Rebel News Podcast - June 25, 2025


AVI YEMINI ｜ The Yemini Report — Ep 28


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Peter Lavak is a criminal barrister from Sydney who has spent the last 30 years fighting anti-Semitism in the Jewish community. He has worked in over 100 murder trials and has been involved in more than 100 murder cases. He is a dedicated advocate for the defence of the Jewish people and has always been a defender of Israel. He was born in Czechoslovakia to a Jewish father and Czechoslovakian mother. He grew up in a very poor family and had to work very hard to get into the legal profession. He had a great family life and a loving family life until the age of 20, when his father was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. It was then that he developed a deep and abiding love for the country of Israel and its people.

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00:00:46.540 Welcome back to the Yamini Report. Today's guest.
00:00:49.860 Exciting because we've introduced him to you only a couple of weeks ago, and the response has been phenomenal.
00:00:55.760 A lot of you calling him a local Aussie hero, Peter Lavak, the barrister from Sydney.
00:01:03.400 Peter, welcome to the show.
00:01:05.840 Thanks, Avi. It's a pleasure to be here, mate. Not only a pleasure, it's an honour.
00:01:11.400 Now, a lot of people, the response that we got, and I'm sure you've got some sort of response as well,
00:01:16.840 is people want to know more about you and why you did this.
00:01:21.300 Why did you rock up, you know, from Sydney to Melbourne and all the work you've done prior to that.
00:01:27.520 Who are you? Let's start there. Who is Peter Lavak?
00:01:31.260 Righto. Avi, I'm a criminal barrister.
00:01:34.040 I've prosecuted and defended in over 100 murder trials, not only in Sydney, but also in Hong Kong,
00:01:41.080 where I worked for 18 years. First eight years, a Crown Prosecutor, locking up tried gangsters and killers.
00:01:48.920 Then I switched to private practice, and for 10 years, I was defending tried gangsters and killers.
00:01:55.880 Now, in the course of my job, mate, I have seen the absolute worst of humanity,
00:02:01.000 but nothing, absolutely nothing prepared me for the horrors of October 7 when Israel was invaded by these Hamas terrorists. 0.99
00:02:13.500 Nothing prepared me for that.
00:02:15.420 And then not long after that, October the 9th, when all these anti-Semitic thugs were spewing hatred and vitriol
00:02:24.840 on our iconic steps of our iconic opera house, fucked the Jews, gassed the Jews. 0.99
00:02:33.180 And our police stood around like stuffed dummies, did absolutely nothing.
00:02:38.100 I was absolutely disgusted with that.
00:02:41.000 And then our government, our useless, hopeless, gutless Prime Minister and Penny Wong,
00:02:49.060 then threw Israel under the bus, betrayed Israel, betrayed Aussie Jews, 0.94
00:02:56.100 and I've been absolutely disgusted by that.
00:02:59.060 And it's because of our useless, gutless cops, our useless, gutless government,
00:03:04.720 that anti-Semitism is now raging out of control in this country.
00:03:09.320 So I've come on board, mate, because I absolutely hate injustice.
00:03:13.880 And wherever I see injustice, mate, I will move heaven and earth to try and fix it.
00:03:19.700 That's where I've come on board.
00:03:21.280 And I've been helping the Jewish community ever since to try and help them.
00:03:27.720 Legal advice, free legal advice, free legal services, interviews with the media, press, radio, television.
00:03:36.020 And I've been doing everything in my power to help the Australian Jewish community.
00:03:40.760 So what was your relationship before October 7th?
00:03:44.560 So what was your relationship to the Jewish community?
00:03:47.980 Do you have any sort of connection or was that really the start of it?
00:03:52.300 Well, mate, no.
00:03:53.380 I have always greatly admired Israel.
00:03:58.580 And I think Israel, why? 0.85
00:04:00.700 Because I think the Jews are the most amazing people that have walked the earth.
00:04:06.140 I admire what they've done with their tiny little state there.
00:04:09.780 I've admired the fact that they're surrounded by enemies on all sides.
