Leighton Smith Podcast #283 - May 7th 2025 - Nick Cater

made problem. Question is where does it lead. Nick Cator returns in two eighty three to help analyze how a government with such a poor record in the first term could nuke its opposition so decisively and what it means to important issues, starting with free speech, taxation, defense, climate issues, energy supply, and of course the cost of living. And

let's use a little common sense. The cost of living is attached to directly to much of the aforementioned, such as energy supply, and there is plenty to be said about that, but just as a teaser. Here is a letter that I received yesterday from Brian Leyland, who is a man of vast experience in power supply. He said, I've sent this letter to the editor of a newspaper. I will be very surprised if it gets published, and

so far there is no sign of it. New Zealand could save billions of dollars simply by following the example of many other countries and quietly backpedal on the rash promises that we made when we signed the Paris Agreement. This will have no effect on the climate because anything New Zealand does to reduce emissions will be swamped by the emissions from China, India and the United States. The carbon market costs about five hundred million dollars a year,

and axes increase the cost of transport by billions. That's with a b of dollars. The previous government's ban on gas exploration has left us short of gas and forced us to import even more coal. This has cost electricity consumers billions of dollars. Likewise electric vehicles and their charging points. Then there is the multi billion dollar capital costs of

unreliable wind and solar farms. Fundamentally uneconomic industries that only exist thanks to subsidies and mandates in many other countries. The rational alternative is to use our substantial resources of gas and coal in existing stations, build more hydro and geothermal, and then transition to safe and reliable nuclear power. This would provide a reliable and economic supply for the foreseeable future. And with his experience and having read lots of background

on such matters, I endorse exactly what he said. We have politicians in power at the moment who are not delivering a staying close to home. There is another matter that I want to make mention of. This comes from a column by Graham Adams. Graham Adams is a freelancer who published this through ENZCPR dot com Murial Newman's website. So it's worthy of finding and reading in its entirety, because I'm not going to read it all. Auckland University

students react to Treaty indoctrination. This year the University of Auckland launched this is something we knew, but this is a follow up that is a good one. This year, the University of Auckland launched a mandatory courses focused on a particular view of New Zealand History, a tyrrity and indigenous quote knowledge systems unquote, which is to say matteunger Mary. For all first year students, it doesn't matter whether you're

studying engineering, accounting, science or arts. You'll have to enroll in one of the WTR papers, even if you can see no value in the topic and object to having

to pay for it. Domestic students are obliged to pay fees of more than one thousand, three hundred for the single paper, but international students are ones being really screwed with five thousand, seven hundred and thirty dollars well up to Apparently it should come as no surprise, he writes to the university's Vice Chancellor, Dawn Freshwater and her management

team that the courses are not universally popular. A petition titled stop the WTR one hundred series Courses ASAP has gained one four hundred and sixty seven signatures across multiple faculties since it was launched in early April. The organizers of the petition were very careful to make it clear that their objection isn't to students being taught about the treaty and the true significance of Marie history in modern at Rower per se, but rather the execution of the

course material. Their rejection centered on student's assessments that the content is vague, poorly structured, and disconnected to the degrees from which they are enrolled in. It is oversimplified, politically one sided, and lacking academic depths. In other words, it's nonsense. However, students who gave their reasons for signing the petition were more forthright. One said, the course and here have to

be a little careful. One said, the course has a very small amount of valuable content compared to the amount of BS content presented. I haven't learned, and then you get the second half of the BS. I haven't learned so far, and we've done almost six weeks of it. Waste of time, waste of money, waste of resources. Never

should have been created in the first place. Others described it as racist, brainwashing, propaganda and the growing of our use and woke nonsense, with the content controlled by apartheid enthusiasts. One female student wrote, it's just pure, unnecessarily forced indoctrination of Marie mythicism and totally inaccurate New Zealand history, as

well as the extortion of money. Ninety nine percent of students would elect to spend their course fees on a subject they're passionate about, rather than these Marxist courses designed to turn them into angry radicals. It is not yet clear how many of the signatories are first year students currently enrolled in the courses, which are tailored for different faculties, but the university estimates around seven thousand students in total will complete them this year. Descent is not limited to

the petition. Criticism is common on social media. Our one Facebook friend contacted me to say, I wonder how long the WT papers will continue. My son is at Auckland Journey and he said the students are pushing back in class. The lecturers are very defensive. I don't know how the lecturers feel about it. Probably, knowing universities these days, the majority of them would be very much in favor of it.

