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Mermaid Stories Purple Hair and a Housing Crisis. This is Australia. · The Slippery Slope

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Hi, Jay Fallon, thanks for listening to The Slippery Slope.
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So obviously I've been away. I've been away working for a
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while, believe it or not, doing this during the podcast, the
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music and blah, blah, blah. You know, that's not the only
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things I'll do. So I'm away.
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I mean, way out, out West, a bit working, doing that kind of
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thing, reading the news. But you know what?
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Or something I've observed, I think it's gotten a little worse
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the last or maybe last 6 to 12 months.
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But especially reading the news lately, it is almost as though
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we, I'm going to say Australians as a whole are not thinking
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clearly. And it goes from our leadership
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down. We just, we, we cannot.
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We've lost the ability to think wisely about things, to think
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rationally, to make coherent decisions that really make
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sense. We just blindly follow after
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anything that a leader will stand up and say something
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completely incoherent sometimes and everyone just jumps on board
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and follows it and it doesn't make any sense, no sense
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whatsoever. All people just cannot make
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rational and sane decisions. But this isn't just the public,
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even our leadership in general. I want to go through a few
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articles which to me just speaks of the lack of leadership, the
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inability to lead. It seems like we have a
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population and leadership which have a reprobate mind, reprobate
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mind. They just cannot think clearly.
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I personally think when you have a Prime Minister and his staff
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that are leading the, what do you say leading the, you know,
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that little parade that they have down in Sydney and they had
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it, I think it was, was the last month and the MG parade and he
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was leading it. I think this is not helping
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this. You can see when a nation is
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losing your mind when you are really, this is the kind of
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behaviour that you're, that you're showing to the rest of
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the world anyway. So I'm going to go through these
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few articles which I've read them, I've been reading these
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things and thinking what, what are we thinking?
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Where are we going? Why is it that people can't see
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that this is not the right way to go?
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OK, so so obviously the first one I want to talk about is, you
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know, prosecutors to appeal Christian Christian with the K
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White's sentence. The son and daughter's son and
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son and daughter a player now and have spoken exclusively to 9
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News after former NSW Police officer Christian White was
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spared gaol over the 95 year old's manslaughter.
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And now I'd already posted a video of all this that had gone
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on. The judge in this in this
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instance just did not seem to be able to make sense.
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His justification for giving Christian one just, you know,
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just community order and the way he justified it.
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Well, this isn't some kind of this isn't a crime where we want
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to, you know, you need deterrence.
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Well, no, maybe maybe you don't need deterrence.
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I would, I would argue, argue the point because I think police
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do need more of a deterrence. They need to think they've got
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some, they've got a lot of responsibility and they need to
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think, pay more attention to their behaviour and the the
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decisions that they make. They are walking around with
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weapons, with weapons. They need to be able to consider
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these things more prudently and not just Oh yeah OK like like
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the Christian White says walks in there 3 minutes later while
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he was with a Sergeant. She was unable to help be of any
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assistance at all. So I don't know why you even
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bother having a Sergeant standing next to you.
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She can't do a clipping thing. So all he says is Nah, bugger
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it. And then pies a Taser.
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Taser at a 95 year old woman and then the judge justifies it.
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Well, we don't need a deterrence because the likelihood of this
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happening again. Well, you do need a deterrence
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because you need to say to police officers, hey, you can't.
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You shouldn't just be walking in, going into a situation and
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then making this decision so flippantly uttering words like,
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Nah, bugger it and tasering. It went against policy, against
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procedures. So yeah, you should be using as
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a deterrent. And besides that, it just needs
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to be used as punishment for stupid behaviour that caused the
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death of a fellow human being. So that was the first article.
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I was just like just amazing. So this one here I'm going to go
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through this is just wow, a story that I think what is the
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stupidity of this? The actually I'll go through
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this one here. It's a better better from the
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city. Sydney Morning Herald.
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You know, actor, actress Tasma Walton married to what's his
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name, Rose Rose McManus. There's a picture of her there.
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She's allegedly supposedly indigenous.
