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This is to Nika Degeorgio, Hello and welcome to the show coming up tonight.
The Liberals ditch net zero.
Now the hard work begins for Susan Lee taking.
Up the fight to labor on power prices. A ridiculous report calls for softer.
Bail laws, more proof labor is completely disconnected from community expectations. Plus the BBC caught out again with a second show doctoring Donald Trump's January sixth address. But first tonight, day one of the Liberal Party's hard sell on energy has begun. Opposition leader Susan Lee was up early on the front foot on Breakfast TV, explaining why the party had to dump net zero twenty fifty, a.
Policy that delivers affordable energy and responsible emissions reduction. That we have to be agnostic about what technologies we bring to bear. We do very well at exporting that natural gas, but we're not using it for Australians and we believe in using those Australian resources for Australian families.
First.
Well, the message from the Liberal Party is clear, but they have to convert this decision into results and bring voters with them. And given this as a party that has not known for some time what it actually stands for. It's basically starting from the bottom again. Already the left have begun the climate hysteria, meltdowns and lies and this is what Susan Lee is going to face day in day out from the Greens, the Teals, labor and left
wing parts of the media. They will demonize this as climate zealotry, and.
Of course we know it's just not the case.
The starting gun on energy policy has been fired and we are finally getting the debate we so desperately need, allowing voters you at home, a chance to have the say on how we keep the lights on in this country. Do we continue down a tricky pathway into the never never via Labour's experiment of renewables only, or do we add cheap reliable energy into the mix through coal, nuclear and gas to keep the lights on. You now get
to decide. And that is why the hard cell matters now more than ever before, because this is the sort of nonsense already being peddled. Haven't listened to the Prime Minister this morning?
We're seen a capitulation by the Liberal Party to the policy that was announced effectively by the National Party. Susan Lee has said that she would be a moderate and that she'd modernize the Liberal Party's agenda after their twenty twenty five result. Instead, she's chosen to take Australia backwards. They're walking away from climate action. They fundamentally dismissive of the science of climate change.
Look, the Prime Minister is running scared for the first time. His energy policies are back on the agenda. His science simply does not stack up. Australia is too small of a player to have any climate impact.
So in essence, the.
Coalition has forced his hand on this because he's going to have to confront his own policies, which have seen our bills go up by forty percent. Then there was former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, still suffering from an acute case of relevance deprivation syndrome.
You know, with the Liberal Party room that think they've got the memory of goldfish in the dining habits of Piranhas.
They're just they forgot.
They seem to just keep on forgetting and making the same mistake.
Again and again.
But do not just sound like an echo for Alberanezi. But what he said to you about the energy economics is absolutely right and anyone in the industry knows that.
Well, guess what, Malcolm, You are sounding like an echo chamber for the Labor Party.
And here was Till and p o Legrispender on Sky News.
What this does is it injects more uncertainty into investments that people are making, not for the next three years.
But for decades at the same.
Time, without providing a clear plan on actually how the coalition is planning to reduce to reduce prices and or emissions if they care or not care.
Look, this is just wrong. How can she say this?
The Financial Review held its Energy and Climate summit last month, and let me show you how the paper summed up the event. It said, quote Chris Bowen tells us the economics for investing in renewables remain utterly convincing.
But new wind and solar farms have stalled.
And we've heard about little other than challengers for the past two days. Why because industry needs certainty. But this highlights the key issue now for the liberals. Net zero is gone. Great, but is Susan Lee the leader who can defend all these attacks from the left and turn it around into an attack on labor and its horrendous energy policies. She says she.
Can does this secure your leader?
Susan Absolutely, and I'm determined to fight every day for Australians.
Now, look, I think she's going to need a lot of help to sell this. There is no blueprint for the Liberal Party to follow on selling energy. In the dying days of this year's election, the word nuclear wasn't even mentioned. It was as if the policy which they took to the election never even existed, even though it was their boldest policy announcement in years.
Everyone has to play a part.
Now, why not bring Andrew Hasty and just sent a nampajimper Price back to the front bench. Who better to help sell dumping net zero than two politicians who have been arguing against it from the start. Senator Price knows how to successfully run a campaign. She proved that during the Voice, the formula then worked. Now, of course this is not the voice. This is very different and this is a very divided Liberal Party, with some moderates even today claiming they don't know if they can even sell
the policy. But why not bring Senator Price and Andrew Hasty back and give yourself every chance possible of getting this right. It makes no sense to me to waste good talent at such a crucial time. Now, whether or not both would want to, whether they actually support Susan Lee as leader is a different story. But this is what the cell comes down to. When under Labour's plans, where we see household power wills actually come down.
Well, what's very clear is that the upward pressure on electricity prices doesn't come from the new renewable, reliable, cleaner and cheaper energy.
