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• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Gives the report.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight another disaster of Energy Minister Chris Bone just four
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: months after making this boast about his global warming plans.
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  Speaker 3: And it puts the ill of warror at the center
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  Speaker 3: of Australia's renewable energy future.
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  Speaker 2: Also tonight a look at the Greens after yet another
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: candidate is exposed as an Israel hating crank has called
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: for politicians to be killed. What kind of sick party
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  Speaker 2: has it become? And Kamla Harris sinks in the polls
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  Speaker 2: with claims she's so fake that she even stole the
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  Speaker 2: childhood anecdote from Martin Luther King in our Premier is
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  Speaker 2: humiliating King Charles on his trip here. That's creating news
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  Speaker 2: in Britain. And we'll check out the Prime Minister's new
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  Speaker 2: plan to save you money when you pay with your
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  Speaker 2: debit card.
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  Speaker 4: Is it a plan or a con?
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  Speaker 2: But first, I'm now changing my advice to the Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister after seeing the four point three million dollar beach
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  Speaker 2: house is now buying at kopak Vana on the New
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  Speaker 2: South Wales Central Coast. I'm changing my advice. You see,
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  Speaker 2: back when he was running against Bill Shawd to be
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  Speaker 2: the Labor leader, I think he albit easy. Why don't
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: you tell people about how you were a batler boy?
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  Speaker 4: Did he? In fact? I think he overdid it.
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  Speaker 2: How often have we heard him now telling or boasting
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  Speaker 2: how he grew up in a shoe box.
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  Speaker 4: Or some such.
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  Speaker 5: I grew up in a council house in Camperdown, the
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  Speaker 5: only son of a single mum on the disability pension.
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  Speaker 1: We also know what it's.
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  Speaker 5: Like to struggle. My mum lived in the one public
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  Speaker 5: housing that she was born in for all of her
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  Speaker 5: sixty five years, and I know what it's like, which
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  Speaker 5: is why I want to help all Australians into a home.
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  Speaker 2: This is now so part of the Albanizi shtick that
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  Speaker 2: is put it at the very start of his story
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  Speaker 2: on his web page.
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  Speaker 4: This is what drives me.
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  Speaker 2: My mum raised me at a public housing, in public
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  Speaker 2: housing as a single parent, and so on and so on.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, even today housing mister Clearer and Neil told
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  Speaker 2: Vodus Albanizi understands all about the struggle to buy a home.
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  Speaker 6: Our country, led as it is by Prime Minister who's
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  Speaker 6: access to housing in his childhood totally transformed the rest
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  Speaker 6: of his life.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sure did transform this life so much so that
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  Speaker 2: my new advice Antony Albanezi is this, you're going have
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  Speaker 2: to change your hard luck story now that you're buying
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  Speaker 2: your four point three million dollar house with lovely ocean views.
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  Speaker 4: Which looks like a perfect retirement home.
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  Speaker 2: Actually for a prime minister who realizes is on the
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  Speaker 2: nose coming up to an election.
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  Speaker 4: Betimes people. You know they're just not.
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  Speaker 2: Buying that story anymore, mister Palme minister, that you're one
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  Speaker 2: of them who knows their struggle.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to great, you see.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was actually a political mistake, selfish even
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  Speaker 2: for Albanisi to.
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  Speaker 4: Buy this place at this time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's good for him, no trouble with that,
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  Speaker 2: but I think it's bad for Labor. Great for him
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  Speaker 2: to buy something so nice, but you just need to
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: hear the commentary about this today to see how it
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: hurts Labor to have this supposedly battler PM by such
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  Speaker 2: a house when rents are going through the roof under
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  Speaker 2: his government and buying house has become almost impossible for
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  Speaker 2: the young, which is exactly the point the opposition leader
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  Speaker 2: made today.
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  Speaker 7: I wish he and Jodie well, but the homeowners at
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  Speaker 7: Australia that I'm worried about it at the moment of people
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  Speaker 7: who can't afford their mortgages. People have had twelve interest
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  Speaker 7: rate increases under this government, and interest rates should come back.
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  Speaker 7: But because of mister Albanezie's bad economic management, we're seeing
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  Speaker 7: inflation remain high and therefore the interest Rachel won't high
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  Speaker 7: as well.
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  Speaker 2: But how an easy today he just stuck with his anecdote.
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  Speaker 5: I have, of course, I am much better off as
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  Speaker 5: a Prime minister. I earn a good income.
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  Speaker 1: I understand. I understand how.
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  Speaker 5: I've been fortunate, but I also know what it's like.
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  Speaker 1: To struggle.
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  Speaker 5: My mum lived in the one public housing that she
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  Speaker 5: was born in for all of her sixty five years,
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  Speaker 5: and I know what it's like, which is why I
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  Speaker 5: want to help all Australians into a home.
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  Speaker 2: The partmis also denied today that buying this house will
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  Speaker 2: out of Sydney showed he was ready to check out
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  Speaker 2: of politics.
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  Speaker 5: I'm plenty to be in my current job for a
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  Speaker 5: very long period of time. Well, Jodie and I are
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  Speaker 5: getting married, as is known, and I'm pleased about that.
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  Speaker 5: And JD's a coasty she's a proud coasting. When your
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  Speaker 5: relationship changes are your life changes and you make decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so what story should Albanezi now tell about his life? Well,
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  Speaker 2: how about telling us how fantastic this country is. The
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  Speaker 2: opportunities that you can go from a housing commission flat
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  Speaker 2: to a beachside mansion if you work hard enough and
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  Speaker 2: get a bit lucky, good inspiring. It's such a change
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  Speaker 2: from trashing this country and it's past, except, of course,
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  Speaker 2: for this Albanizy like me, belongs to a generation that
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  Speaker 2: could go from next to nothing to owning a first
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  Speaker 2: home before they turn thirty. But that's no longer true,
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  Speaker 2: and partly because of Albanizi himself. When there's inflation which
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  Speaker 2: is far too high because of his crazy spending and
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  Speaker 2: the chokers government's put on productivity, Australians are actually getting poorer,
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: have been for quite a while now. And then there's
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  Speaker 2: the big one immigration, howbany is he still is letting
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  Speaker 2: in nearly half a million people a year. We're building
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: approvals have actually dropped to the lowest level in a decade.
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  Speaker 2: So how does that compute. We've got less than one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty thousand homes a year being approved right now.
