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Credlin | 17 March · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peter Krandland live on Sky News Australia.
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Speaker 2: I just have to say, how good does Stephen sends
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Speaker 2: to MPO Look at the moments? Fantastic? Is Healthcack's really working?
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Welcome to the program. Here's what's coming out
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Speaker 2: tonight on credline winter crops now at risk? Is the
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Speaker 2: fuel crisis shows no signs of abating? When no Labors
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Speaker 2: happy to ignore the regions, Well let's let them see
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Speaker 2: them ignore the country where the cost starts to show
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Speaker 2: up the supermarket in their urban seats. A new load
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Speaker 2: today from Grace Tame claiming that the rape and sexual
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Speaker 2: violence carried out against Israeli women on October seven it's
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Speaker 2: nothing more than propaganda. Well, I'll speak to someone later
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Speaker 2: in the show who's seen the footage that harm Us
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Speaker 2: was all too happy to film. For her reaction to
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Speaker 2: that appalling claim, class despired Labour's best attempts to appear votes.
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Speaker 2: Voters are not buying their spin when it comes to
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Speaker 2: the cost of living crisis. A new poll showing the
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Speaker 2: federal government's bearing the brunt of the blame, even though
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Speaker 2: Labor wanted to hope that Donald Trump would bear the
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Speaker 2: blame and speaking of cost of living pain, another rate
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Speaker 2: rise today, the RBA governor cutting through the Treasurer's line
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Speaker 2: that this is outside our control.
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Speaker 3: But even abstracting from the global environment, domestic inflation remains
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Speaker 3: too high, and high inflation hurts all Australians.
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Speaker 2: We'll stay with that issue because the complications of the
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Speaker 2: Yurran war today got a whole lot worse. Not only
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Speaker 2: is there immediate pain at the pump, but the government
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Speaker 2: today refused to rule out fuel rationing.
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Speaker 4: So quite stark, isn't it that you can't give a
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Speaker 4: guarantee that we won't run out of fuel?
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I'm just not going to speculate on
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Speaker 5: going on the future because I don't know how long
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Speaker 5: this conflict will go in the Middle East. But we
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Speaker 5: will be working through this in a very prudent way.
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Speaker 2: Goodness me, I'm old enough to remember the odds and
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Speaker 2: evens on our license plates that we really back there again.
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Speaker 2: Rising prices because of the Iran war, of course, will
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Speaker 2: be compounded by higher interest rates, with the Reserve Bank
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Speaker 2: as expected today hiking rates by a further twenty five
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Speaker 2: basis points.
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Speaker 3: Inflation was already too high, reflecting the fact that demand
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Speaker 3: is outstripping supply. Higher fuel costs will not slow demand
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Speaker 3: enough on their own to address this. If we do
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Speaker 3: not act, these price pressures will spread and the eventual
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Speaker 3: adjustment would be harder.
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Speaker 2: So four point one percent, that's the new cash rate.
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Speaker 2: And here's the relentless rise under this Prime Minister, have
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Speaker 2: all the labours talk about understanding the cost of living
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Speaker 2: pain that Australians are living under. This just today will
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Speaker 2: add about another one hundred dollars a month extra to
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Speaker 2: average mortgage repayments, on top of the one hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: a month hitt in recent weeks. With that sixty percent
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Speaker 2: the perleitd a jump in our fuels, but as unwelcome
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Speaker 2: as fuel price hikes are to all of us. For
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Speaker 2: the moment, we can still get supply, but not so
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Speaker 2: if you live in a regional area and they are
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Speaker 2: facing imminent shutdowns not just for individual consumers but also
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Speaker 2: of major businesses like the mines saying that they have
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Speaker 2: just five days of diesel left and they can't get anymore.
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Speaker 6: You heard the stories of you know, avocado is not
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Speaker 6: getting harvested and things like that. We've seen towns like
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Speaker 6: robin Vale where to burn body doing run out of fuel.
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Speaker 6: It is a real it's a real crisis at the
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Speaker 6: moment in terms of we need to we need to
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Speaker 6: ensure on our farms, which our farms don't run on calendars,
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Speaker 6: They run on when the weather tells them the right
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Speaker 6: time to act is. We need to make sure that
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Speaker 6: they have the resources there at those times are being
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Speaker 6: told to act.
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Speaker 2: Now. Three big failures by the Albanezi government have made
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Speaker 2: our fuel predicament even worse. There's the failure of all
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Speaker 2: governments for over a decade now to have ninety days
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Speaker 2: of supply of liquid fuels on shore that's required under
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Speaker 2: international rules. There's the Albanesi government's mania for the so
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Speaker 2: called energy transition. It's unique disdain for fossil fuels that
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Speaker 2: means that domestic oil and gas exploration and extraction has
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Speaker 2: been vastly curtailed over the past few years, even though
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Speaker 2: fossil fuels are still ninety percent of our total energy needs. Finally,
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Speaker 2: there's the government's extreme reluctance to do anything to upset
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Speaker 2: Islamist voters in Western Sydney and Melbourne through backing of
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Speaker 2: the US Israeli campaign to destroy the Iranian war machine
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Speaker 2: and hopefully remove this evil regime. Now, no one should
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Speaker 2: underestimate the long term impacts of this strategic caution. Come Cowdice, typically,
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Speaker 2: the government sent out the Infrastructure Minister to say that
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Speaker 2: we would not be sending a ship to the Strait
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Speaker 2: of Hormuz to help secure it. Tis twenty percent of the
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Speaker 2: world's liquid fuel supply.
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Speaker 7: But we won't be sending a ship out of the
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Speaker 7: strati humors were. I know how incredibly important that is,
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Speaker 7: but that's not something that we've been asked we're contributing to.
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Speaker 2: Now presumably they've wheeled her out because both the Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister and the Defense Minister were too embarrassed to confess
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Speaker 2: that we lack the political ticker or the naval strength
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Speaker 2: to help secure the energy that we and the world needs.
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Speaker 2: So far, it's been Britain's PM kir Starmer, who's copp
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's scorn for being a helpless bystander in this fight.
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Speaker 2: In fact, Britain's done far more than we have in Australia,
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Speaker 2: sending at least one warship plus fighter planes to the region.
