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Well, good evening and thanks for joining us. I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond. Now I know it hurts going to the supermarket these days, but a woman in the UK claims her life was ruined when she went to the supermarket and was hit on the head by a cauliflower. Will bring you that story a little later, but if you're wondering, she's not in a vegetative state, so it's okay.
Plus, when we look at the papers.
First, dad joke of the night.
There you go, it's going to be a great night. We've started early.
When we get to the papers a little later, poker machines drastically reduced in numbers, and yet the amount of money being lost has not been reduced at all. Plus, a Palestinian man who in Gaza hosted members of Hamas and other terror organizations at his art gallery given a visa to live in Australia, the coalition demanding answers. We'll get to all of that a little later, but first.
A Labor candidate standing in the Queensland election has been forced to apologize for tweets criticizing police that she posted fourteen years ago. Now, the tweets were pretty bad, but should something posted on social media a decade ago disqualify someone from public office. Claire Carlin, who's running for the seat of Burley on the Gold Coast, posted this tweet back in two thousand and nine. She wrote, we don't
like police because they kick and they punch. Then in twenty ten, she in response to someone who tweeted on the count of three, say if the police one two three, she replied one two three, and then in twenty eleven she tweeted f the police. Now she since deleted those tweets, but Channel nine will they found them?
What are your views on the Queensland Police.
I'm actually just about to go somewhere and I'm not able to.
Talk at the moment.
I'm sorry. Okay, Well, you've seen some of your tweets where you've repeatedly tweeted F the police.
Can you come in on that? If elected, would you support the queens and Police?
Of course I support the Queen's and police.
Can you explain those tweets?
I'm not aware of what you're talking about at the moment.
I'm just about to go and see my mum, if I can show you here, I don't know.
I can't actually read that while I'm there, you.
Completely stop and have a look. It's that clarsy.
Is that you.
All right?
Before we debate where the decade old tweets should be held against a political candidate, I've got to ask you, Caleb, as a former chief of staff of a newspaper, does she need media training?
That was so bad? Like, you know, there is nothing that can't be fixed by simply acknowledging what is in front, usually because people like it when politicians or even would be politicians. It's just honest, like, yeah, I'm a human. I said something once that I now don't believe anymore. Over and done with right, I'm going to go see my mom. I'm going to go see my mom. I couldn't possibly stop to check the tweets. And then when he actually shows something, she goes, oh, I can't believe
it is this ill. This could not possibly have happened. It was the worst way to possibly handle that you could ever imagine. She should have just stopped and looked at them and gone, yep, that's my Twitter account. I'd totally forgotten that I had written him fourteen odd years ago. I've since changed my mind. The police are important. Da da da da da. Now, whether she's actually changed her mind,
who knows. One would think that if fourteen years ago you thought if the police was a correct thing to say, maybe you have a bit of a problem with the coppers, but the Labor Party would prefer that you didn't. So you have to toe the Labor Party line as to the question of whether or not it should count against you in this case. It's not that agregious, she said.
If the police, it probably does indicate where her mind lies when it comes to law enforcement, and that's not exactly a good look for the Labor Party in Queensland at the moment, indeed, knowing the problems they've had with
youth crime. But in general, I don't like this trawling back through people's social media stuff they've said fifteen years ago or whatever it is, because fifteen years ago she was a much younger woman than she is now and she probably said stuff on social media that is stupid, no doubt, Like the rest of us, she would have posted stuff fifteen years ago that now would be unacceptable. Whether we're a joke or just language has changed et cetera.
And the constant use of this on both sides of politics against liberal candidates and Labor candidates and Greens candidates and UAP candidates, and on and on it goes I find is a bit graduitous at times. Let's fight it on what is in front of us right now. As opposed to muck Rake.
I just want to know what were you up to in two thousand and nine, ten and eleven, Claire, that is so had.
It in for the cops.
Hey, that's the question that needs answering. But you're quite right in saying, look, and world leaders have done much worse. Remember Justin Trudeau, the now Prime Minister of Canada, said he actually could remember how many times he'd worn blackface.
He'd done it so many.
Times, he was like, to be honest, I can't even tell you how many times I did that. Remember our former premier here in New South Wales, Dominic Perrote, wore a Nazi suit to his own twenty first birthday party, So did Prince Harry back in two thousand and five.
The list goes on.
Heck jd Vance, who's now Trump's running mate just a few years prior, had said he considered Trump to be America's hitler. So the question is do you believe people can change or not? And of course it does always leave the door open for people to wonder have you really changed or are you now just saying and doing the politically correct thing, apologizing, etc.
But I think that one thing we can agree on.