Can you actually provide a time from though?
Now I'll leave the energy forecasting to others. We've made it very clear that we will give Australia the best chance of getting those electricity prices over time.
Now, look, the Coalition must prosecute that day in, day out. Our economy relies on energy, Our livelihoods rely on energy, Our defense industry relies on energy. Now is the time to expose this nonsense being peddled by the Left because we are still waiting for our bills to come down.
Well, Labour doesn't do.
Energy policy, or migration policy, or economic policy, and the list goes on, and now it can add law and order to that list as it may seek to push what can only be described as an offender, first, victim last approach. According to the Australian Are report, authored by officials from every Commonwealth, state and territory government, is urging all jurisdictions to loosen their bail laws.
Attorney General Michelle Roland.
Is pushing to release this report, which recommends all governments insure bail laws explicitly provide that imprisonment be a last resort. Really, I mean this to me provides the perfect blueprint, doesn't it for any left wing guns across the country to adopt under the guise of recommendations to keep the hard left of the party happy, the inner city hippies happy, and to stop votes.
Bleeding to the Greens. But here is the real kicker, and.
This is the real reason for this report and it's all based on race based politics. The SAG Spail and romand Reform Working Groups report aims to reduce the gap in incarceration rates between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians under the Closing the Gap Agreement.
It calls for a requirement.
That quote courts consider a person's status as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander before making a bail decision, so provisions for one group based on the color of their skin versus everyone else.
Now, let's just deal with facts here.
Indigenous Australians have a disproportionate incarcination rate, maybe because they commit a disproportionate amount of crime.
Aboriginal and torrestrate Islander prisoners account.
For thirty seven percent of all persons in custody, despite comprising just under four percent of the population.
Now, this report.
Suggests to me the comparatively high rates of Indigenous incarceration are driving this left wing agenda to loosen bail laws.
So it's you at home, good law.
Abiding citizens that could be exposed to criminal activity and out of control youths simply to reduce the gap in incarceration rates between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians. Now, don't get me wrong, we need to work towards closing the gap, but that should not come at the expense of basic safety.
Why should everyone have to suffer for it.
Bail is a privilege, not a right, and quite frankly, I don't care if you're black, White, or Aboriginal. You commit a crime, you deserve to be punished, You deserve to learn your lesson. This is a youth crime crisis that we're seeing play out already across the country. So what example would be set if these kids knew that they can and we'll get away with anything, and let's not kid ourselves.
It's already happening.
Look at Victoria just into Allen's toughest bail laws in the country have been reminiscent of a marshmallow, and tough bail laws may as well be rendered useless. They only work if the justice system obliges. According to the agenda for a meeting of Attorneys General in Brisbane today, Michelle Roland wants her state and territory counterparts to publish this report with a caveat.
Allowing them to not endorse it.
But several states reportedly want it buried, and if it's made public, are expected to distance themselves from it. Queensland's Attorney generals certainly made that known this morning.
Queensland will not be forced into backing down on our tough laws by the federal government.
No way.
If the Albanezy government think that they can push Queensland into ordering down our laws, absolutely not.
And in a shock to no one, Victoria won't oppose the release of the report, but.
Is unlikely to support all of.
The recommendations, though it's unclear whether that state will agree to re establish the working group to undertake further work as is recommended. Now look Premier just Into Allen certainly doesn't need any more encouragement for her weight and see youth crime approach. But this report is more proof that labor is totally and utterly disconnected from community expectations. Nobody voted for race based politics. In fact, sixty percent of
us said no to it. Well, the BBC over in the UK has done it again with its dodgy and deliberate editing of Donald Trump's January sixth speech. It's now been revealed a second show also doctor footage of the Capitol Hill speech and even ignored concerns that were raised about it.
Its Newsnight program.
Spliced footage of the speech, which aired in twenty twenty two, making it appear as though the President was encouraging his orders to riot.
Have a look at this.
We're going to.
Cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we fight.
We fight like hell. We're going to.
Cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and.
We're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.
Two totally different clips, insinuating two very different meanings. In fact, the second part of that clip on BBC Newsnight was delivered over fifty minutes after the first part. So, as I said, it's done it again, and you will call this tricky edit on its Panorama program that this week forced two of its executives to resign.
We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with.
You, and we fight. We fight like hell.
We're going to walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer.
You're on our.
Brave senators and congressmen and women.
Now, the BBC has today apologized. It's chair Samir Shah, sent a personal letter to the White House, but claims there is no basis for a defamation suit.
Have they watched the footage?
