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Steve Price | 6 March · Steve Price

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Speaker 1: Live.
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Speaker 2: This is Steve Price.
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Speaker 1: Good evening to the show Steve Price, with you heading
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Speaker 1: into day six of the war against Iran, as the
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Speaker 1: retail price of fuel in Australia spikes with tips at
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Speaker 1: petrol pull go to three dollars a leter. More on
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Speaker 1: that shortly. Here's coming up. Here's what's coming up this
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Speaker 1: Friday night in the program, the very latest on that conflict,
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Speaker 1: including the Prime Minister confirming to Sky that three Australian
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Speaker 1: sailors were on board that US Virginia class nuclear submarine
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Speaker 1: that sank an Iranian warship, plus the US Secretary of
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Speaker 1: War Pete Hexath warns, I ran the Americans are in
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Speaker 1: for the long haul to force regime change. Retail petrol prices,
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Speaker 1: I said, have begun a steady increase that will hit
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Speaker 1: not just motorists, but will cause a spike in food prices,
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Speaker 1: fuel inflation, and put pressure on for another interest rate rise.
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Speaker 1: I'll catch up first up tonight with Peter Curry from
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Speaker 1: the NRIMA. The busted state that is Victor Vitoria revelations today.
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Speaker 1: You won't believe this. Its debt has skyrocketed by ten
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Speaker 1: billion dollars in just the last six months, plus a
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Speaker 1: huge renovation bill for the Albert Park Haddick Club facility,
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Speaker 1: which is going to be knocked over after this weekend.
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Speaker 1: ZF one Grand Prix is over. Deputy Liberal Leader and
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Speaker 1: boss for the Liberals of Major Projects, David Southwick will
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Speaker 1: join me shortly and later the Great Mark Knight. He's
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Speaker 1: had another great week in cartooning. He'll join us, as
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Speaker 1: he does every couple of Fridays. But first to the
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Speaker 1: conflict in the Middle East changes not by the hour,
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Speaker 1: I think it changes by the minute. It's really hard
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Speaker 1: to keep up. As I said, Australian sailors have now
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Speaker 1: been confirmed being aboard that nuclear submarine that hit an
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Speaker 1: Iranian warship. Why anyone would be concerned about that is
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Speaker 1: beyond me. But there's some crazy debate about that now
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Speaker 1: drags us into the conflict. Rubbish. President Donald Trump even
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Speaker 1: today claiming the Iranian navy itself has been so badly crippled.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump says, twenty four ships have been sunk.
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Speaker 3: But we have the greatest military anywhere in the world.
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Speaker 3: Their navy is gone twenty four ships in three days.
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Speaker 3: That's a lot of ships. Their anti aircraft weapons are
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Speaker 3: gone so they have no air force, they have no
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Speaker 3: air defense. All of their airplanes are gone, their communications
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Speaker 3: are gone, missiles are goun launches are gone about sixty
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Speaker 3: percent and sixty four respectively. Other than that, they're doing
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Speaker 3: quite well.
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Speaker 1: And then the Secretary of War Pete Higgsth in another briefing,
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Speaker 1: warned the Iranians to not start thinking they can simply
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Speaker 1: wait till or outlast the US. He pledged that they
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Speaker 1: the Americans would go on as long as they need to.
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Speaker 4: Iran cannot outlast us. We're going to ensure through violence
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Speaker 4: of action and are off defensive capabilities and our defensive capabilities.
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Speaker 4: As I said that, we set the tone and the
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Speaker 4: tempo of this fate. That's why stories and speculation about
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Speaker 4: different things that try to make it look like we're
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Speaker 4: limited in what we can do. The only limits we
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Speaker 4: have in this is President Trump's desire to achieve specific effects.
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Speaker 1: One aspect of the joint American Israeli attack on Iran
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Speaker 1: has been the absence of a wider coalition force, something
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Speaker 1: that Australia knows only to will going all the way back,
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Speaker 1: of course, to the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, Australian SAS
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Speaker 1: troops famously, posts the September eleven attack on the World
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Speaker 1: Trade Center were revealed to be pivotal in inserting themselves
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Speaker 1: undercover into that conflict in Afghanistan, with the Taliban guiding
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Speaker 1: American Air Force assets toward the enemy. Likewise, we were
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Speaker 1: part of the wider coalition in Iraq, as you would
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Speaker 1: remember with the late Major General Jim Molean, the chief
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Speaker 1: of Operations of Coalition forces back in two thousand and four.
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Speaker 1: What a great man he was. This time, the Americans
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Speaker 1: clearly don't seem to have asked Australia to get involved,
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Speaker 1: unlike their requests to NATO countries like the UK, France
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Speaker 1: and Spain. I guess that is around real estate. But
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Speaker 1: that has upset Donald Trump Trump when they either refused
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Speaker 1: or appeared reluctant to put their hands up. President Trump
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Speaker 1: even labeled UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer as being no
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Speaker 1: Winston Churchill. Well, we didn't need him to tell us
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Speaker 1: that here he is.
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Speaker 3: Not happy with the UK either.
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Speaker 2: This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with.
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Speaker 1: When you look at Starmer's public comments, you know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you can't blame Donald Trump for feeling let down by
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Speaker 1: the British Prime minist watch this and we.
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Speaker 5: Long standing British position is that the best way forward
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Speaker 5: for the regime on the world there's a negotiated settlement
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Speaker 5: with her arm where they give up their nuclear ambitions.
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Speaker 1: That that's why I.
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Speaker 5: Took the decision that the UK would not join the
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Speaker 5: initial strikes on Iran, and I stand by.
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Speaker 1: It the great UK. How'd you like to be led
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Speaker 1: by him? Kieran Gilbert, in an exclusive interview today with
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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister, said this on sky this morning when
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Speaker 1: he was asked if he was disappointed with his friend
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Speaker 1: Kirs Stamer.
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Speaker 6: Look, my job is to assess Australia's position and I
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Speaker 6: think that the attack on Australian soil made our position
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Speaker 6: quite clear. It really brought home to Australians that the
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Speaker 6: nature of this regime wasn't just engaging in proxy terrorism
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Speaker 6: through hamas Hezbola the who he is, but was prepared
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Speaker 6: to reach across the other side of the world.
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Speaker 1: Hardly outstanding inspirational leadership there either, not surprise the Prime
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Speaker 1: Minister did not want to buy into that little argument.
