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  Speaker 1: Goods is the Bulk Report.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to the Bolt Report. I'm Danikiti Giorgio.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up tonight, we look back on OLBOS twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: the epic fails that have plagued the Prime Minister and
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  Speaker 2: Labor throughout the year, and why there's no hope for
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  Speaker 2: redemption at the ballot box. The academic who hopes the
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  Speaker 2: new year brings an end to the state of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: the staggering amount of taxpayer funding she's receiving, and the
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  Speaker 2: renewed calls for the grants to be scrapped. Labor looks
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  Speaker 2: set to revive a blast from the past.
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  Speaker 3: Many scare the wild.
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  Speaker 2: Claims the treasure is making just twenty four hours after
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  Speaker 2: telling us to be optimistic about twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 2: with the housing crisis said to be a key issue
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  Speaker 2: for voters at the election, how is next shaping up
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  Speaker 2: and will the government's policies make any difference?
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  Speaker 3: Expert analysis shortly, but first.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are on the last day of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four and I want to end the year reflecting on
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  Speaker 2: the Albanezy government.
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  Speaker 3: And what Olbo's actually done for us this year.
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  Speaker 2: I look back at the sorts of promises made and
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  Speaker 2: how they've been implemented. Now, First, of course, there was
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  Speaker 2: that two hundred and seventy five dollars in energy bill relief.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that one. But no, that didn't happen, did it.
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  Speaker 3: What about this promise?
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  Speaker 4: This is a part of easing the cost of living
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  Speaker 4: for Australians. We've done that whilst we provide cost of
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  Speaker 4: living relief for people. At the same time, we're looking
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  Speaker 4: after people where we can on cost of living pressures.
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  Speaker 4: Consistently in the Parliament we have spoken about cost of
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  Speaker 4: living pressures that people are feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Well considering the high inflation rate, rises, skyrocketing rents, a
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  Speaker 2: housing crisis and a household recession.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like that wasn't achieved either. What else was there?
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  Speaker 4: The idea for a voice came from the people and
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  Speaker 4: it will be decided by the people. Today I announced
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  Speaker 4: that referendum day will be the fourteenth of October.
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  Speaker 3: Oh dear, that didn't go so well either, did it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, there has to be something to
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  Speaker 2: show the substance of this Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 4: I've been traveling in the car so I haven't been
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  Speaker 4: advised about that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Look, I will give him one last chance.
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  Speaker 2: During a terror attack on a Melbourne synagogue, the Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister was at the scene immediately, wasn't he. He canceled
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  Speaker 2: on all his plans. He was there showing how much
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  Speaker 2: he cared. Or oh no, actually he didn't do that either,
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  Speaker 2: So it's settled then. Albo has nothing to show for himself.
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  Speaker 2: As the year draws to a close, we still have
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  Speaker 2: the accidental Prime Minister in charge, Anthony Albanezi, a man
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  Speaker 2: who was handed the keys to the lodge, but still
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  Speaker 2: after two and a half years, has no idea how
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  Speaker 2: to turn the key and open the door. The reality
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  Speaker 2: is he's failed. He has not made your life easier.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, he has left us more exposed than ever.
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  Speaker 3: And the scary part is the worst could be yet
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  Speaker 3: to come.
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  Speaker 2: If Alvo survives a second term, it's highly likely it
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  Speaker 2: will be in minority government, reliant on the Greens, just
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  Speaker 2: like the Gillard years, except this time with Adam Bant
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  Speaker 2: as the de facto Prime minister. Albo ran out of
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  Speaker 2: steam after the Voice referendum and hasn't had any enthusiasm
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  Speaker 2: to run his country or be a leader ever since,
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  Speaker 2: and as a result, we are stuck with a puffed
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  Speaker 2: out Prime minister who has squandered his first term, a
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  Speaker 2: man who walks both sides of the street, desperate to
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  Speaker 2: be liked, and even in his New Year's message, he
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  Speaker 2: just can't quite strike the tone.
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  Speaker 4: As we look forward to a new year, we look
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  Speaker 4: back on the challenges we're faced here and around the world,
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  Speaker 4: and also the progress that we've made. Inflation is down,
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  Speaker 4: wages are moving again, and our tax cuts for every taxpayer,
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  Speaker 4: energy bill relieved, Cheaper medicine and cheaper childcare of help.
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  Speaker 4: But we know there's more to do. We know that
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  Speaker 4: in navigating the rough seas, we must always keep our
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  Speaker 4: eyes on the horizon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what horizon he is seeing, other
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  Speaker 2: than perhaps the one at the Coba Cabana, But it
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  Speaker 2: certainly doesn't fill you with much hope and optimism for
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, does it, Because when the clock strikes midnight,
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  Speaker 2: everything will still be the same and we still have albow.
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  Speaker 3: Now. Compare that message to Peter Dutton's.
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  Speaker 5: Our nation has endured three tough years. Australians have become
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  Speaker 5: worse off and our nation has gone backwards. Families are hurting,
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  Speaker 5: with everything costing more We've had a record number of
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  Speaker 5: small businesses going bust. Sadly, crime and hate have spread
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  Speaker 5: across many parts of our communities. Australia has taken a
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  Speaker 5: turn for the worse. But setbacks don't need to be
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  Speaker 5: set in stone.
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  Speaker 3: Now that is a leader who just gets it so.
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  Speaker 2: Reflecting back on the year of Albow, I believe there
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  Speaker 2: are five key areas in which he.
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  Speaker 3: Has failed us.
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  Speaker 2: Firstly, our values have been eroded because of out of
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  Speaker 2: control migration record one point one five million migrants have
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  Speaker 2: come to this country since Labor came to office. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: ever voted for a big Australia. Yet here we are.
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  Speaker 2: We can't sit back and pretend or tiptoe around the
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  Speaker 2: fact that there are people we have let into this
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  Speaker 2: country who wish us harm or hate Australia. You only
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  Speaker 2: need to look at the hate preachers who celebrated October seven,
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  Speaker 2: or those who gathered at the steps of the Sydney
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  Speaker 2: Opera House and chanted.
