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Speaker 1: Past reform it tonight? Why have petrol prices gone up
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Speaker 1: after the petrol xcize was cut and the cancelation of
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Speaker 1: Craig McLachlin by the Me Too movement his partner hits back.
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Speaker 1: Plus how Vladimir Putin just humiliated Britain in a frightening
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Speaker 1: way and Barnaby Joyce is coming up as well. But first,
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Speaker 1: the Alberti's the governor's are many shameful things since the
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Speaker 1: October seventh slaughter of Jews by Iranian back Tomas terrorists,
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Speaker 1: but today ranks among the worst. It's not just portraying
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Speaker 1: Israel again but effectively starting with Iran's regime against the
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Speaker 1: United States. Both the Prime Minister and Anthony Albanezi and
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Speaker 1: Foreign Minutes of Penny Wong today echoed exactly a key
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Speaker 1: demand Iran is now making. Both backed the demand Iran
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Speaker 1: is using as an excuse for breaking the cease fire
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Speaker 1: it reached with Donald Trump only yesterday, with Iran again
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Speaker 1: closing the strait up Moods that had promised to open
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Speaker 1: to oil tankers, Iran Sake media reported over note that
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Speaker 1: Iranian security officials had closed the straight again to the
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Speaker 1: tankers because Israel was still bombing Hebelah forces in Lebanon.
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Speaker 1: Hebela is yet another terrorist ARMI funded by Iran. Now
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Speaker 1: the US is saying, or maybe it's just hoping. Oh well, look,
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Speaker 1: maybe the strait is just still closed because military units
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Speaker 1: on around's coasts were cut off by the bombing. Have
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Speaker 1: you yet got the message to let ships through?
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Speaker 2: Iran would be wise to find a way to get
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Speaker 2: the carrier pigeon to their troops out in remote locations,
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Speaker 2: to know not to shoot, not to shoot any longer
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Speaker 2: one way attacks or missiles, because this takes time sometimes
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Speaker 2: for ceasefires to take hold. We're watching it. We're prepared
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Speaker 2: if necessary, but we we hope and believe that it'll hold.
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Speaker 1: Not be more to it than that. The speaker of
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Speaker 1: the Iranian parliament put out a statement accusing the US
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Speaker 1: of already breaking three of ten things. He claims that
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Speaker 1: the US agreed to for this cease fire. One that
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Speaker 1: the US then sent a drone into its airspace. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure about that. Two that Trump shouldn't be insisting
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Speaker 1: that the US go into Iran and remove about four
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Speaker 1: hundred kilograms of uranium that it and rich to make
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Speaker 1: eleven nuclear bombs. Uranium thought to be buried in previous
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Speaker 1: bombings of nucleo sides there last year. But third, and
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Speaker 1: most importantly, Iran says the US has not stopped Israel
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Speaker 1: bombing in Lebanon, and this is the real deal breaker. Well,
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Speaker 1: the US says Iran is wrong. The seas far a
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Speaker 1: deal the Vice President Jady Vance helped negotiate did not
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Speaker 1: include stopping Israel's war in Lebanon.
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Speaker 3: I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon,
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Speaker 3: and it just didn't. We ever made that promise. We
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Speaker 3: never indicated that was going to be the case. What
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Speaker 3: we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran,
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Speaker 3: and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both
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Speaker 3: Israel and the Golf Air of States. The Israelis, as
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Speaker 3: I understand it, have actually offered, to be frankly, to
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Speaker 3: check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want
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Speaker 3: to make sure that our negotiation is successful.
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Speaker 1: This is the key dispute that Albinizi and Wang jumped into. Today.
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Speaker 1: You've got Iran saying that Israel must stop finding the
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Speaker 1: hispital of tourists in Lebanon. They keep firing rockets at
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Speaker 1: Israel or there's no cease fire. The US says, well,
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Speaker 1: actually there was no such deal, and guess who side
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Speaker 1: our Prime minister and Foreign Minister have taken.
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Speaker 4: The Australian government also firmly believes that this has to
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Speaker 4: apply to Lebanon as well.
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Speaker 5: We have called early and we continue to call with
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Speaker 5: others for the ceasefire to apply to Lebanon, to both Hesbellah,
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Speaker 5: and to if fighting continues in Lebanon, the cease fire
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Speaker 5: is at risk.
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Speaker 1: Now. Israeli ambassador, without naming our Prime minister, ask people
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Speaker 1: like him to think about what they were actually demanding
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Speaker 1: of Israel. People who are not attacked.
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Speaker 6: They believe that, okay, why Israel perhaps should overlook this
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Speaker 6: and just move forward. We cannot overlook a situation where
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Speaker 6: more than a million people of our citizens and civilians
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Speaker 6: are under an attack on a daily, an hourly basis.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's impossible to exaggerate just how irresponsible and
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Speaker 1: weak Albanezi and Wong are in the face of totality
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Speaker 1: in Islam. You come this bit from Wang today.
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Speaker 5: I said last night, very early that the sees fire
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Speaker 5: must apply to Lebanon. It should be observed by Israel
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Speaker 5: and by hisbellah.
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Speaker 1: Oh pennyone calls on Hebela to obey a ceasefire, tells
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Speaker 1: a prescribed terrorist group as hijacked planes, committed suicide attacks
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Speaker 1: on Jews even in Argentina, and fired thousands and thousands
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Speaker 1: of rockets and missiles into Israel. Please Hesbila, can you
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Speaker 1: now just stop? And they say or else what Penny Albow?
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Speaker 1: I mean? This is the ultimate ir responsibility, isn't it?
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Speaker 1: I mean, tell Israel to stop without taking any effective
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Speaker 1: action against the terrorists, and countries like Iran trying to
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Speaker 1: wipe it out. In fact, here are Albani Ziwong demanding
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Speaker 1: the US and Israel stick with the Seas father right
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Speaker 1: that actually is Iran right now is exploiting. It's closed
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Speaker 1: the straighter for Muz, It's added to its demands and
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Speaker 1: into the war in Lebanon, and yesterday'd even sent a
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Speaker 1: drone to bomb a critical Saudi oil pipeline to the
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Speaker 1: Red Sea. At least Donald Trump sees right through what
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Speaker 1: Iran's actually up to. About five hours ago, he posted
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Speaker 1: this morning on truth Social all US ship's aircraftlitary personnel
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Speaker 1: with additional ammunition weaponry and anything else that is appropriate
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Speaker 1: and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an
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Speaker 1: already substantially degraded enemy will remain in place in and
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Speaker 1: around Iran until such time as the real agreement reached
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Speaker 1: is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not,
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Speaker 1: which is highly unlikely, then the shooting starts, bigger and
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Speaker 1: better and stronger than anyone who's ever seen before. It
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Speaker 1: was agreed a long time ago, and despite all the
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Speaker 1: fate rhetorics of the country, no nuclear weapons and the
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Speaker 1: straightuprom was will be open and safe. And in the meantime,
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Speaker 1: our great military is loading up and resting, looking forward
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Speaker 1: actually to its next conquest. That is not something you
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Speaker 1: would hear from Albert Easy in any life of his.
