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The Rita Panahi Show | 8 April · The Rita Panahi Show

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  Speaker 1: On scoring MS Australia.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Reader Paney Show.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panehy Show. Coming
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  Speaker 3: up tonight is Labor abandoning its ambitious net zero targets.
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  Speaker 3: My panel will join me shortly to discuss that. In
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  Speaker 3: the day's other leading headlines, whole show victorious soaring debt
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  Speaker 3: is a top issue for voters ahead of the state election.
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  Speaker 3: The Australian Newspaper's Victorian Political editor Anthony Galloway will be
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  Speaker 3: here to discuss that. The Great John Heindereker will have
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  Speaker 3: the latest from the US, including President Trump's ceasefire deal
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  Speaker 3: with Iran, and later in the hour we crossed to
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  Speaker 3: Michael LOFTUS for entertainment news, as well as the latest
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  Speaker 3: bizarre developments involving Christy Nomes's cross dressing husband and Left
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  Speaker 3: is Losing It features this crazy eyed Swedish doom goblin
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  Speaker 3: be speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 4: Is anyone even doing at this point? We have normalized genocide?
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  Speaker 3: But first New reports today suggest that Labor has dropped
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  Speaker 3: references to its eighty two percent renewables by twenty thirty
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  Speaker 3: target in a preliminary draft of its national policy plan
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  Speaker 3: that it will take to the next federal election in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight. Labor sources have tried to downplay the omission,
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  Speaker 3: confirming the party remained committed to ambitious and achievable twenty
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  Speaker 3: thirty and twenty thirty five targets. Let's bring in the
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  Speaker 3: panel now, former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger and
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  Speaker 3: Menzi's Research Center senior fellow Nick Cator.
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  Speaker 5: Michael, are we finally starting to.
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  Speaker 3: See cracks in Labour's net zero agenda?
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  Speaker 6: Well, we certainly are, and it's a very important story
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  Speaker 6: in the Australian newspaper. You see what happened at the
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  Speaker 6: beginning of the net zero transition argument. It's the Left
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  Speaker 6: for win the debate because people were sold on this
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  Speaker 6: idea of Rita that renewables were reliable and most importantly,
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  Speaker 6: they were the cheapest form of energy. As time has
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  Speaker 6: gone on, the lived experience of people is these renewables
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  Speaker 6: are unreliable, they are extremely expensive, and we were lied
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  Speaker 6: to and people's experience is not what they were told.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Bowen said to everyone, prices will be cheaper
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  Speaker 6: by two hundred and seventy five dollars. He said that
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  Speaker 6: at the twenty two election, and that was their symbolism
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  Speaker 6: to say to people, here's the evidence that were cheaper. Well,
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  Speaker 6: that promised went and gone, and people now don't believe
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  Speaker 6: they're the cheapest form of energy well whatsoever. And you
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  Speaker 6: can see labor now crab walking away from the target
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  Speaker 6: because it can't be met. Renewables are too expensive. And
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  Speaker 6: that's the lift experience of people.
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  Speaker 3: Nick with the left winning the net zero argument though
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  Speaker 3: because the right was refusing to fight it, we saw
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  Speaker 3: the coalition embrace net zero and now they have walked
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  Speaker 3: away from that and there is some debate. We are
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  Speaker 3: seeing people change their minds because, yes, the lived experience
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  Speaker 3: suggests that renewables aren't the form'st cheapest form of energy,
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  Speaker 3: particularly when you're factory in all the infrastructure costs.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think reality is beginning to catch up with
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  Speaker 7: this debate RETA. And you know, back in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 7: when they put this eighty two percent target in place,
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  Speaker 7: it's reminded ourselves eighty two percent of our electricity would
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  Speaker 7: come from wind, solar and water. They know that was
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  Speaker 7: they were winning the argument. But as time has gone
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  Speaker 7: on and we get closer to twenty thirty. We realize
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  Speaker 7: that is not going to happen by any means. And look,
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  Speaker 7: I love, I love Chris Bowen and labors are nothing
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  Speaker 7: to see here.
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  Speaker 1: Act over there.
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  Speaker 7: Oh it's just a tiny thing. Well, if it's a
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  Speaker 7: tiny thing, put it back on your platform. Let's see
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  Speaker 7: eighty two percent back on there. And while you about it,
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  Speaker 7: why don't you put on the two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 7: five dollars reduction in the annual electricity bills for households,
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  Speaker 7: because that was part of the same reputex modeling that
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  Speaker 7: you did in twenty twenty two when you're in opposition
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  Speaker 7: the website. Incidentally, the report that shows that modeling has
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  Speaker 7: disappeared for the website, incidentally, But this is crazy modeling.
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  Speaker 7: They've stuck by it as long as they can, but clearly,
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  Speaker 7: if they're elected in twenty twenty eight, it just becomes
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  Speaker 7: a joke.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 3: It's modeling done by activists. Well you can take that
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  Speaker 3: with a grain of salt, can't you.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 3: National's leader Mac Canavan slammed Prime Minist Antony Alberanezi at
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  Speaker 3: the National Press Club today in a speech calling for
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  Speaker 3: an economic revolution and the scrapping of net zero, and
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  Speaker 3: he noted too that the PM failed to mention NET
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  Speaker 3: zero during his address to the nation.
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  Speaker 8: The Promister did not mention net zero once, not once.
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  Speaker 8: I mean he does, he'll say to what I'm saying, say, oh,
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  Speaker 8: he wants a future made in Australia. Who wants similar
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  Speaker 8: goals to see that. That's great, But the whole centerpiece
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  Speaker 8: of the Future madeen Australa agenda, the whole point of
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  Speaker 8: Labour's manufacturing policy is to pursue NED zero. That's what
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  Speaker 8: it all flows from. And yet the Prime Minister did
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  Speaker 8: not even mention that goal here on this stage last.
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  Speaker 3: Week, and the Nationals leader had plenty more to say
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  Speaker 3: about the Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 8: Effectively, now Albo likes to present himself as a DJ
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  Speaker 8: is now cover band, just singing the greatest hits of
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  Speaker 8: decades ago. But they're just they're not they're not they're
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  Speaker 8: not really as good as the original.
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  Speaker 3: Michael has this fuel crisis exposed the PM as an
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  Speaker 3: empty suites is a man who's got some style, but
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  Speaker 3: there's not much substance there.
