Live on Sky News. This is Sharry.
Thanks Andrew, good evening, Welcome to the show, and we start tonight with breaking news. Peter Dutton demands the Prime Minister step in to cancel a heartless Palestinian rally planned for October seven. I'm going to bring you that breaking story in a moment, plus Albanesi's week leadership on display, a social cohesion in Australia hangs by a thread, and the ABC responds to the latest blunder by one of
its journalists. I'm also going to bring you full coverage of Israel's ground raids and the missiles that hit Israel in the past two hours.
Sharon Haskell will join.
Me live on the ground, plus a massive lineup tonight James Patterson, Dave Shamer, Bronwin, Bishop, Kayla Bond and Michael Kroger all on the show. But first let's go to that breaking news. Peter Dutton is tonight demanding the Government council a major pro Palestinian rally planned for the anniversary of October seven on Monday. Dutton says the timing is utterly sickening, and we.
Learn just moments ago that New South.
Wales Police have filed a court motion to try stop this protest going ahead. The Palestinian Action Group is planning to hold a mass gathering.
On the steps of town Hall.
This is almost a replica of the outrageous protest that started there and ended at the Opera House a year ago. The flyer promoting this event and you can see it here, it says morning twelve months of genocide and terrorism, October seventh. You can't get more insensitive than this. On the anniversary of the day actual terrorists invaded Israel and murdered entire families, killed babies in their cots, and raped teenage girls before
shooting them dead. This is the day the Palestinians want to have a rally.
Absolutely not. This is not okay, It's not appropriate, not on.
The day where there was the greatest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. Well, Peter Dutton Dohl told The Daily Telegraph that the timing is wrong. He said, the fact that these anti Jewish protest gatherings are being considered and organized at a time when the Jewish community will be commemorating the greatest loss of life since the Holocaust is an utterly sickening and vile reflection on these protesters.
How low will they stoop?
Those are Peter Dutton's comments, and he says there needs to be an urgent caught order to stop the event going ahead. He's caught on alban Easy to put an end to this, together the organizers to change the date. He says, the Prime Minister needs to start showing leadership. But I'm starting to think the Prime Minister is incapable of leadership. He might have been a good local MP, but he hasn't been good for Australia. He's allowed our
successful multicultural society to crumble. He's allowed racism to spread.
He's allowed one.
Community in particular to be targeted over and over again, day in day out, with the perpetrators facing no consequences at all. The Prime Minister has not only damaged our diplomatic relations with Israel, but he's allowed support for terrorism to flourish.
Under his watch.
The nature of our country has changed for the worse. Where the most vile sentiments in society have been unleashed. There are mosques holding services for a dead terrorist leader, spitting in the face of Australian laws, and Albanizi does nothing but Peter Dutton said today that if he were Prime Minister, he would take action.
Firstly, mosque's holding themorial services for the hesbela leader.
It seems it seems deliberately provocative.
Well, it's very much provocative and it's unnecessary. Every Australian would want somebody with the religious belief to be able to practice relief that belief and go to a mosque, go to a temple, go to a church, whatever it might be. But to go there to glorify somebody who has been responsible for literally hundreds or thousands of deaths, a terrorist leader, a leader of a listed terrorist organization
is completely unaccepted. What do you do with the police and the authorities at home Affairs should be in deep discussions with themalms and with other leaders within the community to make sure that they dial a temperature down here, because this is going to end in tragedy if we don't see an enforcement of the law and people respecting our values and our laws in this country.
Dutton accuses Albanesi of weakness for failing to take action ever since the Opera House protest. He's painting him as weak and the perception is cementing quickly because it's true.
Why Carl, I mean, why not show the strength of leadership that our nation requires. This is a very significant point for us, and I don't believe any of his predecessors, not Julia Gillard, not John Howard, not Bob Hawk, would have acted with such weakness. And it permeates down.
Now. ALBINIZI doesn't accept the criticism that he's weak, but he should compare a strong leader like Natanyahu in Israel, or even Dutton's own courage with the insipid and uninspiring Albanesi. Editor Chris daw makes this excellent point in The Knightly. He says, when the un U version of October seven went down September eleventh, Australia went to war. Now he says,
we have gone to water. And he says, put simply, the left detests Israel and supports what they believe is the Palestinian Resistance, a movement that has long been affront from murderous anti West Islamist terror cult and Dol writes about how figures of the Left like Penny Wong and Albanzi have simply appeased terrorist supporters. He says Wog is exposed by her own words she is the minister for Yes.
