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Steve Price | 20 March · Steve Price

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  Speaker 1: Live. This is Steve Price. Good evening, Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: show Friday Nights. I'm Steve Price. I never thought i'd
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  Speaker 1: think this, but the fuel crisis we're in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of and Chris Bowen refused to admit was a crisis
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  Speaker 1: is starting to feel a lot like the early days
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  Speaker 1: of COVID. I know that's triggering even to say, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll have a look at the most immediate impacts coming
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  Speaker 1: up on the program tonight to fuel shortly. But there
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  Speaker 1: is an election, as Caleb's just been talking about this
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  Speaker 1: weekend in South Australia that would normally not attract that
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  Speaker 1: much attention on the East Coast, but there is one
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  Speaker 1: reason it is, and that's called One Nation. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to former Liberal MP from South Australian to Cole Flint
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  Speaker 1: on what's likely to happen in the poll tomorrow. And
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  Speaker 1: as I said, I'm getting COVID flashbacks as the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East war impacts fuel prices right across Australia. Remember we
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  Speaker 1: would daily hang on every COVID update. Well, the same
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  Speaker 1: happening with fuel prices. With the federal government waking up
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  Speaker 1: finally to its seriousness, Victorian Nationals leader Danny O'Brien will
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  Speaker 1: join us on the program. I'll cross to the UK
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  Speaker 1: and speak with Sophie Elsworth. He's just back from Israel
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  Speaker 1: on where the calls for a NATO back coalition to
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  Speaker 1: keep the straits of him was open, will actually happen?
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  Speaker 1: And with our panel. Did President Donald Trump really mention
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  Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor in front of the new Japanese Prime Minister? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he did, quite incredible really, Plus Friday Regulus, Campbell Newman
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  Speaker 1: and cartooning star Mark Knight A busy show. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: stuck in to the national international fuel crisis brought on
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  Speaker 1: by of course the US Israel attacks on the Terra
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  Speaker 1: regime that was, and is Iran in a moment. But
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  Speaker 1: I want to start with this South Australian state election
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  Speaker 1: which is being held this weekend. You've heard a lot
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  Speaker 1: about it already today. Now normally the voters of New
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  Speaker 1: South Wales, Queensland and Victoria would have little interest in
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  Speaker 1: our AID politics. It's a great place as the South
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  Speaker 1: Australian capital is. I was there this week. Most people
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even pick out one politician other than Peter Malinowskis
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  Speaker 1: in a lineup. They'd struggle to identify anyone in South
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  Speaker 1: Australian politics. Look, Adelaide is really only thought about if
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  Speaker 1: you don't live there around major events like sport, comedy,
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  Speaker 1: theater and the arts. May be food and wine some
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  Speaker 1: of the best in Australia, but aside from a booming
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  Speaker 1: real estate market, and it is booming and now being
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  Speaker 1: a serious go to destination to avoid the crippling housing
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  Speaker 1: prices in the Eastern States like Melbourne and Sydney, it
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  Speaker 1: remains a bit of a backwater. And I say that
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  Speaker 1: in the kindest of ways. But Q One Nation, Pauline
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  Speaker 1: Hansen and God called Cory Bernardi, a former Sky News host,
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  Speaker 1: the Rebellious Party will stand in all Lower House seats
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  Speaker 1: this weekend and according to a news poll in The
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  Speaker 1: Australian Today, they could wipe out the South Australian Liberals,
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  Speaker 1: wipe them up off the map. Now I'll catch up
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  Speaker 1: with Nicole Flint in a moment to get her view.
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  Speaker 1: But you can see how even the South Australian Premier,
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  Speaker 1: who was tipped to cruise to victory, he went into
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  Speaker 1: a tack mode today targeting Pauline Hanson and One Nation
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that she is a Queenslander, Pauline.
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  Speaker 2: Hanson is traveling around on the private plane of the
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  Speaker 2: richest person in Australia, and that says to me that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not really sincere about the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: being for battlers, but these hypocrites flying around on private
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  Speaker 2: planes owned by the richest people in the country.
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  Speaker 3: That's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: But having actual no plan or policy for the future
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  Speaker 2: of the state, in my assessment, that's unforgivable.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I like Melanaskis, but who cares what sort of
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  Speaker 1: plane she's flying on and who owns it? And he's
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  Speaker 1: made a mistake by suggesting she's left the statements back
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  Speaker 1: in Queensland. I had a phone conversation with her in
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  Speaker 1: the car about an hour ago. Now, on the pole figures,
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  Speaker 1: One Nation is showing a primary vote of twenty two percent,
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  Speaker 1: compared with the Liberals back on sixteen percent. The One
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  Speaker 1: Nation leader and Bernardi were in the Southern Bales McLaren
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  Speaker 1: Vale yesterday and they received a warm welcome from random locals.
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  Speaker 4: We just want to be a voice for South Australians
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  Speaker 4: and what we're trying to build here is something that
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  Speaker 4: is going to be sustainable and is going to actually
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  Speaker 4: change his state for the better.
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  Speaker 5: People are fed up with the major too politic parties,
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  Speaker 5: the Union Party. They see them exactly the same. Their
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  Speaker 5: lives are changing drastically. They're facing cost of living crisis.
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  Speaker 5: They can't pay the rents, the mortgages. This is all
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  Speaker 5: accumulating all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, back in the CBD our own Chris Kenny from
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  Speaker 1: Sky like me Adelaide Bourne did a street walk with
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  Speaker 1: Hansen and she was mobbed. Literally, can help me there
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  Speaker 1: five minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Of Australia every day of the week.
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  Speaker 6: Photo there's for can.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Peter, Hello Peter, Thanks, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: I got a photo for you. For the photo is Laura.
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  Speaker 7: You know you have to tell me whether you're voting
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  Speaker 7: for one nation?
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  Speaker 3: And why Holle?
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  Speaker 1: Seriously, what other politicians in the country would you have
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  Speaker 1: people queuing up to have a selfie taken with you?
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  Speaker 1: No one now on that news poll and wait there
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  Speaker 1: is another poll out today, even worse for the National Party.