But I'll cut to the last paragraph. How long taxpayers will agree to support universities which dedicate themselves to decolonization and the overthrow of Western knowledge and boast about it as Auckland University's newsletter has done is open to question. I don't think it's going to survive. They might try and make it so, but I don't think it will. It isn't warranted, it's outrageously stupidly expensive, and the whole

thing is purely propaganda. Now just a reminder there is some good commentary at the end of the podcast, after the mail room, but in a moment after a short break nick Cator. Buccolan is a natural oral vaccine in a tablet form called bacterial licate. It'll boost your natural protection against bacterial infections in your chest and throat. A three day course of seven Bucklan tablets will help your body build up to three months of immunity against bugs

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Farmer Broker Auckland Leighton Smith. So, at the point of recording this conversation, the ALP in Australia has won eighty seven seats in the Liberal National Party coalition has one thirty nine. Damning as hell, you might say, and it is, but things are changing a little bit, a little bit. They're lifting Couyong is a very interesting seat. But the real question for Nick Cata is what went wrong?

But when the prime minister actually says figures, puts a figure forward like the opposition's nuclear policy is going to cost six hundred billion dollars, and says it not just once but repeatedly, and has picked up many times being told well, that's not actual the figure, that's not even the figure that your own csiro are telling you. He doesn't relent, He just does not back away from that figure. So I'm troubled by it. Maybe I'm just being old fashioned.

And I think that we should expect politics or politicians, but certainly the leader of the government to speak the truth and if he makes a mistake or he misssteps and he should correct himself.

point for me. I mean it's just all we know now is that, well, the only thing we can predict with some certainty is that the next three years are going to be less predictable than we could even imagine. So that's just the way it goes, both in world affairs and in politics. I mean, all the old rules.

almost got back the next election. They were very close that label was in a minority government, and then they came back the one after that, so the comeback last time was much quicker than people were predicting on election night. I mean a lot of people have been saying I think I heard Peter Credin say this last night. Politics is never as bad as you think, and it's never

as good as you think. So any given moment in time, you know, things are always better than what you're imagining and not as good as you imagine in the good times.

anything's a dead certainty. And that's that's probably the story of this campaign.

a text exchange with him yesterday about an issue. He's very much engaged and has an office here in the center of the city center of Sydney and welcomes good people to go around and sit in the armchair and chat with him about this and that. He always wants the latest political gossip. Who doesn't. So he's so much involved. But so then the question is, well, who's the next person to step up as the next a kind of eminence careeze, you know that the sort of great wise

head behind the scenes. Probably that's Tony Abbott. He's adapting to that role of elder statesman very well, although he's kind of kicking against it. I think he wants to be back in the thick of it.

but he could be back in the Parliament. And right now, I don't think there's anybody who would stand in his way of becoming leader again. And be a very unusual thing, certainly post war. But before that it wasn't you know, people came and got we came and went from politics, didn't they, including you know, people like Winston Churchill for instance. So it's not an impossible thing to imagine. He's certainly full of vigor and energy and very very sharp.

and three three days after the election. Now, the processing of postal votes is the main thing that's going on now, and postal votes are moving very heavily in favor of the liberal candidate there, Amelia Hamer, by more than two to one. I've just looked at them just before we cooked up, so on that trajectory, Amelia Hamer is now in the in the front seat. Even though there's I

think about nine hundred votes separating them. She can she can clear that up on postals, so it could be a narrow Liberal victory, which would be a big thing, you know, because you've got these independence came in a one term ago so called community independence. But we know that they're heavily backed by the renewable energy industry and

quite sophisticated, well organized American style operation behind them. So but people have clonly seen through that in that seat, they may even have seen through in the Seed of gold Steam, which is another Melbourne seat where the former member Liberal member Tim Wilson is is only ninety one seats behind, now ninety one boats behind and postals, I think about a lot of them to count. Yet he would win if those postals continue to go his way.

