Why On Sky News Australia. This is de Nika di Giorgio.
Hello and welcome to the program. Coming up tonight, Anthony Alberesi gets a reality check from real people as the Bush fights back against Labour's reckless energy policies.
The cheapest form of new energy is renewables.
Plus.
The PM reveals when he'll meet with Donald Trump, you won't believe his laughable answer, and the Hunt for Desi Freeman enters day four as the AFP joins a search for the accused killer. But first tonight, The Bush fought back today against Anthony Albanesi's reckless energy policies and the damage caused by Labour's net zero magic carpet ride. Farmers did not hold back at The Herald's Sons Bush Summit in Ballarat, Victoria, as the PM took to the stage to answer questions by.
A regional communities paying the cost for renewable energy?
Where is the social license?
Where is the regulation to protect our communities, value our farmland and preserve our environment? How can state and federal governments justify enabling companies like squad and.
Energy to tear our communities.
Apart so that there hasn't been a new cul fire power station begun for this century.
That's just the truth.
And there hasn't been any regulations stopping that. There is still nothing stopping that. Now someone wants to build a coal fire power station, they can go and do it.
It hasn't happened.
It hasn't happened because the markets term that doesn't stack up.
We need ladies and gentlemen. Please.
Well, he couldn't escape this, could he. Firstly, farmers are the collateral damage caught up in the race to renewables. Reckless governments want to carve up the land under the guise of saving the land from climate change. Make that make sense. And secondly, Anthony Albanezi is totally talking nonsense. Labor is shutting down coal plants with no plan B for energy generation to keep the lights on in this country.
The Australian Energy Market Operator has warned the slow rollout of keyholes and wire projects will severely limit the amount of power big renewables can produce to replace Australia's soon to be shut coal plants and g it just got worse from there.
For the PM, we do need energy, and the cheapest form of new energy is renewables.
So that's the first point that I'll make.
The science told us that climate change was real.
Ladies and gentlemen, We'll have to stop if you keep interjecting.
Told us that the science was real, and we are seeing we are seeing what the science told us would happen, which is more extreme weather events and more intense We've seen cyclones in nontropical areas like off the New South Wales north coast and off the Queensland coast. We're seeing an incret at the moment. We have drought, we have flooding, we have impact in South Australia and impact in Western Australia.
People need to be treated with respect at and that is and that is what I am doing through my presence here, and I'll continue to engage.
But I won't bullshit people.
I won't say I won't say.
Well, imagine going to the regions and professing climate change and the science. How tone deaf and out of touch is this guy in regional New South Wales right now there are plans to put up wind farms at a height of two hundred and seventy meters. It is literally ripping local towns apart over in Victoria, legislation past this week where farmers can be fined if they don't allow transmission workers onto their private property.
So who is bsing? Who Prime Minister?
Because I would say he is bsing all of us. We were told our bills were going to go down under renewables. Instead they are up by one thousand dollars. We were told we were going to get two hundred and seventy five dollars in energy bill relief. Instead that pledge disappeared into the never never. We were told labor has a plan to keep the lights on instead the heat of summer. We were told in New South Wales to turn off our appliances because the grid was not coping and the East Coast.
Could run out of gas by next year.
We were told Labour is on track to meet energy targets. Instead, experts warn Australia is on track to miss targets because of low investment and output in grid scale solar and wind. And not to mention, Australia needs ten thousand kilometers of high voltage transmission lines by twenty fifty, but the project is so far behind only half of it will be delivered in the next decade. And the cost of course will inevitably be passed on to consumers on top of
every other energy increase under this government. And of course we were told we were building our renewables energy future. Instead I have lost count at the amount of projects which have gone bust or have been delayed in the last few months alone around the country.
So again I will ask.
The question who who is b s ing who Prime Minister? And then it was Victorian Premier just into Alan's turn to make her speech at the Bush Summit today and Gia went down like a lead balloon.
Families, farmers, small business owners, to many.
Many are doing it tough. Some of it is because of nature. Some of it is because of nature.
The bush gives you something you simply can't find anywhere else.
The fresh air, the quiet, the space. And that's why.
Also we're supporting renewable energy projects as well that are driving investment.
I mean, surely she had to expect this, and I think that this farmer really summed up the sentiment. Just into Alan is holding farmers at ransom, the noose around their necks, whether it be renewable energy zones, transmission lines, the emergency services tax.
Once again as we're seeing around the country.
It's the regions and the farmers, not the wealthy city elites whose lives are being destroyed by net zero. Labor is out running a tricky and dodgy experiment of transmission lines, giant wind turbines, green hydrogen, solar farms, and batteries. So PM, I'll tell you what, how about you listen to your own words, stop your own bs.
And secure our future.
