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Speaker 1: Is the reform it. Tonight, Tanon Joyce, the former Quantus
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Speaker 1: King is punished by having his payout doct by more
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Speaker 1: than nine million dollars. Plus the head of the mysterious
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Speaker 1: group Muslim Votes Matters tells us for the first time
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Speaker 1: on TV what's driving this devisive movement? And in Britain
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Speaker 1: ethnic rights the dangerous mob overnighte that the British police
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Speaker 1: failed to mention all.
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Speaker 2: A lot.
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Speaker 1: Also tonight, Australia now third and the Olympics medal table.
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Speaker 1: Don't you think that's a bit weird? And new video
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Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris's pick as vice president shows him making
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Speaker 1: false claims of having been in war or that are
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Speaker 1: much more Baaby Joyce my book of the week, don't
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Speaker 1: recommend it if you're a bit sensitive all that coming
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Speaker 1: up the first another terrible day for the Prime Minister
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Speaker 1: with a car crash interview here on Sky plus something
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Speaker 1: even worse Anthony Albany is you try to deny and
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Speaker 1: Sky News to Peter Stephanovic that even the Reserved Bank
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Speaker 1: now says this big spending is driving up inflation, driving
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Speaker 1: up interest rates and making you poorer.
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Speaker 3: This is the quote here from the RBA, public demand
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Speaker 3: is forecast to be stronger than previously expected, reflecting recent
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Speaker 3: public spending announcements by federal and state governments. Are you
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Speaker 3: saying they're wrong. Yeah, that's very different.
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Speaker 4: That's very different from the way that you characterized that, Peter.
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Speaker 4: We've made sure fiscal policy, budget policy works arm in
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Speaker 4: arm with monetary Well.
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Speaker 3: That's not working at all because the RBA and Treasury
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Speaker 3: are brawling at the moment.
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Speaker 5: That's not true, Peter.
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Speaker 3: Well, you're saying completely different.
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Speaker 4: Inflation, No, we're not.
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Speaker 1: Peter was clearly right. The Prime minister dead wrong. The
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Speaker 1: Reserve Bank on Tuesday was clear when it said inflation
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Speaker 1: was on a slower return to target than forecast in May,
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Speaker 1: and this is due to greater inflationary pressures in the economy.
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Speaker 1: In part, this owes to a stronger outlook for domestic demand,
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Speaker 1: led by higher public demand. Higher public demand means higher
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Speaker 1: government spending and that's hurting us. Now, that, of course,
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Speaker 1: was the most obvious embarrassment today for the government Albanies.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't either, he doesn't understand how is big spending
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Speaker 1: is hurting strands or is lying. But there was another
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Speaker 1: embarrassment and in some ways more serious. This one involves
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Speaker 1: billions of dollars of your money and the real risk
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Speaker 1: the lights will go out now today, this news that
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Speaker 1: sun Drive and Australian company trying to invent a new
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Speaker 1: solar panel has had to cut maybe fifty staff and
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Speaker 1: change bosses wider surprise because last March alban Izi an
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Speaker 1: energy mister Chris Bard told us they were going to
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Speaker 1: spend a billion dollars of your money to get companies
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Speaker 1: here to make solar panels, even though China makes them
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Speaker 1: much much cheaper. And they said this same sun Drive
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Speaker 1: was getting some of the cash because it was the
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Speaker 1: future the.
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Speaker 4: Sun Drive has developed is the most efficient in the world.
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Speaker 4: Why wouldn't you take that opportunity and have a future
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Speaker 4: made right here in Australia. And that's what the billion
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Speaker 4: dollar SunShot program is about.
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Speaker 1: And Albany has also made this promise.
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Speaker 4: The people standing behind us will never be out of
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Speaker 4: work because what they're doing is training for the jobs
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Speaker 4: of today.
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Speaker 1: Instead, the same company that was with him right of
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Speaker 1: that press conference, and one that Albany's has already given
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Speaker 1: eleven million dollars to already is now dumping workers just
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Speaker 1: four months later the company does claim, oh we're still
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Speaker 1: charging ahead, And this bad bet is a pattern. The
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Speaker 1: Albanize government is spending madly on wild green schemes. Look
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Speaker 1: for something, anything renewable that could replace the electricity that's
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Speaker 1: going to be lost when it closes all our coal
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Speaker 1: fired power stations, the ones that's driving out of business.
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Speaker 1: But it's been failure after failure. For instance, the Snowy
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Speaker 1: Mountains pumped hydro scheme now about ten times over budget,
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Speaker 1: hopelessly behind wind power that's also way behind schedule with
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Speaker 1: wind droughts and local protests against building more. And it
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Speaker 1: gets even worse. Albit Easy and Chris Bowen, they've bet
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Speaker 1: the bank on green hydrogen made by using massive amounts
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Speaker 1: of electricity, through put it through water and get the gas,
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Speaker 1: even though this has never been proved to work commercially
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Speaker 1: at scale.
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Speaker 2: Our green hydrogen future is fundamental to that clean energy
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Speaker 2: future as a powerhouse. The green hydrogen sector has an
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Speaker 2: enormous potential in this country.
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Speaker 1: Oh it's fundamental, it's the future. But now the country
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Speaker 1: is bigcause private investor in green hydrogen, billionaire Andrew Forrest,
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Speaker 1: is walking away from most of his own hydrogen plans,
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Speaker 1: saying green hydrogen turns out to be just too expensive. Now,
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Speaker 1: Albani ziem Bowen didn't just promise to spend billions on
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Speaker 1: green hydrogen schemes. They even promise very specifically that'd make
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Speaker 1: the new Curry Curry gas plant the new South Wales
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Speaker 1: use hydrogen. Months later the plant operator said no, it
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Speaker 1: was impossible. Another dad. But still this goverment wouldn't get
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Speaker 1: the message and promise even more of your money.
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Speaker 6: This budget invests in our renewable energy superpower ambitions, including
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Speaker 6: thirteen point seven billion dollars in production tax incentives for
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Speaker 6: green hydrogen and procest critical minerals.
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Speaker 1: So here's this government wasting billions of your dollars on
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Speaker 1: hair brain green schemes, including unproven technologies, with the clock
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Speaker 1: running out. So it's getting so desperate now that Bone
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Speaker 1: even suggested last month we could hook up all the
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Speaker 1: batteries in electric cars if you have them, to power
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Speaker 1: the electricity system when we're short. Seriously, Yet all the while,
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Speaker 1: the same government is now saying no to nuclear power,
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Speaker 1: which is safe, it's efficient, it's proven. I mean, Bone's
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Speaker 1: even scoffing at the opposition's interests in new generation small
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Speaker 1: nuclear reactors or SMRs.
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Speaker 2: SMR someday maybe reality. I mean, if Peter Dutton really
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Speaker 2: wants to bank Australia's energy policy, put all his energy
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Speaker 2: policy on this science fiction pipe dram.
