Late General, welcome the late play.
Great to have your company.
I'm James Macpherson with Liz Staurer and Caleb Bond coming up. Megan Markel claims she is a victim all over again.
What's new? Will bring you that a little later.
Plus, when we look at the papers, the Albanezy government blasted for its bid to bring a first Nations approach to foreign policy, I'm sure that'll work great in the Middle East, and the Victorian State government under fire as it tries to fix the housing crisis only to make matters worse. We'll get to all of that a bit later. But do you remember back in November, the albanesey government told us they planned to bring eight hundred guards and
refugees to Australia. We later learned it was well over one thousand, and more recently we understood it's closer to three thousand. At the time they are sured as security checks will be done. Then we found out most of the checks took less than an hour, and more recently we learned didn't even begin doing security checks on a number of gars and refugees until after they arrived on our shores. Back in November, we were told by the
Albanese government. They were given tourist visas, it would be temporary, and then they told us, well, we can't send them back to a war zone when they're three month tourist visa runs out.
And now we're being.
Told it's vital that pathways to permanent residency are established. You ever get the feeling you're being led by the nose when it comes to this government and this particular issue. But today we're told don't worry about any of it because Immigration Minister Tony Burke will personally supervise and approve visas for Gazans who want to apply to stay for three years or longer in the country. The refugees have been told they can express interest online and then Tony
Burke will personally assess each and every visa. If approved, these Gars and refugees will be eligible for welfare, pays for Medicare, They'll be able to work and to study in Australia.
I've just got one question.
If Penny Wong had told us back in November, just weeks after the October seven attacks, that the government planned on bringing hear on three thousand gards and refugees from a radicalized war zone to this country and they do security checks on them after they arrived, and not on temporary visas, but to stay here permanently. Would anyone have been in support. They've treated the Australian public like absolute mugs.
So should we really be comforted now?
They say, but don't worry, Tony Burke will be personally supervising extended visas. This is a government that can't say anti Semitism without saying Islamophobia in the next breath lest they upset voters.
In Western Sydney. The whole process and the.
Whole idea was ill advised from the beginning. The government have done nothing but mislead the Australian public the entire way, and now they're trying to reassure us that Tony Burke is looking after the whole thing. This is an absolute fiasco and I think a total insult to the Australian public.
Well, if he's going to go through every single one of them, he won't be Tony Burke, He'll be Busy Burke. I mean, for heaven, the amount of work he would have to go through as the minister to assess every single one of these applicants individually, I just can't believe that that would actually ever happen. It'll be palmed off to someone in his office who is unelected, who shouldn't be doing it in the first place. And of course normally these things would be done by bureaucrats.
But we know that the bureaucrats were.
Pretty lackluster in getting anything done, and we've seen a few cases in the last couple of weeks. We had an American fellow who stood up in front of the La Kimber Mosque last week on the anniversary of October seven and said, what a great day. It was, a day of resistance, etc. A day of celebration, and he was feeling good on the day. And so Tony Burke got on the blower to his department and said, to do you mind going and checking whether this fellow is
on a visa? And when they confirmed that he on a visa, mister Burke said he was considering whether or not that visa should be canceled. Now I don't know whether that visa has been canceled. We haven't heard any further about that story. Since I would suggest the fact we haven't heard any further would be to say that it hasn't actually happened. We had another fellow just a day later who was revealed to have hosted members of HAMAS, high up members of Hamas and Hezbla at his art
gallery over in the Middle East. He is now living in this country on a visa.
But it's all.
Fine now because Tony Burke is going to assess every single one of them individually.
I don't believe it for a minute.
And even if he does assess every single one of them individually, how is one man who is charged with running two pretty big portfolios at the moment possibly going to have the time to do the job properly.
It's smoke and mirrors to make it.
They know that the perception has been bad in the last couple Okay, we're taking control now.
How could he possibly do all of that? I just can't so happen.
Well, either this is a means to silence the fearmongerers, which has been relentless so the government knows they have to be seen to do something about this now, or it's an outright admission that they didn't do it right the first time around. So to be clear, we're talking about gardens who are already here in Australia and who are applying to stay, many of which, in order to apply to stay for these three years, will have to
then retract their application to be asylum seekers here. Literally just seeking asylum on the back of one assumes a tourism visa. But I gotta say just fifteen hundred gardens here in Australia does not.
In my humble opinion.
Is it is so disproportionate to the mind blowing amount of fear porn that we have seen.
Over this four months and months. Oh, it's just a free for all.
They're just letting anyone into the country, thousands of a flooding in. Well, if that's true, Beryl, if they're not vetting them, why are seventy percent of applications rejected. And let's be clear, of the thirty percent that were accepted, only half of them.