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  Speaker 2: So given all that, is it any wonder that homes
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  Speaker 2: in our capital cities have never been so unaffordable? You
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  Speaker 2: just have a look how many multiples of median income
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  Speaker 2: it outtakes to buy a house. So my children certainly
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  Speaker 2: aren't as lucky as I was at their age, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being able to afford their own home, if only they're
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister look back on his life and realize the
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  Speaker 2: real message that younger Australians no longer have his luck
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  Speaker 2: and then have the same chances he had to buy
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  Speaker 2: their own home early and then trade up to what
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  Speaker 2: has it got now? So how about cut immigration urgently,
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  Speaker 2: cut the crazy spinning that's keeping inflation, interest rates, to
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  Speaker 2: hire people too poor, make that great Australian dream real again.
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  Speaker 2: But you did have an idea today, an idea not
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  Speaker 2: a promise to supposedly cut your cost of living. How
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  Speaker 2: about getting rid of the surcharge? Do you often have
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  Speaker 2: to pay? Well, you always have to pay when you
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: use your debit card to shop.
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  Speaker 5: Bear this in mind. A debit card is taking money
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  Speaker 5: directly from people's accounts, that is their money, and there
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  Speaker 5: shouldn't be search charges on it.
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  Speaker 2: But like I said, it's not exactly a promise. There
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  Speaker 2: still has to be a Reserve Bank review of the idea.
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  Speaker 7: It's not announcement, it's just that they're looking at it
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  Speaker 7: and it could come in in twenty twenty six. Australian
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  Speaker 7: families need help now from this government.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, credit card charges will still apply. Joining
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  Speaker 2: me is sc News Business editor Ross Greenwood. Ross green
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  Speaker 2: would love you to see you back.
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  Speaker 4: Terrific. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: This ending of a surcharge on debit cards good idea.
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  Speaker 8: Looking principle, yes, but practicality is something quite different, because
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  Speaker 8: ultimately somebody has to pay for the services and the charges.
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  Speaker 8: We've changed from a nation that used to have cash
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  Speaker 8: to one that now uses primarily debit cards for our payments.
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  Speaker 8: And the reality is that all those terminals, all those
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  Speaker 8: when you don't use your own bank to do that transaction.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody actually has to pay. Now.
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  Speaker 8: What happens at the moment is the bank's passed it
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  Speaker 8: on to small businesses retailers who.
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  Speaker 4: Pass it on to you.
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  Speaker 8: But the reality is also the big retailers like Wilworths
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  Speaker 8: Cohle's aaldi, they pay a whole bunch less for those transactions,
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  Speaker 8: sometimes ten times less for those transactions to what small
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  Speaker 8: businesses pay. And so as a result, if you suddenly
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  Speaker 8: take away the searcharges, then either your prices are going
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  Speaker 8: to go up or indeed somebody along the line is
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  Speaker 8: going to make less profit. Now the banks would be
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  Speaker 8: the ultimate ones a government would hope would make less money,
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  Speaker 8: but they still claim they don't make money out of
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  Speaker 8: it as well, which I don't think is quite right.
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  Speaker 8: But the reality is that somebody ultimately has to pay.
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  Speaker 8: So good politics, but not necessarily that good when it
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  Speaker 8: comes down to who ultimately will pay, well, that's exactly
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  Speaker 8: what I think.
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  Speaker 2: If there is a cost to it, that should just
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  Speaker 2: be transparent, then shoppers will know. But if there is
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  Speaker 2: a cost to it, these guys are going to want
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  Speaker 2: to stay in business. They'll probably just jack up their
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  Speaker 2: prices elsewhere in the shop to compensate, won't they, And
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  Speaker 2: then we'll never know how much we're really paying.
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  Speaker 4: One hundred percent, That is precisely what happens.
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  Speaker 8: So therefore, the other problem is that lack of a
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  Speaker 8: level playing field when it comes to the price that
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  Speaker 8: small retailers pay versus a price that big retailers pay.
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  Speaker 4: So if it's.
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  Speaker 8: Simply a case of let's jack up your price. Well,
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  Speaker 8: if small retailers have to put up their price is
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  Speaker 8: more than big retailers have to you.
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  Speaker 4: Don't have a level playing field when it.
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  Speaker 8: Comes to either profitability or the price you'll pay depending
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  Speaker 8: on which retailer you go to. Now you might think
• 10:33
  Speaker 8: here this is all nickel and dime stuff, that it's
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  Speaker 8: really a scent here or a few cents here, But no,
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  Speaker 8: you start to think about going to buy a new laptop,
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  Speaker 8: you think about going to buy a new phone, and
• 10:44
  Speaker 8: these days you simply will always use your card, but
• 10:48
  Speaker 8: increasingly what you will do is use your phone. Now,
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  Speaker 8: what the Government Reserve Bank put in place at one
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  Speaker 8: stage was a thing called lowest cost Transactions, basically allowing
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  Speaker 8: the routing to go through to what would be the
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  Speaker 8: cheapest form of payment that was a debit card. But
• 11:06
  Speaker 8: what happened was that the use of credit cards collapsed,
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  Speaker 8: so the bank simply increased the price of the debit
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  Speaker 8: card transaction to the same as a credit card. So
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  Speaker 8: the lowest cost routing ultimately.
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  Speaker 4: Did not work.
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  Speaker 8: And this is where really the government has got to
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  Speaker 8: get it back into some sort of control so that
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  Speaker 8: everybody pays the same and as you point out, it's
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  Speaker 8: got to be transparent.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it seems there are actually three sure things in life,
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  Speaker 2: death taxes, and banking charges. It sounds to me, then,
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  Speaker 2: ross from what you're saying that the Prime Minister's action
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: here is a little bit like his social media posts
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  Speaker 2: the other day complaining of shrink inflation. You know that
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: we're getting stuff in the same packages, something that just
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  Speaker 2: makes the government seem to be doing something about this
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  Speaker 2: constantive in crisis without.
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  Speaker 4: Actually doing much at all. Am I being too harsh? No,
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  Speaker 4: you're not being too harsh.