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  Speaker 3: Where are the Jews Now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm certainly not anti migration. I am the granddaughter of
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  Speaker 2: Italian migrants. However, the post World War II migrants loved
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  Speaker 2: this country and worked their backsides off to assimilate, and
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  Speaker 2: it's a shame that there are some, not all, but
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  Speaker 2: some who have been welcomed with open arms in the
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  Speaker 2: last few years who don't want to assimilate and don't
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  Speaker 2: appreciate our values or how lucky they are to live
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  Speaker 2: in a country like this, and as a result, our
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  Speaker 2: values are decaying. Secondly, ALBO has completely failed on the
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  Speaker 2: issue of anti Semitism. When did we ever think we
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  Speaker 2: would see in Australia where synagogues are firebombed, where anti
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  Speaker 2: Semitic messages are graffitied and cars torched, where flags of
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  Speaker 2: terrorist organizations are so brazenly flown in the streets. We
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  Speaker 2: can week out pro Palestine protesters occupy CBDs chanting anti
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  Speaker 2: israel slogans. Fourteen months after the October seven massacre. The
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  Speaker 2: lives of Jewish Australians have become worse and the leader
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  Speaker 2: of our country, the Prime Minister, is the only one
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  Speaker 2: who could have taken a firm stance and put an
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  Speaker 2: end to this from the beginning, But it took him
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  Speaker 2: five days before he even visited the site of the
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  Speaker 2: synagogue terror attack, and that tells you everything you need
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  Speaker 2: to know. So much so his disregard from Israel, for
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  Speaker 2: Israel has won the praise of humus. This is Anthony
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  Speaker 2: Albanese's Australia. The third point I'd make is on cost
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  Speaker 2: of living. In the days before the US election, Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump asked voters have your lives improved in the last
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  Speaker 2: four years? And clearly an overwhelming number thought not so.
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  Speaker 2: I'd ask you at home the same, have your lives
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  Speaker 2: improved under Anthony Albanesi.
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  Speaker 3: For all of those promises made.
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  Speaker 2: By Albow and Jim Charmers their alleged plans to fix
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  Speaker 2: the cost of living, they've made the crisis worse. Population
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  Speaker 2: growth is masking a per capita accession fueled by record migration.
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  Speaker 2: We've had record government spending. Power bills have risen more
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  Speaker 2: than twenty percent. We've had recorder petrol prices. Rents are
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  Speaker 2: up eight point five percent. Housing affordability is at its
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  Speaker 2: worst in more than two decades. Building approvals are at
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  Speaker 2: twenty year lows and thirteen interest rate hikes, and of
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  Speaker 2: course persistent high inflation. It hardly makes for a good CV,
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  Speaker 2: does it now. The fourth policy failure is energy. Labor
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  Speaker 2: is desperately trying to defend expensive renewable energy projects against
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  Speaker 2: environmental concerns.
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  Speaker 3: The irony in.
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  Speaker 2: That their green zelotry is sending us broke and backwards,
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  Speaker 2: not to mention the additional costs of putting up transmission lines,
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  Speaker 2: building in turbines and solar panels.
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  Speaker 3: The land is being carved.
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  Speaker 2: Up to house these monstrosities, all the while the experiment
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  Speaker 2: has jacked up prices, left us in limbo during heat
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  Speaker 2: waves and cold snaps, and in.
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  Speaker 3: The lurch for the future.
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  Speaker 2: We simply can't keep living in a part time power utopia.
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  Speaker 3: All this is Bowen rushes to.
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  Speaker 2: Close down coal plants, the only resource actually keeping the
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  Speaker 2: lights on. We need a proper energy source for the future,
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  Speaker 2: and that is nuclear. Not one country in the world
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  Speaker 2: has been able to meet demand for energy based on
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  Speaker 2: solar and wind only. And the final point I would make,
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  Speaker 2: the final failure is igniting culture wars. It all started
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  Speaker 2: when ol bow took us to the ballot box to
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  Speaker 2: divide us by the color of our skin, and in turn,
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  Speaker 2: sixty percent of us voted no to his divisive voice referendum.
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  Speaker 2: The progressive left is ultimately seeking to tear down the
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  Speaker 2: values and traditions of this beautiful country that once was
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  Speaker 2: with the end goal of destroying everything British settlers brought here.
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  Speaker 2: And this is why those culture wars matter, because the
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  Speaker 2: next generation is being brainwashed into feeling bad about being
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  Speaker 2: proud of this country or feeling bad.
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  Speaker 3: About celebrating Australia Day. So there it is.
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  Speaker 2: That's my take on the five key areas that Albo
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  Speaker 2: has failed us on. And look, I could have kept going,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to make it to midnight and wish
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  Speaker 2: for a better Australia in twenty twenty five and a
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  Speaker 2: change at the ballot box. Joining me now is Shadow
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  Speaker 2: Minister for Education, Senator Sarah Henderson. Senator, good to see you,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining me this evening. I
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  Speaker 2: want to start with the year of Albow. I've just
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  Speaker 2: given my say on his failures. I want to ask
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  Speaker 2: you how would you sum up twenty twenty four for
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  Speaker 2: the Prime Minister and Labor.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Janika, great to join you and happy new year
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  Speaker 6: to you and your viewers. It's been a disasters, not
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  Speaker 6: just twelve months, but two and a half years. Under Labor,
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  Speaker 6: Australians have gone backwards and it's pretty ironic in his
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  Speaker 6: message is Chris's message the Prime Minister is talking about
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  Speaker 6: rough seas when what this government has done is force
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  Speaker 6: Australians onto a sinking ship. So the best way to
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  Speaker 6: deliver a safe and prosperous and positive twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 6: is to get Australians off sinking ship by voting Peter
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  Speaker 6: Dunton and the Coalition at the next federal election.
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  Speaker 3: Look, absolutely, it's time for a change.
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  Speaker 2: And as I outlined there, there's been so many different
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  Speaker 2: policy failures.
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  Speaker 3: I could have kept going, Senator, but I want to
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  Speaker 3: talk to you about a lot of issues tonight, including
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  Speaker 3: this one.
