From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Thanks calub, Happy Thursday, come on into the mar Cave.
So much to get to tonight, including the triumphant return of Megan Kelly, big time part of the inauguration in DC, which has got more to say and it's not all about Trump.
I promise it's a good one tonight. You're going to love what she has to say.
She's made news in Australia the past twenty four hours about some of her views. We will double down a little bit later disgraceful stuff from grim Jim today. Wait till you hear the gas lighting, the Jedi mind trick, the lies and the bs that this bloke is throwing
around about cost of living. And of course our focus, as always ahead of a wonderful weekend, is Australia Day, and I want to go around the country and tell you a little more about each of the different states and the people there, put forward as the best of them, as the different versions of the Australian of the year, and my tip as to who I think will end up getting the big gonge.
But first, you know I love Queensland.
Any opportunity to be there, I am any opportunity to have the blood transfusions to become a Queensland I would, But in.
Mind, body and spirit, I am somebody who loves Queensland.
We've done plenty of shows and I think the passion is obvious and we know that over recent years there's been some horrific things that the former government did, but one thing that absolutely Miles and Palachet decided to double down on was to move towards more renewables as fast
as possible. Some of their clean energy targets were some of the most aggressive in the country and despite the fact that it had all of the consequences to the countryside, all of the consequences to regional areas, they were so up themselves that they said this about things like wind farms replacing trees.
Turn around and look up. These are huge and honestly, I think we should have viewing platforms for families to come out here and actually see.
Why in their own backyard.
It is extraordinary. It is absolutely extraordinary.
Thankfully she's in the Review Mirror, as is Stephen Miles and the government. I mentioned them at the start of the show when they're not in government because it's been bloody hot in Queensland today. I think Birdsville was the best part of forty something degrees.
The further inland, the hotter it went. But from the.
Sunny coast to Canns and Townsville and down to the GC, very hot, very hot weekend coming ahead. And I often remark upon what all of us had an expectation of in the twenty first century. Remember all those TV shows beyond two thousand and all the rest of it about you know, flying cars and holograms and stuff that we knew that wouldn't happen.
But it was going to be this wonderful, magical age.
And let's be honest, we do have devices in our hand that mean we can have video calls to anywhere in the world, and the collective knowledge of the world is in our pocket. But there are bizarre things that supposedly are about a better future that create ridiculous situations about our current. Now, apparently we'll get warmer in Queensland over the next couple of days. Please play it safe, Please stay inside for as long as possible. You don't need me to to the out of play at Queensland summer.
But unbelievably, these are the extent that the public service goes to to try to save power so the lights don't go out, the fans keep spinning, and the air conditioners keep working. In Queensland, the Brisbane Times today found a memo. This is a memo that was sent to all public service offices in Queensland.
We are a.
Quarter of the way through the twenty first century. This is the place that will host the Olympic Games after Los Angeles in twenty thirty two.
It's a place that is absolutely roaring ahead.
But how backwards is this garbage as a result of idiots like Miles and Palichet spinning way too much money on building too many renewable projects when the energy system that they were replacing has not been replaced.
This memo is what was put out.
It was told about today and tomorrow about the sorts of things that people in public service officers need to do to save energy to make sure the rest of the state can keep the fans and the air conditioners going. Between six am six pm the following changes. Close all blinds and curtains to minimize the heat. Turn off second computer screens, run laptops and tablets on battery mode. Turn
everything off in the office except one printer. Turn off as many lights as you possibly can, and defer bringing any activities that use a high amount of electricity.
Put simply laminating printing. Do that all next week.
This is the backwoods garbage that people are being told, and this is how state Go moments try to save the energy so you don't notice the energy system they're put in place.
There's more of this. You should have.
Only one lift, one lift for the whole day. So have you got your in an office block? You've got a few lifts? No, no, no, no, save the power, so the fans keep working in Redcliff, alter off of space air conditioning in the settings, to shut down at halp us five not six o'clock, and turn off as many lights as possible.
This is the garbage.
That they tell themselves and they practice themselves to prop up an energy system.
That they say is so much better. As I've said a.
Million times before, regardless of you views on climate change or even renewable energy, you can't win bathist in a car that's got three wheels on it. But these people want to tell us, oh, three wheels is better, and three wheels will do arder than sixty one laps faster and better than anyone. Just these are not the droids you look look for rubbish. It's on top of garbage. We've heard from governments for years.
