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Speaker:iron fist and the velvet glove.
Speaker:Well, hello, dear listener, the iron fist and the velvet glove podcast
Speaker:episode 333 on the 5th of April, 2022.
Speaker:I of course am Trevor AKA, the iron fist with me as always is
Speaker:Shay the subversive good evening.
Speaker:And J the tech guy evening.
Speaker:All right, well, the listener, we've got an enormous number
Speaker:of topics on the agenda here.
Speaker:Not sure how many we're going to get through before we get.
Speaker:Up into a warm bath and slid our risks in despair.
Speaker:So in order to just stay sane would probably rattle through some of the
Speaker:goings on of Scott Morrison in the last two weeks in a, in a sort of a
Speaker:summary fashion, because it's just too painful, otherwise isn't it.
Speaker:So we're gonna jump around a bunch of different topics.
Speaker:We can talk about just how much it's got Morrison has firehosed us
Speaker:with rots mistakes lies in the last two weeks of satanic news, a bit of
Speaker:religious instruction, news, chaise, and a little bit of news as well.
Speaker:We're going to jump around a whole bunch of things.
Speaker:Stay with us if you're in the chat room say hello and already Jack ages there.
Speaker:Good on your Jack.
Speaker:So well, shy went to kick us off.
Speaker:Got any news.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm not as despairing as usual because on Saturday I organized
Speaker:hosted, facilitated an MSA, a young workers conference, and I had 50 young
Speaker:workers there, some union members union officials, people who were just curious.
Speaker:So it was a really good day and lots of vibrant, lively
Speaker:talent coming up the ranks.
Speaker:So, yeah, so we should all be pleased with this guy for this
Speaker:conference just from 10 til two.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So it was on a Saturday and the premise was sort of young workers present to young
Speaker:workers and give us all a chance to talk about stuff that matters to us without
Speaker:having, you know, being lectured to by.
Speaker:Obama's it went really well.
Speaker:I was wondering where my invitation went because I realized I'm not
Speaker:young and I'm not a worker, so,
Speaker:and I'm fast aging out of that demographic too.
Speaker:So, but it was really good.
Speaker:Put them all together.
Speaker:So topical issues where climate change, wage theft and yeah, I'm kind of a
Speaker:little bit on an automation and a little bit on renewables and transitioning.
Speaker:So electricians are moving fast in that area.
Speaker:So they got up and spoke about that.
Speaker:And what, what did they mean by wage theft?
Speaker:What aspect of, so wage theft is like, when that I pay you penalty rates, so
Speaker:they don't pay you to award rates, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So there's a lot of that happening to young workers.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Oh, good.
Speaker:Oh, well done that personally speak a fair bit or just other people speaking.
Speaker:I just had other people speak.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But it did get me thinking today about especially looking at your notes about
Speaker:how to get conversations, because I think it is about having secular
Speaker:conversations everywhere in any way.
Speaker:So for instance, I'm part of the planning committee for Memorial day
Speaker:on the 28th, which is a sort of a union event where they what's the
Speaker:word, just sort of commemorate.
Speaker:The people who've died at work.
Speaker:And so there's just a heavy Catholic influence without any real consideration
Speaker:about what does it have to since when, why are unions, you know, flirting
Speaker:with these ideas still when we don't.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:They're not in line with a number of our other issues that we care about.
Speaker:So that's what got me thinking is like, we've already set the date for
Speaker:next year's young workers conference.
Speaker:And I should start thinking now about how to get a panel or something around
Speaker:secularism and have young people start thinking about the pervasive
Speaker:nature of religion in our affairs.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I'll leave that to you.
Speaker:And you can come back.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So at a ceremony designed to talk about workers who have died at work and it will,
Speaker:it'll be led by a priest and lots of hail Mary's and our father's thrown in there.
Speaker:It's so impersonal that stuff.
Speaker:I went to a great way um, since we last met and celebrate of course,
Speaker:as most of them are these days.
Speaker:And there's a really good wedding in that it was so personal.
Speaker:There wasn't any religious stuff at all.
Speaker:And it was just about the couple, their stories, all the rest of the.
Speaker:Really just personal stuff.
Speaker:And I always find if I go to a wedding where there's just a prayer
Speaker:or something involved, it just depersonalizes the whole thing.
Speaker:So Anzac day ceremonies.
Speaker:Well, you've heard me ranting about those for years and we'll
Speaker:mention that in a minute, actually.
Speaker:And yeah.
Speaker:So it's interesting.
Speaker:We should, we could work on a, you know, a new program for a
Speaker:secular union sort of thing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Cause I'm at the table helping the planning.
Speaker:Really, my first thought is it should have stories from people
Speaker:who have lost people and what happened and what it meant to them.
Speaker:And yeah.
Speaker:That's should be personal and how it could have been avoided and how it
Speaker:should have been and all the rest of it.
Speaker:So yeah, stuff about them.
Speaker:So documentary to the 40th anniversary of um, the Vulcan.
Speaker:Uh, And of the beginning and end of every section between ad breaks, there
Speaker:was a scene of the mountains outside of Stanley, and there's a huge bloody
Speaker:cross on top of it as a Memorial.
Speaker:And I'm thinking how many of those soldiers were actually
Speaker:Christians and how many weren't.
Speaker:And this was the enduring vision of the whole thing was a very Christian object.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So with this lineup of topics tonight, I was just going to, I came in
Speaker:with the thought of just scampering around Willy nilly between them.
Speaker:And this is good because we've mentioned Anzac.
Speaker:And so I'm going to get in a roundabout way to Anzac day because
Speaker:I'm Alison quarter's from Queensland parents for secular state schools.
Speaker:Excellent.
Speaker:Article did a great article, which appeared in the rationalist
Speaker:and it was about the history of religious instruction in Queensland.
Speaker:And I'll talk about that in a moment, but what it does mention in the article
Speaker:is that there was essentially this guy, David Garland, who was I think it's
Speaker:yeah, David Garlon an Irish Anglican who was really the driving force
Speaker:of religious instruction lessons in Queensland brought about the referendum.
Speaker:But he's out of climbed define is that he was the driving force behind
Speaker:the Anzac day ceremony in Queensland.
Speaker:And that became like a temp light for other states and even other countries.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Let me find this bit about David Garland from this isn't from Alison's
Speaker:article it's, it's something else where I'd previously been looking at
Speaker:his biography and David Garland and important architect and originator of
Speaker:Anzac day ceremonies and rituals Garlon was described in 1924 by acting premier
Speaker:WN Gillies as the life and soul of the Anzac day commemoration committee.
Speaker:So Garland initiated the Anzac day, March the returned soldiers
Speaker:luncheon, the two minutes silence, the reef line ceremonies at memorials
Speaker:and the special church services.
Speaker:He also began a trustees money raised from antique day badges for the care
Speaker:of soldiers, grades at home and abroad.
Speaker:Dah, dah, dah, badge, and ceremonies vigorously backed by Garland were
Speaker:taken up in other states and to a very large extent in New Zealand and great.
Speaker:So the guy behind religious instruction lessons was also the
Speaker:guy behind Anzac day ceremonies.
Speaker:Two of the things I've been to, the three things I've been rabbiting
Speaker:on of it over the last six years.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Think he wasn't responsible for it seems was chaplaincy.
Speaker:Let's do on how it probably, but this is the strange world I inhabit the
Speaker:listener, but I I noted in this article that it said that he died 9th of October,
Speaker:1939 and was buried into long cemetery.
Speaker:And I thought to myself, I wonder if I could find out exactly where he's buried.
Speaker:Do you know?
Speaker:You can just go online, look up things.
Speaker:I I've got his plot number.
Speaker:I've looked at the map.
Speaker:I know exactly where he's buried.
Speaker:If I win this court case with religious instruction, I am going to.
Speaker:Going to that grave and have a quiet moment with him and say, God, Daniel, your
Speaker:influence lasted over a hundred years.
Speaker:Finally been put to bed if we, if we managed to do it, huh?
Speaker:I thought you were going to have a pink mass on his.
Speaker:No, it wasn't too bad, but yeah.
Speaker:SiteOne cemetery.
Speaker:I'll be there if we have a win.
Speaker:So so yeah, David Garland, but just getting back to Alison's article
Speaker:and Alison is in the chat room.
Speaker:Good on you.
Speaker:Alison great article.
Speaker:And thanks for the mention.
Speaker:So she mentioned that religious instruction had its Genesis
Speaker:in the 1910 referendum.
Speaker:And that basically Garland was just this agitator who was just had zeal
Speaker:and organizing ability, convinced the state to hold a referendum.