So that's two Teals they've knocked off. On the other side of it, well, there is another Teal candidate as we call them, looks like they're going to win the Seed of Bradfield and the north Shore of Sydney, and one teal Ish sort of e candiac. You know, they all have loose relationship with one another, but they're certainly organized and funded by the same sources. There's one in camera will fall to a Teal independent or a till style independent, and the seed of fremantle in Western Australia

looks like it might go from Labor to Teal. So they may increase their numbers in the chamber up to seven. But the way that Parliament is with a thumping Labor majority, they'll just be irrelevant, you know, they'll just be sort of sitting there, biding their time and looking all perse lipped and angry and behaving the way they do. What is it about those tials that makes me think of them in very negative terms?

of supporters together. They'll often start by saying, you know, you would you like to seependent representing your community, then come to this meeting, and then they'll build that up and they'll say bring more followers, and they've got sort of like ritual chants where they have to say all these things and everybody gets worked up and excited. It's very much like you know, a cult of some sort

of weird I don't know, Pentecostal style cult. And I think that that analogy holds true because you can see how people remain wedded to these candidates even when their flaws are exposed, even if they've done a turning government and it's quite apparent that they haven't done anything helpful, and they voted seventy percent or more of the time on the same side as the Greens. You sort to go where they claim to be just a nicer shade of liberal kind of falls away very quickly, but they're there.

And the other thing I think I'd say about them is that it's a little bit of a misjudgment to say that they are liberal voters on strike, as some try and say, I mean, some try and compare them with the DLP, which, you know, the breakaway movement from the Labor Party in the fifties, which damage but most of the DLP members were former Labor members in this case, probably about twenty twenty five percent of them, the former

liberal members. The rest are labor people voting tactically and Green's voters who are voting tactically, so they are to all intents and purposes are just another shade of green.

You know, there's no more we can do when it comes to the energy system. So yeah, they're in that privileged position. I think we might have said this last time about them, but they sort of conformed to that theory of luxury beliefs. You know, the more the more wealthy you've got, then the more you've got time to worry about things that don't worry most people, like climate

change being the big one, or transgender rights. And I actually saw some polling in the Seed of Wentworth, which is held held by a TiAl candidate, that showed that if on the top three issues. Cost of living was number three. Now, anywhere else in the country apart from those wealthiest inner city seats, I guarantee you it would be number one, two, three, four, five. You know, it

goes on and on. They weren't concerned about energy prices, petrol prices, anything like that, you know, the sort of things that affect people on lower incomes in other parts of the country.

you've got it wrong. You've got it wrong. This this result is really good. Can you guess why? It's sort of fairly obvious in the end, But look, I know it's really good.

they're in a commanding position. But wait for it. I mean, they only got what three hundred thousand more votes out of you know, the probably eight million votes shared between them, So the difference in the popular vote is not matched by the difference in the parliament I mean, never is completely. But it used to be much closer than that, when their primary vote used to match the number receipts in Parliament's come more closely and of course, exactly the same

is happening in the UK. Maybe we should all adopt the hair Clark system. Probably not. You know, that's the problem I think for Labor because they think they've got a commanding majority in the Parliament. But when only thirty four percent of people vote for you, you've got to be really appealing to people who didn't vote for you if you want to keep in power, because they can easily flip their votes next time. It wouldn't take much for people to flip their votes and for that huge

majority to disappear. But you know the dangers You get a bit hubristic and go too far, and that's what Labor I think they're in danger of doing, particularly if they get hold of the Senate, which is still a possibility. We won't know that for a while, but they may have control of both houses.

out any flaws and throw it back to them. But eventually it would you know, the idea was it would act like the House of Lords and would just give way to the House of Commons.

supposed to respect states, but because become something else. It's become an alternative center of power in the minds of people there. So the acts completely without reference to the majority in the lower House, and well, you know, it doesn't sort of respect the fact that because you've got a majority in the lower House, you know, we should look at your legislation kindly and even though we don't completely like it, we recognize that you have a mandate

for it. They don't do that. And now it's it's a long time really since, I think since two thousand and four was the last time one party had the majority in both houses. So it's full of a bunch of rap bags, independence and small parties, particularly the Greens, who just act negatively. I mean, if you're if you're say the Jackie Lambee party, she's from Tasmania and I think she had two Upper House members at one stage. She won't do now, but she got with Jackie Lambee.