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  Speaker 2: Mcquarie University has launched an investigation into academic doctor Randa Abdelfhata,
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  Speaker 2: a future fellow in the Department of Sociology, after a
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  Speaker 2: series of social media comments.
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  Speaker 3: Now In one Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Post, she wrote that Israeli Zionist demons are murdering, torturing
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  Speaker 2: and raping with zero restraint, hourly daily and the one
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  Speaker 2: you can see there, may twenty twenty five be the
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  Speaker 2: end of Israel. May it be the end of the
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  Speaker 2: US Israeli imperial scourge on humanity. Now, our viewers might
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  Speaker 2: remember earlier this year, doctor abdel Fatah and Parents for
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  Speaker 2: Palestine organized a kid's excursion where primary school children chanted
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  Speaker 2: into Fada and Israel is a terrorist state at the
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  Speaker 2: University of Sydney's pro Palestine encampment protests, Senator I wonder
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  Speaker 2: how Jewish Australians on campus would feel about these social
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  Speaker 2: media posts.
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  Speaker 6: Well, this is frankly a disgrace, and even worse is
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  Speaker 6: that the Albanezi government is doing nothing to stamp out
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  Speaker 6: this sort of anti Semitism. This is an academic who
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  Speaker 6: has supported Hamas by way of putting up positive posts
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  Speaker 6: on her social media as she, as you say, led
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  Speaker 6: the kid's excursion, encouraging children to chant terrorist slogans. She's
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  Speaker 6: called for the destruction of Israel, vile anti Semitic messages,
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  Speaker 6: and frankly, it is a disgrace that the government has
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  Speaker 6: done nothing about this eight hundred and seventy thousand dollars
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  Speaker 6: Australian Research Council grant. She should not be supported by
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  Speaker 6: the taxpayer. Frankly, I do not know how she can
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  Speaker 6: continue to remain at Macquarie University. But it is a
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  Speaker 6: shocking indictment on the Prime Minister himself and on the
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  Speaker 6: Education mini'st Jason Clare that they have done nothing to
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  Speaker 6: shut down academics like this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, just on that, so let our viewers know that
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  Speaker 2: this woman is the recipient of an eight hundred and
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  Speaker 2: seventy thousand dollars research grant funded by taxpayers, as you've
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  Speaker 2: just mentioned, from the Australian Research Council. I'm quite staggered
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  Speaker 2: by that, Senator. Surely that needs to be reviewed.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, and that's why I wrote to the Minister Jason
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  Speaker 6: clear back in April, demanding that the government cancel this grant.
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  Speaker 6: Why should taxpayers be funding this sort of a shocking
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  Speaker 6: activism and hate and it is hate. And you know
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  Speaker 6: we've also seen no action from the Australian Research Council,
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  Speaker 6: no action from mcquarie University. And now, of course, when
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  Speaker 6: you appease these activists, as the government has continued to
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  Speaker 6: do by not taking a zero tolerance approach to anti semitism,
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  Speaker 6: that embolders them. And now of course she's ramping up
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  Speaker 6: the rhetoric, she's ramping up the hate, bringing mcquarie University
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  Speaker 6: into disrepute. But again reminding Australians that the Albanese government
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  Speaker 6: does not care about anti semitism in our community. It
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  Speaker 6: is all talk but when it comes to showing strong act.
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  Speaker 6: We have seen a complete failure of leadership, a failure
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  Speaker 6: of moral courage, and it is absolutely appalling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly is.
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  Speaker 2: And it's been disappointing all year as well, from the
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  Speaker 2: university sector, the way they have handled those encampments, the
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  Speaker 2: way they've handled situations like this, it's been appalling from
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  Speaker 2: the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Senator, I want to ask.
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  Speaker 2: You about this desperate attack by Victorian Labor on Peter
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  Speaker 2: Dutton with this social media post put out featuring his wife. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Dutton has since responded overnight saying I can assure you
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  Speaker 2: the Liberal Party I lead will not be targeting Jody Hayden.
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  Speaker 3: Of course that's the Prime Minister's partner.
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  Speaker 2: He went on to say I would ask the PM
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  Speaker 2: to equally respect my wife, which is fair enough, Senator,
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  Speaker 2: because families should be kept out of politics. But I've
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  Speaker 2: got to say it was only then at that point
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  Speaker 2: that the Prime Minister ordered the Victorian branch to take
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  Speaker 2: down that post. How desperate is Labor to be putting
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  Speaker 2: out these sorts of ads in the.
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  Speaker 6: Beginning, Denika, this is complete desperation politics. This is gutter
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  Speaker 6: conduct by Labor. A shocking smear against Peter Dutton and
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  Speaker 6: his wife. As you say, families should be kept out
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  Speaker 6: of politics, But it just goes to show that labor
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  Speaker 6: has got no agenda. Labor has got no solutions to
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  Speaker 6: the cost of living crisis. Of course, particularly in Victoria,
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  Speaker 6: we have Victorian labor and federal labor running this state
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  Speaker 6: off a cliff. Of course, I'm a proud Victorian senator.
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  Speaker 6: Victorians have had enough and it just goes to show
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  Speaker 6: how utterly desperate labor is. There will be more of
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  Speaker 6: this to come, there is no doubt about it. But
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  Speaker 6: I think Australians have had enough of this. They want solutions,
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  Speaker 6: they want a positive agenda, and that's what we will
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  Speaker 6: deliver under Peter Dutton, a government determined to stand up
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  Speaker 6: for Australians, to drive down inflation, to run the economy responsibly,
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  Speaker 6: to manage migration, to fix our housing crisis, and to
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  Speaker 6: get Australia back on track.
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  Speaker 2: Are you expecting an ugly campaign in the lead up
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  Speaker 2: to the federal election.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we're already seeing these sorts of ads.
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  Speaker 2: We know that labor has really desperately gone to new
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  Speaker 2: lows with targeting nuclear We've seen the three headed fish,
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  Speaker 2: the disturbed animals, the distorted animals. Is this a sort
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  Speaker 2: of campaign the Coalition is expecting.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, look, we don't expect anything other than lives from Labor.