What we want to see is if there is an opportunity for people to reduce their energy usage, so perhaps not using the dishwasher until you go to bed, that would help, all.
Right, As you know, Pole's worst possible start to the year for the Prime minister. So I showed you last night when they were breaking news. I've seen the conversation happen all day. Good we were riding the rave at the right time. Here the preferred prime minister, Well, it's pretty clear now in New South Whils, in Queensland and Victoria it is Peter Dutton.
It's not level pegging. In fact, it's now.
Thirty nine thirty four in favor of the alternative prime minister, not the current one. The Labour Party's primary vote, which was thirty two and a bit percent, the lowest in
well a century, is now down to twenty seven. The Liberal Parties is up to thirty eight, close to that magic forty that in any normal election would result in a change of government, and the Prime minister's performance again an extreme majority of Australians now at fifty six So the Prime Minister's performance in recent weeks.
So this is the summer, the rebuild, the spending, all the rest of it.
Right, as you can see there fifty six percent of people, just thirteen percent of people undecided, and we all know which way that's going to go. As we go deeper into the year, things continue to get worse and we start to head our way towards the election. This is despite, of course, the fact the Prime Minister just magically tried to tell us everything is better. As I often play that Lego song, everything is awesome while the worst of
it's behind us. Don't worries stick with us, despite the fact that, remember he promised to make it better when he was the opposition leader. It was everything's cheaper under a low cost of a cost of living will lower under a Labor government. Well take your pick. It all went up, it all went up, and it all went up.
Through the roof. And the same opinion.
Polls that produced this horror result for Labor and a disastrous result for the Prime Minister, they give us an indication about how people feel. Whether the worst of it is over. In fact, plenty of people think it gets worse from here. And even if things remain stable, they're at a pretty bad level. How do you think your income's going to go? Well, most people disagree that it will get better. People think that inflation is going to get better or worse. Well, I expect the inflation will
get worse fifty percent of people. Just seventeen percent of people disagree the rest. So what the best part of eighty three percent of people? They say, where it is now or worse? And what about Purple's personal income? I expect my income will at the very least keep up with inflation this year.
Forty six percent No, forty six percent No.
The only people who agree probably work for the public service, where they're being told to draw the curtains because it's too hot. That is why the Prime Minister is in a world of trouble. Yet today, in response to polls that show Australians do not believe things are getting better.
They believe and know things have got worse under this mob who promised to make it better, Jim Chalmers was confronted with these poles today on breakfast television, and he had the balls to say everything will be worse under Dutton, the bloke who has made it worse on his watch, who has had just on maximum sympathy that you're having a tough time right now. Everything got worse, you name it, you know it. Yet he claims that everything will be even worse under Dutton.
This is ridiculous.
This is like an arsonist trying to pretend that somebody else is going to do a worse job because they've got a new box of matches. Here's what he said today, gas lighting, lying and bsing the good people of this great country.
The same Australians who are concerned about the living would be worse off under Peter Dutton.
Sticker, Pal sticker, you said there was a cost of living crisis when one interest rate rise happened just before the last federal election. There have been twelve twelve on your watch, meaning that for the third of the country that's paying off a house, almost likely half of the country if they have an investment property as well, trying to pay off a house, has got twelve times worse, twelve times worse.
On his watch.
Oh but everything'll be worse under Dutton. Anyone who's been to the supermarket last week, let alone last year or the year before or the year before. That knows what has happened under this government. Anyone who's paid insurance for anything, public liability, if you're a business or you're just trying to ensure your boat, if someone in one of these youth crime areas knocks it off, all of it costs
way too much. And petrol, which was a crisis under the previous government, that is now way higher than it was under the previous government. Again, they think you are stupid, or they think the majority of Australians are stupid, or the majority of Australians can somehow be gas lit that it's all somebody else's fault. Now, I have ridden these guys as hard as possible because they promised to make it better. Everything that was cyclical was so personal in
the last election campaign. They lied to people, They lied to people about their capacity to make their life better when it has got worse, and they'll say, oh, it's all cyclical, it's all to do with the Ukraine War, or remember the pre loading last year about a bad economy because of Donald Trump. It's any and everyone's fault. When a good number comes out, Oh, that's all us. Well, if you're willing to own the good numbers, you have
to own the bad ones. And people's lived experience in Australia has gone backwards, living standards down to the nineteen fifties. The value of the Australian dollar has gone down by the best part of ten cents under this government, meaning everything we import to the country costs more. This is just I cannot believe when we have shown you week after week, month after month, year after year, we have truly built a wall of accountability that these people should
be running into at a federal election. You know that just since we've been back this year, a third of parents had trouble paying for the basics like schools, school.
