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The Bolt Report | 9 January · The Bolt Report

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  Speaker 1: Goods.
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  Speaker 2: Is the report?
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  Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Bolt Report. I'm Danikiti Giorgio.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up on the show tonight is alban easy delusional?
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  Speaker 3: Just wait until you hear why he thinks he's the
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  Speaker 3: best person to forge ties with incoming US President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: My thoughts shortly, and if that wasn't delusional enough, the
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  Speaker 3: Prime Minister is sticking to his guns and believes Australians
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  Speaker 3: are better off under labor.
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  Speaker 4: How does your hip pocket feel?
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five might just be the year of common sense.
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  Speaker 3: There's a new push to ban Welcome to Countries and
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  Speaker 3: even the Aboriginal flag from one of Sydney's major councils.
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  Speaker 3: Will find out more shortly, and the Australian Open is
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  Speaker 3: about to.
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  Speaker 4: Get under way. But wait till you see the.
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  Speaker 3: Insane prices fans are about to be charged. But first,
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  Speaker 3: there's something strange going on with Anthony Albanezi, the everywhere
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  Speaker 3: and nowhere man, landed in Western Australia today on the
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  Speaker 3: third part of his quasi non official election campaign. A
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  Speaker 3: kubra in hand shirt on like the man from Snowy River,
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  Speaker 3: going on a tour of the regions, but it seems
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  Speaker 3: the regional air has perhaps gone to hear a kubra
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  Speaker 3: from snapping at journalists.
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  Speaker 5: Will you take responsibility if there's no interest rate cut.
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  Speaker 3: Before the election.
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  Speaker 6: The Reserve Bank is responsible for interest rates with your
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  Speaker 6: policy's impact, what there is, a reserve bank is responsible
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  Speaker 6: for interest rates.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for you to concede that your pledge to
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  Speaker 1: introduce electricity crisis by two hundred and seventy five dollars
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  Speaker 1: by this year, for whatever reasons, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 7: Is that fair?
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  Speaker 6: Well, one of the things that we did, of course,
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  Speaker 6: was to have three hundred dollars energy bill relief.
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  Speaker 4: Not my question in pet That was a coalition with
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  Speaker 4: the two and seventy five dollars.
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  Speaker 6: But you get to do the questions. I get to
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  Speaker 6: do the answers. That's all it works.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to see you're using the slogan build back better.
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  Speaker 7: Did you think that from President Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 4: We're not.
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  Speaker 6: That's not our slogan.
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  Speaker 4: And from that to obsessing over Peter Dutton.
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  Speaker 6: Peter Dutton doesn't have a plan for the future. Peter
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  Speaker 6: dutton policies come with one word no. Peter Dutton's out
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  Speaker 6: there being negative and being critical of Peter Dutton has
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  Speaker 6: opposed everything that we've done.
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  Speaker 3: But this next comment is truly baffling. In fact, I
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  Speaker 3: think it really takes the cake. Anthony Albanezi has told
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  Speaker 3: the Australian newspaper he is quote better placed than Peter
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  Speaker 3: Dutton to forge a productive relationship with Donald Trump, arguing
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  Speaker 3: his close ties with Indo.
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  Speaker 4: Specifically would be valuable to the.
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  Speaker 3: US President elect in an era of competition between major powers.
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  Speaker 3: What you've got to laugh, don't you? And look, let's
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  Speaker 3: think about this for a moment. Do you seriously think
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  Speaker 3: a successful businessman like Donald Trump needs to hold the
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  Speaker 3: hand of the handsome boy from Australia to forge ties
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  Speaker 3: with leaders? But Trump has met with the North Korean
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  Speaker 3: leader and the Russian president. This man fears no one.
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  Speaker 3: So what does Anthony Alberanezi think he could possibly bring
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  Speaker 3: to the table And what does he think he actually
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  Speaker 3: has in common with a leader like Donald Trump? Because
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  Speaker 3: we already know what he thinks of him.
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  Speaker 4: How do you deal with Trump?
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  Speaker 6: Like with trepidation?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, but how do you get by?
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  Speaker 9: Like what do you tempt your language?
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  Speaker 6: Well, you've got to deal with who was elected, so
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  Speaker 6: we have an alliance with the US.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to deal with him.
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  Speaker 6: But that doesn't mean that you're uncritical about it. He's
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  Speaker 6: scares academy, and I think it's of some concern that
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  Speaker 6: the leader of the free world thinks that you can
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  Speaker 6: conduct politics through one hundred and forty characters on Twitter.
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  Speaker 3: Now does that really sound like a man who is
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  Speaker 3: best placed to forge a relationship with the next president
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  Speaker 3: of the United States, Because come January twenty we will
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  Speaker 3: find out why alban Ezi is so scared of Trump.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm going to debunk Albo's claims, and he's one
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  Speaker 3: on one interview with the Australian newspaper and tell you
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  Speaker 3: why I believe he's actually the worst person to forge
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  Speaker 3: a relationship with the incoming president. Firstly, it starts with
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  Speaker 3: policy on China. The Prime Minister said he would not
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  Speaker 3: change his approach with China if mister Trump lauded a
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  Speaker 3: trade war, lording the reopening of trade with Beijing as
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  Speaker 3: an economic win for Australia.
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  Speaker 4: We are a sovereign nation.
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  Speaker 3: And we will act in terms of our economic interest
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  Speaker 3: and sure we have to act in our own economic interests.
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  Speaker 3: But has the Prime Minister forgotten that our most powerful
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  Speaker 3: ally is the United States. Trump talks tough on China.
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  Speaker 3: He's announced plans to impose an additional ten percent tariff
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  Speaker 3: on Chinese imports because of Beijing's inadequate efforts to curtail
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  Speaker 3: the fentayl trade. He's repeatedly argued that China has stolen
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  Speaker 3: US jobs and industries and taken an advantage of the
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  Speaker 3: United States. Donald Trump will not be bullied by Beijing.
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  Speaker 3: He's not going to capitulate to China. And yet the
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  Speaker 3: PM spent this morning in Kananara doing just that.
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  Speaker 6: Now, on Christmas Day, the first export of lobster's left
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  Speaker 6: Australia on its way to China. As of as of
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  Speaker 6: a couple of days ago, there had been five hundred
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  Speaker 6: and sixty five thousand kilograms of live lobster exported into China,
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  Speaker 6: representing more than seventy separate consignments.
