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Speaker 1: He's the good report tonight, the election, the stuff ups today,
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Speaker 1: the spin and the truth about the polls. Also tonight,
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump hits out after Vladimir Putin treats him like
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Speaker 1: a fool again over Ukraine. I have to say Trump
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Speaker 1: is also one reason why Peter Dutton is going backwards
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Speaker 1: in the polls. Plus two tier policing in Victoria, Victoria
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Speaker 1: police stand around by the pro Palace in the protesters
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Speaker 1: shouts death threats at pro Israel protesters.
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Speaker 2: Also to know, Prince Harry gets the race guard played
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Speaker 2: right back at him by a woman's charity tried to
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Speaker 2: sack but first Labour's election campaign.
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Speaker 1: Bizarre, bizarre. Besides this, the reality over here, but a
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Speaker 1: fantasy labor campaign over there. Don't mention the reality how
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Speaker 1: the abnuzy government has left Australia is poorer and almost defenseless.
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Speaker 1: Talk instead about cotton wall clouds and sunny skies and
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Speaker 1: good times ahead. This fantasy of labor. And I'll give
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Speaker 1: an example today. This is a month after Chinese dictatorship
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Speaker 1: sent three warships to sail around our coast shooting guns
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Speaker 1: are scare us. China has now sent yet another Chinese
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Speaker 1: ship this time of research and spiship along our southern coast,
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Speaker 1: right where we happen to have key data cables underwater.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, this is a ship that has
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Speaker 1: an underwater submersible which can check cable locations and can
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Speaker 1: now be fitted with the new underwater cable cutter that
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Speaker 1: China's just unveiled. I told you about that a week
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Speaker 1: or two ago. Now, China has in the past few
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Speaker 1: months been accused of cutting three underwater cables already off Taiwan,
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Speaker 1: off so Sweden of Denmark using ships anchors. It's obviously
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Speaker 1: studying how to cut off countries in war. But the
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Speaker 1: Prome Miis of today once again tried to play this
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Speaker 1: there like he usually does when China threatens this, like
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Speaker 1: he did again just last month when took a Virgin
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Speaker 1: pilot to warn the government of those Chinese ships. Last month.
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Speaker 1: We're doing fire exercises, live fire disrupting flight paths today,
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Speaker 1: same story.
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Speaker 3: It's been in New Zealand on a joint research operation.
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Speaker 3: And this isn't the first time that a similar vessel
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Speaker 3: has been around the Australian coast. It was occurred in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty for example. Just to give one example, Australia,
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Speaker 3: as you would expect as monitoring this.
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Speaker 1: Did you mean he was asking quantious virgin pilots to
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Speaker 1: look out the windows to help him monitor the ship?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. But worse is that Albanize actually implied
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Speaker 1: this Chinese ship was no more sinister than Australian ships
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Speaker 1: in the South China Sea.
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Speaker 4: What is monitoring actually mean?
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Speaker 3: What it means is that the Australian Defense Force are
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Speaker 3: monitoring what is happening. It's going from New Zealand, we
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Speaker 3: expect it to go around to China around that way.
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Speaker 5: Do you have no sense about it, mister Allia?
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Speaker 4: Of course what it's doing.
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Speaker 3: I would prefer that it wasn't there. But we live
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Speaker 3: in circumstances where just as Australia has vessels in the
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Speaker 3: South China Sea and vessels in the Taiwan Strait and
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Speaker 3: around of a range of areas, this vessel is there.
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Speaker 1: It's bad enough that this governor's left us almost defenseless
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Speaker 1: against China when China is actually threatening war in our region.
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Speaker 1: But to pretend there's nothing to worry about here, I'll
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Speaker 1: give you another example of labor running a lecture campaign
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Speaker 1: unconnected to reality. I was even asking photos to somehow
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Speaker 1: forget the past, how it was wiping out the past
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Speaker 1: three years ago. Anthony Albanese based his election campaign back
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Speaker 1: then on a big pitch to cut your power pricess
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Speaker 1: by two hundred and seventy five dollars by now, plus
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Speaker 1: another one hundred dollars in the next five years, all
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Speaker 1: of it based on mathematical models he claimed were the greatest.
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Speaker 3: This is the most comprehensive modeling ever done for any
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Speaker 3: policy by any opposition in Australia's history.
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Speaker 1: Now, as his obvious Labor's modeling was absolutely trash. Your
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Speaker 1: bills didn't go down, they instead went up, way out
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Speaker 1: for some one thousand dollars up. And now Albaniz's Labor
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Speaker 1: Party's the leader that reprotects moodling from his website doesn't
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Speaker 1: exist anymore. And the premises today were saying, what reprotects modeling?
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Speaker 1: Do you stand by that modeling? O.
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Speaker 3: It's reputexas modeling, it's reputexas modeling, it's reputexas modeling from
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Speaker 3: that time.
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Speaker 1: But this gets even more unreal. So you know you
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Speaker 1: had the ambanies of government totally failing obviously to fix
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Speaker 1: a real problem, a real crisis, soaring energy prices last time,
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Speaker 1: so this time, and to disguise exactly that it's fighting
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Speaker 1: a totally fake problem, price gouging. Those supermarket giants supposedly
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Speaker 1: abusing their power to rip off you poor consumers by
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Speaker 1: charging much more than they would if they had competition.
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Speaker 3: Price gouging is when supermarkets are taking the piss off
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Speaker 3: Australian consumers.
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Speaker 4: That's what it is.
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Speaker 3: That's what price gouging is. Everyone out there knows, consumers know,
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Speaker 3: will take action. By the end of this year, we
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Speaker 3: will introduce the legislation to make supermarket price gouging illegal
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Speaker 3: in Australia.
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Speaker 1: Now I say this as a fraud because the question
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Speaker 1: is what price gouging. There have now been at least
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Speaker 1: four inquiries looking to price gouging by supermarkets, not including
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Speaker 1: state inquiries, and not one of them found evidence of
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Speaker 1: this price gouging, including the Train Competition Consumer Commission just
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Speaker 1: this month.
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Speaker 6: Price gouging is a very difficult concept. If you look
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Speaker 6: at a typical basket of groceries, they change on a
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Speaker 6: weekly basis as well, so actually drawing a line on
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Speaker 6: whether or not prices are excessive or not is very difficult.
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Speaker 1: So how one is a big promise? Now it's the
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Speaker 1: ban price gouging by supermarkets that no one can actually find.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's even exist So at least you can be
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Speaker 1: sure that this time this is a promise he can't
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Speaker 1: help but keep, he can't possibly fail. But the real
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Speaker 1: game being played on you is that it's pretending it's
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Speaker 1: supermarkets and not labour's inflation that's been driving up power prices.
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Speaker 1: There's a con. It's a complete con. And this is
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Speaker 1: what I mean about in the electure campaign. It's about
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Speaker 1: a fantasy world. It's not about this real one. Not
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Speaker 1: for labor. It isn't. And I'll give you one final example,
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Speaker 1: because this one's so stupid. This one's so stupid. This
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Speaker 1: government has spent billions of dollars your money, promise billions
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Speaker 1: on a plan to make Australia go green and self sufficient.