Well, the Prime Minister has finally given us confirmation on when he will meet with US President Donald Trump.
Well, when you see it on your screens.
Yeah, no, it's confirmed.
Oh good good, blink and you'll miss it.
You'll find out if a meeting has been scheduled when you see it on your screens. So, in other words, there is no update, nada. There are still no formal plans for a meeting with our number one ally and ALBO is quite touchy on the subject. Haven't listened to his reaction. Would asked if Defense Minister Richard Miles was in Washington this week to try and broker that very meeting.
Things that become an issue that just aren't. He went to the United States, he met the Vice President, he met the Defense Secretary. He met senior people in the Trump administration, and that's a good thing.
And then he came home. That's a good thing.
Well, it just seems that everyone's having White House meetings except for Albow. According to The Australian, Richard Miles was rushed to Washington for high level talks with US Vice President JD.
Vance to reassure the White House.
That Australia would lift its defense spending and pave the way for a meeting between Anthony Alberesi and Donald Trump. And last month, you recall Penny Wong was also rushed to Washington, DC as well on some sort of weird peacekeeping mission, and she came back empty handed. And look, who knows what even happened with Miles over there. Richard Miles claims that he had a formal meeting with his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth. Miles's office published an Instagram post
showing the two of them photographed together alongside JD. Vance, but a US Defense official said, we can confirm that there was not a meeting.
It was a happenstance encounter.
And then hours later, the Chief Pentagon spokesperson, Sean Parnell told the Guardian that the encounter was in fact a meeting, walking back that previous statement and confirming it was coordinated in advance. But gee, this just shows to me sheer desperation by the Albenese government to try and shore up the relationship. And so really ALBINIZI is embarrassingly banking on a series of upcoming summers in the hope of catching up with Trump.
It's summer season, which sounds glamorous, but isn't you spend more time on a plane than you do on the land. And so we have a range of meetings, whether it's a UN General Assembly as an APEC, so we'll be running into each other regularly.
Running into each other like a casual hallway meeting. I mean, that's not the same as a formal sit down meeting. But then again, this isn't the first time the PM has gasled us into thinking that he's got it all under control.
When we have a meeting, we'll have a meeting. Well, of course we will meetings.
It'll be a range of meetings between now and the end of the year with President Trump.
The confidence.
I refer to my previous five three and twenty four entries to that same question.
Yeah.
Look, it all comes down to leadership in the end, doesn't it. So Albo can keep flying ministers over on bridging the gap meetings. The more he equivocates, the bigger the gap between our alliance gets. Let's go straight to Shadow Cabinet Secretary Andrew Wallace. Now, good to see you
as always, andrews. I'll get to that meeting in a moment, but I want to start firstly with the scenes that we saw at the Herald sun Bush summit today where the Prime Minister was heckled by angry farmers over net zero. The PM says that he won't bs people on the issue his words, not mine.
Is he.
The election in twenty twenty two when he promised Australians on no less than ninety seven occasions that we were going to get a two hundred and seventy five dollars power reduction if all we did was just follow his lead. And clearly the electorate sucked it up.
They voted for Anthony Albanesi and Labor and what have we got.
We've got power bills which are now more than a thousand dollars than what we're expecting. So austrangs are doing a tough power bills have gone up. We had the figures come up during the week thirty nine percent. Gas has gone up by thirty eight percent. And it's only because now that the subsidies the Commonwealth government, now the election's over, the Commonwealth government subsidies are coming off that people are staying to feel the real pain in.
These utility prices.
The strangers have been sold a pup and I think they've all got buyers remorse.
I agree, but even with the subsidies, I mean, it was just a case of you and I paying each other's energy bills, so it was never going to be the solutions to all of this in the first place. So I completely agree, and I see why farmers are angry.
Now.
Look, as I just mentioned, who knows what was going on with Richard Marles and his alleged meetings in Washington, But it all seems to be part of this ploy to get Anthony Albanezi a meeting with Donald Trump. How many ministers is the Prime Minister sending over there? Why can't he put his big boy pants on and get on a plane to DC himself.
Well, I think there's actually a legitimate question as to whether he really honestly wants a meeting with Donald Trump.
You know, he says he does.
He says he's trying to hook up this meeting. But it's been now two hundred and ninety six days since President Trump took office, and we are supposed to be one of, if not the closest ally of the United States. They certainly are to us, and yet President Trump and the Prime Minister can't seem to get a meeting together. But I think the Prime Minister is actually running scared here because he does not want an Oval office meeting
like what happened to President Zelenski. He does, and mind you that the President would have a lot to attack the Prime Minister on his pos in relation to defense expenditure and the recognition of Fealestine.
I think the Prime.
Minister is very, very worried about an Oval office meeting.
I completely agree with you, is absolutely terrified.