00:04:15.440 I've admired the fact that whenever they're attacked by these enemies and want to wipe them off the map,
00:04:21.960 I've admired how Israel has always fought back and, most importantly, always won.
00:04:28.300 Israel is fantastic.
00:04:30.280 They've got tenacity, strength, courage, and, most of all, invincibility.
00:04:34.820 And that impresses the shit out of me.
00:04:36.940 So when did this love for Israel start?
00:04:41.040 Because, obviously, what's your background?
00:04:42.360 Lavak.
00:04:42.880 Is that some sort of wog? 1.00
00:04:45.740 Mate, mate, yeah, I'm a wog, absolutely.
00:04:48.260 I was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, just after the war.
00:04:51.880 Czech, I'm Czech.
00:04:52.860 And Dad was, during the war, he was arrested by the Gestapo because he was suspected of being involved in the Czech underground,
00:05:02.940 the resistance movement against the Nazis.
00:05:05.560 He was also suspected of being involved with the wife of a high-ranking German officer.
00:05:12.340 Dad was a bit of a player back in the day.
00:05:14.620 And when they finally released him, it left a lot of mental scars.
00:05:19.280 And then after the Russians came in, the Nazis were defeated. 0.56
00:05:24.060 The Russians came in, and in a lot of ways, they were worse than the Nazis. 0.95
00:05:28.640 Dad was, again, hauled in for pretty savage interrogation by the Russian secret police
00:05:36.260 because they perceived intellectuals and professionals to be a threat to the communist regime.
00:05:43.640 Dad was a lawyer, so he was perceived to be a threat.
00:05:47.880 So they brought him in for some pretty rough treatment.
00:05:51.140 And when he was finally released, Dad decided it was time to get the hell out of there.
00:05:55.700 So we hired people, smugglers, to get the whole family out.
00:06:00.660 Mum and Dad went first across the Austrian border.
00:06:04.760 Then they hired more people, smugglers, to get me and my young brother out with our grandparents.
00:06:12.180 And I'll never forget that.
00:06:13.460 There was a party of 30 refugees, half a dozen heavily armed people, smugglers.
00:06:20.780 The reason they're heavily armed, mate, because people were getting shot dead trying to cross the border.
00:06:27.020 People were getting killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
00:06:31.620 That's why they called it the Iron Curtain.
00:06:33.380 And I remember one morning, early one morning, where we'd gone through, across streams, through forests, open fields.
00:06:42.480 One morning, we were very close to the Czech border, and a Russian border guard spotted us.
00:06:48.180 And he came roaring up to where we were on a motorbike.
00:06:51.400 The leader of our party motioned for us all to get down in the tall grass to avoid detection.
00:06:56.840 It was too late.
00:06:58.460 He'd already seen us.
00:06:59.840 Came right up to where we were.
00:07:01.980 The leader of our group stood up, pulled out his revolver, pointed, and shot him right in the face, in front of my eyes.
00:07:11.380 How old are you?
00:07:11.960 I was only five years old, mate.
00:07:14.220 I'll never forget it.
00:07:14.300 And you remember it?
00:07:15.840 It's indelibly imprinted on my brain for all time.
00:07:18.900 I will never unsee that, what I saw.
00:07:21.980 And that made me realise, mate, how ephemeral life is, how easily and quickly it can end, and how precious it is, and how precious freedom is.
00:07:33.240 Yeah.
00:07:34.180 So then you guys, how did you get to Australia?
00:07:36.160 Well, eventually, after we got across to Austria, after a couple of months, we ended up in Australia as refugees, and we settled in Sydney, and I grew up in Australia.
00:07:50.940 What a fascinating story.
00:07:52.840 Now, you've obviously grown up with appreciation and love for this country.
00:07:58.540 Yeah, absolutely.
00:07:59.280 A lot of the time, and is that because of the life, why do you have such love for Australia after, you know, obviously, you came here as a refugee, and not all refugees today love Australia as much as you do.
00:08:13.200 So what was it about your experience that made you love it?
00:08:15.900 Well, mate, I love the freedom, the democracy, the ability to get ahead in life, the ability to follow your dreams and your opportunities, which a lot of countries don't have.