You know, how are you going to make attention? How are you going to how are you going to people voted for you because they didn't want to vote for the two major parties. You your motivation is to keep needling the major parties. You don't want to say yes to anything from either of them. And that's basically what

they do. They are basically the grumps and the grumblers who who you know, pops on both your houses and because that's what their voters put them in there for, they haven't got any incentive whatsoever to be cooperative and so they're not. And that's that's the problem. We've got an Upper House, which is which thwarts the democratic mandate of the Lower House constantly and waters down good legislation

just for silly ends. And you get people like former rugby league players in there who have I end up having the casting vote on say, university funding, and you sort of think, well, you were damn good at rugby league, but I'm not sure that that's what we want to take your You're going to be the deciding voice on that in the whole country.

that went to a independent some time back. So yeah, that's the brutal truth that there are two coalition MPs in South Australia, but they're basically the country MPs. They're basically two country MPs in the South and North, the states divided pretty neatly so that they're out of the city and will struggle to get a toe hold back. I suspect, but I don't know.

civil service town in many respects. You know, everybody, large percentage of people either work for the government or they get their paycheck thanks to the government if they work in a hospital or doctor or something. So it's and if you're in that position, or if you're on the other end of the extreme, you're you know, sort of welfare dependent person, you've no motivation to vote for the Liberals because you know, you want the party that is a big government party and they're the ones that keep

paying a paycheck. So you get to that threshold which I think South Australia passed some time back, where it's very hard for an enterprise orientated, free market party to break through.

smart and common sense and well spoken. And if you read an autobiography which came out I think just for Christmas, she tells the story of her own life being brought up in a a in a in an Aboriginal town in the middle of the Tamini Desert, and she, you know, a brutal place to grow up in and she suffered violence, family violence, a lot, you know, but she remarkably managed to pull herself out of it, thanks I think largely

to her mother, who was a terrific woman. So she's lived a tough life, right, So she's the sort of stuff they throw at you in politics. She just you know, it's nothing for her, you know, because she's so That's where she's really strong. Plus she's very well liked across the country. And she was the leading voice that encouraged Australians to reject the Voice to Parliament. She was dead against it. So she's a terrific woman and.

you sound like Donald Trump. You're mimicking Donald Trump, and Dute, who was so worried about being compared to Donald Trump's at that point, of course, he'd become quite unpopular for his trade measures and his and his foreign affairs. You know, he's treated Laodamiller's Zelenski. So he backed away and everybody backed away, and I think just Enterprise was forced to make some sort of apology and say, well, of course

I didn't want to reflect Donald Trump. And I thought, we've lost your nerve now, because if you took that to a referendum, you know, do you want to make Australia create again? If you could theoretically take that to a referendum, is there any chance that would be lost?

It would be a thumping majority, so they didn't play into that, backed away from that, would not play into that nationalist rhetoric for fear of sand like Donald Trump, that's just what we actually need right now when you've got the Chinese gumboats off our shores and Russia threatening to put long range aircraft in Indonesia, and you know, we're feeling a bit exposed because we're not sure how committed the Americans are. We'd love people to say, come on,

we're going to make Australia great. We're going to all rally round, and which is the kind of rhetoric that both candidates used in Canada. Both Polyev and Karne both used that rhetoric and the result both of them got a massive increase in their primary vote.

no doubt about that. Whether they pull their funding on what sure, But it's threatening.

with in politics. And also he doesn't easily show his true emotions, so he's not he's not. He doesn't easily sort of come switch from to the emotional rhetoric very well. So when you're when you've got that doesn't mean to say you're unelectable, which I just think you've got to work.

and it included scrapping, well no introducing. It included indexing of tax brackets, which is a big issue here. I don't know whether it's the same in New Zealand.

rid of that. It's going to be It's not cheap, I mean, because the government's got to take a haircut with revenue. But they had a plan to do that and how they do it and where they make savings.

of that's pretty obvious, I think. But bottom line is is Angus Taylor a prospect?

