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Original Broadcast Date: February 21st 2018

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00:00People of Earth, attention.
00:30Well, if a week is a long time in politics, then this last fortnight has been even longer.
00:47Almost twice as long.
00:49Particularly for Mr Turnbull.
00:50It started off well enough with the PM losing only his 26th consecutive news poll.
00:55But increasing his lead as preferred PM.
00:58Although, in fairness, that was mainly due to Bill.
01:02Job growth was up.
01:03Unemployment was steady at 5.5%.
01:05Increases in health insurance premiums were at their lowest in 17 years.
01:09And then suddenly, BAM!
01:11Barnaby Gate brought it all crashing down around it.
01:14The only solution was to leave town and spend time with somebody less embarrassing.
01:18But not before banning sex in Canberra.
01:21Although it's interesting, I couldn't help noticing that Barnaby left Canberra at about the same time.
01:27It just seems a little too convenient.
01:29Now, I don't want to go through the various ins and outs of Barnaby's private life.
01:33I'll leave that for the tabloid newspapers and the more rectangular shaped commercial TV stations.
01:38But I do want to talk about our Prime Minister.
01:41A man who I revere so much that I made the ABC pay for a portrait of him with his eyes closed so that he didn't have to watch us make jokes about him each week.
01:52$50,000 that cost taxpayers.
01:54Why so much?
01:55Well, because I had it made out of that stuff they used to make those 3D Greek Easter cards.
02:00So, depending on your perspective, the eyes are sometimes open for when we're doing jokes about things he likes laughing at, like Labour and Tony Abbott.
02:10But I'm afraid that our PM has gone too far.
02:13Banning sex is like when they ban dancing in Footloose.
02:17Because sex is something that people in power have done since the oldest of times.
02:22They had sex with each other so that their crops would be plentiful or because they were bored.
02:27Aren't we told in the good book that there is a time for every purpose under heaven?
02:32A time to laugh and a time to weep and a time to mourn and a time for corporate tax cuts and, yes, a time to have sexual intercourse with staff members.
02:42Or perhaps even your own.
02:44It's the way it's always been.
02:46And it's the way it should be now.
02:48Hey, hey, hey, hey, we haven't got time for that. We've got a show to do.
02:58We'll do a big number at the end of the season. This is only at four.
03:03Sorry, Veronica.
03:05Right, well, on the plus side of all this, though, the Prime Minister has done what mates do for each other and helped Barnaby out as best he could.
03:13Not only by lending him one of his shirts last year, but by organising a holiday for him.
03:18The Deputy Prime Minister will be taking leave.
03:22And by standing out for him and his right to privacy.
03:25Barnaby made a shocking error of judgement.
03:28Neither has the Prime Minister called for Mr Joyce to resign. All he said was...
03:32He has to consider his own position.
03:36And talk is that Barnaby could hand in his letter of consideration of his own position as early as this weekend.
03:42And if he does, what a stellar field of candidates the Nats have to assume his position.
03:47Ah, there's this guy. Ah, there's her. Or him.
03:51Although it must be said that the National Party has been very supportive of Barnaby through all this.
03:56I think it was Senator Barry O'Sullivan who put it most eloquently than anyone else when he said,
04:01I don't want to lose one of the best politicians we've had in my lifetime.
04:06Are you going to shoot your best horse because he jumped the fence and was found in the neighbours paddock?
04:13Well, it's more about what the horse was doing over at the neighbours, isn't it?
04:17Without wanting to get too equus about it.
04:20I do get the feeling the stewards will be calling for the screens pretty soon.
04:24The media elites, like an Eames lounge chair and Otterman, have put Barnaby in a difficult position.
04:30And offered almost no support.
04:32Pointing out that during the same-sex marriage debate, he argued that such unions are wrong
04:37because marriage is a process inherently there for the support of or the prospect of children
04:43from that marriage or elsewhere. It doesn't seem to matter.
04:46It's just like a licence to have them. I really don't see the problem myself.
04:50In the meantime, though, with the PM gone and Deputy Liberal Leader Julie Bishop
04:55also getting as far away from this stench as she can,
04:58our Acting Prime Minister is the fourth in line Senator Matthias Corwin.
05:03Seen here also concerned about the stench.
05:06Fourth in line, this is the equivalent of Princess Charlotte becoming Queen.