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  Speaker 6: We've seen Anthony Aveneasy. He lied his way into the
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  Speaker 6: lodge claiming there would be a two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 6: five dollar reduction in Australian's power bills. We know, of
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  Speaker 6: course that families have suffered increases in their power bills
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  Speaker 6: of up to one thousand dollars. You cannot trust a
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  Speaker 6: word Labor says, whether it's energy, whether it's medicare, whether
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  Speaker 6: it's immigration. And frankly, I think even the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 6: in his Christmas message he wasn't even looking confident. I
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  Speaker 6: think he knows that he is the accidental Prime Minister,
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  Speaker 6: that he has grossly let down Australians, and Australians have
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  Speaker 6: had enough. It is time and really frightening, and you
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  Speaker 6: did mention this in your opening, Daneka. We simply cannot
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  Speaker 6: afford a minority government, one controlled by the Greens, which
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  Speaker 6: would be absolutely frightening. So again I call on all
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  Speaker 6: Australians to back the Liberals, back the Nationals, back are
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  Speaker 6: Peter Dutton lead coalition government to get Australia back on track,
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  Speaker 6: because that is what all Australians deserve.
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  Speaker 2: A minority would be a disaster for this country. Sarah Henderson,
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  Speaker 2: always appreciate you joining me. Thank you so much and
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  Speaker 2: happy new Year. Appreciate your time well. I spoke earlier
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  Speaker 2: about Labour's mass immigration policy and without it we would.
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  Speaker 3: Be in a recession.
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  Speaker 2: This is a Ponzi scheme economy being propped up by migration,
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  Speaker 2: so of course it suits labor politically.
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  Speaker 3: All the while, we.
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  Speaker 2: Have a housing crisis. Roads are congested and rents a
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  Speaker 2: sky high. Just last week, the International Monetary Fund warned
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  Speaker 2: we need a major policy package to deal with unaffordable housing.
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  Speaker 2: To discuss the housing crisis and what it means in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, I'm now joined by chief economist at
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  Speaker 2: the Center for Independent Studies, doctor Peter Tulip.
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  Speaker 3: Peter, good to see.
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  Speaker 2: You, Thank you very much this evening. Firstly, describe it
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  Speaker 2: to us. How would you describe where the housing market
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  Speaker 2: is in this country right now?
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  Speaker 7: I think housing is one of our biggest social problems
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  Speaker 7: and this isn't just my view. I think opinion polls
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  Speaker 7: place housing is one of the top concerns that voters
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  Speaker 7: and households have and it's swinging votes. The problem is
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  Speaker 7: has many dimensions. One of the worst is the social
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  Speaker 7: divisions that it's pitching, pitting old versus young, the housing
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  Speaker 7: haves versus the housing have knots, the rich versus the poor,
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: and a lot of young people, a lot of renters,
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: a lot of young home buyers are very angry at
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: being blocked out of the opportunities that previous generations had
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: to build a home and to afford housing near where
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: they worked. So there's a lot of anger and bitterness there.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: It's causing a lot of low on problems that our
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: home ownership rate is falling substantially, and I think that
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: the home ownership is a bedrock of Australian society. So
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: that's a big problem, not just that the people involved.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: Rental stress is rising. That's causing a lot of problems
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: for low income earners and high housing one of the
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: biggest causes of homelessness, which I think is one of
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: the ugliest features of modern Australian cities. Problem in all
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: sorts of different ways. But to be fair, a lot
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: of people are actually doing well out of this housing market.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: If you bought housing several years ago before the pandemic,
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: then your net wealth has increased very substantially. So it
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: is slightly mixed, but on balance it's a big problem.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Well, and I think you raise a very interesting point
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: because there is such a social divide. I know, for
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: my generation, we would love to be able to break
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: into the housing market something that was much more easy,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I'd say, for instance, for my parents' generation.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: And now this is an acute vote driving issue. So
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: what's the solution here?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: What sort of policy do both sides need to take
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: to the next election to actually make meaningful change in
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: this sector?
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Right, So, experts have pretty much agreed that the main
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: reason housing is so expensive is because of limited supply,
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: and in turn that's because of serning restrictions or planning
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: source so called. That is, we have restrictions on what
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: can be built where, how much, what it can be
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: used for, and in particular, most of our big cities
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: are reserved for detached housing, so we don't allow enough apartments,
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: enough townhouses, enough density, And that restriction on supply in
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: any market, when you re should supply, it jacks up
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: the price. So that's the main solution, how do we
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: do that. The main thing is we need to change
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: as owning regulations and that's a responsibility of state governments.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: And we are seeing at least a lot of retric
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: but also some policy moves from the New South Wales
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: and Victorian governments. They're probably leading the country in terms
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: of telling local councils that they need to allow more building.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: That's the big story going on with housing policy. There's
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: also a lot quite a bit at a federal level.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Do you want me to talk a bit about that.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Well, sure, I mean, look, labor has tried to implement
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: a number of policies. My issue with this is that
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: they promised that they would build a certain amount of
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: houses and they're not even close to that target.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: So where are we heading with these policies?