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  Speaker 1: Reader.
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  Speaker 6: We weren't prepared for the pandemic. We were underprepared. We
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  Speaker 6: didn't have backup medicines, et cetera, et cetera. We are
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  Speaker 6: unprepared for the fuel crisis we're suffering. Now, let's just
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  Speaker 6: hope no one invades us, because we're certainly not able
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  Speaker 6: to defend ourselves. I mean, Australia has abandoned self sufficiency
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  Speaker 6: in this quest, doing the.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of the global left world of.
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  Speaker 6: The left wing green utopia, and it's leaving Australia a
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  Speaker 6: barren country in terms of sufficiently.
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  Speaker 1: We're drowning green left regulation.
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  Speaker 6: We've lost our competitive energy advantage, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 6: The list goes on and on, and as he said,
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  Speaker 6: elbows trying to replace his greatest hits is his greatest hits,
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  Speaker 6: his buying election victories with increasing debt, promising free stuff
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  Speaker 6: to everybody, mounting up the national debt as it is
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  Speaker 6: in all of the Labor States. Australia is a country
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  Speaker 6: in serious trouble. It's over governed, overregulation, overregulated, and drowning
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  Speaker 6: in debt. We have zero defenses. We explored a lot
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  Speaker 6: of energy, a lot of energy production is banned, et cetera, etc.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Canavan and Taylor are right to say Australian
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  Speaker 6: needs a new beginning, and it needs without this labor
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  Speaker 6: government because this old sort of whitler mist agenda from
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  Speaker 6: thirty to forty years ago has driven this country to
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  Speaker 6: the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Reader, Nick, have a listened to what Matt Canavan said
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  Speaker 3: about net zero.
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  Speaker 8: We need to scrap this crazy net zero madness. We
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  Speaker 8: need to protect our industries again so we can defend
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  Speaker 8: our nation, and we need to grow our country aground,
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  Speaker 8: grow it in many different ways so there are more
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  Speaker 8: opportunities and most of all people can feel they can
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  Speaker 8: have a family, kind of babies. It's the most important
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  Speaker 8: thing in.
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  Speaker 3: Life, Nick, Members of the Canberra Press Gallery would have
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  Speaker 3: been very triggered by that sort of talk. But what
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  Speaker 3: did you make of this speech and the comments calling
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  Speaker 3: for a economic revolution in this country?
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  Speaker 7: Well, what I've seen of it, I agree wholeheartedly. We
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  Speaker 7: do need an economic revolution. We thought we'd had one
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  Speaker 7: in the seventies and the eighties, you know, eighties, particularly
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  Speaker 7: when we went into long period of economic reform under Keating,
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  Speaker 7: Hawk and Howard. But we've gone back on that, so
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  Speaker 7: we've got to have another revolution to get back to
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  Speaker 7: where we were. I thought Matt Canavan's point about net
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  Speaker 7: zero is very well made and he's got the credentials
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  Speaker 7: to make this right because he's always been against net
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  Speaker 7: zero and I think it was him and his rational
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  Speaker 7: economic mind that helped drag the Coalition across the line
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  Speaker 7: on that. So now they opposed net zero. One nation
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  Speaker 7: opposes that zero doesn't seem to be doing either of
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  Speaker 7: those parties in aggregate at least any harm at the polls,
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  Speaker 7: So we have to get rid of it. Here's the
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  Speaker 7: absurdity read. We've got the Energy Minister yesterday saying, oh,
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  Speaker 7: it's too expensive to store petrol and diesel. It's going
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  Speaker 7: to cost twenty billion dollars on his calculation over four years.
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  Speaker 7: It's not too expense apparently to push electricity or water
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  Speaker 7: uphill in some futile attempt to store electricity for it
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  Speaker 7: last us for about five minutes. I mean, it is absurd.
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  Speaker 7: He's spending almost as much, probably more when the final
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  Speaker 7: bill is in on snowy hydro too, than what he's
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  Speaker 7: saying it will cost us to have ninety days reserve
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  Speaker 7: of petrol and diesel. I know which I prefer our
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  Speaker 7: money to go to.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've got two big issues now, Michael, where the
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  Speaker 3: Nationals have really led the Liberals into a sane position,
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  Speaker 3: and a couple of years ago it was the Voice
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  Speaker 3: referendum where the Nationals were the first to say no.
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  Speaker 3: Liberals took about ten months to come to a position,
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  Speaker 3: and of course that was enormously a popular position.
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  Speaker 5: And also with net zero.
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  Speaker 3: The Nationals were the first to abandon net zero. And
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  Speaker 3: it's a very easy argument to win, and yet we've
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  Speaker 3: had the coalition on the wrong side on two pretty
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  Speaker 3: cool issues. Why is that, Michael, Why have we got
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  Speaker 3: such weakness in conservative ranks where they're too afraid to
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  Speaker 3: have the fight.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you don't fight, you don't win.
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  Speaker 6: And unless you draw a sinking between you and the
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  Speaker 6: other parties, you don't win. Unless you stand for something,
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  Speaker 6: you don't win. Unless you believe in something.
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  Speaker 1: You don't win.
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  Speaker 6: So if the political leadership are antidexus about major issues,
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  Speaker 6: then they should move on and let someone take over
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  Speaker 6: who is not ambivalent about major issues facing our country.
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  Speaker 6: The boys should have been imposed on day one. The
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  Speaker 6: National Party, a little proud led that debate. The answer
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  Speaker 6: is that was a debate which, if the referenduing past,
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  Speaker 6: would have divided this country forever by race forever, and
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  Speaker 6: that would have damaged our country severely for generations to come,
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  Speaker 6: and we should have opposed it on day one zero.
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  Speaker 6: I was concerned recently about getting rid of net zero.
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  Speaker 6: Why because in the nineteen and twenty two elections win
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  Speaker 6: a bit arguing forcefully in favor of it. Now all
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  Speaker 6: of a sudden we're ah.
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  Speaker 1: So if you start doing.
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  Speaker 6: Those things, you confuse the electorate and the elect things
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  Speaker 6: to itself.
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  Speaker 1: What do these people believe in?
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  Speaker 6: If you can't take a firm stand on things, do
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  Speaker 6: they really believe in you abolishing.
