The Late Debate | 4 July

Welcome, wait to play, Thanks for joining us. I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond coming up tonight. The Welsh government plans to ban politicians who lie from entering parliament here here, how do you reckon that would go?

Here?

We wouldn't be left with anywhere in the parliament with themselves.

You say that like it's a bad thing. We'd be lived with no one in the parliament. Hooray.

We talk about that more a bit later. Plus when we get to the papers, fresh concerns that the East Coast of Australia is soon to run out of gas, and of course the fallout from Senator Payman's defection from the Labor Party continues. But first, Melbourne is known for its coffee culture. The only problem is who can afford six dollars or more for a latte these days, So cafe owners across the city have decided to get rid of barristas and replace them with automated milk steaming machines.

James can I can I just interrupt you? And I'm going to interrupt you to make a very funny point. Go on on the strap and I'm not putting my producer in the pooh here, but on the strap it said barristers.

And this is a joke I.

Make all the time about how baristas wish they were barristers, and they went to union studied law and thought they were going to be a barrister, but they couldn't get a job and they ended up as a barista.

Anyway, I just couldn't. I had to do it.

Can I just say that wasn't funny enough to justify the.

Come on, it's not a knock on our producer. Producers incredibly witty and that's exactly a deliberate pun, very very clever. Let's go to cafe owner Julian Mussey in Melbourne. He said in the Herald Sun today, customers can't tell the different. It's between the automated coffees and brist textured milk. The milk comes out ten out of ten every time and lets the brister pour the perfect latte art. I know that's the most important thing. To me when I ordered

That is not something you should admit live on as a grown man.

How do you have long black? What's good about that?

It's not a cup of milk with a dabble of coffee.

He's a latte.

Why don't you just have a warm milo?

Man, you're gonna come and live with me in the inner Weitz.

Now he's a latte, sipper.

Wait till you hear that I have my latte with almond milk.

In your choice of milk.

Because after the latte, I was like, there's no way he's having full cream milk and.

One drop of equal for sweetener. None of that is true, by the way, moving on.

Dylan Whitemore here isn't real?

Can you just let me finish the introduction to this topic. Dylan Whitemore from the Abicus Cafe. He's the general manager, he said, and I quote, we went from having four bristers working Saturdays and Sundays, but with implementing uber milk, that's the new machine. We cut back to three barristers every day. So assuming that these coffees are just as good as those that are made by barristas, there's still

The people who did law degrees and can't get a job as a barrister for that matter. I understand why they're doing it, and look, the reality is you're not probably going to get any money.

Off the cost of your coffee because the.

Cafe and the restaurant and the retailer, they've all seen enough tick in their costs just to turn the lights on, to operate the fridge, to buy all the bits and pieces that they need to produce the product that you're buying from them, and that's where a lot of the

But it is kind of scary.

And I know that a lot of the world is mechanized now, but it's another job that someone is not going to be able to have.

And I don't want to say that.

Baristas are unskilled, because they actually do go and do training and whatever to do their jobs, but they're not rocket scientists, right, And it is a job that an ordinary person without a unique degree can go and learn the basics and go and do it right. It's a job that a teenager can do. And it's taking away those basics of the jobs that a kid can go and do on the weekend.

And what are they going to do?

I mean that they take all the customer not customers to check our chicks out of the supermarkets.

Now they're getting rid of the baristas. What's a kid going to do for work anymore? Be nothing left.

It just seems to be the way of the future. There's absolutely no putting a genie back in the bottle now.

This is just it's gotten away with us as technology always does, and naturally, employees are going to increasingly use technology instead of people because you've got the upfront cost. But whether that's the self serve checkouts, whether it's we no longer need a person to steam our milk, whether it's comms, people given chat, GPI and others are just getting.

Smarter and smarter. You can ask it to write you an email.

Tell it basically the guts of what you want to.

Say, and it's written.

So this is alarmingly fast, but I can't see it giving up anytime soon.

We've talked about driverless cuts the way of the future.

How many tens of thousands will that put out of work? I still remember reading a report back in twenty nineteen where self service checkouts were also.

