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Credlin | 6 March · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peter Krandland live on Sky News Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Welcome to the program. Here's what's coming up
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Speaker 2: tonight on Kredline. Angry locals impacted by one of Labour's
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Speaker 2: offshore wind farms head to Canberra. Only their parliamentary hearing
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Speaker 2: was postponed at the last minute, so they were forced
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Speaker 2: to address an almost empty room. So much for community consultation.
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Speaker 2: They'll be erecting there at the ballot box. Mark my words,
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Speaker 2: Victoria's crime crisis out of control, the Premier wringing her.
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Speaker 3: Hands, and families living in fear.
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Speaker 2: Tonight I'll speak with the former Victorian homicide detective who
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Speaker 2: knows what must happen to end this wave of violent
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Speaker 2: home invasions. Plus will cross live to Brisbane as locals
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Speaker 2: await the worst of cyclone. Alfred an update on where
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Speaker 2: things stad as of tonight in just a moment, and
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Speaker 2: on that millions of residents left in the lurch with
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Speaker 2: Labour's at national messaging system not up and running in time.
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Speaker 2: It was supposed to be operational last year and yet
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Speaker 2: this was the best the PM could offer.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's been complex to deliver. You want to make
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Speaker 4: sure you have to be one hundred percent sure that
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Speaker 4: it's ready to go before you turn it, before you
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Speaker 4: turn it online.
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Speaker 2: You only let the contracts a month ago. Seriously, three
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Speaker 2: years to let a contract. We'll get to that in
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Speaker 2: a moment, but first, with energy policy and its impact
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Speaker 2: on cost of living, a key election battleground, here's a
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Speaker 2: good example of labor trying to have it both ways.
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Speaker 2: As you know, there's growing community anger over monstrous wind
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Speaker 2: farms destroying prime agricultural land and disfiguring our national parks.
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Speaker 2: But some of the most intense anger is about offshore
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Speaker 2: wind farms that are not only beyond ugly but also
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Speaker 2: hazards to marine life such as migrating whales and large
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Speaker 2: birds of prey. And they're also vastly more expensive, perhaps
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Speaker 2: five times more expensive than on shore wind and more
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Speaker 2: expensive means are being a hit to tax phase in
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Speaker 2: terms of your subsidies, and over here a hit to
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Speaker 2: you as a consumer because the foreign companies who own
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Speaker 2: them will want to recoup their expenditure by passing the
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Speaker 2: cost onto you the consumer.
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Speaker 3: To try and to fuse some.
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Speaker 2: Of that anger, in the middle of last year, with
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Speaker 2: a lot of pushing, the Senate set up an inquiry
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Speaker 2: into the consultation process for offshore wind and an inquiry
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Speaker 2: was needed because for too long, the so called community
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Speaker 2: consultation for these wind farms has been labeled as a sham,
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Speaker 2: lacking transparency and just a tick a box exercise thanks
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Speaker 2: to short time frames, deliberately badly timed meetings, and the
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Speaker 2: fact that a majority of public submissions some sixty five
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Speaker 2: percent opposing wind farms or they're ignored. Now I'll be
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Speaker 2: talking to one of the campaigners, the Yellow Warriors, Alex
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Speaker 2: O'Brien a little later on tonight. Hence, this inquiry in
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Speaker 2: the Senate was established in July last year with a
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Speaker 2: report to be delivered to the Parliament on the thirteenth
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Speaker 2: of February or surprise surprize. Giving the electoral heat around
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Speaker 2: this issue, that reporting date was pushed out at the
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Speaker 2: last minute to next week, the thirteenth of March, and
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Speaker 2: in a new move that's shocked coastal communities, communities that
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Speaker 2: are demanding transparency, Labor has given this inquiry yet another extension,
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Speaker 2: and this time pushed out to the end of April.
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Speaker 2: You can see what's going on here, can't you. The
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Speaker 2: government will keep putting off the reporting date until after
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Speaker 2: the election, especially after the Prime Minister has just faced
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Speaker 2: one of the most hostile meetings of his time in
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Speaker 2: office on this very issue. Now, what typifies Labour's disdain
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Speaker 2: for regional communities that will bear the brunt of Chris
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Speaker 2: Bowen's net zero madness is that this latest extension was
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Speaker 2: announced on the very day that anti wind farm campaigners
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Speaker 2: were due to test to the inquiry in Canberra.
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Speaker 1: It was always about giving a voice to these people
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Speaker 1: from the Hunter West Australia and Illawarra that didn't have
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Speaker 1: a voice in the consultation process is the offshore wind.
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Speaker 5: We don't believe the consultation was genuine. We don't believe
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Speaker 5: the Minister took on the feedback there of the community.
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Speaker 5: We've been fighting to have our voice and some transparency
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Speaker 5: with this inquiry.
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Speaker 6: The consultation process couldn't even be called as such. Basically,
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Speaker 6: we considered all the events that we went to that
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Speaker 6: it was basically a promotion for the offshore wind turbine
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Speaker 6: industry itself.
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Speaker 2: The whole consultation process felt nothing more than an advertising
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Speaker 2: campaign for the wind industry.
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Speaker 7: No inquiry didn't find that out until late yesterday afternoon,
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Speaker 7: no one that I know had any idea.
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Speaker 8: The consultation process was being undertaken.
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Speaker 2: You heard them, ordinary Australians fired up about wind turbines
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Speaker 2: in their life communities, and they all went to Canberra
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Speaker 2: hoping to tell all of you that these offshore wind
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Speaker 2: turbines are environmental sacrilege. Well, yesterday they would deny the
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Speaker 2: public platform they had been promised. Those members that all
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Speaker 2: traveled to Canberra at their own expense to voice opposition
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Speaker 2: to Labour's plans had their hearing postponed at the last minute,
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Speaker 2: and then were forced to address a near empty room
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Speaker 2: save for a couple of Coalition senators. You can see
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Speaker 2: Labor's dilemma here. It can't say no to these offshore
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Speaker 2: wind farms because it desperately needs them in order to
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Speaker 2: meet it's eighty two percent renewable target that's due now
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Speaker 2: in just five years, and it desperately needs green preferences.
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Speaker 2: But it can't say yes to them either, because it
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Speaker 2: would then lose Illawarra seats like Whitlam and Cunningham, plus
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Speaker 2: seats in the Hunter like Patterson. Hence the need to
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Speaker 2: shut down this announced inquiry and to put off any
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Speaker 2: decision until after the election to bury the problem and
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Speaker 2: just hope you don't notice. Well, my job is to
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Speaker 2: make sure you do notice and that you don't forget
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Speaker 2: about this when you go to vote in a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks time. Now, this is now the way Labor
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Speaker 2: does business, just like the way they have put off
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Speaker 2: the salmon farm decision in Tasmania and the nature positive
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Speaker 2: decision after dismay from the WA Labor premier.
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Speaker 3: Who goes to the polls this weekend, Well, here's a tip.
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Speaker 2: Labor will try and run so called community independence in
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Speaker 2: seats like Whitlam and Cunningham, Patterson too, who'll all say
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Speaker 2: they're against these wind farms, but who will all then
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Speaker 2: direct preferences back to labor, like my words, because Labor
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Speaker 2: might be hopeless at government, but they are very very
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Speaker 2: good on the low rent campaign politics. And if re
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Speaker 2: elected and back into government with the help of the
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Speaker 2: Greens and those frauds, the Teals, then these offshore wind
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Speaker 2: farms will happen at pace. It's sneaky, it's gutless beyond belief,
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Speaker 2: but it's so typical of Chris Bowen, Anthony Alberanezi and
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Speaker 2: Labor and it shows what happens when Labour's green dreams
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Speaker 2: run up against reality. Look, I want to stay on
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Speaker 2: wind farms a shop move today to Federal Environment Minister
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Speaker 2: Tanya pleversic green lighting three more of these wind farm monstrosities.