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So this headline here. So talking about mermaids took
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him. Harold Hall disappearance story
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cited in native title stoush so active actor tasman Walton has
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used a story about former Prime Minister Harold holt's
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disappearance being linked to mermaids as evidence in a
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significant native title dispute covering land from werribee to
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Wilson's promontory. Several members of the Bannerong
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Land Council Aboriginal Corporation are challenging
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expert evidence. Expert evidence, whatever that
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supports a native title application from the Boone
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Warren Land and Sea Council covering 13,000 square
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kilometres along Victoria's Victoria's coast.
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So a Banner wrong group. Witnesses, including Walton, who
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is married to entertainer McManus and lives on the Moncton
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Peninsula, responded in the Federal Court on Monday to the
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expert evidence that raised questions over their claimed
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ancestry. The court will decide Walton and
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the others are descended from a pickle apical mean, I say the
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apical ancestors who were traditional owners of the of
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Bannerong Bunwarang country at the time of colonisation.
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Walton told the court her Aboriginal heritage comes from
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her mother's side, descending from Eliza Nowan, sometimes
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known as Eliza Gamble, who the Bunnerong claim was a
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traditional owner of the area known today as Port Phillip Bay.
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The Bunnerong group claimed A Nowan, Gamble and two other
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Aboriginal women were taken from the area by sealers in the early
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1830s. Eighteen 30s.
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So she's claiming this is her, comes from a mum, mother's side,
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sometimes known as Gamble, who Bannerong was a tradition of the
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war, two other Aboriginal women. So this would be here something
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like a great, great, great grandmother, 1830.
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She's known her grandmother and that's, I don't know, it's a bit
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bit of a stretch, I think. Walton told the court how over a
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period of years, her grandmother, This isn't the
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woman from 1830, her grandmother passed down Banner wrong
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cultural knowledge in the form of stories containing cultural
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law. The origin of these stories was
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Eliza Now when Gamble Walton said much of the cultural
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knowledge was imparted to Walton in the mid to late 90s when her
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grandmother visited Melbourne from WA.
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So the grandmother's from WA, supposedly she's a traditional
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owner from Victoria, but no, someone is.
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At the time, Walton was working on Blue Heelers living in Saint
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Kilda. We probably all remember from
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Blue Heelers. When the programme gruelling
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schedule allowed Walton allowed. Walton said she would take her
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grandmother on excursion for around Port Phillip Bay to the
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southeast of Melbourne. On one of these outings, the
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pair visited a beach on the Mornington Peninsula when her
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where her grandmother told her the the old Prime Minister
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disappeared. Here's a picture.
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If you're watching this, some video here.
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This is a picture here of Harold Holt, former Prime Minister
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Harold Holt at ports in 1966 where he disappeared in heavy
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seas. One year later.
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It's with his spear gun there. So Holt disappeared after
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swimming. Walton said her grandmother had
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told her Holt shouldn't have been swimming there.
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This is the supposed wisdom from the grandmother.
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Asked by the Banarong lawyers why, Walton told the court.
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Well, that is mermaid country. Mermaid country.
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Just let that sink in for a second.
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Mermaid country. Her belief was that mermaids
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took him, Walton said identifying as indigenous was
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important to her. Apparently this is traditional
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indigenous folklore about mermaids taking the Prime
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Minister in 1967. OK, Genealogical evidence in an
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expert report provided by Dr. Ian Clark that supports the
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application of the Boon Warren Group disputes the Bunnerong
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Boon Warang heritage of now and Gamble.
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This is as in Walton's grandmother instead posing that
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she may have been a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman taken early by
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white sealers who went on to establish a settlement or
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temporary camp at WA Victoria, sorry, Western Port Victoria
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from the 1820s, eighteen 20s, remember 1820s, which would have
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made this woman maybe a great great, great great grandparents.
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That's a Longs. That's 200 years ago.
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How many generations? The Boon Warring application
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lists three women, Marjorie Munro, Anne Munro and Louise
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Briggs as as apical ancestors and traditional owners.
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Walton said Now on Gamble was taken to WA where she died in
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Albany in Albany IN the southwest of the state in 1867.
