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Speaker 1: Is the reform it.
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Speaker 2: Well, good evening and welcome to the Vault Report. I'm
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Speaker 2: James Macpherson coming up tonight. A Senate hearing into the
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Speaker 2: Climate Risk Assessment happened today and thank god Matt Canavan
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Speaker 2: was there to hold them to account. He'll join me
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Speaker 2: in just a moment, or the coalition falls in the
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Speaker 2: polls one nation has seen a mammoth increase. Pauline Hanson
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Speaker 2: dares to dream and she'll join me soon.
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Speaker 3: The fallout from Charlie.
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Speaker 2: Kirk's assassination continues. Sean Spicer will bring us up to
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Speaker 2: date with the latest from the US, and you won't
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Speaker 2: believe what tlmp Zalie Stegel has in her office.
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Speaker 3: We'll get to all of that a little later.
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Speaker 2: With my panel, But first, the Emmys were on last night.
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Speaker 2: You know the Emmys, that glittering TV Awards ceremony where
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Speaker 2: Hollywood congratulates itself for being brave enough to say things
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Speaker 2: everyone in Hollywood already believes. It's like a support grip
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Speaker 2: for narcissists, broadcast live to the world, and the night's
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Speaker 2: big moment hackstar Hannah Einbinder winning Best Supporting Actress and
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Speaker 2: then immediately using her thank you speech to audition for
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Speaker 2: a role of foreign policy advisor. Here's how she ended
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Speaker 2: her acceptance speech.
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Speaker 4: I just want to say, finally, go birds and free Palestine.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: I was shocked by that, not what she said, but
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Speaker 2: what she didn't say. Nothing at all about climate change.
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Speaker 2: I mean, come on, Hannah, you had one job. If
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Speaker 2: you're going to virtue signal, you've got to hit the
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Speaker 2: full progressive checklist. She remembered climate change at the Critics'
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Speaker 2: Choice Awards back in February.
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Speaker 4: Hey, everybody, thank you to the critics. This is really exciting.
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Speaker 4: Just like off the top of my head, I would
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Speaker 4: say that we are on the brink of a really
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Speaker 4: dark era of climate denial, and I just want to
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Speaker 4: encourage everyone to fight for each other. This isn't super eloquent.
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Speaker 4: I had the facts on my phone, but yeah, I
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Speaker 4: just want to say that, and hopefully we can all
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Speaker 4: use our voices on this issue because planet Earth will
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Speaker 4: be fine. It's humanity that's in trouble. So thank you
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Speaker 4: so much.
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Speaker 2: But last night she was all about free Palestine, and
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Speaker 2: her free Palestine moment was immediately picked up by the
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Speaker 2: KODS News Network. Now KOD's News is run by Palestinians.
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Speaker 2: There's basically a her mass mouthpiece with a TikTok account. Naturally,
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Speaker 2: they were thrilled that a Hollywood actress was parroting their
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Speaker 2: talking points, and so they immediately broadcast her comments. But
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Speaker 2: here's where the comedy kicks in. Coods News Network broadcast
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Speaker 2: her comments, but they censored her shoulders. Apparently they're fine
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Speaker 2: with free Palestine, but not so much with free collar bones.
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Speaker 2: Here's how she appeared on Cood's News network. I hope
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Speaker 2: they didn't censor her face. They must be moderates. But
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Speaker 2: there in one image is all the absurdity of those
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Speaker 2: who support Hamas run Palestine.
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Speaker 3: The very movement she spoke on behalf.
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Speaker 2: Of thought, so little of her they censored her entire
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Speaker 2: upper body. And by the way, what do you make
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Speaker 2: of a culture where you can call for the destruction
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Speaker 2: of Israel but God forbid your flash and elbow. It's
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Speaker 2: a kind of contradiction only Islamists can manage. Hollywood lectures
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Speaker 2: the world about freedom while their new besties blur out
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Speaker 2: their body parts like a bad episode of Cops. Hamas
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Speaker 2: wanted the Infidel's words, just not her body, which coincidentally
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Speaker 2: is also how Hollywood treats actresses.
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Speaker 3: Over the age of thirty five.
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Speaker 2: If your Emmy's speech is picked up by a terrace
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Speaker 2: linked propaganda outlet, you'd have reason for pause, wouldn't you.
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Speaker 3: But no, not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, a brave act.
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Speaker 2: Is not standing up to Islamists who hate women almost
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Speaker 2: as much as they hate Jews. In Hollywood, courage is
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Speaker 2: standing up at an awards show to say inane things
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Speaker 2: before an audience of people nodding harder than a bubblehead
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Speaker 2: at a pothole. I'm binda who happens to be Jewish,
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Speaker 2: could have used her Emmy's speech to call for I
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Speaker 2: don't know, the release of Jewish hostages. Instead, she chose
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Speaker 2: to position herself against Israel itself and in so doing,
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Speaker 2: against Jews all over the world. It was a speech
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Speaker 2: of ignorance, not of courage, speaking of which have a
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Speaker 2: listened to the actress attempting to explain her comments when
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Speaker 2: asked about them after the show.
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Speaker 6: I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish
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Speaker 6: person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel, because
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Speaker 6: our religion and our culture is such an important and longstanding,
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Speaker 6: basically like institution that is really separate to this sort
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Speaker 6: of ethno national estate.
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Speaker 2: Translation, she's like one of the good Jews, unlike the
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Speaker 2: ninety five percent who stubbornly refused to separate their faith
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Speaker 2: from the world's only Jewish homeland, where small detail half
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Speaker 2: the Jewish population actually live and have lived for thousands
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Speaker 2: of years.
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Speaker 3: This is a person who knows so.
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Speaker 2: Little that she's ignorant even of her own lack of knowledge. Instead,
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Speaker 2: she adopts a suicidal empathy. The movement she endorses senses
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Speaker 2: her image while plotting the annihilation of her people.
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Speaker 3: But hey, applause is applause right.
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Speaker 2: The woman just won an Emmy, only to have her
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Speaker 2: win overshadowed by her own self loathing.
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Speaker 3: She wanted to be remembered as brave.
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Speaker 2: Instead she'll be remembered as Hamasa's latest unpaid intern. If
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Speaker 2: only she had listened to Ricky Gervais when he hosted
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Speaker 2: a similar awards show.
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Speaker 3: If you do win an award tonight, don't use is
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Speaker 3: a platform to make a political speech. Right, You're in
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Speaker 3: no position to lecture the public about anything. You know
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Speaker 3: nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less
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Speaker 3: time in school than Greta Thunberg.
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Speaker 7: So if you win, right, come up except your little awards,
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Speaker 7: thank your agent and your God.
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Speaker 2: So you can't say wisdom hasn't been chasing these Hollywood stars.
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Speaker 2: It's just that they're always running so fast away from it. Well,
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Speaker 2: the government released its doomsday climate change modeling yesterday and
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Speaker 2: Green's leader Larissa Waters is angry.
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Speaker 3: Not just angry, she's bloody angry. Here she is trembling
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Speaker 3: with righteous rage.