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  Speaker 3: Now imagine the lost revenue in the last four years
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  Speaker 3: in the lobster industry from China's punitive trade sanctions on
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  Speaker 3: Australian goods. And do you think Donald Trump would respond
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  Speaker 3: like Albo did after a Chinese fighter jet drop flares
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  Speaker 3: in front of an Australian helicopter, forcing it to take
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  Speaker 3: evasive action.
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  Speaker 6: We have made very strong representations at every level to
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  Speaker 6: China about this incident, which we regard as unprofessional and unacceptable.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't think Donald Trump would pass off a
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  Speaker 3: dangerous incident like that if it happened to an American
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  Speaker 3: chopper as some sort of whoopsie moment by the Chinese. So,
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  Speaker 3: in this era of competition between major powers, as Albo mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: how will he seriously be able to balance fawning over
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  Speaker 3: China while trying to work with our biggest ally. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the next difference is on the issue of climate change.
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  Speaker 3: Despite Donald Trump vowing to pull the US out of
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  Speaker 3: the Paris Climate Accord and accelerate fossil fuel development, Albo
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  Speaker 3: said that it was Peter Dutton's lack of ambition on
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  Speaker 3: climate change that would diminish Australia's standing and reduce Canberra's
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  Speaker 3: geostrategic relevance. We have improved our relationship with the Pacific,
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  Speaker 3: he said. A precondition of credibility is action on climate change,
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  Speaker 3: and Peter Dutton's position on the Pacific and climate change
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  Speaker 3: is one where they'll all remember him joking about the
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  Speaker 3: impact of climate change on their countries. Well, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: Albo has done everything to suck up to the Pacific,
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  Speaker 3: donning his Pacific shirt and dancing his way through throwing
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  Speaker 3: money at Papua New Guinea to the tune of six
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  Speaker 3: hundred million dollars for PNG to enter the NRL. So
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  Speaker 3: can you really see Donald Trump going to meet with
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  Speaker 3: a Pacific island leader and thinking, oh, well, I better
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  Speaker 3: call Albo to draw on his exit experiences, perhaps ask
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  Speaker 3: him to come along and leave the dancing, Sorry, I
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  Speaker 3: mean the discussions. Trump, on the other hand, has pledged
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  Speaker 3: to terminate what he calls the green new scam and
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  Speaker 3: cut energy prices in half within twelve months. He's promised
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  Speaker 3: to end new wind farms, saying turbines litter the country.
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  Speaker 4: And are like garbage in a field, and to immediately.
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  Speaker 3: Reverse President Biden's ban on offshore drilling along most of
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  Speaker 3: the US coastline in an effort to bolster American made energy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're stuck with Albow, who's sending us broken backwards on
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  Speaker 3: a green energy fantasy which is already buckling and sending
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  Speaker 3: electricity prices skyrocketing. And now to my final point, Albin
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  Speaker 3: Easy says he is better place to forge close ties
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  Speaker 3: with the incoming administration, despite the coalition raising concerns about
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  Speaker 3: Albo and several cabinet minister's previous strong criticisms of the
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  Speaker 3: President elect. But Albo claims the relations he has forged
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  Speaker 3: would carry weight with mister Trump.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how much weight does this relationship carry?
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  Speaker 8: The United States in the last four years has been
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  Speaker 8: run by a village idiot. I think the general consensus
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  Speaker 8: amongst anyone concerned with the public policy process, domestic or international,
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  Speaker 8: thinks he's nuts.
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  Speaker 3: So it brings me to my third point, the elephant
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  Speaker 3: in the room Kevin Rudd. And as we know, that
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  Speaker 3: was just the start of Rudd's tirade be called Trumpet
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  Speaker 3: traded to the West, the most destructive president in history.
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  Speaker 3: It went on and on before he annihilated his keyboard,
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  Speaker 3: deleted all the evidence of his negative social media posts.
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  Speaker 3: Only when Trump was re elected it was Anthony Alberney's
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  Speaker 3: decision to appoint his mate and former boss Kevin Rudd
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  Speaker 3: as ambassador despite those comments. So, while Rudd puts his
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  Speaker 3: feet up in Queensland over the summer and takes time
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  Speaker 3: out with his cats, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison scored
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  Speaker 3: a ticket to Mari Lago from Donald Trump himself for
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  Speaker 3: New Year's celebrations. No invite for poor old Kevin. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: Johannah Sleek and The Australian summed it.
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  Speaker 4: Up perfectly in his cartoon.
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  Speaker 3: Rudd could only dream of being invited and I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: there was no mistake now. Peter Dutton has hit back
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  Speaker 3: this afternoon at Albo's relationship building with the United States,
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  Speaker 3: saying it's comical for him to now say trust me
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  Speaker 3: with the US relationship when his own government has split
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  Speaker 3: with the USA on key votes at the UN and
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  Speaker 3: we've seen little evidence of him engaging and influencing the
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  Speaker 3: incoming Trump administration in the national interest, which.
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  Speaker 4: Is a real concern.
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  Speaker 3: It sure is laughable for Albo to think he's some
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  Speaker 3: sort of big player, don't you think, or even a
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  Speaker 3: big negotiator on the world stage. It's embarrassing. Albaneze has
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  Speaker 3: no international credentials. He's Trump's puppet. He's not the one
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  Speaker 3: pulling the strings. And I would love to know who
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  Speaker 3: Trump would prefer to lead Australia, and I doubt it's
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  Speaker 3: China's handsome boy joining me now is Liberal Senator Holly Hughes.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to see you, Holy thank you for joining me.
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  Speaker 4: I would love to know your thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: Firstly on the Prime Minister's claim that he is the
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  Speaker 3: better place leader than Peter Dutton to forge a relationship
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  Speaker 3: with Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think, Oh, I think maybe there was
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  Speaker 7: a bit too much happy juice over the Christmas period for.
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  Speaker 5: The Prime minister.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, this guy is living on a different planet
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  Speaker 7: to the rest of us.
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  Speaker 5: We know Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 7: I think, you know, maybe he is saying a little
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  Speaker 7: bit more with a bit more verbosity than he may
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  Speaker 7: do when he actually takes office. But the strength of
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  Speaker 7: his leadership we saw four years ago, I think we
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  Speaker 7: see again.
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  Speaker 5: He certainly doesn't suffer forms.
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  Speaker 7: And I think Albin Ezi and many of his cabinet
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  Speaker 7: their comment it's about Trump and the derogatory comments that
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  Speaker 7: they've made about him and the government that he led.
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  Speaker 5: He's not going to do them any favors. And I
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  Speaker 5: think it is very interesting that.