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Speaker 1: A planet calls a future made in Australia.
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Speaker 3: My ambition is for a future made in Australia. There's
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Speaker 3: a global race for opportunity and jobs and I want
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Speaker 3: Australia to be in it to win it. We can
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Speaker 3: make more things here, we can compete with the world.
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Speaker 3: We need to identify where Australia has a comparative advantage,
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Speaker 3: such as in green hydrogen.
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Speaker 1: Some plan not only have most of the government's planned
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Speaker 1: investments in green hydrogen, for instancecan bust. We've documented that
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Speaker 1: for a long time it turns out that a future
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Speaker 1: made in Australia means a future made by Spaniards, Mexicans, Arabs,
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Speaker 1: Greeks to judge by government ads that have also now
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Speaker 1: been quickly deleted from government websites as if they never existed.
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Speaker 1: Ads for Arabic speakers to come build this future and
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Speaker 1: for Spanish ones to come build a future supposedly made
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Speaker 1: in australiaturo in Australia, in Australia camera ads also in
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Speaker 1: Greek after in Melomenos and Australia and griff and Australia
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Speaker 1: Niki and see Comberta. So this government in its short
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Speaker 1: three years has dragged in more than a million immigrants
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Speaker 1: already and a future now looks less and less under
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Speaker 1: our control, lets and less secure, house prices unaffordable for
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Speaker 1: the young because of this future built in Australia, falling
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Speaker 1: living standards, of course, enemies of our coast, decade of
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Speaker 1: deficits to come a trillion dollar debt next year, an
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Speaker 1: electricity system becoming shambles. That is the reality that Labor's
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Speaker 1: campaign that is just fantasy. Now we're in such a
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Speaker 1: tight electri and racing in campaigns you see reporters, I
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Speaker 1: mean it's natural, you know, jumping on the slightest campaign
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Speaker 1: stumble and finding a way to call it significant. For instance,
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Speaker 1: TV news bulletins today could run footage a bit of
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Speaker 1: Dutton today in a mining vehicle that wouldn't start, because
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Speaker 1: that then helped them to say all Dutton's also stalling
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Speaker 1: in the latest polls.
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Speaker 7: This is embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: This is embarrassing. Yeah, we get someone they doing or
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Speaker 1: on the other hand, that could jump onto something equally meaningless.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Albanize's first campaign blunder and misspeak so that they
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Speaker 1: could say it was actually a Freudian slip, a sign
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Speaker 1: of our future under Labor. When Albaniz he actually just
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Speaker 1: tangled over his tongue trying to deny he'd governed in
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Speaker 1: a partnership with the Greens if Labor didn't win.
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Speaker 3: Outright, I have said we will not governing coalition with anyone,
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Speaker 3: including the Greens, that I rule out. I rule out.
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Speaker 3: Just to be really clear again, if you ask me,
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Speaker 3: do you rule out governing and coalition with the Greens,
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Speaker 3: he answered that is no. No is no.
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Speaker 4: I don't negotiate with the Greens.
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Speaker 1: He means to, So the answer is yes. But I
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Speaker 1: don't know he'll need those screens all right if he
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Speaker 1: doesn't get the full majority after anyway. But to the Poles,
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Speaker 1: let's have a look at the Poles at the start
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Speaker 1: of this campaign, because we'll measure them as we go. Now.
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Speaker 1: I'd have thought the coalition would in fact be well
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Speaker 1: ahead of Labor, and it should be. We have a
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Speaker 1: labor government that's left the strains poor and more divide,
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Speaker 1: has blown our money so badly that we now face
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Speaker 1: a decade of differences to come. But of course, if
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Speaker 1: you've got nothing to boast about, then goes to mear
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Speaker 1: the other guy, which is why, of course, in this
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Speaker 1: press conference to announce the election date, the Prime Minister
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Speaker 1: attacked Office j leader Peter Dutton by name eighteen times.
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Speaker 3: Petty Dutton, Peter Dutton's Peter Dutton in the Liberal Party,
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Speaker 3: Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton
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Speaker 3: Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton, Petter Dutton, Peter Duton, Peter dut
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Speaker 3: Peter Darton, Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton, Petta Dutton,
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Speaker 3: Petty Dutton.
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Speaker 1: Labor has attacked Peter Dutton personally for weeks now and
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Speaker 1: it works negatively, say you hate it, but negative polling
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Speaker 1: never negative campaigning works. Plus, of course, this is a
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump effect. You know, every left wing leader you
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Speaker 1: see that Trump fights a tax, hits with tarifs or whatever,
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Speaker 1: that left wing leader turns into a hero in his
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Speaker 1: own country for standing up to this wicked Trump. You've
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Speaker 1: seen it with Canada's Prime minister, You've seen it with
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Speaker 1: Briton's and a seat with ours. The latest Newspult Today
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Speaker 1: shows voters have shifted to Labor fifty one percent now
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Speaker 1: to the Coalition's forty nine percent. The Coalition was ahead
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Speaker 1: then again the Resolve Pole, well, that also showed a
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Speaker 1: shift back to Labor, although it has the parties even
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Speaker 1: although again Today's Freshwater Pole said the Coalition is ahead
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Speaker 1: fifty one to forty nine. Jody me, it makes sense
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Speaker 1: of all. This is Australia's best TV sopologist, our very
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Speaker 1: own Tom Connall. Tom Connall the finest in the business.
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Speaker 1: Right now, it seems a dead heat between Labor and
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Speaker 1: the Coalition when you aggregate all these poles and I
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Speaker 1: reckon the next five weeks of the campaigning will decide
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Speaker 1: who wins more than almost any other campaign by shifting
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Speaker 1: the vote a percentage point one way or the other.
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Speaker 1: How do you see it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes a big difference.
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Speaker 8: There is one thing, major thing for the Coalition to
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Speaker 8: overcome and a pretty big one for Labor overcome for
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Speaker 8: their majority.
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Speaker 4: Let's take a look. The context of this away.
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Speaker 8: Has to be the state of the House before the election,
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Speaker 8: so redistributions and all of that, what we get as
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Speaker 8: a result. I wasn't expecting that. I was expecting the
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Speaker 8: state of the House. I'll just tell you anyway. We've
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Speaker 8: got Labor on seventy eight seats at the moment, the
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Speaker 8: Coalition on fifty six. So the issue at the moment
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Speaker 8: for Labor obviously is they lose any seats and essentially
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Speaker 8: the position they'll be in here we go. They lose
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Speaker 8: any seats and they basically lose majority. Two seats they
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Speaker 8: get to the bearers, three they're out for the coalition.
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Speaker 8: It's that they're on fifty six, so you know twenty
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Speaker 8: two behind labor.
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Speaker 4: What are the scenarios, because this is all based.
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Speaker 8: On fifty two forty eight labor one last time, two
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Speaker 8: party preferred.