Uniforms, new pencils to get their kids through to school.
Three million people on top of the people that are already homeless, record numbers, by the way, are at risk of homelessness, and a stat that should shame our country and shame the governments who have more money than they've ever had, but when they choose to spend it, they do not choose to spend it on the people who
are truly struggling. Despite the fact that many governments and certainly our federal government claim to be more compassionate, more connected of the people who struggled, when we know they couldn't give a stuff. Food bank in their report every year under this government has shown that more than three million people run out of food in this country. More than three million households means more than three million people.
If you're living by yourself, it's just you. But if it's your husband, your wife, kids or grandkids, three point four million million households are going hungry under this government. Yet, when this government was faced with choices about what to spend extra money on, or urgent money or borrowed money, the priorities have not been to take care of themselves. I'm sorry to take care of the people that's been
to take care of themselves. They have spent forty million dollars of your money on ads to tell you the two little too late tax cuts. Suddenly we're going to change the world. The people who truly needed it, those in and around that forty thousand dollars, Remember it was fourteen dollars a week. It didn't even begin to touch the middle, let alone the sides. Then another forty five million dollars to tell us about a future made in Australia.
Again just a way of saying the government's doing something. Please vote for us. Everything is awesome and I know that this is money that they chose to spend on their own political standing rather than taking care of the people of Australia. Why because freely available on the websites are the people who take care of the more than three million households more and wellatively more than three million people who run out of food in Australia each and
every week. The groups of oz Harvest, Second Bite and Food Bank. The people who are helping these people on their own websites will tell you what they asked for for the federal government. They wanted an extra ten million dollars, That's what they wanted. The government spent eighty five million dollars on itself and its own politics. This government has absolutely refused to surge the support where the crisis is. A lot is made about bushfires in Australia and how.
We fight them.
But if the metaphor here is the number of tummies that grumbled because of the lack of food that they have because the family has no money, and that creates the bushfire effect of need. This mob decided to spend money on fire hoses for themselves to hope to distract the rest of us from those that are truly struggling. It is an abysmal record that these people have and on top of that, everything will be worse under Dutton. That's from the bloke who has received not one but
three pay rises since they came to government. The one most recently put the Prime Minister over six hundred thousand dollars a year. The one before that was the biggest salary pay rise in a decade. The biggest salary pay rise in a decade, also to the public service, which is grown by a football stadium of people. And we're not talking about the frontline nurses. We're not talking.
About the firefighters or the police.
We're talking about the pen pushes and the clipboard holders in the offices where they're going to draw the curtains when it gets hot. Peter Dutton understandably rejects the criticism of a bloke who just is living in a fantasy land and one that is so disconnected from normal, everyday Australians that if the polls are right, he could lose his job. That being Jim Charmers, it's a bit rich
with the Labor Party. Further, Jim Chalmers, who has resided over a cost a little crisis created with labors cost a lot of crisis through the last agents where they could have taken decision and it didn't, which now see families paying much more through their mortgage. Australia Day this weekend,
looking forward to it. You know why I love this moment because it is the celebration of bond in Australia with all of its ups and downs, but certainly all of its protections, freedoms and joy I love that Australia Days the day when literally thousands, thousands of people join the country and join the greatest club in the world that so many of us were lucky enough to be born in, and they commit to the country, and they have a passion for the country, and many of the
local councils who represent those people are more openly passionate about the day than people who did not have to go through many of the torches that those people did to enjoy membership of the greatest club in the world, Australia. But we know there'll be plenty of other people that will be out and about saying that the day must never happen because of the sins of the past.
Reality, of course, is that there is no dates they wish to change it to.
They just do not want a recognition of modern Australia. Instead, thanks for all of the modernity in our Please hand the keys over to who I don't know for how much I don't know. But I can't go without noticing here that, as you will have noticed over the past twenty four hours, there is more plans for more protests, and particularly Melbourne, that loves the protest, is apparently going to have one of its biggest.
