This is the world according to rowand good evening and welcome to the world according to Rowan Dean, a world in which I can wear the Aussie flag with pride when and where I want to, because last time I checked, this is Australia.

This is Australia or is it still Australia apparently not nowaring the Australian flags in the Australian Parliament, how dare you?

I'll check all that out with alexanderk and Bronwin Bishop in a tick huge show coming up this evening.

Move that restaurant booking back to eight thirty if you can, including when will Chris Bowen start telling us all to eat bugs?

And I don't mean of the Balmain variety Albo's phone call to Trump.

What on earth did they talk about?

I'll ask the experts?

And even more baffling, what does Z really think about Dan Andrews?

But first, every single Australian young and old is very soon, quite possibly going to be forced to choose between freedom and slavery.

That might sound extreme or even hyperbole, as we say on outsiders, but it is nonetheless the truth.

The authoritarian forces within the government, both labor and Coalition have empowered the E Safety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant to begin implementing digital censorship into this country.

Once imposed, it will be impossible to ever break free of the shackles, which almost inevitably will tighten like a python squeeze around our liberties.

Clive James once said, the problem with Australians isn't that we are descended from convicts, but that we are descended from prison officers.

And that is the great dilemma that lies at the heart of the Australian character, the Larican instinct versus the authoritarian instinct.

We saw the Larican instinct in both World Wars, where our diggers fought to free the West from fascism and tyranny.

And we saw the Alarican spirit make Australian entrepreneurship and creativity and music and comic genius the envy of the world throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties.

That was the time, of course, when even the mere mention of an Australian identity card had ossies up in arms, and rightly so.

But since those golden days, we've become more and more authoritarian as political correctness poisoned public discourse and entertainment, culminating in the horror show that was the Australian response to COVID, where our leaders merrily trashed all our individual freedoms and God given rights.

But the threat to individual liberty we now face has the potential to be even worse, far worse than OVID, and that is the threat posed by digital censorship.

In a nutshell, the state, under the spurious guise of protecting kids from online harm, is about to impose age restrictions on Internet usage, which by definition begins the process by which the government eventually and fairly rapidly actually has the ability, the potential ability, to control every action every Australian does online.

You're banking, you're booking, you're buying, you're browsing.

All of it will literally be at the fingertips of some busybody bureaucrat.

Many people say, well, so what if I'm doing nothing wrong, what have I got to hide?

And that's a reasonable argument.

There's also breath taking the naive because it implies that there is an objective definition of what is right and what is wrong, which for many religious and common sense people there is.

But not I I hate to say it.

For our politicians, as we saw during COVID, what is right and what is wrong depends entirely on your political persuasion, not on objective truth, and the police will do whatever their political masters insist is the right thing to do, without any individual conscience whatsoever that I could discern in my opinion, For it to possibly work, the Easafeties Commissioner's under sixteen Internet ban will almost certainly require every single Australian to create an eternal and unerasable digital idea linking that person biometrically to every single activity they undertake in the modern online world, where you travel, what you buy, what you think, all of it will have the potential to not only be scrutinized, but to be canceled at the push of a button by politically motivated authoritarians.

Yesterday we learned of the brilliant comedic writer Graham Lenahan being arrested at he Throw airport by five armed officers on suspicion of inciting violence because of three silly tweets criticizing transgender women i e.

Biological blokes that he put online in America months ago.

Graham, of course wrote father ted the It Crowd and Black Books, one of the funniest and most politically incorrect shows of the last few decades.

Oh my god, it's how how Granger.

I was at college with him.

No, no, don't no, don't he confuses me?

What he confuses me?

He's he's a total but he's got this voice and it just does things through fram Fran.

Of course, Graham is a popular TV writer, and his outrageous arrested he throwed made international headlines around the world.

Here he was fronting up to court yesterday, remaining defiant and channeling our old billboard Chris no less.

Do you have a few words ahead of today's appearance.

But ask yourself, do you really think, after what we witnessed during COVID, if you were arrested, say at Melbourne Airport, on some anti vax or anti trans or anti climate change or anti immigration tweet you made, you would make international headlines.

Just ask Monica Smith, who languished in a Victorian prison for twenty two days and nights because of a Facebook post, and apart from this network, nobody in the media battered an eyelid to help her.

Nigel Farage spoke to the American Congress yesterday about Britain's erosion of free speech.

