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Sharri | 5 March · Sharri

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Speaker 1: Live on Sky News. This is Sharry.
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Speaker 2: Good Evening tonight. Millions of people told to stay home,
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Speaker 2: with schools closing as high risk areas of Queensland and
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Speaker 2: northern New South Wales going to lockdown. We'll get the
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Speaker 2: latest on how Cyclone Alfred is tracking from meteorologists and
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Speaker 2: our reporters on the ground. Full coverage tonight, plus tonight's exclusive.
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Speaker 2: A pro hesbela preacher who celebrates martyrs, is set to
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Speaker 2: arrive in Australia within days for a speaking to her.
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Speaker 2: Why is Tony Burke giving him a visa our exclusive
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Speaker 2: In a moment, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he can't speak
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Speaker 2: publicly about President Trump avoiding Albanese's cause after our exclusive
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Speaker 2: story last night. Well what does this say about Albanese's
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Speaker 2: leadership that he can't get the President on the phone.
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Speaker 2: Michael Kroger and Graham Richardson would join Mishah also in
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Speaker 2: the show tonight. Emilia Haimer is poised to win back
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Speaker 2: Couyong from teal Minique Ryan and she'll join me for
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Speaker 2: an exclusive interview later on. But first tonight, let's get
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Speaker 2: the latest on Cyclone Alfred. It's set to hit Queensland
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Speaker 2: and northern New South Wales overnight tomorrow. Brisbane is in
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Speaker 2: basically in lockdown tonight. The city is boarding up. Millions
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Speaker 2: have been told to stay at home. The sky looks
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Speaker 2: eerie and they're already strong winds. There's a sense of
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Speaker 2: fear and alarm as a major cyclone is about to
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Speaker 2: hit the city. The latest forecast shows Alfred making landfall
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Speaker 2: around two am on Friday morning. Brisbane CBD is predicted
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Speaker 2: to be in the eye of the storm. There are
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Speaker 2: warnings of high winds of up to one hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty kilometers an hour and life threatening flash fighting. There's
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Speaker 2: likely to be serious property damage, with twenty thousand homes
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Speaker 2: at risk of flooding. As you can see on screen.
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Speaker 2: Brisbane City Council has put almost the entire city under
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Speaker 2: the Watch and Act Orange warning label. Around seventy four
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Speaker 2: thousand sandbags have been provided, but there were long waits
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Speaker 2: of sandbag depots. Some people reportedly waited up to seven hours. Now.
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Speaker 2: Cyclone Alfred's trajectory has also changed course and it may
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Speaker 2: do so yet again. As you can see on the screen,
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Speaker 2: it's now expected to hit at first southeast Queensland between
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Speaker 2: Noosa and the Border and also northern New South Wales.
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Speaker 2: The latest modeling is suggesting the system could stall on
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Speaker 2: the coast, meaning that flood impacts could be even worse
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Speaker 2: than currently feared. There are warnings for those living from
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Speaker 2: Double Island point south of Fraser Island to north of
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Speaker 2: Grafton in New South Wales. Schools across the most impacted
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Speaker 2: areas will be shut both tomorrow and on Friday, but
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Speaker 2: already one hundred and twenty two schools between Tweedheads and
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Speaker 2: Yamber were closed today, along with some in Brisbane. Flights
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Speaker 2: into Ballina Byron Bay, Coffs, Harbor, Lord Howe Island and
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Speaker 2: the Gold Coast have also been counseled again from today.
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Speaker 2: Families are being told to consider evacuating if they're in
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Speaker 2: a storm tide zone or where they could be flooding.
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Speaker 2: And if you're thinking of evacuating, the experts are saying
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Speaker 2: you need to make that decision quickly and go stay
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Speaker 2: with friends or family before it's too late.
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Speaker 3: The SEES will speak to people who are in a
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Speaker 3: vulnerable situation or who are concerned about their living arrangements
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Speaker 3: to relocate on Thursday. Speak to family and friends, Speak
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Speaker 3: about an opportunity to move out of their house on Thursday,
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Speaker 3: because by the time of Thursday evening into Friday morning,
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Speaker 3: it may well be too late. You've made that decision
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Speaker 3: just in your house.
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Speaker 2: So those who aren't evacuating have been told to stay indoors,
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Speaker 2: stay at home. Here was the Queensland Premier David Chrusifoley
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Speaker 2: today and he said, what is most worried about is
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Speaker 2: the rising water and.
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Speaker 4: It is important that, as you do with any flooding event,
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Speaker 4: that you take the precautions for you and your family,
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Speaker 4: and that involves actively knowing the things that you need
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Speaker 4: to do ahead of it. But a system like this
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Speaker 4: does generate significant rain and it is important that people
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Speaker 4: are ready for that third phase long after those destructive
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Speaker 4: winds disappear and beyond into the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Public transport services will also stop tonight. There are none
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Speaker 2: operating on Thursday or Friday in the affected areas, and
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Speaker 2: families across the city are stocking up on torches and food.
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Speaker 2: They're being warned there could be no electricity for several
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Speaker 2: days now. These are the areas most at risk and
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Speaker 2: as you can see, the warning zone stands from Double
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Speaker 2: Island point in Queensland all the way to near Grafton
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Speaker 2: in New South Wales. There's high alarm about just what
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Speaker 2: the impact will be and families are racing for no power,
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Speaker 2: perhaps no running water, and severe damage. We pray there'll
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Speaker 2: be no loss of life, and people are preparing their homes,
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Speaker 2: trying to save their homes. We just don't know how
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Speaker 2: severe the flooding will be. The Australian Defense FOSS is
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Speaker 2: ready to help. They've got rescue vessels on the Gold
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Speaker 2: Coast and along the Brisbane River.
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Speaker 4: Rescue vessels have been deployed to places like the Gold
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Speaker 4: Coast to make sure that some of those people living
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Speaker 4: in those storm tied areas like those canals, that we
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Speaker 4: have resources at places like the Gold Coast and the
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Speaker 4: Redlands and beyond.
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Speaker 2: At the moment, it looks like the cyclone will be
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Speaker 2: a Category two, but there's a chance it could turn
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Speaker 2: into a Category three.
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Speaker 5: Expected to remain as a category too as it approaches
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Speaker 5: and at the higher end of that category. There is
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Speaker 5: a small percentage of our modeling that does alert the
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Speaker 5: risk of its strengthening further, but we'll watch that very closely.
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Speaker 2: So both Peter Darton and alban Esi went to Queensland today.
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Speaker 2: Dutton has been preparing his own home also his families,
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Speaker 2: which is in the firing line of the cyclone.
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Speaker 6: I think we should do whatever we can to help
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Speaker 6: family and neighbors. I've got an elderly aren't it live
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Speaker 6: not too far away from so trying to do some
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Speaker 6: sandbaging at to test per place later on today and.
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Speaker 2: Peter Darton said Alban EASi would have a tin ear
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Speaker 2: if he still went ahead and called an election as
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Speaker 2: the East Coast was grappling with a major cyclone. Dutton
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Speaker 2: said that Australians want Alban Easy to be governing, not campaigning.