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She recalls in court growing up in social housing in the 70s and
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80s in Geraldton, WA, where she had she said she was born.
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Although Walton, her mother and her grandmother did not identify
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publicly as Aboriginal as loved it so they never identified
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publicly as Aboriginal, it was known within her family.
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Walton also was often treated as Indigenous due to her
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appearance, including sometimes being targeted by racial
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epithets. She said she believed her
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grandmother learned the stories from oral tradition.
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Handed down oral tradition. Seriously, the Prime Minister
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went missing in 67 so it sounds like some grandmothers just made
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up a blight of crap. Oh anyway that they were in that
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they were of traditional banner, wrong origin.
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How was that? So the mermaids traditional?
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So here's the story comes up later on.
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Basically this is the outcome of it all.
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The judge has apologised for the abuse.
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Justice Bernard Murphy said it was regrettable that Walton had
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been subjected to online abuse and implicit threats about her
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role in the case because of the online commentary and abuse
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posted by keyboard warriors who did not have the courage to put
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their name to it. Miss Walton gave consideration
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to withdrawing as a party but did not ultimately do so.
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Justice Murphy revealed he had asked the court's judicial
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registrar to review the online commentary.
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And you know, blah blah, blah, here we go.
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So the Boon Warring Land and Sea Council said Walton had failed
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to demonstrate her claim to the Boon Warring people and to have
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knowledge of their traditions and customs.
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But Justice Murphy, another judge who doesn't seem to be
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able to think clearly, noted that proof of events about
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allegedly abducted Aboriginal women, their connection to land
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and genealogy from around 200 years ago was not something
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easily established by official records.
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He said it was appropriate in such circumstances to rely on
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family history records passed down by oral tradition such as
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Walton had described. I found it to be an honest
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witness who gave evidence which reflected her genuinely held
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beliefs. And so this thus we have the
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story of the mermaid. Apparently the mermaid and a few
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other things provides evidence that she must be indigenous from
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Victoria. Thus, she is a part of this
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traditional lone land claim. So bold strategy, Cotton.
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Let's see if it pays off for them.
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You you've got this genealogist who comes up and says well we
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actually have traced things back and believe that it's more
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likely that that Walton's family comes from Tasmania.
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Has everyone ever heard of this new found, new found ability to
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do DNA testing? It's it's amazing.
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It is amazing. I have seen some people now our
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family, my family, my mother's family and my father's family,
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my mother's family, but have had they've got a lot of documents,
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a lot of evidence to back up claims where they come from.
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Obviously, I had two great grandfathers were bought over as
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slaves from Vanuatu and two grandmothers, great grandmothers
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who were 1 was also South Sea and indigenous.
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The other was indigenous as well.
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So but I also have, and I've seen family members who have DNA
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evidence as well to back up, to back up the documented evidence
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of these claims. So it's not just a claim from
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oral tradition and blah, blah, blah, other things to back up
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all the evidence. So there's not a lot of dispute
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about it. So I don't understand how our
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judicial system have these, you know, these judges and people
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just say, well, we'll just believe the ramblings and the
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rantings of an old lady who's talking about mermaids and a
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group of people who never, not just the daughter, not just the
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granddaughter, also the mother and the grandmother.
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None of them ever claimed it said there.
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None of them ever came out and said, yes, we are indigenous in
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the public. You never claimed it, you know,
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earlier in life. But now when there's land money
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involved. Oh, I'm a black fella.
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I just, it seems like, like I said, we've lost everyone.
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We were, I don't mean to be OK, have a obviously I, I do have a
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lot of respect for people who want to chase up their heritage
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and look at their indigenous connections, you know, but let's
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not be naive. Let's not be silly about it.
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We still need to go down the proper pathways and confirm
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these things, get the evidence. And you can't just ignore other
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evidence like, as you know, genealogists, and also just
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negate any possible DNA evidence.
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You need to get all the evidence, not just rely on fairy
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tales passed down from grandmothers, especially when
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you're talking about events that happened 200 years ago.
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So she's talking to a grandmother that was alive all
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these stories. She was alive obviously in the
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60s and you know, she would have been born then and alive then
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and, and she's telling her stories in the 90s and that's
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supposed to uphold a claim about ancestors from 200 years ago.