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  Speaker 7: Scott Morrison was at Mara a Lago and Kevin Rudd
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  Speaker 7: was donning the crocs where watching the cricket at home
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  Speaker 7: in Queensland.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it is actually embarrassing.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's a little bit of a sneak peak
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  Speaker 7: preview of what's coming with the Trump presidency, and it's
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  Speaker 7: not going to be rolling out the red carpet for
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  Speaker 7: Albanezi and his captain's picks in the US.
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  Speaker 4: No, I completely agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: And as I said in that editorial, you know Albo
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  Speaker 3: can say, oh, it's all good when it comes to China.
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  Speaker 3: I'll introduce him to the Pacific leaders please. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just an embarrassing concept for him to come out
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  Speaker 3: and say that.
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  Speaker 4: It's really and I.
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  Speaker 7: Think what's really important to note as well is Donald
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  Speaker 7: Trump has been very very strong when it comes to
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  Speaker 7: Israel and the return of the hostages from her Maas
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  Speaker 7: and threatening to rain hell down on Hermas if those
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  Speaker 7: hostages are not released before January twenty whilst we have
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  Speaker 7: a government who has fundamentally destroyed our relationship with one
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  Speaker 7: of our closest allies in Israel, the only democracy in
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  Speaker 7: the Middle East I don't think as Israel is one
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  Speaker 7: of you as his very close friends. That also bodes
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  Speaker 7: well for this left wing Albanesi government, who is doing
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  Speaker 7: everything they can to appease the anti Greece israel anti
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  Speaker 7: Semitic sentiment, that they're allowing these protests to continue, They're
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  Speaker 7: allowing anti Semitism to increase. They're destroying our relationship with Israel.
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  Speaker 7: I think that is going to do far more damage
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  Speaker 7: than anybodying up he might have done with.
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  Speaker 5: The Prime Minister of Vaniwata.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the dancing he did on the Cook Islands.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't even It pails into insignificance when you think
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  Speaker 3: about what's going on in Israel.
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  Speaker 4: Your spot on Holly Now.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Anthony Albanezi has vowed he will not wait for
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  Speaker 3: the polls to be called to help Australians with the
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  Speaker 3: cost of living. I'm not sure where he got that from,
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  Speaker 3: but he's told the Daily Telegraph that quote Australians will
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  Speaker 3: be better off under us. And he's also accused the
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  Speaker 3: Coalition of manipulating the migration system, saying the fact that
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  Speaker 3: COVID visas was still in place when we came to
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  Speaker 3: office with something we had to address. The manipulation of
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  Speaker 3: the migration system has been underestimated. We have had to
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  Speaker 3: take action and we are Holly. I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 3: manipulation he's referring to them, but let's not forget we've
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  Speaker 3: had more than a million migrants come into this country
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  Speaker 3: under labor. It's had a massive impact not only on
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  Speaker 3: housing but also on inflation.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Well, and the other thing is he calls the election,
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  Speaker 7: and I actually feel sorry for all everyday Australians at
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  Speaker 7: the moment struggling with cost of living. As a politician
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  Speaker 7: and having been around politics for over twenty years, it
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  Speaker 7: was kind of an unwritten rule that we kind of
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  Speaker 7: left the Australian people alone until Australia Day. You know,
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  Speaker 7: let them have a break with their family, get themselves
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  Speaker 7: set up for the new year. Instead, they've been completely
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  Speaker 7: bombarded by this Prime minister out there doing press opportunities
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  Speaker 7: and photo opportunities at every local he can find, in
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  Speaker 7: any different headwhere he can find. And you know, it's
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  Speaker 7: just he's in election mode. He's in full blown campaign mode.
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  Speaker 7: And to the Australian public, I apologized that this guy
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  Speaker 7: hasn't just called the election, so you know what's going
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  Speaker 7: on the reason he's talking about we're going to give
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  Speaker 7: you cost of living relief or we're going to do
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  Speaker 7: it before the election. Well, they had nearly three years
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  Speaker 7: in office and there is not one Australian out there
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  Speaker 7: who was better off today than they were when this
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  Speaker 7: government was elected.
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  Speaker 5: Every day Australians.
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  Speaker 7: Are finding it harder and harder to put a roof
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  Speaker 7: over their head, to put groceries on the table, and
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  Speaker 7: to keep the lights on. And we know that the
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  Speaker 7: three hundred and seventy five dollars was from a stop
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  Speaker 7: your electricity bill. They're now trying to claim that the
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  Speaker 7: three hundred dollars rebate funded by you, the taxpayer, was
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  Speaker 7: somehow equivalent to this two hundred and seventy five dollars
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  Speaker 7: that were supposed to come off from cheaper energy. These
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  Speaker 7: guys have absolutely run this country into the ground. Australia
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  Speaker 7: cannot afford another Albanese government term and they have no
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  Speaker 7: record to speak of.
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  Speaker 5: So they're now out there.
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  Speaker 7: Making these ridiculous comments that somehow migration hasn't increased under
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  Speaker 7: them and it's not their fault, like it's just as I.
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  Speaker 5: Said, literally much happy due to Christmas.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what the focus group said, but clearly
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  Speaker 7: a lot of the Labor Party state secretaries, et cetera
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  Speaker 7: were out for Christmas vacation.
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  Speaker 5: When this messaging was done.
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  Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, and Let's not forget that Labor was elected
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  Speaker 3: on a cost of living mandate and they have not
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  Speaker 3: succeeded in that mandate.
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  Speaker 4: That they were elected.
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  Speaker 5: You're cheaper, are your correct deeper? Are your energy? She
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  Speaker 5: said no, no.
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  Speaker 3: No, exactly, yeah, and then this is the problem.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Look, just finally I mentioned this in my editorial, but
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  Speaker 3: there just feels wholly like there's something very strange going
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  Speaker 3: on with the Prime minister. His short fuse has been
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  Speaker 3: on full display this week. He's been snapping at journalists
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  Speaker 3: obsessing over Peter Dutton. But it's happened to his minister
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  Speaker 3: Tim Ayres on two GB this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Have a look at this exchange.
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  Speaker 1: There was a promise that Labor made an opposition from
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister down that everyone by twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: would have a reduction of two hundred and seventy five dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Is it time to concede you failed there, peterle I
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  Speaker 1: want to plan your plan. Your problem would mean two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five Under that, don't talk about Peter Dutton.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know about this two hundred and seventy five.