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Speaker 1: A pipe drink Chris Bone. In fact, there's news now
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Speaker 1: that China is steaming ahead with nuclear power to lead
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Speaker 1: the world with it, and it's just about to finish
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Speaker 1: building the first the world's first commercial small modular nuclear
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Speaker 1: reactor onshore, which it thinks will be a world better.
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Speaker 7: This nuclear power plant, which uses the world's first modular
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Speaker 7: small reactor technology, has completely rewritten the traditional definition of
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Speaker 7: nuclear power plants. With the increasing global demand for clean energy,
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Speaker 7: nuclear energy as an efficient and low carbon energy form
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Speaker 7: will occupy an increasingly important position in the future energy structure.
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Speaker 1: That's the future. This government has turned its back on
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Speaker 1: blowing our buildings instead on wild green schemes that are
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Speaker 1: already collapsing, and this could hurt us even more than
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Speaker 1: the Albanezy government making inflation even worse with a spinning
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Speaker 1: and I know that is saying a lot, you know,
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Speaker 1: I found it astonishing to now see that students in
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Speaker 1: one of our top universities now backing terrorists is a
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Speaker 1: sickness in our culture. Almost eight hundred Sydney University students
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Speaker 1: voted yesterday for their student body to back the supposed
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Speaker 1: right of Palestinians to armed resistance and voted almost unanimously
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Speaker 1: not to condemn Hamas and is a mis terrorist group
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Speaker 1: there's actually banned here in Australia. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: Hamas is the group that runs GARSA and started this
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Speaker 1: war with Israel by slaughtering twelve hundred Israelis, raping women,
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Speaker 1: beheading men and taking around two hundred and fifty hostages,
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Speaker 1: including children. But these students didn't just refuse to condemn Hamas.
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Speaker 1: They backed its aim, which is the destruction of Israel.
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Speaker 1: They said Israel should be replaced by just one Palestinian state.
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Speaker 1: What happens then to the more than seven million Jews there?
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Speaker 1: You can only guess. Now when one student tried to
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Speaker 1: condemn Hamasi was actually spat out. Now when we have
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Speaker 1: hundreds of our university students say sure Isamus terrorists slaughtered
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Speaker 1: all those people and then raped and all that can't
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Speaker 1: condemn them. When we had these hundreds of students saying sure,
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Speaker 1: such finance is justified how long before others say, well, yes,
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Speaker 1: that includes violence like that right here. But there's another
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Speaker 1: threat to our unity and it's one that Sky News
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Speaker 1: will be examining in a special investigation. It's Tuesday by
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Speaker 1: our investigative reporter Jonathan Lee. It's in a documentary called
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Speaker 1: Clash of Faiths, The Faith, the Fight for Muslim Votes,
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Speaker 1: and this is about the rise of a group, a
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Speaker 1: movement called Muslim Votes Matter, which is accused of federal
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Speaker 1: government of being complicit in a supposed genocide in Gaza
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Speaker 1: and wants to push more pro Palestine and more pro
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Speaker 1: Muslim candidates into parliament. I'm joined by the reporter who's
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Speaker 1: done this investigation, Jonathan Lee. Jonathan, great to see you again.
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Speaker 1: Look you've got the first on camera interview with the
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Speaker 1: man behind Muslim Votes Matter, Jaith Craham. Who is he?
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Speaker 1: What does he want?
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Speaker 8: Well? Good evening to you, Andrew. I should probably start
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Speaker 8: by pointing out where I am. I'm actually beside Bankstown
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Speaker 8: Council chambers, Paul Keating Park. In fact, you might wonder
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Speaker 8: what the former Prime minister would say about the fact
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Speaker 8: that Suedes of Labor voters are potentially lining up to
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Speaker 8: desert the party at the next election.
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Speaker 1: You're right.
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Speaker 8: We did speak to Gaith Cram at his home in Melbourne.
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Speaker 8: He's behind the Melbourne Votes Matters movement is the official spokesperson.
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Speaker 8: It's one of two bodies now which are rising up.
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Speaker 8: Such is their outrage about what has happened in Gaza
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Speaker 8: and the death toll in Gaza, chiefly to Palestinians. They
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Speaker 8: want to in effect form a voting body. They don't
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Speaker 8: want to create candidates themselves, at least not yet, and
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Speaker 8: they want to do so in the hope of I
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Speaker 8: suppose you could say strong arming government making sure that
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Speaker 8: there is policy which favors Muslim voters. They say it's
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Speaker 8: they're not the only group which does this. There's the
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Speaker 8: Christian lobby. There's also the Jewish lobby, and they believe
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Speaker 8: it's high time that they are also heard what we
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Speaker 8: had to say. And they're very clear that they believe
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Speaker 8: the government has blood on its hands and it isn't
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Speaker 8: doing enough to stop the war in Gaza.
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Speaker 9: How did it stand idly by when people in Ghars
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Speaker 9: aren't even getting the bare minimum to survive, not to
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Speaker 9: die of starvation and thirst.
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Speaker 1: And our government has not done everything possibly can.
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Speaker 8: You paint a picture there of a government which has
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Speaker 8: got blood.
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Speaker 1: On its hands.
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Speaker 10: Absolutely.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, If you have the ability to do something and
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Speaker 8: you fail not to do it, then you're complicit in
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Speaker 8: what goes on.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know how Australia can be complicit in
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Speaker 1: the war. We didn't start, we can't stop. But for me, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: it's scary that the implication here is that if you're Muslim,
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Speaker 1: the icepianite Israel and blind her mass terrorism. Also, it
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Speaker 1: seems to me, is this the one big issue for
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Speaker 1: Muslim votes matter? Panassan Panistine? Panistine?
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Speaker 8: Look, it's certainly an issue which has galvanized them. We've
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Speaker 8: been told that it's the straw and effect that broke
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Speaker 8: the cabble's back, which is what one person told us.
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Speaker 8: Where were here at Bankstown Council chambers the other day
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Speaker 8: when there was a pro Palestinian group calling for Counsel
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Speaker 8: to look into Israeli contracts with counsel they are seeking action, Andrew,
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Speaker 8: It's very, very hard to describe the absolute outrage this
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Speaker 8: community is feeling and experiencing. I've certainly never experienced anything
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Speaker 8: like it. In sitting down and trying to understand people's
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Speaker 8: arguments and frustrations here. Tony Burke is also a Labor
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Speaker 8: Party politician, a minister, the Home Affairs Minister now potentially
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Speaker 8: in the firing line with his seat of Watson. He
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Speaker 8: compares it to what happened with the Teal movement, and
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Speaker 8: he's also explicitly clear that he's not complacent about the
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Speaker 8: threat here to his seat.
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Speaker 11: I remember what we refer to as the Teal campaign
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Speaker 11: started and a whole lot of commentators scoffing and saying, oh, well,
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Speaker 11: you know they won't get anywhere politically, and experienced whatever
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Speaker 11: lines were being used. I'm not going to make that
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Speaker 11: mistake because the the key to what happened in those
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Speaker 11: was there as a legitimate grievance in those communities and
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Speaker 11: it was ignored. There's a legitimate grievance in my community,
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Speaker 11: and I'm making sure that it's being heard and it's
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Speaker 11: being represented.