Inion blah blah blah, blahlah blah blah blah.
And you know that organizers say we won't disrupt the Australian Open but there seems to be some suggestion.
There'll be plenty of people that will be willing to cause some trouble on the day.
And generally speaking, I do not want to sull on this lead up to Australia Day by talking about these people, but I do want to talk about your center. Alben Cinder Allen is of course the premiere of Victoria, and today she's trying to sing from the song sheet that the majority of Australians, the majority of Melbournians, the majority of Victorians are which is respect on the day. Please pull your head in, don't cause any trouble. Here's what she says.
There is a difference of opinion.
Everyone can have their own opinion, their own.
Difference of views, but we must have respect for those differences of opinion.
Again, the stones on these people.
Now, this government, her government, the Andrews government of course that she was part of, but her government and her as Premier, has presided over oh, firstly for COVID and secondly for COVID, and then eventually they decided to end the Australia Day Parade in Victoria in the middle of Melbourne, one of the key events that people like to turn up to celebrate the country and wave the flag that people have fought under and millions of people have looked
to as they become citizens of this country. But that parade is canceled, canceled by this government.
Oh there's a difference of opinion and we respect.
No.
No, we know what your decision is, which is you don't back the day. You don't think that there should be a rallying of people to celebrate the day for a parade, and it's not because Melbourne doesn't like parades. Remember this is also the government who doesn't just support the horses being paraded ahead of the Melbourne Cup, but declared a public whole so people could go and watch said parades. These people, again, I don't mind the people that we fiercely disagree with, because.
At least they are consistent.
But the people now trying to appeal and say, hey, calm it down are the ones who have added fuel to the fire by removing the prominence of yes, more recent traditions. But guess how a long tradition becomes a long tradition. It needs to start somewhere, and in the case of a national day, a national anthem, a national border, a national flag, yeah, it's got a start date.
But when you.
Decide to turn off the tradition because you feel uncomfortable with the celebration of that tradition, yet you completely okay with other traditions because they are less controversial to you, well then I'm sorry.
No one is listening to you.
The protesters won't be listening to her because the soft message has gone out overtly from the Victorian government for years. Also excellent piece that was written today by our friend Anthony Dillon. Now Anthony is an Indigenous leader, a significant thinker, and someone from the Australian Catholic University, and he wrote today, don't protest to day, go and fix the problems.
Quote. Jumping up and.
Down about the date consumes time and energy and change is nothing only distracting from the more serious.
Problems facing Indigenous Australian today.
Would your deceased ancestors want you mourning for them? Or the thousands of Indigenous Australians who live in unsafe, unclean living conditions, don't know where their next meal is coming from and will die an early, yet preventable death.
Well said sir.
And one other thing that I wanted to point out here too was some of the little tricks that are played by the media who often turned to polsters to give them at times information that seems to match up with their editorial position. Now generally speaking, I like when pollsters fight that and end up producing honest information that is counted to the narrative that some people at the
media organization want to push. And you know I've spoken plenty of times about the polls that I look to, even at times if I disagree with you media organizations that host them. But we know what the attitude is
towards Australia Day amongst normal Australians. And when a question is as clear as the one the IPA asked, which is Australia Day should be on January the twenty sixth, sixty nine percent of people up this year compared to last year, so they agree, fourteen percent disagree, eighteen percent don't know, or in my view, probably are waiting for the courage to join the rest of us at almost seven out of ten. But then there was the essential
media organization providing the poll for the Turnbull Times. Now the question should be as clear and as consistent as the one that the IPA put out. Should Astraighted Day be on January twenty six.
Have a look at how.
They package things up in their polling. The headline says changing views towards Australia Day. So somebody who just glances at these things goes, oh geez, people who love it must be going down, and people who disagree it must be level or going oh, you know, they don't really get.
Into the details.
But the actual question that was asked was not about should we change the date or even should the day be January twenty sixth, and so the actual question is will you personally be doing anything to celebrate as straight a day or do you treat it as just a public holiday? About as open as you can get when the debate is not about what you do on the day. The debate is about whether the day should exist or be, whether the day should be moved, and even if there
should be a day at all. Now, amazingly, in that pile, once you actually have a look at the lines that go up and the lines that go down, the only thing that rowse in and that poll was don't know, just a public holiday. By the way, is the number that is down. As for the age groups, just a public holiday or working on the day. You can see that younger people, they sit there at fifty two percent,
thirty five to fifty four year olds. This is the big swing group that will decide the next federal election.