Have actually rocked up.
And also thirty percent of the thirty percent who were accepted were kids.
Were children, And I I'm not sorry to tell you if you have a problem.
With children escaping at hellescape, now's a good time to take a few moments to get right with the lord. Because who should be against kids escaping the hell scape that is currently Gaza. I don't think anyone who has a single scaic of human emotion about them would have a problem with that. So I do think this has been blown out of proportion greatly.
There's two point one million people in Gaza. Not all of them.
Love hermus trust me, they've suffered under this government more than any of us can possibly imagine. Yes, there are Hamas sympathizers there, but it is in Asio's best interests and the Australian government's best interest to ensure that they are vetting these people. And the fact that seventy percent of applicants have been rejected goes to show that all these cries of they're not vetting them at all is nonsense. The guy that you were speaking about before, he's an American.
He's here from America, Yes, on a visitor's visa, probably.
Just to speak at that thing. He's not staying for long.
The serious case you then raise, though, of that fellow who had been shown to.
Entertain Hamas supporters etc.
At his own parties and residences art galleries in the Middle East.
Now that's one where you're like.
You mean to tell me you didn't know, And that's the kind of cases that we can absolutely grill the government.
That's that's the point that they are slipping through the cracks, whether that be by design, very competent, So they're slipping through.
The cracks, well, I would say by design, because there's no way they didn't know. That guy is a think so and prolific supporter.
These guys are his mates. The question is why was.
He allowed regardless, because there's no way you didn't know. There's no way I'm going to give the government that much leeway. They had to have known, So why did they approve it? And that is a question. Notice they still have an answer.
I don't think anyone is wanting children to remain in suffering and not be given refuge.
The argument is not with gars.
But that's something that hasn't been highlighted at all of the thirty percent who were approved, thirty percent of those shark kids.
But the argument's never been with gars and people. The argument has been with yourself.
Now, I'm sorry, I've seen a ramp and I can only call it racism in terms of some of the discussion that has happened around these visas.
Well, I don't know what discussion you've seen. But the discussion I've seen has not been anti Garsen people. It's been a concern that this government misled the public from the beginning about the numbers, about the security check, about the length of visits that they would be offering.
And it's a.
Fact that ASIO have balls this up massively. At one point they said RETRIC in support of a terrorist organization would not necessarily disqualify one because, let me.
Finish, Surgis is well aware that RETRIC supporting the government in.
Gaza is a survival mechanism.
The government, who the heck in Gaza is going to be like, oh yeah, hate her mask?
Do you have a death wish?
So how do you have a death wish? How do you tell?
That's their job.
But that is what he meant when he said it, and I thank you for bringing that up, because that was another thing that was blown so far.
Out of proportion.
If you're right, if you're right, Mike Burgess needs to get someone to help him with his communication, because maybe he does shocking and it sent the wrong message not just to Australians but to supporters of message in this country.
The other thing that was sent was by the media that then took that out of context.
And Blue, No, they didn't take it out.
Is genuinely just like Ka Sarah, if we let a few terraces in, that was the right.
That was the message that they conveyed and if he didn't mean that, he should have been.
Fun're misunderstood and made that very clear in back.
In addition, as I said, it's been revealed that ASIO didn't begin security checks on numbers of gardens until after they'd arrived in Australia. No reasonable citizen would think that is acceptable, and that was the argument people have had. It's never been with gards and childre the government. That's proved in every area with this.
Mission one into the country without any security checks. So if you genuinely believe that, then you've been hoodwinked. Yes, they didn't do a good enough job and that has been shown. If you're spending less than an hour on an application, perhaps you haven't done due diligence thing.
But to say that they weren't, they were literally just to the country.
No, I'm sorry it was lackless and look to cut as to cut as small bit of slack. ASIO can only follow the direction that the government gives it All of this stuff comes down from the government. They're the ones ultimately making these decisions, and the pendulum goes from over here.
Well, there's not much going on. We bagging it up. Now the minister is going.
To assiss every single case. Please, I don't believe it for a minute. Let's go over to the US election and Kamala Harris is noticing she's got a small problem with black voters. So she has run out this great idea. She's calling it the Opportunity Agenda for Black men. Now you go through some of the things she is suggesting
in here, some of them are just downright racist. For instance, there's going to be under her plan a million fully forgivable loans to black entrepreneurs so that they can start out businesses. I'm sure there are people across Middle America, through the Rust Belt and whatever who are going, my god, I haven't had a job for five.
Years because you took away my manufacturing jobs.