But Israel Albanizi might be an ordinary bloke and an average prime minister, for which we can generally forgive him, but he will never be forgotten for appeasing terrorists and running an extraordinarily dangerous foreign policy. Now form Israeli Prime Minister Golda may I once said.
That Israel would not ask permission to survive.
She said, we refuse absolutely to be the only people in the world which consents to having its fate decided by others. This wise message is worth remembering as Israel fights for its survival, as the world tries to tie its hands behind its back. The woke weak West calls constantly for a ceasefire, including the Albanezi government, and Israel's response will first the execution of Nasrallah and now a
ground targeted raid to dismantle Hesbela forces. The terror organization is crippled, beheaded, and now the IDF is targeting the last remaining weapons and infrastructure. And today Israel announced limited ground raids of Hesbela sites across the Lebanon border. The Defense Minister Yoa Gallant met Israeli troops hours before these young men and women put their life on the line for the sake of freedom.
Demoshanzan, this is your mission and if we will employ all that is needed, your forces, other forces, from the air, from the sea, and also from the land.
Now it's important to note here that Israel is not only defending its own citizens but liberating Lebanon from the stranglehold of a murderous regime. Yet the West demanded a ceasefire, and Joe Biden personally phone Net and Yahoo to urge him to let Nasrallah be, not to go after him, not to kill him, instead.
Have a ceasefire.
How pathetic are these woke and weak world leaders, and the Australian government is among the worst of them.
We are gravely concerned at the escalation of this conflict means the loss of more innocent life, and that's why we have engaged in the international community, and that's why we reiterate our calls for a ceasefire.
The number of civilians killed is just intolerable, and that's why the government's calls for a ceasefire are so important.
Certainly calling for de escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, so that remains our message.
That remains our message to Israel.
In fact, it's the Western leaders that are partly to blame for these emboldened terrorists. Had the international community shown unwavering solidarity with Israel in the wake of October seven, Tehran may not have flexed its muscles and given the green light to Hesblah and the Hooties. The international community
should have shown unequivocal strength in the face of Iran. Instead, the West has perpetuated the false narrative that it's Israel that's the aggressor and this is only emboldened Iran and its terrorist proxies. The international community could have slapped the strongest sanctions possible on the Ayatolas of Iran and put a stranglehold on its financial and terrorism operations, but it chose.
Not to do so.
Israel has been drawn into this fight. The Jewish state is on the front line of the war on terror, and as The Wall Street Journal Editor at Large Gerard Baker writes today in an excellent piece, the world should be thanking Israel. He says, instead of constant calls for a ceasefire, the only appropriate response to Israel's fortitude and skill from its nominal allies should be thank you and how can.
We help, he writes.
Instead, Time and time again, Israel's supposed friends, including the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, have, while expressing sympathy over the outrage of October seventh and uttering the usual support for Israel's right to defend itself, repeatedly tried to restrain it.
From doing just that.
Do they not get that in the end, we have to make a choice our ally on the front lines of defense against barbarism, or our enemies, those who literally want to see us all buried. And if Gerard Bacon knew about Penny Wong and alber Easy, he'd add them to the list of supposed friends too, because they've been worse than even the Abiden administration, which at least voted against the Prohamas United Nations resolution.
The line we constantly.
Hear from the international community is that Israel has a right to defend itself. But but, but, every excuse under the sun for why Israel shouldn't fight back, for why Israel should just lay down arms and let the terrorists live and thrive and kill its own people, Well, Israel is not going to do that, no matter how many times the likes of Katie Gallagher and Pennywog or Kamala Harris or Emmanuel mccron lecture Israel it won't matter because Israel won't ask others.
For permission to survive.
As Golda Maya said, Israel won't have its fate decided by others. Well, as I mentioned, coming up on the show tonight, Israeli politician Sharon Haskell. She'll be speaking about Israel's targeted ground raids on Hezbala in Lebanon. Also James Patterson. James Patterson joining me live. He's pretty angry over the government's response to those protests on the weekend.
Also going to bring you.
The rest of the day's news, the other big stories with my panels. But now let's bring in former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger and Liberal Senator Dave shar Welcome.
To you both.
Well, let's start with the protests on the weekend. And I'm not sure if you've seen this vision yet, if anyone's even played it yet, but I was appoored to see children at the rally surrounded by people who were forcing them to be pictured with the terror leader Hassan ISRAELA have a look at this footage Michael Kroeger, children indoctrinated in Australia to support terrorism.
