General, Welcome to the lad Base. Good evening and welcome to the program.
I'm Caleb Bond with Liz Stora and Joe Hildebrand. Well, would you believe it, Malcolm Turnbull, the Miserable Ghost, has come out with some advice on how to deal.
With Donald Trump. God help us all.
I think if there's one thing we know, it's if Malcolm Malcolm Turnbull tells you to do something, you should probably do the opposite. In the papers, we'll talk about a gangland figure in Melbourne who's had his deportation overturned thanks to Direction.
Ninety nine not another one. And then later in.
The program there's a bar in the US that has come up with a Pride month for the rest of us. But first we've got to talk about the skills shortage in this country. Now you might be sitting there thinking we've got a problem with tradees, we've got a problem with teachers, we've got a problem with police officers. We desperately need more of them. Well, I am here to tell you that you are wrong. In fact, what we need is more yoga instructors and martial artists.
No, I'm not kidding.
Jobs and skills Australia has put out today. It's list of the jobs that we need to fill, and of course that means the margrants we need to bring to this country in order to fill them. And of course the federal government and many others have been going on about the fact that we don't have enough houses. We have all these margrants coming in, but we don't have the houses for them to live in. We don't have rental properties, we don't have new properties, so you'd think, well,
we could do with some extra tradees. Now this list does say that Sparky's, chippies and civil engineers are needed. But plumbers, no bricklayers, no cabinet makers, no painters, roof tilers, stonemasons, they don't make the cut.
But the list of people who are recommended.
To be brought into this country yoga instructors and martial artists like a joke, but apparently it is not.
There are two lists.
One list says this is what we strongly recommend, what we strongly believe is what is needed. That's what the yoga instructors and martial artists have made it onto. And then there's another list that says, maybe we need to do some more consultation. That's the one that all the tradees have somehow ended up on it.
You'd think it was a pretty open cutcase.
And that's exactly what the head of Research and Build Skills, Robert Sabayra said today. He said, just the world really need more yoga instructors at this point in time. I'm not diminishing the importance of that as an occupation or the validity of it, but from the perspective of our economic priorities in this country, our social and economic priorities, it.
Would seem to us that we should really.
Be prioritizing basically any skilled trade.
Now.
The only reason I can think of that we would need more yoga instructors in this country is that it might be quite popular in the inner city. And of course the inner city is under it hack from the Greens, and Labor is desperate to wrestle as many seats back from the Greens as possible.
So, Joe, they've come up with the perfect policy.
They're going to go to the next federal election saying we've solved all your problems. We got you the yoga instructors you wanted.
Wow. Really, just to address this issue, I've actually come to the show dressed as an elite. You know what, I'm wearing a suit, Joe defendant.
You that you are in a suit and tie, and in all my establishments, in all my years, you were that you were the first bloke who gave me a paid job.
By the way, and I don't think it all that time I've seen you in.
A suit, I've got me questioning everything I've ever thought to be, Like, my whole world is exploding.
Anyway, Vogue feelings, They're perfectly natural for this. What have I been saying the whole time, every every other night. This is why cutting migration doesn't actually create more housing. We need to bring in the migrants to build the houses and.
Jobs and skills. Australia seem to think, so.
Joe bringing the migrants in, bringing migrants who can build the houses, not the migrants who can do it down the dog.
Bringing in the one.
So build skills Australia commissioned by this labor government, by the way, that's why build skills exist. Labor government was like, we need someone to address the workforce side of this housing crisis, so we commissioned build skills. Well, build skilleds told the government in March of this year. We need ninety thousand extra construction workers in order to reach your pie in the sky goals of one point two million new houses in five years. To be clear, that means
from July this year. This government has committed to building two twenty thousand new homes every month, sixty thousand every quarter. And they think they're going to pull this off while not even allowing said construction workers.
We need onto the yes.
Please these skilled immigrants, we need you desperately.
List this I know, and I welcome youth. You cannot laugh or explain the way exactly what I've been saying. I'm not saying that yoga should come. This is the whole point levels If you just simply cut migrace, well obviously the list is moronic and it needs a eguy that you're actually prioritizing the trades. And again I agree exactly. We build skills head of research of rob Sobria that the idea that you just cut migration and suddenly more
houses appear is completely and utterly fantastical. We don't have enough people to build the houses the.
Right immigrants, which obviously they're not. So you can cut numbers and just make sure that those that you are letting into the country fit the bill to help us out where we're in dire need.
But let's have a.
Look at how we ended up in this pickle because it follows a stooche between the government and the building sector in December of last.
Year, when traders were left.