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so I agree with you there. I mean, I
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: I try not to be partisan on this, but I mean,
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: and to sound a little bit balanced, I think state
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: labor governments are actually leading the country. But at a
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: federal level, the opposition has got more constructive policies to
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: deal with this problem that the alban Easy government has
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: really focused on social housing, where they're spending a huge
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: amount of money for very little return. So they have
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: a bunch of gimmicky policies like the housing affordability funded
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: and rent to buy, built to rent sorry and helped
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: to buy, all of which some of them are bursting
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: housing by thirty thousand, some by forty thousand. It doesn't
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: add up to much at all. We've got eleven trillion,
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: sorry eleven million housing stock in Australia and the policies
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: of the Albaniz and barely amounting to rounding error on that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: In contrast, Peter Dunnon wants to build five hundred thousand
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: houses through housing friendly infrastructure and I think that is
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: actually a very constructive, useful policy.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Well, look, as I said, Peter, this is an acute
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: vote driving issue because we've got migrants coming into this country.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: It's propping up this economy. But the problem is that
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: we don't have houses. People are trying to get into
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the housing market and rent the sky rocketing. So there
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: needs to be a plan from both sides to take
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: us forward. Really good to speak with you, doctor Peter Tullip.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for joining me this evening. Stay
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: with us after the break as support for Labour nosedives,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: so too is support for the Greens as the cost
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: of living bites.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: My all star panel. Gary Hardgrave and Bronwin Bishop joined
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: me next. Welcome back. Well.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Younger voters have shifted towards the two major parties and
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: cut their support for the Greens over the past three months.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: According to the latest Resolve political monitor, Australians aged eighteen
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to thirty four have cut their primary vote for the
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Greens from twenty seven to twenty three percent during the
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: final quarter of this year, driving their support below the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: level seen at the last election. Joining me now is
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: former Liberal MP and four BC Brisbane Drive host Gary
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Hardgrave and former Speaker of the House Bishop.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: What an all star panel to end the year. I'm
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: very excited to have you both on. Thank you for
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: joining me. We'll start with you.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Why do you think there is a trend away from
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the Greens.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I mean we saw it in the.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Queensland and the Act elections and now this poll confirms it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: Well, Denegga, the Greens are truly a vile party. They
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: really are. They hate Australia, they hate I worry of life.
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: They do everything they can to attack it. Their attitude
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: in the conflict in the Middle East with regard to
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Israel is just disgraceful, and I think young people are
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: waking up to it. And the interesting I think is
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: that no matter what Albo says and comes out and says, oh, well,
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: the Greens of this, that and the other thing, and
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: pretends to deride them, at the end of the day,
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: still takes their preferences. And I think it should be
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: that the Greens go last on everybody's heart a vote ticket,
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: and that includes the Labor Party if they're a fair income.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: But of course we know they're not. And whenever he
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: says he won't do a deal with the Greens, you know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: he speaks with faulk tongue. But I think the interesting
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: thing is that of the four points that have dropped
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: for the Greens, two have gone to Labor and two
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: have gone to the Coalition. I think that's really a
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: very interesting place.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Well, you raise a very good point there, Bromwin and Gary.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: This is the thing because in the event of a minority,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Labor will rely on the Greens. How do you feel
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: about Albo as Prime Minister with Adam Banch as a
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: de facto.
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: Well, that frightens the tripe out of me, and I
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: reckon it frightens a lot of young people too, because
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: I think what's been happening is the conversation that I've
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: been wanting to see for some time, where older Australians, parents,
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: grandparents are talking to the younger Australians and saying it
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: doesn't have to be this way. I mean, Peter Dutton
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: is made of the right stuff. Albow is made of leftovers.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: It's real simple, and albow he will fold the second
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: that band says this is how high you need to jump.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: And this whole question about the climate change conn is
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: now being proved to be exactly what we've been warning
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: for years. It's been a way of taking money off you,
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: taking money away from you. It's not been about anything
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: for the environment. And I think people know that the
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: days of the past could be the days of the future.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: We can't have a future made.
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: In Australia if currently everything's made in China, including all
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: the solar panels and all the wind turbites. I mean, yeah,
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: I think people have worked Alboux out Film me one,
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: shame on you, film me twice, shame on me. And
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: I think young people have really cotton on the con
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: at the Greens and Elbow have been offering.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's the biggest con out there. I mean, good
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: luck trying to sell that one between now and an election.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Now look here we go again.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: It looks like medi Scare, which of course failed, oh
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: so dismally Befomer leader Bill Shorton. It's said to get
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: a labor revival for the upcoming federal election. Jim Chalmers
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: is reportedly paving the way for a new year medi
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Scare campaign, claiming Peter Dutton would undermine the National Health
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Insurance scheme rockwin?
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Will medi scared two point zero? Or is it three
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: point zero?
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: Now?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: What is it? Will this work? Look?
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: Honestly, surely it just shows that they've got nothing else
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: to sell. They really are scraping the bottom of the
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: b And when you look at the scare that was
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: brought about in the Turnbull election, well Turnbull had done
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: a lot of other things that turn people off, including
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: his pro renewable policies and moving away from the position
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: that we'd held strongly under Tony Abbott and John Howard
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: of course before that. But I just see that when
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: they turn to medicare, I think I remember Tony Abbot's words,
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: the best the coalition is the best friend Medicare ever had.
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: And under coalition governments the rate of bulk billing was
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: high than I think it's ever been. But what's happened here,
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: because the cost of living has been pushed so high,
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: it's affected doctors as well. And that's why so many
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: people are finding that bulk billing's going backwards, because doctors
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: are finding their going backwards too, So everything they touch
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: just turns to trash. And this threat that Chalmers thinks
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: he can wheel out just shows that the man who
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: is going to reform capitalism has fallen. As I call
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: in the snake Charmer, it's all an illusion.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Oh oh, I like that one. That's the best one
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I've heard Yager spot on and I think you're both
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: like this. I've got to play you this bit of
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: audio from Jason Clare today. Have a look at this.
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: Elections are about a choice, and at this election, Australians
• 30:26
  Speaker 10: are going to have a stark choice between a government
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: that's working hard, that's focused on the things that Australians
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: are focused on, like the cost of living, or an opposition, which,
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: to be frank is just a bunch of lazy Scott
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: Morrison leftovers that don't have any ideas.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Gary, you know these slogans, these lines that are now
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: being trotted out, they're just so immature.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they are.
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: And we saw that rubbish had came out of the
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: Victorian Labor Party which the Prime Minister was forced to
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: disavow attacking Peter and carely Dunton, which was just unforgivable
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: and just completely wrong. And this is because there's children
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: in the ranks. There's so many children involved in the
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: political decision making and frankly on both sides that you've
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: got to watch this. So too many younger people with
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: sort of using university politics kind of view of the
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: world are involved. And that's obviously who was involved with
• 31:22
  Speaker 9: that meme that attacked Peter and Curley done the other day.
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: But you know, Jason Claire should be better than this. He
• 31:28
  Speaker 9: thinks his greatest achievement in education is sending the bill
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: for a whole lot of Heck's debt to every taxpayer
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: rather than those who actually got the benefit of the education.
