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I'm James Macpherson with Liz Staurer and Caleb Bond coming up. A police officer found guilty of misconduct for stealing wait for it, a.
Roll of toilet paper.
No crime problems when that's the sort of thing police are investigating. We'll get to that a little later. Plus when we look at what's making news in the papers. The Prime Minister's relationship with Quantus continues to be examined after it's revealed he received more than two dozen flight upgrades and new South Wales teachers to get a massive pay rise in the nation's most generous deal for educators. We'll get to that when we look at the papers.
But we want to start tonight with a story that is just quite astonishing from Victoria, which, let's face it is where most astonishing stories come from these days. Magistrates in Victoria have been trained how to avoid imposing sentences that would result in pedophiles, drug trackers and violent criminals
being deported from Australia now. Judicial officials confirmed this training took place last Thursday, and people present said magistrates were being taught how to make sure that when they are sentencing non citizens, those sentences don't trigger deportation under immigration law. Unbelievably, those who were present said, this is one of the
examples that was given to Victorian magistrates. They were told, imagine you've got or I don't know, a Vietnamese student here on a student visa who sexually assaults repeatedly an
eight year old child. Now, magistrates were told, if you sentence that pedophile to twelve months jail or more, you leave open the possibility that that person could be deported from the country, and we don't want that, so you should sentence them to eleven months and fifteen days imprisonment, that way safeguarding the offender from ever being deported from Australia. Magistrates were also told they should never jail drug traffickers so that they won't be deported.
Now this sounds so outlandish.
The Herald's son went to judicial officials and said, is this all correct? The officials wouldn't confirm specific details, but they didn't deny them either. Instead, they released this statement. A Professional Development Day for judicial offices of the Magistrate's Court was held on Thursday twenty four October, which included presentations for a number of speakers on areas of the law relevant to the work of the court. The focus of the day was sentencing. The law treats deportation as
a relevant circumstance for the purposes of sentencing capabiliz. I would have thought, if you're a convicted pedophile, the luckiest thing that could happen to you is that you are booted out of the country. But here you've got sentencing not being based on the crime, but being based on how the sentence might affect the poor criminal. I thought the criminal justice system was meant to support victims, not criminals.
Well, supposedly, we mean to be all e under the law, and what we're talking about here is that magistrates are being lectured and judges are being lectured on the application of the law on the basis of what your nationality is.
So if you're likely to be removed.
From this country because you're not actually a citizen of the country, and you've committed crimes while you are here, well you should be allowed to stay, which in effect means that if you are weighing up a sentence for someone who is an Australian citizen and a sentence for someone who is not an Australian citizen. You are being advised to give a more lenient sentence to someone who hasn't actually said yes, I'm an Australian. Try to make
it make sense. We don't have a justice system. In many cases, we have a legal system, and I understand why you cannot put the application of justice in the hands of victims, because of course victims would always give everyone the most heinous sort of sentence possible.
I understand all of that.
But when we are talking about people who have committed crimes in this country and they're not actually a citizen of this country, we have every right and should, in every circumstance, use every opportunity to kick them out, particularly crimes like pedophilia. And plenty of people who work in criminal psychology can tell you that pedophiles cannot be reformed.
They are always at risk of reoffending.
And if you have the opportunity to kick one of those people out of the country, you should damn well take it. Who the hell thinks they can go in and lecture magistrates and judges about the application of the law on the basis of whether you are not a citizen. It is a disgrace and I hope every single person in that room dismisses that advice out of hand because it is outrageous.
And it flies in the face of judicial independence.
On day one of.
My studies for a juris doctor, you said this was drummed into us judicial independence.
You're meant to be getting advice like this.
From some sort of magistrates get together, especially such keeness advice like this. Who among us would not want a non citizen the second they are sentenced, they are convicted of molesting a child here in Australia, Who among us wouldn't want them deported immediately? You are here as a massive privilege. We extend this to you.
You commit such.
A disgusting crime in our country and our judges are told to let you slide. Hair raisingly, the latest figures from federal data shows that over the last five years, the number of visa cancelations due to child sex offenses dropped.
From one hundred and four to just twenty seven.
Now, have they just stopped molesting children or is it because of advice life this which has only just been exposed, But God only knows how long this has been The current flowing underneath the sentences that haven't been given over the last five years.
It is utterly disgusting.
And what we now need to know is who is behind this, Who is handing down this advice, Who is pushing this evil, evil advice on our own magistrates, whose job it is to uphold the laws of the land, our land and make sure that proper sentences, proper justice is meeted out to non citizens molesting Australian children.
Is that asking for too much?
Well, it ought not be.
