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Credlin | 2 January · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peter Krandland live on Sky News Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening. I'm James Macpherson filling in for Peter Kredlin.
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Speaker 2: Coming up tonight. New Year's terror in the US as
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Speaker 2: an Islamic gee hartist kills fifteen and injures thirty.
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Speaker 1: Five and a pickup truck attack.
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Speaker 2: What warning does that send for social cohesion in Australia.
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Speaker 2: Plus the Coalition promises to scrap mandatory emission reporting laws
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Speaker 2: that came into effect just yesterday, crippling businesses with more
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Speaker 2: red tape. And the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markel, can't
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Speaker 2: help stealing the headlines even as a new year begins.
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Speaker 2: We'll discuss her latest move a little later in the
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Speaker 2: program before we get into the specifics of the assumed
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Speaker 2: Islamic terror attack in New Orleans. Want to first look
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Speaker 2: at our Prime Minister's response, because make no mistake, what
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Speaker 2: we saw in the United States overnight is a problem
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Speaker 2: we need to deal with here in Australia. A convert
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Speaker 2: to Islam drove a pickup truck displaying a black Ice
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Speaker 2: flag at high speed through a crowd of pedestrians on
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Speaker 2: New Year's Day before being killed in a shootout with
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Speaker 2: the police. He injured two of them before they ended
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Speaker 2: his life. The same ideology that led this man to
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Speaker 2: murder fifteen innocence and injured dozens more in last night's
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Speaker 2: terror attack is present and growing here, and our government
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Speaker 2: seems stubbornly determined to do exactly nothing about it. Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister Anthony Albaneze tweeted this this morning quote, All Australians
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Speaker 2: are appalled by the attack in New Orleans, a shocking
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Speaker 2: act of violence aimed at people celebrating the new year together.
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Speaker 2: Our first thoughts in the moment with the victims and
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Speaker 2: their loved ones. Our nation stands with the people of
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Speaker 2: the United States. Now, in just forty seven words, the
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister makes at least five fatal mistakes. First, did
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Speaker 2: you notice Albanzi calls what happened in New Orleans and attack,
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Speaker 2: but fails to specify what kind of attack it was. Well,
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Speaker 2: since Anthony Albanzi seems to have trouble getting his mouth
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Speaker 2: around the words, let me help. It was an Islamic
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Speaker 2: terror attack. The FBI have indicated it was inspired by ISIS,
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Speaker 2: So why can't the Prime Minister of Australia say the
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Speaker 2: words I guess Islamic terror attack must be difficult to
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Speaker 2: say when you're busy importing more than two thousand followers
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Speaker 2: of Islam from the highly radicalized Gaza Strip. I imagine
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Speaker 2: it's even more difficult to say when you're trying desperately
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Speaker 2: to shore up votes from followers of Islam in Western Sydney. Well,
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Speaker 2: if Anthony Albaneze he can't even name the threat, do
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Speaker 2: you really trust him to keep you safe from it? Second,
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Speaker 2: did you notice the PM referred to the attack as
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Speaker 2: and I quote a shocking act of violence. Well, sorry,
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Speaker 2: mister Albinezi, but you must be the only person in
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Speaker 2: the world who thinks Islamic terror attacks in western countries
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Speaker 2: are shocking.
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Speaker 1: It's not shocking. It's entirely predictable.
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Speaker 2: We've been here many many times before. In fact, Islamic
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Speaker 2: terror attacks at Christmas are now about as Christmasy as
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Speaker 2: Christmas markets. We've been here many times, so many times
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Speaker 2: that for you to be shocked, well, that's the most
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Speaker 2: shocking part about it. Third, the Prime Minister says all
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Speaker 2: Australians are appalled by the attack. Well that's a lie.
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Speaker 2: We know it's a lie. It's a dangerous lie. Every
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Speaker 2: weekend in this country. We have people calling for a
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Speaker 2: global into fada. We have some Islamic preachers in Western
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Speaker 2: Sydney calling for jehad against Jews and infidels, and the
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Speaker 2: Albineze government has done nothing about it. How can the
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister say all Australians are appalled at Islamic terror attacks.
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Speaker 2: There was a terror attack on October seven last year
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Speaker 2: that killed one thy two hundred people and this guy
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Speaker 2: and is Lamic leader from Sydney was, in his.
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Speaker 1: Own words, not appalled. He was elated, smiling and.
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Speaker 3: I'm happy, I'm in. That's a day of courage.
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Speaker 2: His Albanese's fourth mistake. He described the New Orleans Islamic
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Speaker 2: a terror attack as a shocking act of violence quote
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Speaker 2: aimed at people celebrating the new year together.
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Speaker 1: Give me a break.
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Speaker 2: Newsflash, Prime Minister, the Islamic terror attack was not aimed
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Speaker 2: at people celebrating the new year. It's not as if
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Speaker 2: the terrorist was triggered by January. The first Islamic terrorists
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Speaker 2: want to kill Jews and Infidels wherever they find them,
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Speaker 2: whenever they find them. A New Year's Day was just
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Speaker 2: a really convenient way of finding a lot of Jews
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Speaker 2: and infidels crowded together all at once to be killed. Fifth,
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Speaker 2: and finally, the PM's assurances that our thoughts are with
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Speaker 2: the victims is cold comfort for those of us he
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Speaker 2: is responsible to protect. Instead of offering thoughts for American victims,
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Speaker 2: how about the Prime Minister actually does something to stop
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Speaker 2: similar things happening here. Every time there's an Islamic terror attack,
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Speaker 2: we get the same routine from Western leaders.
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Speaker 1: It's exhausting thoughts and prayers.
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Speaker 2: We stand in solidarity and the obligatory diversity is our strength,
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Speaker 2: which might be true if we were talking about cuisine,
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Speaker 2: but it's definitely not true when talking about a policy
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Speaker 2: we never agreed to, and that governments refused to seriously
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Speaker 2: discuss importing people with belief systems.
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Speaker 1: Entirely at odds with our own.
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Speaker 2: In the early hours of New Year's Day, Muslim convert
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Speaker 2: Shamsad din Jabbar drove his truck at high speed through
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Speaker 2: a pedestrian area of New Orleans with clear intent to
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Speaker 2: kill as many Americans as possible. US Lane Duck Joe
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Speaker 2: Biden told Americans earlier today what had happened.
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Speaker 4: The furs are reported to me a Mirror. Hours before
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Speaker 4: the attack, he posted videos on social media indicating there's
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Speaker 4: inspired by Asis, especially a desire to kill, a desire
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Speaker 4: to kill. The Oasis flag was found in his vehicle,
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Speaker 4: which he rented to conduct this attack. Possible explosives are
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Speaker 4: found in the vehicle as well, and more explosives never
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Speaker 4: were found nearby.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So a Muslim convert posts videos online saying he
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Speaker 2: was inspired by Isis to kill people before going out
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Speaker 2: and doing just that. Seems pretty clear to me what happened,
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Speaker 2: but not to Joe Biden and apparently not to the FBI.
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Speaker 4: The FBI is an an investigation to determine what happened,
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Speaker 4: why it happened, whether there was any continuing threat to
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Speaker 4: public safety.
