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Credlin | 31 July · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Petero Kranbland live on Skyings Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Well into show. I'm coming to you tonight
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Speaker 2: from Sydney. He's what's coming up on Kredline. More PreCure
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Speaker 2: tonight on new Immigration Minister Tony Burke after revelations today
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Speaker 2: that a quarter of the freed foreign criminals have now
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Speaker 2: been charged with new crimes since Labor let them out.
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Speaker 2: And in the past twenty four hours one of these
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Speaker 2: men with a violent rap sheet some forty seven pages long,
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Speaker 2: has been given bail yet again. More on this shock
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Speaker 2: news coming up, and as I predicted it would happen,
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Speaker 2: Muslim leaders demanding Tony Burke resettled even more Palestinians in
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Speaker 2: Australia as a priority. Burke's adamant about this role. He says,
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Speaker 2: it's not about shoring our votes in Western Sydney. I
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Speaker 2: don't buy that at all. Plus there whopping two hundred
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Speaker 2: million dollar bill that Audrey Victorians are footing through renewable energy.
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Speaker 2: It's hidden in the power bill and it goes to
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Speaker 2: the offshore owners of these foreign wind farms. I'll explain
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Speaker 2: just how Australians are being conned later in the show
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Speaker 2: and today's increasing inflation not good news for the Albanzi government,
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Speaker 2: but terrible news for anyone with a mortgage ahead of
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Speaker 2: next week's Reserve Bank meeting.
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Speaker 3: This is homegrown inflation. This is Labour's homegrown inflation, inflicting
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Speaker 3: pain on every Australian household.
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Speaker 4: Every release of inflation data, every interest rate day is
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Speaker 4: met with dread and worry and concern by ordinary Australians.
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Speaker 2: We'll stay with that issue. Today's rise in quarterly inflation
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Speaker 2: to an annual rate of three point eight percent is
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Speaker 2: bad news for households struggling with cost of living pressures.
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Speaker 2: But it's also bad use for the Albanezer government because
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Speaker 2: it puts off interest rate relief for households paying thousands
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Speaker 2: of dollars more to keep a roof over their heads
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Speaker 2: since the last election. Along with stubborn high inflation, there's
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Speaker 2: also the bad news that's revealed in these numbers. Higher
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Speaker 2: prices coexisting with weaker sales, meaning the economy is also
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Speaker 2: struggling now. Given that real wages have also gone backwards
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Speaker 2: since the election, it's little wonder that households can't afford
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Speaker 2: to spend so much on everything that's costing more over
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Speaker 2: the last year. Electricity bills, for instance, will they are
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Speaker 2: up six percent. They would have been up fifteen percent
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Speaker 2: if it wasn't for taxpayer subsidies. Fuel prices, Will they're
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Speaker 2: up eight percent. Rents over seven percent in terms of increase. That's,
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Speaker 2: of course, if you can find a property in the
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Speaker 2: first place, and building costs, if you can find a
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Speaker 2: builder that hasn't gone bus will they're up too by
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Speaker 2: five percent. Naturally, the Ominezer government was putting a brave
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Speaker 2: face on bad news, claiming that it had made substantial progress.
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Speaker 5: Underlying inflation in our economy continues to go down. It's
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Speaker 5: more persistent than we'd like, but we have made substantial progress.
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Speaker 5: When we came to office, inflation had a six in
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Speaker 5: front of it, and now it has a three in
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Speaker 5: front of it. The government's policies are helping in the
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Speaker 5: fight against inflation. The ABS has once again been incredibly
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Speaker 5: clear about the positive and meaningful impact of our cost
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Speaker 5: of living policies.
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Speaker 2: But the truth is our inflation is higher than in Canada, France, Germany, Italy,
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Speaker 2: Britain and America, and it's just jumped up while there
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Speaker 2: is trending down for the Ominizi government. The problems not
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Speaker 2: just that prices are going up, but that Labour's policies
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Speaker 2: are making it worse. The government likes to boast that
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Speaker 2: it's delivered two consecutive surpluses, but these are surpluses of serendipity.
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Speaker 2: They're not driven by good policy. They're happening by accident,
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Speaker 2: in this case, the continued high prices for our resource exports,
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Speaker 2: including the very coal and gas exports that Labor and
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Speaker 2: the Greens want to stop. And sure, the government claims
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Speaker 2: that its power subsidies are helping, but it only needs
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Speaker 2: to subsidize your power bills with your money anyway as
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Speaker 2: a taxpayer, because its emissions obsessions driving power prices up
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Speaker 2: as reliable and cheap fossil fuels exit the market. And
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Speaker 2: then there's its pro union policies that are damaging workplace
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Speaker 2: productivity and competitiveness. With five quarters alreadity of negative growth
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Speaker 2: per person, today's inflation US will just remind people that
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Speaker 2: they're getting poorer and poorer under this government, that promises
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Speaker 2: made at the last election have been broken. Let's look
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Speaker 2: at what the Reserve Bank minutes say next week. But
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Speaker 2: if the Bank's still worried about inflation dary pressures. I
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Speaker 2: think this government will be tempted to run to a
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Speaker 2: pre Christmas election. Now the RBA may not rates next Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: we'll see, but on these numbers today, there certainly won't
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Speaker 2: be cutting rates, and that's what most people have been
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Speaker 2: hoping for, given how much they're suffering with cost of living.
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Speaker 2: More pains today too for Labor on immigration, as we
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Speaker 2: learn that at least a quarter to fully twenty five
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Speaker 2: percent of the one hundred and fifty foreign criminals that
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Speaker 2: the Alberdezy government let out of immigration detention six months
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Speaker 2: ago have been charged with further criminal offenses since then.
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Speaker 2: Now yesterday one of them was released on bail despite
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Speaker 2: having a forty seven page criminal history. The man in question,
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Speaker 2: forty five year old Mohammad Ela Wadd, originally from Sudan,
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Speaker 2: has wrapped up more than two hundred and eight criminal charges,
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Speaker 2: including eighteen convictions for weapons possession and violent assaults. Yet
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Speaker 2: despite all of that is clear disregard for Australian law,
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Speaker 2: Victorian Supreme Court Judge Michael Croucher yesterday released him on bail. Now, remember,
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Speaker 2: Labor had ample warning from the High Court of its
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Speaker 2: ruling the criminals like Ela Watt couldn't be kept in
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Speaker 2: indefinite detention, but the government failed to act. Remember too,
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Speaker 2: that emergency legislation passed just before Christmas to give labor
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Speaker 2: the power to seek preventive detention orders against dangerous foreign criminals.
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Speaker 2: And yet here we are eight months on not one
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Speaker 2: single order so far has been sought by this government.
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Speaker 2: Now is this likely to change under the new minister
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Speaker 2: Tony Burke? Is it the same bloke who couldn't stand
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Speaker 2: up to thuggish building unions when he was in charge,
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Speaker 2: who couldn't stand up to people smugglers when he had
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Speaker 2: the job under Kevin Rudd, And it couldn't stand up
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Speaker 2: to local lobbying against Israel in favor of not bloody likely.
