Episode Transcript
These is the world according to Rowan.
Speaker 2Doing.
Speaker 1Good evening and welcome to the world, according to Rwandan, a world in which the people of Australia actually had a government worthy of the people of Australia.
Or maybe that's the problem, maybe we get what we deserve.
More about that in a tick.
We've got a huge show coming up this evening, so grab whatever takes your fancy out of the eski and let's get straight into it.
I've got my two star candidates of Farmer once a wife, Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce joining me in a tick.
Plus the e Karen and her under sixteen social media ban is about to kick in.
Is it the end of parental responsibility in Australia?
And Twiggy Forrest goes looking for green energy and strike susbestos instead blame it on climate change.
But first I have to say I am just fed up to the back teeth with what an idiotic, lazy and arrogant government we have here in Australia.
I could not believe my eyes when I saw this on social media yesterday.
This is Labour's youngest Australian senator, Charlotte Walker South Australian senator with Minister Jason Clare celebrating the fact that the government has paid off her university debt.
Watch this and weep and.
Speaker 3A step to courage.
Speaker 4I got a text hashtag let's get out a.
Speaker 1Day, hushtig, time to plan.
And there you have, in a nutshell the disgusting profligacy and wastefulness of this Labor government, neatly captured in a twenty second clip on social media.
Hardworking Australians pay tax so that Labour and the Greens can court the vote of university graduates by paying off their university debts.
It's an obscenity, but it's twice as obscene when the recipients of that waste and profligacy are already earning over two hundred thousand dollars and they have the nerve to laugh and carry on like a loon while hard working Australians see interest rates about to go up again, debt spiraling over the trillion dollar mark, and electricity prices the bedrock of every household budget, pushing more and more upwards and pushing more and more working class families into poverty and despair.
Labour call themselves the party of the working classes.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
They are the party of un serious, juvenile, frivolous, wasteful spending and idiotic virtue signaling politics.
To make matters worse, they are so smug and sanctimonious.
These clowns think they are saving the planet from client change.
The claim, or so it goes, is that reaching net zero, sacrificing our traditional industries, sacrificing manufacturing, sacrificing jobs, and sacrificing our living standards is crucial because that is the only way to save ourselves from rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions and super hot bushfires and superintense cyclones and the end of mankind as we know it's on planet Earth.
But what happens when someone actually tries to test these claims, you know, in a court of law.
That's precisely what happened when a group of Torres Strait Islanders tried to sue the Commonwealth for harm caused by climate change.
And look what happened, as explained and exposed by the brilliant National Senator Matt Canavan, the man who should, in my opinion, be Prime Minister of this country.
Speaker 5Not deserve to have the water, loot me get their doors.
Speaker 1When you do not accept net zero, you turn your.
Speaker 6Back on Australia.
Speaker 7Time that you let the nationals talk down that zero, you betray the Torres Straight.
Speaker 8A court case in the Federal courts for context, This case was brought by a group of Torrestraight Islanders who were claiming that the Komworth had failed in its stuity of care to protect them from the impacts of climate change.
The Commonwealth, on the other hand, submitted that it had no control over the risk of harm to Torres Straight Islanders from the impacts of climate change.
It's not a problem over which Australia alone has any or any significant control, and Australian targets, Australia's targets alone are unlikely to have any impact on climate change or the risk posed by its impacts.
Speaker 9I'm just trying to understand here.
Then I hear a lot.
Speaker 8From the government that we need to act on climate change to solve this issue.
But then to the Federal Court, the position of the Komonwalth is it has no control or any significant control on the climate.
Speaker 1No control on the climate.
And it gets even funnier here's the ever so unctious Senator Tim Is eloquently explaining against Matt Canavan and again in relation to the Torres straight iron climate change, claims that nothing Australia does will make any significant difference to global warming?
Oop?
Tim?
Did Tim run those lines past Albow and Bobo bo?
Speaker 8And I wonder does Australia have control or any significant control over the world's climate.
Speaker 10Australia by itself, just Aralia by itself does.
Speaker 7Not determine the global close Australia by itself, if it's.
Speaker 9Only about action in Australia, that doesn't work.
Speaker 1There you have it straight from the horses, sorry, the senator's mouth, just as in the side.
Wasn't it Caligular who had his horse made into a senator or a console?
Given the state of our senator today, what would the loopy Greens and the miserable labor clowns?
I reckon half?
Your or Knight's choice would probably raise the average IQ in our Senate.
But I digress.
Actually, I don't have listened to this disgrace in Senate estimates by none other than Labour's Senate leader Penny Wong, seen here this week refusing to answer questions about her false accusations of a political cover up by the Morrison government of Britney Higgins alleged rape.