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Speaker 8: I'm just so bloody angry. After ten months and a
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Speaker 8: bunch of pressure from the Breens, from the community, laugh
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Speaker 8: that has finally been forced to release their climate risk report.
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Speaker 8: It's pretty clear why they've been hiding it for so long.
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Speaker 8: It's full of absolute and terrifying news.
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Speaker 3: Terrifying.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, the Australian Conservation Foundation, to be led by former
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Speaker 2: Green's leader Adam Bant, went further today, warning that children's
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Speaker 2: mental health was already being affected.
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Speaker 3: They released a.
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Speaker 2: Statement warning and I quote, children's mental and physical health
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Speaker 2: is already being affected and those impacts are getting worse. Well,
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Speaker 2: of course, if you constantly tell kids that they'll have
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Speaker 2: no future, they'll eventually start believing you I remember when
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Speaker 2: I was a kid, children's bedtime stories ended with Happily.
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Speaker 2: Ever after these days they end with and then the
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Speaker 2: sea levels rose, Mummy drowned, and Daddy couldn't afford solar panels.
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Speaker 2: The end the brother's grimwood Blush credit Tunberger's basically replaced
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Speaker 2: The Wiggles as children's entertainment. We wonder why kids are terrified,
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Speaker 2: but it's not just the kids. Larissa Waters is terrified too.
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Speaker 2: Then again, we're talking about the Greens. To be fair,
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Speaker 2: it's often difficult to tell the difference between their emotional
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Speaker 2: range and that of children. With all the climate modeling
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Speaker 2: that's occurred over the past fifty years, with barely a
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Speaker 2: single prediction coming true, you'd think that show just I
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Speaker 2: don't know, a touch of humility. But admitting error requires
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Speaker 2: a tether to reality, and the Greens are tethered only
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Speaker 2: to ideology. So when their forecasts fail, they don't course correct.
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Speaker 3: They double down.
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Speaker 8: Report predicts that Brisbane could be flowing for three hundred
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Speaker 8: days of the year and that more than one and
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Speaker 8: a half million people are at risk of sea level right,
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Speaker 8: namely like their houses flooding and being inundated. By twenty fifty.
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Speaker 2: The report is mainly like ridiculous three hundred days of flooding.
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Speaker 2: Noah didn't even see that kind of action. Of course,
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Speaker 2: the misfortune tellers chose to reference Brisbane in their report
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Speaker 2: because well, Brisbane will flood. Brisbane has always flooded. It's
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Speaker 2: basically venice with cane toads. So when Brisbane next floods,
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Speaker 2: the Greens will jump up and down screeching.
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Speaker 3: See we told you so. The report was right.
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Speaker 2: The Arrista Waters should save her hysteria for when they
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Speaker 2: predict that Adelaide will flood. Until then, I wouldn't recommend
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Speaker 2: trading in your lawn mower for a canoe.
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Speaker 3: But back to the leader of the Greens.
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Speaker 8: Not to mention the catastrophic impacts on biodiversity and nature,
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Speaker 8: on infrastructure, on every part of our way of life.
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Speaker 2: I'm really not sure why she's so upset. We all
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Speaker 2: know climate change is nothing that higher taxes can't fix. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: insurers will keep writing policies on Brisbane holmes because they
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Speaker 2: know what the Rissa Waters refuses to admit. The fear
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Speaker 2: porn in this report will never materialize. The only thing
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Speaker 2: that will materialize is higher premiums, because once the government
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Speaker 2: says risk, the bureaucrats and corporations smell opportunity. The Greens, though, well,
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Speaker 2: they are now calling for net zero, not by twenty
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Speaker 2: fifty but by twenty thirty five.
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Speaker 3: So the Rista Waters is right.
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Speaker 2: We should be terrified not of climate change but of
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Speaker 2: the Greens. We should be angry the government and the
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Speaker 2: unions and the activists. But I repeat myself, we're going
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Speaker 2: to use Chris Bowen's chicken little routine to justify destroying
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Speaker 2: the country in the name of saving it.
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Speaker 3: We should be angry.
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Speaker 2: In fact, we should be bloody angry. Well, there was
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Speaker 2: a Senate Estimates Committee hearing into the Climate Risk Assessment today,
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Speaker 2: and thank god for National Senator Matt Canavan, who asked
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Speaker 2: a couple of very pertinent questions. First off, he asked
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Speaker 2: whether or not the report could be used to help
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Speaker 2: determine what the government's twenty thirty five A mission reduction
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Speaker 2: target should be a pretty good question, I would have thought,
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Speaker 2: considering Chris Bowen has waived this report around to soften
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Speaker 2: everyone up as he prepares to announce his target. Matt
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Speaker 2: Canavan was talking with Australian Climate Service Manager Judith Landsberg, here.
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Speaker 9: You can't really use your report alone to determine what
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Speaker 9: our mission cut should be.
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Speaker 10: No, that was not the intention of the report. The
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Speaker 10: report is primarily intended to guide and be a resource
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Speaker 10: for adaptation.
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Speaker 9: Right, So this report really it doesn't provide any useful
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Speaker 9: information from a cost benefit point of view about whether
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Speaker 9: we should cut the missions by or two zero.
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Speaker 10: And now, as I said, the report was is guiding
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Speaker 10: adaptation and looking at scenarios for adapt for what Australia
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Speaker 10: may look like and what some of the impacts would be.
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Speaker 10: It was mitigation was out of scope for the report.
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Speaker 3: I'm pleased to say. Senatha matt Kenavan joins me.
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Speaker 2: Nowt that was a striking admission, bearing in mind how
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Speaker 2: Chris Bowen and climate activists are using this risk assessment.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, look, it was blown out of the water their
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Speaker 11: whole campaign just from some simple questions there. It came
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Speaker 11: because I was asking these officials about whether they looked
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Speaker 11: at the massive amounts of agricultural land that would be
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Speaker 11: destroyed by the rollout of wind, of solar factories, of
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Speaker 11: carbon offsets that have to be made. A recent report
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Speaker 11: done by the University of Queensland Princeton University found that
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Speaker 11: we'd need half the size of Victoria to reach NED
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Speaker 11: zero and I wanted to know what they had assessed
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Speaker 11: for this, and they said, no, we didn't do that.
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Speaker 11: I said, well, how can you assess the whether or
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Speaker 11: not it's worth cutting emissions if you don't look at
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Speaker 11: the costs of doing so, And as you just heard there,
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Speaker 11: that's not what they were asked to do. So the
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Speaker 11: questions we asked, then, why has the government spent so
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Speaker 11: much of our money? It was also revealed this was
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Speaker 11: twenty two million dollars, three hundred and fifty people worked
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Speaker 11: on it.
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Speaker 1: Why have they done.
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Speaker 11: All this if it hasn't given us any actual answers
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Speaker 11: about how we should tackle climate change? It would appear
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Speaker 11: we've spent twenty two million dollars on the government's scare campaign,
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Speaker 11: which they put in place to try and con people
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Speaker 11: to support the policies that they've already sided upon.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think it's pretty obvious why they've done it.
