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Credlin | 1 October · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peedo Krandler 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: on Credline tonight. All smile today from the Prime Minister
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Speaker 2: as he's ripped his five percent deposit scheme. Problem is
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Speaker 2: the RBA says we don't have the supply as building
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Speaker 2: approvals hit a twelve month low. Worse still, PM forced
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Speaker 2: to admit that his new scheme for first home buyers
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Speaker 2: is actually going to increase the cost of a home.
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Speaker 2: As that makes sense. The Prime Minister two comes under
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Speaker 2: fire for taxpayer funded overseas trips, with critics asking what's
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Speaker 2: he even achieved. Plus, just when you thought it couldn't
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Speaker 2: get worse in Victoria, we learned there's only three hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand unsolved crimes and it isn't police ineptitude. This is
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Speaker 2: a mess from the Allen gouvernment. Police have fleeing the state.
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Speaker 2: And not all bad news tonight though, we have a
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Speaker 2: shock and all speech out of the US from the
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Speaker 2: Secretary of War Pete Hegsath and puts a nail in
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Speaker 2: the coffin of woke.
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Speaker 3: No more climate change worship, no more division distraction or
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Speaker 3: gender delusions. No more debris. As I've said before, and
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Speaker 3: we'll say again, we are done with that shit.
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Speaker 2: I got to stay with that Danaya because that speech
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Speaker 2: I've known in Washington, d C. From the US Secretary
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Speaker 2: of War, the old Defense Department Chief renamed course recently
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Speaker 2: by the President. Well, it certainly sent shockwaves through the Pentagon,
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Speaker 2: and very likely it's been ricocheting internationally. First up, hegsath
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Speaker 2: declared war and those in uniform not fit enough to
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Speaker 2: do the job of defending US freedoms.
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Speaker 3: It's tiring to look out at combat formations or really
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Speaker 3: any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable
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Speaker 3: to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of
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Speaker 3: the Pentagon. So whether you you're an airborne ranger or
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Speaker 3: a chairborn ranger, a brand new private, or a four
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Speaker 3: star general, you need to meet the heightened weight standards
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Speaker 3: and pass the PT test.
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Speaker 2: It's not often to hear that if word is it,
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Speaker 2: he actually says, fat general is not going to like that.
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Speaker 2: But it's hard not to disagree. It's hard to disagree,
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Speaker 2: I mean, and then this on combat rolls and the
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Speaker 2: whole debate about gender war.
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Speaker 3: Does not care if you're a man or a woman.
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Speaker 3: Neither does the enemy, nor does the weight of.
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Speaker 2: Your rucksack, the.
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Speaker 3: Size of an artillery round, or the body weight of
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Speaker 3: a casualty on the battlefield who must be carried this
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Speaker 3: And I want to be very clear about this. This
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Speaker 3: is not about preventing women from serving. But when it
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Speaker 3: comes to any job that requires physical power to perform
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Speaker 3: in combat, those physical standards must be high and gender neutral.
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Speaker 3: If women can make it, excellent, If not, it is
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Speaker 3: what it is. If that means no women qualify for
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Speaker 3: some combat jobs, so be it. That is not the intent,
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Speaker 3: but it could be the result, so be it. It
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Speaker 3: will also that we mean that weak men won't qualify
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Speaker 3: it because we're not playing games.
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Speaker 2: This is combat. This is lay for death. Now the
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Speaker 2: work police are going to like that when either are they?
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Speaker 2: But again hard to disagree. Indeed, it's a statement of
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Speaker 2: the bleeding obvious, and yet it was something our own
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Speaker 2: Andrew Hasty was taken the task over a few years
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Speaker 2: back when he also said that all combat roles should
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Speaker 2: be open to men and women, but that they should
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Speaker 2: only go onto the front line if they meet the
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Speaker 2: high grade.
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Speaker 4: When I think about some of the things I had
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Speaker 4: to do in a close combat unit up at beIN
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Speaker 4: done not far from here. Live fire drills where you
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Speaker 4: practice a man down very anaerobically, very aerobically intensive. You
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Speaker 4: need fine motor skills you're firing live rounds. I remember
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Speaker 4: picking up an eighty five kilo mate with my pack
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Speaker 4: and webbing and my leg's buckling. Now I did that
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Speaker 4: in training, but I work with men who did that
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Speaker 4: under fire in combat for a fallen mate. So I'm
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Speaker 4: not going to resolve from what I've said in the past.
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Speaker 2: Now, provided the fat blokes who can't do it are
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Speaker 2: also shown the door, then that's fair in my book.
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Speaker 2: And after all, you can't say you want a quality
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Speaker 2: but then object when you get it. Look a little
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Speaker 2: lad in the shad. I'll be talking with Jared Holland.
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Speaker 2: He's the head of the Page Research Center, who've just
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Speaker 2: published a paper exposing the extent to which big Wind,
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Speaker 2: big Solar are using big money to try and brainwash
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Speaker 2: us against fossil fuels and fool us into believing that
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Speaker 2: renewables are cheap and honestly that the people and the
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Speaker 2: money involved are interesting to say the least. Take business
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Speaker 2: for seventy five. This is a lobby group pushing for
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Speaker 2: a seventy five percent emissions reduction target by twenty thirty five.
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Speaker 2: It's run by Simon Shaik, the former frontman for Get
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Speaker 2: Up and a former Green's Senate candidate. It's big backers
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Speaker 2: of Fortescue and at Lassion, whose billionaire founders have a
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Speaker 2: massive stake in renewable power. Then there's a so called
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Speaker 2: Smart Energy Council. We talked about them a lot in
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Speaker 2: the campaign. They boast one thousand plus members, nearly all
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Speaker 2: of them renewable power businesses that produce the discredited research
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Speaker 2: that torpedo the coalition's nuclear policy in the election. In addition,
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Speaker 2: the Page Center research has highlighted the sustained campaigns to
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Speaker 2: demonize fossil fuels via disruptive protests, via confected legal challenges,
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Speaker 2: via intimidating investors, and by pretending that all of this,
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Speaker 2: rather than being orchestrated by vested interests, is somehow genuine,
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Speaker 2: spontaneous and community driven anger. Page Analysis reports that in
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Speaker 2: the twenty three twenty four financial year alone, so one
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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy million dollars was spent by NGOs dedicated
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Speaker 2: to demonizing fossil fuels, and much of this money is
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Speaker 2: coming from overseas, from funds set up by leftist billionaires
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Speaker 2: and millionaires. By studying the public records here and abroad,
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Speaker 2: Page has found foreign donations totally one hundred and eight
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Speaker 2: million over the past decade, including reportedly, they say, a
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Speaker 2: massive twenty million dollar US donation to the Sunrise Project
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. Now, Sunrise, It's worth a closer look.
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Speaker 2: Established of a US model. It exists to drive radical
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Speaker 2: action on climate change. It's got some fifty staff based
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Speaker 2: in its headquarters in Sydney. According to its own annual report,
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Speaker 2: it's got seventy five million dollars in total revenue. Now,
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Speaker 2: are we being manipulated here? This is not about saving
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Speaker 2: the environment. If it was, we would not be spending
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Speaker 2: over a trillion dollars to desecrate our national parks and oceans,
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Speaker 2: which we are doing accubulatively.