Liberal Senator Rustin was trying to get Penny Wong to answer whether, in light of the court's rulings, yes, the court's rulings, she accepted her accusations of a cover up were baseless.
I've cut together Wong's answers in one sequence.
In my opinion, they make a mockery of our Parliament and of the Labor Government.
The answer to the question should be yes, we made a huge mistake and we apologize unreservedly Scott Morrison, we apologize to the Liberal Party.
We apologized in de Renalds and Fiona Brown.
Instead, watch as Wong ducks and wives.
Speaker 6Well, Senator, I will see if the Prime Minister has anything to add to the answer that he gave on the day in question.
Speaker 4Well, I'm here.
Speaker 6Representing the Prime Minister, and as I said, I sh I will check whether or not he or notice whether or not he has anything to add to the answers already already gave.
I would make the observation, make a couple of observations, I, Senator usted the first is that the independence of the judiciary is an important and central feature of the Westminster system.
The role of the opposition UH and parliamentary a ministerial accountability of the department Parliament is also a central feature of the Westminster system.
Speaker 4UH.
Speaker 6And what I would also say is this, this has been at the heart of this matter.
Was a young woman who a court found was raped in the office of a liberal minister, and I would hope we can all reflect on the impact on her and as importantly all survivors of sexual assault in this country.
Speaker 3Now I know.
Speaker 6There are further legal proceedings in place which make it much more difficult for us to comment further.
I've already given that answer.
I've said the independence of the jujitiaries and a central element of the Westminster system.
So to his accountability to the Parliament and the role of the opposition.
And I would note, as I said previously, you may not be asking questions about.
Speaker 9The issue.
Speaker 6Meaning a young woman's sexual assault, but that is at the heart of this matter.
Speaker 1What a disgrace you heard all the obfuscation, the ducking and weaving there So finally, I guess an exasperation.
Senator Rustin puts the question as simply as possible.
Speaker 11On the basis of the findings of these two courts, are you prepared to admit that there was accusations made.
Speaker 6By you on many occasions were unfounded.
I'd refer you to my previous answers, Senator.
Speaker 1What what an absolute disgrace.
In my opinion, Senators Wong and Gallagher should resign over their disgraceful performance dubbed the mean Girls at the time, three women, two female senators, one Labor and one Liberal and one Liberal staffer were all, according to themselves, the victims of the disgusting bullying behavior of these two women politicians have resigned over far less Wong and Gallagher demean and diminish our parliament.
But fortunately we do have some good senators in our parliament.
And again I'll just draw your attention to this superb exchange between Matt Canavan and the e Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant on the idiocy of the under sixteen ban, which begins in five days time.
You can be the judge as to whether or not you think these Caner bureaucrats are really on top of their brief Now, don't get me wrong.
I have no doubt that parents need to supervise their teenagers social media and online activity, and need to have the tools and support to do so.
That it must always be the parents, not the government, who get to decide something as crucial as where, how, and when.
Young people have access to information, often information that might determine the course of their young lives have a listeners.
Matt points out that the so called algorithms which the E Safety Commissioner rants on about are actually often beneficial, not necessarily detrimental.
Speaker 9Most of my kids there massively.
Speaker 8In the Roman history one Charles studying rocket science basically because he got to learn that through YouTube, and that was through the algorithm.
Right, he starts researching rockets and the algorithm leads him to mit lectures, but.
Speaker 1Then have a listen.
How clueless.
In my opinion, the EA Safety Commissioner is about the different needs of individuals rather than the collective and the positives of what the extraordinary technology she is days away from banning.
Speaker 8I feel like you haven't fully captured the positive benefits, including of the algorithm, because the algorithm takes an interest in history and politics, in science and shows you more interesting content there's some positive elements of that, aren't they.
Speaker 12Well, some of our research did show that ninety six percent of ten to fifteen year olds had one social media account.
At seventy percent of them experienced home on social media.
Andy percent of those maybe just YouTuber just because I'm.
Speaker 13Talking, forty percent experience it on YouTube.
Speaker 1And there you have it, in a nutshell, the difference between the right and the left, the difference between common sense conservatism and authoritarian socialism.
When pushed, the E Safety Commissioner resorted to simply reading out rather smugly.
I thought a lengthy piece on the harm that YouTube can do.
Speaker 13Users rely on videos and social media for companionship leads to social isolation.
Gaming content on YouTube is sought out by inappropriately aged children.
Teens are strongly influenced by YouTube creators.
Young adults suffer anxiety from FOMO, and there is an increasing number of children in therapy after watching YouTube.
Speaker 1And finally listen to this exchange.
Speaker 8Children can continue to do all of that on their parents account.
