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The Rita Panahi Show | 23 May · The Rita Panahi Show

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  Speaker 1: On sco Lils Oscodia thinks it's the winder Panety Show.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Pannety Show coming
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  Speaker 2: up tonight.
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  Speaker 3: What's behind the rift between.
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  Speaker 2: The Victorian Liberal leader and the Federal Liberal leader Peter Darton.
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  Speaker 2: The new chair of the Australian Sports Commission, Kate Jenkins
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  Speaker 2: criticized for undermining female athletes with a raft of trans
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  Speaker 2: inclusion policies. David Limbrick joins me to discuss We'll have
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  Speaker 2: the Great Alex Epstein fact checking Albo's big battery claims,
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  Speaker 2: and Kinziscofield joins me with the latest celebrity news, including
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  Speaker 2: reports that Kate Blanchette has taken a stand on the
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  Speaker 2: Israeli Palestinian conflict and he left is losing it. We
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  Speaker 2: get marriage advice from the leader of the Free World.
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  Speaker 2: I said, have a young man think you getting married
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  Speaker 2: marrying a family.
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  Speaker 4: Of five or more daughters? I did my wife's sowld
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  Speaker 4: us a five sisters. You know why Wonderful's always love you.
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  Speaker 2: Here to go over the day's top stories, this Sky
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  Speaker 2: News contributor Kosher Gata Kosher. Just as the Victorian Liberals
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  Speaker 2: get some good news that had a fantastic poll in
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  Speaker 2: the Age. This week, John Pursuto, the hapless Leader goes
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  Speaker 2: and spoils it. It's got a feud with Peter Dutton happening,
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  Speaker 2: The Herald Sun reports, in a move that's done sections
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  Speaker 2: of the party and some of his own MPs. John
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  Speaker 2: Pursuita this week refused to attend a Liberal Party multicultural
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  Speaker 2: dinner headlined by Peter Dutton after being told he wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be allowed to make a speech. His political judgment is lacking,
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  Speaker 2: to say the least kosher.
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  Speaker 5: It would be hard to dry any other conclusion for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Not exactly covering himself in political savvy in fighting is
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  Speaker 5: never a good look. Having internal dirty laundry within a
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  Speaker 5: party airing out is never a good look. We see
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  Speaker 5: these cracks happening more and more in different political parties. Here,
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  Speaker 5: of course, it seems to all be downstream from that
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  Speaker 5: original sin of the more redeeming situation and amerquent sideways
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  Speaker 5: from there, and you're just seeing a show up in
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  Speaker 5: different ways. It was a bit ironic because it was
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  Speaker 5: a multicultural dinner and that's his portfolio. But here we are, and.
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  Speaker 2: It's said that more deeming a FED does have a
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  Speaker 2: FED bit to do about this rift. It's been reported
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  Speaker 2: Peter Dutton wasn't particularly happy with the timing of some
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  Speaker 2: of that action, undermining the lead up to the ast
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  Speaker 2: and by election. So you can understand why the FEDS
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  Speaker 2: would be looking on not too happy, because you would
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  Speaker 2: think if any state has a party that should be
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  Speaker 2: flying in opposition, it should be the Liberals.
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  Speaker 3: That the problems we've got in this.
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  Speaker 2: State, with the debt highest stet of any state in
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  Speaker 2: the country, state taxes going up, so much dissatisfaction, and
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  Speaker 2: yet despite this poll, I think most people would expect
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  Speaker 2: if there was an election today, labor would win.
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, a lot of people did expect that after the
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  Speaker 5: lock down fiasco as well, and we did have an election,
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  Speaker 5: So who knows. That's a bigger topic, but it does
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  Speaker 5: feel a little bit like snatching defeat from the jobs
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  Speaker 5: of victory. Yeah, all the fundamentals are favorable to the
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  Speaker 5: Liberal Party, as you pointed out, and it feels like
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of a head scratcher that if they're
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  Speaker 5: not able to advantage that for their own re electoral prospects,
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  Speaker 5: then what would they What would it take.
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  Speaker 2: Now to a story broken by the Australian newspaper that
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  Speaker 2: really exposes some troubling cultural issues at Channel nine, and
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  Speaker 2: the chief executive, Mike Sneezebe, is now urging the company's
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  Speaker 2: staff to come forward with any complaints about inappropriate behavior.
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  Speaker 2: This follows claims about former news boss Darren Wick's behavior,
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  Speaker 2: but Kosher, this concern for the welfare of stuff only
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  Speaker 2: came about after The Australian broke this story. Before that,
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  Speaker 2: they appeared to be going out of their way to
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  Speaker 2: hide any wrongdoing in the workplace. So excuse me if
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit dubious about their claims of caring
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  Speaker 2: about the welfare of staff.
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  Speaker 5: Now it has shades, and obviously this is still an
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  Speaker 5: investigation internally that's ongoing and that will run its course.
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  Speaker 5: But from what we know so far, it really to
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  Speaker 5: me had shades of all these other things that we've seen,
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  Speaker 5: whether it was Fox News, CBS, less members, Harvey Weinstein,
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  Speaker 5: and Hollywood, like in all those situations, Matt Lauer at NBC,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it was sort of not equating and give
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  Speaker 5: those people to this scenario, but it's in the same
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  Speaker 5: category basically of somebody who was obviously misbehaving against staff
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  Speaker 5: in a pretty egregious way. Everybody knew about it, and
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  Speaker 5: they never say anything until somebody leaks at breaks and
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  Speaker 5: it's impossible to ignore, and then they can conduct these
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  Speaker 5: internal investigations and maybe this is in the same.
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  Speaker 2: Vein Well, we'll say at this point nothing has been proven,
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  Speaker 2: but there's certainly allegations and how someone in a position
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  Speaker 2: of power left their job. I think that is also
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  Speaker 2: something that Channel I weren't completely transparent about it at
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  Speaker 2: the time. Reporter r V Yemeni has captured incredible footage
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  Speaker 2: of himself being threatened by pro Palestinian activists thugs really
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  Speaker 2: as Victoria police looked on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna what are you going
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  Speaker 4: to do live?
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  Speaker 3: What are you going to do live?
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  Speaker 6: What are you going to do live?
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  Speaker 7: What do you get my way?
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  Speaker 4: You're the camera?