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Speaker 4: I'll go through them a one.
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Speaker 8: Percent uniform swing, which would be essentially where the News
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Speaker 8: poll was at today. Plus I'm saying an Indie goes,
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Speaker 8: two Greens go, and a TiAl go, so a bit
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Speaker 8: of movement.
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Speaker 4: I won't go.
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Speaker 8: Into the sort of micro detail, but you can see
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Speaker 8: that that's still clearly a Labor win, albeit they lose majority.
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Speaker 8: The problem with the pendulum for the coalition is even
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Speaker 8: at another percent on which is pretty significant, we're now.
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Speaker 4: Going from fifty two to fifty to fifty. We look
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Speaker 4: at that.
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Speaker 8: Uniform swing of two percent plus some of the other
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Speaker 8: stuff around, and once we get to that two percent,
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Speaker 8: it's still not that friendly for the coalition. Look at
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Speaker 8: that seventy four to sixty four only one extra seat Andrew.
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Speaker 8: If the swing's uniform, one extra seat goes. So you
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Speaker 8: can see once we get to a three percent uniform
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Speaker 8: swing again taking off an Indie Green and coalition as well,
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Speaker 8: you're getting closer to the coalition in power, but still
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Speaker 8: even at that point well behind Labor. The Greens are
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Speaker 8: likely to help Labor form government. So the issue for
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Speaker 8: the coalition is that pendulum.
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Speaker 4: If the cross Bench stays big, is not all that
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Speaker 4: friendly to them and nor is the cross Bench.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well just another reason the last election result was
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Speaker 1: such a tragy for the Liberals. But being so big
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Speaker 1: Scott Morrison Blue so many seats there. Now, if there
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Speaker 1: is going to be a boil over, it'll take a
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Speaker 1: big swing, as you say, or a sort of a
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Speaker 1: swing in part you know, some places where he founds
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Speaker 1: more than others. Where will it be decided? I mean
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Speaker 1: in recent lects with Wister Australia and Queensland before that,
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Speaker 1: Western Sydney this year, I suspect the big move will
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Speaker 1: be in Victoria in particular. What do you see, Yeah, Victoria.
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Speaker 8: Both sides in conversations agree this could swing bid be
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Speaker 8: given the state government as so on the nose and
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Speaker 8: it's leaking through an extent. So if we look at
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Speaker 8: the seats, this is what's interesting about this. I was
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Speaker 8: taking you through scenarios of one to three percent. Look
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Speaker 8: at the margins here. If there's a uniform swing of
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Speaker 8: three percent, not a single one of those seats goes.
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Speaker 8: That's not going to happen asked, and almost certain to
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Speaker 8: go to the coalition of a Liberal party. Chisholm and McKellen
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Speaker 8: strong chances as well. You even get to Bruce at
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Speaker 8: five point three percent. We could see a national swing
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Speaker 8: of two percent and still Bruce to go because obviously
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Speaker 8: every single seat matters. Some states might not swing at all,
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Speaker 8: like Queensland, which means you get more of the swing
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Speaker 8: in Victoria. So all of these seats are seen as
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Speaker 8: in play. Look, Karranga might not as much given that margin,
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Speaker 8: but this also fits in Andrew.
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Speaker 4: If you see where these are, this is the heart
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Speaker 4: of Melbourne, this is the.
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Speaker 8: Outer suburbs, so that fits in with that out of
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Speaker 8: suburban strategy from Peter Dutton. So we could see a
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Speaker 8: swathe of seats in and around Victoria and Melbourne go.
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Speaker 8: We also get to Sydney is still going to matter
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Speaker 8: this time. The two biggest states will matter the most.
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Speaker 8: So if we go to Sydney and surrounds what you
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Speaker 8: can see here some more gettable margins particularly been along obviously,
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Speaker 8: but Paramata reed and where were none of these hitting
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Speaker 8: the sort of seven percent. So these all seen is
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Speaker 8: in play. Albeit Reed's probably going to be pretty tough.
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Speaker 8: It's a little bit closer to the city in a
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Speaker 8: bigger margin. And then one of the more interesting battlegrounds
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Speaker 8: if we go to the next area, could be the Hunter. Now,
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Speaker 8: if you look at the seat of the Hunter itself,
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Speaker 8: we're talking about a seat that's been held by Labor
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Speaker 8: Andrew for more than.
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Speaker 4: One hundred years.
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Speaker 8: It's still a decent margin four point eight percent, but
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Speaker 8: is seen as clearly in play. Patterson obviously a lot
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Speaker 8: closer Gilmore Andrew Constonan's having another goal that has seen
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Speaker 8: as the very strong favorite. So by virtue of the
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Speaker 8: fact that you South Wales is the biggest state, I
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Speaker 8: think it and Victoria might almost buy for it. In Victoria,
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Speaker 8: it's almost certain you're going to see a big swing.
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Speaker 8: New South Wales seems more uncertain. So if we'll need
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Speaker 8: to see two things for a coalition victory, I think
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Speaker 8: a big swing in Victoria and a swing more in
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Speaker 8: the right places for the coalition in New South Wales.
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Speaker 1: And I noticed that in the Victorian graphic we went
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Speaker 1: through all those seats that the Liberals could pick up
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Speaker 1: from Labor. Could you didn't include the two Teal seats.
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Speaker 1: We don't know, but there was a poll that may
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Speaker 1: or may not be credible, that suggested that two were
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Speaker 1: in play, Manik Ryan her seat of course in Couyong,
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Speaker 1: and also Zoe Daniels in Goldstein. So that could be
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Speaker 1: very interesting. That could even be the decider. Tom Connell,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much, indeed for your time. Really appreciate that. Thanks.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to the big issues in this campaign. Joining
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Speaker 1: me is Michael Kroger from Victorian Liberal President, Steve from
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Speaker 1: a Victoria, a former Labor senator and Covenant minister. Michael. So,
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Speaker 1: now we've got a Chinese ship, the research vessel and
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Speaker 1: therest certainly also spy one off the Victorian coast. The
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister says Chill. We have Australian vessels in the
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Speaker 1: South China Sea. Is that the same thing, Well, probably
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Speaker 1: not quite.
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Speaker 9: I don't think the Australian vessels are spying on the Chinese,
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Speaker 9: but you'd be one hundred percent sure that the Chinese
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Speaker 9: are spying on Australia. Albow's usual shows no interest whatsoever
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Speaker 9: in this issue, just says Chill. Did he know about it?
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 9: Has he done about it? He won't say what he's
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Speaker 9: done about it. Have they talked to the ambassador? We
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Speaker 9: don't know. And you know, it's a slur on the
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Speaker 9: Australian forced to think that they're up there, you know,
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Speaker 9: spying on the Chinese from the Pacific, which I don't
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Speaker 9: think they are, but typical of Albow, no interest in
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Speaker 9: foreign policy, no interesting, no idea how to deal with
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Speaker 9: the Chinese, and just sort of bats it away and
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Speaker 9: you know, keeps talking about Medicare Andrew.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, Stephen, I did think his answer was what if
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Speaker 1: China took it seriously, that he's actually saying that we're
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Speaker 1: doing to it what it's doing to us, that would
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Speaker 1: make it very suspicious of our ships over there. What
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Speaker 1: did you make of that response?