Off the streamlined highly skilled professional visa category amid union calls to ensure Australian jobs were prioritized these ladies and gentlemen.
Is one of many reasons why you.
Don't vote for labor because you end up with the unions running the country.
Until tonight, we're on their side.
They govern while keeping their union mates happy. That's why trade's were left off the list.
This is why I'm saying we need to bring more margrats to address the housing.
A.
Welcome you, Joe, I, welcome o you Australian citizens from across.
It's not about the numbers.
It is about having the right migrants come into the country. And the list that we are looking at now is saying the people we absolutely need are the Yogis. The list should say there has nothing to do with numbers.
We want.
Ridiculous that the yogis appear on this list, and you know plumbers and tilers don't. But again, the sheer numbers of yoga instructors and martial arts instructors are not going to be anything like the numbers of for example, electricians, carpenter's, civil engineers.
We can only hope.
This has been put on the front page of the nine newspapers. So this this program is too woke even for the former Fair Facts newspapers. That's the government will pay attention to it. It will fix it already. Clara O'Neil has said as soon as she came to office that she was working on streamlining the skilled visa program. So we were just getting the right one and clearly someone's gone through here and hang on a minute, what's going
on here? I remember doing a story which found that I believe it was it was massuses or some massage therapists or messuses were on the targeted migration list to bring into Australia. And of course they weren't just working in the therapeutic massage.
I was going to say, they weren't the sort of This is one of the.
Things that Malcolm was procured. Malcolm Turnbull attempted to crack down on which also had people jumping up and down, and that was when he wasn't hanging up on Donald Trump story.
Well, get to that a bit later in the show.
But the idea that you can't have a migration program that has a lower number while also saying that we want certain.
People, I just don't see what the issue is. You can say we want a lot of lower a lot of.
People talk about lowering the number without making any mention of the actual mix of minus we need, as though if you just cut the number then suddenly there'd be more happy.
Because dress this in his budget reply speech, he absolutely did address that, yes we will cut my migration, but we will do so in such a way that ensure the nation's needs are met.
It's not rocket science.
But let's go to the UK now, where overnight all my folks and dreams, my birthdays, my Christmases arrived at.
Once when Nigel Farage while the mother country is burning on every single metric you name it, Britain is in trouble.
The Conservative Party, the Tories are set for a landslide defeat at the upcoming election. And who wants to see a Corb and Nista government nobody.
So who's come back.
To enter the fray and save the day? This guy, this looks like on top of me.
He's just follow me because we get a little cutters.
Of the bills about me.
And why is he doing this?
Well, if you know anything about the current state of the UK, it's bleeding obvious. But here's the man himself announcing why So.
I'm coming back as Leader of Reform UK. But not just for this election campaign. I'm coming back for the next five years. And there is one very simple reason for that. We all know already that the Conservative Party will be in opposition, but it won't be the opposition. They are incapable of it. They've spent most of the last five years fighting each other rather than standing up and fighting for the interests of this country.
I think this man is going to rail it in at the polls.
You know why.
He is a patriot.
Check Out this quote he said, I.
Believe in Britain, these boring idiots that lead the Labor and Conservative parties.
Are not worth the space.
Let's make Britain and great again, echoing the great words of President Donald Trump. Here they are together, shortly after Brexit got across the line is celebrating this iconic photo. If we can get Trump back in the White House and get that man anywhere near Downing Street, there may be hope for the Western world. Yet, ladies and gentlemen, we've got to make it happen.
I know I'm looking I'm looking forward to it enormously, and he's going to be fun. And I believe, contrary to his comments just then, I believe the real reason he diveat is because the election campaign was so far the dullest, most boring electoral campaign we have ever seen. Yes, I love it, I love it, but you know he's not going to be Prime minister, right, you know he's going to make a Labor party's back for five years.
Him back in the House will make all the difference and.
Worth having the right tear each other apart just so that you can have a bit of fun in an election campaign, even if it means Labor wins government.
He is the man of the hour.
Here he was at their own Tory party get together.
It's explaining to you the why they've already lost.
Your poll has just come out shows the election's over already, it's over, it's done. It's not my fault that the Tories have done it to themselves.
He's seen his opportunity to make a comeback and the stage is set. Well.
The point is it's going to be a labor government. Anyone knows.
Everyone knows it's going to be a labor government. So the argument around the Right tearing itself apart is somewhat.
Moot at this point because it's not.
As though Nigel Farage could come just sailing into the Tories and fix it all up in the five weeks before the next election.
It's not going to happen.