The President has threatened to sue the pants off them, and why wouldn't he because there's a clear pattern here. Now, this is happening on the other side of the world, but back home, the ABC is not immune. The public broadcaster is just as institutionally biased, entrenched in ideology that only serves for people who seem to think that the majority of us are either stupid or racist. And my colleague Chris Kenny revealed this week that Four Corners did
the same thing. It's managing director, Hugh Mark said, comparing the BBC's Panorama to the ABC's Four Corners program is opportunistic and false, claiming it to.
Be powerful journalism of the highest standard.
I mean, when was the last time you saw the public broadcaster here in Australia make a mistake that unfairly boosted a conservative politician. It just doesn't happen, and the ABC should be worried about what Trump might do. And after the BBC's second indiscretion, a spokesperson for President Trump's legal team said, quote, the BBC defamed President Trump by intentionally and deceitfully editing its documentary in order to try
and interfere in the presidential election. President Trump will continue to hold accountable those who traffic in lies, deception and fake news. And it's not like Trump doesn't already have his eye on the ABC.
Bet he appropriate President Trump that a president in offers should be engaged in so.
Much business activity.
Well, I'm really not.
My kids are running the business and you know what the activity.
Where are you from, I'm from the Australian Broadcasting Operation and Paul.
Corn and provoking the Australias you're hurting Australia rate.
In my opinion, you are hurting Australia very much right now.
Yeah, Now, with two dodgy edits on the BBC, I think we can safely say Donald Trump is watching. Let's go straight to liberal MP Garth Hamilton. Now, Garth, good to see you, Thanks so much for joining me.
Obviously net zero huge week.
Was this just a compromise to keep everyone in the party happy because you're dumping net zero twenty fifty but you're staying in the Paris Agreement?
How does that make sense?
Well, Denika, I'm happy to report I didn't make much for a compromise. I've got everything I wanted, which was a full and complete dumping of net zero and that was the target for me. Look, the thing with Paris it doesn't have any implication on domestic policies. Whilst it might not be my favorite thing in the world, it can't control what's happening within Australia, so I don't.
Share those concerns.
We held the Paris Agreement for five years before we signed up to net zero, we would just fine then. I'm sure we'll be just fine.
On the other side too, Are the Moderate's going to be a hindrance to this policy moving forward?
Me?
Some have even claimed today that they don't know whether they can sell this compromised policy.
Come sure, they'll find a way, and I'm sure we'll join together as a team. Now we've got through this very difficult conversation and found the right answer. On the other side, I would point out to the moderates, for four years I was in that compromised position. I was against net zero whilst the party's position was for it, and I managed to prosecute that and hold my convictions.
And I'd say to anyone who wants to continue their convictions of being pro net zero, there's a great place for that, and that's on the back bench where you get to express your views.
Yeah.
Look, I think that's an absolutely fair point. If you're not happy, go to the back bench. Absolutely perfect.
Look, let's talk about the sell. How are you going to sell this energy policy? Now?
How do you, in particular win over the inner city till seats and younger voters gen Z and millennials.
How do you go about this?
Look, I don't think this is something that we should shy away from it all and want to point out we haven't tried it before, we haven't actually prosecuted this case before. I think we can do it very easily just by simply talking to the economics, which is Labour's soft point. I mean, we've got a government that's been telling us for ages that the more renewable energy will lower our energy bills and it hasn't been. And the proof is in front of every single Australian every time
they get their electricity bill. We know that they're wrong on this issue. We simply need to prosecute it. And the best part is other people have been trying to prosecute this with us. We saw that report from Princeton University, Queensland, University of Melbourne that showed the figure was around nine to seven trillion dollars to get to our targets.
You break that down.
On a monthly basis, it's twenty billion dollars a month. You know how you sell that in till seats, that's hospitals, that's schools, that's road upgrades, that's police stations, all the things that we need and we should be building to make Australia great, the things, quite frankly, that we've been leaving behind and should now become our priorities.
Look, I agree to you very great.
I think it's about going into those till seats and explaining that decision and pushing it forward over the next few years between now and an election.
Is Susan Lee the leader who can.
Defend the attacks from the left, turn this around and get it back on track.
Look, I very much hope she is, and she has my support. But I think the bigger thing is that we need a full team and our best team on the court prosecuting this case. This is something that's going to take everyone in every seat going forward and arguing that there is an economic consideration with net zero that we must take into consideration and pushing that case. That's going to be every single MP and eventually every single candidate that we put into the field being willing to
fullheartedly say, look, there is a better way. There is a better way, and it's by considering the cost to Australians to making sure that we're still competitive, to making sure that we can still have industry stay in Australia. These are things we need to prosecute. I believe we can.
So what's the vision we're just playing on our screen now of a bunch of Conservatives. You're at the back, you were standing there, could see you very clearly there, Gar.
What was with that vision? Then? What message were you trying to send? Was there a message to Susan Lee.