I mean it's next level.
What's your response to the lack of leadership we've seen from this government.
Well, it's the type of thing that you see in Gaza, when children at a young agent and indoctrinated in underschools to hate Jewish people. This is a disgraceful development in Australia today. And by the way, I didn't see anyone I noticed is leaders said, oh, this was a small group that came to the demonstrations. I didn't see anyone asking them to leave. They seem to be quite happy melling amongst all of the other demonstras there. No one threw them out, no one reported them to the police.
They were quite accepted as part of that demonstration, which is a disgusting thing to see. But the answer your
question is this. Look, if there's one legacy, which will be one thing will be written about the Abanezy government in the years ahead when they look back on this period, he'll be remembered for one thing that the greatest rise in anti Semitism and Jewish hatred happened in Australia on his watch at as Prime Minister, and at a time when Australia needed leadership, we got this weak, insipid, nervous,
jellyback prime minister in the big chair. When we needed a bob Hawk John Howard let alone a rage or thatcher to rud us. You know, we got Jimmy Carter and that'll be his legacy. The Jewish hatred was seen on the streets of Australia in the universities and Jews were scared for their own safety under the watcher of Anthony Albanezi.
Sharry indeed well said Dave Shima, you always take action when you see horrific things unfolding and true to farm. You've written a letter to the Minister for Police after the protests.
In Melbourne and Sydney.
You're asking Victoria Police to identify breaches of the code that makes it an offense to display terror symbols. Why do you think the laws we have in place haven't been used, not just on this occasion, but over the past year.
I think the reason they haven't then used, Sherry, is there's been no political directive or political appetite. I mean, if you talk to some of the police who are effectively escorting this protest marches and I did in Melbourne yesterday. Their instructions are basically to try and keep the peace,
but not maintain and enforce our laws. They have no political backing from their state ministers or state governments or the federal government indeed to go in and demand the removal or order the removal of these terrorist symbols and flags, or to arrest people for chanting insightful or hateful slogans or anything else. I mean, there is no political leadership being shown here and the police are simply responding to the political directives they get. And it's time that changed.
I mean, I think what we saw on Sunday, I mean it's gotten become exceeded all bounds of decency and normalcy several months ago. But surely after Sunday we have to start taking some actions, and reluctant federal and state government ministers need to start making sure that their law enforcement authorities do what it is their tasks we're doing, which is to enforce the law.
Look, I just fear that this is going to be the same situation as we saw when police said they were investigating October seven, and then they ended up holding a press conference, as I said last night, gas lighting the Jewish community. I fear that this is going to end in nothing, because nothing has happened so far, so I have lost faith that law enforcement will actually arrest anyone here.
There are more.
Problems of the ABC though, as you would know by now, one of the ABC's journalists actually questioned Peter Darton today about why HESBLA was a terror organization and why Israel's flags weren't banned.
It was utterly extraordinary.
If you haven't seen it yet, we'll play it quickly again now.
Determined even though, men, where are you from? I'm sorry? Which organization? ABC? So what's the question from the ABC?
Just to be very clear, I just wanted to point.
Out, because we're commented on the but you asked about the listing of the ogization. I just didn't understand that questions. Well. I had presumed up until this point at least that the ABC supported the government's laws, and the government has passed laws supported on a bipartisan basis, but not by the ABC. It seems, in relation to the prescribing or the listing of a terrorist organization, HESBLA under Australian law
is a listed terrorist organization. Now, if the ABC doesn't support that, they should be very clear about it, because I think that's quite a departure. But you asked me why why that why our country has listed hes Blah. They're a terrorist organization that they organized terrorist attacks and if that is not clear to the ABC, then I think the ABC is in greater trouble. And even I first imagined.
Michael Kroger, this is one of the worst cases of anti Israel bias we've seen from the ABC, and there've been a lot.
You know, they talk about group thing at the a b C.
What what was in.
The mind of that journalist when she was at work that morning talking to the people in News and Current Affairs about what she might ask Dutton? Who were her contact group, her friendship group, or were colleagues at the ABC and elsewhere? That got her to the point where she thought it was legitimate to ask Peter Dutton why the Israeli flags are allowed to fly but not the Hesbalah flag, or why is it a terrorist? I mean, for goodness sake,
what planet is that girl on? What planet is the ABC on that they send a journalist to speak to the opposition leader and they put that profoundly ignorant question to Peter Dutton. The only remarkable thing about that exchange was that Dutton kept you cool. He's a better man than I am because he kept cool through that whole thing despite an incredibly bizarre question from an ABC reporter. Once again, shame on the ABC. And let's see their
explanation for this one. No doubt there'll be another investigation, she'll be cleared, blah blah blah.