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Speaker 6: I'd be surprised if he calls it this Sunday or
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Speaker 6: Monday for the twelfth of opran that some people will
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Speaker 6: have lost everything that in the reality of these weather events,
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Speaker 6: and to go to an election at that stage at
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Speaker 6: that time, I think the Prime Minister would have a
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Speaker 6: ten year to do that. I think people probably want
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Speaker 6: from their prominence to governing, not campaigning at a time like.
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Speaker 2: This, And you'd have to ask how could Alban Easy
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Speaker 2: put his own personal political interests ahead of the interests
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Speaker 2: of millions of people who are petrified ahead of this cyclone,
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Speaker 2: and after the cyclone they'll be engaging in a massive
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Speaker 2: cleanup effort. All right, let's have a look at our
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Speaker 2: exclusive story tonight. A pro hesbla preacher who celebrates martyrs,
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Speaker 2: is set to arrive in Australia within days for speaking
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Speaker 2: events in both Melbourne and Sydney. Tony Burke, the Home
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Speaker 2: Affairs Minister's tonight refusing to answer questions about why he's
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Speaker 2: giving u San Maki a visa to fly into our country.
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Speaker 2: Maki attended the funeral of Terra Leda Hassan Nasralla, as
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Speaker 2: you can see here in this photograph he posted to
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Speaker 2: social media a week ago, and after the funeral he
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Speaker 2: said that it showed the resistance was alive and well,
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Speaker 2: and he called Hesbalaalida Nasralla, who's a notorious terrorist. He
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Speaker 2: called him one of the world's greatest freedom fighters. Have
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Speaker 2: a look.
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Speaker 7: This was an incredible day.
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Speaker 8: Anyone that was there would see that these scenes are
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Speaker 8: very difficult to replicate, perhaps once a lifetime for a
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Speaker 8: person who is regarded by much of the world as
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Speaker 8: its greatest freedom fights. Of the resistance is alive and well,
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Speaker 8: and what we saw was one point five million people
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Speaker 8: attend the funeral.
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Speaker 2: The world's greatest freedom fighter, well, Hassan Nasralla led Hesbela
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Speaker 2: for around thirty years and is responsible for the deaths
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Speaker 2: of thousands of innocent people around the world. Is Tony
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Speaker 2: Burke really going to allow someone into Australia who calls
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Speaker 2: Nazurala one of the world's greatest freedom fighters? Is this
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Speaker 2: good for social cohesion in our country? For antisemitism? Now,
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Speaker 2: Machiolso spreads dangerous views. He's defended terrorism, calling it resistance.
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Speaker 7: Resistance is laid under the bus straight away. That will
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Speaker 7: speak about liberation, will speak about everything through with Palestine
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Speaker 7: and the victimhood of Palestine and everyone that's being killed
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Speaker 7: in Palestine, or we won't speak about those who want
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Speaker 7: to defend themselves throughout Palestinian history. When things go very
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Speaker 7: quiet and everyone seems to think that it's all over,
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Speaker 7: people come out to resist. Palestinians come out to resist.
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Speaker 2: He also legitimizes the view that harmasa's actions, it's murderous
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Speaker 2: actions on October seven, do not have to be condemned.
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Speaker 2: This is a position he.
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Speaker 7: Endorsed and normal Thinkstein said to himself, he said he
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Speaker 7: would not condemn Hamas for what happened on October seventh,
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Speaker 7: nor would he advocate for it. But he wouldn't condemn it,
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Speaker 7: he says, because he said, I don't know what I
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Speaker 7: would do if I was in a situation where the
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Speaker 7: whole world left me, and everything that I have keeps
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Speaker 7: getting taken away from me, and all my loved ones
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Speaker 7: keep getting killed.
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Speaker 2: Very clearly legitimizing the view that October seven was Palestinian resistance,
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Speaker 2: the massacre our entire innocent families and the taking of
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Speaker 2: hostages like Shiri, Baby Kafir and Aril Bibas. He's framing
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Speaker 2: this is simply self defense. It's highly dangerous turning a
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Speaker 2: massacre and barbarism into defense, and this is not a
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Speaker 2: message that should be spread in Australia. Machi also clearly
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Speaker 2: expresses part for martyrs, and he says he loves to
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Speaker 2: visit their graves.
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Speaker 9: All the Shohada are beautiful, and when you go there,
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Speaker 9: you see the mothers of the Shohada, the daughters of Shohada,
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Speaker 9: sitting there with the people who.
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Speaker 10: Gave their lives for a loss upon Altahada.
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Speaker 9: But you know, my favorite Shohada are always right at
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Speaker 9: the back that I love to go to their graves
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Speaker 9: because when I sit down next to their graves, there's
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Speaker 9: no name, because they really reflect self annihilation in God.
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Speaker 2: He also espouses other highly divisive views that Jews have
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Speaker 2: no right to the land of Israel, and he constantly
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Speaker 2: encourages Muslims to stand up and take.
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Speaker 11: Action, sacrifice and blond and martyr them and defending the weak,
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Speaker 11: and mothers saying goodbye to their sons, and a wife
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Speaker 11: is saying goodbye to their husbands. That's what it looks
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Speaker 11: like on the side that's inspired by Karbala today contemporarily.
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Speaker 2: In just six days after the Hamasa tacks on Israel
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Speaker 2: on October seven, he called on the Muslim world to
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Speaker 2: take action and speak out. He claimed that imaginary Israeli
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Speaker 2: babies were wrongly getting media coverage.
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Speaker 12: But when it comes down to Muslims, especially those with
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Speaker 12: a platform, when you have imaginary babies get more coverage
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Speaker 12: than real Muslim babies being buried under the rubble, and
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Speaker 12: you have a platform and you're not using it to
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Speaker 12: help to fight against literally the entire Western media coverage,
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Speaker 12: every single one of us is duty bound, duty bound
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Speaker 12: to raise our voice and do whatever we can for
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Speaker 12: our brothers and sisters and Husza in Palestine.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, that was six days after October seven.
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Speaker 2: He also has shared many posts about martyrdom, this one
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Speaker 2: saying martyrdom is life, Martyrdom is awakening, the blood of
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Speaker 2: the martyr changes the course of humanity and so on.
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Speaker 2: Now he's not an Australian citizen yet, he's clearly being
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Speaker 2: given a visa and will be allowed into the country
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Speaker 2: by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and the Albaneze government.
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Speaker 2: He's being promoted as the speaker at the Mirage Institute,
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Speaker 2: and he'll be in Melbourne next week and then in
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Speaker 2: Sydney from March eighteenth until the twenty third.
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Speaker 1: A couple of days.
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Speaker 7: I'll be in Melbourne and Sydney and I'll see all
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Speaker 7: you guys there shoulder.
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Speaker 2: He was already allowed to visit Australia and speak in
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Speaker 2: July last year, and some of those he met at
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Speaker 2: the time of his Australian trip then went on to
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Speaker 2: visit Lebanon for the funeral of Hassan Nasralla. As you know,
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Speaker 2: we've been reporting on that story on this program. Now
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Speaker 2: I spoke with Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Patterson about
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Speaker 2: this today and he told me no one who praised
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Speaker 2: as a deceased terrorist, let alone attends the funeral organized
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Speaker 2: by a list of terror organization, should be welcome in Australia.