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  Speaker 1: These targets given the fact they are in favor of it.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm always concerned about political party, whether it's are
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  Speaker 6: so whoever on the big national issue, if you're ambivalent
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  Speaker 6: or you pick aside, and then you have to change
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  Speaker 6: your side and say I'm domatically ferociously now for this
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  Speaker 6: particular view, the electric looks at you and things. Are
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  Speaker 6: these people of conviction or convenience? And it's one of
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  Speaker 6: the reasons Canson is doing well because you still do
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  Speaker 6: various things for thirty is and people vote for authenticity
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  Speaker 6: in the end. It's one of the most important characteristics
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  Speaker 6: of the politician.
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  Speaker 1: What do they believe in?
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  Speaker 6: Do they have authenticity or are they just going with
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  Speaker 6: the flow, blowing with the wind, changing with the crowd.
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  Speaker 6: So you know, that's one of the reasons. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: there's a reason, reader, our vote has dropped from thirty
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  Speaker 6: five to twenty percent. It's not an accident. There's a
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  Speaker 6: reason they're votes driven going up from six to twenty eight.
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  Speaker 6: It's not an accident. People in the Little Partner need
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  Speaker 6: to look closely why this has happened. And I think
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  Speaker 6: there's a lot of people now so to have you
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  Speaker 6: work it out.
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  Speaker 3: They're finally starting to work it out because I think
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  Speaker 3: for a long time they had that Malcolm Turnbull mindset
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  Speaker 3: that conservative voters have nowhere to go, so we can
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  Speaker 3: just keep veering to the left and try to get
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  Speaker 3: those voters, and we can alienate those on the right
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  Speaker 3: because they're going to vote for us regardless. Well, no
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  Speaker 3: they don't, and certainly now with the rise of one Nation,
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  Speaker 3: they've got other options available to them.
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  Speaker 5: Now, let's talk about Victoria.
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  Speaker 3: The Real Estate Institute of Victoria's calling for price caps
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  Speaker 3: on the state's first home bias stamp duty reduction scheme
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 5: Reviewed, noting removing.
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  Speaker 3: Or raising the cap could spread demand and reduce upward
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  Speaker 3: pressure on home values for lower price brackets. Real Estate
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  Speaker 3: Institute of Victoria CEO Toby Bowzers said the caps were
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  Speaker 3: limiting by choice and likely increasing the home prices that
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  Speaker 3: forall below that limit that first home buyers typically go for.
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  Speaker 5: Michael, I mean, the.
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  Speaker 3: Government should just get out of the way, shouldn't they.
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  Speaker 3: The housing crisis isn't helped by government intervention. If we
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  Speaker 3: just remove some of the red tape, the green tape,
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  Speaker 3: the black tape, we'd probably go a long way to
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  Speaker 3: solving the housing crisis.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's absolutely right.
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  Speaker 6: I mean here, I think at six hundred thousand, which
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  Speaker 6: is the cap under which you pay first time by
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  Speaker 6: a Spino stampede.
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  Speaker 1: So they're saying, well, if you increase.
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  Speaker 6: That, you know, you'll increase the range of properties that
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  Speaker 6: people then buy, and therefore it'll reduce prices.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that may all be true in theory, but look,
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  Speaker 1: this is not the answer to the problem.
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  Speaker 6: The problem Victoria is we are drowning in regulation. Left
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  Speaker 6: wing regulation. We've strangled to deathy. It takes six months
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  Speaker 6: minimum to get a planning permit minimum six months us.
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  Speaker 6: You just have to sit and wait till the council
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  Speaker 6: sends you note saying you're planning permitter has been approved,
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  Speaker 6: denied or subject to these amendments. And of course if
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  Speaker 6: people don't like the permit they can complain to vcaps,
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  Speaker 6: so that can take up to another two years. So
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  Speaker 6: the problem, Victoria is not Stampye. The problem is we
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  Speaker 6: are drowning regulation. We're heavily overregulated. Councils should be told
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  Speaker 6: you've got thirty days to approve a new housing development
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  Speaker 6: thirty days and if people don't like it and it's approved,
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  Speaker 6: you've got thirty days to have an appeal. So within
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  Speaker 6: two months planning permit.
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  Speaker 1: Is approved or disproved.
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  Speaker 6: By the way you got a building permit here, I
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  Speaker 6: think you're planning permit. You can get a building permit
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  Speaker 6: in one day because building permits are outsourced to the
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  Speaker 6: private sector. You're right, reader, that's what's drowning Victoria. It's
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  Speaker 6: drowning all of the states in this country. You can
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  Speaker 6: wait two and a half years for a permit and
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  Speaker 6: the economic consequence is that to a developer are disastrous.
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  Speaker 1: This is the problem in Australia.
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  Speaker 6: We're drowning and all these reg brought in over the decades,
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  Speaker 6: and we need a revolution here to supercharge the Australian.
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  Speaker 3: Economy a nick at both state level and certainly federal level.
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  Speaker 3: Housing is going to be an enormous issue, and it
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  Speaker 3: is closely tied to another enormous issue in immigration.
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  Speaker 7: Exactly, there's a big mega issue.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to deal with immigration.
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  Speaker 7: But even if we reduce immigration, as we should quite drastically,
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  Speaker 7: Michael's right, there's a supply problem with housing. You look
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  Speaker 7: at that Northern Growth Corridor going north of Melbourne up
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  Speaker 7: towards Ballarat. You know there are developers there. They bought
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  Speaker 7: the land, they have the subdivision ready to go, they
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  Speaker 7: have the plans for the houses, they have everything, except
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  Speaker 7: they're having to wrestle through government red tape, particularly local
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  Speaker 7: and state government. And the cost of that, that's cost
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  Speaker 7: that that ends adds on to the price of a house,
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  Speaker 7: starts to make it unaffordable. Government should get out of
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  Speaker 7: the way. I agree with Michael, let's cut the approval process.
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  Speaker 7: I only what point I'd say, michaelas why don't make
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  Speaker 7: it three days not thirty?
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're dealing with.
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  Speaker 7: Patent development here, We're dealing with subdivisions. I mean and
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  Speaker 7: very responsible developers that know all about putting in the
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  Speaker 7: infrastructure that's needed. If the state would just get out
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  Speaker 7: the way and let them do it, Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 7: this is definitely a case for state to withdraw from this.