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Speaker 2: So Joe Biden tells us what happened and why it happened,
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Speaker 2: only to say in the very next breath that the
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Speaker 2: FBI needed to figure out what happened and why it happened.
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Speaker 2: But it's called Islamic terrorism. But even when the Islamic
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Speaker 2: terrasts them selves tell us they're inspired by Islam, we
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Speaker 2: don't believe them. The media were quick to jump on
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Speaker 2: the fact that the terrorist was born in America and
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Speaker 2: it served in the military, that he was in financial trouble,
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Speaker 2: that he had been divorced a couple of times, and
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Speaker 2: how many broke vets with marriage problems go mowing civilians
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Speaker 2: down in SUVs.
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Speaker 1: Can we please.
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Speaker 2: Talk about an ideology that is producing extremists. CNN didn't
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Speaker 2: want to talk about ideology. They wanted to talk about
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Speaker 2: the security barriers that the Islamic jee artist was able
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Speaker 2: to drive around.
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Speaker 5: We have these hydraulic steel barriers from past events. Those
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Speaker 5: barricades were not on period.
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Speaker 6: They had the flimsy orange ones that you could just
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Speaker 6: push over with your finger.
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Speaker 2: Look, I'm really sorry, but the problem is not a
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Speaker 2: lack of barricades. That we have to have barricades in
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Speaker 2: the first place. That's the problem. Western countries never used
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Speaker 2: to need barricades, or as I call them, diversity bollards.
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Speaker 1: Now they're everywhere.
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Speaker 2: If diversity is our strength, how come we need bollards.
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Speaker 2: Shame on our governments for allowing a situation where citizens
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Speaker 2: now need bollards everywhere to protect us from being mowed
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Speaker 2: down in our own shopping malls by Islamic extremists. Maybe
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Speaker 2: if we weren't importing an ideology that hates the West.
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Speaker 1: We wouldn't need ballards.
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Speaker 2: When I see public places protected by bollards, are not grateful,
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Speaker 2: I'm furious. They're a reminder that we are now unsafe
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Speaker 2: in our own backyards thanks to dangerously naive politicians and
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Speaker 2: a censorous media class. It was telling that the first
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Speaker 2: instinct of the FBI after last night's terror attack was
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Speaker 2: to insist that it wasn't a terrorist attack. Have a
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Speaker 2: listened to FBI Special Agent Alethia Duncan briefing the American
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Speaker 2: public three hours after the attack.
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Speaker 7: We'll be taking over the investigative lead for this event.
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Speaker 8: This is not a terrorist event.
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Speaker 1: What it is right now is there improvised explosive devices
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Speaker 1: that was found.
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Speaker 2: An ISIS flag is found in the truck of the attacker,
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Speaker 2: and the FBI spokes more on says it's not a
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Speaker 2: terrorist event. What did the truck with the ISIS flag
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Speaker 2: just go rogue? No, No, it wasn't a terror attack.
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Speaker 2: It was just a Ford pickup that suddenly went full
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Speaker 2: G hard mode all on its own. Maybe if the
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Speaker 2: FBI weren't still busy hosting DEI seminars, raiding Trump's home,
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Speaker 2: spying on church goers, and investigating American citizens for walking
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Speaker 2: through the Capitol Building on January six, four years ago.
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Speaker 2: They might have had eyes on Shamsad Din Jabbar. Then again,
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Speaker 2: the FBI were under instructions from Joe Biden to look
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Speaker 2: out for anything other than Islamic terrorists.
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Speaker 4: The most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.
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Speaker 2: That a US president sprouts this kind of rubbish as
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Speaker 2: the bodies from Islamic terrorism pile up is unforgivable. Let
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Speaker 2: me show you something else that's unforgivable. This is Sixth
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Speaker 2: Avenue in New York's city, just hours after the New
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Speaker 2: Orleans terror attack. So within hours of fifteen Americans being
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Speaker 2: slaughtered by and Is limited with an ISIS flag, hundreds
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Speaker 2: of pro Palestinians were marching through the streets of New
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Speaker 2: York calling for a global intofada.
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Speaker 1: These people have zero shame.
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Speaker 2: If they aren't citizens, they should be expelled, and if
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Speaker 2: they are citizens, they should be watched. Australia's got the
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Speaker 2: same problem. This perverse, upside down world only ends when
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Speaker 2: we stop importing people that hate us and deport those
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Speaker 2: already here who reject our values in favor of a
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Speaker 2: backward culture of terrorism and death. Meanwhile, we need leadership
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Speaker 2: that possesses the moral clarity to do at least four things. First,
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Speaker 2: reject cultural relativism. Objective truth does exist, and the truth
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Speaker 2: is the Judeo Christian West produces outcomes and freedoms that
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Speaker 2: are superior to any other worldview. If anyone disputes that,
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Speaker 2: ask them why they live here rather than in Afghanistan. Second,
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Speaker 2: shape our immigration program to reflect the fact that not
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Speaker 2: all cultures are equal. Only bring people here who support
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Speaker 2: our worldview, and get rid of non citizens who undermine
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Speaker 2: our values. Third, stop apologizing for Ossie culture and stop
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Speaker 2: undermining all our unifying symbols the flag, the anthem, Australia Day,
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Speaker 2: our British heritage. Greens leader Adam Bant won't even stand
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Speaker 2: in front of an Australian flag. Prime Minister Anthony Albanez
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Speaker 2: he won't stand in front of only the Australian flag.
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Speaker 2: Both men are undermining our nation and as a consequence,
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Speaker 2: putting all of us in danger. And Fourth, stop pretending
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Speaker 2: there's no problem with Islamic extremism if we can't even
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Speaker 2: have a discussion about why this particular ideology has so
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Speaker 2: often inspired violence around the globe. Then we are not
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Speaker 2: serious people. Right now, we're led by a government that
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Speaker 2: is neither moral, nor courageous, nor serious, not a serious
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Speaker 2: person in its ranks, and that leaves all of us,
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Speaker 2: like those pedestrians in New Orleans, dangerously exposed. You know
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Speaker 2: the thing that really ticks me off. It doesn't need
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Speaker 2: to be this way. When you're out and about this
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Speaker 2: week and you see one of those diversity bollards that
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Speaker 2: authorities have generously installed to protect you and your family
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Speaker 2: from their immral policies, Remember it doesn't have to be
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Speaker 2: this way, and it's only this way because we've put
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Speaker 2: up with it. Well, joining me now to discuss events
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Speaker 2: in the US over night and more is former Speaker
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Speaker 2: of the House Bromwin Bishop and Sky News contributor James Bolt.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to both of you.
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Speaker 3: There is, of.
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Speaker 2: Course, another potential angle to this terrorist attack, and that
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Speaker 2: was the explosion of a Tesla's cybertruck parked right out
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Speaker 2: front of a Las Vegas hotel owned by President elect
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Now, the explosion that killed one person and
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Speaker 2: injured seven others has prompted US authorities to probe any
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Speaker 2: possible connection between the New Orleans attack and the cyber
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Speaker 2: truck explosion. Tesla Elon Musk said it appeared the explosion
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Speaker 2: was a terrorist attack. He wrote on x We've now
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Speaker 2: confirmed the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and
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Speaker 2: or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented
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Speaker 2: cyber truck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself. All
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Speaker 2: vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion. James,
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Speaker 2: just give me your reaction to events overnight in the
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Speaker 2: US and what you make of it all.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's just such a sad and terrifying thing to
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Speaker 7: go through. One thing I want to go through with
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Speaker 7: your editorial though, is that So I'm just going to
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Speaker 7: take this out for one second. We have this situation
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Speaker 7: where people you say that they were important a hateful ideology,
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Speaker 7: and I get what you're saying, but the thing with
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Speaker 7: that is that this loser was born in the US.