We've kind of forgotten the Vultairian principles that will fight and defend to Bedath, you're right to say something that we fundamentally disagree with.

That is the absolute foundation, if you think about it, a free speech, of democracy, of living in freedom.

It's kind of why we fought two World Wars.

I come from a land that gave us the Mother of Parliament, so it doesn't give me any great joy to be sitting in America and describing the really awful authoritarian situation that we have now sunk into.

The Online Safety Act was put in place by the last Conservative government.

I don't doubt for a minute they're good intentions, but sometimes the road to hell is paved with those good intentions.

Nigel is completely accurate there.

The UK Telegraph has published a shocking list of all the victims of Britain's or welly and hates speech laws.

It goes on and on and on.

Nigel Farage then outlined exactly where those good intentions end up when the bureaucrats and the politicians start to apply these insane, draconian censorship laws to everyday citizens.

So and we are now where we are.

We have a couple of very famous cases.

We of course have Lucy Connolly who put out an intemperate tweet after the savage murder of those three beautiful young girls.

She herself a mother who had lost a child.

It was intemperate, it was wrong, but she removed it three and a half hours later, sentenced to thirty one months in prison.

And we of course have the extraordinary events that we understood yesterday of Graham Lyon and the comedy writer, comedic writer, and he put out some tweets months ago when he was in Arizona, and months later he arrives at Heathrow Airport to be met by five armed police.

He's not even a British citizen.

He's an Irish citizen.

This could happen to any American man or woman that goes to Heathrow that has said things online that the British government and British police don't like.

Nigel Faraj is warning the Americans about the danger of authoritarian digital censorship.

But the joke is it is we here in Australia, in my opinion, who are in far, far greater peril if we sign on to these government e safety digital ideas.

Joining us now is former Speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop and Liberal Senator Alex antik Now.

Great to see you both.

With all the issues Australia has and all the things senators really ought to be thinking about.

A flag has been the flashpoint for our politicians this week.

The Ossie flag our country flag to be precise, and yet another ludicrous attack on it from those on the left.

Just into Nampajimp Price and Pauline Hanson had flags draped over their shoulders whilst thinking about pride in our country, but they were ordered to remove them with claims that they were being used as props.

It led to a heated exchange.

Take a look.

It's beyond comprehension that the burning of our national flag is not a criminal offense.

I asked for a ruling please on whether the senator is who's wrapped in the national flag at the moment, is controverting the standing order that prevents props.

You can wear a kiffa in here.

Perhaps you should remove that article from you whenever you walk through these chambers, snark all you like.

It's revolting.

For one hundred and twenty four years since nineteen oh one, that flag has been flying, and yet on this special day it was actually tonight by the Greens.

I remind you of the ruling.

The Deputy President arrived that so it asked you to take the flag off.

So Alexanderik you were may well have been there in the chamber, tell us your thoughts on why are they banning the Australian flag in the Australian Parliament being worn by Australian senators who are there elected by Australian people and citizens.

Explain please, alex.

Have spelt it out very very well.

Rowan and I should point out the Australian flag does actually fly in the chamber as well.

It should be the only flag that flies in the.

Chamber at the moment.

There are the ad for Australi island flags, which of course none of us have a problem with, but it is the Commonwealth of Australia and that's the only flag that should fly.

In relation to the issue of Jacinta and the Greens, look, I mean just Into is a proud Australian.

We all know that, and she wore the flag proudly.

Now, the rules in the Senate are odd.

Anyone that's spent time in the House will tell you that.

But one thing they do say is about props.

Now to the strict letter of the law.

It's arguable that that's right, that it is being used in a manner in which you know it may not always be.

But I make this observation about it, and that is Isn't it interesting how the Australian Greens have such a visceral reaction to the Australian flag.

This is the political party that spends most of its days in there with one or other of them carrying a prop in there of some sort.

I mean, we've seen I think a fish come in at one point.

We've seen last year to do with the pressure.

We've seen constant stickers on the back of laptops and you know, T shirts with slogans and flags on them.

So look, I mean, once again I was a little bit shocked by them picking on the Australian flag.

But it does tell you a lot.

I'm sorry, Alex, and I'm slightly confused here.

You're not in any way suggesting that the Greens are the biggest hypocrites in the world.

I mean, understunned I don't know what to make of that, Bronwan.

