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The Rita Panahi Show | 11 June · The Rita Panahi Show

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  Speaker 1: On scords Ostrodio. This is the Reader Panalty Show.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the readA panicky show. Coming
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  Speaker 2: up on tonight's program, Opposition leader Peter Dutton attacked by
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  Speaker 2: the media, big business and smaller liberals. Will an energy
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  Speaker 2: policy that prioritizes costs and reliability over emission cuts be
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  Speaker 2: a winning strategy for the coalition. I'll speak with Nick
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  Speaker 2: Kata about that shortly.
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  Speaker 3: Also tonight we'll look at the teacher shortage and the
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  Speaker 3: fallout on the King's Birthday honors list, and we're checking
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  Speaker 3: on the Leader of the Free World with Adam B.
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  Speaker 2: Coleman, and of course Left is losing it.
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  Speaker 4: Did you know that queer and trans people actually experience
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  Speaker 4: time completely differently to sishap people. It's a concept called
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  Speaker 4: queer temporality.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me now is Harold's son columnist Patrick Carline. And
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  Speaker 2: let's start with the King's Birthday on his list. A
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  Speaker 2: poll in the Herald Sun shows that ninety five percent
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  Speaker 2: of respondents did not believe former Premier Dan Andrews deserve
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  Speaker 2: the nation's highest King's Birthday on after he received a
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  Speaker 2: Companion of the Order of Australia award. Even a clear
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  Speaker 2: majority of age readers thought the same, Only four inten
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  Speaker 2: saying Andrews deserve this award. Patrick, there is a real
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  Speaker 2: depth of ill feeling here.
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  Speaker 5: It's visceral read it's too soon.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we're still recovering from lockdowns and Victoria we
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  Speaker 6: had record lockdowns.
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  Speaker 5: And we feel ripped off.
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  Speaker 6: There is a very vocal and significant minority if you
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  Speaker 6: look at elections who really can't stand Dan Andrews and
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  Speaker 6: can't can't stand to see him held up in lights.
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  Speaker 6: And if you look at the award, it was for
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  Speaker 6: explicitly mentioned health and infrastructure. Now by any measure, by
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  Speaker 6: any measure, you'd say, well, that's a blotted record at best.
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  Speaker 5: It's too soon.
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  Speaker 2: Is too soon at a time when the health outcomes
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  Speaker 2: in Victoria where the worst in the country on every
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  Speaker 2: metric that matters, whether you're talking about the death rate,
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  Speaker 2: whether you're talking about the amount of time we spent
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  Speaker 2: under lockdown, whether you're talking about the devastating economic consequences.
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  Speaker 2: As for the projects, every project is grotesquely over budgets,
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  Speaker 2: So how can you be awarded for that for just
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  Speaker 2: green lighting projects where the state is in record debt.
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  Speaker 2: It cannot afford it. We've had projects cut like the
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  Speaker 2: Commonwealth Games, costing its hundreds of millions of dollars not
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  Speaker 2: to hold the games. Just the rationale behind this award
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  Speaker 2: again seems to be bizarre. Is there a way to
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  Speaker 2: get some understanding of how they came to this decision,
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  Speaker 2: if there was any debate about it before they decided
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  Speaker 2: to go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Well, look, the process is somebody nominates you, and I
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  Speaker 6: think there's references and so on, but it's all fairly
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  Speaker 6: secretive in the sense that we don't actually get to
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  Speaker 6: see transparently.
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  Speaker 5: How this came about.
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  Speaker 6: And I think you look at somebody like Kevin rud
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  Speaker 6: or Jeff Kenneth, two divisive politicians, very different politicians from
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  Speaker 6: one another. They got AC's eventually well after they've been
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  Speaker 6: in office, and they did actually do things in servers
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  Speaker 6: that was recognized in those awards. To have this happen
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  Speaker 6: so soon, it is too soon. It is ridiculous, and
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  Speaker 6: it is very upsetting to a lot of Victorians.
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  Speaker 2: It's just funny that a man who has been blacklisted,
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  Speaker 2: we are told from golf clubs across the Mornington Peninsula, yes,
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  Speaker 2: has not God the highest honor. We've got available in
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  Speaker 2: this country. I've got a piece in tomorrow's Herald Sun.
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  Speaker 2: It's online now. About this week has to be the
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  Speaker 2: final straw for the honor system in this It has
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  Speaker 2: been hopelessly pillarticized and needs to be replaced. The entire
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  Speaker 2: process needs to be reviewed because this isn't isolated. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just this year's awards, and this year it's not
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  Speaker 2: just Dan Andrews. You've got former WA governor, governor in
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  Speaker 2: US politics, Premier Mark McGowan and leftist activists and our
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  Speaker 2: new governor General Sam Mouston also getting the highest honor.
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  Speaker 2: And I would question the merits of both those awards
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  Speaker 2: going to two people who've been richly rewarded for their
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  Speaker 2: roles in public life.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think people Australians want to see people recognize
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  Speaker 6: for just doing their job. And look at Stan's accused
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  Speaker 6: as it is, has been politically corrupted by these.
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  Speaker 5: Kinds of awards and the tracks.
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  Speaker 6: The really sad thing is there's so many worthy people
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  Speaker 6: who have given of themselves, who have done things above
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  Speaker 6: and beyond, whether it's in science or the arts or
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  Speaker 6: music or whatever. They deserve to be recognized. Police actually
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  Speaker 6: tarnishes what they have achieved.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to see it go to unknowns, go
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  Speaker 2: to people who volunteer, who devote their life to helping
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  Speaker 2: others for no reward, financial or otherwise. I think these
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  Speaker 2: sorts of awards should be reserved almost exclusively for them.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the occasional heroic feat that we all know about,
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  Speaker 2: but not to politicians and lifelong public servants. Now let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about Victoria police. They were pelted with bottles spat
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  Speaker 2: on at a pro Palestinian rally. They've slammed the protests
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  Speaker 2: as extremely hostile and disgusting. About three thousand people were
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  Speaker 2: again marching through Melbourne's streets. This was on Sunday. The
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  Speaker 2: Australian Palestine Advocacy Network they dispute the police's version of events,
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  Speaker 2: but here is some footage showing police officers being harassed
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  Speaker 2: by these protesters.
