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The Bolt Report | 22 July · The Bolt Report

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  Speaker 1: He's reward.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good evening and welcome to the Bolt Report. I'm
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  Speaker 2: James Macpherson coming up tonight, Australia's first nation's ambassador.
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  Speaker 3: Yes we have one.
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  Speaker 2: He and his staff have spent more than seven hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars on travel in the past two years. So
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  Speaker 2: how exactly is this helping Aboriginals. Matt Canavan will have
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  Speaker 2: his say. The Australian government receives praise from Hamas after
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  Speaker 2: signing a letter condemning Israel's actions in Gaza. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: asking former Israeli government spokesman Elon Levy what he'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say to Penny.
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  Speaker 3: Wong and her cabinet colleagues.
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  Speaker 2: Hunter Biden has given an expletive laden interview blaming everyone
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  Speaker 2: and everything for his dad's political demise except himself, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Sewn Spice is up soon and my panel will try
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  Speaker 2: to help me understand one of the strangest crimes of
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  Speaker 2: the year. All captured on SEATV in Brisbane overnight. But first,
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  Speaker 2: our politicians gathered in Canberra today for ceremonies marking the
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  Speaker 2: start of the new parliamentary term. And it began as
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  Speaker 2: everything begins these days, from football games to street sweeper
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  Speaker 2: toolbox meetings with a welcome to country. In modern Australia,
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  Speaker 2: nothing officially starts without someone solemnly reminding us that the
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  Speaker 2: land where on existed before we developed it. Ours is
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  Speaker 2: a country where welcome to country has become as routine
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  Speaker 2: as breathing and just as impossible to opt out of
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  Speaker 2: without social repercussions. Street sweepers can't sweep, pilots can't land,
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  Speaker 2: and politicians apparently can't lie until someone acknowledges the traditional
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  Speaker 2: custodians of whichever patch of grass everyone is standing on
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  Speaker 2: at the time. He is twenty seconds of today's ceremony,
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  Speaker 2: which went for more than forty five minutes once you
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  Speaker 2: include the smoking ceremony. And by the way, that's forty
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  Speaker 2: five minutes longer than our senators spent last year debating
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  Speaker 2: the Digital ID Bill.
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  Speaker 3: But priorities right, I'd.
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  Speaker 4: Like to take our respects to my ills, past and
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  Speaker 4: impressions and emerging.
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  Speaker 5: The welcome to country is such a powerful way to
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  Speaker 5: begin a new parliament.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever your view of welcome to country ceremonies, at least
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  Speaker 2: the opening of parliament seems a little more appropriate than, say,
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  Speaker 2: when your Sydney flight touches down in Brisbane. What I
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  Speaker 2: found interesting was that the Prime Minister used to Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to Country to defend the Welcome to Country, informing us
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  Speaker 2: that the controversial ceremony is not at all controversial.
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  Speaker 5: It is not controversial today, nor should it be. It
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  Speaker 5: is a respectful way of us beginning our deliberations here
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  Speaker 5: in Canberra, which of course means meeting place.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's set up it, then, don't believe your lying ears.
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  Speaker 2: Despite the constant public debate, the radio, talkback and dinner
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  Speaker 2: table arguments, Welcome to Country is now officially not controversial
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  Speaker 2: because the Prime Minister says so, and as the Voice
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  Speaker 2: referendum proved so brilliantly, the Prime Minister is never ever
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  Speaker 2: out of touch with public sentiment on indigenous matters. But
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  Speaker 2: the real zinger came when the Prime Minister warned us
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  Speaker 2: not to take Welcome to Country for granted.
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  Speaker 5: Like a lot of the most positive things about our nation,
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  Speaker 5: we shouldn't take.
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  Speaker 3: It for granted.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not so sure there's any danger that will take
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Country for granted. I mean, it only happens
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  Speaker 2: three thousand times a week. It's school assembly, is sporting events,
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  Speaker 2: council meetings and on the bottom of most corporate emails.
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  Speaker 3: The Prime Minister speaks of.
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  Speaker 2: It like it's a rare and fleeting gesture of reconciliation,
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  Speaker 2: when in reality it's become omnipresent. It's effectively the national
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  Speaker 2: anthem's loud, a more insistent cousin. But Anthony Albinezi wasn't done.
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  Speaker 2: He's welcome to country sermon was just getting started.
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  Speaker 5: What a welcome to country does is holds out like
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  Speaker 5: a hand warmly and graciously extended, an opportunity for us
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  Speaker 5: to embrace and to show a profound love of home
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  Speaker 5: and country.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I've got to say that hand warmly extended feels
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  Speaker 2: a lot like a bureaucratic demand these days.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe it's just me, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Struggle to understand how a hand can be graciously extended
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  Speaker 2: when there's an implied threat that if you don't shake it,
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  Speaker 2: you're a bigot. The fact is that no one wants
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  Speaker 2: to be disrespectful. But when respect becomes routine and ratune
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  Speaker 2: becomes compulsory, and compulsion becomes moral theater, well it stops
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  Speaker 2: being about respect, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just virtue signaling on autopilot.
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  Speaker 2: Still, it's nice to know that the Prime Ministry is
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  Speaker 2: working hard to make sure no welcome to country he
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  Speaker 2: goes unwelcomed. It's a great example of leadership in the
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  Speaker 2: modern age. Ceremonial, symbolic and utterly terrified of being seen
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  Speaker 2: to disagree with the nation's HR department. So welcome to Parliament,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to country, Welcome to the theater. Now, speaking of theater,
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  Speaker 2: the forty eighth Parliament Smoking Ceremony had barely concluded before
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  Speaker 2: the Greens had decided it was time for one of
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  Speaker 2: their signature performance art pieces. While Governor General Sam Mostyn
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  Speaker 2: was urging MPs to treat each other with respect and
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  Speaker 2: to exercise what she called that great muscle to be
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  Speaker 2: able to argue well, Green's Deputy leader Marine Feruki was
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  Speaker 2: already flexing her activist bicep, holding up a protest sign
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  Speaker 2: mid ceremony. The sign read Gaza is starving. Words won't
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  Speaker 2: feed them sanction Israel. Of course, no Greens demonstration is
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  Speaker 2: complete without some theatrical wardrobe, so Feruki paired her protest
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  Speaker 2: signed with a Green kefia, just in case someone mistook
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  Speaker 2: her for an actual senator rather than an activist more
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  Speaker 2: suited to university politics. Meanwhile, just outside the chamber, police
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  Speaker 2: grappled with around twenty pro Palestinian activists who'd gotten into
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  Speaker 2: Parliament House. Now what I want to know is how
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  Speaker 2: authorities were able to tell the difference between the protesters
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  Speaker 2: and the average Green senator. Both were in uniform, both
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  Speaker 2: were chanting, and neither were particularly interested in Australia or
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  Speaker 2: hostages or truth for that matter. As a result of
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  Speaker 2: the protest, Parliament's Marble Lobby had to be closed to
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  Speaker 2: the public, which is probably just as well. One more
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  Speaker 2: Kefia and Parliament House could have been mistaken for the
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  Speaker 2: Melbourne CBD on a weekend. But should we really be surprised?
