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The Bolt Report | 26 January · The Bolt Report

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Speaker 1: Needs the reform it huge show coming up, Susan Lee
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Speaker 1: looks closer to being dropped as leader, shocking news about
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Speaker 1: the economy, and the US moves to attack Iran. Plus
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Speaker 1: the King tells Donald Trump to pull his silly head in.
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Speaker 1: But first, Happy Australia Day. In fact, it's a much
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Speaker 1: happier Australia Day than I can recall in years, because,
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Speaker 1: to my astonishment, it seemed from today that the haters
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Speaker 1: are now losing austraands are getting absolutely sick of all
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Speaker 1: these attacks on Australia Day and the country that we're
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Speaker 1: meant to celebrate, sing of the lies and the division
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Speaker 1: and the sheer ingratitude for this brilliant country. Let me
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Speaker 1: show you Melbourne, where the Socialistift government scrap the annual
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Speaker 1: Australia parades some time ago, that of course left the
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Speaker 1: streets to the haters for the Invasion Day protests instead,
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Speaker 1: which eight years ago looked like this absolutely massive, but
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Speaker 1: which today looked like this, rah They're pathetic. In Sydney,
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Speaker 1: the crowd's also seemed down, even though pro Palacinian protesters
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Speaker 1: with their flags, boosted the numbers. I was sure an
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Speaker 1: alliance of anti Australia Haters. Protests organizer Elizabeth Jarrett tried
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Speaker 1: to brush that off.
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Speaker 2: There is no international issues.
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Speaker 3: The international issue right now is Australia being against First
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Speaker 3: Nations people.
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Speaker 4: Let's not get it wrong. The protest time passon.
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Speaker 5: As long as they're here with us and they're doing
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Speaker 5: the right thing, they're.
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Speaker 1: More than welcome. Add to that a couple of surveys
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Speaker 1: last week that said yes, there's been a big swing
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Speaker 1: of support to keeping Australia on January twenty sixth. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the result poll said even most young voters now didn't
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Speaker 1: want that changed. Now. I think you know, this recent
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Speaker 1: explosion of due hatred and all those rabid anti Israel
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Speaker 1: marches and Prohamus protesters over the past three years, that's
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Speaker 1: shocked a lot of people, made them think that we're
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Speaker 1: being divided like never before. We're all really the target
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Speaker 1: of this hatred, and that Australia is under attack from
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Speaker 1: people united by that hatred. The Marxist, the radical Aboriginal separatists,
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Speaker 1: is the mispreachers, anarchists and more. And even today just
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Speaker 1: carrying or wearing an Australian flag near these anti Australia
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Speaker 1: Day protesters that was too dangerous of police to allow.
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Speaker 1: As I reported George Dickinson trying to report while being
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Speaker 1: shouted over by protesters.
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Speaker 6: We've just got a little bit of movement here from
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Speaker 6: police bosting two ladies wearing Australia Day parts as well
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Speaker 6: as Australia Day flags us away from police.
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Speaker 1: Think of that. It is too dangerous to have an
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Speaker 1: Australian flag on Australia Day in the middle of Melbourne.
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Speaker 1: And if you do have a flag, please remove you
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Speaker 1: and not the threat, says Sidney. Where riot police tackled
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Speaker 1: a young man with an Australian flag near those near
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Speaker 1: of those Invasion Day protests, his reporter Chrystal wou We
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Speaker 1: saw a group.
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Speaker 7: Of riot squad officers running towards the front of the protests.
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Speaker 7: It turns out it was a ute displaying an Australian flag.
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Speaker 7: From our understanding, we don't believe the ute was acting
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Speaker 7: in any way, but right squad officers were quick to act.
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Speaker 1: Now really did see that these anti Australia protests they
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Speaker 1: were just group It was just a group hate session
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Speaker 1: for every activist who's got some kind of grudge against
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Speaker 1: this country and needing the company of fellow haters to
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Speaker 1: feel they're sticking it to the man on Australia Day Crystal,
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Speaker 1: who actually had trouble keeping up with them all.
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Speaker 7: Among the Aboriginal flags, we're also seeing Palestinian flags. There
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Speaker 7: are people from all walks of life protesting today against
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Speaker 7: many factors, some calling on international issues and others just
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Speaker 7: protesting here because they want to spend the day with
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Speaker 7: people who share the same values.
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Speaker 1: Really, I think that many many Australians are now totally
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Speaker 1: jack of this nonsense. They realize haters like that, they
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Speaker 1: just want to hate. You know, what do you hate?
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Speaker 1: What do you got? And there's no reasoning with them.
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Speaker 1: There's certainly no reasoning with one of the organizers of
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Speaker 1: Melbourne's Invasion Day rally, who in that bigger Invasion Day
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Speaker 1: rally eight years ago that I show you told us
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Speaker 1: Australia should burn to the ground.
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Speaker 8: We've all apois Australia, Australia growth.
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Speaker 1: Arou And today that same woman from the so called
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Speaker 1: Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance were still preaching hatred, which
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Speaker 1: she justified with poisonous untrue it's about Australia. In interview
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Speaker 1: after interview.
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Speaker 8: Today, we've gathered for the freedom of our people, for
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Speaker 8: self determination and we're calling on a national Day of
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Speaker 8: mourning on the twenty sixth of January. This day is
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Speaker 8: a day that we as First Nations people, have been
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Speaker 8: calling for for the last eighty eight years. The first
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Speaker 8: protest was in nineteen thirty eight, and we are calling
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Speaker 8: for a national Day of warning today and for that
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Speaker 8: to be recognized as First Nations people, so that we
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Speaker 8: can come together and grieve the loss of the massacres
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Speaker 8: and the genocide.
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Speaker 6: So since nineteen ninety one, six hundred and seventeen Indigenous
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Speaker 6: people have been killed in either police custody or in prisons.
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Speaker 1: Who've got to effect You check these people. One, Aboriges
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Speaker 1: are free as everyone else in Australia, which is one
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Speaker 1: of the freest societies in history, which is worth celebrating. Two,
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Speaker 1: there was no genocide, obviously when we have nearly a
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Speaker 1: million people now claiming to be Aboriginal. And three the
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Speaker 1: claim that hundreds of Aborigines have been killed in jail,
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Speaker 1: presumably by police, is simply a lie. You check the
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Speaker 1: latest report by the Strained Institute of Criminology. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Aboriginal protests are less likely to die in jail than
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Speaker 1: are non Aboriginal prisoners as a proportion of their prison population.
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Speaker 1: Those who do die die either from suicide or health reasons,
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Speaker 1: and no police officer or warden has in years been
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Speaker 1: found guilty or credibly accused of murdering them in custody.
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Speaker 1: But now even imported haters adjoining forces to spread such
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Speaker 1: falsehoods Ahmed uff came here from Egypt sixteen years ago
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Speaker 1: and it's now a councilor in Cumberland City. Now you
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Speaker 1: expect him, therefore to show some gratitude to this country.
