Lately. Welcome the Late Debate.
Well, good evening and thanks for joining us on the Late Debate. I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storra and Caleb Bond coming up. We want to show you a different kind of car chase. Police in the UK went full lights and siren in pursuit of a woman in a wheelchair. Will show you that a little later. All it's missing
is the Benny Hill music. It's fantastic. Plus when we look at what's making news tomorrow, the very latest in that foiled terror plot in Sydney and does it look like there'll be a rate cut just in time for Anthony Albanezi to call an election? The papers talking about
that tomorrow as well. We'll get to all of that shortly, but first, in a classic case of better late than never, the Queensland government has announced a freeze on the prescription of puberty blockers to children and an inquiry into the way children with gender dysphoria are being treated.
Now.
I say it's late because the UK prescribing puberty blockers last year after the Cass inquiry found that they were incredibly harmful and there was little to no benefit evidenced. Not only that, but in France, Finland, Norway and Denmark. All of those European countries have massively scaled back the way they are treating children with gender dysphoria, moving away
from the so called gender affirming care model. And in the USA overnight, Donald Trump announced a ban on all sex change therapy for anyone under the age of nineteen. We'll come back to Queensland in a minute, but it's worth reading for you, the executive order from Donald Trump.
The order begins with this introduction. It says, across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change your child's sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a
stain on our nation's history, and it must end. The executive order goes on to say countless children soon regret that they've been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they'll never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, losing war
with their own bodies, and tragically sterilization. So that's the introduction to this executive order that Trump issued overnight. Trump went on social media and spoke very strongly about how he feels on this issue. He says, and I quote today, it was my great honor to sign an executive order banning the chemical carstration and medical mutilation of innocent children
in the United States of America. Our nation will no longer fund, sponsor promote, assist, or support so called gender affirming care, which has already ruined far too many precious lives. My order the REX agencies to use every available means to cut off federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures that should never have been allowed to take place. Were well done, Donald Trump.
But isn't it wild that it took a presidential executive order to stop the maiming and sterilization of children in America. What's even wilder is that it's still happening here in Australia. As Liz Storer pointed out last night, Pauline Hansen called five times for an inquiry into the treatment of children with gender dysporia, and five times our federal senators said no, we're not interested in even asking questions about how these
children are being treated well. The Queensland LMP's hand was forced when it was revealed a Cans gender clinic had been issuing puberty blockers to children as young as twelve without even parental consent, and so they've announced a freeze on that and an inquiry. Here's the Queensland Health Minister, Tim Nichols.
The review will encourage the participation of clinicians and professionals with relevant expertise, as well as young people with lived experience and their families. I've also asked the Director General to work across the state to ensure that similar services have not and will not be offered in other locations
outside of the Queensland Children's Gender Service Framework. We need to find out whether the children who have been treated in Cans have been appropriately treated when it appears that it is otherwise.
I'd like to.
Say well done Calbin Liz to the LNP, but they didn't go to the election with this as a policy. They've really been left with no choice but to launch this inquiry when you look at the revelations coming out of CANS, right, so they get.
A little bit of credit, but not too much.
And as we know about inquiries, this is lip service. I mean, anything happens your government, state or federal will be like, will have an inquiry, and that shuts people up in the interim. By the time inquiries finished, most people have completely forgotten about the incident because we live in a twenty four hour media cycle where even something really big and really important is washed away in the space of twenty minutes, much less twenty months.
So my hopes aren't high for this inquiry.
He also said, which I noted greatly, that they will be consulting people, obviously kids on these treatments and their families. So this is going to be one of those heart rending I've sat through many of these in my years working in government, one particularly on euthanasia.
You get these.
Heartrending stories on both sides of the fence, and then people sitting in this inquiry are obviously taking notes et cetera and so on, but where the recommendations for nobody ever knows, because of course you've got these two sides who are diametrically opposed on.
A deeply moral issue.
Who's writing the recommendations. Nobody really knows at the end of the day, but.
We'll see what happens.
Am I hopeful no Queensland is the state that has well. It deplatformed doctor Gillian Spencer back in twenty twenty three, a child psychiatrist who was trying to sound the alarm saying this gender affirming nonsense is harming countless lives. And she's one of a handful of different sites and pediatricians that have been stood down in Queensland. She's still not
be reinstated. It's twenty twenty five and this highly qualified woman is still without a job because she dared to speak about what is now worldwide a multi billion dollar industry.
That's what these butchers get.
I was recently watching lastly, I was recently watching a short.