much money as he can make at the moment. So one of the things I reckon would be on his mind right now would be do I really want the pain and that it's going to come with picking up this party in opposition. But it is precisely because he's he's a solid conservative, is from the country. You know,

he's a farming family. He's got very solid values, in my view, about about conservative values and commitment to smaller government, or at least if more efficient government, and governments that spend within their means, you know, the sort of Thatcher and Reagan policy. He's committed to that, and that's his frustration is he can't you know, that's so hard in

this in this era. So but what's happened is, of course he does have some enemies in the party who are just leaking mercilessly on him now, completely unfairly and just complete nonsense. And they're doing that because it's a deeply factionalized party, particularly in New South Wales, a very strong so called moderate faction which would like to do away with a lot of policies, probably the nuclear policy

as well. So there's a lot at stake here and they will fight and quite dirtily to try and smear him with, you know, the blame for the campaign, which is absolutely unwarranted in my view, and they'll downplay his credentials and everything.

like I mean, he'd be my pick. I think Dan dan Tian is. The other possibility is again you know, he's a country MP, he's from Victoria from one and and he's a very solid guy, quite a sharp intellect. Again, look, I think they both make good candidates, but I would have thought that Angus would be the one they turned to if they're simply going on the basis of talent and ability.

bite back. The only question is when.

and predominantly female. And what we know is that young female voters are probably more likely to vote Green than Labor actually because that's their politics, and say it will be there. We saw it in the last parliament. We saw it. It came to the four not so much

of economic questions as Palestine. You know, there are a lot of people even though you know, the Labor Party basically walked away from supporting Israel, there are a lot of people that felt they hadn't done a laugh, you know, and it should be sort of calling for international courts to judge Israel and for genocide and all this quite

extreme view. So yeah, they're going to face that. He will have he's on the left of the party himself, of course, but he's going to have to put a lot of effort into calming the people on the left that want him to go even further left.

I mean I was out on a few polling boot before the election and you'd sort of see a young woman of a certain age and a certain look coming and you just put your packet a Liberal party how to vote cards away because just you knew she was going to go to the Green candidate or Labor possibly but almost certainly Green.

that would be right. Yeah, yeah, that's they live.

spending minus tax revenues excluding interest costs close bracket. In the face of an aging population, New Zealand's public debt will start rapidly increasing above its high host pandemic levels starting in twenty thirty, as confirmed by the IMF. He then goes on the quote a fellow blog of Michael Riddell, our current finance minister has only one plan, which isn't a plan, cross the fingers and pray for economic growth to pick up. We've we've got major issues.

a structural deficit. You know that exactly. What's what you've just outlined in that piece, That we're spending more than we get in revenue, spending more than we can raise in taxes. It's not a structural deficit. It's a government that can't live within its means. The massive increases in in welfare spending, health spending, education spending, we haven't done that just willian nilly, without any any back up with how we're going.

after conservative candidate crushes coalition in do over election. It doesn't matter that we don't know exactly what the detail is, but the point is that the prime minister resigning has every thing to do with the fact that there's a conservative running who is a follower of Trump. That was one, and there's another one that I can't think of hand oh farage of course.

never thought that was right. I mean, Trump is fantastic for the American context perfect for their current political malaise and managed to break through the system as they have it there. But because our system is not like that, neither is yours. You know, Prime Minister can't just come in and do things by decree. You know, he actually has to negotiate with Parliament and negotiate with his own

party first and then Parliament. That's our system, and I think I happened to think it's a better system, so

we didn't need that. But yeah, I mean, because Trump is so demonized on the left and by the left of course that includes most of the media that you know, you Dunne was just away from the start that he had to be distance himself from this idea or you're going to be the next Donald Trump and America and you're going to Americanize Australia, You're going to americanize our health service, You're going to know, et.

He's not here to represent New Zealand's best interests or Australia's best interests. So there's just a thing.

it to a referendum. There will be a lot of pressure on them to do that from inside the party, from the left of the party, and I think they will do something of that nature. They will, they'll legislate something which will be, you know, in total contempt of the sixty to forty vote that we had in twenty twenty three. So yeah, of course they're going to come out.

But I do sense actually that albanezis learned its less to some extent and realizes that he's got to avoid doing that Woki stuff if he wants to hold the middle ground, which he has to do, and he knows he's got to.