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Speaker 1: I wonder what Tony Burke has in mind when he
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Speaker 1: says they've got legitimate grievances that he won't ignore, given
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Speaker 1: that it is also the Home Affairs minister in charge
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Speaker 1: of things like immigration, in charge of things like allowing
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Speaker 1: people from Gaza refugees. From Gaza, which is a big
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Speaker 1: territory with big support from US. Come here permanently. I mean, seriously,
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Speaker 1: this is really really alarming. Great work. That's a very
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Speaker 1: interesting grab you got from Tony Burke and the full
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Speaker 1: documentary called Clash of Faiths the Fight for Muslim Votes. Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: you'll be screening it here on SCAR News next Tuesday
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Speaker 1: at seven thirty pm. Good luck to you with that,
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time. Meanwhile, is showing
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Speaker 1: us exactly what can happen when weak and dishonest politicians
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Speaker 1: mishandle exactly what we were just talking about. I mean,
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Speaker 1: first you allow mass immigration, including the people from areas
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Speaker 1: and cultures which make it harder for some to integrate,
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Speaker 1: plus Islamism, and then you trash your own culture, your history,
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Speaker 1: your own institution, You panned to what you should confront
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Speaker 1: and you don't tell the truth either about all this.
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Speaker 1: Now in Britain have been there's been a week of
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Speaker 1: riots by nationalists and anti immigration extremes and thugs after
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Speaker 1: three girls who were murdered by allegedly the son of
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Speaker 1: immigrants from Rwanda. But last night there were much much
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Speaker 1: less of that as thousands of counter protests held their
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Speaker 1: own rallies the marning peace, many demanding even more immigration,
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Speaker 1: which doesn't seem wise, but newspapers celebrated night anti hate marches,
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Speaker 1: face down the thugs. Thousands take to the streets to
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Speaker 1: confront the far right, and good on them. And London's
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Speaker 1: Metropolitan Police also celebrated and anti racism protests, although did
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Speaker 1: later emit. Okay, there was one group of people not
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Speaker 1: identified who were causing trouble getting arrested, but that wasn't
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Speaker 1: a protest, that was just pure anti social behavior. Well, yes,
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Speaker 1: the cover up continues because some people are our posting
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Speaker 1: social media. These non identified non protests as they filmed,
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Speaker 1: were actually these people crying alawachba and carrying weapons.
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Speaker 9: Allah holla.
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Speaker 1: Yes, let's pretain we didn't see them, didn't hear them,
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Speaker 1: didn't notice that Muslim, didn't notice how they left the
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Speaker 1: streets looking like this. The only villains needed right now
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Speaker 1: for the narrative are racist whites joining for London. Is
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Speaker 1: Patrick Christie's star presenter at gb News. Patrick, great to
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Speaker 1: see you again. Look, fewer anti immigration riots overnight. That's
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Speaker 1: a good thing. But is that the end of the trouble?
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Speaker 1: Is it all sorted.
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Speaker 12: Now, No, absolutely not. It's not sorted because nothing has
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Speaker 12: been sorted. I mean they were called counter protesters last night,
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Speaker 12: the fact that they were protesting against thin Air. I mean,
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Speaker 12: there are serious rumblings as to where this idea that
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Speaker 12: there would be one hundred far right military style protests
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Speaker 12: across Britain even came from. I mean there are rumors
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Speaker 12: today doing the rounds that actually this was a bit
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Speaker 12: of a hoax just to try to get people out
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Speaker 12: onto the streets as a mobilized kind of anti racist
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Speaker 12: show of force, but they're not dealing with the core
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Speaker 12: issue at play here. So an individual who was a
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Speaker 12: hero who tackled that alleged Southport stabber that you just
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Speaker 12: mentioned there and he was stabbed in the leg himself,
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Speaker 12: he went on the BBC yesterday and he said he's
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Speaker 12: dismayed at the way our Prime Minister is handling this
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Speaker 12: because actually what he needs to do is cut immigration
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Speaker 12: and not call everybody far right. Now, the latest polls
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Speaker 12: show that fifty one percent of people in Britain now
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Speaker 12: I think immigration is the top issue facing this country
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Speaker 12: and third is crime. Okay, what are the Labor Party?
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Speaker 12: They're ignoring immigration? They've decided now that they're also going
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Speaker 12: to allow criminals and potentially terrorists to get on these
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Speaker 12: social housing waiting lists. They've scrapped the idea to have
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Speaker 12: British homes for British workers, and they're simultaneously doing something
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Speaker 12: called Operation Scatter, which is going to scatter asylum seekers
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Speaker 12: all around the country. Those things are what are really
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Speaker 12: underlying a lot of people, millions of people's dissatisfaction. If
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Speaker 12: you don't deal with that, then you continue to get unrest.
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Speaker 12: Obviously not for a second justifying any of the proper
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Speaker 12: far right action that we would see.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting, you know, we just saw that footage of
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Speaker 1: a group of men going down the streets, some armed,
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Speaker 1: yelling alo akbar. Meanwhile, of course, you know the British
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Speaker 1: Conservative Paddy which got a hiding in the last selection.
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Speaker 1: It's looking around for a new leader. One man has
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Speaker 1: put his hand up as Robert Jenrick and it's actually
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Speaker 1: said alo akba crying then out in the streetlight. That
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Speaker 1: should be a crowd moment, should it? What's going on?
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Speaker 1: Their towns have been out there, well.
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Speaker 12: I mean the thing is it's all about context, right,
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Speaker 12: So if you're just saying it quietly in a Moscow
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Speaker 12: or whatever, then obviously no, that shouldn't be a crime.
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Speaker 12: But if you are shouting it as he's running through
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Speaker 12: the street with knives, as we have seen on numerous
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Speaker 12: different occasions in this country, or you're shouting it as
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Speaker 12: a show of force and intimidation like unfortunately again we've
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Speaker 12: seen in recent weeks with gangs of Asian men with
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Speaker 12: balaclava's holding weapons running through towns in Britain shouting and
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Speaker 12: screaming it. Then there is an intimidation, there isn't there,
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Speaker 12: and there is a sense that it's a bit of
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Speaker 12: a bit of a show of force. But I mean
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Speaker 12: it does also tie in, though, seriously, with you know,
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Speaker 12: this massive idea of two tier policing that we've got
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Speaker 12: going on at the moment, Andrew, you know, and we're
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Speaker 12: seeing now police officers addressing Muslim groups saying salamalle come
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Speaker 12: and thanking the elders in that community for allowing a
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Speaker 12: police officer to have the op opportunity to address British
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Speaker 12: Muslim members. I'm sorry, but this is absolutely insane. And
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Speaker 12: we also let me.
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Speaker 1: Just show view as that let me show you is
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Speaker 1: exactly what you just mentioned because I found it quite
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Speaker 1: extraordinary to see. I mean, last night we ran footage
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Speaker 1: of the top police officer saying you didn't send police
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Speaker 1: to a violent Muslim protest because Muslim leaders had assured
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Speaker 1: police it would be fine. And as you say, other
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Speaker 1: police have been filmed like pandering, like some sort of
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Speaker 1: diplomats negotiating with the representatives of another country have looked.