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Speaker 7: He wasn't picking up his ideology through customs departments.
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Speaker 6: He was getting it through the Internet.
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Speaker 7: And I just really worry what's happening when a person
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Speaker 7: with ten years in the army, five years then as
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Speaker 7: a reserve, someone with so much skin in the game
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Speaker 7: as an American citizen that he wants to defend the joint,
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Speaker 7: then goes on this YouTube rabbit hole of a year
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Speaker 7: or whatever however he was getting this ideology, and then
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Speaker 7: he becomes so disinterested in the American Dream, so diverted
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Speaker 7: from its goals that he then decides to mow down people.
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Speaker 7: I think focusing at all on immigration is obviously something
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Speaker 7: we can control, but I don't know if that is
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Speaker 7: what inspired this person. I don't know if it's going
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Speaker 7: to change any of the people that are like him.
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Speaker 7: I think what we have to do is go what
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Speaker 7: is it about the American Dream? What is it about
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Speaker 7: the Australian dream that we can push forward, that we
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Speaker 7: can talk about, that we can celebrate, And why do
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Speaker 7: these marginalized people who are going through well, I say marginalized,
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Speaker 7: but look, I mean, yes, his life was falling apart.
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Speaker 7: I'm not saying we need to feel sorry for him
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Speaker 7: at all. But why did someone so vulnerable to any
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Speaker 7: outside ideology to side instead to go do this terrible thing?
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Speaker 7: And how was he so lost to what makes this
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Speaker 7: world so great?
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Speaker 1: Bronwin.
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Speaker 2: Was he a vulnerable ideology who somehow had missed out
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Speaker 2: on the American Dream?
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Speaker 1: Or is there something else going on here.
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Speaker 3: I think there is something else going on, James. I
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Speaker 3: think if I go back to the end of the
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Speaker 3: Cold War, there were two important things, two important thesis
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Speaker 3: put forward. One was by Francis Fukuyama, who talked about
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Speaker 3: the end of history and saying that the liberal democracies
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Speaker 3: had won and that was going to be the dominant
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Speaker 3: way in which the world would be governed. The other
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Speaker 3: was written by Sir Samuel P. Huntington, called The Clash
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Speaker 3: of Civilizations, and he then put that original essay into
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Speaker 3: a book in nineteen ninety six which he there explores
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Speaker 3: really how the future is going to be clashes of
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Speaker 3: people of great faith. So it is very concerning that
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Speaker 3: there is not a realization that there is really a
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Speaker 3: movement between what we believe to be right and what
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Speaker 3: we believe to be wrong. And there are so many
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Speaker 3: things that caused that differentiation to be there. And what
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Speaker 3: you showed with the preacher saying that he was delighted
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Speaker 3: that what happened on October the seventh had occurred really
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Speaker 3: is an example of that. But I think we have
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Speaker 3: to We've got very good people who've come here from
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Speaker 3: different parts of the world, who follow the the Muslim faith,
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Speaker 3: who have become very good Australians. But when we see
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Speaker 3: leadership like the part that you showed and that being
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Speaker 3: allowed to go unchecked and there being no strength from
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Speaker 3: the government here to stand up against it and say
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Speaker 3: this is wrong, it's got to end, then we're in
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Speaker 3: serious trouble because we really can't then expect that there
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Speaker 3: is that there is an expectation that those leaders can't
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Speaker 3: go on pushing that ideology and trying to keep what
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Speaker 3: they call their own flock in line with their own ideology.
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Speaker 3: So we do have a problem. You are right about Albinisi.
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Speaker 3: He's weak on everything he says. He never stands up
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Speaker 3: and says then what was done was wrong and that
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Speaker 3: they have to be held to account. There's always an if,
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Speaker 3: but maybe soft language whatever. And that's why it is
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Speaker 3: so important that this next election that we see a
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Speaker 3: change in government.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you who else says that we have
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Speaker 2: a problem in this kind and that's Hindu leaders here
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Speaker 2: in Australia. They're warning that religious intolerance is being incubated,
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Speaker 2: that's their phrase in this country. Through the Albanezi government's
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Speaker 2: failure to stamp out anti Semitism, Hindu Council of Australia
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Speaker 2: Vice president Surinder Jahn said, and they quote, the past
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Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty three days have been a nightmare
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Speaker 2: for Jewish Australians. Those who hate Jews also hate people
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Speaker 2: of other faiths except their own. James, it's a bit
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Speaker 2: embarrassing for the PM when community faith leaders feel the
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Speaker 2: need to come out and address the hateful retoric that
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Speaker 2: his own government is allowing to grow.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's discussing that they need to do so. And
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Speaker 7: I'm reminded of the Martini moloquaid then they came to
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Speaker 7: the Jews and I didn't speak out because I wasn't
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Speaker 7: the Jew. These Hindu leaders they're not going to be
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Speaker 7: like that, and it's great that they are, and I'm
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Speaker 7: not saying they're doing it for selfish reasons. But if
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Speaker 7: we do have a situation where the conflicts of old
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Speaker 7: world come to Australia, I think Hindus know that that
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Speaker 7: would not exactly go well for them and their own either.
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Speaker 7: I think it's also interesting that nine of the ten
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Speaker 7: most populous Hindu seats in the Australian electorate are held
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Speaker 7: by the Labor Party. Now, I don't know how universal
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Speaker 7: this discuss of the labor government has been among Hindu people.
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Speaker 7: But if they do feel that this is not a
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Speaker 7: labor government that respects religious freedom and not a labor
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Speaker 7: government that has the back of minority groups that are
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Speaker 7: traditionally quite peaceful, then how many votes would that change
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Speaker 7: and could that swing an election? I think that's going
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Speaker 7: to be something pretty interesting to see later this year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, really good point, James.
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Speaker 2: The Hindu leaders certainly seem to have more courage than
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Speaker 2: the PM and they're a lot more direct in their language.
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Speaker 2: If only we had direct speech like that from our
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Speaker 2: political leaders.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more.
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Speaker 3: But of course the Hindu people here in Australia can remember,
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Speaker 3: of course, the atrocities that happened with the petition of
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Speaker 3: India into Pakistan and India and the dreadful things that
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Speaker 3: were perpetrated in that occasion.
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Speaker 1: They will remember that.