00:08:29.280 And Australia's been very good to me.
00:08:31.720 I've been a champion in athletic pursuits.
00:08:36.200 I was a wrestling champion, bodybuilder, surfski champion.
00:08:40.380 I hold a world record for paddling a surfski across the South China Sea from Hong Kong to the Philippines, 1,000 kilometers.
00:08:48.840 We raised $100,000 for Hong Kong orphans doing that.
00:08:53.420 So I've always had a love of sport, physical fitness.
00:08:58.640 I'm a race car driver.
00:09:00.240 I raced a Lamborghini Huracan.
00:09:02.420 So I'm able to do all these things in Australia.
00:09:05.140 I've got the freedom to do all this.
00:09:07.480 I was able to study law, and I'm now practicing law as a high-profile criminal barrister.
00:09:13.860 And I'm very pleased that I'm able to use my high-profile, my legal skills and expertise to help the Jewish people.
00:09:23.340 And that's not only a great pleasure, it's a great honor.
00:09:28.380 You say your family escaped from, I guess, the communists at the time.
00:09:34.880 Yeah, the communist regime.
00:09:36.040 But you worked for many years in Hong Kong.
00:09:38.280 When did you leave Hong Kong?
00:09:39.300 Okay, I left Hong Kong in 2003.
00:09:44.100 Okay.
00:09:44.920 That was after the handover to Communist China, the People's Republic of China.
00:09:51.300 Hong Kong was fantastic when I was there.
00:09:53.980 It was the best 18 years of my life.
00:09:56.660 And it all started to change in 1997 when the PRC, People's Republic of China, took it over from the Brits.
00:10:06.520 The place started going down the drain very quickly after that.
00:10:11.100 I hung in for another six years, but I could see the writing on the wall.
00:10:15.820 China promised that the system would remain the same for 50 years, but it didn't.
00:10:21.760 It started going down the drain very quickly.
00:10:24.320 So I hung in another six years, and I left there in 2003.
00:10:28.400 Yeah, because I actually covered the big protests in 2018, 2019, which were quashed by essentially the COVID pandemic, which seemed very convenient for the Communist Party. 0.76
00:10:45.100 And now it seems like it's gone.
00:10:49.100 It's essentially, it's part of China now, which is super sad because even in 2018, 2019, where you saw most of the country out on the streets, there was one protest where there was, they say, I think it was two, what's the population? 0.85
00:11:06.920 I'm trying to remember, because I remember it was like one in four, but so it was a quarter of the population was literally out on the streets at this one protest.
00:11:13.320 And it was the most peaceful protest ever.
00:11:15.340 They didn't want to be part of communist China.
00:11:18.080 Was that what you experienced when you were there in those 18 years?
00:11:21.040 Yes, yes.
00:11:21.780 Mate, the Hong Kong Chinese love democracy.
00:11:24.240 And what happened with crackdowns, mate, they started arresting protesters who were holding up signs, pro-democracy placards.
00:11:35.940 They were arresting them, and they were arrested, dragged through the courts and locked up.
00:11:40.840 So what the protesters then did, they were holding up placards that were blank, completely blank, as a symbol of their activism for pro-democracy.
00:11:50.020 The cops started arresting them for holding up blank placards.
00:11:54.920 Those people were arrested and locked up, and they have now completely crushed any remnants of rebellion against the Chinese government.
00:12:04.080 They've completely crushed democracy.
00:12:06.640 The place has never been the same, and I will never go back.
00:12:09.840 And I think that's like a warning that we should, that the West should heed is, you know, if you don't stand up to the communists, to China, to Russia, to Iran, to North Korea,
00:12:25.080 if you don't stand up to these authoritarian dictatorships, they're going to take over, they're going to spread, because that's really their wish.
00:12:35.100 Their wish is to take over the world.
00:12:37.540 Of course, mate, of course.
00:12:39.920 And the whole world should be on its knees thanking Israel for taking out Hamas, terrorists. 0.99
00:12:49.640 The whole world should be on its knees for now going after Iran, and especially the Iranian people should be thanking Israel. 1.00
00:12:59.320 I think many are.