05:11If you can imagine a three-year-old girl with a Belgian accent and an interest in finance.
05:16But I think we're in safe hands here.
05:19It's true that Matthias is an unusual choice
05:21because usually Malcolm would just ring Julie Bishop and get her to come back.
05:25But these aren't normal times.
05:27I think what's happened here is that Malcolm, distracted by what's been going on,
05:30was packing his bag, told his PA to ring the Foreign Minister with the news,
05:34and the PA misunderstood and instead just rang a minister that was foreign.
05:39And frankly though, I think there was a more obvious choice in the circumstances.
05:44I mean, I mean, yes certainly.
05:49I mean he's had experience in the job, he knows where all the paper clips are.
05:54I know he's a bit of a loose cannon sometimes, but how much damage could he do in a week?
05:59I mean, sure he'd probably knight Ray Hadley and burn down Canberra while playing the lute.
06:07But so what?
06:08He had breath of fresh air after the last couple of weeks.
06:10Still, all things considered, I suppose a dependable, by the numbers,
06:14non-insane, straight up and down finance minister is the way to go.
06:17And to tell us what he has planned for the rest of the week,
06:20please welcome Acting Chief of Staff to Acting PM Matthias Cormann, Darius Horsham.
06:45Sean McAuliffe, you son of a bitch.
06:48I see you have Malcolm's favourite teapot, I see.
06:52Malcolm made it very clear to Matthias that it is important
06:56that we provide as much seamless continuity between the two alternate timelines as possible.
07:01Any change in prime ministerial activities, no matter how small,
07:05could alter the future under a coalition government irreparably.
07:09Do you jiggle or dangle?
07:11I also see you're wearing his tie.
07:14That's a funny story, actually.
07:16And Malcolm says to Matthias,
07:18if there's anything I can do for you to make the transition of power easier, just ask.
07:23And what did Matthias say?
07:26He said, your clothes, give them to me now.
07:29And I got this.
07:32But it's not as simple as just putting on Malcolm's outer garments
07:35and parading around as if nothing has happened.
07:38We have had to reprogram Matthias from finance minister mode,
07:41where he is designed to simply process numbers
07:44and administer Ritalin to Scott Morrison.
07:47And make him a fully functional replacement PM.
07:51Alright, what's Tony Abbott think about all this? Is he jealous?
07:54Sean, like Tony, I don't publicly comment on my colleagues.
07:59But I will say this.
08:01When a peacock tries to swallow a live monkey,
08:04he's only doing it for attention.
08:06Tony is like the old T-800 model prime ministernator.
08:11Whereas Malcolm is more your shape-shifting T-1000.
08:14There is no comparison.
08:16Alright, but can Matthias shape-shift as well as Malcolm, though?
08:20Listen to me, dick-wad.
08:22You are not fit to lick the cigar ash off Matthias Cormann's boots
08:25that he stole from the prime minister to put himself in.
08:27Now that Malcolm has got his ass to Mars,
08:29there will be no more wishy-washy, wibble-wubble jelly all the time.
08:32Ooh, I want to go to the bathroom.
08:34There is no bathroom!
08:36Who killed the dinosaurs?
08:37They did it to themselves!
08:39The age of enlightenment is over!
08:41Long live the acting, acting PM!
08:43Alright, well, thank you, Darius.
08:45Fantastic.
08:46So, some good has come out of this.
08:50We've got a prime minister we can do an impersonation of.
08:53And the other good thing is that for the very first time
08:55we've been able to get to know the nationals deputy leader.
08:58Can you tell us your name?
09:00What's your name, madam?
09:01What's your name?
09:02What's your name?
09:03The sad thing, though, is that...
09:06..is that from now on, ministerial sex will be off the table.
09:10Or the filing cabinet, or the floor, or the mimeo room,
09:13whatever they were doing it.
09:15But isn't this span a bit too late?
09:17Isn't Malcolm shutting the Barnaby door
09:19after the horse has been found in the neighbour's paddock?
09:21And how does this new code of conduct even work?
09:24Well, like any code, let's try and decipher it.
09:26Ministers, regardless of whether they are married or single,
09:31must not engage in sexual relations with their staff.
09:35Mmm.
09:36Not much wiggle room there, is there, Jomela Bird?
09:38Well, that's the point, Sean.
09:40Can I just congratulate the Prime Minister for his stance last Thursday
09:43when he implemented the sex ban?