If only I had an opportunity to get a fully forgivable loan from the govern and I might go and make a go of things. But no, unless you're black, you can't get hold of that. The rest is full of motherhood statements. So it goes on to say that Harris wants to protect black investments in cryptocurrency. I'm not sure exactly why that is pulled out, but anyway, that's there. And also she wants to give opportunities for black men
to work in the marijuana industry. If there was anything you ever wanted people to get involved in there.
It is.
So you might be asking yourself, why is it that Kamala Harris would three weeks out from the election finally come up with some plan to appeal to black men.
I suspect this is the reason.
This is the democratic margin among black men under the age of forty five and presidential elections. You'll go back to November of twenty twelve.
What do you see? You see Obama by eighty one. Clinton only won and by sixty three. Then we're all the way down a.
Byte and last time around by fifty three of tremendous drop already. And then you take a look at the average of the most recent pause and Kamala Harris is up by only forty one points. That is about half the margin that Obama won them by back in November of twenty twelve.
Not looking good, is it?
Perhaps black voters in America have woken up to the fact that the Democrats have taken advantage of them for a very long time. They have just counted on them for their vote. That is not happening anymore. At least it's on the decline. It's not where and you could see the numbers right from Obama down to Harris. It has declined at every single election, the black support for the Democrats because they've gone, what have you actually.
Done for me in the last twenty odd years? Nothing?
Basically because you thought you could rely on my vote. The tide is starting to turn, and so Harrah's gone, oh my god, what can I do? What can I possibly do? I'll protect your crypto investments and I'll get your jobs in the marijuana industry. I mean god, She sadly pulled the best out of the bag.
And she is just four.
Days after she announces this plan, just four days after Barack Obama went a viral because he was telling off black men for their lacklust to support of the Harris campaign.
He literally took them to task.
This, of course, is because black men in America have traditionally been part of the supporter base of the Democrats, and as you just saw in that CNN clip, they are now freaking out so hot on the keels of Barack Obama taking it upon himself to literally chide these guys, what are you doing?
Support the Blue team. Now you've got.
Kamala coming out saying that another part of what she was planning in this plan for helping black men was studying diseases that disproportionately affect African American men, So she's genuinely pulling out every stop. Another one was more apprenticeships for black men in America. So it's basically just trying to offer them any kind of candy they could possibly want before they go to the polls in three weeks start.
I mean, when you speak of candy, these are one million loans of twenty thousand dollars fully forgivable.
I know that's not alone. It's just a bribe.
Will give him twenty grand if you vote for Kamala Harris. And you're right that Obama chided black men for not being enthusiastic enough about Kamala Harris. But as part of his chiding, he actually said to them, is it because he's a woman. So he's accusing black men of being sexist, and that's the reason why they're not supporting Kamala Harris.
I thought the Black Lives Matter.
Riots were instructive as to how the Democrats think about black people. They think that black people are morally inferior, which is why they turned a blind eye and said, well, of course they're going to loot department stores, because well, what other option do they have. They taught black people at they're helpless victims because of events of hundreds of years ago. Well, of course you're upset, and of course
you're down trodden. And while they do that, they promise repeatedly to fix the plight of black people, but never do. And so I think black people have finally figured them out and said, we're going to vote for Trump, who's actually going to treat us like we're equals and provide opportunity for everybody.
It's the bigotrey of low expectations we seed here in Australia.
We see it, we see it all over the world.
Right, they just take advantage of voters thinking, oh, well it dad and matter, you're just going to vote for us anyway, why would we possibly do anything for you? So she'd forgotten about the importance of black men up until now three weeks before the election, so she's finally
jumped on that. She also seems to have forgotten that back in twenty twenty, when Joe Biden was running for president, the idea was to keep him away from the cameras as much as possible, because if he wasn't in front of the cameras, if he was down in his bunker, then he couldn't cause any trouble for his campaign, he couldn't turn voters off.
Well.
At her latest rally, she says, that's exactly what Donald Trump is doing now.
It makes you wonder.
It makes you wonder, why does his sam want him to hide away?
One last question?
One last question.
Are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstableh.
The irony is lost on this woman.
Until a week ago, you were doing as little as few interviews as possible. Then you've done an onslaught of interviews, mostly with friendly outlets, journalists, podcasts, etc. Because you finally realize, oh my god, people don't know who I am. Because for all my time nearly four years as vice president, I've done four fifths of bugger all you've hidden away. Now you're complaining that Trump's doing the same thing. Quite bizarre.
But then she goes on to say that Donald Trump, if he disagrees with you, he's going to get the military to come and round you up and put you some sort of interment camp or something.
He's talking about that he considers anyone who doesn't support him or who will not bend to his will an enemy of our country. It's a serious issue he's saying. He is saying that he would use the military to go after them.