Speaker 12They can look at YouTube videos in a logged out.
Speaker 9State, yeah, or even on their parents account.
Speaker 12I think if there were a senator, I think if they were doing that on a parents account.
Speaker 8We would expect that Google would assess that.
Speaker 9So they blocked my account.
Speaker 8So if I was allowing my child as a parent to use my account to look at content, they block my account.
Speaker 9They may you're going to restrict the rights of parents the user of the account.
What don't I mean?
Speaker 8Yeah, okay, all right, I'll not delay the committee any longer.
Speaker 9But no, there's no longer parental rights in this country.
Speaker 1No longer parental rights in this country.
Weep for our country.
Well.
Explosive revelations earlier in the week from this network's excellent Sharry Marks and that Home Affairs Minister Attorney Burke told a private meeting of government officials that he would not block the return of Isis brides and wanted it kept out of the media.
Internal government document show Burke also held a private, closed door discussion with the charity organizing the Isis bride's repatriation.
This flies in the face of both his and Anthony Albanese's claims that they knew nothing about their return and played no role in it.
Joining me now is newly independent MP Barnaby Joyce and One Nation leader Pauline Hansen.
So Pauline First up, what do we make of these revelations.
Speaker 14I'm disgusted by it, ron I really am.
He was asking Flora Parliament and questioned Tim.
He's asked at some investments, he's been asked by the media and both he lied and the promised lied that they had nothing to do with it.
As I said at the time, I didn't trust or believe a word that they said.
And I know for a fact that these children, some of these children have been born over there and you cannot easily get them into the country.
And I know this for a fact because my son had a child over in Germany and the paperwork that he you had to get from the government to allow to bring the child back to Australia.
So the government was involved in it.
And to say that he had no idea is a blatant light.
Ron I am fed up with this, and so is the public.
You know, when you buy a product from a business or an industry or manufacturing, you give a guarantee and you say what you're going to deliver.
People are fed up with politicians and the lies.
They're not held to account and you know all the promises they give.
This is a national security issue and I have been against these ice sprides coming back into the country.
I believe that it needs to be dealt with and I'd like to see him gone.
I'd like to see he lose his job over this, and there has to be more accountability.
Speaker 1Binery House should what should happen next?
What should be the result of these revelations.
Speaker 7Well, I suppose Minster Burke has to come forward and give a full, frank disclosure about everything that was pertinent to this issue.
The biggest mistake you make is when you say people, you've got to keep this secret in politics, that doesn't work, And yeah, it's going to be a bad day in the office for Tony on this one.
There's people have real concerns because I've got to remember what Isis did.
Isis was murdering people.
If you want to, if you're in any sort of quandary about what their moral fiber is like, speak to the ZD refugees who were basically mutilated, raped, put sold into prostitution like white slavery.
It was absolutely barbaric.
Isis was a form of barbarism that the world has not experienced since you know, the Holocaust and medieval times.
And any person who had a willing association with them.
Speaker 3I don't.
Speaker 7I think they've ruled themselves out of as being a citizen of Australia.
That's that is that people are real concerned and just to say, well, I'm a bride, therefore you don't you know, I'm not part of it.
Now you're married to it and you willfully went there, and that's and that rules you out absolutely.
Speaker 1Now I'd like to ask both of you.
It's been revealed the cost of providing the Greens with a new meeting room in Parliament.
They need a meeting room and they spent one point six million dollars on renovations for a fourth party room, which began prior to the last election.
These renolds.
It's ironic, isn't it, Given the party is so quick to point the finger at others everybody else for wasteful spending.
Just take a look at this.
Speaker 3This is a government that's prepared to waste billions and billions of dollars.
Speaker 14Government can take these billions of dollars and build a nuclear submarine or two.
Speaker 1This government wastes billions.
Speaker 3That is a waste of public money.
Speaker 10This project, which is being funded with Australian taxpayers money.
Speaker 3Clearly a massive waste of money.
Speaker 1What a bunch of hypocrites, Pauline.
I mean, it's just unbelievable, isn't it.
Speaker 14It is unbelievable, and think that it's for one room, although the President says there's other works involved with it, but when you consider the cost of one point six million dollars, I'm actually God's maked about this.
Speaker 1Ryn.
Speaker 14You know, we have issues in Australia.
People can't get the decent health care that they have.
And I'm not padding myself on the back, but I actually paid out of my own pocket because the school of eight years of age couldn't get a tonsilate to me operation after seven years of waiting.
So any way, I paid for that and another woman who couldn't get in to have a mistectomy or a X ray done till September next year.
So I've actually paid for that.
And to hear this, that waste that money when people lives are at risk or living poor health.
I am discussed.