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Speaker 2: Tony Burke must ensure Whussain Macki's visa is refused before
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Speaker 2: he's speaking tour commensers. Well, we asked Tony Burke if
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Speaker 2: he's going to take action, if he's going to cancel
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Speaker 2: the visa, stop him coming into our country. This is
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Speaker 2: what Tony Burke's spokesman said. The government understands that this
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Speaker 2: person was granted visas in twenty twenty four, twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: three and twenty sixteen and is currently offshore. Any future
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Speaker 2: visa decisions would be informed by the latest information. Now,
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Speaker 2: he shouldn't have been allowed into our country in July
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Speaker 2: last year. As for before that, well, most of his
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Speaker 2: offensive commentary that I've seen is since October seven. Now,
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Speaker 2: we currently have an extremely volatile situation in both Melbourne
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Speaker 2: and Sydney where anti Semitism is dangerously rife. Social cohesion
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Speaker 2: is at breaking point, if it's not broken already, and
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Speaker 2: Tony Burke is right now as we speak set to
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Speaker 2: allow a Hesbela supporter into the country, a hate preacher
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Speaker 2: who encourages martyrdom and bloodshed and describes notorious terrorist as
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Speaker 2: one of the world's greatest freedom fighters, and he's being
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Speaker 2: given a welcome mat into our country. Well, Tony Burke
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Speaker 2: is a serious problem. He needs to counsel this visa
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Speaker 2: immediately because Mackey is due here within days, as he said,
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Speaker 2: he said in a couple of days now. There was
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Speaker 2: an Islamic death threat made on social media overnight on
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Speaker 2: the Instagram page of a Sydney mosque. A sixteen year
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Speaker 2: old was then immediately arrested in Perth. Tony Burke went
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Speaker 2: on to social media and he said that he was
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Speaker 2: going to the mosque immediately. He wrote, Australian Islamic house
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Speaker 2: Masjid received abhorrent threats earlier today after returning from Brisbane tonight,
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Speaker 2: I went straight to the mosque to stand in solidarity
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Speaker 2: with the community. Well, that is good. That is what
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Speaker 2: Tony Burke should be doing as both Home Affairs and
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Speaker 2: Multicultural Affairs Minister. And social media death threats are scary
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Speaker 2: and abhorrent. They're also very common. I've had them on
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Speaker 2: several occasions, and every synagogue and rabbi that I know
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Speaker 2: has also had them their social media threats. Now, when
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Speaker 2: the Adaessed Synagogue in Melbourne was actually firebombed, Tony Burke
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Speaker 2: took four days to visit, not hours. So a threat
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Speaker 2: on social media saw him rush to a mosque, compared
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Speaker 2: to the actual fire bombing of a synagogue where he
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Speaker 2: slowly took his time to visit. Four days. To me,
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Speaker 2: this exposes Tony Burke's lack of concern for anti Semitism
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Speaker 2: compared with Islamophobia. He's always been pro Palestinian, He's always
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Speaker 2: been an Israel critic. And perhaps it's this attitude. Perhaps
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Speaker 2: this is why Tony Burke doesn't seem to mind a
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Speaker 2: Hesbela supporting hate preacher arriving in our country. Okay, to
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Speaker 2: discuss this and more, let's bring in now former Victorian
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Speaker 2: Liberal Party president Michael Kroger and former Labor minister Graham Richardson.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to you both. Look, I want to get onto
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Speaker 2: the election timing, but Michael, I just might get your
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Speaker 2: comment about the story that I just spoke about their
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Speaker 2: exclusive story tonight. Surely a Hesbela supporting preacher should not
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Speaker 2: be allowed on a speaking tour to spread these sort
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Speaker 2: of views across our country, particularly at a time when
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Speaker 2: we're seeing such hatred towards the Jewish kimuymmunity.
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Speaker 1: So, Shari, I think you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 13: Social cohesion in this country has been immensely damaged since
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Speaker 13: October seventh for all the reasons that we know. Of course,
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Speaker 13: he shouldn't be allowed in this country. I mean, I
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Speaker 13: can't believe that Burke would be giving him a visa.
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Speaker 13: That is outrageous. Tony Burke, if you're doing that, we
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Speaker 13: don't want people coming to this country heading spreading hate
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Speaker 13: and disunity and praising and apologizing for terrorism, the offenses
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Speaker 13: causes that. The damage to social cohesion is immense. And
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Speaker 13: of course Burke can't let him into this country. That
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Speaker 13: would that would be outrageous, and we don't want him
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Speaker 13: in Melbourne. If he's coming down here, don't don't come here.
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Speaker 13: Hassein Maki, you're not welcome in Melbourne. If you're bringing
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Speaker 13: all that hate. If you're bringing all that hate down here,
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Speaker 13: go home, don't bring it down here. The other thing
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Speaker 13: I simply say is this, if Tony Burke thinks and
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Speaker 13: Albanize in Wong thinks that their campaign have even haddness
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Speaker 13: is convincing anyone in the Jewish community that they're being
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Speaker 13: fair and reasonable in relation to their views on the
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Speaker 13: Middle East. The Australian Jewish News have put up a
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Speaker 13: poll recently saying who do you think has been more
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Speaker 13: sympathetic to the Jewish community James Patterson, Senator James Patterson
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Speaker 13: or Penny Wong. The vote is five percent for Penny
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Speaker 13: Wong and eighty two percent for James Patterson. So if
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Speaker 13: anyone thinks out there who's not Jewish, that you know,
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Speaker 13: give credit to the government for an even handed position.
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Speaker 13: That's not what the Jewish communitee think community think. They
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Speaker 13: are in fear, you know, they are in fear because
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Speaker 13: of what's happened. And this has all happened on the
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Speaker 13: watch of Anthony Albanezi.
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Speaker 2: Sadly, Yeah, indeed, Richard, just very quickly, because I want
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Speaker 2: to get onto some other topics tonight. But Richard, surely
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Speaker 2: would you call you know, your mates with Tony Burke,
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Speaker 2: do you call on him tonight to cancel this visa?
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Speaker 14: Well, what I say to Tony Berg I say privately,
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Speaker 14: I don't say on national television.
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Speaker 2: Say it on national television. This is true important.
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Speaker 14: But what I would say, and I think it's pretty important,
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Speaker 14: is we have to remember who our friends are and
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Speaker 14: who our friends aren't. And when you look at friendships,
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Speaker 14: when you look at alliances. We've been supporting the Jews
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Speaker 14: in Israel for a long time. I do not understand
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Speaker 14: why we would even back away an inch from continuing
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Speaker 14: to do that. And that's what I'd be saying totay.
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Speaker 2: But even if you don't support Israel, Hesbela is a
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Speaker 2: listed terror organization in Australia. You've just had this preacher
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Speaker 2: who's gone to the funeral of the dead Hesbela leader.
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Speaker 2: How can he be allowed in our country? It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's have a look at the election timing, Michael.
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Speaker 2: The wide view was that the Prime Minister was set
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Speaker 2: to go to Yara Lamla on Sunday call the election
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Speaker 2: for April twelve. Assuming that's accurate, surely he's going to
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Speaker 2: have to counsel his plans to call the election. If
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Speaker 2: hundreds of thousand the families are reeling from the cycloe,
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Speaker 2: you would think.