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Speaker 5: We're clearing hundreds of thousands of hectares of remnant forests
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Speaker 5: in the name of green energy, and it's completely ludicrous,
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Speaker 5: it's crazy. This is a one trillion dollar ball of
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Speaker 5: infrastructure carpet. Boeing Australia This.
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Speaker 2: Has always been about financing left wing activism and they're
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Speaker 2: using the genuine live we all have for the natural
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Speaker 2: environment to make it happen. Right, let's got a camp
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Speaker 2: it now of the headlines scanning his political reporter Rubert.
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Speaker 6: Spargo, the Prime Minister is voicing concern over reports to
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Speaker 6: has halted iron ore purchases from BHP. The freeze appears
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Speaker 6: to be linked to ongoing contract negotiations between Australia's largest
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Speaker 6: miner and Beijing.
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Speaker 7: We have seen those issues in the past.
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Speaker 6: The reports are creating uncertainty for shareholders of the mining giant.
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Speaker 6: Australia's climate chief is warning a road user charge could
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Speaker 6: deter motorists from switching to electric vehicles. The government's new
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Speaker 6: twenty thirty five emissions target relies on advice that half
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Speaker 6: of all light vehicles sold in the next decade could
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Speaker 6: be electric.
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Speaker 8: When there are more evs on the roads, obviously they
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Speaker 8: should pay their fair share as well.
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Speaker 6: The Treasurer has signaled there's no rush on an EV
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Speaker 6: road user charge. The new South Wales Premiere is warning
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Speaker 6: states need revenue to fix roads. Labour's five percent deposit
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Speaker 6: scheme is being scrutinized. As the policy takes effect, Critics
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Speaker 6: fear the plan will push housing prices even higher.
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Speaker 7: It will have a minimal impact. There will be a
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Speaker 7: slide increase in prices.
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Speaker 6: The opposition is also attacking the removal of income caps.
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Speaker 2: All right, auld, now we're going to get into that
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Speaker 2: big housing announcement from Labor today and more as skyn
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Speaker 2: you senior reporter carr on the Marcus and the IBA's
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Speaker 2: deputy executive director Dan wild Well Caroline all smiles today
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Speaker 2: for the Prime Minister actually back in the country for
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Speaker 2: a change alongside Clara Oneil, the Housing Minister very staged
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Speaker 2: events for the media in the camera's there spreaking the
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Speaker 2: five percent deposit scheme for first home buyers. But even
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Speaker 2: the PM forced to concede that don't mean this scheme
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Speaker 2: up to anyone, regardless of their income, is going to
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Speaker 2: see those house prices increase. Here he is again, it.
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Speaker 7: Will have a minimal impact. There will be a slight
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Speaker 7: increase in prices, but already one hundred and eighty five
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Speaker 7: thousand Australians have benefited from this scheme with minimal impact
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Speaker 7: on prices. Treasury did modeling. They suggest a very small increase.
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Speaker 2: Right, increasing prices is the lasting home buyers need at
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Speaker 2: the moment. But I've got another concern, and that's about
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Speaker 2: the debt burden the taxpayers are going to cover here.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be on the hook to guarantee a
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Speaker 2: portion of these loans. And you know, I remember the GFC,
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Speaker 2: I remember the subprime crisis. That's a worry too.
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Speaker 9: Well, someone has to pay for it, ride Peter. So
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Speaker 9: if a home buyer, a cash trapped home buyer, who
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Speaker 9: takes up one of these five percent deposit schemes, and
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Speaker 9: it's even lower, by the way, it's two percent, that's
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Speaker 9: all you have to put up if you're a single
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Speaker 9: parent and you're eligible for the scheme. So if they
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Speaker 9: take up this offer, but then they find they can't
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Speaker 9: make their repayments, then who is going to stump up
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Speaker 9: for the mortgage lender. In the past, you'd have to
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Speaker 9: fork out for expensive mortgage lender insurance if you didn't
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Speaker 9: have a family that could guarantee you. In this case,
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Speaker 9: it's going to be Housing Australia, which in other words,
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Speaker 9: is us, the taxpayers. So if you know the interest
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Speaker 9: rates continue to go up or stay the same in
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Speaker 9: these people's circumstances change. Whatever happens, and for what happens
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Speaker 9: to many Australians, they can't make their repayments. It's us
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Speaker 9: that is going to be paying for it. So ultimately
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Speaker 9: it could be a huge problem.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, particularly because these first term buyers are often the
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Speaker 2: biggest risk entrance into the housing market. But it's not
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Speaker 2: just priced Dan big issue, of course is supply. We
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Speaker 2: had those comments yesterday from the RBA governor. She was
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Speaker 2: pouring cold water over any idea that Labour's going to
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Speaker 2: build one point two million new homes.
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Speaker 10: Have Listen, the problem in the housing market is a
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Speaker 10: structural deficit of supply. That is the problem, and governments
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Speaker 10: now get that and you are seeing some action on that,
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Speaker 10: but it's going to be slow to work each way through.
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Speaker 2: Now you and I know she's got the best research
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Speaker 2: at a fingertip. She's not brought off by the Treasury spin.
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Speaker 2: That's her view and it's also backed up today by
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Speaker 2: the Master Builders Association. They're saying that building approvals have
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Speaker 2: hit a twelve month low for townhouses and apartments. That's
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Speaker 2: even dropped and whapping eleven percent in August. So you
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Speaker 2: know this is a government. It's all had no cowboy dan,
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Speaker 2: you know, really big on the announcement, but just not
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Speaker 2: enough happening in terms of tangible outcomes.
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Speaker 1: Well that's exactly right. I mean, we've been tracking the
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Speaker 1: National Housing Accord since it kicked off in July of
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Speaker 1: last year and it has failed. It is a complete
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Speaker 1: and total public policy failure. It is already sixty two
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Speaker 1: thousand houses behind where it is supposed to be, which
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Speaker 1: is about twenty percent off target. It is never going
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Speaker 1: to meet the target that they've said of one point
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Speaker 1: two million homes. And you've got the supply proper, but
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Speaker 1: you've also got a demand problem. We've got this mass
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Speaker 1: migration program that is cranking up demand into the housing
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Speaker 1: market at the exact time as we can't get enough
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Speaker 1: supply onto the market. Now. Of course, the problem here
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Speaker 1: is not with the migrants themselves, because Australia is the
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Speaker 1: greatest nation on earth, and of course you'd want to
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Speaker 1: come here. But the problem is the government has had
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Speaker 1: a complete and total lack of planning and a total
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Speaker 1: failure to have the infrastructure in place before we have
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Speaker 1: this massive population surge. And exactly as you were discussing
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Speaker 1: before the home buyer deposit scheme is also going to
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Speaker 1: throw fuel on the fire, increasing demand at a time
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Speaker 1: where we don't have supply. Everybody knows what's that going
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Speaker 1: to do into prices. It's going to go up and
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Speaker 1: up and up.