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  Speaker 8: This is rather interesting territory for the Prime Minister to
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  Speaker 8: get into. It's really cheap, populous politics ahead of an
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  Speaker 8: election campaign. But it's also about distraction the government since
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  Speaker 8: it's launched inquiries into supermarkets, it's launched inquiries and just
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  Speaker 8: about everybody, airlines, except they won't launched an inquiry into
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  Speaker 8: themselves because they want to see that the cost of
• 12:28
  Speaker 8: living crisis is about the supermarkets which have very fine margins,
• 12:32
  Speaker 8: or about banks in other words, these search charges, or
• 12:35
  Speaker 8: maybe it's about airlines. It can't possibly be that the
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  Speaker 8: government is the cause of the inflation, which is keeping
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  Speaker 8: interest rates higher than for longer here in Australia as
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  Speaker 8: compared with other parts of the world. And so really
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  Speaker 8: the government is about saying, oh, look we're on your side,
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  Speaker 8: trying to bring the costs down, this bad shore inflation,
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  Speaker 8: these bad credit card surch charges. But inn actual fact,
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  Speaker 8: the prime cause of inflation in Australia and my interest
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  Speaker 8: rates remain so high is government spending. Government spending is
• 13:05
  Speaker 8: close to record levels right now in Australia. And when
• 13:08
  Speaker 8: the government is pumping more money into the economy as
• 13:11
  Speaker 8: it has been in the past twelve months, the state
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  Speaker 8: governments have in the past twelve months, then guess what
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  Speaker 8: that causes inflation? And that's one of the primary reasons
• 13:20
  Speaker 8: why right now people continue to play higher interest rates
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  Speaker 8: than what they otherwise would. And that's not a message
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  Speaker 8: that the government wants to get out ahead of an election,
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  Speaker 8: that's for sure.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Ross Greenwood, great to have you back, Thank you so much.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: You know you can tell how vile the Green's party
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  Speaker 2: has become. But the candidates now chooses the ones it attracts.
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  Speaker 2: The latest example James Cruse Green scand next week say
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  Speaker 2: CT election. In a now deleted tweet, he says he
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  Speaker 2: wants to kill effing politicians and send them to the
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  Speaker 2: Hagen hang them in the street. Is also posted extremely
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: anti Israel propaganda and said more people were asking just
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: why Hezbollah was listed as a terrorist group. To this,
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  Speaker 2: the Green say, oh no, it's just passionate about Israel
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  Speaker 2: and there's not really four hesbelah. It's just saying that
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  Speaker 2: others were currying the listing, not him at all. Or
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  Speaker 2: take another act. Greens candidate Harina Rangaran Rangarajan, who wrote
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  Speaker 2: that she's idolized several martyrs, including se Guevara, the mass
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  Speaker 2: murdering communists and Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc and Ozama
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  Speaker 2: bin Laden, the Lkedi terrorists who killed three thousand civilians
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  Speaker 2: in the US in the September eleven attack. Well, say
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: the Grand she was just writing fiction and she and
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  Speaker 2: the Green support terrorism. Yea, there's new Southmunds Greens MP
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  Speaker 2: Jenny Leong who used that old anti Semitic trope of
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Jews having tentacles everywhere, the Jewish.
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  Speaker 9: Lobby and the Zionus lobby infiltrating into every single aspect
• 15:03
  Speaker 9: of what is at their community groups, that their tentacles
• 15:05
  Speaker 9: reached in to the areas that try and influence power.
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  Speaker 4: That was just a whoopsie.
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  Speaker 2: She apologized for that she misspoke, but Green Senator Marine
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  Speaker 2: Ferruki hasn't apologized at all for being so aunto Israel
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  Speaker 2: that she couldn't even say if she condemned the Harmas
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  Speaker 2: terrorist group. Does Harmas need to be dismantled?
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  Speaker 10: Well, listen, the situation with Hamas is that it has nothing.
• 15:29
  Speaker 10: I can't keep repeating it again and again. It has
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  Speaker 10: nothing to do with Palestinian statehood and Palestinian self done.
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  Speaker 4: The question was we have that mantled.
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  Speaker 10: The Palestinians need to decide where they want to go.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, you're able to say whether you'd like to see
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: them go on, and.
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  Speaker 10: It's not up to me to say who should be
• 15:48
  Speaker 10: gone or not.
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  Speaker 2: And an honor goes, you know, the Greens even picked
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  Speaker 2: Lydia thought to be a Green senator, a woman who
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: preached of a war with white Australia.
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  Speaker 5: Is a still riping our women.
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  Speaker 2: Now thought later quit the Greens and becoming an independent.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you might see a pattern here well,
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  Speaker 2: you taking particularly the repeated claims of bullying within the party.
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  Speaker 2: An astonishing number of claims for a party that's so small,
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  Speaker 2: as a veteran candidate in Victoria quitting over alleged bullying,
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  Speaker 2: a Victorian Greens leader quitting after allegedly calling lesbian some
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  Speaker 2: terrible names, Lydia Thought quitting and claiming she was also bullied,
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  Speaker 2: Greens Senator Derinda Cox apologizing for allegedly bullying her staff,
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  Speaker 2: and in Victoria at Green's coordinators sacked for simply defending
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  Speaker 2: women's rights against the militant transgender lobby.
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  Speaker 4: It all makes me ask.
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  Speaker 2: Are the Greens now the natural party of the bully
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  Speaker 2: and the bigot?
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Joining me is the panel?
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Will Kingston hosts of Fire at Will, the podcast from
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: the Spec on Politics and Culture, ASCAR host Nikodi Georgio
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: of The Nika and James every Sunday at eight pm. Now, Will,
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  Speaker 2: what do the Greens now represent? It's clearly, isn't just
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: a guy in a Koala suit rattling a bucket for
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: to save the forests?
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  Speaker 11: No, those days of the bob Brown Greens along gone, Andrew.
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  Speaker 11: They represent the party of the zelot, is the short answer.
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  Speaker 11: And the thing about zelots is that they can justify
• 17:29
  Speaker 11: all sorts of awful behavior because they think it is
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: in the pursuit of some higher cause. This is a
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  Speaker 11: trend that's consistent with far left groups across the world.
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: The interesting thing is that they don't get called out
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: about this stuff as much as they should, because we
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: treat the far left in adverted commas and the far
• 17:46
  Speaker 11: right in this country very differently. We're happy to call
• 17:49
  Speaker 11: out the far right as being racist, or being evil
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: or being dangerous, but the Greeds seem to get a
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: pass because you know that there is still this kind
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: of noble vision that is associated with them. And I
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: think if we want to stop this awful culture and
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: this awful behavior, we have to call out the nonsense
• 18:05
  Speaker 11: and the awfulness of this of this movement more than
• 18:08
  Speaker 11: we currently do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Denika, I think a clue to the double standard
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  Speaker 2: that we was just talking about is the excuse the
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Greens gave for those centements, you know, kill the killed
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: boxers or hanging them or whatever, that always just speaking
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: with passion. Passion. Passion is being confused with decency, with
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: having a heart, when it's in fact a form of anger.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: It's this why the Greens, supposed to be a party
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  Speaker 2: of compassion, also generates so many claims of bullying.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 12: I think so Andrew. You know, it's typical, isn't it,
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  Speaker 12: of the tolerant left. It's always the left that love everybody,
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: a tolerant of everyone, and appreciate and respect to every group,
• 18:57
  Speaker 12: or so they claim, except of course, when the shoe
• 19:01
  Speaker 12: is on the other foot.