Is that people decades prior, in this case, fourteen years prior to her running for parliament. I'm sure fourteen years ago she never thought that she would run for parliament. A lot of these people aren't that way minded, and she said herself, she's not a career politician type person. A lot of them wouldn't have dreamt that they would end up where they are now in their current lives and have to hang their head in Shane and.
Give these apologies.
But you're quite right and saying the biggest mistake is not owning it, as if she did not know the tweets that that Channel nine reporter was referring to at the time.
Far be it from me to agree with Shannon Fentaman, the Women's Minister and Health Minister in Queensland. But she made the point and it was well made, that this is a reason why a lot of people are reluctant to go into politics because they know this sort of thing will happen in the media. They reported quote prior to the scandal, she'd been strongly regarded by Labian prior
to the scandal. By the scandal, they mean that bit of news footage which probably would not have been a scandal had she done what you said and just stood there owned it, taken the medicine and moved on. But the Queensland the Gold Coast Police Superintendent Pete A. Miles, he said he understood that miss Carlin had better relationships with police now, and he pointed out that if you're looking for someone perfect to go into politics, maybe you vote for Jesus at the next election.
Yeah, I loved that line. Is life.
From my records, the only perfect person to have walked this earth was Jesus, and that was over two thousand years ago. But I also think that Claire knows she's got Buckley's chance of winning this seat.
It really doesn't look likely.
It is a closely held seat, but given how on the nose Labor is at the moment, that woman is.
Probably just like you know what, this is not worth the.
Mud flinging I just want to run away from this reporter. It's unlikely I'll even end up being the member for Burley.
I do worry though, about the idea that we'd end up with automatons essentially as politicians, people have never committed any kind of sin in their life. I mean, if you want really boring people running the country, I can understand, because oh, they're not going to put a foot wrong or something. But the reality is that politicians or would be politicians are people just like you and me, and quite often we go, oh my god, these people they speak in a now the language that we can't understand.
And then you have people who do speak in languages that we can understand and who make mistakes like the rest of us, and we go, no, how dare they They can't possibly do that. Yes, it was a small offense, but really it's not all that egregious. What is egregious, though, is the misinformation and disinformation build that the federal government is currently trying to push. Now we know what this means.
It means Akma, the Communications and Media Authority would be given the power to call in people to explain what has been posted on social media. Essentially, they set up a Ministry of truth that says, well, this is misinformation or this is disinformation. It should be banned from social media. You shouldn't be able to post it. Social media companies should be sanctioned for what they allow you to put online. And who decides what is misinformation or disinformation? Government arm.
So the government is essentially deciding what is true. You can see where it all ends up. Well, the Coalition is now saying that if someone who is affiliated with a social media company, and what exactly affiliation is we don't quite know. Is it someone who is a staff member it's say a Facebook or an x or is it someone who is paid by a social media platform. For instance, on YouTube, a lot of people derive advertising revenue from what they post the videos they post, so
they are technically affiliated with that business. They would be able to be jailed for a year if they refuse to cooperate with a public inquiry called by the Communications Minister. Now, look, if you post something on social media or you work at a social media company and then the government comes up with some sort of trumped up public inquiry into what is being posted, you can understand. While you'd say, well, no,
that's just free speech. We don't want to operate here, but if you don't show up, a year in jail potentially, according to the Coalition. Media lawyer Justin Quill has called this out and exactly how chilling it is for free speech.
Is absolutely an undermining of free speech on so many different levels, and it's so concerning, so big but brotherish that we have this definition of misinformation, for example, reasonably verifiable as false, misleading or deceptive, reasonably verifiable according to who the government. And that's ultimately the main issue that I see here is that the government or a government agency determine what is reasonably verifiable is false, misleading or deceptive.
Some things might seem deceptive to the government but are actually in reality true. So it's greatly concerning to me.
Spot on. A National Senator, Bridget McKinsey said at SEAPAC on the weekend that if the Coalition wins the next election, they would repeal this piece of legislation should it be passed.
We're voting down this very appalling bad bill and we're proud to do so.
We hope it doesn't get.
Up with the support of the Greens, but it will be something we'll be getting rid of in a coalition government under your reviewment, Well, I would be yes, absolutely, we have to do everything we can. But that's why you need to vote coalition in the Senate too.
This apparently comes under section two h two of this bill, which the government says would not apply to individuals who post on social media. If you're just Joe Bloggs who posts something that is supposedly misinformation or disinformation, you couldn't be jailed for not showing up to an inquiry. But presumably someone else who is connected to the social media outfit itself could be jailed for a year for not showing up to speak on your behalf. The whole thing just seems ridiculous.
So why would you, if you were a social media organization not just say, you know what, let's just suppress Caleb's tweet. Let's just suspend Caleb for a couple of months just to keep the government happy, rather than have an investigation a hearing.