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Speaker 1: All of which makes this a critical moment in world history.
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Speaker 1: Does the US, deserted already by so many Western allies,
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Speaker 1: now abandon Israel It was Australia clearly, as does it
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Speaker 1: end a war on Iran before it's actually finished, without
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Speaker 1: a real piece, with a regime that's a threat to
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Speaker 1: the world. Does it show Iran's allies Russia and China
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Speaker 1: watching closely to the west, We're no longer going to
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Speaker 1: fight hard for our freedom and security, goy hardest. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course it was up to Albanezi Wang Iran would
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Speaker 1: win this war. I suspect Donald Trump has a better
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Speaker 1: sense of what's at stake. Now, there is something very
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Speaker 1: fascinating about Iran's bombing of Lebanon yesterday. Israel hit more
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Speaker 1: than one hundred Hesbela targets over three regions almost simultaneously,
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Speaker 1: more than one hundred targets within ten minutes of each other,
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Speaker 1: all Hesbela targets. Now, that is beyond on you usual,
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Speaker 1: that kind of coordination, that very tight patterning, and the
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Speaker 1: roomor now, which is unconfirmed certainly by Israel, seems to
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Speaker 1: be fairly obvious. Why more than one hundred targets almost
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Speaker 1: that once. Perhaps because they were all his blood officials
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Speaker 1: that Israel knew would be in doing all the one
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Speaker 1: thing at the same time, like I don't know, joining
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Speaker 1: a zoom call perhaps you know, and somehow all GEO
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Speaker 1: located at precisely that time and then killed like with
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Speaker 1: a pager strike. Something astonishing is going on. So this
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Speaker 1: is the kind of attack that Iran says should stop,
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Speaker 1: that Albanezi and Wong say should stop. Joining me as
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Speaker 1: a Bolt report regular as advice President Trump on his
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Speaker 1: war plans, and has been briefly in the Israeli ones
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Speaker 1: as well. Highly respected is General Jack Keane, a form
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Speaker 1: of vice staff in the United States Army, and I
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Speaker 1: spoke to him earlier. General Jack Keane, great to see
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Speaker 1: you again. Donald Trump agreed to a two week cease fire.
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Speaker 1: This cease fire already looks broken around his close Straits
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Speaker 1: of Moves again saying that I listen, the deal included Levanon,
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Speaker 1: no fighting in Levanon by Israel. Did the President make
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Speaker 1: a mistake drawing offering around the cease fire?
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Speaker 7: Well?
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Speaker 8: From my perspective, the way I think about it is
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Speaker 8: what is Iran's motivation here? I mean, the reason why
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Speaker 8: they took control of the Straits of Moves and shut
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Speaker 8: them down is for one single objective that you were
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Speaker 8: attempting to achieve, and that is to stop the war prematurely.
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Speaker 8: They have achieved that objective, no doubt about it. It
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Speaker 8: remains to be seen what happens now as a result
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Speaker 8: of a potential peace deal. I believe we gave up
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Speaker 8: huge leverage by stopping the war versus continuing to bomb around,
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Speaker 8: and we were in an acceleration phase towards the end
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Speaker 8: here the last few weeks where every night the bombing
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Speaker 8: campaign was increasing over the night before, so that we
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Speaker 8: were trying to completely finish all of their offensive capability
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Speaker 8: that they had, and obviously, to be frank about it,
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Speaker 8: they wanted to hide and keep some of this so
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Speaker 8: they would be able to demonstrate one they survived the
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Speaker 8: United States military superpower along with Israel's attack, and two
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Speaker 8: they still had retaliation capability and they would likely demonstrate that.
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Speaker 8: So they've been hiding their launchers and preserving their drones
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Speaker 8: and hiding them as well, and it's taken us longer
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Speaker 8: to find them. But nonetheless, we were systematically doing just that.
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Speaker 8: So here we are. We are in a fire. But
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Speaker 8: I still think President Trump has significant leverage. I would
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Speaker 8: have preferred the war going on to be that leverage,
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Speaker 8: but it's not. The leverage he has is the deadline itself,
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Speaker 8: and he can issue an ultimatum privately to the Iranians
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Speaker 8: that if you don't make this deal in two weeks
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Speaker 8: I'm returning to full throttle combat operations, which indeed will
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Speaker 8: be accelerated. However, let's be frank here, the Iranians are
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Speaker 8: notorious for this phase of an operation. They are really
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Speaker 8: good at obfuscation and delaying and stretching out and dragging
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Speaker 8: out negotiations to what end. What they want here is
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Speaker 8: to drag this out as long as possible beyond the
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Speaker 8: two weeks and get extensions because they know full well
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Speaker 8: as oil prices come down, as the stock market goes up,
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Speaker 8: as the economic pressure on the president is removed, as
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Speaker 8: well as political pressure on the president, the Iranians are
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Speaker 8: likely to believe that the president will be less inclined
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Speaker 8: to restart the war even if the deal breaks apart.
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Speaker 8: And that's what they are counting on here. So the
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Speaker 8: President I know for a fact that he understands this
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Speaker 8: because I spoke to him about it. And the reality
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Speaker 8: is is that I believe he will hold the Iranians
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Speaker 8: to this deadline and time. What the Iranians will do
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Speaker 8: in negotiations is I said, their messes at it. We're
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Speaker 8: dealing with generational leaders here, just like Putin is. And
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Speaker 8: you notice Putin has never gone to a ceasefire. Why
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Speaker 8: because he believes the wars is leverage and he wants
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Speaker 8: to keep it that way. The Iranians here will look
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Speaker 8: like they're coming close to a deal, say yeah, we'll
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Speaker 8: make a concession here, we'll work this. We need more
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Speaker 8: time to work it, though, and I think that will
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Speaker 8: be their objective. We've got to slam the door after
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Speaker 8: two weeks. Make sure they understand we're not going a
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Speaker 8: day further than that, and we're coming back with full
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Speaker 8: throttle operations, so there is still leverage here.
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Speaker 7: One other point.
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Speaker 8: For our audience to understand. We also have a strategic
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Speaker 8: asset that the Iranians hold very dearly and its Card Island.