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  Speaker 2: The chaos came after the Albanezi government boasted they'd signed
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  Speaker 2: a letter calling for an immediate unconditional end to Israel's
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  Speaker 2: hostilities in Gaza, a letter so thoughtful and nuanced it
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  Speaker 2: was immediately praised by hamas that's right. The Albanize government
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  Speaker 2: is now participating in foreign policy missives that bring applause
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  Speaker 2: from literal terrorists.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite an achievement, don't you think.
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  Speaker 2: Flatted by the Chinese Communist Party one day praised by
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  Speaker 2: Hamas the next it's surely only a matter of time
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  Speaker 2: before I don't know, Kim Jong Ung is praising the
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  Speaker 2: government's housing policy. So it's day one of the new
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  Speaker 2: parliament and already it's difficult to tell where the activist
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  Speaker 2: ends and the policy maker begins. The forty eighth Parliament
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  Speaker 2: is now in session. Bring your placards, leave your reason
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  Speaker 2: at the door where you know things are grim. When
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  Speaker 2: a magistrate throws up her hands in court, not in triumph,
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  Speaker 2: but in utter, soul crushed despair, that's where we find
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in the People's Republic of Victoria, where the justice
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  Speaker 2: system has gone from tough on crime to tough on
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  Speaker 2: the idea of doing anything about crime. I was reading
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  Speaker 2: today about one of Victoria's worst youth offenders, a fifteen
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  Speaker 2: year old who's been charged with around four hundred offenses,
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  Speaker 2: including home invasions and car thefts, and of course he's
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  Speaker 2: been repeatedly released on bail more than fifty times, only
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  Speaker 2: to repeatedly breach bail conditions by committing more offenses. This
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  Speaker 2: is a young man who is so out of control
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  Speaker 2: that Magistrate Gail Hubble literally threw her hands in the
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  Speaker 2: air when telling the court and I quote, we've given
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  Speaker 2: him bail so many times it leaves me flabbergasted. I've
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  Speaker 2: lost count of how many times I've given him bail,
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  Speaker 2: after which she released him back into the community because
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  Speaker 2: of his age and the danger that locking him up
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  Speaker 2: would lead him to become institutionalized. Police wanted the kid
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  Speaker 2: to at least be compelled to take part in the
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  Speaker 2: behavioral change program, but the magistrate, exacerbated, said there was
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  Speaker 2: no point. She told the court, and again I'm quoting,
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  Speaker 2: he's been unable to comply with bail or satisfactorily complete
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  Speaker 2: a community order. I don't think he can do a
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  Speaker 2: community order. At this point, the court heard this young
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  Speaker 2: man had been in residential care but had run away
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  Speaker 2: twenty three times in six months, during which time he
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  Speaker 2: committed crimes described as revolting, including aggravated burglary, smashing shop
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  Speaker 2: windows with a sledgehammer, and driving stolen cars at high
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  Speaker 2: speed while.
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  Speaker 3: Being pursued by police.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do with a fifteen year old who,
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  Speaker 2: by all accounts is beyond help and has become an
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  Speaker 2: absolute danger to the Victorian community. Well, there don't seem
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  Speaker 2: to be any answers. It just seems to be one
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  Speaker 2: of those horrible cases where there's nothing anyone can do
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  Speaker 2: but hang on a second. Then I read this in
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  Speaker 2: the Herald's Son's report quote the boy on a refugee
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  Speaker 2: visa made front page headlines in the Herald's Son When,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. But stopped for a second. Did
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  Speaker 2: you just read what I read? This out of control
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  Speaker 2: teenager terrorizing Victorians, ignoring police and frustrating magistrates is here
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  Speaker 2: on a refuge g visa. Well there's the solution. A
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  Speaker 2: one way ticket to wherever he came from would immediately
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  Speaker 2: make the Victorian community safer and incidentally, would be entirely
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  Speaker 2: in line with community expectations, which politicians like to talk
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  Speaker 2: about so much.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I know Victoria is dead broke, but if the cost
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  Speaker 2: of the airline ticket is prohibitive, I'm pretty sure there'd
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  Speaker 2: be plenty of Victorians willing to contribute. Heck, I reckon
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  Speaker 2: plenty Victorians would volunteer to drive this young man to Tullamarine.
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  Speaker 2: Too controversial. How if Australia gives you a refuge e
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  Speaker 2: visa and you repay our generosity by committing four hundred crimes? Well,
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  Speaker 2: you should be sent back to wherever you came from,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of your age. If you're old enough to steal
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  Speaker 2: cars and drive him at high speed while being chased
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  Speaker 2: by police, you're old enough to be put on a
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  Speaker 2: plane and deported. Isn't it amazing how our political class
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  Speaker 2: fret about the crime crisis when the answers are so
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  Speaker 2: often staring them right in the But of course they
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  Speaker 2: won't deport this kid, will they he's only fifteen. Well,
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  Speaker 2: adult crime, adult consequences. Well what about his rights? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well what about the rights of Victorians to live in safety?
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  Speaker 2: But of course, as I said, this kid won't be deported,
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  Speaker 2: because that's just too obvious. If there's one thing we
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  Speaker 2: know about the way our political class deal with crime,
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  Speaker 2: they'll do everything and anything except the obvious thing. Poor fellow,
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  Speaker 2: my country. Well, as Parliament returned today with new Liberal
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  Speaker 2: leader Susan Lee leading the opposition, it was revealed most
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  Speaker 2: Australians don't know who Susan Lee is. And when I
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  Speaker 2: say most Australians, I mean one hundred percent of Australians
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  Speaker 2: surveyed by the Daily Telegraph. Not one of one hundred
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  Speaker 2: people shown a photo of the Liberal leader could correctly
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  Speaker 2: identify her. The closest anyone came was a bloke who
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  Speaker 2: guessed she was Anthony Albanesi's.