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  Speaker 8: You want to me?
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  Speaker 4: Why did you turn my way?
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  Speaker 9: Why?
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  Speaker 10: Why did you turn?
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  Speaker 3: This is Victoria Kosher.
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  Speaker 2: The police watched a man throw what looked like a bottle,
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  Speaker 2: look like the threats were being made a lot of aggression,
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  Speaker 2: and they did nothing even as they see the entire
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  Speaker 2: I think being filmed.
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  Speaker 3: So if they've got.
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  Speaker 2: Someone here with a profile who's got a camera crew there,
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  Speaker 2: and they don't do nothing.
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  Speaker 3: I hate to.
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  Speaker 2: Think what their approach would be if you're just an
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  Speaker 2: ordinary person who's attacked in this way.
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  Speaker 5: For sure, it's hard to really understand why when there's
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  Speaker 5: such an obvious case of assault or violence, or somebody
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  Speaker 5: you know, flinging a bottle as you say, that's when
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  Speaker 5: it crosses that line. There's a lot of talk about
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  Speaker 5: freedom of speech and protecting protesters rights versus when it
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  Speaker 5: crosses over. That would be an example when it crossed over.
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  Speaker 5: And it is interesting. I'm not sure we could speculate
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  Speaker 5: that maybe there's politics that's baked into this issue so
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  Speaker 5: much that it's affecting the way the police are deciding
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  Speaker 5: and in real time what they do or don't do.
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  Speaker 5: But needless to say, for somebody like Avi who had
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  Speaker 5: a camera behind him and captures his footage, it's not
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  Speaker 5: a good look. And obviously he's gonna he's got a
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  Speaker 5: big audience and he's gonna market that and expose you know,
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  Speaker 5: what he experienced there.
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  Speaker 2: Victoria police really need to be far more consistent in
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  Speaker 2: how they apply the law. They can't have this two
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  Speaker 2: tier policing, selective policing where if they like the alleged victim,
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  Speaker 2: they step in. If they don't, then we can't do anything.
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  Speaker 2: This is really undermining faith in the police force. Now
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  Speaker 2: let's go to the UK, where Prime Minister Isshi Sunak
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  Speaker 2: made the surprise announcement that the general election will be
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  Speaker 2: held on July fourth this year. The Daily Telegraph calls
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  Speaker 2: it a gamble. That's putting it lightly. They also mocked
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  Speaker 2: his rain drenched appearance with things can only get wetter.
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  Speaker 3: His party is.
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  Speaker 2: Behind in the polls, Kosher badly, twenty seven points behind
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  Speaker 2: Labor according to the latest Yugov poll for The Times.
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  Speaker 3: But you have inflation falling. He's got this.
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  Speaker 2: Rwandant plan that finally seems to be making its way
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  Speaker 2: through Parliament. How do you assess this decision to go
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  Speaker 2: early when you're this far behind.
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  Speaker 3: It's a gamble.
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, gamble. I've heard it described as a suicide mission
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  Speaker 5: instead of I like that one better that you know
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  Speaker 5: you're going down, so just cut your losses and go out,
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  Speaker 5: go down on your own terms. Earlier who knows, but
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  Speaker 5: it seems like something along those lines. We talked earlier
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  Speaker 5: about snatching victory defeat from the jaws of victory. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 5: this is kind of the same thing that they had
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  Speaker 5: a massive majority in twenty nineteen. People in the UK
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  Speaker 5: are really really dissatisfied with both parties. Huge issues, immigration, inflation,
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  Speaker 5: all of that the same in their counterparts everywhere, and
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  Speaker 5: if there were ever a party that had an opportunity
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  Speaker 5: to present high contrast positions that address those issues, it
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  Speaker 5: should have been the Liberal Party. When they're in power.
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  Speaker 5: They completely failed to do that and many are not surprised,
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  Speaker 5: including people who are sympathetic to them or voters of them,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of them saying that they deserve to lose.
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  Speaker 3: Other tories have been so hopeless.
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  Speaker 2: They really have. They've been in power for such a
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  Speaker 2: length of time, but it seems like the bureaucracy is
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  Speaker 2: round the show and you really wonder how much worse
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  Speaker 2: lib it can be.
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  Speaker 3: I guess we'll find out very shortly.
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  Speaker 2: Now's who Israeli campaign group which is released really disturbing
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  Speaker 2: footage year and I do give a warning for people
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  Speaker 2: to step away from the television because this is disturbing footage.
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  Speaker 2: This is female troops being captured by her mass militants
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  Speaker 2: on October seven. The families of these victims want this
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  Speaker 2: footage to be shown. These young women are still hostages
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  Speaker 2: of her masks.
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  Speaker 4: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: And kosher.
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  Speaker 2: The plight of these hostages has been lost in the
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  Speaker 2: coverage that we're getting. There's nothing mentioned in all these
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  Speaker 2: protests and marches, the pro Palestinian marches and campus protests.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing said about the hostages. It's almost their hostile
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  Speaker 2: to any mention of the hostages. We saw the posters
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  Speaker 2: of the hostages being torn down early on and you
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  Speaker 2: look at that and it is just so sadistic and barbaric.
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  Speaker 5: It is a just stick and barbaric, and that's why
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  Speaker 5: the family members released it. I think as they're trying
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  Speaker 5: to bring attention back to this issue, they're being very
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  Speaker 5: critical of the leadership of israel leadership because these are
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  Speaker 5: Israeli troops and whether rightly or wrongly, they're saying, it's
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  Speaker 5: been more than six months, seven months, where is the
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  Speaker 5: hostage negotiation strategy, where is a hostage rescue plan? Why
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  Speaker 5: aren't they more of a focal point, as you say,
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  Speaker 5: And I think this issue is just morerphed. You know,
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  Speaker 5: its tentacles have turned up in all sorts of venues,
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  Speaker 5: from free speech to immigration, and different factions of people
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  Speaker 5: who view this Israel versus Palestine issue through different lens.
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  Speaker 5: But the one thing that was the most unifying in
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  Speaker 5: all of it was innocent hostages needing to be released.
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  Speaker 5: All sides generally agree with that, and it's completely gotten
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  Speaker 5: lost in the fog of war.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and some world leaders are rewarding Hamas's barbaric attack
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  Speaker 2: by announcing that they recognize the state of Israel. His
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  Speaker 2: Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris.