And the suggestion as well that you should give more lenient sentence to drug traffickers so that they don't I mean, you know, it is by design almost saying well, the law hasn't been changed to be as liberal as we would like it to be, so we are asking you who.
Applies liberal in the first place. That is the crux of the question.
Correct, nobody's answering just yet, But someone needs to get hold of this and not unclench the jaw until we have answers as to where did this come from and why, because what you're essentially saying is we want to keep immigrants here who sexually molest children.
That's not even an exaggeration.
That is a statement, a synopsis of exactly what's going.
On, And that's the most shocking part.
It's bad enough that they're saying treat non citizens more leniently than citizens.
That should be an immediate no.
But the fact that they went so far as to give an example of a sexual predator repeatedly sexually abusing an eight year old and say you need to work it so that this person is allowed to stay in the country just shows how confident they are that they have the judicial system in their grip and they can get away with this, or they're not even trying to hide it or to tend the sinister nature of what they're proposing.
Now, if you wonder why there is this disconnect between the judiciary and the rest of us, it's because this is what they're being told to do.
Now. Look, I don't know about you.
I kind of figure when you go to work at the start of the day and you leave at the end of the day, you ought to be judged on the work you did during those hours. Are you actually able to do your job properly?
Now?
Of course, in my line of work and our line of work, Liz and James, etc. We deal in opinion, right, so you're expecting me to say some things that may be controversial or may spark your mind to think about certain issues. But to Mansion, you're running a mining company Fortescue,
for instance. In this example, you would think the most important thing is that you rock up to work every day as CEO or co CEO in this case, that you can run Fortescue effectively, in this case the energy operations of Fortescue, and you can deliver a good dividend for your shareholders.
You'd think that would be the number one issue on your mind. Apparently not, though, because it has come to like that.
One of the co CEOs of Fortescue, Mark Hutchinson, as i said before, he's in charge of the energy division, recently became a few years ago became a director of an outfit called Alpha International.
Now.
Alpha International is basically an evangelical education outfit. They run seminars all over the world educating people on the Christian doctrine. If you're interested in Christianity, you can go to a church in Australia, in England, in the US, in hundreds of nations across the world and learn about the scripture, learn about the doctrine of Christianity. It preaches pretty mainstream
stuff from the Bible. But of course we know these days that if you are a Christian, you come under attack, and that is exactly what has happened to mister Hutchinson because the AFAR reported last week about the fact that him and his wife had become directors of Alpha International. We at Fordescue were most upset with that and marched off to Twiggy Forest, who owns Fortesque, to.
Say, what are you doing about this?
How could we possibly have a CEO who I don't know believes in Christian beliefs in his spare time, as though it had something to do with him running the company. And of course Twiggy Forests went straight to water.
Didn't he.
And he issued this statement over the weekend to staff saying I understand and acknowledge exactly what you felt, and I thank you for bringing it to me. He said in this note to stuff, I would like to reassure you on behalf of our board, that we are resolutely committed to the cause of equal rights. We expect and require the same of our leadership. We deeply value Fordesqu's LGBTQIA plus community. At a personal level, I stand with
you now. Fordesque as a company has been quite forthcoming and outwardly proud of the fact that it supports the LGBTIQA plus community. They've even gone so far as to paint up some of their trucks in rainbow colors. And there's no suggestion that mister Hutchinson has at any point stopped this from happening. But he still comes under attack for what he does in his personal time, so he then, of course is expected to issue an apology, which he
dutifully did. He said, after speaking with some of you over the past few days, I'm aware that by failing to clarify my views on same sex relationships in my comments last week, that I have.
Let you down.
This was certainly not my intention, and I apologize unreservedly. I wish to stay clearly that I am supportive of everyone in a same sex marriage and same sex relationships and value the LGBTQIA plus community. I believe that all of us are recall and I accept and support every.
Member of our team.
No one knew otherwise, no one had ever said otherwise. There was no suggestion that mister Hutchinson in his role as CEO of Fortescue, had ever done anything to make any LGBTQUIA plus member of Fortescue's staff feel uncomfortable. But it comes to light that in his personal time he is the director of a Christian organization and suddenly that has some.
Bearing on his running of a mining company.
We see this time and again we sort with Andrew Thorburn at Essendon Football Club, where your personal religious beliefs, which have no bearing whatsoever on your day to day job, somehow becomes an issue and it is nothing other than bigotry.
You're well within your rights to disagree with the CEO's religious views.
But unless he's coming to work and saying you can't work in this company here because you.
Are this or you are that, what bearing does it have with his job?
This is a total witch hunt. This is a complete and other winch hunt as.