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Speaker 2: That still hasn't stopped the President observing that Starmer's no
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Speaker 2: Winston Churchill. If Trump bothered even to notice our Prime
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Speaker 2: minister at all, he'd have to say that as bad
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Speaker 2: as Starmer is well, alban Easy is a whole lot
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Speaker 2: worse now. As it happened, Australia wasn't even on the
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Speaker 2: list of countries that he was publicly asking to help
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Speaker 2: keep open this vital sea lane. And that's a sign
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Speaker 2: of how strategically insignificant we've now become. It's a sign
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Speaker 2: of how we con timid we've become that the government
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Speaker 2: preemptively announced that we wouldn't be sending a ship to
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Speaker 2: rule it out, just in case we were asked, and
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Speaker 2: we haven't been. With Starmar and Canada's PM Mark Karney
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Speaker 2: both on the Trump blacklist and Albanese now ignored. This
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Speaker 2: looks like the practical land of the storied Five Eyes partnership,
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Speaker 2: the intimate intelligence sharing between all of the anglosphere countries
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Speaker 2: that's done so much to shape the world because it
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Speaker 2: was based on shared interest, common values, and of course,
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Speaker 2: of willingness, a joint willingness to stand up for freedom
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Speaker 2: with military force if necessary. Why would the Americans routinely
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Speaker 2: share their deepest secrets with countries like us, who won't
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Speaker 2: lift a finger anymore to help, even when the cause
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Speaker 2: is so obviously right, and no cause could be clearer
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Speaker 2: than keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of the
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Speaker 2: Islamist freak show that controls and brutalizes Iran. Speaking of
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Speaker 2: green left labor governments is more evidence today the Allen
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Speaker 2: government's complicity, or at least knowledge of the cfver use
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Speaker 2: extortion racket. Today's Australian Financial Review says it Premier just
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Speaker 2: Into Allen, when she was the Infrastructure Minister under Daniel Andrews,
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Speaker 2: was repeatedly warned in massive problems, including cost overruns, in
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Speaker 2: Victoria's being built thanks to a rotten culture that had
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Speaker 2: been quote ignored for too long, says the paper. Kevin Devlin,
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Speaker 2: the Director General of Victorian Infrastructure Delivery Authority until last December,
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Speaker 2: quote repeatedly raised concerns with Allan union misconduct on big
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Speaker 2: built sites and pleaded for significant reform, but felt his
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Speaker 2: concerns were not adequately heated. According to four sourcers who
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Speaker 2: spoke to Devlen about his handling of the scandal, The
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Speaker 2: Premiere will She's insisting that the verse she knew of
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Speaker 2: any problem was the airing of the Building Bad investigative
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Speaker 2: series in July twenty twenty four as well, says the
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Speaker 2: Finn Devlin was on the board of Rhodes Australia, which
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Speaker 2: last year produced an internal document that said under the
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Speaker 2: current regulatory settings, safety is not only not being prioritized,
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Speaker 2: it has been weaponized to cause unnecessary delays. WORB sites
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Speaker 2: have been consistently slow due to spurious reasons, and criminal
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Speaker 2: elements have been allowed access like never before. Taxpayers, the
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Speaker 2: Rose Australia documents says, are paying heavily for these delays
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Speaker 2: on some major projects. The cost escalation of these delays
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Speaker 2: in the poor working environment is up to thirty percent,
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Speaker 2: according to people speaking to the Financial Review. Devlin, who's
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Speaker 2: currently the Interim CEO of the Suburban Rail Loop Authority,
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Speaker 2: was clearly frustrated and seeking change. He felt very strongly.
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Speaker 2: The paper said that it had been ignored and had
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Speaker 2: been in an emotionally heightened state since the Watson report
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Speaker 2: was made public. Now we're talking here about the report
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Speaker 2: from the senior lawyer and corruption buster Jeffrey Watson, commissioned
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Speaker 2: as part of the union's administration process, that the administrator
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Speaker 2: then tried to suppress. The report is called rotting from
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Speaker 2: the top, and we only know about it because it
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Speaker 2: was released thanks to the Wood Royal Commission into the
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Speaker 2: Union the CFMU in Queensland. The culture of corruption and
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Speaker 2: coverer now rampant in Victoria, is yet more reason why
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Speaker 2: the government here must change come November. And it's why
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Speaker 2: so many labor apologists wanted to shut down Jess Wilson
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Speaker 2: and stop her talking about the fifteen billion dollars of
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Speaker 2: Rhades money funneled into the hands of organized crime and
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Speaker 2: this corrupt CFMU union. Now, fortunately for us, Jess Wilson
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Speaker 2: is digging in.
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Speaker 8: And what I'd say to any organization, the AFL, the
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Speaker 8: Labor Party, the CFMU, organized crime syndicates is that I
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Speaker 8: won't be silenced, I won't be intimidated. I will shine
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Speaker 8: a light on that fifteen billion dollars of taxpayer money
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Speaker 8: going to the pockets of criminals every single day.
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Speaker 2: There you go, see what happens come November. Let's go
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Speaker 2: to Camper now for the headlines. Joining us a Sky
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Speaker 2: News political reporter treating.
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Speaker 9: Macintosh more pain for borrow The Reserve Bank locks in
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Speaker 9: the second interest rate hike for the year. The cash
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Speaker 9: rate increased to four point one percent, but it was
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Speaker 9: a split decision. Five RBA members voted for an increase,
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Speaker 9: four voted to leave the cash rate on hold.
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Speaker 3: Reasonable people can differ, I think in the circumstances we're
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Speaker 3: in and where the risks line.
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Speaker 9: The oil price spike further fueling inflation fears.
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Speaker 10: We've got an inflation challenge in our economy already and
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Speaker 10: developments in the Middle East are making that worse.
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Speaker 4: He is in a complete state of denial of the
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Speaker 4: contribution that the federal government is having to increase interest rates.
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Speaker 9: Motorists urged to stop panic purchasing as the federal government
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Speaker 9: weighs up possible fuel rationing.
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Speaker 11: People go into buddings and buying out all the buddings
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Speaker 11: jerry cans.
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Speaker 12: That is unhelpful.
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Speaker 9: That is UnAustralian fuel suppliers and petrol retailers are also
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Speaker 9: on notice. The big players were hauled into a meeting
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Speaker 9: with the competition washdog. The a Triple ced marded an
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Speaker 9: explanation on the steep increases in prices after the war
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Speaker 9: broke out.
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Speaker 10: Suppliers and retailers must not treat motorists as mugs well.
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Speaker 2: The government's plan catchup. There's no doubt about that, and
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Speaker 2: they haven't caught up.
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Speaker 9: Trudy Macintosh, Sky News, Canberra, All.
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Speaker 2: Right, Jordyn now Skyys Political editor Andrew Clanell, Andrew, thank
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Speaker 2: you for your time and mentor stay obviously with this
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Speaker 2: rate rise and if ever to heat on the government.
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Speaker 2: There was a poll, an interesting one by Resolve overnight
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Speaker 2: that says voters are predominantly blaming the federal government now
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Speaker 2: for their cost of living pain. Forty percent says it's
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Speaker 2: the government's fault and the next highest number in the
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Speaker 2: poll is its global factors. Well, that's well behind in
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Speaker 2: seventeen percent. I watched your interview with the Treasurer on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: He was more than happy to blame the war in
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Speaker 2: Iran for rising costs of living. But at least at
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Speaker 2: this stage, punters aren't buying that.
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's I've got the majority there, haven't they.
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Speaker 4: But forty I mean, you'd think it could go even
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Speaker 4: higher except for the war situation. So Jim has kind
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Speaker 4: of got lucky a little bit as the world's gone
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Speaker 4: unlucky in the sense that he isn't lucky about what
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Speaker 4: he has to deal with. Incidentally, in the next few
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Speaker 4: months and years. But he's lucky and that he's got
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Speaker 4: something to blame. You know, that inflation was really sticky.
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Speaker 4: It looks like it needs a couple of rate highcs
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Speaker 4: even without the war. So Punters wouldn't be happy about that.
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Speaker 4: But now he can even point to the war. But
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Speaker 4: I mean, Michelle Bullock, the Reserve Bank governor, didn't give
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Speaker 4: him a lead pass at all today, did she. She said, Look,
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Speaker 4: this decision is made about the sticky inflation. It's before
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Speaker 4: the war, the petrol price, the all shock came into effect.