Now, Bronwin Bishop, you actually were in Parliament and you put up a motion to protect the Australian flag.

Correct.

Yes.

In two thousand and six I introduced a Bill for the Protection of the Australian National Flag and it was served a first reading.

The fact of the matter is.

That more and more Australians are becoming more and more angry about the fact that the flag is being desecrated and that it is an act against the Australian nation, not just against the flag itself.

And people are starting to express that by saying no, we value our flag, we love our flag, and we love our nation.

I want to go back to the hypocrisy of the left and the Labor Party in particular, have a look at these two things.

Example, one Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong.

Here's a clip of how she related as Brombam was talking to one march that ghastly march across the bridge for the pro Palestinian movement and then the march for the Australians.

First, I want to say that was an extraordinary march and I think it demonstrates what we all feel I know that Australians are feeling distressed, angry, upset, really horrified by what they're seeing in Gaza.

Neo Nazis and anti immigration rallies are not who we are.

These are not Australian values.

Australians are not haters.

Australians don't turn on one another.

Australians know that we are stronger together, and Australians know that together is how we build our current country.

And then Alex ed husick doing pretty much the same thing.

There are When you have so many people present, you won't agree with everyone, and clearly people will pick out some things that objected were objectionable to other people.

And I completely understand that that's democracy, but I just think I would hate for it to detract from the images of that aerial view of the Harbor Bridge with so many people on it that just want the hostilities to end, and particularly impact on kids.

Those rallies were whipped up by far right extremists and they are Nazis.

A lot of people were warned about that, a lot of people have been told as well.

The facts just don't stack up.

So Alex explained to me the rules of politics where one march is all.

We can all have whatever we want and say whatever we want, no matter how extreme.

But the other march, oh, condemn it, bond you know, terrible people, nasty people, tell me about it.

I mean, it's it's not I was going to say bizarre, but it's not really.

I mean, this is just what the left of politics do.

They hone in on the good on their own cause and the bad on the other, and you know, we sort of come to expect that now.

I think the thing that's struck me over the last few years, though, has been the manner in which the media report that.

I mean, you see this all the time with marches that might be pro life, for example, or in the case of COVID, the freedom protests, in which in almost every case the people who go to those marches are absolutely well intentioned, well mannered, and you know, and so that's what you get.

So if you pick on the one at the point one of a percent, I would say, you're always going to find something you can pick on.

But it's just interesting how the left of politics seem to do that and weaponar the issue.

Look for where I sit, I mean, I think that ninety nine point nine percent of people that went to the March for Australia really were ordinary Aussies just worried about their country for a variety of reasons by the looks of it.

And it is disappointing to see politicians from the government in particular and the media, I might say the media, the mainstream media in this country, have a lot to answer for in propagating this narrative focusing on the handful who are there for the wrong reasons, for a variety of ways.

It's just not helpful.

The reality is Ossies are worried about their country, and they have a lot of reasons to be worried about their country, and they have every right to march.

Now, I want to talk to you both about the taxes.

Alex, I to play a clip of you in the Senate where you were very funny on all the new taxes.

We've got a spare bedroom tax that labeled to put up there and you were satirizing that.

Have a listen, what about, for example, a pet tax, because you know Australians love pets and you could put on a sliding scale for pets.

Perhaps conversation licensing fees.

You could snuff out free speech that love that we're all into that at the moment.

You can make yourself a nice little clip on the way through consider a range of taxes on non state approved discussions, like, you know, things about how proud we are of our country and our history.

Now Bromin Alex is great with his humor there in Parliament, but maybe I'm worried that Jim Chalmers might take him seriously and start putting taxes on everything we do.

When he'd like to put a tax on anything that moves exactly.

That's the bottom of line.

That's why I call him the snake Charmer.

He's all about illusions and he really cannot be trusted.

He told us the country was in great shape before the election, and after the election says the budget's unsustainable.

So tax is what he's after, never mind productivity.

If it moves, tax it.

And I think, Alex, you made an excellent contribution in that speech.

But I am seriouslyorried about the way we're going.

We're going to hell in a handbasket, we really are.

And unless there's something that comes out where we can honestly say this is what the Liberal Party stands for, this is what we're going to do.

We have got policies and statements that can be digested and understood.

Tony Abbott was quite right when he came out and said, let's say no more coal.

