CredlinPeta’s investigation into the reckless renewables rollout exposes allegations of bullying. Fears foreign actors may have been involved in recent antisemitic attacks. Plus, Greg Sheridan discusses Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
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Good evening, Welcome to the program. Here's what's coming up tonight on Kredline. Another chilling development in the spate of anti Semitic attacks. Police now investigating whether foreign actors or foreign states are involved. So now the question is when is the government briefed on this and why has it more been.
Done or disclosed?
Day two of the Donald Trump presidency and already he's got the establishment inner tis left leanding governments, including ours here in Australia, scrambling to salvage.
Their woke agendas.
Plus my special report tonight into the reckless Renewables rollout, including the serious allegations of bullying and intimidation by government officials eager to kick farming families off their land. And it looks like the Prime Minister's all but given up on stamping out the rising anti semitism, failing to day to answer questions and passing the buck to the States. This Prime Minister needs to explain to Australians what is going on. Where are the tougher laws against hate crimes, Where are the mandatory jail terms.
It has been allowed to fester under a what I would say is a weak prime minister.
We'll stay with that issue because the Albanezer government continues to be clueless at best, deliberately malevolent at worst when it comes to tackling the UnAustralian wave of jew hatred still sweeping our country. There have been thirteen major anti Semitic incidents in New South Wales alone over just the past sixteen days, culminating in the fire bombing of a childcare center yesterday morning, and the latest federal response has been drum roll the creation of a national database, as if the various state police forces don't already know there's been a surge in anti Semitic crime. That was the sole underwhelming outcome of last night's emergency National Cabinet meeting that the Prime Minister finally called after denying for months that it was needed. He wouldn't call it terrorism either, as his own Special Envoy to combat anti Semitism has urged him to do. He didn't signal mandatary sentences for terror offenses either, as the Opposition keeps demanding he does. Instead, we got more hand ringing, more buck passing, and the Prime Minister ended up by saying it was up to the states to throw the book at any offenders.
What people have right now, as Chris Mins has said, is serious penalties in place. If anything can be looked at with state and territory jurisdictions, they're looking at that. News Wales and Victoria both said that they will strengthen laws.
Is it any wonder we got this then from Peter Dutta today.
Part of the problem that we've got ourselves into as a country has been because the Prime Minister absented himself from this debate early on for political motivations and outcomes. And I think that I can't recall an incident where an Australian Prime Minister at Labor or Liberal has sacrificed one part of our society and their security to try and win votes in another part of the community.
Not once since the October seven atrocity and the subsequent disgrace of Australians rejoicing in the murder of innocence outside the Opera House has the Prime Minister grasped the depravity of what's happening here in Australia. He's downplayed Race hayters Mere protest and he's treated what's now a campaign of domestic terrorism as little more than the local vandalism. Dutton, the former policeman, called that out today.
This is going to escalate to a point where somebody is going to lose their life.
Let's be very clear about it.
This is not somebody who was liked a nasty post online.
We're talking about a child has set of being fired on. It is a terrorist attack.
I think we should remind ourselves of that. Somebody breaks into the sports shed here on Saturday night and steals half a dozen beers and they're fifteen years of age. That is a criminal offense and the police will treat that seriously, but it is not a terrorist attack.
Bab's most concerning out of an emergency national Cabinet meeting that did very little last night was news of the briefing by the Federal Police Chief Commissioner to the room that these recent attacks targeting Jews and Israel might have been carried out by criminals and funded from overseas well.
They're incredibly serious claims that have been made and they need to be substantiated. More information needs to be provided because it has struck fear in the heart of the Jewish community, who now believe that they are the targets of either a transnational terrorist or organization or a nation state engaging in state sponsored terror in Australia.
Now.
When asked about these AFP briefings today, the Prime Minister refused to provide any further detail.
Of course, those investigations are ongoing. I'm reluctant to say anything that compromises those investigations, You.
Weak little man.
The Opposition Home Affairs spokesman James Patterson.
Hit back the Prime Minister and Tony Burke's dismissal of questions about this this morning is just not good enough. You cannot put a claim out there like that with very little detail or substantiation and very little comfort to the community about what is being done to protect them. It would be one of the most grave security crisis in Australia in peacetime. If it is the case that we have state sponsored or terror sponsored terror in our country.
Now, If if foreign actors are funding local criminals to terrorize Australians who happen to be Jews, this is a major assault on our sovereignty. What exactly does the Prime Minister know about foreign funded terrorism against Australia When was he told what has he done about it? Did he know anything about these claims before yesterday's emergency National Cabinet. If he did, or if his ministers did, if his office did that, it's aren't acceptable that it's taken.
Him weeks and weeks and weeks to call this emergency meeting. Peter Dutton again, the.
Prime Minister needs to be honest here because it seems that he's at odds with.