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Speaker 2: And Dan just to comment too, if you can on
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Speaker 2: a BHP talk that they're iron or cargoes from the
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Speaker 2: pilbrinto China have been blocked. I mean, we just had
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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister there for a six day visit in Beijing.
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Speaker 2: He's best mates with g I know we went up
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Speaker 2: Scott Morrison for trade and delays and other issues out
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Speaker 2: of COVID, but I mean this is hypocrisy written large.
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Speaker 2: If Albanese now is doing nothing more than say, you know,
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Speaker 2: he'll raise it with the.
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Speaker 1: Chinese, well exactly right. I'm worried that Australia is becoming
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Speaker 1: essentially a vessel state to the Chinese Communist Party. We've
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Speaker 1: got a very meek leader and Anthony Alberzi who's been
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Speaker 1: kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party. And I think what
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Speaker 1: this further demonstrates is that our economic dependency on China
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Speaker 1: is now too substantial. China is able to use that
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Speaker 1: for political leverage. And yes, of course we can and
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Speaker 1: should have a trading and commercial relationship with China, but
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Speaker 1: that cannot come at the expense of our strategic comparatives.
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Speaker 1: And look, the reality is that our values and our
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Speaker 1: long term strategic interest are not aligned with the Chinese
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Speaker 1: Communist Party. So I expect that we're going to see
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Speaker 1: a lot more of this sort of leverage being deployed
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Speaker 1: for China to try and get a political outcut. And
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Speaker 1: I just don't think Anthony habit eas he's up to
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Speaker 1: the job.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's go back, Caroline to that speech last night
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Speaker 2: to buy pete hegsath to the military brass that the
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Speaker 2: fat ones as well at Quantico, because you certainly didn't miss.
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Speaker 3: No more identity months DEI officers, dudes in dresses. An
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Speaker 3: entire generation of generals and admirals were told that they
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Speaker 3: must parrot the insane fallacy that quote our diversity is
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Speaker 3: our strength. The words I'm speaking today are making your
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Speaker 3: heart sink. Then you should do the honorable thing and resign.
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Speaker 2: Now, it's really important to underscore this point. Is not
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Speaker 2: saying that women are barred from combat roles. Absolutely, he says,
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Speaker 2: knock yourself out, You know audition for promotion, but you
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Speaker 2: must meet the same physical standards as everyone else in
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Speaker 2: the field for that test. And he's also saying if
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Speaker 2: you're an out of shaped man, if you're not strong
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Speaker 2: enough to have a combat role, you won't get one either.
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Speaker 2: And I have to say, these jobs are life and
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Speaker 2: death roles. I back him in one hundred percent.
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Speaker 9: And isn't it refreshing? When was the last time you
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Speaker 9: heard the word fat on television? I mean, he is.
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Speaker 9: I'm surprised as we called out for body shaving people
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Speaker 9: and not calling them weight challenged generals. No, it is
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Speaker 9: really refreshing, and it's common sense as well. Women who've
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Speaker 9: been fighting for equality for generations. We should be wanting
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Speaker 9: to be held to the same standard and not have
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Speaker 9: lower standards when it comes to this thing. It's not
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Speaker 9: only life and death rolls, these close combat frontline positions,
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Speaker 9: but it's about keeping your country safe and fighting for
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Speaker 9: your country national security. Really, we need the best of
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Speaker 9: the best, and that if that means a woman can
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Speaker 9: pass the fitness test, then more power to her. Good
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Speaker 9: for her, but they need to be able to be
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Speaker 9: held to the same standard as the men who are
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Speaker 9: sitting for those tests well. I also note that Trump
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Speaker 9: addressed the crowd too. He said that it's going to
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Speaker 9: be a question of merit and not political correctness when
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Speaker 9: they're making appointments and promotions. That's welcome news as well.
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Speaker 9: And maybe people with beards should also take offense at this, Peter,
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Speaker 9: because there's going to be new grooming standards as well
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Speaker 9: for the military, and Pete Hesit says he doesn't want
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Speaker 9: any more beardos among his generals and his troops, so
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Speaker 9: maybe they should be as equally offended as any people
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Speaker 9: sticking up for any women who might feel slighted by this.
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Speaker 2: I know, I love it. I love it. I love it.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to that story today that David Chris A.
17:43
Speaker 2: Fooley has given a golden handshake. I'm assuming it was
17:46
Speaker 2: because of the contract he had to a bloke called
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Speaker 2: Mike Kaiser, who was under the former Labor administration in Queensland.
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Speaker 2: One of the senior bureaucrats up there, so within the
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Speaker 2: public service only, is one of the biggest ale political
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Speaker 2: operators we've got in the country. He's been a campaign
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Speaker 2: chief for Labor, has been on the inside of the
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Speaker 2: political machine. Well, he gets a four hundred thousand dollars
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Speaker 2: payout by the Queensland taxpayer and then almost immediately pockets
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Speaker 2: that money. He gets picked up by Albow and made
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Speaker 2: the bureaucrat in chief of a climate change department. Now,
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Speaker 2: help me unscramble this, because Dan Wilde, you know that
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Speaker 2: the political staffer and the public servant don't usually trade
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Speaker 2: jobs like this bloke has for much of his career.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's right, but sadly that is off of the
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Speaker 1: case these days. And I think, you know, the era
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Speaker 1: of having an independent, impartial public service is sourly relatively
18:47
Speaker 1: behind us. And you know this from your time in
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Speaker 1: politics and in and around government. You know, labor does
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Speaker 1: a very good job of getting their guys in there.
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Speaker 1: That's what they do. When you know everywhere you turn,
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Speaker 1: your tripping over former labor staffers who are in positions
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Speaker 1: of authority the public service. Now, I'm sure that there
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Speaker 1: are some you know, who still do the right thing,
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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, maybe this is
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Speaker 1: the only way you can get rid of these people,
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Speaker 1: because I think if you're a new government coming in,
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Speaker 1: you've got every right to have the people in the
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Speaker 1: positions that you think are going to be needed. To
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Speaker 1: carry out your government's agenda. In Queensland, labor is there
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Speaker 1: for ten years, so you'd assume that there'd be a
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Speaker 1: lot of labor appointees and labor operatives in and around
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Speaker 1: the government. But you know, certainly, I think that this
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Speaker 1: is just further evidence that, sadly, you know, you cannot
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Speaker 1: trust the public service to be independent and impartial. Many
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Speaker 1: of them are political operators.
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Speaker 6: And yeah, just.
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Speaker 2: Remember look, I agree that they should be able to
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Speaker 2: hire and fire and put their people in all people
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Speaker 2: that they trust that are not going to be advocates
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Speaker 2: to the other side into these senior public servants jobs.
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Speaker 2: But I really object to a hardcore political operative like
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Speaker 2: that being appointed into a position like the Climate Change Department.
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Speaker 2: You know, I have no confidence now in anything that's
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Speaker 2: going to come matter that department. It's a nine hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand job. It should be to a senior public servant
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Speaker 2: who is there to do the public's bidding, not the
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Speaker 2: ALP's work.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I certainly share that view, and I think this does,
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Speaker 1: as you say, further aroad the trust in the public
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Speaker 1: service unfortunately, and there are many people there that do
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Speaker 1: the right thing, but you know, I think that to me.