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  Speaker 1: Australian columnist and five double A breakfast presenter David Pembethy,
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  Speaker 1: who's a very funny guy and very astutely writes about
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  Speaker 1: his own state. He said one Nation is set to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the South Australian Liberal Party and see Labor cruise
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  Speaker 1: to victory. And in one of the great political lines
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  Speaker 1: of recent times, referring to the new Liberal leader Ashton Hearne,
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  Speaker 1: Pembethy wrote this quote, the South Australian Liberals turf turned
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  Speaker 1: to Ashton Hearne to save the furniture and found Pauline
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  Speaker 1: Hanson sleeping on the couch. It's a great line and
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  Speaker 1: he's absolutely right. Look, I was in Adelaide this week
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  Speaker 1: and went to a pre polling station in a Labor
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  Speaker 1: held seat and sure enough there was plenty of one
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  Speaker 1: Nation how to vote cards being handed out and the
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  Speaker 1: Liberal flyer had one Nation at number five on an
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  Speaker 1: eight person Lower House preference suggestion. Now, Hern, for what
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  Speaker 1: it's worth, I think has been very impressive and the
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  Speaker 1: Coalition federally would be very well advised to find her
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  Speaker 1: a federal seat to stand in the next federal election.
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  Speaker 1: But if you think things are going from bad to
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  Speaker 1: worse in South Australia for the Coalition, hold onto your hat.
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  Speaker 1: A news dot com pole out today done by Demos
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  Speaker 1: Capital brief Tips and this is now federally tip that
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  Speaker 1: one nation could win as many as fifty five seats,
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  Speaker 1: trashing the Coalition seeing them hold just nine, and the Nationals,
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  Speaker 1: this pole said, could completely disappear. Now it's a pole
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  Speaker 1: of eighty four hundred voters conducted between January and March,
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  Speaker 1: and it puts one Nation vote at twenty seven percent,
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  Speaker 1: up ten Labour on twenty five, the Coalition twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: and the Greens on twelve. Now, yes, we all know
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  Speaker 1: the only accounts is the one on polling day, but demos,
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  Speaker 1: the polling crowd go a little deeper, making projections around
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  Speaker 1: all one hundred and fifty Lower House seats federally and
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  Speaker 1: predict a returned Labor government, which I guess we all expect.
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  Speaker 1: But then this one nation, on those poll numbers, would win,
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  Speaker 1: according to this poll, somewhere between forty six to fifty
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  Speaker 1: five seats and become the main opposition party. The Liberals
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  Speaker 1: would end up with nine to fifteen, the pole says,
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  Speaker 1: and the Nats zero to two. Now, look, I find
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  Speaker 1: that very hard to believe. Lived experience shows us that
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  Speaker 1: where one nation struggles is its ability to source good
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  Speaker 1: quality candidates with clean backgrounds. We have even heard late
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  Speaker 1: today the ABC reporting that the candidate for One Nation
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  Speaker 1: for the seat of Adelaide is facing legal problems in
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  Speaker 1: the UK and it's very hard to find candidates in
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  Speaker 1: that number of seats quickly and they're vetting doesn't always work. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I coull be completely wrong and I think writing off
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  Speaker 1: the Nationals is very unlikely, especially with the new leader,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Canavan, who was out today inserting energy policy in
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  Speaker 1: this weekend's South Australian vote.
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  Speaker 6: This government has not released any acreage anywhere in the
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  Speaker 6: country for oil and gas. We used to do it
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  Speaker 6: every year. It's a bit like putting your house on
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  Speaker 6: real estate dot Com. You put it up on the
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  Speaker 6: market and see if you get a tenant. This goverment
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  Speaker 6: hasn't done any of it because they're anti oil and gas.
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  Speaker 6: And because they're anti oil and gas, we now face
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  Speaker 6: potential restrictions on the use of petrol and diesel in
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  Speaker 6: the coming months.
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  Speaker 1: Canavan's impressive and that's why I wouldn't write off the
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  Speaker 1: Nationals at all with him as a leader. Look, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a long wait until the next federal election, and
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  Speaker 1: if the past three weeks has taught us anything, the
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  Speaker 1: world can change in a heartbeat. But the essay this
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  Speaker 1: weekend will tell us plenty. Let's stay in South Australia
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  Speaker 1: for tomorrow's election reports today, support for One Nation, as
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  Speaker 1: I've just told you, is likely to split the Conservative vote,
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  Speaker 1: paving the way for a thumping victory by Peter Malinowskis,
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  Speaker 1: but ultimately exposing a growing threat to major parties. Former
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  Speaker 1: Federal Liberal MP and proud South Australia Nicole Flint joins
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  Speaker 1: us I was pleased to be over there during the
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  Speaker 1: week I did go to a polling booth and I
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  Speaker 1: note that the Liberal Party were not preferencing One Nation.
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  Speaker 1: They had them five out of eight. Is that a mistake?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't.
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  Speaker 8: Think so, Steve, because the only way that One Nation
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  Speaker 8: can really win any Lower House seat is by is
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  Speaker 8: through preferences. So first of all, they need to get
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  Speaker 8: a decent number of primary votes, and with the polling
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  Speaker 8: from the Australian showing that's sitting around twenty two percent,
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  Speaker 8: that's not nearly enough to actually win them a seat,
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  Speaker 8: so they will depend on preferences. It is anyone's guest
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  Speaker 8: as to how this actually unfolds. But those votes, the
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  Speaker 8: numbers that we're seeing in the polls have to translate
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  Speaker 8: into enough votes in a single lower House seat, So
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  Speaker 8: only time will tell this sort of about this time
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  Speaker 8: tomorrow night or in an hour or so tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 8: we'll start to get an idea of how they have
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  Speaker 8: actually done. But it depends on how many first preference
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  Speaker 8: votes they get and then what sort of preferences flow
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  Speaker 8: to them, and whether they are enough to actually win
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  Speaker 8: one nation, any single lower House seat.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right to be skeptical about the polls
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  Speaker 1: and about one nation and what they might or might
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  Speaker 1: not do. I mean, do you accept my point that
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  Speaker 1: I made there that they do struggle when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to pre selection of candidates. They don't have a very
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  Speaker 1: strong vetting process. And we've seen this joker who was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to stand for the seat of Adelaide. He's in
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  Speaker 1: trouble in the courts in the UK. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: probably typical of one nation around the country.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, And Steve, we know traditionally people who are elected
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  Speaker 8: as one nation lower or the House candidates tend to
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  Speaker 8: defect pretty quickly, so they don't seem to be able
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  Speaker 8: to hold the teams together, whether it's at the federal
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  Speaker 8: level or the state level around Australia. So that's the
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  Speaker 8: other challenge they've got. What I must say I've been
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  Speaker 8: very disappointed about throughout their South Australian election process is
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  Speaker 8: the absolute lack of hard scrutiny and detailed scrutiny of
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  Speaker 8: One Nation's candidates to interrogate who they are, what they
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  Speaker 8: actually stand for, and what they will deliver if they
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  Speaker 8: are elected.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it's all been about Pauline and Corey and
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  Speaker 1: know they are strong performers, and I guess that's why
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  Speaker 1: One Nation has done that. But I make the point
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  Speaker 1: also that I don't think South Australia is the natural
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  Speaker 1: home for One Nation. I played the Premier though he's
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  Speaker 1: ramping up the Queensland connection. Do you think it does
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  Speaker 1: he get a sense that he's a little worried about
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen with the One Nation vote.