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Speaker 1: But what this conflict is showing you can't necessarily presume
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Speaker 1: that the old alliances are solid inspect the old outcomes
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Speaker 1: to be the same today. In that same interview, the
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister was also unwilling to buy into the criticism
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Speaker 1: of mosques in Sydney and Melbourne holding events mourning the
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Speaker 1: death of Aetola.
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Speaker 6: Hemine, what I'm interested in is promoting social cohesion. I'm
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Speaker 6: also at the same time promoting a consistent and clear
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Speaker 6: and unequivocal Australian foreign policy.
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Speaker 7: And will our agencies be monitoring those around those groups?
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Speaker 1: Look look where espousing.
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Speaker 7: Sort of support for the dead Ayetola.
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Speaker 6: What our agencies do as do their work. We allow
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Speaker 6: them to do their work and without ongoing running commentary pity.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't talk like Chris Mins who said that those mosses
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Speaker 1: should be banned from doing that. Prime Minister also telling Li,
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Speaker 1: started talking about the likely impact the war against Iran
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Speaker 1: might have on energy prices, not just petrol prices but
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Speaker 1: wider energy costs of things like gas. You're going to
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Speaker 1: have a massive impact economically on US two, isn't it.
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Speaker 6: Look there is no question that when you have a
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Speaker 6: global event like this, it will have an economic impact.
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Speaker 6: We're not immune from that. That is factored in by
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Speaker 6: how long this lasts. For the way that this plays
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Speaker 6: out will of course have an impact on supply chains
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Speaker 6: as well, so we're monitoring that on a regular basis.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to remind everybody watching how Labor constantly blamed
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Speaker 1: the war in Ukraine as the reason it's promised electricity
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Speaker 1: price drops never happened. It seems like we're going down
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Speaker 1: that road yet again, and I predict it won't be
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Speaker 1: long before the argument around cutting the xis on petrol
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Speaker 1: starts getting raised again. Speaking of that, the impact on
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Speaker 1: petrol prices has already hit across Sydney and Melbourne and
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Speaker 1: the rest of Australia. There's been a significant shift in
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Speaker 1: retail fuel prices. Concerns about the armed conflict. Obviously it's
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Speaker 1: prompted accusations of price gouging. Well, it's happened. Global oil
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Speaker 1: prices obviously go up. It should take at least a
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Speaker 1: week to reach Australian pumps, but that's not the case.
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Speaker 1: Peter Koury from the NRAMA joins us we're being ripped off,
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Speaker 1: aren't we, Pete.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty bad. I'm not going to lie. We were
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Speaker 2: worried about this. Once the war started on Monday, we
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Speaker 2: came out, the NRMA came out and warned the oil companies.
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Speaker 2: We knew all prices were going to go up. We
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Speaker 2: knew the wholestale price was going to go up. We
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Speaker 2: called on the oil companies to not use this as
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Speaker 2: an advantage to put their prices up even higher than
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Speaker 2: they needed to go. Now, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane were already
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Speaker 2: at the high point of their cycle. They had been
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Speaker 2: the week prior. And what's happened since is the price
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Speaker 2: as those service stations in those cities that were already
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Speaker 2: fifty sixty cents higher than the wholestale price have effectively
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Speaker 2: stayed there. So as the wholesale price went up, they
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Speaker 2: kept putting their prices up. And it looks like the
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Speaker 2: high point of the cycle is just not going to
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Speaker 2: end in those three cities, which is really alarming, particularly
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Speaker 2: when you look at Adelaide and Perth and the fact
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Speaker 2: that they're twenty thirty cents almost cheaper than the East
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Speaker 2: Coast cities.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. At a compound that, we've got a long weekend
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Speaker 1: in Victoria and we always know what happens with the
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Speaker 1: long weekend. Pete look, I filled up with ninety eight
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Speaker 1: ron this morning. I paid two dollars eighteen a litera
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Speaker 1: in a BP station at nine am. Two hours later,
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Speaker 1: I went back and checked it was already up to
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Speaker 1: two dollars thirty seven point nine. I mean, how can
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Speaker 1: that happen? I asked the blow behind the counter at
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Speaker 1: BP why. He just shugged his shoulders and said, well, sorry, mate,
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Speaker 1: it's not my fault.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's most probably not his fault either. But it look,
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Speaker 2: as I said, we knew the prices were going to
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Speaker 2: go up in the middle of a crisis. The straight
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Speaker 2: uprom was one of the most important bodies of water
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Speaker 2: when it comes to transporting oil around the world. About
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Speaker 2: a fifth of it goes through there every day. Is
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Speaker 2: sharp refiners have been hit. The conflict doesn't look like
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Speaker 2: it's going to de escalate anytime soon. That's been reflected
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Speaker 2: in crew prices globally. Our regional price Tapus has gone up.
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Speaker 2: It's now trading at eighty eight dollars a barrel or
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Speaker 2: I dropped a dollar last night, which was interesting, and
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Speaker 2: the wholesale price has gone up, so you are going
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Speaker 2: to see prices go up. But the problem we've got
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Speaker 2: is this last week. We're at the top of the
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Speaker 2: cycle and the three biggest cities they were already charging
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Speaker 2: handsomely compared to the wholesale price. By now those three cities,
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Speaker 2: the averages should have started to fall. We know they're
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Speaker 2: not going to fall to the same level we would
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Speaker 2: have expected had this war not started, we'd had fourteen
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Speaker 2: months of stable, lower fuel prices, but instead they've just
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Speaker 2: continued to go up. And right across the country we're
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Speaker 2: seeing prices going up now, which is what we've expected.
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Speaker 2: But there's going up and then there's going up, and
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Speaker 2: some of the prices we're seeing are just ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the impact this is
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Speaker 1: going to have on the broader economy in a sect,
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Speaker 1: But is there an argument here that the A Triple
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Speaker 1: C should step in.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't do this often because we have a
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Speaker 2: good sense of where the prices go and where they
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Speaker 2: need to go. So it's not often that the NRMA
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Speaker 2: and other parties, the RACQ joined us this week, the government,
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Speaker 2: the opposition of all called on aill companies. But we've
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Speaker 2: asked the apable C to do what we're doing tonight,
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Speaker 2: and that is by those brands that are higher than
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Speaker 2: they should be, higher than they should have been all week.
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Speaker 2: Call them out, name them and shame them and tell
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Speaker 2: them to drop their prices. It's amazing the difference that
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Speaker 2: can have when it's been done. In the past. We've
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Speaker 2: had fourteen months of stable prices. Nobody is saying the
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Speaker 2: service stations should it make a profit. But excuse me,
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Speaker 2: what we're seeing right now, in the middle of a
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Speaker 2: global crisis is clearly unacceptable. Families are struggling. Cost of
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Speaker 2: living continues to be the number one political issue in Australia.