New, and everyone was like, what is this gadget? And why am I working for the supermarket for free?

But I'm still waiting for my invitation to the Christmas party. By the way, all that work I've done for coals, where's my reward?

Not even a snag?

Well, you asked, where did all those checkout chicks go? Well they're now we're working as security guards in the supermarkets because shoplifting is through the roof now using self service cap.

Up seventeen percent.

But just back in twenty and nineteen seventy five thousand checkout chicks or men, We're.

Out of work.

That was a UK report, But I still remember reading it at the time and just being like, we're done for now, Like this is just going to continue. Job after job is going to be raised, and nobody seems to have thought about that fact. What are these people supposed to do in lower skilled or low associate economic upbringings and areas, who aren't inclined to go to university, what are.

They supposed to do?

Well, they end up on welfare. We don't have jobs for them, and so then everyone else has to pay, because it's unfair to expect that they're just going to sit around with no money for the rest of their lives. But if you don't have jobs for them to do, you've got to look after them in some way, and the only way to do that is through the welfare state.

And those and yet those people, the employers mostly who are replacing people with machines, will then argue, well, I'm making products cheaper for you because now we don't have to pay so many employees.

So hey, it.

Means cheaper coffee for you guys, etcetera, etcetera, and so on, and so the consumer remains like, well.

I guess this is a good thing, except that a lot less people have jobs to the US now where President Joe Biden's it looks like his chances of becoming the Democratic nominee for president it's not going to last longer than a breath mint after Friday.

And he is being encouraged by several powerbrokers in the Democratic Party to throw his weight what litly has left, if any behind Kamala Harris, the VP best known for laughing, yet every question that she's asked, Nothing is funnier to this woman than a question she doesn't know the answer to.

You all know who I'm talking about.

So right now things aren't looking so good for the Dems if they've got to choose between a senile old man and the intellectual equivalent of a lump of ham. Here's a little example of what I'm talking about. Here's Kamala Harris explaining to you how a rocket.

Takes off, which brings me to May thirtieth, twenty twenty. Bob and Doug returned to the Kennedy Space Center. They suit it up, they waved to their families, and they rode an elevator up nearly twenty stories. They strapped in to their seats and waited as the tanks beneath them filled with tens of thousands of gallons of fuel, and then they launched.

Yeah they did.

There's that laugh.

I can't believe Nasi didn't snap her up after that performance. That was so comprehensive. Thank you very much. Here's elked video of Trump after the well.

What was for him a very good debate on Friday, explaining that.

Biden is done and he actually thinks Kamala might get the gong.

He just quit, you know, he's Quinn in the wrest.

Is that right? Yeah?

And that means we have Kamala. I think she's going to be better.

She's of course.

That would be the biggest gift to the Republican Party. It would mean that we barely need to have an election. Nobody is going to want to vote for cackling Kamala.

Here's a bit more of her antics.

At the time she was going on CNN to talk to quits Cuomo, she decided to open her address with her pronouns, just in case anyone was in doubt.

But to see your snaby, thank you for joining.

Us, appreciate it.

How are you, Emma? Thank you guys?

And my pronouns?

Are she?

Her? And hers mine too?

All right?

Imagine having an actual leader of the free world, commander in chief that starts addresses with their pronouns.

I mean, tell me there's no chance of this happening, right.

It would have to be Newsome, it would have to be Michelle Obama, it would have.

To be Buddhaje, it would have.

To be anyone but this woman who makes absolutely no sense.

I'm just trying to picture Vladimir Putin jiping and President Kamala Harris sitting down. How can you discuss how they will avert World War three? And she begins by first, if we perhaps like share our pronouns, that would get the meeting off to a good start.

Ice break up.

And then then and then the male interviewer says that they're his pronouns too, her pronouns too, because Chris Cuomo when she said she hers, and he goes mine too, so she Chris Cuomo. But it is incredible to have watched the conformity with which the Democrats and dem supporters have come out over the last week and said that Joe is done.

He cannot run.