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Speaker 8: This island is the major distribution point for the Iranians
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Speaker 8: and ninety plus percent of all oil passes through this
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Speaker 8: distribution point pipeline in tankers out sixty percent of their
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Speaker 8: revenue fifty percent of their budget. If we take control
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Speaker 8: of that strategic asset, and then we assume we don't
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Speaker 8: have a deal, and we tell the Iranians, you will
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Speaker 8: lose all of your oil if you don't give up
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Speaker 8: your nuclear capability fully and let us take it and
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Speaker 8: all the other points we're trying to make here, and
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Speaker 8: if they don't do that, then we destroy it. That
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Speaker 8: will be economic collapse for this regime for sure. And
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Speaker 8: likely put him on a pathway for the regime to
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Speaker 8: be so vulnerable with not having revenue at all to
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Speaker 8: speak of, that they're going to be in trouble in
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Speaker 8: terms of the are very survival itself. So we still
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Speaker 8: have considerable leverage in front of us here to exercise
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Speaker 8: against the Iranians.
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Speaker 1: But General Keane, speaking to the President, you review the
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Speaker 1: US war plans, etc. Are you convinced that he has
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Speaker 1: the appetite and the political capital that's probably even more important,
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Speaker 1: the political capital to resume this war if he feels
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Speaker 1: that Iran is playing him for a secer this much.
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Speaker 8: I do know a couple things. One, he's not going
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Speaker 8: to make a bad deal because he has negotiated with
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Speaker 8: these Iranians more than anybody else. He knows they're pathological liars,
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Speaker 8: he knows that they would cheat, he knows who they
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Speaker 8: truly are, and he knows he's dealing with some pretty
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Speaker 8: serious hardliners right now, obviously not the first or second tier,
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Speaker 8: to be sure, So he's got his eyes wide open here.
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Speaker 8: I don't see him making a lousy deal at all.
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Speaker 8: And the second thing, he knows full well he has
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Speaker 8: this strategic asset that I'm talking about in Carl galland
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Speaker 8: so yes, I do believe he would step up and
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Speaker 8: resume combat operations, particularly centered on car Gallen. He would
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Speaker 8: do other things as well that I believe. I believe
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Speaker 8: those two things are still very much in play.
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Speaker 1: Is there any chance that he will throw Israel under
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Speaker 1: the bus here we have around saying we're going to
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Speaker 1: give you the deal that you really really want, provided
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Speaker 1: you make Israel stop attacking Hebela in Lebanon? Would he
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Speaker 1: do that?
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Speaker 8: When President Trump talked to the Prime Minister about the
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Speaker 8: opportunity here that he believes a deal may provide, and
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Speaker 8: therefore he was willing to go to a cease fire
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Speaker 8: despite the short term gain as I described that that
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Speaker 8: Iran is going to get from that. He obviously sees
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Speaker 8: all of that himself. The Prime Minister truly wanted to
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Speaker 8: be able to continue operations against Hesbela here because he's
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Speaker 8: fully intent Andrew for an audience to understand, you know,
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Speaker 8: he went to a ceasefire with Hesweler some time ago,
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Speaker 8: and he knows that Heswell is right back trying to
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Speaker 8: kill as many Israelies as they can. So this time
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Speaker 8: he fully intends netnel that is to go in there
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Speaker 8: and destroy all of their infrastructure that's south of the
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Speaker 8: Latani River. He has told the population to leave. They
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Speaker 8: have done that. He's got ground forces in there, and
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Speaker 8: he's got air component in it. He is going to
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Speaker 8: just take it away from them completely, not occupy it,
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Speaker 8: but destroy it so much that there's nothing left for
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Speaker 8: them to do without major major reconstruction effort. He wants
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Speaker 8: to wherewithal to be able to complete what he has
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Speaker 8: started there, and the President has given him the green
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Speaker 8: light to do just that. I would suspect the Iranians
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Speaker 8: the reason why they're attacking the Arabs still is to
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Speaker 8: get that pressure on the Arabs to tell the President
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Speaker 8: to stand down and force netnaw to stop attacking Hesbelah.
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Speaker 8: I suspect the Iranians will threaten closing the straits of
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Speaker 8: a mouse again over this issue. I expect the President
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Speaker 8: to stand and support net Nao in his objective here,
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Speaker 8: unless Nettie voluntarily says, all right, if this is a
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Speaker 8: real opportunity, I will hold off for a couple of
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Speaker 8: weeks to see what's going to come of it. I
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Speaker 8: have heard nothing along those lines out of the Israelis
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Speaker 8: as of right now, they are dead set on wanting
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Speaker 8: to finish what they started at end.
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Speaker 1: Lebanon, General King, thank you so much for your time,
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Speaker 1: for your insights.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, great talking to Andrew. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Now let's have a look at how much you are taxed.
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Speaker 1: Check for yourself. It's not just your income, of course,
18:38
Speaker 1: as you know, there's the GST and all sorts of
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Speaker 1: other charges and impults and what have you and levies
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Speaker 1: and we honestly it's just a lot on top of
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Speaker 1: the cost of living crisis for many Australians. And really
18:53
Speaker 1: this then is the time to look at some of
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Speaker 1: the things that your government spends your taxes on and
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Speaker 1: to say enough enough and funnily enough about that, an
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Speaker 1: Albanies and Government senator, sure did that today and good honor.
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Speaker 1: You see the second fastest growing government expense, it's the
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Speaker 1: National Disability Insurance Scheme, second only to rising interest payments
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Speaker 1: on our debt. Now, the NDAs is meant to be
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Speaker 1: just for people with a significant and permanent disability. You've
19:24
Speaker 1: got so many people having their handout. I mean seven
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty thousand Australians. That is one in thirty
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Speaker 1: five Australians now saying significantly and permanently disabled. Give me money.
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Speaker 1: The olman is in. Government's also double the number of
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Speaker 1: public servants working on this the scheme, ten thousand of
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Speaker 1: them now. And Lady Senator Michelee and Anderaja today describe
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Speaker 1: what sounds to me like about the most appalling mismanaged
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Speaker 1: government scheme i've known.
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Speaker 9: Its social license is crumbling right now. It's around fifty
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Speaker 9: billion a year. In three to four years time, it's
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Speaker 9: projected to hit sixty three billion. Why because of the
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Speaker 9: overmedicalization of diagnosis. And in addition to that, we are
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Speaker 9: also seeing what I would describe as therapeutic inflation. That
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Speaker 9: means service provision with a weak quality and evidence base.
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Speaker 9: And I'm deeply concerned about overservicing that may be going
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Speaker 9: on in the NDIS with very limited oversight. Right now,
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Speaker 9: only around eight percent of active providers are registered in
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Speaker 9: the NDIS. Why is that the case in medicine, all
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Speaker 9: doctors and nurses are registered. It should be exactly the
20:43
Speaker 9: same in the NDIS. There are problems with fraudsters and
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Speaker 9: shunsters in this program. They're seeing it as a honeypot.