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Speaker 2: This is just going to make it worse.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, on that, it's obviously going to add to inflation.
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Speaker 1: I was listening to a talkback caller today. A long
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Speaker 1: haul truck driver called into three ourw He has four
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Speaker 1: five hundred liter diesel tanks on his prime mover that
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Speaker 1: he goes between Perth and Melbourne. He said, if we
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Speaker 1: get to three dollars, then it's going to add one
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars per fill up for that truck and for
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Speaker 1: his trip to Perth and back, it's going to cost
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Speaker 1: an extra ten thousand dollars. Now, if he's hauling food
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Speaker 1: or whatever, he's hauling. That's going to go straight on
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Speaker 1: the retail price of whatever that is, right, Well, we
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Speaker 1: know it.
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Speaker 2: Does when we've seen it. How many times have we
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Speaker 2: seen it? The RBA would consistently come out when the
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Speaker 2: last time we saw hyper prices back when Russia invaded Ukraine,
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Speaker 2: puil was consistently the number one thing that was putting
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Speaker 2: up in prelation and holding Australians back from an interest
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Speaker 2: rate part. We don't want to go back there again.
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Speaker 2: The crude prices for unletted or at eighty eight dollars
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Speaker 2: a barrel. Back then there were one hundred and thirty
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Speaker 2: three gasol, which is the regional benchmark for diesel. It's
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Speaker 2: gone up considerably. It's at one hundred and fifty three,
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Speaker 2: but back then it was at one hundred and eighty six,
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Speaker 2: and so we know diesel prices are going to go up.
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Speaker 2: The wholesale price for diesel now is two dollars a liter,
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Speaker 2: so we know those prices are going to go up.
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Speaker 2: They're already going to have a significant impact on inflation
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Speaker 2: on the cost of everything that we deliver. Australia's economy
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Speaker 2: runs on diesel, so the food and the groceries, the furniture,
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Speaker 2: I mean, industry runs on diesel. All of that's going
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Speaker 2: to go up. We don't want it to go up
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Speaker 2: any more than it needs to, because the higher it goes,
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Speaker 2: the worse it's going to be for the country.
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Speaker 1: Pete, good catch up with here, Thanks for your help
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Speaker 1: as usual. Now fresh figures out today talking about debt
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Speaker 1: and budgets. Victoria's debt pole. Can you believe this is
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Speaker 1: a fresh figures only out this afternoon has grown by
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Speaker 1: ten billion, that's ten thousand million dollars in just the
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Speaker 1: past six months, now hitting one hundred and sixty billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: It's absolutely staggering. Joining me now as the state crawls
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Speaker 1: or tries to crawl out of that black hole. Shadow
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Speaker 1: Minister for Major Events, David Southwick, those numbers just came
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Speaker 1: out late today. How were you shocked?
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Speaker 8: Eye watering numbers, Steve. This government spends money like there's
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Speaker 8: no tomorrow. If this is with kids, your kids spending
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Speaker 8: that money, you cut up their credit cards and we
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Speaker 8: know it's a million dollars an hour, a million dollars.
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Speaker 8: That really doesn't get to fixing things like fixing our potholes,
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Speaker 8: our schools that are in desperate need to repair, and
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Speaker 8: our police stations that are being shutters resolved to the
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Speaker 8: government not being able to fund them. So debt, we
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Speaker 8: are in a debt crisis and the government just doesn't
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Speaker 8: care about money. They just look at it and say,
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Speaker 8: you know who cares. In fact, we're in Parliament only
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Speaker 8: this week and we're talking about the fifteen billion dollars
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Speaker 8: worth of corruption that we've caught the government by mismanaging,
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Speaker 8: and that they just dismissed it and said, you know what, well,
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Speaker 8: these are the cost of doing projects. Well, it's not
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Speaker 8: the cost of anything, because ultimately it's taxpayers that pay
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Speaker 8: the price.
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Speaker 1: You suspect at some point just Cinda Allen's going to
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Speaker 1: have to ask Camberra to buy a Victoria.
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Speaker 8: Opp Well, I'll tell you, I don't know who'd be
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Speaker 8: bailing Jacinda Ellen out because you know, if you'd lend
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Speaker 8: her anything, it would be spent. That's the problem. Completely
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Speaker 8: financially irresponsible government that doesn't look at anything when it
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Speaker 8: comes to managing money. We're all paying for it, as
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Speaker 8: I said, every part of our services. They're blown out.
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Speaker 8: For the police to come out today and say it
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Speaker 8: would be a lucky dip whether you would get a
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Speaker 8: police station open in Victoria because we don't have the
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Speaker 8: police and the money to fund the police. I think
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Speaker 8: that's the symbol of the symptom rather of the debt
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Speaker 8: crisis that Victoria is in.
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Speaker 1: You and Jess Wilson are going to inherit this. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a hell of a job to
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Speaker 1: dig yourselves out of that hole.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I mean the consequence of all of this
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Speaker 8: is we've been taught, We've spoken about a fair bit
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Speaker 8: Steve in the past, is confidence we have the anywhere
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Speaker 8: but Victoria where people are just leaving. They won't invest
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Speaker 8: in Victoria because there's no confidence in it. And I
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Speaker 8: think that's going to be the quick turnaround for a
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Speaker 8: fresh start for a new government is for us to
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Speaker 8: be able to roll out the red carpet for business investment,
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Speaker 8: to ensure people understand that we are open for business again.
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Speaker 8: We will manage the books properly and we will give
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Speaker 8: the opportunity to ensure that we're not wasting tax payers
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Speaker 8: and squeezing the lemon that there is. You know that
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Speaker 8: the figures today also showed that there's been a two
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Speaker 8: point one billion dollars in tax so with the highest
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Speaker 8: taxing state in the nation, and yet we've just creeped
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Speaker 8: up another two point one billion dollars that every tax
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Speaker 8: pay is paying, and that all all bleeds across to everything.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to get into in a moment, the eyewatering
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Speaker 1: cost of fixing up the Grand Prix Paddock Club building.
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Speaker 1: I've found out some figures today that will surprise me
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Speaker 1: but might not surprise you. First, I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about mismanagement of transport for the rest of our audience
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Speaker 1: outside of Melbourne. This weekend the Grand Prix here also
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Speaker 1: the AFL season starts and the moonber Festival is also
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Speaker 1: on the Yarrah, but residents in Melbourne's north are going
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Speaker 1: to have to catch buses because this government has shut
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Speaker 1: down on that very long weekend with all of those
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Speaker 1: major events shut down, three train lines for maintenance. Do
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Speaker 1: these people not look at the calendar.