Another suggestion was, and I can't think who it was, was that what the Liberals and especially whoever the leaders are, need to get in and read his speeches. All of which is good advice, of course. But if Robert Menzies was here today and he was involved in this, how would he handle it?

going that way again. You know, we've got the same sort of fracturing of the Liberal Party or the center right vote happening, and he'd want to bring them together, but he'd also he wouldn't want to do that at any cost. You know, it would have to be sure that whoever was that they shared common values, so it would be to define I think what he'd be looking

to do is to define those common values. And it's simple things like we want individuals who generally we much prefer individuals to make decisions about their own lives, and the government we much prefer to give responsibility to individuals, and the government to give people opportunity, to make sure every he's got equal opportunity. I think one of the things he'd be concerned about his housing, you want, because he thought that central the Royal Mensis philsophy as everyody should

be able to buy their own home. So that's obviously a problem now, so he yeah, I think he would those central principles and they're not hard you know, it's not it's not sort of hardline conservative, I think. But if he looked at the modern Liberal party, I think he would be he would be disappointed that it's lost

half of its mission. So it's like center right parties around the world have become since that and Reagan, they've come to think they're only there to keep the economy in decent shape and and you know, clear up Labour's mess. But but because that's only there's only a means to an end, and the end is a better life for people.

It's a richer life, it's a more fulfilling life, and it's having that sort of more rounded vision of how we improve the lives of people that the party struggles with that and I think that's where it has to look to give that vision because that counters, you know, all labour stuff that we're going to bring equality in fairness, because it never does.

writing on there, but people will go to people. You know, you can only build an audience of people actually like what you're right, and you can actually also you can ask people to subscribe, so people can be a financial subscriber as well, you know, which is always helpful.

country down the gurglar. His action was, in my opinion, completely selfish behavior, with only one thing in mind, the rise of his own star to the detriment of New Zealand. Conservative and right wing commentators at the time were highly critical of Peter's but now salute him and laud his conservative principles and common sense I may be accused of bearing a grudge and I have been told to let it go.

Nick Cata. In describing the teal elites that live on the shores of Sydney Harbor, one can make a comparison to the governing elites on the shores of Auckland Harbor, Simon Wat's being a classic example. Most of them are idiots. Well, I don't entirely disagree with what you say, especially the most bit. But how did he hear that? And I'm now reading his email because this has only just been recorded.

The answer is, of course that this was done after the previous discussion I had with Nick Cata on April sixteenth, and I hadn't picked it up, and here it is today now. My phone went buzz just a few moments ago, just before we started the bailroom, and I mean literally seconds before we started the mailroom, and the headline was Liberal Wilson reclaims Goldstein. Tim Wilson is set to reclaim

Goldstein from Teal incumbent Zoe Daniel. This was from the Australians rolling coverage of news from Canberra and around the country.

fortunate they are to have him. He mentioned how the establishment left is now in serious defense mode and its efforts to counter the populist right surge across most of the West. That's no surprise when I think of the words of Melanie Phillips some ten to fifteen years ago, when she explained that the Left had an unshakable faith

in its intellectual, moral, and ethical superiority. The left regards it as an absolute responsibility to defeat any opposing views on the basis that those views are not just wrong, that evil. And Steve says, of course, it's the perfect diversionary tactic. Of course, accuse your opposition of doing what you're actually doing and late.

on numerous occasions on climate change. Climate Actually, Eddie writes, and this comes to you from Johannesburg, where we currently recover from concluding a road trip with Australian friends for the past five weeks, including a week in Kruger National Park and citing the Big Five of game animals almost daily, following a seventeen night cruise on Cund's Queen Anne from Singapore to Cape Town. I like knowing what people doing.

It sounds like a fantastic trip, doesn't that During that time we have listened to a couple of times to iHeartRadio to keep abreast of New Zealand news and happenings. It seems that the Paris Accord is destined for the scrap heap, thank the Lord in the foreseeable future, especially with China in the Russia and the USA approximately sixty percent of global emissions being responsible for that not being

party there too. New Zealand could well be brave enough to act sensibly and join that scrap heap of forlorn commitment and terminate its ridiculous commitment to that nonsense. Let's hope so as that alone would provide much of the capital. This is the important part. Much of the capital required for infrastructure expenditure needed to be applied to so urgently and thereby reduce substantially the borrowings that need to be made because of gross errors made by labor during the

COVID period. Paris exit right now, What a great start for our capital shortfall, that is, by exiting the Paris Accord quick smart anyway, ell, I'm glad you're having a great holiday, and I take.