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Speaker 2: It's to soften everybody up in preparation for whatever Chris
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Speaker 2: Bowen is going to inflict upon us. That There's another
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Speaker 2: question you asked, which I thought was quite brilliant.
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Speaker 3: The report warns.
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Speaker 2: That people will die due to heat, but is that
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Speaker 2: more or less than would have died if winters remained cold.
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Speaker 3: Here's some of that interaction, be.
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Speaker 1: Very quick just to follow.
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Speaker 9: Really, did you estimate the potential reduction in deaths from cold?
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Speaker 3: Oh? No, we did not.
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Speaker 9: Well, I mind saying more people from cold and peat
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Speaker 9: in Australia.
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Speaker 10: Were specifically looking at climate houses, so it was out
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Speaker 10: of scope for a report.
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Speaker 9: That isn't if the climate warms, might there be fewer
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Speaker 9: cold deaths.
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Speaker 10: We were looking at physical risk from climate houses specifically,
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Speaker 10: and that the transition risk, which is could any changes
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Speaker 10: to do with mitigation, were out of scope.
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Speaker 1: But this is not a mitigation rist.
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Speaker 9: This is a direct result presumably if the climate warns
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Speaker 9: there'll be fewer people who die because it's too cold,
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Speaker 9: and missing something that.
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Speaker 3: Was outside of our scope. Thanks Senator Canavan.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Matt.
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Speaker 2: The fact this question wasn't even entertained demonstrates the absolute
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Speaker 2: bias of the way this science has been conducted, does
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Speaker 2: it not.
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Speaker 11: It's a one sided report that government's loaded the dice
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Speaker 11: here to try and generate the results it wants. The
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Speaker 11: result it clearly wanted was this massive sort of chicken
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Speaker 11: little approach where they could go run around telling everybody
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Speaker 11: the sky is falling in And in fact, though as
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Speaker 11: I mentioned there, I've gone and have looked at the
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Speaker 11: research on this as a recent Nature paper, which peer
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Speaker 11: reviewed paper, which shows that ten times the number of
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Speaker 11: deaths in Australia occur due to cold then two heat.
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Speaker 11: Now this is a report into global warming, and so
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Speaker 11: if the globe is going to warm, you think you
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Speaker 11: should look at whether or not it does lead to
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Speaker 11: fewer deaths from cold, because it will be warmer, won't
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Speaker 11: it if there is global warming.
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Speaker 1: That's what I thought it was all about.
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Speaker 11: Instead, of course, we had this fear porn this week
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Speaker 11: that somehow we're going to have a four hundred percent
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Speaker 11: increase in heat deaths, but no mention of the fact
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Speaker 11: that in fact ten times the number of Australians die
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Speaker 11: from cold than heat. Again, this just shows this just
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Speaker 11: shows that the government is more interested here in scaring
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Speaker 11: people so that it can increase the size of government,
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Speaker 11: that it is really about changing the temperature of the globe.
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Speaker 11: Of course, nothing we do can impact that. This report
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Speaker 11: also and he looked at Australia. It didn't look at
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Speaker 11: any global ramifications of spoite this being a global issue because.
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Speaker 1: I come back to the point.
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Speaker 11: The agenda here is to increase taxes, not to change
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Speaker 11: the temperature of the globe.
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Speaker 2: Bles spect union leaders as well as the Greens, are
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Speaker 2: insisting the government has to set ambitious emissions targets or else.
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Speaker 3: We're all going to die.
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Speaker 2: ACTU president Michelle O'Neill said if the government doesn't act,
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Speaker 2: the consequences will be dire. If the government sets targets
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Speaker 2: promoted by the unions, they're suggesting around seventy five percent
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Speaker 2: reduction by twenty thirty five, the consequences will certainly be
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Speaker 2: dire for their members' jobs.
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Speaker 11: Well, that was an assessed as we've just gone through
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Speaker 11: in this report. And keep in mind again that this
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Speaker 11: is these activists. These union representatives are no longer representing
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Speaker 11: their workers. They're representing an ecosystem of climate activists. So
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Speaker 11: I'm up here in Central Queen's There where the ecosystem
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Speaker 11: is being destroyed by the roll out of wind and
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Speaker 11: solar factories. But the ecosystem that does benefit from climate
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Speaker 11: action is that of a massive army of climate activists
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Speaker 11: and paid professionals, sometimes bureaucrats who just live off the
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Speaker 11: teat of the billions of dollars that are spent on
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Speaker 11: this issue every year for no tangible benefit.
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Speaker 1: We are all paying for that they benefit.
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Speaker 11: And you're absolutely right there to say that who is
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Speaker 11: out there representing the workers? Because again I'm here in
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Speaker 11: North Queensland and we could have a decision within days
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Speaker 11: where the Mount iSER copper smelter shuts, the Townshill copper
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Speaker 11: refinery might shut too. We could lose tens of thousands
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Speaker 11: of jobs because of our crazily crazy high energy prices.
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Speaker 11: And what is the government doing? The government? Your government
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Speaker 11: is not focused on those ten thousand manufacturing jobs. They're
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Speaker 11: focused on their own jobs in Canberra to try and
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Speaker 11: change the temperature of the globe.
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Speaker 1: Where are this government's priorities?
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Speaker 11: Why aren't they focused on saving our manufacturing industry and
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Speaker 11: keeping Australians in a job.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure climate change is much of a threat
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Speaker 2: to you or I, Matt, but it's a massive threat
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Speaker 2: to the Liberal Party. Andrew Hasty said yesterday he would
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Speaker 2: join Senator Jacinth and ampajimper Price on the Liberal back
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Speaker 2: bench if susan Lee adopts net zero.
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Speaker 3: Here's what he had to say.
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Speaker 5: If Susan Lee, though, supports net zero by twenty fifty,
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Speaker 5: where does that leave you?
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Speaker 1: That leaves me that a job.
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Speaker 5: I've mailed my colors to the mask Gary like, if
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Speaker 5: I go over with the tide in two and a
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Speaker 5: half years, that's great. My primary mission in politics is
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Speaker 5: to build a stronger, more secure, more competitive Australia. Energy
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Speaker 5: security is a vital input.
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Speaker 2: To that, and today's Shadow Minister for Education and Training,
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Speaker 2: Senator John o'dunham, had this message for his leader.
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Speaker 12: Net zero at any cost is something that only stupid
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Speaker 12: people would pursue.
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Speaker 3: If we just said net zero.
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Speaker 12: At any cost by twenty fifty, I think you'd find
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Speaker 12: there'd be a mass exodus, Matt.
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Speaker 2: Susan Lee can't afford to dither on this issue much longer,
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Speaker 2: can she?
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Speaker 13: Well?
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Speaker 11: Look, I've been saying for years now, James, that we
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Speaker 11: should resolve this issue. We should resolve at the normal
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Speaker 11: way we do for issues that are quite contentious at times.