09:45In fact, I think we have footage of his stance.
09:47Let's not...
09:49See here, he's made a point of holding his trousers up
09:52during the announcement because I think he instinctively knew
09:55that were his pants to fall down while he was talking,
09:58it would undercut the impact of what he was saying.
10:01Well, Malcolm knows what he's doing, Sean,
10:03but I just want to make it clear that this ban
10:05only applies to ministers and their staff.
10:08Labor shadow ministers can go for their lives with their underlings.
10:11Coalition non-ministerial officers will remain
10:13the dens of filth and depravity they always have.
10:16And, of course, there are no limits
10:18to the 50 shades of grey work environment at the ATO.
10:21But ministers and their staff must now regard themselves
10:24as part of a monastic brother and sisterhood
10:26who have taken a vow of celibacy and henceforth
10:29will devote themselves solely and exclusively
10:31to their service to the Australian voter.
10:33Well, how do you police this, though?
10:35How do you even define sexual relations?
10:37Well, as Malcolm has said, we all know what we're talking about.
10:40Straight sex.
10:41Waterfall.
10:42Hot seat.
10:43Pole.
10:44Face off.
10:45David Copperfield.
10:46Heir to the throne.
10:47Clothes for business.
10:48Pretzel.
10:49Doggy.
10:50Flatiron.
10:51Butterchurner.
10:52H2O Yeah.
10:53Wheelbarrow.
10:54Spoon.
10:55Cousinous cowgirl.
10:56Oral anal.
10:57And sweet hovering butterfly.
10:58As for policing, it's an honour system.
11:00Although I will occasionally burst into their offices
11:02with this ruler.
11:04Labor Party staffer.
11:07Douchebungle.
11:08Just for balance, we're not really interested in your opinion.
11:10What's your reaction to the Prime Minister's ban?
11:13Terror.
11:15How so?
11:16Well, because now the Coalition Ministers
11:18have staggered around to our offices
11:20and start leering at us.
11:22And what would happen, do you think, if a Labor Party staffer got pregnant to a Coalition
11:26Minister?
11:27No.
11:28You're crossing your species there.
11:29You'd probably end up with something like a mule.
11:32Presumably with the characteristics of both Labor and the Coalition.
11:35Yes, so it would completely hate itself.
11:39A bit like Mark Latham, aren't you?
11:40Yes.
11:42But what does this mean for Malcolm Turnbull as leader?
11:45Does the Barnaby brouhaha very funny
11:48give yet more ammunition to his political opponent?
11:51The...
11:52No, no.
11:53No.
11:54His political opponent.
11:57No, the other one.
11:59No, the other, other one.
12:01The other, other, other one.
12:04Don't worry about it.
12:05Just put another one up at Barnaby.
12:06A nice one this time, alright?
12:07Not one that makes him look stupid.
12:17They're looking.
12:18Probably had to go down to archives.
12:41Alright.
12:42That'll do.
12:43That'll do.
12:44That's fine.
12:45People are concerned about the effect all this distraction is having on the Deputy PM's work
12:49as Minister for Infrastructure and Transport.
12:51But I don't know.
12:52I mean, I mean, has he been distracted?
12:55I mean, really?
12:56Has it really taken his attention away from anything?
12:59Labor has been doing its best to discover if Mr Joyce breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct
13:03which prevents family members or partners being employed by Ministers.
13:06But as Mr Joyce points out...
13:08It is without a shadow of a doubt that Vicky Campion is my partner now.
13:13But when she worked in my office, she was not my partner.
13:16OK.
13:17Now...
13:18Now, they could have been in a relationship when she worked in his office, but they weren't partners.
13:23People can have relationships, by all means.
13:25But don't call it a partnership.
13:27That's not how traditional partnership has been defined.
13:30And you...
13:31And you can't change the definition because of a small minority of people who want to take that word partners from us.
13:39I'm not saying relationships are less than partnerships.
13:42They're just different.
13:44Well, Dromella, thank you very much for your time.
13:47Please accept, with our compliments, two tickets for a ten-day cruise aboard the Carnival Legend cruise ship.
13:52Enjoy romantic sunsets, lazy days by the poolside, or any of the delightful onboard entertainment such as mini-golf deck points.
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14:00Or learn how to build a teddy bear.
14:02With Carnival, it's fun for all.