Speaker:It was like a non-compulsory plebiscite.
Speaker:The labor party ran dead on the issue again, a little bit scared and.
Speaker:The main problem was that just general apathy by everybody,
Speaker:everybody except Garland.
Speaker:And of course not that many voted for that particular question
Speaker:compared to the population in the end, only 28 and a half percent of
Speaker:registered voters were in favor of it.
Speaker:But that was more than those who were not in favor of it.
Speaker:So the government reluctantly introduced that law into our education legislation.
Speaker:Prior to that, there had been this conflict between the Catholics and
Speaker:the Protestants were, they didn't want teaching in Catholic schools
Speaker:because they were worried about Catholic kids being exposed to
Speaker:Protestant ideas and vice versa.
Speaker:But anyway, Garlon was keen on the Bible and teaching and he got it
Speaker:in and it's been there ever since.
Speaker:And also.
Speaker:Oh, the BT government, 2006, they tried to look at introducing
Speaker:sort of humanism as an option.
Speaker:So, okay.
Speaker:If we're going to have religious in the lessons, let's at least allow
Speaker:humanists in to give him an IST instruction and Australian Christian
Speaker:lobby and other Christian RI providers manufactured a storm claiming these
Speaker:changes would allow witchcraft, paganism and Scientology into the classroom.
Speaker:All of, of course are already allowed in the classroom,
Speaker:arguably witchcraft, paganism, the Scientology or all religions.
Speaker:So they frightened Christians into bombarding, their state members
Speaker:of parliament with objections, and the most gobsmacking development
Speaker:occurred when they then federal education minister, Julie Bishop.
Speaker:Actually threatened to cut off Queensland state school education
Speaker:funding if the changes were passed.
Speaker:So in shock BD government withdrew, the proposed changes.
Speaker:And and of course she mentioned that the news template of site and
Speaker:is involved in the current action and that might cause some changes.
Speaker:And also during the court case when the barrister Mr.
Speaker:Thompson for the government was talking about our desire to run satanic lessons.
Speaker:And I'm referring to that.
Speaker:Alison writes in his questioning to Robyn Bristow, the leader of the temple, Mr.
Speaker:Thompson described RI as requiring that other school children would have to
Speaker:waste their time doing something else.
Speaker:He also said it would cause significant inconvenience in the administration
Speaker:of the schools and disruption because other children wouldn't be
Speaker:attending this religious education.
Speaker:And we'd have to be put out of their classes to do something else.
Speaker:And of course that's what happens every day, the kids who
Speaker:aren't doing Christian lesson.
Speaker:So I'm so good on your Alison.
Speaker:That was a good one.
Speaker:And and she's in the chat room.
Speaker:Alison says that she went through hand sods and there are some really good
Speaker:speeches and discussions in there.
Speaker:And like, I remember Alison has sent me some of that, which
Speaker:I needed for the court case.
Speaker:So I'd read through it all as well.
Speaker:And it's interesting actually, when you look at how people spoke in those
Speaker:days, they were quite passionate, but well-spoken compared to a lot of the
Speaker:drivel you hear in parliament today.
Speaker:So, so yeah, so that's religious instruction and segwaying
Speaker:out of Anzac day ceremonies.
Speaker:And just one other thing on sort of satanic activism
Speaker:before we ended up politics is.
Speaker:As you know, we did a right to information request with the sunshine
Speaker:coast hospital to see what they had written internally about our, if it's
Speaker:to commence sort of chaplaincy offering.
Speaker:And anyway, in the turns out there is a requirement in the with Queensland
Speaker:health that anybody wishing to offer chaplaincy services in a Queensland
Speaker:government hospital needs to have some qualifications, which includes a clinical
Speaker:pastoral education course CPE course.
Speaker:And so it's possible to enroll in various organizations and get yourself a CPE.
Speaker:So I thought fine.
Speaker:Look it up, obviously Robin and I, at least one of us is going to have to do it.
Speaker:Guess what?
Speaker:1800 bucks.
Speaker:It wasn't so much the cost or the time, but the only organizations that oh, for
Speaker:the course are all obviously extremely religious course and you know providers.
Speaker:So it's a training program.
Speaker:That's at the moment completely dominated by religious bodies.
Speaker:There is no secular organization offering CPE and I thought, oh, maybe I might be
Speaker:able to just enroll, do it online, wiggle my way through without declaring yourself.
Speaker:But it seems quite intense in that they do interview you and
Speaker:ask you while you're doing it.
Speaker:And it's quite a lot of, you have to do like up to a hundred hours.
Speaker:On the job work experience stuff as well.
Speaker:Like it's quite the effort, dear listener.
Speaker:So anyway, I'm talking to Justin Marie, who's the secular chaplain
Speaker:who was a secular chaplain down in Canberra and Canberra operates
Speaker:differently because as you know, they're much more progressive down there.
Speaker:So they just had a brief course down there and they were much more
Speaker:inviting for secular chaplain.
Speaker:So he in Canberra only had to do a short course of a few days and, and
Speaker:was able to be a chaplain in Canberra.
Speaker:So but it's different in Queensland.
Speaker:So anyway, that's the reciprocal qualifications.
Speaker:No, that wasn't, it has to be a nationally recognized CPE course.
Speaker:And it doesn't sound like the Canberra one is so ready and sure as eggs, if
Speaker:we apply, there'll be checking very carefully what our qualifications were.
Speaker:If we were.
Speaker:Robin and Trevor from the Noosa church of Christ, they wouldn't even blink and
Speaker:say, oh yeah, you did a CPE in camera.
Speaker:That'll do.
Speaker:But of course, that won't do when we do it.
Speaker:So one option is to start a training organization, organization.
Speaker:So we could start an institution and apply to Esquire, to become an credited
Speaker:registered training organization, and then teach a CPE course to anyone who wants it.
Speaker:That's a lot of effort, isn't it?
Speaker:In my spare time.
Speaker:And the other question, maybe you couldn't find somebody who already
Speaker:has the qualification, but he's no longer a believer and he's
Speaker:willing to say they're a Satanist.
Speaker:That's the hard part.
Speaker:Not many people are willing to do that.
Speaker:I mean, if you're out there, we're all ears by all means.
Speaker:If you know a disgruntled for.
Speaker:I wonder if the clergy project or you were aware of the clergy project.
Speaker:Yes, I am.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:I'm going to describe it.
Speaker:Do you want to describe it?
Speaker:So I believe it's Darryl Ray set up an organization.
Speaker:He's a psychologist in America and it's the recognition that if you are a preacher
Speaker:and that has been your livelihood and you no longer believe life becomes very, very
Speaker:hard for you because effectively your whole life is based around the church
Speaker:about something you no longer believe in, and you don't have any particular
Speaker:skills to go out to an employer.
Speaker:And so it's, it's supporting these people and then transition out of being a church
Speaker:leader and finding suitable employment and quite often it easy in saccular county.
Speaker:It's in therapy.
Speaker:It's in other sorts of, because these people are a great speakers that are
Speaker:writers and, and the caring, and they're very good at listening to people and
Speaker:helping them talk through their problems.
Speaker:And it's just taking the religion out of that and giving them the skills
Speaker:to have a secular conversation.
Speaker:I thought it was, I C I thought it was more of a self-help group for people
Speaker:who were stuck and had nowhere to go.
Speaker:So they were still in their positions in religious organizations.
Speaker:You're right.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Because there are a large number who just lose the faith, but they want to
Speaker:continue their pastoral work and they really downplay the mumbo-jumbo and
Speaker:just concentrate on helping people.
Speaker:And yeah.
Speaker:So, yeah.
Speaker:Claire's your project.
Speaker:So that's interesting.
Speaker:One.
Speaker:Maybe I've got somebody who's done the course.
Speaker:And he's willing to be a Satanist, but I doubt it.
Speaker:I think that's a long shot.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Anyway that's but this is, it's a perfect after the religious instruction
Speaker:sort of case, it's the perfect item for satanic instruction, because
Speaker:pretty much if they let any religious group in and you are a Satanist, but
Speaker:you have the qualification, they're not going to be able to stop eating.
Speaker:So it's either all in or none.
Speaker:So it's the perfect sort of venue for that satanic activism.
Speaker:Whereas the religious discrimination bill didn't really lend itself to
Speaker:satanic activism because really what that bill was doing was saying,
Speaker:well, if you've got an organization, we'll let you discriminate against.
Speaker:And that's not what we want to do.
