 Today May 40 here You guys realize how bad the the sexual harassment is in Australia's federal parliament in Canberra It's just out of control Advertising and program content breaks down the audience's truck Alarming details have emerged from the inquiry into the work hot bed of harassment That's what our parliament house has turned into place culture in federal parliament Sparked by the alleged rape of a staffer in a minister's office Hello, I'm Paul Barry. Well, okay So the staffer chose to get drunk and chose to go back to parliament house with a fellow co-worker right and chose to get into a Room alone with him while she was intoxicated and then she alleges that she was drunk So I'm not sure what role do people Play in their own misfortune Right seems to be that you don't get drunk With the blokes you don't trust and get yourself in a position where you're aligned with them If you don't want certain bad things to happen Welcome to me to watch and to top off a tumultuous year in Canberra Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins last week released a damning report into the work sex discrimination commissioner Holy hell Australia's a sex discrimination commissioner Place culture at parliament house which revealed a toxic environment of bullying and sexual harassment 20 a shocking toxic environment of bullying and sexual harassment. So Are there any environments where men and women are together frequently where there isn't some bullying and sexual harassment? I mean in science labs. There's bullying and sexual harassment All right, the nature of the male-female dynamic is that men are going to have a crack Into of the workers that are there right now. This is Kate Jenkins sex discrimination commissioner So I believe that different groups have different gifts Just because some groups have say higher achievement in some areas does not mean that those groups who have lower achievement in other areas Are being discriminated against right? We have different gifts. We have different proclivities. We have different talents And that's just baked into nature. So as a traditionalist I accept that Men and women have different gifts on average that young people and old people have different gifts the different groups and different religions and different ethnicities have different gifts and It's not Disparate outcomes are not necessarily the result of discrimination Have experience bullying sexual harassment or sexual assault so 77% of staff of witness to experience bullying look when you have a job you're the You're often the functional equivalent of a slave 40 hours a week. That's just how it is work is hard and Workers in general try to do as little work as possible for as much money as possible and bosses in general try to extract as much work as possible Or paying as little as possible These these are dynamics built into the reality of work And some of the experiences shared with the Commission were shocking the MP sitting behind me leaned over He grabbed me and stuck his tongue down my throat. The others all laughed Okay, that's ugly behavior All right. I have never engaged in that sort of behavior And I would not appreciate it if someone acted that way toward my daughter or my niece or my Sister or my mother That's just ugly behavior The report made a big splash on the front page of the West Australian which called it horrifying and sparked a similar reaction on ABC's the drum This is extraordinary and it was also a hot topic on Nines today show and on studio 10 We should never as a country be in this position ever again One in three workers are victims of harassment So What is harassment? let's say I go to work and there's a woman there with a low-cut top and How why is that not harassment based on the way that male nature is the male nature of the male gaze is to look It is to lust and to look right so I Like Jordan Peterson's point or why are women wearing makeup to work if they don't want to get sexually harassed Like why try to make yourself as sexually provocative as possible. Why are you wearing high heels? tight sweaters tight dresses low-cut louses Why are you trying to accentuate your sexuality and then claim that you don't want to get harassed? To me that just doesn't hold up We all try to use our abilities To get as much of what we want as possible All right, so I may lay on the charm Someone else may use their their looks Other people may use their mathematical ability. We're all out there maximizing our own chances So women do it men do it It's been a long time coming and these figures are terrifying. Oh, yeah, absolutely half of parliamentary staff is report harassment and bullying I don't know. Have you ever been to school harassment bullying is Is a pretty normal now there are levels of harassment and levels of bullying that are not normal So I just don't find these these self-reported Accusations terribly shocking or you know horrifying All right, there's no empirical validation. This is just people making allegations All right, they don't have to submit any evidence the evidence is anonymous reports and Some interviews where people in our cross-examined. All right, they just state that some things happen But over on skies at Paul Murray live They had a very different take featuring an all-male panel and this disclaimer Look, I get it. It's four blokes talking