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Speaker 9: They're seeing participants as ATMs human ATMs, and.
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Speaker 1: That wasn't even all of it, and she would know.
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Speaker 1: She's a former physician and clinician. She knows joining me
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Speaker 1: is a regular Thursday commentator One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce,
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Speaker 1: the former Deputy Prime Minister. Barnaby that was one hell
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Speaker 1: of a spray of the Indias. How did it get
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Speaker 1: to be this bad? But not just under labor, mind you,
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Speaker 1: under liberal governments too. Well.
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Speaker 10: Might I say it's pleasant to see doctor Amanda Raja
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Speaker 10: on the side of the angels on this occasion. And
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Speaker 10: might I also apologize for my facial appearance. I've been
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Speaker 10: seeing the dermatologists, amongst other seeing people about the oil crisis,
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Speaker 10: so please excuse the scars my face. What we're seeing
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Speaker 10: with the ndis, Andrew, is this complete exploitation of benevolence
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Speaker 10: of people trying to do the right thing by those
21:48
Speaker 10: who just want to go for a ride on a
21:49
Speaker 10: taxpayers teat. What we are seeing is the average payment
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Speaker 10: is sixty five thousand dollars per person. If you're on
21:56
Speaker 10: the ndis what we've been seeing, Andrew is a person
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Speaker 10: who's unreadis saying, Andrew, your child looks like they might
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Speaker 10: be on the spectrum of autism. I will look after
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Speaker 10: your child, get myself sixty five thousand dollars a year.
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Speaker 10: And then you'd say, oh, by the way, Barnby, your
22:11
Speaker 10: child looks to be slightly on the spectrum as well.
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Speaker 10: I went, so he is, so he is, So you
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Speaker 10: the underregistered provider, are going to look after my We're
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Speaker 10: both on sixty five thousand dollars a year. This is
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Speaker 10: rubbish and it's got to stop. We're heading towards a
22:24
Speaker 10: million people on the ndis a million people. I didn't
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Speaker 10: know we had a million people with walking sticks around Australia.
22:31
Speaker 10: It was supposed to be for people who profoundly disabled.
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Speaker 10: Every time they talk about the NDAs they wheeled that
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Speaker 10: somewhere in a wheelchair. I've got no problems with that,
22:40
Speaker 10: that's what it's for. I've got a problem with psychisticial
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Speaker 10: aspects of depression, every spectrum of autism. Remember Tim Fisher
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Speaker 10: was on a spectrum of autism. I don't think he
22:49
Speaker 10: was disabled. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia for
22:52
Speaker 10: goodness sake, and so you know, and we just can't
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Speaker 10: do this. It's outrageous that so many people believe they
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Speaker 10: have a moral right to do nothing on the premise
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Speaker 10: of another person having to go to work for them,
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Speaker 10: having to go to work for them. It's a form
23:09
Speaker 10: of sort of public slavery.
23:11
Speaker 1: You have to go to work.
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Speaker 10: For somebody else because, let's be honest, they just don't
23:15
Speaker 10: want to work.
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Speaker 1: Look, I find it just incredible. And some of the services,
23:20
Speaker 1: of course, they'll be paid for, like accompanying someone to
23:23
Speaker 1: the movies or down the street for a little walk
23:26
Speaker 1: in the park and all that bang, big charge. I mean,
23:29
Speaker 1: it's incredible. Barnaby the government. Meanwhile, it's been spending weeks
23:33
Speaker 1: finding our fuel crisis. It even half petrol excise to
23:37
Speaker 1: cut costs. But today wholesale petrol prices around the country
23:41
Speaker 1: rose instead to between two dollars seven a liter to
23:46
Speaker 1: two dollars twelve. But worse, we're diesel prices, and you know,
23:51
Speaker 1: diesel really farmers, We're talking farmers and miners. They really
23:55
Speaker 1: can't afford this up today around five cents a leaders,
23:58
Speaker 1: somewhere between three twenty and three dollars thirty two. What
24:02
Speaker 1: practical steps would you suggest, I mean, something's clearly going
24:05
Speaker 1: wrong here.
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Speaker 10: Well, I'd spent today talking to people in the petroleum
24:11
Speaker 10: industry and I'll spend tomorrow speaking to people in the
24:13
Speaker 10: petroleum industry, and I said, spent last night speaking to
24:16
Speaker 10: people in the petroleum industry up here in Brisbane. First
24:19
Speaker 10: thing you have to do is understand that climate policy
24:23
Speaker 10: is an obnoxious, profane defilement of public policy and has
24:28
Speaker 10: to be immediately removed. The Climate Change Department has to
24:31
Speaker 10: be removed, so we remove ourselves from the ILK who
24:34
Speaker 10: every time we suggest a resolution for fuel security, they
24:38
Speaker 10: come up with a moral argument about somehow we're going
24:40
Speaker 10: to change the atmosphere from Australia from Canberra.
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Speaker 1: So what would we do in the immediate form.
24:46
Speaker 10: In the immediate form, you have to go out onto
24:49
Speaker 10: the spot market and underwrite the risks so we can
24:51
Speaker 10: get spot market petrol into Australia. We have to turn
24:54
Speaker 10: around those deals, yeah we have, but we also have
24:57
Speaker 10: to turn and we suggested that by the way in
24:59
Speaker 10: one nation, and we have to turn the around those
25:01
Speaker 10: deals too sweet. We cannot have them languishing for weeks
25:05
Speaker 10: in the department. They have to be turned around so
25:07
Speaker 10: we can turn action into delivery. And I know the
25:10
Speaker 10: Prime ministers going to Singapore and we hope something sort
25:13
Speaker 10: of expedite that process. The next thing is you have
25:15
Speaker 10: to have greater storage here in Australia. Remember the US
25:19
Speaker 10: military has found a million leaders of storage in Australia,
25:23
Speaker 10: which makes us feel a little bit embarrassed. And what
25:26
Speaker 10: we have to do to do that is expedite the
25:28
Speaker 10: process of the application process and the construction of further storages.
25:32
Speaker 10: And we can do that on the longer term, let's hope.
25:35
Speaker 10: Let's disgraceful we have described I know, I know oil
25:41
Speaker 10: through and we have. It's not about the technical issues.
25:45
Speaker 10: It's about our cursor environment to us. That's right, And
25:51
Speaker 10: I've got to go be removed.
25:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to go, Barnaby. I'm grateful to you
25:57
Speaker 1: for crossing to us from that busy place. You appreciated
26:01
Speaker 1: after the break, how the me Too movement destroyed actor
26:03
Speaker 1: Craig McLachlan, how his partner has hit back. I mentioned
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Speaker 1: Craig McLachlan on the show last week ow the me
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Speaker 1: too movement had destroyed him, obliterated his career in show business.
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Speaker 1: I mean he was a guy made famous by Neighbors
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Speaker 1: with Kylie mgnogue. Minogue A later starred in The Rocky
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Speaker 1: Horror Picture Show and then bang, he was hit with
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Speaker 1: with seven charges and decent assaults, six of common assault,
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Speaker 1: accused by four members of the Rocky Horror cast. The
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Speaker 1: claims included him kissing one of them during his song,
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Speaker 1: sitting on the lap of one, kissing one in her
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Speaker 1: dressing room, touching one intimately on stage, holding the chin
26:44
Speaker 1: of one forcefully also on stage. Now McLaughlin was actually
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Speaker 1: found not guilty on all charges except Magistrate Belinda Wallington.
26:53
Speaker 1: That's the same magistrate to committed the innocent Cardinal George
26:56
Speaker 1: Pelta trial. Didn't leave it at that, She said, Well
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Speaker 1: maclachlin was so egotistical and self entitled. They probably thought
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Speaker 1: the women had consented. But the legal definition, she said,
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Speaker 1: of consentances changed, and where the current law applicable, it
27:10
Speaker 1: is possible the result may have been different. If possible
27:16
Speaker 1: may extraordinary damaging speculation. And now McLachlin canno get a
27:20
Speaker 1: prominent job in show business. He signed off for a
27:23
Speaker 1: show stay show last year called Cludo The Keyboard Warriors,
27:26
Speaker 1: and bullied him out of even that. Macluchu's partner, Vanessa Scammell,
27:32
Speaker 1: she's sick of it, and she's put out a podcast
27:35
Speaker 1: called not guilty the Craig McLaughlin case. It was so popular,
27:38
Speaker 1: by the way, that the first episode trended at number
27:40
Speaker 1: two on Apple and I was shocked by what the
27:43
Speaker 1: series revealed about the media persecution and misrepresentation of Craig
27:48
Speaker 1: McLachlin joined me a little while ago was or Is
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Speaker 1: Vanessa Scammell. Vanessa Scammel, thank you so much, indeed for
27:55
Speaker 1: your time. Why did you make this series?
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Speaker 11: Over the past eight years, I did a lot of
28:01
Speaker 11: writing and compiling of notes and evidence from the court
28:06
Speaker 11: case and what we've been through, and it came to
28:09
Speaker 11: a crunch last year. It was I think in September
28:14
Speaker 11: when Craig was announced as to be performing in a
28:18
Speaker 11: main stage play, which is the first big production that
28:23
Speaker 11: he would be sort of returning to the stage with,
28:26
Speaker 11: and within twenty four hours there was an online campaign
28:32
Speaker 11: that was started by a theater industry person who didn't
28:38
Speaker 11: know Craig either, by the way, and there was such
28:41
Speaker 11: a furor about it and sort of.
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Speaker 10: An online.
28:47
Speaker 11: Online displeasure. I would say that it got to a
28:50
Speaker 11: point where Craig was forced to step down and various
28:55
Speaker 11: phrases and rulings were again used that had been liven
29:00
Speaker 11: back in twenty twenty when Craig was acquitted, and I
29:03
Speaker 11: got to the point where I thought, I've got to
29:04
Speaker 11: be able to tell the other side of the story
29:08
Speaker 11: and try to get out some information and evidence from
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Speaker 11: the side that basically hasn't been told.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's been hugely successful. Let me turn to what
29:20
Speaker 1: you referred to some of the comments from the magistrate
29:25
Speaker 1: in delivering the verdict. There was not guilty, which one
29:28
Speaker 1: would assume means the end of it all and and
29:32
Speaker 1: Craig could start again. You were amazed at the magistrate
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Speaker 1: called Craig's accusers brave and honest witnesses. Now I'm not
29:40
Speaker 1: going to question their honesty. One could be mistaken and
29:45
Speaker 1: without being dishonest. It's interesting you picked up, well, something
29:49
Speaker 1: simply could not have happened. One witness claim she witnessed
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Speaker 1: Craig behaving badly on stage. That's one of the allegations,
30:00
Speaker 1: but at the time it was noted by I think
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Speaker 1: the staged manager of something that in fact you'd been
30:08
Speaker 1: in the back throwing up in the toilet.
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Speaker 11: That's correct. So she gave very determined evidence about having
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Speaker 11: witnessed an alleged assault and it turns out that the
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Speaker 11: show report, which is sort of like a you know,
30:21
Speaker 11: a bible of the show as it runs every night,
30:25
Speaker 11: So if someone falls over, it'll be written down. If
30:27
Speaker 11: someone leaves the stage, it will be written down. If
30:29
Speaker 11: there's anything out of the ordinary backstage in a theater show,
30:32
Speaker 11: it's what happens. So of course, being able to present
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Speaker 11: that in the courtroom to say, well, you'd left the
30:38
Speaker 11: stage before that scene even began, I just wanted people
30:44
Speaker 11: to understand that.
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Speaker 1: No, you also say that the magistrate should not have
30:49
Speaker 1: added at the inner judgment that had Craig been charged
30:55
Speaker 1: under the law as it is today, because them was
30:58
Speaker 1: changed to to say, you know, look, if you believed
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Speaker 1: that you had consent, it had to be a reasonable belief,
31:07
Speaker 1: she said the magistrate. It is possible the result may
31:11
Speaker 1: have been different. What upsets you about that?
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Speaker 11: Yes, So why I took issue with that, and I've
31:17
Speaker 11: explained it very carefully in the podcast, is that if
31:21
Speaker 11: you look carefully through her rulings, that the new laws
31:27
Speaker 11: that she speaks about in the consent laws that have
31:29
Speaker 11: changed actually only relate to two of the thirteen charges.
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Speaker 11: But unfortunately, and again there's been a cherry picking of
31:37
Speaker 11: phrases so that it sounds like every single charge could
31:41
Speaker 11: have been different and he could have been found not guilty.
31:44
Speaker 11: But more than that, even if that new consent law,
31:47
Speaker 11: you know, with a reasonable belief, was in place, you
31:52
Speaker 11: still have to be able to prove it an indecent
31:56
Speaker 11: act took place or common assault took place. So to
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Speaker 11: throw that in at the end, after someone has fought
32:04
Speaker 11: in court for years and gone through five weeks of
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Speaker 11: court time at the highest level of the law, to
32:10
Speaker 11: put this sort of question mark over something that, you know,
32:16
Speaker 11: a blanket statement, question mark over these new laws when
32:19
Speaker 11: they weren't even applicable at the time, I found very disturbing,
32:23
Speaker 11: and I just wanted people to understand why and how
32:28
Speaker 11: that came about and how to work through it.