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  Speaker 4: Run Run your.
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  Speaker 5: Dog.
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  Speaker 2: You can see there the police walking off as they're
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  Speaker 2: being called every name under the sun, as their mothers
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  Speaker 2: are called every name under the sun. These activists, these protesters,
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  Speaker 2: seem to have little fear of the police.
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  Speaker 6: There has been a lack of respect throughout the whole
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  Speaker 6: sort of protest movement since October seven. Hasn't there a
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  Speaker 6: complete lack of respect for the police also the Jewish
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  Speaker 6: community which feels unsafe. You'd like to think that they
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  Speaker 6: have overplayed the hand by now in the sense that
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  Speaker 6: most of the Australians are saying, hang on, this is
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  Speaker 6: this is not a peace protest. This is not about
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  Speaker 6: making the world a better place at its extremes. It's
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  Speaker 6: about annihilating a country and breathing its people. And I
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  Speaker 6: think most Australians, apart from the Greens, perhaps actually looking
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  Speaker 6: at this and saying, hang on, look, it's awful what's
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  Speaker 6: happening in Gaza. But there are hostages there. You can
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  Speaker 6: understand why it has come about. The reason it has
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  Speaker 6: come about is because of a terrorist organization called Hamas.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, But if I could almost guarantee, because we've seen
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  Speaker 2: this happen overseas, if you went along to one of
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  Speaker 2: these protests and you held up an anti Hamas sign
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  Speaker 2: so nothing else about this conflict other than Hamas are terrorists,
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  Speaker 2: you would be attacked by these protesters. So that tells
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  Speaker 2: you where we're at. And I think police command deserve
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  Speaker 2: a great deal of blame for what we just saw
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  Speaker 2: there because they have allowed a lot of this to happen.
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  Speaker 2: We saw them come down on anti lockdown protesters who
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  Speaker 2: were peaceful, and then this lot are just given free
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  Speaker 2: reim to do what they like. Talking about Israel, we've
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  Speaker 2: seen now footage released of the dramatic moment that the
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  Speaker 2: forces stormed a house that was holding hostages, taken October seven.
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  Speaker 7: W goodness, I didn't terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: Almost looks like a video game. You can't believe that's real.
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  Speaker 2: And you may have noticed the fist pump between the
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  Speaker 2: one of the hostages and a rescuer there. And despite
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  Speaker 2: the wonderful news of these hostages being recovered after eight months,
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  Speaker 2: we've got the likes of the Greens in this country,
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  Speaker 2: Patrick questioning the manner in which the Israelis went about
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  Speaker 2: this rescue mission.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, look, I think the Greens are out of step
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  Speaker 6: with what Australians believe in and values. I think if
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  Speaker 6: one hundred and forty or one hundred and fifty Australians
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  Speaker 6: were taken hostage by another country, every Australian would want
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  Speaker 6: this country to do its best to get them back.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what's been forgotten in this whole debate in Australia,
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  Speaker 6: and has been hijacked by the Greens. Is Israel, you
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  Speaker 6: would expect any country to go and get its own people,
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  Speaker 6: say of its own people. Again, it was a terrorist
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  Speaker 6: organization that made all this happen.
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  Speaker 5: These awful scenes that we see in.
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  Speaker 6: Gaza are not because of Israel, not because of anything
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  Speaker 6: Israel did on October seventh. It's because of what happened,
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  Speaker 6: because of what Hamas chose to happen. And look, that
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  Speaker 6: footage is critical. Everyone should see that because it as
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  Speaker 6: a reminder of what this actually is about.
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  Speaker 2: And they lost a commander during that rescue the Israelis,
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  Speaker 2: so it was a highly risky operation. And I can
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  Speaker 2: and I think everyone, if they're being honest, would admit this.
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  Speaker 2: If it was your child who was taken hostage by
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  Speaker 2: these terrorists, you would want them back at any cost.
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  Speaker 2: And to now scrutinize how they went about it, I
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  Speaker 2: think again you're holding Israel to a different standard than
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  Speaker 2: just about every other country. Now to a wonderful piece
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  Speaker 2: in Today's Daily Telegraph by Tim Blair, here is written
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  Speaker 2: about the climate cult, noting that liberal leader Peter Dutton's
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  Speaker 2: entirely reasonable review of our self destructive support for the
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  Speaker 2: Paris Agreement is now nudging Prime Minister Anthony Alberan easy
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  Speaker 2: and climate tantrum bluster them in start Chris Bowen towards
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  Speaker 2: the lava line. The lava line, you need to read
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  Speaker 2: the full column to get that line. But this is
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  Speaker 2: self destruction and it seems the Labor government is doubling down.
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  Speaker 2: The Australians revealed that they're now looking at hiking our
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  Speaker 2: carbon emission targets. In response Tod's comments, is this going
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  Speaker 2: to be alban easy pushing the self destruct button or
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  Speaker 2: is he on safe ground here because once Scott Morrison
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  Speaker 2: committed the Coalition to net zero, we stopped debating this
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  Speaker 2: issue in this country.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Look, the one point I would make is if you
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  Speaker 6: go to a barbecue these days, nobody's talking about the
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  Speaker 6: Paris Agreement and whether we're.