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  Speaker 8: Well, clearly the Premiere is very worried about what's happening
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  Speaker 8: with the one nation vote. And some of the seats
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  Speaker 8: that you just profiled, for example, McLaren Vale Mawson has
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  Speaker 8: been a Labor seat for quite some time.
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  Speaker 9: So the fact that.
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  Speaker 8: Pauline and Corey Bernardi were down there, says to me
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  Speaker 8: that they know that they're going to pick up votes
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  Speaker 8: in a range of outer metropolitan Labor seats as well.
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  Speaker 8: And the premiere, Steve seems to have lost his midas
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  Speaker 8: touch at precisely the wrong time. He has had a
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  Speaker 8: shocker of a final couple of weeks of this election campaign.
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  Speaker 8: First of all, we've got fifty billion dollars of state
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  Speaker 8: debt and Labour's election promises have added three quarters of
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  Speaker 8: a billion dollars to that red to the budget being
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  Speaker 8: in the red. They had their failed hydrogen project that
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  Speaker 8: cost South Australian taxpayers something like six hundred million dollars,
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  Speaker 8: absolutely wasted. We have the algu bloom now, Steve the
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  Speaker 8: AB seat. If the ABC runs attacking the Labor Party
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  Speaker 8: over the Algill bloom, you know that it really is
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  Speaker 8: a big problem. Right, So, everyone along along the coastline
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  Speaker 8: of South Australia is furious at Labour's mishandling of what
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  Speaker 8: is an absolute tragedy for our rural and regional coastal
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  Speaker 8: communities fishermen, but also for our city beaches as well.
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  Speaker 8: And then of course there is Labour's ramping crisis that
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  Speaker 8: they campaigned hard on last time. And they have not fixed.
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  Speaker 8: It's gotten worse, and so much so that the Health
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  Speaker 8: Minister did the most extraordinary and outrageous thing by attempting
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  Speaker 8: to discredit a gentleman who tragically lost his life to
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  Speaker 8: cancer whilst ramped in an ambulance, whose family did not
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  Speaker 8: get to say goodbye to him, and the Health Minister
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  Speaker 8: tried to play politics. The fact that Peter Melanowskis has
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  Speaker 8: not sacked Health Minister Chris Picton is an absolute disgrace
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  Speaker 8: and I know that that tread example will be in
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  Speaker 8: the minds of so many South Australians when they go
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  Speaker 8: to vote tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Nicol I must say have been very impressed by Ashton Hearn.
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  Speaker 1: I saw her head to head with the Premiere in
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  Speaker 1: the Sky Leaders debate. She has only had just over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred days in the job. What do you make
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  Speaker 1: of the job she's done in this campaign?
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  Speaker 8: Ashton hern is an absolute rock star and I can't
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  Speaker 8: wait for her to be returned, you know, hopefully as Premier,
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  Speaker 8: but let's face it, we know that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 8: Steve but returned as Opposition leader because she will do
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  Speaker 8: such a great job to hold Premier Peter malanawskis to account.
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  Speaker 8: Ashton is absolutely brilliant, highly intelligent, super confident. But also
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  Speaker 8: she's a brilliant communicator and she's just a really positive, happy,
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  Speaker 8: positive contributor to South Australian politics, but particularly to the
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  Speaker 8: Liberal Party. And she is doing the most difficult job
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  Speaker 8: in Liberal politics.
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  Speaker 9: In the land.
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  Speaker 8: And turn out of ten to Ashton, she is an
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  Speaker 8: absolute rock star.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bretha fresh Air, Nicole Flinn. Thanks, we'll catch you
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  Speaker 1: of course tomorrow night at Liberal headquarters in Adelaide with
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  Speaker 1: Skott and new host news host Chris Kenny and former
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  Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Alexander Danna. Well look forward to seeing him
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  Speaker 1: in the coverage tomorrow night. Thanks for joining us and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how that election really plays out tomorrow. So
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  Speaker 1: let's get stuck into this fuel crisis now, I mean seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this week Chris Bowen was even downplaying the impacts,
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  Speaker 1: slamming consumers for panic buy and you were being told
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  Speaker 1: don't panic by, don't panic by anything to stop fuel
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  Speaker 1: companies from stinging people on price. Here in Victoria, when
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  Speaker 1: a petrol station in Robinvale in the northwest of the
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  Speaker 1: state actually ran out of fuel, the Premier j Cinda
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  Speaker 1: Allen denied it had even happened. Plus we now have
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  Speaker 1: fears of a petrol theft with reports farmers are storing
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  Speaker 1: fuel inside their homesteads to nine thieves. Joining us now
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  Speaker 1: to discuss the impact Victorian Nationals leader Danny O'Briant. Danny, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: What are your immediate concerns from a regional and rural
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  Speaker 1: point of view about the supply of diesel.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, look, we've got serious concerns Stephen, And as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 7: we've had robin Vale run out of fuel all together
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  Speaker 7: last weekend, but multiple towns across regional Victoria runout of
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  Speaker 7: diesel this week at different times and that's a real
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  Speaker 7: concern as we head into what is the peak sewing season,
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  Speaker 7: particularly for winter crops, but for all our farmers, not
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  Speaker 7: to mention our transport operators, the Central Services, emergency services,
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  Speaker 7: all those we need to ensure that we've got diesel,
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  Speaker 7: in particular for them going into what's a very busy
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  Speaker 7: and critical period for the people that supply our food
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  Speaker 7: and fiber.