I'm angry about this and there has to be a gain more accountability.
So anyway, I just hope that some common sense comes out of this.
I can't see it and it's going to go on and on all these promises to waste some money.
The government is the most wasteful I have seen in a long long time, and I hope they're out on the ear of the next election.
Speaker 1Here here, Well, it's been revealed Barnaby that some of Australia's most popular EV electric vehicles are not performing.
Has advertised, who'd have guessed by navy?
What a surprise?
What do you think of it?
Speaker 3Ah?
Speaker 5Well, this is you know, it's this new cult, the cult, the intimittate power cult, which euphimistically called renewables.
It comes with all the adornments of a very well paid life.
Speaker 15You know, evs that you don't have to worry about your power bill, that you will somehow have a high powered bureaucrats job on hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And of course EV's the whole sort of manifestation that somehow on a grid which even a EMO now says it's going to fail and it's going to fall over.
No surprises, there always was complete fools there in this intermittent power for alic has been that we are actually going to put more demands on it because we're going to have to charge up the hole of the vehicle fleet.
Speaker 10It is crazy, and then it is and this sort of fantasy land of oh no, well, actually we'll use the electric vehicles to charge agreed, They'll actually be in the battery sources.
And of course EV's out here in country areas just don't work.
Speaker 1It's absolutely ridiculous.
It is ridiculous.
Now, speaking of country areas, I like to call this segment farmer wants a wife.
You had the meal?
Have you two got a special announcement to make yet?
Farnaby, come on mate, now's your chalents.
Speaker 7I've been out.
I've got a very red face because I've been out working, working very very hard in the sun.
Speaker 1Yours is sitting next year, your future boss.
Now's your chance.
Speaker 7You get along very We get along very well.
Speaker 5But like most people.
Speaker 1Exclusive today, no exclusive, but there will be there will be.
Trust me.
Will farmer will get the wife or the wife will get the farmer.
I'm not sure which.
Thanks so much for coming on the world according to your own great to chat to you both.
Thanks so much, Barnaby, Joyce and Pauline hands and there.
Now it's time for a little thing we like to call the world's gone mad.
Yes, it certainly is a crazy old world when the youth of Australia have to rely on this Baron Trump news commentary account on x It's a fan account of Baron Trump's, not that of the real Baron Trump to protest against their under sixteen social media ban.
Quote.
Australia just pulled a move no other country even dared to whisper about, says the account, a full nationwide band blocking anyone under sixteen from using social media starting December ten, twenty twenty five.
Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook and even x all off limits.
Yes, this is correct, and what a shame because now Australia's young teens won't get to go on YouTube or Twitter and be bombarded with the pearls of wisdom dripping from the mouths of all those Hollywood celebrities and rock stars telling them what to say and think.
Pearls of wisdom such as this one from earlier in the year.
Speaker 16We know what fascism looks like.
It was around the corner and it will be again.
This relationship between Europe and American will never be the same again.
Speaker 1Yes, that was, of course Paul Houston from You two earlier this year.
Paul is better known as Bono, the pompous, virtue signaling Irish pub rocker who rose to international fame lecturing popes and princes and presidents about poverty.
But when it comes to being politically relevant and defeating the evil Donald Trump, you might say, Bono still hasn't found what he's looking for.
Meanwhile, someone who based his most famous character, the Caribbean pirate Jack Sparrow, on a real rabble rousing rock star.
No, not the insufferable Bono, but rather the irrepressible Keith Richards Johnny Depp, still hasn't found what he's looking for either, namely a writer to give him some decent lines.
See if you can make head or tail out of this dire tribe of dystopian depium drivel.
Back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2Of one day, they didn't allow me, under no circumstances, no matter what, I cannot go to McDonald's for life, because somewhere, if you got them all in one room, there'd be thirty nine angry people watching me eat a big mark on a loop.
Speaker 1What yes, As I always say, Having worked with several famous actors in the past.
Never let them write their own script.
It never ends well.
Speaking of which, spare a thought, Actually, don't spare a thought for the Australian ex soopiactor Guy Peers, who had to meekly apologize this week after sharing misinformation and falsehoods about Israel on social media and insulting the entire nation with his inane and idiotic tweets and repulsive comments.
Not for the first time either, that I and others have had to call him out.
Guy Peers, of course, came to fame in the silly eighties Soapye Neighbors along with Kylie Minoguan others, but it seems he didn't get the message that genuine good neighbors don't go around massacring each other as her mass did to Israel on the morning of October seventh in twenty twenty three.
Another actor who made the fatal choice to write his own script this week was the Scottish actor Alan Cummings, who you may well ask well.