Clip of a kid and it was a kid by.
Our mates Gaye against MS, which have amassed hundreds of thousands of followers. They are LGBTIQ people, but they are very much against kids being indoctrinated, kids being transd at such a young age. And this clip was of a child who was in a wheelchair and non verbal. That is how not within their power it was to make a proper decision regarding them transitioning their gender. And this person had undergone a double mastectomy, they were shirtless, the
scars were visible. I'm sorry if this is upsetting, but people need to get upset when they realize the extent.
To which these butchers will go ho.
This is what we're up against, a multi billion dollar industry that sees no problem with carrying out that kind of procedure, even on someone that vulnerable.
Let's be clear about what this inquiry is.
And there are no dooms that have been made public for this inquiry, so presumably it's an internal operation. It's not a public inquiry. It's not a parliamentary inquiry. It doesn't have the sort.
Of guide rails that a Royal Commission, et cetera would have.
The secret Squarely, it is an inquiry into whether the rules as they currently stand in Queensland have.
Been applied properly.
It's not necessarily an inquiry into whether or not children should be provided with puberty blockers. The allegation here is that a twelve year old was given treatment without parental permission, So what Queensland is now looking into is whether or not there might be other cases of that happening. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that they come away from this and say this means that we shouldn't be given giving
gender affirming care to children in Queensland. It means they come back with a set of recommendations that says this is how the set of policies should be implemented. The inquiry is not about whether or not this is legitimate treatment. It's about whether or not the rules that exist have been adhered to. And they are two very different things. And as you have pointed out multiple times, Liz, at a federal level, five times an inquiry has been asked for.
Inquiries have been asked for on state levels. I know Frank Pangalo in South Australia has tried hard to.
Get one up.
I think the Premier Peter malanowskis down there at the time last year said that he didn't want to get involved in the culture wars. I mean, this isn't culture wars stuff. We're talking about lives here. And you look at the UK, as you said, James, with the Cash report and how the NHS has stopped giving treatment. After that, you look to the US now, where Trump has just
given down this executive order. And we should also note about the executive order, this is an order from Trump that means there can be no state involvement in any kind of gender affirming care. That is not to say that private outfits don't continue to do it. The executive order then asked that if they do that, the DOJ try to soothe them and take legal action against them.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that's going to happen. So this stuff can still potentially go on in the United States, it just won't have the support of the state.
So you know, none of this is a silver bullet.
If the LNP, as you say, simply investigate whether or not these puberty blockers are being prescribed within the agreed framework, then all they'll be doing is repeating an inquiry that the Queensland Labor Party held last year into the provision of services. And as a result of that inquiry, the then Health Minister Shannon Fentaman increased funding for gender clinics.
So don't know what a woman is, they.
Could exactly so children could get this care.
So g I hope the LNP, by the way, I should say tomorrow night you need to watch Credlin because Caroline Marcus, our associate, has got a big story tomorrow night about a number a large number of very prominent Australians who are all going on the record demanding and inquire into this issue. And I think she's breaking that story on Quedlin tomorrow night.
Well you've just broken it. Well sorry Carrow.
But also given the issue is the parents didn't know. That's what this boils down to. It's the parental consent. The twelve year old probably would have been able to get it anyway. The thing is that the parents didn't know. I'm just reminded of the legislation in Victoria where they do this behind your back in the school system and flagrantly say you can go to Victoria Education their own website where they say, yes we will, we will do this for your child. We will start calling them by
their chosen pronouns at school behind your back. If the child doesn't want to tell their parents, then.
We've got the child's back.
I mean, it's just mind blowing that in one state now they're saving face and being like all the parents didn't know. We've got to be seen to have an inquiry in another state, they just say, oh.
No, look it up on our website.
Our Department of Education literally says we can and will trans your child behind your back through our education department.
Period we've got to move on, but.
Just before we do, to give people an idea of how prevalent this is in Australia. In Queensland, seven hundred and three kids were issued with puberty blockers between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three. That's fourteen children for every one hundred thousand people in Queensland.
In the UK where they had this big inquiry.
And they said no more, it's only three children per one hundred thousand, So in terms of per capita, this is a much bigger issue just in Queensland than in all of.
The UK if you look at it on a per capita basis.
And then you think about how the rest of us are trying to deal with the fact that there are so many people who are allegedly transgender in the world, and we look at, you know, whether or not we can play sport fairly, particularly if you're a girl or a woman potentially facing off against a biological male, and
there have been two cases now in the UK. One has just recently come to light where girls have tried to point out that they are playing against biological men in their women's sports and they have been punished for doing so.