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  Speaker 11: Last month, I stood on these same steps with Prime
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  Speaker 11: Minister Sanchez of Spain, and we said that the point
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  Speaker 11: of recognizing the state of Palestine was coming closer. That
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  Speaker 11: point has now arrived. Today Ireland, Norway and Spain are
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  Speaker 11: announcing that we recognize the state of Palestine. Each of
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  Speaker 11: us will now undertake whatever national steps are necessary to
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  Speaker 11: give effect to that decision.
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  Speaker 2: Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote on x Today's decision
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  Speaker 2: sends a message to the Palestinians and the world that
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  Speaker 2: terrorism pa. He also said, these countries are choosing to
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  Speaker 2: reward her mass and I ran by recognizing a Palestinian
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  Speaker 2: state strong words, and then now before you go Kosher.
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  Speaker 2: Fox News's Bill Milujin has done superb work on the
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  Speaker 2: US border crisis, has been reporting on it for many
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  Speaker 2: Years've seen millions, yes, millions, pouring through that southern border
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  Speaker 2: illegally every year of Biden's presidency. Here he is interviewing
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  Speaker 2: some recent arrivals, and this group are not economic migrants
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  Speaker 2: from Mexico or even South America. They have traveled all
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  Speaker 2: the way from Asia and the Middle East to cross
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  Speaker 2: into the US through the southern border.
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  Speaker 8: Where he goes from the country, Folks, Pakistan, India, India, Turkey, Yeah, Turkey, Okay, Yeah, India,
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  Speaker 8: where he goes from Turkey, Turkey, Turkey. Where he goes
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  Speaker 8: from China, China, Where you guys from India, India, India.
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  Speaker 3: And Kosher.
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  Speaker 2: We're hearing the numbers may increase further because they want
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  Speaker 2: to take advantage of what could be Joe Biden's final
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  Speaker 2: months in office. And it really is incredible to see
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  Speaker 2: more than two million every year under Biden coming in
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  Speaker 2: this way so.
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  Speaker 5: Reason and in the era of airfare and air travel,
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  Speaker 5: it's not a surprise that people can travel and fly
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  Speaker 5: in from anywhere in the world across the border. That
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  Speaker 5: is wide open. This is an issue that is also
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  Speaker 5: unifying the electorate in a way as never before. People
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  Speaker 5: don't want it and it may well be his downfall.
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  Speaker 2: Kosha Gator, thank you so much for your time to
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  Speaker 2: save me. Joining me now is Victorian Libertarian MP David Limbrica.
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  Speaker 3: David, the new chair of the.
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  Speaker 2: Australian Sports Commission, Kate Jenkins, has said, my vision is
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  Speaker 2: for sports to be safe, air, accessible and inclusive for everyone,
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  Speaker 2: with every athlete supported to reach their full potential. Sounds wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: But before female athletes celebrate this a little too much,
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  Speaker 2: the CEO of Women's Forum Australia, Rachel Wong, reminds us
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  Speaker 2: that Jenkins helped destroy the female sporting category when she
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  Speaker 2: implemented trans inclusion guidelines in her previous role as a
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  Speaker 2: sex discrimination commissioner. Wong rites, so, in other words, Kate
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  Speaker 2: wants safe, fair, etc. Sport for everyone except women and girls. David,
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  Speaker 2: I know you are deeply involved.
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  Speaker 3: In this issue.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a fair assessment or should we give Kate
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  Speaker 2: Jenkins an opportunity to show what she's going to do
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  Speaker 2: in this new role.
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  Speaker 12: Well, look, I think what Rachel Wong's saying here is
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  Speaker 12: exactly right in that ultimately the reason that different sporting
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  Speaker 12: classes were separated between boys and girls is because there's
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  Speaker 12: physical differences, and just taking hormones for a period of
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  Speaker 12: time doesn't change any of that. The fact of the
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  Speaker 12: matter is that female and males are different, and if
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  Speaker 12: they want to have sports that are separated, then they
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  Speaker 12: should be allowed to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's go to the energy crisis. New South Wales
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  Speaker 2: and Victorian households are facing a very real threat of
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  Speaker 2: energy blackouts this coming summer as both states push ahead
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  Speaker 2: with shutting down the cheapest and most reliable current forms
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  Speaker 2: of energy we have. David, will renewables ever give us
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  Speaker 2: the stable energy supply we need. It seems mad, particularly
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  Speaker 2: in this state when we're sitting on so much gas
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  Speaker 2: that we could have a shortage.
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  Speaker 12: Well, we've got cole as well in Victoria, which we've
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  Speaker 12: been running on for a very long time.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 12: Whether or not you can get to a fully renewable
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  Speaker 12: system is more a matter of cost and reliability, and
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  Speaker 12: to my mind, it seems pretty risky to go down
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  Speaker 12: a path where your entire energy supply is dependent on
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  Speaker 12: the weather rather than dependent on what you can mine
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  Speaker 12: or what you can get from gas. So I think
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  Speaker 12: it's very risky over the long term. I've been saying
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  Speaker 12: for a long time that we need to look at
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  Speaker 12: other technologies such as nuclear energy. But yeah, we're risking blackouts.
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  Speaker 12: And a lot of this is around the infrastructure that
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  Speaker 12: they need to build as well. They need to build
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  Speaker 12: a web of networks all over the state and other
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  Speaker 12: infrastructure like batteries and condensers and all these things, and
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  Speaker 12: that's going to take time. It adds complexity, it adds cost,
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  Speaker 12: and where you've got more complexity, more cost, you have
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  Speaker 12: things go wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you've put up a private members built to remove
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  Speaker 2: the nuclear prohibition in this state. What are the chances
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  Speaker 2: that's going to get up? And with all due respect, why.
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  Speaker 3: Is it left to you to do this?
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  Speaker 2: Why aren't the liberal opposition coming up with these plans
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  Speaker 2: and trying to ensure we have safe, reliable energy.
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  Speaker 12: Well, with regards to the nuclear prohibition in Victoria, I
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  Speaker 12: just think it's a no brainer that if people who
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  Speaker 12: are against it are saying, well it's too expensive, well
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  Speaker 12: why have the prohibition? That's argument for prohibition. Look as
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  Speaker 12: for the Liberal Party, I don't know like they did
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  Speaker 12: end up supporting my bill in Parliament. But the current government.