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  Speaker 10: One thousand, two hundred dollars. Additionally, year your listeners at
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  Speaker 10: the end of every quarter will have to find three
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  Speaker 10: or four hundred dollars extra to pay for Peter Dutton's
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  Speaker 10: nuclear But they've done.
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  Speaker 4: That under you, Holly.
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  Speaker 3: They're very angry, and I think it's telling when Labor
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  Speaker 3: gets defensive over two hundred and seventy five dollars in
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  Speaker 3: energy relief that Australians will promised.
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  Speaker 4: They can't give an answer, and now they're on the attack.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe Tim needed an extra week at the beach, maybe
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  Speaker 7: just shut out. But I mean, this obsession with Peter Dutton,
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  Speaker 7: if you're a teenage girl, you'd think he had a
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  Speaker 7: crush on I mean, they're just obsessed. It's embarrassing. They
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  Speaker 7: can't stop talking about Peter, Peter Peter. But the fact
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  Speaker 7: that they're now trying to put out a misinformation around
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  Speaker 7: nuclear when.
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  Speaker 5: Their own energy plans have completely failed.
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  Speaker 7: And one hand they're upset about misinformation and what's going
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  Speaker 7: to happen with measure. Yet their entire scare campaigns, whether
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  Speaker 7: it's Many Scare or now we're seeing what they're doing
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  Speaker 7: on nuclear energy. Their entire campaign is based on anger,
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: on defensiveness, on arrogance and misinformation. And you just call
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: the election of the Australian public out of their misery
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: and just get the campaign underway officially, because if they're
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: this angry and this testing straight back from a summer break,
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: imagine how it had been if they made its way
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: till May.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if this is the way they are now, well,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: good luck during the election campaign. Holly Hughes, nice to
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: chat with you. Thank you so much for joining me
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: on the show this evening. Well, we brought you the
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: story earlier this week of the conjob that is Welcome
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: to Country ceremonies costing US taxpayers almost half a million
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: dollars to pay for them at government events. Now our
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Western Sydney councilor who promised to ban Welcome to Country
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: and Acknowledgment to Country ceremonies at the Cumberland City Council,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: has vowed to also remove the indigenous flag from council properties,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: proposing only the Australian flag be flown. Cumberland City Councilor
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Steve Christu joins me now, nice to see Steve. Thank
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: you for joining me on the show this evening. You've
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: been very vocal on this from.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: The very beginning about welcome to country ceremonies.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: That's something you've wanted banned. But now the indigenous flag
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: as well. What are you proposing here, Well.
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: I'm proposing that not only do we stop welcome to
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: country ceremonies and Indigenous acknowledgments, we also take down the
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: Indigenous flag because it's dividing the country. People are now
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: getting mixed up as to what our actual flag is.
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: People are not acknowledging the Australian flag and this wake
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: nonsense has to stop. You know, people are sick and
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: tired of being told that they never are the land
• 19:55
  Speaker 11: that they were born in and migrated to, never was,
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: never will be theirs. It just has to stop. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: this why I'm trying to take action to impose this
• 20:02
  Speaker 11: at cumber the City Council.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Well, look good on you, because I mean we even
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: saw a couple of weeks ago Annaka Wells had to
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: stop her press conference. There was a big kerfuffle because
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: she wasn't standing in front of the three flags of
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Australia and then she ended up Steve standing in front
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: of the Aboriginal flag for that press conference. Whatever happened
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: to one flag for one country, Well, that's the whole.
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: Point we've lost our national identity and the whole process
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: has now become a joke. People are now just now
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: they're embarrassed to call themselves Australian because of this nonsense
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: that's going on.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: But they shouldn't be. This is a thing that they
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: should not be. You should never be embarrassed to be
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: a proud Australian.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: We should be proud.
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: The Americans wouldn't cop it. They wouldn't cop another flag
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: being flowing behind them, and why should we. It's not
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: about being against the Indigenous people. It's about standing with them.
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: Shot to his shoulder, side by side, hand in hand,
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: as equals everybody, as equals.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, you're going to put forward this motion.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: It's going to go to a meeting in February. What
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: are people telling you in your local community, how are
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: they feeling about this sort of proposed change.
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: Well, people in my local community want me to take
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: a sledgehammer to this because we voted sixty four percent,
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: know to the Voice Department campaign, one of the highest
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: votes in Australia. So they are very happy that this
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: is going to go ahead. And I hope that the
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: Liberal counselors on Council can tow the line with Peter
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: Dalton's wishes about the Australian flag as well. And this
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: will be the first test.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this will be the first test.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but I feel like the
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: momentum is swinging in this direction. I was in Perth
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: last week and the sign on the board heading to
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Sydney said Gadagal Country instead of to Sydney. And then
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: you land in Sydney and you get welcomed to country
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: by quantas, but you feel like people are sick of them.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I mean Melbourne's storm are scrapping their welcome to countries
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: as well. There were indigenous elders up in Far North
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Queensland that they're saying it's become.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Fascical and this is a problem.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: It has become fascical because what is it actually doing,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Steve to help improve the lives of Aboriginal Australians.
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: Absolutely zero, a big fat nothing. Rather than putting initiatives
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: on the ground to help Indigenous Australians, they are dividing
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: the country and making issues for Indigenous people more tougher
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: because people are just sick of it and they're turning off.
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: People want to see quality. People don't want to see
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: wape tokenism at sporting events, at council events, at government events.
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: Walkome the country is being done in meetings on government
• 22:22
  Speaker 11: departments every ten minutes. Literally, staff are complaining it's just
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: a waste of tax payer money.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Well, we had that con job earlier this week which
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: was revealed four hundred and fifty thousand has been spent
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: on welcome to country ceremonies. You would know in local
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: council councils are doing the same that they're spending a
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: lot of money on welcome to country ceremonies, and we're
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: the ones that are actually putting the bill for this.
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: Well, that's it. In a cost of living crisis where
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: people are struggling to pay the mortgage, the rent, the
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: bills and put food on the table to feed their children,
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: we've got government departments wasting four hundred and fifty thousand
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: dollars on paying people to welcome to country. Isn't it
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: meant to be an acknowledgment ceremony where you can be
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: walking for free? Not that I agree with it, but
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: if it really means that much, why not welcome people
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: to free for free?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: No? I agree, I want to ask you about Australia Day.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: This is It's a tough issue, isn't it for counsels
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: to navigate, because you've got some councils across the country
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: going completely rogue on this. They're changing the day of
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: the citizenship ceremonies, which I just think is absolutely ridiculous.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: But the mayor of the City of Canning in Perth
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: has described Australia Day as a mess and he's calling
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: on the federal government to make a clear decision on
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: the date, to end the split between local councils and
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: allow for a more unified celebration.