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Speaker 3: When they see the Jewish people being attacked as they
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Speaker 3: are here in Australia without the government saying it's got
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Speaker 3: to stop, and to saying that what was done on
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Speaker 3: the seventh of October to those Israeli citizens was the
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Speaker 3: most horrific, horrendous attack designed to bring about war until
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Speaker 3: that is acknowledged, which the Hindus do acknowledge. They say,
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Speaker 3: if they can get away with persecuting the Jewish people,
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Speaker 3: they'll come after us as well. And that's why I
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Speaker 3: think they have come together and understand very solidly precisely
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Speaker 3: what they are facing. And we can't afford to have
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Speaker 3: our country cut up like this, James. It really is
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Speaker 3: a disgrace when we and the word disgrace has almost
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Speaker 3: become degraded in its meaning. It's not strong enough because
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Speaker 3: we have such a weak government that refuses, absolutely refuses
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Speaker 3: to say what is correct behavior, good behavior in this
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Speaker 3: country and what is just paying bad behavior which has
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Speaker 3: to be stamped out. And the word unacceptable is also
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Speaker 3: now being degraded. What's the point in saying appalling behavior
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Speaker 3: like that is unacceptable when nothing is done about it
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Speaker 3: to make it sure it doesn't happen again. So we
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Speaker 3: need strength here and I'm hoping that in Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: being elected in the United States that strength will be
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Speaker 3: shown there and that it will filter down, as so
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Speaker 3: much else filters down from the United States to Australia,
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Speaker 3: that strength becomes the real thing that Australians want.
21:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Bromin and James The other thing that I
21:47
Speaker 2: get weary of is every time something happens, our politicians
21:51
Speaker 2: say we won't tolerate to antisemitism more, we won't tolerate
21:55
Speaker 2: acts of violence like we've just seen until the next
21:57
Speaker 2: one happens and the next one happens. How many times
22:00
Speaker 2: can you say you're not going to tolerate something that
22:02
Speaker 2: continues happening until your retric is completely meaningless. And unfortunately,
22:07
Speaker 2: every time something like this happens, we don't get direct speech,
22:10
Speaker 2: we don't get plain speech. We get retric from our
22:13
Speaker 2: political leaders who are charged with keeping us safe. I
22:16
Speaker 2: think people are getting absolutely sick of it. Froman Bishop
22:19
Speaker 2: James Bolt, thanks to both of you for your time tonight,
22:22
Speaker 2: and happy New Year to you as well.
22:24
Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: From January first, new mandatory climate reporting rules have taken effect,
22:30
Speaker 2: requiring companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. The Coalition's
22:34
Speaker 2: vowed to scrap these rules if it wins the election,
22:37
Speaker 2: with Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor telling the Australian Financial Review
22:40
Speaker 2: that the laws quote will make it harder for Australia's farmers,
22:43
Speaker 2: manufacturers and miners to attract capital insurance and financial services
22:49
Speaker 2: while reducing the competitiveness for international companies to invest in Australia.
22:53
Speaker 2: Joining me now is Shadow Environment Minister Jonathan Dunham, John O,
22:57
Speaker 2: thanks for joining me. Just explain to our viewers how
23:01
Speaker 2: these mandatory reporting laws are supposed to work and why
23:05
Speaker 2: there's such a burden for Australian companies. As if Australian
23:08
Speaker 2: companies need more regulatory burden at this point in life.
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Speaker 5: Well, happy new year, James.
23:17
Speaker 9: These nonsense laws that Labor have in partnership with the
23:21
Speaker 9: Greens and a couple of confused Senate crossbenches foisted on
23:25
Speaker 9: the Australian economy are laws that will force companies of
23:30
Speaker 9: a certain size. So in the first instance, large businesses
23:33
Speaker 9: to report, along with all of their financial reports at
23:36
Speaker 9: the end of every financial year, all of the data
23:39
Speaker 9: around their climate emissions, so how much they're emitting, what
23:42
Speaker 9: they're doing, what strategies they have in place to abate emissions,
23:46
Speaker 9: all pieces of information. Frankly, that will not save the planet,
23:51
Speaker 9: contrary to what Labor and the Greens might tell us.
23:53
Speaker 9: But we'll do one thing certainly, and that is, as
23:55
Speaker 9: Angus Taylor rightly points out, drive up the cost of
23:58
Speaker 9: doing business, make our companies that seek to export uncompetitive,
24:03
Speaker 9: and make those businesses trading in our domestic economy more
24:07
Speaker 9: expensive for people to buy goods and services from. So
24:09
Speaker 9: this is silly legislation that we have expressed our concerns
24:14
Speaker 9: about and opposed of course, all the way through. And
24:16
Speaker 9: if we're elected, it's the kind of stuff that needs
24:19
Speaker 9: to be torn up and taken away because these laws
24:22
Speaker 9: are not what will make our country an economic powerhouse
24:25
Speaker 9: and as I said before, and won't do a blasted
24:28
Speaker 9: thing to save the planet.
24:32
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I was actually going to ask you, John O, these
24:34
Speaker 2: regulatory requirements, if fulfilled, will make what difference to global temperatures?
24:39
Speaker 2: And I think you just answered that absolutely zip. All
24:42
Speaker 2: it does is cripple our business people and our farmers
24:45
Speaker 2: who are already struggling.
24:47
Speaker 1: It's just ridiculous.
24:49
Speaker 2: There's expectations that similar laws in the US are going
24:51
Speaker 2: to be scrapped when Trump comes into power. Would that
24:54
Speaker 2: increase pressure on our government to follow suit?
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Speaker 9: I think it's inevitable, And frankly, even if the US
25:03
Speaker 9: didn't do this, why would a government seek to price
25:06
Speaker 9: its country.
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Speaker 5: Out of the market.
25:09
Speaker 9: It was the same with the safeguard mechanism, which were
25:11
Speaker 9: the laws that Labor and the Greens and a few
25:13
Speaker 9: confused Senate cross benches brought in to force companies to
25:19
Speaker 9: bring down their emissions and if they couldn't then they
25:22
Speaker 9: would pay a financial penalty.
25:23
Speaker 5: Now, these are companies that make.
25:25
Speaker 9: Cement, steel, aluminium, things we need to actually keep our
25:29
Speaker 9: economy growing, to build houses, to build railways and roads, etc.
25:33
Speaker 9: All of these things make the cost of doing business
25:36
Speaker 9: here higher, and therefore the cost of living higher. It
25:41
Speaker 9: makes everything unaffordable and it slows down our economy. So
25:43
Speaker 9: a good government, and again one that it's something we
25:47
Speaker 9: would seek to repeal, is the safeguard mechanism would not
25:51
Speaker 9: allow these laws to stay in place. So I commend
25:54
Speaker 9: the US for doing what is good common sense policy.
25:58
Speaker 5: But regardless of what the US.
25:59
Speaker 9: Do, we should be doing the right thing by Australians
26:02
Speaker 9: and doing what's in our national interests and tearing these
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Speaker 9: laws up.
26:07
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what else is about to get
26:08
Speaker 2: more expensive because of new laws. It came into effect yesterday,
26:12
Speaker 2: and that's motor vehicles. The government has just introduced their
26:16
Speaker 2: vehicle efficiency standard. It's part of Labour's push to make
26:20
Speaker 2: us all by evs and it means car manufacturers will
26:23
Speaker 2: be required to meet emission's limits or risk penalties of
26:26
Speaker 2: up to one hundred dollars per gram they run over
26:29
Speaker 2: the threshold. Nationals leader David LITTL Proud has said this
26:33
Speaker 2: will lead to increase in car prices. Just explain to
26:37
Speaker 2: us how this legislation works and you share concerns that
26:41
Speaker 2: it's going to jack up the price of our cars.