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  Speaker 5: Holding up what we have to do.
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  Speaker 6: We're talking about energy prices, we're talking about blackouts in
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  Speaker 6: the future, we're talking about reliability or something that we're
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  Speaker 6: taken for granted for generations and suddenly it's all up
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  Speaker 6: in the air. And to sort of say well, no,
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  Speaker 6: when you have this mission, this is our ideology, we're
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  Speaker 6: going to make it happen everybody else. All the experts
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  Speaker 6: say the renewables target is not going to happen. It's
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  Speaker 6: not going to happen by twenty thirty, and people want
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  Speaker 6: to know that their energy can be reliable and can
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  Speaker 6: be relatively cheap. And that's something that I think Albani
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  Speaker 6: and certainly Chris Bowen have lost sight of when they're
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  Speaker 6: talking about this, and I think they've misread the electorate somewhat.
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  Speaker 2: I think they have because they've had the advantage of
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  Speaker 2: not debating the Coalition on this. The Coalition has signed
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  Speaker 2: up to these net zero targets, and if there's a
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  Speaker 2: real debate, I think they're going to be surprised by
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  Speaker 2: where many Australians land. Not the media, they'll have the
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  Speaker 2: media on their side. Labor before you go, I've got
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  Speaker 2: to ask you about this. The Canadian Cancer Society has
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  Speaker 2: apologized for using the word cervix in pamphlets and website
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  Speaker 2: pages about cervical cancer. They acknowledge that they should use
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  Speaker 2: the more gender inclusive word front hole. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: was joking, I'm not. In their apology, they said, we
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  Speaker 2: recognize that many transmen and non binary people may have
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  Speaker 2: mixed feelings about or feel distanced from words like cervix.
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  Speaker 2: You may prefer other words such as front hole. We
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  Speaker 2: recognize the limitations of the words we've used, while also
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  Speaker 2: acknowledging the need for simplicity. Another reason we use words
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  Speaker 2: like cerfix is to normalize the reality that men can
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  Speaker 2: have these body parts. To Patrick arm for one, speechless.
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  Speaker 6: I think if you go to the oncologist and the
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  Speaker 6: oncologist starts talking about your front hole problem, or if
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  Speaker 6: you're a man, your golf ball problem or e reilling problem,
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  Speaker 6: I think at that point you'd probably find another oncologist.
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  Speaker 2: You would and you would hope that they would seek
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  Speaker 2: some sort of professional help themselves, possibly in the mental
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  Speaker 2: health space. Patrick Carline, always a pleasure, My pleasure. Joining
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  Speaker 2: me now is Nick cat from their Mensi's Research Center,
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  Speaker 2: also a senior columnist with The Australian. Nick Let's start
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  Speaker 2: with this piece from Alan Cohla in the New Daily.
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  Speaker 2: He says it's time for Australia to switch off gas
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  Speaker 2: if it wants to achieve its net zero emission target,
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  Speaker 2: saying we should pay households to switch their gas appliances
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  Speaker 2: to electric and we should also pay cattle farmers to
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  Speaker 2: either offset their methane or remove it in some way.
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  Speaker 2: Col also rights. The question is going to be weather
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  Speaker 2: and how to encourage or force the gas companies to
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  Speaker 2: keep supplying the laggards who like cooking and heating with
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  Speaker 2: gas while they're persuaded or subsidized to buy a better
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  Speaker 2: electric induction stove.
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  Speaker 5: Neck.
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  Speaker 2: Victoria is already sadly heading down this road with banned
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  Speaker 2: new gas connections in our new homes that are being built.
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  Speaker 2: But is this war on gas going to achieve anything
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  Speaker 2: useful for the Australian population.
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  Speaker 8: It's going to achieve nothing full except make it harder
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  Speaker 8: for people to get buy and live.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, with the cost of living as it needs.
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  Speaker 8: Is mister Kolo on his well paid job whenever he
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  Speaker 8: gets paid saying oh, well, I'm sorry, you've got to
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  Speaker 8: go and buy a new cooker. It is absurd, because
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  Speaker 8: this whole war on gas is absurd. I mean here
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  Speaker 8: in Europe. I'm in London at the moment, but they've
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  Speaker 8: just had a European election and the big issue was
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  Speaker 8: one of the big issues was immigration, the second was energy,
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  Speaker 8: and what people were saying was we don't want to
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  Speaker 8: go along with this, and the whole tide of the
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  Speaker 8: debate has changed. And it's all because a gas reader,
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  Speaker 8: because they were buying gas from Russia, as you know,
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  Speaker 8: and it went through the roof. You need gas in
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  Speaker 8: the interim. I mean, if we'd love to, we could
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  Speaker 8: put nuclear right away. We haven't got it. But in
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  Speaker 8: the meantime, we're going to need gas to power up
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  Speaker 8: our electricity system. We're going to need it to make
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  Speaker 8: fertilizer for farmers, We're going to need it for industrial processes.
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  Speaker 8: You know, this green hydrogen thing is some dream in
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  Speaker 8: the heads of people like Alan Cola.
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  Speaker 1: It's a long way down the track, you know.
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  Speaker 8: Just just get realist what I'd say on this, besides
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  Speaker 8: which it'll do absolutely zero to help the planet, zero
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  Speaker 8: or so small that you can't even read it, you know,
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  Speaker 8: it's tiny.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the EU elections green and left leaning parties
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  Speaker 2: that took a beating, who had so called far right
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  Speaker 2: parties making huge gains. They campaigned not just against immigration
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  Speaker 2: nick but also they campaigned against net zero policies. Should
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  Speaker 2: our politicians take note of what is happening across Europe?
