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Steve Price | 14 June · Steve Price

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Speaker 1: Live.
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Speaker 2: This is Steve Price.
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Speaker 3: Good evening, Welcome to Friday Nights with Steve Price.
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Speaker 1: Great to have your company.
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Speaker 3: Big show coming up, including a question from me is
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Speaker 3: Australia full some immigration number shortly that will surprise you.
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Speaker 3: I can guarantee also tonight the great Renewable Energy roll
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Speaker 3: at thousands of kilometers of transmission lines to connect up
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Speaker 3: solar and win factories across regional Australia to make a
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Speaker 3: mission target set in Paris. But are our farmers actually
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Speaker 3: being properly compensated for the damage do under their properties?
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Speaker 3: I'll catch up with the Farmers Federation to find out
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Speaker 3: as Ossie Olympic swimming stars night after night smash world
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Speaker 3: records in the trials. In the Games Trials, it's revealed
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Speaker 3: that across all sports, their parents are actually being forced
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Speaker 3: to fork out thousands of dollars to buy tickets to
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Speaker 3: see their children compete. Ex pro golfer and sports commentator
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Speaker 3: Mark Allen has a view on all of that, plus
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Speaker 3: all the fallout from the Queensland election bribery budget. That's
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Speaker 3: all to come, but first up tonight. This week has
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Speaker 3: been dominated politically by the increasingly bitter debate around climate policy,
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Speaker 3: including paras accord targets and the ongoing debate around the
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Speaker 3: Coalition's plan for Australia's nuclear future. But there is another
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Speaker 3: issue in the background that could shift even more votes
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Speaker 3: in my view, especially in the outer suburbs of our
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Speaker 3: three biggest cities Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. And that's the
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Speaker 3: tricky question surrounding immigration policy. I use the word tricky
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Speaker 3: deliberately because to even raise the idea of how big
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Speaker 3: is too big for Australia's population is to attract critics
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Speaker 3: that will labor you racist at worst and protectionist at best. Today,
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Speaker 3: with fresh figures released, we see just how not only
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Speaker 3: as the federal government not slowed down the number of
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Speaker 3: migrants coming into our country, the numbers to December last
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Speaker 3: year exploded and it doesn't look like things are slowing
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Speaker 3: down anytime soon. Headlines in Melbourne's Herald Sun today trumpeted
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Speaker 3: state population growth outpaces New South Wales. I thought, hello,
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Speaker 3: I need to dig into those numbers, and you'd have
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Speaker 3: to be pretty stupid not to realize what sort of
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Speaker 3: ongoing issues this is going to bring. Let's take the
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Speaker 3: two big states of New South Wales and Victoria for
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Speaker 3: a start, So.
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Speaker 1: Hold on to your hat.
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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three last year, with the latest numbers
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Speaker 3: to the end of December are combined, three hundred and
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Speaker 3: seventy one thousand, five hundred people were added to the
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Speaker 3: population of those two states. It's a staggering number of
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Speaker 3: new residents. Most of them, as you know, go to
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Speaker 3: Melbourne and Sydney. And as we know, we're not keeping
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Speaker 3: up with population increases in every area. Where are the
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Speaker 3: new houses for these people to live in? Are we
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Speaker 3: building extra schools to educate them, foodles to treat them,
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Speaker 3: doctor's surgeries, extra public transport, road infrastructure, you name it.
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Speaker 3: We are flooding the big cities with people, while state
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Speaker 3: and federal governments sit on their collective hands hoping somehow
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Speaker 3: we can absorb all these people. It's just not going
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Speaker 3: to happen. Victoria's population grew by two point eight percent,
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Speaker 3: Western Australia's by three point three percent, New South Wales
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Speaker 3: by two point two percent. I could go on and on.
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Speaker 3: This figure shocked even me one demographer. Demographer, I should say,
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Speaker 3: Mark McCrindle predicts Victoria's population well hit seven million next month.
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Speaker 3: Seven million. Drill into the detail and you'll find international
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Speaker 3: students and skilled migrants made up the bulk of Victoria's
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Speaker 3: net overseas migration figures in twenty twenty three at a
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Speaker 3: figure one hundred and sixty thousand.
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Speaker 1: So there you have it.
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Speaker 3: Of the one hundred and eighty six thousand, five hundred
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Speaker 3: extra people in Victoria, one hundred and sixty of that
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Speaker 3: was from overseas. One hundred and sixty thousand of that
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Speaker 3: was from overseas. You can add twenty six thousand newborns.
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Speaker 3: That takes the figure to one hundred and eighty six.
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Speaker 3: It's insanity, and on the same day we get those numbers.
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Speaker 3: It was revealed in an international study ranking housing affordability
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Speaker 3: around the globe, looking at ninety four cities, Sydney was
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Speaker 3: the second least affordable capital city on Earth to buy
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Speaker 3: a house. Melbourne wasn't far behind, and both Sydney and
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Speaker 3: Melbourne were more expensive when it comes to buying a
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Speaker 3: home than London and New York. You have to ask
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Speaker 3: how has this been able to happen? And you can
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Speaker 3: only come up with one answer that stands out to
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Speaker 3: be able to keep bragging about economic growth and keep
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Speaker 3: tax dollars rolling in. You need to keep topping up
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Speaker 3: the population. So if the Coalition think nuclear energy will
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Speaker 3: be their big standout policy come election day, think again.
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Speaker 3: Just as in almost all of the European countries at
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Speaker 3: elections this week, and just as in the US president
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Speaker 3: election in November, immigration and secure borders are huge political issues.
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Speaker 3: Australia might not have the leaky southern border of the
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Speaker 3: States or the influx of refugees fluing poverty in Africa
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Speaker 3: and Europe has to deal with, but we do have
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Speaker 3: a homegrown immigration problem of our own making. Victoria quite
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Speaker 3: simply is not capable of housing a population topping seven million.
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Speaker 3: New South Wales capital Sydney is so expensive no bi
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Speaker 3: migrant could possibly afford to buy a house. Peter Dutton's
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Speaker 3: onto something with his nuclear gamble. Let's see if he's
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Speaker 3: now brave enough to tackle the elephant in the room
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Speaker 3: that will send the Left into a tailspin and put
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Speaker 3: up the Australia is full mate sign time will tell.
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Speaker 1: Let's bring in.
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Speaker 3: Victoria's shadow Treasurer Brad Rose. Well, thanks your time again.
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Speaker 3: I want to ask you about ju Union bullyboy John Seca.
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Speaker 3: In just a moment but the figure, as I just used,
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Speaker 3: their Victoria. As soon as next month, the population of
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Speaker 3: Victoria will hit seven million people, which I found hard
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Speaker 3: to believe. An intake of students and migrants of one
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Speaker 3: hundred and eighty six thousand in the twelve months to
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Speaker 3: December last year. I mean brad rents, home prices, healthcare.
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Speaker 3: We haven't built houses for these people, have we.
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Speaker 4: We're not prop well with that. No, no, we haven't.
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Speaker 5: Steve and the governments promised eighty thousand homes to be
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Speaker 5: how many they well, they're on track to for well,
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Speaker 5: short of that, you've got government ministers saying that it
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Speaker 5: may not happen. I mean, I'm not about a big Australia.
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Speaker 5: I'm not about a small Australia, a big Victoria, little Victoria.
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Speaker 5: I'm about a sustainable Victoria. We need to state about it.
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Speaker 5: Everyone's scared.
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Speaker 1: We do.
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Speaker 5: And it's got to go hand in hand with our
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Speaker 5: ability to school people, so to educate people. Our infrastructure,
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Speaker 5: our health infrastructure, a house infrastructure, which is already, as
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Speaker 5: you've identified, under a lot of pressure.
