Rebel News Podcast - August 29, 2023


EZRA LEVANT ｜ The best of Avi Yemini： Why we're carrying the torch for press freedom in Australia and New Zealand


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35 minutes

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Avi Yemini's first day on the job as a reporter at Rebel News in Australia in September of 2014 marks a turning point in his career, when he was arrested at a peaceful protest to mark the centenary of the Anzac Day memorial.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I'm making my way back to Canada now after an amazing tour of Australia and New Zealand
00:00:05.640 with our Australian Bureau Chief, Avi Yamini, in promotion of his book, A Rebel from the Star.
00:00:11.320 I want to remind you of some of the great work that Avi has done, really some of the best work Rebel News has ever published,
00:00:17.380 in a compilation of the best of moments from Australia.
00:00:21.460 Also, remind you that we have had other reporters here in Australia, including a great team from Brisbane.
00:00:27.240 So tune in. And if you can get the video version of this podcast, it's called the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:33.760 We call it Rebel News Plus. Just go to rebelnewsplus.com. Click subscribe. You get the video version.
00:00:39.940 It's only eight bucks a month, which doesn't sound like a lot to you, I'm sure.
00:00:42.920 But it's a lot to us because it really adds up when enough people chip in.
00:00:47.740 And we need that because we don't take any government money and it shows.
00:00:51.500 All right. Here's today's podcast.
00:00:57.240 Tonight, the best of Rebel News Australia.
00:01:10.420 It's August 29th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:13.780 You're fighting for freedom!
00:01:16.660 Shame on you, you censorious bug!
00:01:19.800 Ezra LeVant here. I am in Melbourne, Australia.
00:01:32.320 In front of me is the eternal flame.
00:01:35.440 To this side, the pillar erected by Queen Elizabeth to commemorate the soldiers of Australia,
00:01:42.120 the soldiers and the sailors and the airmen who died in the Second World War.
00:01:46.200 Behind me, the mighty shrine of remembrance built to commemorate the astounding effort made by the Anzac, Australia and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War.
00:01:57.860 It's a hallowed place.
00:01:59.860 It's an enormous place in the heart of the city, as I mentioned to you yesterday.
00:02:03.580 And I think it's an appropriate place to talk about freedom because it's the freedom that these men sacrifice their lives to protect.
00:02:10.800 That's been the theme of our coverage in Australia ever since we hired Avi Yemini in the early days of the pandemic.
00:02:20.280 In fact, as I learned when I was on his book tour these last few days, we hired him, I believe it was on a September 3rd, 2020.
00:02:27.980 And at his first event for us, September 5th, he was arrested, not here, but nearby from here at a protest that started here and marched over, slammed to the ground by police and arrested.
00:02:42.820 It was to mark a series of events in that vein that would last, well, to this day.
00:02:48.760 Here, take a look at that fateful day in September, really his first assignment for us.
00:02:54.020 No arrest, no anything. It was quite peaceful until...
00:02:58.020 He's like you, he's not here for any purposes or reasons.
00:03:00.260 Andy, let's cut it!
00:03:01.220 He's under arrest.
00:03:02.920 But this guy here is going to be placed under arrest right now.
00:03:05.700 I'm under arrest.
00:03:08.120 I am media.
00:03:10.880 I'm media.
00:03:13.980 I've got my permit in my pocket.
00:03:17.700 My permit is in my pocket.
00:03:19.700 I'm fine, I'm fine.
00:03:21.360 I've got my permit in my pocket.
00:03:22.920 I work for Rebel News.
00:03:25.260 I am lawfully here.
00:03:27.200 I've got my permit in my pocket.
00:03:29.820 My permit is in my pocket.
00:03:32.040 I'm fine, I'm fine.
00:03:33.720 I've got my permit in my pocket.
00:03:35.580 I work for Rebel News.
00:03:37.660 I am lawfully here.
00:03:42.220 Can you grab that?
00:03:43.180 That's my mic cover there.
00:03:45.160 And can you give it to my staff?
00:03:46.920 Okay, bend this one, bend this one.
00:03:49.400 Can you grab the mic and the mic cover there?
00:03:52.920 That was shocking.
00:03:57.140 You'll notice a few things there.
00:03:58.920 Avi's first response to being told he was arrested was to laugh.
00:04:03.200 He couldn't believe it.
00:04:04.440 He thought the cop was joking because Avi was standing next to a bunch of other reporters doing nothing wrong.
00:04:11.080 The second thing to know is that the police had been targeting Avi for months.
00:04:15.680 Whenever he would go to an event, they would arrest him or more likely just take him, throw him in the back of a police van, drive him 20 kilometers away, and let him out on the side of the road so he couldn't get back.
00:04:25.880 On the one hand, I can understand, even though I think it's atrocious, the police thought it's a lot easier to rough up this one guy than to stop hundreds of Antifa thugs or to go through the hassle of having someone embarrassing the government with his freedom-oriented reportage.
00:04:42.200 But on the other hand, yeah, what they were doing to him was completely illegal.
00:04:45.720 And one of the things, as you know, Rebel News does is we stand up for the civil rights of our journalists, and we sued the police on behalf of Avi, and it was a great victory for Avi, for us, and for all Australians when we received this settlement from the police in Victoria State, apologizing to Avi and confirming that, yes, what he was doing was legitimate reporting.
00:05:12.700 It was an important moment. Now, the police continued to hassle Avi and even arrested his bodyguard, for which they also later apologized.
00:05:22.760 It's been an interesting battle because all we want to do at Rebel News is report, but police and other actors sometimes make us have to fight for the right to report.
00:05:33.800 The state we're in is called Victoria. There's another state in Australia called Queensland, both named after the same queen, Queen Victoria.
00:05:40.700 There is a kinship between our two countries, and there's a kinship between Avi's style here in Australia and what we do in Canada.
00:05:49.560 And I am actually recording this before I'm about to go on a very long journey home.
00:05:55.640 And so what I'm going to leave you with today is the best of Avi Yamini and the best of our Australian coverage.
00:06:04.040 I'll also show you a couple of videos done by other journalists who were based in Brisbane who've done work for us.
00:06:09.180 But mainly I want to show you Avi, the one-man army, standing up for journalistic principles and freedom of speech.