14:04That's alright.
14:07And, uh...
14:08And nothing for you...
14:09Oh, she's gone.
14:10And coming up after the break, I speak to Big Tobacco's Nils Chunkutter about the revelation they donated $15,000 to the National Party.
14:19But is it appropriate that Big Tobacco backs a political party?
14:23Isn't it enough that you stopped us sponsoring sporting events?
14:26Now you want to stop us sponsoring the people that stopped us sponsoring sporting events.
14:30Yeah, but what do you expect for that money?
14:32I expect a relationship that's smooth and satisfying.
14:36So much more to enjoy.
14:39But why the Nationals?
14:40There's always got to be a drawback.
14:47Enid, the government end user expects us to look like we've taken this Royal Commission seriously.
14:52How would you feel about mounting a feasibility study into closing every church in the country?
14:57Is the Pope Catholic?
14:59It's for you to find out.
15:00A single mother who identifies as same-sex attracted.
15:04If Google or News Corp or BHP had done half of the things we're accusing these religious organisations of, do you think we'll let them get away with not paying any tax?
15:12In a world divided by itself and one.
15:16Yes, it's in a park under a tree next to a playground and some barbecue equipment.
15:22But it's still a legal marriage.
15:24I wanted to get married in the majesty of a grand mosque with an archbishop presiding in a kosher wedding cake.
15:30You do the math.
15:32I've been so busy at work.
15:34Hennessy's right, boss. We might never get this finished.
15:36Well, we probably mightn't.
15:38But at least we gave the appearance of trying.
15:40And anyway, our Australian religious freedom laws enshrine the right of others to be intolerant of us even though what we're doing is completely legal.
15:48Crystal!
15:50Get it!
15:52Oh, women.
15:54Nomination getting drama. Starring this country's most ubiquitous talent.
15:59God doesn't exist!
16:01That is my finding.
16:02The voters out there need to believe in a life after this to help them through the hopeless one we're providing them with now.
16:07And if that means that some of them are bigots, then, as our ex-attorney general says, that is their right.
16:12People don't have a right to be bigots. They have the freedom to act like bigots.
16:18What's the diff? Go away and write that up so that they can't molest our children with impunity and we can tax the fuck out of them.
16:26Must see television that you won't want to miss.
16:29When I was straight, I might have been won over by that sort of yelling.
16:32But if my lesbianism has taught me anything, it's that you can be a single mother and have integrity.
16:38Yes!
16:39Though if you do, you can always watch it on iview.
16:42It's dead.
16:43Can we blame it on the ACCC?
16:45Enid Swink, returning soon.
16:50And coming up a little later in the show, Stephen checks on what our contestants are up to.
16:54That's right, Sean. And Leprectemia looks set to surprise us all with this delightful kennel she's just whipped up,
17:00using a few slices of fairy bread and some uncooked sheets of lasagna pasta.
17:04And don't forget the cherry on the chimney, Steve. This delicious lamington dog with whipped cream rabies.
17:11Good luck with the judges, Leprectemia.
17:13My cousin's died in a rail disaster.
17:15Sean?
17:16Well, thank you, Stephen.
17:18Well, in non-Barnaby, non-sex ban, non-coalition disintegrating news this week...
17:24A team of certified canines is on duty at a courthouse in Sydney to help ease stress for people who are attending court.
17:32ABC Legal Affairs reporter, diversity McChang Allfrangopoulos.
17:37This unusual project really seems to be reducing anxiety levels for people attending court.
17:42Oh, Sean, I'm sure that they thought the people behind the idea were barking mad,
17:47that it was a real dog of an idea, but I guess the success of it really does give you pause for thought.
17:54Indeed, yes. And I guess you could say your little report there is a pile of steaming dog shit.
18:12Porky... Porky envelope system, you've experienced this pilot program firsthand.
18:17What brought you to court in the first place?
18:20I was suing my neighbour for post-traumatic stress disorder.
18:23Right. And what were the circumstances around that?
18:26I was mauled by his dog.
18:28I think we'll leave it there.
18:30OK, well, later on in the program, all the ups and downs in the US market and international finance,
18:35with Christie Brown's My Left Footsie.
18:38But right now, Tosh Greenslade in a wig and wearing a pair of glasses,
18:41with the latest in Barnaby Joyce's financial propriety.