He sniffed the political wind, which is obviously that the Tories are going to get annihilated and there's going to be a significant portion of people who want something else to vote for and they don't really want to vote for labor, and so his Reform Party will be the third party that comes in and says, look, if you want to send a message to the Tories that they should get back to conservative basics and they call themselves the Conservative Party, then we are the people to do it.
He's running in the seat of Clacton, which had previously had a member that was from the UKIP Party, which was the party that he from previously, so he knows that they have proven that they can win in this seat. It is the right time for someone like Farage to company. You can't barrage the Farage to come back into the fold and say, look, we've got to give the Tories a scare.
The question is the maths though, right, So it's like one nation saying we're going to knock over Peter Dutton because he's not conservative enough, and we're going to resort this back to base and will be the new opposition because we'll be more than the Liberals are in opposition while Labor is in power. And then does one nation end up getting fifty one percent of the vote at a future election or in the UK's chance, the first case,
the first past the post. That is the question. You Kip is very good at swinging people here and there. But the reason, for example, why Brexit got up is because a whole bunch of northern labor voters in northern England who felt really p quite frankly by you know, they've been put out of jobs by you know the.
Are you saying he won't win the seats because his only point?
No, no, no, I'm saying that the question with him winning the seat, the question is whether Reform UK or the Conservatives are better positioned to be able to form government. So if you actually think the reform you came he has.
Said we will be in opposition, it will be you just heard.
He's saying he wants to be the main opposition, which means that the next time. Unless he wants to be in opposition forever, which few political parties do, he has to think that reform either a reform is the biggest opportunity to retake government from labor at the election. Wants to scare them, scare the crap out. He wants to destroy the con Servative Party in the place.
It's not about destroying the Conservative parties. Fixing the Conservative Party now.
We make their votes until they learn they then become more like reform UKU. And then he says, thank you robots, heeded your lesson, and I'll go point.
Need to have an effective opposition.
He knows the Tories don't have it in them to give They didn't even have it in the to give who So he's.
Like coming back to get it, going to stay.
Well, there's two things you can do next.
One is you either former coalition with the Conservatives if they come to the table in terms of what you want them to do, or at the point you think the Conservatives have reformed themselves, you bow out.
That's your two options. Now for.
The last political party you're aware of in a liberal deboxcy that voluntarily just bowed out. But even the Democrats had the decency to be wiped out by if no.
One, if no one makes an attempt to try and correct the Tories, then the Tories will keep going the way they have, which is leading them to annihilation at the next election in the UK. They need someone to deliver some kind of reset. That's what Faraj wants to do, and God willing he will be able to do it.
And speaking of conservative I think one of the most important issues that any conservative party in the world should be worried about right now, and particularly in our country, is housing affordability, because, of course, if you want people to believe in what they have, you want them to have something to conserve. They actually have to own something, and generally that has been based on a good job, a home that you own to come home to, and
a family living in that home. And we know statistically now that the number of people having families is dropping. The fertility rate in Australia at the moment is one point six. The replacement rate we need to keep the population stable is to point one, that is kid per person right, So what we have as a situation with fewer people having fewer kids because fundamentally they don't own anything. A new research from Redbridge, which of course is run by Cos Samaras, who used to be a strategist for
the Labor Party, has shown exactly this. It found that more than half of eighteen to thirty four year olds have delayed starting a family, primarily because of the cost of living.
And Cos Samaras.
Said to this that the people who participated in this study were asked whether or not a baby bonus would be an encouragement for them to have a child, and they basically said no, a baby bonus.
Would do very little.
And to this Cos Samaras said, it's not just about the three thousand or four thousand you might get from government. It's the inability to access affordable rental properties. It's the inability to access a home that is suitable for raising your family. It's the unstable work out there. People don't feel like because of the economic conditions, they are in a place in their lives where they can go and
have children. They want a home that they can own, they want a stable job, and of course they want that home to not cost them half of their life savings. Any conservative government worth at salt should be working over time on this because without people being able.
To own a home and have a family and.
A patch of dirt for them to look after that, that's their connection to the community, that's their connection to the world. And without that, you set up this situation where people go, well, the economic conditions I live in don't suit me, so why would I do anything to conserve and better the world that I live in. John Howard once said, and I'm paraphrasing him here, that economic policy should help people and not the other way around. The people are not the means to the economic policy.
The economic policy is the means to the people. That is not the situation we're in now, and we're.
Still to see the consequences.
But the government has known this for ages.
Last time our fertility rate was this low one point seven it was in two thousand and that was the lowest it had ever been in recorded history. In Australia the year after two thousand and one they came out with the baby bonus because then we had a government who.