00:13:01.300 What's that, mate?
00:13:02.320 I think many are.
00:13:03.260 Yeah, and I hope there's an uprising, mate, because the Iranian people have been brutalised and oppressed by this brutal, murderous regime. 0.85
00:13:13.900 This is the regime that sends morality police around the place to arrest little girls who aren't wearing their hijabs properly, dragging them back to the police station and beating them to death. 0.95
00:13:26.560 That's the Iranian regime, mate. 0.98
00:13:29.180 Iranians have had a gut full of that, and they're cheering now that Israel is attacking Iran and going after the regime, mate, and the whole world should be cheering. 1.00
00:13:40.360 Tell me, so in your experience, it's a fascinating story, I didn't know it, about how your family got here to Australia and your experience there escaping the commies.
00:13:52.540 You said you, did I hear you correctly, you had a brother with you when you escaped?
00:13:56.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:13:58.040 I had a little brother, he came with me.
00:14:00.240 I was five years old, he was only three.
00:14:03.180 He was on my grandfather's shoulders for the whole journey, and sadly, he's now dead.
00:14:08.580 He died eight years ago of brain cancer, so we lost him.
00:14:13.220 Sorry to hear, and did you have any other siblings, or was it just that one brother?
00:14:16.860 No, just the two of us.
00:14:18.840 And was the, I guess, was the family's love for the Jewish people and Israel also there, or was that something that you just picked up from your experience in life?
00:14:28.560 Oh, no, no, mate.
00:14:29.780 The whole family loved Israel.
00:14:32.040 Everyone in my circle loved Israel.
00:14:34.800 Not only loved Israel, but admired Israel for everything they've done with their little nation since they were born.
00:14:42.600 No, there's always been a great admiration and love for Israel in my family, in my circle of friends.
00:14:51.020 Now, you're a barrister.
00:14:54.240 You often, I'm sure, you're up against Jews. 1.00
00:14:58.260 Do they give you a good run for your money?
00:15:01.020 What do you mean, up against Jews?
00:15:02.660 Well, in the courts.
00:15:05.140 There's a lot of lawyers from our community.
00:15:08.280 Yeah, yeah.
00:15:08.720 I'm a criminal barrister in Hong Kong for the first eight years I was a crown prosecutor, locking up tried gangsters and killers.
00:15:18.040 They weren't Jews, they were tried gangsters. 1.00
00:15:20.180 No, no, no.
00:15:20.840 I mean the lawyers.
00:15:22.000 I mean the lawyers.
00:15:23.280 Not in Hong Kong.
00:15:25.280 No, no.
00:15:25.740 I'm a criminal lawyer, which means I defend alleged criminals.
00:15:31.000 I'm against the cops.
00:15:32.220 I'm against the prosecution.
00:15:32.400 You're up against the police prosecution, yes.
00:15:34.080 So I do not come up against Jewish lawyers, mate.
00:15:36.720 Mind you, mind you, I have a good friend.
00:15:38.300 I have a good friend who I will not name.
00:15:40.280 She is a crown prosecutor in Australia.
00:15:48.300 She's Jewish? 0.93
00:15:49.520 She's Jewish, yeah.
00:15:50.880 Yeah, okay.
00:15:52.040 But she's not in your state.
00:15:54.520 Now, where to...
00:15:55.820 Look, can I just say this, mate?
00:15:57.420 One of my good mates is Robert Richter, QC.
00:16:01.320 Yeah.
00:16:01.480 He's a barrister in Melbourne.
00:16:04.120 He's one of the best, one of the most high-profile, one of the most high-powered criminal barristeres in the country.
00:16:11.480 Even more than Peter Larvac, if you can believe that.
00:16:14.400 I didn't think that was possible.
00:16:15.640 Robert Richter, well, it is.
00:16:17.860 Robert Richter and me are good mates.
00:16:19.880 He's actually helping me as we speak with a murder trial in Tasmania that I've been working on.
00:16:26.620 A little girl 10 years ago, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, was found hanging in a tree.
00:16:31.880 And I got involved in that case when I met the family, purely by accident.