Coal fired power stations will be closed until such time as there is a replacement with the reliable, sustainable energy that we'll have more gas come out, and that energy is essential to productivity.

Then with regard to the love of our country, it will be the Australian flag which will fly and fly with parade because we are proud of just who we are.

And then we say that it is the people who have to be served by government, not the people serving the government.

And when we make strong statements like that and come out with policies that are easy for people to comprehend, then we've got a chance of back the government.

Great to chat to you both.

We'll speak to you again very soon.

And now it's time for a little thing we call the world's gone mad.

Yes, once upon a time in this crazy old world, women priests were the trendiest thing.

Now, of course it's women priests with bids.

But performing gender as a daily task, I would argue is a learned cultural trait to which we have all been exposed.

As understandings of drag have changed throughout history.

Perhaps drag today could be defined as that which threatens the already fragile and arbitrarily constructed framework for gender performance that is necessary to maintain power dynamics.

Ah, yes, those pesky power dynamics.

But what are those differences between a man and a woman if any one girl tried to find out?

But is there anything fundamentally different than us between us?

Uh?

Like height, hair, color, stuff like that.

Nothing else like.

One or two, like features here or there like uhm.

M.

That's so difficult, isn't it.

Yes, I know it's tricky.

But according to these proud parents, trans babies know that they are trans and can't wait to talk so they can tell you all about it.

What age do you think most trans kids determine that they're transh.

Viment told us when she was one and a half.

She's been telling us since she could speak, so she.

Knew since burnt Hmmm.

Clearly a very understanding and progressive husband standing there.

But such lefty men or liberals as they are known in the States, are apparently extremely hard to find these days.

All right, quick question, where's everyone liberal men?

Well, Kelsey, I live in the Pacific Northwest and there's a lot of liberal men around here.

So where I would say you could probably find the best liberal men are either at a gay bar.

At your local protest is another good spot.

You may be able to find them wearing a dress in the women's restroom or in the women's section of Target.

But what I find is many of these liberal men are also looking for liberal men, so that may be a problem for you.

Yes, satire perhabs.

Of course, if you do find a good lefty or liberal, chances are he might actually be your local mayor, such as this chap, the Democrat mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey.

Yeah, I love it.

Yeah, right, call that weird lefty dancing.

That's not weird lefty dancing.

This is weird lefty dancing.

But even that lot, they're not a patch on the woke London police force.

Obviously, no criminals out there in London to catch.

Meanwhile, as usual, there's no shortage of woke lefty women in America having a maga meltdown moment.

America, Mecca, I'm talking to you.

I don't know how much logger I can date this maga maga.

But no matter how disturbing American lefties may sometimes be, this is the most disturbing thing I've seen in a long time.

Canadian students singing the communist anthem pity poor Canada.

Elsewhere two young women who could do a lot worse than ask for their money back.

Are these two Israeli girls who made the grave mistake of going to a Cold Play concert only to be patronizingly and offensively acknowledged by seeing Chris Martin as being human?

Where did you come from today?

From Israel?

Okay?

God, well, okay, well listen, I'm gonna say this.

I'm very grateful that you're here as Huban, and I'm treating you as.

Have you seen anything more appalling?

No wonder this girl posted this reaction.

Chris Martin of Colplay thinks we should retreated as human beings, like human beings all planet Earth.

That is it.

And don't get me started on the vile way that Chris Martin not only in effect to dehumanize the Jewish girls, he had to do the automatic genuflecting towards Palestine.

What a grub of a human being.

You couldn't pay me to go to a Coldplay concert offensive, woke, racist and patronizing.

And that's before you have to listen to any of their triton tedious music, not as tedious as td S suff remark Ruffalo, whose trumped arrangement syndrome has now been matched by his Elon aversion therapy.

Elon Musk is such a two faced turn coat trader because he was a climate champion and he's sold himself out.

Woody Allen has, of course a classic old style lefty, many of whom like Bill maher Mayer and Woody himself have recently discovered everything you wanted to know about Donald Trump.

But we're afraid to think very He's different in person.

And when you say that, people who are just purely emotional get very upset, even though it's just the truth.

We're just saying, well, you know.

I I'm a Democrat.

I voted for Kamala Harris and and and I you know, take issue with him, you know, on ninety five percent of the things, maybe ninety nine percent.