But in the end, does he want to bridge the gap or not? That's the question. Now. Look, Iran's envoy had a job. That's his job. It's a leadership thing.
Iran's envoy has left the country after being expelled this week.
Of course, amid.
Revelations around orchestrated anti Semitic attacks. He referred on X to quote the occupation, apartheid and genocide by the illegitimate Israeli regime and that at the airport there were quite wild scenes.
Have a listen and Massa, how do.
You feel being expelled from Australia? Nothing in particular part of the job.
Pack of stenographers.
You repeat the lines of the Australian government.
You should be better than that.
You be aware of government's alleged involvement in these activities.
No, I'm not so you would be sleiss.
Acquisition Andrew, what do you make of this?
And has labor gone far enough to defend this country against the attacks bay Iran?
Well, there's been a lot said this week Deneka about labors in action, but let's just look at it again. We have been calling out senior leaders of the coalition have been calling out for the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to be listed as a terrorist organization for two and a half years, you know. And some people might say, well, what's the benefit in them doing that or this strain government doing that.
I'll tell you what the benefit is.
It is actually once a listed terrorist organization is enacted in the law, it's illegal to provide direct or indirect financial support or any type of other support to a listed terrorist organization. So all of these groups and individuals that are out they're flying hes Bala or Hamas or the Iranian flags, if it's a listed terrorist organization, then they would be committing very very serious offenses because they're supporting a listed terrorist organization.
I think our law enforcement at a state.
Level needs to really crack down harder on this. But I tell you what's really concerning me is that there's this significant unease. Now we've got a foreign state actor that has committed the most egregious foreign influence attacks and terrorist attacks in Australia. They're trying to break down social
cohesion in Australia. And yet this is the same country that provides financial support to Hamas, and this is the same organization that is running Gaza, to which the Prime Minister are only two weeks ago has said, well, you know they want to reward Hamas with Palestinian recognition.
Well, and not just Humas Hesbala, the Hoodi Rebels as well.
It's all been financed by Iran.
So that's why it's batchels me that the PMS equivocated on this. Andrew Wallace, We've got to leave it there. Good to see he was always Thanks so much for joining me. Well look, let's turn now to the hunt for accused killer Desi Freeman, four days after he allegedly shot and killed two police officers in Victoria's High Country. Let's go live now to our reporter Georgie Dickinson, who's in Poor Punker this evening.
Georgie, what's the latest.
Good evening to you, Zanika.
Well, the latest is this man hunt is still on for Desi Freeman. It has now been eighty hours since he was last seen and police have been trying to hunt him down over the past eighty hours, but still he is at large. Now one of the major developments that we have seen is overnight there was a raid on a property in Poor Punker and after raid we saw a woman in a teenager be arrested. Now those people are Deisi Freeman's wife and his teenage son. They
were arrested. They were taken into questioning by authorities. They have not faced any charges at this stage, but then they were later released. But this just gives you a sense of the lengths police officers are going to to ensure they can track down the man allegedly responsible for the killing of those two police officers on Tuesday morning, Neil Thompson and the Dim Devat. But they have been
tackling some very torrential conditions. As you can say, it has just started raining and it really hasn't stopped raining since Tuesday morning. Just about an hour ago we were hit with lightning, wind and hail, So there's certainly not prime conditions for authorities that are trying to track down this accused killer. But we did hear from the Chief Commissioner, Mike Bush a little earlier on today we are.
Not leaving here until this person is in custody. In fact, if that person is listening, it really is time to lay down your firearms and give yourself up.
Last night we saw memorials for those fallen officers at the local police station where they were both working at the time that they were killed. And so, Danika, the hunt is certainly still on for Desi Freeman. As I mentioned, it has just started raining again for another night. We've seen special operations coming in and out of here all day this afternoon, we saw the police shopper up again, and just moments ago we saw a convoy of cars enter this mobile command center here behind me, all.
Right, George, you really appreciate your updates.
Thank you so much. Let's get more analysis on this now.
Joining me is Victoria's shadow police minister, David Southwick.
David, thank you for your time.
Let's start with the deadly police shooting and this ongoing manhunt Adams. We've just heard clearly police are throwing all of its resources into finding this man.
Grad to be with you, Denika. Look, this is such a tragedy. You've got two police officers killed in the way that they have been killed. You've got obviously all police resourcing being thrown at this particular event right now. And I've visited a number of stations today and met with a number of police officers that are absolutely gutted at the moment that they don't know where to put themselves.
I mean, it's such a tragedy, but they're putting on their uniforms and they're going to work and they're doing what they have to do. A number of police have been asked to go in and replace shifts in Port Punkah. So you've got police right across the state that are being recruited on this particular manhunt at the moment, and they just want to see an into this. It is a horrific situation. It's a shame also that it's taken a tragedy like this to bring people together, which they have.