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Speaker 2: In New South Wales, there's the so called Hills of
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Speaker 2: Gold project sixty two turbines in a ridge line near
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Speaker 2: the historic town of Nundel. In New England, there's the
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Speaker 2: Spices Creek project one hundred and seventeen turbines near Gulgong
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Speaker 2: in the central West. And then there's a big extension
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Speaker 2: to the project on the Liverpool Range near Cooler in
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Speaker 2: the state's northwest that will now number some one hundred
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Speaker 2: and eighty five turbines, all over two hundred.
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Speaker 3: Meters in height.
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Speaker 2: Note that even the Minister, in announcing these decisions admitted
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Speaker 2: that the only be eighty ongoing jobs in total. So
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Speaker 2: there's the lie, isn't it that myth of a job's
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Speaker 2: bonanza under the so called green transition, Because as we know,
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Speaker 2: almost all of these turbines are made in China and
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Speaker 2: then imported here. Don't forget it was the Albanezi government
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Speaker 2: that quietly dropped anti dumping tariffs on wind turbines from China,
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Speaker 2: confirming that the only so called energy superpower, the renewable
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Speaker 2: energy superpower, out of all of this, will be China,
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Speaker 2: not Australia. And all the while Beijing is building another
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Speaker 2: one hundred qualified power stations to, among other things, make
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Speaker 2: our solar panels and make our wind turbines we in
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Speaker 2: the gullible West by them. It goes without saying that
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Speaker 2: each one of these new wind projects will involve the
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Speaker 2: clearing of large areas of native forest and sensitive habitat.
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Speaker 2: Is that what it's now come to, with green left
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Speaker 2: labor governments destroying the environment in a futile bid, they
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Speaker 2: say to stop climate change. All right, let's go to
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Speaker 2: Camber now for the headlines. Sky's political reporter cam reddin.
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Speaker 9: Good evening the arrival of cyclone Alfred is complicating the
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Speaker 9: timing of the federal election.
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Speaker 4: This sing doesn't recognize.
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Speaker 5: A border, it doesn't have regard for borders.
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Speaker 9: As he's briefed on cyclone, Alfred, thank you. The Prime
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Speaker 9: Minister has another decision to make election rules require a
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Speaker 9: minimum thirty three day campaign, meaning if an election is
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Speaker 9: to be held on April twelve, it must be called
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Speaker 9: by Monday.
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Speaker 4: That couldn't happen, surely, Keeran, I'm focused on not on votes.
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Speaker 4: I'm focused on lives. I'm focused on Australians.
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Speaker 9: Just six possible election dates remain. Sky News understands Easter
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Speaker 9: and Anzac Day weekends are off the table as his
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Speaker 9: deadline day on May seventeen.
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Speaker 10: Instead of playing a cat and mouse game with the
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Speaker 10: Australian people, the Prime Minister should give a very clear
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Speaker 10: message to Australians they don't need to worry about our
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Speaker 10: federal election over the next few weeks.
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Speaker 9: There's a growing divide between the major parties over whether
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Speaker 9: Australian troops could be sent to Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: You wouldn't seriously consider sandy Aussie troops into such an
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Speaker 2: uncertain part of Europe, would you.
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Speaker 4: Karen, We support Ukraine unequivocally. Hoo's on the ground, unequivocally,
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Speaker 4: we support Ukraine. We've had no request.
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Speaker 3: We have said no.
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Speaker 10: We believe that this is a responsibility in particular of
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Speaker 10: the European countries.
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Speaker 4: Thanks everyone, thanks for your work.
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Speaker 9: Cameron Reddin's Sky News Canberra.
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Speaker 2: Let's stay with the tropical cyclone residents. Of course, from
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Speaker 2: Sunshine Coast, which is north of Brisbane right down to
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Speaker 2: the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales embracing for
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Speaker 2: the impact of tropical Cyclone Alfred. Now it's currently degree
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Speaker 2: too and it's sitting off the coast from Brisbane at
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Speaker 2: about two hundred and forty kilometers east. For more, I'm
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Speaker 2: joining now by Sky News reporter Harry Clark at Victoria Point,
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Speaker 2: which is just north of Brisbane. Harry, we're told today
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Speaker 2: it's moving slower than expected. I just made mention there
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Speaker 2: that the Bureau is saying it's still Category two. Is
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Speaker 2: there any likelihood that will change if it is going
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Speaker 2: slower with a drop in significance?
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Speaker 7: What's the latest, Okay, Peter, Well, the Bureau of Bneurology
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Speaker 7: continually says that they're confident it's going to remain a
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Speaker 7: Category two Because it started to move a bit slower.
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Speaker 7: That doesn't mean that it's going to be any less intense. Indeed,
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Speaker 7: it might make the rainfall impacts a bit worse. It
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Speaker 7: was moving in about eleven CA's It's been a slow
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Speaker 7: moving beast, but it started to slow down to about
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Speaker 7: seven kilometers in an hour. And for that reason, when
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Speaker 7: tropical cycle in Arfrit eventually does cross the coast, it's
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Speaker 7: going to linger for longer. So for that reason, the
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Speaker 7: four car rainfall has increased from between four hundred and
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Speaker 7: seven hundred mills initially now in excess of eight hundred
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Speaker 7: millimeters end. We're expecting it across the coast early tomorrow morning.
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Speaker 7: Now it's been delayed for another twenty four hours. The
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Speaker 7: big concern here over on the bayside in Brisbane's East
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Speaker 7: is the crossing of the cyclone crossing the coast combining
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Speaker 7: with the high tide. The Bureau saying that the high
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Speaker 7: tide if at times with the cyclone crossing the coast,
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Speaker 7: it could be a meter and a half potentially above
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Speaker 7: what they call the astronomical high tide, which is the
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Speaker 7: highest tide predicted for a year. That's going to be
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Speaker 7: a big concern for a lot of people living in
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Speaker 7: this low country on these bayside suburbs. Where I am
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Speaker 7: at Victoria Point is right on Morton Bay. There are
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Speaker 7: six residential islands just off the coast, Couchy Mudlow just
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Speaker 7: over there, and we've got North Stradbroke Island just a
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Speaker 7: bit further along. You can see the weather starting to
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Speaker 7: come in.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 7: It's taken a while to get to this point, but
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Speaker 7: just in the last hour or so it's started to
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Speaker 7: pick up, the swells starting to move a little bit.
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Speaker 3: You can see plenty of boats.
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Speaker 7: Here out on their moorings in Morton Bay, and there's
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Speaker 7: a bit of ban as you would imagine on open
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Speaker 7: water maritime activity. They've all got to be moored. And
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Speaker 7: as the swell starts the coming and the wind picks
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Speaker 7: up up to one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour winds.
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Speaker 7: It's combined with that high tide and storm surge, there's
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Speaker 7: a big concern for a lot of these boats that
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Speaker 7: are on their moorings, and also all these homes along
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Speaker 7: the waterfront that are right at the water's edge. People
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Speaker 7: here are pretty confident that they'll be right just on
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Speaker 7: this street in particular, but they're not taking any chances.