I mean, not even an investigation.
They've put out a statement saying that questions at a press conference today were not a piece of reporting nor a position being taken by the ABC, and they've just said the ABC recognizes that Hesbela is a terror organization.
So very weak, Dave.
But Dardan's response there actually pulling the journalists up asking where she was from. You know, it's just not the sort of leadership we're seeing from the other side.
No, what this.
Journalist did was utter publicly what they all think privately in Altimo and South Bank. I mean, this is actually the mindset that you see it from some of Labour's own government ministers that effectively they treat Israel a legitimate, democratic, liberal state on the same moral footing as a terrorist organization, and I think they should be held to the same
standards of account in many respects. In fact, they think that Israel should be held to HESBLA shouldn't be held to any standards of accouncil behavior, and Zelle should be held to one that exceeds what we only what we
demand of ourselves. I mean, this is the sort of mindset and I'm glad Peter Dunnan pulled it up because that sort of baseline assumptions that informs a lot of the very bad journalism and reporting we're seeing in Australia needs to be exposed for the moral bankruptcy that it demonstrates.
Yeah, it's just extraordinary how they can be so much And israe bias on the public broadcast. I don't know how people can cope with watching it anymore or listening to it. Before we go, I want to turn to the Queensland election because the official election campaign kickoff happened today. The Opposition has ruled out preferencing the Greens over labor. We haven't seen this at a federal level, of course, Michael, in many ways. This is going to be quite a straightforward Queensland campaign.
We know who's going to win.
Here, we do, but Christoph fool has done the right thing and no doubt at a federal level coalition will put the Greens last, as they should, behind every candidate. I personally can't think of any register the political party who should be put behind the Greens. So I'm hoping that at federal level the Greens go last as a statement to this country that we will not have any association with this anarchist collective of anti Israel politicians, some
of whom have exhibited anti Semitic behavior. But the real challenge Shari will be does Anthony Alberanezi have the guts to put the Greens last or is he going to preference the Greens ahead of the Liberal Party and the National Party. That would be a disgrace given the extremism of the Greens. He should say you're going last, and if he doesn't, it'll cost him a lot more votes than he thinks.
Yeah, Dave, I mean it's for labor here in Queensland. It's not so much about winning the election. They're just trying to hold on to some seats. You know, save the furniture to make the next election Campag not as difficult.
Look, I think, I think that's right. But the moral test that is being posed here is the same regardless of what the outcome is like that have been and Michael's entirely right that Queensland Labor should commit to doing the same, that is putting preferencing the Greens behind or last and not ahead of the Liberals, and Anthony Alberanesi
needs to be doing the same. I mean, I don't know how often we hear Anthony Albanesi and pennywom and Tony berknothers castigate the Greens for what they say is the primary cause of the social discord we're seeing on the streets. If they truly believe that, and if they truly have Australia's interests at heart, and our society is interest at heart, then Federal Labour needs to commit to putting the Greens last at the upcoming.
Election one hundred percent. The Greens are such an easy target. But you know, let your actions follow your words, and we haven't seen that from Federal Labor, all right, Michael Kroger, Dave Shama really appreciate your time.
Thank you. Now let's turn to Tony Burke. Now, the Home.
Affairs Minister was asked today about the protests on the weekend, the people flying the Hezbela flags, the terrorism celebrating the dead terror leader Hassan Israla, and he managed to turn his answer into an attack on Peter Dutton.
Have a listen with Peter Dutton.
It is always about the Middle East and never about Middle Australia the moment, it's about something on the other side of the world. Peter Dunnan wants to talk about that and nothing else.
All right, Let's bring in now Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Patterson. James, thank you very much for your time this evening. Look, we have seen yet again a very weak and slow response from the Albanezy government to terror supporters, thousands and thousands of them taking to the street. What's your criticism of how the government and law enforcement have handled.
This and do you have any confidence in.
The investigations that both the AFP and New Southoles Police are our running.
Sharry, I don't want to shock Tony Burke, but in breaking news, the cities of Melbourne and Sydney are in fact located in the country of Australia. They're not in the Middle East, and what we saw happening in those cities on Sunday should be of concern to every Australian politician.