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Speaker 2: Sell our other com Good morning everyone, and thank you
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Speaker 2: to the leaders and elders that have afforded me this
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Speaker 2: opportunity to speak to you personally.
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Speaker 9: My name is Phil Hutchinson and I am the superintendent
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Speaker 9: for Greater Manchester Police based in Oldham Patrick.
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Speaker 1: I found this extraordinary, as extraordinary as you find it.
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Speaker 1: But meanwhile, of course, as you say, you know, the
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Speaker 1: problems aren't going away, and I think they've been felt
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Speaker 1: in many countries in Europe that you know, a lot
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Speaker 1: of people feeling we've imported fresh threats that seem unprecedented,
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Speaker 1: but they're not allowed to complain at this time. Superstar
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift just canceled three sold out shows in Austria.
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Speaker 1: Nearly two hundred thousand fans turned away, and that's because
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Speaker 1: two Islamic states sympathizers were arrested for plotting in Islam's
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Speaker 1: terror attack on one of those concerts, allegedly. Now isn't
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Speaker 1: this the kind of thing exactly that's stoking fear and resentment,
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Speaker 1: and not just in Britain?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, one hundred percent. Now, Taylor Swift is apparently due
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Speaker 12: to play a couple of concerts back here in Britain
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Speaker 12: in a few weeks time, I believe, so it'll be
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Speaker 12: interesting to see the police presence there. And yes, again
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Speaker 12: we want to ask ourselves, won't we What is it
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Speaker 12: that the police are protecting us from. Why do we
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Speaker 12: have bollards everywhere on the road to stop a marauding
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Speaker 12: car attack. Why is it now that we have massive
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Speaker 12: increased airport security everywhere?
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Speaker 1: What is the threat?
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 12: Because people don't want to name it, but unfortunately that
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Speaker 12: threat is radical Islam. Okay, it's not the Mormons, is it.
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Speaker 12: We don't ever see that here in Britain and people
21:13
Speaker 12: have to wake up to this. People are waking up
21:14
Speaker 12: to it. But people andrew also don't like the idea
21:16
Speaker 12: that they're being lied to about this and told that
21:18
Speaker 12: they can't mention it. They're not allowed to be scared
21:20
Speaker 12: about it and they're not allowed to confront it. And
21:22
Speaker 12: we have situations like we had in a place called
21:25
Speaker 12: Hartlepool in this country where a Muslim asylum seeker who
21:29
Speaker 12: traveled through thirteen different European countries to get here stabbed
21:33
Speaker 12: an elderly man who was walking his dog to death
21:36
Speaker 12: outside a migrant hotel. And we only found out about
21:39
Speaker 12: that when that case went to call because they didn't
21:42
Speaker 12: want people to know in case it calls civil and rest.
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Speaker 12: That's not dealing with the main cause of civil and rest.
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Speaker 1: Well two things here. It's not doing that, Patrick, and
21:53
Speaker 1: the other thing that's doing is creating a suspicion that
21:56
Speaker 1: police are not telling the truth there is can't be trusted.
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Speaker 1: Patrick Christie is always good to talk to you. Thank
22:03
Speaker 1: you so much for your time. After the break, Barnaby
22:06
Speaker 1: Joyce and a massive backtrack from one of our wokers companies.
22:11
Speaker 1: I think we're wing but back to anything that will
22:17
Speaker 1: been easy today denying what the Reserve Bank actually admitted
22:20
Speaker 1: this week that yes, the government's big spending is making
22:23
Speaker 1: inflation worse. Here's another quote from the Reserve Bank saying
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Speaker 1: just that public demand or government spending is forecast to
22:30
Speaker 1: be stronger than previously expected, reflecting public spending announcements both
22:34
Speaker 1: federal and state governments. And here's the bank's chief economists
22:38
Speaker 1: this week on the consequences.
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Speaker 8: Just think the economy is running a little bit hotter
22:44
Speaker 8: than we thought previously, and as a result of that,
22:45
Speaker 8: we think it's going to take a little bit longer
22:47
Speaker 8: for inflation to get back to target.
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Speaker 1: Join me every Thursday is Nationals front Bench of Barnaby Joyce,
22:53
Speaker 1: the former Deputy Prime Minister. Barnaby, Great to see you.
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Speaker 1: Who do we believe the Reserve Bank or Anthony Albini
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Speaker 1: today said no, how spending isn't making inflation worse?
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Speaker 10: Oh Andrew, That's that's a tough one. That's that's a
23:08
Speaker 10: tough one to do.
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Speaker 9: We believe the head of the Reserve banker senior economists,
23:12
Speaker 9: a whole suite of senior economists, or do we believe
23:18
Speaker 9: someone who's been in politics all their life giving a
23:20
Speaker 9: political statement of a person doctor, doctor Jim Charms, doctor
23:25
Speaker 9: in political science, not a doctor in economics.
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Speaker 10: I mean, of course it's it's I'm torn. I'm torn,
23:31
Speaker 10: but I'm.
23:31
Speaker 9: Going to tip towards believing the Reserve bank that if
23:34
Speaker 9: you tip a heap of money out there, it goes
23:37
Speaker 9: looking for product, and if there's not enough product there,
23:40
Speaker 9: the price goes up. It's a simple issue of supply
23:42
Speaker 9: and demand. Supply, you know, it goes looking for more
23:46
Speaker 9: product than is what is actually available, which is what
23:49
Speaker 9: happens when you put public funds.
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Speaker 10: Which you borrow, which you borrow into the economy.
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Speaker 1: Then prices will go up.
23:56
Speaker 10: But a tea.
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Speaker 9: What's also incredibly important in those inflationary numbers, because that's
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Speaker 9: what we're worried about inflation because it forces up interest rates, which.
24:04
Speaker 10: Makes you poorer because you have to pay.
24:05
Speaker 9: More on your house your house payments six percent six
24:10
Speaker 9: percent rise in power prices, and doctor Jim Chalmers comes
24:14
Speaker 9: out and says, oh, but if we hadn't given you
24:16
Speaker 9: those subsidies, it would have been higher than twelve. Well,
24:19
Speaker 9: hang on, that means your whole power policy, this lunacy
24:24
Speaker 9: of swindle factories, the wind towels, and fault of votaic
24:28
Speaker 9: cells covering the covering that countryside black, it is out
24:32
Speaker 9: of control. Power price is going through the roof, and
24:35
Speaker 9: that will be a fundamental driver of inflation because those
24:39
Speaker 9: power prices not only do you pay them, but on
24:42
Speaker 9: every product that's produced in Australia they pay them, and
24:46
Speaker 9: it pushes up, it pushes up prices.
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Speaker 10: It's you know, we are we are in a form
24:51
Speaker 10: of economics now.
24:52
Speaker 9: With this swindle factories, the solar solar panels and green
24:57
Speaker 9: hydrogen which went upside down, in solar panels which is
25:00
Speaker 9: falling over, and wind hours and solar it's all gone mad.