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Speaker 11: We have a debate, We have a debate, discussion in
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Speaker 11: our own party room. That hasn't happened. As I say,
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Speaker 11: I think that should have happened three years ago. Better
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Speaker 11: late than never. The sooner we do it, the sooner
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Speaker 11: we can move on, work out what we stand for
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Speaker 11: and take up the fight against the government. So I
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Speaker 11: hope that happens sooner rather than later. I applaud the
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Speaker 11: leadership that Edrew Hasty has shown. I think, even more
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Speaker 11: than bringing down cost of living than protecting those jobs.
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Speaker 11: What the Australian people would love to see in their
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Speaker 11: political representatives again is leadership. Is people with the guts
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Speaker 11: and courage to stand on what they think is best
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Speaker 11: for our nation and go out and fight for that.
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Speaker 11: Stop following the polls, stop being scared of your own shadow,
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Speaker 11: and stand up for what you believe in. And Andrew
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Speaker 11: Hasty is showing that. In Spade's putting his job on
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Speaker 11: the line for this. I've been at that battlefront tier
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Speaker 11: and I'll continue that. This is my this is my
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Speaker 11: final battle almost right. This is so important for our nation.
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Speaker 11: It's why I've been at this full years and hopefully,
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Speaker 11: hopefully we finally get this debate in the Liberal and
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Speaker 11: National party room and we can resolve our differences.
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Speaker 2: Matt, just before I let you go, there's been a
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Speaker 2: major blow to Victoria's green ambitions, with the development of
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Speaker 2: an offshore wind far stalled over questions about costs and
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Speaker 2: where ships would dock during construction. Just tell us what's
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Speaker 2: the problem with this wind farm? And they've already set
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Speaker 2: an expiring date on fossil fuel power in Victoria. If
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Speaker 2: projects like this wind farm aren't completed on time, it
20:18
Speaker 2: literally lights out for Victorians, won't it.
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Speaker 11: Look It seems a pretty flimsy excuse to me, and
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Speaker 11: you've got to ask the question, why haven't they resolved
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Speaker 11: this issue? This has been going for years, so why
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Speaker 11: didn't they have a port ready and available. There is
20:32
Speaker 11: a broader issue here though, that there have been a
20:35
Speaker 11: lot of offshore wind projects fall over in Australia and
20:39
Speaker 11: we're now what I'm hearing is we're reaching a point
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Speaker 11: where we won't have the critical mass to support offshore
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Speaker 11: wind being developed in this country. It takes all you've
20:47
Speaker 11: got to bring a lot of equipment a long way
20:49
Speaker 11: from the other side of the world to put in
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Speaker 11: these wind turbines, and if there's only a couple of
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Speaker 11: handful of projects going.
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Speaker 1: Ahead, it's just going to be way too expensive.
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Speaker 11: So to me, this seems like a bit of an
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Speaker 11: excuse to hide the broader problems into the Victorian energies plan.
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Speaker 11: And as you say, as you say, they haven't got
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Speaker 11: a plan B. They put all their chips here on
21:11
Speaker 11: a technology that is extremely expensive.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it is very, very expensive.
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Speaker 11: It takes massive government subsidies to get up, and it's
21:19
Speaker 11: on its knees right now around the world with a
21:21
Speaker 11: number of companies on the brink of bankruptcy.
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Speaker 1: And so why would Victoria do this? It is so
21:28
Speaker 1: sad to see.
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Speaker 11: Given Victoria has traditionally been our industrial heartland, it too
21:32
Speaker 11: has been losing so much manufacturing. I mean, where are
21:35
Speaker 11: we going to have the jobs for the younger, for
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Speaker 11: young Australians in the future. If we keep denying ourselves
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Speaker 11: the use of our own energy resources, will they will
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Speaker 11: all go overseas and we'll be much poorer for it.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, Senator Canavan, great work at the Senate Estimates Committee
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Speaker 2: hearing today, and thanks for joining me tonight. We'll stick
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Speaker 2: around because coming up after the break, Pauline Hanson dares
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Speaker 2: to dream as her all numbers saw. She joins me
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Speaker 2: in just a moment, and the PM gets tetchy when
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Speaker 2: asked whether abandoning his electric office because of pro Palestinian
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Speaker 2: protesters sends the wrong message. All of that after this, well,
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Speaker 2: as the Coalition slumped to its lowest level in News
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Speaker 2: poll history following the sacking of Senator Jacinta nampajimper Price,
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Speaker 2: there's been a surge and support for One Nation. News
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Speaker 2: poll has Pauline Hanson's party at ten percent, and the
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Speaker 2: recent Resolve poll has them at a record high of
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Speaker 2: twelve percent. All of this has Senator Pauline Hanson daring
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Speaker 2: to dream, and she joins me. Now, Senator Hanson, thanks
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Speaker 2: for your time. You'd be pretty happy with the latest polling.
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Speaker 2: Why you're suddenly doing so well.
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Speaker 14: First of all, James, thank you very much for having
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Speaker 14: me on and asking me this question. James, you know,
22:55
Speaker 14: I've been in politics now for three decades and I
22:59
Speaker 14: should started, as you know, just this woman from a
23:03
Speaker 14: small business, and I stood my ground on many issues
23:06
Speaker 14: and I haven't backed away from it. And I feel
23:09
Speaker 14: that over the years that people have now come to
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Speaker 14: realize what I was trying to say back then, and
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Speaker 14: because the country isn't one hell of a mess and
23:16
Speaker 14: we don't have the politicians standing up and fight for
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Speaker 14: Astrand veyus where we're headed as a nation that Austrands
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Speaker 14: is only say and I get messages from them they said,
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Speaker 14: you know what pulling I was against you previously. Now
23:29
Speaker 14: I understand what you were trying to say because they're
23:32
Speaker 14: feeling the effects of it. I'm not a career politician.
23:36
Speaker 14: I'm a person. I'm just like every other Australian out there.
23:39
Speaker 14: It's not about a job for me. I have an
23:42
Speaker 14: invested interest in it because I'm an Australian. I love
23:47
Speaker 14: my country. I fear for the future generations and I
23:50
Speaker 14: feel for those Astrands out there who are doing it
23:52
Speaker 14: tough at the moment. Costantly, the climate might change, gender diversity,
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Speaker 14: family law, courts, everything that is in our nation, mass migration,
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Speaker 14: the division that's happening. This is all due to political
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Speaker 14: decisions by both the Liberal Labor and the National Party.
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Speaker 14: I've never given up my hope to actually drive an
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Speaker 14: agenda and policies to turn this around. People now waken
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Speaker 14: up to one nation. What I'm trying to tell them,
24:23
Speaker 14: you know, stop being treated like mushrooms and stop saying
24:27
Speaker 14: shall be right mate, because it won't. And I'm giving
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Speaker 14: them an alternative and I appreciate the rise in the polls.
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Speaker 2: I want to ask you what you make of the Liberals'
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Speaker 2: inability to formulate positions that I would have thought for
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Speaker 2: most conservative voters would be a given.
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Speaker 3: They still at a federal level.