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Speaker 3: The Victorian labor government. They'll argue, well, you know, you
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Speaker 3: can't criticize us on the one hand for big infrastructure
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Speaker 3: projects and then say, well, you know, we've got all
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Speaker 3: these people that we can't house and we can't move around.
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Speaker 5: But no one's criticizing them on the basis of big
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Speaker 5: infrastructure projects. It's the way they're managing or mismanaging infrastructure
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Speaker 5: projects that the real issue is. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 5: this is a government who has wasted quite literally more
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Speaker 5: than forty billion dollars of Victorian taxpayers money they clearly
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Speaker 5: do not respect on cost blowouts on major projects in
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Speaker 5: the last ten years. That's our point of difference, that's
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Speaker 5: our point of criticism and Fedigam, I think that's fair.
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Speaker 3: Quality of life from in Victoria has room to spread out.
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Speaker 3: Anyone who drives up the Hume Highway towards Sydney, we'll
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Speaker 3: see housing as stayed after housing and stayed after housing
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Speaker 3: estate both sides of the highway with nothing in there,
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Speaker 3: no schools, no shopping centers, no public transport.
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Speaker 5: Victoria needs to be not just a city state, but
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Speaker 5: a state of cities, Steve, and to do that, it's
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Speaker 5: up at the state government to deliver the infrastructure in those
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Speaker 5: both areas of Melbourne. Now, you know, I represent a
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Speaker 5: community where the government suburban rail loop starts. No one
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Speaker 5: in my community has ever asked for a train.
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Speaker 4: To box Hill. Can I say yah?
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Speaker 5: But what community is right around the state of crying
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Speaker 5: out for is for the their state government to pay
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Speaker 5: attention to the infrastructure needs that we need to build
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Speaker 5: in growth areas, to house people, to look after people.
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Speaker 3: When I told you that the population will to go
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Speaker 3: over to seven million.
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Speaker 1: That surprised you.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, It did surprise me because if I'm wearing my
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Speaker 5: shadow treasurer had at the market McCrindle the demographers.
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Speaker 1: So it's not me making I'm.
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Speaker 4: Thinking about I'm thinking about the services that need to
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Speaker 4: be provided to those.
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Speaker 5: People with the parlor started Victorian economy that labor's left
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Speaker 5: us after ten years.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about the career bully boy and union John
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Speaker 3: Setko now threatening the AFL, demanding umpires boss Steve McBurney,
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Speaker 3: who's eminently qualified, be sacked, and then overnight telling the
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Speaker 3: Prime Minister to stay out of it. And I want
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Speaker 3: to read you the quote from sectcro overnight quote we
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Speaker 3: are not going to have politicians tell us who we
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Speaker 3: can go after. Seriously, Bred, what sort of language is that?
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Speaker 5: Well, this Blake is quite clearly a thug. He's quite
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Speaker 5: clearly a bully. And the thing that I'm irritated the
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Speaker 5: most about it, and actually angered the most about Steve
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Speaker 5: is the is the fact that when state labor ministers
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Speaker 5: in this state have had the opportunity to call this
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Speaker 5: out for what it is, they've squibbed it.
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Speaker 1: The four million dollar donation.
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Speaker 5: And Jacinda Ellen, this state's premier, has been absolutely silent
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Speaker 5: on this.
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Speaker 3: I was going to ask you, I just googled j
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Speaker 3: Cinda Allen, John Secker. Nothing since last year.
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Speaker 1: You don't even know it.
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Speaker 5: And the low Turian's Victorians expect better from their premier.
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Speaker 3: We'll have a look at Peter Mallen ask because he's
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Speaker 3: the Sabaustralian premier, labor premier.
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Speaker 1: Have a look at what he had to say today.
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Speaker 6: Well, I don't know what John thinks is achieving. I mean,
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Speaker 6: I've never met Johnny Septah, You've never spoken to him.
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Speaker 6: I don't know what mister Seca thinks is achieving for
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Speaker 6: his members. I mean, I think union leadership at his
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Speaker 6: le sorts professional four foot the bosses at the enemy
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Speaker 6: employers employ people in this country and they provide the
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Speaker 6: dignity of work to hundreds of thousands of Australians.
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Speaker 1: But if you're out.
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Speaker 6: There belligerently just sumping the table or you're being accused
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Speaker 6: of bullying, people are don't know where that jets are
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Speaker 6: And I just don't know if it's in the interest
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Speaker 6: of workers either.
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Speaker 3: If you're going to have a labor premier in Victoria,
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Speaker 3: can we have him so?
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Speaker 4: Premier Ellen, where are you?
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Speaker 1: Where are you?
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Speaker 5: Those frankly, utterly sensible comments from the Premier of South Australia.
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Speaker 5: You know the fact that they're not prepared to stand
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Speaker 5: up to this bullying, it says, tells you everything you
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Speaker 5: need to know about how.
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Speaker 4: Terrible this state is up to ten years of labor government.
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Speaker 3: How much of this is about political donations and buying
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Speaker 3: the government silent.
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Speaker 1: Look, we've got.
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Speaker 5: Pretty stringent donation laws here in Victoria. But you know,
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Speaker 5: as you're alluding to, Steve, that does not exclude the
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Speaker 5: contributions of unions to impact on elections. At Labour did
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Speaker 5: that deal, they made sure that their union mats were
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Speaker 5: looked after. The union is scratching the back of labor.
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Speaker 5: Labor of scratching the back of union. It's the same
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Speaker 5: old story. And the only way to fix this is
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Speaker 5: to have a government that is prepared to actually stand
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Speaker 5: up to the bullying tactics of people blokes like John
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Speaker 5: Secker and say enough.
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Speaker 4: Is enough, this is wrong.
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Speaker 3: We're angry about this today because of him targeting an
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Speaker 3: individual at the AFL who's eminently qualified to do his job.
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Speaker 3: Four hundred games in umpiring, umpired four Grand finals. So
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Speaker 3: we've got Setka threatening an individual. But in the broader
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Speaker 3: thing brought a question for Victorians. On every major infrastructure project,
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Speaker 3: the CFMEU have got their fingers into it that all
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Speaker 3: their workers are being paid above award rates. We've got
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Speaker 3: people holding stop gohost signs who are being paid two
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Speaker 3: hundred grand a year.
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Speaker 1: And this bloke just gets away with whatever he want.
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Speaker 5: Arguably, you're in the wrong job, and so am I
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Speaker 5: way on that sort of day, Steven, But this is
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Speaker 5: what we need.
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Speaker 4: We actually need a governor of Victoria.
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Speaker 5: That respects Victorian taxpayers money but stands up for the
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Speaker 5: interests of Victorian taxpayers who have installed them. We've given
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Speaker 5: them the great opportunity and privilege to govern for the
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Speaker 5: state and for every Victorian, and at the moment, we've
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Speaker 5: got labor ministers and who are cowtowing to the unions
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Speaker 5: and a labor premier who won't even stand up and
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Speaker 5: make a comment.
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Speaker 3: Peter Dutton has been quite strong with Anthony Albernesi. Let's
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Speaker 3: have a look at what Anthony Albernesi. He's now brought
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Speaker 3: into this twice, but not strongly enough.
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Speaker 7: They listen, John Seka is someone who I expelled from
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Speaker 7: the Labor Party.
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Speaker 2: If you want to betray us, you go to pay
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Speaker 2: a price. So what do you think of that sort
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Speaker 2: of language? Is that acceptable?
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Speaker 7: I think that you probably encourage him asking questions about
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Speaker 7: him given his character.
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Speaker 4: So do you think that you know.
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Speaker 2: To you now to tell him to type down?