The strength of the Police Commissioner.
If there has been such a significant international element, what has been the involvement of the federal agencies including ASIO and for how long?
And why is the Prime Minister never mentioned this before?
Now?
Frankly it just gives shines a spotlight on the fact that the Commonwealth Government should have deployed resources much earlier to what is a rolling series of terrorist incidents in our country.
If these foreign actors are acting on behalf of another country, it amounts to an act of war against us. So why is the Prime Minister so blase about what's happening? Surely the Prime Minister wouldn't have had the AFP floating tenuous claims as a smoke screen for his own lack of leadership.
Well, the Prime Minister has not said whether he was briefed on this, when he was briefed on this, whether the National Security Committee of Cabinet has met, whether our intelligence agencies have bread brought into this, whether he's discussed this with our Five Eyes partners, and what action he is taking if it is indeed true that we had a foreign sponsored campaign of terror against the Jewish community in our country. Also yet to be explained is why it appears that so far Australia is unique in being on the receiving end of this.
All of this is just yet more evidence we've got a Prime minister who is weak and out of his depth. All right, we're going to Camberan now for the headlines Skyny's political reporter cam Redden Good Evening.
Federal police are investigating whether foreign actors have helped fund or orchestrate anti Semitic attacks in Australia.
We believe criminals for hire maybe behind some incidents.
Now it's unclear who or where the payments are coming from.
Why has the Prime Minister never mentioned this before?
Now the Albanezi government has been unable to explain why one of its senators who accused Israel of apartheid was secretly dumped from leading a delegation to al Schwitz. An email sent in December by senior Home Affairs officials Snee had Chattijy and obtained by Sky News, informed Jewish leaders that lay Baba's Senate President Sue Lyons would be leading the delegation. But that was before Sky News broke the story airing these comments from twenty twenty two where she accused Israel of carrying out apartheid.
Israeli policies against Palestinians fit the definition of the international crime of apartheid.
As recently as Tuesday, members of the traveling party were of the belief Senator Lines was leading the trip until suddenly she wasn't.
Penny Wong will lead the delegation.
Is it ever?
Boston Minus.
I have no idea where that came from.
We did make that decision.
I think just around Christmas.
It's there as Plann's day. She very clearly was leading the delegation at one point.
Cameron Redden's Sky News Canberra.
All right for more on today's big stories.
I'm joined down by Sky News host National Affairs editor at the Daily Telegraph, James Morrow and One Nation Chief of Staff James Ashbury, gentlemen, welcome. I want to start with the news that emerged today regarding a briefing given to last night's emergency National Cabinet meeting. This is a briefing by our Federal Police Commissioner Reese Kershaw. The claim is that the AFP's investigating whether those carrying out anti Semitic attacks in Australia are paid criminals and that the money's coming from overseas. Now, despite the seriousness of these claims, we've had stonewalling today from the Prime Minister about what he's been told by police and when or whether it's now an issue involving our intelligence agencies. And what's worse, nothing concrete at all to come out of last night's meeting other than an announcement that they'll create a new database to track the crimes. Now, James, I want to know who knew what when? Are we talking about a rogue actor here like Iran? And is anyone under investigation for these attacks? Is anyone on a visa here under an investigation? Have we let criminal elements into Australia on a visa?
That's what I want to know, James.
Ashby the greatest challenge that we've got here is that we have been allowing people in, particularly from Palestine, without the necessary checks in order to establish whether they're going to be a risk to the Australian population and those that we call citizens here in the country. What I'm more concerned about now is whether we've got the resources that are capable to deal with this genie that's been let out of the lantern. I don't think there's anything anytime soon we're going to be able to put this shocking thing called anti Semitism back in the bottle anytime soon. But the problem we've got is that we've got an intelligence agency. Whether if you have a look at Azio, they've got staff of around two thousand.
Then you've got the AFP.
The federal government have been more at war with them over paid disputes than anything. And when you compare those agencies who are supposed to be there for the intelligence of this country, there's very few. When you compare the intelligence of other countries, particularly Israel, they've got eight thousand intelligence officers compared to our two thousand, and we've been relying on other countries, the Five Eyed countries, as James Patterson has pointed out to keep Australian safe.
I know that there's a recruitment.
Drive on now with AZO that'll carry on between this year and next year. Is it enough, though, to keep Australian safe as this anti semitism ramps up.
Keep in mind the federal police are busy.
They're patrolling borders, they're trying to deal with the increased number of pedophiles online, they're dealing with drug importation. Now they've got this added risk that they've got to deal with along with Asio of dealing with terrorism and terrorism that's impacting on young families and particular members of our community, particularly those in the Jewish community.