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Speaker 7: All these homes, they've got sandbaged right up to the
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Speaker 7: doors and through the garages, and the front lawns and
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Speaker 7: the backwards are completely clear of any potential flying debris
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Speaker 7: that could cause a danger.
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Speaker 2: Well, if there's one thing, people have had a bit
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Speaker 2: of time to get prepared for this, but thoughts and
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Speaker 2: prayers with everyone in Queensland and northern New South Wales.
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Speaker 3: Harry, thank you.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the other stories around today.
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Speaker 2: I'm joined now by Daily Telegraph journalist the wonderful Well.
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Speaker 3: Who have I go today?
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Speaker 2: James Willis, I think, and Dan wild our ipa regular
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Speaker 2: who's got a bit of use for us. At the end,
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Speaker 2: I think it is James Willis. Gents, welcome Harry. They're
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Speaker 2: saying the millions of residents in northern New South Wales
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Speaker 2: and southern Queensland under thread this national messaging system.
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Speaker 3: Now, this is interesting.
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Speaker 2: The federal government promised we would have it at the
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Speaker 2: end of last year. It's been delayed by nearly three
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Speaker 2: years already. I made the point at the top of
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Speaker 2: the show the contract was only awarded last month, so
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Speaker 2: they're not fed income about meeting any deadlines here, and
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Speaker 2: we won't even see testing of this system until the
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Speaker 2: late end of next year.
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Speaker 3: This is a joke, James Willis.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree with you, Peter.
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Speaker 11: And look, there's an argument that in times of crisis
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Speaker 11: we should all be working together. But Murray Watt, who
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Speaker 11: was the longtime Emergency Services Minister, is no longer in
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Speaker 11: that role, but he had no issue politicizing some of
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Speaker 11: the natural disasters in New South Wales a few years
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Speaker 11: ago and launching you to the Coalition for their failings.
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Speaker 11: This was a very simple promise. It was meant to
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Speaker 11: be up and running by the end of twenty twenty
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Speaker 11: four and what it was designed to do was when
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Speaker 11: there were signal outages, because in the previous natural disasters
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Speaker 11: we saw in Queensland and Lismore there were people waiting
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Speaker 11: ten to twelve hours to get an emergency warning when
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Speaker 11: the phone towers wouldn't go through.
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Speaker 5: This was designed to.
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Speaker 8: Overhaul all of that.
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Speaker 11: To learn today that contract was only signed last month,
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Speaker 11: won't be tested until twenty twenty six and then up
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Speaker 11: and running by twenty twenty seven is a monumental failure.
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Speaker 11: A labour should be heavily criticized for it, including Murray Watt,
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Speaker 11: and I think the fact that we couldn't get something
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Speaker 11: like this in place. Look, as we know, we're never
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Speaker 11: going to be able to stop natural disasters in this country.
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Speaker 11: We've had natural disasters for as long.
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Speaker 5: As we've been around.
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Speaker 11: But you can put warnings in place, you can put
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Speaker 11: safeguards in place, and Labour has failed monumentally on this
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Speaker 11: one and they should be condemned for it.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what the Telly should do, a spread, James,
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Speaker 2: show me a minute in the federal government who's actually
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Speaker 2: delivered on the promises made in their portfolio.
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Speaker 3: I can't think of one who.
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Speaker 2: Said at the last election, if you elect us, we're
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Speaker 2: going to do X, Y and Z, and they have delivered.
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Speaker 2: The scorecard for that mob has been shocking. I also
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Speaker 2: listened with interest to Dan Wilsh to comment as the
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister made today, have a listen.
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Speaker 4: There were no political parties in this process and there
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Speaker 4: are no borders. Cyclone tropical cyclone. Alfred certainly does not
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Speaker 4: recognize any borders and nor should the government's response.
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Speaker 2: When I heard him say that, the first thing that's
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Speaker 2: stuck in my mind were those infamous comments from Tan
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Speaker 2: from Anastasia Palichet at the height of the pandemic.
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Speaker 3: Have a listen in Queensland. We have Queensland hospitals for
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Speaker 3: our peoples.
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Speaker 2: It just brought back the madness to me of those
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Speaker 2: terrible times. Dan.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, Peter. It's rules for thee and not
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Speaker 1: for me. When it comes to Labor. It's hypocrisy and
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Speaker 1: we're seeing that now. And as you and James have
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Speaker 1: rightly identified, this has been a big failure. In twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, Labour said that the system would be up
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Speaker 1: and running in twenty twenty four. Now they've admitted it
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Speaker 1: won't be up and running until twenty twenty seven. Now,
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Speaker 1: what this reinforces and highlights, Peter, is this government is
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Speaker 1: not focused on the issues that matter to the community.
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Speaker 1: They've spent half their term and half a billion dollars
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Speaker 1: in a referendum to divide us by race. They've been
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Speaker 1: engaged in social activism and niche sectional interests rather than
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Speaker 1: getting the basics right, whether it's on the economy, whether
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Speaker 1: it's on migration, whether it's to do with social cohesion,
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Speaker 1: and now when it comes to a national emergency system
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Speaker 1: where people's lives often rely on these systems. Now, I
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Speaker 1: hope that there's no consequences. I hope it's just a
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Speaker 1: blip on the radar. But the reality is when you're
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Speaker 1: focused on activism, you miss out on the basics. And
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Speaker 1: that's what we're learning about.
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Speaker 2: Let's go back to that saga the foreign criminals we
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Speaker 2: learned yesterday the fallout from the NZYQ decisions cost taxpayers
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Speaker 2: more than one hundred million dollars. Well, your paper today,
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Speaker 2: the Telegraph, has revealed at the Home Affairs Minister Tony
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Speaker 2: Burke has yet to lodge a single community protection order.
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Speaker 2: That's despite having a task force of forty five people
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Speaker 2: dedicated to this job, working out it for twelve months
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Speaker 2: and as we know, over twenty million dollars in legal costs.
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Speaker 2: So we can have all of these citizenship ceremonies, James,
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Speaker 2: you can harvest votes of New Australians in the hope
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Speaker 2: that labor survives the next election, but it can't do
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Speaker 2: what's required to keep Australians safe.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Peter, with a stroke of a pen, that Tony
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Speaker 11: Burke can say, Oh, this is unfair. There's been thousands
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Speaker 11: of people waiting to become USI citizens. I'm going to
18:51
Speaker 11: step in. I'm going to go to the ceremony at
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Speaker 11: Home Bush. I'm going to make sure the Electoral Commission
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Speaker 11: is there so they know how to vote for the
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Speaker 11: first time. That's an easy fix. But at the same
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Speaker 11: time we have these few hundred people, which include murderers,
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Speaker 11: include dozens of sex offenders that the Home Affairs Department
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Speaker 11: is claiming they're almost powerless or almost it's almost impossible
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Speaker 11: to detain them. Tony Burke saying we've got to focus
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Speaker 11: on kicking them out of the country. Well, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 11: but this entire process from day one, Labor has been
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Speaker 11: caught flying blind, way too short, way ill prepared for
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Speaker 11: the fallout of the High Court to rule against them,
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Speaker 11: and since then we have been unable to monitor these
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Speaker 11: people properly. And the fact that the Home Affairs Department
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Speaker 11: was saying, oh it takes three years for one of
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Speaker 11: these things to come through, I'm sorry. What sort of
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Speaker 11: country are we living in where if we don't want
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Speaker 11: someone here because they have not passed the requirements to
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Speaker 11: be in Australian they're a violent offender. They're not our responsibility.
