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The Rita Panahi Show | 16 March · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scoring MS Australia.
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Speaker 2: This is the Winner Paney Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panehy Show.
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Speaker 4: Coming up tonight, the ABC mocked for its analysis of
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Speaker 4: the conflict in Iran. My panel will unpack that.
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Speaker 3: Shortly.
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Speaker 4: Premier just In to Alan may be celebrating Melbourne being
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Speaker 4: ranked the best city in the world, but Clister Clements
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Speaker 4: joins me to explain why the prize is an irrelevant joke.
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Speaker 4: Mi Horowitz will have the latest from the US, including
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Speaker 4: some good news from DC, and we'll have the latest
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Speaker 4: on publishing Big Week, Anthony Cuttonlando's legal issues. He's facing
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Speaker 4: serious allegations. Stephen Drill will have the latest there and
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Speaker 4: we never forget lefties losing it tonight, featuring the Oscars
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Speaker 4: and our favorite little Swedish troll.
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Speaker 5: The Pedophile. Trump himself bragged about it, saying there's an embargo,
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Speaker 5: there is no oil, there's no money, there's no anything.
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Speaker 4: But let's start with News Corp reporting that a TikTok
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Speaker 4: account linked to a controversial Melbourne mosque posted a video
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Speaker 4: of multiple ballat papers backing labor MP Julian Hill a
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Speaker 4: week before Pauling Day last year. Now All six ballot
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Speaker 4: papers displayed in the video show first preferences for Julian Hill,
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Speaker 4: with either the Liberal candidate or One Nation candidate preference last,
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Speaker 4: and the video carries the caption our vote for mister
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Speaker 4: Julian Hill, MP for the Division of Bruce Victoria. This
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Speaker 4: mosque was handed a six hundred and seventy thousand dollars
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Speaker 4: taxpayer funded grand by Julian Hill before last year's federal election.
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Speaker 4: That grant to the Taha Center was only canceled this
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Speaker 4: month after News Corp revealed the group held a commemoration
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Speaker 4: for Iran's former Supreme Leader Itola Ali Komeni. Let's bring
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Speaker 4: in former Labour MP Michael Danby and PR Council Managing
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Speaker 4: Director Christian McSweeney.
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Speaker 3: Mike, what do you make of this story?
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Speaker 4: Is there anything at all improper about a center like
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Speaker 4: this endorsing a political candidate and in encouraging others to
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Speaker 4: vote for him.
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Speaker 6: Well, there is. George Orwell said that some animals are equal,
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Speaker 6: but other animals are more equal than others, and this
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Speaker 6: is outrageous to sort of have a religious institution backing
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Speaker 6: a political candidate. In Australia. We have the system we
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Speaker 6: should explain to them of church and state not mixing,
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Speaker 6: and particularly if you're an ethical religious person, you believe
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Speaker 6: against mixing the sacred with the profane eye with politics.
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Speaker 4: Now, Christia, a spokesperson for the a C Strat and
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Speaker 4: Electoral Commission, would not say whether they would investigate the video,
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Speaker 4: but we do have Dan Tea and Coalition front bencher
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Speaker 4: calling for Special Minister of State Don Farrell to refer
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Speaker 4: the video to Parliament's Electoral Matters Committee.
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Speaker 3: Do you think anything more will cut of this?
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Speaker 7: I don't think anything more will come of it. I
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Speaker 7: think the government's view as well withdrawn the grant funding,
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Speaker 7: but they we drew it.
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Speaker 4: This center decided to have a commemoration for a Islamist dictator.
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Speaker 7: Which is disgraceful. And that's another point, isn't it. There
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Speaker 7: are a lot of comments out there in the media
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Speaker 7: with people trying to be politically correct saying he's a
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Speaker 7: religious figure they are able to mourn him. He is
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Speaker 7: an imposed dictator on the people of Iran, and Michael
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Speaker 7: to your point, absolutely.
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Speaker 4: And Christy, sorry to interrupt, but a dictator who has
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Speaker 4: just slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent protesters, so We're
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Speaker 4: not talking about just someone who's an Islamist leader. This
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Speaker 4: is one that is guilty of gross human rights abuse.
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Speaker 8: It's not religious at all.