From jin A Ramesh, the Kur is a genius. He gave a perfect summary regarding the state of some Western countries today, saying you've got the soft states in the West which are engaged in an orgy of national self abasement at all the evils of the world that are laid at our own doors at Australia's Labor Party proved his point by pushing the Voice and Welcome to Country campaigns of national victimhooden penance. Yet they voted Elbow and

his lot back into power. Sky News Australia reports that the Labor Green's control of the Senate sets up the most progressive parliament ever. I don't get why Australians refused to learn from us Kiwi's We had six years of Labour Green's government from Hell under Jacinda Adern, I've got a hand it to the progressives. They always clearly stood

for communist ideology, even the Pope. As I reflected what Pope Francis stood for after his death, all I could think of was his anti Trump, anti capitalism, pro LGBT, and pro climate change stances. For all intents and purposes, Pope Francis lived more like a modern day politician than the head of the Roman Catholic Church. He was more comfortable being in Davos than being in God's House. In fact,

Heather Duplicy Allen remarked that he was obviously the Pope. Thankfully, Ramesh the Khur reminds us that there are others in the West who still want to preserve their national identity, take pride in their history and their contributions to human welfare and progress, through their enlightenment, through their industrial revolution led by fossil fuels, which have raised living standards around the world, which have made education and better health possible,

which have made life better for all of us. The conservative West needs to unashamedly and clearly stand for the preservation of faith, family, community, and country, without which we would not have the first world countries we live in today. It's very very well stated. Jin Thank you, missus, producer, thank you, Thank you later and see you next week now if you'd like to write to us, of course, latent at Newstalks AB dot co dot nz or Carolyn Caroline with the Wide News Talks AB dot co dot nz.

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a little trial I want to follow. Bear with me. Why did we need a This is where I want to start. Why did we need a court of Lord to tell us what a woman is? It's written by Brendan O'Neil from the UK and it was published in an Australian news in the Australian newspaper. Actually, why did we need a court of lord to tell us what a woman is? There was a time when every babbling toddler knew there were men and women and that they

were different. Even our Neanderthal forebears understood sex difference. They didn't know much, but they knew half the tribe was made up of grunting blokes who were good with spears, and the other half of females who might get pregnant. It skewed by putting it, and yet in twenty twenty five were apparently need five judges to explain what a woman is. Ours is an age of dazzling tech that you can ask an app on your phone to explain the War of the Roses and traverse entire continents in

mere ours. And yet when it comes to that simplest of queries, what is a woman? People erm and r and say I don't know. Shall we defer to the courts? That's been my overriding emotion following the UK Supreme Court ruling this week that essentially it was on mid April actually essentially says trans women are not women. I'm glad that ruling has been made, but I'm be amused and kind of scared that we needed it and that's all we need from it, because it's my lead into some

other things. It's the same sort of thinking, if not the same sort of a group of people who will argue with you that women can be men and men can be women and get pregnant, etc. And who, on the other hand, will push the climate change bs and try and enforce it on all of us. So with that in mind, the Spanish power outage provides a very good example. Daniel Le carl who is who is an economist I think from memory, and who writes extremely well.

It is. On April twenty third, I participated in a conference at the European Parliament on the future of nuclear energy with experts from all over Europe, where I warned that with the current energy policies, blackouts will be the norm, not a coincidence. The shortsighted and sectarian policy of the activists who populate the government has led us to the worst blackout in history of Spain. We have been without

communication or electricity for nearly eleven hours. This blackout, with the immediate collapse of fifteen gigawatts of power in the system, is the consequence of a policy that penalizes base energy, key to providing key to providing stability to the system,

and plunders the energy sector. Governments have been dedicated to closing nuclear power plants, making them unviable with the abusive and confiscatory taxation, penalizing investment in distribution with absurd regulations, imposing a volatile and intermittent energy mix, and burning energy with elevated taxes and administrative delays. Of what could go wrong? He asks everything, and it happened. Renewable energies, while essential in a balanced energy mix, cannot provide cannot provide safety