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  Speaker 1: Danny, we did a bit of a quick check around
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  Speaker 1: the fuel retro stations around Metro Melbourne, not so much
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  Speaker 1: the country just to see what the price of diesel
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  Speaker 1: retail price was. We were finding it up over three
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  Speaker 1: dollars fifty liter for diesel. Surely farmers who are on
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  Speaker 1: a tight budget, who don't already have diesel in their
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  Speaker 1: tanks are going to find it impossible to pay that
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  Speaker 1: sort of price to start doing things like the planting season.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely, Steve, it's crippling for farmers to even if they
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  Speaker 7: can get the diesel, if they've got to pay more
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  Speaker 7: than double what they've been paying in the last couple
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  Speaker 7: of months, that's going to be a big issue in
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  Speaker 7: terms of them putting in crops, and so we do
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  Speaker 7: need to address this as soon as possible. The big issue,
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  Speaker 7: of course, though is the supply, and we've got real
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  Speaker 7: concerns about getting supply to regional areas and for farmers
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  Speaker 7: to have enough. We asked a question in the Parliament
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  Speaker 7: yesterday after my colleague Mcheeley and Loewen in the Whim
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  Speaker 7: had a question from a local farmer who said, I've
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  Speaker 7: got a couple of weeks to go before I start selling.
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  Speaker 7: I've literally only got enough diesel to plant about a
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  Speaker 7: quarter of my crop, and I can't look at at
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  Speaker 7: the moment, I'm not looking like I'm going to be
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  Speaker 7: able to get more diesel. That's a real concern that
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  Speaker 7: that's happening around the place, and I think both federal
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  Speaker 7: and state governments need to be doing more, not only
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  Speaker 7: to reassure Victorians and Australians that we've got the supply,
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  Speaker 7: but to make sure that it actually is there and
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  Speaker 7: is flowing.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned Danny that to me, it feels like the
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  Speaker 1: early days of COVID. I was going to ask you,
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  Speaker 1: do you believe that the federal government's doing enough? That's
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: question one. But I've also heard today Jacinda Allen making
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: noises about not ruling out potential fuel rationing. Can a
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: state government go it alone and introduce a rationing process
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: on fuel?
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, we've.
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: Got Victoria at least the Fuel Emergency Act nineteen seventy
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: seven that in an emergency does give the Minister incredible
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: powers to do virtually anything, particularly including rationing. Let's hope
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: we not get that bad and we don't want to
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: raise any more panic, because that's actually part of the problem.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: That there's been this panic buying. It's sucked up a
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: lot of the supplies and made it very difficult, just
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: in the supply chain, Steve. That's been the issue, the
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: stress on the supply chain. But the government's state in
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: federal do need to be prepared to look at that.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: And as I said, we asked the question of the
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Aid Minister yesterday of what they're doing. Are they preparing
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: for worst case scenarios to make sure that particularly our
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: farmers get access to diesel and we got told that
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: they've had a couple of meetings. And that's not terribly reassuring,
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: I've got to say, and we actually need more than
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: that from our governments.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Front page picture of the heralds Underday had the premiere
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: out during the week at a young char luncheon with
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: her backbenches. She's saying that it's something that normally happens.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: There's the shot of it. There seems to be having
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: a wonderful time to pity more Victorians and not having
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a laugh having a young char lunch, isn't it. Yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: Look, I look at that photo and I can't help
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: but think it looks a little bit manufactured, Steve, and
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: I wonder whether it's designed to try and tell us
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: that everything's hunky dory and the Labor Party look at
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: a time when Victorians are struggling, whether it's fuel, whether
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: it's cost of living, whether it's interest rate rises again
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: this week. You know the government should be focused on Victorians,
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: not on themselves. And this is an issue that I
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: think most Victorians will be concerned about when they see
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: those sort of pictures, when they see the government trying
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: to control a narrative about their internal machiness. The Nationals
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: and Liberals are focused on working for Victorians, providing our
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: vible alternative in November to make sure we tackle issues
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: like cost of living, like fuel, like crime, all of
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: those issues that are important to Victorians at the moment.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Danny, good to catch up with you, Thanks very much,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon. Let's cross to London now
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and the latest speaking of the conflict in the Middle
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: East with Sky News contributor and News Corp Australia's European
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: correspondent Sophie yours Worth. Sophie, welcome your pretty remarkable joint
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: statement out of the EU overnight. The leaders of the UK, France, Germany,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I think Italy, the Netherlands, even Japan and Canada all
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: condemned Iran's attack on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: That would indicate to me that some sort of coalition
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: is being formed, But it doesn't seem Australia is going
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to be any part of it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: Well, it doesn't look like that's the case at the moment, Steve.
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: But look, largely Britain's are frustrated here because, like all
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: around the world, their prices are going up and they're
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: questioning why they're involved in this war. And there's been
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: polling out here that's showing a majority of Britains do
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: not support the UK joining the US in an offensive
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: in the Strait of Hall moves. So there's a lot
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: of angst here in the UK. And we just yesterday
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: had the Bank of England keeping the cash rate on
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: hold at three point seventy five percent. So it's very
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: jittery here at the moment because we know this is
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: an economy that is already struggling as it is.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: You've just come back from Israel. I mean, I think
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: one of the things that's surprised a lot of people
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: around the world is when Iran started lobbying drones and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: missiles into what would normally be termed friendly countries. Although
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you know, the critical of Iran. But you know the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: UAE and Oman and that world's largest gas field. Gas
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: field that's going to disrupt global travel to an extraordinary extent, isn't.
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: It absolutely, Steve. I mean you only have to ask
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: family and friends. Many who are planning their European holidays
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: coming up, they look to be disrupted. People are being
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: disrupted all around the world and it's putting their travel
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: plans in absolute chaos. It was very difficult to get
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: in and out of Israel, as you could imagine. Normally
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: you can fly in out of there easily. Obviously you
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: can't at the moment. There's limited flights. So for myself
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: it took me a couple of days to get back
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: to London just from Israel, which is typically a five
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: hour flight, just using that as an example. But there
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: are people trying to arrange their schedules and it's very
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: difficult to do this at the moment, Steve. And also
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: remembering that a lot of these prices are going to
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: be going up significantly because petrol prices are also going up,
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: and the airlines have to pass on these charges.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: So if you I'll presume the UK is a lot
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: better placed than Australia in terms of fuel supplies, because
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the UK obviously has nor Sea oil and it can
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: refine its own oil and turn it into petrol and diesel.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: But how much have the retail prices at the pump
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: risen in the last three weeks.