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Speaker 8: You've got it in a nutshell. I mean, seriously, where
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Speaker 8: the event's capital. This is a great weekend to be
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Speaker 8: in Melbourne, Grand Prix footy starting and as they say,
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Speaker 8: mombar and they didn't wake up to this. They've known
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Speaker 8: that this has been happening on the calendar for twelve
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Speaker 8: months and we're going to cancel all of our train services.
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Speaker 1: What a joke.
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Speaker 8: I mean, this government doesn't get anything right. And again
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Speaker 8: it's the poor old commuters that have to struggle to
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Speaker 8: get there or to get around the city because they
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Speaker 8: just haven't managed it right. And no wonder we're losing things,
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Speaker 8: and we lost the Moto GP and other things as well.
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Speaker 8: I love Victorias as you do as well, Steve, but
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Speaker 8: we've got to do a bit better than what we're
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Speaker 8: currently doing.
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Speaker 1: Well in your role as major events. I mean, look,
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Speaker 1: I love the Grand Prix. I mean I've supported it
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Speaker 1: from day one. I can remember supporting it when Ron
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Speaker 1: Walker and Jeff Kennett went down to Albert Park and
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Speaker 1: had things thrown at them. I think it's brilliant that
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Speaker 1: we have it here. We broke cloud records yesterday again
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Speaker 1: today it's going to be a weekend, which is fantastic.
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Speaker 1: But this government under Dan Andrews, rewrote the Grand Prix
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Speaker 1: contract with Formula one, and part of the rewriting of
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Speaker 1: that contract was that they had to rebuild the pit
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Speaker 1: complex because that's now old and dated. Although when I've
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Speaker 1: been there it doesn't seem too bad to me. Well,
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Speaker 1: I've now discovered apparently when they knock it over, which
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Speaker 1: will happen after this weekend, there is asbestos involved. And
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Speaker 1: now we're told that there will be a blowout of
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Speaker 1: somewhere around one hundred and fifteen million. The reports today
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Speaker 1: in the heralds unsay that it could go up to
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Speaker 1: about three hundred ninety five million to replace this site.
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Speaker 1: I'm told it could be as much as double that.
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Speaker 1: It could end up costing seven hundred million dollars. And
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Speaker 1: I've got to remind everyone that's that facility is basically
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Speaker 1: used four days every year.
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Speaker 8: So we love the Grand Prix. Anything important and crucial
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Speaker 8: to Melbourne, as you've pointed out, Steve, but in all things,
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Speaker 8: you've got to manage them properly. You've got to do
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Speaker 8: things a bit smarter. And at the start of your
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Speaker 8: program we spoke about debt and budget blowouts and this
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Speaker 8: is symbolic of all of that. The most disturbing thing
20:15
Speaker 8: of all of this, too, is the government knew about
20:17
Speaker 8: this for over six months and we're only finding out
20:20
Speaker 8: about it now. They've hidden the fact that they've had
20:22
Speaker 8: this problem. We now also know that potentially they may
20:26
Speaker 8: not get this done and complete in time for twenty
20:29
Speaker 8: twenty eight. So everything takes time, everything costs money. Victorians
20:34
Speaker 8: pay for it. It is important to upgrade these facilities.
20:37
Speaker 8: We lost Moto GP. One of the reasons that people
20:40
Speaker 8: alluded to was they didn't have the facilities as best
20:44
Speaker 8: as they could be. So you need good facilities, but
20:46
Speaker 8: at the same time you need value for money in
20:48
Speaker 8: the way that you get them. We don't get that
20:50
Speaker 8: in Victoria under Ja Cinderella and her government. And I
20:53
Speaker 8: can promise you this, under a Jess Wilson government, we
20:56
Speaker 8: will always do things better. We will always manage people's money,
21:00
Speaker 8: certainly a lot better than this government does, and will
21:02
Speaker 8: get value for money for all taxpayers.
21:05
Speaker 1: Just before you go, I've written a column today suggesting
21:07
Speaker 1: perhaps the coalition in opposition should say that you're not
21:11
Speaker 1: going to support work from home. Any chance of you
21:14
Speaker 1: doing that.
21:16
Speaker 7: Now?
21:17
Speaker 1: I saw that.
21:19
Speaker 8: Look, Steve, I think we all know that work from
21:22
Speaker 8: home it's here to say flexible working. This is just
21:25
Speaker 8: Cinda Ellen's policy in terms of what she's going to
21:28
Speaker 8: do with it. We need to know what it actually means,
21:30
Speaker 8: you know, is it pilots police officers, teachers, healthcare workers
21:36
Speaker 8: that we know have to work can't work from home.
21:39
Speaker 8: Let's get the detail the Premier is saying we have
21:42
Speaker 8: to wait until September. If the Premier is bang on
21:44
Speaker 8: about this, let's get it now so we can actually
21:46
Speaker 8: understand what she wants to legislate and understand it.
21:50
Speaker 1: This is the.
21:50
Speaker 8: Premier's policy, very light on detail. It's all about, you know,
21:55
Speaker 8: trying to bump it as far as she possibly can.
21:58
Speaker 8: I just think all Victorians need to actually understand what
22:01
Speaker 8: she's talking about.
22:02
Speaker 1: If she gets it through and it stays there though.
22:05
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a boss running a small business which
22:07
Speaker 1: now is captured by this, I'm going to say to myself, well,
22:11
Speaker 1: if i can't get my staff in the office at
22:14
Speaker 1: least five days a week or maybe four by law,
22:18
Speaker 1: then I'm going to go somewhere else, or I'm going
22:20
Speaker 1: to offshore those jobs so that I don't have to
22:23
Speaker 1: put up with this. I mean, bosses shouldn't be told
22:26
Speaker 1: by their staff. You can have a negotiation, that's fine,
22:29
Speaker 1: but it should not be law that you have to
22:32
Speaker 1: let staff have two days out of the office every week.