about it on telly But the last we cannot change who we are or how we identify but we are part of the inclusive discussion What so blokes never get harassed blokes never get bullied blokes are less human blokes are less less valuable Blokes opinions are less important Blokes get harassed and bullied Right every bit as much as women do But you've never seen a bloke get bullied And just who was included Paul Murray Nicholas Reese Chris Kenny and Mark Latham now leader of One Nation New South Wales Who had this to say doesn't accord with the experience? I had there for a decade and they say these problems go back decades. It doesn't feel to me like it's evidence-based So that's Mark Latham. He's the former leader of the left-wing leave a party here in Australia He's now the New South Wales One Nation leader of the Paula Pauline Hansen's Need of a spotty actually mark it was based on plenty of evidence including 302 written submissions Okay, that's not terribly How is that evidence people submit things in writing? 490 interviews 935 survey responses. So there's no empirical validation of any of these allegations 490 interviews and a survey of almost 1,000 current workers But sky still make Chris Kenny also queried whether the findings could be trusted the survey itself was an anonymous survey and less than a Quarter of the people who are sent to returned any answers. So it's not a representative survey That left the third male panelist Nicholas Reese who is Melbourne's deputy Lord Mayor to defend the report on his own We should all be sitting here. We should all be sitting here saying we are going to be champions of change This panel should be universally saying we Come on guys that you want to be champions of change like I don't like only bullying harassing awful behavior whether it's directed towards men or women So if this leads to better behavior, then I think that's great. Also, I recognize it that male nature is to pursue women. So a Good and decent traditional society puts up Protections for women But these protections would now be called discrimination because a traditional Society recognize that men and women need to be spoken to differently And treated differently. That's a traditionalist approach So you can't claim that women need to have equal rights and then claim that there should not be any Then there should also be special protections for them kind of but equal rights and then special treatment So I'm a traditionalist. I think you should speak to young people differently than you speak to old people You should speak to aristocrats different from pros. You should speak to men differently from women And three minutes later when he called them out, it did not get any better I am honestly just appalled that every comment I've heard from you in this debate so far tonight You're trying to downplay or discredit the findings and not talk up the seriousness of it It's unacceptable. We have to do something about it. We've got to try to change them here And in case we hadn't heard enough from old white males. Oh, so old white males They don't count. They're not important like Somehow they're less valuable their vote shouldn't count their voice should not be heard What is it about old white males that makes them if so fractured if so factor reprehensible? This sounds like avert racism and ageism and sexism So racism ageism and sexism according to poor Barry is perfectly okay when you're directing it against old white males or say Christian males But if there's any kind of reverse discrimination, then it's awful Graham Richardson had given us his view two hours earlier on skies Christmas tonight I don't think that there needs to be a turning point I don't believe that the culture in Parliament House is as bad as people are trying to make out But you see you can't get carried away with a few complaints. However, unlike Paul Murray Chris Look, I went to Sacramento twice for the free speech coalition, which is the lobbying arm of the pornography industry and they lobbied the state Parliament for porn rights and when I walked around the state state Congress State capital Sacramento, I was stunned by how gorgeous the women were the women who worked in the state capital who worked for the for the politicians worked for the Representatives and the members of the California Senate. They were better looking than the porn stars So power attracts beautiful women All right, so women want men who have power and men want women who are young and beautiful It's a little bit like when I was working in Hollywood as a background actor just the raw Naked sexual energy and excitement Was breathtaking so men who had some power in Hollywood They were like lining up the women and the blokes that they wanted And then those who had beauty were like lining up the people in power that they wanted and they were all interested in some kind of Transaction where they were willing to trade their bodies for like access to power All right, so if the atmosphere in Parliament is so toxic then don't work there Right places like Parliament and places where powerful people gather They're highly alluring and attractive to young beautiful women who want to Leverage the power that comes with their beauty to try to move up and Secure a strong powerful man So when there's plenty of power around there's going to be great sexual excitement