Police have been overwhelmed with flowers and tributes to the very stations. We had one situation where a principal brought a number of their kids to the station. The principle broke down in tears and hugg the police. At the moment. It's a terrible time, but it's a stark reminder how dangerous the job is and also what an important job Victoria Police do in keeping us all safe.
Oh look, absolutely spot on.
And I just want to talk about resourcing because I know that this weekend there's a pro Palestine rally in Melbourne, but there's also an anti immigration rally at the same time. Is this going to be taking away frontline resourcess from this man hunt?
Absolutely? Denika and police said to me today, give us a break. You know what is happening is, as I've just said, you've got police being asked to a ten Port punker to find this individual, and at the same time police also need to come from right across the state to babysit these protesters and police just want the opportunity to focus on their job and a break from the traumas that they're having to deal. As I've said, on many occasions, we've had some twenty two thousand eight
hour police shifts just to run these protests. Victoria the protest capital in the nation. Everyone should have a right to protest, but I think wake up to those protesters right now, Now is not the time you want to have the opportunity to do it. Do it once we've found this this killer, this murderer. That's what should happen right now.
And I think.
It's just bad form for anybody wants to protest at a time when police should be focused on catching this killer.
Yeah, no doubt officers are going to be stretched once again, but right now it's just the worst timing.
Now.
Look, David, we saw very angry scenes today at the Herald sun Bush Summer in Ballarat. Farmers heckled both the Prime Minister and Premier just into Alan Overnet zero.
Just this week, legislation that will.
Slap Victorian farmers with massive fines if they block transmission companies from actsessing their land pass through the Upper House.
That's surely a huge blow to farmers.
Absolutely.
It is on top of the emergency services tax that they're being hit with. Farmers Feed Us and the fact that our farmers have been completely neglected both federally and state by their leaders and now being told that people can just come on to their land forget about you know that it's your land, and just do what they like and if you don't do it, they'll cut the padlocks and they'll find you. That's not what should be happening.
We would reverse that under a liberal national government going forward, and we said farmers should have rights on their land. Farmers should be able to go about their business, and certainly if governments want to be able to bring power lines and whatever on the land, they should be working with farmers, not telling them what they're going to do and forcing them into it.
No, I completely agree with you.
I mean, it's the farmers that are really the collateral damage right now for this net zero crusade. But you go, I just want to ask you about Justinta Allen's plans for treaty negotiations with the First Nations People Assembly wrapped up this week. Now you're vowing not to support this legislation which was meant to be introduced into Parliament.
This week but it's been delayed.
But I just think the main concern really is that Victorians don't know what this treaty means. There's nothing on the table, but Victoria's premiere is forging ahead well.
In all of the tragedies that we're dealing with at the moment, we should be trying to unite people and not divide them, and that's what this is doing. It won't close the gap, it won't fix a single thing. It will just create another bureaucracy that we don't need right now. And all the Jesus Cinderellan is doing is trying to divert away from the situations, the crime, the debt, the state of disrepair that Victoria is in right now.
And just Cinderellen should wake up to herself, stop dividing Victorians and start uniting them and let's ensure in a cost of living crisis people can afford to put on the table. And this is not the way to be able to go about doing it. We had a voice referendum that failed. We all need to move on. Sure, we need to do more to help our indigenous communities. This won't do a single.
Thing, No it won't. And you know, just get this sense that it's victorians. I'm going to be paying for this, and the state's already in.
A lot of debt.
So let's see what happens. David Southwick, good to see you again, Thanks so much for joining ours the show. We're coming up after the break my panel. We'll discuss Tony Burk's double standards condemning planned anti immigration rallies this weekend. Joining me now is Skytys contributor Tina McQueen and New South Wales Independent MP Tanya Mahalo. Hi to both of
you as always, thanks for joining me. Now we've got to start, of course with the Bush summit that we saw today where the Prime Minister and Justinta Allen were heckled.
Have a look and I'll continue to engage, but I won't bullshit people. I won't say I won't.
Say courting renewable energy projects as well, but a driving investment.
And it was so bad the Prime Minister was even chased out of town by farmers on tractors.
Well they didn't want him there, did they, Tina.
No, And finally some pushback, you know, thankfully. And now he must know what it feels like to only get thirty four percent of the vote. You know, the penny maa farmily dropped. It really rattled him. I could tell he was really rattled, you know. But we've had the news, the the West Australian and the Queensland Liberal Party, I've all put motions to withdraw from Paris, stop them their zero.
So this was ant unexpected, this reaction. But look, I think it was wonderful to see that's some honesty, honest reaction from the public, not some sanitized viewing area. So it was good good to see him under pressure. I do it is going to change anything in the gaul of him to just say, you know, how const effective wind farms were. I mean, why do you think people are just going to see they're not?