Was like, well, we've got to do something.
Okay, people have kids, come on, get us out of here.
Let's let's have babies.
We can do this for money.
And it worked.
But we've seen this decline for decades now, and successive.
Governments do very little.
There's no tax breaks, there's no kind of like, here is how we are making it affordable for you to have kids, or at least more than one point seven kids.
So right now the baby bonus won't cut it. We can't bring that back.
It worked for its day, for Grand power.
These governments idea of all let's support families is universal daycare. Oh thank you so much that you're going to take my three year old for free. I want to stay home and raise my own kids, Thanks very much.
And this government's idea of we're supporting families.
Is give us your children.
We all know the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Give us your children and women half of the workforce. Get back to your desks and bring us the tax dollar.
That's all this government cares about.
So what you just said.
Literally not really.
The exact opposite is what we constantly see from this government, where people are the means to the end as opposed to what are you doing to ensure that people feel empowered to? Yeah, but we have millennials, even older people being like, hang on.
A minute, I've got student.
Debt, I can't afford a roof over my head, I cannot afford kids. In many of the polls that are run showing why people are saying I can't have kids, isn't I mean radical feminist and all that cancerous ideology is playing its part, But by and large it's because they feel like they can't afford them. It's not because they don't want children, they just feel like.
They can't afford it.
And this is a malady felt across the West. Check out this map of fertility done by a statistica.
This is something that we.
Are seeing across the Western world.
People are already feeling the pinch.
They're like, well, why can we we can't afford to have kids we'd love to And what we're seeing take place is, of course the natural outworking of this. If certain countries are having that many more kids than us, what do you think is going to happen? And our countries are already transforming right before our eyes.
Well, this is the great replacement?
Is that where we are not a job?
How else do you increase the population without importing people? If people you don't have children, or at least keep.
The po hands up. If you've got three kids, you've done on the panel, you've done, not three kids, hands up, just talking, hands up if you're doing well.
I had thought.
Actually, remember remember let's remember remember Makaylia Cash talked about a curry for the country. They should start a campaign shag for the country.
But one ford and one for the country.
You're a fair bit older than me.
I'm twenty four years old. I'm not economically in a position apart from the fact that I don't have a partner at them, but I'm not economically in a position where I would feel right.
So obviously, exactly as cost said, it's very smart. Housing affordability is incredibly important, and we need to bring in more people to build more houses. Another reason why we are bringing in migrants is because we're not having enough kids. This is, as you say, this is a global problem. Basically, the richer you are the less likely. Well in the more affluent a society you live in, the more likely
you are to have kids. Also, where you have you know, where you have you know, super or pensions or people looking after you in retirement. A lot of the reason why people have a lot of kids in developing countries is because they see it as an insurance policy for when they get old, the kids will take care of them. Another reason is a lack of birth control, all those sorts of things. But again, big I'm a big fan
of people having kids. Not only are kids beautiful and fun and they're awesome to hang out with, but they're great economic drivers. They are fantastic because they you know, and you don't have to import a fifteen year old migrant to work at mcgonials and get the nation going. So they're paying their taxes and looking after an aging generation. Again, it's like marriage. Marriage is a great economic unit and it has been throughout history. So I'm all in favor
of that traditional stuff. I'm all in favor of people getting married and having kids. And I've done my bit, thank you very much, Australia. But this is my medal.
But this is where we've dudded ourselves because we've created an economic situation.
You're quite right, we need people to have kids.
In order to keep the economy going, but we have created an economic situation where people don't feel comfortable to have the kids to keep the economy going. I mean, I you know, as I said before, I'm a young fellow. But my parents when I was born and my younger brother and my father went to work full time, and mum worked part time on Thursday nights and on Saturdays. She was until we were old enough to sort offend for ourselves. She spent most of her time at home.
That was the decision my parents made about how they wanted to parent, and they could afford to do it, and my father did mega shed load of money and or died my mother, but they were able to do it, whereas now you would be seriously pushing uphill to be able to have unless you're on very good money. One parent at home and one parent at work.
Both parents have.
To go to work, and it's another thing that discourages people from having kids. So we've created an economy that's great for the government. It means they pull in tex and whatever, but they've jypped themselves because they've stopped the next generation that keeps the Yeah, the.