Speaker:So something like ROI or the chaplain sees it's much better
Speaker:suited where it's a case of you've given these rights and privileges
Speaker:and we'll, we'll take them as well.
Speaker:Thank you very much.
Speaker:And maybe you'll think twice about it.
Speaker:So anyway, let's see what happens with RI first of all, and go from there,
Speaker:but it sounds like they used to be a, the Navy had actually moved towards
Speaker:Justin was telling me the Navy had moved towards more secular chaplains, but he
Speaker:had heard that they'd actually started moving back to more religious chaplains.
Speaker:So it wouldn't surprise me actually, if there is a bit of a demand for
Speaker:people who want to have training in chaplaincy, but in a very secular sense.
Speaker:Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:All of that was there.
Speaker:Look, let's get Scott Morrison and his rubbish out of the way
Speaker:before we move on to deeper things.
Speaker:Actually Brahman in the chat room clinical pastoral education link Brahman.
Speaker:Is that a secular teaching of it?
Speaker:Or is that a religious one?
Speaker:Could you let us know?
Speaker:Oh actually it says here the CPE courses offered by the Royal Perth hospital and
Speaker:doesn't look specifically religious.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So that I've got the link for later.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:We'll have to look at that.
Speaker:Maybe the AB there's a one in Western Australia.
Speaker:So if it's nationally recognized, yes.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I will look into that.
Speaker:Thank you, Brahman.
Speaker:That's a good one.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:So Scott Morrison I mentioned, I went to a wedding a couple of weekends ago.
Speaker:So as you can imagine afterwards, talking to young and old folk and just
Speaker:sounding them out of their politics, I'm not going to talk about the Broncos.
Speaker:No, fair enough.
Speaker:And you know, what, how do you think Morrison's going and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:You know, and certainly this wedding had a mixture of people who traditional
Speaker:conservative voters and others were not.
Speaker:So look, relax, everybody Morrison, he's done.
Speaker:He's toast.
Speaker:He's gone.
Speaker:Like he's out the door.
Speaker:It's just a question of, by how much there is a confident prediction
Speaker:for you based on the straw poll.
Speaker:But yeah.
Speaker:So are they going to change horse before the election though?
Speaker:Between now and then I think people have stopped listening.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And he could come out with almost anything now, and I don't
Speaker:think people will swallow it.
Speaker:So so it's also not real good for Peter Dutton.
Speaker:Like if it kind of sets him up, if he loses this one, provided the ICAC, doesn't
Speaker:get him and see what make a formidable opposition leader from his prime minister.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I thought a lot of the LMP or anyone, but Darden.
Speaker:And that's how Scotty got in there in the first place.
Speaker:Well, maybe as prime minister, but not as opposition leader.
Speaker:I think there's only a handful of votes in it though, between the two of them.
Speaker:Wasn't it?
Speaker:When they had their, was it because I had frightened was, yeah, he's
Speaker:probably the preferred and same for him.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It makes sense for him to lose the election and become opposition later.
Speaker:So he gets a crack at prime minister next time.
Speaker:Anyway Yeah, just talk to people.
Speaker:I think everybody was recognizing the other property bubble
Speaker:instead of isn't it great.
Speaker:My house is now worth an extra 500,000.
Speaker:A lot of people are now going, this is actually not good.
Speaker:I think people are getting the idea that we've crossed over from enjoying the, the
Speaker:windfall to worrying about the problem.
Speaker:My, I think they're worried that it's going to burst.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:That people will be overextended.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Even people who maybe have paid off their house.
Speaker:I think they're worried about what it means for young people.
Speaker:And I think we've crossing over there.
Speaker:But of course, if you the, the best form of rent assistance is
Speaker:helping young people to buy house.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:That's one of the ones on his list.
Speaker:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Well, here's what we were talking about earlier.
Speaker:Here's what, here's my thinking like during the two weeks, since we last sort
Speaker:of gathered together, dear listener, you know, every time Scott Morrison
Speaker:tells an obvious lie or another wrought is revealed or another disturbing
Speaker:mistake becomes apparent, find the link predominates and under the heading of
Speaker:Morrison and liberals episode 3, 3, 3.
Speaker:And if I end up with a list of about 15 things, which we could
Speaker:forensically go through and go, what a just knob fool buffoon, awful
Speaker:evil man, he is blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:But to some extent, I think it's a case of all those incidents are
Speaker:the trees and we really should be looking at the forest and.
Speaker:We've just wandered into a dark evil forest that is the Morrison government,
Speaker:and we just need to get the hell out.
Speaker:And we don't need to identify every bad trail on the wine because,
Speaker:because there's just so many of them.
Speaker:And I think I'll put the picture of picture of Morrison and Trump on the ad
Speaker:for this podcast, because it's kind of Trump, like, remember with Trump, there
Speaker:was so many things happening, lies, errors, misdemeanors exposed that you
Speaker:couldn't talk about them thoroughly enough because another one was on your plate
Speaker:and they all merged into each other.
Speaker:And if that have happened to any other government would normally
Speaker:keep people busy for two weeks was talking about each thing, but there
Speaker:were five of these things every day.
Speaker:And we've got this thuggish guy.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Do you want to explain Gish Gallop?
Speaker:So Duane Gish was a famous creationist and he would regularly have debates
Speaker:with scientists too, or people who actually understood evolution.
Speaker:And his usual tactic was just to far off so many falsehoods in his five
Speaker:minutes or whatever it was that you just couldn't rebut every single one.
Speaker:And he would then seize on the ones that you hadn't rebutted
Speaker:and go see because you haven't rebutted these, these must be true.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And, and so it's just the firing off of so many false herds that it's just
Speaker:impossible to debunk them all in the time.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And the time taken to debunk them, then you couldn't talk about the
Speaker:thing you want to talk about the term.
Speaker:My, if I get Gish galloped by somebody, my response is to say.
Speaker:Look, you've said a lot of things, a lot of different issues.
Speaker:I can't begin to go through all of them.
Speaker:You tell me your best one.
Speaker:What out of all that, that you've just said is your best argument.
Speaker:And if I deal with that one and knock it over, then I reckon I'd
Speaker:have to deal with your others.
Speaker:Give me a best shot, identify the best one.
Speaker:And just do that.
Speaker:If you over ever Gish Gallop by somebody, try that one.
Speaker:Dear listener as a debating technique.
Speaker:We, it was, so it just back to the wedding got into a bit of a discussion with some
Speaker:young fellows about Ukraine and stuff.
Speaker:Average Joe out there doesn't know what's going on in Ukraine.
Speaker:Doesn't understand.
Speaker:I don't think the whole history of it, the NATO buildup the
Speaker:thread that that meant a Russia.
Speaker:It's pretty much most of the thinking out there is do that.
Speaker:Putin is a bad evil guy.
Speaker:If it wasn't for him, we'd all be going.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And that, you know, the USA is still a good guys standing
Speaker:for freedom and democracy.
Speaker:And so of course I had to argue that they're not.
Speaker:So that was good.
Speaker:It doesn't get pretty heated or if I love it and love it, I think they do
Speaker:the ultimate wedding guest,
Speaker:maybe I'm wrong, but
Speaker:having seen a lot of Bellingcat information recently, it's just the layers
Speaker:of corruption in Russia and the, the overt bumping off of political opponents.
Speaker:The poisoning of anybody.
Speaker:And I don't know if you saw the peace negotiators were all
Speaker:poisoned at the conference, the Ukrainian peace negotiators.
Speaker:No, I didn't see that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:There was a mass poisoning.
Speaker:Really?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And that has right.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Active type things.
Speaker:Some crazy poison, a bad egg.
Speaker:No, no, it was, it was deliberate poisoning.
Speaker:I'm not sure what it was.
Speaker:I don't think it was radioactive though.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Because they, yeah, they said, oh, we thought it was food.
Speaker:And there, because it was all of us at the same time.
Speaker:And then there were other symptoms.
Speaker:And given that the FSB have now poisoned that we know of at least
Speaker:three political opponents and considerably more are suspect.
Speaker:Well, I would not have heard that though.
Speaker:That's a very anti-Russian thing.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Surely the mainstream media would love to, I don't know about, I don't know
Speaker:why or wouldn't have heard of that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, there's lots of stuff that just seems to not get talked about.
Speaker:Yeah, well of course the whole peace deal never gets talked about.
Speaker:Like we know Russia has said and over, just give up on Crimea, give up on the
Speaker:Donbass and change the constitution.
Speaker:So he has actually said we're willing to not join NATO.
Speaker:And there were a couple of other things.
Speaker:I forget what it was.
Speaker:So he is also a suggested piece.