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Speaker 10: Or that would be that would be the truth. I
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Speaker 10: do want to laugh too loudly, but you know, Michael
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Speaker 10: doesn't think our ships and our submarines are engaged in monitoring.
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Speaker 10: That's a polite word for spying on Chinese activities.
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Speaker 1: Behind me, well, we have we have we.
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Speaker 10: Have submarines that no one will ever tell you where
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Speaker 10: they are. We're working in coalition with our American partners.
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Speaker 10: Or allies, plus other navies and agencies who all swarm
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Speaker 10: up and down that coastline, keeping an eye in every
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Speaker 10: single movement of every single vessel. For Michael suddenly go
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Speaker 10: wow at that rageous. We would never be Michael. You
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Speaker 10: know that's not right. So let's been clear even now
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Speaker 10: I get you in intimidation and ocean just to we just.
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Speaker 1: Hold you up, I mean, because I think you're being
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Speaker 1: evasive here. We are talking about not a submarine, a
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Speaker 1: vessel on the surface equipment with the submarine, yes, but
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Speaker 1: quite blatantly and quite close to the coast. You are
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Speaker 1: going to have a look at the South China see map.
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Speaker 1: A lot of that is nowhere near the Chinese coast,
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Speaker 1: like this ship is near our So don't compare apples
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Speaker 1: with oranges here. This is quite as as.
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Speaker 10: You know, China have made a blanket claim across the
20:41
Speaker 10: South China Sea. They've created artificial territory, built air bases,
20:47
Speaker 10: built a whole range of offensive capabilities on these artificial atolls,
20:52
Speaker 10: claim them as China sovereign territory, and we sail right
20:56
Speaker 10: around them, right up and down all over them, just
20:59
Speaker 10: like they're doing too. So let's not let's not try
21:02
Speaker 10: and pretend to be not doing what China are doing.
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Speaker 1: We have child artificial relate way out at sea when
21:11
Speaker 1: we're talking about mainland Australia, not an illegal claim on
21:17
Speaker 1: territory that that it's contested and being thrown out by
21:20
Speaker 1: a world judicial body. I mean, this is just this
21:23
Speaker 1: is just cr ud, actually, Stephen. But Michael, the government's
21:28
Speaker 1: failure to deal properly with the hard courts. Now, Stephen, honestly,
21:32
Speaker 1: if you're going to do that kind of spin, you
21:33
Speaker 1: know that spin. I won't. I won't insult the viewers
21:37
Speaker 1: intelligence on that. You either be fair and income or
21:40
Speaker 1: don't comment. I think that's just that makes me so angry.
21:44
Speaker 1: But listen, we'll move to another subject then. The government's
21:47
Speaker 1: failure to deal properly with the Hargh Court decision sixteen
21:50
Speaker 1: months ago, Michael to free foreigners and immigration detention, even criminals,
21:54
Speaker 1: even rapists, if they couldn't be made to go back home.
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Speaker 1: That's in the headlines again today on them in released
22:00
Speaker 1: was already on bailum five other chargers five was shot
22:05
Speaker 1: by police after allegedly charged them with the Middle Poll
22:09
Speaker 1: after they had responded to claims of a fight at
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Speaker 1: someone's house. The Promeister said, oh, what could he do?
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Speaker 3: You can't, you can't override the High Court. And that
22:22
Speaker 3: is just something that we have had to deal with.
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Speaker 1: Well, has the government dealt with this properly, Michael, when
22:30
Speaker 1: we now have police allegedly attacked.
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Speaker 9: No, Well, of course we passed law. The Federal Parliament
22:36
Speaker 9: passed laws in relation to preventative detection orders. They've issued
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Speaker 9: and they've sought none, none in over a year. Andrew,
22:44
Speaker 9: this is another issue where Labridge is given up. It's
22:47
Speaker 9: too hard for them. They've just given up. They've sought
22:50
Speaker 9: to do nothing about these law breakers. Over dozens of dozen,
22:53
Speaker 9: over one hundred of these people have committed allegedly committed
22:56
Speaker 9: other crimes. It's just too hard for them. It's not
22:59
Speaker 9: like constituency. This type of law and order campaign is
23:03
Speaker 9: a nuisance them. It's foreign to them. They don't know
23:06
Speaker 9: what to do. They've been caught flat footed and they've
23:08
Speaker 9: just basically given up. And hopefully, you know, they think
23:11
Speaker 9: the people who are concerned about that are not voting
23:14
Speaker 9: for us anyway, so just don't.
23:15
Speaker 1: Worry about it.
23:16
Speaker 9: That's basically a Labour's answer to this sort of crisis
23:20
Speaker 9: in relation to these detainees who they were unprepared for
23:23
Speaker 9: the High Court decision and they've been on the back
23:25
Speaker 9: foot ever since.
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Speaker 1: Andrew, see kind of let me give you an easier one.
23:30
Speaker 1: Peter Dutton today was again focusing on power prices, how
23:33
Speaker 1: high they've gone, his plan to cut them by cutting
23:36
Speaker 1: rid tape, to get more gas into the system by
23:38
Speaker 1: going nuclear, and in the meantime forcing gas exports to
23:42
Speaker 1: keep some of the gas restraints, which doesn't seem a
23:44
Speaker 1: very liberal kind of way of doing things, by the way,
23:47
Speaker 1: but Dutton wasn't explaining today what difference that would make
23:51
Speaker 1: to the price.
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Speaker 11: Here is, mister Dutton, how much will Australians electricity and
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Speaker 11: gas prices be cut by in the first term of
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Speaker 11: government if you're elected, or is the cut of not
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Speaker 11: such sufficient size that you're really looking to stabilize the
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Speaker 11: price after these.
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Speaker 12: Price rise There are two offerings at the next election, Andrew.
24:13
Speaker 12: One is from the government, which is guaranteeing you that
24:16
Speaker 12: electricity prices will go higher if Labour's re elected. Right,
24:19
Speaker 12: let's be clear about that. Electricity and gas is up
24:22
Speaker 12: by thirty two and thirty four percent. Now, mister Albanesi's
24:25
Speaker 12: plan promises Australians that they will pay more for electricity
24:28
Speaker 12: and gas after the election. Our plan, which is to
24:31
Speaker 12: create an East Coast Reserve, brings more gas into the system, but.
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Speaker 11: You're looking to just stabilize it or actually cut it.
24:39
Speaker 12: We will have, in terms of our offering at the
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Speaker 12: next election to the Australian people, a definite plan about
24:46
Speaker 12: how we can reduce prices.
