But certainly, in the recent two or three years, we've seen a massive influx of people.

We think there are almost as many as two million new immigrants, which on a population of

27, is a significant chunk, which has been a policy of this Labor government, including

recently allowing the widows or brides from ISIS to return to Australia, which is a very, very

dangerous and controversial thing to be doing, of course.

All right, Senator Alex Antic, a pleasure, pleasure to meet you. I feel like, I feel like I already interviewed you. We did a half hour where we should have just had the cameras rolling, but we're, we're going to sit down and repeat a bunch of things that I think we just spoke about. But first, I should mention, so we're here in Melbourne. How was my pronunciation there? That was good. That was pretty good. It was excellent. Can you say it? Because I'm nervous for my live show tomorrow. Melbourne is good. Melbourne, but just don't say Sydney. Definitely don't say Sydney. I should mention you are not senator of Melbourne. Correct. You are senator of Adelaide. Can you break down? I thought we'd do a little Australia 101 for the people. because even me coming in, it's a big country, we know Crocodile Dundee, we know Bluey, that's kind of the extent. And spiders, I'm told as well, everyone's frightened of Australian spiders and you should be. Yeah, well, look, and look, this is going to test me as well because my knowledge of Australian history and politics might not be.

But essentially, that's right.

I'm a senator.

Similar system to the US, but we sit in two chambers of the parliament, Senate and the lower house, as we call it, the House of Representatives.

Senators are elected by their whole state, whereas a little bit like in the US,S., the lower house is just elected in districts, if we call it electoral districts.

So, yeah, each state has 12, except for our territories.

And it's a House of Review.

We review laws and make it sound quite boring.

No, no, politics.

No, we have similar systems.

We have similar people. So, and I do want to talk to you a little bit about what you think it means to be Australian. Because that seems to be a debate in all Western countries right now. So we'll get to that in a sec. But why don't we first talk a little bit about just sort of what do you think the state of of the country is at a moment before we get to the people specifically what was the state of australia i think this is a very

different country than the one i grew up in i grew up in the in the 80s and you know to a certain

extent the 90s as well and the world's very different. The West is very different now than it was then,

but Australia in particular is, you know, we have, I suppose, you know, you would say we are the

land of opportunity in many respects, resources, natural resources, beautiful beaches, and yet for

some reason there is this cloud hanging over this country at the moment.

And I think it's across the board.

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