They're sitting at fifty five percent. Something.
To celebrate people over the age of fifty five, the people who have lived and built the country, whose parents were of the greatest generation. They will try to do something tomorrow to actively celebrate and commemorate the day. But come on, let's be serious. If you're going to do a poll about Australia Day, we know the question shifting attitudes changing attitudes towards Australia Day as the headline. The
actual detail and devil in the detail was always there. Meantime, the number of local councils now, I know that it is a growing number of councils, but I do want to put into some perspective about just how many councils are shunning the day or will be doing something and having their local citizenship ceremonies. There are five hundred and thirty seven local councils in Australia, one hundred and fifty four and I'm going to say only one hundred and fifty four are the ones who are not doing it
on the day. Important to note that of the many five hundred and thirty seven councils that will be proudly celebrating the day are the councils that represent the people who may well have joined the country in this generation or the generation previous or the generation previous to that. Western Sydney and out of suburban councils of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are the ones that will be most passionate
about it. Their local federal mp will be people like Die Lee who will literally wear the Australian flag in pride for her country. So ignore the haters, but we can't ignore what they're going to do. Ignore the politicians who want to have.
It each way.
But use this, of course, as the day will be celebrating everything that is amazing about the country, which brings me to a celebration of the very people who are about to be rewarded in the next couple of days the Australian of the Year Award. It always produces some level of controversy, either because they make ridiculous piecks like Jeffrey Rush when the Marcams were in the same batch of people who had made it to the final round.
I don't like the presentation of it as something where there's a series of nominees and there's an ultimate winner. I think they should just announce the ultimate winner and then on Australia Day announce to the different state recipients are Otherwise it sets it into a competition where someone is more supreme and above others when it comes.
To Australia Day. But these are the people who have.
Been nominated by your state to be the Australian of the Year, the Young Australian of the Year, the Senior Australian of the Year, or the local hero, the local heroes in particular. They really float in the boat. They really do when it comes to these people. But I wanted to actually take a moment to honor the people who have been already recogniz as the Australian of the Year in each and every state and territory in the country.
They are the best of us and they deserve their moment in the spotlight before that spotlight will inevitably narrow onto one worthy person. And I've got a very clear thought of whom that best example of the best of us should by this time be awarded. By this time tomorrow I be awarded as the Australian of the Year, or sorry, on Saturday night, as the Australian of the Year. Let's start in New South Wales. Now, a lady called cath is a kindness campaigner. Now she's also a person
with a disability. She's a person who at one point in time wasn't able to reach a lift button. Somebody walked in and they pressed it for her, and that very simple act of kindness gave her a sense of confidence of the people that were around her, and she's taken that to the next level and spreads this message all.
Over the joint.
So far, we've seen close to eight million acts of kindness from all around the globe being logged on our website. Through that those acts of kindness, we've been able to collect data. What that data has allowed us to do is to co create a kindness curriculum, and that exists in three and a half thousand Aussie schools and beyond that within the University Pathway in the UK and high schools in the USA as well. So that's a social and emotional learning tool that teaches the basic principles of
kindness to kids. What that's doing is increasing mental health and wellness within children and allowing them to create a form of resilience that matters to them.
I love it, Well done, congratulations, kath Jeffrey Smith wants to create pathways for autistic youth into employment. He representing Queensland as their australing of the.
Year we started because of the appalling unemployment rate of autistic people in Australia. Thirty four percent of young autistic people are unemployed and more than half of them have never had a paid job. But it shouldn't be that way because the young you're at divergent mind often has fantastic strengths in this technologically advanced world.
WA has produced Diane and Ian and they have made their life's work understanding the richness and importance of the soil in which we grow our crops and of course our food.
We went out and learned a lot of knowledge from all around the world, speaking with leading scientists, and that piece together an agricultural system to actually nurture those microbiomes in the soil, because we soon realize with the human health that we're actually providing nourishment for the community. Food is a nourishing, health giving medicinal thing that we actually consume.