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  Speaker 12: I think that the Premier today said that she's never
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  Speaker 12: going to have nuclear because it's too risky. I would
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  Speaker 12: argue it's too risky to put, you know, depend on
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  Speaker 12: the weather and depend on being perpetually dependent on China,
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  Speaker 12: which is what we're doing with the so called cheap renewables.
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  Speaker 2: Is just so dishonest, I think to try to scare
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  Speaker 2: people off nuclear, it's really just ignoring the evidence from
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  Speaker 2: around the world. So many countries safely using nuclear energy.
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  Speaker 2: We're sitting on the world's biggest reserves of uranium and
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  Speaker 2: we're not. We spoke on the show last night about
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  Speaker 2: that promising pole for the Victorian Liberals in the Age newspaper.
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  Speaker 2: They're well in front of labor. According to that pole.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly Victorians are fed up therese state taxes are hurting,
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  Speaker 2: but other liberals.
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  Speaker 3: Are viable alternative.
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  Speaker 2: How are you seeing their performance in Parliament and are
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  Speaker 2: they coming up with policies that differentiate them adequately from labor.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I think a lot.
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  Speaker 12: Of the decline in labor really honestly has to do
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  Speaker 12: with Dan going away. A lot of people did like
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  Speaker 12: him and if you look at it, it's quite interesting.
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  Speaker 12: The poll shows are decline in support for Labor, but
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  Speaker 12: it doesn't show people going to the Greens. The Greens
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  Speaker 12: are sort of flatlining, and it's going to the Liberal
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  Speaker 12: Party and cross benches like Libertarian Party. And if you
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  Speaker 12: look at it, I think it's the first time I've
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  Speaker 12: seen it where the cross benches combined are actually gaining
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  Speaker 12: more support than either major party. So I think a
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  Speaker 12: lot of people are saying, well, I'm not happy with
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  Speaker 12: the government. Some of those are going and looking at
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  Speaker 12: the Liberal Party. Some of them are looking at minor
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  Speaker 12: parties like the Libertarian Party, you know, as to whether
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  Speaker 12: the opposition is viable or not. Look, they've got a
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  Speaker 12: lot of problems. They've got to need they need to
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  Speaker 12: sort out, I think. But you know, they're trying to unify.
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  Speaker 12: How successful that is, I mean, that's up to the electorate.
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: But they've certainly got a lot of problems and they've
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: been on the back foot a lot over the last year.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of material that Labor give the
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Liberal Party which they never use. I mean, you look
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: at this week, this crazy position and conjecture about the
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: treaty with the minister making the most remarkable comments about
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: colonization and stolen land and people being murdered, the sort
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: of things you'd expect to hear from a first year
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: art student, not a senior cabinet minister. Why are the
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Liberals so reluctant to venture into those areas and where
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: they know they're on safe ground? The overwhelmed, melming majority
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: of Victorians do not want a treaty.
• 19:44
  Speaker 12: A lot of these things. I think they're just scared
• 19:46
  Speaker 12: of being called names. Like we saw it with the
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: fracking band in the last term of parliament. They were
• 19:51
  Speaker 12: scared of getting called, you know, fossil dinosaurs or whatever,
• 19:54
  Speaker 12: and so they end up supporting the government on that.
• 19:56
  Speaker 12: We saw it with things around gender medicine and and
• 20:00
  Speaker 12: the Change of Suppression Act in the last term of parliament,
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: and we see it with issues like nuclear as well.
• 20:07
  Speaker 12: Even though the majority of Victorians are okay with nuclear,
• 20:11
  Speaker 12: they don't come out and say, yes, we're supportive of
• 20:13
  Speaker 12: this like the Federal government has been doing the Federal
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: Opposition has been doing recently. So I think a lot
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: of it is they're just sort of scared of being
• 20:19
  Speaker 12: called names.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you are being
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: called the state's unofficial opposition leader. So it's an honor,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I guess because thank you, and it's something you really
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: took to during those COVID years where we had the
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: liberals again too scared to challenge some of the crazy
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: draconian policies that we saw in this state.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Before you go, we're seeing wonderful.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Things from Argentina's new Leaderjava Mila. Here's a libertarian like yourself.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Does this give you hope that people will look at
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: libertarians and say they don't just have some good ideas,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: they can actually govern.
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: Well, he's been handed one of the probably one of
• 21:03
  Speaker 12: the worst situations that you could ever come up with.
• 21:05
  Speaker 12: The state was totally in chaos, like in every way, financially, socially, everything,
• 21:10
  Speaker 12: and so he's really focused on economic issues. So one
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: of the things he's done, they had a problem with
• 21:15
  Speaker 12: their rental properties, same as what we've got in Victoria.
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: He went to fully deregulate it because they had regulated pricing,
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: so he wanted to deregulate that. They've seen an increase
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: in the number of rental properties for being available of
• 21:27
  Speaker 12: over two hundred and forty percent in like a month
• 21:30
  Speaker 12: or so. He's already brought the budget back into surplus
• 21:34
  Speaker 12: in only a few months by slashing the public service
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: and a lot of the and also inflation is starting
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: to come down. So I think he's making a fantastic
• 21:42
  Speaker 12: headway so far by focusing on solid libertarian policies, and
• 21:49
  Speaker 12: I wish him all the best for the future. I
• 21:51
  Speaker 12: think they're off to a good start considering he's only
• 21:53
  Speaker 12: been there a few months.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: David Limbrick, thank you so much for your time this evening.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Still to come.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Alex Epstein breaks down left's latest claims that climate change.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Is racist plus lefties losing it Welcome back.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Now it's time for lefties losing it. We've been seeing
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of Bill Maher lately. He has a book
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to flog, so he's been everywhere from the View to Guttfeld.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Of course he went on Fox, that's where the audience is.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: But the more we see of him, the more clear
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: it is that this lefty, who is occasionally sane and lucid,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: is either wildly ignorant or dishonest. Watch as making Kelly
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: educates him or tries to about election denial.