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  Speaker 5: Nick Kta, Michael Kroger, thank you so much for your
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  Speaker 5: time tonight to Victoria.
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  Speaker 3: Now and a growing number of the state's Liberal MPs
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  Speaker 3: are pushing for State President Phil Davis to resign after
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  Speaker 3: he launched an attack on fellow Liberals, members of the
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  Speaker 3: media and even Skye Uses very owned Peter Kredlin, Anthony
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  Speaker 3: Galloway writes in the Australian newspaper Today A letters signed
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  Speaker 3: by more than seventy members of the party's State council
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  Speaker 3: were sent to the division's leadership on Tuesday calling for
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  Speaker 3: the resignation of mister Davis and the for vice presidents
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  Speaker 3: in the wake of the morading pre selection saga. Joining
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  Speaker 3: me now is the Australian Newspapers Victorian Political editor Anthony Galloway. Anthony,
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  Speaker 3: can Phil Davis hold on and should he hold on
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  Speaker 3: after this latest debacle?
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  Speaker 9: Well, yeah, he doesn't necessarily have to resign, And there's
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  Speaker 9: a state council in May where he's up for election
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  Speaker 9: and if someone challenges him, there'll be an election for
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  Speaker 9: that position, or he could just not recontest the position.
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  Speaker 9: So this call to resign, I guess could be said
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  Speaker 9: in either resign or just don't stand again for another term.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's been talk of governance failures. They've certainly been
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  Speaker 5: judgment failures at the very least. I mean, how do
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  Speaker 5: they keep doing this?
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  Speaker 3: How do they keep going and making these astronomical mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this was leading the news in this city
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  Speaker 3: for several days, the fact that you've got a very
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  Speaker 3: popular MP who has been mistreated in the past put
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  Speaker 3: through this ordeal for no good reason.
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  Speaker 5: So now she is the candidate. It could have all
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  Speaker 5: been avoided.
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  Speaker 9: It could have all been a voted And no matter
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: what you think about Maury Deming, whether you love her
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: or not, there was a complete failure of vetting here.
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: You could have literally plugged her challenger. Did Daneshkar said
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: his name into ost Lee or any kind of AI
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: program and it would have come up this character reference
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: he wrote for a convicted child sex aventor so it
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: is farcical in terms of the lack of competence there they.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Seem to know about that, though there seems there's talk
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: that they were fully aware of this and still had
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: him run and win.
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, there's lots of conspiracy theories flying around. Both camps
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: are kind of hurling theories at the other. I honestly
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: don't know if it was known before that kind of
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: Sunday vote in which he.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I ab certainly know people within the party machinery who
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: knew about it. Now why they kept quiet up until
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: is another question. Now, what's the state president's relationship like
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: with the party leader Jess Wilson.
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: It's not great. Jess Wilson has grown increasingly frustrated with
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: mister Davis. People close to her tell me this, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: she's basically at the point where she thinks he shouldn't
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: stand again. She's not yet at the point where she's
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: going to be public. She was asked today in a
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: press conference whether she thinks he should resign, and she's
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: saying no, But privately, I believe it's her view that
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: he shouldn't stand again and that someone else should. Now,
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: Jess Wilson's a moderate, But really, the news here is
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: there is a growing cohort of moderates, especially those aligned
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: with Wilson who don't believe Davis shouldn't stand again, they
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: are now at the point where they think a candidate
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: kind of linked to the Colin Harkin side of the
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: party who you know, that side of the party that's
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: suing the party over the loan to John pursuita they
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: think a cann't link to them would actually beat Philip Davis,
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: such as such as, yeah, where it's gotten to. So
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: they want someone, you know, a senior party figure, respected
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: party figure that's you know, possibly respected across the faction
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: factional divide to stand and not Davis.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I wonder how much weight Jess Wilson's endorsement carries if
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: she were to come out and say this is my
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: preferred candidate, whether they would back her up on that
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: or not.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't think she's at that point. I mean,
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: that would be incredibly damaging for the party. But relations
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: between the two are incredibly strained, and I think we're
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: not far from.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: That point now.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: To other matters in Victoria, poll released by Freshwater Strategy
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Research reveals seventy eight percent of voters in this state
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: are concerned with the state's debt level, including nearly half
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: who say they are very concerned, and more than a
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: quarter of voters, or twenty eight percent to be precise,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: said their biggest worry was that soaring debt would lead
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: to cuts to frontline services, including health and education. Anthony
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: how damning all these numbers for justinto Allen and for labor.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Debt is notoriously an issue that voters don't really list
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: as a top tier issue, but in this state it's
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: being felt everywhere.
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: Well, this is perhaps vindication for Jess Wilson, because her
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: whole pitch for the leadership against Brad Baden was you
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: perhaps talking about crime too much and although crime is
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: definitely an issue in Melbourne at the moment, that we
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: should be talking about debt and deficit a bit more.
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: And Wilson's made that a real priority. She appointed her
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: self shadow Treasurer and leader for that purpose to really
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: raise the profile of debt. She really wants to educate
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: the public on the fact that you know, the government
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: is now cutting potentially frontline services, all kinds of social infrastructure,
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: social services because the debt is approaching two hundred billion
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: by the end of the decade.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sure how much we can credit Jess Wilson.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: With this being a front, top tier issue, what are
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the plans the Liberals have to actually tackle the debt
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: and to release the burden on everyday Victorians. The payroll
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: tax in this state, the land tax in this state.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's astronomicals, people's white good reason why people
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: are investing their money elsewhere.
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: That's going to be the big challenge for Wilson and
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: the state opposition that talked you know, she has talked
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: a lot about debt and deficit. Now she hasn't really
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: released any policies. Yeah, she's going to need an a
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: credible set of numbers that adds up, that says, yeah,
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: we're going to pay down the debt over a period
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: of time and get rid of some of those taxes
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: or low of some of those taxes in a way
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: that doesn't open her up to a scare campaign like
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: Peter Dutton did that last year's re election about you know,
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: labor will be very alive and they're already trying to
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: do it about a scare campaign on cuts to essential services.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: It's going to be interesting because you're right, she is
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: the opposition treasury treasurer shadow treasurer.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: So if she wins.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: She's appoint a treasurer who wasn't good enough to be
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: shadow treasurer, but the now they're going to be treasurer
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: of a state riddled with debt, So that strategy in
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: itself is interesting to me. Anthony Galloway always a pleasure.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Thanks for your time tonight.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Still toy Karma. Lefties losing it plass the latest from
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: the US.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Including President Trump's seaspy deal with Iran. John Heindereker is
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: up next. Welcome back. It's time for lefties losing it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Let's go to the red state of Georgia and see
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: who the left is are hoping will be elected to
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: the Georgia State House.