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: He's done nothing but actually preside over a decline in
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: education standards around the country. And I'm a former education
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: Department Minister. So I can say with a great deal
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: of pride that this education task, like the health task,
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: has just gone backwards under this mob.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: And yet they.
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: Believe they are the virtue seeking or the virtue signals
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: in those particular portfolios. No, you know the rubber head,
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: it's the road and the results are there. They might
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: be targeting the cost of living, but they're making the
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: cost of living the biggest burden in a generation. And
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: Labour's policies are deliberately hurting destroying Australia and indeed our
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: reputation economically as well as socially around the world.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and we are going broken backwards because of it,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: as we are poorer for it. Now I set you
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: both a challenge to give me your big prediction for
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: next year. I said to you could be anything locally internationally,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Bromwin will start with you.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Your big prediction for next year.
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: Well, I've got three.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: First of all, I think Wokism came to Australia from
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: the United States, and I think Trump, with his new
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: policies and new attitudes and the new result will bring
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: the cure down to Australia for Wokism. The second thing
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: I think was Trump will pull out of the Paris Agreement, and.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: That means that the Boeham Elbow.
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: Desire to sacrifice Australia on the altar of climate change
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: will fail. And my third one is that Dutton will
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: form government in twenty twenty five.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I knew you get that one in and I totally agree.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: I think all three points are so valid. Gary over
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: to you. Your prediction for next year.
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: Well, I've basically got the same prediction. I think the
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: key thing is three weeks from now, Donald Trump becomes
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: the president of the United States. Within ours things will
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: change and for the good because we've actually got to
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: get ourselves back to the kind of common sense, values
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: based delivery for everyday Australians. And the trigger point is
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: going to start in Washington in just three weeks time.
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: It really is because, and you cannot see it any
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: other way, Donald Trump will be the great change maker,
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: not just a deal maker, but a change maker for
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: the world.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: He's actually going to be.
• 33:59
  Speaker 9: The one guy, along with probably Benjamin Netnia, who and
• 34:04
  Speaker 9: in so many ways, that will actually rescue the West
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: and Elbow will not know which way to go, so
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: he will just simply depart and everyone will cheer and.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Life will go on and we'll be all happy.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Well, well, look fingers cross, but I do agree with
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: both of you. I feel there's a sense of optimism
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: in the air with Donald Trump coming in. So fingers
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: crossed for a better twenty twenty five. Gary Hardgrave, Bronwyn Bishop,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Happy new Year to both of you. Thank you very
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: much for joining me yes evening, thank you will stay
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: with me. After the break we head to the Northern Territory,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: where prison numbers are surging ahead of new bail laws
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: that are about to kick in, plus the call to
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: regulate the sale of hand sanitizer. Our man on the
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: ground Matt Cunningham, with the details. Next, welcome back to
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: the program. Well, is this what it's come to in
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the Northern Territory. The Police Commissioner has flagged greater restrictions
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: on the purchase of hand sanitizer stop alcohol abuse after
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: hearing that people were drinking it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: This is what he said.
• 35:05
  Speaker 11: What we're seeing. We have seen it for some time
• 35:07
  Speaker 11: since COVID access to hand sanitizer. But being in Alice
• 35:12
  Speaker 11: Springs with coffee with a cop a number of people
• 35:14
  Speaker 11: told me about their concerns about hand sanitizer being mixed
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: in with zero beer, so they're tasting a beer that's
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: now alcoholic and it makes people not think straight and
• 35:24
  Speaker 11: make poor choices.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Other products containing alcohols, such as mouthwash, are already kept
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: behind lock and key in the territory. For more on this,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I'm joined by Sky News Northern Australia correspondent Matt Cunningham. Matt,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us. Look, I guess
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: the prospect of banning hand sanitizer seems.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: A bit ridiculous. I don't know if it's a.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Knee jerk reaction, is this heavy handed or what is
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: actually going up on up there.
• 35:52
  Speaker 12: Well, I think that it's probably a better indication of
• 35:56
  Speaker 12: just how bad the issue of alcohol abuse here in
• 35:59
  Speaker 12: the Northern Tier territory is. So a lot of people
• 36:02
  Speaker 12: are shocked when they come for the first time to
• 36:04
  Speaker 12: a place like Darwin or Alice Springs that they go
• 36:06
  Speaker 12: to the supermarket. Say you're looking for your deodorant and
• 36:09
  Speaker 12: you realize that you actually can't get it unless you
• 36:13
  Speaker 12: buzz and attendant and then they come and get that
• 36:15
  Speaker 12: product for you from behind the doors of a locked cabinet.
• 36:20
  Speaker 12: That's something that probably came in maybe four or five
• 36:22
  Speaker 12: years ago. So we're seeing that with deodorant. You see
• 36:26
  Speaker 12: it with mouthwash as well. The only mouthwash wash that's
• 36:29
  Speaker 12: available on the shelf will be non alcoholic mouth wash.
• 36:33
  Speaker 12: Anything that it contains any alcohol actually has to be
• 36:36
  Speaker 12: kept behind the counter of a supermarket. And you also
• 36:41
  Speaker 12: see some products like Vanilla Essence our placed behind the
• 36:44
  Speaker 12: counter in stores to prevent people buying it and using
• 36:48
  Speaker 12: it for the alcohol that's in it. So, you know,
• 36:51
  Speaker 12: I think what you're really seeing here, rather than a
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: knee jerk reaction, I think what the Commission is talking
• 36:56
  Speaker 12: about is just how bad the issue of alcohol abuseing is.
• 37:00
  Speaker 12: We have some of the strictest measures not just in
• 37:03
  Speaker 12: the country but in the world when it comes to
• 37:05
  Speaker 12: alcohol regulation, and yet still you see people going to
• 37:09
  Speaker 12: these extraordinary lengths, such as using hand sanitizer to get
• 37:15
  Speaker 12: their fix.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Look, clearly, this is a big problem, and I've got
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to say it is sad to hear. I guess though,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: the question is why not better educate people and try
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: and address the root cause. Otherwise nothing will get solved
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: and the outcomes will continue to be so bad.