I think everyone's tried to take something more out of it than what it was. It was just a group of like minded people getting together beforehand and enjoying the opportunity to go and express their views on net zero, which is something that was denied us back in twenty twenty one when the previous Morrison government brought forward our
position on net zero without a debate. So I think there's just a lot of people who were very excited about finally being able to make a contribution in the party room on a debate on net zero, and we enjoyed each other's company.
That's about it, right.
So this was not an image for Susan Lee of lookout the Conservatives are.
In goodness me No, No, this was a group of like minded people, Birds of a feather flocking together.
I like that analogy.
And so you backed Susan Lee in Now she's a leader that's going to take the party to the election.
Well, look she has my support and we have to get on with this job.
Okay.
Well, I want to play some audio of Chris Bowen today. He was asked should Australians believe labor to bring down power prices?
Have a listen.
I think Australians had their say in May. You know, mister Dutton, I wish him well, said he wanted to referend him on climate and energy. We were okay with that. That happened in May. Australian people told us to get on with the job. That's what we're doing. I don't think the coalition got the memo from the Australian people in May though.
Your response to that one, Garth, Look, this probably answers your earlier question, how are we going to win over those seats? Just roll out more, Chris Bowen, you want to talk about that election in May. Labor put that bloke into hiding. They hit him away.
They didn't want him out there sprouting his nonsense for people because labor not Labour.
No, this is their week.
Labour know that what he says doesn't resonate with the experience of Australians out there. The higher energy prices that we're all seeing. Chris Bowen can't deny that it's real, it's happening. His vision of Australia of more and more renewable is not one that Australians are now feeling very comfortable with. So look, good luck Chris. I think he's going to be very nervous as we start to prosecute this case.
Well, let's put it back on the agenda.
Hasn't It's in front and center again and lab we're going to have to front up to the fact that our energy.
Bills have gone to the other directions.
So Chris Bowen can say whatever he likes, but it's not doing any favors Garth Hamilton, nice to see you as always, Thanks so much for joining me on the show this evening, or joining me now is Zoe Hilton as senior policy analyst for the Center for Independent Studies. Zoe, thanks for joining me. I asked this question of Garth, but I'm interested to get your perspective of this. What's the point of dropping net zero? But staying in the Paris Agreement.
So I think we should definitely take this as a big win that net zero has actually been ditched by both the NATS and the Liberals now. And I think look massive credit to Matt Canaman in the NATS, just Internatmaging Proprice, Andrew Hasty, and all the other politicians who really showed conviction and stuck to what they believed was best for the country even when it seemed like it wasn't the best thing in a short term political sense. They were willing to stick with their convictions, and I
think that that's really been thrown in this decision. That being said, I think there still is this sort of soft acceptance that, oh, we need to keep emissions reduction targets on the table, which is why they're deciding to stick with staying in Paris agreements. So that does raise a few questions because if we still have targets, and if we're required to ratchet them up continuously, which seems to be the case, then what does that mean for
things like transmission planning? Because those targets, once they're legislated, they go into the regulatory system and they result in multi billion dollar projects being approved and that goes on to consumer bills. So I think I'd be interested to see what would end up happening once a coalition does
eventually get back into government. What do they do with those targets and do they actually end up making them lax enough that we don't have all of these projects that we don't actually need economically in our system, which would push up prices exactly.
And I mean being part of Paris means actually having these targets and working towards these targets. So that was my confusion as well, what support of being half in and half out? But I do I absolutely agree with you. I mean, this is a good start at least. Sousan Lee has been quite coy on how much power bills will go down by, But when you compare the cost of Labour's renewables only approach and actually getting to net zero, our power bills will just keep going up and up, won't they.
Yes, it's very clear, and we've done some research on this. The renewables honeymoon is over as we've gotten more and more renewables, just like all the other countries that have gotten into relatively high penetration of wind and solar in their systems, prices do continue to go up. There are no so high wind and solar low cost countries, they
just don't exist. So what that means is as Labour's policy continues to be enacted, and I mean we've heard from Chris Bow and he's literally said this on the record, he wants to lock in this transition so no future government can undo it. That means that if the Collosi does get back into government, will they be able to unravel all these transmission projects that are going to come on to consumers' bills in the next several years and
cause even higher price bikes. Will they be able to unravel capacity investment scheme contracts which I think are going to be about twenty years for these wind and solar developers that are being paid taxpayer dollars. All of these things mean that these are long term commitments. So a government coming in, they're not necessarily going to be able to make prices come down in the short term straight away. But the sooner we turn this ship around the better.
So the sooner we refurbish our coal assets, we build new coal units, we build new coal plants, and potentially even if we can lift the nuclear band. We can build nuclear stations. The sooner we can do that. The sooner we get dispatchable capacity into the system and stop building renewables, the faster our bills will be able to come down.