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Speaker 1: That Stephen to be fair to him with this many
24:51
Speaker 1: factors affecting gas prices, from war overseas, the demand and
24:55
Speaker 1: whether right here IM possibly give a precise figure. But
24:59
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's pitted up and selling his plan
25:01
Speaker 1: like he should. Well.
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Speaker 10: Look, I mean, in first two thirds of his answer
25:06
Speaker 10: there was when asked Mandra Cleoil a very simple and
25:09
Speaker 10: direct question was to talk about labors policy. So his
25:12
Speaker 10: policy is so under cooked that he couldn't answer the
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Speaker 10: most simpler director. I mean, I would add in when
25:19
Speaker 10: will be the first price decrease because of your plan?
25:23
Speaker 10: Will it be in this term? So you know, the
25:26
Speaker 10: ability to put gas into the East Coast system is
25:28
Speaker 10: not as simple as he's trying to pretend. We've got
25:31
Speaker 10: to find a way to get it south. We've got
25:33
Speaker 10: to find a way to bring it from SA Queensland,
25:35
Speaker 10: from the Beanloo basin. We've got to find a way
25:37
Speaker 10: to bring it down, probably through a pipeline to South Australia,
25:43
Speaker 10: Victoria and New South Wales. So there is a huge
25:47
Speaker 10: construction project to bring down the sort of gas that
25:50
Speaker 10: is probably available to those Southeast State, Victoria and South
25:55
Speaker 10: walesh he's just pretending that's not the case. So he's
25:59
Speaker 10: going to answer what is your price decrease that you're
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Speaker 10: forecasting and will it be in the first term of
26:06
Speaker 10: your governments? Two very simple questions, and he clearly has
26:11
Speaker 10: gone out early. They haven't finished the work, and he
26:15
Speaker 10: wasn't selling his policy at all. It was just continue
26:17
Speaker 10: to attack Labour's policy.
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Speaker 1: Michael, what do you make of it? I mean there's
26:21
Speaker 1: a problem about getting gas companies to break contracts to export,
26:25
Speaker 1: but what do you make of it?
26:29
Speaker 9: Yeah, of course you can't do that.
26:30
Speaker 1: Look, Andrew, my macro view is this.
26:32
Speaker 9: Until the middle of February, the press basically took the
26:35
Speaker 9: view that Peter Dutton was going to win and Alba
26:37
Speaker 9: was getting a very hard time. In the middle of February,
26:39
Speaker 9: the press thought Dutton's going to win, so we better
26:41
Speaker 9: give him a harder time. Almost biosmosis.
26:43
Speaker 1: This works.
26:44
Speaker 9: So the last six weeks Dutton's had a very hard time.
26:47
Speaker 9: Now where we are, where we are, where Albo looks
26:49
Speaker 9: a if he's going to win, Now the focus is
26:51
Speaker 9: going to turn back on Labor, and I think he's
26:54
Speaker 9: going to see Dutton's poles increase. And the reason you're
26:56
Speaker 9: going to see his polls increase between now and the
26:58
Speaker 9: election is not only have Labor lost the Lafe seven
27:00
Speaker 9: elections in electoral in voting terms, as The Australian putting
27:03
Speaker 9: out this morning, So from beginning to end of the election,
27:06
Speaker 9: Labour's votes decliented seven elections in a row. But here's
27:10
Speaker 9: the real problem for Labor. He is statue albani is.
27:13
Speaker 9: He is statue barred. He's politically barred from talking about
27:16
Speaker 9: anything other than Medicare. He spends all day scaring these sick,
27:21
Speaker 9: the elderly and infirmed, dog whistling to the elderly that oh,
27:25
Speaker 9: you know, somehow your medi hair card's going to be
27:27
Speaker 9: taken away. There's not a hospital safe from this bloke
27:30
Speaker 9: or a nursing station safe from him. He can't talk
27:32
Speaker 9: about the cost of housing. He can't talk about energy prices.
27:36
Speaker 9: He can't talk about interest rates, he can't talk about
27:39
Speaker 9: commodity prices. He can't talk about social cohesion. He can't
27:43
Speaker 9: talk about the budget, he can't talk about debt. What
27:45
Speaker 9: can Albany is he talk about his performance has been
27:49
Speaker 9: so bad, cost of living and all the rest I
27:51
Speaker 9: just mentioned. He can't talk about any of that, Andrew.
27:54
Speaker 9: So he's stuck in the lane of going to every
27:57
Speaker 9: hospital in this country and doling out money that he
27:59
Speaker 9: hasn't got. So the problem Albany only hospital, can only
28:06
Speaker 9: talk about Medicare. He can only talks like the Yes minister.
28:10
Speaker 9: He can only talk about Medicare for the next month.
28:12
Speaker 9: And that's going to run thin, Andrew, Michael, thank you.
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Speaker 1: To you both. Well he'll try after the break. Donald
28:21
Speaker 1: Trump finally hits out of Vladimir Putin for treating him
28:25
Speaker 1: like an idiot, as we predicted. Ah to the politics
28:31
Speaker 1: of policing in Victoria. In the lockdowns, police arrested a
28:35
Speaker 1: woman in front of the kids at home simply for
28:38
Speaker 1: posting about a protest. In contrast, police did flat nothing
28:43
Speaker 1: when pro Israel supporters at a rally in Melbourne last
28:46
Speaker 1: week were threatened by pro Palestinian supporters.
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Speaker 10: Police man, I have it on camera.
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Speaker 4: I'll just to kill.
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Speaker 1: I kill you, Will I kill you? Only now after
29:15
Speaker 1: a complaint was officially lodged with the police, to police say, oh,
29:18
Speaker 1: we'll check it out. Now about these propelacy in protests
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Speaker 1: often so ugly, how come that one that I have seen?
29:27
Speaker 1: Not one of their organizers, like Nassam Ashni has said
29:31
Speaker 1: a word of support for some of the bravest protests
29:34
Speaker 1: I've seen. I'm talking about the Palestinians in Gaza now,
29:39
Speaker 1: protests against the Hamasterists who are running that territory and
29:42
Speaker 1: hiding behind the civilians as they fight. Hamas has now
29:46
Speaker 1: moved to crush those protests against Since Friday, it has
29:49
Speaker 1: murdered six protest organizers and tortured this man, this Palaestinian man,
29:54
Speaker 1: for four hours before dumping him dying outside his family home.
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Speaker 1: Is spoke at his funeral.
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Speaker 13: A group that belongs to Alcussom Brigade kidnapped our betrayed son,
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Speaker 13: Odai al Rabai with a silly excuse and they tortured
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Speaker 13: him to death without taking in consideration his mother's and
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Speaker 13: relatives feelings. They betrayed him and killed him. Thus we
30:16
Speaker 13: shall hit with an iron fist those oppressors and criminals.
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Speaker 13: I took this Muslim and killed him unjustly.
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Speaker 1: Where's Nasha Meshnie on that coward de tecking my children
30:29
Speaker 1: instead of dealing with that? Joining me is the country's
30:33
Speaker 1: top foreign affairs Rodder Grigg Sheridan and the Australian A Grig.