When the science he was talking about the change have tone death is it.
Exactly when these people a lot of their lives have been ruined by wind farms and you know, transmission.
Grids exactly believe and it really is the farmers who are suffering from this race to renewables. They're the ones who've got these hideous transmission lines raising their properties. And you don't hear in New South Wales there's that fight in the regional town because they've got wind farms of two hundred and seventy meters going up, so it's literally ripping towns apart.
Tenure.
Well, i've got to say watching that footage, my first thoughts were, hell, hath no fury like a farmer's score.
Yes, so true.
They have really come out fighting and our bridge was fantastic to see and look they've got a fight. They've got to fight because it's about their survival. They're being hit from every angle when it comes to this government. Their prime agricultural land is being pushed into a forced upon them to make it renewable lands and solar and wind farms everywhere.
They're now getting fined.
The just sint al And government has announced that if you don't accept transmission lines onto your farm proper, you will be fined up to ten two one thousand dollars as outrageous.
On top of that super tax.
Okay, if you've got farms now thirty percent tax on unrealized paper games. So they've attacked from an angle. And of course high energy prices are costing the viability of these farms.
Farms just can't operate.
Like this, and you've got they've got to find Susan.
He said all the right things today, but not a single policy. Now, with her opportunity, she should have said we will withdraw from.
Well, she was asked about it, and she's housed on it, and she didn't have an art.
She did not have an answer on it.
They're not going to change's out of the moderate liberals.
They're not going to She's not even a moderate. She's got no convictions at all.
She's worse than a moderate.
No, she's not going to change a policy to appease the MODERATESI it's very very clear, But I'm going to say here is an example of real leadership. Have a listened to the US President on wind farms this week.
They're ugly, they don't work, they kill your birds, they're bad for the environment, and if you look.
At them from a house, your house is worth less than fifty percent.
So I'm trying to have.
People learn about wind real fast.
And I think I've done a good job, but not good enough because some countries are.
Still trying and they're destroying themselves.
Those are countries that are really destroying themselves.
I hope they get back to fossil fuel.
I mean, spot on.
What a shame, Tina that our prime minister doesn't share that common said.
Well, I assure you that our prime minister's comments will be forwarded to the President's office, so he knows exactly where Albaneazy stands and the difference in their two views.
You know, like.
A wonderful just common sense policies, like what a great leader.
Well, remember he went to the UK a couple of weeks ago and he said it in front of the It was from the European Council, who I mean, look, Europe's gone absolutely nuts with wind farms. But he said it to them that they are complete waste of place.
Was ugly in France, you know, that's what he said. But he knows that he's got a big battle himself because it's the inner city elites in the US, very similar to our situation, that are imposing these wind farms on the regional rural communities.
It's got the same problem.
I was in New York Upstate New York recently where you had farmers there are fighting back.
But New York.
City all the legislators there want wind farms. So he knows the problem he has. He knows the ugly. We know the ugly. But like it's a battle for us, it's a battle in the US as well.
Absolutely, the absolute monstrosities, as I said, two hundred and seventy meter wind farms up in going up in New South Wales.
Absolutely staring size of Santa Point tasn Yeah, exactly.
I mean, it's just out of control. Now that we've got to talk about.
The Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and the Multicultural Affairs Minister An Ali both issued a joint statement this week condemning planned anti immigration rallies this weekend, saying there is no place in our country for people who seek to divide and undermine our social cohesion. We stand with Modern Australia against these rallies. Nothing could be less Australian. Well, let's talk about what's more or less Australian.
We can week out Teina.
We have seen these anti Israel protests, terror flags being being flown around the country. You've got the eye of Toller of Iran, his portrait being hurld down the Harbor Bridge and holding the Australian flags, the anti Australia.
Those protests they go up Market street, the trams are stopped a stopped, while they have right away every single weekend. I can't believe the hypocrisy in these people. It makes me sick. You know, if they really don't want these rallies, cancel all those rallies, it's disgraceful.
Well, I just think Tony Burk's looking after his own electric.
Of course he is, He absolutely is looking after his own electric, but at what expense. I mean, I can't believe that he could make a statement to suggest these rallies are going to be on Australia and the idea that they're in some respects frightening certain communities too and making it think that there's something.
Terrible about these rallies.
Look, let's have a look at David Chrisaveli in Queensland. He hasn't condemned them, he's a multicultural minister, has refused to.
Condemn them, and I noticed New South Wales.
Premier and the state Multicultural Minister have not followed Tony Burkean and Ali in condemning these rallies. So I think they're out on their own to some extent Tony Burkean and Ali in terms of condemning this, because everybody else can see that this is just an opportunity for people to come together who want to share a passion and love for Australia and it doesn't matter what they're buying. Is I think there were a lot of people have multicultural background that will be at these rallies.