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Speaker 13: So, I've mold over this today, the devastation that could
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Speaker 13: be rigged on Queensland and northern New South Wales could
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Speaker 13: be absolutely immense. He'll know much more by Sunday or Monday.
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Speaker 13: But if it is a devastating period, then can he
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Speaker 13: really go and call an election whilst everyone has suffering,
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Speaker 13: lost their homes, the ruin that might be rigged upon people.
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Speaker 13: I think he can't really call an election a day
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Speaker 13: after or in the middle of a cyclone. Kenny, I
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Speaker 13: wouldn't have thought so. And that means probably May three
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Speaker 13: or ten or an outside seventeen. But that means he's
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Speaker 13: got a delivererate budget and they're not in a position
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Speaker 13: to deliver a budget. They haven't done the work. All
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Speaker 13: of these you hear from people is this budget is
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Speaker 13: not ready. This budget is not ready. So he's in
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Speaker 13: a difficult position. But this is what happens if you
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Speaker 13: leave elections to the last minute. Occasionally come back and
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Speaker 13: bite you, Richo.
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Speaker 2: Is your information that the Prime Minister is now planning
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Speaker 2: a May election.
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Speaker 14: Well, some people are telling me that, and I suspect
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Speaker 14: that's the truth. I don't think April is a possibility now,
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Speaker 14: so I think we moved back and I don't think
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Speaker 14: I don't think that's a big deal myself, doesn't make
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Speaker 14: much difference, you know, a few weeks whether you're going
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Speaker 14: to win or not, it is not going to be
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Speaker 14: determined by that date.
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Speaker 2: All right. That's interesting, So you are now hearing that
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Speaker 2: it will be made now. Last night I had a
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Speaker 2: story that Albanezy can't get Donald Trump on the phone.
22:42
Speaker 2: This is despite the trade tariffs which are now set
22:45
Speaker 2: to take effect in seven days, also a Chinese warship
22:48
Speaker 2: circling the country. Will my colleague here and Gilbert Press
22:51
Speaker 2: Treasurer Jim Chalmers on this today have a look.
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Speaker 15: Has the Prime Minister got another call scheduled with Donald Trump?
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Speaker 10: I think that's a matter for him to talk about publicly.
23:01
Speaker 10: You know, obviously we have been engaging at every level,
23:04
Speaker 10: Minister Wong, Minister Miles, myself, the Prime Minister has already
23:07
Speaker 10: had a productive conversation with President Trump, and so we
23:10
Speaker 10: engage and we speak out for Australia's national interests. We've
23:13
Speaker 10: got a good story to tell them, and obviously that
23:15
Speaker 10: the President the Prime Minister will talk at some point
23:18
Speaker 10: that already has.
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Speaker 5: He been unable to actually get him on the phone,
23:22
Speaker 5: because that was February tenth, a few weeks ago.
23:24
Speaker 1: Now yeah, I mean.
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Speaker 10: I'm not going to talk about that publicly.
23:30
Speaker 2: So Michael, that was following up my story last night
23:33
Speaker 2: when I reported there's no call scheduled and alban Eezy
23:37
Speaker 2: can't make inroads into the Trump administration. This doesn't sound promising.
23:44
Speaker 13: Well, he's got Kevin Rudd there. You know, he's got
23:47
Speaker 13: the ambassador there. He'd be working hard to He's got
23:53
Speaker 13: a great relationship with Trump.
23:56
Speaker 1: So this is why you don't appoint people like Rudd.
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Speaker 13: Trump's got two hundred world leaders trying to talk to
24:02
Speaker 13: him at any one stage, apart from everything else that
24:04
Speaker 13: he's trying to do in the Middle East and America
24:07
Speaker 13: and tariffs and Doze and the issues he's dealing with.
24:11
Speaker 13: And you've got an Australian ambassador in Washington who hates
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Speaker 13: Donald Trump and who you know, people have probably whispered
24:19
Speaker 13: in Trump's here who Rudd is. This is why Alberics
24:22
Speaker 13: he should never have appointed him. He was told not
24:24
Speaker 13: to appoint. This was a captain's call to appoint Rudd,
24:27
Speaker 13: his mate to this job. No one knew this would
24:30
Speaker 13: turn out this way. But this is why you need
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Speaker 13: a Beasley or a Peacock or someone like that as
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Speaker 13: an ambassador.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I don't know. I think it looks bad.
24:38
Speaker 1: Very good story about you last night. It looks bad.
24:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed it does. And of course Trump gave his
24:43
Speaker 2: powerful first speech to the new Congress today, declaring that
24:46
Speaker 2: America is back.
24:55
Speaker 16: Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this
24:59
Speaker 16: capital and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America.
25:06
Speaker 16: From that moment, dawn, there's been nothing but swift and
25:09
Speaker 16: unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful
25:14
Speaker 16: era in the history of our country. We have accomplished
25:19
Speaker 16: more in forty three days, and most administrations accomplished in
25:24
Speaker 16: four years or eight years, and we are just getting started.
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Speaker 2: Rich O. It wasn't without its theatrics, and there were
25:34
Speaker 2: some who needed to be evicted during the address. What
25:37
Speaker 2: did you make of his speech?
25:39
Speaker 17: Ah?
25:40
Speaker 14: I thought the old Donald did pretty well, and I'm
25:42
Speaker 14: not a fan, but I thought today's speech was excellent.
25:48
Speaker 14: That's the only word I could come up with. I
25:50
Speaker 14: think he hit every note that he needed to hit,
25:54
Speaker 14: and that's not easy in a speech like that, because
25:57
Speaker 14: it's not I mean, unfortunately, you can't spit all day
26:01
Speaker 14: and cover every topic, but he didn't manage to get
26:04
Speaker 14: in everything that really mattered. Now, as I said, I'm
26:08
Speaker 14: not a fan, but today he did really well.
26:11
Speaker 2: I've actually never heard you say something positive about the president.
26:14
Speaker 2: So there you, guys, Michael, what were your main takeouts?
26:18
Speaker 2: Which were the parts that you felt resonated the most.
26:23
Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 13: I loved his reference to that thirteen year old boy,
26:26
Speaker 13: the cancer survivor who he May, who'd always wanted to
26:28
Speaker 13: be a policeman, and he'd May in a designated him
26:31
Speaker 13: member of the US Secret Service. I mean, what an
26:33
Speaker 13: extraordinary touch. But Comparatore, the women, he Comparatore's family, the
26:39
Speaker 13: women he acknowledged.
26:40
Speaker 1: It was a Donald trumble hits.
26:43
Speaker 13: I thought the Democrats looked pathetic with those silly little
26:46
Speaker 13: lollipop signs they had. But what struck me most was
26:50
Speaker 13: this the extraordinary coalition that Trump seems to be putting together.
26:54
Speaker 13: I mean, you look at all his greatest hits today.
26:57
Speaker 13: These are direct, direct, direct messages to the working middle class.
27:02
Speaker 13: The traditional base of the Democratic Party are now moving
27:05
Speaker 13: heavily to the Republican Party because all of the things
27:08
Speaker 13: they care about he speaks about, and he's doing the
27:10
Speaker 13: whole America. First Agenda, tariffs, bringing industry back to America,
27:15
Speaker 13: strong boarders, strong communities, men and women women, no men
27:19
Speaker 13: and women's sports, you know, no American soldiers in the Ukraine.