Speaker:And of course the Russians are having a temporary ceasefire which the cynics
Speaker:are saying is just them withdrawing to regroup, get ready for another attack.
Speaker:What will, the other thing I've read is that sort of militarily, you know,
Speaker:the, the attacks that they did it in Kia, for example, where, because they
Speaker:intended to take the city, but really just to tie up Ukrainian forces and
Speaker:their main objectives were in the east with the, you know, the, to create, you
Speaker:know, to carve off that Donbass area.
Speaker:And that was their main consideration and that the other attacks were
Speaker:really just to keep the main Ukrainian forces away from there.
Speaker:So anyway, we'll see how it pans out, whether he stops with that or not.
Speaker:So I did see an interesting discussion about how the Ukrainian forces were
Speaker:punching above their weight, mostly because they have called up everybody.
Speaker:They possibly can.
Speaker:Russia politically can't call up their conscripts.
Speaker:Can't call up the reserves without claiming that it's a war
Speaker:and they don't want to do that.
Speaker:And the Russian soldiers just aren't invested in them.
Speaker:They're coming in and being seen as the invaders.
Speaker:They're not being welcomed with open arms as they'd been
Speaker:promised that they would be.
Speaker:And so they're demoralized.
Speaker:Whereas of course the Ukrainians are going, this is an invading force.
Speaker:We're gonna fight to the last man.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But the Canada that is, if, if all they want to do is secure the Donbass
Speaker:essentially, then they're achieving that.
Speaker:And they're not really serious about the other areas.
Speaker:So they've lost an awful lot of weapons and troops to distract.
Speaker:Yeah, it's, where's the truth.
Speaker:Who knows?
Speaker:We'll it's it's who knows.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:I lost my train of thought on the Ukraine, but I will come back to Ukraine later,
Speaker:but yeah, it's hard to know the truth.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Let's let's just quickly get on onto in the last two weeks.
Speaker:Here are the issues that have come out that have been sort of
Speaker:detrimental or a problem for Morrison.
Speaker:So six in the parliament free prayer room, Concetta theraphy anti Wells,
Speaker:basically, you know, he's on his side claiming that he's a ruthless bastard.
Speaker:He doesn't deserve to be prime minister.
Speaker:I don't know that she's on his side.
Speaker:She's in his party.
Speaker:Good boy.
Speaker:Supposedly on his side comes out liberal Senator seasoned, complete
Speaker:passage to share that it should never be prime minister and it was all dodgy.
Speaker:How he got preselected in the first.
Speaker:And, you know, but also cast aspersions on our own character.
Speaker:Well, it's only because you've just got slotted that you're now saying there's
Speaker:where were you before telling us it's now?
Speaker:Because you know, so it's not credit to her that she's come out and said
Speaker:it, but you know, she now joins new south Wales, liberal Catherine
Speaker:Cusak, who also said similar things.
Speaker:And in terms of his bullying and being a bastard there's Pauline Hanson,
Speaker:Jackie Lambie, former liberal MP, Julia Banks, former new south Wales,
Speaker:liberal premier, Gladys, Berejiklian all describing him as a bully.
Speaker:Like a lot of people from his own side saying what I say to women.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So he's got a woman problem.
Speaker:Clearly we had the line, you know, ah, well, if you can't rent, then
Speaker:just buy a house and that's what we're doing to improve your position.
Speaker:And the interviewer said, well, we're talking about rent and he's saying,
Speaker:yeah, well, I'm talking about housing and if we improve housing, then you
Speaker:know, then we don't have a rent problem.
Speaker:Well, of course just ignoring the problem that, of course people always be renters.
Speaker:We've got administrative appeal, tribunal appointments, just being stacked.
Speaker:This tribunal with former liberal politicians who will sit in judgment
Speaker:now on Commonwealth decisions to do with migration and other
Speaker:Commonwealth decisions, you know, jobs with 400,000 a year just
Speaker:being given away to favored people.
Speaker:We've got the whole new south Wales pre-selection debacle where the central
Speaker:authority of Morrison and Hawker deciding who's going to be the candidates in a
Speaker:bunch of new south Wales electorates, just ignoring the wishes of the local.
Speaker:Branch members and parachuting in their own people.
Speaker:And that's going to cause a big problem down the track for the liberal
Speaker:party, because why would you stay a member of the liberal party unless
Speaker:you were a Pentecostal nutbag because you sit there and you attend the
Speaker:meetings and you try and get things done, and then they do this to you.
Speaker:They're going to lose a lot of people from the party.
Speaker:It's going to get even more crazy in the liberal party.
Speaker:And just as the Republicans went, teabag, you know, tea party yeah,
Speaker:it's, it's, it's a tea party overtaking of the local branch.
Speaker:Sorry, go on.
Speaker:I was going to say it wasn't that the whole liberal the labor government, once
Speaker:they've made it once the, the head office has made up their mind, tough luck.
Speaker:You're out of any say.
Speaker:I'm learning the rules, we're going, oh, we're much more democratic than that.
Speaker:Yes, possibly.
Speaker:It was the vote in parliament.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But that was their claim to fame.
Speaker:Was that, you know, they, they encourage this and even if it
Speaker:was against the party line yeah.
Speaker:They also claim they didn't have factions.
Speaker:So yeah.
Speaker:So we've got that issue.
Speaker:Look, I'm not even a third of way through them.
Speaker:We've got his own.
Speaker:Pre-selection where there's talk about how he lied how he accused the other
Speaker:candidate, Toke of being a Muslim.
Speaker:And so now Michael Toke calls him a liar, joining tiny Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull,
Speaker:Emmanuel Macron, and Barnaby Joyce.
Speaker:Again, the people, the people calling him a liar, other than Emmanuel Macron
Speaker:members of the liberal or national party.
Speaker:These are the people who are supposed to be on the same side,
Speaker:you know a lefty what's that?
Speaker:I said Macron is not exactly a left either.
Speaker:No, exactly.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So we've had Hillsong, haven't been there for 15 years.
Speaker:Well, pictures of him at a Hillsong conference.
Speaker:In fact, the same conference where the guy went into the hotel room with
Speaker:the woman and did whatever he did.
Speaker:Like it was the same conference that he's pictured at
Speaker:was the antidepressants.
Speaker:It wasn't a useful
Speaker:thing or Hillsong, ah, hell some have been saying about Brian.
Speaker:Yeah, because Morrison doesn't know anything about them.
Speaker:Being there for 15 years, as I mentioned him in my maidens beats, and I tried
Speaker:to kill America to the white house, but not to do with them, nothing to see
Speaker:Jackie Lambie and the whole minivan deal.
Speaker:Like, you know, remember she, she caved in about doctors being
Speaker:able to stop people, being able to remove people from detention.
Speaker:And she, her strange decision agreed with the government on
Speaker:that one, and then unable to find out that there was a deal done.
Speaker:And she was told she'd got to go to jail.
Speaker:If she breached the agreement Ash body resigns from tennis, and he does a tweet
Speaker:saying it was great to speak to her.
Speaker:Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:He didn't even speak to it.
Speaker:Just left a message on a voicemail.
Speaker:It's minor, but it's just the crap on the sky.
Speaker:You heard she'd won a tournament recently or she won $30 in a tournament.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Michael said DICOM.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Actually her parents are good golfers and could be awful.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It would not surprise if she became a golfer.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:There was a guy who was a professional tennis player male player.
Speaker:He went and joined the golf pro tour.
Speaker:It has been done before.
Speaker:His name will come to me at some stage.
Speaker:Let my subconscious work on that.
Speaker:Marston refused to meet the Chinese ambassador cause he said
Speaker:it would be a sign of weakness.
Speaker:Like of all the problems we've got with China in our relationship meeting, the
Speaker:investor would have been good idea.
Speaker:And in what way would it have been weak?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's Morrison wants to show that he's strong is a thing called the
Speaker:Australian futures leaders program.
Speaker:Did you hear about that?
Speaker:It's got no staff or office.
Speaker:I was thinking of an $18 million set aside by the federal government organized
Speaker:by the prime minister's department.
Speaker:And gone out to tender.
Speaker:No, of course not.
Speaker:What they're going to do is identify young leaders and run them
Speaker:through an indoctrination program.
Speaker:All about the seven mountains.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Sounds very seven mountains ish.
Speaker:But, but with 15, $18 million of our money being put towards a given to a company
Speaker:that's just popped out of the ground.
Speaker:There's no stuff.