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: Hi, I'm Aaron Baker and I am an openly trans
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: Jewish lesbian running for Georgia State House.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Hi, and I'm Jeremioli.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: I am a straight white atheist man running for Georgia
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: State House.
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: We're both strong progressives.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Ah so progressive and inclusive and diverse except just to
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: white dudes. You know I've missed my favorite crazy eyed
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Swedish miscreant. She's so special despite her limited schooling. Grena
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Thumberg is an expert on the climate and geopolitics, and
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: now she's an expert on genocide and war crimes.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: The President of the United States just said that a
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: and no one is reacting. This speaks for itself. What
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: the is anyone even doing at this point? We have
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: normalized genocide, total annihilation of entire people, the systematic destruction
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: of the biosphere which we are all depending on to survive,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: and that corrupt, racist war criminals can act with complete impunity.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: But even though we have allowed far too much so far,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: it is not too late to say stop. If we don't,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: we shouldn't be able to call ourselves human.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Oh huh, And I've never called you human. I've called
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: you a Swedish doom goblin more than once, and called
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: you a demented clown. And I'm sure we'll come up
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: with some new ones as the year progresses. Now to
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: failed late night TV hosts Stephen Colbert, who.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Suddenly cares a lot about gas prices. But it wasn't
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: always that way.
• 25:26
  Speaker 12: Somehow, President Businessman didn't see all this coming.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Reportedly, this weekend's oil.
• 25:31
  Speaker 12: Price by caught White House staffers off guard. According to
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: one it was insane, but it's going to cost. Since
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: the invasion, oil prices have skyrocketed. Today, the average gas
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: price in America hit an all time record high of
• 25:45
  Speaker 12: over four dollars per gallon. Okay, that stings, but a
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: clean conscience is worth a buck or two.
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: I'm willing to pay four dollars a gallon. Hell, I'll
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: pay fifteen.
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: Dollars a gallon because I drive a tesla.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Isn't that funny?
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two was all about a clean conscience.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: But Stephen Cobbett doesn't seem to give us stuff about Iranians,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: more than ninety million Iranians living under an Islamist dictatorship,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: and doesn't seem to care about the women there who's
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: face being beaten, raped, and even murdered by the regime
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: for fighting for their freedom.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Maybe got rid of his tesla.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Now we all know what happens at the midterms. Their
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: party in power takes a hit, often a big hit,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: and with the war in Iran and rising gas prices
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: and the media hysteria around well everything, the Democrats are
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: expecting to win big, big in November. But there's some
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: polling suggesting that may be wish for thinking.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Take it away. CNN polling expert.
• 26:46
  Speaker 13: Harry Enton net favorability party I had at that point
• 26:50
  Speaker 13: midterm of years with a GOP president in twenty eighteen,
• 26:53
  Speaker 13: Dems were up by twelve in two thousand and six
• 26:55
  Speaker 13: on net favorability which part you like more? Demsra head
• 26:57
  Speaker 13: by eighteen. Republicans are actually a that favorability at this
• 27:01
  Speaker 13: point by five points. So Democrats are just simply put
• 27:04
  Speaker 13: running behind their previous benchmarks, and they need to be
• 27:07
  Speaker 13: running well ahead of them if they want to take
• 27:09
  Speaker 13: back the United States Senate.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Let's bring in Center for the American Experiment, President and
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: co founder of the popular power Line blog, John Heindereika. John,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: we will get to today's developments in the war against
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Iran very shortly.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: But what do you make of that polling? It's not isolated.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Another poll, also by CNN, showed that just twenty eight
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: percent of Americans view the Democratic Party positively, and even
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Democrat voters have had enough of Democrats, with fifty six
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: percent of Democrat voters seeing the party in an unfavorable light.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: John, Yeah, the.
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: Problem the Democrats have read it is that their policies
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: are so extreme that they can't really even talk about them.
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: Most Americans are not socialists. They don't want more illegal
• 27:59
  Speaker 10: immigration and so on, and so the Democrats platform consists
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: mostly of hitting Trump. That plays well with their base,
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: But they tend to live in a bubble, and they
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: don't seem to realize how out of touch they are
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: with most voters. So we'll see. Both the House and
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: the Senate are very closely divided. The election could go
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: either way depending on how things go between now and
• 28:22
  Speaker 10: the fall.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Now, let's go to the war against the Iranian regime,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and President Trump went from threatening the destruction of Iran
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: if they failed to make a deal, he said a
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: He posted that to now he's declared a two week ceasefire.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: The New York Times reports the deal came about after
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Iran accepted Pakistan's two week ceasefire proposal, following frantic diplomatic
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: efforts by Pakistan and last mind intervention by China, which
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: urged Iran to show flexibility and diffuse tensions amid growing
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: concerns about the economic devastation from damages to critical infrastructure.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: John that report from the New York Times, relied on
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: three Iranian officials. They also said the ceasefire was approved
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: by the new Supreme Leader, which who may or may
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: not be even alive. What do you make of the
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: last few hours.
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: Well, on that last point, read, I'm pretty sure the
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: Aatola had nothing to do with that, assuming that he's
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: even alive and conscious. I think that Trump's threat, which
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: is a little bit over the top, is what finally
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: succeeded in getting the Iranians to open up the street
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: of horror moves. In my opinion, the only thing the
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: Iranians can give right now is opening up the street,
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: which they have done, and I think it was the
• 29:59
  Speaker 10: threat to bomb power plants and bridges that did that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: Beyond that, we'll see whether there really is an agreement
• 30:05
  Speaker 10: and how reasonable the Iranians will at least purport to be.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Well, this is what people don't seem to understand.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: When President Trump posts retrick like that, there's a goal
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: in sight and there's a strategy at play, And I
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: can't believe after all these years, people are just continuously
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: shocked and can't believe what is being said.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Now, there are reports that President.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Trump has been receptive to a ten point proposal from
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: the Iranians, who, after being threatened with being sent back
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: to the Stone Ages, are suddenly being reasonable. What do
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: you make of that, John, And also China's involvement here
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: is interesting. Iran is increasingly isolated and its biggest allies
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: have been really missing during this conflict, and the pressure
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: China would have exerted for them to be reasonable, I
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: think would be taken very seriously by the regime.
