and change dramatically. The threat 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.720 from streaming services is huge. Now. The signs are there 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.920 this week that the change a level change is stepping up. First, 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.080 reports that some of the huge salaries have been cut 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.960 back for presenters on Free to TV. I've got no 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.200 idea if those figures or the reports are right, but 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.680 it makes a bit of sense. Second, two long running 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.640 programs of going been acted, The Project on Channel ten 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.000 and Q and A at the ABC. Now I've appeared 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.440 on both of these. I think they have something to 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.640 add to the world. They did have, but neither was 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.880 rating well. The being counter set up not worth it. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.720 Both programs started with fresh ideas, good ideas, a different idea. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.000 The Project then became self righteous and a bit woke. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:00.440 Q and A became unrepresentative, predictable, a bit boring, run 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.440 out of legs. That's a pity. But what matters now 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.879 is what comes next with those shows. They used a 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.680 lot of staff. They're expensive to put to air. If 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.719 the stations now go really cheap and give us reruns 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.280 of Mash or Forek Corners or whatever, it's a step back. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.960 If they find a new, fresh, stimulating idea for news 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:25.760 driven Australian content that actually relates to people, well, Hall Lulia, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:31.960 we need it also. Elbow Anthony Albaneza. Your Prime minis 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.320 he's awake, he's waken up from his post election hangover 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:39.960 and he wants a summit on productivity. That's a good idea. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.760 Productivity has been a problem in this country for years. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.120 The Prime Minister says lower paid workers should be paid more, 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.240 and we'd all agree with that, but investors must get 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.879 their fair whack too, because if there's no investment, there 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.640 are no jobs. It's a delicate balance. You need increased 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.679 productivity mixed with a fair share to all. That's the 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.040 answer to it. Let's see our seriously years and whether 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.679 union aggression and corporate greed can be sufficiently controlled to 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:11.440 allow genuine gains in productivity. The other thing he's done 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.359 since waking up is imposed sanctions on two right wing 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.679 Israeli ministers. Israel's angry, but the two the security ministers 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.680 from the Finance minister, now face travel bands and having 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:28.200 their assets frozen. Countries involved in this Australia, Canada, New Zealand, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.040 Norway and the United Kingdom. It's a hardline approach to 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.680 a very complex problem. And the claim, the allegation is 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:40.800 they've incited violences to against Palestinians. Well, the sanctions may 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.359 be right or wrong. Australia has got a right to 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.720 do it. But it is reported we did not inform 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.880 our major ally, Israel's major ally that it was happening. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.320 We didn't alert the United States. Now, if that's true, 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.600 just clumsy, it's clumsy diplomacy. The US Secretary of State 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.680 Marco Rubio says the sanctions do not help the attempts 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.960 to get a cease fire. He's reminded Australia not to 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:10.000 forget the Hamas atrocities. Very good point, and he said, 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.080 do not lose sight of who is the real enemy here, 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.480 And that's a very fair point. If we didn't inform 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.520 the US, it was just stupid. Oh and speaking of stupid, 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:23.000 Greta Tunberg and her boat her crews to Gaza with 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.040 some medical supplies. It was a stunt, a simple but 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.080 clever stunt. I not to summon. The media described this 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.719 as an aid ship. Well, it did carry a tiny 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.280 amount of aid, but it wasn't about that. It was 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.880 a stunt to draw attention to the Israeli strategy in Gaza, 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.879 and it worked. The Israelis were right to call it 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.359 a selfie ship. It was all about promoting something, promoting 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.199 a cause, but many fell for it. If only the 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.959 world was as simple as Greta sees it, we'd all 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:58.600 stop fighting. Nobody be starving, nobody be dying, nobody be suffocating. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.920 Wonder when she grows up, will she be embarrassed by 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:07.200 her naivety or proud of her international fame. We need 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.159 young people with the fire and her belly. But I 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.720 think maybe Greet's fire has become a little bit too 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:18.160 all consuming. There's not much logic in there. That's it. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.200 Quick email. I won't read all from Craig. His son's 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.280 been the victim of a tax office scam. As we 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.600 were talking about earlier, there a lot of is around. 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.440 I got a scam warning to be aware of scams, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.520 then asking for details. Craig's son paid a lot of 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.919 money he thought was going to the taxman. Well, the 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.920 banks managed to get a little bit of it back, 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.240 but not most of it. Craig has written of the 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.119 Prime Minister and the Treasurer telling him how difficult it 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.040 was to deal with the real tax office over this, 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.280 and nobody is willing to help. He says the system 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.399 is flawed, and I agree with him. 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