22:38
Speaker 8: Well, as I say, people are working from home and
22:41
Speaker 8: there is that flexible arrangement. It's being done. It's being
22:43
Speaker 8: done well, and I think that choice is really important
22:46
Speaker 8: to all Victorians. The Premier wants to legislate it, Let's
22:49
Speaker 8: see what she's talking about. Like at the moment, we
22:51
Speaker 8: don't have anything other than a couple of headlines and
22:54
Speaker 8: light on detail. The Premier is saying that we're not
22:57
Speaker 8: going to see it until September, and by that stage
22:59
Speaker 8: you won't even know for the election. So I just say,
23:01
Speaker 8: if the Premier wants to do this and she believes
23:04
Speaker 8: it's going to work, let's see what she's actually talking about.
23:08
Speaker 1: Okay, David, thank you. It was a pleasure to catch
23:09
Speaker 1: up with the David South. They're coming up after the break,
23:12
Speaker 1: the very latest on the Iran conflict, plus the US
23:15
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Pete secreta War. I should say Pete hegseth.
23:20
Speaker 1: He warns around the Americans are in for the long
23:22
Speaker 1: haul to force raging regime change. Michael Schubridge joins me. Next,
23:30
Speaker 1: welcome back to Steve Price with you. Of course, it's
23:32
Speaker 1: Grand Prix weekend in Melbourne. That means that some of
23:35
Speaker 1: the biggest names in motorsport and in production of vehicles
23:38
Speaker 1: around the worlds in Melbourne, I noticed the Boss of
23:41
Speaker 1: Ford is here and has he given the Albernizi federal
23:45
Speaker 1: government a whack today with a quote along the lines
23:48
Speaker 1: of do you want engineers in your country or do
23:51
Speaker 1: you want Australia to become a nation of hairdressers? I mean,
23:56
Speaker 1: it really is quite extraordinary. I'll get to that with
23:59
Speaker 1: Cambell and shortly let's go back to the conflict in Iran.
24:02
Speaker 1: Speculation that the shock and all phase of the conflict
24:06
Speaker 1: is over the last five days. It's going to start
24:08
Speaker 1: to wind down, partly because the Israelis and US will
24:11
Speaker 1: have hit many of those major targets they wanted to
24:14
Speaker 1: hit anyway, join us. The Director of Strategic Analysis Australia,
24:19
Speaker 1: Michael Schubridge. Michael, where do you put the conflict in
24:23
Speaker 1: terms of where it goes next?
24:28
Speaker 9: Well, Steve, I think the intensity will remain, but you're right.
24:33
Speaker 9: I think the US and the Israelis are starting to
24:36
Speaker 9: run out of targets that they've been striking pretty effectively.
24:41
Speaker 9: So Iranian ballistic missile storage and launches in particular, the
24:47
Speaker 9: destruction has been pretty broad. That's reduced Iran's ability to
24:50
Speaker 9: launch ballistic missiles. They're still launching some, but nowhere near
24:54
Speaker 9: the numbers that people may have expected. Drone sites and
24:59
Speaker 9: storage sites been hit too, but the Iranians are able
25:03
Speaker 9: to keep launching drones more easily in bigger numbers because
25:06
Speaker 9: they're smaller things, they're easier to hide, and they're easier
25:09
Speaker 9: to launch. That'll continue. The Israelis are hitting a lot
25:14
Speaker 9: of government and police sights, and Pete Hesketh is talking
25:18
Speaker 9: about increasing the tempo of attacks into Iran, probably with bombers,
25:24
Speaker 9: the B fifty twos, B twos and even b ones.
25:29
Speaker 1: Just going back a bit, I mean I read today
25:30
Speaker 1: about the extraordinary missile that took out the former leader Kaminie,
25:37
Speaker 1: where this thing goes straight vertically up into the air
25:40
Speaker 1: of the edge of space Vitel, and then flips around
25:42
Speaker 1: and comes straight back down. There was pictures of that
25:46
Speaker 1: meeting house where they were before and after. What sort
25:49
Speaker 1: of technology is that it's extraordinary?
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Speaker 9: Well, these are precision directed ballistic missiles, and you're right,
25:57
Speaker 9: I mean they're at mac seven seven times the speed
26:01
Speaker 9: of sound when they accelerate down or even faster, so
26:04
Speaker 9: even without a warhead, just the kinetic impact of a
26:08
Speaker 9: missile that's gone up out of the atmosphere and then
26:11
Speaker 9: hurled down as enormous destructive power. And of course Iran
26:16
Speaker 9: has some ballistic missiles. Their targeting has been less precise
26:20
Speaker 9: and will probably get worse as the destruction of their
26:24
Speaker 9: headquarters and control systems fail, but they'll keep being able
26:28
Speaker 9: to do periodic launches, particularly targeting the Gulf States.
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Speaker 1: The level of intelligence of what to strike inside the
26:38
Speaker 1: borders of Iran where the leaders are I mean this
26:41
Speaker 1: whole idea that they've hacked into the cameras, the traffic
26:45
Speaker 1: cameras right through Tyran, I mean moss Ad. I'm saying
26:50
Speaker 1: moss Ad because it seems that they're sort of at
26:52
Speaker 1: the forefront of this. What an extraordinary amount of work
26:55
Speaker 1: they've done in the groundwork in preparation to take this on.
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Speaker 9: Well, yes, and that's going to be really destabilizing to
27:05
Speaker 9: the Iranian government and military. They don't know who to trust,
27:09
Speaker 9: they don't know what their adversaries know and don't know,
27:12
Speaker 9: and of course they've lost a whole chunk of their leadership.
27:15
Speaker 9: But it does look like the lower level Iranian military
27:20
Speaker 9: formations and drone units and missile units were planning to
27:25
Speaker 9: be able to operate alone, and that's what they're.
27:27
Speaker 1: Doing in Lebanon. I mean, the people of Lebanon who
27:33
Speaker 1: are not part of Hesbla must be getting absolutely sick
27:37
Speaker 1: and tired of being attacked by the Israelis. Because Hesbelar
27:41
Speaker 1: has been in the southern part of Lebanon. I mean,
27:44
Speaker 1: we saw extraordinary traffic jams of people trying to get
27:47
Speaker 1: away from those suburbs and get north. Why can't the
27:52
Speaker 1: administration in Lebanon helped to run these people out of
27:56
Speaker 1: their country.
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Speaker 9: It's a similar problem that any uprising is going to
28:03
Speaker 9: face in Iran. Who are the people with the most guns?
28:07
Speaker 9: And his Bolla is better armed than the Lebanese military.
28:11
Speaker 9: That's been an enduring problem.
28:14
Speaker 1: And you're right, the.
28:15
Speaker 9: Israeli ground offensive now into Lebanon is pushing a whole
28:20
Speaker 9: lot of refugees up into the rest of Lebanon, and
28:24
Speaker 9: that's enormously dislocating. And I'm not sure has Bolla or
28:27
Speaker 9: Israel are making any friends in the rest of Lebanon
28:30
Speaker 9: right now.