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Speaker 1: This also shows that Labour really plays hard ball. You know,
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Speaker 1: when they get into government, they don't muck around. They
20:29
Speaker 1: get their people into positions they want in order to
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Speaker 1: execute an agenda. And I just think that's the reality
20:35
Speaker 1: of modern politics now, and I think the Coalition needs
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Speaker 1: to be taking notes. Don't let these people hang around
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Speaker 1: when you get into government, because you've only got one
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Speaker 1: shot to get the job done, and you've got to
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Speaker 1: make sure you've got your people in the top job.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sadly, I think they're dragging politics down and then
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Speaker 2: the Libers are going to match them on, you know,
20:52
Speaker 2: how bastardized the whole thing's become. I'll leave it there,
20:54
Speaker 2: thank you both. Let's go to Greg Sheridan now because
20:57
Speaker 2: the PM's back in the country. You saw that today
20:59
Speaker 2: from the how announcement, but only for a short time.
21:04
Speaker 2: He's knocked over Vanawatu pegan G in New York, the
21:08
Speaker 2: UK and Abu Dhaby. That's all since pretty much the
21:12
Speaker 2: election campaign. He'll surely head off again. He'll go back
21:15
Speaker 2: to the United States for the Oval Office showdown with
21:17
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, and then he'll head off to Malaysia, South Korea, Japan,
21:22
Speaker 2: South Africa, and likely the big Climate Conference COP thirty
21:27
Speaker 2: in South America before he shunts off to Christmas for
21:30
Speaker 2: his Christmas holiday break. Plenty of pickfacts and handshakes, sure,
21:34
Speaker 2: but what about the tangible outcomes. I pay on results,
21:38
Speaker 2: and I haven't seen much happen so far. Let's bring
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Speaker 2: in Greg for an editor of course at The Australian.
21:43
Speaker 2: Greg Sheridan. Well, you know there's a real danger in politics,
21:48
Speaker 2: I think, particularly modern politics, Greg, that there we mistake
21:54
Speaker 2: activity for action. Right. We fall into this trap because
21:57
Speaker 2: politicians get busy and they get a in to looking
22:00
Speaker 2: him busy, they're not focusing on outcomes, and they're certainly
22:05
Speaker 2: not focusing on policy implementation. You put a generous lens
22:10
Speaker 2: on what has he actually achieved out of this recent
22:15
Speaker 2: eleven day trip.
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Speaker 11: Well, Peter, great to be with you. I mean, if
22:21
Speaker 11: you add the Banoartu and Papua New Guinea trip which
22:25
Speaker 11: he came home from from for a day, it's actually
22:29
Speaker 11: kind of really a two week trip and or a
22:33
Speaker 11: bit longer. And it's I wrote this week in The
22:35
Speaker 11: Australian that it is one of the longest ever Prime
22:38
Speaker 11: ministerial trips of the modern era, and surely the most useless.
22:42
Speaker 11: So we had a tremendous failure with Papua New Guinea
22:45
Speaker 11: and Banuartu. I mean, if Scott Morrison had had a
22:48
Speaker 11: failure like that, or Toney Abbott, you know, we'd never
22:51
Speaker 11: hear the end of it. But then in New York
22:54
Speaker 11: he didn't do anything at all that was in Australia's
22:58
Speaker 11: national interest. He didn't do wicked things, but it was
23:01
Speaker 11: there's a sort of Chauncey Gardener quality to Alba these days.
23:04
Speaker 11: He's just there, but nothing actually happens. So he didn't
23:09
Speaker 11: get to see Donald Trump again. Well now allegedly we're
23:13
Speaker 11: having a meeting on October twenty. Well that's one full
23:15
Speaker 11: year after Trump's election. So Trump was elected and in
23:19
Speaker 11: four years time someone else will be elected. One year
23:22
Speaker 11: of that four years is gone and our Prime minister
23:25
Speaker 11: hasn't had a meeting with the president, so he hasn't
23:28
Speaker 11: contributed anything to the relationship at all. Then he did
23:32
Speaker 11: a whole lot of posturing on Palestine and climate change,
23:36
Speaker 11: none of which moved the needle a spec You know,
23:39
Speaker 11: his officials were briefing journalists that he was exercising leadership,
23:44
Speaker 11: but there were fewer people in the room listening to
23:47
Speaker 11: him at the UN than there were listening to Benjaminett Yahoo,
23:51
Speaker 11: and he was being boycotted. None of the other even
23:54
Speaker 11: the center left governments, fell in behind Australia's absurdly ambitious
23:59
Speaker 11: climate target. The recognition of Palestine was wildly counterproductive because
24:05
Speaker 11: it almost got Israel to annex part of the West
24:09
Speaker 11: Bank in response. And then he went to London for
24:12
Speaker 11: this unbelievably self indulgent, cliche ridden party political speech to
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Speaker 11: the British Labor Party conference. Now, Prime ministers, you probably
24:21
Speaker 11: know this. They enjoy international travel because at home you're
24:25
Speaker 11: the bloke who hasn't solved the problems overseas. You're a
24:28
Speaker 11: great statesman, and you know you've got a big budget
24:30
Speaker 11: and a military and everything, and people want to.
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Speaker 7: Talk to you.
24:33
Speaker 11: But this is, I mean, this now is an aimless government.
24:38
Speaker 11: It's essentially an aimless government. And this sort of foreign
24:42
Speaker 11: holidays stuff, which has nothing, no deliverable outcome for Australia
24:47
Speaker 11: is just a sign of its kind of drift.
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Speaker 2: So let's move from there into this announcement from the
24:57
Speaker 2: White House. The US President alongside Nahu, and we are
25:02
Speaker 2: told a lot of the Arab leaders in concert to
25:06
Speaker 2: resolve the crisis in Gaza. Bring it into the war.
25:11
Speaker 2: Get the bodies and the hostages, God help us if
25:15
Speaker 2: some are alive home. How irrelevant, how impotent does the
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Speaker 2: United Nations look, given that all the leaders of the
25:23
Speaker 2: world were there at Aunger, you know, the week before,
25:27
Speaker 2: and they postured around the place on Palestine, and there
25:30
Speaker 2: were handwringing, and there was that ridiculous theater of them
25:33
Speaker 2: storming out when Netnia who got to his speech. But
25:38
Speaker 2: then outside the world body, you get a solution like
25:42
Speaker 2: this put on the table that shows that small and
25:45
Speaker 2: multilateralism works in a way that the UN doesn't anymore.
25:51
Speaker 11: Yeah, So that's right, Peter. Mind you, the United Nations
25:53
Speaker 11: has always been like this, and the League of Nations
25:55
Speaker 11: was like it beforehand. The central contradiction of these bodies
25:59
Speaker 11: is that they can't do anything which the great powers
26:03
Speaker 11: don't approve of. That's both their strength and their weakness.
26:06
Speaker 11: If they could do things which the great powers didn't
26:09
Speaker 11: approve of, the great powers would leave and the bodies
26:11
Speaker 11: would have no relevance at all. But the great power
26:14
Speaker 11: veto means that all the action is with the great powers.