It was with Thorburn what was it eighteen months ago? Now the LGBTI community obviously not the whole community, but there is genuinely some nun rusty people in there who headhunt people like Hutchison and deliberately.
Go after him.
What is there to gain from this other than another scalp on their wall.
This is why they do it.
They want to see you bow the knee to their agenda instead of upholding your own beliefs. Now, Mark Hutchison has obviously done this with a gun held to his head. He has to do it otherwise, arguably he wouldn't have got to keep his position.
So he's done what's asked of him.
But following this line of argument from those activists within the LGBTQ community, who goes after people like him? Following that line of argument, then no company whoever flies a rainbow flag should be employing, especially not in leadership positions, any Christian, any Catholic, any Muslim individual, because you know what we believe, and like I keep saying, this comes up, there's billions of us worldwide. We're not changing what we believe for you. We answer to a much higher power.
Sorry, not sorry. And this kind of witch.
Hunt is they're only emboldened when they see people folds like this.
It's very unfortunate that this is.
The site society we're now living in where it's this easy to topple someone. Oh, this guy is a Christian, that means he holds Christian beliefs.
That means we're targeted. You're not targeted.
You didn't even know until some nasty found this out and decided to take him down. It's utterly disgusting. And notice this is always a one way street. It's never the Christians being like, oh, there's some people in the OLGBTI community working in my company.
They've got to go.
No.
We much like the Muslims, just like the Catholics, we just want to be left the heck alone.
Okay. We get to think, to believe what we want to believe, and there's nothing you can do about it. No matter how many.
Scalps you get, whether it's Margaret Court Andrew Thorburn, it doesn't achieve anything.
You can't change thousands of years of Orthodoxy period.
Wellman Andrew Forrest said that they're committed to LGBTQ right, So I would just like to ask whose rights have been violated by mister Hutchinson's beliefs. FORDESQ say they're committed to diversity, especially sexual diversity. Fine, but they also say they encourage people of diverse faiths to be part of the company. Well, it's very difficult to have both of those. If acceptance equals agreement. And that's the problem. We say, you've got to accept everybody, But for me to accept
you means I have to agree with you. That's actually not acceptance because I don't need to accept you if I agree with you, it's a given. The reason I accept you, and the reason it's kind is because I disagree fundamentally with you. But despite differences, I'm going to treat you with dignity. I'm going to value you, I'm going to befriend you. I'm going to be kind to you and respectful despite the fact we differ. So acceptance
can't be based on agreement. Otherwise acceptance becomes meaningless. And I think that's the problem here. Well, you don't accept me because you don't agree with me. No, No, I accept you because I disagree with you.
That's why I.
Accept you, because I'm not going to hold our disagreement against you. And the sooner we get that straight, the sooner we can live in peace rather than people demanding well, if you don't believe what I believe, you're not accepting me. Therefore you're somehow less of a human being as.
Truly, it's so easily flipped and just be like, excuse me, you're the one going after that.
Job, right exactly.
But it's the you raise the religious diversity thing here, and this is what is the most annoying about it, because of course Christians are an easy target because they are the majority religion in Australia, right, so they feel comfortable going after Christians.
This does not happen to Muslims.
And I'll use the example of in the NRL when a number of Pacific Islander Christian men who were playing further Manly c Eagles said that they didn't want to play in a pride jersey and oh it was a hullaballoo.
How dare they do that? That's awful.
Now there is a woman who plays in the afl W for GWS, a Muslim woman, and she has for a number of years now sat out the afl w's Pride round because she feels uncomfortable putting on a pride jersey when she does it.
Oh that's fine. You're allowed to admits your religious beliefs, but.
When a Christian does it, you can't possibly do that because that's bigotry. We took about diversity like it's the ultimate lack of diversity in these circumstances because we're saying your view's okay and your view.
Isn't exactly well, I'll tell you a view that I think is not okay, and that's the view of the Iranian. Iranian ambassador to Australia. I'm wondering why he's still here. A month ago, he referred to the now deceased leader of Hezbala Hassan Masrala, a remarkable leader and as a martyr. This is a man who's responsible for car bombings, for hostage taking, for bombings of embassies around the world, and yet the Iranian ambassador in this country describes him as heroic.
That he was brought in by the Alberenezi government, given addressing down and then sent back to his plush officers in.
Canberra, but he hasn't learned his lesson.