Can you believe it now?
The latest case is an eighteen year old girl who was playing soccer in the UK. She has ADHD. Apparently she hadn't taken her meds on this day. She actually had to go off from plead to get off on this charge, the charge being that she had questioned the gender of another player and then she had to make these please, oh, I hadn't taken my medication that day.
This is from the Telegraph.
An investigation into her comments required to provide a written statement, which Telegraph Sport has been told she needed assistance in composing. So that gives you some indication of the person we are talking about here perhaps didn't think clearly about what they'd said in the first place. In it, she had said she sought guidance from the referee due to her
trunds opponent's extremely aggressive style of play. So said she had not taken her ADHD medication on the day in question because another medical condition had prevented her from doing so. She's literally pleading to be able to play soccer by saying, well, I didn't take my ADHD meds that day because they're going to suspend her for questioning the fact that there is a man playing against her.
She was given a suspension of.
Six matches, two of which were suspended, so she got a four match ban in the end. Now, what she allegedly said to the referee was something along the lines of, ref, have you checked if all their players are eligible to play? Look at their keeper and for example, their number ten is obviously a man, or something similar to that. She then went on to ask the same questions of people on the opposing team. Because she didn't get an answer out of the ref she was eventually taken off and then had.
These charges put up.
She's said since then that it kind of made her hate football because there she is, as a young woman, simply wanting to play football against other women and being forced to play against other men. And she said, look, if I try to question this again, I'm going to get another six match banned. So I feel like my voice has been taken away. And it follows another recent case of a seventeen year old in the UK again
playing soccer a girl who suspected of having autism. So again we're not talking about someone who's trying to be insensitive at all. It's saying what is literally in front of them and said to a player on the opposition team who was a transgender person.
A male, are you a man?
And she was banned for six matches four suspended, so in the end a two match suspension, So you and you can now be banned from playing sport for saying the bleeding obvious.
This is where we are.
So this is crazy.
If you do a deliberately aggressive illegal tackle, you'll get a red card and a three match suspension in that UK competition. But if you ask whether the man on the women's team is a man? In a six week suspension and the fact that Telegraph make a big deal about the fact that this eighteen year old hadn't taken her ADHD medication, as if that's the reason that she had a problem with a man on the women's team.
And incidentally, the seventeen year old you mentioned the article, make sure we all know that seventeen year old had autism, so that might have been why they didn't understand why a man would be on the women's team.
I would put it to you the only intelligent.
People on the pitch with a girl with the ADHD and the girl with the autism, because they were able to point out the bleting.
Obviously they're ahibitions.
They're inhibitions aren't quite as high as everybody else. As you are, like, we have to turn the line otherwise we too will be suspended. Those others are probably very aware of the high price cell pay if they dare to state that the sky is blue.
And I will never ever understand.
We've lived in this world for quite a while in which this idiocy is the norm. How many times have I said, if you've got to normalize something, it's not normal. You know, straight off the bat, it's not normal. Men playing with women pretending to be women not normal.
But I still.
Cannot believe, after years of this, now that we are living in a world in which all these sporting bodies, all these sporting codes, the universities in the US, the schools in the UK, across the western world, all of them profer a single man's mental illness over the career the sporting career of every single women in that league
in that competition in that fill in the blank. We've seen it at Olympic levels and this is still just going on, even when yes, the people involved even like, oh, look I have a.
Bit of a disability.
I perhaps I should have thought twice.
No, you don't get off the horse.
Fills suspended for six months. How ridiculous is that?
We are in a culture war where there is never going to be enough bodies piled up. People just sacrifice their livelihoods, Academics just getting ripped out of their universities, doctors being stood down, women in sports across the world missing out on their well deserved medals because one man's delusion has ruined it for everyone.
But everybody, everybody.
Who has agreed to this, Like I say this is these are decisions made at board level. So every single one of these boards are somehow enslaved to an ideology that makes no sense in any way, shape or form. What is going on? How do you get that many people on side?
So I wish every woman on the English national team would come out in defense of these girls. And so we can't have this in girls soccer, And that's just the six week ban these kids have been sent for. You can guess at reeducation, so they will never make this mistake again. But of course they will never make the mistake of telling the bleeding obvious ever again, because if they ever speak the truth again, then the sixth match band they've already received will of course be extended.
So now they'll just shut up, play with men and act like it's normal.
Liz to Queensland.