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Speaker 7: It's up to the AFL. What who the AFL have
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Speaker 7: in positions are not up to anyone but the AFL.
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Speaker 5: Week all the Prime Minister needed to say to that
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Speaker 5: journalist's very eminent second question was yes, it's not right correct,
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Speaker 5: simple as that. But it can't bring himself to do it,
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Speaker 5: and so Burb's got better. So again you wonder why
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Speaker 5: who is holding the power over political labor, political decision
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Speaker 5: makers not only in this state but in this country
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Speaker 5: and we've got up there.
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Speaker 3: I want to ask you about two other things. We'll
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Speaker 3: get onto Dan Andrews Award in a sect. But you
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Speaker 3: attended last night a meeting in your electric down in
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Speaker 3: the Base Side suburb, sandringhamp around aggravated burglaries in people's
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Speaker 3: homes where young teenagers are breaking in, scaring the hell
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Speaker 3: out of people stealing their cars. What was the mood
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Speaker 3: of that meeting?
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Speaker 2: Like?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely fed up? Absolutely fed up?
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Speaker 5: You know, the labour guven in this state has clearly
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Speaker 5: raised the white flag of defeat when it comes to
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Speaker 5: tackling this issue. They don't actually acknowledge in the first
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Speaker 5: place that it is an issue. People in my community
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Speaker 5: on the receiving it of aggravated burglaries. We're masked offenders
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Speaker 5: entering their homes, terrifying themselves, their families, their children, stealing property,
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Speaker 5: been caught by police. Are actually doing a decent job,
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Speaker 5: I think. But police are doing the right thing. They're
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Speaker 5: bringing them before the courts and they've been bailed, you
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Speaker 5: know what they're doing. Then they are then going out
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Speaker 5: and offending sometimes that very same night. My community is
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Speaker 5: over it now again. My community never asked for a
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Speaker 5: train line between Choplaman Box Hill, but they did ask
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Speaker 5: to feel safe in their community, and this gap has
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Speaker 5: fathered on that incredibly.
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Speaker 3: Police's advice was leave your car keys on the kitchen
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Speaker 3: bench and put an Apple tracker in your boot.
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Speaker 5: Because apparently the crooks have worked out how to disable
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Speaker 5: the tracking device on some modern day cars. So the
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Speaker 5: alternative to that is to chuck an air tag in
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Speaker 5: your boots.
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Speaker 3: Thank God, it's never happened to me, but I just
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Speaker 3: I know how fearful people will be after that.
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Speaker 4: Please God it does.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about Dan Andrews. He basically got a knighthood
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Speaker 3: in the King's Birthday Awards. I've written today in the
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Speaker 3: Herald Son about the abuse I've copped after calling the
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Speaker 3: honor to him pathetic. Can you believe someone nominated him
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Speaker 3: in the first place and the honors committee ticked off?
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Speaker 3: Now I had Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh on the
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Speaker 3: program last night. He stepped up to the plate and
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Speaker 3: launched a petition urging the Governor General to remove Daniel
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Speaker 3: and Andrews award. That's been signed by me and seventy
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Speaker 3: nine seventeen, nine hundred and ninety nine other people in
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Speaker 3: twenty four hours. Your leader John Pursudo yesterday in public
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Speaker 3: said he would not sign it.
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Speaker 1: Is that a mistake?
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Speaker 5: Look, I'm happy to sign it, but Fitnickham, I don't
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Speaker 5: think that the people who hand out these goals in
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Speaker 5: the first place need a petition. Frankly, Steve to understand
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Speaker 5: the sentiment of Victorian community.
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Speaker 3: But surely John's not hearing the mood of the community.
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Speaker 3: He's saying, you won't sign it. I know you're not
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Speaker 3: in and you're not responsible for whether he will sign
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Speaker 3: it or not.
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Speaker 1: Does it disappoint He'll.
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Speaker 4: Have his reasons for doing that. I mean, it's not
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Speaker 4: says he doesn't. He's not his job.
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Speaker 5: Sure, he's not his job to sign his job to
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Speaker 5: actually start legislation and start a public conversation about things.
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Speaker 5: I don't think he agrees that he should have got
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Speaker 5: the goal in the first place. I'm actually fully on
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Speaker 5: board with said I'm newman on this one. Steve ac
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Speaker 5: absolute crap. And you know, if this is the measure,
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Speaker 5: if we're now rewarding failure and handing out goals for
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Speaker 5: rewarding failure, who knows who was up for Up to
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Speaker 5: Daniel Andrews, it was up to Anthony Elberteasi after his
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Speaker 5: efforts here, John Setka may very well be up from
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Speaker 5: ac himself. This is the state of affairs in this country.
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Speaker 3: Raberos are always good to see you. Thanks for coming
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Speaker 3: in pleasure. Yeah, my column in the Herald Son getting
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Speaker 3: a lot of reaction tonight after I suggested that the
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Speaker 3: people who are attacking me over my description of Andrew's
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Speaker 3: award as pathetic are a bunch of fools sitting there
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Speaker 3: in their tracksuit pants in a dark corner on a phone. Now,
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Speaker 3: fed up farmers have come out in force in Wa
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Speaker 3: today protesting Labour's legislation to ban live sheep exports. Now
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Speaker 3: the committee investigating the provisions of the bill are holding
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Speaker 3: public hearings in West Australia today. Hundreds of farmers lined
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Speaker 3: the road in northern outside where that committee was holding
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Speaker 3: that hearing, and they'll hear it directly from people impacted
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Speaker 3: by the ban. So let's get the latest on this
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Speaker 3: is a very big issue. I mean, I'm a huge
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Speaker 3: supporter of farmers being able to look after their stock
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Speaker 3: and export them in the manner that they have. We
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Speaker 3: our live sheep and cattle exports are so much more
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Speaker 3: superior than anyone else in the world. It's not funny.
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Speaker 3: The National Farmers Federation acting CEO, as Charlie Thomas joins us.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm right, aren't I.
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Speaker 3: We look after those animals a lot better than anyone else.
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Speaker 3: There's been a couple of hidden cameras on ships in
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Speaker 3: the past, but things have changed and the farmers are
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Speaker 3: the people who look after their stock.
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Speaker 8: You did right, Steve, thanks for having me on. I mean,
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Speaker 8: the campaign that's been run against this industry is completely
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Speaker 8: based on misinformation. These activist organizations have gone out taken
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Speaker 8: footage from how things were seven ten years ago before.
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Speaker 8: We've implemented a whole range of sweeping reforms to improve
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Speaker 8: our practices in the sector. We're now gold standard, the
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Speaker 8: world's best. If you get rid of this sector and
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Speaker 8: our contribution as Australia.
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Speaker 4: All this means is that.
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Speaker 8: These countries import their stock from other countries that don't
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Speaker 8: have these standards. So this isn't about animal welfare. That's
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Speaker 8: just not what this is about. It's about politics and
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Speaker 8: we know that, and the government's trying to sell this
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Speaker 8: based on community sentiment. There's an activist petition that's got
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Speaker 8: forty three thousand signatures on it saying ban the trade.
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Speaker 8: Well that's now completely turned around on them. They've got
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Speaker 8: a pro export petition from our industry campaign with fifty
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Speaker 8: thousand signatures on it. So where does that leave them?
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Speaker 8: And it's been an uncomfortable day for the government over
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Speaker 8: in Wa. I've had thousands of farmers turn out incredible scenes,
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Speaker 8: really strong shower force from the industry, standing up for
18:49
Speaker 8: their livelihoods as they should.