Speaker:Not from no due diligence, nothing with the S the foundation what was the story
Speaker:with the STS foundation that was all money given to that crazy group who are
Speaker:supposed to look after people are battling addiction, but they crack them, read
Speaker:the Bible, praying away the drug addict, instead of praying away the gay yup.
Speaker:More money given to them.
Speaker:And we had Morrison forced to reveal any messages he's had with his and on
Speaker:mate, a court decision, but he'll appeal and you'll be bounced out of office
Speaker:before the appeals finished, but they probably won't have to reveal them.
Speaker:And, and then the IBCC came out and said that regarding climate
Speaker:change, we're supposed to be reducing emissions by 45% by 2030, but we're
Speaker:on track to increase them by 14%.
Speaker:It's the finding of the intergovernmental panel on climate change.
Speaker:Like.
Speaker:What a list of just craziness in a two week span.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I thought the IPC had said that Morrison government would lying
Speaker:basically called them out as a liar.
Speaker:Probably.
Speaker:I didn't get a chance to read through the detail.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:When does he not lying?
Speaker:Doesn't like, it doesn't lie straight in bed.
Speaker:What a list now it'll just be a pleasure to just not have this nonsense going
Speaker:on all the time, this circus, but I'm fearful for the liberal party that while
Speaker:they were in opposition for another three years the sort of people who have
Speaker:created a party capable of all that and the last two weeks, and just going to
Speaker:keep doing what they're doing with the assets happened in America, the Democrats
Speaker:are trying to negotiate compromises.
Speaker:With the party that are unwilling to compromise.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And so they may be an opposition, but unless labor, just get
Speaker:ahead and start governing.
Speaker:They'll get bogged down in crap.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:But there's also, you know, the effect and impact of having a bully
Speaker:and then people speak up and then once the bully loses power, then you
Speaker:know, people clean up their act too.
Speaker:Can't me be optimistic, especially with a federal ICAC.
Speaker:I mean, that'll clean it, it claim the whole place out if, and if he gets teeth,
Speaker:because I think the labor politicians are just as invested in taking, taking
Speaker:donations from large corporation.
Speaker:Maybe now it'd be a good time to bring up those three impressive women that
Speaker:are running as independence then.
Speaker:Yeah, I mean, that was the gees media were very much, we need a hung parliament.
Speaker:We want independence.
Speaker:We want the greens having the balance of power because that is
Speaker:when the horse training gets done.
Speaker:That's when the real things happen, the liberal party has committed
Speaker:to federal ICAC with teeth.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It'll be interesting to see what they actually propose.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:Well, they've been out of power long enough that none of their own mob will get
Speaker:caught by much older than I thought it'd be a good time to do it, but unfortunately
Speaker:it really needs to be historical.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And they'll, you know, there'll be enough for them to look at in the, over
Speaker:the last nine years to keep them busy.
Speaker:I would've thought so it would be a no brainer.
Speaker:I mean, you kicked one off and, and by the time the next election
Speaker:comes around you know, in about two, two years after kicking it off,
Speaker:all sorts of stuff, would've come.
Speaker:And why wouldn't you, why wouldn't you be a no-brainer?
Speaker:I would've thought so.
Speaker:Wasn't the proposed, the, the liberal proposed one was only going
Speaker:to be for civil servants, but not for politicians and wasn't going
Speaker:to be retrospective and there was a whole host of caveats around it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So, so the question is then, you know, we're talking about the liberals sort
Speaker:of following the Republican model.
Speaker:And is there a difference between.
Speaker:Australians and Americans in our nightmare, in our politics,
Speaker:in our culture that maybe we won't follow this the same way.
Speaker:Australians are a lot more cynical,
Speaker:but not enough cynicism last election.
Speaker:It didn't have to be too cynical to look at Scott Morrison and know he was a prick
Speaker:and a bully in a fake I goodness sake.
Speaker:I think you did look, Hey, ran a campaign on all Cape, everything the same.
Speaker:We don't have to do anything.
Speaker:And at that time for most people, most Australians things were pretty good.
Speaker:Now you hear them every day on the ABC and it doesn't matter which
Speaker:liberal fellow they were put out.
Speaker:He says the same thing.
Speaker:My focus is on the Australians.
Speaker:Things are good.
Speaker:Things are good.
Speaker:Things are good.
Speaker:And like things actually, I was going to ask you about your wedding.
Speaker:All things good for people.
Speaker:Certainly in my circles, things are not good for people.
Speaker:Things are hard if a PayPal in this particular circle, people are okay.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Sorry, upper.
Speaker:Middle-class not as quiet.
Speaker:We need some change.
Speaker:We've all had a bit of a reckoning.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And we got to get some of this stuff sorted out.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So people aren't hurting enough to look around their head now.
Speaker:Wasn't it, there, there was a lot about the whole second house,
Speaker:but labor we're talking about removing the tax breaks of, I don't know, was it, when
Speaker:was the last election or was it the Frank?
Speaker:That was the franking credits.
Speaker:Maybe that was it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Which I know.
Speaker:Handful of people.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:But, but it was enough of a scare campaign.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And realistically, the election before when labor did, when there was a Medicare
Speaker:scare, kind of along the same lines at the last minute that scare people,
Speaker:but scare people are devoting labor.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:So I want to talk about now I've been telling people, crikey has
Speaker:been a good thing to do, actually subscribe to crikey, Joe, or you just
Speaker:saw an article that was free online.
Speaker:Did you notice what you'd sent me a link to one.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And I have the RSS feed and quite often it's only the first paragraph,
Speaker:but sometimes it's the full article.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So so in these dark days, do you listen to it when you're trying
Speaker:to find out a different artist?
Speaker:I think honest view of what's going on.
Speaker:Crikey is great publication.
Speaker:It's not inexpensive.
Speaker:They had like $99 get you a year subscription or something like that.
Speaker:Like in the scheme of things, not a lot of money.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Have a look at crikey.
Speaker:There was an article by guy Randall and he was referring to a speech
Speaker:by Laughlin, the Murdoch son of Rupert, who was in his speech.
Speaker:I'm going to quite bits of it here.
Speaker:And then we can talk about the ideas.
Speaker:So basically Laughlin was doing this whole freedom cry, and we've got to
Speaker:maintain our freedoms and we can't let these elites talk us out of their freedoms
Speaker:of what was part of his us common people, local local murder.
Speaker:Yes, indeed.
Speaker:So so anyway, this is guy Randall talking about Lockland Murdoch's
Speaker:speech and he says, But the body of the work repeated the rights main
Speaker:contention that Australians have a professed passion for freedom
Speaker:currently suppressed by the elites.
Speaker:Ha we don't, we're not like the U S at all.
Speaker:According to Gullah Randall from the start, we were a collective society.
Speaker:The frontier no sooner established than the state was occupying the space of it.
Speaker:Most of colonial expansion into the Australian continent was a state based
Speaker:project and white Australians rapidly developed a status subjectivity in
Speaker:which national development was conceived in terms of what the state would do.
Speaker:The constitution which Lochlan described as a fusion of UK and us
Speaker:traditions is nothing of the sort, the U S constitution is a revolutionary
Speaker:document, establishing a new order and calling forth a new type of person to
Speaker:constitute a new society by their free.
Speaker:The Australian constitution is an administrative document of electrical
Speaker:procedures for an N Imperial dominion.
Speaker:Then still subject to a UK final sign with the sole freedom guarantee, being
Speaker:that a religion intended mainly to limit Catholic Anglican sectarianism to keep the
Speaker:place going the state was expanded through the 20th century, the industrial system
Speaker:made any sort of individual or collective bargaining impossible and specify the
Speaker:nature of different professions and jobs to the last ITA entire wall clip.
Speaker:And a wheat crop was brought up by the government.
Speaker:The tariff and protection system was the most comprehensive in the world.
Speaker:It could be used not only economically, but culturally, the import of
Speaker:electric music instruments was banned to stop the spread of jazz.
Speaker:The system was accompanied by the most comprehensive censorship system in
Speaker:the Western world, in which the most anidine books with mall sexual content
Speaker:were banned and home grind versions, subject to relentless persecution.
Speaker:When when our sir Robert Menzies famously switched his vote from
Speaker:liberal to DLP after his retirement, I didn't know he did that.
Speaker:It was because of his success, his abandonment of heavy book and film
Speaker:censorship at the state and municipal level, public owned utilities dominated
Speaker:everyday life from city building to transport, many expanded into the private
Speaker:market using state economies of scale.
Speaker:This is interesting in Victoria.
Speaker:The board of works had its own network of farms using treated Surrey as fertilizer.
Speaker:The railways owned a customer crash, its own bookstore chain and
Speaker:orchids or its fruit juice bar.