James Morrow and like a lot of journalists the city here talking about these issues. I've been in the National Security rooms. I've had those briefings. I've been there the last time we've had serious terror attacks in Australia. I know exactly what should be going on. And to think that it's not going on, that the meetings are not happening. It wasn't that long ago, of course, that AZIO and the AFP were booted out of the NSC by the Prime Minister. They were not even in the National Security Cabinet room at all. Now, what wiries me is we're seeing a rise in attacks and increase in the violence of the attacks in Australia. We are not seeing that happen around the world. So what James Morrow makes us so vulnerable here in Australia.
Yeah, it's really interesting, Peter. You know, I've lived here in Australia since two thousand and one. I have never seen anything like what we've seen in the last eighteen months, but really in the last you know, two or three months in particular, where it seems like almost every day I wake up to the news here in Sydney and hear that there's something terrible that's happened in Sydney or Melbourne.
Or somewhere else.
And there's a lot of really big questions here if and I think part of it comes down to the general reactive nature of the Albanzi government and of Anthony Albanzi himself. You know, remember after October seventh, it took him quite a long time to call a national security meeting, you know, like, which is something that you would want to do right away after that sort of thing. Again here, if he knew about or if there was intelligence that this is being directed or financed, at least in part by overseas actors. Well, you know, again to call national cabinet now and really just do it as a perfunctory exercise to fulfill the Okay, well the press wants to call this final. Do that again. It's flat footed, it's reactive.
But I think there's.
Another element to this here beyond this. You know, we see, we know that anti Semitism has been a terrible problem in a lot of European countries. France had a huge explosion of a number of years ago. Its was horrific, and it seems like we're kind of catching up to it. And I think part of this peta is that Anthony Albinez he talks a lot about social cohesion, but I'm afraid he's taken on this sort of model of social cohesion, this almost clere Starmer model from the UK, where you don't talk about problems and where they're coming from and what communities may they may be coming from, because you don't want to upset the apple cart and have people talk about uncomfortable things. And I think that until you recognize where you know, a lot of this hate is coming from and the way that Labor has been pandering to Islamic communities in western Sydney and in other seats around Melbourne. You're not going to understand why suddenly, you know, some bad actors within those groups may feel also that they have a past. And I'm really worried about the way that, as James Ashby just said, we've let this genie out of the bottle. I don't know how you get it back in.
I'll tell you how you doing careful about who you important to this country. You were careful about who comes here, and you were careful about who's in your migration program. And that's what we've I think dropped the ball both sides, I have to say, but particularly Labor to drop the ball. Let's go to talk continuing talk about a hung parliament. We clearly get an unofficial campaign, let's be honest. But the deals, the deals are already on the table from the minor parties. The Greens want ten billion dollars to make government schools absolutely completely free and to give kids in public schools free supplies at the start of each year. The Tials, well, they want a number of things. Today they say they want truth, in advertising laws. This will be the return James Ashby of misinformation and disinformation. The Greens also say that if Albanese is re elected, they want a seat in his cabinet.
Well, typically when you are in the cabinet you not to go against the which I'd find extraordinary if the Greens didn't didn't have their say in that scenario and cause up people for a labor government a second term one.
Let's just hope that doesn't happen.
What we are seeing is a deterioration of the two major parties votes. We know that from the last election they only got into government with less than thirty three percent of the primary I think that'll be a roaded even further, a lot of those people are looking for a safe place to put their vote, particularly labor voters. I might just add we saw in the Queensland election here a lot of people abandoned Labor. They put their vote with one Nation and in seats like mine here in Keppel, where I wasn't successful despite getting twenty five percent of the primary vote, eighty nine percent of my vote went to the LNP. Why did that happen because we told people very carefully from the beginning, we do not support another term of labor. In fact, we put them and the Greens last on our ballot papers, and we made that specifically clear to every voter. I hope that the messaging is very clear from other conservative minor parties and the coalition for that matter. There is no point in the coalition speaking tough if all they're going to do is preference the Greens over labor and give them more power in a minority government. So we've got to be very clear here, very strong, decisive language.
As we've seen in the American election.
That's what drove Trump to such an enormous success. He was decisive, he was clear, and we want the same thing out of politicians here.
If you love Trump, you should love one nation.
At this election, because we'll hold whichever party gets elected accountable. If we hold the balance of power stuff the Greens, don't give them that opportunity to hold a gun to the head of whoever makes government next later this year.
Let's just stay with the polls and the election chances of the major parties. I picked up this sayseries of graphs. I think they're very fascinating. I'm going to show you these tonight and have a look on your screen. These are the fifteen month trends. Now some diabolical numbers there. For Labor you can see obviously they're the red line. The Libs of the coalition are the blue line. You can see that there is major primary vote voting intentions. We've got other graphs, we'll put them up, keep them going team in Sydney. That's regression two pp voting intention. That's where Labor's falling away, very very sharply. We've got their coalition two pp voting intention. This is where people say they're going to put their vote. This is beyond primary. This is a mixed bag of voters, and this is an aggregate of all the big poles. And there you go preferred Prime Minister. Look at that gap and we saw obviously in that Freshwater poll this week Peter Dutton has surpassed the Prime minister in terms of preferred PM. James. I could read a poll. You can read a poll. Can Labor recover.