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Speaker 7: I don't think it is inappropriate to mourn someone under
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Speaker 7: the guise of figurehead in this country who wish a dictator.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Now I'll be covering the conflict in Iran with Army
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Speaker 4: Horowitz after the break. But it appears the US has
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Speaker 4: wiped out the bulk of Iran's military infrastructure. But Michael,
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Speaker 4: we've got the APC here in Australia saying Iran has
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Speaker 4: the advantage in this war. This is the analysis from
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Speaker 4: ABC's Global Affairs editor Laura Tingle, who's Peace Speeches the
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Speaker 4: headline Iran, not the US, currently has the strategic upper hand,
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Speaker 4: and she also adds it was Iran that was able
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Speaker 4: to shake the foundations of economies across the region that
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Speaker 4: depend on oil and gas, but which are now having
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Speaker 4: to close down production while fighting off drone and missile
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Speaker 4: attacks on their production facilities. She also wrote, iran struck
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Speaker 4: further blows to the sense of stability and confidence on
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Speaker 4: which Golf states have built successful economies.
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Speaker 3: Gosh, Michael, what reading back do you think Iran is
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Speaker 3: winning the war.
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Speaker 6: Laura Tingle was a specialist in domestic policy. It's clear
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Speaker 6: to any expert who follows her over time that basically
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Speaker 6: she doesn't know what she's talking about with international affairs.
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Speaker 6: And the United States has seen ninety percent reduction in
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Speaker 6: ballistic missiles, eighty percent plus in drones. They've destroyed the
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Speaker 6: Iranian Air Force, Navy, and air defense. And America is
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Speaker 6: not reliant on oil imports because it's oil self sufficient
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Speaker 6: under Trump, Plus he has the swing factor of Venezuela.
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Speaker 6: It's a much more mixed picture mist tingled than you're
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Speaker 6: painting it. And I think trumped arrangement syndrome dictates all
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Speaker 6: of the ABC international analysts and inverted Commas views of
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Speaker 6: the world. It's just rubbish, and we pay one point
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Speaker 6: three million dollars for it. One point three billion.
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Speaker 4: Another member of the Iranian women's football team has chosen
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Speaker 4: to return to Iran. The Australian has confirmed that team
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Speaker 4: captain Zara Ganbari has already left Australia. Comes less than
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Speaker 4: a day after allegations emerged that a regime aligned team
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Speaker 4: official had infiltrated the safe house to convinced defectors to
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Speaker 4: reconsider their decision to seek asylum. Christie, this is just
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Speaker 4: such a sinister development. These women must be terrified of
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Speaker 4: what will happen to their loved ones, to their families
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Speaker 4: back in Iran if they pursue asylum in Australia. I
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Speaker 4: can't think of any other reason why they would seek
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Speaker 4: asylum and then return to Iran knowing the threats they're facing.
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Speaker 7: It's an absolutely tragic situation and it demonstrates the tentacles
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Speaker 7: of the regime in Australia, both through the people that
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Speaker 7: they brought with them as minders, but the people in
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Speaker 7: the network they have on the ground here to get
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Speaker 7: to these women and make these allegedly probably make these threats.
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Speaker 7: And of course there's a murkier aspect of this as well.
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Speaker 7: The vice president of the Asian Confederation is the Iranian
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Speaker 7: football president who has allegedly been a former regime commander
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Speaker 7: in the nineteen eighty So it's a murky political game
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Speaker 7: that FIFA is playing here in Australia as well. And
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Speaker 7: we have our government, our diplomats trying really hard to
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Speaker 7: do the right thing by these women.
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Speaker 6: Reader's probably a mistake they have Tony Burke stand between
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Speaker 6: the five of them when they first affected in that
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Speaker 6: photo opportunity because it gave the regime leverage to sort
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Speaker 6: of use it. You know, you're being exploited by the
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Speaker 6: Australian government.
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Speaker 8: Which is what they said.
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Speaker 7: They accused the Australian government of bullying these vulnerable women
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Speaker 7: who wouldn't have exposure to political issues. Of course, because
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Speaker 7: they're women, they don't know what I'm doing.
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Speaker 4: And in that picture, as any Uranian woman who seeks
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Speaker 4: asylum would normally do, is they took off the hijab.
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Speaker 4: They were featured standing there with Tony Burke with their
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Speaker 4: hair on show, which may not seem like a big
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Speaker 4: deal here, but it's a big deal back in Iran.
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Speaker 4: So you wonder the ramifications of that, the ramifications of
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Speaker 4: embarrassing the regime by seeking asylum in the first place.