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: Well, they've gone up significantly, Steve. I was just looking
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: this morning at the RAC website here. Now petrol here
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: is about a dollar forty three on average, or one
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: pound forty three, should I say so double that you're
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: looking at about two dollars ninety Australian and then diesel
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: is one sixty three one pound sixty three pence, So
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: it's very expensive here. I find typically petrol here is
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: expensive anyway, but this is seeing prices go up by
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: about ten p at least. And just this morning, Steve,
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: on the front of the papers here we've got the
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: Sun where they're saying Hell's bills. I mean it's saying
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: energy prices could jump by as much as three hundred
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: pounds a year. And also the ira war is unleashing
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: mortgage shock for millions, the Daily Mail says, So cost
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: of living remains a very serious issue here in the UK, Steve,
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: and I can tell you since moving here, you definitely
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: don't come out on top. You hit constantly here. It's
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: a very expensive place to live London, and sometimes I
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: question how Britons can do it because they seem to
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: be hit at every angle.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the prices of the field there seem about the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: same as Australia. And one person is probably quite happy
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that there's a wall going on in Iran would be
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Andrew mount Batten Winsor. I mean, the attention has gone
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: off him. But there are reports now, Sophie that the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: police are considering wider charges against the former prince. What
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: can you tell us about that?
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: That's right, Steve. So we know that he's already under
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: investigation by Thames Valley Police and many other police forces
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: here in the UK for a suspicion of alleged misconduct
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: in public office. Now they're looking at extending this to
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: potential corruption charges which links to bribery. Now, I must
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: stress Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing in
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: his time, whether related to any of these allegations leveled
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: at him, but he has been keeping.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: A very low profile.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Steve.
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: We have not seen or heard from him for quite
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: some time. We know he's moving from wood Farm to
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: Marsh Farm up at Sandringham Estate. He's in the process
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: of doing that, but this investigation into him could take
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: more than a year, so I don't expect anything immediately.
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: But there is a lot of nervousness around Buckingham Palace
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: of what lies ahead because this is a story that
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: they cannot kick.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Steve, you think they'll ever get him into court?
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: Well, Steve, who knows. I would be very careful with
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: my words to say that they will. But when they're
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: trawling through his numerous properties here in the UK for
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: days on end, they've got multiple police forces looking at him,
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: it doesn't look great. And I can tell you, Steve,
• 26:30
  Speaker 10: if he ends up in, for example, the Westminster Magistrates
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: Court here in central London, can you imagine the circus
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: that's going to surround that with a family member from
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: the Royals in court. But let's hold our horses. We
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: don't know yet. These are all allegations at the moment,
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: and no charges have been laid.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Of course, he's the brother of the King. Soph You
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: have a great weekend. Thank you very much for talk
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: to you shortly. Sophie Ellsworth there in London. We'll get
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the latest on cyclone the Real which is now smashed
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: into Far North Queensland today, destructive winds and insane amounts
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of water from tropical rain, plus a staggering pole that
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: shows one nation could almost wipe out the coalition if
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: an election was held today. That's all coming up after
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the break. Welcome back Mark Knight's cartoons for the held
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Sonel join us with his best cartoons of the week
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: shortly and we'll get into more on the fuel crisis
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and obviously the Iran war and the impact that's having
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: on diesel prices. And I also want to just reference
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the people of Far North Queensland. They are extraordinary when
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: you have a major weather event, a natural disaster like cyclone.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Cyclone Nurrel has gone through the top half way up
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: above Cooktown overnight. It has been downgraded from a category
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: five to a Category four, may even end up being
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a Category three. There's some talk of it going on
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: into the Northern territory. But I can remember years ago
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: going up to Far North Queensland when Cyclone Larry went
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: through and the damage that one of those weather events
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: do is amazing. But the people up there are very
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: well prepared for it. The prediction is the cyclone itself
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: will peter out, but the damage is left. I mean,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: it's just extraordinary. I mentioned it one Nation Pole saying
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that they could win as many of his fifty five
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: seats federally, reducing the Coalition to rump. I find that
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: poll pretty unrealistic. I don't believe that that would be
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the case, particularly now that the Nationals have got a
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: new leader in Matt Canavan. Friday Night regular format Queensland
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Premier someone who knows only too well what those natural
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: disasters can do. Campbell Newman joins us. I must say,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I think Campbell, welcome to you for your Friday spot.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: You've got to say Premier Chris of Fooley's handling both
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the cyclone and the full fuel crisis pretty well. He's
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: been very impressive. I think.
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: Well, I guess he's had quite a bit of practice already.
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: You know, one thing we do in Queensland is natural disasters,
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: and these sort of weather events are a sort of
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: fairly common. When he was my Minister for Local Government
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: and Disaster Recovery, he was there by my side and
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: had a bit of an experience of a few back
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: in those days.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: But yeah, look he's doing a good job on that.
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: Of course, as to the cyclone, it's a bit early
• 29:24
  Speaker 11: to see what the.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: IMPACT's actually been today.
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: As you were saying before, it's gone from a projected
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: five to a four. When across the coast northeast of Cohen,
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: it's about halfway across the Peninsua now heading for the
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: little Aboriginal community of Arakoun, about a thousand people projected
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: to hit there about ten o'clock to night as a
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: category two, and then of course it goes out to
• 29:47
  Speaker 11: the Gulf of Carpenteria. The rainfall is probably the bigger
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: issue in the flooded roads. But I am a bit
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: concerned about you know, some of those communities have got
• 29:56
  Speaker 11: agricultural projects going, like a hope failed north of Cooktown,
• 30:00
  Speaker 11: and I'd hate.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: To see some of the crops.
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: They're trying to grow to get an economic sort of
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: base to their community sort of being damaged out of this.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we all cross our fingers and hope the damage
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: not too much. But I mean, as I said, I
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: went up there when Larry went through, and boy or boy,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: that caused some damage. Let's talk about this demos pole
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that I mentioned at the top of the show, I'm
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: not sure I buy this idea that one nation could
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: win fifty five seats. You know, that is a hell
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of a turnaround. They've gone through all of the seats
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: in the House of Reps and made that prediction. What
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: do you make of what the one nation is the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: one nation vote nationally and in South Australia actually real
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: will it transfer to seats?