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: Do you agree, Well, I think the federal government should
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: be saying Australia Day is compulsory and any council that
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: doesn't celebrate Australia Day on Australia Day and have their
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day will lose a ceremonies and
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: the federal government take them back. That's what needs to happen.
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: I absolutely agree that we need to have a clear
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: policy and be proud of our national day.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Well, you were mayor for many years of that council,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: what was your policy on it?
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: Absolutely no exceptions of whatsoever. We celebrate Australia Day on
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: Australia Day loud and prior no slogan's no family Day,
• 24:06
  Speaker 11: no fun day. It is Australia Day.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: And the other thing that bothers me is that there's
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: never any consultation with ratepayers, is there, that they just
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: move the date and then surprise, suddenly, your citizenship ceremony
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: is no longer on the twenty six.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, are they actually doing this for the will
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: of the people.
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: Government bureaucrats want to make themselves feel good, and I
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: think some of my other local lect of representatives need
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: to grow a spine and actually stand up to this nonsense.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, all right, Well, look your motion's going to
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: the meeting in February.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Good luck with it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I'll look forward to seeing how that goes. We'll be
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: keeping in touch with you on this Steve Christill, always
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: good to speak with you. Thank you so much for
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: joining me on the show this evening.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: We'll stay with us after the break.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Labor continues to push its green dream with a new
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: incentive for farmers and truck drivers and it's gone down
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: as well as you can expect more next Welcome back, well,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Big Australia keeps getting bigger.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: They're a friend.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Fears at the Albanese government will miss its targets to
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: bring down migration in a bid to ease the housing crisis.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Former Immigration Department Deputy Secretary Bill Rivsby has told The
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Daily Telegraph treasury boffins have overestimated how many student visa
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: holders will leave the country overcoming years, something that could
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: keep net migration rates at record highs. Joining me now
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: is One Nation Chief James Ashby and Sky News contributor
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: James Bolt Hei do you both thank you so much
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: for joining me?
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: James Bolt will start with you.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Nobody ever voted for a big Australia, yet here we are,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: and I truly think that this has become an acute
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: vote driving issue because we are in a housing crisis
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: and it's pushed up inflation.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Where do we put everyone?
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: Yeah, it's look, it's good politics for Peter Dutton to
• 25:46
  Speaker 12: be attacking on this because people are very uncomfortable with
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: the levels of migration. Forty eight percent of people think
• 25:52
  Speaker 12: it's too high, ten percent it's too low. So it's
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: good for Peter Dunton to be pushing that the issue
• 25:56
  Speaker 12: for me is if he's out there saying the housing
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: crisis it's due to my I'll get in, I'll bring
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: down migration. I'm going to solve that housing crisis is
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: so much more complicated than how many people are coming in.
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: I think that's a pretty miniscular way of looking at it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: The issue is and it takes a lot of forms.
• 26:11
  Speaker 12: I mean, obviously James Ashby in Queensland where the homelessness
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: situation is so strong, But here in Sydney, the problem
• 26:18
  Speaker 12: is so many people who want to buy their first homes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: The only first homes that are available to them the
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: ones in places they don't want to live. So Peter Dunton,
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: he needs to start also thinking how can I bring
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: down the regulation costs on businesses?
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: How can I keep people?
• 26:32
  Speaker 12: I mean, how is the most in demand industry in
• 26:34
  Speaker 12: Australia facing liquidization crisises. I think we just need to
• 26:39
  Speaker 12: look at also why the housing supplies so small, how
• 26:42
  Speaker 12: come we can't build houses, how come we can't build
• 26:44
  Speaker 12: them in the inner city areas, and what are the
• 26:46
  Speaker 12: regulations that we need to be repealed through there? Rather
• 26:48
  Speaker 12: than just framing it as there's too many migrants coming in.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Look, what I will say is migration was not front
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: and center at the last election and from both sides,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: neither side had a proper policy to deal with it,
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: and here we.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Are James Ashby. The other thing is is that migration
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: is really propping up our economy, isn't it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: It's a Ponzi scheme because without it we'd be in
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: a recession.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Well, this has been the issue.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: It's certainly been a one nation policy since we had
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: four members of Parliament elected back in twenty sixteen, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: we haven't stopped on this. This has been a culmination
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: of a Labor and LNP issue because no matter which
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: political party you turned to, the two major parties have
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: been responsible for large immigration intake. The Coalition have been
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: responsible for a yearly intake of around two hundred to
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: two hundred and twenty thousand under this Labor government that
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: has more than doubled in their term in just over
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: two years. So we're really dealing with a major issue
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: where they are propping up GDP and keeping our economy
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: alive by bringing in people into the country. But we
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: all know what that consequence is. We're finding it difficult
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: to get into two houses. This is a government that says, oh,
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: we're only bring in the trains skilled migrants. What a
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: load of boloney. And we all know it. There's not
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: a surplus of builders, or nurses or doctors. There's plenty
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: of surplus when it comes to taxi drivers and accountants
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: and engineers, but not the people we need in this country.
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: We've got to pull back on the immigration and stop
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: lying to the Australian public. We know what's going on
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: and it's been caused by the two major parties.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're spot on.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: As I said, it was not front and center at
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: the last election. It needs to be front and center
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: this time. Is a lot of problems now. Look, the
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Bruce Highway and Queensland will receive billions in funding regardless
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: of the federal election outcome, after Peter Dutton declared he
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: would match the government's seven point two billion dollars in
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: funding to finally bring that deadly stretch of road up
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: to modern safety standards. Yet a coalition dovement would also
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: ban the CFMU from all future highway projects. James Bowl
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Is that a fair call back the funding but boot
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: the CFMU at the same time.
• 29:00
  Speaker 12: Yeah, Well, the less things the CFMA, you are involved
• 29:02
  Speaker 12: with the better and look roads, I mean you can
• 29:05
  Speaker 12: tell it's an elections coming up when politicians pretend to
• 29:07
  Speaker 12: care about regional roads and look, the Bruce Highway does
• 29:10
  Speaker 12: need to be fixed. It is very important for people.