This is absolute death for us. He cannot beat Trump. And so Joe's people are like, right, we need a backup plan. We've got the backup plan. It's gonna Bekamala Harris like, okay, you've worked out that Joe Biden can't win the election against Trump, and then you've just gone and found the only person in the United States who actually polls lower than Joe Biden for popularity and decided that she is the one you were going to put

Seriously, like, can.

You imagine him coming up against Kamala Harris?

You thought he ate Joe Biden alive and killer?

Well, this is the whole diversity, equity and inclusion philosophy coming back to bite the Democrats and ultimately to bite America. Right. She wasn't given the job as vice president because she was qualified or because she had any experience that would enable her to do it. She was given it because she was female and she was black. So to not have her as next in line is to admit that DEI does not work and is not good for the country.

But they need to admit it and fast.

Check out this map that was leaked by the Democrats' own polling company. This is currently like what the state of play is looking like in America. You weren't supposed to see this, and heaven knows, the end result in November may not look like this, But right now, this is what they're polling numbers are showing that ladies and gentlemen is not a red wave.

It is a red tsunami. And this is what the Dems.

Know that they are set for, which again is why it's not a question of if Biden steps down, but when he steps down, and the Dems are still very democratically saying, oh, this is a call for Biden, nobody else can make it but him. Well, so far, he's been very, very vocal about the fact that he's.

Not going anywhere.

He sent an email out to his supporters and literally said, to be clear, I will be running. So I'm not sure who's going to get through to him. Maybe they should just show him that map because for the good of the country, now he has to throw down his hat.

Well, he's lost the media, he's lost his Democrat colleagues, many of them are now openly calling for him to be replaced. That map that you showed came from private, confidential Democrat polls, confidentially, Well, it's now been leaked and obviously leaked because they want to show him up. And even the White House spokesperson was saying yesterday that Kamala Harris is the future of the Democrat Party. Oh wow, God help them if that's true.

But toast indeed, and you speak of coringe On Pierre, there's Joe Biden's pre secretary. She was asked today about Joe Biden actually coming into perhaps front up to the media side.

Note, that's not going to happen.

But this was the hilarious response of one journalist in the room.

Well, he's seeing that, and I'm I'm sharing with you his view, and we would invite the president to come here and tell.

Noted directly noted Kelly.

Plays a week.

That's as you heard on your colleague.

The president of the WHA.

That's inappropriate, thank you, Kelly.

Oh, that's inappropriate, even though it is quite probably true because of course we saw this week all the stories about how he gets really tired after four pm, and they schedule all these meetings between ten am and four pm because that's the only time they can get him lucid, like he probably does go off for a Nana napp at four o'clock.

Well, we've seen him fall asleep.

There was the get together that they had four or was it the fires like post the Tragic's fires.

He was falling asleep at that.

Then he was at some whether it was EU or un meeting who was caught dozing.

Then.

I mean, over the years, we've shown quite a bit of footage of this guy falling asleep or shall we say, resting his eyes at very important presidential events. But before we leave Kamala Harris, here's one of my personal favorites from her addressing a very large crowd, and she accidentally let it slip that a central part of the Democratic plans for climate change and how to tackle that was population reduction.

Because think also about the impact on not only the local economy, not only on an investment in the entrepreneurs and innovators from and in the community, think about the impact on something like public health.

When we invest in clean and.

Electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.

How many times have I said, once you realize the carbon they want to reduce is actually you and I. All their radical plans for this green energy transition starts to make a lot more sense.

I love it. I love the Freudian slip that did.

I just tell you that there needs to be less of you in order for us to actually march out what we're really up to when we talk about green energy and battling climate.

When she talked about population reduction, I honestly thought she was talking about Joe Biden.

Well, look, that's going to take care of itself. Well.

Indeed, we found out, of course, during the week from the Supreme Court the decisions, official decisions taken by presidents have immunity from prosecution. So maybe Kamala Harris, if God forbid, cheap president could just walk into the middle of Times Square just start mowing people down. Population can charge good for the climate, it's good for the climate.

It's part of my official duties.

I don't know.

She might give it a go. You know.

The next stage in this discussion of Biden's mental capacity is there's a great article in Tomorrow's Australian by Adam Crichton who's asking the question now that it's clear Joe Biden clearly is not in his right faculties. If you go back through all of his recent policies. How much of them were Joe Biden in his right mind correct, versus a rather mentally incapacitated president making some really bad decisions.