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  Speaker 3: Wife, which was awkward.
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  Speaker 2: Now, to be fair, most Australians don't follow politics too closely,
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  Speaker 2: and only fifty three percent of people were able to
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  Speaker 2: correctly identify the Prime Minister. So perhaps it's not Susan
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  Speaker 2: Lee's fault that she's more anonymous than a Green's economic
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  Speaker 2: policy Joining me now is the man one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: of Sky News viewers correctly identify as Matt Canavan. Matt,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for being on the program. Does this survey say
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  Speaker 2: more about Susan Lee or about the Australian public.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't think it says anything particularly negative about
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  Speaker 6: the Australian public. I mean, as you say, most people
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  Speaker 6: don't follow politics. I think it's actually not a bad
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  Speaker 6: thing that we live in a country where politics doesn't
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  Speaker 6: affect everybody's lives on a day to day basis. And look,
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  Speaker 6: the next three year is going to be a marathon,
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  Speaker 6: not a sprint. Obviously, Susan will have to get herself
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  Speaker 6: known to the Australian people, have to put forward a strong
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  Speaker 6: criticism of the labor government that won't be too hard
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  Speaker 6: and also put forward a vision about how to go
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  Speaker 6: for the future.
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  Speaker 1: So look, there's a long way to go here. I'm sure.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, though you're very kind saying Scotts viewers would know
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  Speaker 6: who I am. Maybe they would, I love the general
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  Speaker 6: public wouldn't. But now that Susan has the position of leader,
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  Speaker 6: a lot more Australians will get to know her. And
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  Speaker 6: that's a challenge always for any leader. But it's also
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  Speaker 6: an opportunity for her and the Liberal and National parties
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  Speaker 6: to put forward a better option for the Australian people.
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  Speaker 3: She's certainly got a lot of work to do.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand how you can have been in
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  Speaker 2: politics more than twenty years and one hundred out of
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  Speaker 2: one hundred people surveyed don't know who you are.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think a lot of it is down to
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  Speaker 6: the pitches, you know. I mean people don't necessarily remember
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  Speaker 6: the faces, and that it's hard to get yourself out
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  Speaker 6: there these days. I mean it's a very fragmented media
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  Speaker 6: market now compared to what it was twenty or thirty
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  Speaker 6: years ago. You've got lots of different forms of media,
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  Speaker 6: social media, so look, I mean I am folks used
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  Speaker 6: right now on defending the jobs in my communities that
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  Speaker 6: are at risk from Labour's lack of management of our
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  Speaker 6: energy policy systems, particularly in the manufacturing sector. I'm focused
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  Speaker 6: on ending this madness of net zero missions, which is
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  Speaker 6: one of the major contributions to the risks to those jobs,
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  Speaker 6: as well as costing an arm and a leg for
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  Speaker 6: all Australians. Look, if we want to turn things around,
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  Speaker 6: we want to win back the support or enough support
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  Speaker 6: from Australian people to win government. We're going to stay
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  Speaker 6: fairly focused on them. So I'm not focused on Susan Lay,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not focused on David Little Proud, not focused on
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  Speaker 6: any of those things. I remain one hundred percent focus
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  Speaker 6: on delivering better results for the people I represent.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great.
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  Speaker 6: Honor to serve as a set of for Queensland. My
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  Speaker 6: job is to fight for those Queenslanders and all Austrains.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, I hope she succeeds, but boy,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of work to do now. It may
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  Speaker 2: come as a surprise to many of our viewers that
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  Speaker 2: Australia has a First Nations Ambassador who's been charged by
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  Speaker 2: the Albanezi government with implement a First Nation's approach to
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  Speaker 2: foreign policy, and exactly what that is is even harder
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  Speaker 2: to identify than will Susan Lee. But the First Nation's
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  Speaker 2: ambassador has certainly been busy. He and his staff have
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  Speaker 2: spent three quarters of a million dollars on travel in
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  Speaker 2: just two years. Penny Wong has justified the expense, she said,
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  Speaker 2: and I quote the Albanezi government is doing everything we
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  Speaker 2: can to strengthen our ties with the Pacific, and that
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  Speaker 2: includes involving First Nations people. Except the records show our
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  Speaker 2: First Nation's ambassador only spent thirty three days in the Pacific,
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  Speaker 2: the rest a company ninety four days wandering around the US,
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  Speaker 2: Paris and Geneva. Because nothing says First Nations policy like croissants,
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  Speaker 2: Capitol Hill and Lakeside Fondu Matt, what do you make
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  Speaker 2: of this?
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  Speaker 1: Look?
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  Speaker 6: I think the most disappointing aspect of this is that
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  Speaker 6: what does it do to help the Aboriginal people Here
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  Speaker 6: in Australia there are lots of Aboriginal people suffer under
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  Speaker 6: the scourge of domestic violence, assault, family breakdown, drugs out
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  Speaker 6: of control in many communities, drugs and alcohol. I should say,
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  Speaker 6: and in many communities across Australia, and I would have
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  Speaker 6: thought the focus of the Australian government should be should
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  Speaker 6: be on them, It should be on what I not
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  Speaker 6: Western Europe, But what does the first nation's foreign minister
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  Speaker 6: do for those people? I just hope we can and
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to be hoping against hope, but we need
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  Speaker 6: to return to a practical indigenous policy. The voice has
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  Speaker 6: been rejected by the Australian people. That turned out to
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  Speaker 6: be a complete dead end in indigenous policy.
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  Speaker 1: Ever since the government's been spinning its wheels.
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  Speaker 6: But it's going to be very hard to fix the
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  Speaker 6: problems that exist in Indigenous Australia. But it's not hard
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  Speaker 6: to identify what we should be trying to do. What
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  Speaker 6: we should be trying to do is helping young Indigenous
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  Speaker 6: children stay in school and have better future economic opportunities.