Think about that, I.
Mean, please, is that the most pathetic attempt you have heard at having a go at your opponent? And look, In typical Kamala style, she goes back to the weird cackling and stuff to.
Talk about the debate.
He is the best she can come up with to attack Donald Trump. He's not anything he's done in the last couple of weeks. It's the debate that was the better part of a month ago.
You know, likes the debate, right, he has oh concepts of a plan.
Concepts.
I mean, please, Mariah Carey take it away.
Why sossin?
I mean, once again, she's hardly pulling her best out here.
Is she please.
I think that was her best.
The reason for that of Sesscrab, by the way, is did you talk about anything else at this rally? In Pennsylvania? This is the queen of the swing states. Last election, Biden won it by one point one percent margin.
The election before that.
Trump won it by point seven percent. That is how tiny the margin is in Pennsylvania.
It swings here, it swings there.
It's one of those states that everyone knows is a real election decider. If you can get Pennsylvania, you're probably going to get the presidency.
But all she did seemingly was.
Talk about Donald Trump the entire time. Talk about your own policies, lady, talk about your own vision for the future. And in those first two clips where she's accusing Trump of being we can unstable and they're hiding him away.
He's been so visible in.
The campaign trail, even before he declared that he was running for the presidency. It's not funny. He hasn't stopped being in our headlines. He hasn't stopped with boots on the ground. The Trump campaign has been working tirelessly and then saying, oh, he's going to weaponize the military to round up dissidents what like, you've weaponized the justice system
in America to try to take out your opponents. It was Karl Marx who once said, accuse your opponent of doing exactly what you're doing while you're doing it to create confusion.
And we all know Kamala's dad was.
A professor who taught Marz, so I'd say she's taken a leaf out of dad's book and said, well, actually, I'm going to employ that very strategy.
The other thing I just don't understand about all of this is when she's saying that, you know, if you disagree with Trump and he wins, he's going.
To round everybody up and put them all in camps.
Haven't we just had a third assassination attempt on Donald Trump? And when you start saying that if you disagree with Trump, he's going to round everybody up, are you not just inciting a fourth attempt?
It's completely irresponsible And.
How dumb do they think voters are that anyone would actually believe that that would happen. And the reason Kamala Harris doesn't talk about policies is because she doesn't actually have any, or at least the one she has, she's plagiarized from Trump himself. It was Trump who came up with the idea of removing taxes from tips. Kamala Harris now has adopted that policy. It was Trump who came up with a child tax credit of five thousand dollars.
Caamala then announced a child tax credit of six thousand dollars. And of course it was Trump who wanted to build a wall. And now Kamala claims that she will build a wall. But it's not just policies that she's plagiarizing. She's also plagiarizing other people's writing. Her two thousand and nine books, Smart on Crime, which details her great successes and her philosophy as a prosecutor, contains large chunks lifted not just from other authors, but even lifted from Wikipedia.
JD. Vance called her out. Have a listen.
I saw today actually a story that Kamla Harris apparently copied some significant chunks of her book from Wikipedia.
So if you want a president with their own.
Ideas, vote for Donald Trump. If you want a president who.
Copies her own ideas from Wikipedia, vote for Kabla Heras.
Now, she'll point out Calebin Liz Kamala Harris has said she will respond to those allegations as soon as her team loads somebody else's words into her flip.
Look, it's true that if this woman had an independent thought, it would die of loneliness because this is what she does, right, She can do very well as long as she's reading from a teleprompter, much like during Biden.
Actually, so no change there.
But here's some of the read receipts that people have dug out. In the left hand column, you see there her book, an excerpt from her book.
And on the right hand.
You see where she got it from. In many cases it is word for word, and she's accused of doing this in at least twelve sections of her book. Now, the New York Times, typically being the New York Times, went into damage control mode and tried to frame this as just nasty right wing people coming out baying for Kamala Harris's blood. Their headline read, conservative activists caesars on passages from Harris's book. I mean, by the sound of that,
you just think that someone was going after unnecessarily. But the read receipts on this are absolutely inarguable.
These are copy paste.
Instances of plagiarism, and I love that jd Vance has brought this into the international spotlight, because while Chris Rufo I believe his name is, had tried to get this out, he was just being attacked by the mainstream media for pointing it out. Someone like jd Vance says it, and all of a sudden it's thrust into the international spotlight.
I have to say, though, I'd rather she'd be plagiarizing than using whatever weird ideas her brain could come up with.
Like for him, and we know that she can barely think or talk straight.
I want someone else to be feeding her ideas and her to be copying. Can you imagine what the United States would look like if she did what she's actually got going on up there.