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Speaker 2: Last night I brought you some of the environmental protests
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Speaker 2: erupting against the forests of wind, turbines and solar panels
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Speaker 2: under the government so called green transition. The expansion of
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Speaker 2: renewable energy is what's driving your power bills up, because
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Speaker 2: while wind and solar might be cheap when the sun
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Speaker 2: shining the wind's blowing, it's not cheap to deliver to
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Speaker 2: get it from the solar farm into the cities and
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Speaker 2: it's certainly not cheap in the middle of the night
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Speaker 2: or in a wind rout. Today we learned that in
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Speaker 2: Victoria alone, consumers, so households, they're paying nearly two hundred
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Speaker 2: million dollars more on their power bills to subsidize foreign
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Speaker 2: owned renewable businesses. This is ordinary households, homes paying this
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Speaker 2: via their power bills, and it's happening because of the
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Speaker 2: renewable energy certificates that power companies are forced to buy,
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Speaker 2: meaning the renewable provider gets paid twice. Just look at
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Speaker 2: who's getting these subsidies that you're paying for. The Herald
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Speaker 2: Sign reports at China's State Power Investment Corporation, it owns
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Speaker 2: nine Victorian wind farms. Let's received about fifty million dollars.
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Speaker 2: There was around sixty four million paid to a Spanish
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Speaker 2: multi national for its wind farms. Another Spanish group with
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Speaker 2: a wind farm in bury Banks and not far from
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Speaker 2: Colac in the wester Victoria they got forty million, while
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Speaker 2: a French owned wind farm just outside of Ararat twenty
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Speaker 2: eight million. Remember Avny Albanese he promised some one hundred
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Speaker 2: times before the last election he was going to cut
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Speaker 2: your power bill by two hundred and seventy five dollars
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Speaker 2: per year. Not happening. As one local farmer Jason Barrett said,
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Speaker 2: how on Earth are our energy prices going to be
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Speaker 2: lower by handing bucket loads of money to foreign owned companies?
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Speaker 2: Is that it doesn't make sense, Jason, You can say
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Speaker 2: that again, all right. Cambriddan's on standby in camera with
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Speaker 2: our headlines.
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Speaker 6: Good evening, the Reserve Bank faces a lineball call on
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Speaker 6: whether to lift interest rates again following a slight uptick
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Speaker 6: in inflation.
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Speaker 5: It is more sticky and more stubborn than any of
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Speaker 5: us would like.
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Speaker 6: Headline. Inflation is in fact on the way up from
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Speaker 6: three point six percent to three point eight percent in
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Speaker 6: the June quarter, driven by high costs of fruit and vegetables, rent,
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Speaker 6: insurance and healthcare.
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Speaker 3: Australians are losing hope, They're increasingly demoralized.
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Speaker 6: Australians like this man in Paramatta.
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Speaker 7: Well this that's from the Salvation army two dollars.
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Speaker 6: What does your day to day look like?
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Speaker 8: Pretty blak?
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Speaker 7: Sit at home all day, can't afford to do anything,
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Speaker 7: so stay home.
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Speaker 6: The Reserve Bank meets again on Tuesday, where it will
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Speaker 6: decide whether another rate rise is needed.
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Speaker 8: Don't do it.
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Speaker 2: Make it a bit easier for everyone. The reserve banking drop.
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Speaker 2: There's interest rates for US.
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Speaker 6: Federal and state governments have agreed to spend another three
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Speaker 6: hundred and seventy one million dollars on improving the lives
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Speaker 6: of Australians living with a disability.
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Speaker 3: This is another watershed moment to stop the abuse of
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Speaker 3: our fellow Australians.
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Speaker 5: But there's a lot of work to go on from here.
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Speaker 6: Unveiling its response to the Disability Royal Commission, the government
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Speaker 6: has accepted one hundred and thirty of more than two
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Speaker 6: hundred recommendations. There'll be new money to prevent discrimination, improve
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Speaker 6: safety and promote inclusion in the broader community.
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Speaker 2: We are still working with our states and territories in
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Speaker 2: many cases about how those might be implemented.
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Speaker 6: Cameron Reddin's Sky News Canberra.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll get across those headlines and more and
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Speaker 2: to do that. Unjoined by Sky News host National Affairs
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Speaker 2: for Danny Telegraph, James Morrow, my good friend Skuy and
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Speaker 2: your senior reporter Carolyn Marcus. Well, great to have your company.
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Speaker 2: The fallout. Let's go to this issue. The fallout from
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Speaker 2: the n z YQ High Court detainee ruling is continuing,
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Speaker 2: with one of those released by the government, Mohammed Elowood,
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Speaker 2: released again on bailing Victoria, despite a forty seven page
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Speaker 2: criminal history, eighteen convictions for weapons offenses and violent assault,
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Speaker 2: and also the fact that he's breached his bail twenty
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Speaker 2: two times before the current release. James, it was only
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Speaker 2: yesterday I was talking about the lack of faith Australians
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Speaker 2: have in our court system and this is exactly why.
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Speaker 2: I mean, are we supposed to believe this labor leopard
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Speaker 2: in Tony Burke can change his spots and fix this mess?
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Speaker 2: Are you convinced?
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Speaker 8: Well, no, I'm not convinced at all, and you know,
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Speaker 8: for a number of good reasons. I think number one,
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Speaker 8: the fact is that labor just simply doesn't have it
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Speaker 8: in them. It's not of their makeups, none of their
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Speaker 8: philosophical foundations. I think to be properly tough on borders,
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Speaker 8: asylum seekers, detainees, whatever you want to call them, and
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Speaker 8: that's for a lot of reasons. They're very historical. They
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Speaker 8: go back to the fact that the Left has always
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Speaker 8: been a transnational type movement. They have always seen themselves
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Speaker 8: as being transcendent of borders, and they don't like the
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Speaker 8: idea of borders. That's why for them, you know, to
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Speaker 8: call somebody a nationalist is an insult, and that's why
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Speaker 8: they're uncomfortable with patriotism. But there's a couple of other
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Speaker 8: points to make here, and number one is that courts
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Speaker 8: like this that do things like this, I know they
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Speaker 8: think they're trying to be nice to asylum seekers, but
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Speaker 8: it just removes any sympathy people have in the community
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Speaker 8: for asylum seekers. When you know there's there's cases like this,
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Speaker 8: it tires them all with the same brush. It's it's
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Speaker 8: I think. And Tony Burke of course has his own
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Speaker 8: issues too with his own seat in Western City, whether
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Speaker 8: or not he'll be you know, tough on on on
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Speaker 8: migrant you know, refugee numbers.
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Speaker 2: Right, we don't have a lot of the detail yet,
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Speaker 2: but we have heard this afternoon confirmation from Hamas. They
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Speaker 2: have released a statement that their top political leader has
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Speaker 2: been killed in Iran. Now this is significant, Caroline, particularly
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Speaker 2: because we've got the turmoil with Hezbullah on the northern
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Speaker 2: Israel border. What do we know so far?
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Speaker 1: Well, Hamas has confirmed the death, as you say, initially
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Speaker 1: confirmed by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that the
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Speaker 1: Hamas political leader has been killed in a residence his
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Speaker 1: residence in Tehran, alongside one of his bodyguards. Now Hamas
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Speaker 1: and the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards say that.
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Speaker 2: This was in Israeli hit.
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Speaker 1: Israel hasn't confirmed that it is behind it, although it
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Speaker 1: is likely given he was one of their big targets.
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Speaker 1: Ever since October seventh they said that they would go
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Speaker 1: after Hamas' leaders, so it is.
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Speaker 2: Either way between that and the.
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Speaker 1: Death Israel says of a senior HEZBLA leader in Beirut.