Alan Cummings first came to prominence prominence in the sequel to the kiddies movie The Mask Still The mask slipped recently with Alan, as it were, who has revealed a case of full blown Trump arrangement syndrome, suggesting that under the Trump administration, gay Americans are now under existential threats.
Well so over here, you know, billionaires are taken over the world and up ooh, we'll bep you.
Of course, they've come for trans people in America massively, and you know they're they're gone along the acronym.
Speaker 9You know they're coming for us next.
Speaker 15Even in New York City, people are my friends, are you know, more wary about on public transport?
Speaker 9And it's not an abstract threat.
Speaker 1But of course, when it comes to Trump arrangement syndrome, most of Hollywood's has beens have at one point or another, shown themselves ultra keen to audition for the lead role.
Here's just three of them.
You may not necessarily recognize them, but apart from their Trump derangement syndrome, they also have casting choices in common.
One became famous for playing a New York child prostitute, one became famous for playing an alien sex bomb and a New York prostitute.
And the third one, one Oscar, for playing a Florida prostitute who was also a serial killer.
See if you can spot.
Speaker 17Which was which you know one young person, you know, and I said, if we don't get Biden reelected or then it was Kamala, we're going to have fascism.
And she said, this young person said to me, we already have fascism.
Speaker 3We know that the first attack on democracy is an assault on free expression and civil liberties, and this relentless war on truth.
Speaker 18And unfortunately, sadly it's too familiar.
Speaker 12Because history repeats itself.
Speaker 3Women's rights are becoming less and less every day, Queer and trans lives are increasingly being erased, and gender based violence is on the rise.
Speaker 1Sometimes you get the feeling all those famous actresses were reading from the same script TDS the movie Where was I before I got distracted?
Oh?
Yes, the Australian government banning under sixteen year olds from social media, from YouTube, So how will the kids themselves react?
Well, one lot of taken the government to the High Court.
And here are some of the.
Speaker 14Others, Like, if you do like age verifications, everyone don't get past that.
Speaker 1You know, I don't think it's gonna work.
Speaker 19If you're getting on bullied on social media, maybe you should delete social media.
Speaker 1No, everyone, if you're getting tyber believe you might want to block them.
Speaker 14I think there's bigger problems than you be looking out for, like the youth crime instead of youth social media.
Speaker 7Yeah, they might be like more important things potholes.
Speaker 1On the road or something.
Speaker 10I don't know.
Speaker 1Fix the potholes on the road.
That's my kind of under sixteen year old.
Yes, indeed, fix the potholes on the road.
Road.
Even the kids know what a mad and crazy world we live in and go away.
Coming up next to American Renaissance with Noah Tishbee in a tick welcome back.
Joining me now is Israeli author, activist, intellectual and Hollywood superstar itself, Noah Tishbee.
No, it's always great to see you.
Now, there is a dark side to the American Renaissance, and I wanted to pick your brains on this.
What do you make of the tendency of some of your Hollywood colleagues, many of them to brazenly support the pro Palestinian cause.
We have the apology this week from Guy Peace, the Australian actor, over comments he'd made on Twitter.
Now this week we have the story of Benedict Comabatch, so Ian McKellen and even Horror of Horrors to my astonishment Paul Simon of Simon and Garfuncle calling for the release of Margant Barghuti.
Now tell us about Marwan Barghuti and why they're calling for his release, and please explain why they are.
Speaker 18Well, I hope we have a long time here because this might take a minute.
So here's the thing.
The Hollywood community is completely mistaken about this topic.
The Hollywood community often has the tendency to support what is the perceived underdog, and the perceived underdog in their opinion right now is the Palestinian cause.
It's true, the Palestinians are under oppression.
They're under oppression by Hamas.
And what all of these Hollywood stars are not understanding is that by supporting Hamas without question, answering, without asking any question, is what they're doing is that they're aiding and abating jihadi ideology and normalizing it as it creeps into the United States and the West at large.
That is what is actually doing.
They're pretending to care about the Palestinians, but it's virtue signaling to the greatest extent.
I I also support Palestinians.
I support Palestinian freedom, but not what Ramas is after.
And Ramas is able to basically trick the Hollywood community into helping them stay in power in Gaza.
In regards to Guy Pierce, I understand, look, apologies are great.
I accept everybody's apology, but what he needs to understand is that this culture war, this war that is happening right now, is more than just being nice to the Jews.
Obviously, Jihadi Islamist ideology is using anti Semitism in order to infiltrate the way.
This is more than just that.
This is about your life, your children's lives, your wives' lives, support for any kind of Western values and freedom that we hold dear, that is what is going on.
And now they found a new cause, and that is Marwan Barghuti.
Trying to paint him some sort of a Nelson Mandela, which he is not at all.