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Speaker 1: Now this has been obviously devastating for you and Craig.
32:37
Speaker 1: Craig in particular, who's battled mentally with this, has had
32:42
Speaker 1: his career ruined, savings run through all that kind of thing.
32:46
Speaker 1: What would you say to a lot of the people,
32:49
Speaker 1: to the people who seemed determined, the online mob, the
32:53
Speaker 1: Twitter vigilantes who seemed determined to stock Craig from returning
32:58
Speaker 1: to show business.
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Speaker 11: Well, I think there's a question again that I pose
33:04
Speaker 11: in the podcast, and that is how many years does
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Speaker 11: someone have to be punished for being found not guilty?
33:12
Speaker 11: The show of the Rocky Horror Show took place twenty fourteen,
33:16
Speaker 11: so that's a long time ago. Now he's been acquitted
33:20
Speaker 11: for nearly six years, and the moment he pokes his
33:24
Speaker 11: toe out, it seems that people do not want him
33:27
Speaker 11: to be able to continue. And if people who've gone
33:31
Speaker 11: through the justice system and have been found guilty are
33:34
Speaker 11: not guilty, are not able to move on, well, what's
33:37
Speaker 11: the point of there being a justice system?
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Shendi for your turn. Vanessa Scammel,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much, Andrew. You can listen to Vanessa's
33:47
Speaker 1: podcast Not Guilty The Craig Milocculent case on Apple, Spotify, Amazon,
33:53
Speaker 1: and Deezer after the Break the Thursday Panel. The media
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Speaker 1: coverage of this war in Iran is almost all about
34:03
Speaker 1: how terrible Donald Trump is. There's very little coverage, as
34:05
Speaker 1: you know, about the leaders of the regime, how bad
34:08
Speaker 1: they are, you know, the one the regime is fighting,
34:11
Speaker 1: which would make impressionable readers and viewers think, wow, that's
34:14
Speaker 1: really Donald Trump is the real villain here, because that's
34:17
Speaker 1: all we hear about this bad guy. Now. I was
34:19
Speaker 1: thinking of that today when I saw Iran's Chief justice
34:25
Speaker 1: actually tell happily in front of the cameras, tell Iranian
34:29
Speaker 1: judges to kill more of their own people, to kill
34:31
Speaker 1: more Iranians protesters who don't like the Islamic regime. Changi Aori.
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Speaker 7: Music here's.
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Speaker 1: Hand had join mey a Scane New's host jameson Ferson
34:58
Speaker 1: and communications consulting christ with Sweeney who's worked for coalition
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Speaker 1: prime ministers and premiers. James, like you know, so much
35:06
Speaker 1: of the coverage of the war readslok has written by
35:08
Speaker 1: people who in the West they don't really want Trump
35:11
Speaker 1: to win, which actually means they want Iran to win instead.
35:16
Speaker 1: Is that how you sense it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Andrew West spoilt for examples. I mean, on
35:21
Speaker 4: Sky News this morning, we had Senator David Shubridge talking
35:25
Speaker 4: about Donald Trump as a orange faced yellowheaed tyrant, and
35:30
Speaker 4: then Shubridge claimed that he was on the side of
35:32
Speaker 4: the Iranian people. Well, as you've just pointed out, the
35:35
Speaker 4: Iranian regime is murdering the Iranian people. So if you're
35:38
Speaker 4: on the side of the Iranian people. You would stand
35:41
Speaker 4: with Donald Trump against the tyrants in Tehran, but that's
35:46
Speaker 4: not the case. Or another example, people were outraged from
35:49
Speaker 4: the progressive left that Donald Trump had dared to suggest
35:53
Speaker 4: that he would obliterate Iran if they failed to comply
35:56
Speaker 4: with his demands. Those same people have said a peep
36:01
Speaker 4: about politicians in Tehran calling death to America in the
36:05
Speaker 4: past decade.
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Speaker 1: Or more, not a word.
36:08
Speaker 4: But I think it's worse than all of that, Andrew.
36:10
Speaker 4: I think, and even not just on the left, but
36:12
Speaker 4: on the right. There's so many people now talking about
36:15
Speaker 4: America are being used as pawns by Israel. This is
36:19
Speaker 4: Israel's war. I wonder if a lot of people want
36:22
Speaker 4: America to lose not just because they hate America, they
36:25
Speaker 4: hate Israel, and that to me is quite astonishing. It's
36:28
Speaker 4: the only free nation in the Middle East, but they
36:31
Speaker 4: would rather Israel be damned than see an Islamist regime
36:35
Speaker 4: come down.
36:37
Speaker 1: It's interesting, Christie, I mean, Israel fights Amas. You've got
36:42
Speaker 1: protests saying, you know, free Palisstan, Israel fight says will
36:46
Speaker 1: stop the war in Lebanon. Israel fights Iran, which is
36:50
Speaker 1: all of them are trying to wipe me Israel out
36:53
Speaker 1: and again stop the war. I mean, what's going on.
36:57
Speaker 12: Well, it's extraordinary language that's been used by Trump, and
37:01
Speaker 12: it's unprecedented in global democracy. But as we've heard often
37:06
Speaker 12: about this, the new world order and you know, the
37:10
Speaker 12: old world order is broken, and we are doing public
37:13
Speaker 12: diplomacy and seeking support from the allies by social media.
37:17
Speaker 12: But I don't actually think that takes away from the
37:20
Speaker 12: institution of the US military to do things the way
37:25
Speaker 12: that they have always done it, which is to win
37:28
Speaker 12: and to represent the allies in global conflicts. And so
37:32
Speaker 12: I think people are conflating. There's Trump's bravado and they're
37:36
Speaker 12: getting caught up and talking about his language and the
37:40
Speaker 12: use of social media. But as we've seen repeatedly from
37:43
Speaker 12: President Trump, there is the public social media side of it,
37:48
Speaker 12: and then there is working really consistently with the US military,
37:52
Speaker 12: and I trust and have faith in the US military institutions.
37:56
Speaker 12: So there's a lot of conflation going on. And we'll
38:00
Speaker 12: just make one other point which echoes what James has said.
38:03
Speaker 12: You know, people say to me, Christy, you're so brave
38:05
Speaker 12: going on TV and supporting Israel, and I say, what
38:10
Speaker 12: is brave and what sort of nation, What sort of
38:12
Speaker 12: nation are we living in where it is brave to
38:14
Speaker 12: signal support for the only democratic nation and our ally
38:19
Speaker 12: in the Middle East. That's the point that we've come
38:21
Speaker 12: to in our national discussion.