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Speaker 1: That's a couple of big targets now for Israel in
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Speaker 1: the past couple of days. And I think, look, very
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Speaker 1: few people will be mourning this other than members of
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Speaker 1: her Maas and Hamas sympathizers around the world, including here
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Speaker 1: in Australia. This man was the definition of evil. He
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Speaker 1: was behind suicide bombings, countless numbers of them, and terror
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Speaker 1: attacks and he lived a life of luxury while people
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Speaker 1: back in Gaza were suffering immeasurably. So his death is
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Speaker 1: only a good thing and hopefully it brings us one
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Speaker 1: step closer to the end of this war, in the
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Speaker 1: end of her mass.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty hard line on this, Carolina. Good terrorist is
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Speaker 2: a dead terrorist, so there'll be no tears shed on
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Speaker 2: the desk here at Kridlin. Let's go to Victoria, because
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Speaker 2: I think this is something James you have often written about,
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Speaker 2: but it's a running ride across all of our states.
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Speaker 2: The premier there, just into Allen, is going to look
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Speaker 2: at greater involvement of traditional owners in the state's planning laws. Now,
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Speaker 2: this will impact households and businesses. We saw the backlash
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Speaker 2: this created in Wa, so I'm surprised, and of course
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Speaker 2: they had to repeal the laws. I'm surprised Victoria's head
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Speaker 2: of this way, but they're also about to start their
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Speaker 2: treaty negotiations, so I suspect we shouldn't be surprised.
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Speaker 8: Well, you know, we shouldn't be surprised. And yet, as
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Speaker 8: you suggest, Peter, why on earth would they go down
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Speaker 8: this road after what we saw transpire in Wa, where
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Speaker 8: there was a huge and I think quite proper backlash
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Speaker 8: against laws that would have required permits for all sorts
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Speaker 8: of things from aboriginal agencies investigators to come out huge
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Speaker 8: amounts of money to be spent to do the simplest
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Speaker 8: things on your property. Even suburban blocks were subject to
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Speaker 8: those laws, which thankfully were repealed. And it looks like
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Speaker 8: Victoria's going down the same road here, you know, it's
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Speaker 8: like there, It's like the Left is like the Bourbon
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Speaker 8: Kings of France. They've learned nothing and forgotten nothing from
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Speaker 8: the Voice campaign, and they're still determined to keep on
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Speaker 8: doing all of these things that everyone says, No, it's divisive.
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Speaker 8: And one other point too. Are we in the middle
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Speaker 8: of a housing crisis. I would kind of think that
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Speaker 8: the last thing you'd want to be doing right now
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Speaker 8: is throwing more roadblocks in the way of development, building apartments,
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Speaker 8: building houses that people need, rather than giving more money
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Speaker 8: and power to a grievance industry. I'm sorry, it's just
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Speaker 8: a joke.
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Speaker 2: Look, I'm going to get into housing now with Caroline.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about the implications of this inflation increase in
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Speaker 2: a moment with Ross Greenwood. But if you've got a
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Speaker 2: mortgage in Australia, I suspect you're going to be waiting
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Speaker 2: nervously for Tuesday and the Reserve Bank decision on rates.
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Speaker 2: Economists are saying that how home loan delinquency is likely
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Speaker 2: to increase if we see a rate rise on Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: We already know there's a lot of people who are
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Speaker 2: stretched in me their mortgage repayments. At the same time
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Speaker 2: as new Home Housing Minister Clara O'Neil says the government's
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Speaker 2: ambitious goal of building one point two million homes she
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Speaker 2: reckons by the end of the decade is on a track,
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Speaker 2: despite the reality that new home dwelling approvals have sunk
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Speaker 2: to their lowest level in over a decade and construction
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Speaker 2: insolvencies as we know, we've reported it here I read
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Speaker 2: a record high. Well, Caroline, I tell you, given her
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Speaker 2: record today, does anyone think Clara O'Neil can turn this around.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think even the most skilled minister would
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Speaker 1: be able to turn this around and meet these unrealistic targets.
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Speaker 1: You've got to say, completely unrealistic targets from labor in
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Speaker 1: terms of new dwellings. But Clara O'Neil was so hopeless
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Speaker 1: as Home Affairs Minister she had to be shunted out
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Speaker 1: of that and given this demotion into the housing portfolio,
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Speaker 1: even though it is a demotion incredibly important area right
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Speaker 1: now in order to fix this crisis.
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Speaker 2: But even she admits that this.
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Speaker 1: Pledge from labor to create all these new homes is
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Speaker 1: now challenging. It's, what she says, is just a really
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Speaker 1: difficult target. So in order for her to meet that,
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Speaker 1: it's going to have to be quite the turnaround. At
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Speaker 1: the moment, in order to meet their pledge, they would
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Speaker 1: have to increase the number of approvals on dwellings by
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Speaker 1: fifty percent on the past financial year, and at the moment,
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Speaker 1: just in New South Wales, for instance, it's dropped nineteen percent.
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Speaker 1: And add to that all these businesses going under, and
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Speaker 1: now a new report about the number of apprentices trade
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Speaker 1: apprentices who are have their TAFE courses tied to their employment.
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Speaker 2: Now being forced to drop out.
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Speaker 1: That's just going to add even.
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Speaker 2: More to skills shortages.
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Speaker 1: So it's just one thing after another that leads me
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Speaker 1: to think that they can't.
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Speaker 2: Possibly meet this.
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Speaker 1: But whether she will be honest with people about that
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Speaker 1: is another thing, because we've seen how she's run away
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Speaker 1: whenever they've been half questions from the media in her
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Speaker 1: previous portfolio, So I dare say can't expect a lot
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Speaker 1: of honesty.
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Speaker 2: They either right. I know we're all enjoying watching the Olympics.
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Speaker 2: But there's more controversy today. The IOC has been forced
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Speaker 2: to defend two boxes in the women's competition, two boxes
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Speaker 2: who previously failed gender eligibility tests. Now the committee says
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Speaker 2: their passports say they're women, and that then says they
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Speaker 2: can compete. But last year tests found high levels of
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Speaker 2: testosterone and X y chromosomes, so male chromosomes not the
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Speaker 2: female xx chromosomes. Well, Carolina, I'll start with you, not
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Speaker 2: just because you're the female along with me on this panel,
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Speaker 2: although you know, maybe we need a blood test as well.
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Speaker 2: It's gotten to that point. But there has been an
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Speaker 2: outcry and it's not just from the usual quarter. I
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Speaker 2: mean athletes and coaches say, particularly in boxing, someone could
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Speaker 2: be killed or seriously injured in a competition if women
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Speaker 2: are fighting against men.
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Speaker 1: Well absolutely, they've warned that death. There could be death,
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Speaker 1: There could be serious harm to any woman who takes on.
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Speaker 1: These two athletes, once from Algeria and ones from Taiwan.
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Speaker 1: And while they're not trans, they're not considered trans women.
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Speaker 2: They have this disorder.