Higher wages, I'm all in favor of that as well. And yes, it is a difficult problem. We were lucky enough, like we're you know, we're not coup to but struggle. But we're going backwards in the current economic climate. And you know, I worry about the mortgage like everyone else, and I'm in one of the really privileged, fortunate positions, but it comes for us all. People aren't going to feel more confident until interest rates start coming back down. Yes,
we do need higher wages. I could not agree more in a lower cost of it, there's and a lower cost of living and greater housing affordability. One of the problems is that houses a couple of decades ago were about three times I think in the eighties, Yeah, exactly three times the annual average wage. They're now something like ten times, probably more now. That was a few years old. So you've got to you know, yes, you have to bring housing prices down. You have to make the cost
of living more affordable. That applies to absolutely everything that applies to living as much as it does to having kids. And of course people aren't going to do the most important thing in their life and the biggest sort of investment in their life, their whole heart and soul, which is to have kids unless they feel pretty secure. The other thing you can do, of course, at the other end is make people feel more secure in other countries, and that would make them less likely to have more
kids and create the problems there. But that's another story altogether. There you go, all the world's problem solved.
Let's talk about the miserable ghost because he has re emerged. His name is Malcolm Turnbill, and he is scared. He is so scared that Donald Trump will successfully make a comeback.
How we know that, Well.
He's written a piece today saying, should this happen, leaders of the world, I encourage you to follow in my hallowed footsteps and make sure that you take this man to task. Good.
But you stand up.
To him because there was this one time that I stood up to him, and I want everyone to know about it because it was the highlight of my career. Here he is telling us all about it in the doco called Nemesis.
President's not going to honor the refugee deal. Prime Minister shouldn't refer to it, so I you know, raised that matter with the President and he was very angry and we had quite a row about it. It turned out to be a good call, essentially that the summary was it started off no way, Jose and ended up yes, but I hate you.
I'm big tour from a ship sweet who's best remembered for a legacy of snowy hydro too. And then there's Trump who just you know, unprecedented peace. There was no Russia Ukraine war, there was peace in the Middle East. America hadn't had it so good economically since the sixties until Trump rocked up rather a better legacy.
I think I just love it when.
These tiny, tiny men take it upon themselves to channel their sheer lack of significance in the form of hatred to a man ten million times their consequence and what he calls if.
We can get that quote back up, a powerful narcissistic self belief has given him Trump the strength to defy not just his many enemies, but even reality itself.
A powerful narcissistic self belief, Well, it takes one to know one, Malcolm Turnbull, and what I loved and I think we all loved, even if you hated Trump, was when he was in office, his big dog energy. Literally it transferred to world leaders. Does anyone here actually think that Morrison, had Trump not been leader of the free world at the time, did it of his own accord pick up.
The phone to China and be like.
We want an explanation regarding the COVID origins.
I don't think so.
I actually know how that happened in the halls of power.
It really did.
Other leaders started to take on more of a big dog energy and who once limp wristed loser leaders, they're not leaders at all.
But I just I can't get over Turnbull portraying himself as like the master manipulator I beat Donald.
Trump, give me arrest.
I mean, he refers to Trump as a volatile, narcissistic gas lighter. He says that there's never been such an effective and relentless gas lighter. If you look at Malcolm Turnbull's president presidency, geez.
I don't want to upgrade him to that.
The reason that came to my head is, of course, that he used to run the Australian Republican movement, primarily because I think he wanted to be president.
Himself one day.
But his Prime ministership which was based on the fact that Tony Abbott had lost thirty news polls in a row, and then he went on to do exactly the same thing. It wasn't the most glorious prime ministership that Australia had ever seen. But now he swan's around as though he was the answer to all the world's problems. So he goes and pins this piece in Foreign Affairs magazine and she's the world.
I have news for you. I will tell you how to deal with Donald Trump.
You don't tell your advice. And I admit that that Malcolm Turmber did not have many wins during his prime ministership, and I think this was one of them. I mean, I don't know if you prefer the alternative that America didn't take the refugees that we were trying to or this arm steaings. I should say that we were trying to get rid of in this convoluted swapping system where everyone actually ended up in a country, but it looked like no one was getting into that particular country.
There was only about not downing the win.
We're more down in him crowing about it.
That's right.
Later.
I've still got as a former editor once told me self, praise is no recommendation. And again I think even just the fact that one thing that's a little bit illuminating is the fact that he's writing this in an essay in the journal Foreign Affairs, which is obviously the bible of the kind of elite global diplomatic class. And I say, this is someone who has friends and family who work there. But that is part of the reason why Donald Trump
came to power. And so again this kind of sneering down from Ivory Towers about this boorish narcissistic I mean, you know anyone in politics who isn't a narcissist, if anyone can find one, please, especially Matham. And again, they just don't seem to get that. Sneering at him, looking down on him, and especially persecuting him and pursuing him through the justicism. It just makes him stronger because people think, well, you're all a bunch of wankers. At least this guy
I can understand. At least this guy talks in terms I can understand. And at least this guy says, you know, I'm going to give you your jobs back now, whether he's got a plan to do that or not. As another matter. But you know, again, he's speaking directly to people in a language that they can understand. And all the people that are speaking against Donald Trump are actually are actually speaking in a more elitist frame which he doesn't fit into, and that's why they almost want to spit him out.