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: Well, we're going to see what their primary vote is
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: in the next twenty four hours or so in South Australia,
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: and we'll see the accuracy of the poles for assessing
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: the primary. I take on it is yes, it will
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: be accurate in terms of that primary vote. The question then, really, though,
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: is how does a primary vote like that translate into
• 31:09
  Speaker 11: a two party preferred which gets one Nation in front
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: of coalition candidate in those sort of elections and obviously
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: probably in regional seats this stage, I'm sort of with
• 31:21
  Speaker 11: you a bit in terms of them cleaning up with
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: so many seats, But that's the tricky thing. It's actually
• 31:27
  Speaker 11: working out what the preference flows will be because you know,
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: the Conservative vote is effectively sort of fragmented and often
• 31:36
  Speaker 11: you know, people trying to a first cart and they'll
• 31:38
  Speaker 11: allocate preferences saying, oh, they'll just assume it's you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 11: it's a battle between Labor and the Liberal and Liberal
• 31:45
  Speaker 11: National parties. But then it might not work out that way.
• 31:48
  Speaker 11: I mean what I'll say to you in Queensland, for example,
• 31:50
  Speaker 11: in regional seats, if there was an election this weekend,
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: you know, I think David Christoph Fuley would lose regional
• 31:57
  Speaker 11: seats to One Nation because the primary for One Nation
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: in those regional seats would probably have a FOREU in
• 32:03
  Speaker 11: front of it, be forty percent or something. And you know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: for example, I get feedback about towns Mart from my
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: old friend Sam Cox as a four malim P member
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: that the feeling for One Nation is very strong up
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: in northern Queensland.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Well, one Nation Queensland is One Nation's natural home, isn't it.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's always done better in Queensland, parts of
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: northern New South Wales in particular, that that's its power base, really,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: isn't it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: Well it always has been historically, But we're seeing a
• 32:35
  Speaker 11: new phenomenon now where these poles are coming up in
• 32:40
  Speaker 11: seats across the across the country. In the nationwide poling
• 32:44
  Speaker 11: and what we're seeing reported in the pages of The
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: Australian Today, which sees a primary vade. I think it
• 32:49
  Speaker 11: was again twenty two percent for one nation and if
• 32:52
  Speaker 11: I'm not mistaken, sixteen for the Liberal Party, and the
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: Australian Polsters were reporting predicting a wipeout for the Book Party.
• 33:03
  Speaker 11: This is the big litmus test. We'll see how good
• 33:05
  Speaker 11: those poles are. For my money, I think the primary
• 33:09
  Speaker 11: vote assessment of the polsters is probably correct.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah News follows traditionally the most accurate of the polls.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Peter Malinauskus, the Premier, who I've got quite some time for.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I think he's done a pretty good job. I come
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: from South Australia. I go there regularly. I was there
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: this week and the state seems to be in very
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: good shape. And it's not hard to go to another
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: state and think it's in good shape when you live
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: in Victoria, I must say. But I was there and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: you know, the place seems pretty much flying at the moment.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Speaking of flying, he's criticized Pauline Hansen for flying around
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: on Gina Ryan Hart's plain. Now I don't even know
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: if that's true or not. What I do know is
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: he made a mistake saying she's already left the state.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: She's gone back to Queensland. Well, I spoke to her
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: on the cart on the phone about two hours ago.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: She was still in Adelaide and doesn't intend leaving. Does
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that give you a sense that he may be getting
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: a little worried.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Gee, Steve, I don't think he needs to be.
• 34:08
  Speaker 11: I note that he did in the last few days
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: worn probably people in the Labor Party that One Nation
• 34:14
  Speaker 11: were taking votes from the Labor Party as well, of
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: course the Liberal Party, and that was born out in
• 34:21
  Speaker 11: that Australian news pole as well in terms of the
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: numbers that he'd had a slight slip I think on
• 34:27
  Speaker 11: his vote as well. So yeah, there is certainly the
• 34:31
  Speaker 11: case that you know, they are a blue collar, traditional
• 34:34
  Speaker 11: labor voters who have had a gupful of you know,
• 34:37
  Speaker 11: woke a labor and in a city sort of trendies
• 34:41
  Speaker 11: and smarty pants, and you know they're they're they're backing
• 34:45
  Speaker 11: as someone who they see is authentic. By the way,
• 34:48
  Speaker 11: as this plays out, I mean One Nation increasingly will
• 34:50
  Speaker 11: have the spotlight on them and you know they've got
• 34:54
  Speaker 11: to be sure that they really can front up with
• 34:57
  Speaker 11: great policies and coherently explain them and do more than
• 35:01
  Speaker 11: perhaps what's happened the past, where they can point out
• 35:03
  Speaker 11: what the problem has been.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: But they've got some great candidates.
• 35:06
  Speaker 11: Coming through across Australia now, some really credible people are
• 35:11
  Speaker 11: being selected, so that's bodes well for them as a
• 35:16
  Speaker 11: campaign machine.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Just quickly. I'm of the view that the Prime Minister,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: no matter what party they come from, should be treated
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: with respect. The Prime Minister and Tony Burke went to
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the La Kember Mosque today and they were they were heckled.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Here's what happened there.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: La Bela just like.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Sub borders, alah like, but alah like, but alah like.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: That's not a good look, is it.
• 35:45
  Speaker 11: Well, they didn't do themselves any favors, Steve. And if
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: people in the Muslim community are worried about Islamophobia, these
• 35:55
  Speaker 11: sorts of actions I guess play into into a into
• 35:59
  Speaker 11: a concern now, well you know, creating sort of negative
• 36:03
  Speaker 11: impressions of that community. So yeah, they shouldn't have done
• 36:08
  Speaker 11: it really as to respect for the position. Well, gee,
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: whiz mate, I've been heckled in my past life.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Surely, surely, surely. Though it goes with the terres event.
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: I remember that you must have heard the famous story
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: about GoF Whitlam at Lang Park in Brisbane. He went
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: out to the set of Lang Park at the crowd
• 36:28
  Speaker 11: booed him. He turned around to the labor person who's
• 36:31
  Speaker 11: with and said, don't you ever bring.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Me here again when you're so unpopular? Or something like that.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: It was.
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: We've never shown any respect for our leaders, have we, Steve,
• 36:43
  Speaker 11: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: No, we haven't. You need thick skin, gamble. I know
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  Speaker 1: you have good on your mate. I'll talk to you
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  Speaker 1: next Friday. Coming up after the break, Mark Knight with
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  Speaker 1: his cartoons of the week, the Herald Sun cartoonist. He's
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: had a ripping week. He'll be with me in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: Back Steve Price with their panel coming up shortly. Let's
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  Speaker 1: jump into the Cartoons of the week now with our mate,
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  Speaker 1: heralds On cartoonist extraordinary. Mark Knight, Mart welcome now. I
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  Speaker 1: want to show you something before I get to your cartoons.