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Speaker 3: And Charlie that Emin and farmers are busy. They've got
18:55
Speaker 3: businesses to run, they've got farms to run. They don't
18:58
Speaker 3: lead them lightly. To have an outpouring of public protests
19:04
Speaker 3: like that. That shows how much they're wedded to the
19:08
Speaker 3: fact that this industry is being run properly and they
19:10
Speaker 3: want to keep doing it.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 8: And I should say with very little notice. I mean
19:16
Speaker 8: the way that this process is being played out, it's
19:19
Speaker 8: trading farmers and other people involved in the industry with
19:22
Speaker 8: absolute contempt. We've had four days with this House of
19:25
Speaker 8: Rep's inquiry to share our thoughts. That was very little
19:29
Speaker 8: time for those farmers to walk away from their businesses,
19:31
Speaker 8: down tools and come and have their say.
19:33
Speaker 9: And it's not just about the farmers.
19:35
Speaker 8: This is stock people, it's truckies, it's vets, it's stock
19:40
Speaker 8: and station agents. You know, there's a whole range and
19:42
Speaker 8: community of people here that are going to be affected
19:45
Speaker 8: by this and they've had enough. They've just they feel
19:48
Speaker 8: like they're not getting hurt, and they've turned up today
19:51
Speaker 8: in big numbers to make their case.
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Speaker 2: And it's not just today.
19:54
Speaker 8: Actually you might have seen a couple of fridays ago
19:57
Speaker 8: in Perth, a twenty kilometer long convoy through the center
19:59
Speaker 8: of Earth. Trucks, farm vehicles, everyone coming out from these
20:03
Speaker 8: communities to try and make their voice heard. And I
20:06
Speaker 8: think what the government might forget is that this is
20:09
Speaker 8: the state that a lot of people say gave them
20:11
Speaker 8: power in the last election, and these people are taking
20:14
Speaker 8: that message directly to the seats you know that gave
20:18
Speaker 8: this government its numbers. So it's an issue that you know,
20:21
Speaker 8: it's bigger than just the sheep trade. This is a
20:24
Speaker 8: serious political issue that people need to stand up and
20:26
Speaker 8: pay attention to.
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Speaker 1: Charlie.
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Speaker 3: We've had labor agriculture ministers federally mess up live stock
20:34
Speaker 3: exports in the past, famously of course cattle to Indonesia.
20:39
Speaker 3: The current Minister Murray, what is the NFF getting a
20:43
Speaker 3: hearing from him? Is he hearing your messages loud and
20:47
Speaker 3: clear that the industry's really angry about this and that
20:51
Speaker 3: it is going to affect the livelihoods so so many people.
20:55
Speaker 8: Well, I don't think we've left him in any doubt.
20:57
Speaker 8: We've certainly pulled out all stops to try and present
21:00
Speaker 8: ent this case in an evidence based way because we
21:02
Speaker 8: know that the facts are on our side, and you
21:05
Speaker 8: know there's been a motion of no confidence in this
21:07
Speaker 8: government from our members, not just on live sheet, but
21:10
Speaker 8: this is now an accumulation of a whole range of issues.
21:13
Speaker 8: And you're right to reference live cattle because you know
21:17
Speaker 8: that decision was made in twenty eleven. There was a
21:20
Speaker 8: court case. It was declared misfeasance by the previous government
21:24
Speaker 8: who didn't conduct their duties responsibly and were found to
21:27
Speaker 8: owe the industry compensation. That compensation still hasn't been paid
21:31
Speaker 8: as we sit here today. So there's close to a
21:34
Speaker 8: billion dollars owed to producers who had their livelihood stolen
21:37
Speaker 8: in that twenty eleven decision.
21:39
Speaker 1: You know, some of whom have.
21:40
Speaker 8: Passed away in the intervening period. It will never see
21:42
Speaker 8: a dollar in compensation that they were owed according to
21:45
Speaker 8: the Federal Court. So when this government comes out and says, well,
21:49
Speaker 8: you know, we're offering it an adjustment package, we're going
21:51
Speaker 8: to look after you. I'm sorry, but people are a
21:53
Speaker 8: little bit cynical when they're still awaiting the check that
21:56
Speaker 8: they said, you know, the Federal Court told them that
21:59
Speaker 8: they were owed from a decision in twenty eleven. So
22:02
Speaker 8: forgive us for being a little bit cynical. And they
22:04
Speaker 8: say that, you know, we're not going to touch the
22:06
Speaker 8: cattle tray, that's sacred. We support that, But the precedent
22:10
Speaker 8: that we're setting here is we've got a gold standard
22:13
Speaker 8: industry that's not being shut down on any credible scientific
22:16
Speaker 8: animal welfare grounds. We know the same activists who are
22:19
Speaker 8: running this campaign, as soon as they're finished here, they
22:23
Speaker 8: take their resources, their focus, and their questionable tactics and
22:26
Speaker 8: they move on to the next part of our sector.
22:28
Speaker 8: So if you want to support Australian farmers, you've got
22:30
Speaker 8: to draw a line in the sand here. And that's
22:32
Speaker 8: what the message that we're trying to get through, Charlie.
22:36
Speaker 3: I mean, they seem to be all over the shop
22:38
Speaker 3: on this I've been banging on for weeks now about
22:41
Speaker 3: compensation for farmers with transmission lines through their property. I'd
22:44
Speaker 3: love to get you back on and talk about that.
22:47
Speaker 3: There's been some compensation numbers thrown around during the week,
22:50
Speaker 3: but I'm convinced. I've convinced myself that this is going
22:53
Speaker 3: to be a big issue because everyone who wants renewable
22:56
Speaker 3: energy is happy to have it as long as it's
22:58
Speaker 3: not in their backyard. Going to end up in every
23:00
Speaker 3: farmer's backyard, isn't it.
23:04
Speaker 8: And Steve like, this is bigger than just renewable energy
23:06
Speaker 8: as well, and farmers, we don't oppose renewable energy. We
23:09
Speaker 8: understand the climate challenge. We've got to get our emissions down.
23:12
Speaker 8: Renewables are going to play a part, but it's about
23:14
Speaker 8: involving farmers in those conversations early on. Because we've lost
23:18
Speaker 8: fifteen percent of our farmland in Australia over the last
23:21
Speaker 8: thirty years and you were just talking about population growth earlier.
23:25
Speaker 8: We need to be having a good hard look at
23:26
Speaker 8: where the food supply is going to come from as
23:28
Speaker 8: the global population hits ten billion people around the middle
23:31
Speaker 8: of this century. You know, if we lose another fifteen
23:34
Speaker 8: percent here in Australia. You might think, oh, you know,
23:36
Speaker 8: it's Australia, we're a big country. We've got lots of
23:37
Speaker 8: farm land. Well not much good farmland, I've got to
23:40
Speaker 8: tell you. And it's not just the renewables and the
23:42
Speaker 8: transmission lines, but it's urban encroachment as we build more housing,
23:46
Speaker 8: it's mining and gas development. It's also carbon offsets as
23:48
Speaker 8: we head into the climate transition. So you know, we've
23:52
Speaker 8: got to be a bit strategic here as a country
23:54
Speaker 8: and have a bigger conversation about, you know, what we
23:58
Speaker 8: value because at the moment, where it is the live
24:00
Speaker 8: sheet trade or whether it's getting ridden roughshot over by
24:03
Speaker 8: these transmission companies, farmers are feeling like their second best
24:07
Speaker 8: and we need to actually appreciate and value the work
24:10
Speaker 8: that they do and get behind them. And at the
24:13
Speaker 8: moment there are just too many policies adding up and
24:15
Speaker 8: they're feeling under siege.
