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Steve Price | 18 October · Steve Price

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  Speaker 1: Live. This is Steve Price.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Friday Night's Steve Price with you on another
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  Speaker 2: very busy newsday. With the welcome news, I think that
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  Speaker 2: the terrorist leader of hamas Ya Sinoa has been taken
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  Speaker 2: out by the Israelis in what appears to be a
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  Speaker 2: chance encounter. I saw from a head of the CoA
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  Speaker 2: called it a bigger scalp than Osama bin Laden. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see and we'll have more on that shortly. And of
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  Speaker 2: course back home King Charles the Third as Aaron's just
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  Speaker 2: been talking about touches down in Sydney in about two
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  Speaker 2: hours time. The Republicans are going to have a very
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  Speaker 2: bad weekend coming up on the program. And this is
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  Speaker 2: no surprise. The number of business is going bust in
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  Speaker 2: the busted state of Victoria has surged by fifty eight
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  Speaker 2: percent year on year and it's everything from construction companies
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  Speaker 2: to the maker of the famous Cherry Wrighte chocolate bar.
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  Speaker 2: We'll dig into water that with the Opposition's Brad Batton.
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  Speaker 2: Also tonight, I mentioned the evil Sinoaar has been eliminated.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the next step? Fanet yahoo ken he get
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  Speaker 2: the surviving hostages back and end the war. I'll get
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  Speaker 2: Greg Barton's view on that and the royal visit that
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned they're coming to New South Wales and camera
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  Speaker 2: what sort of crowds can we expect and just how
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  Speaker 2: knocked about by his cancer treatment is King Charles The third,
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  Speaker 2: we'll check in with Royal watcher Caroline d Russo and
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  Speaker 2: get her view on the State premier's dreadful snubbing of
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  Speaker 2: their very own monarch. But first, in a week when
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  Speaker 2: our Prime minister thought it okay to splash four point
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  Speaker 2: three million dollars on a beach house in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of a housing and cost of living crisis, we learn
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  Speaker 2: that business insolvencies around Australia are skyrocketing. On what planet
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  Speaker 2: is Prime Minister Albanezi living in where he thinks people
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  Speaker 2: will just sit back and say, well, they're a private
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  Speaker 2: Kappa couple Albow and Jody and they can buy whatever
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  Speaker 2: house they like. He might kid himself that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: and he tried to weasel himself out of the biggest
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  Speaker 2: blunder since Scott Morrison's famous I don't hold a hose mate,
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  Speaker 2: but it won't wash well.
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  Speaker 3: Jody and I getting married, as is known, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: pleased about that and Jody's a coasty.
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  Speaker 1: She's a proud coasty.
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  Speaker 3: But what I'm focused on is making sure that everyone
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  Speaker 3: can get a roof over their head.
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  Speaker 2: Seriously, a coasty. I lived in Sydney for a total
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  Speaker 2: of sixteen years. I didn't hear people on the Central
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  Speaker 2: Coast called coasty's. That's another matter. Just wait until Labor
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  Speaker 2: sees the next lot of polling. And to think the
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister did this presumably thinking no one would find out,
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  Speaker 2: and then it comes out on the very week that
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  Speaker 2: he loses the first news poll of his prime ministership. Now,
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  Speaker 2: supporters of the Prime Minister this week tried to argue that, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: Malcolm Turmull had a real multimillion dollar property right Sydney
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  Speaker 2: Harbor and the media didn't make a big deal out
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  Speaker 2: of that. Well, I'm sorry to rain on your parade.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we did. He was called Toffee Malcolm Turbule from
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  Speaker 2: Point Piper and on the night he squandered Tony Abbott's
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  Speaker 2: Coalition majority and scraped home by one seat, the media
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  Speaker 2: constantly on air that night called for him to get
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  Speaker 2: out of his multi million dollar mansion and front up
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  Speaker 2: to the people. Other supporters have also this week called
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  Speaker 2: out Peter Dutton and his property portfolio.
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  Speaker 4: Now that's largely built, I.
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  Speaker 2: Must say off the success of his wife's childcare businesses,
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  Speaker 2: but he's not the Prime Minister and Dton didn't really
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  Speaker 2: climb into the PM on the holiday house fiasco. Wisely,
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's a matter for the Prime Minister, but I
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  Speaker 5: wish he and Jodie well, and they're obviously planning for
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  Speaker 5: the next stage of life post politics, and I wish
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  Speaker 5: them well in that the Prime Minister can answer questions
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  Speaker 5: in relation to it otherwise, But the homeowners at Australia
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  Speaker 5: and I'm worried about it at the moment of people
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  Speaker 5: who can't afford their mortgages.
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  Speaker 2: Clever Politics don't and doesn't believe a word of what
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  Speaker 2: he just said. He would have been pumping his fist
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  Speaker 2: in his office when he found out that that story
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  Speaker 2: had been broken here on Sky. What really annoyed a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Australians this week though, was the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: again trotting out the old line about living in social
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  Speaker 2: housing and how his dear old mum and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: she was a lovely woman, had lived in the same
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  Speaker 2: Government assistant house social housing since she was born.
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  Speaker 3: I am much better off as a Prime minister.
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  Speaker 1: I earn a good income.
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  Speaker 3: I understand now, I understand how I've been fortunate, but
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  Speaker 3: I also know what it's like.
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  Speaker 1: To struggle.
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  Speaker 3: My mum lived in the one public housing that she
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  Speaker 3: was born in for all of her sixty five years,
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  Speaker 3: and I know what it's like, which is why I
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  Speaker 3: want to help all Australians into a home.
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  Speaker 2: Seriously. Now, all that did was cause me to wonder
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  Speaker 2: how that happens that someone lives in social housing for
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  Speaker 2: sixty five years all their lives. It also made me
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  Speaker 2: wonder why wouldn't the Prime minister, once he had a
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  Speaker 2: good job, and he's been in politics for thirty plus years,
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  Speaker 2: why wouldn't the Prime Minister rent her somewhere better to live.
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  Speaker 2: The bottom line here for me is I think Albanezy
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  Speaker 2: thought this job would be a breeze, the job of
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  Speaker 2: prime minister. He thought his voice referendum would get up.