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: I just I mean, you keep saying sort of, I'm
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: nuts because I don't see the difference between the elephant
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: and the mouth, and I'm telling you I identify them
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: differently than you do. Hillary Clinton, of course, is the
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: original election denier.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: I'm sure you've voted for her in sixteen.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Well, she's not an election denayer.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: She absolutely was the og election denier.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: She first of all, she came out before the sun
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: had risen to concede the election to Trump, and.
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: Then spent the next four years seeing he was illegitimate,
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: he was an illegitimate president.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: She okay, well, first of all saying she didn't say
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: he was an illegitimate she did.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Do you tell me exactly what she said?
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: She said those exact words repeatedly. Okay, yep, she did.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: She said those exact words, Bill.
• 23:26
  Speaker 13: I believe he knows he's an illegitimate president.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Is Bill maher really that clueless about Hillary Clinton's election
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: denying ways?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Was Ma hiding under a rock for the years she pushed.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: The lie that the twenty sixteen election was stolen, where
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: she helped formulate and spread Russian collusion conspiracies that undermine
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: democracy in the US. Ma is either frightfully ignorant or
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: lying there are no other options at this point, Let's
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: remind him of some of the things Hilary has said.
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: I believe he knows he's an illegitimate president. He knows
• 23:59
  Speaker 13: he knows, though I know that he knows that this
• 24:03
  Speaker 13: wasn't on the level. I don't know that we'll ever
• 24:05
  Speaker 13: know everything that happened, but clearly we know a lot
• 24:08
  Speaker 13: and are learning more every day, and history will probably
• 24:11
  Speaker 13: sort it all out. As I've been telling candidates who
• 24:13
  Speaker 13: have come to see me, you can run the best campaign,
• 24:18
  Speaker 13: you can even become the nominee, and you can have
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: the election stolen from you.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Apparently Bill mam missed that, and he also missed the
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: truth about January six.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Or as he calls it, the insurrection.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Let's listen now to some of his paranoid fantasies.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: In January twentieth, twenty twenty five.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: He'll show up at the White House, whether he's invited
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: or not, and I don't think that's going.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: To be good.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: He's gonna bomb in if he yes, Oh.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, bomb is a word I wouldn't even throw around lightly.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: He's not going to do that, right like there was
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: never an attack on the Capitol I hear you, I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: hear you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: But he's sho.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: They didn't show up at.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: The Capitol and break windows and knock down doors and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: killed cops and chased And they.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Didn't break windows.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: They of course did, No, they didn't.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Who did? They died of natural causes that day, the Capitol.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Police officer, Brian Sicknick.
• 25:17
  Speaker 14: The medical examiner has determined that he suffered two strokes
• 25:20
  Speaker 14: and died of natural causes.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, nobody died that day, cops.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: No, not true, okay, oh, I don't remember the names.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: They didn't. There was Brian Sicknick, who died later after
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: the fact.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Megan Gilly is so much smarter, better informed, and better
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: at her job than my it's frightening.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: He's the best I've got, though.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: And the man who prides himself on his depth of
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: knowledge and critical thinking skills kept on embarrassing himself here.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Megan schools him on the selective enforcement of the law
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that saw Biden still classified documents and not be charged.
• 25:58
  Speaker 10: One actually had the ability to declassify documents and keep
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: them because he'd been the president, and one didn't because
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: he should have been looking at documents only in a skiff.
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: While sitting US senator, and clearly he stole classified documents
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: that he wasn't entitled to and never had the ability
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: to declassify them.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe him know more about that than I do.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I don't remember that part of it, and I always
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: don't trust anything I hear until I that it from
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the other side, because everybody sort of has their one
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: sided view of it, and narrative is more important than truth.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I know this is the right wing narrative.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: I not like that, Bill.
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: I care about facts. I practice law for ten years.
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: I want to get the cases right.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: You know, conservatives are guilty of the bigotry of low expectations.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: When it comes to Bill, mahb done it too. I've
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: praised him and played his clips when he's occasionally said
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: something sensible, something the right has been saying for years.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: But at his core, he's a.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Delusional Democrat who has spoken of his dream of saying
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: an news and becoming president. Yeah, the California governor, that one.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I think. Fellow traveler Bill Burr.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Summed up mar nicely during their recent chat.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Also, you say is not smart, it's just sort of obscure.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: It's not obscure.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Certain percentage of people some giant egg and egad, I'm
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: just I know you're not that smart.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: And Greg Gottfeldt had the right idea about ma who
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: was on his show earlier this week.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: That's the most important thing that's going on in this country.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: He didn't concede the last election. He's not going to
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: concede this election.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: You don't know that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Everybody said, oh, you smoke too much pot.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Turn out I smoke just the right amount of there's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: no right amount.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: So doctor Drews, you're really good at diagnosing mental illness.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: What is Bill's problem?
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe layoff the pot Bill, that might clear up the TDS.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And let's continue with left is losing it. Here we
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: have a biological man identifying as a woman using their
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: position as the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Biden administration.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: To lecture us about how.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Global warming is disproportionately affecting black people.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: and mental health of black communities. Black Americans are more
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: likely than white Americans to live in areas and housing
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: that increase their susceptibility to climate related health issues, and
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: sixty five percent of Black Americans report feeling anxious about
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: climate changes impact.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Joining me now is the author of Fossil Future, Alex Epstein.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Alexa your response to that, I would argue climate change
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: policies do disproportionately impact poor people, not black people, poor people,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: whatever color they are. Is that how you see it,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: because I find it hard to understand how global warming
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: is impacting black people more than everybody else.
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: I mean, the truth is that, you know, what they're
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: calling global warming so bad weather. They're saying it's racist,
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: but it's actually classiest in the sense of if you're poor,
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: it's hard to deal with bad weather. That's why as
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: the world has gotten richer, we've become much much safer
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: from climate We have a ninety eight percent decline in
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: climate related disaster deaths over the last century. So obviously,
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: obviously the solution if you care about susceptibility to climate
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: is for everyone to get rich, even within the United States,
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: let alone the rest of the world, where most people
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: are incredibly poor, even compared to you know, the poorest
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: people in the United States. So on the one hand,
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: it's just the exact opposite prescription of what's needed. It's
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: just we need to become wealthier and then on top
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: of it, this person has the goal to say that
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: Blacks are suffering climate related anxiety. That's because you're catastrophizing climate.