Before we know he hasn't been instrumental in writing any of that policy for us.

He has to sign off on it.

Yes, But the whole reason why they've kept this soft puppet in the presidency. In fact, I would argue the reason that they got him in the first place in twenty twenty was because they knew this guy doesn't have the mental faculties.

So we've known for a.

Very long time now somebody else is running America, the powers that be, the global elite to whether you want to call them, it certainly hasn't been this poor senile old man.

That should be being taken care of in his.

Older years instead of us watching this ridiculous display of elder abuse and most people pretending like it's not happening. But in terms of cover up, I love Adam Crichton's article, but let's take it to another article in the Huffington Post. We're a different writer this time, an opinion writer by the name of Keevan Schroff says, Oh.

There's a way to get around this, guys.

If the Biden campaign just starts using AI to convince everyone that hate is actually not doing that badly, then.

It'll be fine.

The Democrats cheated back in twenty twenty, if you ask me, so, they know the only way they could pull off a blue wind this time is to do it again.

Here's what Kaivan wrote.

He said, AI augmentations and video renderings could serve to smooth out these bumps, able to make a mole heel out of a mountain buddy, while allowing the Biden campaign to effectively disseminate true information about the state of our democracy and the Biden administration's accomplishment. So he's literally saying, fool people by using AI that Biden is strong, healthy, and they would be able to produce videos of him just staring down the barrel, talking really confidently, saying whatever

There is an obvious solution to this. Just lie to everyone, fall to everyone.

Like just get the misinformation, disinformation. People can't tell reality from AI yet, just roll out of fake Biden.

Well, I mean the irony is. It's only a couple of weeks ago the Democrats were planing that videos of Biden's stumbling and stammering word deep fakes. Now they're openly propagating let's use deep fates to convince everyone that Biden

And they're too dumb to realize that in doing that, they would be doing exactly the same as what they

Well, as Shroff says, it is in defensive democracy. I mean, you've got to save the nation. So it seems like you said, it's all moral relativism. If if the means justify the ends, then he can't see a problem with it. What I don't understand is why people how they get this blind trust in the institution. Because he refers to Trump as being this. You know, he's not part of the establishment, we can't possibly have him, which is a sentiment that's trumped out by a lot of Democratic supporters.

And I'm like, if you know anything about.

History, what on earth makes you vote for the establishment.

Don't you want the renegade who's.

Like, I'm gonna burn Deep State in their beds, I'm gonna expose everything, I'm gonna upset the most evil people on earth? Why on earth are these people so trusting saying no, we want to stick. Maybe it's just a better the devil, you know type scenario.

Way, I find it incredulous.

Look look to be perfectly honest.

AI probably couldn't do a work job of running the United States than Joe Biden is at the moment. It may will be worth giving a go, But we do have a small glimpse into what a world of Ai Joe Biden might look like. Here's his State of the Union speech reimagined.

Where is my script?

Did I take my pills?

Honey?

Do you have my pills up there?

Yep?

Don't give me lip girl. Papa's not happy. Hey, don't make me angry. You would like to see me when I'm angry? That is a quote from the Mighty Ducks. I'm hungry, Hey boy, give me some chicken nuggets. Don't need for thanks. I'll put me some fries too. I wish I married that fine person, Nancy Pelosi.

Ah the power of AI. Hey.

Now, let's move on to some COVID scare mongering. Just when you thought it was all over, we're being told there's another strain on the It's gonna ravage the country. It has according to a story I read this week, it has ripped through the US. It's about to rip through us. Now there's two different variants that are causing trouble at the moment right.

One of them is called flirt.

Now, look, I've never been more excited to get sick in my life. I want to catch flirt on Saturday night, Thank you very much.

Give it right to me.

And the other one that's come through after flirt is spelled fluqe. Now I don't know whether that's fluck or it is fluke. And if one came after flirt, that would somewhat make some sense, wouldn't it.

But it is the typical stuff.

Right here, we are thinking we're all over it, and we've got.