00:16:37.520 And I was horrified by what they told me.
00:16:41.100 Initially, I thought it was a badly bungled, botched investigation by the cops.
00:16:46.540 But once I started looking into it, I realised, no, it wasn't badly bungled and botched.
00:16:52.220 The cops covered it up.
00:16:54.120 They covered it up as a suicide.
00:16:57.040 This little girl was met with foul play.
00:16:59.820 She was strung up in the tree and hung to make it look like suicide. 0.97
00:17:04.580 And I've been now fighting for four years to get the case reopened.
00:17:08.840 And Robert Richter's just come on board to help me with that one.
00:17:13.160 Well, you're going to have to keep his pace on that.
00:17:15.040 That sounds shocking, but a fascinating story.
00:17:19.600 Mate, just watch this space.
00:17:22.200 I know the names of three killers.
00:17:24.240 I know the names of the cops who covered it up.
00:17:26.500 I know the names of a pedophile cop and a pedophile schoolteacher.
00:17:32.140 Can you tell us why you think they covered it up?
00:17:34.780 What was the reason?
00:17:35.720 Why?
00:17:36.440 Well, my belief, my very strong belief is that the cops were protecting a pedophile ring in the town at that time.
00:17:43.980 And I know from evidence I've uncovered in the form of witness statements that at least one police officer and one schoolteacher in the town were involved in pedophile criminal activities.
00:17:57.140 Oh, God.
00:17:58.460 All right.
00:17:58.780 This is taking a really dark turn.
00:18:01.600 So let's get back to Peter Lavak.
00:18:04.620 And what's next besides for, obviously, that case?
00:18:07.900 What can we expect from you?
00:18:10.140 Because you don't seem to be somebody that's just going to sit down and sit anything out.
00:18:16.400 There's a lot happening in the world.
00:18:17.660 You're super passionate about it.
00:18:19.020 You've been defending Jews both in New South Wales and in Melbourne.
00:18:23.560 What's next for you?
00:18:24.560 Well, mate, I'm an absolute adrenaline junkie.
00:18:29.660 I was due to fly out to Israel yesterday, would you believe, with a film crew in tow.
00:18:37.900 We are planning to do a documentary in Israel.
00:18:42.280 And because the war started, that's been delayed for a while.
00:18:46.880 As soon as the airspace over Israel reopens, we'll be on a plane.
00:18:52.000 We'll be there in no time at all.
00:18:53.360 What are you hoping to see, then?
00:18:55.780 OK, mate, there's two reasons why we're going to Israel.
00:18:59.140 Number one, I want to reassure the Israeli people that our gutless, useless Prime Minister does not speak for me. 0.98
00:19:09.020 He does not speak for the vast majority of ordinary Aussies when he vilifies Israel, when he betrays Israel, when he defames Israel with blood libels, for example, claiming that Israel is causing starvation in Gaza.
00:19:26.460 That's total bullshit.
00:19:27.880 That's caused by Hamas gunmen who hijack the aid supplies at gunpoint.
00:19:34.740 That's why there's a starvation problem there. 0.73
00:19:37.520 Albanese should go over there and get his facts straight, but he won't because he's too gutless. 1.00
00:19:42.340 Penny Wong, when she was there, she was too gutless to visit the sites of the atrocities, which is a massive slap in the face to the Israeli people.
00:19:52.100 Now, that's the first reason we want to go and do this.
00:19:55.000 The second reason, I've got a lot of contacts already in Israel.
00:20:00.200 We are going to interview survivors of the massacre.
00:20:06.900 We are going to interview returned hostages.
00:20:11.000 I'm going to interview IDF soldiers and commanders.
00:20:15.280 I'm going to give talks at synagogues to rabbis.
00:20:19.020 I'm going to give press conferences to the media.
00:20:22.060 And my hope is, and I'm also hoping that my contacts can persuade the IDF to get us into Gaza, into the combat zones so we can film some of the fighting.
00:20:35.140 But most important of all, I'm hoping, I'm hoping, this is my biggest hope, is to interview Gazan citizens who are now standing up and protesting and rising up against Hamas because they now realise that Hamas is the source of all their problems, not Israel.