Well, look they can. But looking at all these graphs, Peter, I'm kind of reminded. I want to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, and you know, how did you lose the election, well slowly and then all at once. If I was Anthony ALBINIZI I'd want to be calling this election sooner rather than later, because the trends are not in his favor and he wants to get out there sooner rather than later, so before Peter Dutton's policies are out there and fully cooked, so that he can tear it down as many as he can. But he's going to have to run a very negative campaign against Peter Dutton because the only other thing he's got at the moment is more growth in the public sector and more throwing cash around. And I'm not sure in this economic environment that people are really going to buy that.
I all, what negative did personal negativity did for Donald Trump? I suspect Peter Dutton is not that perturbed.
Jens. Thank you.
Catch you both next week, Okay, I know I want to return to US. You might, I think, be Donald Trumps second day in office, but already shock waves through the establishment plenty to cover. So joining me now for at Australian Greg Sheridan, Greg, welcome, he says, sort of like grand final week for you in US politics. Ship on an Australian election. Coming out, You've got it all going on. You've written today in your paper the Australian Trump is bigger, he's bolder, he's brassier than ever before. You say he's speaking for the plain American and for the sometimes forgotten majority, that he's an action man, impatient to get going. So I say to you, I think that's what the world needs right now, isn't it.
Well, Peter, great to be with you. I think that is right. You know, Trump is always going to be a mixed grill. There are going to be some gargoyles in his circle. There are going to be some weird things he says and some weird things he does. But listening to his many, many, many speeches on inauguration day, first of all, what a contrast to Joe Biden, who could barely walk onto a stage, couldn't read the teleprompter properly. There was Trump signing executive orders as he was talking to the journalists and so on. Seventy eight years old, he went to at one hundred events. So you've got to admire his stamina and energy. This is unlike any second term we've ever seen before. Second terms are normally an administration kind of slightly winding down, Well, this is much more energetic and focused than his first term. And listening to all his speeches yesterday, a great deal of what he said, maybe seventy percent of what he said represented good common sense. So he says, Okay, I don't want any more diversity, equity and inclusion. I want a color blind, merit based society. Well, who could disagree with that?
He says, I.
Don't want any more illegal immigration over the southern border, and he actually said I am in favor of legal immigration. I want companies, investment, and skilled workers to come in, but I'm against illegal immigration. Well, who could disagree with that? And on energy, he said, We're not going to handicap the American economy. We're going to use all the energy sources we've got. And I think huge number of Americans would have agreed with that. So populism can be good or it can be bad, but when it's well managed, it is the wisdom of ordinary common sense against what has become the madness of the American elites.
All right, just John Energy, he drill babied. Really, you know, he couldn't have been clearer with his intent. He couldn't have been more consistent throughout his campaign. He's already pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. That was one of his early executive orders. You know, he's up ending that Climate Club. What's this mean for places like Australia.
Well, I think this completely revolutionizes the politics and economics of global climate change. The Alberanzi government's energy policy, like its defense policy, is essentially a fast insider fantasy wrapped in a kind of episode of madness. The Alberanzi government will say to you now that all but four countries in the world are signed up to the Paris Accords, but the biggest, most powerful economy and developed me in the world, the United States, has just definitively left the Paris Cords. And it was interesting Kamala Harris did not campaign on climate change one bit. She reversed herself. She was pro fracking and so on. I mean that cause has been lost in the United States now. Then the other big emitters are not developed countries. They are China and India and Indonesia. These are the big emitters and the growing emitters. Now technically they are part of the Paris Accord, but the Paris Accord imposes no obligations on them, and they are all using every energy source they've got. China is building coul fired power stations at a rate of knots. India is burning more cold than ever before, So is Indonesia, So is the Philippines, so is Bangladesh. So the whole world.
The only bit of the.
World that is going into the climate madness really is Western Europe and previously the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and one or two East Asian maybe kind of Japan halfway. And the story is all the European governments have been falling because of high inflation and energy costs, I mean climate change. Energy action has done more damage to the German auto industry than the Royal Air Force ever imagined doing in World War Two, and as a result, the German government has fallen apart. So this, I think is a complete revolutionary change. Now you're not going to hear this on the ABC, you're not going to read it in the c anymore, Herald or the Age. But this is a reality which the Albanesi government is trying to deny, and Trump he is changing the reality.
Well, that's nice.