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  Speaker 2: COVID was over the world, UKRAINEUS side and a potential
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  Speaker 2: China issue was largely peaceful, no Middle East war. Economic
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  Speaker 2: post economics post COVID were improving just sail Through the
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  Speaker 2: next three years, he thought, and he'd get re elected. Well,
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  Speaker 2: as we know a lot has changed. Labor around the
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  Speaker 2: nation in the States and territories is very much on
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  Speaker 2: the nose. The Northern Territory flipped and next weekend so
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  Speaker 2: will Queensland. Labor in Victoria is despised, and it's really
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  Speaker 2: only the moderate labor at states like New South Wales
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  Speaker 2: and South Australia that stable. Immigration, as we know it
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  Speaker 2: is still out of control. The grand green energy plans
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  Speaker 2: of Chris Bowen. They're wabbling badly with news today that
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  Speaker 2: the company that makes cherry ripes can't even afford their
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  Speaker 2: gas bill. And you think dreaming of a happy retirement
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  Speaker 2: on a taxpayer funded pension for life in your copa
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  Speaker 2: Cabana beach house on the Central Coast with your new
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  Speaker 2: bride would just somehow slide by. And by the way, who,
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  Speaker 2: when you're in a circle, didn't have the guts to say, listen, Anthony,
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  Speaker 2: this does not pass the pub test. We've seen arrogance
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  Speaker 2: in our national leaders plenty of times before. Think of
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  Speaker 2: Paul Keating and silk suits, Kevin Rudd and the New
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  Speaker 2: York Strip Club, turnbul and just about everything he did,
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  Speaker 2: and of course Morrison Hawaii and that hose I seriously
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  Speaker 2: didn't think a politician of Albanese's experience could be this dumb.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get straight into one of the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 2: Now Israel has conferred and it killed Hamas' leader Jaha Sinhwah,
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  Speaker 2: the architect behind the horrific October seven terrorist attacks on Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is a major blow for the terrorist group.
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  Speaker 2: Israel's Prime Minister benjaminettn Yah who said this is not
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  Speaker 2: the end of the war in Gaza, but it's the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of the end.
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  Speaker 6: To the people of Gaza, I have a simple message.
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  Speaker 6: This war can end tomorrow. It can end if Ramas
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  Speaker 6: lays down its arms and returns our hostages for more.
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  Speaker 2: I'm joined by these strategic analysis Australian director Michael Schubridge, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: great to see you again. I saw David portray us
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  Speaker 2: former CIA boss on Skye today. I think described this
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  Speaker 2: as bigger than the taking out of Osama bin Laden?
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  Speaker 2: Is it that big?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Yes?
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  Speaker 7: And the fact that it took the Americans ten years
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  Speaker 7: to get bin Laden and it took the Israelis about
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  Speaker 7: a week over a year to get Sinhwa is why
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  Speaker 7: it's a bigger deal. Simwa was the military leader in Gaza,
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  Speaker 7: who is the leader of the whole of Hamas. This
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  Speaker 7: killing dismantles the leadership of Hamas, and Hamas in Gaza
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  Speaker 7: is now a bunch of separate terrorist cells struggling to survive.
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  Speaker 2: So is there no obvious replacement for Sinowa? Is there
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  Speaker 2: not someone standing there who can just slide into his
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  Speaker 2: job and keep this conflict going or has it been
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  Speaker 2: so overwhelmed by Israel splintered and falling apart.
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  Speaker 7: He was a unique figure and having the Hamas military
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  Speaker 7: leader be also the political leader was really just a
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  Speaker 7: unique circumstance, with him coming to power after the October
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  Speaker 7: attacks and the death of his predecessor. There isn't a
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  Speaker 7: single logical successor. People like his brother are reviled by
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  Speaker 7: large chunks of what remains of for corruption and other things.
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  Speaker 7: So it's a fragmented, damaged organization and that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: What do we know of his background? And I heard
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  Speaker 2: today that at one point he was a prison in
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  Speaker 2: prisoned in Israel. He actually had a brain aneurysm and
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  Speaker 2: the Israelis allowed medical treatment to treat him, and then
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  Speaker 2: he was involved in some sort of prisoner swap. Has
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  Speaker 2: he always been an evil human being?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't know about his early childhood, but for
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  Speaker 7: his entire adult life.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: In fact, he's known for torturing and killing Palestinians, anyone
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  Speaker 7: he suspected of talking.
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  Speaker 1: With the Israelis.
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  Speaker 7: So I don't think anyone that thinks evil is a
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  Speaker 7: bad thing will mourn his passing. He was a big
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  Speaker 7: obstacle to any kind of peace or negotiation. But this
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  Speaker 7: is a dangerous time for the remaining Israeli while hostages,
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  Speaker 7: because they'll be increasing paranoia in the remainder of Hamas
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  Speaker 7: in Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: We saw that grab their Michael of benjaminett Yah. Who
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  Speaker 2: what's his next move? What does he do from here?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 7: I think he keeps dismantling Hamas in Gaza. He looks
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  Speaker 7: to see who wants to lead it. And if it's
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  Speaker 7: another apocalyptic person like Simwa whose sole goal is to
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  Speaker 7: widen this war and make it a true apocalyptic one,
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  Speaker 7: then what we're seeing now just keeps happening. But if
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  Speaker 7: a voice emergers that can be negotiated with, I think
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  Speaker 7: Netanyahu will be open to that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Ukraine. You and I have spoken over
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  Speaker 2: and over and over again. We've never been able to
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  Speaker 2: understand why the military hardware Australia has that it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: use was not offered up to the Ukrainians. We learned
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  Speaker 2: today that that Abrams tanks, dozens of them, are going
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  Speaker 2: to be turned over. It's a two hundred and forty
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  Speaker 2: five million dollar military support package. I'm presuming that you
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  Speaker 2: think it's about time we've done this.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's over a year too late. But I
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  Speaker 7: welcome the decision by Richard Miles. I just wish he
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  Speaker 7: could make obvious decisions faster. He's got another one about
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  Speaker 7: those Tiger attack helicopters our Australian Army are replacing the
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  Speaker 7: US apaches. He should decide now to give those to
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  Speaker 7: Ukraine and we should start training Ukrainian pilots and maintainers.
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  Speaker 7: So it's really I'm happy to see the tanks going
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  Speaker 7: to Ukraine. They need them desperately, but really, could we
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  Speaker 7: see some decisiveness and some understanding of the urgency from
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  Speaker 7: the government.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a great pleasure to catch up, Michael, thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much for that. That's Michael Schubridge. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for updating this, particularly on Sinwa. Now I mentioned earlier
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  Speaker 2: happy news the countdowns on until the King and Queen,
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  Speaker 2: King Charles the Third and Queen Camilla touchdown in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Now I think their plane lands at about eight point
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  Speaker 2: thirty tonight at Sydney Airport, at the private jet airport.