• 29:13
  Speaker 12: And as a libertarian, I mean, roads are one of
• 29:16
  Speaker 12: the few things that I'm like, yes, the government does
• 29:18
  Speaker 12: need to really focus on the issue for me is
• 29:20
  Speaker 12: we're in an inflation crisis and government spending is a
• 29:23
  Speaker 12: huge part of that. And now we have we're not
• 29:25
  Speaker 12: even in an election campaign and the funding promises they
• 29:29
  Speaker 12: are already out of the door. So I hope it's
• 29:31
  Speaker 12: not just a precursor for five months of we're going
• 29:33
  Speaker 12: to spend on this. We're going to spend on that,
• 29:34
  Speaker 12: We're going to spend on this. The other thing for
• 29:36
  Speaker 12: me is when Labor announces this. And what infuriates me
• 29:39
  Speaker 12: about Labor doing this and they're not the only government
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: that does this, is that they have been in charge
• 29:44
  Speaker 12: for three years. The business case for improving the Bruce
• 29:48
  Speaker 12: Highway has been there for every single day of those
• 29:50
  Speaker 12: three years. But now that we're in an election campaign, suddenly, oh, Labor,
• 29:53
  Speaker 12: they need to do this. I hope the Opposition gets
• 29:55
  Speaker 12: out of the way. If they were serious about it,
• 29:57
  Speaker 12: if they really wanted to help regional Australians, and they're not,
• 30:00
  Speaker 12: I have only done it three years ago. They would
• 30:01
  Speaker 12: at least start it today.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: That was my exact thoughts.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: If it was so dangerous and deadly as they keep
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: telling us, why wasn't this done years ago?
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: It should have been fixed years ago.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: James Ashby, this is happening in your home state. Do
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: you support this funding?
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: Look, I'm not going to congratulate either side for this
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: because it's an obligation of government to look after rhoads.
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: And this isn't a decaying Bruce Highway over the last
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: two years under this government. It's been decaying for decades
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: now under both Labor and the Liberal coalition here and
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: I hate banging on about this. I only drive back
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: from Brisbane this morning and I did the whole Bruce Highway.
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: It is in very poor shape. When you get north
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: of Gimpi, it really deteriorates. We're a country that consumes
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: over forty two million liters of fuel every single day,
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: of which most of that has an excise tax of
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: fifty five cents attached to it fifty cents in excise,
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: ten percent then attached to it in GST. Come on,
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: there's been plenty of money applied to well collected certainly
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: by the federal government and state goverment for that matter,
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: in GST that it has not been put towards the
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: upkeep of not just the Bruce Highway, but all regional
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: roads that lead to some of the most productive country,
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: whether it be mining or agricultural sectors of this state.
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: So no, I won't congratulate either side. You should have
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: done this a long time ago. You should have committed
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: the money. And Australians don't fall for this crap. It's happening,
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: what just months out from an election. We're not idiots.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: No, how convenient you're right now, labor is added again
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: with its green fantasies. It's putting fifty million dollars towards
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: subsidizing electric vehicle loans.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Forget this. Farmers and truckers can.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: A push to decarbonized key industries. Under the scheme, an
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: eligible borrower paying off a loan on a sixty thousand
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: dollars EV could save seventeen hundred dollars in interest over
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: five years.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: James Bond.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, I wonder how excited the farmers are to
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: drive that tesla on the far drive it.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: Through the paddocks up. Mean, this is ridiculous.
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: I can see the EV tractor getting five meters into
• 32:05
  Speaker 12: a paddock and then needing nine hours.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: To reach out.
• 32:09
  Speaker 12: But the issue like, no one's going to take this up,
• 32:11
  Speaker 12: and I hope they don't because here's what a subsidy is.
• 32:13
  Speaker 12: It doesn't decrease the cost of the car. It just
• 32:16
  Speaker 12: decreases the cost one person pays for the car, and
• 32:18
  Speaker 12: the other costs are spread out to everyone. So if
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: you're a farmer and you don't want an EV, bad luck,
• 32:23
  Speaker 12: you're still paying for someone else's EV. What this labor
• 32:26
  Speaker 12: government does is bringing new regulations on cars that we
• 32:29
  Speaker 12: do want to up their prices, then subsidize or make
• 32:33
  Speaker 12: everyone pay for cars. We don't want to lower the
• 32:35
  Speaker 12: prices of cars that no one's buying. I mean, with
• 32:37
  Speaker 12: leadership like that, I wonder how we're in an economic crisis.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, you wonder, right, And James Ashley, the other
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: thing is is, aside from the ridiculous optics of this
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: whole proposal, it's only seventeen hundred dollars over five years.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: What sort of an incentive is.
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: That, Well, it won't encourage any regional person, particularly farmers,
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: to get into this.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Let me paint the picture for you.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: The people who buy electric vehicles, people that shop at
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: Louis Vuitton and have designer dogs. We're not talking about
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: people with kelpies and whose shop at kmart and woolworks here.
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: We're talking about the people in the upper echelons.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: I know in twenty seventeen we lost our car industry
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: here in Australia, we never lost the luxury car tax.
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: I might just add that was applied to try and
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: keep that industry alive. What I've discovered is they've been
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: collecting for the last seven years. That luxury car tax
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: was supposed to prop up Australian manufacturing.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: As I say, it's now.
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: Going to go to propping up Chinese electric vehicle manufacturing.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: That's who's going to get the subsidy.
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: And it's just again a transfer of wealth overseas. Again,
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: I might just point out people in the West have
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: got often single strings of power coming down their streets.
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: If you want to recharge a car, or better still
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: a loader or anything for a farm. You're going to
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: need at least three phase to be able to charge
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  Speaker 8: it up. And I say you've got Buckley's when you're
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: a farm.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And also the fact that we just simply do not
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  Speaker 3: have the infrastructure available at all in this country to
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: power any of these trucks for.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Farmers of these evs. It's just ridiculous. James Ashby, James Bolk, really.
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  Speaker 3: Good to speak with you both. Thank you so much
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: for joining me on the show this evening. We'll stay
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: with us after the break. The Australian Open is about
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: to get underway. But wait till you see the insane
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: prices fans are about to be charged.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: More on that next, Welcome back to the show.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Well, WA Labor Premier Roger Cook has declared his government
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: is proudly independent from federal Labor and that his focus
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: is on ensuring re election rather than helping Anthony Albineasy
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: shore up crucial WA seats. In other words, is he
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: trying to keep Albow at arms length? Well, the two
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: seem very buddy buddy. Today at a press conference in Perth,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: and here was the Prime Minister's response to that all.
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  Speaker 6: Governments too independent, make our own decisions, but we work cooperatively.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that WA, for example, was.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: The first big state to sign up to our Schools
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: Agreement as just one example where that's there.