The Prime Minister on Climate change is a denier hey defense too. He's made it unambiguously cleary once other nations to lift their spending pull their weight. Australia too. It's had an early response from President Macron. He's telling the other NATO members they've got up their spending. How's that going to play out here? And also how's it to respond, particularly to China.
Well, Australia has really been pursuing the Bloodg's option in defense for a long time. For a very long time. We send tiny numbers of very specialized forces into American operations like the sas in Afghanistan, and we proclaim loudly our commitment to the alliance. Meanwhile, we do nothing of consequence for our own defense. In the life of the Alberanesi government, our defense budget has not yet reached two percent of GDP, and of course no country in the world spends its defense dollar as inefficiently or insanely as Australia does. We still have no maritime armed drones. However, I think probably we'll get something of a free pass from the Americans for two reasons. One is the one thing we offer is our geography, so the only sensible defense policy the Albanese government has pursued has been to entice American forces into northern Australia. That's the old old Australian syndrome. We're not going to defend ourselves. I hope the Americans will defend us. Defend us psychologically where the Afghan government, you know, before the fall of car Bull. And the second reason, so that's one reason the Americans give us a free pass. The second reason is that we do everything we can politically to support the alliance and to say how much we love the alliance and everything. And the Americans think that has a marginal benefit in signaling to Beijing and other players that it can still mobilize alliances and just very quickly. How is Trump going to respond to China? Actually we really don't know. Is very very tough minded, but his cabinet consists of people with very contradictory views on China. Marco Rubio is a real hawk. The Treasury secretary is a guy who wants to do conventional multilateral stuff with China. Trump threatened tariffs on China, but he's not imposing them yet. He wants to make a visit there. He's going to save TikTok. I think all that's a little bit strain In a way, I wish he'd had just let the ban on TikTok go forward. Trump is a deal maker, so as I say, he is a mixed grill. It's good and bad. He's not going to allow China to humiliate America, and he's not going to let China have a free pass, and he is going to compete on artificial intelligence and everything else. But you know, he could make a deal which is not a great deal. We just like the rest of the world, we're just going to have to see and we need to be in his ear all the time. We need to be his best friend as far as we can be giving him advice about American interests in the Indo Pacific and all the rest. He'll have a lot of other folks giving him the same advice, the Indians, the Japanese, and his first term. First term was pretty good, so you know, there's reason to be hopeful. But it's going to be a bit of a hold your breath.
It'll be a wild ride. It'll be a wild ride.
And as of Monday, it's no longer politics as usual, at least in the next four years.
Thanks Greg, Thank you all.
Right after break, my special report is regional communities hit breaking point. Politicians imposing their green agenda right across the country, plus serious allegations of bullying and intimidation from bureaucrats forcing.
Farmers off their land.
Welcome back still become the Trump effect already taking hold here in Australia. Companies bracing for the dismantlement of DEI initiatives and what it means for them. But first, over the past week. Last weekend in particular, I had the pleasure of returning to my old hometown of Witchship Roof in northwest Victoria, which has sadly become a flashpoint in the battle between politicians and bureaucrats pushing their green agenda and farmers whose livelihoods are now in the balance. One thing that's clear is that if anyone in government thinks they can ride roughshod over these communities or they are kidding themselves. On the farming plains at the edge of the Victorian Malley, a battle for survival is underway.
Three hours northwest of Melbourne.
It's a region that's no stranger to tough times drought and flood, but can it survive. What's coming from Canberra. This is Mount witchiproof. I've look in my old hometown, the smallest registered mountain in the world, and all around is land where families have farmed for generations. Now I was born and bred here, a fifth generation local, and I've brought you back here with me because this community is in the fight of their lives and they need our help. For hundreds of kilometers in each direction, this land that grows the food we eat and builds our wealth as a nation with exports is under threat. Decisions made a long way away by people with no skin in the game, People that won't have to live with the reality of any of this, are about to hit this community hard. Now, what's happening here is a fight that will shape the future of our country.
Well, good a, this is beautiful, Jeffcott.
Farmers like James and Emma Burke and their entire farming family are on the front line.
We selected in eighteen seventy three, so one hundred and fifty two years of the Burke history.
I didn't realize the scale of what they're proposing.
It's huge.
It's all the way across your farm, your brother's farm.
We're definitely the largest that we know of. We've actually mapped the line from start to finish and from what I can understand, we've got the largest amount of the transmission line.
Giant new transmission lines carrying so called green energy will cut a seventeen meter swathe through their land with devastating effect.
The height of these towels and being five hundred kV, we don't even know what machinery we can successfully put underneath these. These are huge towers. And even know that the GPS and everything that we're using in modern day farming, they're not understanding what it's going to do. And as we can see, you know, if it's going to cost me more to grow and more to produce, it's going to go up in price. So it's going to cost all of us in Australia. It's minimal. That compensation to what they're offering is not even close to what you know we're going to lose as farmers. It just it doesn't help us one bit at all. We've got to start making decisions the right way and making this business work as a business that's profitable for Australian It's not profitable for so.