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Speaker 11: They should be on the next plane. And I think
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Speaker 11: that's the disturbing part in all of this. But certainly
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Speaker 11: Labor has not done enough to diffuse this problem and
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Speaker 11: a lot of these people, as we know Peter, have
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Speaker 11: reoffended since being let out by the High Court.
19:59
Speaker 2: You're not wrong, James, And of course if it's all
20:01
Speaker 2: too hard, it never takes so long to get any
20:02
Speaker 2: of these people out which the Minister just said, You've
20:05
Speaker 2: got to wonder why three thousand from Gaza came here
20:09
Speaker 2: like that with none of the checks that should have happened.
20:12
Speaker 2: Let's talk energy again, Dan Wild hydrogen. We find out
20:17
Speaker 2: this week that only one percent of the nation's one
20:19
Speaker 2: hundred billion dollar pipeline for hydrogen has progressed beyond the
20:23
Speaker 2: concept stage. Today, another nail in the coffin Andrew Forrest
20:28
Speaker 2: revealing he's pulled out of a big hydrogen investment packed
20:32
Speaker 2: in the United States.
20:34
Speaker 3: I suspect that's all due to the election of Donald Trump.
20:37
Speaker 2: But given this failure rate of ninety nine percent, you know,
20:43
Speaker 2: if someone does the wrong thing with a center link debt,
20:46
Speaker 2: the Commonwealth goes after them. What happens to all of
20:49
Speaker 2: these billionaires and the billions of poor old taxpayers paid them.
20:52
Speaker 3: Do we ever get that money back?
20:57
Speaker 1: Well, I won't be holding my breath, Peter. It's one
20:59
Speaker 1: hundred billion dollar boondoggle. It is a hydrogen hoax. Look
21:02
Speaker 1: no further than what's happening here in South Australia and
21:04
Speaker 1: in Wayala where they're being sold up the creek. I mean,
21:07
Speaker 1: the reality is that this is not getting the job done,
21:10
Speaker 1: and you know it's not getting power into the system,
21:13
Speaker 1: it's not creating jobs. But this is what happens when
21:16
Speaker 1: you have a renewables only, renewables everywhere policy to get
21:20
Speaker 1: to net zero. Under this labor government, they're getting rid
21:22
Speaker 1: of coal gas, they refuse to use uranium. Well, we've
21:25
Speaker 1: got an abundance of those resources, their sovereign resources. As
21:28
Speaker 1: you've been reporting on Peter over the last few weeks.
21:31
Speaker 1: We're importing all of these solar panels overseas from overseas,
21:35
Speaker 1: undermining our energy sovereignty, putting up prices here in South Australia.
21:39
Speaker 1: We've got the highest power bills in the entire nation.
21:42
Speaker 1: And this is really ground zero for the hydrogen hoax.
21:44
Speaker 1: So you need to have a much more balanced approach,
21:46
Speaker 1: including getting baseload always on power into the system so
21:50
Speaker 1: we can have manufacturing, we can have industry, and we
21:53
Speaker 1: can get those power bills down for families and also
21:55
Speaker 1: for small businesses, many of whom are going to the wall.
22:00
Speaker 2: I saw this report in relation to the Blaney Goldmine group.
22:04
Speaker 2: This is the mob that are now pushing a claim
22:07
Speaker 2: in relation to Mount Panorama, and I immediately thought James
22:11
Speaker 2: willis of all the people in the rs CL around
22:14
Speaker 2: the country now who are desperately trying to fundraise to
22:17
Speaker 2: pay for our Anzac Day commemorations. But if you're an
22:20
Speaker 2: indigenous group like this one and a tree needs to
22:23
Speaker 2: be removed around Mount Panorama, well apparently they're going to
22:27
Speaker 2: get one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from taxpayers
22:30
Speaker 2: to remove the tree. It's called aboriginal participation. Remove this tree,
22:35
Speaker 2: and then they make some sort of items from this
22:39
Speaker 2: culed tree because the tree needs to go because they're
22:42
Speaker 2: building an arts performing arts complex in Bathurst. You see
22:46
Speaker 2: all of this, and you can understand why taxpayers are
22:49
Speaker 2: so angry.
22:53
Speaker 11: Oh absolutely, Peter, And look that must be the world's
22:56
Speaker 11: most expensive arborist at the very least. But for something
22:59
Speaker 11: like this, it is a gold medal example of where
23:02
Speaker 11: Aboriginal policy in this country just falls so short of
23:04
Speaker 11: the mark. You have a legislated body being the local
23:08
Speaker 11: metropolitan or in this case, the local Aboriginal Land Council,
23:12
Speaker 11: who are meant to be the ones that control membership
23:15
Speaker 11: and determine who is Aboriginal or not, and they can
23:18
Speaker 11: have their opinion, but at the same time you have
23:21
Speaker 11: all these other groups, and this group, as you say,
23:23
Speaker 11: have been responsible for impeding and getting in the way
23:27
Speaker 11: of a range of projects, including the Blaney gold mine
23:29
Speaker 11: in central New South Wales. And these other groups, the
23:32
Speaker 11: government of the day, whether it be the local council,
23:34
Speaker 11: the state government, the federal government is required to bring
23:37
Speaker 11: them to the table and listen to their views, even
23:39
Speaker 11: if the legislated land Council are saying, well, we.
23:42
Speaker 3: Actually agree with this proposal.
23:44
Speaker 11: And sometimes you've got the Land Council saying this other
23:48
Speaker 11: group are not verified and we're not certain that they
23:50
Speaker 11: are Aboriginal people. So it is an absolute circus. And
23:54
Speaker 11: the bottom line, as you say, is that tax payers
23:56
Speaker 11: are the ones that wear the bill. But sadly it
23:58
Speaker 11: seems to be the only way you can get projects
24:01
Speaker 11: done in these country is to make sure we tick
24:03
Speaker 11: every possible box.
24:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a shocking thing to have happened.
24:08
Speaker 2: Hey, Dan Wilde, we're going to get you in the
24:11
Speaker 2: hot seat right now.
24:11
Speaker 3: You've got some big news.
24:12
Speaker 2: You have not long been pre selected as the new
24:15
Speaker 2: Liberal candidate pro federal seed of Spence. This is in
24:18
Speaker 2: Adelaide's northern suburbs. Big call, mate, I mean, I love
24:22
Speaker 2: having you on the show, but a big call to
24:24
Speaker 2: unfor federal politics. What's motivated you to this big decision?
24:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, well thanks Peter. Look, basically, I think Australia is
24:35
Speaker 1: a great country and I want to keep it that way.
24:37
Speaker 1: We're being let down by this current government and many
24:40
Speaker 1: politicians who failed to stand up for our national values
24:43
Speaker 1: and our shared values, and I want to make sure
24:46
Speaker 1: that this community actually has a voice.
24:48
Speaker 3: Yeah.
24:48
Speaker 1: People say it's a safe labor seat and a safe
24:50
Speaker 1: labor area, but you know the reality is this community
24:53
Speaker 1: here had a seventy two percent no vote to the
24:56
Speaker 1: Voice to Parliament, which was the biggest no vote of
24:59
Speaker 1: any labor seat in the entire country. These are hard
25:02
Speaker 1: working Australians. They're people who believe Australia is a good country.
25:05
Speaker 1: But they're being ignored too often by this labor government.
25:09
Speaker 1: And you know, we look at the big issues, look
25:10
Speaker 1: at mass migration. Well that's where the pressure is right here.