00:06:17.140 So I'll see you back in the office tomorrow.
00:06:20.440 Here's Avi and the best of Australia.
00:06:22.820 Are you going to talk about how we were circled and the cops were just picking us out one by one to protest?
00:06:41.060 Luke Cornelius said so. Are you going to talk about that tonight?
00:06:45.400 No answer.
00:06:46.580 There we go.
00:06:47.820 Yeah, film me.
00:06:48.340 Why are you targeting the media, mate?
00:06:52.220 Because they're just the worst, man.
00:06:54.500 They're just so bad.
00:06:56.140 Do you know her?
00:06:57.300 No.
00:06:57.900 Oh, I don't know.
00:06:58.880 What's your name?
00:06:59.900 Rita.
00:07:01.760 Oh.
00:07:02.380 Yeah.
00:07:03.240 I don't know. I don't know.
00:07:04.180 I know the other one that was a liar.
00:07:05.740 I asked her.
00:07:07.040 Are you going to be more honest today?
00:07:08.440 Yeah.
00:07:09.260 How do you feel about Black Lives Matter?
00:07:12.920 Not getting this kind of response when there were less cases of coronavirus today.
00:07:17.840 Are you going to report that?
00:07:18.600 Are you going to show the contrast?
00:07:20.160 Nah.
00:07:20.840 That's the fake news.
00:07:22.760 Remember her?
00:07:23.480 It's like things have escalated this afternoon, as you can probably see and see.
00:07:28.480 I'm going to have to throw it back to you.
00:07:30.540 She wasn't happy with me asking if she's going to report the truth today, because she's obviously
00:07:36.960 seen where we got her last time, where we exposed her as the lying, lamestream media 1.00
00:07:43.480 she really is.
00:07:45.280 An embarrassment to journalism.
00:07:47.400 I got arrested and fired, and then she gives me a two-minute interview, and I just laid into
00:07:51.680 her, called out a media organization for just spreading fear and hate and lies. 1.00
00:07:54.820 You reckon they're going to run that?
00:07:56.000 Absolutely not.
00:07:56.820 Excuse me, are you going to run his, are you going to run it?
00:08:02.060 His interview today.
00:08:03.640 Can we grab it?
00:08:05.160 Oh, just imagine how surprised I was to find out that night she didn't run his interview.
00:08:10.240 A piece of journalism that probably deserved some airtime.
00:08:14.940 Instead, she ran with this.
00:08:17.740 Many channeling Trump's America.
00:08:19.960 Same with you! 0.99
00:08:21.080 Same with you! 0.99
00:08:21.720 Same with you! 0.99
00:08:22.660 Wearing the signature red caps.
00:08:24.780 Hopefully she will tell the truth.
00:08:25.900 What I think that you need to show tonight on Channel 9 is the contrast between the Black 1.00
00:08:31.720 Lives Matter and today.
00:08:33.720 There were four cases on Black Lives Matter day.
00:08:35.660 Are you going to report that?
00:08:36.840 Four cases on the day that Black Lives Matter had tens of thousands running on the street.
00:08:42.080 Today, zero cases.
00:08:43.700 There's been four days of zero cases.
00:08:46.220 And this is the police response.
00:08:47.680 So, unless Channel 9 tonight runs that footage alongside each other like we will do at Rebel
00:08:55.560 News, they are fake news.
00:08:57.960 I'm not...
00:08:58.400 You're saying I'm not accredited media.
00:09:00.460 Show me your accredited media pass issued by Victoria Police.
00:09:04.620 Victoria Police actually told us that they've cancelled...
00:09:07.220 Your accredited media pass...
00:09:09.440 Come around here.
00:09:10.000 ...issued by Victoria Police.
00:09:12.020 So, Victoria Police told us...
00:09:13.600 Cover your nose and your mouth.
00:09:14.920 No, no, no.
00:09:15.280 So, wait.
00:09:15.820 So, you're saying if I have an accredited media pass by Victoria Police, I don't have
00:09:19.480 to cover my nose and mouth while talking on the microphone?
00:09:21.420 What I'm saying is you are not accredited media.
00:09:23.480 By Victoria Police.
00:09:24.420 I am accredited media, not by Victoria Police.
00:09:26.620 Victoria Police told us they cancelled...
00:09:28.600 Victoria Police told us they cancelled the program.
00:09:31.140 ...accredited media by Victoria Police.
00:09:33.500 Put your mask over your nose and your mouth.
00:09:35.480 No, no, no.
00:09:35.860 Hold on.
00:09:36.240 Over your nose and your mouth.
00:09:37.400 Thank you.
00:09:37.900 No, no.
00:09:38.460 Hold on.
00:09:38.920 No.
00:09:40.800 You know what?
00:09:42.000 Come.
00:09:42.540 Arrest me.
00:09:43.140 If I'm not accredited...
00:09:44.080 If I'm not accredited...
00:09:45.420 If I'm not accredited...
00:09:46.460 You must cover your nose and your mouth.
00:09:48.140 Not when you're reporting on the microphone.
00:09:50.400 If I'm not accredited media, please cover your nose and your mouth with a mask.
00:09:53.460 That is not an excuse to tell...
00:09:55.280 What is your reason for not wearing a mask?
00:09:56.960 Because I'm talking on my...
00:09:58.380 Doing my job as media.
00:10:00.320 Can someone grab his name and address?
00:10:01.720 My name.
00:10:02.220 Avraham Yamini.
00:10:04.000 Avraham.
00:10:04.320 So, he's saying here that now I am not accredited media, so that's why, while doing my job...
00:10:13.480 While doing my job...
00:10:15.320 Are you ID with your...
00:10:16.000 Yeah, I do.
00:10:17.020 A license, please.
00:10:18.140 I'm compliant.
00:10:18.820 Don't worry about that.
00:10:19.760 You're going to need to move on, yeah?
00:10:20.740 I'm getting a...
00:10:21.120 No, I'm not moving on.
00:10:22.000 I'm doing my job.
00:10:22.720 I'm media.
00:10:23.560 This is my job.
00:10:24.440 Where's your media ticket?
00:10:25.740 What do you mean media ticket?
00:10:26.700 You need to have a media pass.
00:10:27.540 No, you don't.
00:10:28.220 Yes, you don't.