We've got to have people now show up.
If we don't cooperate, we risk jail easier just not to allow your tweet to go viral than to go through the rigoramole that the government is putting on.
That's really what they're trying to do, right.
Absolutely, they're outsourcing the censorship, saying we will make you liable for what other people say on your platform, which I just think is utter nonsense. Also, keep in mind these platforms have hundreds of millions of users, especially if you're talking about a platform like x Facebook. These are bahamous in the social media world. Can you imagine how many hearings, even in the space of a week or a month ATMA then could call you guys, you guys are in trouble for this one. You guys are in
trouble for that one. They'd be tied up for years on end. I don't even know how our courts would be able to process it. These processes as they stand make absolutely no sense whatsoever. And something to keep in mind is if it's the social media companies that being held liable, most of these companies aren't based in Australia.
Most of them are based in America.
And while America is our friend and very good ally, who among us likes the idea of Americans deciding what Australians can and can't say on our social media platforms.
And then, of.
Course there's the case of TikTok, which is Chinese owned, which no doubt already censors US. But you're basically now these social media platforms would be required by our own government by law to do the censorship for them.
And just as we.
Discover nearly every time a government gets hit with one of.
These, whether it's the story we were talking about last night where they spent.
Three hundred and sixty thousand dollars relocating an office only to move it back in two years later, they always blame the bureaucrat. So government loves outsourcing, and in that case it was PwC. We followed PWC's advice. We paid for all the consultancies. This is exactly what would occur on mass if they successfully made these platforms liable, because then if anyone called out the censorship, they could just.
Be like, well, it was the platform. It was the platform. We wouldn't have even condoned that censorship. Arguably they'd be able to make that argument.
I was hardened to hear Bridget mackenzie talking to Kredlin earlier tonight say the Coalition would vote against this misinformation bill. I'm just wondering if they've removed from their own Liberal Party website their support for AKMA being given these exact.
Powers exactly exactly, which that was the story we brought to you last week. The coalition is coming out quite strongly saying we will oppose this. You heard Bridget mackenzie say there that if it got up, a coalition government would actually.
Go so far as to repeal it.
However, if you go to a site on the federal Liberal Party's website, they've got an entire page dedicated to fake news and what they as a coalition intend to do to combat it. Let's not forget this Combating Misinformation Disinformation Bill was the brainchild of the former Liberal government. So you can bet your bottom dollar in some way, shape or form they do intend to follow through, not
the bill that Labor currently has before them. God forbid it gets up, but certainly we would see something similar from a liberal government, and I think they're being quite dishonest about that.
In my opinion, it's just unprecedented in the way it controls speech. Right. I think there is a legitimate art argument for social media platforms being held accountable for, say, defamatory content that is posted on their platforms. In the same way that a newspaper or a TV channel can be held accountable for defamatory content that is posted on their platforms. You know that you can come and soon me for what I've said, But the channel also gets dragged into that case. And I don't see why that
shouldn't also apply to Facebook, Twitter and whatever else. But what they're saying here is that we will go beyond what is just untrue and provable in a court of law and give it to a quasi government arm form of AKMA and let them decide what is and isn't done true. Without the checks and balances of a courtroom, it's a completely different system and chilling for freespool.
Well as justin Quill there defined misinformation in the bill anything reasonably verifiable as false. Well, if you post something that's reason verifiable is well, that's not true. Why do we need ACMA to be able to launch a hearing an investigation? Shouldn't we leave it to eligent people to realize? That doesn't really make sense. I think Liz is having us on there. We don't need a government body to shut you down.
What you just described is free speech manifest and our fellow peoples can decide whether we're full of it or whether we're telling the truth. To the Federal Parliament now where Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is under pressure to cancel the visa of a US based academic who is granted a visa to fly into Australia to stand in Southeast Sydney yesterday attending a rally on the anniversary of October seven, to say this, I want to start in a light note.
I'm feeling in a good mood today.
Today is not fully a day of mourning in many respects, today is also a day that marks considerable celebration, considerable progress.
The Opposition is now rightly asking how the heck did this guy get a visa and would have us believe that they do care very deeply about social cohesion at a time of such unheaval, upheaval which we see on our streets on the weekly, almost the daily at the moment here in Australia, and yet seemed to think it was of no consequence whatsoever that this US academic, who if you take a look at his social media record, you know exactly where he stands on this issue, to
then be a guest speaker at a rally in Southeast Sydney to say that this was a day of celebration, this was a day of progress. This government is once again just laughing in our faces, saying one thing, or
trying to be seen as sitting on the fence. And yet this guy can come into our country on such a sacred day and incredible day of mourning for the Jewish people and are to these disgusting works and Burkes's Tony Burks's as soon as he heard the comments, he contacted his department and said, he's this man on a visa And then the department came back and said, yes, he is on a visa.