Sam Elsom is from Tasmania. He has worked on being able to turn seaweed into something that can reduce carbon emissions, but more importantly help the animals of this country.
The way it works is an animal poll did tiny amount of this product and it reacts with enzymes in their stomach, basically improving their digestive process and stopping the formation of methane. This is important because methane, as a greenhouse gas, has eighty four times the warming effect on our planet as regular carbon dioxide, and about seventy percent of agriculture's emissions comes from the methane produced by livestock.
Now we'll get to I think will end up being the Australian of the Year, but I would be also incredibly happy if the person from the act got up. Megan wants to keep sick kids and chronically ill kids connected to their schools, to stay in them as for as long as possible, but to remain connected because of course there's nothing worse than loneliness on top of illness.
I started a charity called Missing School along with two other mothers in a Canberra lounge room in twenty twelve. Our three sons had life threatening illnesses. We knew that school connection was the ingredient missing in their return to health.
Congratulations of course to Megan. Leah is from South Australia. She is directly trying to fight child abuse and neglect.
Six in ten Australians have been abused or neglected.
It's a national emergency, and we don't treat it like a national emergency.
We don't really like to talk about it.
These are the good souls who walk amongst us, who of course have been recognized by each of the different states and the territories, including in the Northern Territory, where the focus is getting kids to pick up musical instruments and to save their culture and celebrate their culture through music.
Sam Young Generagin interesting, our reginal song. So many but some nothing.
I'm trying to push.
Them in my community.
And then there is Neil Danaher, famous in the football world and famous of course as an AFL coach, but a man who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, a crippling and horrific way to spend the final years of your life. And through big events like the Big Freeze and his efforts to fight monor neurone disease or MND, he's raised millions of dollars that has gone into research that has extended people's lives. My personal hope is that Neil will be the Australian of the Year.
When I was diagnosed in twenty and thirteen, I was told the life span was around three years and there was no hope. I didn't like the sound of that. So we have set up the Fight M and D Foundation to give those diagnosed in the futuresome. Our impact has included injecting over one hundred million dollars into medical research in Australia. This has been a real game changer in the fight against em and as we now fund a small industry of researchers whose aim is to find treatments.
We have brought medical trials to those living with M and D in Australia and we have driven great awareness to the fight. However, until we fund a cure, the fight will not end.
Thank goodness, we live in a country where people can fight for each other, fight for themselves, take care of each other, and try to move the ball further and further down the field towards the best version of ourself. That's what I will celebrate on Australia Day. I look forward to seeing you here Sunday night as we do so. But congratulations to all of those nominees, everyone else in all the other categories and all of the other local presentations that will happen around the country for in a
secon year. In fact, Megan Kelly will join us next from the States and fought up and wonderful as if a.
Lake and Kelly. Next on, Paul Murray Law, thanks for watching.
Favorite time of the wake is to talk to a favorite person in the world, the wonderful Magan Kelly. It doesn't matter what she says, it always makes news. And there's been a bit of it this week. Rockstarle love you to say.
How does the brand new America smell?
Oh my gosh, it's wonderful, Paul, I can't recommend.
It highly enough. It's just I said.
Today, It's like you go to sleep and you wake up and you realize all of your dreams have come true. Everything I hoped for is happening minute by minute. These executive actions are spectacular. The Lake and Riley Act just passed and was signed into law. Like everything he's doing, we've cracking. We're already arresting over three hundred illegal immigrants who have committed crimes. I mean everything he's firing, the
DEI heads across the federal government. It's it's like an instant utopia, or at least road too.
Now you gave a speech the day before the inauguration, and it was spectacular.
I want people to go back watch.
It all because you lay it out clearly about what your expectations are and your hopes are.
But I was so pleased that you gave.
A cautionary node to everyone who is excited at this point in time, which is, Okay, we're back in the game, we've got the ball, we're leading, but we haven't won the war. This is such an important thing for people to understand that the victory isn't just getting back there. The victory is getting the country back to where good people have wanted it for a long time.
That's exactly right.
And you know, there are two points I was making, and I'll take them on reverse order, starting with the one you raised, and that is it's great that Trump is doing all this by executive order, and a lot of it can be done by executive order, but it's
much much better if it's done by law. If we can get actual laws written into place that can dismantle some of the things that have been done, especially on the women's issue and the women in the prison and the boys and girls' sports and all that, because then it can't just be undone by an executive order from the next president. Now, all the DEI stuff is already illegal.