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Speaker 4: I'm pretty concerned about where the economy's at. I'm pretty
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Speaker 4: concerned about what the all shock's going to do. I'm
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Speaker 4: pretty concerned that if the war goes on too long,
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Speaker 4: we could be looking at the r word, especially because
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Speaker 4: the RBA will see the stick inflation. They wanted to
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Speaker 4: the rate hikes maybe one now, maybe one May, And
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Speaker 4: you're slamming the brakes on an economy which is already
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Speaker 4: hurting and businesses that are already hurting. So it's not
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Speaker 4: a great scenario. It's the most worried I've been economically
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Speaker 4: for years.
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Speaker 2: I think you've also got to throw in AI there
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Speaker 2: automation at the lower skilled end AI at the middle class,
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Speaker 2: middle employment middle I think you've got real issues there.
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Speaker 2: When you look at Atlasian the movement of their staff, Wistech,
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Speaker 2: those have gone. I heard there are three hundred jobs
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Speaker 2: a Crown in Melbourne about to go. I mean, these
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Speaker 2: are big movements in the employment market and I guess
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Speaker 2: the problem the government's gone. And if you're on the
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Speaker 2: coalition side, you'd say he's a gift yet again at
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Speaker 2: a time when you're trying to project a stability and confidence,
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Speaker 2: you know, just sit tight, We've got this under control.
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Speaker 2: The guy you got out there in the in the
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Speaker 2: eye of the storm on petrol and diesel is Chris Bowen,
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Speaker 2: and he's got no ability I think to project confidence
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Speaker 2: and I think the Prime Minister he is crazy. Given
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Speaker 2: his background has been in transport for most of his
15:13
Speaker 2: thirty years in Parliament. It's crazy that the Prime Minister's
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Speaker 2: not trying to settle this down. I think it's going
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Speaker 2: to get a whole lot worse. And we just played
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Speaker 2: a grab there of Chris Bowen telling people there are
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Speaker 2: an Australian for wanting to get some jerry cans and
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Speaker 2: fill up at the Bowser. Well the doing that, mate,
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Speaker 2: because they don't think you have got a handle on this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Chris Bowen, he's got away with words, doesn't he,
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Speaker 4: which doesn't help him ever have any prospect of being
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Speaker 4: leader at the Load Party. I guess he's the full guy,
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Speaker 4: isn't he? Albanezey would see him.
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Speaker 2: They might have to move him on. Yeah, all right,
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Speaker 2: let's go to the resolve pole because I think this
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Speaker 2: is interesting. There's a couple of poles I want to
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Speaker 2: get your view on because we're seeing there's still the
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Speaker 2: consistent boost for One Nation. Their primary is now well
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Speaker 2: ahead of the Coalition. It's on twenty four percent. It's
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Speaker 2: just five behind Labor. Labor I've dropped out at the
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Speaker 2: thirties now into twenty nine. It's telling Codsamaris referenced this
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Speaker 2: about a month and a half ago. He said, what's
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Speaker 2: interesting now and Labor don't want to acknowledge this, but
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Speaker 2: that one nation climb is starting to eat into the
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Speaker 2: Labor vote and this will be something I guess we're
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Speaker 2: going to all look up very closely in Pharah and
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Speaker 2: we'll look at it closely in South Australia bearing a
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Speaker 2: mind of course that Labour's not running in the Pharaoh
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Speaker 2: by election. But how much of the is there a
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Speaker 2: meringue effect if I can call it in the one
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Speaker 2: nation vote? How much of it is an intention to
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Speaker 2: the polster when they get into the ballot box, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't materialize. That's been the story of One Nation for
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Speaker 2: some time. Although I look at them in South Australia,
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Speaker 2: there's no coalition in South Australia, there's the Lives in
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Speaker 2: the that's very separate, very distinct parties, and I think
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Speaker 2: One Nation under Coreybernardi is a very different beast.
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Speaker 4: I think they'll win low House seats and they could
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Speaker 4: even become the official opposition. That's my prediction ahead of survey.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's be cool.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, I mean I asked Malanowskus on
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Speaker 4: Sunday Agenda a couple of weeks ago if they could
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Speaker 4: become the official opposition, and he didn't dismiss it, and
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Speaker 4: he'd be privy to more polling than me. And on
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Speaker 4: the weekend I also heard that the Libs are preferencing
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Speaker 4: One Nation more than the other way around. So yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, if you have the Liberals with
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Speaker 4: five seats and one nation with six seats or something,
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Speaker 4: or you know, the Liberals with three seats and one
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Speaker 4: nation with four seats. Who knows, that's that's the story
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Speaker 4: we're looking for, aren't we Saturday night? I mean, everyone
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Speaker 4: knows melanowsis Melanowskus is going to skate in, So we
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Speaker 4: just assumed that. So it really is, you know, is
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Speaker 4: the Liberal Party in real danger of having a future
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Speaker 4: in this country? Which you can't believe you're saying, but
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Speaker 4: I am. And you know, if it is a result
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Speaker 4: which shows one nation doing better than the Libs, really
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Speaker 4: that's the ambition for the Libs to do better than
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Speaker 4: one nation, right, But if one nation do better than
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Speaker 4: the lives, then some really drastic federal things will happen,
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Speaker 4: I think, because Angus Taylor and co. Will realize they've
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Speaker 4: got to get moving and they've got to you know,
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Speaker 4: they've got to throw caution of the wind a bit,
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Speaker 4: or they they're going to kill the Liberal Party.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think at a state level the Liberal Party
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Speaker 2: has killed itself. I think the problem for the Liberal
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Speaker 2: Party go back to Zach kirkup in Wa and they've
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Speaker 2: ended up a rump over there. You've got the same
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Speaker 2: issues with moderates and then a whole lot of people
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Speaker 2: who got themselves in and out of jail. Basically in
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Speaker 2: South Australia the party imploded after one term Dito. In
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Speaker 2: Victoria they got their one term after many many years
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Speaker 2: in the wilderness, and they knife the leader in that
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Speaker 2: first term and got themselves thrown out very promptly and
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Speaker 2: even lost to Daniel Andrews after the world longest lockdown.
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Speaker 2: They've got another first term MP leading the party in
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Speaker 2: New South Wales and Chris mind in the ascendancy. Not
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Speaker 2: as much as melanowskis, but certainly there. It's a bugger's
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Speaker 2: uddele in Tasmania. The only one that's working I think effectively,
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Speaker 2: and I think it's because it's predominantly a National Party
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Speaker 2: conservative government as opposed to one controlled by the Moderates
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Speaker 2: is Queensland. I mean, that's the story of woe, and
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Speaker 2: I think it's all been masked for so many years, Andrew,
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Speaker 2: because there's been a competent coalition of sorts coming out
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Speaker 2: of Canberra and that's been a basket case over the
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Speaker 2: last nine months. So I agree with you. If Labor
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Speaker 2: makes ground in South Australia, which they will, I'll do
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Speaker 2: better than they did before. And if the Liberals go
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Speaker 2: backwards and if one nation picks up the old Liberal
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Speaker 2: ground in South Australia, well I think it's a real
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Speaker 2: come to Jesus moment for the party.
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Speaker 6: Well you have that.