27:25
Speaker 13: No funding to all of these strange you know, these
27:28
Speaker 13: strange funding decisions, wasting government money. This is the greatest
27:31
Speaker 13: hits that the working class Americans love. Winning over the
27:37
Speaker 13: old Kennedy Democrats, Latinos blacks. He is building a very
27:43
Speaker 13: very powerful coalition and it leaves the Democrats with sort
27:46
Speaker 13: of Hollywood actors, the extremely rich, and you know, angry professionals.
27:53
Speaker 13: He's also sort of, of course, winning over big tech,
27:55
Speaker 13: big business Joe Rogan. I mean, he's building it extraordinary coalition.
27:59
Speaker 13: That's what struck me most when I heard him speak
28:00
Speaker 13: and looked at the crowd.
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Speaker 2: European leaders, of course, not among that coalition. All right,
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Speaker 2: Michael Kroger, Graham Richardson, thank you both so much, as
28:10
Speaker 2: always in a Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Cherry.
28:12
Speaker 2: All right, let's cross live now to surface Paradise in Queensland,
28:15
Speaker 2: which is set to be heavily impacted by Cyclone Alfred
28:19
Speaker 2: on Friday morning, and Sky News reported Jonathan Lee is
28:21
Speaker 2: on the ground thanks for joining us, Jonathan. What's happening
28:25
Speaker 2: right now as we go to air.
28:29
Speaker 18: All good evening, sharrying, good evening to those at home.
28:32
Speaker 18: It's very quiet behind me, and for very good reason.
28:35
Speaker 18: The Gold Coast Councilors told everyone to go inside, stay
28:38
Speaker 18: inside and don't come out for the best part of
28:40
Speaker 18: forty eight to seventy two hours. It is, as supposed
28:44
Speaker 18: to use a bad cliche, the calm before the storm.
28:46
Speaker 18: At the moment the squall is building up, it's dark
28:49
Speaker 18: and ominous. Well, at least it was dark and omus
28:52
Speaker 18: when the sun was setting. And we're expecting somewhere in
28:55
Speaker 18: the vicinity of two hundred to four hundred millimeters of
28:58
Speaker 18: rain over the next day or so. Each and every
29:01
Speaker 18: day through until Saturday. You're looking at roughly four million
29:04
Speaker 18: people in the firing line at the moment, from Double
29:06
Speaker 18: Island Point, which is a very popular camping area, through
29:10
Speaker 18: and down to Grafton. It's extraordinary when you think of
29:13
Speaker 18: just how big this area is. I can think about
29:16
Speaker 18: my family, which is based in Brisbane. We've taken the
29:19
Speaker 18: step of my wife and children not staying at home
29:22
Speaker 18: in our traditional Queenslander and going and staying with family
29:25
Speaker 18: where it's safe. We've also bought a generator and the
29:27
Speaker 18: hope that if we lose power and then get back home,
29:30
Speaker 18: we can at least look after ourselves for the next
29:32
Speaker 18: week or so. And many other people are being told
29:35
Speaker 18: that they might go without power for the next week
29:37
Speaker 18: as well. So this is a huge number of people
29:40
Speaker 18: who were battening down the hatches tonight. I think about
29:43
Speaker 18: the last time I covered a cyclone that was in Cooktown,
29:45
Speaker 18: that's two thousand kilometers north of the Gold Coast. I
29:48
Speaker 18: covered another one in cans I flew there on a
29:50
Speaker 18: chopper that was sixteen hundred kilometers north of where we
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Speaker 18: currently are. There hasn't been a cyclone which has impacted
29:57
Speaker 18: southeast Queensland in some fifty years, and this is the
30:00
Speaker 18: largest weather event to hit the Gold Coast in seventy
30:04
Speaker 18: odd years. We're told it will also go down over
30:06
Speaker 18: the border into New South Wales, where the Northern Rivers
30:09
Speaker 18: community liz Moore has been beaten and battered and bashed
30:13
Speaker 18: time and time again. They're going to have to go
30:15
Speaker 18: through this all over and there's a number of communities
30:18
Speaker 18: who are very familiar with floods who've had to get
30:20
Speaker 18: out the sand bags again, and we're hearing stories of
30:23
Speaker 18: record numbers of sandbags. I'd be estimating in the hundreds
30:25
Speaker 18: of thousands going to homes which haven't had to protect
30:28
Speaker 18: themselves before. Because when this thing comes through on the
30:32
Speaker 18: early hours of the morning, somewhere between two and four o'clock,
30:36
Speaker 18: it will cross the coast and it will stay for many,
30:38
Speaker 18: many hours. We're told it will be six hours before
30:40
Speaker 18: it crosses the coast and at least six hours after,
30:43
Speaker 18: so it's not just Thursday night.
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Speaker 6: People have to be aware of.
30:46
Speaker 18: It's early Friday morning and then eventually into Saturday as well.
30:49
Speaker 18: The rain will hang, and the longer it hangs, the
30:52
Speaker 18: more damage it will do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a frightening a few days ahead, that's for sure,
30:56
Speaker 2: And as you say, families basically in lockdown, preparing for
31:00
Speaker 2: days or up to a week without power, buying supplies,
31:02
Speaker 2: food and torches. Jonathan, hope you and your family and
31:06
Speaker 2: everyone watching in Queensland and northern New South Wales stay safe.
31:09
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. Now still to come, Emilia
31:13
Speaker 2: Hamer is tipped to beat teal Minique Ryan. She'll join
31:16
Speaker 2: me live a bit later, plus will cross live to
31:19
Speaker 2: the Gold coast mayor and a senior meteorologist to look
31:22
Speaker 2: at how cyclone out for it is tracking tonight. That's
31:26
Speaker 2: all coming up. Welcome back well, Amelia Hamer, coming up,
31:32
Speaker 2: Jenna Clarke two. But now let's have another quick look
31:36
Speaker 2: at how the cyclone is tracking tonight and our Sky
31:39
Speaker 2: News whether senior meteorologist Rob Sharp is suggesting that it
31:43
Speaker 2: could arrive later than currently forecast. Rob, thanks for joining us,
31:49
Speaker 2: So tell us how far off the coast the cyclone
31:51
Speaker 2: is right now and when it's on track to arrive.
31:55
Speaker 19: So it's currently three hundred kilometers off the coast Sharry
31:59
Speaker 19: directly off the coast of the Gold Coast. At the moment,
32:03
Speaker 19: this system that we've got a tropical cyclone warning in
32:07
Speaker 19: place from Grafton up to Double Island Point. It meaning
32:10
Speaker 19: that gale force winds are a chance in that red
32:13
Speaker 19: shaded area within the next twenty four hours. We've already
32:15
Speaker 19: seen that Fort Byron Bay, for example, gusting to one
32:19
Speaker 19: hundred and six kilometers an hour. But the forecast for
32:22
Speaker 19: this system is for it now to take a longer
32:24
Speaker 19: journey to the coast. The Bureau haven't upgraded updated their
32:28
Speaker 19: forecast yet, but they are going to because all of
32:30
Speaker 19: the forecast models have slowed this system down. The windiest
32:34
Speaker 19: weather will be on the southern and western sides of
32:37
Speaker 19: the cyclone as it approaches the coast. But you can
32:39
Speaker 19: see this forecast model here still has it sitting out
32:43
Speaker 19: to sea at the end of Friday. This system is
32:46
Speaker 19: now most likely to make landfall late on Friday or
32:50
Speaker 19: early on Saturday, a full twenty four hour delay.