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  Speaker 3: Joining me now is the PR councils at Christy McSweeney
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  Speaker 3: and libertarian commentator Kristin Abraham.
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  Speaker 4: Nice to see you both. Thank you for joining me.
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  Speaker 3: Christy, you and I are both West Australians. I mean
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: there's always been this quasi talk of secession, but realistically,
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: what good will Albo do in the WA election and
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: vice versa. He's annoyed farmers with his live sheep export band,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: the polls aren't good for him as it is, what role.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Do you think he could possibly play?
• 35:43
  Speaker 13: And he's also been told by Premier Logical care in
• 35:46
  Speaker 13: Westerners stratea to shelve things like the nature positive environmental
• 35:50
  Speaker 13: reforms which brings further impediments into the viability of the
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: mining industry and further red tape and green tape. He's
• 35:58
  Speaker 13: also been told that Western Australia will lobby to Madeline King,
• 36:06
  Speaker 13: the federal Cabinet minister based out of Western Australian. Remember
• 36:10
  Speaker 13: Albow promised that we'd have a cabinet full of Western
• 36:12
  Speaker 13: Australian ministers. There's one cabinet minister and a couple of
• 36:17
  Speaker 13: Parliamentary secretori as assistant ministers. I think Roger Cook has
• 36:21
  Speaker 13: shown his metal. I think he knows that Federal Labor
• 36:24
  Speaker 13: desperately needs to win the four seats, hold those four
• 36:28
  Speaker 13: seats that they picked up last time in twenty twenty two.
• 36:31
  Speaker 13: But I don't think albow Is certainly has any good
• 36:36
  Speaker 13: polling here in Western Australia for Federal Labor. Whereas Roger Cook,
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: he's doing pretty well fifty three out of fifty nine
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: seats and he's on track to keep that come the.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Eighth of March.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the label will absolutely retain it, there's no doubt now.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Look Park's Victoria Intram boss will head to the area
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: hit hardest by the cultural heritage bands that have absolutely
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: smashed the heartland of Australia's rock climbing community. The company
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: pose sweeping bands on climbing, first in the Grampians National
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Park and then later at nearby Mount Arapiles Kristin. This
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: is one of the world's best rock climbing areas. Until
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Parks Victoria intervene, citing this cultural heritage. I just wonder
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: what's the entrom boss going to achieve by going there.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, unless this is overturned, why go.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I think the management, the new management is definitely welcomed,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: considering the plan that they put forward last year was
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: going to remove fifty percent of rock climbing places or
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: rock climbing resources. This place holds cultural significance for everyone,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: including whether you're a first generation Australian, second generation Australian
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: or an Aboriginal. And I think the importance of going
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: there is to understand how much the community has gotten
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: behind Mount Rapolis and show that they understand that there
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: is cultural significance just to Aboriginals, but to all Australians
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: as well and the international community. And we should be
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: able to enjoy our resources together. So I think it's important.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Now, look, I completely Agram and this is our world
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: rock climbing area and people go there specifically for rock climbing.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: There's got to be some sort of a resolution now.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: The twenty twenty five Australian Open officially kicks off this week,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: but it won't be cheap. Fans looking to snack on
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: some fries will have to part way with a whopping
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: thirteen dollars fifty at sub food outlets in the Tennis precinct,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: green oregano feta fries will set you back fifteen dollars eighty.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: At another outlet, those looking for something a little more
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: filling would pay eighteen dollars ten for a cheeseburger, while
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: a plant based burger comes in at twenty dollars fifty.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Christy a plant based burger at twenty dollars fifty. I'd
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: rather go without for goodness sake.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: But this is robbery. What are they doing?
• 38:53
  Speaker 13: It's absolutely incredible, isn't it? And can I just add
• 38:56
  Speaker 13: I've really enjoyed John Ferguson's series in the Australia this
• 38:59
  Speaker 13: last couple of days traveling through regional Victoria tourism hotspots
• 39:03
  Speaker 13: and saying a brecky roll in two coffees is setting
• 39:05
  Speaker 13: people back fifty three dollars and a vlta twenty two
• 39:09
  Speaker 13: bucks in the main street of Heelsville.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: So Victoria.
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  Speaker 13: I don't know what is going on there, but considering
• 39:16
  Speaker 13: it's got the most depressed economy in Australia and the
• 39:20
  Speaker 13: most sinking house pass is people there don't have a
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: lot of money to spend a lot of small businesses
• 39:25
  Speaker 13: still recovering from COVID.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know who's going to eat these No.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know either, Christian. I mean, you live there,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: can you shed any light for us?
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: I can?
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: And I worked for an event's business when the pandemic hit.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: The Australian Open as a business was very similar to
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: the events business I used to work for, and it
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: was completely decimated in the pandemic. And you have to
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: understand that festivals, events like these are still feeling the
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: flow on impacts of having their industry shut down for
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: two years or you know, broken for two years. A sympathize.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think that the solution is to put price
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: caps on anything. I think the solution is for the
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Victorian economy to pick up, and we have to get
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: the labor government out in the state government to be
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: able to do that. But it's unfortunately flow on effects
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: from bad.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Management, absolutely shocking management. Are twenty dollars fifty for a burger?
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, what are they thinking?
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Look, we've all seen those apocalyptic scenes. As wildfires continue
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: to tear through California. At least five people have been
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: killed and more than fifteen hundred buildings have been destroyed.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: But I want to show you both.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: The sheer incompetency of authorities. This is the La mayor
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: who froze after being grilled by a reporter for her
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: poor policy decisions which led up to this.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Have a look at this. Do you, oh citizens, and
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: you regret coming the fire department budget by millions of dollars?
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Madam?
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: There have you nothing to see today, Christy. This is
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: a pr disaster in the middle of a disaster. This
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: mayor has just been on a junket in Africa.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: She's come back finally, but people look for leadership and
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: this was a terrible performance.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 41:17
  Speaker 13: Look, while the warnings of evacuation were being tweeted out
• 41:20
  Speaker 13: by her and her department, she was en routor already
• 41:24
  Speaker 13: in Ghana to witness the inaug inauguration of the President
• 41:30
  Speaker 13: of Ghana alongside the leaders of Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: So what that has to do with.
• 41:35
  Speaker 13: Managing the city of Los Angeles in a crisis, I'm
• 41:38
  Speaker 13: not sure. And the other thing is this woman's an
• 41:41
  Speaker 13: experienced politician.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: She was a leader of the Black.
• 41:43
  Speaker 13: Caucus in the House of Representatives in the US federal Parliament.