00:20:58.980 So I'm hoping to talk to them.
00:21:00.940 I'm also hoping to talk to politicians.
00:21:03.040 And what's the aim?
00:21:04.740 What's the objective?
00:21:05.700 Why do you want to do this so much?
00:21:07.460 Okay, okay.
00:21:08.380 I want to bring a documentary back to Australia to educate ordinary Aussies about what's going on over there.
00:21:15.580 A lot of ordinary Aussies know that something's happening there.
00:21:19.400 But Aussies I've spoken to, amazingly, a lot of them don't even know what happened on October 7.
00:21:26.260 I find that absolutely perplexing.
00:21:28.820 Aussies generally are very complacent, very apathetic, and I've got to let Aussies know what's really happening there to counter all this bullshit propaganda spouted by Hamas and regurgitated by the left-wing neo-Marxist media in this country. 0.91
00:21:47.680 That's the only source of information Aussies are getting, the neo-Marxist left-wing media, which is perpetrated by Hamas. 0.90
00:21:56.580 I want to fix that.
00:21:57.800 I want to set the record straight to let ordinary Aussies know what's actually happening over there.
00:22:03.000 Matt, I hear you.
00:22:06.460 I wish you luck with that mission, and we'll watch it closely.
00:22:11.820 It sounds interesting.
00:22:12.720 It sounds fascinating.
00:22:15.460 Take care there.
00:22:16.520 I've had some experience there.
00:22:18.280 It can be a little bit dangerous at times, but I know you're not somebody to fear too much about those sorts of dangers.
00:22:28.360 Now, before I let you go, I just want to talk about, I know you've been fighting even in the last week.
00:22:34.280 I want you to tell us about, tell the viewers about what happened in your local council area just this past week.
00:22:42.640 Yep, yep.
00:22:43.180 This is very interesting, mate.
00:22:45.600 Council culture reared its ugly head a couple of nights ago.
00:22:50.840 Tuesday, 17th of May, only a couple of days ago.
00:22:54.860 I went there with my personal assistant and a number of members of the Jewish community to vigorously oppose a motion that was put forward by the Greens,
00:23:07.700 which would have effectively allowed pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist thugs to spew vitriol and hatred on the beautiful beaches of Manly,
00:23:19.840 the peaceful streets of Manly, which is right in my front yard where I live, and I will not allow that to happen.
00:23:27.760 So what was the motion exactly?
00:23:29.920 The motion, the motion basically, I haven't got the details, but the motion would have given the green light to pro-Palestinian demonstrators
00:23:40.060 to come to Manly and protest with their flags and scream abuse and vitriol, as they have been doing at Hyde Park,
00:23:49.280 as they did on the Opera House stairs, as they've been doing regularly in Melbourne.
00:23:53.940 That would have been the effect of that motion.
00:23:56.880 Now, what happened was, my personal assistant wrote to the council.
00:24:02.300 He registered me as a speaker.
00:24:04.120 They then replied and said, look, we're going to put Petalavik on a wait list.
00:24:10.480 If any speaker withdraws, he can slot into his spot and he can then speak.
00:24:17.280 So we went along there and a number of speakers said what they wanted to say.
00:24:23.620 Then they called the name of a guy named McNamara.
00:24:27.180 There was no response.
00:24:28.720 He obviously didn't turn up.
00:24:30.020 So I then approached the lectern and I said, look, my name's Petalavik.
00:24:36.660 I'm a criminal barrister.
00:24:39.040 I represent the Jewish community, not only in Sydney, but also in Melbourne.
00:24:44.420 And I'm here to speak tonight.
00:24:46.480 My PA wrote to you guys.
00:24:48.920 You told him that I'd be on a wait list.
00:24:52.480 If somebody withdrew, I could slot into their spot.
00:24:56.260 McNamara hasn't turned up.
00:24:57.980 I now want to speak.
00:24:59.140 And the mayor, a short, older woman with grey hair, promptly cut me off.
00:25:07.760 She switched off my microphone and started very rudely speaking over me, 1.00
00:25:13.860 which I found not only rude, I found to be disrespectful.