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  Speaker 11: You need to look.
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  Speaker 1: At Adam Bant.
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  Speaker 12: Last week he held a press conference where he was
• 19:07
  Speaker 12: actually asked about those bullying allegations and he scurried away. Andrew,
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: he walked away, And so that tells you everything you
• 19:14
  Speaker 12: need to know about the Greens. They are no longer
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: the party of the environment. In fact, I can't remember
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: the last time they spoke about the environment. They are
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: anti Australia, anti Israel. And if you run on that platform, congratulations.
• 19:27
  Speaker 12: You can become a candidate anywhere in Australia if you're
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: running for the Greens. As so, it seems this is
• 19:33
  Speaker 12: not just an Australia problem. This is happening worldwide, as
• 19:36
  Speaker 12: will mention. You look in the UK, even in the
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: local council elections, a Greens candidate that was elected over there,
• 19:43
  Speaker 12: I was shouting alauakba. So it's this random tolerance, but
• 19:48
  Speaker 12: not when the shoe is on the other foot.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think he's become an excuse for bullies,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: a righteous cause that licenses them to act terribly to
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: other people and still feel good about it. It's quite
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: strong and quite dangerous being those of course for generations.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: But still here it is in this new manifestation Will
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Does it bother you at all that Anthony Albani is
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: in now bar is a four point three million dollar house?
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know it's here. Why shouldn't he if
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: he's got the money? In one sense, no.
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: It doesn't bother me at all. This is a far
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: there from me to miss a bit of elbow bashing,
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: an opportunity for it. But we constantly complain in this
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: country that we get mediocre people going into politics, Andrew
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: with Albo actually being a pretty qick example of that.
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: You know the reason why we get mediocre politicians, it's
• 20:39
  Speaker 11: because whenever there is some sort of story about their
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: personal life, we jump on them, we get stuck in
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: and you know what, every decent person who is actually
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: a talent goes. Why would I want that in my life?
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: I think if we're going to have a big, consistent
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: here we need to say look ease off on these
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: sorts of stories and actually gets stuck into them for
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: rubbish policies which there is no shortage job of available.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: De Nick, I'd actually be worried if a guy had
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: so little financial now, so you know, couldn't make something
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: some smartsion financial decisions even for himself. And I've got
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: to also point out that Anthony Albert Easy is not
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: as rich, say as Peter Dutton, is not as rich
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: as Malcolm Turbul by any means, nor Kevin Rudd. So
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: you know it's not off the scale there, and yet
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: the timing of it politically is not helpful. Does that
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: speak to how mean the voters are, how jealous?
• 21:39
  Speaker 12: Well, I don't think it's a case of jealousy. In
• 21:42
  Speaker 12: the end, I don't understand what the big deal is
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: about a man buying a property.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Good on him.
• 21:49
  Speaker 12: If he can afford it, If he can go out
• 21:52
  Speaker 12: and buy a property in this sort of climate, that's fantastic.
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: I don't care how he spends his money. I don't
• 21:57
  Speaker 12: care how many properties he's got. It's not my business.
• 22:00
  Speaker 12: I don't think it comes down to jealousy. I think
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: what it comes down to is the optics of it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 12: When we are in the middle of a cost of
• 22:06
  Speaker 12: living crisis and Anthony Albanesi has done nothing to help
• 22:09
  Speaker 12: those who actually cannot rent, let alone buy a house.
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: It's the optics more than anything. But I say, if
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: you can buy a property or the power to you,
• 22:18
  Speaker 12: I don't have a problem with it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Good on your boat.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Look, there is a lot of praise going on for
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: former sixty minutes journalists. George Nigas has to start after
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: a battle with Alzheimer's. It's a terrible thing, and all
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: sympathy to his family. All I will say at this
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: time is that Negus is actually, I believe, more famous
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: for how Margaret Thatcher called him out playing an old
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: journalistic trick.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: This is gold.
• 22:47
  Speaker 13: Have listened people stop us in the street almost and
• 22:51
  Speaker 13: tell us that Margaret Thatcher isn't just inflexible, she's not
• 22:54
  Speaker 13: just a single minded. On occasion, she's playing pigheaded and
• 22:58
  Speaker 13: won't be told.
• 22:59
  Speaker 14: Will you tell me who has stopped you in the
• 23:01
  Speaker 14: street and said.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: That ordinary brittains in conversation.
• 23:04
  Speaker 14: But I thought you has come from belizeh.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: It's not the first time we've been here.
• 23:07
  Speaker 14: Will you tell me who and where and where.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Audinary Brittain's in restaurants?
• 23:12
  Speaker 14: How many?
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: How many? I would say at least one in two.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I am sorry.
• 23:16
  Speaker 14: It's an expression I've never heard. Tell me, who has said.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: It to you?
• 23:20
  Speaker 13: When these are people that we meet in passing, but
• 23:25
  Speaker 13: who the state of their country with them and they
• 23:27
  Speaker 13: tell us, yes, we have a tough part prime minister,
• 23:30
  Speaker 13: but she's a little bit bigheaded.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: She won't be told by anybody.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Will I enjoy that for being a classic gotcha? Yeah?
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: It was. It's a great moment. What I would say
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: about George Negus, along with many journalists of his generation,
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: he believed in holding powerful people to account. And I
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: don't think that is an attitude which is representative of
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: the mainstream media today. So I think it's it's something
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: which we should I should keep in mind thought to
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: this family.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, he says, but I think that old thing
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: is people tell me as a way of injecting your
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: own prejudices. I think that died that day in that interview.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I hope anyway, Danikka to Georgio Wilkinston, thank you very
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: much to you both. After the break, Kamala Harris exposed
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: as a fake, so fake that she's made up childhood
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: memories as she sinks in the polls, You've got to watch.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: This a real embarrassment for Kamala Harris, the American Vice President,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the Democrat candidate next month's selection. It's such a flake
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: that she's been caught out not just stealing other people's policies,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: but even stealing the memories of Martin Luther King and
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: passing them off as her own. I wonder where a
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: campaign is now in deep strife. A pagier is an
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: expert has gone through Harris's book on Justice and found
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: whole slabs were plagiar eyed from Wikipedia or copied word
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: for word from things like some organizations press release. But
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: its expert says, even worse it is how she copied
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Martin Luther King. Now nearly sixty years ago, King, the
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Silver Ice Hero, gave an interview to Playboy and told
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: about a policeman finding a black girl who was lost
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: in the Freedom rally, and he asked.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Her, what do you want?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: And the little girl looks him straight in the eyes,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: says freedom. She couldn't even pronounce it, but she knew,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: said King, Well, what an amazing coincidence.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Coma.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Harris gave an interview to ELM magazine that steals his sanitor.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: She tells how she was fussing as a young girl
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: and my mother She's like, baby, what do you want?