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Speaker 4: I think a loss in Farah so in the space
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Speaker 4: of a couple of months you'll have these problems.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not optimistic at all for the Liberal Party
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Speaker 2: in Phara. I'm fairly pessimistic. I mean those branches were
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Speaker 2: running to the ground by Susan Lee as she had
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Speaker 2: to have her own pre selection saved by the Moderate
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Speaker 2: warlords out of Sydney last time. She had no local
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Speaker 2: support and I think the poor old candidate is really
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Speaker 2: up against the I mean she's going to fight hard,
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Speaker 2: she's very impressive, but you haven't got the infrastructure on
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Speaker 2: the ground for the Liberals, I'm afraid.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so loss loss, where's Angus Taylor after that? That's
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Speaker 4: why he wanted to run later, No doubt, both the
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Speaker 4: writings on the wall from the disastrously Little Proud Let's
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Speaker 4: face it, they really I mean everyone thought no one
20:45
Speaker 4: could do worse, and Peter up and We'll guess what
20:47
Speaker 4: a couple of people could. I mean, that was just.
20:51
Speaker 2: True to come on, Andrew, you were definitely in that camp.
20:54
Speaker 2: You just get yourself a woman in there and they'll
20:56
Speaker 2: save everything or just it'll all be fixed, because all
20:59
Speaker 2: you need is a woman to fix the woman problem.
21:01
Speaker 2: I kept telling everybody whomen don't vote for gender politics.
21:06
Speaker 2: On my side of the fence. Women want good policies
21:09
Speaker 2: as much as the blokes do. But look, we'll see.
21:12
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think it's going to be
21:13
Speaker 2: Angus Taylor's fault in the short term. I think media term, absolutely,
21:18
Speaker 2: he's got to turn this around. But we'll leave it there.
21:20
Speaker 2: I'll afford to your coverage on Saturday night, make look
21:23
Speaker 2: forward to it very much. All right, will leave it there.
21:25
Speaker 2: Let's go to that rate rise today up twenty five
21:28
Speaker 2: basis points and overall four point one percent. No surprises,
21:33
Speaker 2: but that's cold comfort for everyone who's already struggling with
21:36
Speaker 2: cost of living. The RBA government, though she would not
21:39
Speaker 2: rule out a recession today, and she certainly didn't give
21:43
Speaker 2: the treasurer a leave pass on his excuses that it's
21:47
Speaker 2: all to do with Iran joining me now for his analysis.
21:51
Speaker 2: South Sky News business editor Ross Greenwood. You know you
21:55
Speaker 2: heard the dueling press conferences. The Treasurer went first, followed
22:00
Speaker 2: by the Governor Michelle Bullock. But she didn't miss She
22:04
Speaker 2: did not give Jim Charmers in the government any sort
22:08
Speaker 2: of relief from their spending hikes, from their lack of
22:13
Speaker 2: attention to inflation over the last few months at all.
22:17
Speaker 2: And she doesn't buy this idea that it's all international
22:20
Speaker 2: factors either.
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Speaker 1: Ross, Yeah, there's something else. Also, remember the Bold experiment
22:24
Speaker 1: to see whether we could in Australia maintain full employment
22:28
Speaker 1: while inflation drifted down. Well, Michelle Bullock pretty much today
22:32
Speaker 1: has said that's in the past. If there is a
22:35
Speaker 1: return of inflation and it's stubborn, and she says much
22:39
Speaker 1: of it is homegrown, the treasure I had to concede
22:41
Speaker 1: that as well today, then the Reserve Bank will have
22:45
Speaker 1: no option but to continue to increase interest rates to
22:49
Speaker 1: smash the economy. This is the reason why she will
22:51
Speaker 1: not rule out a recession. This is the reason why
22:54
Speaker 1: she says if inflation becomes entrenched, if businesses and households
23:00
Speaker 1: get used to the idea that inflation's at four percent
23:02
Speaker 1: or higher. Then under those circumstances, the Reserve Bank, which
23:06
Speaker 1: has only got one lever and that's interstrates, will raise
23:10
Speaker 1: interstrates and therefore she won't rule out the prospect of
23:13
Speaker 1: Australia falling into recession. What is quite clear right now,
23:17
Speaker 1: as Australia can't grow without creating inflation, therefore higher interest
23:21
Speaker 1: rates and at some point, especially with these really dramatically
23:26
Speaker 1: higher fuel prices going on, you've got two things working
23:30
Speaker 1: against the economy, that is higher interest rates and the
23:33
Speaker 1: higher fuel prices. So economic growth at some stage has
23:36
Speaker 1: really got to slow down to the big hurry.
23:40
Speaker 2: You know how labor works as well as I do. Right,
23:42
Speaker 2: they've got a budget in May are we're starting to
23:45
Speaker 2: bleed and you can see some of those numbers coming
23:47
Speaker 2: right off. For they're in the twenties. They've got a
23:49
Speaker 2: massive majority in the Parliament. They're not under pressure from
23:52
Speaker 2: the opposition, but they've got a twenty nine percent primary,
23:55
Speaker 2: which is extraordinary. So that'll start to get pressure in
23:59
Speaker 2: turn put through the system in the Economic Review Committee
24:04
Speaker 2: to have some handouts on the table. That's where they go.
24:06
Speaker 2: They can't help themselves. That'll onely make things worse the
24:10
Speaker 2: treasure is said, in the last couple of days, you know,
24:12
Speaker 2: we're already looking at didn't he say something like, I'll
24:14
Speaker 2: sharpen my pencil. We're already looking at numbers with a
24:17
Speaker 2: high four on inflation forecasts.
24:21
Speaker 1: But didn't you all say that? Yeah, but he also say.
24:25
Speaker 2: That'll just make bullet go even harder.
24:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, but didn't he also say at the same time
24:29
Speaker 1: that we're also thinking about cost of living relief, we
24:32
Speaker 1: will look after people. So the really interesting thing about
24:35
Speaker 1: that is in a budget coming up, unless you're really
24:39
Speaker 1: going to take the money from somewhere else. In other words,
24:41
Speaker 1: higher taxes for somebody, which doesn't improve the situation for productivity,
24:45
Speaker 1: doesn't improve the situation for Australia's competitiveness, doesn't improve the
24:50
Speaker 1: situation for creating more jobs in the future. Then if
24:54
Speaker 1: you're going to start to really try and shuffle a
24:56
Speaker 1: deck the decks in terms of trying to give some
24:59
Speaker 1: relief to someone because of this situation, that's going to
25:02
Speaker 1: make the situation even worse going forward.
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Speaker 7: So my gut fee.
25:06
Speaker 1: Is right now the treasurer appears at least to want
25:10
Speaker 1: to rip a band aid off. But my sense is
25:12
Speaker 1: also that the Prime Minister will go back to his
25:15
Speaker 1: natural instincts of trying to protect people, and as a
25:18
Speaker 1: result of this, I think there's going to be a
25:20
Speaker 1: standoff inside the party room. Now. Really, right now is
25:24
Speaker 1: the time for the government that'll be taking pretty tough
25:27
Speaker 1: measures to its own public service, to middle class welfare,
25:32
Speaker 1: and as a result of that, to try and really
25:34
Speaker 1: get this budget a little bit back into water, to
25:37
Speaker 1: do some of the work that right now it's leaving
25:40
Speaker 1: to the Reserve Bank. And because as I said, the
25:43
Speaker 1: Reserve Bank's only got one tool, which is interest rates,
25:45
Speaker 1: that means that not only will interst rates go back
25:48
Speaker 1: to their previous highs of four point three five percent,
25:51
Speaker 1: but are likely to go higher than that again, which
25:54
Speaker 1: means that people are going to end up paying more
25:56
Speaker 1: than what they were going back two years ago, which
25:59
Speaker 1: really seen to be the peak of interest rates in
26:01
Speaker 1: this country.