It's a sad day when you'd prefer her to quote Wikipedia.
That thoughts I could go on Wikipedia and write things.
Maybe Kamala, he'll be their next unofficial speech writer. Jd Vance has been on an absolute letz Grig of a streak taking on the lefty leaning media, the regime media. You would have heard about these instances of Venezuelan gangs taking over entire apartment complexes. Here's a bit of a footage of this, just a few months ago. You can only imagine the terror of the occupants, as these were Venezuelans armed with weapons took over apartment complexes.
Check it out.
JD.
Evans was recently talking to an ABC reporter who tried to play this down, saying, oh, it was only a handful of instances of a listen, he wasn't having a bar of it.
The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment ConfL apartment complexes, and they said, our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerned a handful of problems.
Only, Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris's open border. Americans are so fed up with what's going on, and they have every right to be.
This is a verified report that has just been swept under the carpet by mainstream media again because this of gause all stems back to that wide open border that over ten million illegals have streamed over. Check out this quote from cb Z Management. They're the landlords of some of these apartment complexes. They write everything was progressing smoothly. Property values were rising and vacancy.
Rates were dropping.
It was a win win for both the owners and the city of Aurora. To address this entity, ie the Venezuelan gangs. We contacted every city official we could think of to help with the problem. Unfortunately, none were willing to take meaningful action. So once again, hats off to jd Vance going, No, hang on a minute, lady, you're not going to make this out to be only a
handful of instances. These were entire complexes that were held ransom by armed Venezuelan illegals just rampaging through these complexes in the United States of America.
There's a couple of points from that interview.
The first is what an inspired choice jd Vance was as Trump's running mate, because he runs rings around Kamala Harris, let alone Tim Waltz, his opposition.
Jd Vance is.
Proving to be incredibly articulate. And notice he's doing all the tough interviews. I mean, Kamala Harris sits down with Oprah. Jd Vance sits down with the ABC and absolutely calls them out. The second thing about that is the reporter Martha Raddits lives in a two million dollar home in an estate in Virginia.
I'm pretty sure she.
Wouldn't be living in any of these apartments where Venezuelan gangs are conducting sex trafficking and trying to extort the migrants living in these apartments. So it's all very well for her to say from the luxury of her two million dollar estate home. Oh, it's only a handful of apartments that have been taken over by crazy gang members.
And third, isn't Trump derangement syndrome quite something where members of the media so hate Donald Trump that they're willing to dismiss entire apartment buildings of American citizens taken over by Venezuelan gangs.
Is it's just a handful of apartments. Now, that's filely down to there.
They hate Donald Trump so much they don't care about what's happening to their fellow citizens.
A little bit of crimes good right, culturally, Richmond, what's wrong with that? I just wish the left in America could get this story straight. They might not have picked up on the fact that Kamala Harris is as James said before, now saying that she would bring back the border bill if she is elected president and continue building the wall that Trump wanted to build. She's now woken up and said, oh, we have problems at the border, ignoring.
The fact that she was the borderzar for the last four years. So is there a problem with the border or isn't there? I don't know.
Try to work on that message. And we've brought you the story, of course, of all the examples across the US at the moment of the Dems and the arms of the government basically trying to rig the election by stopping states from making sure that it is a fair election. Ie, these illegal immigrants are not allowed to vote because of course the aren't citizens of the United States. We brought you the story a couple of weeks ago of the Department of Justice going after Alabama because they removed quite
a number of illegal immigrants from their voter roles. Well, now they're going after Virginia for doing exactly the same thing. Now in both cases they've done this because this is meant to be whereby you cannot remove people from the voter rolls ninety days or fewer out from the election. Now, you would think that the Department of Justice, knowing that what the states are doing is removing illegal immigrants. Could
let this one slide. It's not like they're going through and going, Okay, who's a Democrat voter, let's rip all of them off.
No, they're removing.
People who aren't legally allowed to vote in the presidential election. And yet the Apartment of Justice is still going after them. Why because all of these people were allowed into America on the agreement that, oh, well, you know, if we the Dems let them in, then they're eventually.
Going to become voters.
They figured, Bagarette, why would we wait for them to become citizens.
Let's just let them vote now.
If they really cared about a fair and free election, they would let this slide because all that is happening is that illegal voters are being removed from the voter rolls. But they don't want that to happen because they want their votes.
As you said, this is not a one off.
This is the second time it's happened, first in Alabama, now in Detroit.
It just keeps happening. They're not even trying to hide it.
And as you said, they keep banging on about free, fair elections, and you're not allowed to suggest that anything is untoward. Meanwhile, they make it very hard to believe that it's all squeaky clean by these ridiculous lawsuits.
