Saturday 16th November, 2024: Weekly Wrap Up with Macca and Fiona

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And today we come to you absolutely live from the Victorian Pride Centre in Melbourne in what is Joy's 31st year soon to be 32. This is your Saturday magazine. Joy 94.9's longest-running news, current affairs and comments show and we've been on air since 1996.

And we proudly bring you this 16th of November 2024 edition of Saturday magazine here in Melbourne. I'm Macca. My cohost is our wonderful executive producer Fiona Brooke. Paul is on panel.

and thanks to our podcast to James and our production assistant, Tom, who's actually having the day off today. Tom, I hope you're having a good day. Good morning, Paul. How has your week been? Good morning, Macke. Very good. Thank you. I cannot believe the amount of appointments the present elect is making to his new team

Yes. And some of my social media things are being saying, when are they going to send in the clowns? Because they already have. It sounds like there's an odd bunch of appointments that have been made. Can it Kennedy for health is one that was announced, I think, in the last 24 hours. He's the cabinet secretary for the Flat Earth. I think that one of the most interesting is Elon Musk, and there was an article that

Elon has been hanging around Mar-a-Lago and Trump made a comment and a little speech or something he was making that you know he's still here you know we can't get rid of him you know but joking I think

how that relationship is going to pan out, both of them. It can only go in one direction. Incredibly, it's going to go wrong at some point. Can I say vain? Incredibly vain, self-centered, publicity-seeking, single-minded guys.

How that's going to work out the robot Kennedy one is is actually the most distressing and there's a message here. I wonder what role is going to give Kim Kardashian. Goodness goodness goodness and I really I think the serious side of these appointments is what about the people's lives ahead of national intelligence who has no. Yeah experience of intelligence will clearly intelligence.

actual intelligence. But I think the serious side is that there are lives at risk. And when you think about the geopolitical issues, what's going on in the Middle East, what's going on in Europe and Ukraine, it needs some big brains to try and make sure that the right outcomes for world stability.

are actually in place. And it doesn't fill in with a lot of confidence. They're going to have that expertise there to be able to handle these situations when you know you've got people like Putin who will manipulate the situation to their own advantage. It's a bit of a risk. It is. So anyway, today. Today. It's Trans Awareness Week. And there is an event on today at the Victorian Pride Center called Channeling the Rage.

And that's on today from 11 to 2pm. We're going to be speaking with Son Vivian, CEO of Transgender Victoria shortly about that event. Then, Mr. Kechel, editor of the conversation.

We're going to talk about the U.S. and... He's been to the U.S., isn't he? He's been to the U.S. We're going to find out about his trip and what he learned. And also some of the upcoming, let's call it social media legislation in Australia. With Mr. R. Ashley Hagen, he's got four kids and like 17 animals. Yeah, so he's bound to have a view on this. And he's joining us on the phone today.

Then after 11, David Locke, David is the CEO of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. And David's been on before, but actually, you know, there's, I wanted to share a little, you know, I love stats. So the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, last year, they received 104,861 complaints, of which they resolved all bar about 600 of them.

Now this is the figure that actually really tells you the value of what they do. So the amount that was in compensation that was awarded to consumers through AFCA, that's Australian Financial Complaints Authority dispute resolution processes in the last year, $313 million.

That's almost a million bucks a day. Yeah, that's crazy. Like, that's really crazy. That's, and of those. What great work. Of those, about 60% were about banking and finance. Around 25% general insurance, superannuation, about 5%, which actually surprises me. I thought it would have been more. Investments and advice, and then life insurance, 1400, they're abouts.

So, can I urge people as well, if you are listening to Saint Magnaier regular, David Locke is a phenomenal individual. We've had it one, I think, twice before. And he's just sensible, and he's good, and he's very pragmatic. And I think those statistics, Mac, are just going to prove how he's managing that really quite complex area of our institutional systems. And when you look at that,

104,000. That's 2,000 a week. That's 400 a day. That's 50 an hour. Anyway, we got another MP after. Peter Khalil, member for Wheels, is going to talk to us

about, you know, what's going on, but you know, there's been some developments during the week in the Middle East and in the UN and also interested. He's the special envoy for social cohesion. And I'm interested, you know, what that involves. Should people be politicising Christmas? We'd love to be asked, Misha, can't we? Exactly. So your time's up, Macke. Yeah. So let me carry on. Yeah, time is up.

So yeah, we're going to be talking to Peter Killel, all things. Yeah, and then following Peter, Michael Magazanic from Right Side Legal. A little trigger warning for this is that the High Court brought down a judgment this week that basically said that priests are not

And this was with relation to the Catholic Church and not technically employees. So the church can't be hold vicariously liable. So we're going to talk to Michael about that in the implications for that. And it might be a legal decision, but it's hardly a moral decision. I mean, bear in mind that the church

hires and fires priests. It pays priests, it house priests, it feeds priests, it protects priests, most of the time. It disciplines priests, but apparently they're not employees. So there's that. And then finally,

The winner of the LGBTQIA Awards at the Melbourne Awards, Archie from Queer Town, is going to join us in the studio to tell us about the award and what that means to her in disclosure here. I was actually a judge in those awards. It was a wonderful evening, Macke. Yeah, I wasn't able to be there, but

So Archie will be joining us. And Archie actually had a fantastic speech as well at the end. Did he? Yeah, it was very, very good. One that was quite emotional, actually. Yeah. Which was also very nice to see. Great. So you are on Saturday magazine, July 94.9.

with Mac and Paul. Fiona will be with us in a moment. You're just powdering her face. Just before we go to a break, Mac, just remember, if you want to send us a message and be part of the show, you can drop us a line. The number is 0427-569-949 or you can email us at onairajoy.org.au

We'd love to hear from you. Mel, thank you for your messages. I didn't see Tim Wilson. But yeah, he could have a political comeback exactly like. No, I did see Tim standing behind Peter Dutton at some press event. Good for Tim. And that phone call, when my phone is ringing,

I thought it was Donald Trump corn, but it wasn't. It was our next guest. Stay with us. Donald wanted to offer me a cabinet. Of course. Yeah. Stay with us. Thanks for listening to another Joy podcast brought to you by Australia's LGBTQIA Plus community media organisation, Joy. Help us keep joy on air. Head to joy.org.au. Joy, a diverse sound for a diverse community.