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: And I just looked at her and I said freedom.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Even a child on memories of phony joining me as
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Sean sparicifus why and how spokesman the President Donald Trump
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Sheil Spice said, great to see you again. Kamala Harris
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: is now accused even of ripping off a childhood anecdote
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: from Martin Luther King. Has she no shame his anecdote
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: of a little girl telling a responding to her mother,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: who said, you know.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: What do you want?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Seed them?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: And how it appears as Kamala Harris's personal memory.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, what do you make of this?
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: You know?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Andrew?
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: The other day, Pamala Harris appeared on our program The View,
• 26:33
  Speaker 15: which was supposed to be a softball interview, and they
• 26:35
  Speaker 15: asked her name something that's different between you and Biden
• 26:39
  Speaker 15: and she couldn't. And now I realized that she really can't.
• 26:42
  Speaker 15: They both plagiarized. I mean it's not just their policies,
• 26:45
  Speaker 15: they're both serial plagiariss So they really do have a
• 26:48
  Speaker 15: lot in common. But I mean, my goodness, twenty two
• 26:51
  Speaker 15: days out of an election, this is just I mean,
• 26:53
  Speaker 15: she cannot catch a break. I'm not getting upset about
• 26:56
  Speaker 15: that by any means, but I just it is like
• 26:58
  Speaker 15: they could not be running a worse end of the
• 27:01
  Speaker 15: campaign if they tried.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, you make a sound like a victim. She cannot
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: catch a break.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got to actually have goods to sell
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: before someone will buy them. Sean, I mean this that's
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: just extraordinary, an empty vessel, unbelievable, no policies and no
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: anecdotes of her own. I mean, you've said from the
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: start that she was a weird candidate, but did you
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: ever think that she was quite this empty.
• 27:30
  Speaker 15: When you hear I've always thought that she is inauthentic.
• 27:33
  Speaker 15: She she doesn't she if you talk to people that
• 27:36
  Speaker 15: know her and you look at her policy evolution, she'll
• 27:39
  Speaker 15: say anything to anyone at any time to get their support.
• 27:43
  Speaker 15: And so it's not surprising, but I didn't realize the extent.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: To what she's going on.
• 27:48
  Speaker 15: And these are where you know, these these these sort
• 27:52
  Speaker 15: of issues that come up is where you know candidates
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: might get away with things for years. They talk about, oh, well,
• 27:58
  Speaker 15: they were vetted in the past. They ran for the Senate,
• 28:00
  Speaker 15: they ran for governor. There's nothing like running for president, though,
• 28:04
  Speaker 15: that when you have outside groups that go through your
• 28:06
  Speaker 15: record and your yearbooks and your college thesis, et cetera.
• 28:10
  Speaker 15: She was going to get caught at some point. You
• 28:11
  Speaker 15: saw the accusations come outed about Doug m Hoff and
• 28:14
  Speaker 15: the abuse that he allegedly showed towards women in the workplace.
• 28:20
  Speaker 15: You know, these are the things that come out at
• 28:22
  Speaker 15: this level, and I just it's amazing. But they tried
• 28:25
  Speaker 15: to jam Kamala into this race. They pushed Joe Biden out,
• 28:29
  Speaker 15: and you know, this is what they ended up with,
• 28:31
  Speaker 15: somebody who doesn't have much of a of a core
• 28:34
  Speaker 15: when it comes to policy issues. But then we find
• 28:36
  Speaker 15: out that it's worse. She's been copying other people.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Gosh, I finally she had more of Martin Luther King's background.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Maybe should be a bit of candidate.
• 28:48
  Speaker 15: I understand that she has a dream that she wants
• 28:51
  Speaker 15: to share with us. That's going to happen a little later.
• 28:53
  Speaker 16: In the camp.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I'm all a god, but it rings a bill.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I've got to say, I'm suing, I'm you and I
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: have talked about how extraordinary it is for a presidential
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Canada to be running away from the media to the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: extent that Kamla Harris has, particularly early on in a campaign.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: She still hasn't given one full on press conference, which
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: is just absolutely extraordinary. But she is now amazingly going
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: on Fox News. It's a murder conservative news channel on Thursday,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: our time. After dodging the media for so long. What
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: what explains this change?
• 29:33
  Speaker 15: Desperation, I mean, it's desperation. They realized they have a
• 29:37
  Speaker 15: problem with black men, with Arabs, Arab Americans in Michigan.
• 29:42
  Speaker 15: They are throwing mud at the wall at this point,
• 29:45
  Speaker 15: they announced a town hall at CNN. They're doing whatever
• 29:49
  Speaker 15: they can be. I mean, when something's not working, you've
• 29:51
  Speaker 15: lost the momentum. Look, THEBC NBC came out of the
• 29:54
  Speaker 15: pole this morning. What was fascinating about this is that
• 29:58
  Speaker 15: national polls don't matter vote by state. Right coming out
• 30:01
  Speaker 15: of the convention, just over a month ago, she had
• 30:04
  Speaker 15: a net positive favorable unfavorable rating that is completely inverted.
• 30:10
  Speaker 15: She's what we call underwater. She has thought of more
• 30:12
  Speaker 15: unfavorably than favorably. People were what I like to say,
• 30:16
  Speaker 15: Kamala curious. They wanted to know a little bit more
• 30:18
  Speaker 15: about her. They wanted to give her the benefit of
• 30:21
  Speaker 15: the doubt. They might not have been comfortable with Trump,
• 30:23
  Speaker 15: but they wanted to at least see what she had
• 30:24
  Speaker 15: to offer. And she has continued to disappoint them over
• 30:27
  Speaker 15: and over again in every interview. People are realizing what
• 30:30
  Speaker 15: you and I are talking about every time she opens
• 30:33
  Speaker 15: her mouth, that she doesn't have a core, she doesn't
• 30:36
  Speaker 15: believe anything. She flip flops whenever she has to gain
• 30:39
  Speaker 15: additional support, and people are saying, you know what, I
• 30:42
  Speaker 15: was willing to give her a chance, but I don't
• 30:44
  Speaker 15: believe anything that she says anymore. I don't find her authentic.