26:04
Speaker 2: But if you're going to have a tough conversation about
26:06
Speaker 2: recurrent spending ross, you're going to have to say to Australians,
26:10
Speaker 2: you've been getting something we can either no longer afford
26:14
Speaker 2: or you probably shouldn't have been getting. So childcare is
26:16
Speaker 2: a good example. Sixteen billion dollars per annum, and you
26:20
Speaker 2: can get childcare in this country. If you earn as
26:22
Speaker 2: much as five hundred and thirty thousand dollars or half
26:26
Speaker 2: a million dollars qualifies you for childcare welfare in this country. Now,
26:32
Speaker 2: if you're going to start to say to people you're
26:34
Speaker 2: not going to get that, that's going to hurt there
26:36
Speaker 2: budget in the immediate term. She's going to make you unpopular.
26:40
Speaker 2: It might be the right thing to do. You tell
26:43
Speaker 2: me if they're going to do it. I don't think
26:44
Speaker 2: they are. I don't think they're prepared to have that
26:46
Speaker 2: tough conversation.
26:47
Speaker 1: Well, it's where leadership comes in, right. The country can't
26:51
Speaker 1: afford this stuff. It needs means testing of childcare, of
26:54
Speaker 1: the ndis of much of the healthcare system right now.
26:58
Speaker 1: And yet for some reason, the to try to put
27:01
Speaker 1: in universal healthcare, universal childcare, universal ends. And so really
27:06
Speaker 1: this is where the country is spending way way more
27:11
Speaker 1: than it ought to.
27:12
Speaker 6: Now.
27:13
Speaker 1: My point is that at a time when now you've
27:15
Speaker 1: got to reserve bank governor saying hey, you're staring down
27:19
Speaker 1: the barrel of a recession, and frankly, we are going
27:22
Speaker 1: to do this because we're going to raise interest rates.
27:24
Speaker 1: And this is even without thinking about the Middle East crisis.
27:27
Speaker 1: Raising fuel prices, as we've seen an oil price have
27:30
Speaker 1: risen fifty percent in the past month, So diesel prices
27:34
Speaker 1: are out of control in this country right now. So
27:37
Speaker 1: from that point of view, if that's not getting the
27:39
Speaker 1: message through to the government, then it needs to act
27:42
Speaker 1: and to change things and to try and help protect
27:45
Speaker 1: people's jobs, not by simply handing out more public service positions,
27:50
Speaker 1: but instead by trying to make the country more competitive.
27:53
Speaker 1: I don't know what message is going to get through
27:55
Speaker 1: to the government and to the Prime Minister.
27:58
Speaker 2: Just on the point about means to there are some
28:01
Speaker 2: that you could not necessarily means test, but you could
28:05
Speaker 2: cap the outlay. So for example, we don't means test medicare.
28:09
Speaker 2: Everyone's entitled to use Medicare, but we do cap the
28:12
Speaker 2: amount available per service. The problem with the ndis is
28:17
Speaker 2: we don't means tested. Fine, we don't mean test medicare
28:21
Speaker 2: as I said, but we also don't cap it. So
28:24
Speaker 2: it's an absolutely open blank check. Now, they are some
28:27
Speaker 2: of the things they could do, but again it's political will,
28:30
Speaker 2: and they don't strike me that they've got much of
28:33
Speaker 2: that They just want to be popular, stay in power.
28:35
Speaker 2: They don't care about what it does in longer term
28:38
Speaker 2: to the budget in the economy. Got to leave it there, Ross,
28:40
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you very much. We'll look forward to
28:42
Speaker 2: talking to you as the budget lead up continues. Okay,
28:45
Speaker 2: after the break, labour losers grip on fuel farmers of
28:49
Speaker 2: wanting crops are at risk, which will of course hurt
28:51
Speaker 2: us both in terms of the food we buy the
28:54
Speaker 2: prices we pay, but also Australia's expert export income and
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Speaker 2: the minister what can he do now to help the
29:02
Speaker 2: regions after the break? Welcome bag. Still look on the
29:09
Speaker 2: shameless comments from Grace Tame labeling the rape of Israeli
29:14
Speaker 2: women on October seven as propaganda. But now to the
29:18
Speaker 2: assurances by the Men's government that it will intervene in
29:21
Speaker 2: the fuel supply chain, ordering distributors to deliver to parts
29:25
Speaker 2: of New South Wales that are already starting to experience shortages.
29:28
Speaker 2: It comes as industry bodies warned that the next four
29:32
Speaker 2: weeks will be critical and determining just how hard hit
29:34
Speaker 2: we will be from the war in the Middle East.
29:37
Speaker 2: Here to talk us through the state of play particularly,
29:38
Speaker 2: I want to know how it is actually on the
29:40
Speaker 2: ground in our regions. New South Wales Farmers Association President
29:45
Speaker 2: Xavier Martin Xavier, thank you for your time. I'm going
29:48
Speaker 2: to get to a New South Wales view and then
29:50
Speaker 2: to get you to stand back and give you some
29:51
Speaker 2: sort of macro analysis. Premier Mins says he will intervene
29:57
Speaker 2: now given so much of this as in the federals spere,
30:00
Speaker 2: what does that mean for the premier in practice?
30:05
Speaker 11: I look good eving Peter and from center in New
30:08
Speaker 11: South Wales and Canobland. And look I was with the
30:11
Speaker 11: Premier in the footage there yesterday, four ministers just to
30:15
Speaker 11: their left, and with that invitation to respond first, what
30:19
Speaker 11: we're dealing with is a premier that's quickly recognized that
30:23
Speaker 11: the federal government's way out of its depth in terms
30:25
Speaker 11: of responding to what we've got here in New South Wales.
30:28
Speaker 11: And look, you know there's a lot of assumptions at
30:32
Speaker 11: the start of this, Peter, that there's plenty of fuel
30:34
Speaker 11: in the terminals. It's all coming off the vessels into
30:37
Speaker 11: those terminals. I mean one of the ministers thought that
30:40
Speaker 11: perhaps there was thirty service stations out of three thousand
30:43
Speaker 11: that were running low I mean, hello, there'd be thirty
30:46
Speaker 11: service stations in every valley across the New South Wales
30:49
Speaker 11: that are either running low or running out. So we've
30:52
Speaker 11: got a serious problem. And look to the extent that
30:54
Speaker 11: Premier Mens can't fill every farm fuel tank or rural
30:57
Speaker 11: service station by a sunset. We are expecting him to
31:01
Speaker 11: get active this week and for that to happen by Friday.
31:06
Speaker 2: Look, if he does nothing more, then makes himself unpopular
31:09
Speaker 2: with Camber, drive them for some action, and I think
31:11
Speaker 2: that's him doing his job. I have to say this
31:14
Speaker 2: has become the story of Chris Min's time as Premier,
31:17
Speaker 2: pushing the feeds to do what they should be doing
31:19
Speaker 2: that they're not doing. And we saw that on National
31:21
Speaker 2: Security with BONDI but just I got to ask you.