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  Speaker 6: What we should be doing is promoting and supporting the
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  Speaker 6: great Indigenous businesses, and there are lots of fantastic Indigenous
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  Speaker 6: businesses in my part of the world. That was a
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  Speaker 6: corner stone of the former coalition's Indigenous policy, and we
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  Speaker 6: should be we should be seeking to create more jobs
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  Speaker 6: and opportunities in and around regional Australia and particularly Indigenous communities,
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  Speaker 6: that should be the focus. We're not going to solve
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  Speaker 6: those issues by traveling to other countries.
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  Speaker 1: The issues are.
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  Speaker 6: Here in Australia and so don't fly over indigenous communities,
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  Speaker 6: fly to them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon the seven hundred grand spent on flying
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  Speaker 2: the First Nation's ambassador and his team around the world
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  Speaker 2: could have been well spent in I don't know, say
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  Speaker 2: Alice Springs, fixing a few practical issues there. I want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about former Quantus boss Alan Joyce. He's warned
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  Speaker 2: that business leaders need to be wary of Jim Charmer's
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  Speaker 2: upcoming Productivity Summit. Recalling the government's twenty twenty two Jobs
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  Speaker 2: and Skill Summit, he said it dawned on him halfway
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  Speaker 2: through that talk fest that the entire thing had been
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  Speaker 2: orchestrated and outcomes preordained. He's told the Australian Financial Review
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  Speaker 2: that those invited to take part in the Productivity Summit
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  Speaker 2: should seek assurances from the Government they weren't going to
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  Speaker 2: be blindsided.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Does he have a point?
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  Speaker 1: Well, definitely.
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  Speaker 6: The first Jobs and Skilled Summit was a complete failure.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind about summit.
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  Speaker 6: The government did not invite the Productivity Commission.
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  Speaker 1: To come along.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm not being a Monday expert here.
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  Speaker 1: I said that at the time.
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  Speaker 6: I wrote a column at the time saying that why
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  Speaker 6: isn't the Productivity Commission invited here? One of the biggest
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  Speaker 6: issues is productivity and the government start did nothing on
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  Speaker 6: that in its first term. And look, I welcome the
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  Speaker 6: fact that belatedly it's talking about it, but perhaps in
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  Speaker 6: regards to Alan Joyce's warning, it would be maybe it
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  Speaker 6: would be even better if the government did have a
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  Speaker 6: preordained outcome, because right now they seem to have no plan.
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  Speaker 6: There seems to be absolutely no economic agenda in regards
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  Speaker 6: to productivity or anything else. This particular summit seems like
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: it's going to be let a thousand hairs run, And
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: there're just hairs running all over the place at the moment,
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: about increasing the GST, putting a tax on the mining industry,
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: reducing the amount of working hours that people can have
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: it and know how that will people help pay them
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: pay their bills. But there's all these random ideas coming
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: from left, right and center, and the government seems to
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: have no control of the agenda that should be concerning
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: for all Australians because in the first term of the
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Labor government we have seen our living standards absolutely crashed
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: by eight percent, more than anywhere else in the world
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: by far, and it would be be good. One thing
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: we could perhaps hope for and wish for, not unreasonably
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: hope for, is a government with a plan. This goverment
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: doesn't seem to have one.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: It's a really good point.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Just quickly, before I let you go, I want to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: ask you about a new South Wales. Labor government promised
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: to have one hundred and twenty six electric buses built
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: in the state, but planning documents reveal that parts from
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the Chinese supply will arrive in Australia, full painted and constructed,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: and all that will happen in the much hyped now
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: a bus building hub is the bits will be put together.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Matt calling that manufacturing is like assembling a flat pack
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: desk from my care and calling yourself a carpenter, isn't it?
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, perhaps wouldn't be too negative. They're putting together
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Some of those Chinese made flat packs can be very difficult,
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: depending on the instruction manuals that they can sometimes be
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: hard to decipher.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: But look, I don't know. I don't know enough of
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the details here.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: It seems like obviously the new Cervil's Gub is not
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: living up to a promise that's clearly not manufacturing, not
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: what people would expect. But really, I think we need
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: to come back to the real villain. Here is the
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: reason we can't do these things, these basic things anymore,
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: is because we have some of the highest energy prices
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: in the world, and China has lower energy prices than us,
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: even though we send them our energy resources like coal
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: and gas. How have we allowed a situation to emerge
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: where those who buy our energy resources end up with
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: cheaper electricity prices that we have ourselves.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: It's very simple. How that's happened.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: We don't use the energy resources we let them or
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: we send to them.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: That should be reversed.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Matt Canavan, it's always a delight to speak with you.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me tonight. Well, in a moment, I'll
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: be asking former Israeli government spokesperson Elon Levy what he
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: thinks of Petty Wong signing a statement condemning Israel's actions
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: in Gaza.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to hear his response. That's coming up
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: in just a moment. Welcome back to the program.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: More than two dozen countries have signed a letter calling
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: for an immediate, permanent and unconditional cease fire to the
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: war in Gaza. The letter makes a fleeting reference to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the hostages, but focuses on chastising Israel, accusing the Jewish
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: state of drip feeding aid into Gaza, an act the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: letter says, is dangerous and unacceptable. Among those signing the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: letter were the UK government, the French government and of
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: course the Albanesi government. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke boasted
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: that it's our government's strongest statement yet.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: On the war in Gaza.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Now, don't forget terrorists are still holding fifty hostages in
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: tunnels below Gaza. They've been held hostage now for six
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five days and could have been released
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: on any one of those days, but haven't been. Imagine
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: if we saw a strong statement from our government about that,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: don't hold your breath. Joining me now is former Labor
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: MP and past Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair Michael Danby.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Michael, just briefly.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Reading through the contents of this letter and help me
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: understand why Penny Wong felt the need to sign it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Well, I think she's virtue signaling to the people outside
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: demonstrating outside Parliament House and to her majority socialist left
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: faction in the government. And as you and Chris Kenny
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: have been critical of the mainstream media, just one run,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: one narrative about this, So it's primarily domestic. It's got
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: little to do with the actual situation.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: There is an.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Actual cease fire which is waiting in the wings as.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Very close to be being signed.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: The Israelis have okayed it for more than a week.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: It's being pushed by the Trump administration and it's now
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: only waiting for Hamas.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: To sign on as well.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: The Israelis have made further concessions to them.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: So.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: It's critical of the Wong Lammi International statement is critical
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: of the Israeli aid distribution system. Of course, the United
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Nations and corrupt organizations like the UN Welfare and Relief Association,