Now we're not much better news, Sadly, Not only are your kids being trans behind your back, not only are your power.
Prices the highest in the nation.
Not only does a kid get a worse sentence of stealing a car than for raping a woman in your state currently, Queensland is we've just found out today that you are forking out two weeks leave for every public employee who decides to get the snip. Yeah, baby, this makes absolutely no sense, right because we all know with technology these days, laser vasectomy treatments literally take an hour. You can leave the clinic straight away, there's no downtime,
literally no downtime at all. But public employees in Queensland have been getting two weeks paid leave to recover.
This is somehow reproductive leave.
It's up there with IVF any woman who's been through IVF would.
Be like, excuse me, what I mean? Can you get a funnier story than this?
An expensively funny story the Career Mail reports. According to Visectim Australia, if a patient's work is very physical and involves heavy lifting or extreme movement, they will need to.
Go on like duties for a week after the procedure.
However, if you are like most public servants desk based, you should be able to return to work the day after having your vasectomy. I wonder how many public servants in Queensland literally.
Got the snip just because.
They were like, hey, you know what we get?
Are you kidding? I'm going to the Bahamas.
I think you misunderstanding here is you don't need the two weeks off because it's painful. You need the two weeks off because you've been so filled with angst in anticipation of.
Going for the snip.
Probably, but remember this is the state that gave public servants the opportunity to have five days off after the failed voice referendum if they need to grieve the result of that. So they've got form here. But apparently doctors in Queensland have been inundated with male public servants had their vasectomy and need two weeks off and.
We're not signing off on that. We're not going to agree to it. So there.
Hey, if you're that kind of mail withdrawal from the gene pool, you're.
Doing us a favor.
Seriously, if you would get the snip just for two free weeks, aid leave, it's.
Only raught if you're not in on it, right, And so many times I say, wish you could get one of these.
I think, if I'm.
Two weeks off for getting a snip, how many times can you get the snip?
Well, because you can have you verseectively reversed, you can in another two weeks.
So can I just keep doing this like on on repeat? And they say, you know, if you've got to do heavy lifting, it might be a problem. Well, well, let's be fair. A lot of public servants do heavy lifting. I mean all those coffees they go out for every day, all they're lifting they have to do because they've got to break every hour to go.
And do it.
That that counts as heavy lifting. But you might not have noticed, Liz. But when you said yeah, baby, James's mouth to me, no baby.
In fact, because the biggest sense having point so dad joke.
They love their dad jokes, which is questionable if you're Caleb.
But I can't give no one come ye, but keep up.
No one's going to come before though I did.
Actually one year I was given when I worked at the Advertiser a card for.
Father been overshare because I'm here for it, and I.
Was given a card a Father's Day card in celebration of all the dad jokes that I used to tell.
Its part. You know, I'm glad to lighten up alive a bit.
But you know you walk in it's yeah baby, you walk out as no baby in two weeks off. I can totally understand why these bloats are doing it.
Totally and queens and can absolutely afford it.
Of course, in the cost of living crisis, that's just what we need to be doing. Paying public servants to have two weeks off for no reason at all.
Skin that really helps our fertility rate. It is a thanks guy, thanks for playing a part.
Speaking of cost of living and public money being wasted. Folk on the Northern Beaches in Sydney are about to get a massive rate hike. Last night council met for four hours and decided the best way to solve their financial issues was to hike rates by forty percent over the next three years. It means most rate payers will be up for an extra six hundred and seventy eight
dollars on their rates bill every year. As you can imagine, people in the public gallery of the council meeting were well mildly unimpressed.
Here's just a little bit of that meeting.
Now, this is a council with about one and a half thousand staff, one hundred and eleven of those are executives. Their wages bill is one hundred and sixty million dollars. That's up from one hundred and twenty million dollars just seven years ago. The CEO is earning five hundred and forty four thousand dollars a year. That's more than the
state premiere. And most of the councilors who voted for this forty percent rate hike a part of the Northern Beaches Independent Team, which is a political party, though they call themselves the Independent Team, and they campaigned on the basis of spending money wisely, helping small business and authentic community based decision making. So this is how they made an authentic community based decision to raise hikes by forty percent.
They put it out to local residents. They offered four options as to how they might deal with the council's finances.
Option one was we keep.
Rates as they are, but cut back on services. Option four was we hike rates by forty percent. Only seventeen people seventeen percent of people rather voted for a hike rate. I don't know who those people were that voted for rates to got forty percent, but I would have been afforded the authentic deceit based decision making decided we'll go with the seventeen percent who wanted the rate hike.