Over the weekend, he referred to Israel's strikes on Iran as a terrorist act. He said this on x the lawless Zionist enemy launched a terrorist attack on the sacred territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran in a clear violation of national sovereignty and international law. He went on to say, in defending Iran's security for brave officers and soldiers of the Iranian Army were martyred while countering the aggressors attacks. These honored martyrs are eternally remembered by the
Iranian people. May their memory be cherished and their path followed. Now, back in August of this year, he referred to the Israeli state as a Zionist plague that needed to be wiped from the earth, which he described as a heavenly and divine promise. So clearly he's invoking religion to inspire people to wage war against the Jewish state until it is completely arraised, and the Albanezy government has seen fit to allow him to remain as the Irani ambassador here
in Canberra. I just don't know why he's not removed now. Of course he's just parroting what Iranians believe. But Petty Wong has said that if you support Hezballah, you are a danger not just to social cohesion but to the safety of people. So why is the ambassador who promotes a terrorist regime allowed to remain. His job is to speak on behalf of one government to the other, not to make public pronouncements which then get into the civil dialogue.
We've got enough social problems at the moment without the Iranian ambassador sitting in Canberra firing miss stirring things up.
Liz.
Much like I.
Said when we were having a very similar conversation about the fact that he was mourning israela Hassan Israla, I simply made the point of here we are taking umbridge with an Iranian being Iranian at such a time as this.
I genuinely it boggles me when.
We in the West hear me out, We in the West don't seem to understand that those in the Middle East genuinely see US.
As the terrorists.
And unfortunately it's not baseless if you look at what we've done to Syria, Libya.
Iraq, Afghanistan.
These guys see US as the terrorists, as Israel as the US's proxy state, which again I mean the US is given more foreign aid to Israel than any other country under the Sun, over three hundred and ten billion dollars. So they they are speaking about us as they truly see us. And we knew this.
They're rock and we said, but they're.
Wrong, no, no, no, hear me out.
We knew this when we said let's be buddies to the extent that we have an Australian ambassador in your country who recently got called in by their government because he expressed support for the LGBTQ community and you.
Can't do that in Iran. What the heck was he thinking.
He should come back from Iran and walk for Fortescue?
Why not?
But there you go.
We are the ones who know exactly what the Iranian regimes stand for.
We have an ambassador here and we expect him to behave in what a non supportive way you have an Iranian being Iranian.
I remember was a month ago we showed he was on the Bolt Report this video of the Iranian parliament standing to its feet and literally chanting like this.
They hate America. Death to America, Death to America.
And I was sat there thinking, might the only Westerner with enough knowledge of the Middle East and our activities just within my lifetime to be like, yeah, I would too if you are Iranians, if your Irates.
Plenty of Iranians who hate the Islamic regime. Australian Iranians are outraged at what the ambassador here is allowed to say because they can't stand the Islamic ragiing. So when you say that's how Iranians think, that's not how Iranians think.
That's how oh yeah, ninety million Iranians back home, not Australian there arraging.
Let's too at a cartoon that was in the Age and the City Morning Herald over the weekend. Now, if you haven't already seen it, will show it to you here and I'm sure you'll be pretty quickly be able to work out what is wrong with it. It was by a cartoonist, Alan Moyer. He has drawn for the Nine Papers formerly the Fairfax Papers for a very long time.
And you can see underneath the heading there between the idea and the reality lies the shadows, which shows the shadow of Benjamin Nettan Yahu and a representative from Hamas standing side by, say, under a joint shadow. Now in that bottom left hand corner you can see an Israeli flag that has a five pointed star of David, of course instead of six. Now that also happens to be Satan's five pointed pentagram, which has led many people to say,
hang on a minute, is this not anti Semitic? How did it make it into the paper in the first place. You contrast that with the Palestinian flag, which is drawn correctly. Well, Lo and behold, the same newspapers that published this cartoon have now apologized and pulped it and removed it from the record and said we're very sorry, we made a mistake. I find it so funny every time these things happen. You know, you publish a piece, or you publish a cartoon, it goes through.
Having worked in newspapers.
I know how many sets of eyes these things go past. And at no point in that did anyone go hmm, there might be a small issue here.
But later on someone points it out and.
Says, excuse me, what do you think you're doing, And all of a sudden, oh, we're so sorry.
We shouldn't have done that. Well, why did you do it in the first place?
Unintentional era, There was a lot of effort that went to to produce that unintentional error, and there was a number of mistakes there. They essentially made some sort of equivalence between Hamas and Israel in the drawing net, Yahoo is the larger figure, implying Israel more responsible. Not only did they put the Satanic star on the Israeli flag rather than the Star of David. They couldn't even spell
Benjamin Netanyah, Who's name correctly in the cartoon. So there's so many problems with this cartoon, the fact that it was drawn, the fact that it got through sub editors, and then of course it's a you know, an unintentional error. As you say, it's always one way. I'm just wondering whether the Press Council will follow this one up. Remember a guy called Bill Leek who got absolutely hounded by the Press Council for a cartoon that was depicting Indigenous people in a way that some did not like.