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Speaker 1: Now, well you've shocked me there, James read the most
38:27
Speaker 1: extraordinary thing about the housing crisis and about how our
38:31
Speaker 1: taxes have spent. Mayor add the government is giving I
38:34
Speaker 1: had no idea. It's giving even non citizens, non citizens
38:38
Speaker 1: of Australia financial help to buy Australian houses. The first
38:43
Speaker 1: home owner of grant ten thousand dollars a pop. Even
38:46
Speaker 1: permanent residents can get that. Don't have to be an
38:49
Speaker 1: Australian citizen. The five percent deposit scheme same thing Housing Australia,
38:54
Speaker 1: funded by the government, says. The scheme was expanded in
38:56
Speaker 1: July twenty twenty three. That's by the Abdy's the government
38:59
Speaker 1: to include permanent residents and more than forty eight thousand
39:03
Speaker 1: permanent residents have been supported. Now, James, I know you
39:08
Speaker 1: know permanent residents they also pay taxes. But should the
39:10
Speaker 1: government be helping foreigners who are not Australian citizens by
39:14
Speaker 1: Australian homes.
39:16
Speaker 4: So what I hear you saying, Andrew is that Australian
39:18
Speaker 4: citizens can't afford homes while the Australian government is helping
39:23
Speaker 4: non citizens by homes in Australia. All I've got to
39:27
Speaker 4: say about this is that just this news alone will
39:31
Speaker 4: increase one nation's vote by one hundredfold. I mean, it's
39:34
Speaker 4: absolutely outrageous that this is happening. No wonder people have
39:38
Speaker 4: given up on the major parties and they're saying, Pauline Hansen,
39:41
Speaker 4: let's see what you can do, because no sane person
39:43
Speaker 4: would support a policy like that. That's ridiculous.
39:47
Speaker 1: Well, then you're saying the agathers, not saying Christy.
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Speaker 9: I think it's wrong.
39:53
Speaker 12: And I think as households are looking at their own
39:57
Speaker 12: household budgets and sitting around their own kitchen time their
40:00
Speaker 12: living room thinking gosh, how are we going to afford this,
40:03
Speaker 12: and they're cutting back and cutting back and cutting back,
40:05
Speaker 12: and things that they would like to do are being
40:08
Speaker 12: thrown out the window because they can't afford it. Now, Yes,
40:11
Speaker 12: permanent residents paid tax and it's really nice that we
40:14
Speaker 12: want to welcome them to Australia on their pathway to
40:17
Speaker 12: becoming citizens. But become a citizen before you can dip
40:21
Speaker 12: your hand in the public purse for financial resistance in
40:24
Speaker 12: a housing crisis, in a cost of living crisis, in
40:27
Speaker 12: a budget reform crisis.
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Speaker 1: It's just extraordinary to me, just another thing, James, even crazier.
40:36
Speaker 1: I think we've gone from gay rights to lgb rights
40:41
Speaker 1: to LGBTQ rights, and so we got to where we
40:43
Speaker 1: are now lgbtqia plus. But now a Canadian MP has
40:49
Speaker 1: set a new world record.
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Speaker 13: Issues They provided zero dollars to deal with the ongoing
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Speaker 13: genocide of MMAWG TWOSLGQQAE plus.
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Speaker 1: James, how long do you think it took her to
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Speaker 1: memorize that? Would any viewer actually know what was included?
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Speaker 10: I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 4: She's a Canadian politician, so I don't think she's doing
41:12
Speaker 4: much politicing. She's spending weeks memorizing acronyms. The good news, though, Andrews,
41:17
Speaker 4: if you're looking for a new password for your home Internet,
41:21
Speaker 4: you could do a lot worse than that. No one
41:23
Speaker 4: is hacking your Internet if you're using that as a password.
41:26
Speaker 4: We're now including murdered people in the LGBTQ community. I mean,
41:32
Speaker 4: the only good news out of this story is if
41:33
Speaker 4: you are a marginalized group, you don't have to fear.
41:36
Speaker 4: There are a couple of letters in the alphabet that
41:38
Speaker 4: still remain that you might be able to use to
41:41
Speaker 4: get in on that action.
41:43
Speaker 1: Well, I think there's an easy way to summarize what
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Speaker 1: that acronym is for missing a murdered Indigenous women girls
41:49
Speaker 1: and two spirit can you believe it? And esbi engaged
41:52
Speaker 1: bisexual transfer in to questioning into sex and asexual plus
41:56
Speaker 1: and that is to say anyone who's not white and
41:59
Speaker 1: mayo full stop. Much easier, much easier. Jason Person, Christopher Sweeney,
42:04
Speaker 1: thank you very much to you both after the break,
42:08
Speaker 1: after the rag Patrick Christ's and how Russia has just
42:11
Speaker 1: totally humiliated Britain. It's really a shocking example. I'll tell
42:20
Speaker 1: you what. Russia has just humiliated Britain in a way
42:24
Speaker 1: that's funny but frightening. You see a couple of weeks ago,
42:29
Speaker 1: Britain's labor government put out a big warning shadow fleet
42:34
Speaker 1: set to be interdicted in US waters and lay displowed
42:36
Speaker 1: to Russia. So I was going to say, you know,
42:38
Speaker 1: Russia can't keep sending these fake these shadow tankers oil
42:43
Speaker 1: tankers selling Russian oil, smuggling them past this to sell
42:48
Speaker 1: for huge money and then fund its war machine. We're
42:51
Speaker 1: going to stop it. Well, Vladimir Putin, Russian dictator, has
42:57
Speaker 1: now sent Britain a big excuse language. If you have
43:02
Speaker 1: listened to this.
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Speaker 14: We're in the middle of the Channel and this is
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Speaker 14: a sanctioned Russian vessel.
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Speaker 1: Her names you the Versal. She's traveled from Russia.
43:11
Speaker 14: She's currently sailing with an escort, a frigate, the Admiral Grogovich.
43:17
Speaker 1: Yes, Russia sent to big oil tanker right through the
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Speaker 1: English Channel, but this time with a Russian frigate to
43:25
Speaker 1: keep a company frightening stuff joining me from London each Thursday.
43:30
Speaker 1: Is Patrick Christie's star presenter at GB News. Patrick. That
43:33
Speaker 1: is what I call absolutely humiliating for Britain. It puts
43:37
Speaker 1: out a press release, where are going to stop them?
43:39
Speaker 1: And Russia says, yeah, you and whose army sends a
43:43
Speaker 1: Russian frigate this time as an escort to a tanker.