I agree.
But the thing is what's happened right now in our country is if you wave the Australian flag you're passionate about this country, suddenly you're labeled far right. It's not far right to love your country. It's not far right to be waving the Australian flag. We should be proud of our flag.
On the extreamers to be pron o flag.
No, but that's a problem.
And I just feel like that joint statement implied that you demonizing people.
I just think it's you know, again, Tody.
Burke wants to have a look at what's un Australian, have a look at the madness going on with these pro Palestine protests. Week in week out, so big weekend ahead, no doubt. Tenam Acqueen Tanya Mahalo. Good to see you both as always. Thank you so much for joining me on the show. We'll stay with us. Coming up after the break, we'll go live to London for more details on Nigel Faraja's plans for mass deportations. Plus i'll speak
with National's leader David Little Proud. He was in the audience today watching on as the PM was heckled at the Bush.
Summit in Ballarat. That's next.
Welcome back to Reform UK leader Nigel Faraj, who's outlined his blueprint, declaring he would deport six hundred thousand migrants over five years if elected.
If you come to the UK illegally, you will be detained and deported and never ever allowed to stay period.
Joining us now is Samara Gill, host of Triggered with Samara Gill. Great to catch up with you, Thanks so much for joining me on the show. I've got to say Farage means business. I mean he's Becky's political career on being tough on borders. What's been the response to his mass deportations announcement?
Great to see Denika.
Look the UK is in the middle of Farage Mania right now. He is the answer because Britain is an absolute mess. You've got crime soaring, You've got people getting stabbed on the street, left, right and center, You've got phones getting nicked, shoplifting, his rife, inflation is through the roof. I mean, our so called free healthcare system is breaking apart at the scenes.
And Reform UK is really deadly serious about this plan.
They wanted to port those six hundred thousand people over five years.
And the fact is the British.
Public is with him because Britain has really had enough here. On top of all that, we've had fifty thousand small boat migrants that have landed in the UK in the past year. Whole communities are understrained, and let's be honest, Australia has seen this all before. I mean, you're remember those Gillard Rudd years where we had twenty five thousand people arrived by boat. It was total chaos and it took Tony Abbott's resolve to put an end to it, and thank god that he did.
Farage is very much cutting through.
He's reading the pulse of what the people want and millions are sort of behind him with this plan. But meanwhile we've had Kirstamer, our own Prime minister rush off to Washington last week to defend Ukraine borders instead of ours.
It's ludicrous, It's absolutely ludicrous.
Yeah, it just goes to show that his priorities are just so wrong right now for the United Kingdom. But I mean, god, some of those stats are just shopping on boat arrivals.
Now.
Look, I've got to say, Samara, this is astonishing. Lawyers for the UK's Home Office have argued that the rights of migrants trump.
Those of people in Epping.
Of course, the Bell Hotel in Epping was used as a migrant hotel, but the Hope Secretary is not only fighting a court ruling blocking the housing of migrants there, but Apartment now thinks that locals rights well don't seem to matter.
Samara, Well, exactly, it is really state versus the people here. And that's really what makes it so shocking, because you've got these ordinary, hard working families in Epping, which is a sort of small town in Britain. They're taxpayers, most of them have lived there their whole lives, and they're standing up and they're saying we don't want our local hotel being turned into migrant housing. This is a phenomenon that's going on all over the country now to deal
with the crisis that we're going through. And look, they're not standing up just because they don't like illegal migrants. I mean there were multiple instances of men at that particularly particular hotel who lived there and have been charged with sexual assault offenses against miners.
So this is really serious.
I feel like the British people's kindness was taken for weakness here and they finally had to stand up and say no more. So they went to court for the closure of the hotel. They actually won and that really should have been the end of it. But instead of respecting the ruling, our Home Secretary has turned around.
And appealed it.
So the audacity to say that migrants' rights trumps the rights of the locals, that's where the labor government here is standing at the moment.
It's absolutely outrageous.
I mean, when you come here, because we're still part of the ECHR, which is the Human Rights Act, you get a four star hotel, you get free healthcare, you get a free iPhone, and you get free three meals a day on the taxpayer dime. That's what you get as an illegal migrant if you come over on a boat. So you can see why people are coming over in droves over from France, by the way, a safe country. We're at breaking point. We're in breaking point over here. We can't take any more of it.
Well, I mean, if you're getting that the luxuries of life when you're a migrant, no wonder they keep coming back. I mean, that's half of the problem. Now, look, let's pivot because the second season of With Will Love Megan has been released on Netflix, of course, which sees the Duchess of Sussis tell you her incredible life style and cooking tips.