00:25:19.140 I found it to be offensive and insulting.
00:25:22.460 And I said to them, you don't want me to speak.
00:25:28.420 You are too scared to let me speak.
00:25:31.080 You are terrified to let me speak because you know who I am.
00:25:35.900 You know what I've been doing for the Jewish community.
00:25:38.320 You know exactly what happened in Melbourne a few weeks ago when I literally brought Victoria Police Force to its knees.
00:25:49.100 And as you know, that was when I was helping the Lions of Zion down there.
00:25:52.760 You people know exactly who I am.
00:25:55.560 That's why you're too scared to let me speak.
00:25:58.540 And what happened next, the whole crowd in the audience started chanting,
00:26:03.080 let him speak, let him speak.
00:26:06.140 And then a woman came down from the audience, a blonde lady named, what's her name, Lisa Cotton. 1.00
00:26:15.960 She came up to me and she says, look, I'm willing to give up my spot for you as well as this other guy so that you can speak.
00:26:24.220 I then conveyed that message to the mayor and it fell on deaf ears.
00:26:30.340 She continued to speak over me very, very rudely. 1.00
00:26:34.720 Now, I have three very simple rules in my life, mate.
00:26:40.200 One, I do not suffer fools gladly.
00:26:43.640 Number two, I do not allow anyone to disrespect me.
00:26:48.360 Number three, I never allow anyone to insult me.
00:26:51.420 Now, what happened next, a guy named Vincent DeLuca, who's one of the councillors there,
00:27:00.360 he moved a motion to the council to let me speak.
00:27:04.980 So a number of his fellow councillors put their hands up and supported his motion.
00:27:11.500 A number of them voted against that because they wanted to muzzle me, silence me, gag me.
00:27:18.180 And one of the councillors who voted against that was a young female with a keffia, with a keffia.
00:27:25.880 So they were trying to gag me.
00:27:28.100 And I then said that that motion failed.
00:27:32.700 The mayor again started speaking over me.
00:27:37.800 What she'd done also, she switched off my microphone the moment I told her who I was.
00:27:42.640 So I had to raise my voice so everyone could hear me.
00:27:46.140 And I said to her very loudly, look, you people want to silence me, obviously.
00:27:52.160 There's no way you're going to do that.
00:27:54.480 I am going, I will never, ever allow this motion to take place.
00:28:00.720 Not on my turf, not on my watch.
00:28:03.640 And I will drag the entire council into court and I will give you a war you will not believe.
00:28:11.120 So that was my altercation with the council.
00:28:14.700 And this was quite clearly a council culture raising its ugly head.
00:28:22.460 And I will never, ever allow anyone to silence me or gag me or try to stop me from speaking out.
00:28:29.840 So did they end up voting on the actual motion at the end?
00:28:32.380 They did, mate.
00:28:34.320 Very, very happily, the motion was defeated.
00:28:37.540 So it's never going to happen.
00:28:39.760 And mild decay.
00:28:41.060 So they didn't let you speak.
00:28:42.840 The motion that the council or the councillor moved to allow you to speak, how much was it defeated by?
00:28:50.240 That was defeated.
00:28:51.280 I think it was roughly, fairly even.
00:28:54.360 There's just probably one voter that voted against you.
00:28:57.500 The other motion, the motion, striking down the motion that you were originally wanting to talk on.
00:29:05.260 What was it beaten by?
00:29:07.580 That was defeated, mate.
00:29:09.340 That was defeated.
00:29:09.960 Yeah, yeah.
00:29:10.120 What was it defeated by?
00:29:11.780 Mate, I'm not sure of the exact vote.
00:29:14.120 Of course, I left.
00:29:15.100 I left not long after that.
00:29:16.400 Oh, so it got defeated.
00:29:17.540 That vote happened once you left.
00:29:19.580 That happened later.
00:29:20.640 I was pretty disgusted by what they did, trying to muzzle me and silence me.
00:29:25.380 So I left.
00:29:26.500 My personal assistant stayed on.
00:29:28.780 And he informed me later that this motion to allow these thugs to spew hatred on our streets was defeated very happily.