28:32
Speaker 1: We're just looking at live pictures there of Beirut. There
28:35
Speaker 1: is smoke in the air, obviously, and it seems it
28:39
Speaker 1: was broad daylight there at the moment, but obviously another
28:42
Speaker 1: couple of missiles have been fired into those southern suburbs.
28:45
Speaker 1: I mean it's such a densely populated city. I mean,
28:48
Speaker 1: just in the longer term, Michael. Finally, I mean, we
28:51
Speaker 1: don't want another Afghanistan. We don't want it to drag
28:54
Speaker 1: on for years. I mean, that was Australia's longest running
28:57
Speaker 1: war in terms of time spent in another country. How
29:01
Speaker 1: are we going to avoid this happening with the Iranian conflict?
29:07
Speaker 9: Well, I think probably best case is this war ends
29:13
Speaker 9: with a weakened Iran that poses far less of a
29:17
Speaker 9: threat to all of its neighbors. But that means that
29:22
Speaker 9: the war ends without regime change and without some flowering
29:27
Speaker 9: of democracy, because I can't see how that's possible without
29:31
Speaker 9: a big ground operation, and that's not something that the
29:34
Speaker 9: Americans or the Israelis seem to have in mind.
29:38
Speaker 1: Thanks for help, Michael, I was appreciated, Michael Schubridge. There
29:41
Speaker 1: also today, Anthony Abernezi has finally confirmed the military assets
29:45
Speaker 1: have been deployed to the Middle East. He's not saying
29:47
Speaker 1: exactly what I suspect. It's some aircraft and some crew
29:52
Speaker 1: with them to try and help with those repatriation efforts.
29:55
Speaker 1: I mean it's much easier getting people out on commercial airlines.
29:59
Speaker 1: I mean he's been accused being too slow, but that's
30:01
Speaker 1: now started to work. Joining us now from Queensland Premier
30:05
Speaker 1: and Friday Night Regular Campbell Newman Campbell. Great to see.
30:09
Speaker 1: You would have been watching this with great interest given
30:11
Speaker 1: your military background. The Americans and the Israelis have really
30:16
Speaker 1: gone hard for five now six days. They seem intent
30:20
Speaker 1: on crippling the defense of Iran. They seem to be
30:24
Speaker 1: well on their way to do that.
30:27
Speaker 10: I absolutely, Steve, and I think where we are now
30:29
Speaker 10: is that they've got pretty much air superiority over Iran,
30:33
Speaker 10: which then allows them to do a whole lot of
30:37
Speaker 10: quite deliberate, almost surgical things to potentially engender that regime
30:44
Speaker 10: change without and this would be probably a first in
30:47
Speaker 10: history without actually putting boots on the ground. Quite remarkable.
30:52
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, they are just by any number
30:56
Speaker 10: of metrics, the Iranians are really in terms of military sense,
31:01
Speaker 10: are really on their knees now. I mean the missiles
31:04
Speaker 10: coming out of Iran, the ballistic missiles are dropping off,
31:07
Speaker 10: the drone activity is dropping off as well, and you again,
31:13
Speaker 10: you can have Israel. You can see Israeli and American
31:16
Speaker 10: warplanes flying unhindered around the skies of Iran, and that
31:23
Speaker 10: allows you to do a whole lot of stuff in
31:24
Speaker 10: support of people on the ground who might be, for example,
31:28
Speaker 10: involved in a popular uprising.
31:31
Speaker 1: There's been some midlinformed criticism from the green side of
31:34
Speaker 1: politics that three Australians were on board that Virginia class
31:38
Speaker 1: nuclear submarine that sank the Iranian warship. I mean, these
31:42
Speaker 1: people just don't think we're going I mean, Orcus is
31:45
Speaker 1: all about us taking a number of these submarines and
31:49
Speaker 1: operating themselves within the Australian Navy. Of course we'd have
31:52
Speaker 1: people on board, wouldn't we.
31:56
Speaker 10: All of the Iranians have told by the security services,
32:01
Speaker 10: and the Prime Minister has been very strong on this.
32:03
Speaker 10: I must say, have organized terrorist attacks on Australian soil. Effectively,
32:08
Speaker 10: they've committed acts of war against Australia. We have a
32:12
Speaker 10: defense force. We we train members of the Defense Force
32:16
Speaker 10: to actually take hostile, violent action against our enemies. We
32:21
Speaker 10: hope they don't have to be involved in killing people,
32:24
Speaker 10: but that's what they're there to do. And if they're
32:27
Speaker 10: on an American nuclear submarine as part of their ultimate
32:30
Speaker 10: training for our own nukes, well that's their job. That's
32:36
Speaker 10: what they're there to do. The Greens live in La
32:39
Speaker 10: La Land. I mean, they love human rights, but for them,
32:43
Speaker 10: no one ever is obviously meant to stand up for
32:47
Speaker 10: human rights and actually take offensive action. You know, at
32:50
Speaker 10: the end of the day, the human rights we have
32:51
Speaker 10: in this world have been hard won with the blood
32:54
Speaker 10: and the sacrifice of others for us.
33:00
Speaker 1: I want to get your reaction to this. I mentioned
33:01
Speaker 1: earlier that the boss of Ford, Jim Farley, is actually
33:04
Speaker 1: in the country and he's come out and warned Anthony
33:07
Speaker 1: Albanese's government that tough vehicle emission rules could threaten thousands
33:13
Speaker 1: of Australian engineering jobs. Now Ford still employs a lot
33:16
Speaker 1: of engineers based in Geelong in Victoria. He's argued that
33:20
Speaker 1: that policy makes it harder for the Ford Motor Company
33:24
Speaker 1: to compete with their cheaper Chinese rivals. And he said,
33:28
Speaker 1: and I love this quote. Your government has to decide
33:30
Speaker 1: if they want engineers on your country or do you
33:33
Speaker 1: want to be a country of hairdressers and bankers. I
33:38
Speaker 1: love that sort of language. He's absolutely right, isn't he?