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: which Penny Wall insists on continuing to stuff Australian taxpayers
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: money down their throat want to keep control of the
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: A because so many of them are sympathetic to Hamas,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: and Hamas doesn't want to lose control of the aid
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: distribution system. I urge your viewers, James, to go to
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Google any of you can see what's just happened tonight
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: with the many convoys go in from the north of
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: the Gaza strip Hummas thugs jump on the top of
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: them with the AK forty sevens and distribute them to
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: people that they like, or they take them to their
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: hummus dens and then.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Resell the goods.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: So it's talking about ceasefire that's already happening, putting pressure
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: on Israel when pressure should be put on Hamas perfunctory
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: references to the hostages, and it's designed to help ruin
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: the fifty million packages of food that the Gaza Humanitarian
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Foundation have distributed direct to Palestinians without it being intercepted
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: by Hamas.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Michael, I need to be quick, so I want to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: bring in Elon Levy. But here's the thing that galls me.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Our government has delayed acting on any of the recommendations
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: into addressing the anti Semitism crisis right here in Australia,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: while being very busy signing letters condemned Israel internationally. Let us,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: by the way, that won't make any difference to what's
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: happening in Gaza. What does that tell you about the
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: government's priorities here in this country.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Well, it's an ideological and obsessive approach that's not based
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: on reality. So someone in your street, James, has got
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: their house burning down and you say, oh no, we
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: can't have the fibrigade do anything about it until all
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: the other residents in the street are investigated about what
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: might or might not have happened to them. It's a
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: disgraceful call for inaction and delay that Jason Clare and
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Tony Burke have been involved in. Sad to see, it's
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: not going to help the future of Australia.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but as I said, very quick to sign this
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: letter and fire it off about events, why go to
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: your Cadendal, I've got to finish it there because no
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: worries so to bring Levy but I'll see you soon,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: exactly exactly. I appreciate you joining.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Let's cross to Israel now and bring in former Israeli
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: government spokesperson Elon Levy.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Elon, it's always great to talk with you.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Australia has signed this letter calling for an immediate and
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: unconditional ceasefire, as well as chastising Israel for its actions
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: in Gaza. If you could address our politicians who signed it,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: particularly our Foreign Minister Penny Wong, what would you say
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: to her?
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: I'd ask Senator Wong, are you proud that Hamas has
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: praised your letter? Do you think it's a glorious ringing
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: endorsement of Australian foreign policy That a g Had terrorist
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: organization is endorsing a letter signed a bit of the
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: Australian foreign minister. This is a disaster. What Australia, the
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: UK and other countries have just done is to sabotage
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: very sensitive ceasefire talks. Israel has agreed to a ceasefire.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: Hamas is blocking a ceasefire. And when Hamas looks at
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: pressure on Israel, it sees a reason to dig in
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: its heels, not to give any ground, not to be
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: flexible in negotiations, because it says, why should we bother
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: making concessions to end this war? The rest of the
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: world is going to do it for us. So I'm
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: terrified for the hostages who are trapped in Gaza right now.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: I'm terrified for people who are still inside Gaza. I'm
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: terrified for our soldiers because we were negotiating a ceasefire,
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: and the pressure needs to be on Hamas, not on Israel,
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: because that's just encouraging Hamas not to agree to a
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: ceasefire and to dig in even deeper.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Well, that brings me to my next question. Why is
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: it that nations like ours call on Israel to immediately
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: end the war rather than calling on the terrorists to
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: immediately surrender and release the fifty remaining hostages, which of
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: course would end the war.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: That's an excellent question, and I can only say that
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: foreign ministers are looking for a quick fix instead of
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: addressing the real challenging questions. You know, at one point
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: in the statement they call for a negotiated ceasefire. In
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: the next paragraph they call for an un conditional ceasefire.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: Which is it? How can it be both negotiated and unconditional.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: Of twenty eight foreign ministers, no one read the statement
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: and realized they're contradicting themselves inside the same statement. Israel
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: is facing impossible dilemmas, and Australia understood this at the
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: beginning of the war. After the October seventh massacre, Australia
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: called for a ceasefire and said it can only be
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: sustainable if Hamas relinquishes power. Well where are they now?
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Hamas is refusing to relinquish power. You call for a ceasefire,
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: Do you really think it's going to be sustainable, because
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: we know that a ceasefire that leaves Hamas in place
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: just starts the clock ticking towards the next war. What
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: we need now is pressure on Hamas to accept a
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: temporary ceasefire and let some of the hostages go, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: then we can have negotiations over a permanent settlement in
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: which the whole world, the Arab world, Australia, the UK,
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: go to Hamas and say it's game over. You are
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: never ruling the Gaza strip again. We're not giving a
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: penny to reconstruction. If it's going to go back into
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: your tunnels, you need to lay down your arms. You
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: need to give up power, You need to free all
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: of the hostages, and you need to let this war
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: that you started.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Finally end.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Elon, Just finally, what do you say to people who
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: are obviously upset, and rightly so, by reports that Palestinian civilians,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: including children, are being killed as a result of Israeli
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: military operations.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: I think people are right to be upset because war
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: is horrific. That's why it's important this war end permanently,
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: and it can only end permanently if Hamas is removed
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: from power, or the next war will be a matter
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: of time. Hamas must be defeated in this war because
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Hamas can never be left free to launch another war again.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: It can be never be left free to launch another
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: war where it's fighting from inside schools and homes and
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: hospitals and hijacking and taxing aid and making life a
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: misery because it views human lives as expendable as martyrs,
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: while Israel is trying to avoid harm to civilians. So
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: if you want this war to end, you need to
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: lay the blamed squarely at the feet of the terrorist
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: organization that started this war, that's fighting it from behind
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: women and children, and that refuses to end this war.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: Pressure it to take the ceasefire.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Well, Elon Levy, it's always good to speak with you,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: and thank you for the clarity with which you speak.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Appreciate your time tonight. We'll coming up after the break.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Hunter Biden has gone on a profanity riddled rent, Plus
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the Obama administration has been accused of treasonous conspiracy against
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Sean Spicer will join me with the details after.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: This Welcome back.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: In the lead up to the twenty twenty eight US election,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: the Republican's secret weapon may well be Hunter Biden. Joe
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Biden's troubled son has given a rambling interview in which
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: he says white Americans are violent illegal migrants necessary to
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: clean hotel rooms, and his father's disastrous debating performance against
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump was due to him being doped up on
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: sleeping tablets, is some of what he had to say.