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Speaker 9: Firstly, I do share concerns that will jack up the
26:48
Speaker 9: price of our cars because the cost of compliance will
26:51
Speaker 9: inevitably be passed on buy manufacturers and dealers to the consumer.
26:55
Speaker 9: That's just what happens when governments impose new regulation and
26:59
Speaker 9: new cost raisemes to try and get a policy outcome.
27:02
Speaker 9: But yes, cars that don't meet a certain emission standard.
27:06
Speaker 9: For every gram per hundred kilometers the cars emit over
27:11
Speaker 9: a certain limit, there will be that one hundred dollars
27:14
Speaker 9: penalty applied to the manufacturer. So as I say, that
27:18
Speaker 9: will just not be absorbed and copped on the chin
27:20
Speaker 9: by manufacturers. They will have to pass that on and
27:24
Speaker 9: consumers Australian mums and dads and of course businesses, tradees,
27:28
Speaker 9: who need to upgrade their utes every now and then,
27:30
Speaker 9: for example, we'll all be paying more and David little
27:33
Speaker 9: Proud highlighted the cost increase. I think af Ford Everest
27:36
Speaker 9: would eventually go up by something like eighteen thousand dollars.
27:41
Speaker 9: I mean, that's a huge hit for any family looking
27:44
Speaker 9: to upgrade at SUV. And again, we emit just to
27:47
Speaker 9: touch over one percent of global emissions. And if you
27:50
Speaker 9: think you're going to save the planet by taxing the
27:52
Speaker 9: laugh out of our economy to bring down emissions, then
27:55
Speaker 9: you do not understand how good policies will.
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Speaker 2: I think we just we might have just lost John
28:04
Speaker 2: O there, but I think he made his point pretty clearly.
28:06
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you love New Year's where the government says, Happy
28:09
Speaker 2: New Year, we're getting rid of regulations and we're making
28:11
Speaker 2: things cheaper.
28:12
Speaker 1: What a dream that would be. Stick around. We're going
28:15
Speaker 1: to go to a break.
28:16
Speaker 2: But after the break, householders feel the pinch as mortgage
28:18
Speaker 2: requirements of triple since labor came into power. Plus Megan
28:23
Speaker 2: Markle makes a comeback for the New Year. She sure
28:26
Speaker 2: loves the spotlight. We'll talk about that in just a moment.
28:33
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Well, the Prime Minister is planning to make
28:35
Speaker 2: Medicare a major part of his election campaign, with the
28:39
Speaker 2: government working on policies to boost bulk billing and increase
28:42
Speaker 2: the number of urgent care clinics.
28:44
Speaker 1: There's already hints of a new.
28:45
Speaker 2: Medi Scare campaign, with Health Minister Mark Butler telling the
28:48
Speaker 2: Sydney Morning Herald today Labor will strengthen Medicare, well Peter
28:52
Speaker 2: Dutton will wreck it. Joining me now is Liberal MP
28:56
Speaker 2: Zoe McKenzie. Zoe, what do you make of Aabor's attempts
29:00
Speaker 2: to claim Coalition will go after Medicare. We've heard this
29:03
Speaker 2: routine before. The Coalition haven't said anything about making cuts
29:08
Speaker 2: to Medicare, and yet clearly they think there's a potential
29:11
Speaker 2: weakness here for the Coalition.
29:13
Speaker 10: First of all, James, thank you for having me. Have
29:15
Speaker 10: been a year to you and Peter's viewers. Isn't it
29:18
Speaker 10: extraordinary they've gone straight to the gutter this week. We
29:21
Speaker 10: started off with the ridiculous meme we' still put out
29:24
Speaker 10: by the Victorian Labor Party and now this fanciful story
29:28
Speaker 10: about what will happen with medicare. Look, the fact in
29:31
Speaker 10: relation to when Peter Dutton was Health Minister was that
29:35
Speaker 10: a hospital funding went up by sixteen percent. Overall health
29:38
Speaker 10: funding went up by over five percent, twenty billion dollars
29:41
Speaker 10: in the Medical Research Fund expanded bow screening. Remember these
29:46
Speaker 10: are the guys, the Labor Party, the Albanesi government. One
29:49
Speaker 10: of their very first moves was to cut subsidized mental
29:53
Speaker 10: health support from twenty supported visits down to ten. We
29:59
Speaker 10: committed almost immediately to reinstating them. So if anyone's got
30:03
Speaker 10: a blotch on their copybook here when it comes to
30:06
Speaker 10: cuts in health, it's this government since May twenty twenty two.
30:13
Speaker 2: Well, the other news that came out today was data
30:16
Speaker 2: showing the nation's mortgage interest bill has tripled since Labor
30:21
Speaker 2: came to power, Families now paying as much as fifty
30:23
Speaker 2: thousand dollars extra for their average home loan. Australian has
30:28
Speaker 2: paid a total of ten point nine billion dollars in
30:30
Speaker 2: mortgage interest rates for the March quarter of twenty twenty
30:33
Speaker 2: two ten point nine billion, Yet for the September quarter
30:36
Speaker 2: it has gone that figure was up to thirty one
30:38
Speaker 2: point two billion dollars. How much of this is a
30:42
Speaker 2: result of government fueled inflation, that is, keeping interest rates high.
30:46
Speaker 2: And remember when Albanezy came into government. He came into
30:49
Speaker 2: government promising that everything was going to get cheaper under
30:52
Speaker 2: his economic management.
30:54
Speaker 10: And I remember the two hundred and seventy five dollars
30:56
Speaker 10: reduction to your energy bills that we were all meant
30:58
Speaker 10: to be enjoying by now though such luck, look at
31:01
Speaker 10: what it said today in relation to Victoria. So where
31:04
Speaker 10: I am is that the average mortgage of six hundred
31:06
Speaker 10: and forty thousand dollars is costing an extra forty one
31:08
Speaker 10: thousand dollars a year. I have the second highest number
31:12
Speaker 10: of tradees in my electorate of any electorate in the country.
31:15
Speaker 10: And everyone knows our small businesses, our contractors. They all
31:19
Speaker 10: back their business with their home loan. So that forty
31:22
Speaker 10: thousand and the average home here in my electrical costs
31:25
Speaker 10: one point one million, so it's an even higher amount.
31:28
Speaker 10: It's more like fifty sixty thousand dollars a year they
31:31
Speaker 10: have to come up with just to meet interest payments,
31:34
Speaker 10: not even retiring any part of the principle. You can
31:37
Speaker 10: see it hurting. It makes business so much harder. In
31:41
Speaker 10: addition to all the red tapes which were talking about
31:43
Speaker 10: with John I just before, makes it so much harder
31:47
Speaker 10: to keep their head above water. I'm seeing it left
31:49
Speaker 10: right and said to here on the peninsula. In terms
31:51
Speaker 10: of people really struggling to make ends.
31:52
Speaker 2: Meet, yeah, well, labor aren't much chop at keeping costs down.
32:00
Speaker 1: They're really good with memes.