33:42
Speaker 10: Oh two writers, and that is where we're going. And
33:46
Speaker 10: the simple answer to this is, you know, get cut
33:50
Speaker 10: the regulation. And also what about consumer choice, Steve, I mean,
33:56
Speaker 10: I like driving a four wall drive. That's and many
34:00
Speaker 10: Australians who love going to the beach or four wheel
34:03
Speaker 10: driving and camping with their families, they want to drive
34:07
Speaker 10: an suv that has the capabilities to take them where
34:10
Speaker 10: a normal car wit and these policies of the federal
34:13
Speaker 10: government will make those vehicles, you know, more expensive, perhaps
34:17
Speaker 10: even uneconomic. And you know, then there's this issue that
34:22
Speaker 10: the head of Forwarders has quite rightfully put on the table.
34:25
Speaker 10: We will just be importing stuff from China and that's
34:30
Speaker 10: about time the government really wake up to it. But
34:33
Speaker 10: you can see this all over this country, these policies
34:36
Speaker 10: that involve regulation and feel good stuff for net zero,
34:40
Speaker 10: which is now a failed, discredited policy globally. You can
34:46
Speaker 10: see if we don't deregulate that things are getting a
34:49
Speaker 10: lot worse.
34:51
Speaker 1: We need to make stuff I mean. Finally went on
34:53
Speaker 1: to say that Australia is among the most expensive places
34:57
Speaker 1: to have engineers on the planet, and he talked about
35:01
Speaker 1: it would be much easier for me to base people
35:03
Speaker 1: in places like Vietnam or even South Africa. I mean,
35:07
Speaker 1: why would we chase a brand like Ford out of
35:10
Speaker 1: the country. We stopped making cars ourselves because it became uneconomic.
35:15
Speaker 1: We're now being swamped by cheap Chinese electric vehicles. There's
35:20
Speaker 1: hundreds of brands of these things coming in. I'm like you.
35:23
Speaker 1: I mean, if I want to drive a ute, I
35:25
Speaker 1: don't want to drive a build your dreams ute. I
35:28
Speaker 1: want to drive a Ford Ranger Raptor or at the
35:32
Speaker 1: very least, a Toyota High Lux. I mean, we've got
35:36
Speaker 1: to look wake up to ourselves.
35:39
Speaker 10: Well we do, mate, because wherever you turn on Australia today,
35:44
Speaker 10: these sorts of policies are cutting off opportunities for economic
35:48
Speaker 10: growth and most importantly jobs for Australians, Like we won't
35:53
Speaker 10: manufacture stuff here if we continue to have these sorts
35:57
Speaker 10: of regulations and high energy ices, bad industrial relations laws,
36:04
Speaker 10: and really difficult regulations in terms of trying to build
36:08
Speaker 10: new factories or businesses. By the way, I was watching
36:11
Speaker 10: Donald Trump canven a meeting in the White House yesterday morning.
36:16
Speaker 10: I was watching on Fox News, and he had the
36:18
Speaker 10: head of the it companies and the data centers. He had,
36:21
Speaker 10: the energy companies, he had the regulators and the Secretary
36:25
Speaker 10: of Energy, and their whole push was for dominance in
36:28
Speaker 10: AI but also achieving low power prices for all Americans.
36:35
Speaker 10: Now they don't even talk this way in this country.
36:38
Speaker 10: It's about oh, you know, well, they're fudging about why
36:41
Speaker 10: power prices are going up. There's a president and energy
36:44
Speaker 10: secretary with business and regulators saying we are going to
36:48
Speaker 10: cut the cost of power. We're going to fast track
36:52
Speaker 10: the approvals for new power stations. That's what we should
36:55
Speaker 10: be doing here.
36:57
Speaker 1: Yep, we're going to go down that road. Campbell, good on,
36:59
Speaker 1: You'll see you next Friday. Coming up after the break,
37:02
Speaker 1: Cartoons of the Week with our mate Herald Sun cartoonist
37:04
Speaker 1: Mark Knight. Welcome back to the Price with Yourron Dean.
37:14
Speaker 1: Coming up shortly, let's jump into our Friday night panel.
37:17
Speaker 1: Sky News contributor joins me every Friday night, Joe Hildebrandan
37:20
Speaker 1: from Women's Forum Australia Head of advocacy, Stephanie Bastian. Look,
37:26
Speaker 1: we can't go through the chat without obviously talking about Iran,
37:30
Speaker 1: but this story really caught my attention. Apparently researchers from
37:33
Speaker 1: the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales and
37:36
Speaker 1: the Adelaide UNI have been collaborating on drone related research
37:40
Speaker 1: with Iranian scientists. Joe, I mean, what's going on here?
37:46
Speaker 1: Does anyone keep an eye on what happens at Australia's universities.
37:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, the Chinese Communist Party does prices, so w
37:52
Speaker 7: you'd be pleased to know that. Yeah, this is the problem.
37:55
Speaker 7: I think that you have a lot of academics who
37:58
Speaker 7: are almost instinctively draw and I've written about this a
38:01
Speaker 7: couple of times this week, but basically you have you know,
38:05
Speaker 7: left wing activists, and that includes a lot of activist
38:07
Speaker 7: academics who think that anyone who the US is against,
38:12
Speaker 7: they must be for they see the US so much
38:15
Speaker 7: as the Great Satan, just like the Ayatola does that
38:18
Speaker 7: whoever you know, the US or God forbid, Israel is
38:21
Speaker 7: opposed to. They therefore see as a benign and non
38:25
Speaker 7: threatening on perhaps even a sort of global victim. And
38:29
Speaker 7: that means that they end up sort of holding hands
38:31
Speaker 7: with these terrible regimes like in the latest case Iran.
38:36
Speaker 7: We also see it with China as well. We've seen
38:39
Speaker 7: universities collaborating with the Chinese government because of course they
38:43
Speaker 7: see that as completely benign, and Donald Trump or the
38:46
Speaker 7: US as being completely evil. And I think that creeps
38:49
Speaker 7: into other fields as well. So when that is the
38:52
Speaker 7: discourse on a campus among your peers in say the
38:56
Speaker 7: humanity's faculties, and I think even the people who you
39:00
Speaker 7: I would hope were the more intelligent and sensible, actual
39:04
Speaker 7: skillful people in the science and engineering and those other
39:07
Speaker 7: more pointy headed faculties, I think it just sort of
39:11
Speaker 7: seeps through. And so I mean, how anyone could see
39:14
Speaker 7: Iran as anything but a horrendous, horrible, oppressive, bloody, theocratic
39:19
Speaker 7: totalitarian state is just beyond me.