32:55
Speaker 1: The reason for that a.
32:57
Speaker 19: Large upper trough to the southwest of this system, down
33:01
Speaker 19: near Victoria and South Australia, is going to shunt this
33:04
Speaker 19: system and help it to pause or at least slow
33:07
Speaker 19: down in its journey towards the coastline. So that's what
33:10
Speaker 19: the latest modeling is now suggesting.
33:12
Speaker 2: Wow, I didn't think we'd be breaking news on the
33:14
Speaker 2: show tonight about the timing of the cyclone. So I mean,
33:17
Speaker 2: that's a longer time for people to stay in lockdown
33:20
Speaker 2: in their homes if you are right, And of course
33:22
Speaker 2: the modeling will continue to change. Look, we're also hearing
33:25
Speaker 2: talk of a storm surge. What does that mean?
33:30
Speaker 19: So what we're talking about there is the water piling
33:33
Speaker 19: up on the coastline. So we've had these big ways
33:37
Speaker 19: already hitting the coast for some time. We've got that
33:40
Speaker 19: severe weather warning running from Seal Rocks all the way
33:43
Speaker 19: up to Sandy Cap. With these huge waves. They've been
33:46
Speaker 19: observed as large as fifteen meters just out to sea
33:50
Speaker 19: of the Gold Coast today and they're going to continue
33:53
Speaker 19: to be up to as large as that through the
33:57
Speaker 19: next twenty four hours or so. But as this system
34:00
Speaker 19: comes into the coastline, the water itself will pile up
34:04
Speaker 19: on the coast and we'll see abnormally high tides and
34:07
Speaker 19: there's that potential for coastal inundation. Now, these are a
34:10
Speaker 19: couple of maps that we've got from the Gold Coast
34:13
Speaker 19: City Council, and as you can see here, there's Paradise
34:17
Speaker 19: Point and through all of these streets here there's potential
34:22
Speaker 19: that we may, in the worst case scenario, see inundation
34:26
Speaker 19: of the streets and of the homes. And that's not
34:29
Speaker 19: just for Paradise Point.
34:30
Speaker 2: That's bigger a waters as well.
34:32
Speaker 19: Many streets could go underwater depending on the exact timing
34:36
Speaker 19: and strength of this system when it comes ashore.
34:40
Speaker 2: All right, look, I really appreciate that very detailed update,
34:43
Speaker 2: rub Sharp, and we'll probably get you back on the
34:46
Speaker 2: show tomorrow night to see how it's tracking at that point.
34:48
Speaker 2: So that's our our Sky New Senior meteorologist rub Sharp there. Now,
34:53
Speaker 2: the Prime Minister was meant to head to Wa this
34:56
Speaker 2: weekend for the state election which is on Saturday, is
34:59
Speaker 2: now said that is going to stay east side, He'll
35:01
Speaker 2: stay in Canberra. Let's bring in now the Australians Associate
35:05
Speaker 2: editor Joanna Clark Jenna, Great to see you again and
35:08
Speaker 2: welcome back. Now. Premier Roger Cook isn't as popular as
35:13
Speaker 2: Mark McGowan, yet it looks like he will still comfortably
35:16
Speaker 2: win the WA election on Saturday. Yeah, that's right, Sharry.
35:21
Speaker 20: Obviously Roger Cook doesn't carry the same sort of popularity
35:24
Speaker 20: or approval rating as mister ninety one percent in form
35:27
Speaker 20: of Premier Martin McGowan, but Labor do hold fifty three
35:31
Speaker 20: of the fifty nine at lower House seats in the
35:33
Speaker 20: West Australian Parliament, so it is going to be a
35:35
Speaker 20: long way back if the Liberals and Nationals, if they
35:37
Speaker 20: do form a coalition, want to get back into power,
35:40
Speaker 20: but mister Cook and the AOP look likely to retain
35:44
Speaker 20: power for a third term on Saturday.
35:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Liberals. Of course, as you say, we're
35:48
Speaker 2: reduced to two seats four years ago, so it wouldn't
35:51
Speaker 2: take much wouldn't take much of a swing for them
35:54
Speaker 2: to improve that result.
35:55
Speaker 17: Now.
35:56
Speaker 2: When Albanize is victory over Scott Morrison in twenty twenty two,
36:00
Speaker 2: that was partly because of the strength of the Labor
36:02
Speaker 2: vote federally in Wa. Do you think some of that
36:06
Speaker 2: support is going to come off now and will flow
36:09
Speaker 2: back to the Coalition to Peter Dutton in the federal election.
36:13
Speaker 2: It will be very interesting because obviously Western Australia did
36:17
Speaker 2: deliver Anthony Alberenezi power in twenty twenty two, and there
36:21
Speaker 2: are a few key seats that I think the Libs
36:23
Speaker 2: are watching quite closely, being Tagny which was lost Swan
36:27
Speaker 2: and also Curtain which was lost to the till independent
36:31
Speaker 2: candidate Kate Cheney. There are reports that the Liberal Party
36:34
Speaker 2: have thrown upwards of two million dollars at trying to
36:37
Speaker 2: regain that former Blue ribbon seat in the Western Suburbs
36:41
Speaker 2: in Perth. It was formerly held by former Foreign Minister
36:43
Speaker 2: Julie Bishop. So they're looking forward to probably putting that
36:46
Speaker 2: queue back in the rack. If Tom White the candidate
36:48
Speaker 2: can pull off a win against Kate Cheney. But it
36:51
Speaker 2: will be.
36:51
Speaker 20: Interesting because I feel that Saturday will be a very
36:54
Speaker 20: definitive marker, or at least a barometer to see how
36:58
Speaker 20: Labour is faring both federally and locally.
37:01
Speaker 2: When we go to the polls on Saturday. Look, just
37:04
Speaker 2: on another topic, are your Premier Roger Cook had this
37:08
Speaker 2: kind of bizarre crack at jd Vance? Have a look
37:12
Speaker 2: jd Vance is a knob. Well, not the most eloquent
37:19
Speaker 2: of answer, but certainly an unusual intervention in foreign politics
37:23
Speaker 2: from a state premier. Jenna. Yeah, it definitely was.
37:26
Speaker 20: Look, I think it read faredwell with the crowd the
37:29
Speaker 20: West Australians Leadership Matters breakfast yesterday in Perth, where every
37:32
Speaker 20: thousand people were hanging on his every word. I think
37:35
Speaker 20: it's landed well with the punters and voters because they
37:38
Speaker 20: probably think that every politician is a knob. Pardon my
37:41
Speaker 20: pardon my language, but look, I think mister Cook has
37:44
Speaker 20: come out and apologized numerous times, even again today for
37:47
Speaker 20: not many, not.
37:48
Speaker 2: Many to cause any offense.