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Speaker 3: So I really do fear about.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure they've been assured that they're going to be okay,
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Speaker 4: and that's possibly why they've chosen to go home, But
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Speaker 4: I do think that there would have been coerced that
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Speaker 4: their families would have been threatened, Their loved ones would
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Speaker 4: have definitely been under threat, analyisk returned to Melbourne. An
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Speaker 4: international student who was busted filming up to one hundred
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Speaker 4: and fifty Melbourne women in toilets has walked scot free
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Speaker 4: from court. The twenty three year old Vietnamese man told
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Speaker 4: police that he was in the female toilets because he
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Speaker 4: wasn't sure about his gender. During the sentencing, the judge
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Speaker 4: said his youth should be taken into account. He's twenty three, Christy.
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Speaker 4: Since he avoided a conviction, he can now pursue his
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Speaker 4: dream of becoming a doctor, something for Victorian women.
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Speaker 3: To look forward to. Absolutely, what is happening and how
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Speaker 3: does the IMA do with that?
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Speaker 9: Now?
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Speaker 4: There is no conviction recorded, so that and I do
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Speaker 4: wonder what the motivations for was. Was it so he
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Speaker 4: could pursue this medical dream? Is it so he wouldn't
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Speaker 4: be deported? Because these charges are serious?
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Speaker 8: It's incredible, isn't it?
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Speaker 7: And apparently I read in reports that this is the
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Speaker 7: second time he's committed such an offense and the second
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Speaker 7: community corrections order.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure, and we're talking about one hundred and
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Speaker 4: fifty women who were upskirted or violated. It is Michael,
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Speaker 4: I just can't get my head around this. Even if
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Speaker 4: his alleged gender confusion is real and he thought he's
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Speaker 4: a woman and he wasn't sure women aren't allowed to
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Speaker 4: violate other women in bathrooms alreadywhere else. That's that to me,
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Speaker 4: doesn't in any way mitigate these.
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Speaker 6: Even if it's not the second conviction one hundred and
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Speaker 6: twenty three incidents of this, meaning he shouldn't have been
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Speaker 6: released like that. And the real question, reader is who
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Speaker 6: are these woke magistrates and judges? What is their history,
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Speaker 6: what have they done in other cases? I think all
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Speaker 6: the journalists need to sort of go back and start
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Speaker 6: looking at the people who are making these crazy judgment.
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Speaker 4: When you when you're right about judges, I tell you,
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Speaker 4: the backlash can be quite pronounced after I had comped it.
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Speaker 4: But these are appointments pretty much for life, so I
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Speaker 4: think they you should be able to criticize them, as
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Speaker 4: long as the criticism it is fair and based on facts.
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Speaker 8: Considerable public pensions as.
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Speaker 4: Well, considerable public pensions, and we've had labor rule this
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Speaker 4: state for how long and they appoint the judges, so
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Speaker 4: I think they think we should be shocked of the
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Speaker 4: caliber of some of these judges or their political ideology.
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Speaker 4: Now I want to play you a video. This is
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Speaker 4: a brave mechanic who was assaulted by five armed thugs
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Speaker 4: during a terrifying home invasion. He's unleashed on Premier Just
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Speaker 4: into Alan Now. Simon was repeatedly struck with a Jimmy
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Speaker 4: bar during a violent home invasion earlier in the month.
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Speaker 4: The armed thugs then held the metal bar to his
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Speaker 4: wae's throat and threatened to kill him.
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Speaker 3: Again before they stole the car.
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Speaker 4: Assignon has called this into allan delusional and told her
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Speaker 4: to wake up to Melbourne's crime crisis.
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Speaker 10: In fact, that you can't be safe from your own home.
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Speaker 10: He speaks volumes, can't settle, can't stay here. It's okay
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Speaker 10: during the day, but when night comes, every pin drop,
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Speaker 10: every noise you're gaping about, you instantly triggered.
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Speaker 4: And Michael, this is the experience of so many across
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Speaker 4: this city. The crime crisis is hitting every suburb. We've
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Speaker 4: got record levels of violent crime. This is not something
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Speaker 4: that is being manufactured by the media or scare mongering
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Speaker 4: by political forces. This is real and it's impacting more
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Speaker 4: and more people.
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Speaker 6: And we don't have enough budget to increase police number.
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Speaker 6: I mean, it's been very good at train stations. When
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Speaker 6: they've put in those transport police, the crime is down there.
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Speaker 6: We need to have more of them. And these armed
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Speaker 6: thugs home invasions are terrible. They need to be pursued.
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Speaker 6: And you know, I don't believe in mandatory three convictions
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Speaker 6: and you're out, but magistrates and judges need to be
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Speaker 6: more in line with public opinion and act strongly against
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Speaker 6: these kind of perpetrators.