In fact, in.
Many ways they've got nothing to do with the Middle East. The Middle East might be the catalyst for what we saw, but it's about our country and what we're willing to accept and tolerate here. And Peter Dunt't has taken a very strong stand that it's actually not okay to glorify terrorism, to support terrorist organizations and to wave their flags in the cities of our country. And if Tony Burke has quarreled with that, if he disagrees with that, he should just stand up and say so. If he had the
courage of his convictions, he would do so. Coming to your question about the police investigations, I have been pleased that it appears that the Albanezer government and the Australian Federal Police have finally got the message from the community that this is unacceptable and that the law must be enforced.
Because today Onscy News, a Deputy Commissioner of the AFP, Chrissy Barrett, is head of National Security for the AFP said that she's confident in the cases that the AFP plans to bring to court in relation to these offenses. Now that's a big leap from what they started saying on Monday morning, which is no charges will be laid because no offenses will be committed. I think finally the message just got through to the AFP.
Yeah, it's Look, we'll have to see whether they actually take it seriously this time, because we've seen investigations before and we have seen no arrests at all. Look, we're also learning today that the Anti Semitism Envoy has recommended a judicial inquiry into anti semitism and the Albanezy government has rejected it. At the same time, we heard on radio this morning Tony Burke say that no one faces more racism than a Muslim woman wearing a burka.
Do you think the government just actually doesn't care about Jews?
So I wish I could have a strong and persuasive argument against that suggestion, but it's really hard to come to the defense of the government here on this. We have seen an unprecedented antisemitism crisis in our country over
the last twelve months. We have seen Jews who've lived safely and happily in Australia for all their lives, say that they feel unsafe, so much so they're contemplating moving to Israel, a country under attack from three terrorist organizations right now, because they think they might feel safer there than they do in the streets of our major cities.
And it is deeply disappointing that the Albinezer government has ignored the advice of their handpicked antisemitism envoy about the need to have a inquiry in judicial inquiry into antisemitism on campus because what we've seen happen on our campuses since the seventh October is utterly unacceptable, and for Labor to turn their backs on Jewish students and others who've been horrified by what we've seen on camp shows, they just don't understand the serious moral challenge posed by anti Semitism,
how corrosive it is for our society, and how critical it is that we stand up to it with courage.
I also want to ask you about the comments or the question that the ABC journalist asked Peter Dutton today.
I just played it a moment ago.
You know, this is typical of the anti Israel bias we're seeing, but it is a taxpayer funded organization of billion dollars a year, so doesn't there need to be some accountability and what can be done?
Shari?
Only a journalist at the ABC would think that it's an appropriate question to ask, why don't we ban the display of Israeli flags in Australia and why has been listed as a terrorist organization. I'll deny this if you say that I said it, Sharry, but fair. Actually, there'd be even journalists at the ABC who would be appalled by that, Some good journalists there who'd be hanging their heads in shame tonight. But in the spirit of helpfulness, let me assist the journalists at the ABC. Hebelo was
founded in nineteen eighty two. Their first terrorist attack was nineteen eighty three. It was against the US embassy in Beirut. Eighty three people were killed. The next year they attacked US and French marine barracks, where two hundred and ninety nine people were killed. The next year they bombed a restaurant in Spain where eighteen people were killed. Skipping forward a decade or so, in Buenos Aires, they bombed both the Israeli embassy, killing twenty nine people and a Jewish
community center killing eighty five people. Skipping again ahead a decade or two. They assassinated the former Prime Minister of Lebanon in two thousand and five, killing twenty two people. And I could go on and on and on. His blot has destroyed Lebanon. They've done enormous damage in Syria. They've attacked Israel. They are rightly listed as a terrorist organization. And it is only someone at the ABC who could not understand those facts.
Yeah, indeed, all right, James Patterson, thank you so much for your strength and your courage in fighting on this topic. Appreciate your time tonight as well. Now still to come, the human toll of the pandemic revealed, as experts claimed policymakers overlooked social cohesion and mental health went pushing public orders. Plus, we're live to Israel with the latest on the ground raids on Hesbelai, Israeli m P.
Sharon Haschool would join me next.
We're coming up in a moment Rodwin Bishop and Kayleb bond on the other big stories around today, including the mental health impact of the COVID lockdowns.
But now let's go live to Israel, where it has just been the.