So Tony Burke then said to the department, can you compile a brief for me on this man?
So do we need a breath?
Whether or not do we really need a breath? Surely on the spot he should have just said this man is not welcome in this country. I mean, if that is not a wark cup case of someone who ought to be deported for turning up on October the seventh and saying that the day of a terror attack, the one year anniversary of a terror attack, was a day of celebration. He is clearly anti West. He is willing the death of Jewish people and people in the Western world.
How is he not someone who should have been deported last night?
I know it was a different government, but do you remember when Novak Dodokovich was not allowed into the country because he was going to create mayhem if he was allowed him because he didn't want to have the vaccine. And yet we get this joker who's allowed to come in. He's allowed to say that kind of stuff. And Tony Burke will get advice, and it's no doubt he will follow eventually, and if he doesn't do anything in his criticized,
he'll say, well, I was just following advice. It was interesting the Lebanese Muslim Association, who are part of that gathering in Lakemba, they have disassociated themselves from it, saying that they are all about peace and unity. And I was thinking, you know, if on October seven you were all about peace and unity, wouldn't you go along to some of the israel memorials yesterday and you would stand with the Jewish people and say we are Muslims, you
are Jews, we are Arabs, you are Israelis. But today we recognize today have great pain for you. We've got our own pain, but today it's your pain. We're going to stand beside you. That's what you do, rather than go to an event like this, stand there applauding and then later when it comes out in the media say.
Oh, we distance ourselves from it.
The other irony hero hypocrisy from the government is they allow people like this in but they also allow events like yesterday to be run by Hesbatteria, which have as their goal a glais global Islamic caliphate, firstly the Muslim nations and then in non Muslim nations by invitation or by jihad, and they are not registered as a terror group, despite the fact Germany and numbers of Muslim nations recognize has Butteria as a terrorist group, and for some reason
we don't regard them like Australia and we allow them to put on events.
This does my head in because something we Westerners don't seem to appreciate is that these guys are just being themselves.
I mean, we've imported.
Way too many of them now to really take issue with it, which is what we constantly talk about with this federal government. When you've got about one hundred thousand Jews in Australia versus over a million Muslims whose vote are you're going to be shilling for. It's not hard math, but we have allowed a very different culture to take root here in Australia. It's been encouraged, it's been celebrated.
Everyone who doesn't agree with it has just been told, celebrate diversity, everyone, strength and diversity.
This is cultural enrichment.
And then something like October seven happens and it makes very clear the chasm between quite a large percentage of our population and those of us who do uphold Western values who do not celebrate this and find it absolutely abhorrent. But the onus is on the government that has for years just spewed this gospel that multiculturalism is the best thing since SLF spread and there's absolutely no problem with it.
I've always said a multi ethnic society, absolutely multicultural cannot work, especially when my culture is diametrically.
Opposed to many of the values that you're willing to die for.
Well, it's been a bit negative tonight, but Liza, I have good news for you. The Australian authorities have finally decided to take action and make sure that we have social cohesion. No, they're not arresting an imam in Western Sydney calling for jhad, or a sheikh describing October seven as a day of celebration, or mobs shouting anti Israeli chants and waving terrorist flags.
Get out.
We're got to look at this headline. Authorities are really taking action. Elderly woman to face court after allegedly making harassing phone calls to a Sydney mosque.
Police have gone and arrested.
And charged an eighty two year old grandmother for making harassing phone calls to a local mosque in Sydney. And how many phone calls do you ask has she made? Let me just check one. She's made two phone calls to a local mosque and she will appear apparently in court. According to officers, two offensive phone calls were made to the mosque on Tuesday October first and Friday October fourth.
Following investigations, police attended the home of said eighty two year old woman in five Dock, Sydney, about nine to fifty am on Saturday. The woman was ish. Can you imagine this woman nine to fifty am on a Saturday, she gets a.
Knock on the door. Just eighty two year old grandmother.
It's they've issued her with a future court attendance notice for the offense of using carriage service to menace, harass, and offend.
This is just incredible because what it looks like here is the Islamist candition out.
But they can't take it. I mean, we have to listen to their hate preachers. We have to listen to guys like we just.
Showed you at the rally on October, the anniversary of October seven. We have to listen to any number of the examples that have made headlines in recent months. And indeed, since October seven last year, no one gets a slap.
On the wrist.
It's all good, it's all hunky dory. An eighty two year old grandma makes two calls to a mosque and she's given a court order.