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  Speaker 2: Julia Julia Bradley's out there. I'm sure you'll see her
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  Speaker 2: crosses through the night. That we're here only for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days, with the King's first visit since taking
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  Speaker 2: the throne. He's been here fifteen times Prince Charles as prince,
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  Speaker 2: and this is the first time as king. He went
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  Speaker 2: to Geelong Grammar Timbertop campus of course in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 2: three and I spent four weeks on the road with
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  Speaker 2: the then Prince of Wiles and his bride Diana. We
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  Speaker 2: traped all over the country. It took us four weeks.
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  Speaker 2: We started in Alis Springs. Now the big mystery here,
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  Speaker 2: of course, is will King Charles go to Randwick tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: It's Everes's Day and there's a race there named in
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  Speaker 2: his honor. The King Charles the Third stakes joined me
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  Speaker 2: for more a host of the Royal Report on Sky.
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  Speaker 2: Caroline de Russo, Great to see you got any whispers
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  Speaker 2: on whether he might turn up at Ramwick tomorrow.
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  Speaker 9: Irresistible that he does, isn't it? It's just too good
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  Speaker 9: He lands the day before and just coincidentally, the next
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  Speaker 9: day there is a group one race five million dollars
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  Speaker 9: in prize money named after him. Look, the King doesn't
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  Speaker 9: have anything official in his calendar for tomorrow. I imagine you
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  Speaker 9: know he'll need some rest. But you know what, I
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  Speaker 9: wouldn't necessarily be surprised if he did turn up, Steve.
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  Speaker 9: I think he probably just wants to see how he feels.
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  Speaker 9: Obviously we know he's had treatment for cancer. But it
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  Speaker 9: is just too irresistible. Can you imagine? Can you imagine that?
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  Speaker 9: Can you imagine that Everest? And I bet petere Verlanders
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  Speaker 9: has got everything crossed that the King is able to
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  Speaker 9: make it tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't the Landi's love it. It's Corfueld Cup day in
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  Speaker 2: Melbourne and he's got the King at the Everest in Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: I think Charles' mum was more interested in the horses,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps than Charles. But I get a suspicion that Camilla
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  Speaker 2: loves a good visit to the horse races, so she
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  Speaker 2: may be prodding him to go. I just hope it happens.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be a very quick trip, just
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  Speaker 2: a couple of locations, Sydney and canber due to the
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  Speaker 2: ongoing cancer treatment of the King. I would suspect, also Caroline,
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  Speaker 2: that he would like to be here a lot longer.
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  Speaker 2: He loves Australia. I mentioned I spent four weeks on
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  Speaker 2: the road with him back in nineteen eighty three. He
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  Speaker 2: just really likes the Australian people, he.
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  Speaker 9: Really does, and he really wanted to come here, and
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  Speaker 9: you're right, it's only a short trip. He's actually putting
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  Speaker 9: his treatment on hold for the moment. He's traveling with
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  Speaker 9: two doctors, and I understand a spare supply of blood,
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  Speaker 9: and look, like I said, he's making the effort to
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  Speaker 9: come here. This is the first really long distance trip
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  Speaker 9: that he has made since becoming king. He's been to
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  Speaker 9: France and you know places like that that are nearby,
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  Speaker 9: but obviously, coming to Australia there's a lot more effort
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  Speaker 9: and a lot more travel time involved, and it is
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  Speaker 9: only a short trip. He obviously will be going to
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  Speaker 9: Samoa for the Comonwealth Heads of Government meeting afterwards. But
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  Speaker 9: I think he'd rather come here, even if it is
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  Speaker 9: only for a little while, than not come at all.
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  Speaker 9: And I think that is obvious simply in the huge
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  Speaker 9: amount of effort, the huge amount of preparation that he's
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  Speaker 9: being made to come here, Like you said, just for
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  Speaker 9: a couple of short days, just to go to Camber
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  Speaker 9: and Sydney, do a few functions. The public will be
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  Speaker 9: able to see him Monday and Tuesday and then he's off.
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  Speaker 9: But he is absolutely looking forward to coming here. And
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  Speaker 9: the Royal family actually on their social media on Twitter,
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  Speaker 9: have just released a statement about how excited the King
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  Speaker 9: and Queen are to be coming to Australia this time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a long way to come for a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days, especially given that Camilla is quite famously a
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  Speaker 2: pretty nervous flyer. Look, I'm really disappointed with our state premiers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there is I believe on Monday in Canberra
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  Speaker 2: there'll be a ceremony in Parliament House and the premiers
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  Speaker 2: to cinder Allen Min's Stephen Miles have said, oh we're
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  Speaker 2: too busy, We've got a cabinet meeting. We can't change it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that is just ridiculously stupid of those people.
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  Speaker 2: They should have just made the effort to go and
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  Speaker 2: see the king. I mean, it might be the last
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  Speaker 2: time he ever comes here. He is the King of Australia.
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  Speaker 2: It's just really really stupid in my opinion.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and in my opinion as well. And unfortunately this
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  Speaker 9: here has made it to the international press, and I
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  Speaker 9: just think it looks poorly on Australia in any event
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  Speaker 9: that the premiers aren't making the effort. Now, this trip
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  Speaker 9: we have known was going to happen in and around
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  Speaker 9: this time for months. I'm not sure how much coordination
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  Speaker 9: there has been between the PMO and the States in
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  Speaker 9: relation to, you know, when a likely audience would be.
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  Speaker 9: But even if that is the case, the effort should
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  Speaker 9: be made. Ultimately, our premiers and our ministers. They're ministers
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  Speaker 9: of the crown. They're ministers of the crown. And when
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  Speaker 9: they're made a minister and they tell us how, you know,
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  Speaker 9: how privileged they feel and how honored they feel, well,
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  Speaker 9: their actions are actually showing that they're not privileged or honored.
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  Speaker 9: So I think it is really poor formed, particularly someone
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  Speaker 9: like Jacinta Allen, who you know, she was meant to
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  Speaker 9: deliver us the Commonwealth's Games and she can't even be
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  Speaker 9: bothered turning up for an audience with the King. So
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  Speaker 9: I think it just looks a bit unprofessional for me
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  Speaker 9: and it reflects poorly, I think on the on the
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  Speaker 9: country and the role that these premiers have. Right, this
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  Speaker 9: isn't about them personally. This is about the position that
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  Speaker 9: they hold, and they hold it within. You know, we're
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  Speaker 9: a constitutional monarchy after all. You know, at the part
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  Speaker 9: or off your.