24:19
Speaker 3: Charlie Thomas, great to catch up with you. We'll talk again,
24:21
Speaker 3: and I think that issue is a big one. Thanks
24:23
Speaker 3: for joining us tonight on Steve Price now coming up
24:26
Speaker 3: after the Black twenty more to come. All the fallout
24:28
Speaker 3: from Queensland's big spending budget, bribery budget I call it,
24:32
Speaker 3: and what it means for the upcoming state election in Queensland.
24:35
Speaker 1: Bus I think proper.
24:37
Speaker 3: Outrage is the families of Olympic athletes are forced to
24:41
Speaker 3: pay thousands of dollars just to watch their children compete.
24:50
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Friday Nights with Steve Price. It's got
24:52
Speaker 3: to Queensland now where This week the state Treasurer in Queensland,
24:56
Speaker 3: Cameron Dick, handed down labors. You've got to say big spending,
25:00
Speaker 3: almost say big bribing pre election budget, unapologetically plunging Queensland
25:05
Speaker 3: into a two point six billion dollar deficit. Have a
25:08
Speaker 3: listen to the Treasurer.
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Speaker 5: This budget is about doing what matters for Queensland now
25:14
Speaker 5: through cost of living relief while building the Queensland we
25:17
Speaker 5: all deserve in the future.
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Speaker 1: He's kidding.
25:22
Speaker 3: Surely they're giving Queenslanders thirteen hundred dollars off their power bill.
25:25
Speaker 3: Nice if you're a Queenslander, twenty percent off your registration
25:28
Speaker 3: in your car, fifty cent public transport fares, two hundred
25:33
Speaker 3: dollars sports vouchers for every child. I wonder who gets
25:36
Speaker 3: lumped with the bill for all of this stuff? Well,
25:38
Speaker 3: I can tell you Queensland taxpayers. Joining me now is
25:41
Speaker 3: the executive director at the Australian Institute of Progress, Graham
25:45
Speaker 3: Young Graham. Do you think they've factored in by handing
25:49
Speaker 3: down this budget that you're suddenly going to get swamped
25:52
Speaker 3: from people from Victoria and New South Wales moving to
25:55
Speaker 3: Queensland because it's such a good deal.
26:00
Speaker 10: There are other reasons to move from Victoria. I can
26:02
Speaker 10: think of Steven to come up here for our budget. Look,
26:08
Speaker 10: I don't think they're thinking beyond the next four months
26:11
Speaker 10: because we've got a state election. Then they're throwing money
26:15
Speaker 10: around like the proverbial drunken sailors. They got very lucky
26:21
Speaker 10: with coal royalties. They have what I call the smash
26:25
Speaker 10: and grab tats lotto. Fifteen billion dollars worth of royalties
26:30
Speaker 10: came in last year.
26:31
Speaker 9: It's only ten billion this year.
26:33
Speaker 10: I mean you're talking about a budget of around seventy billions,
26:36
Speaker 10: huge numbers, and the Treasurer knocked the coal companies over
26:40
Speaker 10: the head, increased coal royalties up to level of forty percent.
26:46
Speaker 10: And bear in mind that the next most expensive is
26:50
Speaker 10: in New South Wales about ten percent, So they've taken
26:54
Speaker 10: that money they've thrown it around and we're still going
26:57
Speaker 10: to end up with one hundred and seventy two billion
26:59
Speaker 10: dollars worth of ye nothing to show for it.
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Speaker 9: I wouldn't be leaving Victoria for this budget. Steve all
27:04
Speaker 9: New South Wales of Iowa.
27:06
Speaker 8: You.
27:08
Speaker 3: Graham, anyone else see the rich irony in the fact
27:10
Speaker 3: that this is all possible because of coal.
27:16
Speaker 9: Well, I'm not sure whether anyone else did. I think
27:19
Speaker 9: the government they want to have it always and part.
27:24
Speaker 10: Of the debt is obviously that we're spending up big
27:27
Speaker 10: on any energy transition, and we're exporting a lot of
27:31
Speaker 10: this coal overseas to build the wind farms and the
27:36
Speaker 10: solar farms of the future. But the treasure seems quite
27:41
Speaker 10: shameless and taking coal money with one hand and slamming
27:44
Speaker 10: the coal industry with the other.
27:48
Speaker 3: David Chris Fuley, the opposition leader, seems to have worken
27:51
Speaker 3: up to the fact that there may be votes in
27:54
Speaker 3: not building the world's biggest hydro electric project. They've actually
27:58
Speaker 3: vowed that they won't go ahead with that that is
28:03
Speaker 3: designed to phase out coal fired generators. Do you think
28:07
Speaker 3: that that is a popular electoral decision by the opposition.
28:13
Speaker 10: I think it's probably very popular in the area where
28:16
Speaker 10: houses were being resumed for the dam. But I think
28:20
Speaker 10: you're making an assumption that labor would have ever built
28:22
Speaker 10: that dam. You know we're talking about it would have
28:25
Speaker 10: been the largest pumped hydro scheme in the world, in
28:29
Speaker 10: the world, in the continent that has the least water
28:34
Speaker 10: apart from Antarctica, in the world. So you know, the
28:39
Speaker 10: opposition's scrapping it because they don't think it's going to
28:41
Speaker 10: go ahead. They're talking about smaller pumped hydro schemes. But Steve,
28:46
Speaker 10: you said that it was supposed to replace coal. Nothing
28:50
Speaker 10: can replace dispatchable energy. These pump hydro schemes they need
28:54
Speaker 10: something else to produce the energy for them to store it.
28:57
Speaker 10: And a good question as to whether you're going to
29:00
Speaker 10: ever make any money out of these pumped hydro schemes
29:03
Speaker 10: as batteries because they lose thirty percent of the energy
29:05
Speaker 10: coming and going. But if we don't have those and
29:09
Speaker 10: they do get rid of the culi.
29:11
Speaker 9: Fired power stations, we're in a heap of trouble.
29:14
Speaker 10: So I think there's a bit of work to be
29:16
Speaker 10: done if the opposition become the government, to get them
29:21
Speaker 10: to face up to the problems of this energy transition
29:24
Speaker 10: which they've signed on to between you and me and
29:28
Speaker 10: the rest of the continent. I think nuclear is probably
29:30
Speaker 10: the answer. It's a lot easier to build than these
29:33
Speaker 10: pumped hydro schemes, doesn't take up as much space, and
29:36
Speaker 10: produces its own electricity.
29:40
Speaker 3: We only need Graham, don't you to look at Malcolm
29:43
Speaker 3: Turnbull's Snowy Hydro and the dramas that have happened there.
29:50
Speaker 10: Absolutely yes, that was a thought bubble, and I think
29:54
Speaker 10: the Barumba dam was a thought bubble. But to give
29:57
Speaker 10: Malcolm is due even on reviv costings, Snowy Hydro will
30:02
Speaker 10: be about the same price as burumbar Is on the
30:06
Speaker 10: costings at the moment before the CFMU have put their
30:08
Speaker 10: lading on it, and it will produce one gig of
30:14
Speaker 10: what of power for three hundred and fifty hours I
30:17
Speaker 10: think it is, whereas the dam up north will only
30:21
Speaker 10: do that for about forty eight hours. So it's not
30:24
Speaker 10: value for money even when you stack it up against
30:26
Speaker 10: Malcolm Turnbull's brain explosion.
30:32
Speaker 3: How convinced are you that the Miles government stroke ex
30:36
Speaker 3: Palichet government, We're actually ever going to build that thing?
30:42
Speaker 9: Not at all Steve.