Yeah, and that's exactly what I think every Aussie is waiting for. They've gone up around forty percent under labor on the renewables only fantasy.
And it will be great to open a.
Bill and actually goes in the downwards trajectory. Zoe Hilton, We've got to leave it there. Thank you very much for joining me this evening. Really appreciate it. Coming up after the break, taxpayers hit with a massive bill to fly the East Safety Commissioner to eleven countries.
Would you believe that? Are more with my panel?
Next come back joining me now is new South Wales Independent MP Tanya Mahalic and form a new South Wales Police Minister David Elliott.
Here we go for another week back, doesn't it okay? Now?
Look, let's start with the economy. The Commonwealth Bank is tipping interest rates will be left on hold until.
The end of the year.
It comes as the unemployment rate dropped to four point three percent. Look, this is interesting we're not good news for mortgage holders. But what do you think, Tanny, this says about the economy.
What's interesting because Jim Chalmers was this morning sprooking the Australian economy to some investors at the Sydney Opera House. But you know, I don't know how honesty he is with the outlook for the economy in Australia because at the moment we've got some real issues around productivity. We know that real business investment has been a lull on stagnating for the last eighteen months.
We've come in and.
Out of for the last two and a half years of per capita GDP recessions, which has been a huge problem. And GDP growth is slow. It's one point eight percent this year. It's email to be two point one percent. But if you read some of these economists, not a lot of them are convinced that they'll actually eventuate.
The only thing growing in.
Australia at the moment is the public service. It's a ballooning bureaucracy and anything related to NDOS. That's the only job going in Australia. But the private sector is suffering and it's weakening our economy as a result, and that's the real issue.
Yeah, that NDIS is a complete behemoth. But you raise a good point about productivity. Wasn't the labor talk fest a couple of months ago, David, Wasn't that supposed to solve all of the economic issues, including productivity.
And look how swimmingly it's going.
And no child's going to live in poverty.
This is right?
Yeah, this isla economics one O one. I mean four point three percent is. I grew up when working families were paying ten percent, so I don't panic when interest rates are at a four and when you consider that the unemployment figure is so low and therefore there is there is healthy employment levels around the around Australia. If that's the price we have to pay, is just a little bit of an interest burden, interest rate burden, I'm
comfortable with that. But again, as we've all said, productivity should be the name of the game, right and so should and so should so should the red tape and the green tape the business is facing, because I think that's probably fifty percent of the productivity burden that they're carrying.
Yeah, I mean, who.
Would want to go into business right now into this country with energy prices on red tape. You know, you've got the unions with their finger in every pie, and it's not a nightmare right now. Now, Look, the Victorian Premier just Into Allen has now officially signed a treaty with Indigenous people into law, claiming it marks a new chapter in the story of our state. Quote new chapter for the sixty five thousand to identify as Aboriginal, not
the overarching seven million residents of the state. Tanya. Look, there was no debate. Nobody actually voted for this. In fact, the majority of Victorians said no to the voice. So why is it there do you think?
Well, look, the Layer Party was always going to do this, so I think there was no question of that. You know, they had a referendum. I don't think anyone believes that they really cared what the outcome of the referend would be and just sit to Allen has twelve months left we hope of her term before an election, and as always this is legacy building for Labor Party two.
They're going to rush and make sure that anything they've.
Already announced, like the treaty, is well and truly in place. That will make it almost impossible if a liberal government is elected in Victoria to scale it back, and of course they've got to reward all these activists right back the Labor Party. And this is all about unelected activists getting a job. And that's the only people that will.
Be rewarded as a result of this treaty. It's not the.
Sixty five thousand Indigenous that live in Victoria that will be supported. It's all the activists that were part of the Voice campaign that all need a job.
Now, well, I mean, and that's a good point.
And I was having a look, David at some of the immediate changes. So schools children between prep and year ten will be indoctrinated into truth telling curriculum. There will be an Indigenous body which will oversee training programs for public servants to ensure they are culturally capable. What on earth does that mean?
This will not assist one child get a better education, This will not assist one child to get to break away from malnutrition or sexualist abuse. This will not make the life of one Indigenous kid in Victoria better.
It is very, very.
Dangerous and indeed silly for Jacintarellen to do this. What part of no don't you understand? And I think that this will rightly become an election issue. She doesn't have
the electoral mandate to do it. And I'd say that what we're going to find at the next election is that if the Liberal party in the coalition is smart, they without wanting to make it a partisan political issue, they will highlight the fact that you can't trust these people with policy because when you give them their opinion, they ignore it exactly.