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: Maybe the government should prescribe fossil future. That's the solution
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: of climate anxiety.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: That is a very good prescription.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Indeed, now here's some good news. This week's shareholders at
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: oil giant Shell overwhelmingly rejected a climate change resolution filed
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: by green activists urging it to align its reduction targets
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: to the Paris Climate Agreement. Alex only eighteen percent of
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: shareholders back this proposal.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: In March, we.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Saw Shell weaken its twenty thirty carbon reduction target. They
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: cited strong demand for gas. They're refocusing on more profitable
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: operations like oil and gas. Seems to be a win
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: for common sense, Alex.
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: I think this is a good it's a good development.
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: And contrast this to say, twenty twenty, when you know
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: we had a global pandemic, we had lockdowns that hurt
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: most the oil and gas industry, particularly oil because oil
• 31:03
  Speaker 9: is the basis of modern transportation.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: And all these.
• 31:06
  Speaker 9: People saying I was wrong for saying that, you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 9: we have a fossil future that we actually need more
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: oil going forward, and they're like, look, oil demand is low,
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: it's not good to invest in oil.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: Why am I bringing this up in this context because
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: the fact that oil stocks happened to be crashing because
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: of those circumstances allowed a bunch of opportunistic ESG types
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: to claim that disinvesting from oil was somehow a wise
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: investment thing, when in fact what happened is right after
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: that oil became one of the best performing sectors in
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: the world, has demand rebounded and then continued to increase
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: to record levels where we are now and we're still increasing.
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: So what's happened is all these do good or ESG
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: types who are thinking they would get rich being ESG
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: are realizing that they're getting poor being ESG and that
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: if they have SHELL or BP or all these other
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: virtue signalering companies who've claimed that they want to go
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: net zero, that they have to actually do that, it's
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: going to creater their stock. Sola glad that people are
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: waking up to financial reality and it's helping defang this
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: really insidious ESG movement because that not only hurts the
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: oil companies, it most of all hurts the oil consumers,
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: which is the world's eight billion people who need cheap,
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: reliable energy.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Well, how powerful is the ESG, well, the environmental, social
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: and governance lobby. They seem to control a great deal
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: of the money. Alex is the power wakening. With the
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: pandemic over and things getting back.
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: To normal, there are signs of weakness, but we definitely
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: cannot let up at all. I mean, you're seeing more
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: and more people stand up to it. It used to be
• 32:45
  Speaker 9: pretty lonely to stand up to it. Now there are
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: a lot more people saying that it's bad. And in
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: particular the stuff I'm most interested in, the environmental side,
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: the idea of rapidly eliminating fossil fuels, that that is
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: a global death sentence. You're increasingly having people wreckognize that
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: to some extent. But unfortunately, the ESG movement has totally
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: poisoned so many institutions and taken them over. And I'll
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: just give an example in the realm of AI, which
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: is a new huge source of demand in the United
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: States and around the world. A lot of these leading
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: AI users like Microsoft and Facebook have been promoting ESG
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: poison for years and that's led to the shutdown of
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: reliable power plants on our grid. This should sound familiar
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: to Australians and trying to replace them with unreliables and
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: now we don't have nearly enough electricity for AI. So
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: you're seeing these these institutions are not yet apologizing. I'll
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: think it's great when Microsoft and Google and Facebook apologize
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: for ruining our grid with ESG. Until then, I'm not complacent.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Well, our National Science Agency, the CSIRO, has published a
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: report that insists the powering our country with nuclear energy
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: is going to be far more expensive, nearly double the
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: cost of doing it with renewables. Sixteen billion dollars and
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: sixteen years is what it will apparently take to build
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: a large scale nuclear reactor. Is this true, Alex or
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: is this just another sign of the CSIRO being captured
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: by the green ideology.
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: I want to draw people's attention to a weird kind
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: of schizophrenia that you have going on here which you
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: often see, which is there's a total can't do attitude
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: with fossil fuels and in particular nuclear So they act like, oh,
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: it has to be incredibly expensive, even though say South
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: Korea is able to do it cheaply. The United States
• 34:38
  Speaker 9: used to be able to do cheaply before we ruined
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: it with bad regulations. So they have a total can't
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: do attitude with regard to nuclear, but with unreliable solar
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: and wind, which have never powered any country anywhere without
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: totally parasiting unreliable fossil fuels in nuclear, they have this
• 34:53
  Speaker 9: infinite unicorn fantasy can do attitude. And so one of
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: the fallacies here is they're comparing unreliable power to reliable power.
• 35:02
  Speaker 9: So that's you know, that's like comparing rotten oranges to apple.
• 35:06
  Speaker 9: So they're just they're not comparisons. What you need to
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: happen is if you want to use solar and win
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: the so called renewables, those companies should figure out how
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: to make them actually supply reliable electricity, provide the batteries themselves.
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: Then what they see is is just prohibitively expensive. But
• 35:20
  Speaker 9: they're just comparing the cost of unreliable to reliable. So
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: that's that's intellectually non serious.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: It is intellectually dishonest.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: They're absolutely right.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Now Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi has unveiled a five hundred
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: and fifty million dollars strategy aimed at turning Australia into
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: a world leading battery manufacturer. This is another step we
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: are told in firming up renewables and supporting the net
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: zero transition. But can batteries ever provide that base load
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: power that a first world nation like Australia.
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: Needs, You know, ever is a long time, but you know,
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: with the technology we currently have there, they're nowhere near closed.
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: So not even the best form of storage, what's called
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: pump storage, tends to be much cheaper. We just don't
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: have any form of man made storage right now that
• 36:15
  Speaker 9: can accommodate the unreliability of solar and wind. So what
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: happens is you build these battery facilities, and what happens
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: is they'll say, oh, we have this many megawatts of
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: batteries and isn't that going to be great? But a
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: mega waut of batteries is not the same as a
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: megawat of natural gas because the megaat of batteries usually
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: lasts four hours maximum. So if it only lasts four hours,
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: you need a lot more than four hours worth to
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: be able to handle highs and lows of the sun
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: and the wind over you know, days, let alone, let
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: alone weeks. So it's just this fake. It's just this
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: fake stuff being added on to pretend that solar and
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: wind are being reliable. But they're not reliable unless they
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: can truly be self sufficient without parasiting on the other stuff.