30:37
Speaker 1: What's going on with these prayer Palestinian protests and guards
30:40
Speaker 1: against the mass? I mean, you don't see protests against
30:44
Speaker 1: the mass from the left here.
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Speaker 7: No, Andrew great to be with you. Look, this is
30:50
Speaker 7: a terrible business. Hummus is a savage extremist death cult
30:57
Speaker 7: and it's outlawed as a terrorist outfit in Australia and
31:01
Speaker 7: the United States and many other places. We remember when
31:04
Speaker 7: they first took power, they found people they knew to
31:08
Speaker 7: be gay and threw them off the top of tall buildings.
31:11
Speaker 7: And naturally, of course they get sympathy from the Greens
31:15
Speaker 7: in Australia. These people who are protesting against Hummas rule
31:21
Speaker 7: in Gaza have been driven to despair by the actions
31:25
Speaker 7: of Hummas. Hummas runs a completely totalitarian regime within Gaza.
31:31
Speaker 7: It is savage, vicious, violent and despotic within its own rule,
31:35
Speaker 7: within the Palestinian enclay. What has happened to the people
31:39
Speaker 7: of Gaza is tragic. You can't be indifferent to this
31:42
Speaker 7: terrible suffering. But it is all one thousand percent the
31:45
Speaker 7: responsibility of Hummas. Certainly Israel's campaign would stop tomorrow if
31:50
Speaker 7: Hummas released the hostages. And yet you know from the
31:54
Speaker 7: Albanesi government down, no energy in Australia on the left
31:58
Speaker 7: is directed at Hummas. All always directed at Israel. And
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Speaker 7: the left doesn't care about human rights. It just cares
32:06
Speaker 7: about hurting its enemy. Its enemy is Israel. It couldn't
32:10
Speaker 7: care less about Palestinian human rights. It only cares about
32:13
Speaker 7: hurting israel.
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Speaker 1: I suspect, you are only to write greg this Chinese
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Speaker 1: research vessel or actually sparship, shall we call it Sailing
32:24
Speaker 1: of Victoria A story broken by Colleine Sherry markson the
32:29
Speaker 1: Prime Minister's reaction, Oh yes, but you know we've got
32:33
Speaker 1: the ships doing this kind of stuff. Well, we've at
32:35
Speaker 1: ships in the South China see same saying. Is that
32:38
Speaker 1: all there is to this?
32:42
Speaker 4: Well?
32:42
Speaker 7: The Prime Minister is increasingly bizarre on defense increasingly bizarre.
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Speaker 1: First of all, well, of course.
32:50
Speaker 7: Everybody in the know knows that we spy on China relentlessly, obviously,
32:54
Speaker 7: but prime ministers don't make reference to our spying activities.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is crackers.
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Speaker 7: I can't imagine what the Labor Party's reaction would be
33:03
Speaker 7: if a coalition prime minister said, well, yes, of course
33:06
Speaker 7: we spy on China all the time, a bit like
33:09
Speaker 7: when Tony Abbott had to bear responsibility for the listening
33:13
Speaker 7: devices authorized by the rub government against the Indonesian president. Similarly,
33:19
Speaker 7: the Indonesian's spy on Australia as well, But this pattern
33:23
Speaker 7: of Chinese naval activity around Australia is much more aggressive
33:27
Speaker 7: than that. As you've pointed out, this is a ship
33:29
Speaker 7: which has the capability of cutting seabed cables. And as
33:33
Speaker 7: we've discussed on this program before, China has effectively adopted
33:37
Speaker 7: a wartime economy and is increasingly trying out war fighting
33:45
Speaker 7: capabilities which allow it to hurt nations like Australia in
33:52
Speaker 7: the event of conflict. And we spy on China all
33:55
Speaker 7: the time, but we couldn't possibly do them any harm.
33:58
Speaker 7: Our pathetic little navy, you know, can barely make it
34:01
Speaker 7: all the way up to the Chinese coast without special
34:04
Speaker 7: you know, getting the rac V or the NRMA or
34:06
Speaker 7: something to give him roadside assistance on the way, we
34:09
Speaker 7: couldn't do China any harm. And the way the Prime
34:14
Speaker 7: Minister just brushes it all aside because he doesn't want
34:17
Speaker 7: to spend a dollar more on defense. His spending is
34:20
Speaker 7: grossly inadequate. He's canceled military capability after military capability, so
34:26
Speaker 7: he just pretends there's nothing to see here. I mean,
34:29
Speaker 7: it's a Walter Mitty. He's like mister McGoo or something
34:32
Speaker 7: in the strategic environment.
34:38
Speaker 1: Quickly, Donald Trump, you and I have been criticized the
34:42
Speaker 1: way he attacked Ukraine. We said it would encourage Vladimir
34:46
Speaker 1: Putin to string out these peace negotiations this war, thinking well,
34:51
Speaker 1: America is never going to defend Ukraine, not with that president.
34:56
Speaker 1: Now Vladim me Putin has said, oh yes, look, I'm
35:00
Speaker 1: not going to even discuss peace with Ukraine, the peace
35:04
Speaker 1: plan that Donald Trump is promoting until they have an elections,
35:08
Speaker 1: maybe under the auspices of the UN, and they get
35:13
Speaker 1: a new government, and then we can talk peace. I mean,
35:15
Speaker 1: it's clearly stringing on the president. Here is President Trump really, Well,
35:22
Speaker 1: he's had a little he's had a little brain explosion
35:26
Speaker 1: because of the series.
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Speaker 14: Just hours ago, President Trump called me to tell me
35:33
Speaker 14: he is quote pissed off with Russia's President Putin and
35:37
Speaker 14: threatened to impose secondary tariffs on Russia's oil.
35:40
Speaker 15: I was disappointed in a certain way some of the
35:44
Speaker 15: things that were said over the last day or two
35:46
Speaker 15: having to do with Zelinsky, because when he considers Zelensky
35:50
Speaker 15: not credible, he's supposed to be making a deal with them,
35:54
Speaker 15: whether you like it, where you don't like him.
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Speaker 1: So I wasn't happy with that amount of time, Greg.
35:58
Speaker 1: But quickly, what do you make of this reaction?
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Speaker 10: Well?
36:04
Speaker 7: Trump is all over the shop like a mad person's breakfast. Really,
36:07
Speaker 7: I mean, if he's really cross with Putin, that's a
36:12
Speaker 7: good thing. Is he just doing it for effect?
36:14
Speaker 1: Who knows?
36:15
Speaker 7: What did he really expect from Putin? He must be
36:17
Speaker 7: much domber than we all thought he was if he
36:19
Speaker 7: really thought Putin was coming to the party. He's been
36:22
Speaker 7: copying quite a lot of criticism lately for being so
36:25
Speaker 7: pro Putin. So maybe this is just a reaction. But
36:30
Speaker 7: you can't really, you know, for domestic political consumption. But
36:34
Speaker 7: you can't really make any sense out of Trump in this.