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Speaker 4: Well, the machete bins haven't seemed to have worked. Is
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Speaker 4: there to eliminate home invasions?
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Speaker 8: I mean that's a surprise.
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Speaker 7: Look the justice in criminal justice system and the crime issues.
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Speaker 8: It is rotting from the top.
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Speaker 7: Since COVID police are losing staff in droves every time
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Speaker 7: an EBA comes up.
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Speaker 8: People are choosing to retire. Retention is poor.
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Speaker 7: They can't attract people to do it because the government
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Speaker 7: here in Victoria made them go out and find homeless
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Speaker 7: people for being outside after eight pm and find people
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Speaker 7: for walking around the park that was five and a
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Speaker 7: half kilometers away from their house. And so police are
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Speaker 7: choosing to opt out. And of course the study is
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Speaker 7: broken and we can't afford to up their pay and
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Speaker 7: conditions and employ more of them.
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Speaker 4: And I think we're lowering standards to attract more offices,
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Speaker 4: but even that's not doing the job. Now, before you go,
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Speaker 4: the United Firefighters Union in Victoria's warn residents in the
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Speaker 4: suburbs of Richmond, baux Hill, Sunshine and Thomastown that all
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Speaker 4: the fire trucks in those areas with the ability to
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Speaker 4: reach buildings higher than three floors have broken down and
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Speaker 4: that the Allen government is refusing to fund replacement trucks.
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Speaker 11: Get a load of this.
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Speaker 9: If you live in an apartment building in Richmond, Thomastown,
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Speaker 9: Sunshine or box Hill and you have a fire in
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Speaker 9: your home, firefighters can't reach you. All of our teleboom
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Speaker 9: trucks which we need to reach you in a fire
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Speaker 9: are now broken down and completely off the road. Allen
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Speaker 9: is fully aware of these risks, but refuses to provide
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Speaker 9: funding for new trucks. So if you know anyone living
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Speaker 9: or working in these areas, please make sure you tag them.
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Speaker 9: Their lives at risk all because of Alan government.
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Speaker 11: What gives the trucks that we need?
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Speaker 4: The UFU coming out against labor, this must have been
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Speaker 4: an election year, But what do you make of that
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Speaker 4: claim that that don't have the equipment to fight fires
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Speaker 4: in apartment blocks that are more than three stories high.
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Speaker 6: It goes to the general point. You know, we're being
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Speaker 6: two hundred billion dollars in debt. The Victorian government doesn't
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Speaker 6: have sufficient money to pay for emergency services upgrades like
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Speaker 6: the police or the firefighters as they should. However, there
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Speaker 6: seems to me to be a difference between getting an
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Speaker 6: entirely new big ladder truck, which is what they're talking about,
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Speaker 6: and the current ones not working. Have they not heard
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Speaker 6: of repairs? Can't some of these things be repaired? And
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Speaker 6: if they can't, they should be explaining why.
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Speaker 3: What do you make of this, Christie?
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Speaker 4: What do you make of the political machinations behind a
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Speaker 4: video like that?
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Speaker 7: It's not the first time the fires Union have gone
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Speaker 7: after the government. Remember when they opened the tunnel and
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Speaker 7: they were saying that the radio equipment wasn't up to
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Speaker 7: scratch and if there was a fire.
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Speaker 8: In there, they wouldn't be able to mitigate it.
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Speaker 7: They are on a good wicket, i think, prosecuting their
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Speaker 7: arguments coming through to near election. But combine the aging fleet,
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Speaker 7: it is a real problem. And certainly there ishes with
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Speaker 7: the CFA as well, and not funding that appropriately for
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Speaker 7: country fire authority to fight fires in the regions. I
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Speaker 7: think those two wishes combined, the government's got a real
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Speaker 7: issue on their hands that the public will really resonate with.
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Speaker 6: And they used to be such good friends of Dan
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Speaker 6: Andrews too.
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Speaker 4: You know, you could argue exercise disproportionate power in this state,
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Speaker 4: so it's very interesting to see them come out with
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Speaker 4: videos like that.
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Speaker 3: Michael danby Christi mcsleeney, thanks for your time.
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Speaker 12: Now.
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Speaker 4: While I was enjoying the delights of Florida over the
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Speaker 4: last two weeks, I was bemused to see my city,
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Speaker 4: Melbourne again ranked as the best city in the world
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Speaker 4: by British media group time Out. I had to check
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Speaker 4: whether it was April one, but Victorian primages Into Alan
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Speaker 4: was quick to claim the prize handed out by this
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Speaker 4: irrelevant little publication time Out that seized its print edition
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Speaker 4: some years ago and it only had a circulation of
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Speaker 4: around fifty thousand people had to actually pay for it.