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  Speaker 1: This is a picture from out of the Herald under
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  Speaker 1: day of Premier to Cinder Allen in a Chinese restaurant yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: counting numbers after reports of a challenge. Have a look
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  Speaker 1: at this. There she is right cackling away. Now, please
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  Speaker 1: tell me a lazy Susan dumplings, chopsticks and diet coke
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  Speaker 1: are headed for a cartoon soon. Surely you're going to
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  Speaker 1: draw that.
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  Speaker 9: As a cartoonist, you never let a chance go by, Steve.
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  Speaker 9: You know that. And when I saw this photo, my
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: little cartoonist brain went click and I finished this cartoon
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  Speaker 9: ten minutes ago. Was the last supper at the Shark
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  Speaker 9: fin ind with of course the premier saying I know
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  Speaker 9: none of you will betray me.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. That's gold for a cartoon, and that'll be here.
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  Speaker 1: It is, that'll be in the herald time. Here it
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  Speaker 1: is is that Herold sun Man cartoon that is fresh
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  Speaker 1: off the press.
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  Speaker 9: I literally finished that ten minutes ago and then ran
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  Speaker 9: down here to the studio.
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  Speaker 1: You are a genius. Now, what about COVID hotel quarantine segment,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: A saga that was straight out of Faulty Tower. What
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: did you draw with that?
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  Speaker 11: Well?
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  Speaker 9: I used to portray the hotel quarantine in Victoria as
• 38:27
  Speaker 9: the talkie hotel that we all know to love Faulty Towers.
• 38:33
  Speaker 9: And when it came out this week that they'd lost
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: the class action against businesses in Victoria to the tune
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: of one hundred and twenty five million. I couldn't resist
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: in bringing it back and we all, yeah, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 9: not Basil, that's Manuel.
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  Speaker 1: I was Manuel.
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  Speaker 9: And Manuel's great expression was I know nothing, which was
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: very apt.
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  Speaker 1: Our interest rates they got stretched again this week after
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the latest rate rise announced What did you do on
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  Speaker 1: interest rates?
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  Speaker 9: Well, you know, I'm getting better at drawing the Reserve
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  Speaker 9: Bank Governor Michelle Bullock, and she this is not a
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  Speaker 9: pilates machine, by the way, this is it looks like
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: what this is the rack? The interest rate rack, which
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: were where we're put on. They're calling interest rates a
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: blunt instrument. Well, I like to draw it as a
• 39:21
  Speaker 9: sort of table of terror. And of course it was
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: a very close result, as you know, they wore five
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: four or five do we hold or do we raise?
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: And there's only one way in Australia to make it
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: a split decision is rock paper scissors, and that's what
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  Speaker 9: they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic you draw Michelle very well. We got Chris Bowen,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: who is the worst minister in the country. I love
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: having a crack at Chris. He's been gloating about the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: push toward evs. Yes, amid a fuel crisis. What the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: hell is he doing this? Butte and one of the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: great he's selling EV's.
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: Well, it's a terrible this war, but as he's saying,
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: it couldn't have come and a better time for if
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  Speaker 9: you want to sell an EV to somebody. And I
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: think sales are up at least thirty percent. So there
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: he is at Bowen's world of EV's and everybody is
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: running in his front door from the fuel station.
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  Speaker 1: I must say we've heard tonight that he's in He's
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: actually in Brisbane attending a COP meeting in his new
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: role as head of dialogue for COP.
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  Speaker 9: I think he organizes drinks for it all at his
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: job wherein the diesel is costing two dollars seventy liter
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: and he's in Brisbane at a conference. He said today
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: this is his side hustle. Yet he has the capacity
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: to do both jobs at once.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have the capacity to do one job let
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: alone too. I mean seriously, and the Treasurer and the
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: PM they're in their budget bunker. You're going to need
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: a bunker, are they not?
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, we were hearing about all those poor
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: people in Jui.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Rabbit little details. He ran out on the ground when
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: that bloke.
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: Brain he didn't get fined or arrested all or taser.
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  Speaker 1: Why was he there?
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  Speaker 9: I think he was looking for a good shot, you know,
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: a nice picture. But I mean, everybody in the Middle
• 41:08
  Speaker 9: East is in their bunker due to this war, and
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: I think the war is having we'll have serious ramifications
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  Speaker 9: for the budget and inflation. So I've put a good
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: old doctor Jim and the Prome minister in the budget bunker,
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: which is where they will be until May.
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  Speaker 1: I suspect the fuel crisis is going to be pretty
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: rich fodder for you.
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  Speaker 9: Well, yeah, of course I'm going it affects us all.
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  Speaker 9: I've got a couple of jerry cans in the back
• 41:30
  Speaker 9: of the ute just so I can get home tonight.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: So was a report this morning that some farmers are
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: taking their fuel jerry cans inside and sleeping with them
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: next to their bed because they're worried about them being stolen.
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know whether to hoard toilet paper or petrol.
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: These days, I don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard question that cartoon's brilliant. Thanks for coming in,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Mark Knight. He'll be back to this in a couple
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: of weeks. After the break, the Victorian Coalition has ramped
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: up it's social media attacks. But willn't it actually earn
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: them any votes at the polling? But it was very clever.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Our Friday Night paneled with their view on that. Up next,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: welcome back to Steve Price with you The world according
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: to Rondine coming up at the top of the hour.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Don't forget a course, and I'll mention this before I
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: go tonight. The Sky coverage of the South Australian election tomorrow. Now,
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  Speaker 1: anyone who's ever been to Japan, and I've been there
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  Speaker 1: twelve thirteen times knows well you don't mention the war,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: so you don't have to imagine how awkward it was
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: when the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: front of the new Japanese Prime Minister, brought up Pearl Harbor.
• 42:37
  Speaker 11: We went in very high and we didn't tell anybody
• 42:40
  Speaker 11: about it because we wanted surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: Okay, why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, my god, I mean awkward? He had discuss this
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: in more News of the Week Senior fellow at Institute
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: of Public Affairs Mirs Schlip and Sky News regular Joe Hildebrand.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump never fails to surprise Joe.
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  Speaker 4: I just love everything. This is just and this is
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: why you have Donald Trump. If you want someone who's
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: going to follow all the protocols and someone who's going
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: to sort of, you know, bowance, scrape and say all
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: the boring beij diplomatic niceties that mean absolutely nothing, don't
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: go with Donald Trump. But if you want someone who
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: is just going to go where no man, where angels
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: fear to tread, no man has dared to go before,
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: he is the guy. And I thought this was absolutely hilarious.