30:45
Speaker 10: The problem with the labor government here, and I think
30:48
Speaker 10: it's labor governments around the country, is that they put
30:51
Speaker 10: out media releases saying this is what we're going to do,
30:55
Speaker 10: and then assume the work's all been done. You know,
30:58
Speaker 10: there's too much politics, are not enough engineering in most
31:02
Speaker 10: of what we're talking about in the power schemes, but
31:05
Speaker 10: also has a flow on effect. We have a housing
31:08
Speaker 10: crisis and that's immediate. And part of the problem with
31:11
Speaker 10: the housing crisis is the cost of construction, and that
31:15
Speaker 10: cost is being driven sky high by all these state
31:19
Speaker 10: governments going out borrowing billions of dollars to spend on
31:24
Speaker 10: not just the energy transition, but on various bits of
31:28
Speaker 10: infrastructure pump, hydro, etc. At a higher price for the
31:32
Speaker 10: materials and the people working on it than you and
31:35
Speaker 10: I can afford to spend in our houses. It's a
31:37
Speaker 10: major contributor, along with immigration, to the fact that young Australians,
31:42
Speaker 10: young Queenslanders can't get them into themselves into a house.
31:46
Speaker 10: And I've seen the paper today that Brisbane, Sydney and
31:50
Speaker 10: Melbourne are amongst the thirteen least affordable cities in the
31:54
Speaker 10: whole world.
31:56
Speaker 9: It's absurd.
32:00
Speaker 3: Yes it is, and I raised that at the beginning
32:01
Speaker 3: of the program. We've going to have a debate about immigration.
32:03
Speaker 3: Graham Young, thank you very much for helping us out tonight.
32:06
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Still to come. The great Mark Allen,
32:09
Speaker 3: former pro goal for and ambassador at Bow Cancer Australia,
32:13
Speaker 3: joins me to discuss how the testing rates for one
32:16
Speaker 3: of the nation's deadliest cancers and Mark survived it himself,
32:20
Speaker 3: and how they have dropped for the second year in
32:23
Speaker 3: a row.
32:23
Speaker 1: Mark coming up after the break.
32:29
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Steve Price filling in not filling in its
32:31
Speaker 3: my own show to not on Friday night. I will
32:33
Speaker 3: be filling in for Peter Kredlin again next week. She'll
32:36
Speaker 3: be back the week after. Now, concerns are growing among
32:39
Speaker 3: medical professionals, with bow cancer screening rates now dropping for
32:43
Speaker 3: a second year in a row. These are the bow
32:45
Speaker 3: cancer testing kits that you get mailed after a certain age,
32:49
Speaker 3: You get mailed to your home, you are asked to
32:51
Speaker 3: do it, and the numbers of people actually doing it
32:54
Speaker 3: is dropping.
32:55
Speaker 1: Now.
32:55
Speaker 3: My next guest knows the importance of these tests better
32:59
Speaker 3: than just about anyone else. Described as a slide indoors moment,
33:03
Speaker 3: of his life, and I've talked to him about it before.
33:05
Speaker 3: One morning in twenty nineteen, Mark Allen tuned into the
33:08
Speaker 3: radio to a discussion on bow cancer. That was the catalyst,
33:12
Speaker 3: and he thought he better get himself tested. Had two children,
33:15
Speaker 3: radio personality, former golf professional and an all round great guy.
33:19
Speaker 3: He was given the devastating news that, in fact, he
33:21
Speaker 3: had stage four bow cancer. Now after his diagnosis, he
33:25
Speaker 3: described himself as a dead man walking. He endured a
33:29
Speaker 3: grueling fourteen months of treatment. But I'm glad to say
33:32
Speaker 3: he's been on this program before. He's fit and healthy now.
33:35
Speaker 3: And it is bow cancer Awareness Month in June, Mark
33:39
Speaker 3: Allen joins us, Mark, how's your health?
33:42
Speaker 2: My house, magniff At the moment, Steve, I could not
33:46
Speaker 2: be better. I'm really happy to tell you.
33:51
Speaker 3: So this is June is bow cancer Awareness Month. How
33:56
Speaker 3: crucial is this envelope testing that you get sent to
34:01
Speaker 3: your home and asked to do.
34:03
Speaker 2: It's incredibly crucial. Now, I mean, if you're over fifty
34:06
Speaker 2: or a man or a woman, it's bout. Cancer is
34:10
Speaker 2: the number two cancer killer in this country. Unfortunately, Steve,
34:14
Speaker 2: if you're in the group of twenty five to forty
34:16
Speaker 2: four male or female. It's the number one cancer killer.
34:21
Speaker 2: So when we at our Cancer Australia, I'm an ambassador
34:25
Speaker 2: and look to tell you the truth. Our Cancer Australia
34:27
Speaker 2: is doing some amazing work. When we hear the news
34:32
Speaker 2: that six in ten people aren't doing the test when
34:34
Speaker 2: it arrives in their letterbox for nothing. When they're not
34:39
Speaker 2: doing that test, we're pulling our hair out because we
34:42
Speaker 2: know that if you catch bour cancer stage one or two,
34:46
Speaker 2: it is the easiest of all the cancers that picks.
34:49
Speaker 2: If you happen to catch it at three or four,
34:52
Speaker 2: then it is the biggest killer. But that's not where
34:55
Speaker 2: it stops the because what really is getting up My
34:59
Speaker 2: note is that if you do get if you do
35:03
Speaker 2: go through the trouble of wiping you up, putting a
35:07
Speaker 2: little bit of poo in the test kit and getting
35:09
Speaker 2: it done, you've got to speak plainly when you're talking
35:11
Speaker 2: about this. If you go to that trouble and you
35:13
Speaker 2: get a positive result, well, unfortunately there is a five
35:18
Speaker 2: month wait for a colonoscopy at the moment. Now that's
35:20
Speaker 2: going to change as well, because I can promise you
35:23
Speaker 2: this file as man doctors at kicks A golf club.
35:27
Speaker 2: When I told them about that I was due for colonoscabine.
35:31
Speaker 2: I had a two and a half month wait. They
35:33
Speaker 2: pulled a few strings, made a phone call, and they
35:36
Speaker 2: got it done. I was getting a colonosciviit next week.
35:39
Speaker 2: If I had to wait five months like it is today,
35:42
Speaker 2: I'd be brown bread. I'm dead. It's as simple as that.
35:45
Speaker 2: So the five month weight that's a really big deal.
35:51
Speaker 3: Is the federal government mark listening to people like yourselves
35:55
Speaker 3: who've been through this and stared death in the face.
35:59
Speaker 3: When you talk to them and ask them, how come
36:01
Speaker 3: you're letting this take five months to get a colonoscomy.
36:05
Speaker 1: What is it? As shortage of specialist? What is it?
36:08
Speaker 2: Look, I don't know. I think the state governments. I
36:10
Speaker 2: think it might be up to them, you know, I
36:12
Speaker 2: think you see what's happening in Victoria. I know you
36:14
Speaker 2: live down here. I think the same sort of thing
36:16
Speaker 2: is happening right around the country. You know, we're getting
36:18
Speaker 2: more and more people coming into this country, but nonsense
36:21
Speaker 2: to be planning and building more hospitals and getting all
36:23
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff done. So that's my concern, That
36:27
Speaker 2: is my huge, huge concern. That we're going to this trouble.
36:31
Speaker 2: But for the people who are testing positive and they
36:35
Speaker 2: are stage three or four, like I said, there'll be
36:38
Speaker 2: quite a few of them. If they have to wait
36:40
Speaker 2: five months, they won't make it. They will be dead.
36:43
Speaker 2: Because if you catch bour cancer at stage three or four,
36:47
Speaker 2: it is the hardest one to fix. I'm one of
36:49
Speaker 2: the lucky ones. I'm so incredibly fortunate. My story is
36:52
Speaker 2: ridiculous how fortunate I am. But I'm worried about the future.