Is like a foreign infection in a body that the body's trying to reject and until they realize until again, there used to be a consensus between the center right and the Senate left on big things like foreign policies, say, and somehow we just forgot or stopped communicating that to people, and people suddenly started to think, this is the sort
of world I don't understand. There are all these people up there doing things, speaking in bureaucraate ease, and I'm losing my job or I'm scared that I can't get a house or whatever it might be, and I cannot understand a word or these suits say. And I appreciate the irony that I'm saying this in wearing a suit.
For the first time in the very long time.
Look, you know, I never thought i'd say this, but I really wish Malcolm turnbull post prime ministership had been more like Julia Gillard again words that I never but she is dead set the best X Prime minister we've had in a long time, because for the most part she's just kept her mouth shut and got on with her life. If only Turnbull and Rudd had done the same. Now, there was a small win for The Herald Sun today. They had been pursued by an activist by the name
of Claire Southey. She's from Rainbow Rights Watch and she'd gone after the Herald Son for an article a couple of years ago that they wrote about prisoners in a women's prison. Of course, female prisoners complaining that a transgender prisoner had been banged up with them, and this was someone who'd been convicted of violent offenses, including sex offenses
overseas well. This activist somehow believed that these female prisoners raising an issue with the biological man who had committed sex offenses being put in a female prison was somehow transphobic. Thankfully that decision was thrown out this week, but I was really heartened to read the words of Mel Jeffries in the article about this in The Herald Sun today. Now, Mel Jeffries is a biological woman who at one point
decided she wanted to be a man. She had her breasts taken off in twenty seventeen, but by twenty twenty one she decided that she wanted to be a woman again, that she did not want to be a man. She has done what is called detransitioning, and we're hearing more about this now. People who decided at one point that they were transgender and were given irrevocable medical procedures to try to change their gender, later regretting it and going back to their biological sex. And she sold the Herald
Son today. Sorry, when I see efforts to disenfranchise women who have suffered deeply at the hands of abusive men, who speak up and try to raise alarm about injustice, it hardens my resolve to oppose these ideas and the people who push them. All I can say is here here and more strength to her arm. And how ridiculous this clear Southy woman. It's not the first time she's done it is routinely going after meeting outlets for reporting
factually on matters about transgender issues. She then tries to tie them up with you know, the press council and in the courts and all sorts of staff. Meanwhile, you've got people who've actually been through the whole process, like Mel Jeffrey, saying no, you're a menace.
This needs to be talked about.
It's it beggars belief that it even needs to be talked about when you're weighing up the safety of women compared to the rights of trans women.
Am I getting this right?
How is this even a conversation that women have to in the twenty first century fight for their own bathroom spaces, their own prisons. I mean, this guy had sex offenders, like, that's what he was in jail for, and yet he was put in there with vulnerable women. How is this even something that Mel Jeffries has to go to the mattresses on.
It's just it shouldn't even have to happen. Thank god she's.
Taking up the cause because her voice, obviously having spent ten years living as a mayor, is more powerful than most. She's like, Hey, you don't come at me calling me her begot I've lived both lives and I'm telling you right now, I'm sick to death of this rubbish.
Mel Jeffers is certainly in an unusually well informed position to know, but the problem is and we see this with the gay community more generally as well, that you've got a very sensible, sort of normal part of the community who just want to get on with their lives. And they make some really good points about you know, areas where they're still discriminated against and things like you know, conversion therapy and that sort of stuff which my wife
does work on for Quality Australia. And they're all pretty sensible, they're all they make really reasonable points. But then you have these super extreme, crazy queer Marxists who hijacked the debate. They're the sort of people who've got the cops banned from the Marti Gras parade. They come after this tip just for future campaigns, maybe don't make the child sex offender your poster girl. That's probably just a tip from an old hand.
Wouldn't that be a great idea.
After the break, we'll get into the papers, including a Melbourne gangland figure Will Feed, who is now allowed to stay in the country so people can fear him more thanks.
To Direction ninety nine. All that more coming up.
Let's get into the papers, starting with the Australian. Joe tell us about your mate Anthony el I.