Will anyone do anything about this?
I absolutely doubt that the Jewish community will get really upset. The Press Council will shrug their shoulders and it will be play on as if it never happened.
The same with Lunic.
Remember he had a very well it was said to be very controversial during the COVID days because he was taking on the government in this.
Instance, and he was fired. That was the Sydney Morning Herald.
Yeah, I think they cut him down to once a week or something, right, So it's like so on one hand that oh, we couldn't possibly have questioning of the government in our cartoons, But they're quite happy to publish a cartoon like that. I just don't buy the apology in it. And it's so often the case they're more than happy to publish stuff that he's clearly provocative and in this case creates a cartoonist.
Well, then if you're going to do that, don't go to water over. You got to back yourself in.
And here's the other thing.
If you want to be provocative, when was the last time you saw a cartoon in the city Morning Hell in the Age that depicted Mohammed or Muslims in a satirically. We're all very well aware of Charlie hebdo and that's why. And that's another point of hypocrisy. If you're going to be brave as a cartoonist, then be brave. But you're not being brave by picking on the Jewish community. That's
just weakened cowardly. Well, let's go to America, Liz tell us about the Trump relic, because I just stole your thunder, but I don't want to go ahead, drew my breath in.
To be like and now and he was charging straight. Thanks Max, Thanks to America.
Now where a gosh, that election is happening very soon, and they have had a packed out rally in Madison Square Gardens for the Trump campaign. Check out the extent of this crowd that you're about to see, absolutely packed house.
The what do you call it?
Environment stadium?
It was absolutely electric. I watched most of it. You had to be there.
But you wouldn't believe how MSNBC decided to depict this rally.
You see it there on your screen.
In that place is particularly chilling because in nineteen thirty nine, more than twenty thousand supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the garden for a so called pro America rally, a rally where speakers voiced anti Semitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi banners. Against that backdrop
of history. Donald Trump, the man who was threatened to use the military against opponents he calls enemies from within, who has threatened to use the troops to quell what he says are lawless cities, and to use those troops to carry out mass deportations of immigrants.
Can you believe the hysteria?
Oh yeah, Back in the day, the same venue was used by get what he said there a different fascist leader Hitler, of all people. Well, this has to be the weirdest fascist rally this time round, because Jews seem to be attending in abundance and having.
A great time. You would remember last week where fired chief.
Of staff mister Kelly had gone on air to tell people that when he was working for Trump, Trump once said that Hitler did good things too.
Well.
The Kamala campaign ran with this, literally standing behind podiums.
Addressing the nation being like.
This guy upholds Hitler, he is Hitler, he is twenty twenty four's version of Hitler. He must be stopped at all costs. Well, Holocaust survivor his name's Jerry Wartski has taken to his own cameras to tell the truth of this matter and to say I'm throwing my weight behind Trump.
Don't you dare be saying.
Such outrageous nonsense. I live through what you're talking about. There is absolutely no comparison.
Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was nine years old. He murdered my parents and most of our family. I know more about Headler than kamalaver No in a thousand lifetimes for her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I ever heard in my seventy five years. He is living in the United States. I know President Trump and he would never say this. And Kamala hard His knows that she owns my parents have the else who was murdered by Hitler in apology for repeating the sleigh.
Well, said Jerry Wartski, this is something that we're not talking about enough in the media. How obviously we've talked about how this is very inflammatory. You're basically begging for somebody else to try and assassinate today's Hitler.
Who wouldn't kill Hitler back in the day if they were given a chance, etc. And so on.
But not enough people are speaking from this extremely powerful perspective and saying by equivocating Trump and Hitler, you are completely belittling what we lived through. By saying, oh, this is today's modern version, He's going to do the same.
This is utter nonsense.
I lived through that traumatic time in history, and you want to equivocate with Trump.
I just I can't get over taking a location and saying that because Trump had a rally in the same location as a Nazi rally eighty five years ago, that's how desperate that there is somehow a connection between the two. I mean, and look, look, let me say that the Labor Party in Australia was once upon a time the party of the wide Australia policy. Do we run around now saying that the Labor Party is the party of the wide Australia policy because you know, some eighty odd
years ago. That's no, of course we don't, because it's damn well moved on to take a location, I mean, for him and sake, who knows the land that I had a coffee on today, Someone once upon a time probably sat at that table and said something thoroughly outrageous. Well, perhaps I should be banned from ever coming on television again because I sat at the same table as someone who said something that was outrageous.
Like that is how.