36:39
Speaker 7: But I mean, if this is really a falling out
36:41
Speaker 7: between Trump and Putin, well it's the best thing that's
36:43
Speaker 7: happened for Ukraine for some time. But the problem is
36:46
Speaker 7: everything Trump says he's likely to contradict twenty four hours later.
36:51
Speaker 7: So we just have to see if this new hostility
36:54
Speaker 7: to Putin actually means something and what Putin will do
36:57
Speaker 7: in response to it.
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Speaker 1: Great Shardan, always great to talk to you. Thank you
37:03
Speaker 1: so much after the break. And did you miss Chris
37:05
Speaker 1: Bone exposed again? Another big green promise bites the dust
37:10
Speaker 1: with your money? How can we how manies the government
37:13
Speaker 1: afford this guy? I mean surely a government must be
37:20
Speaker 1: judged not on promises but delivery. For instance, Sen did
37:24
Speaker 1: you miss the Crispond. He didn't just promise to the
37:26
Speaker 1: last election of his green schemes would cut your power
37:28
Speaker 1: bills by two hundred and seventy five dollars. What the
37:30
Speaker 1: joke that was? He also promised community batteries funded by
37:34
Speaker 1: taxpayers to stare the wind and sold of electricity for
37:37
Speaker 1: when it was needed.
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Speaker 16: So we finded four hundred millions your own and not
37:43
Speaker 16: edging he's right there on the list would do a
37:46
Speaker 16: lot bit more strongly than to be able to install
37:49
Speaker 16: their actually without knowing specimen and.
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Speaker 1: Met so promise wonderful delivery appalling two and a half
37:57
Speaker 1: years later, just twenty one of those four hundred community
38:01
Speaker 1: batteries are actually installed and working. Join me is the
38:04
Speaker 1: panel This story of the late debate here on Sky
38:07
Speaker 1: on weekdays at ten pm. And Steven Tavoua, an author
38:10
Speaker 1: and senior elector in history at Campion College, Liz, how
38:13
Speaker 1: can this election be neck and neck when the government's
38:16
Speaker 1: clean Inagy revolution has been a rolled gold disaster.
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Speaker 17: Well, I don't know that I agree with the premise
38:24
Speaker 17: of the question there, Andrew. I know that the polls
38:27
Speaker 17: are very encouraging and may lead some to believe that
38:30
Speaker 17: the election is neck and neck, but when you look
38:33
Speaker 17: at the electoral math, it simply isn't so unfortunately. I mean,
38:39
Speaker 17: the coalition would need to flip nineteen seats in order
38:44
Speaker 17: to make the Albanese government the first one term government
38:48
Speaker 17: since nineteen thirty one. I think if we see a
38:52
Speaker 17: small act of God at the election, we might see
38:54
Speaker 17: a minority coalition government. But my hopes aren't that high.
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Speaker 17: So you speak about inflation being driven, of course by
39:02
Speaker 17: the eyewarding, eyewatering expenditure of the Urbanese government on this
39:08
Speaker 17: green dream. But at the same time we know from
39:11
Speaker 17: Dutton's Budget reply speech just last week that effectively government spending,
39:17
Speaker 17: which we know was the number one thing that drives inflation,
39:21
Speaker 17: government spending isn't on the cards to be slashed by
39:25
Speaker 17: either government. So I think that the current rates of
39:28
Speaker 17: inflation that we're seeing at the moment are going to
39:31
Speaker 17: be steady for the foreseeable future. But it comes down
39:34
Speaker 17: to whether voters have figured out by now that Chris
39:37
Speaker 17: Bowen is a fourteen carrot phony because despite projects falling
39:44
Speaker 17: by the wayside, I mean in New South Wales we
39:47
Speaker 17: saw Origin Energy pull the plug on this amazing green
39:52
Speaker 17: hydrogen hub we were supposed to have here in this state.
39:55
Speaker 17: In Queensland, Chris of Foley's government has pulled a billion
39:58
Speaker 17: dollars from this eight big hydrogen plans up there. The
40:03
Speaker 17: Northern Territory just last week pulled their renewable targets all together.
40:08
Speaker 17: And yet Chris Bowen just keeps gas lighting the nation
40:12
Speaker 17: like everything's fine, announcing just last week, another eight hundred
40:16
Speaker 17: and fourteen million dollars for a hydrogen project in Wa.
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Speaker 1: Keep it going, keep the scam going, rather than admit
40:26
Speaker 1: you're wrong, Stephen, this is what I don't get. I mean,
40:28
Speaker 1: you're an expert in the history of ideas and rise
40:31
Speaker 1: and falls of religions, but I don't get what's screen
40:35
Speaker 1: about this global warming religion. Because you look at the
40:38
Speaker 1: vandals of the Kosaosco National Park. I mean, kill them
40:40
Speaker 1: there after, kill a meat in our clean of trees
40:42
Speaker 1: to make room for giant new power transmission lines. So
40:45
Speaker 1: we've got the Stowe two points zero pumped hydro project,
40:48
Speaker 1: which is another green disaster. It's supposedly to store spear
40:53
Speaker 1: wind and solar panel also way behind, also over budget
40:56
Speaker 1: ten times original costs. Stephen. If this was a forest
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Speaker 1: being cleared for something capitalistic, like a string of factories,
41:04
Speaker 1: there be a line of bust loads of protests lying
41:08
Speaker 1: in front of the bulldoers. How come this is going
41:11
Speaker 1: through well as you say?
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Speaker 18: I mean, the climate change, the climate catastrophe ideology has
41:19
Speaker 18: just bewitched a generation of people to the point where
41:23
Speaker 18: they're quite happy to kill the planet to save the climate.
41:27
Speaker 18: It's it's a form of incredible cognitive dissonance. But there's
41:32
Speaker 18: there's another thing that's going on, and that is that
41:34
Speaker 18: there are some places around the world, for example, some
41:37
Speaker 18: Scandinavian countries that are actually cottoning on. You're not finding
41:41
Speaker 18: this in the media, but what they're seeing is the
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Speaker 18: horrible damage being done by say, wind turbines, and they're
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Speaker 18: actually there are very strong pro nuclear movements emerging, and
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Speaker 18: some of these countries are going more towards nuclear. So
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Speaker 18: there are signs around the world that this renewables craze
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Speaker 18: is actually far more destructive than anything it promised us
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Speaker 18: to do for the environment. But just one more thing,
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Speaker 18: very important is the fact that many renewables companies have
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Speaker 18: been donating to traditional environmental conservation organizations and lobby groups,
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Speaker 18: and so now a lot of lobby groups who normally
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Speaker 18: would have been out there tying themselves to trees are
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Speaker 18: basically very skittish to do it because a lot of
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Speaker 18: their money now is coming from renewables companies. So a
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Speaker 18: lot of it just has to do with follow where
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Speaker 18: the money's coming from. And that's why you're not getting
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Speaker 18: the protests that you would have had, say twenty or
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Speaker 18: thirty years ago.