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: Yeah, well, let's.
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: Start with China. A. China buys about eighty percent of
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: Iran's oil exports, and they also get a lot of
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: their oil from Venezuela as well as Iran. There's no
• 31:14
  Speaker 10: more cheap oil coming from Venezuela, so China is very
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: concerned about keeping the oil flowing from Iran. It makes
• 31:21
  Speaker 10: sense that they would pressure Iran not to rock the boat.
• 31:25
  Speaker 10: And it's notable to know that Russia has been completely
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: a wall supposedly Iran's other major ally, they've done nothing
• 31:33
  Speaker 10: because they've got their hands full with Ukraine. So Iran
• 31:37
  Speaker 10: has really been isolated in this conflict.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Now, President Trump has said that the Iranians are world
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: class bullshit artist. That's a direct quote, can the Americans
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: trust any agreement with this regime? Because it's something that
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: many in the Obama administration seem to be blindsided by
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: what they were told and what was reality were two
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: very different things. How can the Americans trust anything coming
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: from this regime?
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: Reader, We absolutely can't trust any agreement with Iran. They
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: might promise not to seek nuclear weapons or to stop
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: supporting terrorism, but as long as the regime remains in place,
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: they're going to abandon those promises as soon as they
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: are able. And that's why. The important thing is that
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: we have devastated Iran's military capabilities, We've eliminated most of
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: their leadership, and damaged their economy. It's going to be
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: quite a while before Iran can again be a serious threat.
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: But I don't think anybody in America is putting much
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: weight and any agreement that Iran's leaders might enter into.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Iran's National Security Council claims that negotiations with the US
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: are under the supervision of the gay Ayatola, who may
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: be dead for all we know. He has not been
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: seen since he was announced as new Supreme leader, and
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: there are intelligence reports claiming he is unconscious and unable
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: to be involved in any decision making.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: He may even be dead.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: He was severely, certainly injured in the strikes that killed
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: his father. That's what the intelligence reports suggest. Where is
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: the power base now, John, Who will be the Supreme
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Leader going into the future. What does that regime look
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: like now, given it has been so severely decimated.
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: Well, I think the fact that we're not even sure
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: whether the so called Supreme Leader is even alive kind
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: of tells us everything we need to know. I think
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: he is at best a figurehead. I think the IRGC
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: is now firmly in control of Iran. They're the military force,
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: They've got the guns, they've got the power. But given
• 33:52
  Speaker 10: how their leadership has been decimated too, I'm not sure
• 33:55
  Speaker 10: if we really know who's in charge of that organization.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: John Moore on.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: That incredible rescue of a missing an injured airman who
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: was in hostile Iranian territory. President Trump has revealed an
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: investigation has been launched into how news of this man's
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: existence was leaked.
• 34:17
  Speaker 14: But these two extraordinary rescuers because it was too and
• 34:20
  Speaker 14: as you probably know, we didn't talk about the first
• 34:23
  Speaker 14: one for an hour, and then somebody leaked something which
• 34:27
  Speaker 14: will hopefully.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Find that liquor.
• 34:28
  Speaker 14: We're looking very hard to find that liquor, and talked
• 34:31
  Speaker 14: about there's somebody missing. They basically said that we have
• 34:38
  Speaker 14: one and there's somebody missing. Well, they didn't know there
• 34:40
  Speaker 14: was somebody missing until this leakuer gave the information.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: John President Trump went on to threaten those protecting this
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: liaker with jail.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: How serious was this leak.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Surely anyone in the military would know that releasing this
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: information put that man's life in extreme danger.
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: Well, the leak was potentially very serious and told ram
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: that there was a missing guy. We rescued one, we
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: hadn't rescued the other. It told them that he is
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: on the loose somewhere of their in Iranian territory, and
• 35:13
  Speaker 10: they almost captured him. It was a very serious reach
• 35:17
  Speaker 10: of security and I'm not sure where the leak was
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: first published. I've seen different reports about that, but national
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: security leaks are a serious matter and they can carry
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: criminal penalties. I think the administration is right to try
• 35:31
  Speaker 10: to get to the bottom of this.
• 35:35
  Speaker 14: Now.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: I'm interested in your take on some former Trump supporters
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owen who have become awfully
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: critical of the Trump administration of late Candace Owen's posted
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: this tweet earlier today, shortly before the ceasefire was announced.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: She said the twenty fifth Amendment needs to be in vote.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: He is our genocidal lunatic, refers to Trump, our Congress
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: and military need to intervene. We are beyond madness. Now
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: what do you make of all that, John.
• 36:09
  Speaker 10: Well, I mean, it's just crazy. Candace describes the administration
• 36:13
  Speaker 10: as satanic. She apparently is calling for a military coup
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: to remove President Trump from power. You know, I used
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: to consider Candace Sowe as a friend. She's a very
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: talented person, but like Tucker Carlson, she has gone completely
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: off the deep end. She's subscribed to one crazy conspiracy
• 36:33
  Speaker 10: theory after another, and I think, frankly, she's become mentally unstable.
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: And it's very sad to see.
• 36:41
  Speaker 14: Now.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: The House seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Green has been
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: won by Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller, who was backed
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: by President Trump.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: The win is going to.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Give Holse Speaker Mike Johnson a little bit of breathing room.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: John This is not so much a try. I am
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: as relief for the GOOPA. You would suggest that couldn't
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: afford to lose this seat, and the Democrats had a
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: really solid candidate here. Sean Harris, a retired Army brigadier
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: general and cattle producer. How do you see this race
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: and what does it again tell you about the midterms?