25:13
Speaker 1: Two suburbs here, Angle Veil and Manopara West. They are
25:17
Speaker 1: the fastest growing suburbs in the entire nation. Yet the
25:20
Speaker 1: infrastructure is not keeping up and the pressure is being
25:22
Speaker 1: put on when we look at power prices, well, that's
25:25
Speaker 1: being felt here, and so many other social issues such
25:28
Speaker 1: as crime. I mean, I can tell you what if
25:30
Speaker 1: the kind of crime that's being committed here was being
25:32
Speaker 1: committed in an inner city, leafy, wealthy suburb, that'd be
25:35
Speaker 1: a completely different response. But Labour has a double standard.
25:38
Speaker 1: They're not listening to working class people anymore. And this
25:41
Speaker 1: is not the Labor party of the Bob Hawk generation.
25:44
Speaker 1: This is an activist labor party that is undermining and
25:47
Speaker 1: dividing our national values and it's time to stand up.
25:50
Speaker 1: So that's why I put my hand up here for
25:52
Speaker 1: the community of Spence, and I'm working very hard here
25:55
Speaker 1: on the ground and I'm really looking forward to learning
25:58
Speaker 1: more about the community and actually advocating for these critical
26:00
Speaker 1: issues as we had towards the election.
26:04
Speaker 2: Good on you, Dan Wyle to tell you what this
26:06
Speaker 2: will shake things up, and that no vote, Yes it's
26:08
Speaker 2: a safe Labor seat on paper, but that no vote
26:11
Speaker 2: tells me a.
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Speaker 3: Lot about the seat. Good luck.
26:14
Speaker 2: Thanks James Willis as well in Sydney, all right, after
26:17
Speaker 2: the break, the arrogance of Labor who can't even show
26:19
Speaker 2: up to hear mounting concerns from residents over one of
26:22
Speaker 2: their most hotly contested wind farms. Plus a bit later
26:25
Speaker 2: on a former Victorian police detective on what's got to
26:28
Speaker 2: change to end Melbourne's home invasion crisis. Welcome back still
26:38
Speaker 2: come a former Victorian homicide detective years of experience on
26:42
Speaker 2: what's driving the violent home invasions in Melbourne and what
26:45
Speaker 2: needs to happen to stop them.
26:47
Speaker 3: But first, yet.
26:48
Speaker 2: Again, this Labor government has left the Illowira region on
26:51
Speaker 2: the New South Wales South Coast in limbo when it
26:53
Speaker 2: comes to the massive offshore wind farm proposed for the region. Now,
26:58
Speaker 2: this has been a mess from the get go. Local
27:01
Speaker 2: communities that have been delivered nothing more than a sham
27:04
Speaker 2: consultation process, no real say. They then had National Senator
27:09
Speaker 2: Ross Cadell forced the government into holding a Senate inquiry
27:12
Speaker 2: into the issue.
27:13
Speaker 3: Well that was agreed last July.
27:15
Speaker 2: But even with an inquiry, the stall and games have continued.
27:19
Speaker 2: Not only has the deadline been pushed out multiple times,
27:22
Speaker 2: as I've said, but even as leading firms pulled out
27:26
Speaker 2: to deliver this project, Chris Bowmen has got into the
27:29
Speaker 2: media and persisted that there are plenty of firms, he says,
27:32
Speaker 2: vying to build it until there was it sensing the
27:36
Speaker 2: electoral backlash and in real risk of losing the local
27:39
Speaker 2: seats of Whitlam and Cunningham. Last Friday, Labor dropped the
27:43
Speaker 2: news that the offshore win project was on hold until
27:46
Speaker 2: after the election, and they actually had the temerity to
27:49
Speaker 2: blame Peter Dutton now at the same time to bury
27:52
Speaker 2: the issue politically. The timetable for the proposed Senate inquiry
27:55
Speaker 2: has been pushed out to the end of April, meaning
27:58
Speaker 2: it will not happen side of an election. Like I said,
28:02
Speaker 2: this whole thing is a miss. And joining me someone
28:05
Speaker 2: who's been steadfast and his opposition to this project in
28:08
Speaker 2: the Illawarra President of the Responsible Future Group, Alex O'Brien. Alex,
28:14
Speaker 2: thank you for your time. Jeez, you have been indefatigable
28:17
Speaker 2: in fighting this. You finally get your set an inquiry,
28:21
Speaker 2: you get your reporting date pushed out, but you get
28:23
Speaker 2: a hearing, you turn up in Canberra, but no one
28:26
Speaker 2: from Labor is prepared to be there with.
28:29
Speaker 3: You to hear your concerns. It's got to be pretty galling.
28:33
Speaker 5: Yeah. Look, we were really disappointed, but it wasn't just
28:36
Speaker 5: us there, Peter, it was you know, groups from the
28:38
Speaker 5: hunter from Bunbury and representatives for Wanbarl as well would
28:43
Speaker 5: have loved to be there, but they just couldn't make
28:46
Speaker 5: it over. So we're severely disappointed. We've been fighting for
28:49
Speaker 5: this for six months. You know, we have real concerns
28:53
Speaker 5: there and we just simply wanted to have those concerns
28:56
Speaker 5: raised in a public sitting.
29:01
Speaker 2: I went through your press release that you wish it
29:03
Speaker 2: after you were you were hung out to dry there
29:05
Speaker 2: by the government, and you went through a whole lot
29:07
Speaker 2: of things that really concerned me about the process, about
29:11
Speaker 2: the submissions that appear to be ignored, the majority opposition
29:14
Speaker 2: of the community to the project, but also some of
29:17
Speaker 2: the appearance of backroom deals with people who support the project,
29:23
Speaker 2: proponents to build this project.
29:26
Speaker 3: What can you tell us.
29:28
Speaker 5: Well, I think, and this is not just an issue
29:30
Speaker 5: with offshore win but across regional Australia. These developments are
29:34
Speaker 5: led by developer interests. So when we know our research
29:38
Speaker 5: team dug further into the dealings behind the scenes, multiple
29:42
Speaker 5: meetings you know, developers had with ministers at a state
29:45
Speaker 5: and federal level, it really brought it to light that
29:48
Speaker 5: they were spending a lot more time with these developers
29:52
Speaker 5: than they were listening to community concerns, listening to local
29:57
Speaker 5: business concerns. So you know, it's really disappointing that we've
30:02
Speaker 5: uncovered that. And again, this is why we needed this inquiry.
30:05
Speaker 5: We needed to get to the bottom of this. This
30:06
Speaker 5: is important for transparency and accountability that we know who
30:11
Speaker 5: is really driving these projects. You is it really for
30:15
Speaker 5: the interest of meeting our climate targets or is this
30:18
Speaker 5: being driven by profit that developers obviously are very interested
30:23
Speaker 5: in making.
30:27
Speaker 2: When the governor announced last Friday that this was all
30:30
Speaker 2: on hold until after the election, do you think most
30:34
Speaker 2: locals saw this for what it is Labour trying to
30:36
Speaker 2: shove it away from the electoral race, not getting rid
30:39
Speaker 2: of the project, just getting it out of the headlines
30:44
Speaker 2: as they try and hold on to these seats.
30:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, look most likely. But I think there's a core
30:50
Speaker 5: issue that Minister Bowa needs to explain here. He issued
30:53
Speaker 5: licenses for the Hunter and for Southern Ocean. He blamed,
30:57
Speaker 5: of course, the Illaora cause on issuing feasibilities to the coalition,
31:03
Speaker 5: But the coalition have made a plan to scrap those
31:05
Speaker 5: other Hunter and Southern Ocean projects. So we know developers
31:09
Speaker 5: have walked away through the Iluora. We know Blue Float
31:12
Speaker 5: apparently is interested, but it doesn't add up. So again,
31:16
Speaker 5: we need the minister to come clean. We need Blue
31:19
Speaker 5: Float to come clean in terms of what's happening here
31:22
Speaker 5: and just this is a whole core issue. Where's a transparency,
31:26
Speaker 5: where's the accountability, and this is what our community has
31:30
Speaker 5: been calling for. Let's stop the political games, let's just
31:33
Speaker 5: be upfront with the community. And this is really important
31:36
Speaker 5: information going into an election because this was a core
31:40
Speaker 5: issue in the first place. The community had this project
31:44
Speaker 5: pushed on them after the last election and that's what
31:47
Speaker 5: caused a lot of divide in the community and a
31:51
Speaker 5: lot of frustration with the current Labor government.
31:55
Speaker 3: I made the point of the top of the show, Alex.
31:57
Speaker 2: You know, people in your electorates up there need to
31:59
Speaker 2: be very very careful when they go to vote. I
32:03
Speaker 2: bet you there's going to be the so called community
32:05
Speaker 2: independents who say they're against these wind farms, but if
32:08
Speaker 2: you watch the preference flows, they're just affront to channel
32:11
Speaker 2: the anger back into Labor votes so they can hold
32:14
Speaker 2: these seats. You know, it's important I think that people
32:17
Speaker 2: are alive to this.
32:19
Speaker 5: That's right. And look, you know, that's why everyone needs
32:22
Speaker 5: to understand how preferencing works. That's why we'll be communicating
32:26
Speaker 5: with all the candidates to understand what their position is
32:28
Speaker 5: on this project, how they will preference and will feed
32:31
Speaker 5: that information back to our community. It's not something we
32:34
Speaker 5: should be doing, but who else is going to do it? Peter,
32:37
Speaker 5: And that's just we understand how important this election is
32:40
Speaker 5: for energy, not just for the Aura but around the country.
32:44
Speaker 5: You know, we need to get the energy mixed right,
32:47
Speaker 5: and we cannot let certain special interest you know, fund
32:51
Speaker 5: certain parties and certain candidates from putting this country on
32:56
Speaker 5: a trajectory which is going to destroy our economy long
32:59
Speaker 5: term burden my generation, my daughter's generation with that tax
33:04
Speaker 5: burden over their lifetimes.
33:08
Speaker 2: I'll just get my team in Sitty to put that
33:10
Speaker 2: picture of the seat of Whitlam back up on the screen.
33:14
Speaker 2: Labor have installed a head office candidate. To name is
33:16
Speaker 2: Carol Berry. I want people to see her name there
33:19
Speaker 2: because they're retiring.
33:21
Speaker 3: Labor MP has departed.
33:22
Speaker 2: She is a three time endorsed Green candidate. So see
33:27
Speaker 2: that for what it is. Hey, just before we go,
33:30
Speaker 2: I mean, I offer talk to people about wind farms,
33:32
Speaker 2: but in particular offshore wind farms. Is there a community
33:37
Speaker 2: anywhere in Australia that is in favor of these because
33:40
Speaker 2: I have yet to meet one.
33:42
Speaker 8: No.
33:43
Speaker 5: Look, we're in regular contact with the number of communities
33:45
Speaker 5: around the country. And look, how could you when you've
33:49
Speaker 5: I've got a community that lives by the coast, earns
33:51
Speaker 5: a living on the coast, how could you destroy that
33:55
Speaker 5: with an experimental project. There's only twenty five flooding turbine
34:00
Speaker 5: anywhere in the world and Minister Bowen wants to put
34:03
Speaker 5: at least six hundred of them off New South Wales.
34:06
Speaker 5: It just it doesn't add up. And that's why these
34:08
Speaker 5: communities are pushing back so hard. Peter, and look, let's
34:12
Speaker 5: hope you know the developers are seeing that pushback. But
34:16
Speaker 5: we've had a number of developers pull away across the
34:18
Speaker 5: country and so it's developers pulling away, industry pulling away,
34:22
Speaker 5: large manufacturer's saying the transition's not working. So it's about
34:26
Speaker 5: time that the government starts listening to the community, industry
34:29
Speaker 5: and the developers.
34:33
Speaker 2: All strength, do you r r Alex? And I tell
34:34
Speaker 2: you what, there will be campaign skull duggery. There'll be
34:37
Speaker 2: these fake community anti wind farm independents. You're welcome back
34:42
Speaker 2: here any single time, anytime that comes up, you just
34:45
Speaker 2: tell my producers and you're back here to tell the
34:47
Speaker 2: people the truth that don't get mugged at the ballot box.
34:51
Speaker 2: Thank you to Alec Peter after break a Victorian, former
34:55
Speaker 2: Victorian detective. They'll talk to me about Melbourne's crime waivers.
34:59
Speaker 2: Things go from bad to worse. Plus another blow for Ukraine.
35:02
Speaker 2: The US is now withholding key intelligence data more than
35:06
Speaker 2: that bit later. Welcome back Donald Trump cuts off intelligent
35:13
Speaker 2: sharing with Ukraine and meet ongoing tensions. Serious concerns now
35:17
Speaker 2: that this could leave Ukraine a disadvantage on the battlefield.
35:21
Speaker 2: And what's happening with the Uranian controlled media pumping messages
35:25
Speaker 2: into Australia. The first The Herald Suns reported that the
35:29
Speaker 2: number of violent home invasions in Victoria has skyrocketed by
35:33
Speaker 2: just over one hundred percent in a decade. The latest
35:36
Speaker 2: numbers are over five thousand break ins recorded last year alone,
35:40
Speaker 2: a figure as I said that's more than double in
35:42
Speaker 2: ten years. The worst hit suburbs being Dandynong, maulven Clyde,
35:47
Speaker 2: North Brighton and Berwick. Just this week, machete wilbeing thugs
35:52
Speaker 2: were captured on camera breaking into a black Rock home
35:56
Speaker 2: and stealing cars, even a child's piggybank while the and
36:00
Speaker 2: the young children were asleep inside. Join me out to
36:03
Speaker 2: discuss what's gone so horribly wrong in this state. Former
36:07
Speaker 2: Victorian homicide detective Charlie Bazina. Charlie, thank you for your time.
36:12
Speaker 2: Let's start with the frontline police because I feel for them.
36:17
Speaker 2: You know, we've just had Shane Patt and their commissioner resign.
36:20
Speaker 2: Where told, morale is low. Even if they arrest these thugs,
36:25
Speaker 2: they go before a magistrate, they're bailed, and they're almost
36:28
Speaker 2: immediately again committing these crimes.
36:31
Speaker 12: Very much so, very demoralizing for these young frontline police officers.
36:35
Speaker 8: And they are young, and they're putting their lives.
36:37
Speaker 12: On the risking their lives every day of the shift
36:41
Speaker 12: that they work. Now, that particular one you mentioned now
36:44
Speaker 12: they were doing allegedly two hundred and forty kilometers down
36:47
Speaker 12: the freeway between the peninsula. Now you and I are
36:49
Speaker 12: going home, and they could have killed anybody in that regard.
36:52
Speaker 12: That's where we've got to stop. This government's got to
36:54
Speaker 12: turn around and start looking after the safety of the community.
36:58
Speaker 12: That's what's paramount Second about incarcerating these recivitusts, recivitist offenders.
37:06
Speaker 12: Children will call them children for that.
37:08
Speaker 2: Infe in Queensland they bought in laws, adult crime, adult time.