36:56
Speaker 2: And you know, if we have to get more colonosomy machines,
37:00
Speaker 2: what we're going to do. But for some reason, bow
37:03
Speaker 2: cancer is going the wrong way and nobody likes it.
37:06
Speaker 2: At bout Cancer Australia.
37:10
Speaker 3: I'll follow that up and I'll get some of the
37:13
Speaker 3: either state government ministers responsible or the health experts and
37:16
Speaker 3: try and explain that to me. So I want to
37:18
Speaker 3: ask you about something a different issue. I mean, putting
37:21
Speaker 3: your sporting hat back on. The Paris Olympic Games are
37:25
Speaker 3: not far away now. We've got those magnificent swimming trials
37:28
Speaker 3: that I know you will have been watching that are
37:30
Speaker 3: underway right now. Our swimmers are breaking, it seems breaking
37:34
Speaker 3: world records every night.
37:36
Speaker 1: And don't forget.
37:37
Speaker 3: I mean, these are world records without those suits on
37:40
Speaker 3: that they wore years ago. But I can't believe that
37:44
Speaker 3: the parents of Olympians, who are already paying a fortune
37:48
Speaker 3: to fly to Paris to see their children compete in
37:52
Speaker 3: an Olympic Games, they are being asked to pay thousands
37:57
Speaker 3: of euros to secure tickets. Surely the parents, even if
38:02
Speaker 3: it's just mum and dad or mum and big sister
38:06
Speaker 3: or brother, would be eligible for a couple of free
38:09
Speaker 3: tickets to watch their children compete, wouldn't they.
38:12
Speaker 1: Oh?
38:12
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean you know what parents do. They go
38:15
Speaker 2: to the end of the earth for their kids. Yeah,
38:17
Speaker 2: even if it's local footy or local netball or golf
38:19
Speaker 2: or tennis or whatever it might be. But the parents
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Speaker 2: involved with swimming swimmers, getting them to the pool by
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Speaker 2: four thirty am in the morning, doing it all again
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Speaker 2: after school, then their dream is it's made for them.
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Speaker 2: The families over the moon, they start getting some tickets
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Speaker 2: to go overseas, it is going to cost them fifty
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Speaker 2: thousand Australian dollars. They need some help now. If how
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Speaker 2: many Olympians do we have going over two hundred and
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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty. Every family needs a bit of help.
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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't the government just put twenty thousand away breach
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Speaker 2: family of every athlete. I mean, we are a very,
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Speaker 2: very rich nation compared to others, and it is such
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Speaker 2: a shame to see the ones the parents who have
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Speaker 2: so much to do with getting their kids to Paris,
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Speaker 2: getting them stuck at home, or you having the mortgage
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Speaker 2: the house, or you know, getting way behind in the financials,
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Speaker 2: just to go and see their kid leave out their dream.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a real shame and it's something that
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Speaker 2: Elbow should be looking at.
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Speaker 3: The greatest swimmer on Earth currently, Arianne Tidmas, who broke
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Speaker 3: her own world record this week. Her parents are predicted
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Speaker 3: to have to fork out twenty thousand dollars just to
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Speaker 3: watch her swim. The mother of a female boxer from
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Speaker 3: Melbourne's made the Olympic team. She's had to buy tickets
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Speaker 3: in each of the sessions because she doesn't know when
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Speaker 3: her daughter is actually going to be tabled or predicted
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Speaker 3: to fight, so she's got to buy tickets for three
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Speaker 3: consecutive days. Makes no sense, mart No.
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Speaker 2: It's insane. That's absolutely insane. Steve, I hate hearing that,
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Speaker 2: I absolutely hate it because, like I said before, you
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Speaker 2: know the sacrifices it's make for their kids. That's not fair.
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Speaker 2: These kids are getting to the pinnacle of their sport
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Speaker 2: and we're letting their parents down. Something needs to change.
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Speaker 2: And look, it's potentially a really good story from somebody
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Speaker 2: in charge. Here's a political leader. Here's an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: do something great, to put smiles on faces of Australians
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Speaker 2: and help these families out so they can see their
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Speaker 2: kids do so well over there in Paris.
40:28
Speaker 3: Just briefly US Open golfs on. I know you'll be
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Speaker 3: watching it, so will I. Overnight. Rory McElroy five under,
40:35
Speaker 3: hasn't won a major for ten years. Can he finally
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Speaker 3: do it again?
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Speaker 2: Look he hit the ball pretty crooked today and still
40:41
Speaker 2: shot the five under without any Burghe's it was impressive.
40:45
Speaker 2: Scottie Scheffler's lurking, you know, hit the ball terrible and
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Speaker 2: still shot. I think it was just one over Parry's
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Speaker 2: la six behind. But keep an eye on a Swedish
40:53
Speaker 2: kid called Ludwig a Burg. He's a superstar. He hit
40:57
Speaker 2: every fairway today, averaging three hundred one yards three hundred
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Speaker 2: and twenty one yards, so two hundred and ninety meters
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Speaker 2: off the tea. Didn't miss a fairway. He's a superstar.
41:07
Speaker 2: I think he's going to win this week in his
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Speaker 2: third ever major at Pinehurst Number two.
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Speaker 3: Mark, thanks for updating us on the bow cancer issue.
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Speaker 3: I promise you I'll follow that up in the next
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Speaker 3: week while I'm filling in for Peter. Good on you mate.
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Speaker 3: Thanks pleasure, pleasure.
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Speaker 1: Plenty more to come after the break now.
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Speaker 3: Sidney and Melbourne have been declared as the least affordable
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Speaker 3: cities in which to purchase her house. Plus ex neighbors
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Speaker 3: star Holly Valance. This is a great story. She's had
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Speaker 3: a fundraiser in the UK for Donald Trump. You won't
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Speaker 3: believe how much money she's drummed up. All that with
41:43
Speaker 3: my panel up after the break, Welcome back, coming up
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Speaker 3: after me Prime Time with Deniko de Giorgio. Make sure
41:53
Speaker 3: you stick around. She'll have plenty for you to watch
41:55
Speaker 3: on this Friday night.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: I mentioned at the top of the show that the
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Speaker 3: union bullyboy John Setka from THEFMEU is continuing his threatening
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Speaker 3: campaign against the umpire's boss from the AFL, Steve mcbernie.
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Speaker 3: He now thinks it's acceptable to tell the Prime Minister
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Speaker 3: to stay out of it. I mean, this bloke really
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Speaker 3: is a dangerous person. Let's bring in tonight's panel, small
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Speaker 3: Business Women's Australia CEO Amanda Rose, who joins us regularly
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Speaker 3: on a Friday night, and Sky News contributor Gary Hargrave.
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Speaker 3: Let's start with you, Amanda. It's not a good look
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Speaker 3: when you can go around the country threatening individuals and
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Speaker 3: organizations like the AFL. But it seems to me that
42:38
Speaker 3: if you are a large donor to the Labor Party,
42:41
Speaker 3: whether it be a state branch or a federal branch,
42:44
Speaker 3: you can get away with this stuff and you don't
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Speaker 3: get much of a slap back.
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Speaker 11: Absolutely, it's the worst kept secret around that the unions
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Speaker 11: run the Labor Party, And if you just look at
42:54
Speaker 11: the legislation or anything that's been passed in the last
42:57
Speaker 11: couple of years, it's evident that the unions say go
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Speaker 11: and the Labor says okay, right, Well they say jump
43:04
Speaker 11: and they say how high. So this is what happens.
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Speaker 11: You give them so much power they can just assume
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Speaker 11: that they can bullying get their way and tell the
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Speaker 11: Prime Minister sit down.