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: Well, Rita, you're absolutely right, this is a seat the
• 37:24
  Speaker 10: Republicans should carry easily, but special elections can be unpredictable
• 37:29
  Speaker 10: because turnout is low and as you mentioned, Democrats love
• 37:32
  Speaker 10: to run conservatives and districts like this one. So yeah,
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: it's very much believed to see the seat to stay
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  Speaker 10: in GOP hands. It's too close. We can't afford upsets.
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  Speaker 3: Now before you go, The war against Iran has highlighted
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: the rivalry, the ideological split between the leading contenders. For
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight. JD Vance, the vice president of Marco
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Rubio d Evans is still the favorite, certainly with the bookmakers.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: How do you say that battle, John, Will the candidate
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: come from those two contenders and who is the favorite
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: in your eyes?
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  Speaker 10: Well, if they are the contenders, and we don't know
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: for sure that Marco Rubio is going to be a contender.
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: I hope you will be if those two are in
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: the race, they are the favorites. Nobody else I think
• 38:24
  Speaker 10: is going to be a serious possibility. And Marco Rubio
• 38:29
  Speaker 10: represents a more traditional, more internationalist brand of Republicanism, while JD.
• 38:35
  Speaker 10: Vance is seen as representing the isolationist interpretation of America.
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  Speaker 11: First.
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  Speaker 10: As you know, Rita, I am very much a Marco
• 38:43
  Speaker 10: Rubio fan. I think he's a terrific candidate. He's doing
• 38:46
  Speaker 10: a great job as Secretary of State, and I think
• 38:49
  Speaker 10: isolationism is very dangerous. It's dangerous for America and it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: For the world.
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  Speaker 5: John Heinderrecher think is so much for your time tonight.
• 39:00
  Speaker 10: Thank you, Ritter.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Still to come entertainment news plus the latest bizarre developments
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: involving Christie Nomes cross dressing husband Michael Loftus is up next.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: Welcome back.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Well, there's been another twist in the saga of Christi
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Nomes cross dressing husband Brian. Brian Nomes got a liking
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: for oversized fake breasts. We know that much, but it's
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: now been revealed that he was bankrolling an only fans
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: gal named Nicole Rackagano. Not only is he reported to
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: have professed his love for her, but he may have
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: paid for her oversized breasts, and I don't think hers
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: are made out of balloons. In a series of messages
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: uncovered by The Daily, mal Brian told Ragano, I seem
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: to be falling in.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Love with you. I do love you. I would love
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: to marry you.
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  Speaker 3: Joining me now is writer, comic and editor of Theloftersparty
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: dot com Michael Lofters. Michael, last week we called this
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: story bizarre. I think we've gone well past that point now.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, we bizarre is like miles and miles behind us.
• 40:23
  Speaker 15: And I don't think that there's these the the this
• 40:26
  Speaker 15: could take any more twists. I don't need any more
• 40:28
  Speaker 15: twists in this story. It's weird enough. And let me
• 40:32
  Speaker 15: tell you, kids, if you're listening when you're when you're
• 40:37
  Speaker 15: when you have to pay people to be.
• 40:39
  Speaker 11: Your friend, you probably haven't made a good life choice.
• 40:42
  Speaker 15: Like like your when your girlfriend is on OnlyFans, you've
• 40:47
  Speaker 15: got some issues.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: I do wonder about these men who think that having
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: real relationships with girls on OnlyFans, I mean probably most
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: of their chats with another man who's being paid by
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: the hour to pretend to be a particular girl. But
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: to have these men who are married in this instance
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: engaging in this sort of behavior.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: My god.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Now let's go to the UK and the Wireless Festival
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: is now being canceled after Carnee West was sensationally banned
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: from entering the country over his past anti Semitic comments.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Both the Labor government in the UK and the Tories
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: back this ban, but the man leading the polls Reform
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: UK leader, Nigel Farage, believes banning Carnie is a dangerous move, the.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Sort of rabbit hole of antisemitism, Nazism, but he's gone
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: down is vile. But I think if we start banning
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: people from entering the country because we don't like what
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: they say, I worry where that ends up. So I
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: think it's a dangerous path to go down, suspect Ross.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: The answer to.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: This is the free market will sort this out, and
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: what sponsors are with drawing already? The festival itself is threatened,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: and I suspect very few people will buy tickets.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Michael, I disagree with him there. Kanye West shows have
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: been sellouts, including his last two just in recent days
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: in LA and Bowl reports the hype around them is huge.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: What do you make of this decision to ban him
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: for comments is made in the past, which is now disavowed.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: He has apologized for those comments.
• 42:38
  Speaker 11: Yeah, people are allowed to make mistakes.
• 42:40
  Speaker 15: You say a lot of stupid things. You realize you
• 42:43
  Speaker 15: were stupid, You apologize, You move on. Kanye did that
• 42:47
  Speaker 15: show at Sofi Stadium and the stage was just Magnet said.
• 42:53
  Speaker 15: These two shows were huge, and I say if Kanye
• 42:58
  Speaker 15: wanted to come into the UK, he could do it.
• 43:01
  Speaker 15: All he needs is like an inflatable rubber raft and
• 43:03
  Speaker 15: a machete. Keir Starmer would have to let him in.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: He should.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: If you go to France and just get in one
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: of those little boats and go across the channel, I'm
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: sure he'll be, you know, put up at a hotel
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: in no time now staying with Carnie and a source
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: close to the rapper has told Page six he is
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: happy for his ex wife Kim Kardashian to have a
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: relationship with Formula one driver Lewis Hamilton. The source said,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: this is a good thing. Krnie isn't questioning is Lewis
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: a good person. He's a sweet, smart person, a good
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: person and an incredible athlete. Michael he wasn't so accepting
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: of Pete Davidson, was he So it's again growth here
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: from Carnie that he's not railing against his ex wife's
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: new partner.
• 43:55
  Speaker 11: Well, here's the deal. Kim's new man has some money.
• 44:00
  Speaker 15: Davidson doesn't have any money, so Kanye is just waiting
• 44:04
  Speaker 15: for the phone to ring Kim cry and asking for
• 44:07
  Speaker 15: a new Ferrari or something. So now Kanye can relax
• 44:10
  Speaker 15: because the new boyfriend has some money and Kim is
• 44:14
  Speaker 15: actually looking to reconcile with Kanye. That's what I'm hearing,
• 44:18
  Speaker 15: because Kanye made thirty three million dollars in one night
• 44:23
  Speaker 15: with those two concerts.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: I've heard the earn Per concert.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: He is absolutely astronomical and it wouldn't be a cheap
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: concert to stage because, as you mentioned, the stage and
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: the whole production was quite incredible. Now, on this relationship
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: between Lewis Hamilton and Kim kard Kim Kardashian didn't Lowis
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Hamilton date one of Kim's sisters. I mean, what sort
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: of family is this?