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I it just seems like we we're unable, we just rash silly
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decisions. Anyhow, let's go on to the next
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one. Greens candidate was forced to
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shut down online comments just hours after announcing the 2025
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run. You know you're in for a weird
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story when they're referring to one person as they.
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Obviously he's he's one of the, you know, the they themes.
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Because it doesn't just say he's he's.
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Heaven for heaven forbid we refer to someone in the
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singular. Announcing his 2025 run for the
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federal seat of Fowler following a wave of abuse, including being
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called an abomination over his gender identity.
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I'm saying he is stuff it Avery Howard a non binary.
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Well there is no such thing as a non binary so get over it lad.
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Anti poverty advocate and retail worker made his campaign
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announcement on Monday morning with posts on social media
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outlining his commitment to tackling inequality, the cost of
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living crisis and climate change in the southwestern Sydney seat.
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Everyone deserves to have a home.
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Yeah yeah, OK food and world class health and education.
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And I've seen these goals get harder than ever over the last
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few years. Howard said.
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But within 9 hours of posting the announcement, Howard was
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compelled to restrict replies and X due to what they
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described. He describes Sorry as a
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staggering uptick in homophobic, transphobic and just hateful
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response sponsors. You know, I forget how hateful
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can people can be and how the worst people possible come out
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when you do something publicly, he said in a follow up post.
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So why is that? Well, this is a photo of him
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right there. There you go.
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Goes and sticks things all through his face.
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Piercings all through his face. He's got the faded purple hair
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flicked over to the side. Oh yeah, yeah, the wave of abuse
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didn't stop there. On Facebook, anti vaccine and
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anti lockdown campaigner Monica Smit, founder of Reignite
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Democracy Australia, reposted Howard's campaign messages.
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Message asked, asking her followers to caption this
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candidate's campaign. This will be good.
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In this the type is this the type of person who you think can
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represent your values? Smit wrote.
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Prompting hundreds of comments, many of which attacked Howard's
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appearance and gender identity. Howard later posted screenshots
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of some of the vitriolic messages to his Instagram story,
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with the caption owed to be a visibly queer candidate in the
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federal election. Among the comments were lol I
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didn't know there were clowns running for parliament.
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I bet it it can't define the word woman.
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I won't read that anyway. There's some pretty, pretty bad
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things in there, to be honest. I think it's dangerous judging
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people on appearance. I've had a lifetime of going of
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having it done to me. Got thrown out of a church
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because I was wearing a Metallica shirt.
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Seems to be weird. Got you'd say.
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There's got to be a lot more to that story of, you know, people
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getting thrown out of church because of Metallica shirt.
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I'd say there have to be more to that story.
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Come on. I got told at high school I
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would amount to nothing because of the way I dressed.
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Perfectly OK to disagree on someone's politics, but a low
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blow to judge someone on their appearance.
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Yeah. OK.
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So this is the kind of person it's going to get a lot done in
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Parliament. Yeah, how's Howard said their
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journey into politics his journey into politics began from
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a place of lived experience with poverty and housing insecurity
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at at 17, he was moving between shelters we're trying to finish
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year 12 relying on youth allowance to survive living in
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poverty how. It said the COVID-19 pandemic
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and the introduction of the coronavirus supplement began a
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turning point showing how quickly poverty could be
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addressed. About when the political will
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existed. You mean when they were just
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handouts? Handouts being given?
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This is, I'll tell you what I believe, OK?
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I think government help is perfectly fine in moderation.
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I do believe fervently that if you don't work, you don't eat
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and work. You know, if you want to buy a
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block of land, get a block of land and till the soil and just
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work so you can feed yourself, fine, that's good.
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But you got to work for your food.
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If you don't work, you don't eat.
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And if all you want to do is go and live off the government
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teat, well then you shouldn't be.
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I think if you don't want to put your hand to the plough, you
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shouldn't be getting government handouts and we don't need
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people. When this chap talks about
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inequality, he is talking about giving everyone, regardless of
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whether you work or not the same.