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  Speaker 2: Trot, how delicious would it be if if Cinda Allen
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  Speaker 2: had gone along and as Prince Charles came along the line,
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  Speaker 2: he stops with Cinda Allen, shakes her hand and says, gee,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for paying for Glasgow to stage the Comwealth Games.
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  Speaker 2: I really appreciate the fact that you've tipped in tens
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  Speaker 2: of millions of dollars because you decided you wouldn't run
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  Speaker 2: it in your own state.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and now we only have to fly an hour
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  Speaker 9: or so north instead of coming all the way to
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  Speaker 9: Australia to watch the Commonwealth Games in person.
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  Speaker 2: Carolina, was a pleasure to catch up. Thank you very much,
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  Speaker 2: Carolyn DeRosso there they'll be full coverage of the Royal
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: tour on sky as it unfolds over the next few
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: weeks after the break, eight days to go into the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Queenslander's head to the poles and another leader's debates coming up.
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  Speaker 2: But will it move the needle? Campbell Newman joins me next.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: He knows more about that than most others. Plus, you
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: won't believe what organization. Daniel Andrews has been appointed the
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: chair of Tell You after the Break, Welcome back. Steve
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Price with you on this Friday night. Now this time
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: next week, Queenslanders will be getting ready to go to
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: the polls on Saturday. A lot of them will have
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: voted in the meantime, of course, absentee votes. It is
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: going to be probably an election. It'll see Labour get
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: booted out of office. They'll follow the Northern Territory government.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Now it's been quite the campaign.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Chris A.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Foley, David Christifully and Stephen Miles have been at each
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: other day after day after day, touring around the state.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: The two leaders went head to head this week in
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: another debate.
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  Speaker 4: Have looked at this.
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  Speaker 10: He can't tell Queenslanders how he is funding his more
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: than seventeen billion dollars of election commitments.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: We are in a youth crime crisis, we are in
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: a health crisis, and the fact.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: The government won't say those words tells you they will
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: never be able to fix it.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: So controversially, last time these two went head to head
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: our Friday regular form a Queensland Premier Camil Newman. He
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: actually gave the win to Stephen Mile He's back Campbell.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Who we know who you thought one last time? Who
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: won this time?
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: This time it was definitely Chris aph Foley who won't
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: for a range of reasons. It's interesting because talking to
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: some of the media in this town, they were frustrated
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: that Christopher Foley was, to their mind evading their questions.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: But you know it's actually I said to them, it's
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: not about that. Actually, it's about how he looked, how
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: he sounded the answers that he actually did give. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: actually thought the Premier looked rather greener out the gills
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: on using that old expression. I think he looked a
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: bit plantive on occasions. So Christoph fully came across as
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: a laser focus, determined upbeat, you know, the man of
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: the hour, and it was easy to give it to him,
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: and it was it was quite different from last time
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: and by the way, this time he was trying to
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: convince the audience, the peace in the room and the
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: people watching at home on TV. And that was the
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: important thing that he missed in the first debate.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: He took your advice quite clearly. Listen, you know what
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: it's like. Confidence is an amazing thing. If you've got confidence,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: your performance is always going to be stronger, to be better.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: You're going to be confident on your talking points. You
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: know your policy is back to front. He's got his back.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: You know, he's got his tail up. The exit poles,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: all of the poles are predicting he's going to win.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: When you've got that in your back pocket, it's happened
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: to you, you just feel good about the world, don't you.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Look.
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: I think he's certainly got the wind right behind those sails,
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: and they're forging on. Just on these exit piles, Steve,
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: I'm taking them with a grain of salt. So there
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: was an exit pole in the Career Male that some
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: statewide basis gave the LNP a primary forty eight I
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: should say across the seats they actually looked at forty
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: eight percent primary, up from a forty two percent primary
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: in the News poll that was published now, I really
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: do view that with some suspicion. It's very encouraging, I
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: grant you, but I don't think we should overegg it
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: at this stage. I'll make another point too, and this
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: might be a bit controversial, but to the media out
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: there across Queens and you really are running this in
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: a very lopsided way. You're treating it like he's he's
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: got it in the bag, where he doesn't necessarily have that.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: We've got a ten year government who's really skating through now.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: And I do compare it to the twenty seventeen election
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: where Palochet one and twenty twenty, or sorry even twenty
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: fifteen when she beat me. Frankly, the media here really
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: love to have a guard a conservative who's looking like
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: they might win. And in that debate, Chris A. Foley
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: got most of the questions. I don't know why a
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: premier who's taken over because the union's appointed him from
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: the previous premier can't be given some tough questions as well,
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: and he got very few. In my humble opinion, You're.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Going to be front and center on Sky's coverage next
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Saturday night, along with the ex premier Palichet, you would
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: have started doing your homework. Where are we looking to
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: see when the dam wall's breaking? What sort of a
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: couple of seats are you focusing in on and saying, well,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: if that goes, then a whole lot of things are
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: going to go.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: Well, look, I can find twelve to thirteen seats in
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: an fairly straight forward manner at the moment. So the
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: first thing I'm looking at is what's going on in Townsville.
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: Three seats up up for grabs there and they will fall,
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: in my opinion. I'll be looking at Cannes, Barren River,
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: I'll be looking at Harvey Bay, I'll be looking at
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: the seat of Keppel, the off the coast by Rockampton,
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: on the Gold Coast, Gavin and around Metro Brisbane there's Aspley,
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: which a former colleague, Amanda Cooper, is standing for. But
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: one that I'm tipping just for people to have a
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: look at, which doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar,
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: which is the seat of Stafford where Fiona Hammond, a
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: former LNP councilor and the Brisbane City Council who served
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: since two thousand and eight, very well known, well respected,
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: and that ward that she used to represent sort of
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: overlays the state seat pretty effectively. So that's one that
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: I'll be very interested to see what goes on there.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: But I can get to You'll be on twelve seats
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: for the LNP, but those are the ones I'll be
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: watching first up during the night.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: It's not often abortion gets into an Australian political fight,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: but it certainly is in Queensland. Is that damaging christal fully?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Is that going to have any impact on the female
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: vote for the l MP.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Look, I think it's a desperate scare campaign from the ALP.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: It's a last ditch effort and they're pulling out all
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: the stops. Of course, you know, by the way, I'm
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: in another election campaign up here. I just can't extricate myself.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: But that's another thing. Look, I don't actually think it's
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: going to have a huge impact because I think, you know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: the lines are fairly well drawn on this servi issue already.