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Speaker 1: It's called DSD. If you remember castas and menya, if
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Speaker 1: you cast your mind back to that South African runner
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Speaker 1: who there was all this controversy a few years ago,
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Speaker 1: it's the same disorder as that. And the accusation is
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Speaker 1: that they are essentially biologically male, will have the same
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Speaker 1: characteristics and it's not going to be safe for any
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Speaker 1: woman who is taking them on in the ring because
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Speaker 1: of that. I mean, you have to say, Peter, that
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Speaker 1: we've got this domestic violence crisis here where we bang
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Speaker 1: on about and the government bangs on about the fact
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Speaker 1: that there's one woman killed at the hands of her
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Speaker 1: male partner, former or current every week, and yet we're
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Speaker 1: expected to cheer on women take our own female athletes
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Speaker 1: taking on, for all intents and purposes, biologically males in
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Speaker 1: the ring just because the Olympics says it's okay.
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Speaker 2: It's outrageous.
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Speaker 1: This has got to go down these Games as the
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Speaker 1: wokest games ever. From the parody of the Christianity, the
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Speaker 1: last supper at the opening ceremony, from athletes that being
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Speaker 1: forced to take on this radical green agenda, sleeping on
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Speaker 1: cardboard beds, not eating meat, no air conditioning, and the
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Speaker 1: Olympics themselves have this DEEI specialist apparently.
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Speaker 2: Well, of course they do.
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Speaker 1: Who says that anyone who identifies as a woman should
21:41
Speaker 1: be allowed to complete compete as a female athlete. It
21:45
Speaker 1: is not fair on women who have worked so hard
21:48
Speaker 1: to get to where they are at the Olympics.
21:50
Speaker 2: Spot On could have said it better myself. I think
21:52
Speaker 2: people have had enough of this rubbish, and I think
21:55
Speaker 2: the backlash is absolutely coming. James and Carrol, I thank
21:58
Speaker 2: you both your times, great teddy company. All right, let's
22:00
Speaker 2: go to the other big story there obviously, inflation data
22:03
Speaker 2: out today, the rate climbing for the first time in
22:06
Speaker 2: eighteen months, up from three point six to three point
22:10
Speaker 2: eight percent. Now the major driver is housing, particularly rents,
22:14
Speaker 2: electricity prices and transport for more, let's bringing out Gurusky
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Speaker 2: and his business editor Ross Greenwood. Ross, great to have
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Speaker 2: you tonight. It's incredibly important we get a good read
22:26
Speaker 2: from you about these numbers today and particulate forecasting into
22:30
Speaker 2: the RBA meeting next Tuesday. It is a modest rise,
22:33
Speaker 2: but it is a rise. It's a rise. Nonetheless, most
22:36
Speaker 2: of the CPI data and the other world nations are
22:40
Speaker 2: heading down. We're going up. So I'm ken for your
22:43
Speaker 2: take on how this feeds into next week's meeting of
22:46
Speaker 2: the RBA.
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Speaker 9: It just gives a small window Peter for the Reserve
22:50
Speaker 9: Bank to keep interest rates on hold, not just then,
22:53
Speaker 9: but probably into the future as well. In many ways,
22:56
Speaker 9: the government is dodged a bullet here because there's no
22:59
Speaker 9: doubt that Jim Charmers and the Prime Minister Antony Albanezi
23:03
Speaker 9: were stealing themselves for an even worse number than this.
23:06
Speaker 9: This is the reason why they'd softened up the media
23:08
Speaker 9: over the past little while to basically give them some
23:11
Speaker 9: sense of advanced warning that there could be a bad
23:14
Speaker 9: number coming here. So the number, though you point out,
23:17
Speaker 9: is increasing, and that is not good because that is
23:20
Speaker 9: the opposite of what is taking place in other parts
23:22
Speaker 9: of the world, where right now they're either preparing to
23:24
Speaker 9: cut interest rates or already have in the case of
23:27
Speaker 9: Canada twice in the past two months. Here in Australia,
23:30
Speaker 9: we were preparing ourselves to rise interest rates. Now. There
23:34
Speaker 9: are still many economists who do believe there are interst
23:37
Speaker 9: rates cuts coming in the near term, but that in
23:40
Speaker 9: the means that Australia's economy has got to slow down
23:42
Speaker 9: pretty quickly because there is still strong growth and even
23:45
Speaker 9: today retail sales numbers out were again relatively strong. So
23:49
Speaker 9: this is the annual inflation rate, and you really were
23:52
Speaker 9: looking in the treasury even in the budget was suggesting
23:56
Speaker 9: just only in the beginning of May, that this number
23:59
Speaker 9: already would be three and a half percent on its
24:01
Speaker 9: way down to two and three quarter percent by this
24:04
Speaker 9: time next year, which really did open up the suggestion
24:07
Speaker 9: that there could be headroom for interst rate cuts this year. Now,
24:11
Speaker 9: the idea of that was that you then go right
24:14
Speaker 9: into an election campaign where they've been cost of living
24:16
Speaker 9: relief from July one this year, where there have been
24:20
Speaker 9: pay rises from the low paid at this time, where
24:23
Speaker 9: there have been tax cuts and interest rate cuts. Well,
24:26
Speaker 9: it wasn't painting out that way, and this was really,
24:29
Speaker 9: in many ways one of the big sticking points for
24:31
Speaker 9: the government going into an election.
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Speaker 2: You surprise me pointing out that a labor budget forecast
24:37
Speaker 2: in May is not worth the paper it's printed on.
24:39
Speaker 2: Here we are almost in August, but there we go.
24:42
Speaker 2: That's wrong again in Jim Chalmer's numbers. What about this
24:45
Speaker 2: criticism today that the Reserve Bank's been too timid in
24:49
Speaker 2: its response to inflation, that it should have acted sooner.
24:52
Speaker 2: There's a new survey out there that says three quarters
24:55
Speaker 2: of Australians blame the government policies and taxes for inflation.
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Speaker 2: Where does the government go with this?
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Speaker 9: Well, I think there's validity in this because if inflation
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Speaker 9: is becoming embedded in Australia's economy, as a treasurer talked
25:11
Speaker 9: about today, he said, it's worrying, and it is because
25:14
Speaker 9: the fact of the matter is if you don't get
25:15
Speaker 9: the inflation out of your economy quickly, then it does
25:19
Speaker 9: become embedded in pay rises, in the price you pay
25:22
Speaker 9: for rent, in the price you pay for food, in
25:24
Speaker 9: the price you pay for your insurance policies. And that's
25:27
Speaker 9: what's been taking place in Australia. So just to give
25:29
Speaker 9: you some headlines out of this today, and that is
25:31
Speaker 9: say health over the past year up five point seven percent.
25:35
Speaker 9: Who really controls health costs in Australia. The government does Transport?
25:39
Speaker 9: Think about public service you've got there up by fourteen
25:42
Speaker 9: six percent over the past year, Housing five point two percent,
25:46
Speaker 9: insurance six point four percent, Education up five point six percent.
25:49
Speaker 9: So these are quarterly numbers we're seeing here. Ignore the
25:52
Speaker 9: fruit and vegetable prices. That's seasonal that comes and goes.
25:56
Speaker 9: But the rest of it is really where families don't
25:59
Speaker 9: have any choice but to spend that money. And so
26:02
Speaker 9: families are right now feeling this cost of living. It
26:04
Speaker 9: does get sheeted back to government and government, you know,
26:07
Speaker 9: sort of if you like policies that have been taken
26:10
Speaker 9: in the past or in action by government, and so
26:13
Speaker 9: there go. There's some of your drivers that you can see.