Certainly will Caleb with pleasure, thank you very much. Yes, front page of the Eyes today, and it's something I've been banging on about four weeks and weeks and weeks. They're in the top right hand corner. PM locked out by war protests Anthony Albanezi has been locked out of his Sydney electorate office this year because of pro Palestinian protests.
Mid official security warnings that Islamist extremists are attending anti Israel demonstrations on university campuses and outside parliamentarian's offices, and this I'm hoping is finally going to be the kind of turning point. But I've been telling people I can promise you personally, privately, public or whatever. The PM hates these guys. He's sick of these stripes. They've been keeping him out of his office. They've been making his life a misery.
And he hates them because they're stupid enough not to realize he's on their side the quiet.
I'm pretty sure they're too stupid to realize a lot of things, but they absolutely making his life a misery and certainly he is, if anything more inclined to be more pro Israel as a result of their crazy one eight actions, I think seeing because of the attacks on other Electric offices. They've been vandalized, hit with graffiti. I think Chris Bowens was one from memory. So it's been
absolutely appalling what has been done. And these protesters are really showing their colors, which they are violent extremists, thugs.
So for all this time, so since January that the office has been shot, presumably they're still paying the rent on the office right because they can't get rid of the office. These people are sitting out the front, not only just being dickheads and making a nuisance of themselves. And I live in the Inner West, so I've seen them on the occasion that I've driven past the office.
But they are keeping the Prime Minister out of his office, a place of employment, which is not which is not just any form of protest.
It's like the people who glue themselves to the road.
They are impeding everyone else's ability to go about their life freely. So at what point do we get out the water cannons and the rubber bullets and get these people the hell off his doorstep.
It's o point because if you're alb and easy, that's not how you treat your friends. The sun Now visa bungle outrage.
Gosh, it feels like Groundhog Day.
Gangland figure joled for serious crimes cleared to stay in Australia under Labour's shambolic directive. Mock Bell's mates free pass a feared Melbourne gangland figure with strong ties to drug kingpin, turning Mockbell as that is visa cancelation overturned under controversial legal guidance.
Lay is scrambling to fix.
Scramble harder, Labor scramble harder.
So it was last week.
That Gels got up and said, oh, no, okay, So we're going to have the new members.
Of a review thing and what they're going.
To do is use common sense.
I know, I said the whole thing about connections to Australia, which by the.
Way, is why this thug gets to stay. Its good connections to Australia get out.
And yet how long is this going to take? Is this another six month review? Is it a three month review? Why can't you do something like this in.
A week, Joe, We all know Direction ninety.
Nine is an abject failure. Why can't you just repeal it?
They're punch drunk. I don't know what they're doing. They don't know what the next thing is coming from. I've I've seen ministers and departments in these ups of scanner before they are gone. They've gone for all money they're really will say, I think you're getting the wrong into the stick on this, Liz, because this guy is actually an incredibly caring person. In paragraph, it says Kevin Farrugia fifty one cradled a severely injured mock bell in his
arms after he was stabbed in a prison ambush. Wow, you don't get that.
He's a lovely Who among us have.
Had a friend like that who would cradle us in their arms after we were stabbed in a prison ambush?
And for that alone, he deserves to stay in the country. Send the bastard back to mold.
We have another look at the Herald Sun front page if we can pull it up here, because this is another story. I don't know if it's related. Since when did Vin Diesel get a pass to come to the country.
Look, you know, I reckon this. This fella.
Andrew Giles should just get on the phone and send one of those non existent drones down.
To that seems like job.
That's the easy solution. Isn't on to the advertiser tomorrow. And and I note also on the front of the TiSER and the splashes I killed Charlie, which is of course that horrific story from last year at Schoolies where the police Commissioner, Grant Stephens's son was killed and the guy who killed him has admitted in court today that he did so guilty. Your honor and to Grant and the rest of the Stephens family is always my thoughts are with you. But we'll go to the other story
on the front of the TiSER. Stamp duty acts to help first buyers. Stamp duty will be abolished for all first home buyers who build or buy new homes and first home owner Grant, What did I say that eligibility will be expanded here here common sense policy? Why is
this not just across the board everywhere? Because it is the biggest impediment to get apart from the fact that houses are so expensive to begin with, it's the biggest impediment to getting into the housing market as a first home bar because you've saved up your hundreds of thousands of dollars that you need for your deposit. That's the deposit, and then you need all this other money which you can't borrow to pay for the stamp duty.
You think you have a deposit and then you look at the other.
List of fees and whatever.
I mean.
I don't think stamp duty should exist.