Desperate they are at this point to find anything to get Trump with and with a straight face. Although we didn't actually see the face of the MSNBC presenter in that package, and thank god, because I can't believe that he would have been able to say that with a straight face, but to say that so earnestly as though Trump is literally hitler because he had eighty five years later in the same place as there was a Nazi rally.
I mean, I give it, but it's even worse than that, because it wasn't just MSNBC Tim Waltz, Kamala Harris's running mate, he said the exact same thing and repeated the same accusation Square Garden Rally eighty five years ago, he did the same thing to your point about how disrespectful this is, and it's dangerous on a number of levels.
We've seen this with racism.
When you call everything racism, then nothing is racism, and when you get actual racism, you can no longer define it right. When everything is Hitler, and when everyone's a Nazi, then when you get actual Nazis, and you get actual far right people who are going to do terrible things, then it's just we've heard this so many times it becomes for us cried books.
It's like, oh, are they really because you're called Trump Hitler.
Sat and then you mentioned you know, we've already had two two and a half assassination attempts. If Trump is Hitler, well there's only a few days left to remove Hitler from the scene. And if that's a Nazi rally, then all the people there in support of Trump. By definition, are Nazis?
Are they not?
So?
Aren't you inciting violence potentially not just against Trump but against all of his support?
Yeah? And remember how well that kind of line of thing went. Hillary Clinton talked.
About the basket of deplorables attacking the people who support Trump.
It doesn't really work.
And speaking of Hillary Clinton, median Tony Hinchcliff spoke at this rally and he did not miss.
Hillary Clinton said that this is a Nazi rally here today.
Can you believe that.
For the most anti war president of my entire lifetime?
And she because Hitler.
Let me remind you, Hilary, it was your husband who shot innocent people or is he called them interns?
Yeah, Hilary, I bet you did not see that one coming.
By the way, if I commit suicide in three weeks, I didn't.
We got a good there.
And speaking of the Trump campaign, as we've been telling you consistently, jd. Vance has just turned out to be one of the best performers anywhere I think in this campaign. And one of the things that really sets him apart is his ability to pull apart the left wing media in the US because he's not afraid to go and talk to them. He's been talking to them for years. So when he is faced by their ambushes, when he is faced by their ridiculous lines of questioning, he just
destroys them. And so it was on C and N with Jake Tapper, who you may remember from the first debate Donald Trump head with Joe Biden. He did not miss much like the comedian didn't.
I frankly don't believe what you're saying about Donald Trump's words. If you'd like to put up a clip and actually put him in context, I think the American people would realize that Donald Trump is a hell of a lot more reasonable than the people like Liz Chaney who would like to lie us into war. Ask yourself a basic question about network integrity. You guys talked about the Russia hoax NonStop.
The FBI was invested in talk, and so you took.
The words of unnamed FBI agents and put them on your network as if they were the gospel truth. You did it again and again. A viewer of your network would have believed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin conspired in twenty sixteen. That was totally, im preposterously false. Now well, that's what you just said is false. We covered an FBI investigation. I don't know why you want to talk about the FBI investigation. You covered it in a way
that gave credence to anonymous sources accusations. You did it yourself, your network did it.
I wish I had the ability of that, man. I'm working on it. Hopefully one day I will get there. Before we get to the breakdough. In New South Wales, Freedom Loraine Supreme. Once again, they're legalizing e scooters.
Now.
I know some of you at home probably think all these things are an absolute light on the landscape.
How doare people be getting around on these e scooters?
And I know sometimes they litter the footpaths of ce but seriously, why can't you get around on an e scooter? E bikes illegal in New South Wales.
I don't know why you can argue that e scooters shouldn't.
I wrote an e scooter in Brisbane and I had the best time gast argument for it. No no, but I almost killed myself and I almost killed a number of other people, which is why I don't know that this is such a great idea. There are danger to pedestrians there are danger on the road there and I saw a trip hazard.
They get left everywhere and the Melbourn City.
Councilors banned them. I don't think New South Wales should legalize it.
The reason for legalizing it is as an answer to congest in really, so instead of driving, you're going to be on like this little reef sare.
I do not see the rationale behind this.
Whatsoever we should we should go out.
We already have e.
By flying around all over the place.
Now we're going to have e scooters as well.
We don't need We're going to go to a break.
When we come back, we'll look at what's making news and to Borrow's papers, including Anthony Albanezi under the microscope over those sweet Quantus steels that's coming up in a moment. Welcome back to the program. Well, Ellen Joyce has long gone from Quantus, but he continues to haunt Anthony Albanezy.
Kale, oh doesn't he?