News stories coming back up saying got to watch for COVID, Gotta watch that for COVID. It's terrible, It's terrible. It's said in this story. This is doctor Lara Herrero.

Saying that the flirt variance or a group of subvariants of JAN one from the Omicron lineage.

You remember when we're talking about omicron My god.

Jan one was detected in August twenty twenty three and declared a variant of interest by the World Health Organization in December twenty twenty three. By early twenty twenty four, it had become the most dominant variant in Australia and much of the rest of the world, driving.

Large waves of infections.

Now, I don't know about you, but I haven't been too worried about those large waves of inflection infection.

Sorry, but I'm kind of imagining that. Like if you go down to.

The doctor and you're like, doctor, I've got flirt, it's going to go something like this, the doctor give.

Me the news, AGA.

Loving you.

I want it.

I want I want to catch flirt. Right, I've never been more excited to get sick. It sounds like a lot of fun. Come on, say something.

Sorry, I'll try work at how you're going to catch it. I stopped paying a.

Teenty I can tell you how you catch I don't want to know.

I just amaze news organizations are running these stories. Really, is that con Yeah?

Yeah, I would.

I thought that we were beyond the point now where anyone cared about this stuff.

But it is still being published now.

I don't know whether that's because people are clicking on it and they do actually want to read it, or it's a bit like, you know, we've got to keep pushing the agenda because of course, all the power that the COVID Times gave to a lot of people, premiers and chief help officers and whatever they loved, and they didn't want to give it up, so that they're hanging on to every little bit of power.

That it gave you ever getting it back after the last four years, I mean, even rolling out articles like this that seemed to be rather a non story, And in my humble opinion, I just can't believe they're doing it at a time where people are literally still recovering from.

PTSD from the last four years.

Business is hitting the walls, being locked inside your own home, all the rest of it. Social distancing, got to wear your ppe, can't even see your loved ones.

It was such a horrible time.

People want to forget and people want to move on, and that is perfectly understand standable.

And of course we do need to mention that the Australian government does recommend that vaccines are the best protection for especially elderly people and people with existing health issues, to protect them from COVID. Let's go to the US where an American news anchor is suing CBS after he says they sacked him because he wasn't female, wasn't gay, and wasn't black. I mean, how much bad luck can you have?

Paul Bargo came out having a really tough life.

Jeff Vaughan for eight years was the main anchor at CBS News, or for one of their affiliates at least, and he was replaced in twenty twenty two by a younger news anchor who was black. Now, he was told at the time that he was being sacked, but given no reason for it other than told ratings were not a problem, so he was never really given any sort of explanation. But at the time CBS had been making

Well, when I do those, and if you work in a corporate job, you'll know what I'm talking about, those endless bloody modules that you have to fill out about you know, you understand diversity, and you understand how not to harass people, and you know not to pinch people on the barm, et cetera, et cetera.

And it always talks about how.

Badly minorities have it in the workplace, and don't pick on the Asian staff member, and don't pick on the gay staff member. They're going to have to start including a bit about don't pick on the straight, white male staff member because he's now the minority. Like if you're saying that the billboard had all these people and he would have been the only white one, he's now in the minority.

We are, we are the minority. White people make it, you're a woman.

No, you've got more than us.

White people make up less than ten percent of the world's populations. So whenever they talk about minorities, I'm like, a hello. Honestly, it's just absolutely I am so happy Jeff Waughne has taken this on.

We wish your luck, buddy, because this.

Will be this will set a really important president because I have no doubt many scalps hanging on the wall of DEI, thousands and thousands, because this has been so prevalent in our culture for so long now, but very rarely do you see someone with the money the means the gonads to go No, I'm taking this to court.

This was discrimination.

I was not just in America. Reminds me of a maid of mine who used to work at the ABC and he was putting in an application for a promotion and he was doing very well at the ABC, but he told me on the application form for the promotion, you had to nominate what diversity qualities you bought. And of course, being a straight white male, he was trying to think of something in his background, anything mate, And someone prompted, what about your parents and he said, well,

My parents are as good as it gets.