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Speaker 1: But who's been packed by the Muslim vote organization had
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Speaker 1: this message of hate for Australia Day, claiming that average society,
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Speaker 1: which by the way was actually often brutal and bloody,
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Speaker 1: was pretty good until wicked whites came.
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Speaker 9: These were stable societies that lived for tens of thousands
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Speaker 9: of years. What followed was catastrophic massacres, genocide, forced removals,
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Speaker 9: ethnic cleansing, introduced disease, the destruction of land, food systems,
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Speaker 9: families and culture. This isn't about asking you to apologize
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Speaker 9: for something you didn't do. It's about telling the truth.
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Speaker 1: Wonder why he felt it necessary to move to this
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Speaker 1: terrible country described. But again, there was no genocide, there
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Speaker 1: was no ethnic cleansing, and I've often shown here how
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Speaker 1: solen generations were grotesquely exaggerated, or have our land and
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Speaker 1: food systems been destroyed. In fact, we grow so much
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Speaker 1: food now that starvation is unknown here, and we even
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Speaker 1: help feed the world if only our political class and
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Speaker 1: cultural institutions fall back against the fossils of such haters
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Speaker 1: and against this tribalism and division. Instead, we saw again
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Speaker 1: at the National Citizenship ceremony in Canberra, how the Australian
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Speaker 1: flag was brought out only after the two tribal flags
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Speaker 1: were brought to a government to the ones that the
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Speaker 1: governor also flies these days, and how the guests had
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Speaker 1: to be welcomed to their own country by a woman
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Speaker 1: identifying as Aboriginal, who clearly had a lot of European
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Speaker 1: ancestry as well. Meanwhile, the ABC simply feeds the hate
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Speaker 1: the national broadcast that marked this Australia Day by running
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Speaker 1: a special last Wednesday hosted by XAFL footballer Tony Armstrong
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Speaker 1: telling Australians not to celebrate.
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Speaker 10: I'm sure you're expecting me to use this moment to
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Speaker 10: do a big viral speech about what January twenty sixth
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Speaker 10: means and why you the good white people watching order
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Speaker 10: feel real sad. But the problem is you already know
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Speaker 10: you've heard it before.
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Speaker 1: You know it's wrong. Don't be a Dog're so ife
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Speaker 1: you celebrated, then you're a dog. The ABC says, So
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Speaker 1: and Armstrong also did a mock cooking segment that spread
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Speaker 1: the most obscene device of atrocity stories about the first
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Speaker 1: British settlers.
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Speaker 11: Secret is seasoning. This spice mix has a hint of
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Speaker 11: lem and myrtle in it. Flip the meat so that
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Speaker 11: it's coded on both sides, just as some historians believe
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Speaker 11: the gifts distributed by soldiers given to Aboriginal people at
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Speaker 11: Manly Cove were coded in small box unless, as some
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Speaker 11: experts have argued, it was deliberately introduced to decimate a
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Speaker 11: population who Corners have described as primitive and barbaric, which
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Speaker 11: would have been a deliberate use of biological warfare leading
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Speaker 11: to a genocide.
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Speaker 1: False. Another fact check. The last time the ABC pushed
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Speaker 1: that nonsense sixteen years ago, real experts, like a medical
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Speaker 1: expert from Sydney University told it. We don't even know
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Speaker 1: if this outbreak was smallpox or say chicken pox, nor
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Speaker 1: was it likely that soldiers deliberately infected Aborigines with small
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Speaker 1: pox that was brought in vas from Britain more than
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Speaker 1: a year earlier. Because the virus usually dies in ambient
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Speaker 1: temperature within two months. No one actually does know what
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Speaker 1: happened was whatever virus that was spread and said by
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Speaker 1: Moluccan fishermen or French explorers. Yet the ABC decided that
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Speaker 1: pushing this toxic garbage was the way it wanted to
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Speaker 1: mark Australia Day. But I think Australians are now saying enough,
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Speaker 1: or at least more of them are. No one is
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Speaker 1: saying our history was perfect and without pain. But Australia
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Speaker 1: Day does mark the day when we had to start
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Speaker 1: learning to live with each other, whatever our race and ethnicity.
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Speaker 1: And when you see what a miracle we've made of it,
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Speaker 1: well that sure is worth celebrating. And as for the haters,
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Speaker 1: we see through you and that ABC show spreading bizarre
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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories about British soldiers deliberately infecting averages with smallpox
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Speaker 1: makes a hypocrite of ABC boss Hugh Marx. Marx the
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Speaker 1: last year boasted that this taxpayer fund at ABC was
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Speaker 1: about public good and the truth.
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Speaker 12: We exist to inform, entertain and educate for the public good. Ultimately,
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Speaker 12: we're here to preserve and promote Australian knowledge and protect
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Speaker 12: and promote our national identity.
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Speaker 1: So why did Marx allow his ABC to run that
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Speaker 1: show last week with all that hatred of Australia and
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Speaker 1: the falsehoods and the vile abuse too of conservatives. Celebrating
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Speaker 1: Australia Day, JETERA Reinhart will once again call for.
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Speaker 6: Workers to celebrate Australia Day, pointing to her own mining
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Speaker 6: success and I, for one promise to always think of
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Speaker 6: Gina as the owner of Australia's biggest hole.
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Speaker 1: Joining me is Warren Mundine, businessman, former Labor National president
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Speaker 1: and former adviser to two Liberal prime ministers. Warren, great
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Speaker 1: to see you. Can you tell me why how could
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Speaker 1: the ABC justify broadcasting that stinking pile of rubbish? In reality?
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Speaker 4: They can't, but they do because they're lying. They haven't
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Speaker 4: fact checked anything. Uh, you know, the ABC is getting
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Speaker 4: worse and worse and worse every year. You said, see that,
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Speaker 4: you know and saying that the many directors. Seeing these
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Speaker 4: people come out and just just just make these falsehoods,
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Speaker 4: make no it got no evidence of back them up,
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Speaker 4: is just ridiculous, And especially this year because this year,
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Speaker 4: after two years of people trying to divide this country,
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Speaker 4: and we've seen the atrocities that happen non Bondo Beach
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Speaker 4: in December, and we've seen a whole lot of other
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Speaker 4: atrocities leading up to it. Synagogue's been attacked and everything
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Speaker 4: like that. This was the day, this twenty sixth of January.
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Speaker 4: It was the day for us to unite and come
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Speaker 4: together and tell the world that we are here and
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Speaker 4: we are proud of our country. We are proud of
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Speaker 4: every Australian that's come here and work hard and help
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Speaker 4: build this country. And we're proud of our history, and
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Speaker 4: we're proud of all the things that happened. We even
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Speaker 4: talk about the good, the bad, the ugly and the
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Speaker 4: beautiful of our history. It's taught everywhere and we're making
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Speaker 4: a great country. We got every race, every faith, and
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Speaker 4: people who are atheists and everything. We've got them all
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Speaker 4: here and we're all pulling together. And you know, I'm
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Speaker 4: not surprised by the latest polling this year has been.