Speaker:The Tremain is Ryan Parks, fund phase and bras pains, no one batted, an eyelid.
Speaker:These were all government bodies running, all sorts of stuff.
Speaker:Shop owning hours were rigid, limited and policed planning laws enforced a
Speaker:zoning system, which expelled thousands of residents from the CBD after world war
Speaker:two and made any sort of mixed use areas.
Speaker:Pretty much impossible.
Speaker:White Australians lived in a society has space, was defined by the state.
Speaker:What is most striking about this regime?
Speaker:Contrary to the news Corp IPA fantasy is how little opposition there was to it.
Speaker:Censorship was the cause of a FIBA Amiens effectively the Sydney libertarian
Speaker:push and the communist, no one, except a few academic economic eggheads
Speaker:questioned the status economic approach.
Speaker:Everyone understood what these big rules were.
Speaker:To minimize inequality, you know why that might have meaningful life possible
Speaker:for the widest number of people?
Speaker:Let me just go on a bit here.
Speaker:The idea of the good society is one of positive freedom, creating conditions to
Speaker:flourish by applying the state to everyday life, not negative freedom of limiting
Speaker:the state's impact on everyday existence.
Speaker:U S intellectual roots are in the proton liberalism of the 18th century.
Speaker:Ours are in the social liberal tradition of Bentham, Whitefield green, the Fabians.
Speaker:Yeah, when this path was abandoned at the elite level in the 1980s, successive
Speaker:governments created a dual culture.
Speaker:This has resulted in a contradictory culture in which universal services
Speaker:such as Medicare have wide support, but Australians are wary of grand
Speaker:schemes, big themes, and anything that.
Speaker:Even possibly damage the cumulative life path.
Speaker:Hence labor's strategic weariness about the big picture stuff, even
Speaker:though that's exactly what we need.
Speaker:Hence the apparent permanent stuckness of negative gearing.
Speaker:So anyway, there's a bit more there and article I was picking cherry
Speaker:picking out of, but essentially we started as a collectivist
Speaker:statused state sort of based group.
Speaker:We didn't start as the individualized idea that Americans did in the 1980s.
Speaker:That changed a bit, but there's still perhaps enough residual cultural
Speaker:hangover from those early days.
Speaker:Maybe that's sort of what I've been arguing the last six
Speaker:years is we have this choice.
Speaker:Do we want to be the American style of rampant capitalism unrestricted?
Speaker:Or do we want to go for something more Scandinavian based.
Speaker:That's in a nutshell, the big issue, economy, religion, and social issues.
Speaker:The, the Robert Reich argument has always been, there's no such thing as small
Speaker:government government is government.
Speaker:The question is who is the government ruling for?
Speaker:Is it ruling for the people or is it ruling for the corporations?
Speaker:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker:But I guess if you just look at schooling, for example, we have created
Speaker:this whole private school system, so that has been an erosion of government.
Speaker:You also have, you know, okay.
Speaker:We need a military of some sort, but do we really need a huge military or do we just
Speaker:need enough to be off a few Indonesians?
Speaker:Like.
Speaker:I don't know so much about that argument, I think is about size as well
Speaker:as direction and the vested interest.
Speaker:I think it is more than just but it was more the, all the government red tape.
Speaker:Well, either the government red tape is there to protect the money to
Speaker:interests and enforcing bankruptcy laws and protecting the assets of large
Speaker:corporations so that they can see you when you default on your loan or is
Speaker:it there to reign in the power of the corporations and, and hold them to account
Speaker:for pollution and the things that they do where they're passing on the costs
Speaker:of what they do to the average citizen.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I'm prepared to say it's both it's who are they acting for?
Speaker:And also how big inhale a road and things are.
Speaker:I mean, you know, with.
Speaker:Medicare and in a public hospital system here that they don't have in
Speaker:America, you know, so absolutely.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And the other one was an Americans conservatives view of a small government
Speaker:is a government so small that it can fit through your bedroom keyhole.
Speaker:Yes, that's right.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So, I mean, they're in a position over there where the, a fairly
Speaker:extreme left-wing view would still be to the right of a lot of
Speaker:other Western liberal democracies.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So anyway, could article by, by Rundle and yeah, in the chat, if you guys
Speaker:it's too hard to me to keep track of the chat, but if you've seen any
Speaker:cruda I'll actually, Camille says I subscribed to crikey after Trevor hyped.
Speaker:It pretty happy so far.
Speaker:That's good.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And Roman says, at least we still have the trend-wise Bain.
Speaker:I guess.
Speaker:I my daughter went off to a youth group a weekend away.
Speaker:I found probably the island, you know and I looked up where they
Speaker:were staying and it's a holiday camp that's owned by the tramways.
Speaker:It was for disadvantaged children to have a, a beach holiday.
Speaker:And it was set up by the Brisbane tramways corporation, the tram drivers,
Speaker:which then became the bus drivers.
Speaker:It's still something along those lines, right?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:So yeah, there are some odd holiday spots around.
Speaker:I was on coochie mid-level island and then.
Speaker:Queensland police thing there that was quite obscure as well.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I wasn't sure if it was union owned or police own, but yeah, there are
Speaker:some odd holiday places around.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Let's dive around to other things.
Speaker:Got any comments on the slap at all at the academy awards.
Speaker:Do we need to spend any time on, on, on the Scientologists, on
Speaker:one lane stopping another man?
Speaker:Yeah, I think Russell brand actually nailed it.
Speaker:And Hayes, I thought fallen off the of, so what's the expression about going a
Speaker:bit nuts, but anyway, Russell brand has been a bit odd lately, but I think he
Speaker:did nail this in his summation, which is just, it just really highlights
Speaker:the whole absurdity of the Sarah.
Speaker:Roland.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Like in a world as chaotic as this, that we have this weird awards ceremony where
Speaker:we just celebrate like rich and great.
Speaker:And yeah.
Speaker:And it's just, it's actually just humans like everywhere else.
Speaker:So yeah, this is a fascination.
Speaker:People have a fascination with actors.
Speaker:I think human beings find it really difficult to look at like a Russell Crowe
Speaker:and just not get he's just an actor.
Speaker:He wasn't really the gladiator fighting those people.
Speaker:He wasn't the smart method.
Speaker:In addition, working out that shit on the Blackboard, he was just the actor.
Speaker:He doesn't have those qualities.
Speaker:And I think people will just get so conned by the whole thing that they
Speaker:project onto these individuals, the roles that they used to play and just
Speaker:ordinary Joes, like anybody else, but.
Speaker:At the super pounds.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:The worst part about it all was Scott Morrison saying, oh yeah,
Speaker:I can understand why he hit him.
Speaker:You know, if my wife was insulted, you know, I can understand
Speaker:it such a toss of that guy.
Speaker:I I'm, yeah.
Speaker:I'm your average Aussie bloke and the F my Mrs.
Speaker:Was insulted.
Speaker:I'd be thinking the same thing as well, too.
Speaker:You know, I was actually having a conversation with her Kevin manager
Speaker:and he was saying to me that his wife was a vegetarian back when
Speaker:people really gave them stick.
Speaker:So it'd be at a dinner party or whatever, and he would, he would rise to defender
Speaker:not to that degree, but she just pulled him aside one day and said still, yep.
Speaker:Oh, well, the thinking.
Speaker:It's quite insulting.
Speaker:If anyone insulted that woman at the ceremony, it was him thinking he had to
Speaker:go up and slap a guy to defend her honor.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So notice he was laughing until he saw her.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:There's a whole heap of hypocritical type of stuff there.
Speaker:Couple of tweets from Emma, it was apparently a main slapping
Speaker:is fine, but a woman not smiling.
Speaker:Isn't sorry.
Speaker:Who is that woman?
Speaker:She's amazing.
Speaker:She's Twitter.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Jeez, prolific.
Speaker:She must be tired all day unhealthy way.
Speaker:Perhaps I worry about it that way.
Speaker:I, it does seem to be a bit of a obsession for some people.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And another one here by this guy who said this was FKA was will
Speaker:Smith saying he wants to be a vessel for love 15 minutes after hitting
Speaker:a guy live on international TV.
Speaker:And then getting a standing ovation is just an incredible summation
Speaker:of what Hollywood's all about.
Speaker:It's trying to a vessel for love.
Speaker:So I've got the clip.
Speaker:There's no point playing it.
Speaker:You've all seen it.
Speaker:Let's move on.
Speaker:Just speaking of Twitter, Michael West started following me.
Speaker:Did he?
