THE OTHER SIDE with DAMIAN COORY
Jun 5, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 16 segments
THE OTHER SIDE - FULL Episode 518 - For weekend commencing Friday 5 June 2026. WOMEN DAMAGING WOMEN... Australian women sick of radical gender ideology are pushing back harder than ever on the…
Damian CooryHostStephanie BastiaanGuest
It meddles in our personal lives, in our businesses, restricts our freedoms in the name of keeping us safe.

I mean, why wouldn't it? If your people let you, why wouldn't you take advantage of them for your own personal gain? And that's why we need to keep the people strong in our democracy.

And the number one thing that they should be doing well is protecting the nation.

So it worries me more than just a little bit when I hear the lunatics in the Greens and the As if having a close alliance with a power like the United States, a fellow imperfect nation, sure, but the freest, most democratic and most culturally similar to us superpower in the world, they treat it like it's a bad thing.

I mean, who the heck do we think we are? We're a small nation, a nice one, but small.

You know, there's our defence minister, though, Richard Miles, walking between his US and British defence counterparts at AUKUS talks last Sunday in Singapore.

The talks happened on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogues, that's Asia's annual defence and security forum that's hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

And so the defence ministers of the three AUKUS nations met at the US Embassy in Singapore.

Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Richard Marles, US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and the UK Defence Secretary, John Healey.

Just that fact, in and of itself, means that AUKUS is a very good thing for this wonderful small nation of ours.

Yet the way the left-wing media types at the ABC and the Guardian and the Saturday paper that nobody reads carry on, you would think that it was a complete disaster.

What exactly do you guys see as the alternative for Australia's security? I'm just curious.


The ministers confirmed that AUKUS remains on track for Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines and announced the finalisation of arrangements for the establishment of Submarine Rotational Force West in 2027.

It meddles in our personal lives, in our businesses, restricts our freedoms in the name of keeping us safe.

I mean, why wouldn't it? If your people let you, why wouldn't you take advantage of them for your own personal gain? And that's why we need to keep the people strong in our democracy.

And the number one thing that they should be doing well is protecting the nation.

So it worries me more than just a little bit when I hear the lunatics in the Greens and the As if having a close alliance with a power like the United States, a fellow imperfect nation, sure, but the freest, most democratic and most culturally similar to us superpower in the world, they treat it like it's a bad thing.

I mean, who the heck do we think we are? We're a small nation, a nice one, but small.

You know, there's our defence minister, though, Richard Miles, walking between his US and British defence counterparts at AUKUS talks last Sunday in Singapore.

The talks happened on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogues, that's Asia's annual defence and security forum that's hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

And so the defence ministers of the three AUKUS nations met at the US Embassy in Singapore.

Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Richard Marles, US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and the UK Defence Secretary, John Healey.

Just that fact, in and of itself, means that AUKUS is a very good thing for this wonderful small nation of ours.

Yet the way the left-wing media types at the ABC and the Guardian and the Saturday paper that nobody reads carry on, you would think that it was a complete disaster.

What exactly do you guys see as the alternative for Australia's security? I'm just curious.


The ministers confirmed that AUKUS remains on track for Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines and announced the finalisation of arrangements for the establishment of Submarine Rotational Force West in 2027.
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