It's like the government being like, oh, you bought something, well, we're just going to tax you for absolutely no reason, Like it does not make any sense to me whatsoever, any.
More than payroll tax. It's like, oh, thanks for employing people. Wham oh we'd be stuffed without you.
But hey, we're going to make life as hard as possible because we're the government.
That's what we do.
We make life hard and we collect tax and that's all we care about. So great move by malinowskis.
I hope the premiers labor government. There's just another great labor policy, so many of them. It's hard to keep up, isn't it. Man find with the mercury. And this is an absolute cracker of a story reborn in the USA. Eight Tasmanian devils are heading to America as ambassadors. Better than a Tasmanian devil ambassador program. And and yes, the Americans have been warned that the Tasmanian Devils are hairy, bad tempered and have a nasty bite. They said, it's okay, We're used to that.
It looks I'm sure they're excited for the as I said before. You know, they make better ambassadors than Kevin Rad. But you know, it's not exactly like when Adelaide Zoo got hold of the Pandas from China? Is it? You know? I know Tazzy Devils, they might be something special, but it's like they're.
Nothing that great? Are they? Is this people in a people in the US?
Chinese bands more than homegrown good.
Old Gosh's a communist, huge and fair and they could rip your face off.
Nothing and furry and can rip your face off.
I don't look their furry and they can rip your face off. I don't think that Tazzy Devils are all that cute old rubbish. If they could bring back if they could bring back the Tazzy Tiger, bring back the Thila scene and send one of those to the US, then I think we're seriously onto something.
But you know, as for some Tazzy Devils.
You can't just say that pandas are better than devils. It's not a black and white issue.
Oh very funny they called the Tazzy Devils. That the new AFL team are getting down in Tasmania are called the Tazzy Devils.
Just send those ones over to the US. They wouldn't know the difference.
And maybe they'll learn about the great game of Bossie rules while they're there.
Anyway, that's it for the papers. After the break.
A bar in the US has come up with a new version of Pride Month, but not gay Pride Month.
We'll tell you about that soon.
Now.
Seinfeld once talked about a Festivus for the rest of us, and the bars come up with a similar notion for Pride.
Yes they have, and Ida bo Bar has gone viral after announcing that instead of being Pride Month, they were celebrating Junea's Heterosexual Awesomeness Month.
This is the viral post.
They're right.
June will be OSS's inaugural Heterosexual Awesomeness Month. Come join us all month to celebrate heterosexuals, for without them, none of us would be here. Each Monday will be Hetero Male Monday, and any heterosexual mail dressed like a heterosexual mail will receive a free draft beer. Each Wednesday is Heterosexual Couple's Day, and each heterosexual couple will receive fifteen percent off their bill.
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On a minute, Absolute legends. Yes, everyone's full of home.
Couple of heteros to than what it holds like a heterosexual? Is this dressed like a heterosexual?
Most definitely sure.
As I've always said, real men were pink fantastic. I'm happy to I'm happy to go with that. What happens then if a gay guy addresses is a heterosexual just marches up to the bar and here you gets.
There going to be Are they going to be able to?
That's appropriate?
Takes me as the kind of bar that.
Will be a strikers, the kind of bar that does not have gata.
That that is appro creation, Joe, that is appropriate, all right. I thought they already had bars for heterosexual men. They're called titty bars. Anyway, Just on this notion.
On this.
It is true, and speak you know very well where they are, Joe. While we're on this theme, the Babylon Bee.
Which is one of the great satirical cloud fits out of the US, has come up with a new version of Guess who.
Kids Who wants to play Guess Who.
I don't like that game. It's not inclusive.
Yeah, it only has two genders.
Not anymore?
Yeah, introducing all new Guess Who now with all four hundred and thirty seven genders?
Is your a person by gender?
Mom?
You cannot determine someone's gender based on their appearance.
That's disrespectful and offensive. Is your person a Demi Boyne?
Identifying someone solely based on their gender is reductive and offensive?
Goodness, gracious? May have you had any of those discussions with your kids, Joe? Is that what it's like at home? You get a link.
I don't know what they are. I don't know who anybody is anymore. I don't even know if they're wearing pants right now. I don't even know who's got them.
Well, it's more about what he has arisen in the pants, I suppose.
But yeah, I don't want to know what.
I don't know that you.
Guess Who was one of my favorite games as a kid. Yes, I'm dead sit worried that this is actually where it's going.
Oh I have.
I'm shocked they haven't already updated the game and been like Guess Who for the twenty first century.
Well, you know what, it's Pride Month. This would be the time to release it anyway. If that's it from us tonight, coming up next to the reader Panic and Show.
Goodnight,