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: Maybe at the margins it will help the Labor Party,
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: but I actually don't think it's biting.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: But it is.
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: It's quite dishonest because you know, there are people in
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: the LNP party room that I know that very very
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: happy to support abortion, but they think the current legislation
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: goes way too far because it is late term abortion
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: of viable human beings, human babies, and they find that
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: quite replugs as by the way, so do I. But
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: I certainly support women having access to abortions. So that's
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: the nuance that the Labor Party have decided they're going
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: to disregard and simply say that the LNP will turn
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: this around. It's dishonest, it's untrue. I don't think that
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: it's going to really bite too hard.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Just finally, free lunches for school kids not going to
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: get any votes for them.
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: I actually think in their harder hearts will get that
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: that is desperation. I mean, it's not just the free
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: lunches for those who haven't caught this. So here's the deal.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: The promise is to provide a school lunch for every
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: primary school child in Queen's. That one point six one
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: point seven billion dollarge is a massive logistics exercise, and
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: I just go, look, surely people get that if you
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: bring some children into the world, it's your responsibility to
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: for them and if you can't feed them then that's
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: a welfare, that's a social security issue. And we have
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: a social security issue system, and we also have social
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: workers and they should support those families that can't look
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: after their kids. That's a matter that the school should
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: be reporting to the authorities so that those children are
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: looked after. But the idea that all tax payers should
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: be paying for everybody's kids to get a feed at
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: lunchtime Monday to Friday at school, it's preposterous. But sadly
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: there's so much of this is now in our politics.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: I mean the other one, of course is fifty cent bus,
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: bus and train fares in southeast Queensland and the opposition's
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: gone along with that, so they've sort of been sucked
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: into this sort of death spiral of poor financial management
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: and it has to actually end otherwise we're heading for
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: a very dark, cold place in Australia.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: The last thing I want is Stephen Miles making my
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: kids school lunches. I've got to say, Cambin Neumans, see
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: you on election e next Friday. Thanks very much for
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: helping us out. As usual, Let's go to Victoria now
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: where former Premier Daniel andrews now you will fall off
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: your land room chair when you hear this. The former
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: premier of Victoria. Dan Andrews, who locked up Victorians longer
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: than anywhere in the world, has been appointed as the
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: chair of the Youth Mental Health Service Origin. This story
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: was exclusively revealed today by The Herald Son. Respected child
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: psychologist Michael Carr greg I heard him on radio this afternoon.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: He called the appointment quote catastrophic. Dan Andrews of course
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: shut schools. He locked victorians down, as I said, longer
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: than anywhere else in the world. And the state is
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: now dealing with a youth crime crisis. What possibly could
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the ex premier bring to that role. Executives apparently of
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: that organization are bracing for a backlash, but they have
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: backed his appointment. Let's bring in Victorian Liberal MP Brad Baton. Brad,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: good to see you again. This came out of nowhere.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: What do you make of this appointment for a bloke
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: who locked up school kids longer than anyone else in
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: anywhere else in the world, it gets made chairman of
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: a mental health organization.
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: I always thought, Steve, that you've got appointed to positions
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: based on merit, and you've got a former premier who
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: did the Royal Commission into Mental health here in our state,
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: had overseen as the Minister for Health in the prior government,
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: as the premier for some nine years, the demise of
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: our mental health system, so much so that the Royal
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: Commission had effectively acknowledged that it was so broken that
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: we had to spend billions of dollars to fix it,
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: and the current Labor government are walking away from most
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: of those things to fix it. So how origin could
• 29:44
  Speaker 10: come back and say that a former premier who oversaw
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: the worst crisis in mental health in our state, a
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: rise in youth suicide across the whole of Victoria, could
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: be appointed to the board of a mental health organization.
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: Absolutely surprised me, Stunn and I think it would send
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: a message to many people that these are political appointments
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: because they think you'll have access to government. But the
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: reality is it should be about someone who's appointed who
• 30:10
  Speaker 10: has the knowledge and the understanding to put the priority
• 30:13
  Speaker 10: of young people first, the priority of fixing their mental health,
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: and if they've got the expertise in finances or the
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: expertise in mental health to fix that system, that's why
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: they should be there. But not a former premier just
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: because he's effectively our title as a premier in our state.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Well, we do know, of course that Jeff Kennett was
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: appointed as the head of Beyond Blue. That was after
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: a long time after he'd left politics. He had a
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: genuine interest in mental health and I know for a
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: fact you speaking to him on an off air, that
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: he put so much into that job because he had
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: such a strong feeling toward trying to make a difference.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I don't get I have never gotten a sense from
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Daniel Andrews that he has any particular skin in the
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: game in regard to mental health.
• 31:00
  Speaker 11: Yeah, and I think you correct.
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: Jeff Kennett came into it after a discussion I know,
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: with his children, and he did a remarkable job with
• 31:06
  Speaker 10: Beyond Blue and then post that Julia Gillard was appointed
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: after Jeff Kennett into Beyond Blue and also did a
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: remarkable job working with all parties, and her interest was
• 31:16
  Speaker 10: around the improvement of mental health and giving access to
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: services of mental health across Australia and Victoria.
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: The difference here is Daniel Andrews is doing this. As
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: I said, he oversaw a Royal Commission that effectively approved
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: the fact that he was a health minister and a
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: premier who oversaw the worst outcomes in mental health and
• 31:35
  Speaker 11: health in our state.
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: He dodged figures to make sure it looked okay for
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: him coming into the twenty ten election, and then from
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: twenty fourteen up until recent times, the mental health system
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: has been so broken that we've got not enough staff
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: in there.
• 31:48
  Speaker 11: We haven't got the training, the capability, the access for
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: mental health patients out in our way. I'm in the
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: growth corridors, as you know, Steve from Warrible to the city.