It's been illegal for a long time. They've just not been enforcing the law that makes it unlawful to discriminate against any racial group, including whites, in hiring and at the university level now thanks to affirmative action and so on. So that law just needs to be enforced, and Trump means business in enforcing it. But there's a lot of stuff that he's doing by executive order that we love
and we just need written into law. And it's going to take some expenditure of political power, and I think he'll do it. But in other words, you know, live by executive order, dive by executive order. And so if we can get things through legislatively, we'll be in a lot better position come the next president if it's a Democrat. And that's going to require hard work and patience and people calling their congressman and their senator and being a
squeaky wheel. And that's in part what I mean by fight. But it also requires, and this is point two, people like the people I mentioned in the speech, people who take risks, people who see that this nonsense is still going on at their workplace or their school and put their necks on the chopping block to say this is wrong. I object, and I'm going to publicly out you. And there remains risk in doing that in blue cities and circles because even though Trump says it by edict, doesn't
mean it has popular support in every circlet net. It does in nationwide. We're seeing that in the polls. But if you work at Columbia University, do you think it's going to go overwhell when you fire your DEI chief, okay, or when they sneak DEI or affirmative action into or mandated pronoun use into your college curriculum, and you have
to be the librarian who speaks up. That takes a lot of guts, and it especially took a lot of guts in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, and there were soldiers in quotes on this battlefield for a long time. Who I don't want to be a really dramatic, but in some way we lost.
You know, Trump's first days. I've been fascinated to watch how does the.
Establishment media because I refuse to do the mainstream I'm so sick of those of us in common sense mainstream commentary referring to them as the mainstream. No, they're the establishment, they're the access, they're the dominantly, they're the regime.
All the rest of it media, right.
But their power to create the chaos narrative is grossly diminished. If not is not going to work for a while their psychological warfare approach. If if we turn up the noise, then eventually the Democrat promises to turn down the noise, and then that's how we make Trump.
Trump is a maga go away. How do you feel about how the media is playing the early days poorly?
They're up to their old old tricks and they're not going to change, you know, they hate them too much. It really is the divide between the elites and the regular folks here. I mean, the media doesn't even represent the Democrat Party anymore. They just represent some sort of so called elite faction of the Democratic Party, these rich millionaires who like to pat themselves on the back about
how wonderful they are and what virtuous people they are. Meanwhile, even the Democrats are on board with the Trump agenda. The polls this week show it.
The New York.
Times showing the polling on the transgender issue. A vast majority of Democrats are now where I am where I am on these issues. It's amazing to me, both on the we've gone too far and quote accommodating this trans madness, on getting boys and men out of the sports of girls and women, in getting them out of women's private spaces, they're all over where we are. I mean, high percentages pushing seventy percent of the Democrats are now in favor
of this stuff, and the same on illegal immigration. I mean, they look like Republicans now in the Democrat Party, but you would not know that to watch CNN or to watch MSNBC or to watch CBS. They're not adjusting their coverage because reality is setting in. They're digging in because they really need to feel like they were right about this stuff. And they're the good, virtuous people. And I don't think they're going to stop, and I don't think
their bosses are going to make them stop. Look at Gail King, as we've watched President Trump take the oath of office, she was focused not on the historic change, not on the mandate that he's been given, not on the working class feeling heard, not on the problems of the media, but on why shouldn't see more people of color inside the capital rotunda. You can't help be people who cannot help themselves.
The reaction to your comments ran Jeff Bezos's fields, I go, friend whatever turning up.
In pretty obviously inappropriate gia to the to.
The inaugural has been amazing, Like it literally was a dialogue news story in the Stratia that Megan Caley it absolutely all night.
I'll send you, I'll send it all to you.
You know that, he written in Ted what's been the dumbest clapback that you've heard from people about why your take that she luklacohooka was wrong.
I don't know.