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Speaker 4: You can see the change that people are getting sick
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Speaker 4: and tired of all this nonsense that goes on.
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Speaker 1: Do you make that you seem to be making the
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Speaker 1: same link that I did there that the jew hatred
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Speaker 1: and all those protests seem to have galvanized a bit
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Speaker 1: of pride behind Australian Australia day.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, like it's like what I saw, you know,
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Speaker 4: within I saw that preacher strayed after the seventh of October,
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Speaker 4: and and how he was elated by what had happened.
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Speaker 4: And I saw the h and I saw what happened
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Speaker 4: at the Opera House. I never thought I'd ever see
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Speaker 4: that in Australia, and it horrified me because anyone who's
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Speaker 4: studied anything about history, if the police and the authorities
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Speaker 4: don't jump on that type of stuff straight away, we
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Speaker 4: know where this is.
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Speaker 1: All going to end.
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Speaker 4: And unfortunately what it hasn't ended, but it has it
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Speaker 4: has had this dreadful outcome that happened at Bondai Beach.
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Speaker 4: And people aren't stupid. Australians are not stupid. They know
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Speaker 4: they know where you know what's happening, and and the
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Speaker 4: Australian community was in fear. You're scared that, you know,
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Speaker 4: anything you said or anything like that, you'd be called
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Speaker 4: a racist and abused, you know. And and yet this
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Speaker 4: is one of the most non racist, most beautiful countries
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Speaker 4: in the world, you know. You know, I just can't
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Speaker 4: hear these people are saying some of these things, and
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Speaker 4: I just shake my head. Of course, it's we don't
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Speaker 4: have a perfect country. There's no country in the world
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Speaker 4: that's perfect. But I can tell you what, we're probably
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Speaker 4: one of the best countries in the world for anything.
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Speaker 4: We've got Aboriginals in Parliament, We've got Aboriginal ministers. We've had,
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Speaker 4: you know, even up in the Northern Territory Aboriginal Chief Minister.
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Speaker 4: We've had all this, and we've had spent billions of
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Speaker 4: dollars on Aboriginal communities, through health services, through land rights,
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Speaker 4: for Native title rights, We've done all these things.
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Speaker 1: We even had a.
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Speaker 4: Ridiculous referendum on trying to put you know, and we've
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Speaker 4: had all these things that we've done now and yet
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Speaker 4: these people are just carrying on. I just can't. I'm
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Speaker 4: just sick. I'll be quite frank, as you've probably just realized,
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Speaker 4: I'm really sick of all this stuff. You know, if
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Speaker 4: you've got a genuine complaint, then have the genuine complaint
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Speaker 4: with the evidence that what's going on. And but the
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Speaker 4: rest of us we want to move forward and we
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Speaker 4: want to continue on this journey to make this country
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Speaker 4: a better country than it is.
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Speaker 1: Waramundin always great to talk to you. Thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for your time, Great Australian. The Federal Liberals, they're
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Speaker 1: really in a mess and leader Susan Lee is facing
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Speaker 1: the sack now. Andrew Hasty, the Liberal MP and former
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Speaker 1: Essays captain, he has announced that his family has given
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Speaker 1: permission for him to challenge Lee for the leadership, and
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Speaker 1: Angus Taylor, the opposition's defence spokesman, today refused to rule
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Speaker 1: out standing as well. But lisays she's not going anywhere,
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Speaker 1: and really, you know, I do wonder what the reason
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Speaker 1: for moving against her right now really is. Now. It's
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Speaker 1: true she sacked three Nationals from her front bench last
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Speaker 1: week when they voted against Labour's new laws against hate
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Speaker 1: group and they were dump because they had been part
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Speaker 1: of the shadow cabinet that decided to back them. And
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Speaker 1: he is supposed to stick together now, as I've said,
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Speaker 1: I think she made a mistake there, because now all
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Speaker 1: the Nationals in the shadow cabinet have quit in protest
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Speaker 1: at those sackings. So that's all the mess. But where
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Speaker 1: is the evidence that Hasty or Taylor would have done
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Speaker 1: one thing different to what Lee did, that they would
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Speaker 1: have stopped what looks effectively like a split in the opposition. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course you could argue other things against Lee that
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Speaker 1: she lacks some authority, she lacks public support. But then again,
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Speaker 1: while poll's differ, some last week had a cutting Labour's lead.
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Speaker 1: But of course this infighting will now end that maybe
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe only a change of the leadership will
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Speaker 1: fix it. I don't know. Joining the panel Michael Kroger,
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Speaker 1: former Victorian the party president, and Michael Danby, former Federal
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Speaker 1: Labor politician and chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on
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Speaker 1: Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade. Michael, is there going to
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Speaker 1: be oh, I should say that you're joining us from
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Speaker 1: Israel and I'm grateful to you for doing that. Is
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Speaker 1: there going to be a leadership challenge? Some liberals say
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Speaker 1: no or not yet.
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Speaker 13: Well, we don't know, Andrew, that's the obvious truth to
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Speaker 13: the matter. But Susan won't be calling a leadership ballot.
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Speaker 13: I don't think leaders who do that historically don't do well.
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Speaker 13: She's the leader, she's elected not too many months ago,
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Speaker 13: and if there's going to be a challenge, they'll have
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Speaker 13: to bring it on. The problem is, of course, as
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Speaker 13: we know, there are two potential challenges, and until they
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Speaker 13: saw themselves out, nothing will happen, which is disappointing because
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Speaker 13: the longer this goes, the worse it is for the party.
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Speaker 13: We've got troubles with the National Party, They've got their
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Speaker 13: own internal difficulty. So it's really a matter for Andrew
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Speaker 13: Hasty and Anger Taylor to sort themselves out, either say
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Speaker 13: they're running or not. You can't let this period of
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Speaker 13: these stabilization keep going because it's immensely damaging to the
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Speaker 13: party and that's something that cannot continue.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Now, Michael Michael Danby, it seems that Michael Kroger
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Speaker 1: is saying that Andrew Hasty and Angus Taylor got to
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Speaker 1: sort out amongst themselves who to take over, and take
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Speaker 1: over they must, but there is no clear alternative, is there,
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Speaker 1: to Susan Lee. You've got Andrew Hasty lacking experience, and
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Speaker 1: you've got Angus Taylor who was also the Liberal treasurer
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Speaker 1: who in the twenty twenty two election promised higher taxes
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Speaker 1: than even labor, which is going to put a target
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Speaker 1: on his back. Which of those three do you think, Michael, Lee,
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Speaker 1: Taylor and Hasty would give labor the most trouble less.
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Speaker 5: We blunt to Andrew. I think Angus Taylor's had a
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Speaker 5: charisma bypass. I've never been impressed by I say similarly
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Speaker 5: harsh things about labor politician side not just sink out liberals,
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Speaker 5: but you and I are Democrats, Andrew, We're not members
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Speaker 5: of the Liberal Party and we would like there to
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Speaker 5: be a strong opposition. I think Andrew Hasty is a
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Speaker 5: very capable young man who is hated by the wokests
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Speaker 5: more than any of the other candidates. So that's, ifso
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Speaker 5: fact though a good factor in his behalf. But I wish,
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Speaker 5: like you that he had more time to register with
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Speaker 5: the Australian public. And I just hope for his sake
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Speaker 5: and his young family's sake, that he doesn't move too
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Speaker 5: early and if there is a challenge, even if he's successful,
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Speaker 5: that could be a poison.