26:17
Speaker 11: So the United Nations General Assembly, which is dominated by dictatorships. Again,
26:21
Speaker 11: albanez Is bizarre speech to the United Nations. He said,
26:25
Speaker 11: this is a forum dominated by small and medium powers,
26:27
Speaker 11: and it stands up to dictatorships. Well, no, it's not
26:30
Speaker 11: dominated by the big powers, and it doesn't stand up
26:33
Speaker 11: to dictatorships. It mainly functions as a forum for dictatorships.
26:38
Speaker 11: You know, you get Syria on the Human Rights Counsel
26:41
Speaker 11: and China on the Women's Rights Committee and so forth.
26:46
Speaker 11: But the bottom line is nothing good really happens in
26:50
Speaker 11: the world without the exercise of American power. Donald Trump's
26:54
Speaker 11: deal here is very promising. A lot of reasons why
26:57
Speaker 11: it might not work, and indeed it probably won't, but
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Speaker 11: it is the most constructive thing to happen for two
27:05
Speaker 11: years in the Palestine context. Terrific deal for the Palestinians
27:09
Speaker 11: because it involves the Americans in the economic future of
27:13
Speaker 11: the Gaza strip, which is absolutely fantastic. But is a
27:18
Speaker 11: Palestinian leadership smart enough to take the deal ken hamas
27:23
Speaker 11: be forced to take the deal, We don't know. But
27:26
Speaker 11: when America exerts itself, stuff happens, and this is a
27:30
Speaker 11: very good lesson of that.
27:35
Speaker 2: A good lesson for our prime minister. Why needs to
27:37
Speaker 2: make friends and enemies of Donald Trump as well. I'll
27:40
Speaker 2: leave it there, thanks Greg. After the break coming out
27:43
Speaker 2: a shocking number of unsold crimes in Victoria three hundred thousand.
27:48
Speaker 2: We'll get into that with Charlie Perscina, the former police
27:51
Speaker 2: detective of course, and backlash continues after the revelations of
27:55
Speaker 2: biological men in women's prisons in Victoria. Welcome back. The
28:04
Speaker 2: fight over EV heats up today. McKean, the new South
28:08
Speaker 2: Wales Premier is sorry. McKean is at odds with the
28:11
Speaker 2: new South Wales Premier at chris Min's who wants the
28:14
Speaker 2: potholes fixed and he wants every driver to fund at
28:16
Speaker 2: mckin though doesn't want to see the e if he
28:19
Speaker 2: uses pay just yet. The first news today that thousands
28:23
Speaker 2: of Victorian victims of prime are being denied justice as
28:27
Speaker 2: the number of unsolved crimes in the States soars to
28:30
Speaker 2: nearly three hundred thousand in just one year. Now that's
28:35
Speaker 2: the highest number ever on record. The latest data has
28:39
Speaker 2: revealed that almost half of all reported crimes over the
28:42
Speaker 2: past twelve months are unsolved. You know, talk us through
28:45
Speaker 2: the problem, but hopefully some solutions. To former Victorian homicide
28:49
Speaker 2: detective Charlie Persina, we were just talking. I'll tell my
28:53
Speaker 2: people at home off camera to say, Victoria feels broken
28:57
Speaker 2: and Charlie, people are not even angry anymore. They're despondent.
29:02
Speaker 2: People are offered in tears with Bee. They're all talking
29:05
Speaker 2: about leaving the state. They've even lost confidence that if
29:08
Speaker 2: there was a change of government. Is it so far
29:11
Speaker 2: gone in terms of this crime crisis, like places like Johannesburg.
29:16
Speaker 2: Could a good police chief and a good police minister
29:19
Speaker 2: and a brand new premier, could they even turn this around?
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Speaker 12: Not in a short term, because it's too far gone.
29:26
Speaker 12: And this has been a quarter of a century in
29:28
Speaker 12: the making, since two thousands. I can tell you when
29:30
Speaker 12: the Chief Commissioner then said we don't have gangs, they
29:33
Speaker 12: took the eye off the ball, and it's gone stronger
29:36
Speaker 12: and stronger and stronger, no consequences. And look where we
29:39
Speaker 12: are today. We didn't have a carjackings, home invasions. It's
29:42
Speaker 12: got more violent and we've become they've got younger exactly
29:45
Speaker 12: because consequences. Again, we've become prisoners in our own state.
29:48
Speaker 12: Talking about COVID being locked up. We aren't locked up
29:51
Speaker 12: at home. I've got my steering lock. I'll put that
29:54
Speaker 12: on the cart. I've just put a disconnected the power
29:57
Speaker 12: to roller door. We are being bunked into your own
29:59
Speaker 12: hand because you know what, the system's letting us down, driven.
30:02
Speaker 13: By the government.
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Speaker 2: There's some comments to be made by someone else also
30:07
Speaker 2: connected with the whole crime backstory on threea W. John Sylvester,
30:13
Speaker 2: have a listen.
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Speaker 14: The new Chief Commissioner, Mike Bush, is coming out in
30:17
Speaker 14: a few weeks time, and he said, our ambitious plan
30:20
Speaker 14: is to cut the crime rate by five percent. Now
30:23
Speaker 14: to do that, clearly, it's going to be more patrols,
30:27
Speaker 14: more visible police presence in the hope that that will
30:29
Speaker 14: deter people from doing the crime. Well, that's going to
30:33
Speaker 14: be difficult because in the last month we've lost a
30:35
Speaker 14: hundred police who've retitle resigned. That's two thousand years experience
30:41
Speaker 14: that have gone. And when you're trying to drag people
30:44
Speaker 14: out of nine to five jobs and say you're going
30:47
Speaker 14: to go back on the van, some of them will
30:50
Speaker 14: also say no, that's not.
30:51
Speaker 8: For me and quit.
30:57
Speaker 2: Not just that we've lost one hundred recently, but we're
30:59
Speaker 2: down to thousand frontline offices in Victoria, and we know
31:03
Speaker 2: there's a big drive out of Queensland to recruit our police, saying,
31:07
Speaker 2: come up, you know, join the police force in Queensland.
31:10
Speaker 2: We are tough on crime bracket. Your premiers not and
31:14
Speaker 2: they exodus right. A lot have gone to Queensland. Is
31:18
Speaker 2: that part of the problem too. Frontline police have lost faith.
31:21
Speaker 2: They locked the person up, it's just cycled out. I
31:24
Speaker 2: get on the street the next day.
31:25
Speaker 12: They're just treading water. It's all the frontline police and
31:28
Speaker 12: you do get despondent all they worked there to do,
31:30
Speaker 12: and that then fuels the unsolved cases in relation to it.