43:46
Speaker 1: What's the reaction being from your government?
43:49
Speaker 14: Well, the direction with the government has been absolutely nothing.
43:52
Speaker 14: They didn't even give us a comment. Last night we
43:54
Speaker 14: reported this on GB News. It was an absolute shock
43:58
Speaker 14: of the irony is that that Russian oil has the
44:01
Speaker 14: words safety comes First written across the front of it.
44:04
Speaker 14: And they were being escorted down the English Channel by
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Speaker 14: a Russian warship and we did nothing about it.
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Speaker 7: It's not like you can't track it.
44:11
Speaker 14: What you saw there was that the Daily Telegraph newspaper
44:14
Speaker 14: managed to track this Russian warship and thought that's in
44:16
Speaker 14: the English Channel and they went and took a look
44:18
Speaker 14: at it, and that's how you got that video. Our
44:20
Speaker 14: government did absolutely nothing. I mean, the Prime minister was
44:23
Speaker 14: very very quiet. Initially when President Trump said he was
44:26
Speaker 14: going to bomb, he ran back to the Stone Age
44:28
Speaker 14: and we were all thinking where is Kistarman. It turned
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Speaker 14: out he was on holiday in Spain. Then he flew
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Speaker 14: back and we had pro Iranian regime protests outside Downing
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Speaker 14: Street and he went missing. He hid under his desk
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Speaker 14: as the world held its breath preparing for armageddon. Our
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Speaker 14: Prime minister was nowhere to be seen, just recoiling in
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Speaker 14: a puddle of himself in Downing Street. And this is
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Speaker 14: now We've got this Russian warship. It's just absolutely bonkers.
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Speaker 14: But the reason why Russia feels so embolden about this
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Speaker 14: is that we only have one working navy destroyer, So yeah,
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Speaker 14: Britannia rules the waves sadly no longer. It took a
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Speaker 14: month to get that warship to Cyprus after Hesbella bomb
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Speaker 14: our base on Cyprus. It's already had to go into
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Speaker 14: maintenance because there's a problem with the water supply on
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Speaker 14: the ship. And our Defense secretary, when interviewed last week,
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Speaker 14: had no idea how many ships we actually have. And
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Speaker 14: this has got echoes of Remember when Trump said he
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Speaker 14: was going to invade Greenland and we were told were
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Speaker 14: sending British troops to greenlandment our government sent one British
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Speaker 14: military officer to Greenland, so he kind of just put
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Speaker 14: boots on the ground, didn't He really not boots.
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Speaker 7: It was just absolutely shocking.
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Speaker 2: But yeh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Patrick, I think you jump into conclusions because I'm
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Speaker 1: going to reserve judgment on that until I see this
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Speaker 1: massive English being must of a soldier that that you
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Speaker 1: sent to Greenland. It could be someone who's really you know,
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Speaker 1: a superhero, so let's not pass judgment. But seriously, this
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Speaker 1: is this is just nuts bunk. Yeah, but this is
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Speaker 1: a public issue. I mean, you know, I would have
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Speaker 1: thought you're talking about Britain. I don't think people outside
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Speaker 1: Britain understand your navy was everything. There are songs about
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Speaker 1: the British navy. It's not just rule Britannian, A Heart
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Speaker 1: of Oak and all that kind of stuff. Your navy
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Speaker 1: conquered the Spanish Armada, you know, it stopped Napoleon with
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Speaker 1: a continental blockade. Remember Trafalgar, the Battle of Trafalgar. And
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Speaker 1: now you're down to one destroyer and even that's broken.
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Speaker 1: I mean, and Russia can just send a single tanker
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Speaker 1: with a frigate a frigate and you can't do anything
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Speaker 1: about it. I mean, that is just a disgrace.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, the joke is that Russia probably managed
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Speaker 14: to stop more illegal migrants coming across the channel yesterday
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Speaker 14: than British Border Force did. Three hundred arrived yesterday, but
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Speaker 14: you imagine that some of them might have been put
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Speaker 14: off when they saw a huge Russian warship about ten.
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Speaker 7: Miles off the britg coast. So goodness and knows what's
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Speaker 7: going to happen today.
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Speaker 14: And that one ship that we've got that's working, by
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Speaker 14: the way, that when at the time that our RAF
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Speaker 14: base was bombed by Hesblat that actually had scaffolding around
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Speaker 14: it and no missiles because it was in dry dock
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Speaker 14: getting maintenance. So that's that was the state of the
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Speaker 14: British Navy at the time, and you know, it's just
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Speaker 14: been it's just been pretty captatropic. We are now having
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Speaker 14: to use a German warship. The British Navy is going
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Speaker 14: to have to use a German warship as part of
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Speaker 14: a NATO training exercise around the around the Arctic, which
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Speaker 14: is kind of like the ultimate.
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Speaker 7: Humiliation, isn't it really?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean it's it's absolutely start astonishing to think
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Speaker 14: of the British Navy.
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Speaker 7: I mean, could you imagine telling that to.
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Speaker 14: Some of the people who fought at the Battle of
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Speaker 14: Waterloo that one day we would be using or indeed
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Speaker 14: world War two, actually we'll be using a German warship
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Speaker 14: to take part in a NATO exercise.
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Speaker 7: I mean, good greed.
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Speaker 1: Now when you remember, of course, what about one hundred
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Speaker 1: years ago, just a bit more, Germany, the Rising Pair
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Speaker 1: of June just before World War One, felt that it
48:04
Speaker 1: couldn't take on Britain because they didn't have enough ships.
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Speaker 1: And now you have to there and now they're lending
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Speaker 1: you as ship. I just wonder how this all happened.
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Speaker 1: I mean, is it a white generation. It's a good
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Speaker 1: lazy under America's shadow is that the fact that the
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Speaker 1: new generation doesn't feel like a fact.
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Speaker 14: For Britain, it's less of an issue about personnel. It's
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Speaker 14: more of an issue of resources and funding. And actually
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Speaker 14: a lot of this does fall at the feet of
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Speaker 14: the late last Conservative government. We systematically reduced our defense funding.
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Speaker 14: There are issues with recruitment as well. Generally we have
48:37
Speaker 14: seen recruitment drop. There have been cases where like the
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Speaker 14: Royal Air Force, for example, unlawfully discriminated against white pilots.
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Speaker 14: They said they didn't want any more useless white men.
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Speaker 14: Well okay, but turns out those white men were actually
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Speaker 14: quite good. And now I haven't got anyone. So it's
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Speaker 14: a combination of stuff.
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Speaker 1: There you go, You've answered the question, Patrick Christis, thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for your time. That's it from me.
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Speaker 1: Up next Sherry host The Bad Carola Marcus. Good night,
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