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Speaker 1: Chalice, Michael, I didn't note that you're in You're in
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Speaker 1: Tel Aviv. Actually, I'm amazed that there's been so little
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Speaker 1: coverage of a luckily attack by the US on that
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Speaker 1: Islamus regim of Iran, which has been sponsoring the terror
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Speaker 1: attacks and Israel, of course, and which has been now
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Speaker 1: killing up to thirty thousand Iranian protests over the past
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Speaker 1: few weeks. According to some reports, President Trump is now
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Speaker 1: moving the nuclear powered aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and three
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Speaker 1: guarded missile destroyers to near Iran, and the Iranian prisident
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Speaker 1: has reportedly gone into hiding in an underground bunker cut
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Speaker 1: off from communications to protect him. What's the feeling in Israel?
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Speaker 1: Is war coming? Because they would.
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Speaker 13: Know Andrew war is coming to the Middle East, that
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Speaker 13: is coming to Iran. The overwhelming view here in Israel,
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Speaker 13: and I've spoken to a lot of people about it,
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Speaker 13: is that this regime, if they're ever going to get
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Speaker 13: rid of this regime, it's going to be now. They've
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Speaker 13: got few allies, they've got depleted resources. We know from
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Speaker 13: the twelth Day War. You've got an immensely unpopular regime
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Speaker 13: which is just the IYO toler and the IIGC and
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Speaker 13: some volunteer extremist bussness that back the regime pretty well,
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Speaker 13: the whole rest of the population against the Trump's a
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Speaker 13: transformative president. He wants to go down as the man
22:11
Speaker 13: that changed the world. We know he's got a significant ego,
22:15
Speaker 13: and the fall of the Iranian regime will change the world.
22:17
Speaker 13: It will change it forever, well for at least the
22:20
Speaker 13: next fifty to one hundred years. And we know the
22:22
Speaker 13: consequences of Iran falling. So people here and Iran, all
22:28
Speaker 13: of the European press, the overwhelming view here in Israel
22:31
Speaker 13: is that Trump will do something, and the delay has
22:35
Speaker 13: been for the reasons we know, getting the assets in
22:37
Speaker 13: military assets in place, and I think also reading twin
22:41
Speaker 13: the lines, he's probably wanting to make sure that there
22:45
Speaker 13: is regime change. It's all very well to attack high
22:47
Speaker 13: OGC military bases and officers and kill their soldiers, but
22:51
Speaker 13: that doesn't guarantee regime change. So I'm sure that part
22:54
Speaker 13: of the thinking that he's been doing with allies is
22:57
Speaker 13: how do we make sure that we either kill capture
23:00
Speaker 13: pill or capture the Etler or give him safe passage
23:03
Speaker 13: to Russia. But something is going to happen here, and
23:07
Speaker 13: it's days and weeks away not months, Andrew.
23:13
Speaker 1: That's interesting of course. Michael Danby, as you know, General
23:17
Speaker 1: Jack Keene, who's a confidante of President Trump, assured me
23:21
Speaker 1: on the show last week that there will be almost
23:25
Speaker 1: certainly a war US will strike. It's preparing the ground.
23:31
Speaker 1: What's at stake here.
23:33
Speaker 5: It's reassuring that someone who you and I respect so much,
23:37
Speaker 5: like Keane, has got an inside track with the Donald
23:40
Speaker 5: and one of the more sensible advisers to him. So
23:43
Speaker 5: if he's saying that, look Kameni's in hiding.
23:47
Speaker 1: His son is.
23:48
Speaker 5: Doing the liaison with the SS of the regime, the IRGC,
23:53
Speaker 5: the bitter enders who will probably end up running the
23:57
Speaker 5: place if the headquarters are attacked. But I want to
24:00
Speaker 5: echo Michael's words, if Iran becomes even a benign state,
24:07
Speaker 5: even if it's an dictatorship that is not interfering all
24:10
Speaker 5: around the Middle East, even if it restores water to
24:13
Speaker 5: its own people and its economy, the world will be
24:17
Speaker 5: a better place. Imagine we don't have the last fifty
24:20
Speaker 5: years of this outrageous regime that even comes to Australia
24:25
Speaker 5: and blows up synagogues around the corner from me using
24:29
Speaker 5: criminals here. The world must be a better place. I
24:33
Speaker 5: echo Kroger's words, and I hope that the Donald isn't
24:37
Speaker 5: just all talk. He promised the Iranians a lot, and
24:42
Speaker 5: let's hope that it happens.
24:46
Speaker 1: Michael them, And let me stick cur with you just
24:48
Speaker 1: for a second amount of time. Just got to ask you. Jijinping,
24:52
Speaker 1: the Chinese president has sacked. Now he's a top general,
24:56
Speaker 1: the very top general. This comes after is sacked the
25:00
Speaker 1: the defense minister. He's sacked the other top generals, has
25:04
Speaker 1: sacked the heads of his rocket to unit of the army,
25:08
Speaker 1: and it's accused this general. I mean, it's like a
25:10
Speaker 1: show trial in Stalin's Russia of betraying nuclear secrets to America.
25:17
Speaker 1: Running a sort of shadow oppositional group within China. Wow,
25:23
Speaker 1: what is going on there?
25:25
Speaker 5: This is the biggest purge in the Chinese military since
25:28
Speaker 5: the Cultural Revolution. And the importance for Australian for the
25:31
Speaker 5: rest of the world is that all the operational heads
25:34
Speaker 5: of the Chinese army have been taken out of action
25:37
Speaker 5: by Jijinping. And he's got some polytroch, some political apparachi
25:42
Speaker 5: now in charge of the Chinese Army, which means I
25:45
Speaker 5: hope that they are less capable of invading Taiwan, so
25:51
Speaker 5: confusion to our enemies, as they say, well.
25:56
Speaker 1: It sounds like a more instability there than perhaps so
26:00
Speaker 1: we thought under Jijingping. Very interesting, Michael cost The Michael Costa,
26:06
Speaker 1: Michael Kroger, thank you so much for coming to us
26:09
Speaker 1: down the line from Israel. Great insights. Michael Danby, thank
26:13
Speaker 1: you very much. After the break, shocking news about the economy.