• 30:48
  Speaker 15: And so she has moved in the opposite direction she
• 30:50
  Speaker 15: went In thirty days, she has gone from being net
• 30:53
  Speaker 15: favorable to completely unfavorable, and she enters the last full
• 30:58
  Speaker 15: three weeks of the campaign on her heels. They're defensive
• 31:02
  Speaker 15: on a bunch of key components of their coalition, right,
• 31:06
  Speaker 15: I mean, the idea that they are having to spend
• 31:08
  Speaker 15: time and money going after black men is amazing to
• 31:11
  Speaker 15: me at this stage of a campaign, it really shows
• 31:14
  Speaker 15: you how bad of a candidate she is.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: And Sean, I've heard you over the last couple of
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: days in various interviews and your podcasts sounding a lot
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: more chipper about Trump's chances, particularly when you go through
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: those seven battleground states that it needs to win, that
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: are the difference between the two candidates. What ods do
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: you give Trump winning now?
• 31:41
  Speaker 15: So right now I had Trump at three hundred and
• 31:43
  Speaker 15: six electoral votes. You need two hundred and seventy win.
• 31:46
  Speaker 15: Last night I went through every state. It's on my
• 31:48
  Speaker 15: YouTube channel if people want to actually watch it state
• 31:51
  Speaker 15: by state. I got them to three twelve. The individuals
• 31:54
  Speaker 15: I brought in people on the ground in every one
• 31:56
  Speaker 15: of the battleground states that are some of the best
• 31:59
  Speaker 15: people in those states politically, they are the experts. They
• 32:01
  Speaker 15: understand the early vote, they get out the vote effort,
• 32:04
  Speaker 15: and they have convinced me that they are ahead in
• 32:07
  Speaker 15: every one of those battleground states. And that tracks what
• 32:10
  Speaker 15: we're seeing from the internal polls coming out from Trump. Now,
• 32:13
  Speaker 15: I will say this just as a caveat is North
• 32:16
  Speaker 15: Carolina has been ravaged by this hurricane that went through it,
• 32:19
  Speaker 15: and there's a big X in question Mark about how
• 32:22
  Speaker 15: that's going to affect the sixty one percent of voters
• 32:24
  Speaker 15: that are affected by that, especially in Trump counties. That
• 32:27
  Speaker 15: being said, Andrew, if you're at three oh six or
• 32:29
  Speaker 15: three twelve, you've got a lot of states to play
• 32:32
  Speaker 15: with to ensure that you're over the two hundred and
• 32:35
  Speaker 15: seventy electoral votes. But as far as how I feel,
• 32:38
  Speaker 15: I feel great. Donald Trump has multiple paths to two
• 32:41
  Speaker 15: hundred and sixty elect two hundred and seventy electoral votes.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: She doesn't.
• 32:45
  Speaker 15: And that's the big difference right now, and the media
• 32:47
  Speaker 15: is starting to wake up to the fact that Kamala
• 32:50
  Speaker 15: Harri's joy and vibes aren't going to get them there.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Now you probably do need some policies to go with
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: all that joy, But there you go, Sean Spicer, thank
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: you so much, indeed for your time.
• 33:05
  Speaker 15: Absolutely see you next week, Edrew.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: After the break, our state premiers humiliate King Charles, But
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: how is Britain taking these insults? As I said last night,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: it's a scandal that every single state premiers refuse an
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: invitation to the official reception in Canberra next Monday for
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: King Charles and Queen Camilla on their visit here. Victoria's
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: premier said today she was just too busy.
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: His schedule was such that his visit is confined to
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: Canberra and Sydney, and my schedule is such that I'm
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: just not able to make the reception next Monday.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Now that's nonsense.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Sallin could hold her cabinet meeting the day after even
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: first thing that morning, same with other premiers making the
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: same excuse. Now this seems really a political decision by
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the premiers all but one of them. Labor and Republic
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: can join me from London, is right broadcaster and commentate it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: It's so crectly, it's so great to see you again.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: It's just an issue at all in Britain.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: Yes, I think here in the UK we're quite surprised
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: actually that this is the attitude of many Australian politicians,
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: particularly because support for Republicanism is actually the lowest has
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: ever been over the last couple of decades, and I'm
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: sure it's going to fall even lower when Prince William
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: becomes king. So this is a classic case of politicians
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: not wanting to actually reflect for the public ones, which
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: is peculiarly something we struggle with in Britain as well.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: It seems like these politicians are elected and they just
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: do what they want and they forget about the people
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: that elected them. But this is clearly what we're seeing
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: in Australia right now. I mean, I think it's quite
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: such a quite bad precedent and quite bad taste in
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: people's mouths that this is the way that Australian.
• 34:50
  Speaker 17: Politicians are choosing to treat the King and Queen, who
• 34:53
  Speaker 17: who made it very clear that they're.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: Very excited to go to Australia and it's a high
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: priority for them, considering as well, the King has cancer
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: and he's still recovering from cancer. He's flying all the
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: way from the UK whilst undergoing canter treatment, and it's.
• 35:07
  Speaker 17: Quite unfortunate as well. We know that Australian's really supported.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: Princess Catherine as she went through her own sort of
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: counter treatment and.
• 35:14
  Speaker 17: The you know, reception for her recovery has been very high.
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: So it's quite peculiar that this is how, you know,
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Australian politicians are choosing to treat the King and Queen.
• 35:23
  Speaker 17: Of course they could have made time in their schedule.
• 35:25
  Speaker 17: It's not impossible to.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: Three a few hours to greet the King and Queen
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: after that, flying well over twenty four hours to visit them.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: But you know, I suspect that there will be some
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: sort of public backlash and Britains understand. I mean there
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: are many Britons that live in Australia and vice versa.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: I believe the numbers over a million. This is why
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: you saw David Cameron going to Australia during the election
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: to try and get British voters to vote for the Tories.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: So you know, relations are still very strong and they're
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: only getting stronger.