Now, Samara, I've got to say, you've taken one for the team.
You have watched it for us, so please give us your verdict.
I had to sit through five grueling hours of this, and purely for journalistic purposes, but I really felt like I'd had some sort of lobotomy afterwards because.
It was it was horrendous.
I mean, let's be honest, it's been an utter desire uster. Like we've had critics saying, oh, it's painfully contrived, its tone deaf, it's boring, it's intolerable. I mean one reviewer even said that it feels like watching kind of carefully curated inauthenticity. I mean it was not in her real home, so it's a fake home. It was recycled footage, and it was Megan pretending to be some sort of lifestyle guru, which we know she isn't.
We know that she.
Doesn't have any ties with her family on either side.
They've broken away.
They kind of live in this very insular golden gated community in Montecito, and everyone's asking where is Harry. I mean, he's absolutely nowhere. We just see a couple of like really creepy photos of him in the corner and some cat that she made for him. I think even he doesn't want to be part of the circus anymore. I mean, she wanted to be this new Gwyneth Paltro with her own Goop style empire, but she is really serving us nothing.
She comes across like sort of a Montecito Marie Antoinette, that's what they're calling her over here, lecturing the peasants from her California mansion.
I love that.
I absolutely love that, And you're right, I feel like Harry is now at the point where he's is completely embarrassed.
By his own wife.
I mean as seriously, Samara girl, you're brilliant. Thank you very much for joining me on the show this evening. Really appreciate it. Stay with us back in a moment with the winners and losers of the week, including the politician who struggles to define what a woman is. That's next, welcome back. Let's bring in National's leader David little Proud. Now, good to see you, David, thanks for joining me. Let's
talk about the Bush Summit in Ballarat today. You were in the audience, you saw the Prime Minister and Justina Alan getting heckled.
What did you think, Yeah.
Oh look there was palpable anger outside before they even got there, and then palpable angle inside from those that came to listen to the Prime Minister and the Premier, and they showed absolute contempt. They basically said, suck it up, we're here to listen, but not do anything about it. They're basically going to ramp up this all renewables approach that is tearing up the communities of right across this country,
regional communities. They're tearing up your food security, pushing up your food prices, taking away the productivity of our farm land, all on this reckless race where there is not a country of the industrial scale of the size of Australia that is running on all renewables approach. In fact, they have had a gat in Portugal and Spain and they got to seventy seven percent renewables of their grid and they actually lost their entire grid for over a week
because they don't have this thing called baseload power. And this ideology is destroying our economy and you're seeing it. The economics is catching up with you. Every time you open your electricity bill every quarter, you should see Anthony Alberanezi and Chris Baron's face on it, because this ideology is costing you a lot more. With this thing called the capacity investment scheme. Chris Baron keeps telling us that renewables are the cheapest, so we're going to go on
all renewables approach. Well, if it's so cheap, why does the Australian taxpayer have to subsidize tens of millions of dollars to underwrite a price for these renewable companies, many of which are multinationals from overseas, to make billions out of the Australian taxpayer and be subsidized for it. I would have thought it could have gone into the market. It would be the cheapest form of energy and we would see that in our energy bill. So we haven't
seen that. All we're seeing is your energy bill continue to go up.
Yeah, we're just on this magic carpetright fantasy into the never never right now under this net zero scheme. I thought it was interesting today that the Prime Minister even had the nerve to talk about climate change science in front of regional I just think he was completely tone deaf. But the reality is, David, it's regions that are really suffering from net zero.
It's not the inner city elites.
You know, they're not building these wind farms in the middle of Sydney's CBD. They're building them out in the regions and razoring up the land.
Yeah.
And this is the thing is they have had to go in Sydney at north Head and Zalie Stegel was the first one to rail against it and to actually say that it wasn't in the right in the right place for her community. But she's happy to put her head on a pillow now and she's done over regional Australians. I just say to your city viewers, please just appreciate the burden you're asking us to bear. In regional Australia,
it is tearing communities apart. There are fusion lines that have just been lit where people don't talk to one anymore. I've seen families. I sat in Molong in New South Wales where an eighty five year old man was worried that his two sons won't talk to get talk again before he dies. These renewable projects have just torn his family apart and all on this reckless race. And the
Prime Minister lecturing us about the environment. We are the greatest stewards of our environment, our farmers because our farmer's profit loss is intrinsically tied to the health of their land. That's how they make money, and they are the best stewards of that land. And the Prime Minister come out there showing contempt and looking down his nose telling them how they should be living. Is one that shows that he really doesn't understand what's happening in regional Australia. He came,
he ticked a box and he left. We just sent to Alan and basically they left no confidence whatsoever in those communities out there.
No, that was very very clear.