• 37:31
  Speaker 12: Well, that's a good point, I would say, not just
• 37:34
  Speaker 12: when it comes to alcohol abuse, but when it comes
• 37:37
  Speaker 12: to a range of the issues relating to law and
• 37:39
  Speaker 12: order and crime that we're also seeing here in the
• 37:41
  Speaker 12: Northern Territory. I think, unfortunately, what you're seeing here, though Diniker,
• 37:46
  Speaker 12: is a generation that's just too far gone. If it's
• 37:48
  Speaker 12: someone who's in their thirties or forties, I think they're
• 37:52
  Speaker 12: probably beyond the point of a re education campaign. You're
• 37:57
  Speaker 12: talking about someone who's probably been chronically addicted to alcohol
• 38:01
  Speaker 12: since they were a teenager or sadly, in many cases
• 38:05
  Speaker 12: even younger, and that they will do anything they can
• 38:10
  Speaker 12: to basically become intoxicated. So those regulations and restrictions I
• 38:15
  Speaker 12: was talking about a minute ago. In the Northern Territory,
• 38:18
  Speaker 12: in the past ten years or so alone, we've had
• 38:20
  Speaker 12: the introduction of a band Drinker Register, which means that
• 38:23
  Speaker 12: you know, if you are labeled to be a problem drinking,
• 38:25
  Speaker 12: you cannot buy alcohol. We've had the introduction of a
• 38:29
  Speaker 12: minimum flow price, which the new government is about to remove,
• 38:33
  Speaker 12: but it means that alcohol can only be bought at
• 38:36
  Speaker 12: a minimum set price. It basically takes some of those
• 38:39
  Speaker 12: cheaper cask wines and some of those other cheaper products
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: off the shelf, and a range of other regulations, and
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: yet they've had little or no impact when it comes
• 38:49
  Speaker 12: to worsening rates of alcohol abuse and alcohol fuel crime.
• 38:53
  Speaker 12: So you know, this is the extent of the problem
• 38:56
  Speaker 12: that we're dealing with, and restrictions in many cases don't
• 38:59
  Speaker 12: even see to work because when those restrictions are put
• 39:02
  Speaker 12: in place, people go to even greater lengths to get
• 39:05
  Speaker 12: hold of that product. We've heard stories. I remember reporting
• 39:09
  Speaker 12: on this after the COVID nineteen pandemic, when we saw
• 39:13
  Speaker 12: the doubling of dole payments and we saw early access
• 39:17
  Speaker 12: to superannuation and a lot of money floodingto people's bank accounts.
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: You saw situations where a bottle of bunderberg Rum, according
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: to police, was being sold in some cases in remote
• 39:28
  Speaker 12: Northern Territory communities for up to nine hundred dollars. So
• 39:31
  Speaker 12: there's no expense that people won't go to to get
• 39:35
  Speaker 12: this product. And if they can't get that product because
• 39:37
  Speaker 12: the restrictions make it illegal for them to get that product,
• 39:40
  Speaker 12: they will go to other lengths. And in this case,
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: we're seeing what the Police Commissioner is talking about here,
• 39:46
  Speaker 12: which is hand sanitizer, and he says that they're actually
• 39:49
  Speaker 12: using hand sanitizer and mixing it with zero alcohol beer
• 39:53
  Speaker 12: which can be bought freely off the supermarket shelf.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Look, it's not good and there really needs to be
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: a focus on the top end more moving forward and
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: of course with more resourcing. Now, Matt, the Northern Territory
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: has once again broken its prison population record, with just
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: over two five hundred people locked up as of December thirty.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: More than one percent of Territorians will actually ring in
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: the new year from inside a jail cell, meaning the
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Territory has the second highest prison rate in the world
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: behind l Salvador, Matt, that's a shocking statistic. How much
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: pressure are jails under up there and what is the
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: territory government doing about it?
• 40:30
  Speaker 12: Well, the prisons are under extreme pressure. The Union that
• 40:34
  Speaker 12: represents prison officers today saying that overnight they had seven
• 40:38
  Speaker 12: hundred prisoners in lockdown and only two officers working on
• 40:42
  Speaker 12: the same shift. Every facility in the Northern Territory in
• 40:47
  Speaker 12: Alice Springs in Tenant Creek, the Barkley Work Camp, the
• 40:51
  Speaker 12: Dutchelor Work Camp in Normanboy, and two prisons in Darwin
• 40:55
  Speaker 12: are completely full as our police watchhouses. The new government
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: has has made no secret Danika that it is running
• 41:03
  Speaker 12: on a tough on crime agenda. It was elected in
• 41:05
  Speaker 12: a landslide in August because it was promising to get
• 41:09
  Speaker 12: tough on crime. Things will probably get even worse when
• 41:14
  Speaker 12: it comes to the prison number situation come Monday when
• 41:17
  Speaker 12: new bail laws come into effect that will remove the
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: presumption for bail for many serious offenses and mean that
• 41:25
  Speaker 12: it's more likely that more people will be placed on remand.
• 41:28
  Speaker 12: But the government's making no apology for this. One thing
• 41:31
  Speaker 12: that they have already done is repurposed the old Dondale
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: Youth Detention Center. It's now being used to house more
• 41:38
  Speaker 12: than one hundred adult male prisoners. It is moving youth
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: detainees from Alice Springs to a new facility in Darwin,
• 41:46
  Speaker 12: and the Alice Springs Youth Detention Center is being transformed
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: into a new women's prison, and it's also going to
• 41:52
  Speaker 12: build another women's prison on the site of the existing
• 41:56
  Speaker 12: male and female prison that's in the Darwen suburb of
• 42:00
  Speaker 12: Halts at the moment. So there's a massive infrastructure a
• 42:03
  Speaker 12: body of work that's underway at the moment. The prison
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: population numbers have been growing at a rapid rate for
• 42:10
  Speaker 12: some period of time, and I would expect them to
• 42:13
  Speaker 12: continue to do so. So, I mean, the government is
• 42:16
  Speaker 12: dealing with one issue on the one hand, because it
• 42:19
  Speaker 12: has a population here that has been outraged about the
• 42:22
  Speaker 12: level of crime and what the public see as a
• 42:24
  Speaker 12: lack of consequence for many of those crimes that are committed.