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Speaker 10: This would make Timothy Leary block blush, It really would.
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Speaker 10: He would. He would, he would pop up gill and go,
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Speaker 10: oh no, that that can't be happening in Australia. Well
25:11
Speaker 10: it is.
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Speaker 1: And let's not forget Barnaby. The compensation that the government's
25:17
Speaker 1: offering for only one year for the high power prices
25:20
Speaker 1: is in fact coming from your own pocket, so you
25:23
Speaker 1: know you're gonna have to pay it back. Meanwhile, Glenn's
25:26
Speaker 1: law here, the best money has come.
25:29
Speaker 10: Hang on, it's my money you give me.
25:33
Speaker 1: Happening, ignore.
25:35
Speaker 9: Money you give me about my own money.
25:39
Speaker 1: I know, Oh my god, I'd not to trail these
25:42
Speaker 1: guys around there when they go shopping, you know, just
25:46
Speaker 1: reaching to the till and then pay the shopkeeper the
25:48
Speaker 1: money they just stole. See I paid for my groceries. Meanwhile, Glencore,
25:52
Speaker 1: very woke company, has been forced barnaby by shareholders shareholder
25:57
Speaker 1: revolt to scrap its woke plans to sell off it's
26:01
Speaker 1: very profitable coal mining operations. The shareholders have loved the dividends.
26:06
Speaker 1: Per cent of them said don't sell thisself. What are
26:09
Speaker 1: you saying? A Glimpcore explain this backflip was in part
26:13
Speaker 1: due I love this bit, in part due to evolving
26:17
Speaker 1: views on environmental, social and governance. Translate that for a sparnaber.
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Speaker 9: One of this means is one of the greatest returns
26:26
Speaker 9: you could get.
26:27
Speaker 10: On the stock market.
26:28
Speaker 9: We're coal companies because the demand for it is going up,
26:31
Speaker 9: the usage of it is going up, and we produce coal.
26:35
Speaker 9: But back into the Timothy Leary economics of Australia, we're
26:39
Speaker 9: saying no, not only maybe you must we have swindle
26:42
Speaker 9: factories and paint the fields. Follow ver take plack and
26:45
Speaker 9: have a crack of green hydrogen which falls over subsidized
26:48
Speaker 9: solar panels which China produces cheaper, and that's falling over.
26:51
Speaker 10: We must shut down the actual thing that makes us money.
26:54
Speaker 9: Which is a coal mines and the gas mrket shut
26:55
Speaker 9: them down so it can be poor.
26:57
Speaker 10: So we can be poor, because that's obviously the goal.
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Speaker 9: Well, now if what happens with shareholders, with people who say,
27:04
Speaker 9: when I retire, I want my super fun to make
27:06
Speaker 9: as much money as possible because I want to be comfortable.
27:10
Speaker 9: I don't want to be poor. And I said, well,
27:12
Speaker 9: where's the best return? They said, well, it's in coal mines.
27:15
Speaker 9: Don't hang on.
27:16
Speaker 10: You know, it's funny, you.
27:17
Speaker 9: Know it's it's funny how people's judgment changes. As my
27:20
Speaker 9: father used to say, when poverty walks in the door,
27:23
Speaker 9: love flies out the window. Right, So what is happening
27:26
Speaker 9: here is people saying I don't I don't care too much.
27:29
Speaker 9: If coal is where the money is made, brother, you
27:33
Speaker 9: go and invest in the coal because I need the
27:35
Speaker 9: cash to retire on correct.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's the other aspect of glen Core's decision. Of course,
27:42
Speaker 1: they're betting that, of course we can't get rid of
27:45
Speaker 1: coal in the next several decades that labor wants. Of
27:49
Speaker 1: course we'll still need it and there's a future in it.
27:53
Speaker 1: That's what it's saying. China. Meanwhile, the top of the show,
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Speaker 1: Bannaby the Chin is well I just want to get
28:00
Speaker 1: to this before we run out of time, because China
28:02
Speaker 1: is nearly finished building Linglong with lovely name, the world's
28:07
Speaker 1: first land based commercial small modular nuclear reactor. When Chris
28:12
Speaker 1: Bone was telling us, Oh, they haven't been invented there,
28:15
Speaker 1: it's a pipe dream and all that. What do you
28:17
Speaker 1: make of this announcement by China.
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Speaker 9: No, no, no, that's a lie. That can't be happening, Andrew.
28:24
Speaker 10: That's not possible with because I've listened to Chris.
28:26
Speaker 9: I listened to Chris at the dispatch boxing always has
28:29
Speaker 9: a nice tight shirt and a colorful tie and dances
28:31
Speaker 9: and prances is around it.
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Speaker 10: And he says they're not happening. He says, it's just
28:35
Speaker 10: they're just not going to happen.
28:36
Speaker 9: Right, And so I believe. I believe Chris. I believe Chris,
28:39
Speaker 9: because Chris is very very.
28:40
Speaker 1: Believable communist propaganda.
28:42
Speaker 9: That's what's going to happen is they're going to be
28:45
Speaker 9: reducing small modular reactors. Poor old Australia knuckle dragers, we
28:49
Speaker 9: won't be in the nuclear industry. It'll make hundreds of
28:52
Speaker 9: billions of dollars the into the future, high paying jobs,
28:56
Speaker 9: high paying.
28:56
Speaker 10: Jobs, in the new industry.
28:58
Speaker 9: But Australia is going to sit back and say no, no,
29:00
Speaker 9: we're going to run it on intermittent power.
29:02
Speaker 10: We're going to have We're going to run a full
29:03
Speaker 10: time economy on part time power.
29:05
Speaker 9: Where are going to run Australia on a windmill and
29:07
Speaker 9: solar panels?
29:08
Speaker 10: Just watch us now and green Eye.
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Speaker 1: That's not true. In Barnaby, I'm going to correct you.
29:13
Speaker 1: They're saying. No, Barnaby, I've got to pull you up.
29:16
Speaker 1: We can have misinformation. They're going to run it on
29:19
Speaker 1: wind farms, yes, and solo phones yes, and car batteries.
29:23
Speaker 1: You forgot that latest announcement by christ Bone and car batteries.
29:27
Speaker 1: But when we're short, so you've got to forget.
29:30
Speaker 9: That, you've got to duck duck home because on the batory, Yeah.
29:32
Speaker 10: You got to duck home because I want to hun
29:33
Speaker 10: my clothes.
29:34
Speaker 5: You know.
29:37
Speaker 1: Correct, working from home has got some benefit for the government.
29:40
Speaker 10: Mate, is exactly the economics here.