and stability due to their volatility and intermittent nature. That's why it is essential to have a balance system with baseload energy that operates all the time, such as hydropower, nuclear and natural gas back up. Destroying access to nuclear energy with unnecessary closures and confiscatory taxation has been part of the fundamental causes of the disaster and the blackout. Then to the mesas wire Juaqim book The Spanish Blackout

shows why the green dream is unsustainable. There are a lot of articles like this, I've just chosen the best couple I've come across. When the Spanish electricity grid collapsed one ordinary Monday in late April, the dreams of renewable energy and the green transition team died with it. On these pages, Ryan McCann was quick to point out that under European Green Deal type political convictions, affordability and reliability are wait. Affordability and reliability are not important virtue of

the European electricity grid. Shoving too much odious excrement onto a single electricity grid is bound to break. While the story is still unfolding, and the Spanish officials have denied that renewables were the cause of the loss in frequency that shut down all our electricity for some sixty million people in Spain and Portugal, several commentators and the experts have now publicly come out and confess that the overwhelming reliance on SOLA at the time of the blackout was

to blame. The literal gas lighting by the increasingly irrelevant mainstream corporate media was mostly sad. Amusingly, the author of the propaganda piece in Reuters tried to diffuse blame away from the green deities by saying that it wasn't the renewable energy's fault, but the renewables in the modern grid. Then he writes, spelling it the way it sounds. Okay, let's back up. Have you heard anything about ESG, environmental,

social and governance recently? Me neither. There was a remarkable turnaround in the corporate use of ESG in just a few short years, from being all encompassing, uttered by every CEO and shoved down the throats of every employee by every HR department, the curse of the Earth at every sufficiently large enough company, it's all just vanished almost overnight.

Nobody cared anymore. One recent survey suggested that only seven percent of those who were hired a couple of years ago to work on corporate ESG are still employed to do that today. At it all happened quietly. Matt Levine of Bloomberg Money Stuff Fame has repeatedly hypothesized that ESG, like so much else, was a low interest straight phenomenon. Once rates and inflation started biting, people were quick to

abandon virtue signaling environments, social justice efforts. Here's a prediction, in light of the Spanish disaster, the green wave or the ominous energy transition that shoves solar panels on every roof and blankets. The landscape with wind turbines will suffer a similar fate. Now that's only a little way into it. Mesis Institute is where you'll find it. But that now leads to the ultimate. This is a trail we're following it.

After referring to the Beatles song he Comes the Sun, Thaddeus Marcatta writes, standing with both hands extended for a fifty million pounds squeeze of the public teat United Kingdom. Scientists claim the sun you celebrate in song contributes to runaway climate change, and these white robed high priests of Perfidious Albion's climate cult have a novel idea to control

the weather and forestall the impending apocalypse dimming the sun. Apparently, for these climate cult dimwits, sunshine on their shoulders makes them anything but happy. Per Simon Kent's article in Writbart News, this is not the only hair brain scheme. These liberal dimwits at ARIA promise for someone else's money. ARIA the Advanced Research and Invention Agency. According to the Daily Telegraph, a host of possible options for climate control are being

considered by scientists with government approval. Alongside fifty million pounds in taxpayer funds. Scientists are considering outdoor field trials, which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine as a way to prevent runaway climate change.

Clearly the old school itinerant cloud seeders preying upon the angst of drought riddled farmers and their small towns have nothing on Aria at its siren song of salvation, for they have the entire UK government on board to foot the bill for what should be should have been named Operation Data Less. I'm not sure I pronounced that correctly, but I know who he is, father at Icarus, and

that is basically where I'm going to. If you're interested, you will go to Am Greatness and find it under the name of Stadius Marcotta, and at that point we'll say that throws us out of the studio. For podcasts two hundred and eighty three, it's been very enjoyable. And if you do go and look up some of those articles, let me know your thoughts. I think it's fairly obvious what they will be. Why is it? Do you think? This is a question I leave you with, Why is it?

Do you think that people like mister Watts, people like the Prime Minister, stick their fingers in their ears and will not listen to a bar of any alternative. But they're corrupted pathway, so latent at Newstalks ATB dot co dot Nz, Caroline at Newstalks ATB dot co dot Nz. We shall be backwards two eighty four very shortly, So thank you for listening and we'll talk soon.