26:17
Speaker 1: The government's economic management is falling apart. It's true the
26:26
Speaker 1: Liberals are in a shambles, but perhaps the most immediate
26:30
Speaker 1: concern for you should be so are the Albanezy government's
26:34
Speaker 1: economic policies. Now you take the news over just the
26:38
Speaker 1: past week, it's extraordinary. Treasury admitted that the government over
26:43
Speaker 1: the next four years will be spending forty eight billion
26:46
Speaker 1: dollars more than it thought just last year. The government's
26:51
Speaker 1: plan to build one point two million new homes in
26:54
Speaker 1: five years is not just way behind schedule, but now
26:57
Speaker 1: way over budget. City prices this year are expected to
27:02
Speaker 1: rocket up to twenty four percent, and Australia's longest serving
27:07
Speaker 1: finance minister, Matius Corman, now head of the OECD, says
27:11
Speaker 1: Australia is sitting on a debt bomb and governments must
27:16
Speaker 1: control spending. Joining me is Warren Hogan, founder and managing
27:20
Speaker 1: director of EQ Economics. Weren't always good to talk to you.
27:24
Speaker 1: This raft of headlines in just the week paint at
27:28
Speaker 1: least to me a grim picture. What is the reality?
27:33
Speaker 14: Well, the reality is that we could well have quite
27:36
Speaker 14: a grim period ahead of us. We could be in
27:38
Speaker 14: for a bad economic adjustment or downturn at some stage
27:42
Speaker 14: if the current trends keep going. Obviously, we have, as
27:46
Speaker 14: you mentioned, a government spending which is as close to
27:49
Speaker 14: out of control as we've seen in the modern era,
27:53
Speaker 14: and that's largely because the government and the RBAI not
27:56
Speaker 14: taking inflation seriously enough, and that's having this increase cost
28:02
Speaker 14: for government. And then they're trying to do that through
28:04
Speaker 14: taxing us, which of course means the size of governments growing.
28:07
Speaker 14: The incentive to innovate and to invest is somewhat diminish,
28:11
Speaker 14: that hurting productivity in income. So all of these trends
28:15
Speaker 14: are going in the wrong direction. We have an economy
28:17
Speaker 14: that's fully employed and so we're having a strong outcome there.
28:22
Speaker 14: But the problem really, the main one is that we
28:24
Speaker 14: are not getting inflation under control and government is not
28:27
Speaker 14: playing their role by keeping spending under control.
28:32
Speaker 1: Inflation already it's been tracking up. This is going to
28:36
Speaker 1: be inflation figures on Wednesday that will effect what the
28:40
Speaker 1: Reserve Bank will say about interest rates the week after. Now,
28:44
Speaker 1: the big picture we've just described is more government spending,
28:48
Speaker 1: higher power prices. Now, what do you therefore expect from
28:53
Speaker 1: the inflation figures due on Wednesday? But more importantly, I guess.
28:58
Speaker 14: After that, well, I think they're going to confirm that
29:03
Speaker 14: not only did inflation never return to the RBA's target,
29:07
Speaker 14: we never got inflation under control, it is now rising
29:11
Speaker 14: and going away from that target, which means that the
29:14
Speaker 14: whole economic strategy of the last three or four years
29:18
Speaker 14: is really failing because it's that inflation which is our
29:21
Speaker 14: immediate concern. If we don't have price stability, our economy
29:24
Speaker 14: doesn't work well. It hurts different parts of the community differently,
29:29
Speaker 14: and we know it eventually catches up with the whole economy.
29:32
Speaker 14: They've got to deal with that. So we're going to
29:34
Speaker 14: see interest rates go up. But this is going to
29:36
Speaker 14: be a great test of this new RBA and the
29:38
Speaker 14: new RBA board because the government's not going to like it,
29:41
Speaker 14: and we know that the government may make sounds and
29:43
Speaker 14: noises in the lead up to the budget, but they
29:46
Speaker 14: will not do enough to take.
29:48
Speaker 1: The pressure off the RBA.
29:50
Speaker 14: We're staring at a situation where the cash rate may
29:52
Speaker 14: need to go up between one and two percentage points
29:54
Speaker 14: over the next eight eight months or so to get
29:57
Speaker 14: inflation under control. If they're serious about doing.
29:59
Speaker 1: That, that's going to have huge political ramifications. I think Warrent,
30:05
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not flattering you to say that you
30:09
Speaker 1: were one of the very, very very few economists to
30:13
Speaker 1: say that inflation was not under control and the next
30:16
Speaker 1: interest rate movement would be up knockdown. Why is it
30:21
Speaker 1: that so few people believe that everyone seemed to go
30:25
Speaker 1: along with this fantasy that you know, it was good
30:29
Speaker 1: times ahead.
30:31
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's a good question, and I'll try and give
30:33
Speaker 14: the brief assessment, and that is essentially, we've seen such
30:37
Speaker 14: big changes in our economy due to demographic shifts and
30:41
Speaker 14: also now technology, that economic models aren't working that well,
30:46
Speaker 14: and of course that means many economists, most economists are
30:49
Speaker 14: struggling to get a handle on the economy, and that
30:52
Speaker 14: uncertainty leads to a lack of conviction and of course
30:56
Speaker 14: the whole art of good economic policy is to anticipate
30:59
Speaker 14: where we're going, and of course the government and the
31:02
Speaker 14: RBA have indulged in this sort of narrow path. Or
31:06
Speaker 14: let's see if we can get through this without raising
31:08
Speaker 14: rates too high, which you described as a fantasy, and
31:11
Speaker 14: I think it's turning out that way. And they never
31:13
Speaker 14: raise rates enough, and then they cut them when they
31:16
Speaker 14: certainly shouldn't have been cutting them. And now we're going
31:18
Speaker 14: to find out what the cost of that's going to be,
31:21
Speaker 14: you know, and there might be a pretty bad recession.
31:23
Speaker 14: We could have got away with a mild one, and
31:26
Speaker 14: now it looks like we're going to have to raise
31:28
Speaker 14: rates a lot more aggressively, and that could be a problem.
31:34
Speaker 1: Well, heads really should roll, but as you know, they
31:37
Speaker 1: will not. But another example of an adage. I think
31:41
Speaker 1: that I coined, Warren, that most people would feel safer
31:45
Speaker 1: being wrong in company than right on their own. You
31:49
Speaker 1: may be an exception, Warren Hogan, thank you so much,
31:52
Speaker 1: indeed for your time. After the break the American football
31:56
Speaker 1: playoffs this morning show. Another global warming prediction. What a
32:00
Speaker 1: total dud well, I said, I detected a change this
32:09
Speaker 1: Australia Day. I wonder if you felt it too, I
32:12
Speaker 1: mean just personally. I mean, my neighbor was flying the
32:15
Speaker 1: Australian flag today. The people at the end of the
32:17
Speaker 1: street did as well. But they've done that for a while.
32:21
Speaker 1: Do you remember when Woollies actually refused to sell Australia
32:25
Speaker 1: Day merch. I mean, but now Chris Garnaut, who has
32:29
Speaker 1: shopping centers mostly in the country, he's expanding his empire
32:32
Speaker 1: after actually promising that his shopping centers would celebrate the day.