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Speaker 3: Nevertheless, just Into Allen was thrilled.
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Speaker 1: We're facing cost of living challenges like everywhere else in
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Speaker 1: the world, but with the lowest friends in the country,
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Speaker 1: building more government schools, free public transport for kids and
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Speaker 1: your right to work from home. Victoria is tackling these
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Speaker 1: challenges better than anywhere else. And by the way, we're
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Speaker 1: also the best city in the world.
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Speaker 13: Joining me now, Sky News contributor Clista Klemens, Clista, what
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Speaker 13: are your thoughts on this prize and whether it's vindication
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Speaker 13: of Labour's management of this stage?
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Speaker 2: Well, to keep it blunt, Jacinta Allen makes me feel
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Speaker 2: physically nauseous. It is unsurprising that she has jumped on
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Speaker 2: camera to boast about this crummy award. Well, Victoria has
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Speaker 2: got nothing to boast about right now. We have spent
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Speaker 2: fifteen billion dollars on organized crime, all in corruption, so
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Speaker 2: unions can play around to say the least. Our school
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Speaker 2: infrastructure is crumbling, our public transport is mediocre at best,
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Speaker 2: and right now we see teenagers murdering people on our streets,
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Speaker 2: notwithstanding the thousands of families that have woken up in
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Speaker 2: the middle of the night to armed men in their homes,
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Speaker 2: in when their children are sleeping. So to say the least,
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Speaker 2: whoever is awarded this prize while they think need to
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Speaker 2: spend a couple of days in the reality of modern Victoria.
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Speaker 4: I think yeah, I think they need to spend an
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Speaker 4: afternoon with some of the victims of crime in this city.
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Speaker 4: I think that would be a bit of a wake
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Speaker 4: up call. Because Victoria Warrior and Melbourne. I love Melbourne,
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Speaker 4: it's my city. I have defended it. I have been parochial.
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Speaker 4: But reality is reality, and we are not doing well.
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Speaker 4: And we are not doing well when you compare us
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Speaker 4: on just about every measure, whether it's our massive debt
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Speaker 4: in this state, whether it's the crime rate, whether it's
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Speaker 4: living standards.
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Speaker 3: Whether it's just.
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Speaker 4: The mood of the people and being in I traveled
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Speaker 4: to Sydney every week for outsiders, and I'll tell you
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Speaker 4: you notice the change, the shift in the mood of
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Speaker 4: the population. The clouds witted well, people are just happier,
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Speaker 4: people have got smiles on their faces, the CBDs, thriving
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Speaker 4: families are out. It's just a very different mood to Melbourne.
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Speaker 4: Sadly now, last week senator's Fatima Payman, Lydia Thorpe and
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Speaker 4: Marine Fruki claimed they have experienced racism in the Senate
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Speaker 4: in the Senate Chamber and they call for Parliament to
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Speaker 4: become a safer workplace for women of color. They also
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Speaker 4: posted this image with a caption trigger warning for trolls.
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Speaker 4: This image contains brown women, which some viewers may find upsetting.
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Speaker 4: I think Senor thought was responsible for that particular post.
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Speaker 3: Callista.
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Speaker 4: Is the gender and color of these ladies behind some
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Speaker 4: of the vitriol or could it possibly possibly have something.
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Speaker 3: To do with the endless crap that they speed?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm going to go with the ladder
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Speaker 2: on that rue. I think one of these ladies maybe
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Speaker 2: they do actually realize it that we don't care about
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Speaker 2: skin color. We care about competence and if you're going
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Speaker 2: to be representing the Australian people in Australian Parliament, you
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Speaker 2: need to be competent to do that job. And unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: I think Australians are confused as to whether these three
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Speaker 2: women represent the Palestinian people or the Australian people because
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Speaker 2: it's unclear. So, ladies, when you're doing your job right,
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Speaker 2: you will not face the scrutiny that you are faced
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Speaker 2: right now, But do not weaponize your skin color in
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Speaker 2: order to avoid the public scrutiny that you were subject
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Speaker 2: to as a parliamentarian.