• 42:28
  Speaker 12: It's promised to crack down on that area, but that
• 42:30
  Speaker 12: is going to cause it some other headaches when it
• 42:33
  Speaker 12: comes to actually finding a place to put all these
• 42:37
  Speaker 12: people who are being locked up.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Matt Cunningham really appreciate the work you do. Thank you
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: for joining us this evening.
• 42:43
  Speaker 12: Thanks to Naka.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Victorian taxpayers have been slugged forty thousand dollars for a
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: new dining table at Parliament House, replacing one dubbed two uncomfortable,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: in what has been described as a Saddam Hussein inspired
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: spending spree. Now is the Daily telegraphs Tim Blair, Tim,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: good to see you. Let's bring up the photos of
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: this new dining table please, and now it's been described,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: would you believers bespoke, solid timber and an eight seater Now,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but forty k for that
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: wooden and uncomfortable, I would describe it. My back would
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: hurt on that.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: What do you think?
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Well, see, I'm torn here because you know, on the
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: one hand, it's way too expensive obviously, and you don't
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: want a lot of money spend on politicians. On the
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: other hand, though you're right, it does look uncomfortable, and
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: for that reason I would pay how politicians subjects that
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: sort of a that sort of ordeal seriously forty grand
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: that that object. It looks like something was patched into
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: a bad real estate at for a house you work
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: at a pie, doesn't it? But also, I mean there
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: might be enough for labor after six.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Well, it's been described, as I said, as bespoke, Tim.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: That's apparently this is what's in fashion in the furniture world, allegedly.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Now look, Elon Musk has hit out at the Sydney
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Morning Harold, part of nine Newspapers, of course, for quote
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: boring audiences to death. It comes after the outlet published
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: an article predicting that Musk would leave Tesla to focus
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: on his work with Donald Trump, to which Elon responded,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: I predict that the Sydney Morning Harold will continue to
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: lose readership in twenty twenty five for relentlessly lying to
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: their audience and boring them to death.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Tim Elong is one of.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: My MVPs of twenty twenty four. He doesn't mince his words,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: does he?
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not? But in this case, Elon's usually several decades
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: ahead of the curve on all manner of thing, but
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: in this case he's at least twenty years behind because
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the Sydney Onner Herald's been boring people to death for
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: a very long time. I mean, you know, he's got
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: one excuse. He's over there in the US. He's not
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: familiar with this sad shell of a newspaper. But you
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: can go back to I think maybe the mid nineties
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: when the collapse really began at the Stimulony Herald, and
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: of course just continued. So yeah, he's exactly right, just
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: late to it on this case.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Now, look, you've written in the Daily Telegraph that twenty
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: twenty four was a great year to shoot your boot
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: for pollys and salams.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: You've got a great list there. I've read the article.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: You've got Albern Easy Biden, Lisa Wilkinson, Kevin Right, give
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: us a brief summary, please, of your losers of the year.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Well, these losers aren't the type that you'd find who
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: just you know, had to go and have just fallen short.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: These losers people like for example Biden, who challenged Donald
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Trump to a big debate and he brought it on himself.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: All of them have brought about their own demands. They're
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: all the authors of their own failure. From Lisa Wilkinson
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: for getting all up in and we talking about being,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: as she put it, as a tabloid journalist. Oh no,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: not a cop that's been a tabloid basically before career,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: to our own Kevin Runn, who thought he was on
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: a winner m Donald Trump at the number a number
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: of comments places online and then didn't really expect it.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Did.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Trump came back?
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he certainly did.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I do like that you put Kevin run in there,
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: because I would have put Kevin run and Joe Biden.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: G I mean, it's been a shocking year, but you know,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: he brought it all upon himself in the end. I've
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: got to say, Now, look, before we let you go,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: let's both talk about our favorite moments for twenty twenty four,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: starting with yours. You've got an academic from the US
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: before and after the election result.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Let's have a look.
• 46:46
  Speaker 13: I was talking to the guy in the store, of course,
• 46:49
  Speaker 13: and the women are voting in numbers relative to men
• 46:53
  Speaker 13: that are unbelievable. She's won this, and I said to him,
• 46:56
  Speaker 13: she's going to take every one of the swing steats
• 46:58
  Speaker 13: plus or plus Iowa Camp factor in the impact of
• 47:02
  Speaker 13: racism or the existence of racism and misogyny.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, insufferable, insufferable, aren't they.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: The thing that makes that that clip or that whole
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: story is so beautiful is that you can actually see
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: why the Democrats the defeated in the US arrogant cultural
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: elitism talking down to a guy in a shot for
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: a minute, I'd adviser or viewers to try and find
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: a clip. The woman's name is doctor Arlen. But yeah,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: she arrogance of it. And then when she's proven wrong,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: when she got the whole thing wrong, this political expert,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: she turns it around and blames the vote because they're
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: all racist for sloponess. Oh you know, you can only lose.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Oh look absolutely, I mean they've all been left with
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: egg on their faces, haven't they?
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: Look mine?
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Has to be Donald Trump's fight fight fight moment after
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: he was shot. I don't think that anyone can under
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: estimate how big of a moment that was. I think
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: it changed the trajectory big time of the US election.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: It spoke to so many people, so many people in
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: his base from different pockets of America, and he really
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: won America over with that moment. We're almost our time,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: but just quickly, what do you think of that moment?
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: You've called it exactly correctly, Denika, a friend of mine,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: lifelong Democrat in the US, has changed his vote overnight.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: It just won so many people over and it's going
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: to continue to do so.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: I completely agreed, Tim Blair. It's always lovely to speak
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: with you. Happy New Year. Thank you very much for
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: joining me on the show this evening, and that is
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: all we have time for.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: I hope you have a safe and happy New Year's Eve.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: I'll be back again to do it all tomorrow night,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: but stay with us.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Up next is the Late Debate