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: It's almost impossible to get an appointment for young people
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: with mental health issues. So Daniel Andrews has created that problem,
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: and now they're going to put him onto the board
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: of an organization to take care of that. It just
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: absolutely boggles me on how someone could be appointed to
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: one of these positions when they've got no criteria or
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: no background or expe to expertise to fix this system.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: H It's breathtaking. I want to talk to you, your
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: shadow police spokesman for the opposition, I could not believe
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: this story this week that four hundred and fourteen thousand
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: dollars let me repeat the number for people who've missed this,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: four hundred and fourteen thousand dollars was spent on baguettes
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: and fruit juice to feed the police on the front
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: line of the Landforces Weapons Expo protests last month. Now
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: taxpayer has picked up a thirty million dollar bill for
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: the whole policing of that expo. Now, how could that
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: bill possibly be that high? And when you see that figure,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: and you've got to feed the police, they're out there
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: twenty four hours a day. But when you see that figure,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: don't you say to yourself, as a legislator, someone who's
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: in charge, we can't let these protesters keep going. Have
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: you got any idea what we might if we added
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: up all the numbers on all of the police security
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: on every pro is a pro Palestine rally that's been
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: held in Melbourne for the last two months, what that
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: figure would be.
• 33:16
  Speaker 11: I haven't got that figure TV.
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: I wish I could be a great one for us
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: to FOI now we've seen what the figures were for
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: this first and foremost, it is important to say, as
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: you're seeing on the screen, the police had to put
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: up with a lot from the thugs on the street
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: who wanted to just create violence in Melbourne, which is
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: the violence we don't want to see. They deserve to
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: get fed we can't say they shouldn't get fed out there,
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: and the food that they got wasn't It was just
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: enough to keep them going to make sure they could
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: do their job, and we always want to acknowledge them
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: for that. The reality is what the opposition have been saying,
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: the Liberal and Nationals, we need to bring back the
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: move on laws so protests don't go this long. That
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: give the police the powers to move people away, so
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: these protests don't stay prolonged in our streets. It creates
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: issues around costs for staff over time and now we're
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: seeing the meal announcers.
• 33:59
  Speaker 11: Other costs are associated with it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: And I know the government has said, or I think
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: the Victoria Police that it was cost approximate with thirty
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: million dollars for the operation for what you're seeing on
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: your screens right now, because we had a exhibition in
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: Melbourne that some people didn't want to didn't want to
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: go ahead, so instead of just saying peaceful they didn't
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: want to, they lit the fires, they attacked police, They
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: had acid to spray our horses noses. The Victoria police
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: out there do an amazing job. They deserve to be fair,
• 34:24
  Speaker 10: but the government have to start answering on why they're
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: not giving the powers to the police to move these
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: people on, keep the community safe and let legal businesses
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: go about their jobs every day and ensure employment remains.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Chase that figure if you can see
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: what we can get out of it. That's bred Batton.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: They're from the state opposition. Still to come to night.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: We'll look through some killer cartoons with Mark Knight, yes
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: he's back. Plus the latest tax in Victoria that is
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: sure to kill off tourism. It's a tax on AIRB
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: and B just what the state needs. Don't go anywhere,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: actually price with you. Caroline de Giorgio coming up at
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the top of the program. Now, it's been a while
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: since we caught up with Australia's favorite cartoonists and I'm
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: of course glad to say Mark Knight joins me in
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: the studio back from a North Queensland holiday. Now I
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: was very interested you've been away, but there's been some
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: big stories that have been around, including our Prime ministrength
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: in the Albanize. You know, I mentioned this at the
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: top of the show. Decided that he'd gone by a
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: four point three million dollar beach house, not a proper
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: house to live in Cliff in New South Wales and
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the Central Coast. Have you had a chance to draw
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: a cartoon about Albert's new house.
• 35:39
  Speaker 12: I was sketching it on the plane back. I couldn't
• 35:42
  Speaker 12: wait to get back to work. Timing is everything in politics,
• 35:45
  Speaker 12: and you know, this is one of those events that
• 35:48
  Speaker 12: cartoonists just love. I did do the cartoon. It's going
• 35:51
  Speaker 12: to be in tomorrow's paper, but we can have a
• 35:52
  Speaker 12: quick look at it now. You know, they said it
• 35:56
  Speaker 12: was his Hawaii moment, so I think he is. It
• 36:00
  Speaker 12: looks like he's playing the ukulele while the housing market burns,
• 36:03
  Speaker 12: in my opinion.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: And here we have elbow here Do I detect a
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: little bit of the flashback to Scott Mors? Can you
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: remember what drew after he came back and said I
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: don't hold a hose mate?
• 36:15
  Speaker 12: I think I had him, yes, sitting on the beach
• 36:18
  Speaker 12: in Hawaii, and you know these bushfires, how embers can
• 36:23
  Speaker 12: travels such a long distance from a bushfire. I think
• 36:26
  Speaker 12: I actually had gum leaves landing in Hawaii sort.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Of the embers of the flames were reaching him there.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: So yes, I.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Think I called Danika to Georgia, Caroline, I've been two
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: weeks in three weeks in Greece, that's what.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, we've both been on holidays.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you've actually won this year's News Limited Cartoonist of
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: the Year, which I can't imagine anyone else was even
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: in the running.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: But you brown what drawing one that for?
• 36:52
  Speaker 12: When you get to select a few, which is great
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: because it's sort of hard to pick one.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: But a few of my favorites were of course, what
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: did what have we got here?
• 37:01
  Speaker 12: We've got a BONDI hero cop I think, yes, yeah,
• 37:04
  Speaker 12: that was one of the big moments. You know, not
• 37:06
  Speaker 12: all cartoons.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: I said that to you at the time. I thought
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: that was absolutely fair.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Thanks, because that's the female police officer where she was
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: running literally toward the blog who had the knife.
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  Speaker 12: Well, this is what our first responders do as we're
• 37:18
  Speaker 12: all running away, they're running towards the danger.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: And so yeah, not all cartoons are funny, so that
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: was sort of fun.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: That was a really powerful bit. More pointed on his
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: nuclear wishes and promises. What have it?
• 37:29
  Speaker 12: Donnen I mean, sometimes politics and just just reflect each other.
• 37:34
  Speaker 12: And of course we had the Oppenheimer film came out
• 37:37
  Speaker 12: just as Peter Dunton had discovered nuclear power, so I
• 37:41
  Speaker 12: thought that was.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: A nice combination. You also put the voice cartoon in.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: This has been one of my favorites.
• 37:47
  Speaker 12: I love cartoons that are simple, they don't have many words,
• 37:50
  Speaker 12: and on this one we had, you know, the yes
• 37:53
  Speaker 12: No campaign. If you put yes no into the Australian
• 37:56
  Speaker 12: sort of language, it comes out as yeah but nah.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: That's a really powerful cartoon as well. I mean, as
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: you say, you don't have to say.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Much to you don't say and just see it is
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: great to draw.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: That's what happened. Also, Dan Andrews, did you put did
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: we have a Dan Andrews?