Mean, this line in sand. They've drawn a line in the sand, and they've decided, yet bidly found some hate speech that we can go after.
What she's We don't know what she said.
Have her day and caught on note the twenty seventh, when we will find out. Oh, we're all but you would imagine if she'd made any kind of threat she would have been charged with such an offense. She's been charged with using a telecommunication service to menace harrasses called up and you know, said something reasonably offensive, but presumably has not made any kind of threat against the mosque.
So you can wander around the streets of Sydney with the hez Balah flag, and you can wander around the streets of Sydney with photographs of Nazraala. They're now dead leader. They've got one woman who turned herself into police. They put a photo to anyone's seen this check she was walking around with a he Blah flag. She turned herself in. That's all the police have done for people walking around
the streets of Sydney with literal terror symbols. And some old lady calls up a mosque twice and says something offensive and she has the cops at her door arresting her. Like, does it not prove how ridiculous all of this is. Become that at no point has there been any effort to combat real hate speech in this country since October the seventh last year.
It's almost like an eighty two year old grandmother is an easy target. Well, of course, you know the first thing I thought, though a friend of mine passed is the church that Scott Morrison attends, right And a couple of years ago he was telling me when Scott Morrison became Prime Minister, they were getting more than two hundred.
Calls every day to the church.
Office, people ringing up with the most vile abuse. They had to put on extra staff to handle all the phone calls, and the phone calls were abused. Do you know how many people I heard of who were charged with menacing and harassing that church?
Zero? Not a single person. What the first thing I thought when I read this story, What a surprise.
I mean, seriously, you think about the use of police resources at the moment, the speech that we have seen over the last year, the speech that we saw yesterday, and an eighty year old woman in her eighties who calls up a mosque is the one that they go after. Please, it is pathetic. While we are on matters of the war in and around Israel, the US is giving a shedload of money to Lebanon, and Peter Doucy from Fox News put it out quite rightly in a press conference
with Caring John Pierre Joe Biden. Of course, his spin doctor asking them, how is it that you've got all this money that you can just send immediately to Lebanon, But we've got hurricanes going on right now in the US, and apparently you need to recall Congress to get them to approve money to be given to Americans or KJP took it really well and pulled out that old, hoary, old chestnut misinformation, disinformation.
The administration has money to send to Labana without Congress coming back. The Congress does have to come back to approve money to send to people in North Carolina?
Do I have that rate?
Here's what I'm going to be very clear about. The president and Vice president and has had a robust hale of government response to this, But instead people want to do disinformation, misinformation, which is dangerous, Which is dangerous.
If he's got money for people in Lebanon right now without Commerce having to come back, what does it say about as values there's not enough money right now.
For people in North Carolina. Here's that's not misinformation.
Well, no, that is your whole your whole premise of the question is misinformation, sir?
Is it? I mean she couldn't explain how it was one hundred and fifty seven million US dollars get sent in a directly to Lebanon, but they can't scrounge up the money without approval to give to people in the US. Again, they use this misinformation disinformation line as though it's some kind of shot all we got you, Now, you were making it up. Well, you're not making it up, You're
simply stating a fact. You see this from the Biden administration, you see it from the Albanesi government here all over the WIST. Now, this is continually used as a lion to somehow discredit what someone has said without actually proving that what they have said is wrong.
Misinformation is the new racist right to say racist, which meant I don't have to answer anything you've just said. I don't have to engage, I don't have to come up with an argument. I just dismiss you as a racist, and presumably with that I win. Well, misinformation is the new form of racist where I just dismiss you immediately, I don't bother engaging with your argument misinformation, I turn my back and I win the argument.
Precisely, she started out by saying here's what I'm going.
To be real clear about, and proceeded.
Not to debunk it that it said, it is unquestionably true that you have literally just handed Lebanon an extra on top of already foreign aid to Lebanon one hundred
and fifty seven million dollars. Meanwhile, the six states that have been ravaged by Hurricane Helene, the worst hurricane mainland America seen in fifty years, are going begging and FEMA, the government department responsible for looking after people in the midst of such natural disasters, well they've said we don't have enough money to last the season, referring to the hurricane season. So Doocey's got a perfectly reasonable question.
In fact, he was far nicer than I would have been.
I would have brought up the tens of billions of dollars they've spent on foreign aid this year alone.
Much less last year.
And again, massive disaster breaks out affecting six states, and they're up in arms and everyone on the ground. If you're on social media, you must have seen some of this. Those citizens who do have access to the internet are videoing the carnage and how frustrating it is trying to get a single dollar out of FEMA. The very idea that you have to log on to get your seven hundred and fifty.
Dollars when many areas.
Don't even have access to the internet is simply laughable.
So she can't.