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: I think you have to remember with Trump, first and foremost,
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: he's an entertainer. He's an entertainer who just happens to
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: be President of the United States. And I, for one,
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: as an audience member, am very entertained.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, as I said, I've been to Japan a lot,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: and the made of mine pulled me aside first time
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  Speaker 1: I went there and said, mate, whatever you do, don't
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: ever mention the war. And I certainly haven't done that
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: me the Victorian Coalition. They've been this week ramping up
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: their social media A text has taken them long enough
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: to work out that that's what you need to do.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Here's a quick editor grab of what they said about
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: what should have been the start of the Conworth Games
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 8: Today would have been the opening ceremony for the Commworth
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: Games here in Victoria.
• 44:17
  Speaker 11: The fifteen billion dollar discus how far can taxpayer money
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: be thrown into waste and corruption?
• 44:23
  Speaker 9: Pig John highest taxes and high stick budget bombed.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: There are apart from John Pusuto's genes I reckon. It's
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: pretty good.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Look, it was certainly attention grabbing, Steve, that is for sure,
• 44:38
  Speaker 12: and that's a good thing because for a long time
• 44:40
  Speaker 12: here in Victoria, the Liberal Party has kind of been nowhere,
• 44:43
  Speaker 12: so it's great to see them grabbing those headlines. However,
• 44:46
  Speaker 12: I think now the next step for them is they're great,
• 44:48
  Speaker 12: you've got the state's attention. Now what are you going
• 44:51
  Speaker 12: to do with it? The message is just as important
• 44:54
  Speaker 12: as the way you're delivering that message. So the message
• 44:56
  Speaker 12: can't just be there's all the terrible things that Labour's doing.
• 45:00
  Speaker 12: We need a little bit more. What's the Liberal Party
• 45:03
  Speaker 12: going to do about that? What's the next stage, what
• 45:05
  Speaker 12: are their policies that they're going to roll out. So
• 45:07
  Speaker 12: I think this is a great start for them, but
• 45:09
  Speaker 12: now we need to see a little bit more.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe, it's interesting. The Liberal Party obviously clearly with
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the polls going against them in one nation on a surge,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: you know, are in real trouble. But they've managed to
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: find two remarkable women to lead in South Australia Ashton
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Hern and in Victoria Jess Wilson. So I don't know
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: where they've been hiding these great candidates and leaders all
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: these years, trawling through all these you know, conga line
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: of blokes who are no good. Those two are outstanding candidates.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, look at the tried and true tradition from both
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: parties where you go through all the blokes and then
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: when you're in a completely unwinnable position, you roll out
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: a female candidate who you probably should have rolled out
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: a long long time ago, and it's kind of like, oh,
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: you know, you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, come
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: a brand new face. You know, I'm not the one
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: you're anger out, he's gone. They did it with Dan
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: Andrews and cindere Allan and now obviously got Jess Wilson
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: in Victoria, who I think is a strong cand I
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: think they do have a chance and I don't think
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: one nation will be as strong in Victoria as it
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: will be in other states. Obviously South Australia tomorrow is
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: going to be a blood bath for the Libs. That
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: is not That is not Beckham's fault, Ashton Hurd's fault. Sorry,
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: but it is just a fact of life. And maybe
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: if they had to put her there, you know, one
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: leader ago or two leaders ago instead of the bloke
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: who was racking up on his kitchen bench, things might
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: have actually been different and the Libs might have been
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: in with a chance.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: One hundred percent me this could only happen in Victoria. Commuters,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: a beig mourned that you should be careful of the
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: new tap and go so there are one hundred years behind.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: You've been able to do this in Sydney forever, but
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: the new Mikey readers can apparently read your phone and
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: your credit cards in your purse or your wallet and
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: start charging you for a train fear that you never took.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Only in Victoria could that happen.
• 47:04
  Speaker 12: I know, it is quite unbelievable. I've just come back
• 47:06
  Speaker 12: from a trip to Japan with some friends and their
• 47:08
  Speaker 12: transport system is night and day. We could only dream
• 47:11
  Speaker 12: about having a system that works out efficiently here in Victoria.
• 47:15
  Speaker 12: But at the end of the end of the day,
• 47:17
  Speaker 12: it's just another failed project rolled out by a financially
• 47:21
  Speaker 12: bankrupt government who is completely incompetent. And this story gets
• 47:24
  Speaker 12: a little bit worse because when you look at one
• 47:26
  Speaker 12: of the key players who was involved in the rollout
• 47:29
  Speaker 12: of this new project, I'm Jerome Weiner. He was also
• 47:32
  Speaker 12: the Commonwealth Game's chief and he was also the COVID
• 47:36
  Speaker 12: nineteen responder. So this guy has a history of botching
• 47:40
  Speaker 12: the rollouts, yet we continue to rely on him, and
• 47:42
  Speaker 12: now he's on about a seven hundred thousand dollars pay wicket.
• 47:46
  Speaker 12: It is just unbelievable, and once again it is Victorians
• 47:49
  Speaker 12: who are paying the price.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: He's one of those blokes that keeps getting jobs. Joe.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I know, Chris Bowen is spending the day in Brisbane
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: and is his role as the cop negotiator and we're
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: in the mid of a film crisis. What does he
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: think he's doing?
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: You know what. This reminds me of the Woody Allen
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: joke at the end of Annie Hall, where there's two
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: sort of grumpy old ladies having dinner and one says
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: to the other the food here is terrible, and the
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: other one says, I know. And in such small portions,
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: I sort of felt this way when Scott Morrison left
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: for Hawaii in the middle of the bushfire crisis and
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: Bowen goes to a conference which is at least work
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: related in the middle of an energy crisis.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: This guy is terrible.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: He's absolutely hopeless, there's no good he's useless.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: And then oh my god, he's gone. What are we
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: going to do without him?
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I think we'll be on You couldn't read about it, Joe,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you couldn't actually read about it. Thank you both, appreciate
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: it very much. Make sure everybody you tune into Skytes
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night, full coverage with all of the experts with
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: the South Australian election. I mean that coverage starts at
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: six o'clock in Adelaide, six thirty on the East Coast.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Just fantastic coverage. It will be. Make sure you're tune in.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: I'll see you next week.