32:02
Speaker 2: They seem to have a special talent there. Most of
32:04
Speaker 2: us saw that tasteless meme posted by the Victorian Labor
32:08
Speaker 2: Branch attacking Peter Dutton and his wife. The Prime Minister
32:12
Speaker 2: was forced to intervene and Premier just sent to Allen
32:14
Speaker 2: in your state of Victoria eventually came out and said
32:17
Speaker 2: it was appropriate for the post to be removed. But
32:20
Speaker 2: she hit back when pressed by reporters. I think I'm
32:25
Speaker 2: not sure if we've got a grab of that. I
32:26
Speaker 2: note we don't. Now Bill Shorton has blasted, oh, actually
32:30
Speaker 2: we've got it. Let me show you what she said
32:31
Speaker 2: when she was pressed by reporters about this meme.
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Speaker 1: Here it is.
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Speaker 8: Do you know how the frost came about?
32:36
Speaker 11: Note that account is run independently by the Australian Labor
32:42
Speaker 11: Party's Victorian branch.
32:46
Speaker 2: Okay, so she's all defensive about it. But Bill Shorten
32:49
Speaker 2: came out today. He's blasted that meme as quote an
32:53
Speaker 2: embarrassment for the whole Labor Party end quote.
32:58
Speaker 1: You know, Victoria.
32:59
Speaker 2: Labour's social media strategy needs a good review. And Bill
33:03
Speaker 2: Shorten's right, isn't he? This is not just an embarrassment
33:06
Speaker 2: for a few faceless people doing social media on behalf
33:10
Speaker 2: of the ALP. This represents all of them, and all
33:13
Speaker 2: of them should repudiate this. And it's certainly wrong of
33:15
Speaker 2: Jacina Allen to sort of be defensive about it. She
33:18
Speaker 2: should come out and say this is inappropriate, it's wrong.
33:21
Speaker 2: It reflects badly on all of us, and we don't
33:23
Speaker 2: want this in politics.
33:25
Speaker 10: Yeah, frankly, it was a disgrace.
33:26
Speaker 1: It was crass.
33:27
Speaker 10: I don't know in whose world it's funny. I don't
33:29
Speaker 10: see any humor in it whatsoever. So and I think
33:32
Speaker 10: it's a really sort of bizarre turn that the Labor
33:34
Speaker 10: places had their memes. There are three eyed fishes whatever
33:36
Speaker 10: it is, right, somebody are in there obviously thinks this
33:38
Speaker 10: stuff is funny, but every single part of it falls flat.
33:41
Speaker 8: But this felt flat because it's.
33:42
Speaker 10: Just really, really nasty. We do our best to protect
33:46
Speaker 10: our families from this world that we live in. You know,
33:48
Speaker 10: we co op the blows. That's what we understand is
33:51
Speaker 10: part of the job, but our families do not. Kiri
33:55
Speaker 10: Ly Dutton is a beautiful woman. Frankly, Peter Dutton is
33:57
Speaker 10: a lovely bloke. You know, I've known for twenty five years.
34:00
Speaker 10: He's full of charm and good humor. But he's also
34:03
Speaker 10: very good at being a strong, clear leader in terms
34:06
Speaker 10: of what he's putting forward for this country. So because
34:09
Speaker 10: they can't take any paint off him, what they've gone
34:11
Speaker 10: for the family like it's just a disgrace. So I'm
34:14
Speaker 10: glad that Bill's been so clear on it. I think
34:16
Speaker 10: Jason Clair had a few clear words to say as well.
34:19
Speaker 10: And yeah, let's hope that in the next week or so,
34:21
Speaker 10: everybody sends a very very clear message to labor HQ,
34:25
Speaker 10: whether it's here in Victoria or elsewhere around the country,
34:28
Speaker 10: that that kind of gutter junk won't be appreciated in
34:32
Speaker 10: this next forthcoming election.
34:35
Speaker 2: Just before we go to a break, Zoe, while people
34:38
Speaker 2: are right to be outraged, and you're right to say,
34:40
Speaker 2: you know, this is unacceptable, is there a little part
34:43
Speaker 2: of you that takes some encouragement from stuff like this,
34:46
Speaker 2: Because clearly, if this is what Labor HQ are resorting to.
34:50
Speaker 1: I'd argue it means they are a little nervous.
34:54
Speaker 10: Look, I do agree, as I said, because they can't
34:57
Speaker 10: take away from Peter's strong leadership, which he's demonstrated across
35:01
Speaker 10: myriad portfolios. It's not just as leader of your position.
35:04
Speaker 10: They're looking around desperately for some alternative lever But I
35:08
Speaker 10: do think at the end of the day, we've got
35:10
Speaker 10: to be conscious at the example that we set for
35:12
Speaker 10: the rest of the country. We have to be conscious
35:14
Speaker 10: of the grace we must bring to this very rigorous profession,
35:18
Speaker 10: and I think Labor will and truly failed that test
35:21
Speaker 10: this week.
35:24
Speaker 2: Zoe McKenzie, always a delight to talk to you. Happy
35:26
Speaker 2: New Year, and I trust you enjoy the rest of
35:28
Speaker 2: your evening. We're going to go to a break, but
35:31
Speaker 2: when we come back, Meghan Markele ends months of speculation
35:34
Speaker 2: with her latest move. Plus, despite the Treasurer's unbridled economic optimism,
35:39
Speaker 2: there's fears as many ten thousand firms are set to
35:43
Speaker 2: go bankrupt.
35:44
Speaker 1: All of that coming up in just a moment. Welcome back.
35:50
Speaker 2: Well, it's only the second day of twenty twenty five
35:52
Speaker 2: and already Meghan Markele is back in the headlines. The
35:56
Speaker 2: Duchess of Sussex has returned to Instagram for the first
35:59
Speaker 2: time since she deleted her account before marrying Prince Harry.
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Speaker 12: Take a look.
36:29
Speaker 1: Nice stuff.
36:30
Speaker 2: Now what's interesting is that her other half, you know,
36:33
Speaker 2: the Prince, well he's nowhere to be seen. It's one
36:35
Speaker 2: hundred and eleven days since Meghan and Harry have been
36:37
Speaker 2: seen out about together. So this return to Instagram with
36:41
Speaker 2: the post It's all winder and no ginger is bound
36:44
Speaker 2: to create plenty of chatter joining me now as Sky
36:46
Speaker 2: News host Caroline Derusso, Caroline, Happy New Year, thanks for
36:50
Speaker 2: joining me. Meghan Markles back on Instagram. How significant is
36:54
Speaker 2: her return to social media?
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Speaker 8: Happy New Year's mate. Well, let's just see. I mean,
37:02
Speaker 8: it doesn't look like a whole lot at the moment.
37:04
Speaker 11: And if we go back to last March when she
37:07
Speaker 11: launched American Riviera Orchard and there was just an Instagram
37:11
Speaker 11: page with really not much on it and that video,
37:14
Speaker 11: you know, very low soft light in that black dress,
37:18
Speaker 11: whimsically running through that stately house, and then we didn't
37:21
Speaker 11: see much after that except for a few jars of
37:24
Speaker 11: strawberry jam that got sent to.
37:26
Speaker 8: A few celebrities, so I don't know what this means.