Marwan Barghuti murdered five Israelis and actually is convicted in orchestrating the Second Intifada.
Intifada is the violent uprising against Jews and Israeli.
That is who Marwan Barghuti is.
Is that the person that you want to put your names up for release, That is what you're calling for.
Why don't you spend your time calling for the removal of Hamas.
I believe that that would be a much better use of your time and actually, in fact, your name and reputation.
So stop supporting jihadi ideology.
It's coming to the US, and it is using the Hollywood community as pawns in this game.
Useful idiots.
Speaker 1It's very pain to say, beautifully put Noah personally, I was just horrified by Paul Simon joining that ragbag collection, but even worse, and this is really I need to pick your brains on you and I have spoken many many times in the past about the collusion of Islamist antisemitism and hard left antisemitism.
We've seen that repeatedly and it's got worse.
But now we seem to be having in the last few months this anti semitism on the right side of politics, the so called conservative side of politics.
It sickens me.
I have to be honest.
You have the likes of Tucker Carlson breaking bread with the repugnant Nick Fuentis, you have Candice Owens with all wacky, endless conspiracy theories, and so it goes on.
But can you please explain, Noah what this You're an anti semitism expert.
You are an envoy for Israel at one point.
Where has this come from, this bizarre so called right wing antisemitism.
Speaker 18Well, sadly, this is not new.
Antisemitism is the oldest form of hayen and discrimination that is still being used today, and it really ignites the hard left and the hard right and what we call the horseshoe theory.
So you go all the way to the left and all the way to the right, and what you'll find is jew hatred right now anti Israel or Israel related jew hatred.
So here's the thing that breaks my heart and should break the heart of every conservative or every person that believes in Western values, no matter if you're conservative or a liberal.
Congratulations to the American right.
They are being held hostage by the psychos in their midst very similarly to what happened to the American left.
How is this happening, I am not sure.
But what needs to happen is that conservatives everywhere in the Republican Party needs to stand up against this forcefully.
Speaker 1No it teach me.
It's always so great to chat to you, Thanks so much for coming on the world.
According to run Dane, and now it's time for my weekly look at the insane world of climate doom deaism.
Whether or not Yes, the poor, struggling, impoverished, and traumatized citizens of Nicholas Reese's Melbourne need to ask themselves whether or not the town some have chosen to call NRM indeed is indeed threatened to the point of extinction by catastrophic climate change, as town Hall and the left would have you believe.
Considering that this week, the first week of summer, and indeed the first day of summer, began not with a classic Melbourne Sorry NRM scorcher, but rather its coldest summer start on record.
Further north at Mount Hotham, it appears the locals got to celebrate the onset of the classic Aussie summer by driving through a fresh downpour of freezing sleet and snow, according to this post, making it look more like the Austrian Alps in summer than the good old Australian Alps.
And speaking of Austrians, I was reminded of one time Austrian muscleman turned Hollywood action hero turned insufferably woke Californian politician Arnold Schwarzenegger parading in front of the cameras last year, berating us all that the real threat to planet Earth isn't early on cyborgs, or predators or terminators, but rather all together now climate change.
Speaker 2We all believe that climate change and pollution an existential threat.
Speaker 9We all want the world without oil and core and pollution.
Speaker 1But even Arne couldn't hold a candle on the doomsday front to form a member of the People's Liberation Front turned eat the open Minister of Health turned Director General of the World Health Organization, the insufferable Tedris Gabrieus, who can also boast climate doomsdaal alarmism as his favorite stick.
Speaker 12The climate crisis is a health crisis, and it's not a hypothetical crisis in the future.
Speaker 2It's right here and right now.
Rising seas are aging closer to submerging some of our member states.
Speaker 9Food insecurity is rising.
Speaker 1Hmmm, Tadros, which member states might they be?
I wonder because Tadross doesn't actually get around to naming those sinking islands.
Certainly not the Maldives, which, despite being one of the lowest lying countries in the world, is eagerly anticipating the opening of not one, but ten new luxury resorts this year alone, right at sea level.
Indeed, it was the Canberra Times no less who predicted that the Maldives would be completely submerged within the next thirty years because of global warming.
They made that prediction thirty seven years ago.
Meanwhile, that other and sufferable celebrity, bore Twiggy Forest, has just discovered some of his precious wind turbines that he was going to save Australia from catastrophic climate change are riddled with catastrophic asbestos.
Twiggy in the Brake Pads quote mining magnate Andrew forrest newly opened wind farm in central Queensland is the latest project to confirm it has asbestos in its turbines.
The one billion dollar, one billion dollar Clark Creek Wind Farm is at least the third wind farm project in Australia to have discovered the hazardous material.