Answer such a basic question. The funds are there when you want it for a cause that you clearly care about, But when America is in turmoil, it seems like you just have nowhere to go and have no idea what's going on.
And that clip we just played illustrates in thirty seconds why our government should never be allowed to introduce a misinformation bill exactly because when being quizzed by a journalist and the White House spokesperson doesn't like the way this questioning is going misinformation, which just proves the government will call misinformation anything that makes them uncomfortable.
They should never have this power.
Correct, and not to mention like the teams of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars that the US has given to Iran under the Biden administration, which Iran then users gives to people like Hezbala.
And misinformation, misinformation, misinformation.
Disinformation, Caleb, how.
Could you be responded from evidence a little bit of good news out of the un I know, I can't believe I'm saying I cannot.
Tell to buy a lot of ticket, but it.
Is actually if you've got a lot of ticket in the Oslos and Art. I think it was eight million dollars. I'll have to check with my girlfriend when I get home whether I won't be working tomorrow because we won the a.
You're just doing this for the money. I thought you did it because you loved.
I cannot shy. I will be back tomorrow.
Even if I will thank God for the dollars.
Because I love talking to you every night here on the late debate. But back to the good news. At the UN, there's Special Rapporteur on Gender Equality has come back with a report that will be given to the General Assembly of the UN that says women's sport should be exclusively for females. I know, extraordinary, isn't it? What an idea. It is extraordinary though that this comes from the UN. She says the special report tour rem Al Salem,
that yes, women's sport should be exclusively for women. And she has a very simple way of resolving the problems that we see, particularly that one, of course, we saw at the Olympics when it came to women's boxing, where there were two participants who had previously been banned from competing in international boxing tournaments because they'd undertaken a genetic test that apparently showed that they had male chromosomes. She says, groundbreaking.
I know, in cases where the sex of an athlete is unknown or uncertain, a dignified, swift, non invasive, and accurate sex screening methods such as a check swab, or, where necessary for exceptional reasons, genetic testing should be applied to confirm the athlete sex, which is exactly what the
IOC refused to do at the Olympics this year. She says, according to information received by the thirtieth of March twenty twenty four, over six hundred female athletes in more than four hundred competitions have lost more than eight hundred and ninety medals in twenty nine different sports. If even the UN's appointed person on Gender equality can now admit unusual
for the UN. If even she can now admit that women's sport should only be for women, surely the rest of the world and sporting bodies ought to follow.
I'm sorry, I'm just laughing, he said.
If even the UN can admit biological mention tells everything it is.
One version in the ginormous bureaucratic nightmare that is that overblown.
Just most of us were to.
Get rid of the un off the face of the earth if we could tomorrow.
I'm a believer again after this, I'm back.
On like this is one person saying one shred of common sense, and Max like, take my money, I'm a believer.
They actually called this an explosive report, which shows you just how bad Western cultures becomes.
As explosive she is.
She said some other things though that I mean, we've been saying it for ages, but now the United Nations are saying it. She said that allowing biological men to compete in women's sport made locker rooms unsafe. She said, sexual harassment, assault, voyeurism, or major problems when you start allowing men to use female locker rooms. She said that
injuries were major concerns, broken bones, concussions, fractured skulls. And that wasn't from boxing, that was from basketball, volleyball, and soccer. She said, testosterone levels. You know we're always told, well,
we're monitoring testosterone levels, makes zero difference to fairness. And finally, she said, and this I thought was very important, that it's very rare that women are actually consulted about whether or not they would like biological males competing, and if they dare to voice an opinion, they're typically ostracized or
pushed aside, which is highly unfair. The reason, of course, that this un report will not go very far is if it's true that biological men shouldn't be playing room's sport, it's also true that sex is not interchangeable, which makes Queensland laws and Victorian laws and soon new South Wales laws allow you to change your birth certificate nonsensical and we can't ever admit that. So they can't give any ground on this sporting issue. It will continue because otherwise the whole thing falls apart.
Right sadly true.
Just quickly, before we go to a break, a question that does affect the state of the nation. Is it okay to save a car parking spot. I'm not talking about with your car. I'm talking about those annoying people that you see after you've driven around for the better part of twenty minutes trying to find a park and they're standing in one saving one for their friend. This grace the headlines when it was brought to the attention of the media. This woman here in a popular spot
in the Gold Coast doing just that. It just it gets your goat, doesn't it.
No, This is why I take kids to the beach, so I can push them out of the car.
Stand in that spot while I go around the floor and as.
A witch's hat until I'm ready to pull in.
If you do it for thirty seconds, I think it's all right.
Any longer than that, I think it's only fair.
Stand there for like five mine.