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Speaker 4: Well, all three of them have been outspoken about the
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Speaker 4: Palestinian or anti Israeli, cause we've seen that over the
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Speaker 4: last couple of years, and I think Australians are entitled
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Speaker 4: to question what the priorities are of these senators because
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Speaker 4: after all, they are sitting in the Australian Upper House
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Speaker 4: and they should be prioritizing the interests of Australians. Now,
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Speaker 4: before you go, it's been reported that former Australian of
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Speaker 4: the Year Grace Tame has lost all speaking engagements for
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Speaker 4: the rest of the year and I find that hard
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Speaker 4: to believe. I'm guessing you'll start being booked for by
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Speaker 4: the usual suspects very shortly. But Grace Tame claims that
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Speaker 4: has been a smear campaign against her ever since she
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Speaker 4: led a chant of globalized into fada at an anti
20:52
Speaker 4: Israeli rally in Sydney. Callista, is Grace Tame a victim
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Speaker 4: here of cancel culture the.
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Speaker 2: Best way possible or lefty having to take accountability for
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Speaker 2: their actions. Who would have thought yeah and look to
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Speaker 2: turn around and her leftist cult coming out saying this
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Speaker 2: is a smear campaign. No, a smear campaign is when
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Speaker 2: something is false and Grace has absolutely made her bed
21:14
Speaker 2: and she needs to lie in.
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Speaker 4: It well, which she's got plenty of fans, including in
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Speaker 4: the media. The ABC has come to her defense. Presenter
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Speaker 4: Forrginia Trioli called tame, brave and admirable and said she
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Speaker 4: was being subjected to a cancel sorry, a culture of
21:31
Speaker 4: censorship and suppression.
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Speaker 3: Suppression, that's a big word. And we've we've got.
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Speaker 4: Plenty of others who have come to a defense. But
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Speaker 4: surely the left who have embraced cancel culture, they call
21:44
Speaker 4: it accountability culture. They can't be upset when it's applied
21:49
Speaker 4: to one of their own.
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Speaker 3: And these are your rules.
21:51
Speaker 4: If you can't even play by your own rules, how
21:53
Speaker 4: can anybody else?
21:54
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's all part of the victim mentality, right,
21:57
Speaker 2: and this whole lack of critical thought. What do you
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Speaker 2: exc when you're out there canceling people twenty four to
22:02
Speaker 2: seven and often just take some responsibility please, So I'm
22:08
Speaker 2: really glad that well the media or in part people
22:11
Speaker 2: have jumped on board to criticize Grace for this because
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Speaker 2: this phrase ultimately is harmful to millions of people around
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Speaker 2: the world, and we don't welcome this here.
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Speaker 4: Calissa Clemens, thanks for your time, Thank you for having
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Speaker 4: me read on Still to come. Lefties Losing It, plus
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Speaker 4: the latest from the US, including some good news from DC.
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Speaker 3: We'll love to hear that.
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Speaker 4: Armi Horowitz has the details. You're watching the Reader Pannyy Show,
22:46
Speaker 4: and it's time for Lefties Losing It.
22:48
Speaker 3: And the Oscars were on today, so.
22:51
Speaker 4: We're going to be bringing you the best and worst
22:54
Speaker 4: of Hollywood's a.
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Speaker 3: Night of nights.
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Speaker 4: But let's start Lefties Losing It with our favorite little
22:59
Speaker 4: Swedish doom goblin, Greta Thunberg.
23:02
Speaker 3: And here we have.
23:03
Speaker 4: The gal who said records for truancy, showing incredible rage.
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Speaker 4: Not only is she an expert on catastrophic climate change
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Speaker 4: in the Middle East, but her geopolitical expertise extends to Cuba.
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Speaker 4: And of course, the country's many wares are not the
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Speaker 4: fault of the communist government.
23:22
Speaker 3: It's all Donald Trump's fault.
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Speaker 5: We need to talk about what's happening in Cuba right now.
23:27
Speaker 5: As the Trump administration is waging illegitimate wars across the world,
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Speaker 5: killing countess of people, it is also strangling the Cuban
23:35
Speaker 5: people deliberately, methodically, and openly. The pedophile Trump himself bragged
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Speaker 5: about it, saying there's an embargo there is no oil,
23:43
Speaker 5: there's no money, there's no anything. He said it like
23:46
Speaker 5: it was something to be proud of.
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Speaker 4: What did that little chucky doll look alike called President Trump.
23:52
Speaker 4: I do hope you Sousa for whatever ill gotten gains
23:56
Speaker 4: she may have. And Greta was not done lecturing us
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Speaker 4: about Cuba. She seems to think that she knows better
24:02
Speaker 4: than Cubans what is good for Cubans. She does not
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Speaker 4: say a single word to condemn the brutal communist dictators
24:11
Speaker 4: or the reason why more than a million Cubans have
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Speaker 4: fled their own country.