32:37
Speaker 1: He even posed outside wool is good on him and
32:40
Speaker 1: Pauline Hans is one nation, the one political party to
32:43
Speaker 1: sell the Australian flag on its merch site. It's sold
32:46
Speaker 1: more than five thousand this year so far, is soaring
32:49
Speaker 1: in the polls. And of course Hansen today was waving
32:52
Speaker 1: the flag at a march for Australia Rally and today
32:56
Speaker 1: got a hero's welcome there. In contrast, look at the
33:08
Speaker 1: flags of the Invasion Day rally in Sydney, Aboriginal flags,
33:12
Speaker 1: Palestinian flags, no Australian flags. But even on the left
33:16
Speaker 1: here a communist flag. I mean, talking about an alliance
33:20
Speaker 1: of people against freedom joining me Alisa got out form
33:23
Speaker 1: of foreign correspondent and founder a Doni Media and Sconey's
33:27
Speaker 1: regular Joe Hilda Brand. Hello, Lisa, A good evening to you. Lisa.
33:34
Speaker 1: Is there a change showed at the top of the show.
33:37
Speaker 1: How much smaller the Melbourne Invasion Day protest was this
33:42
Speaker 1: year to eight years ago. Do you think Australia finally
33:45
Speaker 1: is starting to reject the haters.
33:48
Speaker 15: I think Australian's well, the polls show that they are.
33:50
Speaker 15: And if you look around today, as you said, in
33:52
Speaker 15: your neighborhood, you saw Australian flags being flown. I was
33:55
Speaker 15: briefly at the shops this morning and I passed a
33:57
Speaker 15: woman who was in a sequent Australian so broadly that's
34:02
Speaker 15: sold on the Buddings website. You can't buy it in
34:03
Speaker 15: store though, so look people are out. It's a very
34:06
Speaker 15: different feeling to what it was, say two or three
34:08
Speaker 15: years ago, where you were ashamed almost to admit that
34:11
Speaker 15: you wanted to celebrate Australia Day. So I think there
34:13
Speaker 15: is a turning of the tide. You are now seeing
34:16
Speaker 15: stores stocking merchandise, which is great. But you talked about
34:19
Speaker 15: Pauline Hanson and that Australian flag. There were two people
34:22
Speaker 15: who were moved on today because they turned up to
34:26
Speaker 15: Invasion Day protests with Australian flags. That is disgusting, That
34:31
Speaker 15: is an insult. Those people should be allowed if you
34:33
Speaker 15: go to talk about free speech, they should be allowed
34:35
Speaker 15: to turn up wherever they want and proudly hold the
34:38
Speaker 15: Australian flag on Australia Day.
34:42
Speaker 1: Yes, I got said to photo by two elder Australians.
34:46
Speaker 1: Hello Frank who got moved on by police sit a
34:50
Speaker 1: few years ago for wearing the Australian colors and the
34:54
Speaker 1: anti Israel marches. But they were out in force today
34:58
Speaker 1: with their Australian Club Joe, what do you make of it?
35:02
Speaker 1: Have you detected any change or is it still the
35:05
Speaker 1: day's still under serious assault?
35:07
Speaker 4: Yeah?
35:07
Speaker 16: No, I have detected change, I have to say, Andrew,
35:10
Speaker 16: I think what we saw. And this is a technique
35:13
Speaker 16: that the activist left often uses where they confuse sometimes
35:18
Speaker 16: the loudest voices with the most voices. So they think
35:21
Speaker 16: that if they are noisy enough, if they shout enough,
35:24
Speaker 16: and if they pull out the old Right Side of
35:27
Speaker 16: History card and cast what they are proposing as being
35:32
Speaker 16: an inevitable sort of progressive arc that will happen anyway.
35:36
Speaker 16: So it's just a matter of whether or not you
35:38
Speaker 16: get on the train or you end up getting left
35:40
Speaker 16: behind and end up getting embarrassed by your future self
35:44
Speaker 16: or your children. And so this idea that I think,
35:47
Speaker 16: and there are a lot of people, even people who
35:48
Speaker 16: didn't support it, who thought, I think, just a few
35:50
Speaker 16: years ago that changing the date was inevitable.
35:54
Speaker 1: I think that was probably a product.
35:56
Speaker 16: Of the sort of giant spike in social media usage. Again,
36:00
Speaker 16: you have people hijacking social media platforms to make it
36:04
Speaker 16: look like there's this massive ground swell for one particular
36:07
Speaker 16: cause or another, in this case changing the day. In fact, again,
36:11
Speaker 16: when you actually go to the polls and you reach
36:13
Speaker 16: out to ordinary Australians time and again, it shows that
36:16
Speaker 16: the vast majority want to keep Australia Day and keep
36:19
Speaker 16: it on January twenty six and we did a poll,
36:21
Speaker 16: we had a pole in the Telegraph just this weekend
36:25
Speaker 16: that Freshwater did much more accurate than their election polling,
36:28
Speaker 16: I hope, and it showed out of more than one
36:32
Speaker 16: thousand Australians seven and ten I think sixty nine percent,
36:37
Speaker 16: so more than two thirds supported keeping Australiaday on January
36:41
Speaker 16: twenty six, and the remaining less than a third obviously
36:45
Speaker 16: divided between changing it or don't know whatever. So the community,
36:48
Speaker 16: you know, the community sentiment is absolutely unequivocally clear, and
36:53
Speaker 16: it's just a matter of ignoring the noise.
36:57
Speaker 1: It's interesting, really, Lesa, why there has been this change,
37:03
Speaker 1: and I think the anti Israel protests have had a
37:07
Speaker 1: part to play in that. The jew hatred has had
37:09
Speaker 1: parts of playing that. The Sydney Evasion Day rally, it
37:14
Speaker 1: really turned out to be a carnival of hate, which
37:17
Speaker 1: makes it a joke. I mean, you just know, you know,
37:20
Speaker 1: they're just against whatever. We've got no Australian flags. But
37:24
Speaker 1: they had Palestinian ones, they had Aboriginal ones, they had
37:27
Speaker 1: a communist one. I think I detected the photo was
37:30
Speaker 1: a bit too unclear, a Cuban one, you know, with
37:32
Speaker 1: white star and a red background with blue stripes. I mean, seriously,
37:37
Speaker 1: what is that? Sigelvara gay pride one as well? What
37:41
Speaker 1: does all that tell you?
37:42
Speaker 15: What it tells you is it is not about unity
37:45
Speaker 15: or building unity in this country at all. Look at
37:47
Speaker 15: the other side of this, the Hanson rally today in Brisbane,
37:50
Speaker 15: there were three thousand people there and there was a
37:52
Speaker 15: sea of Australian flags at that event. In contrast, the
37:56
Speaker 15: Invasion Day protest in Brisbane had two thousand people. Again,
38:00
Speaker 15: a few years ago, you would have seen far more
38:02
Speaker 15: people at the Invasion Day protest than you would have
38:05
Speaker 15: seen at an event held by Pauline Hansle where she
38:08
Speaker 15: was attending. It was against mass immigration. So I think
38:11
Speaker 15: the difference, and further to what you were saying, Joe,
38:13
Speaker 15: I think polling may show that there's an increase in
38:16
Speaker 15: the number of people saying yes, keep Australia Day on
38:18
Speaker 15: Australia Day. But the point is now people are actually
38:22
Speaker 15: allowing themselves to show their support and they're actually feeling
38:26
Speaker 15: I think that they can do that without being labeled
38:28
Speaker 15: as a racist or that you're somehow against every other
38:32
Speaker 15: cause in this country. That you can stand here and
38:35
Speaker 15: say I love this country, I love this flag, and
38:37
Speaker 15: I will be proud for it. I think people are
38:39
Speaker 15: now giving each other permission to do that.