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely they should, because the two issues are big in Australia.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I think if you were to sum up
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  Speaker 8: the European vote, people were saying no to net zero,
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  Speaker 8: yes to no immigration. You know they don't want more immigration.
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  Speaker 8: And the whole debate over net zero and the cost
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  Speaker 8: it's adding to people, the pain it's putting on farmers
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  Speaker 8: that the electricity bills have gone through the roofing countries
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  Speaker 8: like Germany and Ireland where they're heavily reliant on gas.
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  Speaker 8: You know, this whole thing is just collapsing very quickly
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  Speaker 8: in Europe. Most countries are now admitting they're not going
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  Speaker 8: to get to their twenty thirsty targets because they can't.
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  Speaker 8: The whole thing is impossible in the timeframe, and sooner
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  Speaker 8: or later, of course Australia will come to that position.
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  Speaker 8: Even Antoni at in the Albanizi and Chris Bowen mind,
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  Speaker 8: I suspect they won't come to it till about twenty
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  Speaker 8: twenty nine. But you know it's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 8: You cannot meet those targets in that space of time
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  Speaker 8: with the technology you have full stop.
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  Speaker 1: Any engineer will tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: Now you wrote a fantastic piece for the OS warning
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  Speaker 2: Australia's climate lobby that ambitious green energy targets that they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to implement, Yeah, have not worked in Germany. Tell
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  Speaker 2: me about what's happened in Germany because they turned their
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  Speaker 2: back on nuclear, that went down the renewaballs road hard
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  Speaker 2: and the results of being almost catastrophic.
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  Speaker 1: It's been disastrous for Germany.
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  Speaker 8: This is you know, they were the poster child Europe's
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  Speaker 8: post a child of green energy. And I caught the
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  Speaker 8: train from Hamburg to Berlin and every field it seems
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  Speaker 8: is covered in solar panels and windmills.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not doing the trick.
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  Speaker 8: As they found out, you know, when the gas supply
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  Speaker 8: went up, you know, the price of gas went up.
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  Speaker 1: They were just really really hurt. And now the you know, the.
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  Speaker 8: Electricity price in Germany is the highest in Europe. It's
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  Speaker 8: about twice as high as it is across the water
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  Speaker 8: there in Sweden where they're running on nuclear and hydro electricity.
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  Speaker 1: And this is affecting industry.
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  Speaker 8: Thirty percent of German businesses told their big Chamber of
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  Speaker 8: Commerce in a survey that they were looking to relocate offshore.
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  Speaker 8: And this is happening and see German industries declining very quickly,
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  Speaker 8: and they're moving when they can to places where there's
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  Speaker 8: cheaper electricity. It's been a disaster for Germany and it's
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  Speaker 8: bringing about their industrial collapse. Once that great country where
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  Speaker 8: we used to you know, we always to go there
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  Speaker 8: for oudies and washing machines, you won't be getting those
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  Speaker 8: from Germany for much longer because they basically stuffed it all.
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  Speaker 2: Up and all entirely self inflicted and I would say predictable.
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  Speaker 2: And they were warned, they were warned about the path
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  Speaker 2: they were taking. They were warned that they were far
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  Speaker 2: too reliant on Russian energy. I remember Trump warning them
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  Speaker 2: during a speech and they were the German contingent there
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  Speaker 2: I think it was at the UN were sitting there
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  Speaker 2: snickering like schoolgirls instead of actually heeding the warning they
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  Speaker 2: were told. And they've ignored it. And it would be
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  Speaker 2: absolutely absurd for us to ignore what's happening in Germany
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, Nick.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it would. And you know I made the point
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  Speaker 8: in the column. It's now twelve years since Angela Merkel,
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  Speaker 8: mysteriously well actually under green pressure, said we're not going
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  Speaker 8: to We're going to phase out our nuclear plants so
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  Speaker 8: they've had twelve years to work out how to power
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  Speaker 8: their electricity grid without nuclear, without using coal, without using gas.
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  Speaker 8: And these are the German engineers, the same German engineers
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  Speaker 8: that gave.
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  Speaker 1: You vorce frung Dirk technique.
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  Speaker 8: You know, they are the best in the world, and
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: they can't work it out and the country is suffering
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: as a result. They've just reopened eight coal mines in
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: the last two years, would you believe, because it's cheaper
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: than getting gas in from overseas. They actually knocked down
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: one wind farm to build it to dig up some coal.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: That's telling you something isn't there. But you know somehow.
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: Chris Bowe, he was in Germany last year. He didn't
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: spot any of this. Apparently he just thinks Germany is
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: the great vision of the future.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: We have to follow. Dream on, mister Boone, dream on.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Well, we're hearing that the Coalition is war gaming and
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: the possibility of an early election. As the Prime minister,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: it prepares to fight on energy as a major issue.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Dutton's gaining a recent News poll two party per thirty
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: it was fifty to fifty. The Libs primary vote had
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: gone up and the Australian reveals that Anthony Alberanzi is
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: going to use even higher carbon emission targets to fight
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: the coalition. Do you see that as a winning strategy? Nick,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Because much of the media is already attacking Peter Dutton
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: for restarting the climate walls, as they call it, We've
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: got elements of the business sector also campaigning for what
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: they call certainty Canton strategy work if he has the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: media and big business against him.
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: Look what they're trying to do, business and labor, and
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: I think of those as one block these days. What
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: they are trying to do is return to the debate
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: that oh, you're a climate denier. Now that debate ended
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: the moment that the coalition signed up to zero twenty
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: fifty for better or worse. Right now, it's all about
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: how you get there and how expensive it is.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: And people know this is a distraction from labor.