But as an actor, as a as as you know, to do right, he was he was very good.

Yep.

Even the old left, you know, expressing their admiration for Trump more and more, but fear not crazy worke.

Tim Waltz, the man who would have been Kamala Harris's VP, is still as bitter and as bonkers as ever.

You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things.

And although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news, just saying you're saying there will be news sometime.

Just so you know there will be news, just saying, just saying.

Yes.

That was Tim Waltz commenting on the rumors that Donald Trump was dead.

What a sick individual.

But here's another leading Democrat, the next Kamala, Jasmine Crockett, every bit as fake and as phony as the original Kamala.

Listen to her accent before and then after.

It's what the difference.

First of all, it's good to see you in the new year.

You know, no one could have told me that when I went down to Austin now looks like a little bit over a year ago, that I would be running for Congress.

Maybe because these people they are crazy, because they always talk about how Christian they is.

Yeah, I don't know how many it am on that side.

I getting divorced because they getting caught up sleeping with their coworkers, staffers, answerns, all the things you ain't gotta believe me, Just go Google.

You'll find some of it, I'm telling you.

And the wives is being messy and petty.

What frauds the Democrats are?

And finally, California was once the dream capital of the world.

And how things have changed since the Democrats Gavin Newsom, tipped to be a presidential candidate, took over.

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Yes, it truly is a world gone mad, especially wherever the socialists or the left running the show.

Coming up after the break, Albo finally gets a call with Trump, But what do they talk about?

In a tick.

Welcome back, and now let's check in on Trump's America and what I like to call the American renee sans.

Joining me now is Natalie Winter's co host of Steve Bannon's War Room.

Great to see you, Natalie.

Now, the big exciting news over here in Australia is at our Prime Minister managed to get a phone call with Donald Trump, whoa finally, I mean he's been to China.

He was there for six days recently his best mates hanging around the Chinese celebrations.

At the moment, we still haven't had a meeting between our Prime Minister and Donald Trump, but yes, a phone call.

So Natalie, what do you make of it?

With your ear to the in the White House?

What does Trump think of America in your opinion of Australia A man obviously.

Well, look, you guys have something that I think President Trump in our Defense Department has repeatedly shown not just in their words but through their actions, that we are extremely interested in, and that is rare earth and critical minerals and particularly the processing.

Australia is essentially the only Western, a basically non Asian country that even has the capacity to do that so I think that is something that there is definitely a.

Strong convergence of interests over.

Obviously, I think your current leadership maybe likes to welcome radical forms of migrants and refugees with a lot wider arms than we do.

I hope for your sake, President Trump can maybe talk him down on that front.

Isis Bride's or what have you.

But I think particularly we are going to be able to find collaboration and partnership on the rare earth front like we sort of already have.

Well, Natalie, you're absolutely spot on there.

That does lead me to why you would need those critical minerals, apart from you know, obvious energy needs.

But Donald Trump is renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Now, this has obviously got the left all in it is.

But is this Donald Trump just being pedantic about what the role is of this department or is it more sinister than that.

Well, look, I've been told by the left for I don't know how many years that words matter.

Right, If pronouns matter, then I think we should correctly name our DoD into the Department of War.

And I think to link this back to what we're talking about, even through the rare earth lends.

Right, this is not just rhetoric.

You're actually seeing the action to back it up.

And this is definitely a sort of unrestricted version of warfare that the Chinese Communist Party practices.

Right, it's not necessarily kinetic.

It's in supply chains, it's in partnerships and alliances and taking over the third world.

I think we've certainly seen that on the rear front.

But I even think you've seen a lot of movement from our Pentagon in terms of shoring up these shortages of supply chains.

Take the recent movement that they had on supplying the United States with cheap drones.

That's an area that China outpaces us considerably and really is the forefront of modern warfare.

You saw even the Mountain Pass Mind deal, which was the first of its kind public private partnership in that rar earth and critical mineral space.

So I think you're seeing it on the action front.

I think this is maybe just a lag time of a few months, but I definitely support it.

I agree with you wholeheartedly there.

Now, Natalie, your parents would remember the is Paul McCartney Dead Storm that was created back in the late sixties early seventies, everyone had their record covers out to see what all the symbolism was and had Paul McCartney died in a car crash and it was the very exciting stuff.

Well, last weekend the left replayed a rather macab version of that with is Donald Trump dead?