It was such a tone deaf speech today, David Little Proud, We've got to leave it there. Nice to see you as always, Thank you so much for joining me on the show. Well, it is that time of the week where we saw the winners from the losers and helping me to do that. This week is a former New South Wales police minister, David Elliott. Good to see you, David, Thanks for joining us on this segment. Now this week is Asio of course, for finding out about Iran's involvement in anti Semitic attacks.
Homies, They're fantastic and how good are they identified the fact that it was Indeed, as we all knew, anybody that sat into security briefing in the military or the police or foreign affairs, we all knew that Iran had it there in they're all about to be able to commit domestic terrorist accidents here in Australia, and they did it, and they called it out and I actually got this begrudging respect for the Prime Minister because he made that
announcement through gritted teeth. He did not like that. And Bob Carr, who was sipping tea with the Iranian ambassador. Only a couple of weeks ago would have hated it. But good on Asio. They are my winners. They identified the threat, they called it out, and I suspect advised the government that the ambassador should be expelled.
Well, thank goodness for Asio and not thank goodness for the Labor government no on this matter. Now, look, I had to give my winner this week to Bob Catter because he put Australia first. Now, I don't like what he did yesterday with that Channel nine journalist, and if you missed it, here was a bit of.
That if you've got leberties heritage yourself.
Oh, Mike, don't say that because that irritates me and I punch blokes in the mouth for saying that. Don't you dare say that? My family have been in this country for one hundred and forty years.
Now, David, I don't agree with that.
I don't like what he did, but I want to point you to the context of why he blew up at that nine journal He was actually defending his country and our values.
Have a look, because this country is fed up with your Oh we.
Must be nice to everybody.
Well, I'm not particularly nice to people that crossed the border, invaded another country and murdered over twelve hundred people.
Tick the boxes.
Do they have democracy?
Do they have a rule of law?
Do they have Christianity or some similar belief system. Do they have egalitarian traditions? Do they have industrial awards? Now, if they don't tick the boxes, they don't come here. If you have anti Australian sentiments, then get the hell out of my country.
I mean, I think that's fair enough. What do you reckon?
Yeah, I think what we need to ask ourselves is and it comes down to a whole lot of stuff going on in Australia at the moment and around the world of the United States, the United Kingdom at the moment as well. What's pushed the center ground to have these opinions? Yep? Why have they worken up all of a sudden and decided right, that's people that are protesting, People are expressing opinions like that that never would have behaved like that in the past.
No, I completely agree with you, But I think we've let some people into this country, some who hate us, some who hate our values, and some who don't want to assimilate, and that is a conversation we need to have.
It's not racist to talk about it.
Now you'll loser this week Tony Burke for his double standards on protest.
Tony, you're the Minister for Citizenship and you've got out, You've gone out this week and said don't go to way rally that celebrates citizenship. Now I'm not going to the rallies on Sunday because I'm a bit nervous about the type of people that are attending. Like I would have warned Bob Carr not to go to the pro Palestinian rally because you'll be marching alongside epitaphs of the Ayatola.
But Tony, you can't say don't go to a rally representing and celebrating citizenship and be quiet and silent on a rally two or three weeks ago that was celebrating a terrorist organization. Because that's what he's done. And he
used to be one of the smart ones. We sort of thought, oh well, if you've got to have a labor MP, you might as well have Tony Burke, and he has brought the whole labor partty tradition of citizenship, the Bob Hawk attitude, the Ben Shiffley attitude, the John Curtain attitude of citizenship into complete disrepute.
I completely agree with you, and I just think he's looking after his electorate.
That's absolutely all about.
Exactly send of his electorate to probably going to be calling out next Sunday.
Absolutely agree with you now, my louser. This week I had to give it to the Queensland Shadow Treasurer and former Minister for Women Shannon Fenterman, who still doesn't know what a woman is.
L ANDP have sunk to a new loan. LMP minister actually stood up in the Parliament and said, in order to protect women, you need to know how to define a woman. Well, I can define a woman. It's not something I'm ashamed of. I just take an inclusive approach. I mean, L ANDP hate it. So let's be honest. This isn't about protecting women. This is Trump style ideology imported straight from the US into Queensland politics.
Please.
She says she knows what a woman is, but she's taken an inclusive approach. Therefore she doesn't actually know what a woman is.
And it's not Trump policies.
It's actual biology, Shaddon, it's biology.
You can't change that fact.
And she's misled the people because she said the LNP would hate her. Yeah, they love her. I love it, they will love it. I know the LNP and Queensland well enough to know that I'll be saying.
Stay where you are exactly.
David Elliott, good to have you on, Thank you so much for joining us.
Good to see you, Thank you for your company. I'll be back on Sunday night. Steve Price is next.
Good night,