In Brake Pads end of quote, great work, Twiggy, looks like your plan to save the planet from rising sea levels and catastrophic droughts and floods might have to be put on hold for a bit while you sought out your asbestos problem.
Can give you the name, Twiggy of a good asbestos remover if you need one.
Meanwhile, The New York Times rather forlornly reported this week that quote many of those who are fighting climate change worry that they are losing the information war.
End of quote.
The New York Bible of Wokeness goes on saying, quote shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined efforts to respond to the threats.
Scary stuff.
But what exactly do they mean by disinformation?
Who knows?
As for me, I, for one, am still struggling to reconcile these two stories from their Guardian, only a year apart.
The top one in April twenty twenty four says Australia should prepare for mega droughts that last more than twenty years because of global heating, but the bottom one, naha May twenty five, says climate change has contributed to wetter conditions off the New South Wales coast megadrauts one year wetter the next.
Or, as I always say when I'm reading the Guardian, climate schmimat coming up Labour's mean girl saga shows no signs of going away.
More on that in a tick.
Welcome back, joining me now as former Labor MP Michael Danby and former Speaker of the House Bronwin Bishop.
Now there's been a lot of talk in Parliament as to whether there should be an inquiry into the alleged bullying behavior of certain Labor senators, the so called mean Girls.
Following two courts finding that the Liberal Party were not involved in a cover up of Brittany Higgins's alleged rape, the Prime Minister has dismissed the story, as have the two senators involved.
I showed a bit earlier Pennywong and Katie Gallagher.
I showed Penny Wong's responses in the show.
But here is one clip of the alleged bullying of Linda Reynolds.
Speaker 13I was told by one of your senators two weeks before about what you were intending to do with the story in my office two weeks before.
Speaker 19I had no knowledge of this.
Speaker 12No one had any knowledge.
Speaker 6Okayow dare you order now?
Speaker 9We will.
Speaker 1So there was also another scenario that has largely been forgotten, which involved this apology by Penny Wong regarding disgusting comments Penny Wong made to the late Labor Senator Kimberly Kitching about her being childless, have a listen.
Speaker 20Labor Senate leader Pennywong reportedly said to Kitching, well, if you had children, you might understand why there is a climate emergency.
Speaker 4My motivation in that exchange wasn't to have it wasn't to personally attack her.
My motivation was to express the distress that many children feel about climate change.
But what I said was insensitive.
I regret it, and I apologized as I should.
Speaker 1So my question to both of you, Michael and Bronwan is very specific and for legal reasons, please answer carefully.
Should there be, Michael, should there be a government inquiry into the alleged bullying of members of Parliament by the Labor senators known as the mean Girls.
Michael Danby.
Speaker 19My feeling is there always should have been an inquiry into the remarks, the cruel remarks that Penny Wall made about my dear friend and my wife's dear friend, Kimberly Kitchen, those that apology, and the in fact the whole incident of denigrating Kimberly's having no children only emerged when.
Speaker 1On the eve of.
Speaker 19The last of the first federal election when Albow was elected, So it was carefully swept under the carpet quickly, frantically, and people proceeded to an election.
But if there had been similar criticism of any woman or woman senator by a man, the double standards of the socialist slip would have been apparent because that man would have been driven from public life, and they successfully avoided scrutiny by having the impending free federal election.
So my argument to you Rowan and Ronman is that this is poweril to the existing cases, but it does show the zeitgeist, the mentality of the mean girls and Bromwin.
Speaker 1Often people talk about a pattern of behavior.
So we have two specific incidences.
We have the disgraceful comments to Kimberly Kitching, which Pennywong later apologized for, but they were made.
We also have all the stories surrounding the allegations concerning Brittany Higgins that there was a Liberal Party cover up, which two judges have now said no, no, no, there was no cover up.
We saw the attitude of the behavior of both Pennywong and Gala Katie Gallagher in parliament.
Parliaments of a feisty place, understood, But should there be an inquiry to Michael's point, if there were two men who would behave towards women in such a fashion.
Well we can imagine should there be a parliamentary inquiry into the labor senators known as the mean girls.
Speaker 20Well it does remind me when Senator Gareth Evans threatened to cross the chamber and Garotney.
He got off scot free.
So it's a robust place in there.
But also, I mean, anyone watching what Pennywong said about being childless, anyone who, in my view, who saw that explanation would say how disingenuous, how pathetic, and then to give that apology for what it was worth.
Katie Gallagher deserves to give an apology as well.
But I don't ask this question.
If you asked either of those those two senators whether they accepted the full Court decision of the appeal of Bruce Lehman's defamation trial as upholding the initial verdict, my guess is that they would both say yes.