26:15
Speaker 9: Look at your rents over the past year seven point
26:17
Speaker 9: three percent. That's housing policy, energy policy six percent, transport
26:21
Speaker 9: and food costs up by three point three percent. So
26:24
Speaker 9: again these are things you can't not move around. You
26:27
Speaker 9: can't not live in your house. You cannot you know
26:29
Speaker 9: sort of if you like not eat, you can't not
26:31
Speaker 9: have power. So all these things really do go home
26:34
Speaker 9: and said, when families right now are talking about a
26:37
Speaker 9: cost of living crisis, many of this comes back straight
26:39
Speaker 9: back to policy or in action by government over a
26:43
Speaker 9: state and federal which really is adding to the burden
26:47
Speaker 9: and the fact that they're feeling the times are it's tougher.
26:51
Speaker 2: Yet the politics of it, you know, this ross you
26:53
Speaker 2: see there when the government says the RBA is independent
26:56
Speaker 2: and tries to make it look, certainly to people at home,
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Speaker 2: that the RBA is responding by driving up rates because
27:04
Speaker 2: somehow the RBA is the bad guy. The RBA has
27:07
Speaker 2: got one lever, that's if it's your cash rate, and
27:10
Speaker 2: you've just gone through a litany of levers that government
27:12
Speaker 2: has in the way in which they feed in to
27:14
Speaker 2: policy and all of those various sectors. So the government's
27:17
Speaker 2: got to be a responsibility. This will be the test
27:19
Speaker 2: for them at the next election, and I think this
27:21
Speaker 2: is all feeding into whether they go early or whether
27:25
Speaker 2: they hold on hoping that they'll turn a corner and
27:27
Speaker 2: maybe get these rate cuts that were promised at the
27:30
Speaker 2: start of the year. I mean, I don't think we're
27:32
Speaker 2: going to get a rate hike on Tuesday. We're certainly
27:35
Speaker 2: not going to get a cut though.
27:36
Speaker 9: That's exactly right. And if you think about it, even
27:38
Speaker 9: this week, you've seen the Bankage Japan today increase interest
27:43
Speaker 9: rates for the second time in seventeen years or something
27:46
Speaker 9: of that nature. But you've got to see from the
27:48
Speaker 9: Bank of England the prospect of a rape cut. Z Indicaddurley.
27:51
Speaker 9: You've seen Canada cut rates twice in the past two months,
27:54
Speaker 9: the US Federal Reserve overnight is going to basically come
27:57
Speaker 9: out and give an indication it will cut rates from September.
28:01
Speaker 9: That's not on the horizon here in Australia. Now, the
28:04
Speaker 9: next moving rates might be down, but that is quite
28:06
Speaker 9: a way off because the Reserve banker's got to see
28:09
Speaker 9: that inflation has been scrubbed out of our economy and
28:13
Speaker 9: that means tougher times for families and businesses are most
28:16
Speaker 9: likely a higher unemployment rate going into the next election,
28:20
Speaker 9: and that's the issue for the government from a political
28:22
Speaker 9: point of view. But you make the observation about you know,
28:25
Speaker 9: government policy could have done a lot of things. Well,
28:27
Speaker 9: that's absolutely right, which is a reason why, as you say,
28:30
Speaker 9: it's never the government's fault, it has to be somebody
28:32
Speaker 9: else's fault. That's the reason why their inquiries into supermarkets,
28:35
Speaker 9: that's the reason why there's new rules for supermarkets, because
28:38
Speaker 9: really it must have been the supermarket's fault. The supermarket
28:41
Speaker 9: prices were rising, and of course not the supermarkets themselves.
28:44
Speaker 9: It might be a part of it, but they're certainly
28:46
Speaker 9: not all of it. As it were.
28:48
Speaker 2: Let's go another area where's plenty of spoken mirrors. This
28:50
Speaker 2: is renewable energy because I know you spend a lot
28:53
Speaker 2: of time on it. I spend a lot of time
28:55
Speaker 2: in it. I want people to understand this massive money
28:58
Speaker 2: merry go round reports today and I've gone through this
29:01
Speaker 2: at the top of the show. Victorian householders they are
29:05
Speaker 2: paying an extra two one hundred million dollars to subsidize
29:09
Speaker 2: a whole lot of foreign owned wind wind farms. So
29:13
Speaker 2: the money is going to China, it's going to France,
29:15
Speaker 2: going back to Spain. Now most people don't know they're
29:18
Speaker 2: paying these extra costs because it's hidden in their power bills.
29:23
Speaker 2: This is on top of all the taxpayer funded subs
29:25
Speaker 2: that is ross. This is coming out of the pocket
29:27
Speaker 2: of householders. Is this happening in any other states that
29:31
Speaker 2: we know of.
29:33
Speaker 9: I presume it's happening all over Australia, mainly because the
29:35
Speaker 9: Klean Energy Corporation to be handing out the money from
29:38
Speaker 9: the federal government, so of course it will be happening.
29:40
Speaker 9: But it's happening with enormous pace in Victoria in particular,
29:45
Speaker 9: although it's not happening at a pace fast enough to
29:47
Speaker 9: overcome the potential closure of the coal fire power stations
29:51
Speaker 9: and the lack of gas that's been actually put into
29:54
Speaker 9: the Victorian energy grid, which is contributing not only to
29:57
Speaker 9: higher prices in Victoria, but also what is quite clearly
30:01
Speaker 9: a very depressed economy. And the reason you can see
30:03
Speaker 9: that is retail spending around Australia pretty robust in say
30:07
Speaker 9: Western Australia, robust in Queensland, but in Victoria amongst the
30:12
Speaker 9: lowest apart from Tasmania in the country right now. And
30:16
Speaker 9: that says everything about increased taxes in that state, but
30:19
Speaker 9: also the increased energy prices that are coming into the future,
30:23
Speaker 9: and that really falls at the feet of government, there
30:25
Speaker 9: is no doubt about that.
30:26
Speaker 6: And so the issue is here.
30:27
Speaker 9: Yes, Australia does need more renewables into our grid as
30:31
Speaker 9: quickly as we possibly can, but we need every other
30:34
Speaker 9: form of energy that we can get there as well
30:36
Speaker 9: to avoid outages, but most importantly to avoid businesses deciding
30:40
Speaker 9: it is too hard to do business here in Australia
30:43
Speaker 9: and upping and taking their capital and their jobs and
30:46
Speaker 9: moving somewhere overseas. I think that is a fundamental issue
30:49
Speaker 9: that again government has got to address, and government's got
30:52
Speaker 9: to solve these policies by creating not just more incentives,
30:55
Speaker 9: but by actually making certain there is enough electricity in
30:59
Speaker 9: the grid forms but also for business as well.
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Speaker 2: Hey Ross and now it's been a busy day for
31:04
Speaker 2: you and I get your own show, but I appreciate
31:06
Speaker 2: you dropping into my show tonight.
31:07
Speaker 7: Thank you all.
31:09
Speaker 2: Right, after break, the full story on the criminal rap
31:11
Speaker 2: sheet for so many of Labour's freed foreign detainees. I'll
31:15
Speaker 2: get to that. Plus already Muslim leaders in Sydney are
31:18
Speaker 2: applying pressure our new Minister Tony Burke to bring in
31:22
Speaker 2: more people from Gaza. More on that coming up. Welcome Back.