00:10:28.820 You actually do not need a media pass to come to protest.
00:10:32.440 No.
00:10:32.820 You're...
00:10:33.200 Victoria Police said that they're not issuing them anymore.
00:10:35.740 You're reaching the directions.
00:10:36.740 Send me a ticket, mate.
00:10:37.700 That's okay.
00:10:38.680 It's time for you to move on.
00:10:39.540 I'm not moving on.
00:10:40.400 It's time for you to move on.
00:10:40.860 I'm here to do my job.
00:10:42.180 You can't pick who the media is in this country.
00:10:45.360 You don't get to decide...
00:10:46.260 I'm not moving on.
00:10:46.460 I'm not moving on.
00:10:47.480 Okay, all right.
00:10:49.440 Not moving...
00:10:50.940 Capture this.
00:10:52.480 So, they're arresting me now here because they say they don't deem me as media because
00:11:00.140 Victoria Police is saying, Victoria Police say that they need to issue me with one of their
00:11:05.560 press cards.
00:11:06.280 They get to decide who's pressed.
00:11:07.660 And the funny thing is, I'll put on the screen now, Victoria Police Media Department said they've
00:11:13.420 cancelled that program to our lawyers.
00:11:16.160 They no longer do it, so they're not issuing it.
00:11:18.960 So, right now, these thugs, right now, they think this is communist China where they could
00:11:25.880 tell you which media is legitimate, which isn't.
00:11:29.460 Who's going to arrest me?
00:11:30.720 On Friday night at about 8.30pm, police visited my home to hand deliver a letter from the assistant
00:11:37.420 commissioner warning me not to attend any lockdown protests the following day.
00:11:42.620 On your list tonight is Channel 7, 9 or 10.
00:11:44.920 I haven't gone through the entire list, mate.
00:11:47.360 Do you mind looking at the list and letting us know?
00:11:49.740 I think the public would like to know if you're going to Channel 9 and 10.
00:11:57.200 Be careful, mate.
00:11:57.580 Yeah.
00:11:58.340 Shame on you.
00:12:00.080 Trying to intimidate journalists.
00:12:01.620 While I was out doing my job, I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask mainstream media
00:12:06.720 journalists there if they'd received the same visit.
00:12:10.140 Watch and share what happened.
00:12:11.020 Hey, Don.
00:12:11.740 I'm part of the communications team, just letting you know this is private property and
00:12:16.900 the filming zone is on...
00:12:19.040 Where's all the media here at the moment?
00:12:20.540 The pebbles.
00:12:22.020 Oh, we'll go to that side.
00:12:23.640 Yeah.
00:12:24.060 Thank you.
00:12:26.000 What's going on, guys?
00:12:27.940 You're not allowed to film here, they told us.
00:12:30.240 You're allowed.
00:12:30.500 Can I ask you, did Vic Pol visit you last night and warn you not to come here?
00:12:36.220 I'm not saying anything, no.
00:12:38.000 Did you get...
00:12:38.580 Just a simple question.
00:12:39.440 Did they come to your house and warn you not to come?
00:12:42.600 No?
00:12:43.740 Why do you think that is?
00:12:45.040 Why do you think they come to me and not to you?
00:12:48.860 No.
00:12:49.260 Channel 9?
00:12:49.580 I don't know.
00:12:50.160 It hurts.
00:12:50.340 It might be good.
00:12:50.860 I'm not saying there's anything bad.
00:12:51.920 But that's the point.
00:12:52.780 And I just want to double check if they went to the mainstream media.
00:12:55.320 But there's a reason.
00:12:56.720 They obviously tow the government's line.
00:12:59.280 They don't tell the other side of the story.
00:13:01.760 She didn't get a visit last night from Victoria Police.
00:13:04.440 I did.
00:13:06.940 It's interesting, though, that they came to my house, not yours.
00:13:11.420 Why?
00:13:11.960 Why?
00:13:12.260 Why?
00:13:12.580 Is my reporting so much more offensive than hers?
00:13:16.040 No.
00:13:16.680 No.
00:13:17.640 It's a sign.
00:13:18.440 It's a sign?
00:13:19.060 No, don't.
00:13:19.780 That's offensive.
00:13:20.940 G'day, Commissioner.
00:13:22.780 Start recording.
00:13:25.760 Can I give a personal message?
00:13:27.480 Go ahead, mate.
00:13:29.160 See you in court.
00:13:30.320 Ah.
00:13:30.760 Cut it out.
00:13:32.400 Honestly, you've never gotten in trouble for featuring in my videos yet.
00:13:36.520 You've never gotten in trouble.
00:13:38.400 The amount of police.
00:13:39.840 It's mad.
00:13:41.100 There's one good copper, though.
00:13:42.620 Trust me.
00:13:43.180 One copper you need to talk to.
00:13:44.380 He's holding the camera over there.
00:13:45.820 Legend.
00:13:46.180 It's got a slow news night tonight, mate.
00:13:47.920 You're hanging out with us.
00:13:48.740 You know what?
00:13:50.300 You rate better than anyone.
00:13:51.620 So, we're actually looking forward to when he joins Rebel News, and this footage is put
00:13:58.320 to actual good use.
00:14:00.700 Well, my officer is still waiting for how much it pays, remember?
00:14:03.600 You haven't gone back to us yet, mate.
00:14:04.580 Hello, 112.
00:14:05.180 How much do you want?
00:14:07.160 He comes with a security guard.
00:14:08.660 When Victoria Police run out of our state money, tax dollars dry up because business is dead,
00:14:13.960 and he loses his job, he's going to be joining us.
00:14:16.120 So, just leave him alone.
00:14:17.800 Good boy.
00:14:18.280 Yeah.
00:14:18.960 We won't bother him.
00:14:20.160 I'm going to ask you, did you catch another angle of his arrest?
00:14:22.740 We might need it for court.
00:14:24.600 I wasn't working, remember?
00:14:25.800 It wouldn't have happened on your watch.
00:14:29.500 You asked the other operator about me, and he said I wasn't working, so you must have
00:14:33.840 missed me, mate.
00:14:34.740 I did.
00:14:35.100 Did you miss me?
00:14:35.500 I did miss you.
00:14:36.000 I literally just did a point to camera where I said, the best thing for Victoria Police
00:14:40.380 is you.