39:23
Speaker 1: Steph. We're just seeing pictures there of the storage of
39:25
Speaker 1: some of these drones. I was talking to Michael Schubridge
39:27
Speaker 1: at the start of the program where he said, look,
39:29
Speaker 1: it's very hard to find where these things are hidden
39:31
Speaker 1: because they're smaller, and they're easier to disguise from attacks
39:36
Speaker 1: from the Americans in the Israelis. I think Penny Wong
39:39
Speaker 1: said in twenty twenty three, stop doing this. But you
39:42
Speaker 1: can quite make the argument that some of those drones
39:45
Speaker 1: we just saw would not have been produced without this
39:48
Speaker 1: help from these Australian universities.
39:51
Speaker 11: Well, that's the big concern, and the question is I mean,
39:53
Speaker 11: it seems that Penny Wong were at a polite letter
39:55
Speaker 11: requesting that they didn't continue with this collaboration. Yet that
39:59
Speaker 11: doesn't appear to be any follow up and it seems
40:02
Speaker 11: that the research has gone on. And I think these institutions,
40:05
Speaker 11: these universities are often tax funded. People want to know
40:08
Speaker 11: how much money's gone into this research and where it's gone.
40:11
Speaker 11: We're living in very termulous times now, where there's foreign
40:15
Speaker 11: conflicts and we have academia and academics and universities over
40:20
Speaker 11: on with lefties that fundamentally oppose the West and oppose
40:23
Speaker 11: Australia and America. And so I think that Pennywong actually
40:27
Speaker 11: needs to not only come out and emphatically prevent this
40:31
Speaker 11: research from going, but also answer some questions about how
40:33
Speaker 11: much funding's gone into this research, whether there has been
40:36
Speaker 11: follow up, and what she's going to do to stop
40:38
Speaker 11: it in the future.
40:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to hear from her about that. The
40:42
Speaker 1: Pharaoh Bye election Joe's now going to be May nine.
40:45
Speaker 1: I think the dates really interesting because it's about three
40:47
Speaker 1: days I think before the budget that would indicate to
40:51
Speaker 1: me that perhaps there's not going to be many things
40:53
Speaker 1: in the budget that are going to be very nice.
40:55
Speaker 1: It might be quite nasty. I'm also told that Pauline
40:59
Speaker 1: Hanson and Barnaby Joyce will be in Farah this weekend
41:02
Speaker 1: holding a rally. What you read on this it looks
41:06
Speaker 1: like being a four way contest. How bad would it
41:08
Speaker 1: be for the Liberals if they and Nationals if they
41:12
Speaker 1: were to lose this? Yeah, look it is.
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Speaker 7: It is going to be a very crowded contest, which
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Speaker 7: is why Labor obviously is not sticking its head above
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Speaker 7: the parapet. And of course, as you were suggested, you
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Speaker 7: know the government, a lot of people are doing it
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Speaker 7: tough at the moment. You've got the opposition tearing itself
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Speaker 7: apart and the government reaping the benefits of that. But
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Speaker 7: I don't think it's a particularly great time for a
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Speaker 7: Labor candidate to say, hey, vote for me. Aren't we
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Speaker 7: doing a great job? Isn't your life going swimmingly? So
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Speaker 7: I think that is the wise thing to do. The
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Speaker 7: budget will obviously be smashed by those inflationary pressures we've
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Speaker 7: already seen before the war and Iran happened. That's going
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Speaker 7: to have an even bigger and worse effect because of
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Speaker 7: the impact it's going to have on gas and petrol prices.
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Speaker 7: And yet still amid all of this, I find it
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Speaker 7: absolutely staggering that the Liberal and National Parties each running
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Speaker 7: candidates against each other as part of their three cornered
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Speaker 7: contest rules. It's perfectly legal within the party rules when
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Speaker 7: someone vacates, both Olbin and NAT can run against each other.
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Speaker 7: But you would think when the coalition is fighting for
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Speaker 7: its very survival, they could at least present a united
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Speaker 7: front against one nation which is going to face its
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Speaker 7: first real test at the Pharao by election notwithsound in
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Speaker 7: South Australia, and it's first big federal test. And yet
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Speaker 7: still they would rather fight with each other than unite
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Speaker 7: and fight the giant wolf that is at their door.
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Speaker 7: I find that absolutely staggering.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems dumb, not staggering, Steff. There's a climate
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Speaker 1: two hundred independent. She doesn't like to be called a
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Speaker 1: teal and names Michelle Milthorpe. My understanding is that she
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Speaker 1: won just about every booth in Aubury against Susan Lee
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Speaker 1: last time when the federal election was held, she's got
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Speaker 1: a real chance of winning this. You're probably going to
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Speaker 1: end up not seeing a Liberal and National or a
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Speaker 1: One Nation, but you might see a Teal.
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Speaker 11: Look, it's certainly possible, but Aubrey is only one third
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Speaker 11: of the electorate. She's still got to win two thirds
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Speaker 11: of those regional towns and she was pulling well below that,
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Speaker 11: about ten percent less than in Aubrey, with the Coalition
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Speaker 11: polling about forty four percent. So it's going to be
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Speaker 11: a really interesting contest. I think cost of living and
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Speaker 11: energy and water are big issues in those regions, and
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Speaker 11: the climate brand could potentially be toxic there. It's going
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Speaker 11: to be really interesting to see how One Nation polls.
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Speaker 2: I believe David Farley.
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Speaker 11: Is considered quite a high profile candidate One Nation and
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Speaker 11: yet to pre select. I believe that's all happening tomorrow.
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Speaker 11: But obviously Barnaby Joyce is also very popular in New
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Speaker 11: South Wales, so it's going to be interesting to see
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Speaker 11: how how it all pans out.
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Speaker 1: Just finally, Joe the Iranian female soccer team more obviously
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Speaker 1: against the Matilda's in the West a first game they played,
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Speaker 1: they didn't salute or seeing them national Anthem last night
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Speaker 1: they did. I suspect someone from either Iran or an
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Speaker 1: Iranian here has told them you better do what we
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Speaker 1: tell you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Well, look, I mean that is the very definition of
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Speaker 7: a totalitarian regime. And Iran is a totalitarian regime. You
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Speaker 7: cannot say the things that you want to say, you
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Speaker 7: cannot dress the way you would like to dress. It
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Speaker 7: controls the government. The Eyetilo God Rest his soul, and
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Speaker 7: the Revolutionary Guard control everything, the respect of your life,
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Speaker 7: and they're controlling this as well.
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Speaker 1: Of course. It's just atrocious and you know, really bad.
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Speaker 1: Thank you both for joining us. I appreciate it very much.
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Speaker 1: Peter Kredle will be back with you on Monday night,
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Speaker 1: I'm pleased to say, but coming up next as it
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