Why TV Shouldn't Pay For Sports Rights, A Royal Commission Into AI & The Parklands Trees Fight | Court of Public Opinion

Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, opening with Australia's porridge cannoli taking best speciality dish at Scotland's Golden Spurtle, before asking why a "mid-year" budget review lands in December and whether it will carry any cost of living relief. With the football grand finals over, he argues the media has the sports rights business backwards: broadcasters pay billions to the codes when it is their coverage that fills the grandstands and attracts the sponsors. He recalls doing exactly that at 5DN, when the SANFL wanted $50,000 for the season and he offered to pay it, then charge the same for the coverage and promotion; both sides ended up doing it for nothing.

He salutes the people who went to court to try to save the trees in the Adelaide parklands, questions the call for a Royal Commission into AI at around $100 million when he says the technology exists to replace jobs, and welcomes the Liberals' immigration policy for putting Australia's needs first, returning to the almost one million people on unemployment support. He also touches on the failed execution in Tennessee, the climate talks in Fiji, and hazing at universities and in the military, which he says has to stop. Plus this day in history from the microwave oven, Paul Hogan and John Lennon's Imagine to Sergeant York and Sir John Monash.

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