• 41:48
  Speaker 13: She has been in the speech. She's the speaker of
• 41:51
  Speaker 13: the California state Legislator in the US. So I mean,
• 41:55
  Speaker 13: this is not someone who's inexperienced. This is someone who
• 41:58
  Speaker 13: heard the words Alon masks and didn't want to dignify
• 42:01
  Speaker 13: that with a response because she's a career Democratic Party activist.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: That is disgraceful. It truly is.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: And Kristin, you know, as we said the LA mayor,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: she's been on this junket in Africa. You've got the
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: LA Fire Department infiltrated with DEI policies. The Biden administration
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: stopped doing control burns. Tell me that this was not
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: a recipe for disaster.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it was a recipe for disaster. And when politicians
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: care more about their ego and what's going to benefit
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: them and their junkerds than caring about their communities that
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: they're elected to represent, this is the situation that we
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: end up in. But I must say that as bad
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: as it is for the mayor, it could have been worse.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: She could have announced that she was a great grandmother
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: when that guy was trying to talk to him like
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden did.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: So.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I think it's pull form all round. To be honest, I.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Know, I mean which leader is worse at the moment?
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, seriously, get to January twenty. We just got
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: to get there. We're almost there, and finally we get
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: some leadership. Christi McSweeney, Christin Abraham. Nice to see you both.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much for joining me on the show
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: this evening.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has made a last ditch effort to quash
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: his criminal conviction before he returns to the White House,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: asking the US Supreme Court to prevent him from being
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: sentenced over the hush money case. Trump's lawyers filed an
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: emergency petition in the nation's highest court to postpone the
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: sentence to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Joining me now is past chair of Parliament's Foreign Affairs
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: and Defense Committee, Michael Danby. Michael, thanks for joining me load.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: This is a sham, isn't it. But how do you
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: see this playing out now?
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 43:44
  Speaker 9: I can't imagine if he does get it in front
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: of the Supreme Court that they will back up that
• 43:50
  Speaker 9: new York judge. This hush money case was considered by
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: all of the academic lawyers to be the weakest of
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: all of the law fare against Trump. And I think
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: the whole lawfare experiment in various courts has been a
• 44:07
  Speaker 9: disaster for the Democrats. I'm sure James carvill would agree
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: with me. Get back and discuss politics. Leave the guy alone,
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: try and get out of this court conviction. That criminal
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: picture of him looking as a suspect only helps him
• 44:24
  Speaker 9: so much better if the United States got back to
• 44:28
  Speaker 9: discussing normal politics, normal discussions between people who have sensible
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: differences of opinion, and drop all of this lawfare.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's not going to change the outcome of the election.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: In the end.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: The people wanted Donald Trump and that's what they got.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: So enough is enough. Now, Look, the US Department of
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Defense has added Chinese battery manufacturing Giant Contemporary and Perrex
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Technology to its list of companies linked to China's military.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Now it's currently the world's largest electric vehicle manufacturer, controlling
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: thirty seven percent of the world's battery mark. You know, Michael,
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: I mean that's a worry here for Australia. How do
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: we know that this isn't happening here. What do we
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: know about these batteries that are apparently going to save Australia.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: How do you think this could impact us?
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: These batteries are used in electric vehicles here in Australia
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: and some of the importers quite understandably concerned, like people
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: are in the United States who use these batteries in
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: the big firms Tesla, BMW, Ford, Volkswagen. Have to remember
• 45:31
  Speaker 9: that Australia started the international concern with the Chinese telco
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: giant Huawei. It was described by the economists as the
• 45:39
  Speaker 9: company that spooked the world. It had the same problem
• 45:43
  Speaker 9: that this Chinese battery company has. Every company in Beijing
• 45:49
  Speaker 9: has to have a committee that supervises the commercial operations
• 45:53
  Speaker 9: of the company with a sell of the Chinese Communist Party.
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: Now you can't make international commercial success or free international
• 46:04
  Speaker 9: trade when you're competing with a secret communist cell at
• 46:09
  Speaker 9: the top of every Chinese company. And the US military
• 46:12
  Speaker 9: is obviously concerned this. I don't suspect with Elon Musk
• 46:18
  Speaker 9: being there at Tesla that he mightn't get a waiver
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: for these batteries if they're going to be used in
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: his cars. In the States, but Trump has gone a
• 46:28
  Speaker 9: bit soft on TikTok, for instance, so you never know
• 46:31
  Speaker 9: what will happen. But it's a consistent problem across the spectrum, Tanika,
• 46:37
  Speaker 9: with Beijing having politics control commerce.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: No. Absolutely.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Now I want to ask you about some matters regarding Israel.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: The military has confirmed that they've recovered the body of
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: a hostage in Gaza and brought it back to Israel,
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: following what they're saying was a complex and difficult operation.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: It comes as the US says a hostage release deal
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: is very close. Michael, you know, it doesn't fill you
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: with much hope in my opinion. Okay, they've recovered a body,
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: but the fact is they've recovered a body, and I
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: don't think that we should be celebrating the US saying, well,
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: a hostage deal is close. We don't know if these
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: hostages are dead or alive.
• 47:16
  Speaker 9: I don't have much faith in mister Lincoln's promises. He's
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: promised this many times. They estimate that there are ninety
• 47:24
  Speaker 9: six hostage bodies or live people who should never have
• 47:29
  Speaker 9: been taken there by these beasts from US. And let's
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: hope that they are able to have a temporary ceasfire
• 47:37
  Speaker 9: and get some of them out in the meantime, particularly
• 47:40
  Speaker 9: the young women and the old people who just dread
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: to think what they've endured in those airless tunnels controlled
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: by these macho Islamis nutcases. So just pray for it, Demika,
• 47:55
  Speaker 9: like all normal people will, that they get some of
• 47:58
  Speaker 9: them out. I don't know whether there is going to
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: be an end to this fighting in Gaza, but Donald
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: Trump is certainly driving they're a fear a Humas of
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: getting these hostages out. I think he's got unusual methods
• 48:16
  Speaker 9: which is pressing the Hummas leadership to get them out
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: and to make the deal via Qatar.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess there is hope. We'll see what happens
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: with Donald Trump. But still in the meantime, you know,
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Israel's fighting for its survival, and you mentioned there's old
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: people down there. There's also children, and that sad part
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: we don't know if they're dead or alive.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Michael Downby, we have to leave it there.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much for joining me on the show
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: this evening. Appreciate it well, thank you for your company.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: That's all we've got time for, but stay with us.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Up next is the Late Debate good night,