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Speaker 3: It's all America's fault.
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Speaker 5: Cuba stood up for the world, and now it is
24:21
Speaker 5: time for the world to stand up for Cuba. And
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Speaker 5: I'm asking all of you, every friend of peace, every
24:26
Speaker 5: defender of the right of peoples to determine their own futures,
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Speaker 5: to join. Wherever you are in the world, go to
24:33
Speaker 5: your local US embassy and make your voice heard. The
24:37
Speaker 5: people in power do not act unless we compel them to,
24:41
Speaker 5: and so now we compel them.
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Speaker 3: What an odious little troll she is.
24:47
Speaker 4: Now to the oscars, and I'm sure you're just dying
24:50
Speaker 4: to hear some virtue signaling here is the team behind
24:53
Speaker 4: the voice of High end Rajab with this incoherent dietribe.
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Speaker 14: A permanent ceasefire, because there is no ceasefire right now.
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Speaker 14: There are bombings happening to this day, destruction displacements all
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Speaker 14: over the world, you know, in Palestine and Lebanon and
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Speaker 14: Roon and Venezuela and everywhere, and this is happening in
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Speaker 14: the US.
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Speaker 8: I well, yes, so this is a demand for a permanency.
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Speaker 4: Spire Ice have to implement a ceasefire, and they want
25:24
Speaker 4: one also in Iran, just as the regime is about
25:27
Speaker 4: to fall. I mean, how sadistic of them to want
25:31
Speaker 4: to oppress the Iranian people.
25:33
Speaker 3: Let's hear more from this genius trio.
25:36
Speaker 15: What's happening with Ice, Minneapolis, Rasse, everywhere. It's all connected
25:41
Speaker 15: and we are all the same, We are all human,
25:43
Speaker 15: and hatred is a cancer and people should open their hearts.
25:48
Speaker 4: Stupidity is also a cancer. And how about opening your
25:52
Speaker 4: hearts to the plight of the Iranian people. You know,
25:55
Speaker 4: there's a reason they are literally dancing in the streets
25:59
Speaker 4: over the eyeop are being killed, over the regime being
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Speaker 4: systematically weakened. It's because they would rather risk death than
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Speaker 4: live under Islamis rule. Let's now hear from the host
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Speaker 4: of the Oscars, Conan O'Brien, who had this little pointed.
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Speaker 12: Joke most time since twenty twelve that there are no
26:19
Speaker 12: British actors nominated for Best Actor or Best Actress. Yeah,
26:25
Speaker 12: British spokesperson said, yeah, well at least we arrest our pedophiles.
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Speaker 10: So you got that.
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Speaker 4: Not bad, But the arrests in the UK have not
26:35
Speaker 4: been about pedophilia or mistreatment of women, but about allegations
26:39
Speaker 4: of misconduct in public office.
26:41
Speaker 3: Anyway, we can't expect actors to be aware of little
26:44
Speaker 3: things like facts.
26:46
Speaker 4: Now, there were some bright moments at the Oscars, some
26:49
Speaker 4: genuine funny moments, including this from actress Anna Hathaway or
26:54
Speaker 4: a Hathaway and a Winter.
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Speaker 7: Annah just curious, what do you think of my dressinate.
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Speaker 3: And the nominees are very well done.
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Speaker 4: You need to have watched The Devil Wes Prita to
27:14
Speaker 4: appreciate the comedy there.
27:15
Speaker 3: And this from Sigourney Weaver was also superb. Get away from.
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Speaker 1: Him, you.
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Speaker 12: Well, good character.
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Speaker 13: Recall I peed myself a little.
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Speaker 3: Why is Pedro Pascal ruining it by talking needlessly? The
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Speaker 3: ladies cook.
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Speaker 4: But if the oscars wanted to be actually entertaining for
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Speaker 4: the whole thing, then they should throw millions at Ricky
27:42
Speaker 4: Gervais to host. You remember his superb, superb work at
27:45
Speaker 4: the Golden Globes. If they can't get him over the line,
27:48
Speaker 4: then Jimmy Carr would also be a brilliant option.
27:52
Speaker 8: Here is a.
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Speaker 3: Taste of his work. Here he explains why he doesn't
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Speaker 3: dare mock Islam.