37:16
Speaker 3: Do you think Victoria needs something.
37:17
Speaker 8: Like that similar to that?
37:19
Speaker 12: I think where it's got to be whilst the judges
37:22
Speaker 12: and magistrates are so limited, it's mandated by the government
37:26
Speaker 12: over eleven steps a magistrate where judge has to look
37:29
Speaker 12: at a bat considering bail and ultimately the last one
37:32
Speaker 12: is a last resort, you will lock up the child. Now,
37:35
Speaker 12: what needs to be done by the government is to
37:38
Speaker 12: legislate and mandate to these magistrates and judges, okay, bail
37:41
Speaker 12: on a first account.
37:42
Speaker 8: They're entitled to bail, no problem. That is a license
37:45
Speaker 8: to get out.
37:46
Speaker 12: So once that is breeched, you commit a second offense,
37:48
Speaker 12: well then you go back in jail and then you
37:51
Speaker 12: stay and remand until your court case comes up.
37:53
Speaker 8: Now the other is you've got here is.
37:56
Speaker 12: The magistrates look at it and say, okay, he's charged
37:59
Speaker 12: with a certain offense. Now, home invasion carries twenty five
38:02
Speaker 12: years imprisonment, carjacking fifteen years imprisonment.
38:06
Speaker 8: Now they're going to get nowhere near that.
38:08
Speaker 12: No, So ultimately on what the judges look at to say, well,
38:11
Speaker 12: if I remind this particular individual, they're going to be
38:14
Speaker 12: and remard because the court backlog maybe for six or
38:16
Speaker 12: eight months or twelve months, and the sentence will be
38:19
Speaker 12: even less than that will too bad. Stay on remand
38:22
Speaker 12: you're the one who made the decision to commit these
38:25
Speaker 12: crimes and terrorize the community. I want these politicians to
38:28
Speaker 12: go and talk to these victims of crime and see
38:31
Speaker 12: the trauma not just adults, but the children are going through.
38:36
Speaker 2: The Premier says, she rereads her hands. She says the
38:39
Speaker 2: bowl laws clearly are not adequate. The changes have gone
38:42
Speaker 2: too far. She was there as the deputy Premier when
38:46
Speaker 2: all of these changes were made. She was a senior
38:48
Speaker 2: minister and she's now living through these changes. She can
38:52
Speaker 2: change them back or improve them with the stroke of
38:55
Speaker 2: the pen tomorrow. That's pretty cheap words.
38:57
Speaker 7: Isn't it?
38:58
Speaker 8: Very much?
38:58
Speaker 12: So I'm sick of the cliches. We take youth crime
39:01
Speaker 12: very seriously. You'll hear more about this in time to come.
39:05
Speaker 8: Well, we're over it.
39:06
Speaker 12: And ultimately, look at quickly they moved with banning vapes
39:10
Speaker 12: for example. Now they won't ban machetes at this stage.
39:14
Speaker 12: It's used for gardening and machine exactly. Come on, these
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Speaker 12: politicians got their hand in a head in the sand
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Speaker 12: in relation to just ban them completely or license the ones,
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Speaker 12: the ones that particularly needed in the rural areas, like
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Speaker 12: a firearm, and I think Brad Batton's pushing for that.
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Speaker 8: Go there and say I'm licensed to having machete. Here
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Speaker 8: you go.
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Speaker 12: It needs that control because these are killing machines. And
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Speaker 12: then when we get the catch and release by the police,
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Speaker 12: it's to molorizing and ultimately heartbreaking for these police officers,
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Speaker 12: if not the community.
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Speaker 2: And just on that point, what about the Greens MP
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Speaker 2: the police in their rich area of Richmond. So this
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Speaker 2: is a city for people outside of Melbourne, they were
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Speaker 2: doing patrols searching for weapons and she went out on
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Speaker 2: social media w people about the police looking for weapons.
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Speaker 3: Have a listen. She was on radio this morning.
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Speaker 13: The Greens of race concerns over a number of years
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Speaker 13: about increasing police over each racial profiling in particular and
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Speaker 13: specifically concerns about these designated zones. It is absolutely a
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Speaker 13: proven fact that there is racial profiling practices in Victoria.
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Speaker 2: Stay, well, I don't think it's racial profiling per se.
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Speaker 2: I think it's the statistics of the people we're seeing
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Speaker 2: on this vision on people's home cameras, direct.
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Speaker 3: Of who it is.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we know the young people, Yes we know they're
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Speaker 2: often part of ethnic games.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: Ultimately I'd like to see the power come in. Now
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Speaker 12: we've got designated areas. What that basically means is in
40:41
Speaker 12: a designated area, police do not have to show cause
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Speaker 12: to search someone they got reasonable grounds that there aren't
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Speaker 12: with a weapon. And now we've got to go through
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Speaker 12: the nonsense are putting in an ad in the paper
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Speaker 12: that the Spencer Street railway station is going to be
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Speaker 12: a designated area and where the case allows them to search.
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Speaker 12: There is no way known a police office is going
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Speaker 12: to targ at someone that not fits that particular area
41:03
Speaker 12: to say, well, look we've got a group of four
41:05
Speaker 12: or five young group. Well that's and they're the ones
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Speaker 12: kimmitting the crime. So what the police are going to
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Speaker 12: move away from that to say well, we're going to
41:13
Speaker 12: be targeting as being racial profile it. They are the
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Speaker 12: ones kimmitting the crime, and they are the ones will
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Speaker 12: continue to be targeting and the Greens has just lost touch.
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Speaker 2: Hey too much sense there, char I ever send any
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Speaker 2: chance you're going to get back into the uniform.
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Speaker 8: I'd love to, but I think I'm more on the
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Speaker 8: outside prodding.
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Speaker 3: The keep it up, keep it up.
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Speaker 8: Thanks up.
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Speaker 2: All Right, after the break, we're going to get into
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Speaker 2: ahold of stuff with Donald Trump, that big speech, the
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Speaker 2: possibility of Ukraine peace deal and JD vance is upset
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Speaker 2: the Brits.
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Speaker 3: What's gone on there.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to that with the International Panel coming up.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, let's bring in my international panel. Sky News
41:51
Speaker 2: contribute to Kosher Garda and of course the past chair
41:54
Speaker 2: of Parlam's Foreign, Afairs and Defense Committee, Michael Danby. Welcome
41:57
Speaker 2: to you, Bo. Let's start with you. Crame can't go
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Speaker 2: past Ukraine. It featured heavily in the President's speech yesterday. Michael,
42:05
Speaker 2: we know that the tensions are obviously still there. Not
42:07
Speaker 2: only have they stopped the military hardware, including what was
42:11
Speaker 2: on route that today the announcement no access to intelligence
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Speaker 2: and that matters because the webinary they've got requires on
42:19
Speaker 2: US intelligence to provide coordinates about where to fire, so
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Speaker 2: this basically ties their hands.
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Speaker 14: Trump may be repeating the same mistake that Biden did
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Speaker 14: with Gaza ceasefires. And I hope that JD. Vance is
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Speaker 14: not Jed Vance is not as hillbilly as Jed Clampett
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Speaker 14: because the way he treated Zelenski in the office and
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Speaker 14: the way he's referred to British and other troops as randoms.
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Speaker 14: I mean, we've fought with the Americans in every conflict
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Speaker 14: since the Battle of Hamel, and we ought not to
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Speaker 14: be described as randoms. I just hope that Trump has
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Speaker 14: the wisdom to restore the intel and the arms before
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Speaker 14: more Ukrainian heroic warriors are killed at the front or
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Speaker 14: worse overrun because of lack of EMMA.