31:24
Speaker 2: I was talking with my colleague then about the perception
31:28
Speaker 2: in polls that they don't feel like the government's got
31:31
Speaker 2: their hands around this issue. They don't feel like the
31:33
Speaker 2: government's got this stuff, including cost of living under control.
31:38
Speaker 2: You know, we've got places in Victoria where they have
31:40
Speaker 2: no fuel now in town's. I know croppers out in
31:44
Speaker 2: the Wimra they can't put stuff into a paddock right now,
31:47
Speaker 2: I'll be interested to what you know on the ground
31:50
Speaker 2: up your way. But how satisfied are you with the
31:53
Speaker 2: Prime Minister's response and Chris Bowen's response.
31:57
Speaker 11: Oh look, what's happening up here is that half a
32:01
Speaker 11: New South Wales is in drought. I mean, those that
32:04
Speaker 11: apparently know what the weather's doing, they're telling us the
32:07
Speaker 11: next six to eight hours there's going to be ten
32:08
Speaker 11: million hour in the northwest of the state. We won't
32:11
Speaker 11: hold our breath for that. Pardon the flies here at
32:13
Speaker 11: can double with Look, the reality is that we're righting
32:17
Speaker 11: at a critical point in time where win to fighter
32:20
Speaker 11: crops are meant to be going in you know, oats
32:22
Speaker 11: and fodder, wheat and a whole lot of other pastures.
32:26
Speaker 11: We're also at a time where a lot of the
32:29
Speaker 11: summer crops are wanting to come off. And if you're
32:31
Speaker 11: a Riverina rice grower, this evening and you know you
32:35
Speaker 11: need thousands of liters a day to pull off the
32:37
Speaker 11: rice crop and you've really only got a two or
32:39
Speaker 11: three week window to do so unless Australians want really
32:42
Speaker 11: rubbish rice. I mean, if you want good quality rice,
32:44
Speaker 11: we need to get the crop off. It's the same
32:46
Speaker 11: with picking cotton, every cotton picker, thousands of leaders to
32:51
Speaker 11: support that picking every day. But Peter, I think the
32:55
Speaker 11: other point that's getting lost is it's really important that
32:59
Speaker 11: farmers who are trying to care for a livestock, whether
33:02
Speaker 11: it's their cattle or their sheep, the animal welfare position
33:07
Speaker 11: of you know, if you haven't got your ten or
33:08
Speaker 11: twenty letters of diesel, we get around and check your word.
33:11
Speaker 11: You know, what are you meant to do? So I've
33:14
Speaker 11: heard from members of mine that are saying we've done it.
33:17
Speaker 11: We've worked out that with the amount of fuel we've
33:19
Speaker 11: got left, we'll only have enough fuel to get to
33:22
Speaker 11: town and hope the surveys able to top up their
33:24
Speaker 11: vehicle when we get in there because there's nothing left
33:27
Speaker 11: here on the farm. We've used it all. Checking the water.
33:31
Speaker 2: Have you got rationing? David little crowd set up his
33:33
Speaker 2: way in Queensland, they've got rationing in place already. Is
33:37
Speaker 2: that the case in is at Wales.
33:39
Speaker 11: Oh, look, there's been a bit of informal of that
33:41
Speaker 11: by some of the service stations. But look, the reality
33:44
Speaker 11: we've got is we've got a government, federal government, state
33:47
Speaker 11: government that's believing the majors that there's plenty of fuel.
33:51
Speaker 11: The data shows there's plenty of fuel in the terminals.
33:54
Speaker 11: It's not turning up in the farm fuel tanks, it's
33:57
Speaker 11: not turning up in the rural service. So obviously all
34:00
Speaker 11: the middle men, whatever dysfunction they're engaged in, whether it's
34:05
Speaker 11: hiding or hoarding or I mean, I've seen three dollars
34:08
Speaker 11: sixty fuel plead to say, you know what, are they
34:11
Speaker 11: waiting for it to get to four to five dollars
34:12
Speaker 11: or something before they actually let us have it? I mean,
34:16
Speaker 11: what is going on?
34:19
Speaker 2: Brett Hosking, you counterpart in Victoria. I mean he said
34:22
Speaker 2: something I have to say. I think I agree with him.
34:26
Speaker 2: I don't know that it's particularly popular, but he wants
34:30
Speaker 2: the city folk like me to get on the tram
34:33
Speaker 2: or do with traveling less and make sure that people
34:37
Speaker 2: at you that are creating our wealth as a nation
34:40
Speaker 2: through agriculture get the fuel you need. Let's have a listen.
34:44
Speaker 6: That's quite simple. You know, if one in five Victorians
34:48
Speaker 6: left their car at home, so just one in five,
34:52
Speaker 6: that would free up enough fuel to so half of
34:55
Speaker 6: Australia's winter crops, so our canola, our wheat, our barley,
35:00
Speaker 6: our chickpeas. Half of that could be sewn just by
35:03
Speaker 6: wanting five Victorians making a choice to find another way
35:06
Speaker 6: to get to work.
35:08
Speaker 2: As I said, Zavie, you're pretty unpopular if you live
35:10
Speaker 2: in the city. But a whole lot of common sense there,
35:12
Speaker 2: I reckon.
35:13
Speaker 11: And look, maybe you've got a lot more diesel cars
35:15
Speaker 11: down in Victoria than I realized. But I mean we
35:17
Speaker 11: need diesel. This is where Chris Bowen got it completely
35:20
Speaker 11: wrong last week. If you read handsart, he thought he
35:22
Speaker 11: was releasing megalatters of petrol for farmers. I mean, we
35:26
Speaker 11: use diesel. Ninety like trucks and tractors run on diesel.
35:30
Speaker 11: If we're going to grow the stuff, get our inputs in,
35:32
Speaker 11: get our outputs out, get it to the consumers, get
35:35
Speaker 11: it into their supermarkets and fridges. We need diesel. So
35:39
Speaker 11: I'm not sure that anyway. Maybe there is a lot
35:42
Speaker 11: of diesel cars in Victoria.
35:44
Speaker 2: I have to confess I'm one of those ones. I
35:46
Speaker 2: am one of the ones with a diesel car. So yes,
35:48
Speaker 2: I am taking my diesel off farmers, but I haven't
35:50
Speaker 2: filled up since the crisis. I'm trying not to drive
35:53
Speaker 2: as much as I would normally do so I'll leave
35:55
Speaker 2: it there. Thank you, Zavia. Thanks for joining me right
35:58
Speaker 2: after the break. Someone who's seen the tapes of the
36:00
Speaker 2: humas barbarism or she's got a way in on the
36:02
Speaker 2: Grace Tame view that it's all Israeli propaganda plus NATO
36:08
Speaker 2: or nations are turning their back on assisting the United States,
36:11
Speaker 2: including Australia. Welcome back confirmation today to another massive migration
36:22
Speaker 2: increase in Australia. This is still running at record levels.
36:26
Speaker 2: They don't want you to know about it. I'll get
36:28
Speaker 2: to that in a moment, but first let's cross to
36:30
Speaker 2: the United Kingdom, where Prime Minister Kiss Kiss Starmer has
36:35
Speaker 2: declined Donald Trump's call to send ships to help reopen
36:39
Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormus. It comes as many Gulf states
36:42
Speaker 2: the reportedly urge in the United States to neutralize Iran
36:46
Speaker 2: for good. They want the United States to stay the
36:49
Speaker 2: course he was the Prime Minister, and then Trump's response
36:53
Speaker 2: shortly after.
