THE DAILY AUSTRALIAN RADIO SHOW EP 32

Tuesday February 18th, 2025

Breaking News headlines:

The Coalition and Greens have attacked federal Labor for moving too slowly to come up with a new way of making big tech companies pay Australian media companies for news content.

The Reserve Bank will announce at 2.30pm its first monetary policy decision of 2025 with market analysts predicting and consumers praying for a .25% cut in the official rate to 4.1%.

Former executives at embattled casino operator The Star put profit above risk when they failed to take action as junket operators potentially linked to crime gangs flaunted wads of cash and money in eskies, a judge has heard.

The opposition leader Peter Dutton, has been accused of being light on the details of his nuclear power plan. 

Critics are asking for details how winding back renewable energy and maintaining ageing coal plants will lead to lower bills and better grid reliability. The modelling doesn’t support it, and some within the Coalition have expressed their doubts that nuclear is a serious option for Australia.

Whilst this looks like this is a win for the Environmental Lobby it is counter productive to the Australian people and appears more of an attack in the mainstream news to show Peter Dutton as being another promoted to his level of incompetence. Meanwhile conservative pundits argue that green energy technologies are artificially propped up by government subsidies.

BlueScope flags threat from mass Chinese steel dumping

Whilst BlueScope has hailed Trump tariffs as a net positive, it is pushing the Albanese government to implement tough anti-dumping measures against China.

There are calls for YouTube to be included in social media websites used by children under 16 years in the governments plan to block children from accessing social media.

Along with sites like Discord and alongside video games platforms including games like Roblocks where kids interact and communicate prompting debate either calling for all in or not which also throws up the obvious plot which is to make everyone get a digital ID handing even more power to an underperforming but all powerful government.

Ahmad Rashad Nadir, one of two nurses stood down from Bankstown Hospital has once again apologised through his lawyer and vowed to co-operate with police. the controversy, remains under investigation alongside his colleague Sarah Abu Lebdeh.

Police allegedly found a vial of morphine in Mr Nadir’s personal locker at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney’s southwest during their investigation. This is a Schedule 8 drug

It’s understood Mr Nadir allegedly asked a former colleague to empty his locker.

From the Health.nsw.gov.au page: Under FAQs

A nurse has brought in a bag of unwanted Schedule 8 (S8) drugs from a nursing home that our pharmacy services. Should I accept them for destruction?

No. The nurse should return them to the nursing home. If you supply any medicine to the nursing home or its residents, you may go to the nursing home and destroy the unwanted Schedule 8 drugs on the premises in the presence of the Director of Nursing.

But that staff member claimed they felt uncomfortable and instead called the police.

A large crowd of protesters has assembled at the US Capitol for a significant demonstration opposing Elon Musk, DOGE, and President Trump. The rally is part of the 50501 movement, which has coordinated protests across all 50 states to challenge recent government decisions. 

Participants are holding signs and banners while chanting phrases like “Gulf of Mexico” in response to its renaming as the “Gulf of America,” along with slogans such as “Stop the coup” and “Elon Musk is a Nazi.” 

At the protests, participants are actively calling for the assassinations of Trump and Musk.

Meanwhile Elon Musk’s DOGE has uncovered as many as 60 million extra social security numbers than citizens and more than 13.5 million social security recipients over 120 years in age, older than anyone who has ever lived before.

If each received just $20,000 a year in pension payments, that alone would amount to $270 Billion per annum in misplaced payments or fraud. If you were to allocate $250,000 to build a dwelling that money alone would be enough to build 1.1 million extra home a year. This is a perfect example of manipulated the left wing supporters are or just how effective the astro turfing campaign really is.

In One day Elon Musk has discovered more money to build a million homes a year for the very people crying poor and calling for his death. And still Musk and Trump work to serve the people who wish the demise.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks with his US Counterpart in how to end the Russia Ukraine war.

The Mexican Senate has given the green light for US Special Forces to enter to Mexico to take on the Cartels which President Trump has deemed terrorists organisations.

A US Delta Flight from Minneapolis to Toronto has crash landed and ended up upside down with 15 injuries recorded. NBC News is attempting to blame Trump’s federal Workforce cuts for the accident.