Tell me you're not cheating without telling me you're not cheating, I mean, please, you're clearly doing little cheats here, there and everywhere. But Michigan has recently had a win. The Michigan Republics have just won an election integrity lawsuit.
Again, these guys are having to take.
Their own government to got to get a fair go here. This time it was over election inspectors. Much like here in Australia, each party will have certain people at every polling.
Booth to supervise the counting.
But they were only hiring Democrat election watches, no republic one. So this has been a nice small win for those in Michigan knowing that Elise, there's going to be one tiny bit of integrity carried out at their polls. But notice they had to fight for it. My goodness, it's just ridiculous because all these little things really add up in an election where every vote counts, especially in certain counties where every vote does.
Indeed, you didn't understand how unfair it was.
They had appointed two thousand, thres three hundred and forty Democrat poll workers and three hundred and eight Republican workers.
It was literally a ratio of seven. Wow.
And they expected no one to call that out.
And the Republicans had nominated six hundred and seventy five people that they wanted to be used as their scrutinieres. Fifty two of them were chosen, and then they then chose two hundred and fifty others to be Republicans who weren't indoors by the Republican Party.
So it was like seven to one Democrats to Republicans.
But all the agreement here is that they'll be allowed to have at least one Republican on every polling booth.
Seriously, what are we talking about here. We are living in a clown world.
And they are going to try, of course, to say that if all of this goes the Democrats way, people will call it out and say, well, hang on, you actually tried to steal the election.
And then I'll go back to January sixth, last time, et cetera.
It's all being set up. We know exactly where this is going to go. Let's come back to Australia. Now, back to my home state of South Australia and in the city of Mount Gambia tonight, which of course is on the border of South Australia and Victoria, they are discussing installing a piece of public art that would be worth one hundred and thirty six thousand dollars.
Take a look at this thing.
It is supposedly meant to be a mega fauna that once upon a time existed in Australia.
I don't know.
I'm looking at that. I don't what the hell is That looks like a depressed ard.
Arc or something.
I don't know what they all that is that is supposedly one hundred and thirty six thousand dollars worth of art.
The Mount Demby Council is considering that tonight.
I hate this stuff like it makes me really angry because what we see continually, whether it be in public art or what we get in art galleries now, et cetera, is the degradation of the human spirit. Right, art is meant to be beautiful. And if you haven't read into Sir Roger Scrutin's writings on the idea of esthetics and beauty and architecture and art in particular, I would encourage you to go and do so, because when you look at art or you look at architecture, it makes you
feel a certain way. And you walk around the greatest cities in the world and even the great cities of Australia, and the buildings that you look at or the artworks that you look at make you go, g I like, this is stuff that was done two three, four hundred years ago, now four hundred ygos in terms of arc texture in this country, of course, But you know, pre or post eighteen hundred essentially until about I don't know that the early twentieth century is architecture that makes you
feel good. And continually, now what we have is artwork and architecture that makes you go, why the hell am I living in this world anymore? It makes you feel like a pile of crap. And I'm not unconvinced that that is the point of his art. It has just sapped the will to live out of you.
Just looking at the image on screen, that actually reminds me of do you remember those life being It adds a.
Normal normal, It actually reminds me of him.
That The crazy thing about this is that the Council Committee, which has recommended that one hundred and thirty what was it, one hundred and thirty six thousand dollars be spent on this monstrosity. They said that it was bold, relevant and spectacular line, which reminds me of that children's fable the Emperor's New Clothes. It'd surely have to just be going
along under peer pressure to believe that. But then they said they hope that this sculpture would raise the city's profile among the arts and cultural It's going to raise the city's profile, all right, people.
To see whatever the heck.
By the way, they do tell us what they think it is. It is a large blue mythical creature inspired by the marsupial megafauna that roamed the region.
Thousands of years ago.
Of course, how the heck do you know whatever that thing used to look like, if indeed it existed. But you're quite right, Caleber, and this is so true of our architecture as well. We used to look at the stuff that they built in what we now call the Dark Ages. If that was the Dark Age's baby, take me back tomorrow, architects of today, what is stopping you from building stuff like that? Because we have the means now to build it more affordably than ever and create
things that make the human spirit. I read a quote recently that literally said, you're not depressed, you're just so uninspired by your surroundings, and it.
Was the montage of modern buildings.
Like you walk through any of these beautiful suburbs of Sydney. You can tell the old department blocks they are stunning, even though they're over one hundred years old, some of them. And then you look at the more modern ones they are ugly. They all look like these social housing to go over at some point. They are just so ugly and there's no excuse for it except to like you say, is this deliberate?