31:33
Speaker 12: It's like America. I remember in New York many years ago,
31:36
Speaker 12: and that was turned around by Juliano saying, if they
31:39
Speaker 12: can't solve a job in twenty four hours, bank, next job,
31:41
Speaker 12: next job. Now where we are at the moment, the
31:44
Speaker 12: whole system is loading up. The frontline police. They've only
31:46
Speaker 12: got so much time that they can attend, and they's
31:49
Speaker 12: prioritized family of violence takes up six or seven hours
31:52
Speaker 12: of a shift, so forth and so on. The incumbanence
31:55
Speaker 12: upon doing paperwork. Even though Bush has said is going
31:58
Speaker 12: to try and streamline that with a new computer system
32:01
Speaker 12: to be able to solve a big call. Said he's
32:04
Speaker 12: going to reduce crime by five percent. He hasn't got
32:06
Speaker 12: the tools. It's top heavy at the wrong end. And
32:08
Speaker 12: I can tell you this. Two and a half thousand,
32:11
Speaker 12: two and a half thousand people in corporate at Spinster Street,
32:15
Speaker 12: sworn officers doing work there. Now that's top heavy there.
32:19
Speaker 12: They should be loaded up. Take the sworn officers, I
32:21
Speaker 12: know what John said about well they will then leave. Well,
32:24
Speaker 12: too bad, you're a sworn officer.
32:26
Speaker 2: Part of the.
32:27
Speaker 12: Solution is you and our partake your pick dand in
32:30
Speaker 12: on broad matter, Sunshine, wherever you want to go. You
32:33
Speaker 12: need to do that, give the frontline respite and then
32:37
Speaker 12: top heavy them up and say okay, now the unsworns
32:39
Speaker 12: will then get them loaded up and don't load up
32:42
Speaker 12: the frontline police. Support him as best you can, but
32:45
Speaker 12: I think Bush has certainly got his hands full and
32:48
Speaker 12: racing to try and turn things around.
32:50
Speaker 2: How they use unsworn people to do the grunt of
32:53
Speaker 2: the paperwork. Sworn officer then comes in, reads the report
32:57
Speaker 2: of the theft. He might have been yesterday on the
32:58
Speaker 2: home invasion direct signs that office accurate and then gets
33:01
Speaker 2: back out on the road.
33:02
Speaker 12: That is absolutely prime because they're doing running shots, the
33:07
Speaker 12: detectives do diaries, whatever the case may be. The police
33:10
Speaker 12: have today become statisticians.
33:12
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I've seen it first hand when I've interacted with
33:15
Speaker 2: the police. They've come and looked at a theft, or
33:17
Speaker 2: they've visited my purposes where I live and dealt with
33:21
Speaker 2: an issue. But they're so loaded down in paperwork, you know,
33:24
Speaker 2: it's very harden to get them on the phone to
33:26
Speaker 2: come back just quickly. I've got to ask you. We've
33:28
Speaker 2: got a biological male convicted of a sex offense against
33:32
Speaker 2: his daughter. He is a pedophile. The little girl is
33:35
Speaker 2: five years of age. She was sexually abused. He is
33:39
Speaker 2: in a women's prison in Victoria. Do you think women
33:43
Speaker 2: in that prison are safe?
33:45
Speaker 12: Look with this particular case, and I understand he's been
33:48
Speaker 12: psychologically assessed in that type of thing. Look, I think
33:53
Speaker 12: they are safe because you've got the likes to say
33:55
Speaker 12: Aaron Patterson for example. Now she's been put in isolation
33:58
Speaker 12: for her own safety. They're assessing it now. The prison authorities,
34:02
Speaker 12: they've got a duty of care to look after their prisoners.
34:05
Speaker 12: What do you do you've got this particular person who's
34:09
Speaker 12: saying I'm now female, And then I think there's others
34:12
Speaker 12: in the system.
34:13
Speaker 2: There's known to be seven. We don't know if there're
34:15
Speaker 2: seven currently, but given what we know usually happens to
34:19
Speaker 2: pedophiles when they're in a male prison, there's a bit
34:21
Speaker 2: of rough justice, particularly if they've abused children. Surely you
34:27
Speaker 2: know a lot of pedophiles are going to take this
34:29
Speaker 2: course of action in Victoria. You can say you're a woman,
34:31
Speaker 2: the next day you are a woman. As far as
34:34
Speaker 2: just Center Allen's concerned, why wouldn't they say that as
34:36
Speaker 2: a matter of course to get into a women's.
34:38
Speaker 12: Prison, Well they can, and then they've got to start.
34:41
Speaker 12: I think this has come upon them, but they haven't
34:42
Speaker 12: got a policy in place our pedophiles police press or
34:46
Speaker 12: gets set up to our rat that's a protective prison there.
34:49
Speaker 12: Maybe we should be looking something like that to say,
34:51
Speaker 12: you know what a particular agenda that he claim you are,
34:57
Speaker 12: but you're a biological male. How is that fair to
34:59
Speaker 12: the women in relation to it? And I know there's
35:01
Speaker 12: a lot being said with more redeeming and the likes
35:03
Speaker 12: and the group that she's involved in, and I don't
35:05
Speaker 12: disagree with them, because you would be uncomfortable in relation
35:09
Speaker 12: to it. But I think they are safe. But they
35:10
Speaker 12: are assessed quite significantly by the courts.
35:13
Speaker 2: And just quickly that sentenced two and a half years that.
35:16
Speaker 2: What do you make of that?
35:17
Speaker 12: Well, I think it's it's week, especially when here you
35:19
Speaker 12: have an individual that's abused his five year old daughter.
35:23
Speaker 12: We've got to start turning things around. You look at
35:25
Speaker 12: the figures of how our crimes increased. And I put
35:28
Speaker 12: an example last week. I said, next that day at
35:32
Speaker 12: the Grand Final, go and stand in the middle of
35:34
Speaker 12: the MCG and look around. One hundred plus thousand. Everyone
35:37
Speaker 12: is a victim of crime. You've got to start humanizing
35:40
Speaker 12: They're not just figures because there's a flow on effect
35:43
Speaker 12: from their mental anguish, the economy, insurance, the hospitals and
35:48
Speaker 12: flows on. So it's a bigger thing than just having
35:50
Speaker 12: crime and the discussing other issue. This government come out
35:55
Speaker 12: and they say we've given the police resources they need.
35:58
Speaker 12: We've got more police on the beat than any other say,
36:01
Speaker 12: absolute nonsense.
36:03
Speaker 2: Try it.
36:03
Speaker 12: Don't treat us like we're idiots. We know seventeen thousand
36:07
Speaker 12: sworn police officers in them in New South Wales. We've
36:11
Speaker 12: got sixteen thousand. What are they smoking in Spring Street?
36:16
Speaker 13: Yeah?
36:16
Speaker 2: I know, I can feel your frustration. I can feel
36:19
Speaker 2: your frustration, Charlie that.
36:20
Speaker 12: You go whole community, not just community.