Just Let's look at the Daily Telegraph tomorrow. And we were speculating in the break this photograph, which of course has come back to haunt these two gentlemen what they might have been saying to each other in this circumstance, and I think it might have gone something along the lines of Albow.
Saying, bitchy Joyce, bitcha Joyce. Did you think I can go to London on the cheap?
And then mister Joyce is something to be sure, to be sure, well, to be sure, to be sure as long as you give us a week. Well you know he's an irishman.
Perking.
I realize you were doing the voices from the pulling Hanson's One Nation.
Oh yeah, yeah, Look I've got a moonlight on the side. It was busy during the data cash Perking, class man.
I mean, what a great headline to this story? Has everything, doesn't it.
Anthony Alberizi's perk saga sawed to new heights yesterday as it was revealed he had received at least two dozen freebies from the airline. The Coalition seized on the allegations the Prime Minister.
Would personally ask former Quantus.
CEO Alan Joyce for flight upgrades, accusing him of having run a protection racket for Quantas Now. The point was made throughout the evening on this channel by various hosts and guests that if you did this in the private sector, it may well be considered corruption.
At the very least, you'd probably be.
Booted from whatever company you were working for. And it just highlights the relationship ship between the airline sector and the federal government. The federal government decides who can operate in this country the slots that they're allowed to use, which is exactly what we saw with the Qatar decision where they were not allowed to come in and run
extra international flights out of Australia. How when you are the Transport Minister, the man responsible for making the decisions about which airlines can operate and how many flights they're allowed to have, are you able to not just accept.
Freebies from quantas.
But call up the CEO at the time and say, buddy, I'm going on private travel, not even business travel, and I want an upgrade and that somehow squeaky clean.
This stinks too high heaven.
Well, here's a question.
Can the CEO of the airline say no to a request like that?
Why would you say no?
You could not say no because this person stands has the power to either help you or to cripple your business.
You have to agree to the upput.
The only thing you can accuse Alan Joyce off. He is smart business, I mean his currying favor with the government.
Why would is on elbow.
For Elbow's no friend, because you don't put a friend in the situation that Elbanezi has apparently put Ellen Joyce.
Skin well, not a legitimate friend.
No, but obviously he would have been banking on the fact that we.
Were never supposed to find out. We're never supposed to find out.
About any of this named, any scandal that we uncover about any politician, you were never supposed to find out about it. And I like to remind us every time one of them makes the front page.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. What do you think we don't know about?
So I love it when these stories come to life because it serves as a reminder how much else don't you know about?
This dodgy dude?
He's calling up his mate, heading up this airline and being like, how about a freebe buddy.
That buddy has.
No chance in hell of saying no, so he's going to say yes.
Now it's on the front page, right where it belongs.
Something like this should end Albow because this is exactly what speaks to this persona of you're whining and dining with the rich guys. You don't give a toss about us at the bottom, just trying to feed the kids, put our kids through school, earn.
An honest living. You're up there high flying for free.
You don't even pay your own way, even though you could afford it a lot more than we could. We know what you're paid, we pay you. Something like this should be one of the final nails in his coffin.
Coming up to an election in April, we have to well, you heard it here first.
I just called the election in April April May's there's nobody betting market.
But if there was, I reckon that'd be a good point.
But we need to keep a list of these things, right, because these things tend to make front headlines and then by the next week it's forgotten.
But if you will mask them all and put them.
Into a very big spreadsheet, it should be enough to finish the match.
Just before we move on to the next story.
The headline you said was a great headline, Perkin class man. I just pity the next Prime minister who grows up in a single parent home in a housing commission.
Flat and everyone will say, oh, here we go.
He's just gonna grab every perk he can get.
Ruined it for the next time.
To be fair to the bloke, he couldn't afford to pay for those first class flats because he had to save up for a four million dollar house on the scene. Yeah.
True, he's been scrimping and safe.
You know, we got to think about how hard the bloke's been doing it. I know when Kea starmasu Ki Stamma that the recently elected prime Minister in the UK got caught out with similar sort of saffery. Recently they were calling him free gear Kia. I forget where I read it today, but I saw Albert Freebee's news, so maybe that won't catch on now. The story on the front of the Telly Tomorrow Rich Nimby's in.
The Secret Pub spoiler.
Residents in one of Sydney's most exclusive buildings, the Toaster at Circular Key, are locked in a battle with a pub which is set to test Premier Chris Men's commitment to getting the city moving. The Squire's Landing Bar is seeking approval to trade twenty four to seven in a move it said would support Sydney's nighttime economy, but a group of Nimbi's from the Benelong One building on the opposite side of Circular Key are attempting to derail the plan.