And they worked themselves up into an absolute fever spin about whether or maybe three days no one had seen him, does this mean he's dead?

And quite discussed.

I found a lot of the tweets on the left, a lot of the social media posts were quite excited about the thought that Donald Trump might be dead, which just says all you need to know about the left.

But what was it like in America?

What did people in Washington make of this nonsense?

Well, look, I don't even have to go back to my parents.

I remember four years of asking myself if Joe Biden is dead?

And I think got the answer on that in front a little bit.

But look, it's absolutely absurd.

I don't even think these people wanted President Trump dead.

They wanted President Trump killed and assassinated, like we saw multiple times, but especially the rhetoric on social media.

But I think the funniest part of all this.

Obviously President Trump is looking great despite the edited pictures that they're putting out.

It was actually an interview that a White House correspondent for the Daily Caller did that morning where President Trump talks about he's going to put up a portrait gallery of presidents and how he was actually going to put a picture of the auto pen instead of President Biden.

That was the evidence that people were pointing to to say he's not dead, he's fully functioning.

I guess it's a wishful thinking on the left.

That's so funny.

The auto pin up there in the portrait gallery would just be so good.

Here's Donald Trump actually responding to the rumors of his demise.

You know, I have heard it's sort of crazy.

But last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful.

They went very well, like this is going very well.

And then I didn't do any for two days and they said there must be something wrong with him.

Biden wouldn't do him for months, You wouldn't see him, and nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him, and we know he wasn't the greatest of shape.

And then Natalie right on cue Joe Biden has reappeared and he seems to be sporting some kind of head wound or other.

Apparently he underwent a procedure on skin cancer, I gather, but it's not a great look when they're calling, you know, getting excited about apparently, you know, Donald Trump being dead, and here's Biden looking like someone's taking an axe to his head at some point?

What did you make of all this?

Well?

And can I also just add that these same people are pushing these President Trump conspiracy theories.

How many years have they tried to censor us for.

Being conspiracy theorists and spreaders of misinformation and spreaders of disinformation right every single word in the book, And now they're literally saying something that is just objectively false, even subjectively false.

Meanwhile, they have no curiosity.

But it's not even just that they don't care to report on Joe Biden.

They actively helped cover it up and they're continuing to do so.

Right, President Trump, in a couple of memes about his health, get more attention from the press than this.

Four years of Joe Biden running the United States of America by auto pen.

It's absolutely ridiculous.

And this double standard.

I know, we had all the Maya culpas from the media saying how they were going to do their jobs better.

But this President Trump incident with his health and pretending to be dead and all that stuff, it shows you they haven't learned their lesson.

They're still motivated by extreme hatred of President Trump.

And at the end of the day, if you were a Democrat, he'd be getting a lot more cover and coverage.

That's positive, absolutely, Natalie win does from a co host there of State, Bans Warren always great to chat to you, and now it's time for my weekly look at the insane world of climb at Doomsdayism.

Weather or not, Yes, Australians must ask themselves whether or not the billionaire dollars that we spend over the years on the Bureau of Meteorology and the daily reports they issue are actually worth the paper they're printed on.

Who can forget back in April these media reports complete with fiery colored graphs to match that quote, Australians could bake through one of the warmest winters on record, with temperatures expected to soar across the nation.

Pretty much since that day, we've been, in my humble opinion, shivering through one of the coldest and most miserable and wet winters I can ever recall, but you do have to ask yourself how many potential tourists did Yd listened to the Bureau and decided not to book a holiday at Threadbow or anywhere else, and how many businesses in the snow industry suffered.

Accordingly, the joke was that by the middle of July the snow was already deeper than the previous year.

And this week we learned the Australian snowfields cracked the two meter mark and Perish's Olympic tea bar had to be dugout because of last week's blizzard.

One has to ask oneself whether or not Australia's climate change obsessed Bureau of Meteorology is fit for purpose and how much damage is it doing to our winter tourism industry.

Meanwhile, over in the UK, according to the Daily Express, bonehead Bowen's opposite number, meathead Milliband has attracted more headlines for his climate craziness quote ed.

Milliband has been accused of plotting a radical change to Britain's diets, which could see meat switched for insects in an effort to reduce carbon emissions.

Maybe I should start calling him millipede miliband instead Yumo, but millipedes not alone.