29:44
Speaker 1: It comes great to see you, Barnaby, see you later
29:50
Speaker 1: after the break. How weak is Joe Barden you know,
29:54
Speaker 1: probably didn't even notice, but Iran impact militants this week
29:58
Speaker 1: hit yet another US base. Nothing, No, reaction, plus new
30:04
Speaker 1: video shown Kamala Harris, her new running mate, making false
30:07
Speaker 1: claims about it supposed war record got a hero. America's
30:15
Speaker 1: presidential election has got even more fascical. New video of
30:19
Speaker 1: someone pretending what is not and you'd laugh it wasn't
30:23
Speaker 1: so serious. Kamala Harrison a new running mate. Governor Tim
30:26
Speaker 1: Walls really could be America's new president and vice president
30:30
Speaker 1: after the November election. And last night I mentioned that
30:33
Speaker 1: Wells was being sold by the Harris team as a
30:35
Speaker 1: straight talking man of the people who'd served the National
30:39
Speaker 1: Guard for twenty four years the Patriot. That b's true,
30:44
Speaker 1: but I pointed out that this hero actually quit as
30:47
Speaker 1: command Sergeant major of the National Guard unit he was
30:50
Speaker 1: in charge of as soon as he heard it was
30:52
Speaker 1: about to be deployed to Iraq the War on Terror.
30:55
Speaker 1: He left him in the lurch. And now though we
30:59
Speaker 1: have got video of Volt's claiming and not for the
31:01
Speaker 1: first time he went to war or in this case,
31:05
Speaker 1: that he wants to ban guns of the kind that
31:08
Speaker 1: he took to war and.
31:10
Speaker 9: We can make sure that those weapons of war that
31:12
Speaker 9: I carried in war is the only place where those
31:14
Speaker 9: weapons were at.
31:17
Speaker 1: Now the fact is Walt's never got closer to Iraq
31:20
Speaker 1: than Italy, which doesn't impress the man who replaced him
31:23
Speaker 1: as his unit's command sergeant major and took it to Iraq.
31:28
Speaker 1: I mean, if he thinks Italy was a combat zone
31:32
Speaker 1: or a war zone and he was carrying out.
31:34
Speaker 10: In war, he is good delusional.
31:38
Speaker 1: Now, something about Harrison Waltz tells me they're going to
31:42
Speaker 1: be as weak in the White House as Joe Barden
31:46
Speaker 1: has been and projecting America to the world. And Biden
31:50
Speaker 1: has been disastrously weak in standing up against America's enemies
31:54
Speaker 1: like the Iranian backed extremists who on Monday attacked the
31:58
Speaker 1: US base in Iraq injuring seven people. And what's badon
32:02
Speaker 1: done about that? Joining me is General Jack Keen, a
32:05
Speaker 1: retired for so general who served as the Vice Chief
32:08
Speaker 1: of Staff of the United States Army is now chairman
32:12
Speaker 1: of the Institute for the Study of War. General Keen,
32:15
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. General, I have
32:18
Speaker 1: been frustrated. I know you've been frustrated at the projection
32:23
Speaker 1: of weakness militarily under the Buden administration. Now, on Monday,
32:29
Speaker 1: seven American military personnel injured in a suspected rocket attack
32:34
Speaker 1: at a US base in Iraq. In the last nine months,
32:39
Speaker 1: there have been more than one hundred and seventy attacks
32:41
Speaker 1: on the US military basis and assets in Syria, in Iraq,
32:45
Speaker 1: in Jordan, and almost no American response.
32:48
Speaker 5: Why is that, Yeah, Well, I think you've pointed out
32:53
Speaker 5: right at the beginning. It's absolutely an inability of the
32:57
Speaker 5: Biden administration to want to confront their adversaries because they
33:01
Speaker 5: actually fear that there may be some escalation they don't see.
33:06
Speaker 5: By confronting their adversaries, they may indeed shut them down.
33:10
Speaker 5: In over two hundred attacks on American forces in Iraq
33:15
Speaker 5: and Syria have taken place since the Biden administration came
33:19
Speaker 5: into power in January of twenty one, and actually several
33:25
Speaker 5: months ago they were able to shut down those attacks
33:29
Speaker 5: when they killed a Iranian back militia leader in Iraq,
33:35
Speaker 5: and the Iranians, having seen that, told the militias both
33:40
Speaker 5: Iraqi Backed and Syria to shut down their activities. Now
33:44
Speaker 5: their activities has started again, I think largely because of
33:48
Speaker 5: the success that Israel is enjoying in killing Hamas top
33:53
Speaker 5: political and military leaders, as well as Hesbela military leaders
33:57
Speaker 5: and Iran has energized them again. The problem we have
34:01
Speaker 5: had from the outset with the Biden administration Andrew In
34:06
Speaker 5: dealing with the Iranian back Iraqi and Shia militias, the
34:10
Speaker 5: Huthis themselves, and the HESBA law is that this administration
34:16
Speaker 5: is unwilling to confront Iran directly. Most of us who
34:20
Speaker 5: observe this to include the United States Military commander in
34:25
Speaker 5: Central Command who oversees the Middle East. He has made
34:30
Speaker 5: continuous recommendations to the Biden administration to permit him to
34:34
Speaker 5: attack Iranian military assets that Iran owns that are operating
34:40
Speaker 5: in the Red Sea to help target the Houthis on
34:45
Speaker 5: the merchant ships and also US and other naval ships
34:49
Speaker 5: that are protecting them to target Iranian assets in Iran
34:55
Speaker 5: to prevent the continuous attack on US forces. You just
35:01
Speaker 5: pointed out this has been a prevailing problem for me outside.
35:05
Speaker 5: The Biden administration takes a hands off approach when it
35:09
Speaker 5: comes to Iran out of fear of escalation. And guess
35:12
Speaker 5: what is happening. Iran continues to escalate.
35:16
Speaker 1: Can you just say take us to Ukraine. Earlier this
35:20
Speaker 1: year I was worried. I mean, the newspaper headlines were
35:24
Speaker 1: all Russia offensive in Ukraine. They're taking territory at middle
35:29
Speaker 1: it was very small bits incremental at a huge loss,
35:32
Speaker 1: but they were advancing. Now an astonishing development reports that
35:38
Speaker 1: Ukrainian forces have gone into Russia. Their fifteen kilometers is
35:43
Speaker 1: not much, I know, but still fifteen kilometers into Russia
35:47
Speaker 1: in the Kusk region. What is going on?
35:51
Speaker 5: Well, the fact that the matter is is that this
35:56
Speaker 5: war has been protracted, largely by the fact that the
36:01
Speaker 5: Biden administration has handcuffed the Ukrainians and not delivering them
36:06
Speaker 5: the weapons, systems and the munitions they needed when they
36:10
Speaker 5: needed and in the quantity that.
36:12
Speaker 1: They needed it.
36:13
Speaker 5: The Europeans made up their minds last year that the
36:17
Speaker 5: Russian threat of escalating to the use of nuclear weapons
36:22
Speaker 5: is a hollow threat. But the Bidens administration still takes
36:26
Speaker 5: a knee to that threat and it's still prohibiting. They're
36:31
Speaker 5: holding back. It's prohibiting permitting the Ukrainians to use all
36:36
Speaker 5: of the weapons we've given them to attack into Russia
36:40
Speaker 5: and secondly, not giving them the amount of weapons when
36:44
Speaker 5: they need them. Ukrainians are enormously frustrated by this and
36:48
Speaker 5: that we at the Institute for the study of war,
36:51
Speaker 5: are in almost a daily contact with what is happening.