Well, Prince Harry is upsetting people in the UK, we know that, but now he's upsetting people in the United States. Seriously, he can't find anyone who likes him, the poor guy. ESPN have just announced that Prince Harry will receive a special award named in honor of Pat Tillman, a fallen US soldier and promising NFL player. Tilman was offered a million dollar contract to play American football, but he forewent that in order to go and serve in Afghanistan, where

Yeah, look, I mean I think he should probably hug his dad, to be perfectly honest.

Not the other way around. At the risk of selling like I'm defending Harry.

The Invictus Games is a great product and he's a great work.

He's received a lot of recognition.

But when the mother of the guy after whom the award is name says I don't think it could should go to him, it's probably pretty clear cutcase there.

Absolutely, we're going to go to a break. When we come back, we'll look at what's making news in tomorrow's papers, including all the fallout from Senator Payment's defection from the Labor Party. That's in a moment welcome back.

Well.

Right now, people in the UK are currently voting in their national election, So before we get to the Australian papers, we thought we'd have a quick look at what the UK papers are.

Saying is indeed first to the Sun. Their front splash reads, as Britain goes to the polls, it's time for a new manager.

And we don't mean.

Sacks Southgates because of course, if you're a Palm, everything's about the soccer, or as they would say, no, no, it's football. The Daily Mail Constituency by constituency, your tactical voting guide, the big splash, vote forage, get them soaring taxes, uncontrolled immigration with Rwanda scrapped, rampant wokerie, betrayal of women's rights, net zero mania. We could offend surrender of our Brexit freedoms and votes at sixteen to rig future elections. The

It's the end of the Conservatives.

After a fourteen year ruling and raining and UK isn't any.

Better because of it.

But to the front tip of times now Labor set for biggest majority since eighteen thirty two. Yes, it is going to be an absolute white.

Say in the top there my election night rinking game. It's supposed to be page back up there. I assume that's meant to be election night drinking game.

I think someone had had a few already rinking.

Sends your election night front page and it's he's rinking top.

There in the purple ladies and gentlemen. Someone's getting fired. And lastly, Daily Express, today is the day of reckoning. The Conservative Party faces punishing pounding at the ballot box. We believe Labour's unjacked Powell would diminish this great country of ours. Basically, I mean they're saying vote Tory, but you're really want to vote reform UK, don't you go farage.

He's been doing really well in the polling. Nobody of course thinks he's going to beat Labor. But last week.

Checked the polls, they were beating the Tories.

That's how quickly they shot ahead.

So hopefully, hopefully the UK with a Labor majority government will.

At least have a very strong opposition.

I reckon in about twenty four hours time, Rishie Sunak is going to be on a private jit out of the UK and he ain't coming.

Back for a long time.

Let's go to the koreat mail now where tomorrow, of course it's got Bruce Lehman in a bit of trouble again. But we'll live into one side this story below it each miner worth a million dollars, Every mining and resource worker is worth a million dollars each to the economy, with the industry's productivity are staggering three times higher.

Than its nearest rival's real estate.

Now, look, some people would probably argue that real estate agents are contributing some zero to.

The world in their work at the moment.

But it proves once again what a great virtuous thing mining is for this country, what it does for the economy. The backbone of our country is mining, and yet we have so many people in power denigrating it. What are they think is going to happen to this joint if you get rid of Marning.

Well, I think yesterday the Career Mail ran on their front page with the fact that it was at a quarter of people who live in Brisbane are involved in the Marning employed in the mining industry. So clearly the Career Mail trying to point out to the government that the mining industry is incredibly important needs to be protected even as the Labor government do everything they can to destroy it. Let's go to the front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph. The story reads fly in, fly out activists

The only problem with flying to China is that it creates too many emissions, so they couldn't possibly do that. But that's the irony of what they're doing here right way, order in order to go and protest the emissions created by coal, they get presumably on a plane. I'm assuming they didn't go by train, or even if they went

Created by coal.

It proves what a noisy minority these pack of bastards are. Because if you cannot I mean, what's the population of New South Wales eight million or something? Right, If you can't get twenty odd people to trundle up to Newcastle to sit on a train line, you actually have to ship them in from into state, you're in a spot of bother buddy, how does that work?