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Speaker 2: Let's just pick up those comments you mentioned there from
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Speaker 2: the US Vice President.
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Speaker 3: Let's have listened.
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Speaker 15: If you want real security guarantees, if you want to
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Speaker 15: actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again,
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Speaker 15: the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic
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Speaker 15: upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a way
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Speaker 15: better security guarantee than twenty thousand troops from some random
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Speaker 15: country that hasn't fought a war in thirty or forty years.
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Speaker 2: Now, Hayes backtrack pretty fast cutcher. He says he wasn't
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Speaker 2: referring to Britain or France. That's not how Keys Dharma.
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Speaker 16: Season definitely not, And those two have been having a
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Speaker 16: little bit of a war of words in the Oval
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Speaker 16: office at the Munich Security Conference.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure there's something personal.
43:58
Speaker 16: They don't seem to particularly like each other on a
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Speaker 16: personal level. That's playing into this as well. Look, I
44:03
Speaker 16: think the big pictures he does have a tendency for
44:06
Speaker 16: a bit of rhetorical flourish.
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Speaker 3: The childless cat.
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Speaker 16: Lady comment is exhibit a for that, and sometimes when
44:11
Speaker 16: you do that, you overstep and do these unforced errors.
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Speaker 16: The broader point I think that he's making from the
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Speaker 16: American perspective is that an economic deal that ties our
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Speaker 16: interests us interests with Ukraine more tightly actually has a
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Speaker 16: lot of value in terms of the security compared to
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Speaker 16: maybe a small number of troops given about another country.
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Speaker 16: He didn't name the countries since he's walking it back.
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Speaker 16: The other thing to remember is he actually is a
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Speaker 16: veteran who served in a combat zone in Iraq. I'm
44:35
Speaker 16: sure alongside people from soldiers from France and Britain and
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Speaker 16: others he may have been intimating, so I find it
44:42
Speaker 16: hard to believe that he actually doesn't care or believe
44:46
Speaker 16: that they served next to the US. He just had
44:47
Speaker 16: an in artful choice of wording, and he's paying the
44:50
Speaker 16: price for it.
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Speaker 8: Let's hope.
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Speaker 14: I think that's But you know, Australia, Britain, France and
44:56
Speaker 14: even Ukraine are real countries and have real people if
45:00
Speaker 14: you demean them and denigrate them. I mean what he
45:03
Speaker 14: did to the Ukrainians, who says that he's not going
45:05
Speaker 14: to do it to us sometimes, and he may be
45:07
Speaker 14: the president after.
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Speaker 3: Trust to worry.
45:08
Speaker 2: I don't want the West broadly to get too precious
45:11
Speaker 2: about language. I think the Ukrainians can because they've got,
45:15
Speaker 2: you know, their sons lying in fields killed by the
45:19
Speaker 2: Russian war machine. I think they're allowed to get their
45:22
Speaker 2: nose out of Jointly, the rest of us should try
45:23
Speaker 2: and head towards some sort of peaceful outcome.
45:26
Speaker 3: Let's go to Iran, because what disturbed.
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Speaker 2: Me in the last couple of days was intimations that
45:31
Speaker 2: Putin's happy to work with the United States to deal
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Speaker 2: with Iran on nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 3: That in a self concerns me.
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Speaker 14: I think that's maybe the price of selling out the Ukrainians.
45:43
Speaker 14: Let's hope it's not me. I'm in favor of President
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Speaker 14: Trump dealing realistically with Putin and better still with the Uranians.
45:52
Speaker 14: And I think him putting the peace process on the
45:56
Speaker 14: table to the Uranius all good, but you have to
45:59
Speaker 14: be absolutely really stick. They chant death to America, they
46:02
Speaker 14: actually mean it, and they've got seven proxies all over
46:05
Speaker 14: the Middle East trying to destroy Israel and attack every
46:08
Speaker 14: American base and soldier that's there. We have to take
46:11
Speaker 14: these guys at face value.
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Speaker 2: They mean what they say, which then goes to the
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Speaker 2: question why on earth is Penny Wong allowing an Iranian
46:20
Speaker 2: back TV station to pump its bile into Australia. I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is the same mob that Fatima Payman was talking
46:27
Speaker 2: to when she said, you know, it runs terrific with
46:30
Speaker 2: women and women's rights. Dave Shalmas called on Penny Wong
46:33
Speaker 2: to basically enforce sanctions and shut them down. Were you
46:37
Speaker 2: surprised to hear about their existence?
46:38
Speaker 5: I was, yeah.
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Speaker 16: I think it's an example of something that a lot
46:41
Speaker 16: of people probably knew about or delved into the ownership
46:44
Speaker 16: and in general, the ownership of companies operating freely in
46:48
Speaker 16: other countries has become a thing. Whether you look at
46:50
Speaker 16: TikTok in America and the summer here, so you might
46:52
Speaker 16: see more of that pressure. There can be a slippery
46:54
Speaker 16: slope with things if you've got government actress picking.
46:57
Speaker 3: And choosing who should be dealist and who we shouldn't.
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Speaker 16: Is remindful of that in cases like this, I think
47:02
Speaker 16: absolutely there if devalating the Sanctions Act, something should be done.
47:05
Speaker 3: And the heat has certainly turned up by Pennymong.
47:07
Speaker 2: China is going to It's got a growth figure out there,
47:11
Speaker 2: but we always think they're pretty dubious.
47:13
Speaker 3: Michael. They've got a growth figure out there.
47:15
Speaker 2: But Pete Hesketh has always also made the point that
47:19
Speaker 2: the US is willing to go to war with China.
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Speaker 14: Well, let's hope it never gets to that. But the
47:24
Speaker 14: Chinese navy just circumnavigated Australia. We didn't have a p
47:28
Speaker 14: three O'Ryan go and visit them when they're in the
47:31
Speaker 14: Tasman Sea. And we ault to hope that the Americans
47:35
Speaker 14: are not going to do to Australia what they're doing
47:36
Speaker 14: to the Ukrainians and abandon us. Because basically Richard Miles
47:42
Speaker 14: and defense ministers before him haven't seen that we've got
47:44
Speaker 14: enough wear with all. As Greg Sheridan often points out,
47:47
Speaker 14: to stand by ourselves without the Americans, we have to
47:50
Speaker 14: have their aircraft carriers circumnavigating Australia counterclockwise, maybe to the
47:54
Speaker 14: Chinese Navy.
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Speaker 3: I just quickly want to bring you in.
47:57
Speaker 2: I mean I reference that growth figure because they've got
47:59
Speaker 2: a National Congress the moment they talk themselves up, but they've.
48:02
Speaker 3: Been hit with tariffs.
48:03
Speaker 2: Do you think Australia is going to get an exemption?
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Speaker 16: The clock is ticking and there isn't much time to
48:08
Speaker 16: do yes, So it doesn't seem like we're on the
48:10
Speaker 16: path to do that.
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Speaker 3: But a week as a lifetime in politics, anything's possible.
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Speaker 14: Wow, we're not on the path.
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Speaker 8: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Got to leave it there.
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Speaker 2: But of course that week could be an election campaign
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Speaker 2: period and that'll be dicey for the Prime Minister, but
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Speaker 2: a big win if he gets it, and you'll certainly
48:21
Speaker 2: tell us it's a big win.
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Speaker 3: That's for me. Have a lovely weekend ahead. I'll see
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Speaker 3: you on Monday. Here's Andrew