00:14:41.180 You're fine as shil.
00:14:43.180 You're fine as pre-cognitive.
00:14:44.460 Come, let's talk.
00:14:45.540 Let's have a chat.
00:14:46.840 I like people who don't like me.
00:14:49.480 Yeah, have a chat with me, Bobby.
00:14:51.600 Where are you?
00:14:52.140 Where are you, brother?
00:14:52.960 Which one?
00:14:53.700 Hey, bro.
00:14:54.840 Let's talk about it.
00:14:55.520 You want to talk about myself?
00:14:56.300 I don't want to.
00:14:56.840 Oh, why?
00:14:57.220 What are you afraid of?
00:14:58.260 I don't want to talk to you.
00:14:59.480 You don't want to talk to me?
00:15:00.120 You want to shout at me?
00:15:00.780 I don't like it.
00:15:01.240 Yeah, I do.
00:15:01.700 Yeah.
00:15:02.080 All right.
00:15:02.300 So, what's your problem with me?
00:15:03.180 I think you're a Zionist, so I don't like it. 1.00
00:15:04.540 I am a Zionist.
00:15:05.460 Do you know what a Zionist is? 0.51
00:15:06.560 I think I do, but can you tell me what?
00:15:08.040 No, no, but you're saying you don't like me because I'm a Zionist, but you don't know
00:15:11.400 what a Zionist is.
00:15:12.300 Well, I think I know what it is, but what do you think?
00:15:14.380 So, tell me, I know what it is because I am one.
00:15:16.660 So, you're calling me one with a negative connotation.
00:15:19.600 I don't want to talk to a Zionist. 1.00
00:15:20.920 What's a Zionist? 0.96
00:15:21.700 I don't know.
00:15:22.040 What's a Zionist? 0.96
00:15:23.120 I don't know.
00:15:25.080 He's our security.
00:15:26.380 I'm at work.
00:15:27.220 He's our security.
00:15:28.800 He's our security.
00:15:30.280 He's our security.
00:15:31.320 All right, then you can go ahead.
00:15:32.660 What?
00:15:33.320 He's our security.
00:15:34.300 What?
00:15:34.800 That's our, he's working with us.
00:15:36.600 He's working with us.
00:15:38.040 He's working with us.
00:15:39.360 You've arrested our security.
00:15:41.000 You've arrested our security.
00:15:43.920 We're not going to tolerate that.
00:15:45.460 We're not going to tolerate that.
00:15:46.600 That's our guy.
00:15:48.440 Come around here.
00:15:49.200 Come around the side.
00:15:50.560 You've taken our security.
00:15:52.580 You've taken our security.
00:15:55.700 So, come, come back.
00:15:58.060 They've taken our security.
00:16:00.160 And we're here.
00:16:04.880 We need to wait for our security.
00:16:06.560 Just go around here then.
00:16:07.480 Around here.
00:16:08.440 So, they've just arrested our security.
00:16:10.320 Violently arrested our security on the job.
00:16:13.520 They haven't done that to Channel 9, Channel 7, Channel 10, SBS, ABC, who are all here
00:16:18.940 with security.
00:16:20.040 Our security guard.
00:16:21.520 They've violently tackled.
00:16:23.480 Can I talk to you who's in charge?
00:16:25.320 Look at him.
00:16:25.880 They've got Daniel on the ground, who is here as our licensed security guard.
00:16:29.760 Who came here, licensed, working.
00:16:34.860 And I told you guys at the time that he was working security.
00:16:38.600 Look at what they've got.
00:16:39.980 Capture it.
00:16:40.660 That's fine.
00:16:41.240 Capture it.
00:16:41.720 This is police brutality in Melbourne, mate.
00:16:43.660 That's uncalled for.
00:16:44.500 He's a security guard working on the job.
00:16:47.380 Did you do that to Channel 9?
00:16:48.600 Did you do that to Channel 7?
00:16:49.880 Did you do that to SBS and ABC?
00:16:51.660 Did you?
00:16:52.420 And he's not an offender.
00:16:56.880 He's not an offender.
00:16:58.060 He's my security guard.
00:16:59.740 He's my security guard.
00:17:01.320 So, you realise they arrested my security guard.
00:17:03.580 Are you okay with that?
00:17:05.420 I've made it clear, and he made it clear he was on the job, and you've arrested him while
00:17:08.780 doing his job.
00:17:09.340 You didn't do that to Channel 9 and 7 and 10?
00:17:11.200 Yeah.
00:17:12.460 I've made it clear that's the one that was in charge.
00:17:14.260 So, when this goes to court, it's going to be clear.
00:17:18.160 They've been told numerous times that he's on the job.
00:17:21.080 Look at that.
00:17:21.900 Treating him like a criminal.
00:17:23.640 Not here to protest.
00:17:25.960 Oh, here we go.
00:17:26.560 The lawyer's on the line.
00:17:28.420 Hi, Madeline.
00:17:30.640 So, they violently have arrested my security, who made it clear he was security.
00:17:38.520 What should I do?
00:17:39.400 They've got him.
00:17:40.580 Can the lawyer talk to someone?
00:17:41.820 Who can the lawyer do?
00:17:42.520 His lawyer's on the phone here.
00:17:44.580 There you have it.
00:17:45.460 All good.
00:17:45.900 My government accreditation, also signed off by a Victoria Police Protective
00:17:50.900 Service Officer.
00:17:52.480 But as I approached the garden where the rest of the media were waiting for the press conference
00:17:57.160 to begin, a different group of PSOs suddenly surrounded and stopped me.
00:18:01.860 Can't be here.
00:18:03.540 On a parliament grounds, in the interest of security and good order of parliament.
00:18:06.760 Sorry?
00:18:07.460 In the interest of security and good order of parliament, as an authorised officer under
00:18:10.060 the parliamentary precinct act, we're asking you to leave.
00:18:12.660 Hold on, sir.
00:18:13.040 I want to understand.
00:18:13.580 So, this is a press conference.
00:18:15.020 The media is...
00:18:16.020 Yeah.
00:18:16.040 In the interest of security and good order of parliament...
00:18:18.980 It's not communist China.
00:18:20.000 You can't shut down certain media that's...
00:18:21.580 Let's go, bro.