38:44
Speaker 1: I think it will be one where people look nervously
38:47
Speaker 1: to lift and right at them and if they see
38:49
Speaker 1: other people waving the flag, they'll finally bring out their
38:51
Speaker 1: own Joe. I was watching America's NFL playoffs for the
38:55
Speaker 1: Super Bowl this morning and saw this amazing scene Lizard
39:00
Speaker 1: of snow as the US is being hit by what's
39:03
Speaker 1: being built in the media as a monster freezing storm.
39:07
Speaker 1: China two suffering two cold air waves this week, lots
39:11
Speaker 1: more snow now the thing Joe is at twenty six
39:14
Speaker 1: years ago the University is Anglier, which was then the
39:17
Speaker 1: center of global warming alarmism. It claimed that snow was
39:20
Speaker 1: now a thing of the past, that within a few
39:23
Speaker 1: years winter snowfall become a very rare and exciting event,
39:27
Speaker 1: and children just going to know what snow is. What
39:30
Speaker 1: does this stud prediction tell you?
39:32
Speaker 16: It tells me that every alarmist prediction made in the
39:36
Speaker 16: service of increasing action on climate change is in fact
39:41
Speaker 16: its own worst enemy and the worst possible asset you
39:45
Speaker 16: could have if you actually really do what acid on
39:47
Speaker 16: climate change, action on climate change, Because of course, inevitably
39:50
Speaker 16: the most alarmist predictions or the most extreme headline grabbing
39:54
Speaker 16: predictions get proven wrong, and then of course people who
39:59
Speaker 16: view this with a cynical eye will go, well, the
40:02
Speaker 16: rest of it must be bollocks as well. And we
40:04
Speaker 16: saw Tim Flannery cause enormous harm by saying, you know
40:07
Speaker 16: that the you know that they would never rain again
40:10
Speaker 16: or whatever.
40:10
Speaker 1: You know that they would all be living in that
40:13
Speaker 1: even the rain that fools will not actually feel. That's
40:16
Speaker 1: the ABC didn't want to release that footage to me,
40:18
Speaker 1: but I went to the chairman and got it. Even
40:22
Speaker 1: the rain that falls will not actually fill our dams
40:25
Speaker 1: in our river systems. It's weird in my head now, exactly,
40:29
Speaker 1: that's right.
40:29
Speaker 16: And people have been pointing to that quote ever since,
40:32
Speaker 16: as you so eloquently recited, and again, it just makes
40:35
Speaker 16: it look like the whole thing as a croc. The
40:37
Speaker 16: truth is that, you know, I think there have been
40:40
Speaker 16: there seems to be more extreme weather going on now
40:42
Speaker 16: than there was my youth.
40:44
Speaker 1: I don't know.
40:44
Speaker 16: I don't have the hard data to prove that, but
40:46
Speaker 16: there are numbers that show that. And and and if
40:50
Speaker 16: you just say that you know all these things, that
40:52
Speaker 16: all these things are crazy, it's never going to snow again,
40:54
Speaker 16: or it's never going to rain again, obviously, that does
40:58
Speaker 16: any serious action enormous harm.
41:01
Speaker 1: Because they believed it credible about it. I know, that's right, Lisa, Yeah,
41:05
Speaker 1: but Lisa, they believed that Lisa, And this is the thing.
41:10
Speaker 1: While there's been some warming this century, you've got to
41:14
Speaker 1: say that a lot of the catastrophes haven't followed, Like
41:17
Speaker 1: Denny Fever as Kevin or was it Julia Gillard was predicting,
41:22
Speaker 1: or you know, the flooding of ironm Land, things like
41:25
Speaker 1: that hasn't happened.
41:28
Speaker 15: Or Greta Tongueberg's warning, our house is on fire. We
41:31
Speaker 15: must act now or the world is going to cook.
41:34
Speaker 15: The temperatures are going to continue to rise exactly. Look,
41:37
Speaker 15: some people would say, you know, if you had a
41:38
Speaker 15: choice between listening to a psychic or a climate scientist,
41:41
Speaker 15: you might be better off listening to the psychic when
41:43
Speaker 15: it comes to the predictions. But you're going to talk
41:45
Speaker 15: about what's real in all of this. The only thing
41:48
Speaker 15: that's really real, it's proven, is the money that's flowing
41:50
Speaker 15: because of all of these climate scientists predictions. If you
41:53
Speaker 15: look at Australia alone, you know we had predictions a
41:55
Speaker 15: great barrier Riff was going to be destroyed. You know,
41:57
Speaker 15: peterrud Peter Ridd copped his whole career, was punished over that,
42:01
Speaker 15: and yet you've got money now flowing. I think it's
42:03
Speaker 15: forty billion dollars is flowing into climate tech alone in
42:07
Speaker 15: this country. The government has its Green Bank with thirty
42:10
Speaker 15: billion dollars tucked away ready to be spent. They need
42:12
Speaker 15: these climate scientists to making these kinds of predictions to
42:15
Speaker 15: keep that money flowing. It's a whole other industry. And
42:18
Speaker 15: if you look at it from a leftist point of view,
42:21
Speaker 15: if their ideology is based on it, so they need
42:23
Speaker 15: these climate scientists out there saying it. But hey, when
42:25
Speaker 15: mother nature has a different idea. You see the pictures
42:28
Speaker 15: you saw this morning, Lisa.
42:32
Speaker 1: God Joe Hildebrand. Lovely to talk to you both. Thank
42:35
Speaker 1: you for your time. After the break. Andrew hass today
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Speaker 1: blast Donald Trump, but it is actually King Charles who
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Speaker 1: really made Trump back off.
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Speaker 12: You.
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Speaker 1: Was President Donald Trump last week grossly insulted the allies
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Speaker 1: in Europe who'd sent troops to help the US when
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Speaker 1: invaded Afghanistan after the two thousand and one terrorist attack
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Speaker 1: on America. Ah, we didn't need those troops, he told
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Speaker 1: Fox News. And they largely stayed out of danger. You know,
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Speaker 1: they'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and the
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Speaker 1: Sana and they did.
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Speaker 14: They stayed a little back, a little off the front lanes.
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Speaker 1: Forty seven Australian troops also down in Afghanistan. And what
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Speaker 1: Trump said really said off Andrew Hasty, the liberal MP
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Speaker 1: who is challenging hopefull he hopes Susan Lee and also
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Speaker 1: this man fought in Afghanistan with the Sas.