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: He's eighty one years old, he's tired to give him
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: ambien to be able to sleep. He gets up on
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: the stage and he looks like he's a deer in
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: the Headlaites and it feeds into every story that anybody
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: wants to tell. And Jake Tapper with literally how many
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: anonymous sources if this was a conspiracy, Andrew you know this.
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: Somehow the entirety of a white house in which he
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: literally living on top of each other has kept their
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: mouth showed.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Now, if I were the Republicans, I'd be hoping. Hunter
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Biden keeps on giving interviews right up until the twenty
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: twenty eight election, joining me now is former White House
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Sean, I want to go through
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: a bit of what Hunter said, but let's start with
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: claim that his father was affected by sleeping tablets during
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: that disastrous presidential debate.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: What do you make of that claim?
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, first, it's the first time that we're
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: hearing about that, right, James, It seems odd that literally
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: a year ago this happened and now we're hearing about it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: Number two, Look, just stop and think about this for
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: a second. You're giving the most consequential political interview debate
• 32:27
  Speaker 9: moment of your life.
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: That's what that really would have been.
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: And to think that taking an ambient before that would
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: have been smart, I just don't. He's under the constant
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: care of some of the best doctors in the world.
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: It doesn't pass the smell.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Test, if you will, come on, Sean Hunter, Biden wouldn't
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: be lying, would he?
• 32:47
  Speaker 9: Or Yeah, the idea that he's blaming everybody for things
• 32:51
  Speaker 9: that were obvious and frankly a cover up. He wants
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: to blame George Clooney, White people, David Axarod Pluff, all
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: of the innitad done, his father's own top staffers, it's
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: just I mean, at some point it's pretty sad. I mean,
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: you're blaming everybody but looking in the mirror.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Well, Sean, just on that. Let's some have listened to
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: what he said about George Clooney.
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: He is a like I don't know what he is.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: He's a brand. And by the way, and God bless him,
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: you know what. He'spusly, treats his friends really well, you
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: know what I mean, buys them things, and he's got
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: a really great place in Lake Como, and he's great
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: friends with Barack Obama. You what do you have to
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: do with anything? Why do I have to listen to you?
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: What right do you have to step on a man
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: who's given fifty two years of his life to the
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: service of this country.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: So Hunter claims Clooney deliberately embarrassed his father in retaliation
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: for Joe Biden criticizing the arrest warrant issued for Israeli
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: President Benjamin Nett and Yahoo. The warrant was drawn up
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: in part by George Clooney's wife. Talk about conspiracy theories, Sean.
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: He wants to blame everybody else for his problems. The
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: bottom line is that from all the books that are
• 34:02
  Speaker 9: coming out. It's pretty obvious that Hunter Biden played a
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: very large role, so maybe, just maybe he should look
• 34:08
  Speaker 9: in the mirror and blame himself. But beyond that, nobody
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: was talking about him. James, I mean, the CEO of
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: that tech firm was getting all the play in America
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: after that shot on the Coldplay Kiss Camp. And yet
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: Hunter Biden then stepped in the middle and said, no,
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: I want to say something even dumber.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: It's one more thing he said that's worth noting. Hunter
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: was highly critical of white people, and they're distain of
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: illegal immigrants. Have a listen, and please excuse the profanity.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: But it seems Hunter is unable to express himself without
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: liberal sprinklings of the F word.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Here he is, people are.
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: Really upset about illegal immigration. You, how do you think
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think he
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: got food on your table? Who do you think washes
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: your dishes? And he's somehow convinced all of us that
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: these people are in criminals.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: So it's a little rich Fahanta Biden of all people
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: to be talking about law and order.
• 35:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Yeah, a guy who, let's just say, hasn't been
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: the most upstanding person when it comes to law and order,
• 35:12
  Speaker 9: but beyond that, on principle, James, He's wrong as well.
• 35:15
  Speaker 9: I mean, look, I believe that there is a debate
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: in this country about paying people. You know, part of
• 35:20
  Speaker 9: the problem that we have with illegal aliens in this
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: country is that we're not paying the American people in
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: some cases what they should be paid, and it's a
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: back door. So I think there's a conversation that could
• 35:32
  Speaker 9: be had.
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: But to blame that on to say, I.
• 35:35
  Speaker 9: Mean, look, this is the weirdest thing for people who
• 35:38
  Speaker 9: claim to care about other people.
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: Just stop for a second.
• 35:41
  Speaker 9: The Democratic Party writ large the left and Hunter Biden,
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: I would throw into that whole category, are basically saying,
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: let's not criticize the people that we treat as less
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: than human. Let's not critique the people who you know,
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: he keeps saying, these people who work in our hotel
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: rooms and do all this stuff and clean our houses. Well,
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: at the end of the day, they are instead of
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: advocating for their behalf and saying no, no, no, no, let's
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: figure out how to get around this and pay Americans
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: to do this, they actually want to perpetuate this class
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: of people. I find it so ironic that we're having
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: this discussion and that Hunter Biden wants to perpetuate that myth.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: It's a really good point. All right, Let's move on
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: to some other issues in the.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: United States right now. This one's interesting. Director of National
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard has said she has evidence that former
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: President Barack Obama used his last days in office to
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: lay the groundwork for the Russia collusion conspiracy that would
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: ultimately plague Trump's first term. She's using words like treason here.
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: She is President Obama ordered be published which contained a
• 36:45
  Speaker 11: manufactured intelligence document. It's worse than even politicization of intelligence.
• 36:50
  Speaker 11: It was manufactured intelligence that sought to achieve President Obama
• 36:55
  Speaker 11: and his team's objective, which was undermining President Trump's presidency.
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  Speaker 9: Where do you see this going, Well, James, look, this
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  Speaker 9: is personal for me and for a lot of people
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  Speaker 9: that worked for President Trump. We were investigated or called
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  Speaker 9: this witnesses during the Muller probe. And for people who
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: don't get this, this was literally thousands upon thousands of
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: dollars in legal fees. Many of my former colleagues got
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: bankrupted or had their life turned upside down. And so
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  Speaker 9: if we have evidence that shows that this all really
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: was not just a hoax but intentionally perpetrated. These people
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  Speaker 9: need to be held accountable, and I'm glad that Tulsea
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: Gabbert is making a referral to the Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 2: What chance that any criminal charges would ever be laid?