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Speaker 3: Well, Gary We've got labor administrations in every state, as
43:18
Speaker 3: you know, and so you know Amanda's right there. I
43:22
Speaker 3: mean you and I are old enough to remember the
43:24
Speaker 3: bad old days of union thuggery and threats and picket lines.
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Speaker 3: I mean this bloke Setka when Grocon we're trying to
43:32
Speaker 3: build a project in Melbourne in twenty eleven, one of
43:36
Speaker 3: the bosses of Grocon drove through a picket line seconds
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Speaker 3: pounding on his windscreen shouting at this bloke, I hope
43:42
Speaker 3: you die from the cancer you've got.
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Speaker 12: It's the blf all over again, and they c FMU
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Speaker 12: is the blf re horn. But look this bloke Setcar
43:53
Speaker 12: is looking. He's looking for his ac mate. He saw
43:56
Speaker 12: Daniel Andrews get one of those for COVID, so he
43:59
Speaker 12: thinks I'll get one of those, don't bill ry meaty.
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Speaker 4: And he'll probably get it.
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Speaker 9: You see.
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Speaker 12: But look, in all seriousness, there is going to have
44:07
Speaker 12: to be a day of reckoning coming because the same
44:10
Speaker 12: thing's true in Queensland they have this building fund that
44:14
Speaker 12: gives extras basically called the CFMU tax. When nothing gets
44:17
Speaker 12: built in Brisbane unless money goes to the CFMAU along
44:21
Speaker 12: the way, nothing is going to change in Australia until
44:24
Speaker 12: we crack down on this mob and it's going to
44:26
Speaker 12: be like the Wolfy Strike of twenty eight years ago
44:28
Speaker 12: with the late Peter Reith dealt with that. Somebody's going
44:31
Speaker 12: to have to deal with it and it's going to
44:33
Speaker 12: be Peter Dutton and it's going to be a tough time.
44:36
Speaker 12: But we need to import more people with trade skills
44:38
Speaker 12: into Australia to break this union. They've got to be
44:41
Speaker 12: broken because they're right now destroying Australia right before our
44:44
Speaker 12: very eyes. That and Chris Boones high power prices, those
44:47
Speaker 12: two things are really buggering up the entire nation.
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Speaker 3: Frankly, Yep, you've got to stop go sign people being
44:54
Speaker 3: paid two hundred thousand dollars a year, Amanda, This won't
44:57
Speaker 3: surprise you at all. News overnight Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide
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Speaker 3: and Brisbanes not far behind have been declared the least
45:03
Speaker 3: affordable cities to buy a house in. We're seeing a
45:06
Speaker 3: government who continually adds to pressure by massive migration, which
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Speaker 3: I started the show with today, Amanda. Sydney, the only
45:14
Speaker 3: place in the world more expensive than Sydney to buy
45:16
Speaker 3: a house is Hong Kong. I mean, how can young
45:19
Speaker 3: people and all these migrants that we're bringing into the
45:22
Speaker 3: country ever buy a roof over their head.
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Speaker 11: Absolutely, And we need to be very clear here that
45:28
Speaker 11: it's actually a problem that's been going on for a
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Speaker 11: long time, so you know, a decade ago they should
45:32
Speaker 11: have been thinking about this and not just the last
45:35
Speaker 11: two years. And we need to be talking about people
45:37
Speaker 11: being able to buy a home and not just build
45:40
Speaker 11: to rent. We need to make sure we're not pulling
45:42
Speaker 11: away from helping people actually get their first home or
45:45
Speaker 11: families get a home, because all the narrative is now
45:48
Speaker 11: is community housing and build to rent and that's dangerous.
45:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, Gary Brisbane will be right up there in that
45:55
Speaker 3: unaffordability bracket, wouldn't.
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Speaker 12: They absolutely close? Two million dollars seems to be the
46:01
Speaker 12: price set now in Southeast Queenslane. Look, having a housing
46:04
Speaker 12: crisis is like getting mugged by tortoise. You can see
46:08
Speaker 12: it coming for a long time. And until state government's
46:11
Speaker 12: actually released land and we've got so much land that
46:13
Speaker 12: we don't use, we need new Australian cities. We actually
46:17
Speaker 12: need a half a dozen other big cities because the
46:20
Speaker 12: current big cities are not coping, and we need to
46:22
Speaker 12: create new big cities, new infrastructure that goes with her
46:25
Speaker 12: that and that will actually create economic development for the
46:28
Speaker 12: migrant class to move into.
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Speaker 4: I think that's part of it.
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Speaker 9: Steve, It's a big discussion.
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Speaker 3: It's got to be had, Amanda, were you a fan
46:36
Speaker 3: of neighbors and if so, Holly Valance, because she's turned
46:40
Speaker 3: out to be one of Donald Trump's biggest cheerleaders. She's
46:44
Speaker 3: married to a billionaire. She had this big function at
46:47
Speaker 3: her mansion in Chelsea, raised more money than anyone else
46:50
Speaker 3: in the world has outside of the United States. She's
46:54
Speaker 3: got a sister who's got exactly the opposite politics. I mean,
46:57
Speaker 3: it's fantastic. I think she's brilliant.
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Speaker 11: Look, I tell you what I'm enjoying. I'm enjoying how
47:03
Speaker 11: many people are being triggered by the fact that she
47:06
Speaker 11: married a billionaire and she's got an opinion, because you know,
47:09
Speaker 11: they have an opinion if you know you get out
47:11
Speaker 11: and you marry a billionaire. But what's really interesting is
47:13
Speaker 11: that everyone's got a problem. Everyone's got a problem with
47:16
Speaker 11: her raising money for Trump and you know, married a
47:19
Speaker 11: billionaire type thing. But no one had a problem with
47:21
Speaker 11: Alban EASi hanging out in a billionaire's home. Why people
47:24
Speaker 11: couldn't afford to pay their rent. So you know, you
47:26
Speaker 11: can't say I like that billionaire, but not that billionaire.
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Speaker 1: Gary.
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Speaker 3: You've got the situation where the man who's standing against
47:37
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. We've seen these pictures today of poor old
47:39
Speaker 3: Joe Biden. He was at the G seven and he
47:42
Speaker 3: started wandering off right of screen. The Italian Prime minister
47:49
Speaker 3: she had to go and drag him back into the
47:51
Speaker 3: middle of the meeting. This is almost elderly abuse, isn't it.
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Speaker 12: Absolutely And the last thing you need to do is
47:59
Speaker 12: to in an eight one eighty two year old bloke
48:02
Speaker 12: with jet layer because he thinks he's still on the
48:04
Speaker 12: beach of Normandy. He still thinks he's at last week's
48:07
Speaker 12: an event. He actually saluted the Italian Prime Minister at
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Speaker 12: one stage in the last twenty four hours.
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Speaker 9: It's very sad.
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Speaker 12: It's sending the wrong signals to the enemies of the West,
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Speaker 12: and there's plenty of them around the world. We have
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Speaker 12: a very weak and woke president of the United States.
48:22
Speaker 12: That is why the world is in peril. Wait till
48:25
Speaker 12: Donald Trump is back there because Frankly, he's the only
48:27
Speaker 12: hope for the side right now to get world peace.
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Speaker 3: Pretty simple. Yeah, I think that's right. Amanda Ro's Gary Hargrave.
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Speaker 3: All is a pleasure to catch up with you both.
48:35
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for joining us tonight. I'll be
48:38
Speaker 3: back next week filling in for Peter Kredlin. I just
48:42
Speaker 3: want to repeat that the federal government's got to do
48:45
Speaker 3: something about these tickets for parents of athletes, maybe not
48:49
Speaker 3: the high profile ones, but the lower profile ones. Danika
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Speaker 3: de Giorgio up next. I'll see you next week.