• 35:54
  Speaker 17: There's a lot of.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Australian investment coming into the UK from the Investment Summit,
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: if Kirstarmo is to be believed, And these are the
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: kinds of things that could you know, sour relations, perhaps
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: not to a significant degree, but it just shows whether
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: the politicians' priorities lie. This is what happens when activism
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: and ideology takes over and replaces practicality and actually the
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: will of the people.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Well, if you're commenting about it in you take it
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: from me that a lot of people here think it
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: is absolutely cherlish. You need to make a good point.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: They're representing themselves rather than the people, or indeed their position,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: since every one of them swore allegiance to the to.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: The monarch esther.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Neither of us, I mean, we've talked about him a
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: couple of times. Neither of us has been impressed by
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: your new foreign secretary what would call a foreign minister.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: David Lammie. He used to call himself a Caribbean and
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: demanded reparations from Britain.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Here is I'm afraid as Caribbean people, we are not
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: going to forget our history.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: We don't just want to hear an apology, we want.
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  Speaker 2: Erration now that radicalism has put him on the spot
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: if there as you know, because there's a meeting of
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Conwell Fins and government in Samo next week and.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Caribbean leaders going there.
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  Speaker 2: Had the man that Britain paid billions in compensation in
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: reparations for the slave trade, among other things. Although the
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: British Prime Minister is saying no way. But what does
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: your foreign secretary say has been on the spot, isn't.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: He Well, it's a curious thing that David Lammy who
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: isn't isn't for.
• 37:31
  Speaker 17: A secretary in the Caribbean country. But it's found it
• 37:33
  Speaker 17: convenient enough to Foreign Secretary in Britain.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: Look, his farmer has a big problem on his hands,
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: which is rogue members of his government. I suspect David
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: Lammie who will be reshuffled at the next cabinet reshuffling
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: because he cannot stay in his post as Foreign secretary.
• 37:47
  Speaker 17: He's completely out of his depth. He's completely messed.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: Up with sort of the Israel Gaza, well Israel and
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: why I'm the leased in conflicts. And this is another
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: example as well. I would just like to point out
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: that the amount in reparations that is being requested is
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: around two hundred billion pounds, which is practically about.
• 38:04
  Speaker 17: Out the fix of the value of the British economy.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: Completely ridiculous and ludicrous, and it's incredible.
• 38:10
  Speaker 17: If you saw.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: David Lami's Celebrity Mastermine performance in twenty ten, you will
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: understand why his knowledge of history is so pathetic and poor,
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: because he mentioned he makes no sort of room for
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: the fact that Britain actually ended the slave trade and
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: Britain incurred significant losses to.
• 38:27
  Speaker 17: Actually end the abhorrent practice. He never asked the Arab.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: Countries for reparations for their role in the African slave trade,
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: even though it was far more brutal than you could
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: argue the Transatlantic slave trade. I mean, they actually castrated
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: millions of black African men. So his knowledge of history
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: not only spotty, but it's also quite selective. And these
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: are the kinds of things that get Kiassamon in a
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: lot of trouble because if you have the government saying
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: one thing, or at least the Prime Minister's saying one thing,
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: and then members of his own cabinet saying something else,
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: it's a very very bad look for Britain.
• 38:56
  Speaker 17: I highly doubt that David Lammie's going to be Foreign
• 38:58
  Speaker 17: Secretary into the future.
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: I mean, the first one hundred days of kiss Arma's
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: premiership have been a complete disaster, from you know, accepting
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: over one hundred thousand pounds worth of free gifts to
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: all the leagues that have come up from Downing Street
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: to get rid of one of his top serving you know,
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: civil servants. So it's just a complete mess. And David
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: Lammy just embodies that chaos, body and soul.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Oh and the radicalism of what Britain has elected.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Seriously, but here he has to pull on his big
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: boy pants and now realize it's not just someone shouting
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: from the you know, the street corner that he actually
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: has to take a responsible position. I wonder if you
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: can live up to it. Esther Crak, who always great
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: to talk to you, thank you so much for your time.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Well coming up another disaster for Energy Minister Chris Bowen.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: I have to ask, his performance is so woeful. What
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: would I'm about to show you that You've got to ask?
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: When will he be set as a.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Menace to this country?
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: And she minster Chris Bone? I mean, does any minister
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: in the Abneze government have such a record of almost
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: total failure?
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, for a couple of weeks, I.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Give you another example of how his global warming schemes
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: are collapsing. This time two examples. The first couple of
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: giant wind farm companies have pulled out of Bone's Illawarra
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: wind zone, which is off the New Southwest Coast. A
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Bone's office won't say if there's anyone else interested in
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: building these wind generators, an approaching that Bone was stouting
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: only four months ago as a very big deal, and it.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Puts the eel of warror at the center of Australia's
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: renewable energy future not anymore.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: The second project well. In January, Chris Bone promised sixty
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: three million dollars of your money to Sanjeev Gupta, a
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: controversial Indian born businessman who promised the turn is new
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Wyala newly acquired Wylla Steel Works Green, no more coal,
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: of all the ingredients necessary for a world leading green
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: steel hub. But Gupta's expensive green plans keep getting delayed.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: His steel works is losing massive money and has in
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: fact been shut down for the second time this year.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Local suppliers say they're tired of not getting paid or
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: not paid on time. The South Australian government is so
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: nervous is looking for another company to possibly take over.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: But it gets even worse for Chrispo And can.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: You believe now?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Jean Anne Johanssen, president of the energy giant Canoco Phillips
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Australia today warns that companies like his are investing much
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: more now on gas produce in countries like the US
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: or Qatar. That Australia is missing out because it's not competitive,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: it's got too much green tape. And this government and
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: our state governments, they're just killing our future with their
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: green agenda. And that was put brilliantly on the Weekend
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: by Matt Barry. He's the boss of tech company Freelancer.
• 42:00
  Speaker 16: You would think a country with twelve hundred years of
• 42:03
  Speaker 16: coal supply would be.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: An energy superpower.
• 42:06
  Speaker 16: You would think a country with twenty eight percent of
• 42:07
  Speaker 16: the world's uranium reserves would be an ANERGI superpower. You
• 42:10
  Speaker 16: would think a country with twenty percent of the world's
• 42:12
  Speaker 16: gas exports would be.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: An energy superpower.
• 42:14
  Speaker 16: We have cheap energy, and we have abundant on ore,
• 42:18
  Speaker 16: and we turn that and elaborately transform that and other materials.