37:50
Speaker 20: But will be interesting to see how those poor diplomats,
37:53
Speaker 20: diplomats in Washington are trying to trying to swing this one.
37:57
Speaker 2: They're dealing with far greater insight insults than no. But
38:00
Speaker 2: that's of course how the West Australian had the story.
38:02
Speaker 2: Very funny. All right, Just finally, Jenna, what can you
38:05
Speaker 2: tell us about this Perth teenager who was arrested over
38:08
Speaker 2: the threat to a Sydney mosque? Yeah?
38:11
Speaker 20: Look, christ Church two point zero is how this sixteen
38:14
Speaker 20: year old kid who lives in the suburb of Eton,
38:17
Speaker 20: which is about two and a half hours south of Perth.
38:20
Speaker 20: Police sort of seized on this young kid just to
38:23
Speaker 20: make sure that he hasn't been radicalized and that's the
38:25
Speaker 20: next step in the investigation, which is what Police Commissioner
38:28
Speaker 20: Cole Blanche told media today. It's incredibly disturbing because we've
38:32
Speaker 20: seen obviously that at knife attack in Wa just a
38:35
Speaker 20: couple of months ago, and this is of course on
38:38
Speaker 20: top of some really horrific anti Semitic activity that's been
38:42
Speaker 20: happening in the Western suburbs. We saw one of the
38:45
Speaker 20: two men charged with criminal destruction face court today and
38:49
Speaker 20: he fled in a bizarre sort of way, covered from
38:52
Speaker 20: head to toe in a mask and wanting to avoid
38:55
Speaker 20: the media.
38:56
Speaker 2: But it is really it's very disturbing times.
38:59
Speaker 20: But what's happening both online and also within on the
39:02
Speaker 20: streets of Perth when it comes to radicalized behavior.
39:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed it is all right. Jenna Clarke really appreciate
39:08
Speaker 2: you joining us. Thank you. Now. Still to come is
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Speaker 25: Reinvigorate the political debate in want to discuss policies because
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Speaker 25: that's how we'll get the best policies for this country.
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Speaker 25: And I'm an Australian, I believe in this country.
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Speaker 1: Authorized by nfaverage for the Trumpet Patriots Gold Coast.
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Speaker 2: Welcome Back. Emilia Hamer is the Liberal candidate running for
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Speaker 2: the seat of Coujong. This is, as you know, the
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Speaker 2: traditional blue ribbon seat that fell to Monique Ryan at
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Speaker 2: the last election. In a shock upset. Now Coujong is
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Speaker 2: going to be a key seat this election, because if
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Speaker 2: the Liberals can't unseat at least some of the Teals,
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Speaker 2: it'll be a very difficult path to victory. And I'm
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Speaker 2: pleased to say. Emilia Hamer joins me. Now, Amelia, thank
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Speaker 2: you for your time. What's your sense on the ground
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Speaker 2: in the electorate about your chance of winning the seat
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Speaker 2: back from the tials.
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Speaker 26: It's great to be here with you, Shari. Look, I've
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Speaker 26: knocked on thousands of doors. Together as a team, we've
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Speaker 26: knocked over ten thousand doors across the electorate, and the
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Speaker 26: mood is really ready for change. I think if we
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Speaker 26: look at the seat of Kuyong, what you can see
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Speaker 26: is that it is one of the most marginal seats
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Speaker 26: in the country. So the margin is somewhere between point
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Speaker 26: two and two point two percent, depending on how you look.
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Speaker 17: At the redistribution.
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Speaker 26: So it absolutely has to be one of those thirteen
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Speaker 26: seats that Peter Upton takes to form government.
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Speaker 17: And we're not taking any chances. We're not taking anything
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Speaker 17: for granted. We're working so hard.
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Speaker 2: When you're dawnarking as you say you've been doing, do
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Speaker 2: you get the sense that voters are disappointed in the
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Speaker 2: Teals and in Minique Ran in particular.
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Speaker 26: What I'm hearing from people is that they're incredibly disappointed
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Speaker 26: in Minique RAN's voting record. She votes seventy seven percent
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Speaker 26: of the time with the Greens. Now, what people are
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Speaker 26: saying to me is that that doesn't reflect their values
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Speaker 26: and that doesn't reflect the sort of person that they
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Speaker 26: were expecting to send to Canberra when they elected an independent.
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Speaker 2: What about the biggest issues that are coming up in
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Speaker 2: the electorate. Is it cost of living? Is it anti samitism?
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Speaker 2: What are you hearing?
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Speaker 26: Yeah, So the three main issues that are coming up
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Speaker 26: across Koyong are one, cost of living in the economy.
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Speaker 26: People are really seriously concerned about that. Two is community safety.
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Speaker 26: There've been a huge number of burglaries home invasions in
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Speaker 26: our local area and I'm speaking to people daily about
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Speaker 26: the concern they have about their safety in their homes.
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Speaker 26: And the third thing is just doing the basics well.
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Speaker 26: People are really frustrated. You drive down Balwyn Road to
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Speaker 26: Rack Road wherever it is, the road's full of potholes,
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Speaker 26: and yet the federal government is putting two point two
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Speaker 26: billion dollars into the suburban rail loop. So people are
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Speaker 26: saying to me, look, I'm paying all my taxes, but
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Speaker 26: it's just not adding up. And I want to see
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Speaker 26: the government getting back to basics, doing the basics well
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Speaker 26: and getting this country back on track.
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Speaker 2: I'm surprised to hear anti Semitism isn't one of the
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Speaker 2: top issues because Josh Friedenberg, of course, was a very
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Speaker 2: senior Jewish politician, and there's a lot of Jews who
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Speaker 2: live in that electorate, so you don't think it's one
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Speaker 2: of the big issues this election, at least in Kujong.
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Speaker 26: Yeah, when I go down to Mulven and to Armadale
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Speaker 26: and to Tuak, it absolutely comes up all the time.
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Speaker 26: And I've got people in our local community who are
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Speaker 26: telling me that they have an escape plan for what
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Speaker 26: they're going to do if Australia it gets too bad
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Speaker 26: and the situation with anti Semitism gets too bad, and
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Speaker 26: it is deeply, deeply concerning, And it's also deeply concerning
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Speaker 26: to see Mani Ryan's voting record on this.
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Speaker 17: You look at, for instance, mandatory minimum sentences for terrorist offenses,
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Speaker 17: which was not a big ask.
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Speaker 26: It's saying, if you are convicted of a terrorist defense,
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Speaker 26: you should go to jail for six years.
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Speaker 17: Manick Ryan voted against that. Manick Ryan.
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Speaker 26: What people are saying to me is they don't see
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Speaker 26: that she is interested in fighting anti Semitism. They don't
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Speaker 26: see that she's interested in providing moral leadership, and they
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Speaker 26: don't see that she's interested in keeping the community safe.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting because Peter Duttan's really focusing on Victoria as
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Speaker 2: a state where he hopes to win ground ahead of
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Speaker 2: the election campaign, which could be within days. It might
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Speaker 2: be pushed back to May. Now. Victoria has traditionally been
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Speaker 2: more of a labor state, quite progressive. Why do you
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Speaker 2: think Victoria is presenting such an opportunity for the coalition
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Speaker 2: at this election? Why do you think sentiment has changed.