• 44:53
  Speaker 15: A weird family? A family I think you want to
• 44:57
  Speaker 15: stay away from. How awkward is it going to be
• 45:00
  Speaker 15: at Christmas time at the Kardashians house Hey, Chloe, this
• 45:04
  Speaker 15: is my boyfriend.
• 45:05
  Speaker 11: Hey, I think you already know him.
• 45:07
  Speaker 15: You know him? Mom? Do you know everybody's going to
• 45:10
  Speaker 15: know this guy? Like Biblically, it's not good. The Kardashians,
• 45:14
  Speaker 15: they're like sharks, but instead of being able to smell
• 45:17
  Speaker 15: blood miles away, they can smell money, and they just
• 45:21
  Speaker 15: are attracted.
• 45:22
  Speaker 11: Do it. You just got to stand out of the
• 45:23
  Speaker 11: way and hope you don't get bat.
• 45:26
  Speaker 14: Well.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: I've got to say it's very understanding of Kendall to
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: allow this to happen, because most sisters would say, ah,
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: no way. The billion other blokes in the world stay
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: away from my exes now.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: President Trump has.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Called for the removal of Fox News hosts Jessica Talov
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: after he labeled her a real loser. In a post
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: on truth Social he wrote for Fox executives, only take
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Jessica Talov off the air. She is, from her voice,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: to her life and everything else about her, one of
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: the worst personalities on television. A real loser. People cannot
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: stand watching her. Michael, what do you make of the
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: President's personnel advice to Fox News. I'm going to say
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: I like seeing Jessica go head to head with Greg
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Gutfeld or Jesse Waters on the program on the five.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: I think it's a nice dynamic.
• 46:24
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's wonderful.
• 46:25
  Speaker 15: And God bless Jessica that she can keep coming back
• 46:28
  Speaker 15: day after day and being proven wrong day after day
• 46:33
  Speaker 15: and then still shows up with a smile on her
• 46:35
  Speaker 15: face and some goofy idea in her head.
• 46:37
  Speaker 11: And how about Donald Trump? This guy President Trump.
• 46:42
  Speaker 15: Really he's doing the tariffs, he's doing the American economy.
• 46:46
  Speaker 15: There's the war in Iran, and then he's like, hold on,
• 46:48
  Speaker 15: I think I should oversee the staffing at Fox News
• 46:51
  Speaker 15: as well. I think I could do a lot of things.
• 46:54
  Speaker 15: Get that Easter bunny in the suit, We'll get out there.
• 46:57
  Speaker 11: He's amazing.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: It is quite remarkable that he can offer this sort
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: of detailed advice to Fox News executives when he's got
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: a fair bit on his plate. Now talking about Greg Guttfeld,
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: he is again the number one late night TV host
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: and buy some margin, well ahead of the likes of
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. Why is
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: he so successful, Michael, He's just absolutely killing it in
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: the ratings.
• 47:28
  Speaker 11: I think it all comes down to one of his guests.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, of course, naturally.
• 47:38
  Speaker 11: Wonderful thing where I was.
• 47:40
  Speaker 15: I worked in television for a long time, and the
• 47:43
  Speaker 15: Gutfel Show is the last great example of a real
• 47:47
  Speaker 15: talk show. You don't know what's gonna happen, you don't
• 47:50
  Speaker 15: know what the guests are gonna says. It's real, it's genuine,
• 47:55
  Speaker 15: it's a great conversation, and it's very funny. With these
• 47:58
  Speaker 15: other guys, Colbert and and blah blah. You already know
• 48:02
  Speaker 15: how they lean you already. You're writing the jokes before
• 48:05
  Speaker 15: they say it, and that makes it boring. And that's
• 48:08
  Speaker 15: the death of comedy. When you can predict it. Comedy's over.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: Now before you go, I've got to ask you about
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: this lawsuit against radio shop Jog Howard Stern and his
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: wife Beth.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: It's been revealed that they've got some.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Very unusual and strict guidelines imposed on their staff. Former
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: executive assistant to the couple, Leslie Kuhn, is suing them
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: for creating a hostile work environment. The suit alleges that
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Kuhn was asked to sign a non disclosure agreement forbidding
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: her to.
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: Discuss all the usual.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Things that these agreements to typically cover, but a whole
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: bunch of other stuff too, like the couple's personal habits,
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: from their food preferences to their sleep habits. Michael, why
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: are they so paranoid about something like their preference for
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know, biscuits being revealed? I mean, who do
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: they think they are?
• 49:06
  Speaker 11: That's the great question. Who do they think they are?
• 49:09
  Speaker 15: But the reason they don't want her to divulge this
• 49:11
  Speaker 15: is because they thought they were going to get endorsement deals.
• 49:14
  Speaker 15: This is Howard Stern squeezing every last nickel that he
• 49:18
  Speaker 15: can possibly get. What was shocking to me was the
• 49:22
  Speaker 15: amount of money that this personal assistant girl was getting paid.
• 49:26
  Speaker 15: She was making over a quarter of a million dollars
• 49:29
  Speaker 15: a year.
• 49:31
  Speaker 11: I think that's a pretty good deal. I think you're
• 49:34
  Speaker 11: okay for a quarter of a million dollars a year.
• 49:37
  Speaker 15: You can be throwing spaghetti noodles at each other and
• 49:39
  Speaker 15: calling each other, oh my peanut, butter cup of love.
• 49:42
  Speaker 11: I won't tell anybody, I'll keep my mouth shut. Just
• 49:45
  Speaker 11: keep that quarter of a milk coming.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Oh you would think so, but oh my god, spending
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: day and night with Howard Stern or I don't know
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: if quarter of a million enough it's scary.
• 49:58
  Speaker 15: Now, it's scary no one, no one wants no.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Thanks Michael Loftus, always a pleasure. Thanks for your time tonight,
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: and that's all the time we have.
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: Newsnight is up next