Recipient of Hesbela rockets and missiles just in the past couple of hours. Let's bring in now Israeli politician Sharon Haskell, who's live in Kafar Sabah in Israel.
Sharon, thank you for joining us. So tell us what's happened Sharon just two hours ago? Well, to be.
Honest, tomorrow's the Israeli New Year, and I was here at my backyard hanging the fairy lights. When I heard the alarms. I ran straight into my shelter here in the home. In Israel, every home has a shelter, almost everyone care of five calling the kindergarten to make sure that my little girls are okay. And you know what, sharing that's the reality of almost every single day of some of our citizens here the northern part of Israel, every single day was hammered by missiles act on a
daily basis. Tons were destroyed.
Yeah, which is or cans.
Sorry, we're losing your audio a bit there, Sharon will Yes, we can.
We'll try and stick with it. I was going to ask you, though, you know, Hezbela has launched.
Missile rocket attacks every single day, eight thousand rockets since October the eighth. Now Israel has said enough is enough. As you said, it's the Jewish New year Russiashana. Tomorrow, there's going to be young men and women, teenagers, early twenties who are missing from the table celebrating the new year because they are going to have to be going into Lebanon to try and target these Hezbola operations that are still standing.
Yeah, locally, first of all, we have our soldiers or heroes who are you know, they're going and risking themselves and they're not going to be in their families new year. To make sure that we is rarely citizens can celebrate the new year safely and securely. And the other thing is another one hundred and one hostages who for a year now are being held in hamas dungeons of torture
and they're not going to celebrate with their family either. Babies, children, sisters, brothers, grandparents who are not going to be in the loving arms of their families. And it's absolutely heartbreaking. This is going to be a very difficult new year for all of us. And I think that this is something that no other country would have accepted.
No, absolutely not.
Well, big revelations today reported by both The Times of Israel also the Daily Telegraph here that hamasa's Lebanese leader, Fatah Sharif is now dead. Of course, that he was actually linked to UNRA, this is the discredited United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
He was the principal of a.
Secondary school which was operated by UNRA. This is a Hamas leader, Sharon. The Australian government, as you know, reinstated funding to UNRA before the independent investigation was even complete.
Millions and millions and millions.
Of dollars have gone from the Australian government to UNRA, Pennywong and Albanize. He says, it's an important organization. How much more proof do you think Australia and the international community need that this is an organization linked to terrorism?
Well, your government knows that. We've been warning them for years about there are thousands of terrorists of Ramas andris Balla who are on the paycheck of Australian taxpayers money. They are paying the salary of those terrorists. And you know what, it's very simple for the Australian governments to also check it. They can ask for Israel the list of Haramas activists. You know, they have that information and they can ask from the United Nations the list of
the employees of ANDRA. If they just cross them, they know exactly who is a terrorist, but they just ignore it. It's very easy to ignore the facts. It's very easy to ignore the truth when you don't want to accept it. But they know it.
They've known it for years.
And that's why in the past many governments have stop funding ANRA because they understand that they are finding terrorism. On a one hand, they declare Chrisbela and other organizations as terrorist organization, but at the other hand they feed them with Australian money, which is actually the absurd.
That is a big claim that you've just made their Sharon Haskell, and I think you're right that there are terrorists who are receiving their paycheck from Australian taxpayer funds. That is so outrageous, particularly during a cost of living crisis, our hard earned tax paid dollars going to support terrorism. Sharon Haskell, stay safe, May your daughters stay safe and
have a happy new year. Now plenty more to come, the multi million dollar boost to fight supermarket misconduct, plus the US election heating up with Trump taking another swipe at Kamala Harris, this time over a staged photograph. Brodwin Bishop and Calebond will join me next Welcome backwards time to talk about the rest of the day's top stories and joining me in the studio former Speaker of the House Brodern Bishop and Sky News.
Host cayleb Bond. Great cee you both now.
Labor is committing an extra thirty millillion dollars in funding for the A Triple C, the nation's consumer watchdog. This is an order, it says, to boost its fight against the badly behaving supermarkets. The investment will reportedly beef up the A Triple C's monitoring and investigation skills its ability.
Here was the Treasurer making this announcement today.
We don't want to see ordinary Australians and families and pensioners being taken for a ride by the supermarkets, and we're taking steps to make sure that they get a fair ago at the checkout.
Ronwin look, I think the government was trying to turn the supermarkets into villains, but given the evidence we heard last week about the alleged misconduct, the fake discounts, it's.