00:18:22.120 Let's go.
00:18:22.720 Hold on.
00:18:23.580 What's your name?
00:18:23.920 I want to understand.
00:18:24.680 I mean, you know who I am.
00:18:25.700 Yeah.
00:18:25.980 I'm asking you to leave.
00:18:27.420 On what grounds?
00:18:28.660 As an authorised officer under the parliamentary precinct act, in the interest of security...
00:18:32.920 Is there a press conference here now?
00:18:35.500 Yeah.
00:18:36.180 So, am I pressed?
00:18:37.600 This is my press card?
00:18:38.400 That's fine.
00:18:39.600 But, I've just told you under the...
00:18:42.540 You can't...
00:18:43.020 This is not communist China.
00:18:44.040 You can't shut down media that criticises the government.
00:18:45.980 I'm not having a conversation with you now.
00:18:48.480 That's okay.
00:18:49.280 I've asked you to leave.
00:18:50.060 I'm here for the press conference, just like all the other media.
00:18:52.840 Yep.
00:18:54.040 So, I decided I'll put him on to the lawyer after she reviewed the legislation herself.
00:18:59.920 Just watch this.
00:19:01.220 So, what is the belief...
00:19:04.780 Well, I believe on reasonable grounds that he may disrupt...
00:19:08.860 The press conference.
00:19:09.920 So, on those grounds, I'm exercising my powers as an authorised officer under the parliamentary precincts act.
00:19:15.340 In the interest of security, in good order, to ask him to leave.
00:19:18.760 If he refuses to leave...
00:19:19.720 I've got that.
00:19:20.220 I've got that.
00:19:21.080 Do I need to quote it at me?
00:19:22.160 I've got it in front of me.
00:19:22.920 But, what are the reasonable grounds that you've based that belief on?
00:19:25.720 That he may disrupt the press conference.
00:19:27.460 And that he's also not been invited to these press conferences.
00:19:30.580 And, um, the Premier's PA doesn't want him here at the conferences.
00:19:36.460 So, really...
00:19:37.780 They're the reasons.
00:19:40.580 Okay.
00:19:41.140 And have you got a direction?
00:19:43.240 Sorry?
00:19:44.440 Have you been given a direction yourself to remove him?
00:19:48.320 No, no.
00:19:48.760 I'm an authorised officer, so I'm giving that direction.
00:19:52.460 I don't want to arrest him, nor physically, forcibly remove him, which I have the power to do.
00:19:58.200 I'm just asking if he can leave now.
00:20:00.180 And where's the boundaries that this, um, journalist can't...
00:20:03.980 You're right on the footpath.
00:20:05.040 I'm not...
00:20:05.480 So, the authorised officers of the parliament is banning a journalist they don't like, the government doesn't like.
00:20:13.000 What thing did I do with her husband?
00:20:15.280 I did one report on it.
00:20:16.660 Yeah, no, you...
00:20:17.500 It had been really nasty between you two.
00:20:19.580 Where?
00:20:19.920 Show me.
00:20:20.080 You guys had been, like...
00:20:20.720 You guys had been, like, trolling each other.
00:20:22.780 Show me one post that I wrote about her husband.
00:20:25.100 Anything.
00:20:25.580 Anything.
00:20:25.920 Show me.
00:20:26.660 One.
00:20:26.980 Come on.
00:20:27.780 You were having a...
00:20:28.560 You were having a crack at him.
00:20:29.480 He was certainly having a crack at you.
00:20:31.300 Okay.
00:20:31.880 You didn't write that.
00:20:32.720 You wrote that we were having a stout.
00:20:34.040 I didn't write...
00:20:34.640 I've never posted about him.
00:20:35.640 It was between you two.
00:20:36.160 Never posted about him.
00:20:37.440 Not once.
00:20:37.980 Show me one time.
00:20:39.160 Not once.
00:20:40.100 Not once, bro.
00:20:41.060 Show me.
00:20:41.600 Show me one post I've ever posted about him.
00:20:43.680 One.
00:20:44.000 I did one story.
00:20:44.540 So, you're saying it's all one way?
00:20:47.120 It was one way.
00:20:48.060 Because he had this...
00:20:48.880 He was very...
00:20:49.780 Mate, it was one way.
00:20:51.960 It was one way.
00:20:53.420 It was one way.
00:20:54.180 I never posted about him.
00:20:55.200 Once.
00:20:55.540 Not even once.
00:20:56.700 Not once.
00:20:57.740 If you can show me...
00:20:58.700 You see, you went on his word.
00:20:59.820 On the word of a crook.
00:21:00.860 No, no, no.
00:21:01.200 I went on the...
00:21:01.840 Just what was on...
00:21:02.600 What was online.
00:21:03.800 Show me online, then.
00:21:04.860 Show me online.
00:21:05.560 One post.
00:21:05.840 And it might have been in her...
00:21:06.760 But anyway, kick up.
00:21:07.800 In a what?
00:21:08.540 In her statement of claim.
00:21:10.600 So, not once.
00:21:11.600 I did one report on them.
00:21:13.400 Not on that little fundraiser thing that they did.
00:21:18.000 Yeah.
00:21:18.260 But that's it.
00:21:19.440 Okay?
00:21:19.960 Never.
00:21:20.440 No stoush.
00:21:21.320 One way.
00:21:21.920 Yes, for a year he was targeting me.
00:21:23.960 They claim I'm fake news.
00:21:25.440 I'm showing you here where this is clear fake news.
00:21:28.580 But it is.
00:21:29.500 It is.
00:21:29.880 You say a stoush.
00:21:30.920 I never posted about him once.
00:21:32.720 Yeah.
00:21:33.100 Yeah.
00:21:33.520 On the payroll of a Canadian-based alt-right website.
00:21:36.380 It's like, what does that mean?
00:21:38.020 Whatever.
00:21:38.620 That's horrible news.
00:21:39.200 Whatever.
00:21:39.340 That's less fake than the rest of it.
00:21:41.720 It's a way to frame it.
00:21:45.360 It's a way to frame it.
00:21:46.240 Well, but it's also, it justifies why I call you...
00:21:49.320 Yeah, it justifies your fake news.
00:21:50.860 The video you don't have to do with the job the other night.
00:21:52.700 I got...
00:21:53.120 I put it up.