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: Let's make this about the climate wars again, so that
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: nobody's sort of asked salt ul questions like what happened
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: to that two hundred and seventy five dollars that you
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: promised you were going to take off my electricity bill.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: Labor is just desperate on this and it won't work
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: Greta because most people in Australia, as we know, if
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: you do a survey on this, actual climate change and
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: zero emissions is way down their list of concerns right now,
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: way way down. And it's I think it's a recipe
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: for losing as because I think we're going to see
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: the same trend that we have here in Europe that
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: people are just going to switch away from green parties
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: and say, well, you know, you're off with the fairies.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: We're not going there with you. We're just not going there.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Now you're in London, the election there is just a
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: matter of weeks away. What's your feeling we're looking at
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: a labor landslide. All the polls are indicating that Forarjas
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: entered the race quite late. If you were a betting man,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: what would your.
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: Prediction be, Well, I wouldn't be putting any money on
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Rishi Sudak night. Now I think the betting well, the
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: way the betting is running here is how many seats
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: are the toy is going to end up with, And
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: there are people seriously saying it will be less fewer
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: than one hundred seats. It'll be the worse result I
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: think since the beginning of the last century. It's going
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: to be a landslide for labor. The question is how
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: big is that landslide and how much of the Tory
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: Party is left. Nigel Farage's party, of course, is making
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: big inroads into the Tory vote and then a first
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: past the system that's really damaging. But Faraj himself will
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: not win many seats, you know, three four I would
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: pretict at most because of the way their boundaries fall
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: and the way the election plays out. But he'll help,
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: you know, push the Tories into oblivion. I mean, let's
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: be honest. I mean a government that has been in
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: a longer they have. You know, no government's had five
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: terms in Britain I think for almost two hundred years.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: So they're not going.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: You know, they couldn't effect five terms in the best
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: of times, and so they're gone.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: But it would be nice to see.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: Them have at least be the official opposition and not
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: give that away to the Lib Dems, which is a
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: real possibility if they do as badly as the worst
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: people the worst predictions.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Well, let's let it be a warning to Codition party,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: that's true, but let it be a warning to conservative
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: parties everywhere, including here, including our state liberal parties, that
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: this is what happens when you can depletely lose sight
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: of your principles and govern like labor lighte. You just
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: have no supportive base to speak of. Nikota, thank you
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: so much for your time this evening, and still to come.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: We've got a extended version of Lefty's Losing it and
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden let's loose at a Juneteenth event as black
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: voters fleeing his campaign.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Adam B.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Coleman joins me, next, welcome back. Now it's time for
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: lefties losing it. And have you ever considered that time
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: itself could be transphobic? You better throw away your quocks
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: because this next last claims that queer and trans people
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: actually experience time completely differently.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Did you know that queer and trans people actually experience
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: time completely differently to sis happy. It's a concept called
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: queer temporality, and it basically has to do with the
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: fact that historically, as queer and trans people, our lives
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: have started much later and for a whole bunch of reasons,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: ended earlier than our CIS counterparts. So as a result,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: our experience of time is compressed.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: OO wowe, there's a lot to unpack there. What else
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: didn't we know about the passage of time? I could
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: not be more fascinated.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Those milestones that we've been socialized to use to mark
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: the passage of time to things like marriage or having
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: a children or you know, working, retiring, inheritance, things like
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: that haven't been accessible to us. And that linear timeline
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: has a name, heterochronology.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: There you go, you learn something new every day. Didn't
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: know queer folk were prevented from working and retiring. Now
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: to Lefty Losing It Headquarters MSNBC, which makes the crazy
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: folk at CNN look calm and rational. Here's Adrian L.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Rod claiming that it's Trump foreign policy that folks need
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: to fear, not the unholy mess Biden has made over
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: the past three and a half years.
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: And during these challenging times on the foreign policy front,
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: on the global front. Can you imagine having done on
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: trum back in the White House trying to manage all
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: of this. I mean, President Biden's a seasoned foreign policy
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: pro He served, of course, as the chair on the
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a long time. He has
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: these relationships with the world leaders that go very, very deep.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: So we're going to be reinforcing the.
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: Fact that that's an important attribute that the president has.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, Adrian, I'm sure the American people are just terrified
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: of Trump returning them to peace and prosperity, to four
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: years of no new wars, of historic peace stills being
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: struck between Israel and Musslim majority nations. Somehow that Biden
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: administration's profound weakness, emboldening the likes of China in a Russia,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Iran in North Korea isn't making us safer. We're all shocked.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Now back to Australia and the city of Melbourne in
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the great state of Victoria, where the leftist government has
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: accrued record debt while pushing a relentlessly leftist agenda, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: where feral far left activists routinely block city roads for
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: protests and they're not shy about abusing police. Listen here
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: as they taunt the retreat retreating officers with things like
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: run you son of a slut and U and rats
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: charming stuff, run run. I got to say, I do
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: feel for the police working at the cold face there.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Woke overlords in police command have taken a knee to
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: this far left lunacy, whether it's BLM or they climate
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: protests or these anti Israeli mobs. Time for some French
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: folk losing it. The EU elections have just taken place
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: and the results were shocking for left is with Europe
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: swinging hard to the right, and some folk took the
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: news better than others. If you want a clueest to wife,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: so much of Europe is swinging hard to right wing parties.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: They want to cut immigration and abandon net zero and
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: other new Marxist nonsense. Then look at these scenes from
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: not where in France where Antifa mobs break the window
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: of a building because it's flying the French flag. Yeah,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine why folks are rejecting socialist lunacy. Time
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: now to visit lawless California and here are folks achieving
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: social justice in Los Angeles. Just kidding, they're just ransacking
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: an auto Zone store.
• 30:47
  Speaker 10: The store is just completely trash in a tense, crazy situation.