Well, you saw the sculpture. The thing just sort of looks like that.
That's what the rate pays about. Gambi, you're going to feel like and that thing is built.
Absolutely, We're to go to a break when we come back to look at the papers, including the Albanizer government being slammed for trying to introduce a First Nations approach to foreign policy.
That's coming up in a money.
Okay, let's look at what's making news tomorrow, and this might get people excited. Lives the Victorian government are going to spend a fortune, but it's to bring Abba to Victoria kind of.
Okay, this is the local government. This is his pitch for mayor. Tell me if you think this is worth ten million dollars, all right.
The splash reads man money.
Lord Mayor Hopeful commits ten million to bring Abber Show to Docklands. Lord Mayor Hopeful Aaron Wood has pledged ten million of ratepayer funds to help bring ABBA's spectacular three D virtual concert to Docklands if elected to the city's top job.
So hang on a minute.
This is a three D virtual concert and they are going to fork out again. This isn't taxpayer money, this is rate payer money.
So Rhodes rates and rubbish out the window.
This guy wants your vote and if he gets it, he wants to spend ten million dollars.
On a three D virtual concert.
It do you want to win or do you want to lose?
Mate?
You thought that sculpture in Mount Gambia was bad? Like, seriously, we are talking here about holograms. You're not even going to a real concert. You are going to watch something that is not real. Like have you not heard of the cinema for Heaven's sake, And this bloke wants to pay ten million dollars for what is effectively a film, but it's in a hologram form instead of on a screen.
How is that worth ten million dollars?
I mean forgotten, I've livings where people are like, that's nice our own words.
I'd just like to afford food.
But if you can do it.
If you can do it with ABBA, right, with the power of AI, why can't they just make it themselves, Like, just just just come up with the AI version of ABBA. They could have any permutation of concert you want. Heck we a Brea back Michael Jackson, we can bring back Frank Sinatra. Let's just have hologram with AI.
Aaron Woods could be performing ABA hits.
Correct, correct, and we wouldn't have to do that ascent for that either.
He wants a percentage of the ticket sales. Do they have to sell a lot of ticket? Is there that many people who would want to watch a holograd?
Is he hoping to make costs back?
Because I highly doubt it.
Once again, Aaron Woods, buddy, do you want to when or not? Something tells me that this isn't the election pitch that you think it is to the second splash on the front of The Herald's son Rental as anything. The Allen government is stockpiling rental properties to bolster its public housing numbers, in a move experts worn could force rent's higher homes. Victoria is approaching builders offering to take five year leases on new properties. Well, you don't need
to be an expert to know that. Of course, this will raise rents higher. Where are the renters supposed to go? They already have nowhere to go. Everything's already unaffordable. And now you've got the state government swooping in ahead of you, snaffling up all these properties to tick their social housing box.
It's that old Ronald Reagan adage, the most horrifying words in the English language. I'm from the government and I'm here to help help ends up worse. Let's go to the front page of the Daily Telegraph. I can't believe this story. It's an exclusive. Australians say no, but defat
says yes. Voice goes global. A move to introduce a first Nations approach to Australia's foreign policy has drawn criticism from strategy experts, who fear the move could result in the Albanezy government losing the hard edge analysis needed for global strategy. A couple of things on that opening paragraph, Caleb the government could lose its hard edge analysis on global I didn't know the old easy government had any.
Edge, let alone a hard edge.
But the Daily Telegraph have obtained emails that have been sent on Behald half of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, seeking indigenous stakeholders to attend meetings where they will work on developing a strategy to embed First Nations approaches to foreign policy. All of this is being driven by did you know we've got a First Nations people ambassador Justin Muhammad? If you've not heard of him, he's earning three hundred and twenty six thousand dollars that you
pay for. He's leading this push on behalf of DEFAT for a first nation's approach to solving the Middle East crisis, dealing with yijingping. We've got problems in the Pacific, and of course there's a war in Ukraine. But if only we could just tap into indigenous culture. We are not a forge our foreign affairs.
We are not a serious country.
When you think of everything else that DFAT has on its plate, should have on its plate and this is what they're focusing on.
It hurls your hair.
But what is the first nations approach to foreigeign policy? I mean until about seventeen seventy, the seventeen seventies, they had no connection to anyone else in the rest of the world. There was no need for any sort of foreign policy. I just don't get what it is meant to achieve. And by the way, good foreign policy for Australia benefits all Australians.
And you know who's.
Included in Australians, Aboriginal people.
What a novel idea.