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He he is talking about taking from the rich, from people who
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have worked for a living and giving, giving everyone, sharing
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it out to everyone. Like I said, you don't work, you
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don't eat. If you don't, if you don't want
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to put your hand to the plough, you're going to suffer the
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consequences anyway. Next question, next story.
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So grandmother, obviously Albanese and Dutton, they had a
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little debate, They've taken some questions.
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This grandmother great question, I reckon has put us put a
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question out there, she said. Grandmother questions, question
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puts Albanese and Dutton in their place.
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So Dutton and Albanese put on the spot with her question.
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The two leaders faced off in front of 100 undecided voters,
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blah, blah, blah. They fielded a number of tough
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questions from the crowd. But it was a 74 year old
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grandmother, Janine, who left the pair stand.
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It's pretty, pretty amazing when she can leave the pair stand.
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Okay, what kind of politics, what kind of leaders do we have
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if this leaves them stunned? I worked very hard all my life.
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It did not come from money at all, didn't come from money.
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I came from an average family. She said she wasn't worried
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about her own future but held grave fears for those of her
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children and grandchildren. I have not seen any government
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take control of a fact and it's a fact.
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A lot of foreign countries and companies and countries by
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Australian family, we have a lot of migrants.
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Sorry, not migrants. I didn't say that we have a lot
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of, I should say I didn't say that we have a lot of students
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who are here visiting who are buying housing with the city
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area, within the city area. We have a lot of people here
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just on visas buying properties here in Sydney and they are now
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empty. Obviously she is just stating
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the blatant obvious. We've got issues with housing.
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We've got an A government that is propping up the housing
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market. We've got a, an over inflated
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housing market. Sorry, if you own a house, it's
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it's overinflated and the government has been running this
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Ponzi scheme, this scam of a Ponzi scheme for decades now,
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just bringing in more foreign people to buy and prop up our
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housing market. And when things get bad, when
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things get hard, when it looks like we'll, you know, go down,
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crash down to a reality. Well then they just hand out
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money for first home buyers grants which which just inflates
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the prices even more. So this is what they've been
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doing. This is the Ponzi scheme they've
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been running for a long time. So she goes and say is one of
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their governments going to turn up and say Australia belongs to
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Australians and therefore our land remains Australia
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Australian. Both leaders went on the charm
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offensive. So they both just talk rubbish
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for a while. Just telling her good she is for
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an old lady. Dutton repeated his campaign
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promise that a Coalition government would impose A2 year
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ban on foreign buyers from purchasing existing existing
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housing stock. I don't want foreign buyers
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competing against young Australians at auctions or at
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the sale of the house that they've got their mind set on.
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Jeanine, however, was quick to ask what the Opposition's leader
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meant regarding existing housing.
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Good on you Jeanine. You pointed out the obvious and
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this enough. He can't because he's just
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trying to hoodwink us all. Does that stop them from buying
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property and building new homes? She asked.
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Dutton said it was a fair question, but clarified that
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without here it is. Without foreign investment in
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new housing development, many construction jobs would fail to
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be funded. Like I said, it's a Ponzi
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scheme. Using the example of a 200 unit
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apartment block, Dutton said if foreign students and investors
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did not buy a portion of the housing then it could not be
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built. There is a certain number of pre
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sales that need to take place before that unit development can
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be completed. So if they don't get the pre
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sales, they don't get the finance.
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That's only because they have made housing so expensive, so in
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affordable for your average Australian.
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This is the whole reason why we've got so many homeless
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people. We just keep inviting you
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migrants in that can buy up the houses in cash that have got the
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money to buy a house. You know you have to have
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something like half $1,000,000 just to be able to come into the
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country and live. So as long as you've got the
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cash to do it, that's what they want.
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It over inflates their market. The average Aussie and all these
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young people cannot buy. You cannot buy in Sydney when
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your medium house price is just over $1,000,000.
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Seriously, for your first house, it just causes housing prices to
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go up and This is why we've got such a large number of homeless
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people all across the nation. They do not give a flip about
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Australians who live in this nation.
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We have got politicians that don't give a flip.
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They don't care and all they care about is the housing market
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and pushing the inflation and pushing the prices up higher.