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: There was a street takeover. This store was mob the
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: AutoZone it ransacking, flipping that store upside down. We also
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: see several people walking out with several pieces of merchandise.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: And time now to check in on the Leader of
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: the Free World here is celebrating the made up holiday Juneteenth,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: and of course he has no idea what is happening?
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: Have you?
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: We did not manipulate that footage to make the president
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: look utterly lost and bewildered. That's all Joe, that's all natural.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: And it didn't get any better when he got up
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: to dance or try to.
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: No, I don't want to love nobody. I don't want
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: to love nobody.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: What's he doing with his hands? Again? That footage has
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: not been in any way manipulated. It's not Ai, it's
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: not a deep fake. That's the Leader of the Free world.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Not sure who the bearded duty is in the sequent
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: dress who's dancing next to mister Kamala Kamala Harris's husband.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: But let's just watch a bit more of this.
• 32:37
  Speaker 11: I want to love nobody.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Let's bring in Adam B. Coleman, founder of Wrong Speak Publishing,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: an author at Adam bacolemanssubstat dot com. Adam first to
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: tell my audience what Juneteenth is. Not many Australians would
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: be across that, and what do you make of the
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: president's obvious cognition of decline. They didn't seem to know
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: what was happening.
• 33:21
  Speaker 12: Well, thank you for having me on Juneteenth is something
• 33:25
  Speaker 12: that really originated out of Texas because the last slaves
• 33:30
  Speaker 12: who were notified that they were free were actually in Texas.
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: So Juneteenth is supposed to signify that day when the
• 33:40
  Speaker 12: last of the slaves were freed in America. So it's
• 33:44
  Speaker 12: really something that was more regional until it became a
• 33:48
  Speaker 12: national holiday. But it was more of a regional thing.
• 33:51
  Speaker 12: People have barbecues and stuff like that. It wasn't really
• 33:55
  Speaker 12: seen as a big deal, but it became more so
• 33:58
  Speaker 12: a national holiday. And I guess in some ways it's
• 34:02
  Speaker 12: not necessarily a bad thing. It's a celebration of freedom
• 34:05
  Speaker 12: in the United States. And as far as what's happening
• 34:10
  Speaker 12: with Joe Biden, I think there are a lot of Americans,
• 34:13
  Speaker 12: including black Americans, who are concerned with his very obvious
• 34:19
  Speaker 12: cognitive to Colm, you know, when I was a Democrat,
• 34:23
  Speaker 12: I saw the decline and I couldn't believe that they
• 34:26
  Speaker 12: were still pushing this man forward and somehow he won.
• 34:29
  Speaker 12: So it's only gotten worse since.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: It has. And even four years ago, I was playing
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: some footage a couple of days ago from his campaign
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: into that twenty twenty, and the decline just in that
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: time is very obvious when you look at him back then,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: and back then he wasn't great either. Now let's talk
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: about the WNBA. Not a topic we broached too often
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: on this program, but I've got to say it's got
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: an attitude problem. They're breaking viewing records thanks largely to
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: one single player, Caitlin Clark. But it's clear most of
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: the young ladies are not ready for prime time. Some
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: of them are claiming harassment when journalists ask them questions,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: have you got a chance to reach out to Kitlander?
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Come on with her with that?
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: Have you got a chance to reach out to Kitland? Trinan?
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Have you got the chance? The Basketball war wants to know.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Have you've got a chance to reach out to her?
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: She was being asked about why she felt it was
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: appropriate to give Caitlyn Clark a hip and shoulder as
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: we call it in Aussie rules, and a lot of
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: these Caitlin Clark haters are going to be happy because
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: she has not been selected for the US Olympic team.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: But I think she showed wonderful grace and gave a
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: very high response when asked about this. Disappointment.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: I'm excited for the girls that are on the team.
• 36:06
  Speaker 12: I know it's the most competitive team in.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: The world, and I know I could have gone either way.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Maybe on the team and maybe on the team, So
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm excited for them.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Adam, make me understand the vitriol this girl is copying.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: It's a mystery to us watching on in Australia. She's
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: making these athletes relevant, possibly profitable. Why they're hostile towards
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: her instead of being happy that they're finally getting some
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: attention for their league.
• 36:35
  Speaker 12: You know, I might have a different viewpoint on this
• 36:38
  Speaker 12: entire scenario, but I think much of it is somewhat
• 36:42
  Speaker 12: contrived from when she was in college. You know, I
• 36:46
  Speaker 12: know that she has a bit of a reputation as
• 36:48
  Speaker 12: far as being a dirty player herself and trash talking.
• 36:51
  Speaker 12: Not necessarily be a dirty player, but trash talking. And
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: you know, I wonder if people are hyper focusing on
• 36:58
  Speaker 12: the racial narratives that happened during the NCAA tournament and
• 37:03
  Speaker 12: thinking that this is carrying on into the w NBA,
• 37:06
  Speaker 12: when in reality, the WNBA, we might have jokes about it,
• 37:09
  Speaker 12: but it's still the professional league. These are grown women
• 37:12
  Speaker 12: not college students, And just like any other sport NBA
• 37:16
  Speaker 12: as well, there's hard fouls, things like this happen. So
• 37:20
  Speaker 12: I'm not sure if if it is vitriol or if
• 37:24
  Speaker 12: we're just seeing typical basketball play and inserting a narrative.