31:31
Speaker 2: Still become serious probity. Concerns for Labor over the allocation
31:35
Speaker 2: of nearly one billion taxpayer dollars to a US company
31:39
Speaker 2: PI Quantum. That was about computer a quantum computer programming,
31:43
Speaker 2: if you remember that. Well, concerned about the deal done
31:47
Speaker 2: for that money to pass over plast giant coal fire
31:50
Speaker 2: power stations. Well they're operating at a five year high
31:53
Speaker 2: in New South Wales, showing just how much you rely
31:56
Speaker 2: on coal for baseload. But first let's return to those
32:00
Speaker 2: revelations today that a quarter of all foreign criminal detainees
32:04
Speaker 2: released last year by the Alberneezy government have been charged
32:07
Speaker 2: with committing new crimes for less than a year out
32:11
Speaker 2: in the community. And despite the Parliament to giving the
32:15
Speaker 2: Prime Minister urgent laws just before Christmas to redetain these individuals,
32:21
Speaker 2: laws the government has not yet used once joined me
32:26
Speaker 2: now to discuss this and more. Shadow Minister National's Leader
32:29
Speaker 2: in the Senate, Richard Mackenzie Well Senator, welcome to the program.
32:33
Speaker 2: I think these stats are horrifying and they prove that
32:38
Speaker 2: many of these released detainees pose a real risk of
32:40
Speaker 2: the community. So what's happened to the government's promises of monitoring.
32:45
Speaker 2: I mean, I point out they haven't even applied for
32:47
Speaker 2: one of those preventive detention orders that you gave them
32:52
Speaker 2: rgently just before Christmas.
32:57
Speaker 10: You're dead right, Petere, Like this government makes the big promises, puts.
33:03
Speaker 7: Out the press release.
33:04
Speaker 10: Assures the community that they've got it under control, banking
33:09
Speaker 10: on the fact that Australians will forget because the reality is,
33:12
Speaker 10: as you've outlined, a quarter of these detainees that have
33:16
Speaker 10: been released under the incompetence of Minister Giles have reoffended.
33:22
Speaker 10: We don't know what the latest stats are because those
33:24
Speaker 10: stats are.
33:24
Speaker 7: As of May.
33:26
Speaker 10: So that can only see to climb and instead of
33:29
Speaker 10: actually acting, they've sat on their hands and not used
33:32
Speaker 10: that preventive detention to regime that's.
33:35
Speaker 7: In place to lock up those.
33:38
Speaker 10: Detainees that do pose a serious risk to our community.
33:42
Speaker 10: Now you will have heard Minister Burke talk a big
33:45
Speaker 10: game on the security and safety of Australians being his
33:48
Speaker 10: number one, two and three priority. Well, time for talking
33:52
Speaker 10: tough is over. It is time for this government to act.
33:55
Speaker 10: We did the right thing, gave them the legislative framework
33:58
Speaker 10: for them to use. They've got to step up and
34:01
Speaker 10: use it and protect the community.
34:03
Speaker 2: You're a Victorian senator and in the Victorian Supreme Court
34:06
Speaker 2: yesterday one are these men who already has two hundred
34:11
Speaker 2: and eight charges on his rap sheet, someone who's breached
34:14
Speaker 2: bail conditions already twenty two times. Well he was let
34:19
Speaker 2: out again on lail. Now house is good enough given
34:22
Speaker 2: his convictions are for violent assault.
34:27
Speaker 7: Absolutely, Peter, this is violent assault.
34:30
Speaker 10: We've got murderers, we've got child sex offenders in this group,
34:35
Speaker 10: this cohort of detainees. And you wonder why, next to
34:39
Speaker 10: cost of living, crime is one of the greatest concerns
34:43
Speaker 10: for Australians, not just here in Victoria but across the country,
34:47
Speaker 10: and it's because they aren't seeing their government actually put
34:51
Speaker 10: in place measures to keep them safe. When put under questions,
34:55
Speaker 10: the Labor Government can't give us the assurance that the
34:58
Speaker 10: ankle bracelet raising is even in place, that they can
35:02
Speaker 10: tell us where these detainees are at any given time,
35:05
Speaker 10: and the breaches to bail conditions are occurring all too often.
35:10
Speaker 10: So the first test for Minister Burke is to stop
35:15
Speaker 10: talking tough and actually get tough on detainees and give
35:20
Speaker 10: the community the assurance. He was best on ground for
35:23
Speaker 10: the cfm AU when he was the Industrial Relations Minister. Well,
35:27
Speaker 10: now it's time to protect real Australians.
35:30
Speaker 2: Do you think you'll stand up to special interest with
35:33
Speaker 2: the Bosom community called today for more visas for people
35:37
Speaker 2: out of Gaza, given the ethnic makeup of his seat
35:41
Speaker 2: in Western Sydney.
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Speaker 10: Well, Peter, you're a very experienced political observer and you
35:49
Speaker 10: know all politics is like cool. I think this is
35:52
Speaker 10: a big test and maybe why Prime Minister Alberanzi gave
35:56
Speaker 10: it to Minister Burke to put him under a bit
35:58
Speaker 10: of pressure. Is he going to choose self interest and
36:01
Speaker 10: his own political interests. When you look at the Muslim
36:06
Speaker 10: Vote Matters movement, you also look at the pressures from
36:09
Speaker 10: his own community leaders in a seat that has a
36:14
Speaker 10: large Islamic.
36:15
Speaker 7: Community, who are calling for this. Now.
36:18
Speaker 10: The reality is when we're applying for visas, there needs
36:22
Speaker 10: to be a strict security protocol. We don't have an
36:25
Speaker 10: embassy in Gaza. This is a war zone and we
36:29
Speaker 10: need to make sure that we're not importing terror sympathizers
36:34
Speaker 10: in the name of good old Australian compassion because at
36:38
Speaker 10: the end of the day, Australia, and this is something
36:40
Speaker 10: to remember, we are one of the most compassionate nations
36:44
Speaker 10: in the world when it comes to giving a home
36:47
Speaker 10: to those who need it most through our refugee program.
36:51
Speaker 10: But we need to make sure that the safety of
36:53
Speaker 10: Australians is first and is above Minister Burke's political interests
36:58
Speaker 10: in his seat.
37:00
Speaker 2: Well, let's go to your shadow portfolio of transport and
37:03
Speaker 2: the collapse of course of the Regional Airline REX flights
37:06
Speaker 2: have been grounded. We know administrators have been called in
37:09
Speaker 2: the unions saying tonight at least six hundred jobs are
37:12
Speaker 2: at risk. One of the reasons cited for the collapse
37:15
Speaker 2: of REX is its failure to secure additional landing slots
37:20
Speaker 2: at Sydney Airport. Now there is allegations today that recommendations
37:24
Speaker 2: to increase the slots for REX have been sitting in
37:28
Speaker 2: the Minister's entray for months. Help us understand what's the
37:32
Speaker 2: issue here, Bridget.
37:35
Speaker 10: Yeah, Peter, It's hard to have a sustainable airline in
37:38
Speaker 10: this country, in the capital city market, which is the
37:41
Speaker 10: lucrative market, if you don't have slot access into Sydney
37:46
Speaker 10: Airport and that is restricted and regulated, and Quanus rules
37:51
Speaker 10: the roost and has been able to control for a
37:53
Speaker 10: long period of time who gets them and when. Now
37:59
Speaker 10: REX sought to go head to head and compete against
38:02
Speaker 10: Connus in that lucrative market when Virgin was grounded post
38:07
Speaker 10: COVID and Conus has done everything it can to stop
38:11
Speaker 10: REX being a vible option. And one of those areas
38:15
Speaker 10: was that access onto into Sydney Airport at the times
38:20
Speaker 10: that Australians want to fly.