Few At the center of this anger is a massive new electricity transmission line that will run between Sydney and Melbourne, known simply as the V and I West. The hundreds of kilometers it will cut through private land, and all the way along its high voltage cables will be held up by eighteen meter high transmission towers as high as a light towers at the MCG equivalent to about five and a half of these massive silos stacked on top of each other.
When the farmers say no, well, they're.
Being told their land will be acquired by force anyway, life changing decisions made by politicians and bureaucrats with little or a genuine consultation and no idea about what's at stake for these farmers.
They're calling it consultation, but it's not. We're being told this is happening. They're just drawing a map from their office in Melbourne from Google Earth. So we were told they were originally going to go through our lateral irrigator and that runs for two point two k's and their easement that they are looking at was two kilometers wide, just made it obsolete. They had no idea that any of this irrigation infrastructure existed when they drew their imaginary line. I've been practically called a liar when I've mentioned that it's costing our business millions of dollars. Land values depreciated, Our most valuable lands not even attractive anymore. We're probably going to be struggling to even sell it if we wanted to sell it.
And there goes the opportunity for your daughter Ella Yep, to follow in mum and Dad's footsteps on the land.
Absolutely gone gone. Five generations of hard work just gone out the window.
Glenlow East farmer Claire Grant is another fighter who refuses to be bullied in designing away lands she farms with partner Tim McGrath. If it goes ahead, the new transmission line will devastate their irrigation country, which is essential to drought proofing their farm business.
They keep spooking that you can do it, just normal activities can continue on.
But they've got no idea.
We're not going to be We're going to be limited as to what we can grow under there. They've got height restrictions on what you can grow. Corns automatically are no go because it's higher than they're three meters.
That you're only allowed to grow underneath.
So there goes one of your crops.
There goes one of our crops, which we also can't grow because we can't have aerial access because the power lines, aeroplanes aren't allowed in neural. This machinery is huge and twenty meters tower and you've got then bay restrictions. It's just not going to happen.
If you look around at all this machinery.
It's massive, it is.
The outlier is enormous, and we have to have it. Like air, crops have to go in at a certain time, they have to be strayed at a certain time. You never know what's going to pop up, diseases, pest.
So what's your alternative If you haven't got aerial.
Access, can't grow it, lose money.
Simple as that we actually live in a creek here, and that creek when it floods, we have to use aerial or or the future which is drone spraying, and we won't be able to use that. You actually can't use it there. So the actual costs of that is huge. Over our whole farm. Half it is actually through the creek. The cost would be astronomical. Like I just couldn't put a value on what it'd be in one season, that what we'd lose.
The more I talk to people, the more the mental health told was apparent.
Plenty of tears of bee shit.
This is horrific, it.
Is, And that's what the politicians, particularly I know you just into Allen's big push at the Bush summer is oh, we're helping farmers in the droughts and things like that.
You're not helping us.
We know how to run our own businesses and survive droughts and what to do. What they're doing is making it even harder and making farmland unfarmable.
See, people aren't happy on the land, they will leave. And I'm really concerned about how that's going to affect our schools, how sporting clubs, how local hospitals to attract and to retain workers.
It's really a real big concern for our community.
I just often have quite a sense of uneasiness. They're trying to rush these transmission lines through here, and it's just not fair.
It's just not fair on us.
Is splitting up the farmers, you know, by throwing these there's lots of money to put up these wind factories.
What also disturbed me was serious allegations of intimidation and underhand tactics from officials.
I think there's a lot of dirty business going on in this.
We're not giving into their bullying tactics. They call the police on farmers for no reason other than watching their own land.
They're making out that you know, where the enemy. We're not the enemy. We're just trying to find out what's going on.
They've gone from a nice little marquee and a nice table and a setup to two men standing on the side of the street with no identification and security.
The Greens and the Teals love to talk about saving the world from climate change, but they don't have to live with the reality of this green energy of madness. It's not their land being ripped apart, all their communities that will suffer. The Prime Minister or he's just desperate to hang onto power, so he is spending billions and billions of borrowed money to roll out these transmission towers to buy their support. Labor doesn't care about country towns like this. It's about the politics of the inner city and preference deals, not the farming communities that are the backbone of our prosperity. I sat down with just some of the witch you proove locals who could not disguise their feelings of abandonment and anger.
I do not want people coming onto my property, ripping up my ground.
Father and his brother didn't work their guts out for nothing.
This is now my legacy, this is this is all their legacy.
We were shocked, we were lauseous, absolutely devastated.
We felt totally ambushed, being treated like a peasant.