18:44That's exactly right, Sean.
18:46The Deputy PM claims he did not have to declare the free rent he was given by a millionaire businessman
18:51because it was a gift from a close friend.
18:53He also says that he was not in breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct
18:57when he employed Ms Campion because she was not his partner.
19:00Which means that anything that happened between them was just a gift from a close colleague.
19:04The key to successful politics, then, is to keep donors close enough that they become friends
19:09and colleagues far enough away that they don't become partners.
19:12Or, to put it another way, to keep everyone in that sweet spot between friends with benefits
19:17and associates with consequences in what I like to call the donut of deniability.
19:23Back to you, Sean.
19:29Tosh Greenslade there, in character as a finance presenter doing satirical material about Barnaby Joyce.
19:36So just to recap, Mr Joyce is currently receiving rent-free accommodation from Tamworth businessman Greg Maguire,
19:42seen here wearing glass antlers.
19:45We should also point out, by the way, that Mr Maguire is not a partner of Mr Joyce, he's a friend.
19:50A friend who knows what it's like to try and live on only $8,000 a week.
19:55And, further, that it's all above board given Mr Joyce declared it on his pecuniary interest register.
20:01Obviously, following the advice of an old friend to always...
20:05Declare everything.
20:07But right now it's time to promote the key plank in our agenda here at the ABC,
20:12indoctrinating all of you into the godless world of atheism.
20:20A tug of war between the secular world and the religious one is taking place in Canberra.
20:24On the one hand, we have the Royal Commission's recommendation about how churches should conduct themselves,
20:29possibly being enshrined in legislation.
20:31On the other, the religious freedom of those churches to ignore the recommendations and carry on as usual.
20:36Father Beamish, you believe, as Archbishop Dennis Hart does,
20:39that abuse heard in a confessional should not be reported to police.
20:43I do, as Archbishop Hart says.
20:46Communication with God is of a higher order than the law.
20:50A sacred trust, something those who are not Catholic find hard to understand,
20:54but we believe most most sacred and very much part of us.
20:58A sacred spiritual charge before God which we must honour.
21:03So even though the key finding of the commission was that there was a systemic failure of the church to report crime to the police...
21:10Crimes we'd committed, yes.
21:13You still insist on not reporting those sorts of crimes...
21:16Sex crimes, yes.
21:18...to the police.
21:19We cannot.
21:20As Archbishop Hart says, confession is an absolute sacrosanct communication of a higher order that priests by nature respect.
21:28What about if someone says during confession that they're a victim rather than a perpetrator?
21:32That's not actually confession, is it? Surely that's...
21:34Anything said during the sacrament of confession is protected by a sacramental seal.
21:38And as Archbishop Hart says, we must not violate that seal.
21:42So if I came to you and told you that I'd murdered someone...
21:48With an axe?
21:49If you like...
21:51Whether you've murdered someone with an axe or been murdered with an axe,
21:55if you're in the confessional then mum's the word.
21:58Agony aunt from the Australian Gerard Henderson is on the line and we'll bring him in as soon as he's dried.
22:04Now, Father Beamish, what about the commission's recommendation that where a child is confessing it be in an open space and in a clear line of sight of another adult?
22:12Sean, these recommendations imply that we can't be trusted.
22:16That there's something weird about a grown man in a small room sharing secrets with a child.
22:21It's like that other recommendation that we be allowed to marry as if that will somehow magically make some of us less likely to be perverts.
22:29Not to mention the can of worms that's been opened up with this whole same-sex marriage thing.
22:34Yes, I'd be free to get married to a man if I wanted.
22:38But then I couldn't be a priest anymore because homosexual activity is, according to the church, a moral disorder.
22:46I mean, really, what the hell is wrong with being celibate for God's sake?
22:49If you are celibate, it doesn't make any difference whether you're gay or heterosexual, does it?
22:54It's like being a chef in a vegetarian restaurant.
22:57Does it matter that I privately prefer chicken to beef?
23:00I'm not eating either.
23:04Problems only arise when you are attracted to something like a pumpkin.
23:09Well, thank you, Father Beamish.
23:11Can I just point out that the Anglicans were almost as bad as us?
23:14Yes, no, I'm afraid we don't have time.
23:16Gerard Henderson, sorry we didn't have time to hear what you had to say, but I imagine it would have been the usual.
23:22Still to come later in the week.