24:46
Speaker 2: Haven't worked out their position on energy policy. If you
24:49
Speaker 2: go to Victoria, the liberals there can't work out whether
24:52
Speaker 2: or not to repeal the Indigenous treaty proposed by Jacinta
24:56
Speaker 2: Allen if they win government. What do you make if
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Speaker 2: the Conservatives, as I said, just an inability to actually
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Speaker 2: take a position on anything at the moment, And.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
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Speaker 14: They won't because the Liberals have been taken over by
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Speaker 14: the moderates and progressives. I sit on the floor of
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Speaker 14: palmd all the time, and they're actually deserted the core
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Speaker 14: values of conservatism in Australia. And that's why I'm a
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Speaker 14: core conservative. And remember I wouldn't apologize for calling for
25:25
Speaker 14: equality for all austraints. So John Howard threw me out
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Speaker 14: of the Liberal Party and I've been, you know, standing
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Speaker 14: my ground. And this is what if you really want
25:34
Speaker 14: true representation of the conservative values, they're actually bending over
25:38
Speaker 14: backwards still peas you know, the Greens or the Teals
25:42
Speaker 14: or these people that are sitting on the fence, the agitators,
25:47
Speaker 14: these people. What I'm saying is, let's to the core,
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Speaker 14: conservative values, family values, business, you know, looking after the
25:55
Speaker 14: small business, looking after the farming sector, looking after our prosperity,
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Speaker 14: looking after you know what. This country has given us
26:03
Speaker 14: a good living and standard living. But that's all going
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Speaker 14: on to the wayside because they're all looking after their
26:08
Speaker 14: own positions. How can we sit on fence? Susan Lee
26:12
Speaker 14: is the most hopeless leader I've seen. If she doesn't
26:16
Speaker 14: understand what the people want at the moment and what
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Speaker 14: they need, she shouldn't be in that position. Get out
26:22
Speaker 14: of it, Susan. It goes on your gut instincts because
26:25
Speaker 14: you either are in tune with the people and understand
26:30
Speaker 14: what the hurt and pain they're going through. If not,
26:32
Speaker 14: you shouldn't be in that position.
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Speaker 2: This week's Resolve Paul found fifty five percent of Australians
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Speaker 2: think the government is handling immigration in an unplanned and
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Speaker 2: unmanaged way fifty five percent of Australians, and among labor
26:47
Speaker 2: voters it was forty one percent. The opposition completely messed
26:51
Speaker 2: up their chance to make this a key issue. Didn't
26:53
Speaker 2: They firstly just sent the Price's comments were clumsy by
26:57
Speaker 2: her own admission, but then their reaction to it where
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Speaker 2: they ren scared having been called racists. You've been called
27:03
Speaker 2: racist more times than I can remember. But you know what,
27:07
Speaker 2: You've stood your ground. The Liberal Party should have stood
27:11
Speaker 2: their ground on this issue, shouldn't.
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Speaker 14: They They should have back to just Enterprice was right.
27:17
Speaker 14: And I've said this time and time and again. Nineteen
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Speaker 14: ninety seven, Barry Jones, who was a Labor president at
27:24
Speaker 14: the time and former minister, said, we bring people in
27:26
Speaker 14: purely for the vote. That's labor. They're putting out literature
27:30
Speaker 14: into the Chinese and Greek areas purely for its propaganda
27:36
Speaker 14: to destroy the Liberal Party. At that time, they're actually
27:39
Speaker 14: talking about they want to stop migration. I'm talking about
27:43
Speaker 14: not prior to nineteen ninety six, and they were actually
27:46
Speaker 14: the scare campaign about medicare. History is repeating itself, but
27:51
Speaker 14: the Libs don't know how to get their act together.
27:54
Speaker 14: Too much in fighting, not working together. That's right throughout
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Speaker 14: the States and everything like that. People get behind one nation, understand,
28:02
Speaker 14: go and read my policies. What I'm fighting for what
28:05
Speaker 14: I stand for because I tell you what we are
28:08
Speaker 14: the only ones. I've been the only one that's been
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Speaker 14: pulling the back, whether it be the voice. I was
28:13
Speaker 14: the first one to come out with the voice mass migration,
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Speaker 14: first one I joined people's shoulders shoulder in the march,
28:19
Speaker 14: than proud to do it. And you know COVID nineteen,
28:23
Speaker 14: farming sector, everything, family law, courts, everything that I've predicted
28:27
Speaker 14: over the is James has actually come to fruition. And
28:31
Speaker 14: we have these real problems in our country. Libs are
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Speaker 14: not the answer to it. I'm telling you now. Too
28:37
Speaker 14: many progressives they've taken over the party and their career politicians.
28:41
Speaker 14: They haven't got the heart with this country or with
28:43
Speaker 14: the people.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, Sennatha Hanson, we should get
28:48
Speaker 2: you to do climate modeling, because I would trust your
28:50
Speaker 2: predictions more than the governments on climate.
28:53
Speaker 3: Very quickly before I let you go.
28:55
Speaker 2: Anthony Albanizi seemed to get a bit cranky today when
28:58
Speaker 2: he was questioned over the decision to abandon his Sydney
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Speaker 2: electorate office. Here's what happened.
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Speaker 15: You abandoning your office? Is it setting a dangerous precedent?
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Speaker 16: Quite absolute nonsense. Seriously, this is an office that is
29:15
Speaker 16: actually shared with Saint Clement's Church. The car park is
29:20
Speaker 16: a shared car park. The people attending trying to attend
29:24
Speaker 16: church services have been disrupted as well as people haven't
29:29
Speaker 16: been able to get the services that they need.
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Speaker 3: Just quickly send it to Hanson.
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Speaker 2: This decision to abandon his office after the protesters.
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Speaker 3: Has he sent the wrong message?
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Speaker 14: Of course he has. He's so weak and pathetic, and
29:45
Speaker 14: he's using the church as an excuse. He should have
29:48
Speaker 14: actually got the federal police in there, all the New
29:51
Speaker 14: South Past State police to deal with the protesters. He hasn't,
29:54
Speaker 14: of course, you know what. He doesn't want to upset
29:56
Speaker 14: them because there'll be voters of him. They don't give
29:59
Speaker 14: a damn about him or about the constituent or people
30:02
Speaker 14: sorting out their problems. And that's why we're in hell
30:05
Speaker 14: of a bloody mess because the leaders we have in
30:08
Speaker 14: this nation.
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Speaker 3: Well, Senator Hanson, you're doing very well in the polls.
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Speaker 3: Good luck to you. I appreciate you joining me tonight.
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Speaker 2: Coming up after the break, the latest news from the
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Speaker 2: US as the suspect accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk prepares
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Speaker 2: for his day in court for my White House Press
30:25
Speaker 2: Secretary Sean Spicer joins me in just a moment, Welcome
30:31
Speaker 2: back to the program. Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin will appear
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Speaker 2: in court tomorrow, with the FBI now saying they have
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Speaker 2: DNA evidence that puts him at the scene of the crime,
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Speaker 2: as well as connecting him with the rifle hidden in
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Speaker 2: the woods. But I'm interested in comments from the FBI
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Speaker 2: Deputy director that they're now casting the net far beyond
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Speaker 2: Tyler Robinson to see who may have.
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Speaker 3: Aided and abetted him.