• 36:59
  Speaker 9: So again, I say Australian government, anyone who thinks they
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: can make it work, Have somebody figure out how to
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: make a solution just using solar winded batteries. See how
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: much that cost to provide reliable electricity with the same
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: reliability of as coler natural gas or nuclear. You'll be
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: in for a rude awakening. But go ahead and try.
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: But don't just steal everyone's money and restrict fossil fuels
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  Speaker 9: and promise the best because there's no evidence it will
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  Speaker 9: work at all.
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  Speaker 2: And what about the elements that go into making these
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: giant batteries, where they come from, the supply chain and
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: the reliance on China. Is that something that isn't given
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  Speaker 2: due consideration Alex.
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  Speaker 9: Well, in general, there's just the you know, the the
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: negatives are challenges of solar and wind are never given
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  Speaker 9: due consideration. And then the negatives are challenges of fossil
• 37:51
  Speaker 9: fuels are amplified, you know, one hundred times and just
• 37:54
  Speaker 9: exaggerated beyond all proportions, so there's definitely this bias. I
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  Speaker 9: don't think it means fundamentally you can't produce batteries at
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: a much larger scale, but if you look at near term,
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: what people are proposing with these different net zero plans
• 38:08
  Speaker 9: is just a totally unprecedented increase in mining in a
• 38:13
  Speaker 9: very anti mining global environment, particularly in the Western countries
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: that used to be free but now have many, many
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: restrictions on mining. And this is a basic contradiction of
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: the green movement, which says that to achieve quote green energy,
• 38:27
  Speaker 9: we need to mind the world more than we ever have,
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: which the green movement is going to oppose. And I
• 38:33
  Speaker 9: think this confirms my thesis in Fossil Future, and people
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: can learn more about this at Energy talkingpoints dot com
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  Speaker 9: that the green movement is really an anti energy movement.
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  Speaker 9: It pretends to support energy, but it really just hates
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: human impact on Earth. And if you hate human impact,
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: you hate energy, because energy allows us to impact the
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: Earth to make our lives better.
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  Speaker 2: Alex Epstein, thank you so much for your time this evening.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: Thanks Rita still to come.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Ben Affleck Week goes from bad to worse as his
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: cringeworthy attempt at comedy and his striking marriage are scrutinized
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: and inside the Elvis Presley estate fight.
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  Speaker 15: Who's going to own Graceland?
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: You're watching the Reader Paney show. Ben Afflecks week has
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: gone from bad to worse. Not only is the actor's
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: marriage the singer Jennifer Lopez reportedly on the Rocks despite
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: the recent release of her documentary The Greatest Love Story
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Never Told, but his cringeworthy appearance on the Netflix roast
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: of Tom Brady is being pulled apart by the star
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: of the night, Niki Glazer. Here is Affleck bombing on
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  Speaker 2: the roast stage.
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  Speaker 4: You sitting there.
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  Speaker 16: Hiding behind your keyboard, spewing out all this toxic about
• 39:55
  Speaker 16: people you'd be afraid to come up to. You saw
• 39:58
  Speaker 16: him at the cart wash, you know, well, went out
• 40:00
  Speaker 16: there and did something.
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: Who were successful or.
• 40:04
  Speaker 16: Even if another player ended up catching the football on
• 40:07
  Speaker 16: his helmet, maybe they failed. But fans have your back. Okay,
• 40:13
  Speaker 16: you guys out there talking all right behind your keyboard.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: That doesn't make you a fan. That makes you up.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Oh and here is Nicki Gleiser actually being funny?
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: You really are.
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  Speaker 17: I mean, you're the best to ever play for too long.
• 40:30
  Speaker 17: I mean you were tired, then you came back, and then.
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: You were tired again. I mean, I get it.
• 40:35
  Speaker 17: It's hard to walk away from something that's not your
• 40:37
  Speaker 17: pregnant girlfriend.
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: It's tough.
• 40:40
  Speaker 17: Hey, to be fair, he didn't know she was pregnant.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: He just thought she was getting fat and Tom hates fat.
• 40:48
  Speaker 17: I mean, do you guys know about his diet program.
• 40:50
  Speaker 17: It is so strict, but if you follow it exactly
• 40:52
  Speaker 17: as he does, you two can lose your family.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Nicki says part of the reason why Benethlet bombed on
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: the Knot it was because of his poor attitude.
• 41:02
  Speaker 17: Because I don't really I don't like to watch people bomb.
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: He didn't prepare.
• 41:06
  Speaker 17: He's someone who's famous enough that thinks like this is
• 41:08
  Speaker 17: probably beneath them to do this, and so I'm just
• 41:10
  Speaker 17: going to do a favorite. It's not going to be
• 41:11
  Speaker 17: that big of a deal.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Doining me now is Entertainment and Royal reporter Kinsey Schofield.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Is he really that arrogant? Kinsey?
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Is he just going to show up to this massive
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: roast of our greatest of.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: All to time? Tom Brady?
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: He was definitely I reckon the low light of the
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: whole three hour affair.
• 41:32
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, he's best friends with Jimmy Kimmel. Why
• 41:35
  Speaker 14: couldn't he have consulted Jimmy or some of his writers
• 41:38
  Speaker 14: to provide him with something legitimately funny, legitimately good. He
• 41:43
  Speaker 14: really just looked bitter and kind of unhinged throughout that
• 41:47
  Speaker 14: Tom Brady's roast. So I agree, like, clearly something is
• 41:52
  Speaker 14: going on in his personal life, and he seems like
• 41:55
  Speaker 14: he isn't entitled in you know, two miles Child to
• 42:00
  Speaker 14: ask for help. I don't know. It wasn't funny. It
• 42:02
  Speaker 14: just kind of seemed very resentful.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: And it has been called the greatest roast of all time.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: And there was just so much champagne comedy throughout, and
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: that just stood out because You're right, it was just
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: angry and bitter. It wasn't even he was trying to
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: be funny and failing. It just was sort of a
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: mad rant. Now I've got to ask you about this
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Cate Blanchette dress. The internet is divided about what it
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: all means something that's her dress is referencing the Palestinian
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: flag at Carnes. Some say the colors of white, black
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: and green with the red of the CANSA red carpet
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: makes a deliberate political statement, but when you look at
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: the dress up plost, the white looks more like a
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: soft pink. It's a Jean Paul golt original designed. Are
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: people just desperate to see politics in everything? Or was
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: she trying to make a subtle statement here?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I think I'm one hundred percent with you.