36:56
Speaker 5: Despite the challenges of getting equipment to them this year,
37:00
Speaker 5: largely because of the political debate that took place in America,
37:05
Speaker 5: the Ukrainians are still holding their own They have killed
37:09
Speaker 5: tens of thousands of Russians in their offensive operations, and
37:13
Speaker 5: they are moving now to some at least tactical advantage
37:18
Speaker 5: in operations dealing with rushing itself. I'm absolutely convinced that
37:24
Speaker 5: what's driving to Biden administration Andrew from the very outset.
37:28
Speaker 5: They don't say it publicly, but having dealt with their
37:31
Speaker 5: policy leaders now for almost three years, I have come
37:35
Speaker 5: to the conclusion that from the outset they've always wanted
37:38
Speaker 5: to go to negotiations as quickly as possible. Give the
37:41
Speaker 5: Ukrainians enough to help themselves and defend themselves, and let's
37:46
Speaker 5: get to negotiations and stop the war. And what does
37:48
Speaker 5: that really mean? That means Russia owns a certain percentage
37:52
Speaker 5: twenty five maybe thirty percent of Ukraine, and the people
37:56
Speaker 5: are not liberateting this, They're living in occupied Terrytory is
38:00
Speaker 5: something that's Zelenski and as leaders, you know, cannot tolerate.
38:05
Speaker 5: But that's where the Biden administration is and look at it.
38:08
Speaker 5: Aren't they doing the same thing the Prime Minister Netanyao
38:11
Speaker 5: in the Middle East, putting that same kind of pressure
38:14
Speaker 5: on him. They really want a permanent ceasefire in the war.
38:17
Speaker 5: Now what does that mean? That means thousands of Hamas
38:20
Speaker 5: fighters are still in Gaza. That means they survive. That
38:25
Speaker 5: means they declare victory. That means they reattack at a
38:28
Speaker 5: time and place of their choosing.
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Speaker 1: Look, we need a paradigm shift obviously in thinking here.
38:38
Speaker 1: Otherwise the enemies of democracies are going to triumph. Jack Kane,
38:43
Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 5: General Keane, Yeah, great talking to Andrew as always.
38:49
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's part of a longer interview I did
38:52
Speaker 1: with Jack Keane earlier and if you want to see that,
38:54
Speaker 1: go to our Sky New's website or the Sky News
38:57
Speaker 1: YouTube channel as well. After the break, Australia is now
39:02
Speaker 1: third in the Middle tally at the Olympics. Does that
39:05
Speaker 1: make us a bit strange? Plus Anthony Albini's dud CD
39:09
Speaker 1: but my hit book of the week and Joyce used
39:16
Speaker 1: to be the King of quantas the genius so powerful
39:20
Speaker 1: that he could turn Quantus into his political soap box.
39:23
Speaker 1: But now that is left, the new Quantus management has
39:25
Speaker 1: cut his payer by more than nine million dollars nine
39:30
Speaker 1: point three million to be exactly wow. The new Quantity
39:34
Speaker 1: leadership is blaming Joys in large part for leaving Quantity
39:36
Speaker 1: with reputational damage after ruling too much like a dictator,
39:40
Speaker 1: really poor bage handling flight cancelations, illegally sacking seventeen hundred
39:45
Speaker 1: ground workers. Joining me is the panel James McFerson from
39:48
Speaker 1: the late debate here on Sky News, an Evelyn Ray
39:51
Speaker 1: farmer and Sky News regular James the lesson of this
39:57
Speaker 1: nine billion dollar hit to his wallet it must hurt.
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Speaker 13: Indeed, I think the lesson Andrew is stay humble. Quantus
40:05
Speaker 13: became incredibly arrogant and then acted like they were entitled
40:09
Speaker 13: to do as they please. And what's that old maxim
40:12
Speaker 13: Pride comes before a fall. Well, there's nothing like a
40:15
Speaker 13: fall from thirty thousand feet and that's what Quantus suffered.
40:19
Speaker 13: They took the Australian public for granted. And there's always
40:23
Speaker 13: been a lot of love for Quantus. They've been our
40:25
Speaker 13: national airline. Quantus the spirit of Australia, but they took
40:29
Speaker 13: it for granted, and it took a while, but gradually
40:32
Speaker 13: they just exhausted the patients of Australians. They treated Australians
40:37
Speaker 13: like mugs. Staff on Quantus flights act as if they're
40:40
Speaker 13: doing you a favor by allowing you onto their aircraft,
40:44
Speaker 13: and eventually Australian's just got jack of that attitude. Unfortunately,
40:49
Speaker 13: I would love a airline run by a CEO whose
40:53
Speaker 13: name I don't know and whose political leaning, sexuality and
40:57
Speaker 13: cultural fetishes I'm not aware of. It would be wonderful
41:01
Speaker 13: to have an anonymous CEO of an airline, so we
41:04
Speaker 13: could just get on a plane, get into where we're going,
41:07
Speaker 13: without all the other stuff. I think that's the big lesson.
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Speaker 1: I must say, Evelyn, most of the kind of stuff
41:14
Speaker 1: I've dealt with actually quite pleasant. I don't blame them,
41:17
Speaker 1: although I have to say I'm sick and tired of
41:20
Speaker 1: the acknowledgment of elders past and present every time I
41:23
Speaker 1: land somewhere. But what do you make of this? What's
41:26
Speaker 1: the moral lesson here?
41:29
Speaker 14: I think James sort of hit it at the latter
41:31
Speaker 14: part of what he said, and I think it comes
41:33
Speaker 14: to the old tried and tested saying you go woke,
41:37
Speaker 14: you go broke, you know. And I think most of
41:40
Speaker 14: the issues that Quantus had could have probably been rectified
41:44
Speaker 14: or remedied if they weren't invested in things like gay marriage.
41:49
Speaker 10: And climate action and all those other.
41:51
Speaker 14: Social justice causes that they seem to spend all their
41:54
Speaker 14: time and effort harping on about. You know, I think
41:57
Speaker 14: it's a lesson that too many of these giant co
42:00
Speaker 14: operations are committed to learning the very hard way.
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Speaker 1: I think you really right there at the campaign. I
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Speaker 1: think for the Voice painting its aircraft a couple of
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Speaker 1: its aircraft, or putting a decoal on that the Voice
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Speaker 1: just costs out enjoy us a lot of public sympathy
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Speaker 1: when he most needed it. To the Olympics, James, I
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Speaker 1: see a lot of celebration and self praise at Australia,
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Speaker 1: a pretty small country in population terms, is more than
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Speaker 1: halfway through the Games, won a record in eighteen gold medals,
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Speaker 1: is behind only China with more than a million people,
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Speaker 1: and the US now all credit of course to Gina Reinhardt,
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Speaker 1: the billionaire who's put in about one hundred million dollars
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Speaker 1: into supporting the athletes, particularly the swimmers, and your boy,
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Speaker 1: have you seen some results there? Netble Australia must be
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Speaker 1: so upset that they ticked their off and lost that.