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Speaker 2: This includes investigations into protrans online groups, an lgbt Q
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Speaker 2: group called Armed, and into the person who asked Charlie
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Speaker 2: Kirk a question about trans shootings right before Kirk was
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Speaker 2: shot dead. Joining me now is former White House Press
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Speaker 2: Secretary to Donald Trump, Sean Spicer.
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Speaker 3: Sean, Welcome to the program.
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Speaker 2: This investigation into Charlie Kirk's assassination sounds like it's going
31:17
Speaker 2: to get a lot bigger.
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Speaker 15: But it's interesting, James.
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Speaker 13: You know, throughout the weekend, when this issue was brought
31:22
Speaker 13: up on different Sunday programs in the United States, the
31:28
Speaker 13: host almost dismissed it. Why would we even talk about
31:31
Speaker 13: the transition? Why would we do this? And to your point,
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Speaker 13: just a moment ago, it was the last question he took.
31:38
Speaker 13: Of course they should ask about it. So I think
31:42
Speaker 13: in some ways what concerns me is is that the
31:45
Speaker 13: US media and the left almost don't want us to
31:48
Speaker 13: go looking there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:49
Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be very interesting to see what
31:51
Speaker 2: developments unfold as the investigation continues.
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Speaker 15: Now.
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Speaker 2: Vice President jd Vance hosted The Charlie Kirk Show from.
31:59
Speaker 3: The White House overnight. Here's some of what he had
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Speaker 3: to say.
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Speaker 7: We can thank god that most Democrats don't share these attitudes,
32:06
Speaker 7: and I do while acknowledging that something has gone very
32:11
Speaker 7: wrong with a lunatic fringe, a minority, but a growing
32:16
Speaker 7: and powerful minority on the far left.
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Speaker 2: Sean, I think he makes a great point. There's radicals
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Speaker 2: on the right end on the left, but the difference
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Speaker 2: to me seems to be that on the left the
32:29
Speaker 2: extremists are the ones running things.
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Speaker 3: On the right, the extremists are fringe.
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Speaker 2: But on the left that's the extremists who seem to
32:36
Speaker 2: set the agenda.
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Speaker 13: Study after study, poll after poll shows that the leftist
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Speaker 13: don't want unity, that they think that violence is okay,
32:47
Speaker 13: in fact, that they think assassination is okay, and that
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Speaker 13: they're leaders not only don't discourage it, but in some
32:54
Speaker 13: cases encourage it. You think about Maxine Waters, the congresswoman,
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Speaker 13: saying that we should should surround Trump folks, Chuck Schumer
33:02
Speaker 13: saying that to the Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsich, we've
33:05
Speaker 13: got you. Gorsich were coming to get you. There's a
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Speaker 13: big difference. I think this is where this both sides
33:11
Speaker 13: ism argument. They say, well, there's violence on the left,
33:14
Speaker 13: there's violence on the right, so we're equal. That's ridiculous.
33:17
Speaker 13: The left actually perpetuates this. They believe that violence is
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Speaker 13: a means to an end and it's okay. But then
33:23
Speaker 13: look at the reaction when Charlie Kirk was murdered, assassinated,
33:28
Speaker 13: when the Ukrainian woman was killed on that Charlotte public transportation,
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Speaker 13: when the kids were killed in a son's annunciation Catholic church,
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Speaker 13: the folks on the right prayed, they gathered, they mourned.
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Speaker 13: When something happens on the left, they resort to violence
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Speaker 13: and vandalism and destruction, and they just want you to
33:47
Speaker 13: sort of sweep it all under the rug. The Vice
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Speaker 13: President today was very very powerful in hosting that show,
33:53
Speaker 13: in the comments and the words that he chose, and
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Speaker 13: I hope that people take it to heart.
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Speaker 2: The other thing I found interesting about jd Evan's host
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Speaker 2: that show was he quoted scripture, even prayed the Lord's prayer.
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Speaker 2: This seems to me a very different America to which
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Speaker 2: existed under President Obama and Joe Biden. Christianity is suddenly
34:13
Speaker 2: not something to be ashamed of.
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Speaker 13: If your viewers haven't seen the comments that Erica Kirk
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Speaker 13: made on Friday Night, I'm in my fifties. I don't
34:25
Speaker 13: know that I could have even come close to delivering that,
34:28
Speaker 13: or that I'll ever see anything like that in my lifetime.
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Speaker 13: The courage that that woman displayed, the faith that she exhibited,
34:37
Speaker 13: that's how our side reacts to a tragic situation like this,
34:44
Speaker 13: and the Vice President manifested that today in his comments.
34:47
Speaker 13: But we invoke prayer, we come together as a country,
34:51
Speaker 13: we talk about moving forward, commitment faith.
34:54
Speaker 15: It's so different than the Left.
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Speaker 13: When George Floyd was murdered, they took to the street,
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Speaker 13: they attacked people, they hurt people, they vandalized property to
35:04
Speaker 13: destroyed countless things and it was all excused by their
35:08
Speaker 13: buddies and the left, their leaders who said it's okay
35:11
Speaker 13: because it's in pursuit of the greater good or something
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Speaker 13: that they're trying to rectify.
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Speaker 15: Now you've now seen the difference the right. What we
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Speaker 15: do is.
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Speaker 13: We come together, we pray, we mourn, and we march
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Speaker 13: forward with a sense of conviction.
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Speaker 3: Well, now that difference has been made.
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Speaker 2: Stock the Vice president promised the Trump administration would go
35:30
Speaker 2: after left wing groups that were fomenting riots and violence.
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Speaker 3: Here's some more of what he had to say.
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Speaker 7: You have the crazies on the far left. You're saying, oh,
35:39
Speaker 7: Stephen Miller and JD. Vance they're going to go after
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Speaker 7: constitutionally protected speech, and.
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Speaker 1: We're going to go after the NGO network that.
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Speaker 7: Fomens, facilitates, and engages in violence.
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Speaker 1: That's not okay. Violence is not okay.
35:53
Speaker 7: In our system, and we want to make it less
35:55
Speaker 7: likely that that happens.
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Speaker 3: So, Sean, who does JD.
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Speaker 2: Advance have in mind? With these remarks? Which groups does
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Speaker 2: he plan to go after? Donald Trump I saw suggested
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Speaker 2: that perhaps Antifa could be declared a domestic terrorist organization.
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Speaker 13: Well, it should, but you also look at groups that
36:13
Speaker 13: are funded by George Soros and the Open Society that
36:18
Speaker 13: he funds. This network is unbelievable, and frankly, I hate
36:23
Speaker 13: to say this, but as a political operative, I'd say
36:26
Speaker 13: it's to be admired the funding mechanism, the web that
36:29
Speaker 13: they have weaved throughout American culture and society, where they're
36:33
Speaker 13: funding the lowest levels of government. They understand this, they've
36:37
Speaker 13: perfected it, and as I said, as a political operative,
36:39
Speaker 13: I admire.
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Speaker 15: It to some degree. But at the end of the day,
36:43
Speaker 15: what they are doing is sowing division.