And as I said, nobody ever voted for this. There was no public debate. It was thrust upon victorians. The voice was thrust on all of us and sixty percent said no rightly. So now, look, taxpayers have been slugged more than four hundred and twenty five thousand dollars to fly the e Safety Commissioner duly In Grant and her staff to eleven countries in three years. Have a look
at this schedule. Just gone to the US, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Singapore, Japan, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands for a whole heap of meetings. It's quite the itinery Tanua for someone who's quite desperate to censor the whole Internet.
We had a lot of self care. This hurts great Safety commissioner.
I thought the whole remit of the E Safety Commission was that it's about safety online. Why not actually go to these conferences by zooming in or on teams do an online conference. It's unbelievable that in Tinary Swiss Alps as well, and don't look.
I think people should be rightly.
Concerned about the level of expense coming out of this authority. And it is an independent authority unfortunately, so they can't even be questioned in Parliament. It's unbelievable what they're about to get away with and have got away with. And David knows as politicians we get a little small story if we've gone and spent five thousand dollars on a trip up to Brisbane or something, you know.
Let alone four hundred and twenty five dollars.
Well, I mean ten is right. I would have thought that a commissioner in charge of technology use technology to attend these events. I mean, if I can use zoom meetings to have CEO hookups from around the country, surely she can have zoom meetings to have these this correspondence with them, with the Swiss and the Americans and the like.
It's just bad juju. It's just it's a bad image for the public sector, it's a bad image for her, and it just highlights the fact that some of these people in the camera bubble live in a completely different world.
They live in a bubble. They live in a bubble. Now, David, let's talk about your Daily Telegraph column this week. Why is Christmas drinks calls will save your inner elf? So people would judge you based on your drink? Is that what you're saying at Christmas party?
Yeah?
I think judging people at Christmas parties is a healthy thing to do.
I think.
We get so hung up on how much they consume. I think quality and quantity is somebody you drink, Well, I have a cheeky champagne to start, and well I'm probably a lady, all right, so I'm probably going I can now.
I was really concerned that you said that Bankstown people have VB.
And I normally start the day with VB. I's a great breakfast drink. Don't be judgmental.
I don't drink be but I did a survey.
Apparently it's lashes.
Because you people have gone middle classes.
Side left have.
Become too middle class and star Left I'm going to come back and start.
You have to go back. Well, look, if you want to know what your drink says about you, do catch up with David Elliott's colum in the Daily Telegraph. It is quite a laugh and it's quite so. It's quite good. At the same time, I'll tell you everything you need to know about yourself.
Self assessment, self assessment.
We all have a bit of self assessment.
David Elliott, Daniam Halem, Thank you as always to both of you. Will see you again next week. Coming up after the break, we'll head to the US as the BBC apologizes to Donald Trump, but is it enough to stop a lawsuit? Plus, I'll show you the sweet moment at the White House as the President invites.
Kids into the Oval office. That's next come back.
Let's return now to that ridiculous bail law's proposal I brought you earlier in the show. Are report authored by officials from every Commonwealth, state and territory government is urging all jurisdictions to loosen their bail laws. Joinning me now is Shadow Attorney General Andrew Wallace. Andrew, thanks for your time as always. What do you make of this report?
Well, I haven't a chance to read it. I don't even know whether it's been released publicly yet or not. I know that the Attorney General has been calling for it to be released. Look this morning, when the news hit The Australian the news piece, I was just absolutely flabbergasted as to how in goodness name could a commonwealth get this so wrong the rest of the country, Australians across this country are calling upon state and territory governments
to strengthen bail laws. We've seen what happened in Queensland under the Labor government before David Cruse fully was elected. We're seeing live what's happening in Victoria now with the weakening of bail laws and how that has.
Driven crime through the roof.
And Australians across the country are calling out for their state and territory governments to get tougher on crime. And yet here's the Commonwealth government coming out and saying, oh, you know, we think you should loosen bail laws across the country. It makes absolutely no sense and I'm sure that many Australians would be just dumbfounded.
Well, it's completely out of step with community expectations in my view, actually The Australian was reporting today that this cause for a requirement that courts consider a person's status as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander before making a bail decision.
Why is it always about race based politics, Andrew?
Well, look, I mean it shouldn't be.
The Greek god of Thesises is supposed to be blind, and it troubles me that we are treating people differently in the eyes of the law by virtue of the color of their skin. Now, everybody, most Australians would recognize that our prisons are overpopulated from a population perspective, with our indigenous people.
Nobody wants to see that.
But at the end of the day, if people break the law, particularly those whether you're white, black or brindle, If you break the law, and if it's a if it's a serious violent of fence, this kind of round table of you know, in and straight back out onto the streets. If people aren't, if they don't suffer the consequences for their actions, well then people are just going to keep committing more and more crimes.