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:So now I'm like, oh my God, I never tweet.
Speaker:I'll have to, I have to start thinking of stuff to tweet.
Speaker:And that's where I got the idea to do little clips of our videos.
Speaker:He sees them and then he might come on and debate you or something.
Speaker:That'd be good.
Speaker:Wouldn't that be good?
Speaker:So anyway, I'll have to think of some tweets instead of just free tweeting.
Speaker:He's very Pally Pally with friendly Jordy's and how amazing is
Speaker:friendly daughters with this latest courageous exposé about the sex
Speaker:in the prayer, in the prayer room.
Speaker:But consenting adults who cares best use of a prayer reminder.
Speaker:Yup.
Speaker:Yup.
Speaker:Except when you've claimed to be so family oriented, but you actually screwing
Speaker:around with somebody who's not your professed lighthouse partner, perhaps.
Speaker:You know, say if you didn't, if you weren't going to be claiming all these
Speaker:moral family values, that would be fine.
Speaker:But when you do the hypocrisy, you should be exposed and, you know really shuffling
Speaker:people in and out of parliament house without signing them in appropriately.
Speaker:Is that what we want happening?
Speaker:So, you know, who cares?
Speaker:He's living with her, but yeah.
Speaker:Joe, you had some topics, one of which was in America vaccine
Speaker:case consent case for parents.
Speaker:So I've thrown this to you when you haven't been able to probably look
Speaker:it up, but you want to talk about it.
Speaker:Do you want me to just launch into it?
Speaker:Yeah, I remember reading it and thinking it was interesting, but
Speaker:I forgot what the outcome was.
Speaker:It was a federal judge, barred, the district of Columbia from enforcing a
Speaker:law that allowed minors to be vaccinated without their parents' knowledge.
Speaker:Of course, often to fade with their religious freedom.
Speaker:That was correct.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So it was a law which allowed children as young as 11 to get the vaccine
Speaker:without their parents' knowledge.
Speaker:If a doctor determined that they are capable of informed consent
Speaker:and the religious nutters over the word, having any of it.
Speaker:So that's under appeal.
Speaker:You also had a link to an interesting book by a lady.
Speaker:His last name is green, I think.
Speaker:And she is Canadian and helps people with voluntary assisted dying.
Speaker:And she's written a book about her experience and I think it
Speaker:would be an interesting book.
Speaker:So she was overwhelmed by the incredible experiences she was having the work
Speaker:itself and the intimate relationships.
Speaker:And that was she, she was thrown into the interactions between people in
Speaker:their families were extraordinary.
Speaker:I think that would be an interesting book.
Speaker:Yeah, people's experiences there.
Speaker:The interesting part as well was she's actually a maternity doctor.
Speaker:So she was, she was helping, she said she, she was used to dealing with those
Speaker:conversations because obviously maternity is a very high risk, high mortality time.
Speaker:And she was used to having those conversations around
Speaker:life and death decisions.
Speaker:And, you know if you've ever written in and if Terry Pratchett and the
Speaker:witches and the witches were there at the beginning of life and at the end of
Speaker:their life, they were the midwives of the village and they were there helping
Speaker:people ease their way out of this world.
Speaker:This is, this woman does both too.
Speaker:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker:And she referred to assisted deaths as deliveries.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:She said hoping to end people's suffering had been the most
Speaker:rewarding experience of her career.
Speaker:Although initially that was a sentiment.
Speaker:She felt she had to keep to herself.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Anyway, I'll put a link in the show notes for that book.
Speaker:If you're interested, could be good.
Speaker:Read another article saying that we've got to get Gonski back on track.
Speaker:The Gonski report of course, looked at the funding of education, said we need
Speaker:to fund schools based on their needs.
Speaker:A higher socioeconomic groups lead need less money, the lower socioeconomic
Speaker:groups when it comes to educating that the Gonski formulas have
Speaker:just being completely bastardized and ruined by various governments
Speaker:agreement that nobody will lose money.
Speaker:So these overpayments of private schools continued, even though
Speaker:they shouldn't have, because are basically frayed of losing votes.
Speaker:And and that really Gonski has never been properly implemented
Speaker:and that we should do it.
Speaker:And we've got to get back on track.
Speaker:And it finishes at the end.
Speaker:We need to start a national dialogue on increasing equity in school resourcing.
Speaker:If elected labor should call the national education summit in
Speaker:2022 to get Gonski back on track.
Speaker:And this is the problem with our whole school system in Australia
Speaker:is people here think it is normal and it's completely abnormal.
Speaker:So there's just so much talking and explaining that has to be done to try
Speaker:and shift the Overton window into a more normal, into more normal parameters.
Speaker:So it probably is a case labor couldn't do anything until it does
Speaker:a lot of talking and explaining to people so that helped them understand.
Speaker:I've tried to explain them people, you just get special pleading.
Speaker:When I say, if I don't catch the bus, does the government refund
Speaker:me the equivalent bus fares?
Speaker:So the bus rebates to pay for my private car because effectively that's what
Speaker:they're doing for private schools.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And there's a lot of loyalty to private schools with people and the.
Speaker:You know, part of the propaganda and indoctrination of a private
Speaker:school singing the school song and isn't this the greatest school.
Speaker:And when you're finished, you're going to come back as an old boy and have
Speaker:dinners or an old girl and have dinners and, and, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker:indoctrination there to get through.
Speaker:So yeah.
Speaker:Another one you sent Joe was Adani mine.
Speaker:And I remember we spoke about this when the Adani mine was being considered
Speaker:and people said, it's going to create all these jobs and basically Adani
Speaker:his own experts said, actually, there's not gonna be that many jobs.
Speaker:So so it appears the Adani mine in central Queensland could be employing
Speaker:as few as 300 production staff.
Speaker:Meanwhile, the Queensland government is subsidizing the project through
Speaker:a long-term royalties deal.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:They don't have to pay the normal rate of royalties.
Speaker:They pay a reduced rate of royalties.
Speaker:Queensland is missing out on more than $93 million in royalties every
Speaker:year for the length of the agreement.
Speaker:And if we're only getting 300 jobs, 40 on $93 million, then we're
Speaker:subsidizing every job at the mine by more than $300,000 per job per year.
Speaker:And that was always going to happen.
Speaker:They're very beginning plus the carbon impact.
Speaker:Yep, indeed.
Speaker:So, so when did you say no, say no because, because it's a political
Speaker:hand grenade and in ability to sell, because they're not good sellers and.
Speaker:And also the Murdoch press will crucify them.
Speaker:Even if they are good sellers, I will absolutely crucify them.
Speaker:I, I get it.
Speaker:Yeah, these are the petals.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Our inability to say, alright, fossil fuel is dead.
Speaker:This is our plan for regional Australia.
Speaker:This is what we're going to retrain.
Speaker:These people, you know, $300,000 a person is a hell of a lot of training in a new
Speaker:industry, whatever the new industry is.
Speaker:But you know, people don't understand, people wouldn't be aware of
Speaker:those figures would have no idea.
Speaker:Doesn't come out.
Speaker:The true cost of fossil fuel subsidies.
Speaker:So in the budget, the federal government provides the most
Speaker:assistance to the fossil fuel sector, costing 10 and a half billion.
Speaker:In the M 2122 financial year this is in fuel subsidies, the main
Speaker:line being the fuel tax credits.
Speaker:So fuel tax credit that provides a credit for fuel tax, such as
Speaker:the excise or customs duty that is included in the price of fuel.
Speaker:And this is fulfill used in business activities, such as machinery, plant
Speaker:equipment, heavy vehicles, light vehicles.
Speaker:So if you use fuel in plant and equipment and machinery, then you
Speaker:can climb a fuel tax credit, which gives you back the excise and customs
Speaker:duty, for example, which adds up to 10 and a half billion dollars per year.
Speaker:The amount that the government pays public schools is $9.7 billion.
Speaker:We're giving more in fuel tax subsidies.
Speaker:I heard this story.
Speaker:I think I'm allowed to tell this.
Speaker:I know a guy who was in a car dealership and this, I think it was an employee
Speaker:or it might've been some other person approached the car dealership and said,
Speaker:I can save you X, thousands of dollars.
Speaker:Maybe it was 200, $300,000 per year.
Speaker:But you have to agree to pay me a, like a finder's fee or
Speaker:what I'm about to tell you.
Speaker:And he got them to sign an agreement before they did it.
Speaker:And I think it was that the dealerships could climb this fuel tax credit if
Speaker:they sold vehicles to farmers and, and businesses But the dealers who had filled
Speaker:up the tank would then Klein the fuel tech credit and it was worth an enormous
Speaker:amount of money to the dealership.