We've got no rights.
The figures have come out this week for a kilomora TRANSMISSI lines to your properly get paid eight thousand kilomna. We all figures are suggesting the Victoria and we're one hundred and fifty thousand per kilomna. So who's getting fairly compensated, certainly not the farmer rural Victoria.
I'm sure now the state government realizes it's just a massive opportunity to collect tact during harvests.
I saw something doing some surveys in the middle of the night.
We went to approach him a few neighbors and he end up calling the police on us.
They were actually the people that did have com mission to be there.
The carpet pythons on our farm are officially listed as endangered by the Victorian state government. They know that. The transmission people, We've told them, we've given them evidence, but we've still received a final preferred alignment through the farm only a couple of hundred meters from their main breeding habitat.
And just worris, you're what's the future holds for the future jed generations.
That's what worries both.
What's happening in Witchi isn't an isolated example. This is where the reality of decisions made at international climate conferences by people like Chris Bowen end up, where billions will be wasted trying to bribe and bully farmers into rolling over and giving up their land. If you think your power is expensive, now just wait till all of this gets rolled out. If you think if food's expensive, now just wait until our farmers go out of business. You talk to the locals, read the reports, have a look at even the engineering basics, and what's clear is that no one in.
Power is thinking this through. Honestly, this is madness.
It doesn't stack up, and everyone here knows it. It's an election year this year. Anthony Albaneese is in the fight of his life to survive. Just into Alan. They're coming for you too.
Out here.
These farmers are angry, they're organized and they're up for the fight.
I reckon, I know who's tougher. Do you think you can win the fight?
Well?
Truly?
Yeah?
Possibly twelve months ago to these God say no. But now I want to one hundred percent.
I'll went up for the fight. There's no doubt about that. You know, we've been in it for eighteen months now. We're getting better and better with it. We're starting to, you know, get a bit of media out there and people are starting to see and the questions keep coming.
We'll stick together.
I have to say. They cannot win it without you.
Next week we'll have another report because this is going on all over Australia and the furfew of renewables only power must be exposed. And just a special thanks to all the wonderful people who work with us in which you proof it speaks volumes that you are normally private, I know, but that you got on camera and opened up like you did. Also a special thanks for me too, to the Institute of Public Affairs who've been working with us on exposing what's been going on four years all right after the break another major gas project on whole at the time when we desperately need more gas. Plaus Howe's labor already scrambling to find a climate work around as Donald Trump abandoned the Paris Agreement. It's a Wednesday cal which is coming up. The first Let's bring in my panel shadow Environment Minister, a Senator Jonathan Duniam, A National Party Senator from Queensland, Matcanavan.
Well, then I'll start with you. I just took viewers to.
My old country town of which you proof the backlash against this renewables, the jet, the rubbers really hitting the road. They are angry and I want to say to people, Matt, you know this doesn't just affect those who live in the regions like you do. This is a massive issue for every Australian.
It is, Peter, and thank to you, Thanks to you to highlighting those concerns of rural and regional Australians. It does affect all the strains. Because Austraians like their farmers, they like the Australian bush. They want to protect the Australian bush. And currently a lot of these renewal energy developers are destroying the Great Australian Bush for no great benefit to the rest of us except higher power prices. And there is hope, There is hope. The way to defeat this is to do what you're doing. And the new LMP government here in Queensland has just called in multiple numbers of these wind farm projects, including one near where I stand today, the mount Light Lighthouse project, and that is because of the campaigning. It's been done on the ground by people here in central Queensland.
It's the way to make change.
Yeah, you're not wrong.
And of course down in Tasmania Bob Brown was against a win farm. You've got issues green and gender issues down there. The Prime Minister's trying to sit on the fence in the seat of lions over the salmon industry.
How much do you.
Think the green issues will be a vote changer at this selection, John O?
Well, Peter, it will be an absolutely central consideration of most people, because the green agenda is frankly, what has made cost of living the problem that it is for most households and businesses. The cost of energy has gone up because of our blind ideological pursuit of green energy and not to mention the damage it does to our environment.
As Matt Rightley.
Points out, so this green inner city vote chasing that's going on by labor, the former party of the worker, is going to cost them votes. But I can assure your viewers there is one set of parties, the Liberal National parties, that are actually listening and going to make sure that that agenda no longer controls what happens in this country.
Company directors in Australia are bracing for the growing backlash against diversity equids in inclusion programs following President Trump dismantling DEI in the United States. He's already assigned an executive order that also cracking down on gender ideology. He says, agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws to protect against sex discrimination. Is the coalition mcnavan prepared to have this fight here in Australia.