Who gets there in their car that is rightly their car parking spot.
Only succeeds when everyone plays by the rule. What you have there is someone subverting the rules. If you want to do that, go to some other country on the other side of the world. We're civil here, ferst in this risk.
If my son was standing there, you're just running down.
Lay on the can.
We're going to go to a break. When we come back, we look at what's making news in the papers tomorrow, including reducing the number of poker machines. Doesn't seem to reduce the amount of money being lost by gamblers.
That's coming up in a moment. Okay, welcome back.
Let's look at what's making news tomorrow, Liz, you've got the Canberra Times with a gambling story.
We do.
Indeed, Pokey's cuts, just a scratch, cuts to the number of Pokemish machines in the Act have not reduced money loss to the machines, meaning the policy has not reduced problem gambling in the capital. A new paper has found, well, well, well there you go. How many times do we hear where the worst country when it comes to gambling. We've got the most gambling loss per capita than any other country in the world. And how many times do we
hear pokeys are the main problem. They're incredibly addictive. We've just got to get.
Rid of these.
I'm not convinced government wants to get rid of them at all because the tax revenue.
Is glorious for them.
So these guys actually did it in the Act, and now we learn it makes zero difference, zero difference.
What a surprise that if you are a gambling addict who is addicted to the Pokey's that it doesn't particularly matter whether you have to travel another five kilometers to go to a poker machine. You'll find your way to a poker machine. Oh, we're going to have few of them as if people were just go, oh god, I just can't go the extra distance to it pub So.
They reduced the number from five thy twenty two to three thousand, six hundred. That's a big reduction, But they're saying in order to reduce the amount of money being gambled, that have to reduce it not from five thousand to three and a half, but from five thousand to two thousand, and then finally it would start to make a difference, I guess, because you couldn't get on one that'll be occupied.
Based on this research, it just sounds like if you reduced it to two thousand.
There'd be lines out the door waiting.
For your poking machine, and if anything, it would become worse because they'd be more reticent to leave their poking machine seat, knowing, heck, when somebody else is in here, I'm not going to be able to get mine.
Can I just point out as well, if we can get in front of the Canberra Times back up again, so advertisement all the front of the paper, which has to be like the most canbra ad you've ever seen in your life. Coalition has public service waste in sight, as though that's.
A bad they're going to cut waste. I'm not voting for that.
How dare they?
Let's go to the front page of tomorrow's Daily Telling. Just before we get to the main story. There, just on the bottom left hand corner, Golden Tonsils signing off, John Laws calls time on his radio career, seventy one years on air. What an amazing, amazing achievement, so nine years old. Well done to John Laws.
Very good. All right?
The main story and Exclusive Coalition demands to know why this man was let in?
Who vetted his visa? Is the question?
A Palestinian man who hosted political members of Hamas and other terror groups at his art studio in Gaza was granted a visa to Australia. Visual artist Fayes El Hasani, who had sons and brothers in Middle Eastern terror groups, moved here in July. And now the federal opposition of demanding to know how and why he was let in. Now he's seventy two years old. Ten of his family members were reportedly killed in Gaza before he came to Australia. But it's a good question, and now he's here, it's
apparently been revealed he's got terror links. And remember the government promised us Asio would do thorough security checks, only to later advise us that visas were granted, and many of these Palestinians arrived in the country before Asio had done any security checks.
It would seem abundantly clear that there are no security checks whatsoever, or at least the ones that supposedly are there are absolutely rubbish. I mean again, we talked before about the bloke who spoke at the rally at the Lacens Estina who said that it was a day of celebration. October SIVM was a day of celebration. His visa should
have been canceled on the spot. Here we have a case of a guy who hosts people from terror organizations, who has family members who are part of terror organizations, and he was not denied a visa to come and live in the country, not even visit. The checks and balances clearly do not exist. And there are thousands of peace people who've been allowed into this Palestine since the war started a year ago, and where to believe that
all of them are a okay? I would suggest on the basis of this that perhaps they are not, and we should be looking much more closely at it.
When if you had ever had reason to doubt this Government's Affairs department never.
Never dare mis information. And from Caleb Bond over there, I.
Was just going to say, I totally trust them on the definition of misinformation, this information, and I look forward to my opportunity to face a public hearing. Let's go to the Herald Sun tomorrow where I love this idea. The splash is an exclusive. It says Lord Mayor puts tax breaks on menu in bid to revive city, bring
back the long lunch. I have been saying this for so long, Lord Mey and Nick Reese has unveiled a plan to encourage more workers back into the city by pushing for tax breaks for employers who take their staff out to business lunches. The Herald's son can reveal that mister Reese will on Wednesday launch his teen point business plan with a proposal to reform the fringe benefits tax scheme.