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Speaker 17: Our state is falling apart.
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Speaker 26: You don't need to look very far to see that
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Speaker 26: the economy is terrible, the roads are terrible, the.
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Speaker 17: Health systems falling apart.
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Speaker 26: And what people are saying is they're appealing to the
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Speaker 26: federal government to say, what can you do to fix
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Speaker 26: our problem?
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Speaker 17: Let's look at community safety. Is a really good example
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Speaker 17: of that.
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Speaker 26: We have bail laws where in this state it is
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Speaker 26: currently not an offense to break the.
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Speaker 17: Conditions of your bail.
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Speaker 26: Now, in that context, people are saying, well, what can
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Speaker 26: the federal government do well, we can impose we can
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Speaker 26: bring in mandatory minimum standards for bail laws in this country,
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Speaker 26: and we can get all the premiers around a table
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Speaker 26: and we can make that happen. People are asking us
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Speaker 26: to solve the problems that are front of mine for
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Speaker 26: them every single day.
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Speaker 2: Emilia, You've obviously got a family history in politics. Did
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Speaker 2: you always feel like a political career ending up in
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Speaker 2: Canberra was your personal destiny?
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Speaker 26: Jarri, I don't think I believe in destiny. I believe
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Speaker 26: in hard work. I did grow up in a family where,
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Speaker 26: you know, public service was front of mind and we
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Speaker 26: were always taught that we should serve our country and
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Speaker 26: do the right thing and see how we can contribute
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Speaker 26: and how we can help.
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Speaker 17: But I've also had a professional career.
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Speaker 26: I've lived overseas and I've seen how good Australia is
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Speaker 26: compared to other countries in the world, and I'm worried
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Speaker 26: that if we don't take action now, if we don't
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Speaker 26: get the country back on track heading in the right direction,
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Speaker 26: then Australia is not going to be such a good
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Speaker 26: country in ten twenty years time, and I'm really passionate
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Speaker 26: about making sure that we fix that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Amelia, thank you so much for your time. Tonight,
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Speaker 2: now still to come, we're going to return to the cyclone.
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Speaker 2: We'll get the latest on how it's tracking and the
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Speaker 2: preparations with the acting mayor in the Gold Coast. That's
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Speaker 2: after this quick break. Welcome back. Well, we're all bracing
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Speaker 2: for Cyclone Alfred to hit overnight on Thursday, perhaps Friday.
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Speaker 2: Let's bring in now the acting Mayor of the Gold Coast,
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Speaker 2: Donna Gates. Donna, thank you very much for joining us. Look,
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Speaker 2: how are people feeling at the moment.
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Speaker 27: Everyone's very anxious. I'd have to say we've had plenty
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Speaker 27: of time to warn everyone and we are as best
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Speaker 27: prepared as we could possibly be. It's not unprecedented that
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Speaker 27: we would have a cyclone here, but it's been since
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Speaker 27: nineteen fifty four that we've had a comparable cyclone, so
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Speaker 27: it is a little scared at the moment. We're expecting
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Speaker 27: it to be a high end Category two as it
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Speaker 27: crosses the coast. The information we have is that it
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Speaker 27: could cross the coastline anywhere between Kibulcher and the Gold
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Speaker 27: Coast more likely, though it could go down to the Tweed,
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Speaker 27: but more likely between Kibucher and the Gold Coast.
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Speaker 2: Now, schools are going to be closed tomorrow and Friday.
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Speaker 2: You're expecting power as well to be out for several days.
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Speaker 27: Well, hopefully not. We know that there's no public transport tomorrow.
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Speaker 27: The hospitals have stopped doing emergency surgeries. There's only all
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Speaker 27: non essential council services have stopped. Yeah, the schools are closed,
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Speaker 27: so everything's gearing down and we're on a watch and
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Speaker 27: wait because all of the predictions, all of the modeling
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Speaker 27: suggests that this will definitely have potentially the highest impact
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Speaker 27: on the Gold Coast because we're sitting south of the
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Speaker 27: Eye and cyclones move clockwise I understand, and it's the
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Speaker 27: impact from the south that is the strongest. So incredibly
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Speaker 27: high wind gusts tomorrow up to one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 27: five kilometers an hour. Sorry, that might be tomorrow evening
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Speaker 27: and Friday Friday morning at four am is the suggested time. Now,
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Speaker 27: because the cyclone in the last couple of hours has
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Speaker 27: slowed a little, that has the potential to extend the
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Speaker 27: period out a little further, but yes, with very damaging
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Speaker 27: winds and very heavy rainfall.
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Speaker 2: I just want to check something. You said that hospitals
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Speaker 2: have counseled. You said emergency surgeries, but you mean non
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Speaker 2: emergency surgery.
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Speaker 27: I'm sorry. Yeah, it's been a long day. I started
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Speaker 27: to get a last interview at ten past six this.
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Speaker 2: Morning, so get alarmed if they need medical treatment. The
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Speaker 2: hospitals will still be open, of course.
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Speaker 27: Well all of the ancillary hospitals have closed as well,
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Speaker 27: the ones that are the pop in place, but the
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Speaker 27: major hospitals will remain open for emergencies. I'm very sorry,
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Speaker 27: and yeah, but anything that is non urgent has been canceled.
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Speaker 2: I mean, what's it like there on the ground. I
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Speaker 2: spoke to someone today and I've also got family around
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Speaker 2: the sun Throne coast and I'm hearing it. It's very
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Speaker 2: The light was very eerie. You know, people are stockpiling obviously,
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Speaker 2: there's been some bare shelves in the supermarket. What can
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Speaker 2: you tell us?
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Speaker 27: It is eerie. It's been very cloudy all day to
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Speaker 27: day and quite windy on occasions. So it's been gusting today.
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Speaker 27: Closer to the tweed, there's been waves of up to
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Speaker 27: fifteen meters. That's extraordinary. We saw some people going into
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Speaker 27: the surf at six o'clock this morning, which is crazy.
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Speaker 27: The beaches are closed as well. No public transport is operating,
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Speaker 27: and yes, the supermarket shells are empty. I know there's
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Speaker 27: been some trouble and concern because we've been telling people
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Speaker 27: to stay at home as much as possible just to
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Speaker 27: keep them safe. But then the supermarkets thought, oh, we
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Speaker 27: might not get any customs, so should we close. It's
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Speaker 27: just one of those situations where we're not used to
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Speaker 27: and so we're not quite sure of what the outcome
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Speaker 27: will be. And because it has been so unpredictable in
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Speaker 27: where it might cross, people are a little confused. So
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Speaker 27: we've stuck to our messaging, which has been for people
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Speaker 27: to secure outdoor furniture. If they live in a high rise,
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Speaker 27: make sure anything that they have on the balcony is
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Speaker 27: taken off. If they're in low lying areas, be ready
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Speaker 27: to evacuate. And everyone has collected their sandbags and done
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Speaker 27: the best they can, and now really it's a matter
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Speaker 27: of waiting and seeing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is indeed all right, Donna Gates, stay safe
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Speaker 2: and good luck for it tomorrow at night all right,
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Speaker 2: I'll see you tomorrow at eight. Thank you for your
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Speaker 2: company this evening. And right now, here's Paul Murray.