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Speaker 7: While taking the necessary action to defend ourselves and our allies,
37:00
Speaker 7: we will not be drawn into the wider war.
37:03
Speaker 2: I was not happy with the UK. They should be
37:08
Speaker 2: involved enthusiastically.
37:09
Speaker 13: We've been protecting these countries for years.
37:11
Speaker 2: With Nata Whause Nido is US Our News Corp Australia correspondents,
37:17
Speaker 2: Sky News contributor Sophie Elsworth, Sophie, thank you. What's the
37:21
Speaker 2: mood in Britain given that you now have the Gulf
37:23
Speaker 2: States coming out in the last couple of hours saying
37:27
Speaker 2: we're ow are targets, we are enemies of Iran. We
37:30
Speaker 2: need the United States, NATO all other nations to stay
37:34
Speaker 2: the course. Here they were getting along Trump and Starma,
37:39
Speaker 2: but it doesn't look like that's now the case. Well, Titter.
37:43
Speaker 14: We do know, of course that they are on very
37:46
Speaker 14: different political sides of the fence, and normally here in
37:50
Speaker 14: the UK, so kis Starma is under a lot of criticism.
37:53
Speaker 14: But listening to talk back radio this morning, listening to
37:56
Speaker 14: the commentary around this, there has been a lot of
37:59
Speaker 14: support for secure Starma that is not just jumping whenever
38:04
Speaker 14: Donald Trump expects him to, and there has been a
38:07
Speaker 14: lot of support for him on this move. However, Peter,
38:10
Speaker 14: there is a bigger issue there and I was just
38:13
Speaker 14: listening earlier to commentators here in the UK saying that
38:16
Speaker 14: the armed forces here have been run down over the
38:20
Speaker 14: last thirty years. They're not up to scratch. They're not
38:23
Speaker 14: sufficient enough in the personnel that they have and their resources,
38:28
Speaker 14: and that is the bigger problem here. But we know
38:31
Speaker 14: that Donald Trump and Sequisse Sarma typically get on quite well.
38:35
Speaker 14: But there is no doubt, because Seqir Sarma is not
38:38
Speaker 14: just of support at any moment, that this will be
38:41
Speaker 14: difficult for their relationship moving forward.
38:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I absolutely get it that you don't commit
38:48
Speaker 2: troops in any normal circumstance readily like you do it
38:53
Speaker 2: very soberly. And I'm not suggesting troops boots on the
38:56
Speaker 2: ground in this instance. But are the assets offensive? It's
39:00
Speaker 2: not defensive assets. In the case of Australia's one wedge tail,
39:04
Speaker 2: it doesn't make any sense to me given that the
39:07
Speaker 2: nuclear weapons threat with Iran. You can see how crazy
39:11
Speaker 2: the Iranian leadership is. That was real and it is real,
39:16
Speaker 2: and the world has got to act against a nation
39:19
Speaker 2: state like Iran. Yeah, it staggers me. But this is
39:22
Speaker 2: the left wing leadership we're seeing in Australia. We're seeing
39:25
Speaker 2: this obviously in the United Kingdom, very different than what
39:28
Speaker 2: we're seeing in the United States.
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Speaker 14: Absolutely, Peter, and they're really feeling the effects of the
39:35
Speaker 14: war here in the UK A secure Starmer has offered
39:39
Speaker 14: financial support packages for British citizens just here today, I
39:44
Speaker 14: was seeing that the petrol prices here are very very high,
39:49
Speaker 14: round one pound ninety here, so there you double that
39:54
Speaker 14: it's extremely high. And so people are being hit at
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Speaker 14: the bowser like they are across the world. Households are
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Speaker 14: feeling the pinch here as a result of this war.
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Speaker 14: So Sekir Starmer has a fine balance here to keep
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Speaker 14: Donald Trump on side, but also the British pomlicon side
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Speaker 14: because we know Peter he is struggling in the polls.
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Speaker 2: And I think I'll finish on this point. All leaders
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Speaker 2: need to do the right thing, not just political constituencies.
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Speaker 2: They need to do what is the right thing, and
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Speaker 2: getting rid of these weapons in Iran is the right thing. Hey,
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Speaker 2: talk to me. I know you've been to the Nova
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Speaker 2: Festival ground. I know that you have seen and watched
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Speaker 2: that horrific bodycam footage that was taken by those terrorists,
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Speaker 2: those Hamas terrorists as they entered a lot of the
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Speaker 2: kibbutz in Israel. What do you make of those comments
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Speaker 2: by Grace Tame Not only she's had all those into
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Speaker 2: Fara protest words, but she is now on an ABC
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Speaker 2: interview claiming that the rapes and attacks conducted against Israeli
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Speaker 2: women were propaganda. Have a listen.
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Speaker 15: Timney's texted in saying can you please ask Grace why
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Speaker 15: she's selective in her outrage? She says, I've never heard
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Speaker 15: her condemn or speak out on behalf of the Israeli
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Speaker 15: women who were raped and killed by Hamas on October seven?
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Speaker 15: Have you spoken about that? Have you expressed outrage about I'm.
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Speaker 8: Not going to think to the level of entertaining any
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Speaker 8: kind of propaganda Hamish.
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Speaker 15: What's the propaganda included in that question?
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Speaker 13: That those things have been debunked.
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Speaker 2: I mean she is a sexual abuse survivor herself, Sophie.
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Speaker 14: Peter probably like a lot of people, her remarks are extraordinary.
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Speaker 14: They seem very ill advised. And it's interesting, Peter, because
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Speaker 14: time I think she's just gone way too far on this.
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Speaker 14: It's disappointing for Grace Tane because she has done some
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Speaker 14: incredible work for sexual abuse survivors.
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Speaker 2: But this is just extraordinary that she.
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Speaker 14: Would come out and make these claims. I notice she's
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Speaker 14: turned off her comments on her social media and this
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Speaker 14: is damaging her reputation significantly, and I think someone needs
42:13
Speaker 14: to pull her asite. Someone needs to pull her aside,
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Speaker 14: Peter and say what are you doing Grace, because this
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Speaker 14: is hard to come back from. She said this didn't happen.
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Speaker 14: She's made it very very clear, Peter. I've seen those
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Speaker 14: videos from October seven, you know, I saw it with
42:30
Speaker 14: my own eyes, and it's extraordinary what these people went through.
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Speaker 14: And the fact that Grace Tam has come out like this.
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Speaker 14: To say disappointing does not describe it enough. But I
42:43
Speaker 14: think someone needs to pull her aside and say what
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Speaker 14: are you doing.
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Speaker 2: And just get out of the media for a while.
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Speaker 2: I think she's just making it worse. She's compounding that mistake.
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Speaker 2: She needs to apologize, she needs to retract those words,
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Speaker 2: and her ignorance needs to be remedied, and then she
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Speaker 2: needs to get away, disappear for a while. I'll leave
42:59
Speaker 2: it there, thank you, Sophie. All right, there was news
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Speaker 2: this afternoon till we didn't get to it. But apparently
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Speaker 2: there's pressure on the former Prince Andrew to remove himself
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Speaker 2: from the line of succession. So rather than wait for
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Speaker 2: a vote of the Parliament via legislation to do the
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Speaker 2: honorable thing. Wouldn't that be nice? Get himself out of
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Speaker 2: the way?