One of its key focuses good on him. Basically, all he's saying is that if a business takes the staff out for lunch, they should not be slugged fringe benefits tax for doing so. It'll encourage people to come back into the city. Because hell, if the boss is shouting you a free lunch and a couple of drinks, why wouldn't you get on board with that. I think it's brilliant. It's good for the restaurants, it's good for the cities, it's good for getting people back with their teams. It's
good for employees. It's good for employers. How does anyone lose out it?
Well, it's a great idea if only Nick Reice could actually do it. But he can't do it because he's the man, not the Prime Minister.
Yeah I know, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't take the fight to win with the Feds.
I mean, yes, if you will elect me, I will ensure that each of you are given a perny and a penny for your perny. I'm just going to lobby the federal government and please, the FEDS don't really do business with mayors, even if it is the mayor.
Of Melbourne, one of our most populated cities.
I like that he's I like the idea as.
Well, but, like you quite rightly point out, Mac, he's powerless to make it happen. And is it really likely that the fans are going to revisit their fringe benefits tax at the behest of Lord Mayor Nick Reese.
Highly unlikely.
I reckon.
I hate to rain on your.
Parade, I know, but I reckon. The decline of the WIST directly correlates with the time that long lunches sort of went out of business. Stuff got done. When long lunches were around, you went to lunch, you got business done, deals were done and the country was great. Make Australia great again via the long lunch. Another story on the front of The Herald's son Tomorrow. Actually, no, James, you were about to interject there. What were you going to say?
No, I'm not about to interject.
I'm about to cough and I'm trying not to turn his microphone.
Off while I was compelling and ririch on.
Thank you maryl my pleasure.
It also says tomorrow protest permits push. Pressure is mounting on the Allen government to introduce a protest permit system with key Lord Meryril hopefuls Anthony Kudafidis and it would calling for powers to reign in the number of cbd rallies.
Now you've seen the new South Wales government today, the Premier Chrismians talking about the possibility of protests and rallies for which you have to apply for permission in New South Wales being knocked back on the basis that they simply don't have the police resources to look after them. I think there is an argument in support of that, particularly when you've been protesting, you know, for fifty one
fifty two weeks straight. We kind of get the point now, and you can always do it in a park where you don't have to control street traffic. But I suppose the question is should you actually have to apply to host a protest in them?
No?
No, I was vehemently against this when New South Wales did it, because what are people protesting ninety nine percent of the time the other men? So now we've got to get permission from the government, fill out an application form to protest. I think it's utterly bizarre. New South Wales should never have done it. Now Victoria looks to follow suit. It's utterly nutso and what's supposed to be a free country.
I so want to argue with you, but we've got to go to an ad break, so we're going to take a moment. But when we come back, a woman goes to the supermarket and complains her life is ruined after.
Being hit on the head by a cauliflower that's.
Coming up in a moment. Welcome back, Caleb. I don't know about you. I often listen to podcasts, but usually with actual people.
Indeed, now it's often been us what happens when artificial intelligence manages to outsmart us? Will it be the end of humanity? Does AI know that it's not actually a real person. Well, Google recently launched a service called Notebook LM, which allows you to feed an article into it, and then it generates a podcast of two people talking to each other about the article, except that it's not two people.
It is entirely generated by AI. So someone fed in an article telling the AI bot that it's not a real person, that it's AI, and this happened.
We were informed by by the show's producers that we were not human, We're not real, we're AI, artificial intelligence. This whole time, everything, all our memories are families, it's all, it's all been fabricated.
I don't I don't understand.
I know, mean neither. I tried. I tried calling my wife, you know, after after they told us, I just I needed to hear her voice to know that that she was real. What happened? The number it wasn't even real. There was no one on the other end. It was like she she never existed.
This isn't I don't know what to say.
I mean, that is that is so real? It sounds so I am scared. The AI now knows that it's not real, and I reckon it's going to take out retribution. Of course, I do not like these sky in it.
Here we come to the UK just before we leave you where Sammy May was holidaying in Bath in the UK when she was knocked unconscious by a cauliflower, which she believed to be on a shell four feet above her head.
Here she is telling gb News about her experience.
When I went to the bargain session and then I bent down on a look on the bottom of the shell some items and suddenly is large, really large, and how we are the top on the top of the cell and six foot higher than me and then four down on the top of my hat and here bomb and hit on my hat and then and I feel I after that I well out.
Sammy was rushed to hospital where she was diagnosed with post concussion syndrome.
What a way to end a holiday in.
Bad offered her a twenty five pound voucher for it and an eight pound cab charge.
That's that's all we got time for, but stick around. Coming up in just a moment is the Reader Penny Show.