00:21:53.980 Did you not see it?
00:21:54.800 You took it off.
00:21:56.020 The job off.
00:21:56.680 The video.
00:21:57.220 Thursday night.
00:21:57.940 What video was it?
00:22:00.220 What was the video on?
00:22:01.320 It was a protest.
00:22:02.120 When Vic Pohl, I have to let him go.
00:22:04.720 He's got a job with Rebel News.
00:22:06.280 No, but I've got him doing facial work.
00:22:08.020 No, I don't put anything in writing anymore.
00:22:10.960 I think it's just not on Facebook or YouTube because they got rules around...
00:22:17.640 Maybe someone said something anti-COVID in it and they pulled those off.
00:22:21.480 But it's on all the other...
00:22:22.300 It's still got probably a few hundred thousand views.
00:22:25.020 So you got witnesses.
00:22:25.840 You got witnesses.
00:22:27.060 Did you get in trouble for it?
00:22:29.260 Nothing at all.
00:22:31.100 Do you want a job too?
00:22:32.420 How much does it go?
00:22:33.480 How much does it pay?
00:22:35.000 And I'm the Jewish one.
00:22:36.600 I'm the Jewish one and he goes straight for pay.
00:22:39.520 I reckon with your experience at protests, we can work something out.
00:22:44.080 I love how he laughs.
00:22:46.500 You're a funny guy.
00:22:47.260 Wouldn't he?
00:22:48.720 I'm a funny guy.
00:22:49.340 I got that on the record.
00:22:50.320 I'm funny.
00:22:50.740 He wants to work for us.
00:22:51.860 He just wants to know how much pay.
00:22:53.400 This is crazy.
00:22:54.140 You think you can come into Melbourne.
00:22:55.260 The place that we have protests for Indigenous rights, for Black Lives Matter, for women's rights.
00:23:00.760 And you think you can come onto Flinders Street Steps and interview people.
00:23:03.820 How dare I?
00:23:04.200 On your little projects.
00:23:06.360 These are...
00:23:07.120 Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:23:07.980 ...you're a fascist. 0.99
00:23:09.880 We're here for the veterans.
00:23:10.900 Are you going to respect the...
00:23:11.880 Are you going to respect the veterans?
00:23:14.140 I'm not interested in your Australian bullshit, mate. 1.00
00:23:16.640 The logical crap is about justifying Australia and justifying the project of white Australia. 0.92
00:23:21.940 These guys aren't allowed to march on Anzac Day, but Black Lives Matter, your people, Black
00:23:27.680 Lives Matter, I'll go here so you don't have to be behind them.
00:23:31.240 You guys can march 50,000 people for Black Lives Matter, but you will not let vets who fought 1.00
00:23:40.480 for your freedom to be able to talk the absolute garbage you're speaking right now.
00:23:45.620 The garbage you're spewing here on Melbourne Street.
00:23:48.820 You can speak that because of these heroes.
00:23:52.280 This man here has fought.
00:23:55.000 He's basically sacrificed his entire life for your freedom.
00:23:59.080 For your freedom to talk the absolute garbage that you're speaking right now.
00:24:03.820 He's fought.
00:24:05.600 Fuck off, fascist.
00:24:06.800 Fuck off.
00:24:07.620 The local Indian restaurant here has teamed up with a friend in Baronia to basically give
00:24:13.920 Daniel Andrews an opportunity to stand with their industry.
00:24:18.520 They don't want to break the law.
00:24:19.620 What they're saying to Mr. Andrews is by Monday night, announce an opening of their industry
00:24:25.280 of either half capacity or in their case, 50 seats to make the business viable, to make
00:24:31.740 the industry viable.
00:24:32.800 Daniel Andrews, as a premier, please listen to us.
00:24:35.920 You know, I have sent him in so many emails, so many phone calls, never heard anything back
00:24:41.060 from him.
00:24:41.620 So this is the second shop, Layla's Kitchen in Baronia, opening on Monday night from 5.30.
00:24:47.040 They're taking bookings now because they're saying, just like in Dandenong, Monday night
00:24:52.400 they are opening, but they are pleading with Daniel Andrews to get on board.
00:24:57.580 We've been suffered enough.
00:24:58.900 We've been literally living off little or no cash flow for so many months.
00:25:04.440 And, you know, I request government to use some common sense.
00:25:08.880 We're going to be waiting for the Monday.
00:25:10.340 I hope that I don't have to take any illegal point, but Monday is the time.
00:25:14.840 If he doesn't give me the green light, we're going to go ahead.
00:25:17.540 That's the green light from our side.
00:25:19.860 Please listen to us.
00:25:21.760 Make the changes to the roadmap, what you're offering us.
00:25:24.620 But it is the time to open up the state, save the economy.
00:25:29.240 Please, please, this is our humble request to you guys.
00:25:32.360 It's nothing against government, but please just do that something for us.
00:25:37.740 But unlike in my case, an apology was not what Daniel was after.
00:25:42.400 He was looking for justice and he got it in the form of six figures.
00:25:49.700 It finally has settled.
00:25:52.040 It has.
00:25:52.840 How do you feel about it?
00:25:54.000 Very happy.
00:25:55.260 Look, as far as the actual settlement goes, I couldn't be happier.
00:26:00.140 It indicates that I was in the right, that I have done the right thing.
00:26:04.440 And I'm hoping between that and this video that it will help restore my professional reputation
00:26:11.100 that I feel was tarnished at the time due to the actions of Victoria Police.
00:26:15.260 Rebel viewers at the time, they were outraged because I was being targeted.
00:26:19.520 I took them to court.
00:26:20.400 You could see in the video, they purposely passed me and went for you.
00:26:26.600 And that outraged our viewers again, who were more than happy, one, to fight your fine,
00:26:31.380 and then two, go on the offensive and sue the police, sue the heck out of the police.
00:26:35.560 What do you want to say to those supporters that made it happen?
00:26:38.340 I want to say thank you to them.
00:26:40.820 Their support really meant quite a lot.
00:26:42.920 Your support, Rebel News' support, Rebel News Australia's support,
00:26:46.960 couldn't have done it without everybody.
00:26:48.540 I'd like to thank Ezra.
00:26:51.200 I got to meet him personally.