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That's all they're doing, that's all they're doing.
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They don't really care about Australians.
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And this is what she's pointing out and he's offering up excuses
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and this is because these two Albanese.
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So Albanese said his policy was basically the same as Mr
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Dutton's. Butt managed to avoid mentioning
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anything about existing housing in his answer, but Labour's
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legislation specifies that it's been also only prevents foreign
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investors from buying existing homes and does not cover future
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housing. This is the problem.
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We have got leaders who are basically the same Albanese
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Labour parliament lays, Labor Party and the Liberals.
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They don't really stand for anything.
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All they want is to win the election, feather their own
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nests. That's all they're looking at
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doing. They don't stand for anything,
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that's why they always fall for nothing.
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They fall for nothing because they don't stand for anything of
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substance. They don't really stand.
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They don't believe in anything other than looking after
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themselves and their mates and they're Speaking of that.
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Let's go to this this article here.
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This was in the career male regrets candidate has a few.
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This is an LNPLNPLNP candidate. So LNP candidate who handed out
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mega inspired trinkets at the campaign launch of his must win
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Queensland C previously blamed feminists for aiding Donald
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Donald Trump's US election loss and label China a grub of a
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country. Well, seriously, don't we all
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think and believe and know that China is a grub of a country?
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China currently they've, you know, they've lost $18 trillion
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in their real estate market, trillion and they're still
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trying to hide, hide the truth on how their economy is going.
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Economy is in freefall anyway. So they are a grub of a country
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anyway. LNP hopeful for Cairns, Cairns
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based Leichhardt Jeremy Neil also railed against COVID-19
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restrictions and vaccines and said the ABC should be defunded.
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Now. I would agree with all of these
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things. ABC should be defunded.
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Neil last night defended the now deleted post from between 2020
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and 2022 as simply being poorly worded.
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Like I said, if you believe something, stand up for what you
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believe. Don't renege on something you've
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said, OK? If you've said something and you
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realise it was wrong, fine, go ahead, apologise, say hey, I was
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wrong, I was mistaken, I was given the wrong information,
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whatever. But I shouldn't have said it and
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I was wrong what I said. But now he's just offering an
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apology and some excuses because he at the end of it all, he
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doesn't really stand for anything.
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He just wants to get elected, just looking for power and money
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for himself. If you don't stand for anything,
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you fall for anything, stand for nothing, fall for anything.
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That's what I'm looking for. So he offered an apology while
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also noting a majority of the posts were written during the
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COVID-19 pandemic when as a paramedic, he was on the front
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line dealing with extremely traumatic incidents.
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So he was seeing it all. That had a profound impact on
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him. It had a profound impact.
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So now, like I said, unfortunately, because all he
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wants now all we can think about is he wants to get elected.
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And I'm not going to stand up and stand by my beliefs.
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I'm not going to stand by my convictions, not going to stand
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by and say, hey, the mandates were wrong.
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The, the, the jab wasn't all that was cracked up to be.
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Our human rights were being flouted, were being destroyed.
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Our governments were not standing up and standing by
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their people. No, no, because he now wants
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power. He doesn't stand up for his
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beliefs. It's like, Oh no, I've been
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called out. I said these things standing up,
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standing for nothing, not standing by his convictions, his
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beliefs. It seems to me that we in
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Australia have just got leaders and potential leaders, people
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putting their hand up who don't really stand for anything.
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They just flail about. They don't.
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They all stand up on the high moral ground, but the high moral
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ground to them is whichever way the wind is blowing.
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We don't have any leaders that stand on principles I would hope
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stand on biblical principles, stand on their own convictions.
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Biblical convictions stand on beliefs that really take the
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country forward. Instead we have people like
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Dutton and Albanese that just seem to be blown around in the
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wind or, you know, too busy leading parades with lots of
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colours around to really be true leaders.
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Anyway, these are the stories that really piqued my interest
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lately and I think are a indictment of where we are as a
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nation. We have lost our way.
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This is all my opinion. I'm Jay Fallon, thank you for
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listening to The Slippery Slope. They just fuel the desire.