38:21
Speaker 7: We knew this was an issuing government.
38:23
Speaker 10: We commissioned a review by the former Productivity Commission Commissioner.
38:28
Speaker 7: Peter Harris.
38:29
Speaker 10: That review has been sitting on Catherine King's desk She's
38:32
Speaker 10: put out a press release about you know a few
38:35
Speaker 10: months ago, following the Quanis inquiry last year that recommended
38:39
Speaker 10: she look at this, but has not done anything and
38:43
Speaker 10: so under sustained pressure from quanas monstering their regional routes,
38:48
Speaker 10: blocking access to Sydney, raiding their pilots and aviation engineers.
38:55
Speaker 7: Amongst other things.
38:56
Speaker 10: You know, Rex has obviously felt the pressure and then
38:58
Speaker 10: sadly is now in administration. This is the second airline
39:02
Speaker 10: to be in administration under the Albanezi governments in four
39:06
Speaker 10: months and a thousand Australians looking like losing their jobs
39:11
Speaker 10: as a result of their inability to act not just
39:15
Speaker 10: the slots, but making our aviation industry more competitive, particularly
39:19
Speaker 10: with airlines.
39:20
Speaker 7: That want to front up to corners.
39:23
Speaker 2: Well, I hope, particularly for regional Australians, we can get
39:26
Speaker 2: a way through this and come out the other side
39:28
Speaker 2: with at least the regional roots intact. Bridge mc kenzie,
39:31
Speaker 2: thank you for your time. All right after break coal
39:34
Speaker 2: fire power generation at New South Wales a Arring power station,
39:38
Speaker 2: it's up to a five year high. I wonder if
39:41
Speaker 2: anyone's been brave enough to tell Chris Bowen that news
39:44
Speaker 2: we'll get into that with my panel Fliss Sexual Consent
39:46
Speaker 2: Lessons for eleven year olds coming soon the New South
39:50
Speaker 2: Wales and other states. Welcome back live at the desk
39:58
Speaker 2: this Wednesday. My good friend Cal Richards coming up at first.
40:00
Speaker 2: Let's bring in the panel joining me from South Australia
40:03
Speaker 2: Liberal Senator Alexandtik and senior fellow of the Mensis Research
40:06
Speaker 2: Center columnist with The Australia Nkata Well Jens will start
40:10
Speaker 2: with Industry Minister Ed Hughesick under fire today over the
40:14
Speaker 2: government's nearly one billion dollar investment in the tech company
40:17
Speaker 2: si Quantum. This is a US company, after a freedom
40:20
Speaker 2: of information requests revealed the company was given an eight
40:23
Speaker 2: month head start. A briefing note shows that the Minister
40:26
Speaker 2: agreed to conduct further analysis on an unsolicited proposal from
40:31
Speaker 2: the company back in December twenty twenty two. However, the
40:35
Speaker 2: whole confidential expression of interest process didn't take place until
40:40
Speaker 2: August and September last year. The Coalition Today's referred the
40:44
Speaker 2: whole thing to the National Audit Office, with the Opposition
40:49
Speaker 2: Science spokesman Paul Fletcher saying there's really serious concerns here
40:52
Speaker 2: about whether the investment is an appropriate use of public money.
40:57
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what probity concerns written all over this
41:00
Speaker 2: to me, Alexandik.
41:03
Speaker 11: Well, Peter, Look, I think this isn't interesting how a
41:07
Speaker 11: couple of years down the track, having had labor banging
41:10
Speaker 11: the drum for the better part of the last decade
41:12
Speaker 11: about transparency and secrecy and due process and all the
41:16
Speaker 11: other words that get bandied around, we come up with this.
41:19
Speaker 11: And I think the Minister's response initially to simply reflect
41:23
Speaker 11: back upon things that may or may not have happened
41:25
Speaker 11: five years earlier, was just totally insufficient. Look, I think
41:29
Speaker 11: that's an entirely appropriate step to have this matter referred off.
41:32
Speaker 11: There are questions that need to be answered, and the
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Speaker 11: A and AO will look into those matters. And I
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Speaker 11: think we are at the very least owed an explanation
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Speaker 11: as to why we found out about this later on
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Speaker 11: and what the circumstances behind the decision making process are.
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Speaker 11: That it's absolute minimum need to be discussed the Minister.
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Speaker 11: It's as simple as that.
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Speaker 2: Nick Cato' trd not to come to the conclusion the
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Speaker 2: wheels are falling off the government's renewables agenda. You've got time.
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Speaker 2: You're pleversic under pressure over a Tasmanian wind farm that
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Speaker 2: she's given the development go ahead to despite fears it
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Speaker 2: will kill up to eighty one endangered eagles. It's also
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Speaker 2: been revealed that almost two hundred million dollars in subsidies
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Speaker 2: are going to the operators of foreign owned wind farms
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Speaker 2: in Victoria, while Queensland's major punk Tigro project, well that's
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Speaker 2: now going to cost Queenslanders something like twenty four billion dollars.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, Peter, and that figure doesn't come as a prize
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Speaker 12: to me. That's been in budget papers for the Queensland government.
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Speaker 12: It's just that nobody except for people like you and
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Speaker 12: the Australian ever seem to pick up that there is
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Speaker 12: a really, really bad side to renewable energy and the
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Speaker 12: land question is one of the big ones. It takes
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Speaker 12: up so much land because it's an energy diver it's
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Speaker 12: a divert. It's a dilute energy source that even in
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Speaker 12: ost we are running out of suitable lands given that
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Speaker 12: it has to be close to transmission lines and in
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Speaker 12: the case of wind needs wind and so forth. And
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Speaker 12: the pressure now in the conflict between some kind of
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Speaker 12: idea we're saving the planet and actually looking after our
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Speaker 12: native species, our native wildlife, and indeed our farmers and
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Speaker 12: our bread bowl. You know it's going to come to
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Speaker 12: a point where this just gets unsustainable. We're there already.
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Speaker 12: A Tonia Plivsk, by the way, is responsible for signing
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Speaker 12: off on projects that have killed hundreds of hectares of
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Speaker 12: Kohala habitat in Queensland. And you know how they can
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Speaker 12: be in favor of the supporting this endangered specie and
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Speaker 12: make those decisions just beats me.
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Speaker 2: Now, listen to this for an inconvenient truth. Origin energies
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Speaker 2: revealed a coal production a coal power generation at the
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Speaker 2: New South Wales Eriring Power Station has reached a five
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Speaker 2: year high. It comes as government policies intended to help
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Speaker 2: life power bills have incentivized the station to increase production,
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Speaker 2: which of course is contributed to bringing down the cost
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Speaker 2: of wholesale power. I said, it's an inconvenient truth, But
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Speaker 2: that's what it is, isn't an alyx?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, look, it absolutely is. It beilds the cat on
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Speaker 11: the problem, and that is that coal gas the cheapest
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Speaker 11: forms of power and nuclear can be that too, of course,
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Speaker 11: I mean it is an entirely inconvenient feature of this
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Speaker 11: myth about renewable energy being the cheapest power. By the way,
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Speaker 11: I keep saying we shouldn't be using the term renewable.