00:26:52.800 And, yeah, that was great as well.
00:26:55.200 It was just really good.
00:26:56.480 I couldn't have done it without the support of the viewers, really,
00:26:59.520 who have been the people who have really made this happen.
00:27:02.260 Aviamini here for Rebel News in Melbourne, Australia.
00:27:05.320 Behind me is the Metropolitan Remand Centre,
00:27:08.020 which, within half an hour, we're expecting Pastor Paul for long to finally be released.
00:27:13.860 Thanks to every one of you who helped donate his legal defence at SavePastorPaul.com.
00:27:20.360 It's not too late.
00:27:21.100 There is a big bill because we did it.
00:27:24.380 Over two weeks, the pastor has spent in this jail for the alleged crime of inciting church.
00:27:32.260 Police came in in the middle of the night, grabbed him and put him in here.
00:27:37.540 I've got to tell you this.
00:27:38.220 I know there's thousands of people at home that are looking at you
00:27:41.080 and they're looking past that beard you've grown there.
00:27:44.260 Yeah, I've never looked so scruffy in 30 years.
00:27:47.120 Two and a half, what is it, two and a half weeks in jail?
00:27:50.360 17 days, yeah.
00:27:51.560 17 days, 14 days in solitary confinement
00:27:54.380 and the rest in with the rest of the boys for those last few days.
00:27:59.040 How are you feeling?
00:28:00.140 It's really, really good to be out.
00:28:02.260 Amazing to see my wife.
00:28:04.160 I really want to thank everyone that has been praying for me.
00:28:08.140 I was singing a great hymn.
00:28:09.880 Actually, they got to know me for singing every day.
00:28:12.100 I sang hymns and songs for my longest time was two and a half hours.
00:28:16.840 So that was just quite amazing.
00:28:19.520 But an old hymn I was singing,
00:28:21.200 so I'll carry the old rugged cross and exchange it one day for a crown.
00:28:26.800 I know you're somebody that has not been in jail at all.
00:28:30.680 In fact, I was in court today and they were talking about
00:28:32.640 all the good deeds you've done, not only in Australia but around the world.
00:28:37.700 How was your experience in jail?
00:28:40.680 Well, it was certainly an experience, no doubt about it.
00:28:44.020 I think what was amazing and what, in fact, dare I say it,
00:28:49.160 was an absolute blessing was the opportunity that God gave me
00:28:53.320 to get on my knee with over a dozen men
00:29:01.620 and many of them in tears
00:29:04.180 and leading them in a prayer to surrender their lives to God.
00:29:07.620 Come on, talk to me about the hell pony.
00:29:09.440 Well, the stuff that you're spinning is just...
00:29:11.420 What do I say that's wrong?
00:29:12.980 A lot of things, my friend.
00:29:14.480 Like what? Give me one example.
00:29:15.660 Oh, look, I can, but not right here on the spot.
00:29:19.420 Why not? Take your time.
00:29:20.680 Well, the way you portray the police in Melbourne to be like out there
00:29:26.280 wanting to get people
00:29:28.040 and that people can't even walk around without the police attacking them
00:29:32.600 and all that, that's not correct.
00:29:35.020 If you go to a lot of places around the world,
00:29:40.700 you will see, and that goes back a long, long, long time,
00:29:44.460 where police are unnecessarily harsh,
00:29:48.020 unnecessarily, you know, what's it called, you know, violent.
00:29:52.520 Can you agree that there haven't been,
00:29:53.980 you're saying there haven't been unnecessarily violent in Melbourne?
00:29:56.840 Look, there have probably been cases
00:29:58.360 where there has been unnecessarily undue violence.
00:30:02.100 So do you want me to stop reporting that?
00:30:03.660 No, but it's like you emphasise it and you're sort of,
00:30:07.240 I mean, look, to be honest, you know,
00:30:09.980 you shouldn't stop reporting anything that happens, right?
00:30:13.040 But, you know, the way you spin it,
00:30:14.860 it looks like it's like a huge problem in Melbourne.
00:30:18.020 It's not.
00:30:18.780 Have you seen?
00:30:19.580 You should appreciate what we really have here.
00:30:22.300 And, you know, the police have to go through a lot of stuff as well,
00:30:25.460 you know, to be able to do their job.
00:30:27.500 They get a lot of shit.
00:30:29.240 And if they've got to do their job,
00:30:32.000 and if somebody tries to get past them,
00:30:34.080 they have to say, listen, mate, you need to go back.
00:30:36.080 And if they don't, in the end, they have to forcefully do something.
00:30:39.440 That's no big deal.
00:30:40.300 It's been like that forever.
00:30:41.680 So I don't think we disagree.
00:30:43.660 If that's how you feel, that's how I feel.
00:30:46.080 You know what I love more than anything?
00:30:48.200 It's good cops.
00:30:48.900 There are a lot of them around.
00:30:52.060 Listen, I used to be someone that would say,
00:30:55.280 back the blue, defend them no matter what.
00:30:58.680 But what I have witnessed...
00:30:59.580 Well, I don't have to say that, but, you know...
00:31:01.080 But I was like that.
00:31:02.340 What I'm saying to you is,
00:31:03.580 what I have witnessed is not what you described.
00:31:05.760 Okay.
00:31:06.180 What I have witnessed, and in fact,
00:31:07.460 what I have had done to myself is not what you described.
00:31:11.260 I have seen police brutality on our streets.
00:31:14.040 I have witnessed them either attack others or myself,
00:31:17.140 as a journalist, even being taken to the ground.
00:31:19.780 Now, you can say that that's not a normal occurrence.
00:31:23.260 Yes, you can...
00:31:23.880 Nobody's arguing that not in lockdown,
00:31:26.580 you can walk down the street and most cops are not going to deck you.
00:31:30.900 They're not going to.
00:31:31.800 And there are a lot of cops that have, you know,
00:31:33.700 their heart is hopefully in the right place.
00:31:35.760 But there are certainly, right now,
00:31:39.360 these extended powers that some of them are abusing
00:31:43.040 and are abusing in a fashion that's unacceptable,
00:31:46.440 that you should not be okay with.
00:31:50.120 I need help!
00:31:51.920 I need help!
00:31:54.360 We're just walking around the park.
00:31:55.800 We're just living around the corner.