Yeah, no, I couldn't agree with you more. I mean, we shouldn't be divided by the color of our skin. I want to ask you just quickly on net zero Andrew.
We pleased that the party's finally come to a position.
Yeah, Denika, We've been talking about this now for six months and I've kept saying to you please be patient.
We'll get there in the end.
And I want to thank people for their patients because I know that this has been a challenging thing for many Conservative voters. But at the end of the day, the Liberal Party has decided that we will back Australian businesses, we will back mums and dads. We know that they are doing it incredibly tough. So we want to restore affordability and reliability as the number one factor that we've
got to look at now. Yes we want to reduce emissions, of course we do, but we've got to restore affordability and reliability and that's not what we've had under this Labor government. This Labor government has driven costs increases in energy costs by around forty in the last three and a half years. That's on top of the cost of
living in crisis. And to boot, emissions reductions have flatlined under the coalition had when we were in government, not only were our energy prices lower, but so were our emissions.
Yeah, you look at your spot on and look, I'm glad we finally got an answer to the question to ask you weekly on.
This show for the last six months.
I don't have to ask you about it again, so I'm sure that makes it very very happy. Andrew Wallace, nice to see you as always, Thanks very much for joining me.
Thanks Aniga well.
As I mentioned earlier in the show, the BBC has done it again with its dodgy and deliberate editing of Donald Trump's January sixth speech.
A second show, this time, Newsnight.
Also adopted footage of the Capitol Hill speech.
Have a look, We're going.
To cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
And we fight.
We fight like hell.
We're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to.
Be cheering so much for some of them.
I Meanwhile, the BABC has apologized to Donald Trump for its Panorama episode that spliced together parts of that speech, but has rejected his demands for compensation. Joining me now is Brad Palumbo, host of Brad Versus Everyone podcast. Brad great to catch up with you again, Thanks for joining me. Do you think an apology will cut it for the president? He's already threatened to sue the UK's public broadcaster for a billion dollars.
Well, look, the BBC is turning into an absolute joke in the ice of the American public. The way they deceptively edited this Trump speech is pretty blatant.
And it's not just that.
I mean they recently sanctioned or found that a journalist had violated their policies by saying women instead of pregnant person. So they're turning into a laughing stock. I would be very frustrated if I was a brit that I would have to pay a license fee to them. But Trump, frankly, I think is better served by just letting leaving this in the rear view mirror. He's already got plenty of money, He's already won lawsuits against media companies. Don't bet against
him pursuing it against the BBC. He loves to get revenge, but frankly, I think they are doing a good enough job of running themselves out of business and out of credibility for him to even be worth going after them.
At this point.
Yeah, look, I agree They've done it to themselves twice now in the space of a week.
Extraordinary.
Now, Brad, the Democrats are trying to implicate Donald Trump again with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein releasing three emails that they kind of mentioned the President and his knowledge of Epstein's activities. Brad, do you think this is just another desperate attempt by the Democrats.
Well, I don't think these emails change that much. The Democrats are acting like they're a huge bombshell, and I just really.
Don't see it.
They had to omit the victim's name because in the version they released, because if you actually include it, while she has said that she never saw Donald Trump ever do anything wrong to her or anyone else. So I do think they are weaponizing this in a partisan manner. But Donald Trump promised to release the full Ebstein files. It was a key campaign promise, and I'm hearing not from partisan opponents, but from people on his side of
the aisle. They still want that, and I don't think this is going to go away until as long as he doesn't release them. Democrats can drip by drips selectively release a piece here or a piece there. I don't know who exactly he is protecting by not releasing them so far. I don't think it implicates him, but maybe
somebody else powerful or important in his orbit. But this issue is going to be a cloud over Trump's presidency until he just fulfills his campaign promise that his supporters are still calling on him to do and releases the whole file and let it all go out there for the sunshine to see.
Good point, look of interesting to see what he does with it. And that look finally, the government shutdown has ended. After forty three days of the Democrats holding the country to ransom, here was Donald Trump officially reopening it.
It's an honor out to sign this incredible bill and get our country working again.
Thanks you.
Well, Brad.
Look finally what happens now?
Well, the Democrats have egg on their face because this was an absurd failure for them. It was really a farce. They claimed they didn't shut the government down, but of course they always did. They withheld the votes that Republicans needed to pass clean budget legislation. But then when some Democrats have broke ranks to finally end the shutdown, the other ones got mad at them and said, you caved totally. Nuking their argument that it had never been them at all,
it had always been the publicans. And then all they got was a vote on the Obamacare subsidies they were always going to get. So they caused weeks of suffering and chaos, made a whole little stand, and accomplished nothing other than I guess some virtue signaling. But I think they burned a lot of political capital on what ultimately proved a futile stunt.