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  Speaker 9: You know, it's an interesting question. I hope good amount.
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  Speaker 9: I mean that's I hope that she had all over
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  Speaker 9: ducks in a row when she came out and made
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  Speaker 9: this charge.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, just when you thought the Democrats couldn't
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  Speaker 2: possibly nominate a worse candidate for mayor than Zoren Mamdani
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  Speaker 2: in New York, They've nominated Omar Fete in Minneapolis. He's
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: a Somali American Muslim who ultra left wing, and he's
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  Speaker 2: upset a lot of people with speeches like this one
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  Speaker 2: where he calls Somalia it's home.
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  Speaker 12: I understand that or some other communities are all connected
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  Speaker 12: to each other here in Minnesota and back home, and
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  Speaker 12: ask for your support. There's always been a link between
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  Speaker 12: our community here as well as back home, and I'm
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  Speaker 12: running to bridge that gap.
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  Speaker 2: Sean, what can you tell us about this guy, oh
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  Speaker 2: Ma Fete?
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  Speaker 9: Look, James, this is the same area where Congresswoman Ilan
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  Speaker 9: Omar is from. They sort of have a history of
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  Speaker 9: electing people that like to criticize America. At some point,
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  Speaker 9: I feel like the voters are getting what they deserve.
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  Speaker 9: So they've seen this movie before with her, She's represented
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: them in this area in Congress before. I thought a
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: lot of Americans would have got the warning with the
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  Speaker 9: leftist policies that Mandami was expressing in New York. But
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  Speaker 9: clearly this is what concerns me.
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  Speaker 3: Is a pattern.
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  Speaker 9: Is this just another one off candidate, or are we
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  Speaker 9: seeing the Democrats continue to elect people that are frankly
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  Speaker 9: associating themselves with far left socialist policies.
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  Speaker 3: Who just finally peaked.
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  Speaker 2: Budages is one of the key Democrats who will likely
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  Speaker 2: run for president in twenty twenty eight, but his big
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: won't be helped by revelations he spent more than half
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  Speaker 2: the Transport Department's budget on DEI programs when he oversaw
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: that for the Biden administration apparently spent more than eighty.
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  Speaker 3: Billion dollars in four years, not on things.
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  Speaker 2: Like upgrading air traffic control systems or better rail infrastructure,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: but on increasing diversity within the Transport Department.
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  Speaker 10: Here's the worst part, James.
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  Speaker 9: It's the why why he spent eighty million dollars on
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: DEI policies. It's because when he ran for president the
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  Speaker 9: first time, he had tremendous issues with the black population
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: in the Democratic Party, and so I think he wanted
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: to use these federal grants to really ingratiate himself with
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: especially metropolitan areas where there might be a primary in
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: early state. It's scary as a recent poll showed bootages
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  Speaker 9: at zero percent among Black Americans. Now here's the funny
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: thing about that. Most Poles have a plus or minus
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: three or four, so he actually could be in the
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  Speaker 9: hall with black Americans. It's that bad. But what shows
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  Speaker 9: me is not just how he wasted the money that
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: could have been spent on critical infrastructure in America, but
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: in fact that he tried to do something with it
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  Speaker 9: and got a zero result out of it, which really
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: speaks to his capabilities.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think he's Robinson Crusoe in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: I reckon He's got a few friends.
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  Speaker 2: In the United States, particularly amongst the Democrats. Sean Spicer,
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  Speaker 2: it's always a joy to speak to you. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks games, You bet.
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  Speaker 2: Well After the break, Toddler's told the perform a daily
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: acknowledgment of country at daycare, of course, plus a very
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: strange crime over night in Brisbane or captured on CCTV.
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  Speaker 3: That and much more with my panel in a moment Well.
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  Speaker 2: Parents at a childcare center in Lane Cove on Sydney's
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  Speaker 2: North Shore, have complained that their kids, some of them
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  Speaker 2: just three years old, are being forced to participate in
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  Speaker 2: daily acknowledgment of country ceremonies. The center involved has defended
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  Speaker 2: the move, saying these experiences help the children connect with
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  Speaker 2: the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in a meaningful
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  Speaker 2: and respectful way. Not sure how much it would mean
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  Speaker 2: to a three year old, to be honest, they go
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  Speaker 2: on to say, we remain committed to fostering an environment
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  Speaker 2: that recognizes and respects Indigenous people's past, present at emerging
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  Speaker 2: as the continual custodians of this land. That's bring in
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  Speaker 2: my panel with Sky News host and my co host
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  Speaker 2: on Daneka and James Sunday Nights, Danika de Giorgio and
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: host of Fire at Will, a podcast from the Spectator
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: on politics and culture, Will Kingston Daneka. Parents have rung
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  Speaker 2: into a Sydney radio station really upset about this childcare
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  Speaker 2: center having three year old's conduct acknowledgment of country. And
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  Speaker 2: that's rises me because just today URPM was telling the
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  Speaker 2: nation that these sort of ceremonies are not at all controversial.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, would you believe?
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  Speaker 13: And he also James said today the Prime Minister that
• 42:10
  Speaker 13: are welcome to country ceremony is like a warm hand
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  Speaker 13: graciously extended. I mean, I thought that was a real
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  Speaker 13: parla by the Prime Minister. But look, not only are
• 42:20
  Speaker 13: we subjected to these welcome to countries at sporting events,
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  Speaker 13: at school events, at Parliament everywhere you can imagine.
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  Speaker 10: Now we've got toddlers three years old.
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  Speaker 13: Just starting to learn their ABC's one, two threes, and
• 42:34
  Speaker 13: suddenly they're being indoctrinated into this new culture that seems
• 42:38
  Speaker 13: to be brainwashing even schools. I mean, we've got even
• 42:42
  Speaker 13: young children saying that they have to apologize to the
• 42:45
  Speaker 13: stolen generation, being.
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  Speaker 10: Made out that they're the enemy, that they're the problem.