36:22
Speaker 2: Field feels it very much. Thank you all right, quick
36:24
Speaker 2: breakout the break mins and in matt Ken longerheads over
36:28
Speaker 2: evs and more plus another refinery shut down. This is
36:33
Speaker 2: more evidence of Australia's energy training. Wonder all cal Richards
36:41
Speaker 2: is coming up, of course it is Wednesday at first
36:44
Speaker 2: one panel, Sky News contributor to Jamie Rodgers and the
36:46
Speaker 2: CEO of the Page Research Center, Jared Holland. Well, I
36:50
Speaker 2: opened the top of my show about this with this
36:52
Speaker 2: research from Jared's institution, the Page Research Center, and an
36:58
Speaker 2: extraordinary paper looking at the amount of foreign money that's
37:02
Speaker 2: washing through the system here trying and sell Australians this
37:06
Speaker 2: lie that somehow renewables are cheap. Your submission to this
37:10
Speaker 2: Senate Inquiries uncovered a massive one hundred and seventy million
37:14
Speaker 2: dollars being spent by these NGOs and charities to demonize
37:20
Speaker 2: fossil fuels. This is in the twenty three to twenty
37:22
Speaker 2: four financial year alone. A lot of it, as we know,
37:26
Speaker 2: coming from overseas. What do you think the most significant
37:29
Speaker 2: finding out of this research.
37:33
Speaker 15: Well, Pere, it's hard to underestimate it. This is quite
37:36
Speaker 15: possibly the most significant example of foreign interference that we
37:39
Speaker 15: found to date in our democracy. So, as you mentioned,
37:43
Speaker 15: these networks of third party of organizations with the explicit
37:46
Speaker 15: goal of dismantling our energy system and ending our resource
37:50
Speaker 15: sector had receipts about one hundred and seventy million in
37:53
Speaker 15: the financial year twenty three twenty four. To put that
37:55
Speaker 15: into context, that is more than labor and the Coalition
37:58
Speaker 15: spent combined at the last election. This is an enormous
38:02
Speaker 15: amount of cash and as we were able to uncover,
38:04
Speaker 15: tracking through financial reports and falling through websites overseas, over
38:08
Speaker 15: one hundred million dollars of this over the last ten
38:11
Speaker 15: years has come from foreign donuts and foreign sources and
38:14
Speaker 15: examples like the Sequoia Climate Foundation in one hit gave
38:18
Speaker 15: twenty million dollars to the Sunrise Project with the explicit
38:22
Speaker 15: aim of ending the license, the social license of coal,
38:26
Speaker 15: both for export and for our domestic market in Australia.
38:32
Speaker 2: And just quickly Jode of course his Senate inquiry is
38:35
Speaker 2: looking into whether or not conversations like we're having now
38:40
Speaker 2: to critique this climate money and this green activism, whether
38:45
Speaker 2: those sorts of conversations are going to be banned, are
38:47
Speaker 2: going to be shut down online.
38:50
Speaker 15: Well, that's exactly right, And for anyone who's been following
38:52
Speaker 15: along with the Committee, we've had a number of recommendations
38:55
Speaker 15: from witnesses so far that Climate and Energy miss and
38:58
Speaker 15: disinformation be OUTLA when a number of their submissions themselves
39:02
Speaker 15: contained miss and disinformation about former L and P and
39:06
Speaker 15: Coalition senators and ministers. Really what set us along their
39:10
Speaker 15: track was investigating claims like from the Smart Energy Council
39:13
Speaker 15: that was parroted by the Energy Minister Chris Bowen, that
39:15
Speaker 15: was parroted by Alberanzi, that was parroted by the ABC,
39:19
Speaker 15: that were fundamentally false and had only really elementary understandings
39:23
Speaker 15: of how energy market works, the difference between a mega
39:26
Speaker 15: what a megat hour, between a capacity factor and expected
39:30
Speaker 15: output in a grid, and we realize that actually once
39:33
Speaker 15: you start to trace these organizations making these claims, tracing
39:36
Speaker 15: the organizations donating to them, racing those cash flows, all
39:40
Speaker 15: of the dark money. By the way, there isn't on
39:43
Speaker 15: any electoral register. You actually start to find these very
39:45
Speaker 15: very deep foundations from overseas, and I think is really
39:48
Speaker 15: important the public begin to understand the scale of the.
39:52
Speaker 2: Shining out to keep shining, keep shining a light. Let's
39:57
Speaker 2: stay with his topic. Let's talk about evs, because I
40:00
Speaker 2: warn people at home to understand if you put petrol
40:03
Speaker 2: in your car or diesel in your car, a percentage
40:06
Speaker 2: of that is the XCISE, it's the car fuel tax
40:09
Speaker 2: and that goes to fund roads in Australia. Now, if
40:11
Speaker 2: you've got an electric vehicle, you're not putting in fuel,
40:15
Speaker 2: you're not paying anything for the roads. And of course evs,
40:19
Speaker 2: by the very nature of their weight they're heavier than
40:21
Speaker 2: a combustion engine vehicle, they cause more damage to the roads.
40:26
Speaker 2: Chris Minz is saying, we have got to sort this out.
40:30
Speaker 2: Everyone's got to pay their way because our roads need
40:33
Speaker 2: repair habilism.
40:36
Speaker 13: I am worried about it. I mean, you've got a
40:38
Speaker 13: situation where there's not too many roads across New South
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Speaker 13: Wales that don't have a bloody huge pothole in it,
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Speaker 13: and there's got to be a way of fixing them up.
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Speaker 13: And if we're not going to have the petroal excise
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Speaker 13: in five, ten, fifteen years from now, or even a
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Speaker 13: proportionally smaller amount collected. Someone's going to have to pay
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Speaker 13: for it somehow.
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Speaker 2: But here's a response from the Federal Climate to Matt.
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Speaker 8: Kean claims that potholes are unable to be filled because
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Speaker 8: there's evs. That's just not right in time. When there
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Speaker 8: are more evs on the roads, obviously they should pay
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Speaker 8: their fair share as well.
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Speaker 2: Now, come on, Jamie, he is entitled to an opinion,
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Speaker 2: but he's not entitled to make up his own facts.
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Speaker 2: They are, by their very nature heavier, They damage the
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Speaker 2: road more than a normal combustion car. And if you
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Speaker 2: have an EV, you don't pay Diddley squat to fixing
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Speaker 2: the potholes.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 16: Absolutely, And it's not surprising, Peter that Matt Kean doesn't
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Speaker 16: want to have the road user charge because it might
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Speaker 16: deter people from going and buying an EV, and that
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Speaker 16: will ultimately make their target of twenty thirty five that
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Speaker 16: little bit tougher to achieve, because they're hoping to have
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Speaker 16: fifty percent of electronic vehicles sales by twenty thirty five.
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Speaker 16: Right now, it makes them about ten percent of the
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Speaker 16: new car market sales, so it's a big push to
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Speaker 16: be able to get those electronic vehicle calls out on
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Speaker 16: the road by twenty thirty five. But as you mentioned
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Speaker 16: just before that, whenever you go fill up your car
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Speaker 16: at a petrol station where you'll pay a fuel excise
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Speaker 16: to ensure that the maintenance and building of new roads
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Speaker 16: can happen, And if you're driving an EV you don't
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Speaker 16: have to pay that. So it just seems as though
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Speaker 16: if you have a road user charge it makes a
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Speaker 16: little bit more of a level playing field. If you're
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Speaker 16: using the roads, you should be paying for it. So
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Speaker 16: Chrismin's a spot on. We need to have the money
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Speaker 16: to be able to be able to keep up our
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Speaker 16: roads up to scratch.
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Speaker 2: Yet again, Chris Mins when to be over our co's
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Speaker 2: decision yesterday to close its aluminum refinery at Quanana. This
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Speaker 2: is near Perth. Two one hundred jobs will go manufacturing jobs.