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Speaker 13: They are hiring and funding prosecutors at the local level
36:50
Speaker 13: that want to decriminalize every sense of justice that we
36:54
Speaker 13: have known in America, and they are largely succeeding, which
36:56
Speaker 13: is why our cities are in the disarray that they are.
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Speaker 1: Well.
37:00
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the US military has started sacking servicemen who have
37:04
Speaker 2: celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Even an Army colonel
37:08
Speaker 2: has been suspended from duties pending an investigation after he
37:11
Speaker 2: apparently posted on social media this. He wrote, the death
37:15
Speaker 2: of Charlie Kirk in Utah was tragic. However, we can
37:18
Speaker 2: take comfort in the fact that Charlie was doing what
37:21
Speaker 2: he loved best, spreading hate, racism, homophobia, misogyny, and transphobia
37:26
Speaker 2: on college campuses. That was an army colonel who wrote that.
37:31
Speaker 2: As I said, he's now suspended penning an investigation. So
37:35
Speaker 2: the Trump administration is not mucking around. And particularly in
37:38
Speaker 2: the military, you have.
37:40
Speaker 13: A right to express yourself when it comes to policies,
37:43
Speaker 13: a tax bell, a government funding bell.
37:45
Speaker 15: You can be on either.
37:46
Speaker 13: Side of that. That's not only welcome, but that's our
37:49
Speaker 13: way of life in America.
37:51
Speaker 15: But when you openly cheer.
37:53
Speaker 13: For the death of somebody who was assassinated because of
37:56
Speaker 13: their views, then I do think that you've cried the line,
38:01
Speaker 13: and I think it's appropriate, especially for an officer, to
38:05
Speaker 13: face consequences because there's nobody I don't care.
38:08
Speaker 15: My worst enemy should not be killed.
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Speaker 3: This is sick.
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Speaker 15: It's so wrong to think that you as a as
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Speaker 15: a leader. So an army colonel, you know, it's an
38:18
Speaker 15: o six in our military.
38:19
Speaker 13: The idea that that a person at that level of
38:23
Speaker 13: our armed forces believes that you should assassinate a citizen
38:27
Speaker 13: because of their view is opposite of the very oath
38:30
Speaker 13: that we are asked to defend.
38:33
Speaker 2: Just finally, before I let you go, Donald Trump will
38:35
Speaker 2: visit the UK this week, speaking of a special dinner
38:37
Speaker 2: with the King and meeting promise to Kiss Starmer for
38:40
Speaker 2: a series of agreements on tech.
38:43
Speaker 3: And nuclear power.
38:44
Speaker 2: I just wanted to ask you about the relationship between
38:47
Speaker 2: Donald Trump and Kiss Starmer, because the very different men,
38:50
Speaker 2: with very different ideologies, and yet they seem to be
38:53
Speaker 2: able to work together.
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
38:56
Speaker 13: First of all, I would say that what Donald Trump's
38:58
Speaker 13: going to look forward to really is that state doner
39:00
Speaker 13: with the King, in particular, because he loves the pomp
39:02
Speaker 13: and circumstance. He has a soft spot in his heart
39:04
Speaker 13: for the monarchy over there, So.
39:07
Speaker 15: That's going to be great.
39:08
Speaker 13: But with respect to the Prime Minister himself, Donald Trump's
39:11
Speaker 13: a businessman at heart, and he has dealt with all
39:15
Speaker 13: stripes of people throughout his business career, and he's more
39:18
Speaker 13: than anything in pursuit of the deal. And while he's president,
39:21
Speaker 13: it's in pursuit of what's best for America, whatever that
39:24
Speaker 13: best deal is. And I will give Prime Minister Stormer
39:27
Speaker 13: credit that he seems to understand that, and that despite
39:30
Speaker 13: their ideological differences, they understand especially in the area of
39:35
Speaker 13: trade that there are areas that the United States and
39:38
Speaker 13: Britain still enjoy that special relationship and want to do
39:41
Speaker 13: its best for their respective constituencies.
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Speaker 2: Oh well, our own prime minister here in Australia should
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Speaker 2: take a note for Machias Stamer might help that country.
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Speaker 3: Sheldon spice O, I s joyed to talk to you.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for you Tom tonight.
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Speaker 15: You bet I'll agree with you on that front too.
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Speaker 15: Your Prime minister might take a page out of that one.
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Speaker 2: Well, what on earth has Zally Stegel hung on her
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Speaker 2: Canberra office wall? And more evidence that just sent to
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Speaker 2: Allen's tough on crime stance is an absolute con I'll
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Speaker 2: be back with my panel in just a moment.
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Speaker 1: Ah.
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Speaker 2: The teals they sold themselves to voters as anti politicians.
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Speaker 2: They were going to stand up for the interests of
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Speaker 2: everyday Australians without all the usual grand standing so often
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Speaker 2: associated with our political class. They were going to be
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Speaker 2: authentic and transparent and humble. Well, nothing says humble servant
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Speaker 2: like a massive portrait of yourself depicted as a Roman goddess,
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Speaker 2: which is exactly what Zally Stegel has hanging in her
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Speaker 2: Canberra office. Joining me now, at the very humble Sky
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Speaker 2: News contributors Joe Hildebrand and Will Kingston gentlemen. The portrait
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Speaker 2: is by acclaimed artist Jane Guthelman, who.
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Speaker 3: Described it thus, Zarly is adorned.
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Speaker 2: By an arrangement of Australia's most endangered floral and bird species,
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Speaker 2: whose survival is being threatened by climate change and habitat loss.
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Speaker 3: Joe Hildebrand, hanging a portrait of yourself as a god?
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Speaker 3: Is this normal behavior?
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Speaker 17: I'm reminded of something someone said to me many years ago,
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Speaker 17: which was that the left would do really, really well
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Speaker 17: if it wasn't for lefties, and I think zal Stego
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Speaker 17: and her shameless deification of herself is probably the ultimate
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Speaker 17: example of that. Just I just I cannot imagine allowing,
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Speaker 17: let alone requesting or putting up a painting like that
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Speaker 17: of yourself. I just can't imagine how any of it happened.
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Speaker 17: It is mortifying. I suppose, like some data does, she
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Speaker 17: does at least claim to have the power of life
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Speaker 17: and death in her hand, though, because we do know
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Speaker 17: that she liked a post that said that violence was
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Speaker 17: sometimes necessary in politics, so maybe she is a vengeful god.
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Speaker 2: Well, I want to refer to that because will Sally
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Speaker 2: Stegel hasn't exactly had a good week. So whatever the
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Speaker 2: bad publicity she gets from this painting, I reckon she'll
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Speaker 2: probably be glad for the distraction.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: Possibly.
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Speaker 18: And as an aside, I've got a sculpture of me
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Speaker 18: as a Roman god which is just tucked slightly out
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Speaker 18: of frame, so I'll keep that.
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Speaker 15: Hidden from the viewers.