• 37:28
  Speaker 12: And I think sometimes we can be a little bit
• 37:31
  Speaker 12: carried away as far as seeing this like a Kardashians
• 37:35
  Speaker 12: episode has to tune in tomorrow to see who dislikes
• 37:39
  Speaker 12: Caitlin Clark today. So I think that some of this
• 37:45
  Speaker 12: is just normal basketball stuff. As far as them not
• 37:48
  Speaker 12: being able to handle the limelight, Yeah, they're not used
• 37:51
  Speaker 12: to people paying attention to them or even know who
• 37:54
  Speaker 12: they are, so you know, maybe they're comfortable with that.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Well, there is definitely a bit of vitriol because you
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: watch some of the press conferences where she's brought up
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: and now the players about her, and a couple of
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: clips I've seen they've refused to answer any questions about her,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: as if she's some sort of a non entity. So
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know. There does definitely seem to be a resentment.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's racially based. The media narrative seems
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: to be racially based, with the likes of Sunny Houston
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: on the view making a point about her race. But
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's necessarily where the players are coming from. Now,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: let's talk about the polls. Donald Trump and Joe Biden
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: are currently tied in Virginia, which is a massive surprise.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Biden won Virginia comfortably in twenty twenty, and Governor Glenn
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Youngkein has said that Trump could be the first Republican
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: president who takes his state in it twenty years. I've
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: got to say, even on my most optimistic day, Adam,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't think Virginia was in play.
• 39:08
  Speaker 12: Well, there's a lot of moving pieces that are happening
• 39:11
  Speaker 12: right now. Obviously, there are people who are reacting to
• 39:16
  Speaker 12: him getting the felony charge in New York, many people. Obviously,
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: if you hate Donald Trump, this is your super Bowl.
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: But if you are indifferent or somewhat impartial, and you
• 39:30
  Speaker 12: look at all the different core cases that are popping up,
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: and it seems like these are a bit of a
• 39:34
  Speaker 12: stretch of core cases that are or charges that are
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: being brought against him, because they are, you might be
• 39:42
  Speaker 12: waking more people up than you realize. So I think
• 39:45
  Speaker 12: the Democrats might be in this situation helping Donald Trump
• 39:49
  Speaker 12: more than they think. I do have a love hate
• 39:53
  Speaker 12: relationship when it comes to polling because prior to his conviction,
• 39:58
  Speaker 12: they're polling data that was showing that if Donald Trump
• 40:02
  Speaker 12: was to actually have a felony while running for president,
• 40:06
  Speaker 12: that Independence would largely pull away from him. So I
• 40:10
  Speaker 12: don't know if it's a change of viewpoint from Independence
• 40:13
  Speaker 12: or it's just a different poll and they're just getting
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: different results. But I think the polls can show a trend.
• 40:23
  Speaker 12: Maybe Virginia is closer than we thought. But at the
• 40:26
  Speaker 12: end of the day, I don't think anybody, whether you're
• 40:28
  Speaker 12: a Democrat or Republican, should take this as being some
• 40:31
  Speaker 12: sort of victory or a loss. There's a lot of
• 40:34
  Speaker 12: work to be had.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, November is a long time away. But we do
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: love the polls. And let's look at some of the
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: crucial swing states. Some of the latest polling coming out
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: is showing nationally Biden and Trump even but in those
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: swing states it's a different story. He is leading in
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: every swing state by the polls that we saw from yesterday.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: And look at this poll of four of the swing
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: states of Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina showing massive margins
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: to Trump, almost insurmountable, Adam, the margins we are seeing,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: they're North Carolina seventy eight twenty two, Arizona sixty one
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: thirty nine. And I do wonder whether there's a shift
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: happening in the culture. The Democrats have been so dominant
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: when it comes to pop culture, the celebrity sphere of influence,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: and my argument is they should have zero influence. No
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: one should be listening to celebrities when they're determining their vote.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: But the celebrity class do come in hard for the Democrats,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: whether we're talking about Hollywood A listers or athletes or
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: rock stars. But this time there is just a small number,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: and it is a small number who are bold enough
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: to side went back in Trump. So it seems like
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of celebrities are kind of like voting for Trump.
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: Now, I mean, why do you think people were kind
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: of like changing their way of Like, I.
• 42:12
  Speaker 10: Think we're just we just did our research and we're
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: just you know, we're not brainwashed anymore by the Left.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: I can say that about myself.
• 42:21
  Speaker 10: All these years, I've been brainwashed, and I'm not anymore
• 42:25
  Speaker 10: American men.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: I see them identifying with Trump.
• 42:33
  Speaker 12: La Trump, you're the man broing to the damn Travis.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Do what they're doing now, I'll be donated to you.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Let's get it done. Adam, we don't have much time.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Do you think this will have any impact on the election.
• 42:50
  Speaker 12: Not really, But I do think it matters that Trump
• 42:54
  Speaker 12: is seen as a counterculture figure, so there might be
• 42:56
  Speaker 12: more and more people that come out. We're in the
• 42:58
  Speaker 12: celebrity class, who maybe you're on the fringe of the
• 43:01
  Speaker 12: celebrity class to say something. But do I think that
• 43:04
  Speaker 12: they're going to push anything over the edge now? I
• 43:06
  Speaker 12: think burg of the people.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Will Hopefully you're right, because I don't want celebrities from
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: either side swaying anyone's vote. Adam B. Coleman, thank you
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: so much for your time. This evening still to come.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Teacher shortages are forcing schools to close classrooms. But what
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: is the real reason teachers are fleeing the profession? Colleen
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Harken joins me. Next you're watching the Rita Panney Show.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Joining me now is the national manager of the IPA's
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Class Action program, Colleen Haarkean. Colleen, we've got more than
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: fifteen hundred teaching positions vacant in Victoria, with some schools
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: having to split classes or shut early because they can't
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: find any educators to fill the spots. The Herald Sun
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: reports seven hundred and seventy one jobs were posted in
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: the past week. Last year, you might remember Dan Andrews
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: government announced teaching degrees would be free, graduate teachers even
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: being offered bonuses to subsidize their start of their careers
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: in government schools or help them move to regional areas.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Why is none of this working.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Well, Rechad.