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Of course we did, Pricey, of course we did.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: We love Dan Andrews.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Look, you know Dan got.
• 38:17
  Speaker 12: The Order of Australia. Was it the Order of Australia.
• 38:19
  Speaker 12: We got this year for services to politics.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Highest Order of Australia, the top gong is well.
• 38:25
  Speaker 12: I thought the pigeons of Victoria really were hoping that
• 38:28
  Speaker 12: we were going to get that statue, which we are now.
• 38:31
  Speaker 12: They would prefer the statue and as you can see
• 38:33
  Speaker 12: in the cartoon, they.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Would I guess, display their feelings.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I think they'll really ever put up a statue to it.
• 38:40
  Speaker 12: It'll have a hell of a security around it. To
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: give you lots to I'll be down there sketching it.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I last week, I think it was editorialized about your
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: cartoon that has drawn the.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Ire of the Press Counsel.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, I thought the piece that you wrote in defending
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: yourself was absolutely spot on. I think, and I'm very
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: happy that our newspaper, The Herald Sun allowed you to
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: do that. Let's have a look at this cartoon. So
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: explain to me what we've got here and why the
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Press Council were upset.
• 39:10
  Speaker 12: This is a cartoon responding to the massive immigration increase
• 39:13
  Speaker 12: we had last year. I think it was over seven
• 39:15
  Speaker 12: hundred thousand, or was at twenty twenty two, you know,
• 39:17
  Speaker 12: after COVID and how you know, cities like Melbourne were
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: struggling with it.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: You know, services transport.
• 39:24
  Speaker 12: So I drew the idea was to this sort of
• 39:29
  Speaker 12: idea of the Australia's front or as a drawbridge, and
• 39:31
  Speaker 12: the drawbridge has to come up at times.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: To slow down the immigration rate.
• 39:35
  Speaker 12: So it was a cartoon basically on the two political
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: policies at the time, which was Albow reluctantly drawing reluctantly
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: because you know, a big population is good for the well,
• 39:45
  Speaker 12: it keeps the economy just out of recession and done
• 39:48
  Speaker 12: with the hairy chest.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: So what did the Press Council get upset about?
• 39:51
  Speaker 12: Well, they said, yes, you may don't look like a superhero,
• 39:55
  Speaker 12: but the people that you drew there, you didn't draw
• 39:57
  Speaker 12: enough Chinese and you didn't draw Filipinos. I had too
• 40:01
  Speaker 12: many brown skinned people from the Middle East and not
• 40:04
  Speaker 12: enough Indians.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: But the drawer Filipino.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: They have are ukulelean lit a wine shirt or well.
• 40:13
  Speaker 12: I don't know, but apparently, according to the Press Council,
• 40:16
  Speaker 12: which found against me, I had contravened General Principal six.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: How many people complain one?
• 40:23
  Speaker 12: I don't know. We don't know who it is. I'm
• 40:27
  Speaker 12: not allowed to know. But they were upset by the cartoon.
• 40:31
  Speaker 12: They were outraged.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: And you know what yep I means.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: You're doing a good job, mart Night. He'll be back
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: with us in a couple of weeks time, isn't he brilliant?
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: Now?
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Businesses are going bust in Victoria thanks to bad decisions
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: from the labor government. Plus well Trump, how funny was
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: he today? He hit out of his opponent at the
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: annual Al Smith Memorial Dinner. The panel's up next. Welcome
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: back to Nika di Giorgio coming up at the top
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: of the hour. It is the end of the week.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Let's close it out with our panel joining me as
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: she does most Friday. Small Business Women Australia's Amanda Rose
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: and our great mates. Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrand. Welcome
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: to you both. Now we're breathless in I think about
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: two hours time, King Charles the Third and Queen Camilla
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: will touch down in Sydney. Now I don't reckon they're
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: going to get the royal treatment like previous trips. You've
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: got all six premiers ditching an event on Monday and
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: camera that is being held in the King's honor. I
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: reckon that's just simply rude. And I wonder if Jacindra Allen,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: she was a bit worried that if she turned up
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: there because she's the former Minister for the Komwealth Games,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: that the King might have said she thanks very much
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: for managing to pay for the Glasgow Comwealth Games. We
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: didn't have to pay for it ourselves. You paid for it.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Premier Menzil head out of the
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: airport tonight. Look, Amana, let's start with you. I don't
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: know if you're a Royalist or not. I like the
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: spectacle and the pomp and ceremony the Royals I mentioned
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: earlier in the program. I spent a month on the
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: road with Diana and Charles back in eighty three. Does
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: the Kings visit excite you, Amanda, not at all.
• 42:13
  Speaker 13: I miss Diana very very much, and the Queen as well.
• 42:17
  Speaker 13: I think you've got to consider the fact that times
• 42:20
  Speaker 13: are different now, right, So a lot of people don't
• 42:24
  Speaker 13: need to see extravagance spending by people that have been
• 42:28
  Speaker 13: funded by the taxpayer when that actual taxpayer is struggling
• 42:31
  Speaker 13: to pay for meals. So back in the day when
• 42:34
  Speaker 13: everything was fine or more comfortable for people, it was different.
• 42:39
  Speaker 13: But now it's just a little bit hard to watch,
• 42:42
  Speaker 13: you know, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars being
• 42:45
  Speaker 13: spent on things when really, what are they adding to
• 42:48
  Speaker 13: the community in particular that they're taking money from.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of charitable stuff that Charles will do.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: I think Joe with your friend Anthony Albert easy be
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: biting his tongue in the Commonwealth car on the way
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: out to Mascot Airport tonight, thinking oh my god, I'm
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: the world's greatest Republican. I'm going to see the King.
• 43:11
  Speaker 14: I don't think the word republican will be passing Anthony
• 43:13
  Speaker 14: Abdez's lips for a very long time, long after King
• 43:17
  Speaker 14: Charles has exited the country. I think any talk of
• 43:20
  Speaker 14: any future referendum on any subject is absolutely verb botan.
• 43:26
  Speaker 14: I think I think it's nice. I love I'm a Republican.