No, this isn't a stand up comedian, it's a climate obsessed so called bioethicist speaking at a TED conference recently.

Listen, eighteen percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock farming, So if we eat less meat, we could significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

Now, some people would be willing to eat less meat, but they lack the willpower.

Human engineering could help.

Just that.

Some people are naturally intolerant to milk or crayfish, like myself.

We could artificially induce loud intolerance to meet.

These people are insane.

But how long will it take Bobo bow And I wondered to discover that he too, can reduce our carbon emissions by forcing us all to eat bugs.

He's tried everything else and failed.

And speaking of Bonehead Bowen, I was mightily impressed by his satirical comedy routine in Parliament this week.

WHOA, but you see, Chris, What you don't realize is that satire exposes the truth.

That's the purpose of it.

And yes, unwittingly, you certainly did expose the truth, he said on.

Sky News last night that zero is and I quote at a great socialist plan.

He's onto us Morris and government.

It's about time somebody's stood up to those socialists and the Morris and Joyce government who embarked on the policy of Days Zero.

Ill convene an urgent meeting of the Socialist International to discuss this matter.

We're just waiting on the availability of Boris Johnson and Theresa May, Frederic Merchant, Anglo Merkel and the two thirds of Australian companies who are dedicated to net zero.

As a speaker.

We're waiting on their availability.

They we'll have a meeting.

Very good, mister Bowen, and was worth a laugh.

I enjoyed it.

But the reality is that net zero is a collectivist economic theoretical plan born of a hard left political ideology, which by definition makes it a socialist project.

A socialist project that literally involves destroying the planet in order to save the planet, the definition of bureaucratic collectivist idiocy.

As The Weekly Times reports this week, quote, decades of work by Australia's founding land Care Group is at risk of being torn apart by a one hundred and two wind turbine development backed by HMC Capital's Energy Transition Fund chaired by Julia Gillard.

But yes, Chris Bowen, you are right to mock Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison and Theresa May and Angela Merkel and Barnaby Joyce forever having agreed to sign Australia up to this socialist insanity.

You may also recall that doing so cost Scott Morrison his job, cost bonking Boris Johnson his job, cost Theresa May her job, and cost Angela Merkel her job, and my roled gold promise, mister Bowen, is that after costing thousands of Australians their jobs, net zero will also eventually cost you yours, but not before you and your party have wreaked unbelievable damage on this country and on our prosperity.

And if this is the best our Prime Minister can come up with to justify the greatest ever upheaval in Australian energy supply, the impoverishment of families and small businesses, and the flight of investment to friendlier other places, it'll cost him his job too.

If you get rid of net zero, you are saying climate change is not real.

That's it, That's all they've got nothing else.

Here's Donald Trump spelling out the harsh reality in relation to the UK, but it also applies to Australia.

I hate to mention countries, but you look at the UK.

What's happened at the UK have energy costs of going through the because of when they want to do everything close up the north, the northern parts of the country.

They have oil that's tremendous and they close it up and they're building windmills all over the place.

And I tell them, you're my friends, but man, you're going to have a bad awakening very soon.

You're going to it's going to be very bare.

Yes, a bad awakening, or, as Donald Trump would also say, climate schmimats coming up after the break.

Albert rebuked by John Howard and Alexander Downer on Palestinian statehood rerecord mission.

That'll be on Two against One next Yes, welcome back.

Now it's time for two against One.

Joining me this week is Graham Richardson and former Labor MP Michael Danby.

Great to see you both as always.

Now, Michael Danby, here's one of my favorite Spectator Australia covers from the COVID lockdown years.

Which showed Zi Jingping.

It's looking startled as he's sitting there reading the thoughts of Chairman Dan Great gag there.

Zi Jingping is clearly mightily impressed by Dan Andrews.

Now, Michael, why would that.

Be h The fact that the Premier of Victoria in Victoria did a belt and road program with Beijing under the radar without the approval of the federal government, even though it was subsequently reviewed and nullified by the federal government, still pretty amazing achievement.

The scene of him standing with the North.

Korean dictator and the Russian dictator at a missile parade is optics that obviously wanted and have been planning for.

A long time.

Richard, I'm always accusing the Labor Party, the modern Labor Party, not the Labor Party that you were part of, but the Modern Labor Party of being a little better than communists?