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Speaker 18: Look, the thing is, I think probably most politicians would
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Speaker 18: secretly quite like something like this in their office. It's
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Speaker 18: just most of them have the self awareness to realize
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Speaker 18: how bad a look it is. And if you want
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Speaker 18: to draw out something semi serious from this, it is
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Speaker 18: that these people think that the environmental movement and climate
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Speaker 18: change more particularly is a quasi religious endeavor, and that
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Speaker 18: they are profits for that quasi religious endeavor, which means
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Speaker 18: it's going to be incredibly difficult for serious people to
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Speaker 18: be able to row these people back on issues like
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Speaker 18: net zero, because for them, it's not like tax policy,
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Speaker 18: it's not like health policy, for example. This is something
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Speaker 18: which goes far beyond that into this sort of religious realm,
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Speaker 18: and the way that she has created quite literally an
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Speaker 18: image of herself as a god or a prophet in
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Speaker 18: that endeavor is very telling.
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Speaker 2: It is indeed, Victorian Premier Cinta Allen is in China,
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Speaker 2: leaving her underlings to deal with the crime crisis.
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Speaker 3: It's going from bad to worse.
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Speaker 2: It's been revealed the Victorian Labor government stripped away millions
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Speaker 2: of dollars from critical youth crime prevention programs. Analysis of
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Speaker 2: spending shows funding fell from an average of thirteen million
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Speaker 2: dollars a year between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty two
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Speaker 2: to just half a million dollars annually. Joe thirty four
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Speaker 2: groups affiliated with the African community alone have lost grants
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Speaker 2: for crime prevention programs under Labour's watch. It makes a
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Speaker 2: mockery of the government's claims to be concerned about crime,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it.
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Speaker 17: It's actually a really really bizarre one. This because, of course,
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Speaker 17: that kind of crime prevention, you know, tough on crime,
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Speaker 17: tough on the causes of crime, that is supposed to
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Speaker 17: be a sort of left article of faith, a progressive
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Speaker 17: article of faith that you can't arrest your way out
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Speaker 17: of these problems. You have to address the root cause,
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Speaker 17: the disadvantage, the social disconnection, the poverty, the substance abuse, whatever,
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Speaker 17: it may be. So this is the sort of stuff
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Speaker 17: that you would think progressive governments should be completely devoted towards.
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Speaker 17: And the fact that clearly the budget has been so
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Speaker 17: run aground and the Victorian economy has so completely tanked
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Speaker 17: that there is not even enough money to fund you know,
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Speaker 17: what is really a drop in the ocean in terms
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Speaker 17: of the overall budget in address you know, these particular
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Speaker 17: at risk community groups. Just shows I think that if
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Speaker 17: you cannot manage a budget, if you cannot manage an economy,
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Speaker 17: then you cannot implement progressive policies the policies you want to.
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Speaker 17: So in other words, even progressive governments have to be
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Speaker 17: able to manage the economy, have to be able to
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Speaker 17: balance the books, and when they can't, it is just
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Speaker 17: absolutely devastating. So you have the opposition saying, oh, we
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Speaker 17: can't just arrest our way out of this, which again
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Speaker 17: is a weird thing for a conservative party to be
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Speaker 17: saying to a progressive party after its slashed funding for
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Speaker 17: actual community intervention against you know, youth disadvantage in isolation.
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Speaker 2: And Will Kingston, as I said, justint to Allen's in China,
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Speaker 2: she'll be hoping like crazy that Chinese students don't find
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Speaker 2: out about Victoria's crime crisis.
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Speaker 18: Well, that's exactly right, and Joe hit the nail on
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Speaker 18: the head. This is what happens when you go broke.
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Speaker 18: You can't afford to spend things, to spend money on
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Speaker 18: the things that you want to spend money on. And
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Speaker 18: I think too many of us, and I think frankly
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Speaker 18: too many of us, not just on the left side
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Speaker 18: of politics, but also on the conservative side, think about
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Speaker 18: debt as some sort of abstract number as opposed to
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Speaker 18: a number that has very practical consequences. The fastest growing
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Speaker 18: line item in the Australian budget is now servicing interest
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Speaker 18: on the national debt. I imagine it's the same in
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Speaker 18: the Victorian budget, and that means that you have to
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Speaker 18: spend more money on that and less money on the
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Speaker 18: services that you really need. Now, this is going to
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Speaker 18: get worse and worse because no parties in Australia have
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Speaker 18: shown serious interest in actually solving the debt crisis, and
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Speaker 18: as a result of that, expect more stories like this
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Speaker 18: at a national anderstate level.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you where they have spent money, and
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Speaker 2: that's on those machet amnesty bins. Thirteen million dollars, and
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Speaker 2: we now find out how many weapons have been handed
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Speaker 2: in as part of this program, thirteen hundred. So what
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Speaker 2: I want to know is how many of those thirteen
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Speaker 2: hundred machetes were handed in by criminals who otherwise would
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Speaker 2: have used them for.
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Speaker 3: A crime labour Say, oh, that's irrelevant.
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Speaker 1: We're not too bothered who's handing them in.
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Speaker 19: If they're being handed in, they can no longer fall
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Speaker 19: into the hands of the wrong people. We don't want
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Speaker 19: people just throwing them in the bin up the street
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Speaker 19: and then they fall into the wrong hands. We want
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Speaker 19: them in secure bins so that they're then destroyed and
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Speaker 19: can never be used again. We want to make sure
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Speaker 19: that people don't leave them lying around in back sheds
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Speaker 19: or wherever they might be unsecured at home.
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Speaker 2: For those who've been watching, who's actually putting machetes into
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Speaker 2: these bins will surprise, surprise, it hasn't been gang members.
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Speaker 11: Program is an absolute failure when it comes to taking
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Speaker 11: machetes off the street.
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Speaker 1: I stood next to one of those Muschetti.
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Speaker 11: Bins and the only people handing in machetes were farmers
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Speaker 11: and gardeners.
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Speaker 1: Who are the ones that will probably be exempt. It's
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Speaker 1: not the crook's handing am in.
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Speaker 15: They've still got them in their hands.
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Speaker 2: So, Joe, a thirteen million dollar program has netted thirteen
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Speaker 2: hundred machetes Victorian taxpayers are spending by marketing ten thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars per machete, mostly from farmers.
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Speaker 3: Anders.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, that's exactly what I did with that number on right?
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Speaker 17: How much fer machete? Is this very good tabloid instincts, James? Yeah,
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Speaker 17: I struggled to understand the perhaps of this. I mean, yes,
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Speaker 17: I guess they're taking them out of circulation. But again,
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Speaker 17: wasn't the problem that these things were simply being sold
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Speaker 17: legally in Bunnings And that was the reason that the
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Speaker 17: government decided to implement the ban on machete sales. It
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Speaker 17: wasn't because you know, young hoodlums were breaking into farmhouses
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Speaker 17: and stealing them off farmers.
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Speaker 3: So you're ex struggling, Joe. That was exactly the point.
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Speaker 2: And it's all about optics and not at all about
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Speaker 2: really dealing with the root issues as is so typically
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Speaker 2: the way.
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Speaker 3: That's all we've got time for guys.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining me, and thanks to you
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Speaker 2: at home for joining me tonight. Coming up right now
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Speaker 2: is Sherry markson good Night