• 43:30
  Speaker 14: I mean, I'm an Irish Catholic, so the only throne
• 43:33
  Speaker 14: I recognize is sat on by the Holy Father and
• 43:36
  Speaker 14: the Vatican and in the Eternal City of Rome. But
• 43:40
  Speaker 14: I do love the history and tradition and the spectacle
• 43:43
  Speaker 14: of the royal family, even though they're godless Protestants. I
• 43:47
  Speaker 14: just think it's fun, it's interesting, and I think we
• 43:50
  Speaker 14: can sometimes be a bit too humorous and churlish about
• 43:53
  Speaker 14: these things. I think, you know, bring him out, let
• 43:56
  Speaker 14: him have a go. And I think the premiers are
• 43:57
  Speaker 14: rude not to come up and and show there, you know,
• 44:01
  Speaker 14: and pay their pay their respects, dip dips their lids.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I agree. I tell you where I wanted to be today.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: It was the best television I've seen for the last
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: couple of months. Donald Trump, he headlined something I'd never
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: heard of before, which is the Al Smith Memorial Fan
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Foundation dinner in New York City. It involves prominent politicians
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: around the country taking the oppertity. It's a Catholic church fundraiser. Joe,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: so you'd love it. But he had a He was
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: allowed to get up there and have a dig at
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: everybody in the room. And I had to. I was
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: sitting there watching Chuck Schumer and the former governor of
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: New York Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, sitting there with these stony faces,
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: not not wishing to smile or laugh. Have a look
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: at the great Donald here, have a look at this.
• 44:54
  Speaker 15: As you may have seen, Kamala did an interview on
• 44:57
  Speaker 15: Fox News yesterday. It went so poorly for her that
• 45:02
  Speaker 15: the Democrats have been forced to install another one hundred
• 45:06
  Speaker 15: drop boxes throughout the city. And the episode really is
• 45:11
  Speaker 15: Kamala now sees the benefit of deportation.
• 45:15
  Speaker 14: She wants to deport people.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: She's vicious.
• 45:18
  Speaker 15: She wants to deport people, and she wants to start
• 45:20
  Speaker 15: by deporting Brettbear Fox.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: He didn't.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: He didn't back off at all. Some of the gags
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: that were written were really tasteless. Amanda Kamala Harris chose
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: not to attend a good good decision, bad decision.
• 45:37
  Speaker 13: I think it's a bad decision. If you're wanting to
• 45:40
  Speaker 13: lead a country, you're going to have to attend things
• 45:42
  Speaker 13: you like and you don't like. That's just part of
• 45:44
  Speaker 13: the role. And it also shows good sportsmanship to turn
• 45:48
  Speaker 13: up to things that you don't particularly like doing. You know,
• 45:50
  Speaker 13: that's what we expect from our leaders. And it's a
• 45:52
  Speaker 13: missed opportunity for her. If you turn up and you
• 45:55
  Speaker 13: can engage, and you can show people that I'm lighthearted,
• 45:59
  Speaker 13: but I can still you know, be in the same
• 46:01
  Speaker 13: room as my old position. People would actually respect you
• 46:03
  Speaker 13: for that.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Joe, I know what I'm doing Melbourne Cup day. Now,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I'll be staying home and watching the US election because
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, he's got his nose income amazing, may Wine, we.
• 46:18
  Speaker 14: Could get the cup, Trump and a rate cut. You
• 46:20
  Speaker 14: could get the trifecta.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:22
  Speaker 14: Look, I think on my sorry for the shameless plug,
• 46:25
  Speaker 14: but on my podcast this week, I had an Australian
• 46:27
  Speaker 14: political guru come on and say definitively that he thinks
• 46:31
  Speaker 14: that Trump is going to win, that Trump is in
• 46:33
  Speaker 14: a much stronger position than he was in twenty sixteen
• 46:36
  Speaker 14: when he won the election. And frankly, we recorded that
• 46:39
  Speaker 14: on Wednesday. Then the Fox interview happened with Kamla and
• 46:44
  Speaker 14: ever since the betting market has just basically taken a.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Plunge for Trump.
• 46:48
  Speaker 14: I think one in one he was like sixty forty
• 46:50
  Speaker 14: to win sixty one maybe even so. I think Kamala Harris,
• 46:55
  Speaker 14: the more people see of her, the less they like her.
• 46:58
  Speaker 14: And she still seems to be someone staggering around in
• 47:02
  Speaker 14: the middle of this kind of weird word salad, trying
• 47:05
  Speaker 14: to get her hands on an idea or a policy,
• 47:08
  Speaker 14: and she just doesn't have either.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't stick, Amanda. I mean, can the Victoria
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: government do any more to destroy tourism in Victoria? They've
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: just passed and it's going to start on January one,
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: a seven and a half percent airbnb tax on every
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Airbnb property in Victoria. Are they crazy?
• 47:27
  Speaker 13: Look, I'm not a fan of telling people what they
• 47:29
  Speaker 13: can do with the house that they've worked very very
• 47:32
  Speaker 13: hard to buy and use it as an investment. A
• 47:34
  Speaker 13: lot of people earn a living that way, and they
• 47:37
  Speaker 13: look at the thing is what's going to happen is
• 47:39
  Speaker 13: that a lot of people will say, well, okay, if
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: I can't afford that tax and it pushes me over
• 47:44
  Speaker 13: the edge, I will sell it.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Who will buy it?
• 47:46
  Speaker 13: Institutional investors and so then it actually is worse off.
• 47:50
  Speaker 13: They assume people will say, Okay, then I'll rent it
• 47:53
  Speaker 13: out to people because there needs to be more houses
• 47:55
  Speaker 13: for the housing market. That's not what people will do.
• 47:58
  Speaker 13: If they think that costs too much, sure it's not
• 48:00
  Speaker 13: worth it, that would just sell their property. And the
• 48:02
  Speaker 13: only people that can buy the property are the people
• 48:05
  Speaker 13: usually foreign investors, all large companies. This is hurting the
• 48:09
  Speaker 13: everyday person that is trying to actually have an investment
• 48:12
  Speaker 13: property to set them up for the future so they
• 48:15
  Speaker 13: don't have to rely on the government when they're older.
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Look, what I know will happen is that tourists will
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: just choose to go to New South Wales, Queensland everywhere
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: at but Victoria, Joe who Brand and Amanda rose Or
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: is great to catch up with you both. Thanks have
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: a great Royal weekend coming up to Danika de Giorgio
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: at the top of the hour. The royal family, the King,
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: King Charles and of course Queen Camilla will land in
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Sydney at eight point thirty Australia and Eastern time. Juliette
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Bradley will be out there on the tarmac and we'll
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: have an update through the night. See you next week.