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Speaker 2: President Trump has claimed that Allied soldiers didn't serve in
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Speaker 2: the front lines in Afghanistan. This is a massive slur
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Speaker 2: not just against Allied troops but against our AASI diggers
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Speaker 2: who fought, bled and died alongside Americans. One of the
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Speaker 2: most important things in building coalitions and alliance is is
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Speaker 2: mutual respect and a really important virtue in a leader
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Speaker 2: is restricted and President Trump, by dumping on LI troops,
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Speaker 2: has shown either.
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Speaker 1: Trump's comment has particularly outraged the British Now, like other
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Speaker 1: European allies, it's sent troops under the NATO Pact of
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Speaker 1: Mutual Defense to help America when it was attacked by
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Speaker 1: al Qaeda, then headquartered in Afghanistan, and four hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty seven British troops died. The King has reportedly told
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Speaker 1: Trump of his concern about that comment. The head of
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Speaker 1: his planned visit to the US and Trump on the
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Speaker 1: weekend backtrack, saying, the great and very brave soldiers of
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Speaker 1: the United Kingdom will always be with the United States
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Speaker 1: of America and if Ghanistan. Four hund and fifty seven died,
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Speaker 1: many were badly injured, and they were among the greatest
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Speaker 1: of all warriors. It is a bond too strong to
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Speaker 1: ever be broken. The UK military, with tremendous heart and soul,
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Speaker 1: is second to none except for the USA. We love
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Speaker 1: you all and always will. Joining me now from London TV,
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Speaker 1: presented to Mary Gilly I knew regular this year in
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Speaker 1: the Bolt Reports. Soamarra great to see how much outrageous
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Speaker 1: Trump's insult caused in Britain and how much damage.
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Speaker 3: Look a lot of damage, a lot of outrage. The
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Speaker 3: real anger has basically been with the veterans, the military
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Speaker 3: families and the wider public, not so much the political
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Speaker 3: class as per usual. I mean, of course, we had
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Speaker 3: Kirstarma come out and actually say some pretty strong words
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Speaker 3: for once and have some conviction, So I'm glad that
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Speaker 3: Trump's brought that out in him. But we've of course
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Speaker 3: also had the King getting involved, and of course he's
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Speaker 3: sort of the head of all the military within the
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Speaker 3: United Kingdom, so it's quite rare for him to get
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Speaker 3: involved with this. But I think there was a lot
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Speaker 3: of hurt from veterans. You know, there's a lot of Trump,
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Speaker 3: a lot of love for Trump over in the United Kingdom,
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Speaker 3: and it kind of did feel like a bit of
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Speaker 3: a slap in the face. But to get an apology
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Speaker 3: from the man is also sort of equally as rare.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if we actually just want to look at optics,
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Speaker 3: Trump has done more for NATO than most leaders in
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Speaker 3: the Western Alliance. I mean, he's brought many people up
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Speaker 3: to their actual spending budgets. Before he joined and before
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Speaker 3: he was president, most of them weren't spending that two
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Speaker 3: point five percent, which is actually expected of nations. So
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Speaker 3: he's been bringing up spending and it was more about
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Speaker 3: the sharing of the burden, in my opinion, than a
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Speaker 3: direct attack on British troops. But I think the tone
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Speaker 3: was all wrong and unfortunately Trump, I mean he rarely misses,
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Speaker 3: but I think with this one he really did. So
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Speaker 3: the apology is very welcome and has been well received
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Speaker 3: over here.
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Speaker 1: I'd call it more a backtrap because I didn't see
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Speaker 1: the word sorry in there, and I think the King
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Speaker 1: got involved because that would have made it look really
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Speaker 1: bad for him to go and you know, hug a
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Speaker 1: mugger with Trump over there when this insult has just
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Speaker 1: left on the table. Interesting times. America is going to
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Speaker 1: need allies one day. Trump may not realize it, but
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Speaker 1: it will. And this kind of stuff is stupid. Samara,
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Speaker 1: You moved from Australia to London, like you know, generations
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Speaker 1: young Australians before you, you know Jermaine Greer and all that.
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Speaker 1: It's just been a right of passage. But the UK
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Speaker 1: telegraphers now published a piece from a young Australian has
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Speaker 1: also moved to London, but it's now quit London for Paris,
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Speaker 1: saying it was sick of London's huge cost of living,
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Speaker 1: massive rents, all the crime. He was even mugged himself
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Speaker 1: in the in the tube and he says it's not alone.
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Speaker 1: In fact, interesting figure, since two thousand and five there's
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Speaker 1: been a sixty percent drop in visas for Australians wanted
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Speaker 1: to live, work or study in Britain. That includes my
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Speaker 1: daughter quitting there. Has London stopped being the mecca for
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Speaker 1: a certain kind of young Australian And if so, why.
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Speaker 3: I mean, don't we wish it could all be like
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Speaker 3: mister Ranger Singer or whatever his name is, and just
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Speaker 3: sort of London for Paris. So what a life of
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Speaker 3: Riley that would be? I mean, I think I really
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Speaker 3: his article. Really, when I read it, I was almost
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Speaker 3: about to throw up by how sort of gratuitous it was.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's sort of like the life of privilege.
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Speaker 1: You do lead.
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Speaker 3: It's a privileged position to come over to London. A
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Speaker 3: lot of people scrimp and save to get over here.
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Speaker 3: It's a dream for a lot of Australians. But I
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Speaker 3: think as well, it's about a change in mentality. These
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Speaker 3: numbers come post COVID. A lot of young people just
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Speaker 3: hopped on benefits and enjoyed the very cozy, comfy life
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Speaker 3: that Australia had to offer them. And if you're going
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Speaker 3: to come over to London, you need to be prepared
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Speaker 3: to suffer some grit suffer some very high rent prices,
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Speaker 3: high cost of living, some really tough jobs. But it's
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Speaker 3: all about character development. And that's something I fear that
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Speaker 3: our young generation just doesn't want to face. They don't
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Speaker 3: want to face the realities of what it is to
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Speaker 3: live in a very competitive environment. Not everything's going to
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Speaker 3: be cushy, is you know up there with New York
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Speaker 3: is one of the world class cities. People are here,
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Speaker 3: you're competing against the rest of the world and it's
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Speaker 3: not easy. So I say, you know, pull your socks up,
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Speaker 3: young generation. If you want to get over here, then
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Speaker 3: do it. But if you don't want to do the
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Speaker 3: hard slots, then forget about it.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I found it odd that a guy
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Speaker 1: complaining about lots of crime then goes to Paris. It's,
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Speaker 1: you know, pockets picked. The friend of mine Ed had
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Speaker 1: his pocket picked last time he went there. But there
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Speaker 1: you go. You know, no telling some people's decision making,
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Speaker 1: but he got him column inches in the Telegraph and
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Speaker 1: that's always good. Samary Gil, thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: your time. That's it from me. But stay tuned because
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Speaker 1: we've got part three of our documentary Australia's History with
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Speaker 1: Tony Abbott that's worth watching. Good Night,