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Ryan Bridge: MPs need to stop doing stuff for social media likes · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: There's a perception out there that some of our younger
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  Speaker 1: MPs either don't know what they're doing in Parliament or
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  Speaker 1: are just doing stuff for social media likes. Let's be
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  Speaker 1: so for real right now. Things kind of stuff. At
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  Speaker 1: the moment.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing everything you can to make ends meet, but
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  Speaker 2: bills are through the roof. Essentials like milk and bread,
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  Speaker 2: keating your home feel like luxuries.
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  Speaker 1: It's because the super rich are getting richer and mega
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  Speaker 1: corporations are raking in. So I'm going to be so
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  Speaker 1: real with you right now too. Some of this is
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  Speaker 1: actually true. Stuff is running a bunch of stories at
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  Speaker 1: the moment about Hannah Lafferty MP Clark at the Depati
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  Speaker 1: Maldi MP newest one is about photos of her with
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  Speaker 1: the Minister for Women, Nikola Grigg, and I'll come back
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  Speaker 1: to that one in a second. But what they found
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  Speaker 1: out is that Clark was boasting on social media that
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  Speaker 1: she spent sixty five percent of her time advocating for
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  Speaker 1: and visiting young people in prisons and OT facilities. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds very laudable. The only problem official records show she's
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  Speaker 1: only visited prison once since she became an MP. And
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  Speaker 1: as for the OT facilities. Well, the minister, Karen Saw
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  Speaker 1: confirms no visits ever. She says Clark must be quote
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  Speaker 1: telling porkies. Now at this point I feel a bit
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  Speaker 1: bad for Clark, right, maybe she misspoke or hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: understood or something like that. But they ask her questions
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  Speaker 1: the journalist and no answer. Post gets deleted. Apparently all
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  Speaker 1: looks a bit shady anyway. Then there's this new photo
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  Speaker 1: with Nicola Gregg a few weeks ago. Lovely photo gets
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  Speaker 1: posted by Clark with Greg smiles beaming. Caption says she
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  Speaker 1: had been quote supporting the Minister for Women and extending
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  Speaker 1: fully funded breast screening from age sixty nine to seventy four. Problem.
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  Speaker 1: Griggs says they never spoke about it. Gregg says she
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  Speaker 1: was asked to come down to Parliament on a lower
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  Speaker 1: floor because Clark wanted a photo with the minister. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: say why. Now, how odd is that? How strange is that?
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  Speaker 1: How unusual is that? Especially when you consider what the
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  Speaker 1: hannah might be. Clark thinks of an evil colonizer, presumably
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  Speaker 1: like a national MP. Why would you get the photo,
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  Speaker 1: why would you post and why would you say something
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  Speaker 1: that on the face of it doesn't appear to have
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  Speaker 1: been true.
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