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  Speaker 13: And I take real issue with this because it is
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  Speaker 13: creating this next generation of activists who are growing up
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  Speaker 13: to believe that we are the enemy. And we see
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  Speaker 13: it time and time again the protest. And this is
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  Speaker 13: why these culture wars matter, because these young people are
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  Speaker 13: being brainwashed and indoctrinated to think that there's problems in
• 43:07
  Speaker 13: society when they're simply not. Let children be children for
• 43:11
  Speaker 13: goodness sake, let them learn, let them play, let them
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  Speaker 13: have fun. Stop with this nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't agree more.
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  Speaker 2: Victoria Premier just Cinta Allan has refused to apologize after
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  Speaker 2: her government failed to produce thousands of documents relating to
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: childcare safety. Now, her government was supposed to supply the
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: documents by last Friday. The documents sought by Parliament include
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: warnings issued to centers throughout the state over the past
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  Speaker 2: three years. So obviously there's an interest in people knowing
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: what exactly has been communicated to childcare centers by the government,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: especially in light of horrific allegations of abuse in Victorian
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: childcare centers of recent times. So you'd think just Into
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Allen's government would be all over this, but she's not.
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  Speaker 3: And here's her excuse.
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  Speaker 10: Apologize for that.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 10: We are working through the process.
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  Speaker 5: The request for documents covered thousands and thousands.
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  Speaker 13: Of documents and we are going through the release of
• 44:09
  Speaker 13: those documents appropriately.
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  Speaker 2: So at a time when so many people are demanding answers,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Jacinta Allen makes a virtue of not providing any will.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, well, James, whenever a Victorian politics story comes up. Now,
• 44:27
  Speaker 14: I'm reminded of that H. L. Mencken quote that democracy
• 44:32
  Speaker 14: is the theory that the common man knows what he
• 44:34
  Speaker 14: wants and deserves to get it.
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  Speaker 1: Good and hard.
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  Speaker 14: This is the reality. The reality is the Victorian people
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  Speaker 14: for decades now have voted for this stuff. And I
• 44:43
  Speaker 14: know there will be Victorians watching who will say, certainly
• 44:45
  Speaker 14: I didn't vote for it, and I understand that. But
• 44:47
  Speaker 14: the reality is, this is what the Victorian people voted for.
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  Speaker 14: They voted for contempt. What she is displaying is contempt
• 44:54
  Speaker 14: for the voter. And you can show contempt for the
• 44:55
  Speaker 14: voter when you know there will not be any consequences
• 44:58
  Speaker 14: for that contempt. So the next scheduled for twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 14: If you want to stop this nonsense, you've got to
• 45:03
  Speaker 14: boot this horrific labor government out.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 2: I knowe the New South Wales government had a similar
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: quest and they made thousands of documents.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Available on time.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: But apparently it's not possible in Victoria, the federal government's
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: plan to ban young people from accessing YouTube could be
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: derailed after enormous backlash from parents who claim the search
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: engine helps their kids to learn. Labour's been pushing for
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: a ban on social media for under sixteens as part
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: of their online safety laws, and recently extended that ban
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: to YouTube Wouldn't you Know It after a meeting with
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: a delegation from Chinese controlled TikTok. But research has found
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: seventy two percent of parents Daneka think YouTube is a
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: useful platform for their kids. Parents, unsurprisingly the arbiters of
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: common sense here, Daneka, Well, who would.
• 45:51
  Speaker 13: Have thought, I mean, you're a parent yourself, James, I
• 45:54
  Speaker 13: could ask you the same thing.
• 45:56
  Speaker 10: But look, it's true.
• 45:57
  Speaker 13: I'm sick to death of governments putting their fingers in
• 46:00
  Speaker 13: every single person's household. How about we let parents make
• 46:04
  Speaker 13: the decisions on behalf of their children. How about we
• 46:07
  Speaker 13: actually let parents parent. But we saw this time and
• 46:10
  Speaker 13: time again with Labor. Remember when they tried to rush
• 46:12
  Speaker 13: that misinformation bill through the parliament, and they did it
• 46:16
  Speaker 13: under the guise of, oh, we're trying to keep you safe,
• 46:18
  Speaker 13: but at the same time we're going to sensor what
• 46:20
  Speaker 13: you you can see on the internet, because we're going
• 46:23
  Speaker 13: to decide what is misinformation and disinformation. You can't make
• 46:26
  Speaker 13: up your mind, but it's always under the guise of
• 46:28
  Speaker 13: we're trying to keep you safe.
• 46:30
  Speaker 10: It's Big Brother style.
• 46:32
  Speaker 13: And I actually do think that YouTube, to be honest, James,
• 46:35
  Speaker 13: is very helpful for children.
• 46:37
  Speaker 10: I personally have learned a lot off YouTube.
• 46:39
  Speaker 13: I even think it's a more safer platform for children
• 46:43
  Speaker 13: than say TikTok. I mean some of the nonsense that
• 46:45
  Speaker 13: comes up on TikTok and Instagram, but I actually think
• 46:47
  Speaker 13: it is.
• 46:48
  Speaker 10: A safer platform. So just let parents make the decision.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more all right, before we finish, One of
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: the most bizarre crimes took place in Brisbane this week.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: A woman woke up to five and her lemon tree
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: had been stolen from her front yard. The heist, which
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: took place around four in the morning, was captured on CCTV.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: Have a look.
• 47:09
  Speaker 15: This is the car. It goes past and then turn around,
• 47:11
  Speaker 15: turns around and comes back. Twenty seconds later here comes
• 47:15
  Speaker 15: the lady. I'm just going to zoom in and she
• 47:23
  Speaker 15: has a bag and pulls out my tree and runs off.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: With it.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: The owner of the lemon tree is apparently quite sour Denika.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Why would someone steal a lemon tree?
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 47:38
  Speaker 10: I just see James, I couldn't tell you.
• 47:39
  Speaker 13: Lemons are very expensive though at Coles and Woolli's at
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: the moment, but it's beyond me.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: Will just quickly.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Police have been told to be on the lookout for
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: lemonade stands opening up in the area.
• 47:53
  Speaker 14: To show I was reminded of that scene in the
• 47:55
  Speaker 14: Castle where Derek Darryl Kerrigan goes to Tuak and steals
• 47:58
  Speaker 14: the fancy gates. So I'm hoping that some David didn't
• 48:01
  Speaker 14: got life struggle going on here and not just petty theft.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, well, thanks to you both, appreciate your time tonight.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: That's all I've got time for, but stick around. Coming
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: up now is Sharry, hosted by Steve Price.
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  Speaker 3: Good Night,