These since absolute snakes because they know they just got elected.
Right.
We just had the New South Wales local government elections in twenty twenty four. If we were anywhere near an election, they would not dream of doing this.
But their home and hoes, Well, what is the term here? Four years?
When I was a counselor back in WA, it was four year term. But every state has different rules, because why would we simplify anything?
Love federation so they know they're sitting pretty.
It doesn't matter how much you incent the public in your patch, right, now your home and ows for four more years, and by then maybe.
They'll have forgotten his counselor, Nicholas Bogarde, who seems quite pleased with himself for the forty percent rate rise.
We were an organization with sixteen hundred staff. Right that level of management is a manager to FD ratio of about ten point six. That's not unusual in business or in government.
A rate rise, that's not unusual in business or government.
Code No, that is not unusual. Coins of Boguard to see such money being spent. Our public money is going in that kind of direction. I mean seriously.
So it's one hundred and sixty million dollars they spend on staff with about sixteen hundred staff, that's an average of one hundred grand right now. I know that goes all the way from the gardener who's on fifty k, all the way up to the CEOs one hundreds and hundred one thousand dollars dollars more than the premiere of Queensland, et cetera. But you know that we're talking pretty decent
wages here. Twenty five million dollars of that goes to executives and directors and managers who apparently have an average of about ten staff underneath them.
Which is a pretty good ratio.
I would have thought there are a lot of workplaces where managers are looking after a lot more staff than that.
And they want us to believe.
That over three years you need a forty percent increase. So that's what roughly thirteen percent thirteen point three percent a year. Now everything else has gone up, And I understand that costs have gone up for councils like they've gone up for the rest of us, because you know, electricity has gone up in price, and they've got to run the local pool and they've got to run the library.
And where I get that.
Their overheads have gone up, But where do they think we get the money from, because our overheads have also gone up. And we you and me sitting at home, and I accept that a lot of people on the Northern Beaches probably have more money than people in other parts of Sydney, but a lot of people are against the wall right now trying to pay the bills that
they have coming in. And if that means that the local council has to pull it's built in a bit tighter and say, well, there are certain things that we can't afford to provide anymore or certain things we have to cut the budget on.
Then that's just what they have to do.
They're trying to extract money out of people who don't have money, and they can do it compulsorily. That's the bit that angers me the most. Right, they can force you to pay this money, money that you don't have.
And it's bad enough for a local resident.
You know, we're talking like four hundred dollars, six hundred dollar dollars that you're right to go up if you're a resin, if you're a local business, a small business, it is small, like sixteen hundred.
Dollars, and how are they meant to pay for it?
We took last night about the fact that insurance companies aren't even ensuring small businesses anymore against theft because theft has gone through the roof. I mean, why would you want to be a small business owner in this country. Let's go to the US, where the people Trump has chosen to join him in his administration are turning out to be excellent communicators. First one I'll show you is Tom Homan. He is the new borders are in the
United States. Remember the previous borders are was Camala Harris, who is potentially the worst communicator you've ever seen in American politics, probably up there with Nancy Pelosi, maybe even worse than Nancy Pelosi. But Tom Homan, he is not pulling his punches. A reporter from the UK bailed them up and said, oh, all these people are apparently they're
not getting water when they're being deported. She goes on and then say, well, why are you pulling out these military plages or is this just to show that you're a big boy.
He wasn't having a bar of it.
This is beautiful you treating migrants humanely, but there's been reports of them on planes with no water complaining.
Would you mean a bunch of crap?
Facilitiesunder standards in the industry. The man and were ice A professionals. We do this for a living. And I can tell you I ran Hayes for years. I was the first director of race count through the ranks. It's not okay to enter this country, Leagual. It's the crame. And when you cause a crisis big as a bay administration cause when you overwheun the board of job. But they can't do their national security job. That's when the
fat nyl come across kurll at QUARTERMA Americans. That's when you have a six hundred percent increase in sex trafficking. Does you have a record number of no inspectaterrorist coming across an open border? President trumpson security borders, promise to the American people who're going to force the relation laws, that's what we're going to do now.
Yes, he does talk a little bit fast, but what he says makes a great deal of sense.
It's good to see common sense.
Straightforward operators back in the administration in the United States. They say what they mean, and they mean what they say. So enter Carolyn Levitt. She is the new press secretary for Donald Trump. She seems to be a good operator as well. She hit the ground running today with her.
First press conference.