Now look strange idea, I know, but if you buy an apartment in a building on Circular Key right next to the Opera House, right next to Opera Bar, you know, one of the busiest tourist places in in Sydney where all of the cruise ships come in, there's a bar over the way, you know how sound travels over the water. And then you're like, how dare people enjoy themselves inside?
I think you're being unfair.
When they bought these apartments, there wasn't twenty four to seven trading. Now the government changing the rules, I think they've got.
Every right to be upset about.
Oh but I mean, look, what did you think was going to happen?
Maybe they wouldn't have bought the apartment if if twenty four to seven trading existed, they would have said, you know, we don't oh kindly aloys, if you're now the go changing the regulations, they're not happy.
Well, I wouldn't be.
Able to know. Definitely, they're locked in a battle.
If you don't afford to live in the toaster, you can afford to put double glazing on your windows.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
There's a way floors and have first class flights to London and have glazed windows.
So something's got to give Caleb it.
Wugs are so cheap they're almost free. In fact, if you fly first class you'll get a pair for free that you can just reuse every night if you're in the.
Bent Along building. Townsville bulletin now, oh.
My goodness, how is this for a news flash?
Jaws hit the.
Floor too little, too late.
The splash reads Myles's admission on Townsville crime. Defeated Labor leader Stephen Miles has conceded his party didn't that quickly enough, only as you have crime in Townsville, telling media the former government got it wrong in the North Queensland regions. Wow, wow, wow, this is revelatory. It only took you losing to come to this conclusion. I'm sure this is really our cold comfort to the people who have been campaigning for months and months and months.
To see you do something.
You and your government do something about the unprecedentedly high crime rates in North Queensby fairly to suck mate.
They only had nine years, which is not nearly enough time to get on top of that barely run up very quickly. In the Herald's son one million dollar lighter on Tobacco reads the headline Criminals Court selling elicit tobacco will be fined up to a million dollars for a first offense in.
A plan proposed by the state opposition.
For context, the current fine for selling elicit tobacco is forty seven thousand dollars. The Opposition are going to increase that to a million, which when you say you should put the finger up like this, a million dollars hang on.
So magistrates have just been told that pedophiles in Victoria shouldn't be deported. But do you still have a legal cigarettes and they're going to find you a million dollars in or is gone.
Is going to raise even more revenue for the state. Now, beautiful, we're.
Going to go to a break, butit stick around when we come back.
A police officer found guilty of misconduct for stealing a.
Roll of toilet paper coming up in a moment.
Well as in Australia, there's a crime crisis in the UK and now we know why.
Rather than tracking down criminals.
Police have been trying to work out where the toilet roles have been disappearing too. A police misconduct hearing found a police woman guilty of stealing a toilet roller a roll of toilet paper from the station. She claimed she'd just taken it to clean up some spillage in her car, but they said she had concealed the role of toilet paper,
which meant she was actually stealing it. Furthermore, they did in search of her home and they found toilet rolls and empty toilet rolls at her home, six of them in fact. Now, she had already left the police force when this misconduct hearing was conducted, so she wasn't booted out of the force, but it was recorded on her record. Ellison Tompkins of the UK Police said honesty and integrity
are fundamental tenets of a police officer. Removing any items, regardless of the value, without permission is considered to be dishonest by the standards of professional behavior, and so it's good that they've found this woman. May she never be allowed back on the police Can you.
Live going to her house and checking out the empty rolls? No, these are definitely from the station. They can't even fire her because she's already left. She'd probably stopped up before she left. But before we leave you tonight, check out the power and the passion of this little Chinese lady at a Trump rally.
You can tell it's not her first road with communism. Well Chinese.
For us, the generation we love timp from our bottom of the hard because we know Tember is the only one can save America.
Kamala is so stupid, she is so low.
Aq Eco don't kill no qualification.
To be the president.
You shall stay away from that possession.
Her rand literally goes for three minutes solid.
This woman gets on her soapbu she is ready to go.
They should have had her on the podium at Madison Square Garden like she was ready to go.
Man, just when you thought you loved your fantasy, stole a roll of toilet paper and then you had to reconsider it all very quickly before we go. American Airlines has come up with a genius way to stop people who cut in front of the queue when they're boarding for the plane. If you go up when it's not your turn to go up, they're calling, you know, Rose one to six or whatever, and you scan your boarding pass and you're.
In that group, big alarm goes off and says, you know, these person's a cue jumper, cue jumper. I think it is brilliant.
I've never understood why people rush to get on a plane.
Sit there, have another drink, Wait until they call your name. The plane's not going to leave with not all our code. Taylor, that's it.
We got to go good night, but stick around and coming up is the readA Penny Show