Am I being unfair?

We saw Dan Andrews there glad handing Zijing Ping, no mention of looking after the Wiggers or any of that.

In fact, Dan Andrews came out and started praising Zijingping's climate change credentials.

You can't let this stuff up, Richard.

It's certainly not something I would have done.

I think we've got to be very cautious about our relationship with China, obviously our biggest trading partner, and yet we planned for war against them.

A delicate balance, never going to be easy.

I think if we're going to try and move forward with this relationship, as I hope we are, then we're going to have to accommodate in some way.

The Andrews bent if you like, But I've got to push you harder on this, Richo, because Albanesi and Dan Andrews, Anthony Alberesi and Dan Andrews are very close, great mates.

They flat shared together.

Albanesi has come out and said no, no, no, no no, I wouldn't have gone to China.

Yet he was there only a few weeks ago, spent six days there sitting in private meetings as Zijingping.

How dangerous is this connection between Labor, the Modern Labor Party and China.

I don't think it's a dangerous connection.

I think it's one you watch, but I don't think it's dangerous.

Michael Danby, I wanted to ask you about this.

Anthony Alberizi has been slamm by former Prime Minister John Howard, who was accused ALBO of betraying international law by recognizing a Palestinian state.

Michael, the fact is that Labour seems to make up the rules as it goes along, Penny Wang recognizing Palestinian state when of course it doesn't qualify under international law.

What happened to the rule of law and order?

Michael dan Bi.

Labour seems to trash it whenever they feel like it, And that's John Howard's point.

They laud Abbas, who hasn't had an election for twenty years.

Even if he had an election, ha Mus would be elected to Albo and Wang rule out, and of course he'll be elected until the terrible education that is inculcated into poor Palestinian children by UNRA and other UN agencies stopped.

And ALBO has got it all around the wrong way.

We can't impose a solution from Canberra.

It has to be negotiated between the parties Israel and the Palestinians.

Absolutely richer.

Would you conceede that ALBO completely stuffed up on this whole issue of recognizing Palestine a Palestine?

Well, I don't think it's the finest hour.

I don't think i'd like to go any further than that, but I think that says it all.

Well, well, Richard, I'm sorry, but I mean the number of times you've told me this isn't Albo's finest hour probably adds up to about a couple of months now just for the hours alone.

So let's say it's not Albo's finest year or term in office.

I would argue, just very quickly, the two of you on ten seconds from each of you, what was the conversation between Donald Trump and Albo?

I'm going to tell you how it went.

In my opinion, it was Donald Trump said, who who are you?

What?

Okay, don't recognize Palestine by But maybe I'm wrong Graham richardson what did Albo and Trump talk about?

Well, I'm not certain that Elbow and Trump had a wonderful conversation.

Not their finest phone call, pads probably not.

I think we obviously have some tensions there.

Michael Danby very quickly the Albow phone call to Donald Trump.

We love Australia, but show us the money, show us the defense expenditure increases, and we'll keep your tariff STEMP.

Fantastic, Thank you both so much, and coming up in a tick my parting words of wisdom for the week.

Well, sometimes I think we all just need a good laugh amongst all the leftist insanity in the world today, There's nothing I love more than topical comedy and this online clip satirizing the idiotic comments my cold plays Chris Martin earlier in the week where he told two Israeli girls that they are human beings too.

We'll have a listen.

This is an absolute classic.

Okay, Chris, this is you bought the show.

Just ask them where they're from, have a quick little chat, get them off the stage.

Where did you come from from Israel?

Okay, don't don't.

I tell them that you a knowledge them as a human and you will.

Treat them as much so they don't blow you up.

I'm gonna say this, I'm very grateful that you're here as I don't make it weird.

You have people.

You made it weird.

Thank you for being here the great point.

Thank you for being lovely.

And the crowd is turning on you.

Okay, mentioned something about Palestine.

Baby, maybe that's what they'll come back on track, right.

People in the audience from Palestine, because we have.

There we go.

Yeah, the cheers probably a lot of people from Palestine here tonight.

Benefit Green Knights crisis averted.

This is definitely not going to your viral.

Okay.

We believe in merging comedy.

Gold Well done to all those responsible.

That's all we've got time for.

I'm afraid, but stay tuned because James Morrow is next with the US report.

I'll see you on outside is Sunday morning, nine am.

Good night,