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POLICY FAILURES, HOUSING, AND THE BONDI ATTACK · The Slippery Slope

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  The pattern is no longer a pattern, it's a playbook.
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  Australia has a leadership problem.
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  Not a small 1, not an isolated one, but a national 1A problem
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  where governments make reckless decisions, ignore warnings and
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  then act shocked when the consequences explode in their
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  faces. My name is Jay Fallon and thank
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  you for listening to The Slippery Slope.
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  With the red light. On I'm Just waiting for the
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  Change. So I spoke about all of this in
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  a previous episode. It was titled We Broke It, so
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  now we Can fix it. Back then I was talking about
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  the Queensland Police Service leadership decisions that drove
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  officers out of the job. And then the same leaders, they
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  stepped forward, pretending they were the ones who could fix it.
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  But this isn't just a policing issue.
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  This is a governing issue, a culture issue, a national
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  leadership crisis. And now we're seeing the same
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  failures play out in two areas at once.
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  You've got housing policy and national security.
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  So we've got a housing crisis that was built on a lie.
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  The federal government promised 1.2 million homes.
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  Big shiny number that made headlines, but there was a
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  report that was released. This report was by the Build
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  Skills Australia. This report exposed the truth.
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  The workforce doesn't exist to build all these homes.
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  The training pipeline doesn't exist.
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  The regional capacity doesn't exist.
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  The plan doesn't exist. This wasn't a housing strategy.
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  It was a political sedative, a promise designed to calm the
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  public, not to be delivered. And I've been speaking about the
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  housing crisis. We've got so many homeless
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  people throughout our nation, and government policy
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  exacerbates the problem. And then comes Bondi.
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  While the government was busy selling fantasy housing numbers,
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  something far more serious was brewing.
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  According to multiple reports, the Bondi Beach attack was
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  followed by a rapid political response.
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  You've got tougher hate crime laws, a national gun buyback,
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  new restrictions on extremist symbols in speech, strong
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  actions on paper. But here's the uncomfortable
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  question. Why were these measures only
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  urgent after the attack? Because before Bondi, the same
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  government, they. For one, they allowed protests
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  where openly anti-Semitic chants were reported. 2 They allowed
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  hate speech to escalate in public spaces.
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  Three, they allowed tensions to rise unchecked. 4 They funded
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  religious leadership groups, including, as I spoke about, the
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  Grand Mufti, who, despite the fact that he publicly called
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  publicly called for jihad against the state of Israel,
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  they still funded his leadership.
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  These are not accusations. These are facts reported in the
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  media and they raise legitimate questions about judgment,
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  priorities and consistency. So now we've got contradiction
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  that can't be ignored. After the Bondi attack, the
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  government suddenly became the champion of stopping hate speech
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  and then protecting communities and removing dangerous weapons
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  and cracking down on extremism. But where was this urgency
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  before the attack? Where was this leadership when
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  anti-Semitic rhetoric was escalating at protests?
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  Where was this leadership when community tensions were boiling
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  over? Where was this leadership when
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  controversial religious figures were receiving government
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  funding? Again, these are not claims of
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  causation. These are questions of
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  responsibility. Because leadership isn't just
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  about responding to crisis, it's about preventing them.
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  We have a slippery slope of political failure.
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  This is the same slope I exposed I spoke about in my QLD policing
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  episode. Step 1, you ignore the warning
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  signs. Step 2, you make decisions that
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  inflamed the problem. Step three, you downplay the
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  consequences. Step 4A, crisis erupts.
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  Step 5, the same leadership steps forward with solutions.
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  Solutions that make headlines, Solutions that expand and their
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  power. Solutions that distract from the
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  fact that their earlier decisions contributed to the
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  environment in which the crisis occurred.
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  This is not leadership. This is political damage
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  control. So what do we need?
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  Look, Scripture warns us about leaders who heal the wound of my
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  people lightly saying peace. Peace when there is no peace.
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  Announcing a gun buyback after a terror attack is not peace.
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  Announcing new hate speech laws after years of ignoring rising
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  tensions is not peace. Announcing 1.2 million homes
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  when there is no workforce to build the homes is not peace.
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  It is the illusion of peace. A Band-Aid over a bullet wound.
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  Real leadership requires foresight, courage and
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  accountability, not just press releases and press conferences.
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  So the question that Australians must be asking, every Australian
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  deserves an answer to Why does our government only act after
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  the damage is done? Why do they ignore the warning
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  signs? Why do they tolerate escalating
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  tensions? Why do they fund controversial
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  figures like the Grand Mufti to the to the sum of $27 million?
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  Why do they allow hate speech to flourish publicly and then claim
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  more moral authority after tragedy strikes?
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  And why every single time do they present themselves as the
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  solution to problems that grew under their watch?
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  Listen, this isn't about the left side or the right side of
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  politics. It's about leadership.
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  And I believe we're actually being failed by either side of
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  politics anyway. Australia doesn't just have a
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  housing crisis. Australia doesn't just have a
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  security crisis. Australia has a leadership
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  crisis. We have a crisis of
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  accountability. We have a crisis of courage.
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  We have a crisis of truth. As I've said before, what is
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  truth? Our leadership in Australia
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  doesn't seem to understand what truth is.
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  So until this changes, we will keep seeing the same cycle.
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  The cycle is neglect, escalation, crisis, political
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  theatre. We deserve better and it's time
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  we start demanding it. Of course, this is all my
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  opinion. Please let me know what you
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  think. Please give me a like and share.
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  I'm Jay Fallon. Thank you for listening to the
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  Slippery Slope They. Just feel the desire they will
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  take me higher. I'm on fire because.
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  Nothing's. Gonna bring me down.
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  And nothing 's going to stop me now, and nothing's going to hold
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  me down. Got my eye on the eyes.
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  Got my side of the clouds.