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Speaker 11: This is intermittent power, and as Peter Dutton says, it
44:37
Speaker 11: is impossible for a full time economy to be powered
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Speaker 11: by part time energy. This really beilds the cat on
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Speaker 11: the issue. If we're serious about all the things we
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Speaker 11: need to be serious about manufacturing, getting prices down, all
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Speaker 11: the things we heard cost of living crisis, the answer
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Speaker 11: relies upon cheap power. We must have the cheapest power
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Speaker 11: in the WORL world.
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Speaker 2: We should.
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Speaker 11: We've got all the resources, we've got all of the
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Speaker 11: technical know how, and anything we don't have we can
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Speaker 11: bring in. It is absolutely absolutely critical that people heed
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Speaker 11: this lesson. And of course we've got gas shortages. By
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Speaker 11: the way, electricity up twenty one percent since Labor took
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Speaker 11: power in twenty two percent on gas prices.
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Speaker 2: It's a disaster.
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Speaker 11: Where's our two hundred and seventy five dollars power reductions
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Speaker 11: that we were promised.
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Speaker 2: I'll stay with you on this one because it pertains
45:26
Speaker 2: to South Australia, also includes New South Wales, there's going
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Speaker 2: to be a summit on limiting access for young people
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Speaker 2: to social media questions about how effectively you can do that.
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Speaker 2: I want to get your take on that. But also
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Speaker 2: this move in New South Wales that they're going to
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Speaker 2: start teaching kids as young as eleven about seeking and
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Speaker 2: giving consent before sex. What do you make of this?
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Speaker 11: Look? I mean, I think this is the trojan horse.
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Speaker 11: This consent and sexual education training is actually in many
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Speaker 11: cases the trojan house for d radical gender theory and
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Speaker 11: kids need to be kids. Ultimately, I think we're all
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Speaker 11: a bit sick of kids learning adult concepts at a
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Speaker 11: young age. Frankly, I mean, I just don't see the
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Speaker 11: benefit for I was talking to a mum today from
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Speaker 11: regional South Australia who has taken the ball by the
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Speaker 11: horns herself, almost literally herself with her and her family
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Speaker 11: to spread the word to parents across the state about
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Speaker 11: how they tackle this issue when it comes up at schools.
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Speaker 11: It's a massive, massive issue for many parents, and I
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Speaker 11: think many of them don't raise it amongst their groups,
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Speaker 11: their peer groups and with the schools for fear of
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Speaker 11: being called names. So virulent is this push to teach
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Speaker 11: kids these things. I mean, I would say in terms
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Speaker 11: of the social media side of it, that is one
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Speaker 11: aspect of it. And it's all well and good for
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Speaker 11: the premier here, Premier Peter malnawskus to take the view
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Speaker 11: that social media is the root of all evil. But
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Speaker 11: the Premier has the power to tackle the education system
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Speaker 11: in this state, as does Chris Min's in New South Wales.
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Speaker 11: If they are absolutely fair and income about this, that's
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Speaker 11: where you start, because that's where the problems are arising.
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Speaker 2: It looks beautiful there and Budapest and nice and sunny there. Nick.
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Speaker 2: We'll catch up with you again next week, Thank you,
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Speaker 2: sir ar Antic. Right after break, Kel Richards live on
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Speaker 2: the desk. Some terrific words this week. You won't want
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Speaker 2: to miss the welcome back. We might have a bit
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Speaker 2: of controversy here tonight. We're talking in the break. Let's
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Speaker 2: see where it goes. It's Wednesday and I'm here at
47:22
Speaker 2: desk of course with Kel Richards. The word for the
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Speaker 2: river in Paris, I say the seen and it drives
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Speaker 2: me nuts watching everyone at the Olympics and I'm throwing
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Speaker 2: things at the TV. But your Pep's going to tell
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Speaker 2: me that I'm wrong.
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Speaker 13: Yes, sorry, really, I very rarely disagree. That word spelled
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Speaker 13: sei and e has been part of English as well
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Speaker 13: as French well over a thousand years ago. It comes
47:47
Speaker 13: from a Latin background, so probably the Romans left to
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Speaker 13: behind both in Britain and in Gaul, and it means something.
47:53
Speaker 13: It means a fishing there. So clearly the Frankish tribes
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Speaker 13: on the banks of the river fished in it, so
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Speaker 13: they called it the same. And in English it has
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Speaker 13: for a thousand years been pronounced sane. The Oxford Sesso
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Speaker 13: of the Cambridge every dictionary I consulted said the pronunciation
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Speaker 13: is sane. Now my guess is, and you spend longer
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Speaker 13: in Paris than I have. My guess is sin is
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Speaker 13: the Parisian accent. That's the best guess I've got, because
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Speaker 13: sayin is recorded in all the dictionaries as the standard
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Speaker 13: acceptable English pronunciation.
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Speaker 2: Ida Blue with Tony Abbat about this the other night,
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Speaker 2: because he says it like you do, and I say
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Speaker 2: that sin and he says, well, if you're right, you'd
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Speaker 2: be saying Paris is Pari.
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Speaker 13: And I think that's right, that's right. If these commentators
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Speaker 13: were saying welcome to the Pari Olympics. They'd have a case.
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Speaker 13: But to just localize one word and not the rest
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Speaker 13: is it's nonsense. Say sane. It is sane. Say sane,
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Speaker 13: really easy. We've been saying it for years.
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Speaker 2: All right, Let's go to one of our viewers, Warren,
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Speaker 2: who writes in he says, there's a newspaper headline that
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Speaker 2: says victims plea over axed rape charges. Now he's concerned that,
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Speaker 2: in view of the legal principle about presumptive in a sense,
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Speaker 2: doesn't calling someone a victim prejudge guilt.
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Speaker 13: It does because the meaning of the word victim is
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Speaker 13: a person who's been intentionally harmed. That's the meaning of
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Speaker 13: the word, and intention is bar the definition. And that's
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Speaker 13: what a court does. It decides a whether someone's been
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Speaker 13: intentionally aren't harmed, and b if they have been, who
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Speaker 13: did it on the basis of tested evidence and testimony.
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Speaker 13: So unless you have the tested evidence and testimony, you
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Speaker 13: can't say someone has intentionally been harmed. So he's right,
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Speaker 13: victim is wrong.
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Speaker 2: Janet wants to know, and I use this one all
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Speaker 2: the time, a phrase robbing Peter to pay Paul. Where
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Speaker 2: does that one come.
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Speaker 13: From there's a great story behind this, and it's almost
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Speaker 13: certainly wrong. There's a story that in London money was
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Speaker 13: taken from the abbey church of Saint Peter's at Westminster
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Speaker 13: to pay for repairs to the building of the old
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Speaker 13: Saint Paul's Cathedral, the original Saint Paul's Cathedral, and from
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Speaker 13: that they say came the expression robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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Speaker 13: But there's a time problem. That didn't happen t fifteen fifteen.
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Speaker 13: The proverb was around in the fourteen hundreds, so it's
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Speaker 13: almost certainly just a proverbial expression of paying one debt
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Speaker 13: while you're building up another debt. But I do think
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Speaker 13: the names are probably chosen from the apostles, so back
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Speaker 13: in the fourteen hundreds.
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Speaker 2: Oswords dot net, dot au, dot com dot au. That's
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Speaker 2: where everyone needs to head to give us some more
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Speaker 2: words for next week. That's it for me, back to
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Speaker 2: Melbourne tomorrow. Night up next and your bolt