Pretty outrageous behavior.
The supermarkets deserve everything coming to them, if that's what they were doing.
Two points to make. I think firstly, they're playing catch up with the nationals who were always on this issue, and we're out front in it, so they're trying to catch up. Secondly, I think you were entitled cynical that when things aren't looking good for them and these issues that we've been discussing tonight are really front of mine, they want to change the story. But thirty and more importantly,
that's the behavior of Cols and Woollies themselves. If they had been functioning and looking at their bottom line and getting profits legally and economically for their shareholders, and conducting the business and accordance with proper business principles instead of being into die, instead of being into environmental and social and whatever it is.
Esg lens of dollars eat Voice campaign as well, but the government hasn't helped it.
If they had been doing their job properly, then they wouldn't be in this mess. But have you notice that the three companies that have got into most trouble with the Voice, Woolies, Calls and Quantas, they'll put a woman in to run it, a bit like the Labor Party put in Carmen Lawrence and put in whatever a name was down there in Victoria. So there's a cynicism around. But I think the main lesson to learn is if
you're in business, conduct your business properly. Don't start to look at all sorts of other years and try and suck up and be important and what do you think is the government of the day, And that way you wouldn't get into this sort of bad practice.
I think it's a good point, caleb In said. Bronwin says, instead of wasting money millions of dollars supporting social campaigns, you know, then they wouldn't perhaps have needed to make it up by giving these fake discounts, you know, where they told people that an item had been discounted, whereas in fact it was higher than its original price.
It's clearly dodgy, right, And I have no problem with the A Triple C being given more money to go and fight that kind of thing, because that is exactly what the age troop will see ought to be doing. The money is also supposedly going to look at things like opening up more land so you could have more competitors move into space, because currently the supermarkets supposedly engage in land banking where they buy up lands and other
people can't move in there. One can't do anything well exactly because it's a state and council issue in terms of planning, right, But this is manner from heaven for the government at the moment. Let's be real about what's going on. The supermarkets have probably engaged in dodgy conduct when it comes to discounting, but when you look at their profit margins, they operate on pretty small profit margins. Large profits because they're big businesses, but their profit margin
is quite small. What the government is trying to do here is say, don't worry about us and cost of living. Look, it's those bad supermarkets over there. They're the ones that are causing you to not have any money at the end of the week. It's not really about the supermarkets. One hundred other businesses involved. Before a product gets to the supermarket that leads to prices going up. They're trying to pin the cost of living on the.
Superman, ad on the r B, A, RBA and the supermarket, which is hardly right, but it's not entirely true.
They're just shifting the blame over there.
There's also the picture of the government spending and the other government's actions are high migration numbers that are putting pressure on the cost of living crisis as well. Now let's turn to the US election and Donald Trump has accused Kamala Harris of staging a fake photo that she posted on social media in light of Hurricane Helene. In the photo, as you can see here, Harris is wearing an earphone that isn't attached to the iPhone in front
of her. When Trump lasted her on x he wrote, another fake and stage photo from someone who has no clue what she's doing. You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work, Rodan. That's quite funny, Trump, and funnier than his other insult at Kamala this week, where he basically said she was mentally impained.
That was probably too unkind.
Well, firstly, I think the fact that this photograph is taken inside an aeroplane. It reminded me very much of the photograph that was taken of George W. Bush when he flew over the results of Katrina down in New Orleans and was shown to be totally and utterly out of touch. Because it was the photograph that was released that was meant to make him look compassionate and showed him to be disengaged.
And I got exactly the same.
Reaction when I looked at that photograph, And I think that Trump was perfectly entitled to point out that this is a fake photograph, it's a fake message being put across.
She didn't go down.
She says she's not going down there because she doesn't want to impede first responders.
George W. Bush used exactly.
The same reason for not going in earlier in twenty fifteen. You'd think with her handlers trying to manage her within an inch of a life, they just might have remembered that, don't you think.
Well, yeah, you would say so, especially seeing as they're reportedly Barack Obama's advisors that have come in, so they do have some experience. But Caleb, I want to make the broader point here that I think Donald Trump's in trouble. I think he still hasn't adapted his campaign to face Kamala Harris. He doesn't know how to handle her, and he's resorting to personal taxes all over the place. There's no central campaign strategy.