Speaker:And this guy struck a deal like that.
Speaker:So anyway, I think that's how it went anyway, Joe, thanks
Speaker:for all these happy stories.
Speaker:You're giving us about cost of fuel.
Speaker:I'm just thinking 10, 10, and a half billion.
Speaker:How much would that go towards alternative energy sources, funding, alternative
Speaker:energy sources for these devices?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:If you said this has got to be an electric vehicle.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Hey, here's some money to turn it from a, a diesel powered vehicle
Speaker:into a, an electric vehicle.
Speaker:I know the numbers are huge.
Speaker:What you could do with this money, what you could do with it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:At the conference on Saturday, one of the electricians I've got up
Speaker:to present was talking about the exploitation of PayPal on solving.
Speaker:My back.
Speaker:And if people knew, so for instance, like I get hired for six weeks work
Speaker:and then they get maybe two weeks.
Speaker:So they get rushed to do just hour after hour after the hour do extended
Speaker:overtime or whatever, not get paid for it.
Speaker:Jobs done in two weeks.
Speaker:And I say, thanks very much.
Speaker:See ya really?
Speaker:Because it's a new industry.
Speaker:It's not heavily unionized.
Speaker:It's not really worked out.
Speaker:And it's easy to exploit workers, which if, you know, some of the people in
Speaker:the audience were saying like, knowing that it does actually make it hard
Speaker:to support the renewable industry.
Speaker:So that's another thing that unions could potentially address is start
Speaker:getting membership around there and then being part of the transition,
Speaker:not just to government either.
Speaker:So yeah, just interesting.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So that's something that some of the new challenges coming with it and they'd be
Speaker:out on side, just living in doners for the weeks while they're cranking it out.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Ah, and just briefly, the Murdoch family has borrowed a a hundred million
Speaker:dollars from the Chinese government.
Speaker:The same time that their Murdoch papers, wage war against
Speaker:the Chinese communist party.
Speaker:I reckon the Chinese were happy to lend it to them, hoping that at some stage
Speaker:the murderers get desperate and, and they'll be able to squeeze them saying
Speaker:I'm not so happy with your articles.
Speaker:You might want to start writing some pro China stuff.
Speaker:That'd be funny.
Speaker:And the Anglican church is using tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker:It receives from taxpayers for aged care services instead to cover
Speaker:the church's historic child abuse.
Speaker:Child sexual abuse claims.
Speaker:So they, they only money for child sexual abuse and they're getting money from
Speaker:their their arm that Anglicare Sydney, which is an aged care operator in they're
Speaker:using that money to pay their other fees.
Speaker:And this is the Sydney Anglican church who donated $10 million to the no campaign.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Is making, making money.
Speaker:So it's not like they don't have any money.
Speaker:It's just, they want to use it to be mean to gay people.
Speaker:Mm Hmm.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:We've headed down another depressing pathway here.
Speaker:A bit of rattle through these topics are going to be up to date, deal listener for
Speaker:any for any dinner parties that you're at.
Speaker:Solomon Islands hear about how they.
Speaker:Basically struck a deal with the Chinese over some stuff.
Speaker:Yeah, the the missile base, that's going to be fine to, to Australia.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, they've done a treaty with China over something, and of course, Australia
Speaker:and New Zealand are up in arms about it.
Speaker:And I saw a speech in the parliament by the prime minister, so Guevara
Speaker:and he's really, really good.
Speaker:Like he speaks really well and saying we are silver nation week in Mike deals.
Speaker:We're not going to make stupid deals.
Speaker:No, one's pressured us into this.
Speaker:We're not gonna do anything crazy.
Speaker:But, you know, we asked Australia for help.
Speaker:They said they couldn't do it.
Speaker:And they had deals with Papa new Guinea.
Speaker:So we're looking around, we've got to explore our options and you
Speaker:guys tell us, try and tell us what we're to do, and that we're too
Speaker:stupid to work it out for ourselves.
Speaker:Like it was, it wasn't as Frank as that, it wasn't easy is better, more
Speaker:polite language in there, but it was really compelling, thoughtful.
Speaker:I've really good speech, better than anything you've heard in the Australian
Speaker:parliament in the last nine years from the liberal national party side, at
Speaker:least it was a damn fine coherent normal speech by the prime minister say Guevara.
Speaker:So please pay really well good on him.
Speaker:I thought seven mountains on the gold coast.
Speaker:So gold case mayor Tom.
Speaker:We're still around to what seemed like a very damning, full coroner's report.
Speaker:I watched some years ago.
Speaker:Yeah, they are property developers.
Speaker:That's the best, but anyway, you know, all allegedly by them and you
Speaker:know, he's still there good on him.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:But he's new spiritual advisor.
Speaker:Isn't adherent of the Christian fundamentalists, seven mountains mandate,
Speaker:which seeks to achieve Christian control of major institutions of society.
Speaker:So this was a bit of a scoop for the rationalist society.
Speaker:So I Gladman came across this video where the spiritual advisor talked about
Speaker:how she'd sat down with Tom and had described him the seven mountains mandate.
Speaker:And he said, I'm all in.
Speaker:We've got to do this and how are we going to do it?
Speaker:And and she was boasting about that and that's had a bit of
Speaker:coverage in different newspapers.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:It's a thing.
Speaker:The seven mountains mandate is a thing it's about seeding people into the media,
Speaker:education, politics, et cetera, getting them to the top and the influence sprints.
Speaker:So oh, Julia makes a good comment.
Speaker:Tom Tate who invited the media to his water baptism, but when asked if he
Speaker:subscribes to the seven mountains, mandate suddenly said his faith was personal,
Speaker:but I hadn't heard that Julia, but why does that not surprise me typical?
Speaker:What else we got here?
Speaker:I got that one, Chris Sanchez.
Speaker:Now I might do that another time.
Speaker:Oh, look, we're nearly out of gas before I go into, I could launch
Speaker:into a whole year crying thing, but I think we're so close to nine o'clock.
Speaker:I should stop that because we got a lot there.
Speaker:Che, anything else you want to get off your chest that we've had
Speaker:enough of a gripe about the world?
Speaker:So I guess there's to try and stay away from some of the despair.
Speaker:I guess I could recommend some uplifting books that I've been
Speaker:reading, really getting a lot out of lay sales, his book really?
Speaker:It's it's called the called any ordinary day or no ordinary day.
Speaker:And it's this beautiful novel to sort of like walking through a
Speaker:whole range of interesting stories, like going back over Stuart diver.
Speaker:I don't know if you remember him, the survivor of that landslide and
Speaker:yeah, it was just a really beautiful uplifting book and then Julia bed
Speaker:listening to her book phosphorescence, which is really uplifting.
Speaker:And then the book loves stories by Trent D'Alton so really, really good.
Speaker:So he just sat at a desk in the middle of Brisbane city with a sign
Speaker:that said, tell me a love story.
Speaker:And it's just, it's so beautiful.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He hits my novel.
Speaker:What's his main novel that he wrote Trent Dalton.
Speaker:Can you remember what cool guys or something like that?
Speaker:He wrote one about his childhood and yeah, he grew up in a sort of.
Speaker:Childhood sort of at Amala and yeah.
Speaker:And the Brisbane boy.
Speaker:Yeah, always a Brisbane, Brisbane.
Speaker:He was his family always aspired to live at the gap.
Speaker:The gap was seen as this fantastic place.
Speaker:Boys follows universe.
Speaker:Roman says, did you read it?
Speaker:But yeah, it has lots of Brisbane stuff in it.
Speaker:If you like Trent Dalton.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Anyway, I give those maybe not five stars, but certainly a nice distraction.
Speaker:Very easy reading.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I think yeah, that's good.
Speaker:What's good to finish on a positive note.
Speaker:Or I do listener well, that was a good episode.
Speaker:We've covered a fair bit of territory there in the chat room.
Speaker:Well done.
Speaker:I could see different comments and thank you for that.
Speaker:I will be back next week with something I'm not exactly sure what and my boss
Speaker:from Melbourne is up on the Monday.
Speaker:I'll be running around and all sorts of stuff.
Speaker:Don't might be anyway.
Speaker:We'll see what it'll be, but I'd be this not going to hash
Speaker:through Morrison's nonsense again.
Speaker:Next week.
Speaker:It'll be something a bit different.
Speaker:So we'll see what we do.
Speaker:Alright.
Speaker:Until then.
Speaker:So it's buy from me.
Speaker:I'll talk to you next week.