Some people will like to point to other like saucy photos of me in the past and say like, oh, so there you go, And I laugh because it's like, no one's arguing that you can never bring the sauce. I mean, no woman would make that argument. I brought the sauce in the past, and I've loved every minute of it, but not at the damned presidential swearing in. It wasn't even like an inaugural ball. That's fine too, I wouldn't have ripped on her for that, though she's
always dressed like a prostitute. To be honest, I mean it's it's not like a one off. But you you are one of the favorite few who's not only in the the rotunda, which only has a couple hundred people in there, but you know you're going to be on camera right behind the president and the first family, and you decide now would be a great time to show my boobs. I wonder if people would like to see my boobs. This woman is not the picture of class.
I'm entitled to see, observe and comment on that because that's what I do. And if you don't like.
It, you know, I think we end in the right place.
You're the best, Megan, Thank you so much, my pleasure. She is the best. You can see her full show.
It's up on YouTube or if you've got serious XM, or you can get a podcast, or of course, even more of our conversation is up at sky news dot com dot au plenty more before we're done tonight, about thirty minutes away from the Lake debate.
Oh, I'm making Kelly. She is awesome.
All types of awesome, all right now, Also all types of awesome is Patrick McGorry. Now, he is a professor who has dedicated his life to making sure that mental health is treated in the same urgency and at times effortlessness as many other things that will hold people back or be something that we need to get over. He is or live with. He is, of course a former
Australian of the Year. He's a man who was so prominent and common sense during times like COVID and he has absolutely come to the aid and the support of the New South Wales psychiatrists in the public system who are walking off the job. They're walking off the job because of their pay, yes, but their conditions, their lack of respect that they believe.
That they have in many areas.
Now, the people who work in these systems are incredible. Everyone in our health system is amazing. But the people who are dealing with people in mental health crisis in the public system, that is an enviable amount of strength and courage that they have. As I say, they're currently in a dispute with the government and nothing I say is going to push that one way or the other.
But I did want to show you what Professor mcgrurrough told my dear friend Laura Jays today, and it is about how we treat people, and how we treat these people in particular, and talking about how even in the medical industry they feel a lack of respect.
Well, these psychiatrists are the best of the best. They have hung around in the public system despite the poor conditions and the lack of respect paid to them by their colleagues and by the government and the system for years. So they are very vocationally driven and they're being forced
out in a way. So the work they do has got steadily more difficult over the years because it's all ambulances at the bottom of the cliff, as you say, Because the public community mental health system has been just eroding and disappearing for.
Way too long.
And part of that is because we remember generation ago, stupid decisions were made about shutting down systems that worked. Imperfect it's difficult, yes, but setting shutting down the systems that work with.
Are's specialized hospitals. All of that, and of.
Course the wider community has had to embrace. And then when people go through particular moments of crisis, then they end up going into frankly, the public hospital system and then a series of specialized and supported things that are around that. But the professor had plenty more to say about what the prescription is here, and yeah, it's going to cost money, but more importantly, it is going to.
Cost a priority.
It's going to require the people who make the decisions to count this as an unglamorous thing that doesn't change elections but does save lives.
The people who are really going to suffer out of this and are the public, you know, the ordinary people who can get safe and affective mental health care that affects every Australian family, and even the private system, as even affluent people know, is not fit for purpose either. So I think Australians need to wake up to the fact that they are getting a really raw deal from
governments on mental health. It's a chalk and cheese between cancer care for example, or NDAs care and mental health care, and that.
Is completely unnecessary.
It's weakening the country and it's something that could be sold very quickly if governments got real.
I love that it's about priorities. As I showed you before when it came to people needing food. This isn't bleeding heart stuff, this is decency stuff. And we have very high taxes in this country, and our expectation is that in the same way, if somebody has a heart attack, somebody will take care of them. So too for the people who are at some of the worst moments of their life. Finally, the week has been all about Donald Trump. Normally I do a winner and loser of the week.
He is the winner of the year and certainly this week. After returning to power. Today he made further announcements and they are now fifteen hundred troops that are on the southern border. He also sat down for an interview with Fox News is Sean Hannity. I loved the setting of inside the over Office. It was particularly powerful. And this is what he said about that experience of walking back in after four years in a very tough place.
I went through four years of hell by the scum that we had to deal with. I went through four years of hell. I spent millions of dollars in legal fears, and I won. But I did it the hard way. It's really hard to say that they shouldn't have to go through it all.
So it is very hard to say that.
But he's pulled his punch and he didn't say that they should. That's the Trump that We like fight fight, fight, win win win Go Yankees. Have a great weekend and we'll see you on a Striday night.