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Speaker 8: All right?
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Speaker 2: Quick break panel after the break, a whole lot to
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Speaker 2: talk to, see you soon, all right, welcome back, bringing
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Speaker 2: my panel now One Nation chiefest Staff James Ashby and
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Speaker 2: from the Women's Forum Australia Stephanie Bastian who's also in
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Speaker 2: South Australia. So this will be where we kick off tonight, James, Poles,
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Speaker 2: Poles and Poles. A whole lot of hype and talk,
43:39
Speaker 2: but rubber hits the road for you bolks on the weekend.
43:43
Speaker 2: You've got an old hand in Cory Barnardi running the
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Speaker 2: show in South Australia. How do you think you're going
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Speaker 2: to go well?
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Speaker 12: If you can believe the Poles, things are looking pretty promising.
43:54
Speaker 12: I know Matt Gambi is probably coming out as the
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Speaker 12: strongest lower House seat, and of course they're suggesting as
44:00
Speaker 12: many two maybe three in the Upper House as well,
44:03
Speaker 12: So look there's a lot to be proven.
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Speaker 6: I think the.
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Speaker 12: Ground game that Corey Bnardi has run over the last
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Speaker 12: couple of months, keeping in mind he's only had a
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Speaker 12: really short runway to take off and do well in
44:12
Speaker 12: this state campaign. So I wish you all the best
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Speaker 12: of luck. I know that there's been some federal matters
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Speaker 12: that the Boss has coincided down there in South Australia,
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Speaker 12: and things look good on the ground from what I hear.
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Speaker 2: All Right, it's Deephanie, but you're a local, give me
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Speaker 2: your take. Yeah.
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Speaker 13: I do think there's a lot of support for one Nation.
44:32
Speaker 13: I think that's because they've been very consistent. They have
44:35
Speaker 13: really committed to a lot of issues that parents and
44:39
Speaker 13: people and cost of living in immigration, things that people
44:41
Speaker 13: really care about that the major parties seem to have abandoned.
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Speaker 13: Having said that, I do think Ashton hern has really
44:47
Speaker 13: moved the dial in leaps and bounds. She's been a
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Speaker 13: very strong leader. She's come out with some good local policies,
44:53
Speaker 13: really targeting things like health. So I don't think the
44:56
Speaker 13: fight is over yet when it comes to Labor. What
44:58
Speaker 13: I do hope though, is that over the next four
45:01
Speaker 13: years after the election, there's some discipline in the Liberal
45:03
Speaker 13: Party so that they have a proper run to really
45:06
Speaker 13: hold some accountability to the Labor Party who have really
45:10
Speaker 13: had a free pass on so many issues. So once again,
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Speaker 13: I think, like everyone else, there's been a lot of
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Speaker 13: polling around support for one nation. But it's going to
45:17
Speaker 13: be interesting to see whether those polls actually eventuate into
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Speaker 13: votes or not.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll watch it all closely. And of course there
45:24
Speaker 2: is no coalition down there. The Libs and the Nats
45:28
Speaker 2: do not work together. In fact, they work against each other,
45:31
Speaker 2: so that will also play out on Saturday night. I
45:34
Speaker 2: talked about this last night, James. A quality of Australia.
45:37
Speaker 2: So they go to the Federal Court for tax breaks,
45:40
Speaker 2: they get knocked back, they had other sort of administrative
45:43
Speaker 2: decisions go against them. The general view of all the
45:46
Speaker 2: court decisions are that they are a political activist group,
45:50
Speaker 2: they're a lobby group. They're not a charitable entity under
45:54
Speaker 2: the definition. So instead of all of that, Labour's gone
45:57
Speaker 2: out and says it's going to change the rules. Basically
46:00
Speaker 2: bought through legislation to give them tax deductibility, and the
46:03
Speaker 2: government now has gone to ground. It's not answering any
46:06
Speaker 2: questions about why they're doing this. And there's been criticism
46:10
Speaker 2: from Christian groups saying that the Labour Party has got
46:12
Speaker 2: an ideological bias here. James, what do you think.
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Speaker 12: Well, they're spot on to criticize the government and you
46:21
Speaker 12: can see. You can always tell in labor doing something
46:24
Speaker 12: sneaky and against what the greater public would expect because
46:28
Speaker 12: they bury it in other legislation. And that's precisely what's
46:31
Speaker 12: happened here. Look, this is a protest organization. This charitable
46:36
Speaker 12: deductible status should be reserved for organizations like the Flying Doctors,
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Speaker 12: not some protest group that gets out there and rallies
46:44
Speaker 12: on the streets and lobbies are parliamentarians. That's not what
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Speaker 12: it's for, so they should be rejected.
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Speaker 13: Stephanie, Yeah, absolutely, I agree with all of that. I mean,
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Speaker 13: I just wonder how the LGBTI lobby groups have so
46:57
Speaker 13: much power over the federal government that they've been able
47:00
Speaker 13: to do this. I mean it's unprecedented. And the things
47:02
Speaker 13: that a quality Australia stand for, it's no, it's not
47:05
Speaker 13: love is love. I mean they're promoting a very harmful
47:07
Speaker 13: ideology around gender and the education in schools. And when
47:12
Speaker 13: the Cast review came out talking about the harms that
47:14
Speaker 13: were being done to children with medical transition practices, they
47:17
Speaker 13: really shut down and provided the talking points to the
47:22
Speaker 13: ab and Easy government that really took it no further.
47:25
Speaker 13: When we know enormous harm is being done. So I mean,
47:27
Speaker 13: if you have a look at all these different groups
47:29
Speaker 13: like Equality Australia that are receiving these tax breaks and
47:33
Speaker 13: government funding, I mean, this whole ideology is government funded
47:36
Speaker 13: and pull it away and it would probably disappear altogether.
47:39
Speaker 13: So I think there should be an inquiry as to
47:42
Speaker 13: how they've managed to bypass the proper processes to get
47:45
Speaker 13: this status.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to the IPA data out on the ABS stats,
47:52
Speaker 2: because the ABA drops the stats the government doesn't want
47:54
Speaker 2: to talk to them. This is the stats in relation
47:56
Speaker 2: to migration. Thankfully we've got the IBA ip that puts
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Speaker 2: them together. But our January arrivals are the highest ever
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Speaker 2: on record, and we're looking at something of four hundred
48:08
Speaker 2: and ninety four thousand people in the year to January.
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Speaker 2: As I said, highest on record.
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Speaker 12: James, Well, when this government was saying they were going
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Speaker 12: to reduce the numbers from one thy, three hundred and
48:21
Speaker 12: fifty people per day coming to this country, they've lied
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Speaker 12: to us. They are now sitting in accordance with January's
48:28
Speaker 12: records at one thousand, eight hundred and fifty. This is
48:31
Speaker 12: typical of labor. They lie, lie, lie, It's not a
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Speaker 12: small number. This is a massive number and Australian should
48:37
Speaker 12: feel very, very betrayed because these are the same people
48:41
Speaker 12: that are lining up at servos fighting for the same
48:43
Speaker 12: bloody fuel. You and I are let alone the houses
48:46
Speaker 12: and hospitals so I could go on forever.
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Speaker 2: I will leave it there. Thank you to you both,
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Speaker 2: see you next week. That's it for me tonight. Enjoy
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Speaker 2: your evening. Here's Andrew