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Speaker 1: But I have to say, James, is it dangerously patriotic
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Speaker 1: to suggest that this might also show the strends? Well,
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Speaker 1: maybe not naturally sporting superstars with brilliant food or air,
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Speaker 1: but perhaps we've got a culture that might be unusually
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Speaker 1: obsessed with sport rather than say learning or culture just
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Speaker 1: chilly with.
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Speaker 13: A book, Andrew too soon, too soon to have this conversation.
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Speaker 13: Let us at least glory in our triumph for a
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Speaker 13: little bit before we have this conversation.
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Speaker 1: It's the US that gets me, James, What us? You
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Speaker 1: didn't run there, I didn't swim there. I didn't see
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Speaker 1: the whole nation throwing a high jumper over the bar
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Speaker 1: or anything like that.
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Speaker 13: That is a peculiar part of sport, isn't it that
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Speaker 13: we all vicariously live our own dreams through sports people,
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Speaker 13: But we don't do that through scientists, or through artists,
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Speaker 13: or through authors. Mckindle Research did a survey a couple
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Speaker 13: of years ago and they found that Australians are more
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Speaker 13: religious about sport than we are about religion itself. We
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Speaker 13: spend on average almost five hours a week watching or
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Speaker 13: playing sport, compared to just thirty five minutes a week
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Speaker 13: engaging in religious activities. Now, Andrew, you'll be pleased to
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Speaker 13: know that Australian spend more time reading than that. But
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Speaker 13: we are a nation obsessed with sport, and somehow we
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Speaker 13: see ourselves in those athletes, or that's who we'd love
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Speaker 13: to be. And look, let us enjoy those gold medals
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Speaker 13: for a little while, Andrew, and we'll talk about our
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Speaker 13: Iraq need to read more books a little later.
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Speaker 15: I think I think your admonition is a little too soon,
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Speaker 15: might be correct, But Emily and I just wonder, you know,
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Speaker 15: I wonder whether this is in part the obsession to
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Speaker 15: the sport is actually quite important to this country because
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Speaker 15: we are so polyglot, so multi ethnic, so you know, we're.
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Speaker 1: Very weak national institutions now that sport is the one
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Speaker 1: thing that seems to make a one out of many.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Richmond Football Club that I'm a fan
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Speaker 1: of really stresses that too. Is that what it is
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Speaker 1: that sport is the one of the few glues we
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Speaker 1: have left.
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Speaker 14: I mean, I think it certainly does. I think it
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Speaker 14: does bring communities together because sport really does start at
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Speaker 14: a local level. And it's interesting because if you look
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Speaker 14: statistically Australia, as many other countries around the world, we
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Speaker 14: actually enroll our kids in sport a lot earlier than
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Speaker 14: most other countries. And if you look statistics, you know
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Speaker 14: kids ossie kids, about seventy three percent of Ossie kids
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Speaker 14: are enrolled in sport and if you compare that to
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Speaker 14: the UK it's at about forty percent and the USA
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Speaker 14: it's at about fifty percent. So I think it really
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Speaker 14: shows that sport is so integrated in our Australian culture.
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Speaker 14: And you know, how this begun, How we got to
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Speaker 14: this point with our culture might be a deep dive,
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Speaker 14: but perhaps you know, once upon a time there wasn't
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Speaker 14: much to do other than boxing kangaroos, and you know,
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Speaker 14: playing sport with our big, vast, empty and sort of
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Speaker 14: sunburnt country. I'm not sure, but it's this only is
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Speaker 14: part of our way of life.
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Speaker 1: Oh it's the quickest way to integrate in this country
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Speaker 1: is the pick of football teams. One of the first
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Speaker 1: things you're asked to do socially as an immigrant James
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Speaker 1: just quickly the Prime Minister's just released a CD. Have
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Speaker 1: to say it's not being received that well. Has tweeted
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Speaker 1: a new album just dropped called Cost of Living, a
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Speaker 1: relief Winter twenty twenty four and it's all the things
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Speaker 1: Albanizer claims the government's done to make winter easier, but
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Speaker 1: readers have already slapped on a community in notice pointing
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Speaker 1: out the half of this won't fully apply this winter,
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Speaker 1: Like you know, parental lead that's been phased over in
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Speaker 1: two years. Only seventy five dollars of the three hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars power bill relief will come this winter.
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Speaker 13: It's not been a hit, Andrew, have you ever seen
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Speaker 13: so much self congratulatory boasting over having achieved pretty much
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Speaker 13: nothing at all? But the thing I love about this
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Speaker 13: is he's compared his policies to dropping an album and
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Speaker 13: then he puts out a CD. That's perfect because no
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Speaker 13: one uses CDs anymore. They're completely and utterly useless. If
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Speaker 13: someone gave you a CD, you look at me like what,
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Speaker 13: which is pretty much how we react to Anti Albanese's policies.
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Speaker 13: I thought it was a perfect own goal by the
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Speaker 13: Prime Minister's communications team.
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Speaker 1: Everything James Uferson. Thank you very much to you both.
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Speaker 1: What a great conversation. Now to take it from me
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Speaker 1: to my book of the week. It's actually a book
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Speaker 1: that doesn't yet exist, would you believe? Now, since we're
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Speaker 1: in the Paris Olympics, I've got to say my favorite
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Speaker 1: French author at the moment, at least or for a
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Speaker 1: couple of years now, has been Michelle Wellbeck. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem to care at all if he offends people. That
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Speaker 1: speaks to me totally fearless. His most famous, perhaps of
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Speaker 1: as many books which have all got submission, submission where
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Speaker 1: he imagined must takeover of France. Funny, but pointed, now
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Speaker 1: a warning before you rush out to by this for
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Speaker 1: your grandmother or something. All his books are pretty blunt
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Speaker 1: and some almost pornographic, and they say moral. And made
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Speaker 1: a big mistake recommending it to my wife's book club.
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Speaker 1: She came back blushing. It's like he's got no values.
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Speaker 1: But you'll finally work out what's driving him in the
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Speaker 1: final pages of this book. One of his latest Seratonin,
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Speaker 1: which predicted the Yellow Vest riots in France, you will
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Speaker 1: find at the end of Little Religious Hint. But the
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Speaker 1: book I am recommending is Annilation, the latest novel which
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Speaker 1: is finally coming out in an English translation after a
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Speaker 1: couple of years of mystery. I don't know why we're
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Speaker 1: being denied it, so getting your pre orders now at
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Speaker 1: my friend's at Robins's Bookshop, all these titles tonight are
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Speaker 1: listed when you click on my name at the top
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Speaker 1: left of the screen. Do yourself a favor. And of course,
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Speaker 1: if you're going to do that, why don't you also
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Speaker 1: drink a French whiskey? Did you know the French are
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Speaker 1: the biggest drinkers of whiskey per person in the world.
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Speaker 1: Rosilieh very nicest one. It's got this sort of French
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Speaker 1: delicateness about it, despite the peaky thing. That's it from me.
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Speaker 1: Coming up now is Shari markson good Night