Yeah, they've absolutely wasted their time forty three days of holding the country to ransom and for what absolutely nothing. Now, look, let's end on something from Brad. Have a look at this sweet moment at the White House when Donald Trump invited Kins into the Oval office.
Have a look, my name is Donald Okay, do you want to bet one? Two three?
Oh, Brad, he's just a grandpa at heart after all.
Yeah, it's a sweet moment, and I hope he showed them the diet coke. But it's good to see. It's good to see the lighthearted side of the presidency. And just you know, we could all use some more positivity in the news cycle these days. Things are looking bleak, but we should all remember the beautiful part what we all fate for to protect.
You know, yeah, that's actually a good point. The news cycle is so bleak, so when we do see nice stuff like that, it's good to show it. Brad Palumbo, great to see you as always, Thanks for joining me on the show. Thanks coming up half the break the winners and losers of the week, including the conservative liberals killing off net zero, plus the shocking moment a light
rail driver falls asleep behind the controls. Is that time of the week where we saw the winners from the losers and helping me to do that is Sky News contributor James Bolt.
James, great to have you back. Thanks so much for joining me.
You're winner this week are the victorious conservative liberal MPs.
You got to give it to him. It's been a debate that's been raging for six months on what the policy is going to be. And you knew that they were feeling pretty goo about themselves when they walked into the meetings. So you can see that there. That's just they're ready to they're rolling deep, they're ready to party.
So I just.
Thought, look, I'm not a liberal voter, I'm not a member of the party, but I can offer them one piece of advice, which is that's the kind of vision that you can use for marketing campaigns.
And I just like I was throwing some.
Ideas around for your producer, and I think I've come up with something that they could use. It's just a free one for me, so you know, I look notes get off my back if they use it or not. But it's just something I thought abuseful.
Doctor Dry and the Liberal Party, whoa, it's a it's a good big so I wonder if they would take it up.
I will see they gotta win over younger voters, don't do.
Yeah, and doctor j you know he's probably not the young demographic anymore. We are we're getting so but it could play.
James, I actually love that idea. That's one of your best work. Sell it to the party. Now look my winner this week. Just for a bit of fun, just to end the week, have a look at this porky perpetrator who led police in New Mexico on to chase through Albertquerque.
Have a look at this vision.
This shows the police department chasing this loose pig along an interstate highway. Decided to take a joy ride through traffic, dodging cars and officers.
After a brief.
Foot pursuit, the team managed to safely detain the porky perpetrator put it in the back of the wagon. No one was hurt, the pigs in now safe hands. So I just thought, you know what, that's what we're going to end Friday with James.
We were just talking my first instance of yoga just before the break, and then I see this clip here and I just go, I'm less athletic than a pig, Like, there's no way I could outrun the federals for that long.
No, we gave yoga a James gave yoga a go. Everybody got that on TV in the Winner of the Week. Actually he's doing yoga.
For the first winn of the week.
Me, that's a little all right, now your Loser of the Week the ABC. Yeah.
So if I'm with the ABC and I was embroiled in so many doctoring footage scanners, We've got the Jane Hume one. We've got our colleague Sky News host Chris Kenny's beautiful reporting on what they've been doing for don Trump speech. I'd been keeping a little bit of a lid on my criticism of others, but not the ABC because Justin Stevens and Hu Marks in a staff white email, have said there is just this opportunistic criticism of them.
They're the victims of a smear campaign. And I just would not do that on the same week that you've doctored the photos of Jane Hume, that you've done what I what I say is very similar editing new techniques to the BBC. I would keep a lid on it.
Absolutely well. I said it was. It showed he was proud. I think Hugh Marx's words well.
Out of the reporting.
Proud of the report.
Yeah, because like what the ABC did, which was similar to the BBC scanner, which I mean you've been covering on this show. So I'm not going to go over too much. But when you say when you played Trump saying we're going to go down to the Capitol, but edit out him saying to cheer on our brave senators in congressmen, you're making a point in my view.
Yes, yeah, Well, I mean the BBC's doctored footage basically it insinuated something that was not there. So we'll see what Trump does, whether he actually sues.
Him or not.
Now, my loser of the week, James is this US light rail driver who fell asleep in San Francisco.
Have a look at the vision.
I'm sorry, relax, relag relate, we are crash. Relag Yeah, I'm not sure relax is the right word to be using after you almost crashed the tram.
The bar for me relaxing is not whether or not we crashed. It's whether or not you're awake on the job when you're driving.
Yeah, yeah, that I look.
A full investigation is being conducted, but luckily nobody was injured.
That is frightening.
James Bold, great to see you again. Have a nice weekend. Thank you so much for joining me. Really appreciate it.
That's all I've got time for.
I'll be back at seven pm on Sunday for denekro and James. Steve Price is next.
Good night,