00:31:57.180 Walking around the park,
00:31:58.120 and then we started to take a seat, have some tea.
00:32:00.980 Help! 0.98
00:32:02.300 Help! 0.98
00:32:03.500 Help me!
00:32:04.520 Basically, when they asked her for her details,
00:32:07.120 she didn't give them.
00:32:08.260 And then, you know, what they did was,
00:32:09.760 they pulled her to the ground,
00:32:11.240 and I took off my phone and started filming it.
00:32:13.200 And they pushed me away, saying,
00:32:14.860 I need to clear the area.
00:32:16.720 Instinct said, I've got to protect my partner, so...
00:32:19.820 Help me!
00:32:20.700 We weren't together.
00:32:21.720 You were just sitting here?
00:32:22.640 Yeah.
00:32:22.760 They just came and sat with us,
00:32:23.820 and they were just walking in the park,
00:32:25.660 and then the lady didn't want to give her details, 1.00
00:32:28.420 so they all jumped on her, so I don't know.
00:32:30.520 They asked them, what are you doing?
00:32:31.680 They said, well, we're drinking,
00:32:32.940 we're going to be exercising,
00:32:34.240 but they're sitting down to drink tea.
00:32:35.760 They said, but you're not exercising.
00:32:38.240 She goes, no, we're having tea now.
00:32:39.700 Are the cops still talking to her?
00:32:41.720 Yeah.
00:32:42.120 Oh, OK.
00:32:43.100 So you, once you gave them your details,
00:32:45.020 they let you go?
00:32:45.720 Yeah, they said, you know what I mean,
00:32:47.060 I might get a summons for, you know what I mean,
00:32:49.540 hindering the police.
00:32:51.060 Just come to sit down,
00:32:52.360 and we're like, what the hell's going on here?
00:32:54.880 Yeah.
00:32:55.180 Yeah.
00:32:56.020 So you witnessed what actually happened,
00:32:57.800 and they were just sitting here?
00:32:59.120 We were talking to them, we just met them.
00:33:01.040 The lady said, we normally run jog at night,
00:33:03.700 but we can't do it anymore at night,
00:33:05.260 so we exercise during the day now.
00:33:07.900 And that was it.
00:33:08.560 And then, I don't know what happened,
00:33:09.880 because I was talking to my daughter,
00:33:11.120 and all of a sudden, they grabbed her,
00:33:13.300 and they chucked her on the floor. 0.99
00:33:14.800 There you are.
00:33:15.480 How are you doing?
00:33:17.700 Sorry.
00:33:19.020 Are you all right?
00:33:19.980 No, I've got a penalty.
00:33:21.340 What was a penalty for?
00:33:22.920 Sorry, do you mind if I look at it?
00:33:24.220 So it says,
00:33:25.560 fail to comply, stay at home direction,
00:33:28.800 but you live here.
00:33:29.840 I live just around the corner.
00:33:31.940 Australia Day celebrations today,
00:33:33.580 to allow them to march.
00:33:36.520 Hey, put a mask on.
00:33:39.600 Hold on, you want me to put on a mask?
00:33:41.340 Why are you rallying?
00:33:44.860 You harassed my dad at an election,
00:33:46.660 is it time to harass me now?
00:33:48.140 You literally walked up to me.
00:33:49.560 Even before you had clout,
00:33:50.900 you were just so aggressive,
00:33:52.420 and condescending,
00:33:53.360 and it's like,
00:33:53.680 what are you trying to project, you know?
00:33:54.900 Am I the one aggressive here today?
00:33:56.480 Yeah.
00:33:56.600 Advocating tolerance,
00:33:58.720 and love,
00:33:59.760 and acceptance.
00:34:01.240 They seem to be projecting
00:34:02.400 a lot of white privilege,
00:34:04.340 on a person of colour.
00:34:07.060 How does it feel to be
00:34:07.820 the only person of colour here?
00:34:09.860 The only one?
00:34:11.100 Well,
00:34:11.560 one of.
00:34:13.080 I'm pretty sure there's more than just me, so.
00:34:15.140 Ah, there's me too.
00:34:16.340 Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:34:17.320 It starts with the inadequate resourcing
00:34:19.660 and funding of those communities,
00:34:21.440 the support and services that white 0.99
00:34:23.000 or the general population get in abundance.
00:34:26.320 Are you kidding me?
00:34:26.920 The indigenous community get far more funding 0.99
00:34:28.920 than any other group.
00:34:30.020 That's absolutely not true.
00:34:31.220 The gig is up.
00:34:33.240 Come, you want to talk about it?
00:34:34.880 No.
00:34:35.180 How does that make you feel?
00:34:36.120 How do you feel being here?
00:34:37.620 I love it.
00:34:38.100 This is my country.
00:34:40.000 You're projecting a lot of white privilege onto me.
00:34:42.520 Let me ask you something.
00:34:43.460 Well, I don't trust you
00:34:44.500 because of your fucking track record, mate. 0.96
00:34:46.260 What are you here to protest?
00:34:47.700 I'm not going to harass you like I...
00:34:49.200 The notion of Australia Day.
00:34:50.820 It's like obviously what we're trying to fucking...
00:34:52.360 Do you want to change it or abolish it?
00:34:54.920 Personally, abolish it.
00:34:56.340 Abolish Australia Day!
00:34:58.120 You know you're meant to be 1.5 metres.
00:35:01.200 Hey, we've got to be here.
00:35:02.580 That's 1.5 metres, mate.
00:35:04.640 You're breaking the COVID restrictions.
00:35:08.140 Shame on you.
00:35:10.180 You always preach...
00:35:11.760 You're welcome here.
00:35:12.500 You always preach tolerance with such love.
00:35:14.820 This guy is the face of tolerance in Melbourne.
00:35:28.980 Well, that's our show for today.
00:35:30.880 I'll be back in Toronto soon.
00:35:32.640 On behalf of all of us at Rebel News around the world,
00:35:35.120 to you at home,
00:35:36.420 good night,
00:35:37.340 and keep fighting for freedom.
00:35:38.620 Thank you.
00:35:42.480 Be games.
00:35:42.820 Be games.
00:35:43.740 answers
00:35:44.320 You're welcome.
00:35:44.420 ista
00:35:45.080 is
00:35:45.580 there