The Daily Australian Radio Show Ep 52

Tuesday March 18th, 2025

Breaking News Bulletin

In Estimates Senator Gerard Rennick asked the RBA if they would cooperate with the new U.S. administration when they audit the gold holdings at Fort Knox.

Needless to say they took the answer on notice.

It is however worth nothing that the claim by the RBA that an audit of Australia’s gold bars has been carried out is misleading.

The RBA has carried out a “partial” audit of selected gold bars, only 460 of the 5,285 bars on hand and the RBA had to give prior notice of the bars they wanted to audit before they arrived.

Had the RBA done their job properly they should have audited all 5,285 bars at the same time with no notice and observed the bars being removed from the vaults.

Furthermore Audit reports should be done yearly, not every three years.

You can read the audit report below.

It’s worth nothing that the RBA has lent or swapped 1,202 bars of gold out or 22% of our entire gold holdings.

These transactions are designed to force down the price of gold which is against Australia’s national interest as we are an exporter of gold.

More worryingly is how do we know that the gold bars inspected by the RBA weren’t lent by another country on a short term basis to cover the audit.

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Opposition leader Peter Dutton says a referendum may be needed so the government can deport dual citizens saying “if you betray your allegiance to our country in that way you should expect to lose your citizenship”

NSW Greens MLC Sue Higginson is challenging the "draconian anti-protest laws" in the Supreme Court, questioning the constitutional validity after Premier Chris Minns passed them in response to a criminal hoax. She joins Libertarian MLC John Ruddick who late last week called for the legislation to be repealed due to the hoax, asking, did the government deceive the people?

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The Australian Newspaper has reported that law students at Macquarie University risk failing a subject if they do not deliver a warm Welcome to Country, this will prove whether the law school is up to speed or pumping out DEI degrees.

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An Australian youth pastor who worked at the Future Church in Adelaide has been charged in the US for allegedly sharing sexually explicit videos involving children.

Daniel Menelaou, 28, was arrested by the Roswell Police Department in Georgia following a cyber tip he shared illicit content on a messaging and sharing app called Kik.

Mr Menelaou was charged with six counts of possession or control of any material depicting a minor in sexually explicit conduct on March 12, following an investigation by the Roswell Police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

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Donald Trump is to speak to Vladimir Putin on Tuesday – with the two expected to discuss territory and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – after the Russian president last week pushed back on a US-brokered plan for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine with a series of sweeping conditions he said would need to be met.

The Kremlin confirmed on Monday that the two leaders were due to speak by phone, after Trump’s statement that he planned to discuss with Putin ending the war in Ukraine.

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President Trump just dropped a major bombshell while visiting the Kennedy Center on Monday.

The president revealed that the JFK files will released to the public tomorrow, upholding a key campaign promise. There are roughly 80,000 of them.

“We are tomorrow announcing and giving all the Kennedy files,” Trump said. “People have been waiting for decades for this.”

Trump went on to say that a group of people led by DNI Secretary Tulsi Gabbard will be revealing the JFK Files.

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Officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have reportedly told scientists to scrub all references to mRNA vaccine technology from grant applications, sparking fears that the agency could soon scrap research programs into the vaccinations under Health and Human Services Commissioner Robert F Kennedy Jr.

One vaccine scientist based in New York funded by the agency was warned that references to mRNA vaccines should not appear in any future applications after referring to them in previous ones. “There will not be any research funded by NIH on mRNA vaccines,” the scientist added.

The Voice of America may not live up to its ambitious name for much longer.

Michael Abramowitz, the director of VOA, said in a Facebook post that he was placed on leave, along with "virtually the entire staff" of 1300. The announcement comes one day after President Trump signed an executive order to gut VOA's parent agency.

Some of VOA's local-language radio stations have stopped broadcasting news reports and switched over to music to fill the airtime, according to listeners.

Even top editors at VOA have been ordered to stop working, so employees expect the broadcaster's worldwide news coverage to grind to a halt, according to half a dozen sources who spoke with CNN on the condition of anonymity.

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Lawyers for the administration of Donald Trump argued that a judge’s oral order blocking the deportation of more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members was “not enforceable”, according to a court filing on Monday, Reuters reports.

In the filing, the Trump administration also argued that a 5pm hearing on the dispute today should be cancelled, because “plaintiffs cannot use these proceedings to interfere with the President’s national-security and foreign-affairs authority, and the Court lacks jurisdiction to do so.”

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The Biden autopen scandal deepens as President Trump deems all Presidential pardon signed by the autopen VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT. This has led to members of the J6 Committee to come out and attack the president on social media.

The Oversight Project pointed out that Neera Tanden was the White House Staff Secretary when Joe Biden autopenned pardons from a golf course in the US Virgin Islands.

Neera Tanden was a frequent mention in the leaked Podesta emails released by Wikileaks.

Tanden was one of the most vocal Russiagate conspiracy theorists. She not only attacked Republicans while she was working for Hillary Clinton, but also went for the throats of Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters.

Last week the Oversight Project revealed six criminals were pardoned by Biden’s autopen on December 30, 2022 while Joe Biden was vacationing and golfing in St. Croix.

According to The New York Post’s Steve Nelson, a key Biden aide may have exceeded their authority by unilaterally determining what documents to robo-sign.

The New York Post knows the name of the key Biden aide, but they did not disclose their identity in Friday’s bombshell report.

An insider told The New York Post that he feared this key Biden aide: “I feared no one as much as I feared that [staffer]. To me, [the staffer] basically was the president,” the person said. “No one ever questioned [the staffer]. Period.”

Is Neera Tanden the ‘key aide’ behind Biden’s autopenned pardons? Tanden went to work as a key Biden White House staffer after she was forced to withdraw her nomination as OMB Director. (Office of Management and Budget)