Well, I can't speak for everybody, Peter, but I'm certainly prepared to have that fight. I think, particularly where the rubber hits the ground, and that's when it comes to the issue of biological men competing as women in sports. It's unfair and in many circumstances. It is unsafe and it's just common sense to allow women to compete against women. The only place where that doesn't seem to make sense is where common sense goes to die, in Canberra. So I certainly when I get back to camera a couple of months, we're pushing the same agenda that Donald Trump's pursued here. We should have common sense, we should protect our young girls.
He's also banned public servants from working from home. That's gone the way of a stroke of the pen yesterday. John O again the Coalition, are you going to follow suit here?
There's definitely something we should be doing because I'll tell you what you know, whether it's in Witchiproof or Bernie Tasmania or wherever. If you step into reality, they are no way looking at things like work from home arrangements for their employees. So everyone in the real world knows you've got to turn up to work to do your job to make a difference, except in Canberra and perhaps in the public service offices of Sydney, Melbourne and other capital So.
It is something that needs to change.
It is a winner with Australians who pay taxes for these people to work at home, and it's something I think we should be pursuing.
Absolutely, Hey Matt Santos scrapping a project or certainly're putting it a whole on hold, I'll be correct, putting it on hold. Three point two billion dollar development gas development over in Wa, and we've got news now that the Albanezi government is going to try and work with a whole lot of Democrat states to get around Trump's Paris bands.
What do you make of this, Well, these jobs that are going to be lost to our country are the direct cause of this government's mismanagement of our resources regulations. They're ridiculous crackdown on gas. We saw communists to style policies coming to set the price and direct companies what to do. Of course, you're not going to get investment under those circumstances. Santos themselves as long as well as other gas companies have been warning about this, wanting about this for years, that they will take their investments to those parts of the world which want to have them, which want to work with them. And clearly the Trump administration wants to work with the oil and gas industries, and that's why we're seeing austrange jobs Australian investment go to the US. This is a major challenge and in terms of the government working with the States, I mean, this is just the wrong approach. The response to what Donald Trump is doing should be to cut our own red tape, to cut our own wasteful government spending, to get our own house in order, because if we don't do that, we are going to lose many more jobs, many more industries, not just in the resources sector, to a revitalized and vibrant United States, and that will make us all poorer.
Just before we go, John, I understand you've got a Maga hat of your own.
Tell us more.
Well, I'll tell you what. Maga is a craze that he is taking the world by storm. And it's because Anthony Albernize is not too dissimilar to Kamala Harris when it comes to word salads colplately out of touch and dug and Ramona Westbrook from the Mule Creek Hotel willing to sell and send these to anyone who wants to buy them. It says, for those that can't see.
It, make elbow go away.
Maga.
So I'm Naga all the way. And if anyone wants on quantic. Go sure, put them.
In touch.
Absolutely.
Go to the sky News website, go to my a little bit on that and we'll put all the information up there as well. I'll put it on my Instagram too, Go to my Instagram. Peter Cridlin, Ao, Jens, thank you you in the cricket there and Baddie all right after rak kel Richards won't belong, welcome back joining me now, Kel Richards, our word Smith extraordinary and I am tickled pink to have you with me every Wednesday. And of course Ray, one of our viewers, wants to know where does this come from?
Well, tickled has been in the English language since about thirteen hundred, so a very long time, and almost from the beginning, tickled was used to being pleased. If someone was tickled about something, they were pleased about it. It was as well as the bodily function that that was the symbolic reference of tickled all the way through. And then finally in nineteen twenty two, tickled pink arose and the idea was from tickling a baby sillho so that it giggled so much it turned pink. That's where tickled pink came from.
This is a good one.
Maggie wants to know what is the difference between blasphemy and heresy.
It is interesting, isn't it. Both words came into English via French around about the twelve hundred, so long time ago, and in both cases they have ancient Greek words behind them. Blasphemy comes from an ancient Greek word meaning being irreverent or speaking irreverently or carelessly about God. So when someone uses God's name to punctuate their sentences like commas, that's blasphemy. Heresy, on the other hand, actually means deviating from the truth of tradition and orthodoxy and normality and that kind of thing, And it comes from an ancient Greek word that meant to choose a different path. So you can be blasphemous without being heretical, and heratical without being blasphemous.
I suppose, having got time to answer Clive's question, he says, how do I make a go with a difference between I and me in terms of pronoun us.
Okay, it's first person pronoun and I is used when it's in the subjective case, and me as used when it's in the objective case. But English hasn't been taught. Grammar hasn't been taught to schools for forty years, so I've got no idea whether anyone would understand that. So let me just say use. If it's being done to you, if you are doing it, say I. If it's being done to you, say me that subjective case and objective case. And they should have taught you in school, but they didn't, did they.
Well they did for me in a long time ago. But we might revise that again next week. Thank you, Kim, see you next week. That's different me tomorrow night. Back here at six up next though.
Andrew Bolt