Why not then would they not accept the findings of two Supreme Court judges who have found there was no cover up?
And the more important question is this, why is the government paying up to twenty five thousand dollars a day we're told for a very aggressive barrister to stop Fiona Brown getting a just and payout for the way she was treated.
There were so many questions in this story about who really was doing the backing of the to try and make this a weaponized case to bring down the government.
And then equally when you saw Albow just before the funeral couple of days beforehand complaining about people talking about Kimley kitchen, when it was the family who wanted the discussion, and was alban Easy who wanted it to go away.
So there are many many aspects to this question which do deserve some form of inquiry.
Speaker 1So, Michael, I saw you nodding away there, So just briefly before we get onto another top your thoughts on what Bronwin said.
Speaker 19Well, they use the election, the immediacy of it, to sweep the allegations about Wong under the carpet her apology, and the allegations only emerged on the eve of the election, so no one knew about this apology beforehand.
And I have something to say in the future about whether that pology was made or not to Kimberly.
But the point is that Bronwin is exactly right, and it's I go back to the point I made to you, Dean Rowan, that I'm sorry, I'm a bit emotional about all of this, that this this behavior towards my dear friend, my wife's dear friend, would in a man would have seen them driven out of public life.
You can't say those kind of things these days and surviving in public office.
They did.
They used the urgency of the elections, and the apology was and the in fact, the denigration of Kimberley was only made on the eve of the elections.
It only came out and a miracle that I was interviewed by the ABC of all people about it on the day of the funeral.
Speaker 1Michael Dan, thanks for those comments.
Speaker 9Well.
Speaker 1For Jewish residents in Melbourne, it looks like one of the holiest days in the religious calendar is canceled.
A disgraceful decision has been taken by Stonington Council to defer motion for the display of a manora until after Haneker, effectively denying the Jewish community the ability to openly celebrate the holiday.
Yet another reason for Jews in this country to feel as though they aren't value Just quickly, Michael, your thoughts on that.
Speaker 19E CaAl not better treatment equal, not better treatment.
So Minora should be able to be displayed just like a Christmas tree.
Normally it would in Stonnington with all those Jewish people who live in Armen go and to a wreck, etc.
Honestly, what a bunch of schmendricks, as you say in Yiddish, those four councilors, including the mayor who voted against it.
Speaker 1Really and Bromman on a similar topic, I guess good news if you like, Israel will be allowed to compete.
Oh, how generous of them in next year's Eurovision song contests.
Congratulations Eurovision members.
Thirty seven countries voted to allow it, but four of them have now in protest headed off.
That would be Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition.
I've got to confess I never listened to it, but still there is an important cultural.
Speaker 20I think it's worthwhile going back and looking at the attitude those countries head to the different side in World War Two.
Speaker 19I find that you've got such a good memory.
Speaker 1Michael likes his idea.
Bromwin, Well, I just.
Speaker 20Think it's so mean spirited.
It is so mean, and particularly in this area which Michael knows so well and I know less well, but how mean spirited to do.
Speaker 1That very quickly?
Michael, will you be tuning into the Eurovision next year.
Speaker 19I'll be relieved the Irish participating the last three times they've sent along.
They've got a word for a screaming, which called a banshee, but their contributions have never rated with the public hall, with the judges.
They're so horrible.
What do they send those people for?
Speaker 1Michael Danby and Romwin Bishop.
Always great to have you on the show, Thanks so much.
Coming up next my final words of wisdom for the night.
Well I mentioned at the top of the show, what a joke our elected officials are, certainly those on the left side of politics, and worse, what a disgrace our craven class of bureaucrats are.
Again with thanks to sending a Matt Canavan.
Just listen to this exchange.
Speaker 9How much do we need to invest to get to new zero?
Speaker 11So I'm not sure exactly what question you're asking over what time frame?
Speaker 9What the goal is net zero by twenty fifty, So that's the.
Speaker 11Time for that's right, And between now and then there's a lot of private investment that will take place.
Speaker 9Didn't you just do a modeling exercise?
Yeah, yes, we did so.
How much?
What's the figure?
Speaker 11So I'm not sure whether we have a figure of the total amount of investment.
But it's also I'm not quite sure how meaningful the question is.
Speaker 1How meaningful the question is, how meaningful it's the single most important question that will determine the future of this country, our economy, our kid's future prosperity, investment, their kid's future prosperity, every single aspect of every Australian's life.
How meaningful the camera swamp, It's time to drain it dry.
That's it from me.
Coming up now, it's US Report with James Morrow and I will see you on Sunday morning for an amazing Outsiders at nine a m.
Very special guests.
See you then, good night,