23:24Join former ad man Flournoy Quimby as he answers the questions that no one else has ever asked.
23:31And with good reason.
23:32No one has ever survived a halo fall from 40,000 feet, let alone into a volcano while being attacked by a leopard.
23:39But I'd be on fire, wouldn't I?
23:41That only makes things worse, Flournoy.
23:43Testing man's endurance to a spurious premise.
23:47Repeats of Flournoy Quimby versus death.
23:50Coming soon to ABC Science.
23:52Welcome back.
23:57Elon Musk may have shot his sports car into space, but he has a fun side too.
24:02One of his pet projects is, like Prometheus before him, trying to steal fire from the gods.
24:07Harnessing the elemental forces of nature, like the wind and the sun, to bring life, like Dr Frankenstein before him,
24:13to the long dead corpse with a criminal brain that is Adelaide.
24:17Weigelin Al-Ahman McGee has more.
24:22Power to the people.
24:26Power to the people.
24:29Nathan Plug is the caretaker here at Elon Musk's lithium-ion battery farm in Jamestown, South Australia.
24:37His job is not only to test the charge in the batteries by licking the tops of them.
24:42That one's okay!
24:47Hey, hey! Ho, ho!
24:49But he must also deal with the anti-battery farm protestors, who believe it's cruel to store electrical energy this way.
24:57The sun and the wind are natural sources of power.
25:00They shouldn't be locked up in some cage, like an animal.
25:03They should be wild and free, like lightning or a hurricane.
25:08While 90% of Nathan's time is spent recovering from electrocution,
25:13the rest of his time goes to repairing security fences cut by the protestors.
25:18They think they're doing these batteries a favour by rescuing them and releasing them into the wild,
25:22but they can't survive out there.
25:24I mean, they go flat after four years.
25:26I went out looking for one the other day they'd liberated.
25:29Quite new he was, I found him 200 kilometres away in a river.
25:33Obviously I licked him as quick as I could, but he had barely any charge.
25:37So I lashed him to Maria's back and brought him back here and buried him in some landfill.
25:41And this is Maria?
25:43No, Maria's my wife.
25:45This is Jafar, my security mule.
25:48He keeps me company on my rounds and calms me when I get agitated.
25:52Last chance!
25:53This happens often.
25:55As well as warding off protestors attempting to liberate his batteries,
26:01Nathan also has trouble with his neighbour who runs the wind turbines next door.
26:06Oh, he's always over here complaining about what the low frequency noise is doing to his brain
26:11or how some rare and endangered parrots are getting turbo mixed by the blades.
26:16I said to him, I said, well, you don't have to listen to them if you don't want to.
26:20And why can't he keep those bloody parrots in a cage with those precious batteries of his?
26:25Nathan has applied to the council to have the wind farm closed down.
26:29But if successful, he won't be able to charge his batteries and he'll go out of business.
26:34But Nathan is adamant.
26:36Well, I think that...
26:37So...
26:38What?
26:39But Nathan is adamant.
26:40Well, I think there are plenty of clean, inexpensive and renewable alternatives to wind.
26:45Imported black coal from India, for example.
26:48I mean, I've got nothing against wind per se, but what do you do if it stops blowing?
26:52It's a point made by many others who also don't know what they're talking about.
26:57But like most advocates for renewable energy, Nathan's neighbour has a glib and annoying answer.
27:03Oh, we simply switch back to the grid and use the power from the batteries next door to turn the turbines.
27:08This hopefully creates more wind, which can be harnessed by the turbines,
27:12which means we can turn off the power and generate electricity.
27:15To go back into the batteries to replace the energy we use to power the turbines in the first place.
27:20Well, it's a bit like riding a bike at night.
27:23You never forget how to do it.
27:25Well, not coming up because squinters is on in a minute.
27:32Grandmother makes millions working from home.
27:36New George Christensen video makes our day.
27:39And Trump's sex doll, not realistic, fails to pay porn actress hundreds of thousands in hush money.
27:46And finally, the PM revealed on the weekend just how widely he consulted about the ministerial sex ban,
27:56saying, yes, Lucy and I talked about this.
27:59This is one of those classic issues where it's good to take counsel from your wife.
28:03So now the Prime Minister's partner is working as his advisor.
28:07Have we learned nothing?
28:14Goodbye.
28:19Giant baby.