37:29
Speaker 11: Unfortunately, since Mexitt, we've seen lots and bits and pieces
37:35
Speaker 11: from Harry and Meghan, some from Harry on his own,
37:38
Speaker 11: some from Meghan on her own, and some from them together.
37:40
Speaker 11: Although we do understand that going into twenty twenty five
37:43
Speaker 11: there will be a professional separation. But I don't actually
37:47
Speaker 11: know where this fits in because it doesn't feel like
37:50
Speaker 11: there has been a broader purpose and a broader strategy.
37:53
Speaker 8: So I think we all just have to wait and see.
37:57
Speaker 2: Well, just before we move on to other subject, it's
38:00
Speaker 2: the start of the year. Just give me your hot
38:02
Speaker 2: tip for Harry and Meghan. What twist will their lives
38:06
Speaker 2: take this year?
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Speaker 8: I'm not quite sure what twist it will take this year.
38:12
Speaker 11: One thing that we do know is that Meghan's Netflix
38:15
Speaker 11: series there's something to.
38:17
Speaker 8: Do with cooking. Who knows what that even looks like.
38:21
Speaker 11: That really needs to be successful because we understand that
38:25
Speaker 11: that there is their last.
38:27
Speaker 8: Chance, so to speak, with Netflix, so.
38:29
Speaker 11: It'll be interesting to see what that content is and
38:33
Speaker 11: whether they survive it.
38:34
Speaker 8: Other than that, I imagine there'll be a.
38:36
Speaker 11: Few more non royal royal tours to various flower funk
38:42
Speaker 11: parts of the earth. But at this point I don't
38:46
Speaker 11: see a family reconciliation or anything like that on the cards.
38:49
Speaker 8: I think the jealousy from the other side.
38:52
Speaker 11: Of the pond will continue consistently throughout twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: Well, no doubt it'll keep us all greatly used, and
39:00
Speaker 2: of course your Royal report here on Sky News is
39:02
Speaker 2: always worth watching for.
39:04
Speaker 1: All the Royal news.
39:05
Speaker 2: Let's head to England, where thousands of people were left
39:08
Speaker 2: disappointed after gathering for a fireworks display in Birmingham that
39:11
Speaker 2: it had been advertised on social media but the whole
39:13
Speaker 2: thing turned out to be a complete scam.
39:17
Speaker 1: In a statement, the West Midlands.
39:18
Speaker 2: Police said quote, We're aware of a speculation of a
39:21
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve fireworks display taking place in Birmingham Centenary Square,
39:25
Speaker 2: but we can confirm this is not the case. We
39:27
Speaker 2: don't want people traveling unnecessarily into the city only to
39:30
Speaker 2: be disappointed, and of course many people did and were.
39:35
Speaker 2: It reminds me, Carol Oine of a similar event in
39:37
Speaker 2: Dublin last year, where hundreds of people turned out for
39:39
Speaker 2: a Halloween parade that also ended up being a hoax.
39:44
Speaker 1: Is this a new sort of a hoax that you.
39:45
Speaker 2: Think we're going to see more and more of And
39:48
Speaker 2: how do people make sure they don't fall for these
39:50
Speaker 2: kinds of scams?
39:53
Speaker 11: Well, I think it's one of those things. With the
39:55
Speaker 11: prevalence of social media and that these things, I imagine
39:58
Speaker 11: that we probably will see more of it. Although there's
40:02
Speaker 11: been hoax and scams since time immemorial, they've just got
40:05
Speaker 11: a different way of disseminating that information. I guess the
40:09
Speaker 11: only thing that I would say to people is make
40:11
Speaker 11: sure you know call your local authorities. I mean, I
40:14
Speaker 11: find it actually really almost amusing, shocking, but kind of amusing.
40:18
Speaker 11: James that with the way that local government is so
40:22
Speaker 11: far up everyone's backsides on every little thing that they do,
40:26
Speaker 11: that something like this gets.
40:27
Speaker 8: So far without it being shut down. It's almost, like
40:31
Speaker 8: I said, it's almost amusing.
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Speaker 11: People just need to need to check in, I suppose,
40:35
Speaker 11: and don't believe everything you see on the internet. There
40:39
Speaker 11: would go there's a good piece of advice for twenty
40:40
Speaker 11: twenty five.
40:43
Speaker 2: I tell you that advice will pretty much save your
40:45
Speaker 2: life in every regard.
40:46
Speaker 1: Just don't believe what you read on the internet.
40:48
Speaker 2: Speaking of scams, yesterday, Victorian Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen. She
40:54
Speaker 2: posted on Twitter that British singer Robbie Williams would be
40:57
Speaker 2: promoted performing a free event in Melbourne tonight. Robbie Williams
41:02
Speaker 2: fed Square tomorrow five pm for free.
41:05
Speaker 1: She said.
41:06
Speaker 2: Now it might be free for fans to attend, but
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Speaker 2: taxpayers are going to have to cover some of the
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Speaker 2: costs someday. Is this what we call bread and circuses?
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Speaker 5: Carolin?
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Speaker 11: It is absolutely what we call bread and circuses And
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Speaker 11: I tweeted as much yesterday evening. Shortly after that that
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Speaker 11: post was made on x A little bit, you know,
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Speaker 11: more suffering for the Victorian taxpayer.
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Speaker 8: And ultimately these things do need to be paid for.
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Speaker 11: They get paid for by stamps, you do, They get
41:35
Speaker 11: paid for by land tax, they get paid.
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Speaker 8: For by a whole raft of other things.
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Speaker 11: And if you had a budget in the shape of
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Speaker 11: the Victorian budget, why on earth would you be doing
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Speaker 11: something like this.
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Speaker 8: You know, I can understand that.
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Speaker 11: You might, you know, want to help people with the
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Speaker 11: cost of living issues. And I understand James, that you
41:55
Speaker 11: might go, well, we want people to be in the CBDA.
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Speaker 11: You want people in the CBDA. You know what public
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Speaker 11: servants can go back to work in the CBD because
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Speaker 11: businesses in the CBD they don't need a sugar hit
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Speaker 11: for one evening.
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Speaker 8: They need trade all year round. But we saw that
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Speaker 8: with the.
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Speaker 11: West Australian governments not particularly different. They gave everyone free
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Speaker 11: tickets to the zoo. And I mean, when people are
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Speaker 11: sufferings in a cost of living crisis, they need real assistance.
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Speaker 11: I'm just not quite sure why the Victorian Libs haven't
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Speaker 11: said anything in relation to this. I know most people
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Speaker 11: are on holidays, so I assume that's probably why. But
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Speaker 11: these sorts of sugar hits, they do not fix an
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Speaker 11: economy that's in the sort of trouble that the Victorian
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Speaker 11: one is.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: It's an absolute distraction paid for by the Victorian taxpayer,
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Speaker 2: the long suffering Victorian taxpayer. Carol Durisso thanks for your
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Speaker 2: time and once again, happy New Year. We're going to
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Speaker 2: go to a break stick around Jim Chalmer's advice, Fozzy
42:55
Speaker 2: is doing it tough.
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Speaker 1: Just be optimistic.
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Speaker 2: It's been exposed as pretty cruel with the four cast
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Speaker 2: that ten thousand businesses are about to go to the wall.