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Speaker 1: This Star and Stevens review. I'm sorry I've left you
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Speaker 1: so little time. I've got in a bit of a
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Speaker 1: digging dong with Stephen Conroy that I think ate up
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Speaker 1: some of the time. I hope to make it good
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Speaker 1: to you next week. Thank you so much for your time.
42:50
Speaker 1: After the break. Prince Harry accused of racism. Lucky accused
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Speaker 1: his own family and this scandal seems to be growing legs.
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Speaker 1: It's karma, Prince Harry getting the same race card played
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Speaker 1: against him that he and wife Mergan Michael unfairly played
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Speaker 1: against his own family. This sarm's to charity that he
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Speaker 1: founded for age victims in the Sotho, a charity is
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Speaker 1: co patron of and good on him. But that charity
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Speaker 1: didn't tried to seconds chairman Sophie Chandalka, and she refused
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Speaker 1: to go in faction. Such is so the trustees in
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Speaker 1: in Britain's High Court and then gave Harry a public
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Speaker 1: serf claiming he was the racist and covering up.
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Speaker 19: What Prince Harry wanted to do was to eject me
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Speaker 19: from the organization and this went on four months. It
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Speaker 19: went on four months through bullying, harassment, because I put
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Speaker 19: a whistle to a complaint about the bullying, the harassment
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Speaker 19: and the misogyny, and Prince Harry interfered in the investigation
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Speaker 19: of that, and the senior independent director who should have
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Speaker 19: taken care of it was the very same person who
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Speaker 19: then delivered the news to me that I was going
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Speaker 19: to be removed by the board.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I think the real issue is that the
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Speaker 1: charity was running out of cash under her chairmanship. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: there were even leaks from people supposedly close toch Delka
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Speaker 1: that Harrie had sound on her after Mega Markel seemed
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Speaker 1: to boss her at the charity Parlo event, telling her
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Speaker 1: not to stand next to Harry, and Harry later allegedly
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Speaker 1: told her that please put out a statement that Mega
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Speaker 1: Michael had actually been mean to you. And now she
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Speaker 1: says this sussek media is attacking her. Joining me from
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Speaker 1: London is writer columns and presenter is the crack who
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Speaker 1: is so great to see you again? Look, this is
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Speaker 1: so embarrassing for Harry, who has resigned from the charity
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Speaker 1: in protest, denies all these claims. I don't think he's
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Speaker 1: really racist. Really, is he no more racist than his
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Speaker 1: own family? That he accused.
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Speaker 5: Well, unfortunately, the pot has now met the castle and
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Speaker 5: Harry is in a delicious piece of irony basically facing
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Speaker 5: the same allegations that he leveled against numbers of his
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Speaker 5: his own family. The interesting thing is this kind of
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Speaker 5: drama seems to follow around the follow of the Sussex
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Speaker 5: around like flies on rotting fruit. So Doctor Sophie actually
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Speaker 5: alleged many things against Harry, one of which was the
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Speaker 5: fact that, you know, despite he not wanting to speak
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Speaker 5: about the sore relationship he had with his family, particularly
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Speaker 5: after mexit back in twenty twenty, you know, she alleges
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Speaker 5: that there was a steep four in corporate and individual
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Speaker 5: and family sponsors to the Center Ballet charity that were
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Speaker 5: directly linked with his exit from the royal family and
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Speaker 5: all the sort of bruhaha that ensued afterwards. So for
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Speaker 5: him to try and paint her as someone who's failing
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Speaker 5: in her fundraising efforts, she alleges, is laughable because basically
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Speaker 5: the board were told that it's not a subject they're
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Speaker 5: willing to discuss, you know, Prince Harry's impact on the
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Speaker 5: sort of charity donations to the charity. And another interesting
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Speaker 5: thing that she said, was you know, he had n't
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Speaker 5: been to sub Sahan Africa in over five years, even
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Speaker 5: though he'd been allegedly running this charity for the last
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Speaker 5: twenty years. And the only reason why he came to
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Speaker 5: sub Saharan Africa and went to sub Sharan Africa went
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Speaker 5: to Lsutu is because she asked him to center balle
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Speaker 5: employees over five hundred and fifty employees, many of whom
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Speaker 5: are on the ground in Lisutu and Botswana, and I
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Speaker 5: doubt the Prince can even name ten percent of them.
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Speaker 5: So I think what he's realized is the drama isn't
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Speaker 5: following him around because you know, British people can't get
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Speaker 5: over the fact that he left the royal family. It's
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Speaker 5: mainly to do the Sussex the style of governance, the
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Speaker 5: idea of doing good, which they think is just kind
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Speaker 5: of hopping from one fantasy or nice idea to another
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Speaker 5: instead of actually getting down to the nitty gritty. I mean,
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Speaker 5: you should watch the interviews that she's been doing. She
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Speaker 5: really leveled a lot of accusations against him that I
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Speaker 5: don't think he can recover from.
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Speaker 1: It is hard, and I thought it was odd that
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Speaker 1: one of the accusations against her. I mean there's lots
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Speaker 1: of I talk about the finances, etc. But how dare
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Speaker 1: she move the headquarters from Britain to Africa, which happens
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Speaker 1: to be where most of the work is done. I
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Speaker 1: thought that was rather weird. But anyways, so I am
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Speaker 1: shocked shocked how young British biggots can be, at least
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Speaker 1: according to your officials. Now there's a toddler aged three
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Speaker 1: or four who was kicked out of kindergarten for supposedly
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Speaker 1: being transphobic, for abuse against sexual orientation, gender identity. Can
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Speaker 1: you explain what on earth that's about?
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, just to contextualize this, since about twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty two, there have been almost one hundred primary school
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Speaker 5: students between the ages of sort of four and seven
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Speaker 5: that have been excluded from school for apparently transphobic comments,
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Speaker 5: which I'm sure is a record only Britain can break.
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Speaker 5: And you know, this child in question, I'm sure said
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Speaker 5: something along the lines of you can't be a girl,
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Speaker 5: you have a willie and that counts as transphobia and
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Speaker 5: they've now been excluded. So it's really I mean, the
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Speaker 5: definition of transphobia and who they're targeting is getting more impressive,
47:53
Speaker 5: but it just shows the lunacy of Britain and how
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Speaker 5: ridiculous our institutions have become in regards to the sort
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Speaker 5: of gender theory. A three or four year old doesn't
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Speaker 5: even know anything about sexuality, let alone to be biggot
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Speaker 5: enough to be a transfer, and somehow we see it
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Speaker 5: fits to exclude children from schools because of this made
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Speaker 5: up idea that they themselves at their age can't even comprehend.
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Speaker 1: I think it's just absolutely amazing. Esther Crak who always
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Speaker 1: great to talk to you, Thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: your time. Well that's it for me. Coming up next
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Speaker 1: to is Sherry Marks and it seems to break break
48:30
Speaker 1: stories every single day, including this Chinese warship one. Let's
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Speaker 1: see what she has for us tonight. Good night,