• 42:21
  Speaker 16: We have to become an export powerhouse. We should be
• 42:25
  Speaker 16: the richest country in the world.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: But not joining me is our Tuesday regular commentator in
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: National ZMP Met Canavan, the former Resources Minister.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Matt. Let's start with that wreckage.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Of Energy Minister Crispones and net zero global warming schemes.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: What I don't understand is how that long list of failures,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: now growing longer by the month aren't a national scandal
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: and why hasn't been sacked.
• 42:55
  Speaker 18: Well, I think it is a national scandal Andrew Obviously
• 42:59
  Speaker 18: the government and their support of many supporters in the
• 43:03
  Speaker 18: media are engaged in a giant cover up mission for
• 43:07
  Speaker 18: the failures. Of Chris Bowen and Anthieobernese's energy policy. But
• 43:12
  Speaker 18: I think out there in the real world as you
• 43:14
  Speaker 18: saw from Matt Barry and many other people I speak
• 43:17
  Speaker 18: to at the polls here in Queensland, and our energy
• 43:22
  Speaker 18: situation is a national disgrace. It's something that hits them
• 43:25
  Speaker 18: every quarter when your power bill turns up. And we
• 43:29
  Speaker 18: all know that the Prime Minister and Chris Bowen promised
• 43:33
  Speaker 18: us that they would cut our power bills by two
• 43:36
  Speaker 18: hundred and seventy five dollars a year. That hasn't happened.
• 43:39
  Speaker 18: They've gone up by almost double that on average. Many
• 43:41
  Speaker 18: people more than double of that have their bills increased
• 43:46
  Speaker 18: by And there's no accountability here. So you're absolutely right
• 43:49
  Speaker 18: the head should roll here because these promises were made,
• 43:53
  Speaker 18: they haven't been delivered and it's an absolute wreckage right now.
• 43:58
  Speaker 18: The energy system that Chris Bowen is presiding over is
• 44:02
  Speaker 18: facing increasing shortages filures after phase of these grand schemes
• 44:07
  Speaker 18: that they promised us that you mentioned a couple there.
• 44:09
  Speaker 18: You add to that hydrogen as well. We see origin
• 44:12
  Speaker 18: jump out of hydrogen in the last few weeks and
• 44:14
  Speaker 18: woodside and even twiggy forests is calling the alarm on
• 44:20
  Speaker 18: the mythical nature of our hydrogen plans, and so something
• 44:24
  Speaker 18: has to change here. The Promister should change Energy Minister.
• 44:26
  Speaker 18: That could be the least he would do to try
• 44:28
  Speaker 18: and reset this country and get back to a time
• 44:32
  Speaker 18: when we use our natural resources to actually lower energy
• 44:34
  Speaker 18: prices for Australians.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: I think that's absolutely correct.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: And look, I must do another list of crispone's failed
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: product because it's three or four times longer than we've
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: managed to.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: Need a whole hour. You joke, but it's true, you
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: would need a whole hour just ephemeral. I looked at
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: the pictures, are amazing.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Just need to show this just how dodgy some of
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: these solar panels and wind farms are. You know, we
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: actually had that, you know that Hurricane Milton that hit
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Florida once the last week they had a solar farm
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: totally destroyed. That's how fragile these things are here that
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: they gone tomorrow and you know that'll need replacing that
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: that's more expense. I mean, Matt Canavan, the whole solar
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: project scheme in Victoria. Understand rooftop solar, but these great
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: farms taking up farming land et cetera, et cetera. That's
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: part of the scheme that is not going to plan
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: for Chris Bowen because the role out for a start
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: is way behind and the costs are way higher than
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: they were assuming.
• 45:52
  Speaker 18: Yeah, that destruction there, it's amazing footage, isn't it. But
• 45:56
  Speaker 18: that destruction is a small window into the the irony
• 46:00
  Speaker 18: at the heart of this so called transition. We are
• 46:04
  Speaker 18: told we have to stop using these terrible things like
• 46:09
  Speaker 18: coal and gas, which would power our country for centuries.
• 46:12
  Speaker 18: Now stop using those and install solar and wind to
• 46:17
  Speaker 18: respond to this thing called climate change, to respond to
• 46:21
  Speaker 18: a change in the weather, to respond to a situation
• 46:24
  Speaker 18: which they claim will lead to more things like cyclones
• 46:28
  Speaker 18: and hurricanes in the northern hemisphere. Yet these very things
• 46:31
  Speaker 18: are installing are themselves weather dependents. If you're worried about
• 46:35
  Speaker 18: the weather, if you're worried about the variability of the
• 46:38
  Speaker 18: weather going forward and we might have more storms or
• 46:41
  Speaker 18: more droughts, why would you install an energy and energy
• 46:45
  Speaker 18: system that relies on the sun shining, the wind blowing,
• 46:49
  Speaker 18: and in the case of pump hydro, the clouds raining.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't do that.
• 46:54
  Speaker 18: It makes no sense. So if you really care about
• 46:56
  Speaker 18: this stuff, you would be going down something like nuclear energy,
• 47:00
  Speaker 18: which is perfectly safe through storms and natural disasters like this.
• 47:04
  Speaker 18: They're designed to withstand that, of course, and of course
• 47:08
  Speaker 18: has zero mission power. But Andrew, the reason they don't
• 47:10
  Speaker 18: support nuclear power actually belies the total scam that this
• 47:16
  Speaker 18: net zero climate change movement is. This is not about
• 47:20
  Speaker 18: protecting the environment. It's not about changing the weather. It's
• 47:23
  Speaker 18: making about making a lot of money for people who
• 47:26
  Speaker 18: have invested a lot in these technologies. And that's why
• 47:29
  Speaker 18: they're so viciferously opposed to nuclear power, which would undermine
• 47:35
  Speaker 18: all of their investments and their dreams are becoming very,
• 47:37
  Speaker 18: very rich on the back of high power prices in Australia.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I think also nuclear stands for Western technology and capitalism,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: and they don't like that. They like the idea of
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: wind and solar and being closer to nature. But I'll
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: tell you what, Matt. It has exposed. That footage has showed.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: You exposed one fraud in what chrispons. Oh, yes, but
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: the win doesn't send a bill. Guess what, It just
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: sticks to the guides of that show.
• 48:05
  Speaker 18: That's now those people in Florida.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: Tough.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: That's Matt Canavan around time. Thank you so much for
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: your time. I really appreciate it. But honestly, we've got
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: to have a look at that what that clip that
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: I showed you before, that guy saying we've got all
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: this energy under our feet. How come we're not the
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: world's richest country. It's such an abrogation of leadership. We
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: need to explore that. That's it from me, Come up now,
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Sherry Mason, good night,