She also spoke about legal migration and how how good is this to batter way questions from a reporter about whether the illegals actually had a criminal record.
Thirty five hundred arrests aces me so far since President Trump came back into office. Can you just tell us the numbers how many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally. All of them because they illegally broke our nation's laws, and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes. I know the last administration didn't see it that way. So it's a big culture shift in our nation to view someone
who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal. But that's exactly what they are.
Jass Chef's kiss Sue perb staff, and she's also said, We're going to let everyone into this room. It's not just the accredited journalists anymore. The people who believe they deserve to be there because they have a degree that they may as well wipe their bums with.
So you know, oh, I'm more important than anyone else.
She's gone, were No, Actually, a lot of people get their news and their information from social media these days, so why would we not try to make it easier for people to find out what's going on?
Take a look.
The Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities, not just the legacy media who are seated in this room. Because, according to recent pulling from Gallup, Americans trust in mass media.
Has fallen to a record low.
Our team will work diligently to restore the press passes of the four hundred and forty journalists whose passes were wrongly revoked by the previous administration.
We're also opening up this briefing room to new media voices who produced news related content and whose outlet is not already represented by one of the seats in this room.
Now, look, I'm sure some of the analysis from TikTok influences will be less than searing, but that's okay. But how good to see a press sick after Karine Jean Pierre.
Who know, you kind of got to give it to her.
She was a great spin doctor in that she knew how to lie through her teeth. But she has showed her self Carolyn Levitt already to be a straight shooter. She's a straight communicator, and that's exactly what you need when you're dealing with what will be a hostile media in Trump's second term.
Well, Kareem Jean Pierre's claim to fame as the Press secretary was of course, she was the first woman of color who was openly a lesbian to ever stand behind that podium, and she herself called herself a historic figure, which was a wonderful dem as all history if you've ever seen one, But this this young lady's only twenty seven.
Years old, youngest to evidence Joel.
Youngest to do the job, and clearly chosen not because she's the youngest, but because she's very, very good at it. To show one more clip, Liz, this is her talking about withdrawing funds from the World Health Organization and the discovery that American taxpayers were going to be up for fifty million dollars to send condoms to Gaza.
Doge and Omb have actually found that there was thirty seven million dollars was about to go out the door to the World Health Organization, which is an organization as you all know that President Trump, with the swipe of his pen in that executive order, is no longer once the United States to be a part of do Jaomb also found that there was about to be fifty million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.
So that's what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of tax dollars.
I got to quickly say.
It was reported in Israel back in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty that Hamas were using condoms filling them with explosives and blowing them up like balloons and floating.
Them over the order.
So here's something I did not have on my bingo card in twenty twenty five.
Condoms.
I didn't even think they would use condom belonging to It was reported by the israel I Imagined and the Jerusalem Pot.
Really they but he's a big story, right, So Donald Trump has prevented US taxes from funding attacks on Israel via exploding condoms.
I mean I did not have that, look.
Nor did I.
I was going to say this is a bad move, because I think anything to stop them breeding would have been good.
But if you're telling me it's used for terrorism.
Then maybe they submit that exactly before we got a break. And speaking of Israel, the public broadcaster in the UK, ITV, have been forced into a very embarrassing apology after they were covering the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration Camp.
I'll play you the.
Clip from ITV as the Good Morning Britain presenter crossed to Poland, where the anniversary was taking place. She talks about the Holocaust and have a listen to the way she talks about those who were targeted in the Holocaust. There's one group of people she seems to be missing.
King Charles will become the first British head of state to visit Auschwitz Berknal later today as part of events to mark eighty years since liberation of the Nazi death camp. Six million people were killed in concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as millions of others because they were Polish, disabled, gay, or belonged to another ethnic group.
Now, as somebody pointed out on Twitter, she was ignoring a very important, in fact central, in fact, the main group of people. Someone said on Twitter, this dire reporting is not only factually incorrect, but erases Jews from a genocide in which six million Jewish men, women and children were slaughtered, specifically because they were Jews. How's it possible, therefore, that on Holocaust Memorial Day, of all days, the news managers to acknowledge several other groups but not Jews. Well,
ITV issued this apology, they said in yesterday's news. That's the twenty seventh of January, when we reported on the memorial events in Auschwitz, we said six million people were killed in the Holocaust, but crucially failed to say they were Jewish. That was our mistake, which we apologize for. It was a pretty big mistake and an apology that was certainly warranted.
We failed to say I just forgot, I just woke up that day wrote the script.