00:29:36.540 I was very happy to hear that.
00:29:38.480 Well, who knows?
00:29:39.660 Hopefully you had some pardon.
00:29:41.240 Either way, well done.
00:29:42.680 And on behalf of the Australian Jews, I do want to say thank you for all the work that you do.
00:29:50.520 You know, it's I think since October 7, we've realized who our friends are, who our real true friends are and who all the fakers who pretended all those years,
00:30:02.420 all those interfaith programs that so much of the community leadership worked so hard for so many years to build.
00:30:08.940 I, in my defense, have been calling them out for many years because I saw the writing on the wall.
00:30:15.840 I've been in a lot of these groups on Facebook and have seen what the Islamic community here actually thinks about our community,
00:30:25.040 not what they say in interfaith groups when they're trying to get extra funding or whatever.
00:30:29.400 So, um, so it is amazing to see people like you, uh, from all walks of life, from Aussies around the country, uh, who have no real, I guess, dog in the fight, but you're, you're, you're still willing to go.
00:30:44.240 Um, so thank you so much.
00:30:46.160 And just before I do let you go, obviously you're a refugee. 1.00
00:30:50.380 How do you feel about now that, you know, cause obviously you were in the wave of Eastern European refugees.
00:30:56.800 Uh, they've been quite a success story overall in Australia.
00:31:02.160 How do you feel about the refugees?
00:31:05.920 Uh, our government seems adamant to, to, to bring in at the moment.
00:31:10.760 Well, mate, I'll tell you what, our country's in serious trouble.
00:31:14.400 And I realised that when I saw a video clip of NASA Mashney boasting into the camera, Melbourne is ours, Australia is ours, the world is ours.
00:31:26.040 Not on my watch, mate.
00:31:28.040 He's also a refugee.
00:31:30.140 Yeah, I know.
00:31:31.160 But that's the sort of refugee that we're now looking at.
00:31:34.720 Now, I understand now why Donald Trump is totally pissed off with Albanese. 0.92
00:31:39.740 Not only will Albanese refuse to increase his defence spending, but he's recently barred entry to two, um, Israeli politicians while he's allowed in 3,000 Ghazan refugees who are potential terrorists. 0.64
00:31:58.900 No wonder Trump's pissed off with him.
00:32:00.640 And, uh, he, I reckon he's going to put the, put the axe on this orca still, thanks to Albanese. 1.00
00:32:07.840 Can I just say one more thing about the council?
00:32:10.720 From what happened the other night, it seems to me that these people who sit on local government councils suffer from this massive delusion that they are actually important.
00:32:24.180 Now, where does this delusion come from?
00:32:27.380 These people fix potholes and collect garbage.
00:32:31.180 They've got no business sticking their nose into foreign affairs.
00:32:35.360 That's not part of their job description.
00:32:37.780 That's way above, way above their pay scale.
00:32:41.020 And most important of all, it's way beyond their intellectual capacities.
00:32:45.380 So my, my message to councils is, butt out, stick to what you know, stick to what you're paid for.
00:32:52.140 Well, yeah, I, to be fair, they don't, they don't know roads, raids and rubbish, but they should be.
00:32:58.020 And that's what, that's exactly what they get paid for.
00:33:00.800 Mate, but they don't even do that properly. 1.00
00:33:02.600 That's what I mean.
00:33:03.500 That's the problem.
00:33:03.940 When I say they don't know it, I mean, they don't know how to do it.
00:33:06.380 They don't do it properly.
00:33:07.300 Yeah.
00:33:07.580 They're so focused on everything else, but what, what they're designed there for.
00:33:13.240 Mate, Peter, uh, appreciate your time.
00:33:15.420 Thank you so much.
00:33:16.260 Thanks for everything that you do and, um, keep in touch and we'll, uh, we'll follow your trip to
00:33:22.120 Israel hopefully soon. 0.85
00:33:24.040 Thank you.
00:33:24.660 Thank you, Avi.
00:33:25.320 It's been a pleasure.
00:33:26.240 Thanks, mate.
00:33:26.760 Bye.