Let's go to the Canberra Times where it says tomorrow money for nothing. Little surcharges here and there might not feel like a huge hit to your bank balance, but stacked up over a year, card surch charges are costing Australians and estimated one billion dollars. Canbra customers and business owners are sick of the fees and welcome moves to scrap them. I suspect that's just everyone in the country, not just people in camera. But of course the paper
is for camera. But this comes on the back of Anthony Albanezi basically launching the election campaign as far as I could tell today announcing one of his new policies, which is that he would ban these card surcharges. And fair enough. I think the banks make enough profit as it is. Why should they be leaving the surcharges on businesses and consumers to use their card. It's just the way of life now. I don't see why it's justified or how it's justified.
Did you just credit Anthony Albanezy? I did I do? Idea?
I did? I mean?
Look, a broken clock is right twice a day, and I think in this case he is raight.
Yep, it's a good move.
Nobody will miss those fees to the front page of the Australia Now loan link to charity be artists.
This is about that Blue b mural.
It's back.
The artist behind a Bathurst mural cited in submissions to shut down the Blaney gold Mine in New South Wales worked for a charity that was loaned twenty eight thousand by the activist group that successfully opposed the project, with the money provided shortly after he joined their ranks vested interests.
Much This whole fiasco just gets deeper and deeper, and Tanya Plibasek must be just wishing it would all go away, but it's not going to go away because she's never given an adequate response and the media just keep on digging more and more details.
I mean, does this not go back to my point before about the problems with modern art, right? I mean, all of this discussion about this gold mine now is centering around pieces of art, a mural that went up about a dream time story that no one had ever heard of until the mural went up, which is what
we're talking about here. The woman who went against all of the other local Aboriginal people in her submission to Tanya Blibisick, which was then later used as part of her justification for why the gold mine was knocked back, included her artworks to demonstrate the connection to the land and how bad it would be for this gold mine to go ahead, and how it is going to destroy the joint. Like, seriously, we are not a serious country anymore.
We've got hologram abber.
Concerts that counsels want to pay lots of money for. We've got weird megafauna things going up in rurals. The Minister for the environ is making decisions about gold mines on the basis of pieces of art. I mean, what is going on? You could not script this stuff. Forget about utopia. Real government is the worst thing you've ever seen.
It's an absolute for USCO.
We're going to go to a break when we come back. Hadn't heard from Meghan Markle for a while, but she's.
Popped up again.
And guess what she's claiming to be a victim's coming up in a moment. Well, you've heard that old expression pot calling the kettle black. It doesn't get more relevant than this. Meghan Markle claims that she is one of the most bullied people in the world. She was speaking to a group of girls at a mental health session in California. These young girls all struggling and trying to find their way in the world, and so Meghan of course made it.
All about herself.
Larissa May, who's from told Vanity Fair we did an activity where we talked through a bunch of scenarios and Meghan talked about being one of the most bullied people in the entire world. You know, part of being a royal and one of the wonderful things about the royal family is traditionally they've not made it about themselves, but they've drawn attention to other people and let them take the spotlight.
But not Meghan Markle.
She's got to be the center of attention everywhere she goes, and even with a bunch of little girls struggling with mental health issues. No, no, Meghan is the real victim in the room. But not only that, she's got to be a bit careful because, of course, there were claims of bullying against Meghan Markel from Pallace staff who used to call her quote dictator in high heels and talk about the fact that she could quote.
Reduce grown men to tears.
Will she certainly reduced Harry to something, so she ought to be careful is with some of the stuff she says. But this is typical Meghan Markle and exactly the reason why I think the Royal Family are better off without her.
Leopard can't change its spots and the Yoko owner of the Royal Family will not be changing her spots anytime.
When you said pot calling the kettle black, I thought you were going to go down a racial road there. I was like hanging on for dear life for him, and I thought, on no, he's not going to do it?
Is he anyway? Good saved by mister macpherson here now.
We talked last night about the fact that Bruce Lehreman apparently can't.
Get a job of any description.
His lawyer, in the process of trying to get an appeal on his defamation case, said he might be reduced to doing only fans. Well, the story rolls on today. Do I have the Christmas stocking stuffer for you? Melbourne University Press has decided that he is going to publish a book that is the judgment that was handed down in the case. You will remember Justice Michael Lee who handed down the case and he became a bit of a minor celebrity throughout the whole thing with his dry wit.
Melbourne University Press is now publishing a book of his bloody judgment. By the way, he's had nothing to do with it. They didn't contact available online. They didn't talk to Brittneyigins either. What sort of a mud do you have to be to buy for forty dollars a book for something you can get online.
For front When you said it's a Christmas stocking stuff or it's a stocking stuff as someone you hate your stocking that person does not like you.
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