• 43:11
  Speaker 14: Blanchette was one of the original actors who signed the
• 43:14
  Speaker 14: Artist for Ceasefire open letter to President Joe Biden.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: You know, that was.
• 43:18
  Speaker 14: Calling for an end to the war. But if you
• 43:21
  Speaker 14: look at that gown that photo you just showed, that's
• 43:24
  Speaker 14: a blush pink. I do think that the flag symbolism
• 43:28
  Speaker 14: is a bit of a stretch, and people with an
• 43:30
  Speaker 14: agenda are perpetuating that narrative. You know, I challenge them
• 43:34
  Speaker 14: to try to wear that dress in Gaza though.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well she is very political.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: She's she's made all sorts of statements about global warming
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: and other issues. When you mentioned signing that letter, so
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I think that's part of the reason people are looking
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: for some deeper meaning. But my take of it is
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: it's just address move on people now. Actress scarlets Johansson
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: has expressed her shock and anger at a new feature
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: from the AI program chat GPT that used a voice
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: she described as eerily similar to hers, so similar that
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: friends and family can't tell the difference.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: She revealed she'd previously.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Rejected an offer from the tech company to license her
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: voice for the product. So did they just go ahead
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: and create her voice without her consent?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Cancie?
• 44:28
  Speaker 14: You know, it is strange because when they approached her
• 44:31
  Speaker 14: to do this, it was in the middle of the
• 44:32
  Speaker 14: actor's strike and one of the biggest actors and writers
• 44:36
  Speaker 14: strike demands was that they navigate the world of AI
• 44:40
  Speaker 14: more carefully because no one wants to get replaced. Had
• 44:43
  Speaker 14: she agreed to do this, she would have been seen
• 44:46
  Speaker 14: as a trader in Hollywood. So yeah, she rejected the offer,
• 44:49
  Speaker 14: And it does seem like Chad GPT said, Okay, well,
• 44:52
  Speaker 14: we're just going to go find somebody that sounds just
• 44:54
  Speaker 14: like you, and they argue that it's not her and
• 44:57
  Speaker 14: it's not supposed to sound like her, But they sure
• 44:59
  Speaker 14: did rep Sky, who sounds just like Scarlet off the
• 45:03
  Speaker 14: internet as quickly as she entered. And so I think
• 45:06
  Speaker 14: that that was almost an admission of guilt.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Right there. That sky disappeared so quickly.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Now Elvis Presley's family are fighting hard to keep his
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: iconic mansion, Graceland, off the real estate market. Its sale
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: was scheduled for I think today or tomorrow. His granddaughter,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: actress Riley Keo, obtained a temporary restraining order against the
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: sale of the Memphis property by Nozani Investments, who claimed
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Lisa Mary Presley, Riley's mum and Elvis's daughter, had borrowed
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: a three point eight million from the company and used
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Graceland as security for the loan. Riley claims her mom
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: never brought borrow that money and never gave them.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: A deed of trust. Tell me more about this.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised that they could be trying to sell it
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: or a relatively small debt or three point eight million.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: I was at Graceland earlier this year, and my gosh,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: it is a money making enterprise.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: The tours are fool, they're expensive.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: There's just thousands there daily. It seems odd that they
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: would have any sort of money issues.
• 46:23
  Speaker 14: Well, obviously you're more impressed with it than Prince Harry
• 46:26
  Speaker 14: was who complained about it in Spare. But yeah, this
• 46:28
  Speaker 14: attempt to foreclose on Graceland is about to become the
• 46:31
  Speaker 14: subject of multiple criminal investigations, including interest from the FBI.
• 46:37
  Speaker 14: The foreclosure was triggered by an alleged unpaid three point
• 46:40
  Speaker 14: eight million dollar debt Lisa Marie never paid, using Graceland
• 46:44
  Speaker 14: as collateral. But like you said, Riley said that this
• 46:47
  Speaker 14: never happened, and people that have had access to this
• 46:50
  Speaker 14: paperwork say it looks very suspicious. The judge has put
• 46:53
  Speaker 14: the temporary halt on the foreclosure, but this investigation is
• 46:57
  Speaker 14: keating up, and people at Graceland are the finger at
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: a very specific person you know in that investment company
• 47:04
  Speaker 14: you mentioned. They've already backed out and they said that
• 47:06
  Speaker 14: they won't they won't continue to pursue it. If somebody
• 47:08
  Speaker 14: really owes you that kind of money, do you so
• 47:11
  Speaker 14: easily back out? So I think that this story has
• 47:14
  Speaker 14: only just begun and I can't wait to see where
• 47:17
  Speaker 14: it goes. It seems like somebody is doing something, you know,
• 47:21
  Speaker 14: something sinister.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Now, what did Prince Harry say about Gweisland in spam?
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: I missed that little Pasha. He wasn't impressed.
• 47:32
  Speaker 14: He was not impressed. He said he could not believe
• 47:36
  Speaker 14: how Dungee Engross that he made fun of the carpets,
• 47:39
  Speaker 14: and he was like, I can't believe that Americans think
• 47:42
  Speaker 14: a quote unquote king lived here like Graceland was beneath him.
• 47:46
  Speaker 14: It's like, Harry, what have you done? Elvis built? That
• 47:49
  Speaker 14: was Elvis's shrine. He built that from hard work. He
• 47:52
  Speaker 14: was a nobody and he made something of himself and
• 47:55
  Speaker 14: that was like his sanctuary. And what, Harry, what have
• 47:59
  Speaker 14: you done?
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Exactly?
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, whatever it is, You're so right. Elvis was
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: a self made man. He came from it was dirt poor,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: and if he actually bothered to take note of some
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: of the memorabilia there, he would have seen just how
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: poor the Presley family were, and how Elvis moved his
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: own mother into that property to give her the sort
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: of lifestyle that she never had as he was growing up.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Harry, really, now we've run out of time.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Next week we're going to have to get to the
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: bottom of what is happening with Queen Mary and King
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Frederick of Denmark, because there's body language experts coming out
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: saying that those two are not on good terms. Kinsy Schofield,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: thank you for your time. That's it from me, up
• 48:50
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