when there's great sexual excitement people are not going to behave with complete calm and Serenity right sexes in the air when powers in the air sexes in the air when men and women are together sexes in the air So that's why Orthodox Judaism largely segregates the sexes and that's why I Think it's a healthy part of Australian culture is that the sexes are largely segregated Smith understood the fundamental need to include a female voice and had Prue McSween there to battle it out with the bloke He battalion the problem with Parliament House as I said is this whole Canberra bubble, which is like a Boys club. They're in denial. That is absurd This is the problem until they accept that there is a problem and stop kidding themselves And you could say the same for the old blokes at sky who were almost beyond parody in that response But now the old blokes I mean old white blokes who cares about that now I don't denigrate the female experience if women are having a terrible time in Canberra Then their story should be told if people are like if someone grabs you and sticks their tongue down your throat That's a salt. All right. That's a criminal matter. You should Perhaps go to the police if people are assaulting you So I don't denigrate or deny that the female experience here But I also don't denigrate deny the old white male experience I just don't see why no one group is sacred and the other group is if so fact or bad Good article in the Washington Post Advocates push nationwide movement for land return to blacks after victory in California So one black family's successful fight to reclaim a picturesque stretch of beach It's giving hope to others seeking the return of property that was taken from them. So this was In Manhattan Beach, California the descendants of a black family that had their land taken by eminent domain for a park Now being given the public park which they can sell for 75 million dollars So what white people never had land taken from them by eminent domain Asians Latinos what blacks are the only people who've ever lost land to eminent domain Like people did not spring out of the earth, right? I don't believe in in a moral right to any particular plot of land, right? I don't believe that the Jews own Israel or the White Christians own America like nobody springs out of the ground. Everybody moves from someplace else to take over land So Manhattan Beach, California Washington Post says black family successful fight to reclaim The stretch of Southern California shoreline, which they now get to sell for 75 million has ignited a national movement Look, there was a national movement before this with activists eyeing white owned properties around the country They say it rightfully belong to African-Americans. Oh Good morning, Jim. I am blessed. Thank you for your hospitality and For taking me around Sydney and for being such a genial and generous host. So I am doing well, mate So I'm going up to Sydney. I'm going up to Queensland next week So I'll be leaving town for about a month and then plan to be back in Los Angeles in the middle of January probably sort out my affairs and Sort my stuff and probably move back to Australia permanently at the end of January That's what I'm thinking right now. I haven't made any final decisions But where I sit right now, I think about 85% chance that I'm going to be moving to Sydney So this victory for this for these blacks in Manhattan Beach was hailed as a watershed moment The first example of black people forcing the return of property was taken from them by one means for another often violently over the years well Whites and I guess blacks and Asians and Latinos took took land from American Indians everybody took land from somebody So I don't buy into this whole moral argument that you know, certain land belongs to certain races With the Bruce Beach case be a one-off or a tipping point in a national struggle of a black land ownership Well, generally speaking whites own more land in America than blacks. So that's unequal and So we've got we've got this push for giving more land to blacks just like in Australia We're increasingly been giving more and more land to the aboriginals And now there are more than 100 people eager to make the case that they have a rightful claim to property now occupied by others this is infinite infinite number of claims for claiming, you know on moral grounds that this property belongs to you and And so these advocates say that this this real estate Thing lies at the root of the wealth gap between whites and African-Americans Well, could there be anything in say the culture of white America and black America that may be contributing to the wealth gap Anything in say education anything in work ethic Because I know Asians make more money and have more wealth than whites So is there anything about Asian culture and the way they live in America that Accounts for the wealth gap between Asians and whites or there's a wealth gap between say Indian Indians people from India move to America. They're about the richest ethnic group. Is it perhaps something that they're doing? so it's not just black people who've lost property to eminent don't me all right and Nobody nobody comes straight out of the earth You know given given a sword by You know as the lady of the lake to signify that they own a particular Bit of land Bye-bye