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Speaker 2: I have to say, if that wasn't bad enough to
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Speaker 2: so afternoon, Rio Tinto has notified the national market operator.
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Speaker 2: This is aemo that it's going to shutdown or likely
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Speaker 2: shut down Queensland's largest coulified power station earlier than planned,
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Speaker 2: and could be as early as March twenty twenty nine. Jared,
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Speaker 2: you cannot understate the significance of this. Do sovereign manufacturing capability.
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Speaker 15: Peter, We're witnessing the accelerated de industrialization of our nation.
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Speaker 15: It's the aluminium smelters, it is our nickel industry, it
43:16
Speaker 15: is our copper industry. We've lost our oil refineries. We
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Speaker 15: don't make cars anymore, as Andrew Hasty has recently pointed out,
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Speaker 15: we won't be able to make anything. And fundamentally, energy
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Speaker 15: is the most significant input in any supply chain, whether
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Speaker 15: you dig it up, whether you transport it, manufacturer process
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Speaker 15: that sell it, refrigerated, consumer at home, you need cheap,
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Speaker 15: reliable energy in order to make that work. And as
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Speaker 15: we transition from reliable, traditional sources of baselow power like
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Speaker 15: our Cofi power plants, towards intimate and expensive ones like
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Speaker 15: renewable energy, we will see these industries leave. And this
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Speaker 15: isn't just about our economy, as you highlighted, this is
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Speaker 15: about our national security and our sovereign capability. Is a
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Speaker 15: nation to be able to respond in a crisis and
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Speaker 15: to be able to provide the kind of products that
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Speaker 15: our consumers need at a moment's notice.
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Speaker 2: Jamie, I know you're a parent. I think we're all
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Speaker 2: going to have to rely on parents to step up
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Speaker 2: here because it seems like everyone else has taken leave
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Speaker 2: of their senses. There's a band now, we're a de
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Speaker 2: facto band in New South Wales. At least, it'll be everywhere.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's already in Victoria that we can't use
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Speaker 2: boys and girls in the classroom anymore as a term
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Speaker 2: because it's not gender and neutral enough. We're supposed to
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Speaker 2: have a whole lot of ridiculous things like, you know,
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Speaker 2: you're awesome humans as opposed to boys and girls. Let's
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Speaker 2: go outside your epic humans, let's go outside your funsters.
44:32
Speaker 2: I mean, this has gotten ridiculous.
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Speaker 16: Bet If there's one thing that really gets my blood boiling,
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Speaker 16: it is this discussion. We have got to stop demonizing
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Speaker 16: the words like boys and girls so that when this
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Speaker 16: next generation grow up, they're going to think there's something
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Speaker 16: wrong with this terminology. It is just biology. Can we
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Speaker 16: please take the activism out of the classroom and just
44:52
Speaker 16: let kids be kids. Let them go and do the
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Speaker 16: basics of reading and writing and maths, and playing in
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Speaker 16: the playground. We've got to stop imposing these ideological views
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Speaker 16: onto our youngsters. There was actually a poll on the
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Speaker 16: Daily Telegraph website of whether or not the gender neutral
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Speaker 16: language should be brought into the classroom. At the time
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Speaker 16: I did the poll, there was just over eleven thousand
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Speaker 16: who had done it, and ninety seven percent all said
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Speaker 16: the same. There is no place for general neutral language
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Speaker 16: in the classroom. Let kids be kids. Enough's enough, Peter, as.
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Speaker 2: I said to you, I think we really need parents
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Speaker 2: to fight this because everyone else is missing an action.
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Speaker 2: I'll leave it there. Thank you to you both. Kellmer
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Speaker 2: joining me as he does every Wednesday, the wonderful Wordsmith,
45:43
Speaker 2: Keil Richards. Let's get into it. We've got a good
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Speaker 2: one from John. He says, where does the expression cut
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Speaker 2: to the chase come from?
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Speaker 17: Old Hollywood cliche? When the movie was bogging down and
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Speaker 17: becoming bit dull, the director would say to the film editor,
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Speaker 17: cut to the chase. In other words, drop the dialogue,
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Speaker 17: cut to the action. Cut to the chase.
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Speaker 2: I air car chase. Is that what we're after? You know,
46:08
Speaker 2: cops and robbers.
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Speaker 17: To sell any chase if you're chasing people around a
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Speaker 17: building who are chasing in cars.
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Speaker 6: It's action.
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Speaker 17: It's what movies are all about, all right.
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Speaker 2: Charlie wants to know when we say okay, does the
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Speaker 2: O and McKay's stand for something.
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Speaker 17: Indeed do they do, And in fact, they stand for
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Speaker 17: two different phrases. Okay stands for all correct with the
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Speaker 17: all spelt ORL just to be funny, and the correct
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Speaker 17: spelt with a K. It's one of the comic spellings
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Speaker 17: popular in America in the early eighteen hundreds. It also
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Speaker 17: stands for Old Kinderhook, which was the nickname of Martin
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Speaker 17: Van Buren, the American President, because he was born in
46:48
Speaker 17: Kinderhook in Upstate, New York, so he was Old Kinderhook
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Speaker 17: when he's running for the presidency. His supporters formed Okay
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Speaker 17: clubs across America, meaning the letters to stand for both phrases.
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Speaker 17: Old Kinderhook is all correct. And it's because of those
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Speaker 17: Okay clubs, thousands of them across America. Okay became part
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Speaker 17: of our language.
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Speaker 2: Gee, as I say this often, I learned something from
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Speaker 2: you every week. Hel I did not know any of that.
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Speaker 2: Mike wants to know the origins of the term come
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Speaker 2: a cropper, You know, we have a fall. We go, gee,
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Speaker 2: you come a cropper? Where's that one come from?
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Speaker 17: Apparently it's a twist on the expression of neck and crop,
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Speaker 17: So it goes back to horse riding in the mid
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Speaker 17: eighteen hundreds. The neck is the front of the horse.
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Speaker 17: The cropper is the back of the horse. If you
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Speaker 17: come off neck and crop, you've freely come off the horse.
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Speaker 17: And a shortened version of that is come a cropper.
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Speaker 2: Right, This one gets my goat going. Why do we
47:43
Speaker 2: now we've dropped disembark the plane? We now say deboard
47:48
Speaker 2: the plane.
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Speaker 17: It's not an euphonius expression. But it's been part of
47:52
Speaker 17: English since the nineteen sixty, so it's now sixty five
47:56
Speaker 17: years old. We need to accept that it's become part
47:58
Speaker 17: of the language.
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Speaker 2: Bit ugl.
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Speaker 17: But you know, these things get coined and they come
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Speaker 17: into the language. It's in the dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Speaker 17: We have to accept it.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't accept it. I don't like it. I'll
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Speaker 2: have bar dies embark in a much more sort of
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Speaker 2: elegant phrasing. You can see they're on the screen. Please
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Speaker 2: at home, send Kels words for next week. Terrific See
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Speaker 2: the NKEL that's it for me. See tomorrow night at
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Speaker 2: six is James