Oh I forgot that there was used in vold in Holocaust.
I mean seriously, And it's the worst apology you've ever seen.
It's hardly an apology.
When it was read out on ere it went for something like fifteen seconds.
It was fifteen seconds worth of apology.
And so if you're worthy of being pointed out for being Polish, and she said it with emphasis Polish disabled gay belonged to another ethnic group, but there were just six million ethnic which ethnic groups?
But six million people?
I mean, honestly, that has to be deliberate. That has to be deliberate, and that they say, oh, it was a mistake, pulled.
The other one while we're paying out on GMB though our national broadcast that didn't even send a reporter, neither ABC or SBS eightieth anniversary of the You wouldn't have known to be watching the ABC.
There you go, say no more. We're going to go to a break.
When we come back we'll look at what's making news tomorrow, including the very latest on that foiled terror plot.
In Sydney that's coming up in just a moment. Welcome back.
Let's take a look at what's making news in tomorrow's papers and Caleb of course here in Sydney, starting with that foiled terror plot is the main story.
Indeed, as you would understand, the Daily Telegraph has it tomorrow. It's a caravan laden with explosives contained addresses of Jewish sites primed for a massacre. The Telegraph reports that a caravan laden with explosives could have been bound for key Jewish targets in Sydney, in what Premier Chris Mens yesterday said it was a potential mass casualty event. The Australian also has it on its front page. Major escalation in
anti Semitic threat van bomb targeted at synagogue. The chance discovery of a caravan laden with enough explosives to level a forty meter blast zone and apparently intended to target Jewish Australians in a mass sorry casualty event, has confirmed fears of a major escalation in anti Semitic violence, with Anthony Albinizi vowing the full might of Australia's counter terrorism
forces will be deployed to meet the threat. This was New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson at a press conference explaining what they had found today.
Obviously, the discovery and the detection of the caravan contained with an amount of explosives was not known to be used in the normal anti Semitic attack that we have seen occur in Sydney, such as graffiti and arson attacks. This is certainly an escalation of that with the use of explosives that have the potential to cause a great deal of damage.
Now, this caravan was actually discovered on January the nineteenth. That's taken the better part of nineteen days for the police to come out and tell.
The public about this.
The story goes that a local saw the caravan on the side of the road and thought it was in an old place and towed it away. It was later discovered what was inside. Now, of course we don't know exactly what the motive was here. Of course they have found a letter that has a list of addresses on it, including a synagogue, but we don't know who put it there.
We don't know.
Exactly why it was there. No stone is being left unturned. Premier Chris Mins said today exactly how many police officers have been put on this case.
As the Deputy Commissioner has made clear, in addition to the detectives and the officers in Operation Pearl and Shelter, there is one hundred police officers through the counter Terrorism Command and State Crime that are focusing specifically on this threat.
One hundred police officers.
So they are taking this very soon as you would because it appears to be terror related to some description. The question is what exactly was the aim here, because I mean, it would seem highly unusual that you would just leave a caravan full explosives on the side of the road. So the question is was there an intention perhaps for these explosives to ever end up at an address?
Was the idea that someone would find it full.
Of the explosives with the list of addresses and that is the act of terror to put the fear into people that this might happen to you. But it didn't happen in this case. It is an extraordinary case, it has to be said, and with one hundred police officers on it, they obviously think it's a very difficult one to crack too.
There's obviously a lot of questions about this, but the thing that got my attention. If you were listening closely to the deputy commissioner in the grab we showed you, did you hear him say that the explosives in this caravan represent a very different kind of attack from what he said. He used these words, quote unquoe, the normal
anti semitic attack, and that really struck me. When you've got deputy police commissioners talking about, you know, the normal garden variety anti semitic attack as opposed to this one with explosive shows you just where we've gotten as a community. When police now talk about normal antisemitic attacks, that was never the case just fifteen months.
Ago, indeed, And I mean you just have to wonder what they were playing at, but be whether or not they'll actually find someone on this, I mean, you hope that they do, because this is a major escalation, as the paper's note in terms of the terror that has been wrought. I mean, we know that graffiti in the front of a building what he's calling normal anti semitic attack to some degree levels an amount of terror in someone.
But it is one thing to wake up in the morning and see that your synagogue has been five bombed, or that there was graffiti put on the front of it when there was no one inside. When you start talking about the potential of explosion, is being sent to a place and has a list of addresses on it, the totality of which we do not know. We know there was a synagogue on it, but it's got other
Jewish related addresses on it. Now, whether that's addresses, home addresses or places of business, who knows, But presumably there are people tonight who would be going to bed quite worried about the addresses that they either live in or visit every day being targeted tomorrow or in the days.