Yeah, yeah, you certainly flipped the script when Kamala came along as opposed to Biden. I mean, you know, hitting Biden over the head was the easiest job you could possibly have, and the attacks haven't worked to this point. But that's who Trump is, That's how he campaigns, right, So that's not going to change overnight. What really matters is less what's he saying about Kamala and a mental impairment.
I mean, look, she wasn't mentally confident enough to realize that the phone was not plugged into the headphones in the photo. So we may have a point there. It will come down.
She might, it may not be a genius.
No, I think that is that is that is correct. Maybe that headphone is actually plugged into another device with the people telling her what to actually.
Say it was plugged innsman iPad Biden's handlers.
But it as to the broader point of Trump being in trouble, he is in trouble to a degree. But forget about the national polls. It's all about those swing states, right, and the polling is all over the shop When it comes to those swing states. He's still very much in the race. It's just not as much in the race as he was when when Trump was there.
IM mean, his campaign is in trouble. He doesn't know how to fight o'bronwin.
I don't agree with that. He's just been what he is Trump and getting out there and fighting on his issues. And I think that it's a curious way that the people have been close to him and become commentators on him or say, oh, he's making a mistake. Oh he's doing this in doing the work for the Democrats in a way, So I think that's quite pointless.
He is being what he is.
He's saying, I'm a businessman, I can run the place. I'll get you out of trouble. The country was in much better position when I was president before. Now come with me again and please turn out and please turn up to start policing that the voting procedures are in fact proper.
All right, And this keeps him in the headlines.
We've only got a couple of minutes left and I still want to get to two topics. So Caleb, but I want to ask you about this reporting that's unfolding in the Herald on the COVID pandemic, on how policy health officials overlooked the impacts on mental health and social cohesion and that's obvious, isn't it.
Yeah, I mean blind Freddie could have seen that, and the Herald's got together a group of people including Mick Fuller and Linda Scott and others who were involved in certain levels of oversight over COVID at the time.
We know that.
I mean everyone could see that at the time, but everyone persisted with the same policies that they started with in March twenty twenty.
All right, let's turn to Tony Burke.
I know Brannwin wants to have USA and Tony Burke he was asked on radio this morning about the appointment of an envoy for Islamophobia.
Have a listened to what he had to say.
If you go to who is the person most likely to be targeted for abuse in Australia right now, it's an Islamic woman wearing hay shirt and voy.
I should say not envoy and islamophobia and voice so bron when he's saying the person in Australia most likely to be targeted is a Muslim woman in a hej app Here's a disgrace.
He's just a disgrace.
Look. I went down to Melbourne a couple of months ago, and I went to address a group of Jewish people. To get into that venue, there was a big gate that had to be opened, and somebody indicating we could drive in. The gate had to be shut. Then there were bollards that had to be put down and a barrier had to.
Be raised up.
This was the security that was needed for these people to have safety. How on earth can that man make such a statement when there are people who are quivering every day, frightened for their kids at school, not putting them in school uniforms, not letting them be identified as being Jewish because they're terrified. But what's going to happen to them?
Only a man.
As insensitive as Tony Burke, and a look at his history you can just see what a slippery character he is. But to have sold his soul to the degree he has where he will not recognize that anti Semitism is rife in this country right now, and that all he can say is that really it doesn't exist, because I am looking after my patch, to look after my seat and the adjoining seats.
It's not good enough.
The Labor Party's leadership is pathetically weak. It is Albanite's fault that there's going to be a planned demonstration on the occasion of the seventh of October. And he chooses to make this announcement today when in fact there are people going to court to try and stop it happening.
What sort of a government is this?
He is living in an alternate verse, Bronman, Bishop Kyle Bond, thank you.
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After the break, some major news about next week's program. Don't miss the details. Well, on Monday, it will be one year since the October seven attacks. It'll be a very significant and emotional day. One year that Israel has been at war trying to bring its people, the hostages home. One year since baby Kafir and his brother Ariel napped. They haven't been visited by the Red Cross or any
of the aid agencies. Well, to mark this momentous occasion, the one year on from the anniversary of the worst loss of life on the Jewish community, I will be live from Israel. I'll be reporting on the war against Hesblah and hosting my nightly program from Israel. So don't miss any shows next week at eight o'clock. I'm going to bring you the heartfelt emotional stories, also big political interviews.
It's going to be an emotional time for all of us, especially as we watch on in horror at what's unfolding on our streets.
I'll be off until then.
It's the Jewish New Year tomorrow, so the next time I see you Monday at eight pm will be from Israel.
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