• 44:29
  Speaker 13: That program that was announced last year actually doesn't start
• 44:32
  Speaker 13: until this year and it takes four years part of it, Yeah,
• 44:35
  Speaker 13: four years for those students to get through the system.
• 44:38
  Speaker 13: But the real question is will they ever be qualified
• 44:41
  Speaker 13: to lead a classroom because our research shows it of
• 44:45
  Speaker 13: that four years that they're about to spend at the university,
• 44:47
  Speaker 13: only ten weeks of it is dedicated to the teaching,
• 44:51
  Speaker 13: learning the skills to teach reading, writing, science, history. So
• 44:56
  Speaker 13: they'll spend the nearly ten weeks only ten weeks out
• 44:59
  Speaker 13: of their full fourth year university degree. So the priorities
• 45:02
  Speaker 13: of the universities are really warped and undermining their ability
• 45:06
  Speaker 13: to become competent and happy teachers, So that program to
• 45:11
  Speaker 13: be fair of them will take while for it to
• 45:13
  Speaker 13: work through the system. But it still doesn't mean we're
• 45:15
  Speaker 13: going to have capable and competent teachers at the end
• 45:17
  Speaker 13: of the four years.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: So what are they spending their time on If so
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: much of it isn't on what you would expect them
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: to be spending it on. What's the priority?
• 45:27
  Speaker 13: Well, the priority is like the national curriculum, it's woke content.
• 45:33
  Speaker 13: You know, university courses that are called things like is
• 45:36
  Speaker 13: skin color a pigment of your imagination?
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: For example?
• 45:39
  Speaker 13: So the priorities in the university curriculum are as warped
• 45:45
  Speaker 13: as the national curriculum. They're not prized prioritizing the skill
• 45:48
  Speaker 13: set that's required to do the job, which of course
• 45:51
  Speaker 13: then means that the people who are coming at the
• 45:52
  Speaker 13: other end are not skilled in the job they have
• 45:55
  Speaker 13: to do. To manage a classroom, our classrooms are some
• 45:58
  Speaker 13: of the worst in the world, are seventy first out
• 46:01
  Speaker 13: of eighty in the OECD in terms of classroom discipline
• 46:05
  Speaker 13: and requirement. And if you've spent four years of your
• 46:07
  Speaker 13: university degree learning how to be a global warrior instead
• 46:11
  Speaker 13: of how to be a great teacher. That's not going
• 46:12
  Speaker 13: to be very satisfying at the end of the day.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And if we're basically telling anyone who's got a
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: conservative ideology, you're not welcome in this profession because you're
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: going to just have to be indoctrinating kids relentlessly in
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: leftist group think. That's a large chunk of the potential
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: teacher pool that's gone. And we're also really not encouraging
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: men to enter this profession. It seems to be dominated
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: by women. And again, so you've got another fifty percent
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: of the population gone that can't be helping with the
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: teacher shortage.
• 46:45
  Speaker 13: Well, statistically, that's clearly true, but the real issue is
• 46:49
  Speaker 13: that teaching as a profession is not really sort of appealing.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: To most people at the moment because of.
• 46:55
  Speaker 13: The conditions of the curriculum, of having the cross curriculum,
• 46:59
  Speaker 13: priorities of prioritizing Aboriginal and torrest rate Islanders history and
• 47:03
  Speaker 13: cultures and sustainability ahead of actually the skill set that
• 47:08
  Speaker 13: the children require.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: The way they in check that into every subject from
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: music to mats is astonishing. Sustainability and what they call
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: first Nations.
• 47:20
  Speaker 13: Correct yeah, so that's a stated priority in the national curriculum.
• 47:25
  Speaker 13: So it doesn't state our priorities to make sure that
• 47:27
  Speaker 13: kids can read and write to become critical thinkers in
• 47:30
  Speaker 13: their own variety. It actually states the priority that sustainability
• 47:34
  Speaker 13: in Aboriginal and touristate Island is what they should be
• 47:36
  Speaker 13: learning at every opportunity.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: And I do also worry about the state of our
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: universities because the hostile environment that's been fostered. They're the
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: far left activism that is scaring off some Jewish students.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Some of them are deferring, declining to tend classes. And
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: then we've got people from all sorts of backgrounds, not
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: just Jewish students, who are self sense, who are really
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: scared to say what they think because they are worried
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: about an attack from academics and their fellow students. It's
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: not a healthy culture we've built in academia, not at all.
• 48:13
  Speaker 13: And that the universities have rolled over to a small
• 48:19
  Speaker 13: minority with a very specific activist agenda is a terrible
• 48:23
  Speaker 13: precedent that has been set. Universities are supposed to be
• 48:27
  Speaker 13: places of the big contest of ideas and the freedom
• 48:30
  Speaker 13: of speech, to position, to take your position on a
• 48:33
  Speaker 13: point and argue it out, and that's not happening at all.
• 48:37
  Speaker 13: On that first day of those protests at Melbourne University,
• 48:40
  Speaker 13: six thousand students were declined the opportunity to go to
• 48:44
  Speaker 13: their own classrooms so and learn, you know, enjoy the
• 48:49
  Speaker 13: subjects that they're paying to study. And the university is
• 48:53
  Speaker 13: a capitulating to this is a terrible problem.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: I do worry about the learning outcomes because we've already
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: gone through that COVID era where we had so much
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: remote learning, and now some people are opting for remote
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: because the campuses have got encampments happening and all sorts
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: of protests and hostility, and the university heads don't seem
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: to be too concern They are more concerned about the
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: overseas numbers coming in which are pop up the balance.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Sheeter Colin Harken. We could talk about this all day.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time this evening. Really
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: appreciate it. And that's it from me. I'll see you
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night at eleven up. Next is Newsnight