43:03
Speaker 2: Plus should we get rid of five cent coins? James
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Speaker 2: McGrath will join me on the desk next. The welcome
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Speaker 2: back Federal Treasurer gave us a budget update last month,
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Speaker 2: announcing deficits as far as the eye can see.
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Speaker 1: But he did it with a smile.
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Speaker 2: And then he told Ozzy's battling cost of living pressures
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Speaker 2: to be optimistic about the future, while providing very little
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Speaker 2: reason for optimism. That encouragement was actually pretty cruel if
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Speaker 2: forecasting by the Coalition is correct that ten thousand businesses
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Speaker 2: are right now at risk of bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the country's
43:38
Speaker 2: top economists are certainly not optimistic. They've warned that neither
43:41
Speaker 2: Albanezy nor Dutton have tangible plans to address the nation's
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Speaker 2: die economic situation. Among those is independent economist Chris Chris Richardson.
43:51
Speaker 2: Sorry who said, and I quote will yet again in
43:54
Speaker 2: Australia have a Seinfeld election about nothing. Joining me now
43:57
Speaker 2: is LNP Senator James McGrath. James, I bet Chalmers feels
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Speaker 2: a little bit silly after that tone deaf speech, and
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Speaker 2: he should shouldn't he He.
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Speaker 6: Should feel really silly. But remember we've got a treasurer
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Speaker 6: of this country that it is PhD In Paul keating
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Speaker 6: it was chiefest Affter Wayne Swann, who doesn't understand when
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Speaker 6: in the midst of a cost of living crisis at
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Speaker 6: the moment is hitting everybody. So it's no wonder we're
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Speaker 6: going to see ten thousand small businesses hit the wall
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Speaker 6: this year, and they're going to hit the wall because
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Speaker 6: of the labour's policies and because we've got a treasure
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Speaker 6: who does not understand what is happening out there in
44:28
Speaker 6: voter Land.
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Speaker 2: I want to ask you about Victorian police. There's been
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Speaker 2: reports that female police officers, about three hundred and fifty
44:35
Speaker 2: of them on the front line, small in stature, many
44:39
Speaker 2: of them quite petite.
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Speaker 1: They've been working for more than.
44:42
Speaker 2: A year without new integrated load bearing vests that are
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Speaker 2: supposed to protect them from things like stabbing attacks, sharp weapons, firearms.
44:51
Speaker 2: What's going on with our police force that we're not
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Speaker 2: looking after our offices?
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Speaker 6: This is labor incompetence. Labor are terrible looking after victims
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Speaker 6: of a crime and a terrible looking after the men
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Speaker 6: and women who are on the front line of policing.
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Speaker 6: So what else will you expect from labor? So Here
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Speaker 6: in Queensland, a youth police minister has Dan Purdy, a
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Speaker 6: former serving police officer, someone who's actually served with Peter Dutton,
45:14
Speaker 6: has said this is not good enough. We're going to
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Speaker 6: fix it. That's what you need to do. You need
45:17
Speaker 6: to get coalish and governments in well.
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Speaker 2: I think that might fix a few things actually, but
45:21
Speaker 2: of course you'd say that. Hey, let's talk about Sydney
45:25
Speaker 2: where private school fees are just out of control. Some
45:29
Speaker 2: of the most exclusive private schools now are charging more
45:32
Speaker 2: than fifty thousand dollars a year in fees. It represents
45:35
Speaker 2: a seven percent rise. Did you ever imagine a day
45:39
Speaker 2: in this country where private school fees And I'm all
45:41
Speaker 2: for private schools. My kids went to private schools, but
45:44
Speaker 2: fifty grand.
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Speaker 6: That's a huge amount of money and it takes away
45:48
Speaker 6: choice of parents. They're the ones who should decide where
45:50
Speaker 6: the kids go to, whether state schools or private schools.
45:53
Speaker 6: I went to state schools, a lot of them in
45:56
Speaker 6: asphile to Warmer namboor blab life. But that's something my
45:59
Speaker 6: parents decided. It's fifty grand, you know what cost of
46:02
Speaker 6: living crisis. It is impacting everybody across Australia, especially parents
46:07
Speaker 6: and that want to send their kids to a private school.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, one more topic I want to ask
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Speaker 2: you about, and this one I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Many people now are calling for the abolition of.
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Speaker 1: Five cent coins.
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Speaker 2: Armor Guard chief executive Matt Cowfield, whose company is responsible
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Speaker 2: for the storage and transport of about ninety percent of
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Speaker 2: Australia's cash, wants to kill off coins and millions of
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Speaker 2: them just sit unused, particularly the five cent piece, and
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Speaker 2: apparently that's costing the country the most. It begs the question, then,
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Speaker 2: should we get rid of five cent coins?
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Speaker 5: Now?
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Speaker 2: James're gonna be honest, I'm allful. We've got to keep cash,
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Speaker 2: We've got to keep it in circulation.
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Speaker 1: But five cent coins.
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Speaker 2: When was the last time you used one of those
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Speaker 2: in a meaningful way?
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Speaker 6: I can't actually remember. And I've got my wallet here
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Speaker 6: and it looks got no coins in it. It's got
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Speaker 6: like a a ten dollar night, five dollar a night.
46:56
Speaker 6: It comes to choice, though, if people still want to
46:59
Speaker 6: have that a bit use five cent coins, but also
47:02
Speaker 6: full your respect to the phaler armagad. That's your job, mate,
47:05
Speaker 6: to deliver the money. That's what you get paid to do.
47:07
Speaker 6: It's not like five p cent coins have gained a
47:09
Speaker 6: lot of weight since decimal currency was brought in. They've
47:11
Speaker 6: always weighed the same. Let's says people use them or
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Speaker 6: not use them. It's let's let them mob decide.
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Speaker 2: I guess you've got to be a little bit sympathetic
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Speaker 2: to armor Guard though, because it does cost them to
47:19
Speaker 2: transport money, and if they're transporting money that typically people
47:23
Speaker 2: aren't using, that is an impost on them.
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Speaker 6: But they get paid to do it. That's the I'm
47:29
Speaker 6: just going to pass on the cost to hold us.
47:31
Speaker 6: It's like a fisherman complaining about the fish they're catching
47:34
Speaker 6: and there's too many fish. So look, I've got a
47:37
Speaker 6: little bit of sympathy. But hang on, that's our currency,
47:40
Speaker 6: so if people want to use it, then Armorguard, who
47:42
Speaker 6: are getting paid to transport it, should transport it.
47:45
Speaker 2: But here's here's my takeaway from this, and here's a
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Speaker 2: hot tip for viewers. I would start putting aside my
47:49
Speaker 2: five cent coins because if they get rid of them
47:51
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five years from now, they might actually be
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Speaker 2: worth a bit more than five cents. That's the hot
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Speaker 2: tip for twenty twenty five jays regard. Thanks for joining
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Speaker 2: me tonight and thanks to you for your company tonight.
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Speaker 2: I've really appreciated you joining me stick around because coming
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Speaker 2: up in just a moment is the Bolt Report with
48:07
Speaker 2: Nika de Giorgio, a lot for her to get through tonight.
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Speaker 2: I'll be here tomorrow, same time, six pm. I'll see
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Speaker 2: you then,