So it's only a couple of weeks ago that Alex Ritchen, who all of us have formed at various times here on Sky, his former home was attacked. So you're quite right there would be prominent Jewish people in this country who would be horrified at this year's And let's police find the perpetrators.
That the explosives were taken.
From a mine, I believe, So yeah, maybe that give police some kind of lead.
Well, there's a lot of minds in Australia, or it wouldn't even have to be someone working there, but someone who has access to the materials who's obviously through black market type annals, given somebody else access to them. To the front page of the career Mail, Now kill a sect. Dad's shock confession, I'm happy she died. The father of eight year old Elizabeth Stras, who died from being deprived of insulin, told police quote, I'm happy for her end
quote after he was informed of her death. Jason and Kerry Stras where yesterday found guilty of the manslaughter of Elizabeth in the Towoomba home in January twenty twenty two.
Their son Zachary, and eleven other members of a religious group known as.
The Saints were also convicted. It's just one of those appalling stories of literal whack jobs. Like you hear stories like this and I'm like, Okay, the demons are lying sideways in this one, Like who could possibly be brainwashed to that extent that they're like, I'm doing the right thing for my daughter while watching her die. She dies, and then he's like, yeah, happy about that, and.
They call themselves the Saints.
Imagine your response to your daughter dying, being that you are happy for her, that she is now no longer in pain and suffering, pain and suffering that you caused her by refusing to give her the medical treatment she was owed and due. I just don't know how a person can possibly do.
That is so disgusting.
Yeah, it absolutely is.
Let's go to the front page of the Newcastle Herald rate cut on cards after good news on inflation. The article says interest rate relief could be on the way for homeowners after underlying inflation came in below expectations, prompting another big bank to bring forward its rate cut prediction.
The annual rate fell to three point two percent, that was up to December last year, and Westpac have now brought forward their prediction of a rate cut from May to February, which would of course please Jim Chalmers because that would give the government the opportunity to call an election and not have to deliver a budget in March, which I think they're pretty desperate not to have to do. I'm just not sure, Caleb that a rate cut is
going to convince Australians that everything is well. Jim Chalmers telling us we've never been better off. Yeah, I went and bought some groceries today, and I can tell you prices keep going up, so it's great. The inflation number looks good, but my bill at the grocery store does not look good.
I think a rate change last year would have done a lot of good for the government.
I don't think beyond going to do much too.
Late was the cry, We're going to go to a break. Sorry, color, I was looking at you. I thought you were king for the Herald time.
I look, if you want me to do your job for you are going.
To take a break.
After the break, the most unusual car jase you've ever seen occurs in the UK.
You'll like it. That's coming up in just a moment. Okay.
Nothing sums up the state of modern Britain better than this next story. English police were called on to apprehend a shoplifter who made her get away in a wheelchair.
Now you'd think the police would, you.
Know, run after her on foot, But no, no, they got in their cop car and they went full lights and sirens after the woman in the wheelchair.
Take a look what is going on?
The lucky she didn't say anything hateful. They would have had the swat team, you know, throway to the ground. But the most amazing part of that is not the the car chase and the wheelchair. It's the fact that English coppers bothered to arrest someone for shoplifting at all.
Imagine if someone had been, you know, praying in their head quiet, you.
Know, that wheelchair would have been right over for heaven.
If they posted on social media buggy wheelchair, they would have pushed you out of it.
For goodness, Say, now, how's this right? A woman goes.
To Luke Colmbs concert in Brisbane. Luke Holmes is a current popular country music singer. She was having the time of her life. This is before he even got up on stage. This is the support act. She is literally in a Barry manilo. When he's saying about dancing in the aisles, well, she is literally dancing in the aisles.
And for this she was ejected from the concert. Take a look. I mean it was that blokes lucky day.
There.
She was dancing right in.
Front of him, wanted him to get right into it, and for that she gets kicked out. Now, I'm sorry if you can't go to a concert and dance around to the music because you are having a great time.
What what the hell have we come to.
If you can't dance at a concert, where can you dance?
This is rubbish?
Absolutely would you recommend? The security guard says, hey, settle down.
That's not the time to turn.
Around and twirk all over. And it's the time that's calmly take your seat.
But look around. Who next to her was upset? I couldn't see you. There. We've got to go.
That's stick around. Coming up is the readA Penny Show.
Good Night,