I want to know who's hitting the bill because basically, well we all know these guys don't have jobs, do they, So where the money is coming from for them to be basically professional protesters to the front page of the Australia Now, gas shortfall expected to hit East Coast sooner tell us.

Something we don't know.

The Competition Watchdog has brought forward its prediction of gas shortfalls on the East Coast Market from twenty twenty eight to twenty twenty seven, called for the urgent development of new sources of supply and suggested the use of LNG import terminals as.

A stop gap measure. We're slowly hearing these screens getting louder.

This reminds me of the whole Biden situation, where for so long people were saying he's not meant to, he's not in his right state, he's not his right stateues and then finally it's there for everyone to see and they say, oh, that's a problem. We've been hearing the same thing about power up blackouts, gas shortages for the last number of months, going on well over a year. Eventually it's all going to come true. We're going to

But what's this business about import terminals. We produce a shed load of gas in this cave. We mind, we shedload of gas in this country out of the ground. Explain, we keep something like two to three percent of it for ourselves.

What do we need to import gas for? We've got it all here. We just don't use it.

And last week, literally every single day there was another story either from the Energy Market Operator or a state government showing that there was a lack of energy, there was a shortfall coming, and it was getting worse and worse and worse.

And there was a report by the Energy Market Operator that came out last.

Week that said very clearly, and it didn't include nuclear in the report. It should be said, because of course it's currently banned, so they can't.

Really work with that.

But if you want to go down this renewable energy dream, you need reliable power to back it up. And guess what it said that reliable power should be. Guess guess the Energy Market Operator has told us we need more gas, but no one is listening. And meanwhile Victoria is stopping gas connections to people's houses if you've.

Got a new build.

Like, the energy policy is so all over the shop in this country.

It's not funny.

Last, but not least on the front page of the OS, citizenship revenge labor targets, rebel senior labor figures are raising Fatima Payman's Afghan citizenship as a risk to her remaining in the Senate because of a potential breach of section forty four of the Constitution.

After she quit the ALP and left.

The door open to forming her own political party.

I was under the impression you.

Could not have a dual citizenship and fit in our federal parliament. She should be gone on that basis.

Indeed, we're going to go to a break when we come back. The Welsh Party deciding to ban any politicians who lie. I wonder how that'll go. That's up in a moment. Well, you'd know that old joke. How do you know when a politician's lying his lips are moving? Check out this headline from Wales. The Welsh government are going to outlaw politicians who lie. Not the high ceilings. We'll talk about that in a moment, but there's an article.

But I love it because it gives their MPs fourteen days to withdraw.

No, that was the old legislation.

They don't have that anymore.

No, no, no, they couldn't agree on that, so they've ditched that. If you're found guilty of lying, you're out.

Oh my god. Better.

I mean, look, it does have holes in it because of course someone has to make a value judgment.

You know they're telling the truth.

But I am so sympathetic to the idea.

I just love the idea that politicians could be punished for lying. Now I suppose there is an argument that you get punished at the ballot box. We ultimately get to make the decision anyway about who we do or do not want.

But I just love the.

Idea of people being held accountable because it just happens too.

Little called the ballot box.

You hold the enough people, especially all these are paying attention, they don't. They don't hold people accounted. That's why media are so important holding governments, speak to.

The phone courage.

H is just busy living their life, putting food on the table, working their nine to five usually.

More these days, and a living I want I want them.

Hauled over the colls very quickly before we go.

Sometimes I read studies out of universities and like who had the idea to study this thing?

And I had one of these moments today.

When it was found out by the University of South Australia and Deacon University that students who do their exams in rooms with higher ceilings have worse exam results. They looked at fifteen thousand, four one hundred students between twenty eleven and twenty nineteen, and even when they took into account age six time of year they set the exams, the whole thing consistently, students who did their exams in rooms with higher ceilings had worse results.

Explain that one to me.

That was an amazing thing. They couldn't explain. They counted direct correlation, but no explanation.

I want a lot of.

People now being like, well that explains my exam.

We got to go, but stick around coming up in just a moment. It's the reader Penney Show,