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Speaker 16: Now we are a little bit tight for time. I
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Speaker 16: probably can't do my Islamic bit. Well, obviously I'm not
28:12
Speaker 16: going to be telling the same jokes about Mohammed. I'd
28:13
Speaker 16: feel very comfortable telling about Jesus Christ. And that's because,
28:16
Speaker 16: fun fact, I'm not an idiot. So if you're a
28:22
Speaker 16: Christian and you're sat there thinking, well, that's not fair.
28:24
Speaker 16: He make jokes about Christians all day long, but he
28:26
Speaker 16: won't make the same sort of jokes about Muslims, well,
28:29
Speaker 16: then maybe as a Christian you should think about blowing
28:33
Speaker 16: something up. Hey, no one's scared of you. What are
28:44
Speaker 16: the Christians going to do?
28:45
Speaker 11: Forgive me?
28:48
Speaker 17: Yes?
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Speaker 3: I like the late night TV comics in the US.
28:52
Speaker 4: It seems to be the front runners to host Oscars
28:54
Speaker 4: and Golden Globes are year.
28:55
Speaker 3: Jimmy Carr is actually funny.
28:58
Speaker 4: Now to DC, where US Attorney for the District of Columbia,
29:01
Speaker 4: Jeanine Piro put a leftist journalist in his place.
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Speaker 3: This is a thing of beauty.
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Speaker 18: Were second the cases that you're oh, cut it out.
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Speaker 18: Do you know how many convictions we've got. Cut it out?
29:13
Speaker 18: You're in one lane. We have cleaned up this city.
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Speaker 18: Get historic. Really, I'll tell you what's historic. What's historic
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Speaker 18: is that I prosecute everything other than ten percent of
29:24
Speaker 18: the cases, where the United States Attorney before me didn't
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Speaker 18: prosecute sixty seven percent of the cases. That's what's historic.
29:32
Speaker 18: I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to
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Speaker 18: take a no true bill because I'll take all the
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Speaker 18: crimes and put him in Thank you, Thank you.
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Speaker 13: The time we have I.
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Speaker 3: Think that's what they call a mic drop moment.
29:46
Speaker 4: Yes, they're cleaning up DC, and it shows the crime
29:49
Speaker 4: rate has plummeted. Murder rate has dropped sixty eight percent
29:54
Speaker 4: compared to at the same time in twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 4: Robberies are down forty seven percent, sexual abuse down sixty
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Speaker 4: four percent, and violent crime across the board is down
30:03
Speaker 4: thirty one percent. Let's bring in documentary filmmaker and commentate
30:08
Speaker 4: Army Horoiz Army. This is a triumph for the administration.
30:12
Speaker 4: And yet the DC locals don't seem all.
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Speaker 3: That grateful.
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Speaker 11: Or the media.
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Speaker 19: You don't hear anything about the media talking about the
30:21
Speaker 19: crime rate dropping because it doesn't help their arguments. Yeah, look,
30:24
Speaker 19: crime levels are lowest in decades now. Generally presidents don't
30:30
Speaker 19: have a lot to do with national crime rates because
30:32
Speaker 19: they're usually city by city. But it's really hard to
30:35
Speaker 19: argue that, for example, in DC, it's not almost solely
30:38
Speaker 19: because of the use of the National Guard or they're
30:40
Speaker 19: everywhere in the city that crime has dropped. It's hard
30:43
Speaker 19: to argue that the dead stop and illegal immigrants coming
30:48
Speaker 19: to this country didn't factor in to a drop in
30:51
Speaker 19: crime rate. It's hard to argue that the unleashing of
30:53
Speaker 19: the FBI across the country, taking down large cartels and
30:57
Speaker 19: gang members and drug affiliates aren't part of the drop
31:01
Speaker 19: in crime. So, yeah, I'm sorry, but those are arguments
31:05
Speaker 19: that are just hard to ignore.
31:08
Speaker 4: Now activist judge has been called an activist judge A
31:12
Speaker 4: Bosberg has blocked a grand jury from investigating the FED,
31:17
Speaker 4: and Janine Piro says that's illegal in Washington.
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Speaker 18: An activist judge has taken that tool away from us
31:29
Speaker 18: by inserting himself and preventing the grand jury from even obtaining,
31:35
Speaker 18: let alone hearing evidence. He has newtered the grand jury's
31:41
Speaker 18: ability to investigate crime. As a result, Jerome Powell today
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Speaker 18: is now bathed in immunity preventing my office from investigating
31:54
Speaker 18: the Federal Reserve. This is wrong, and it is with
32:00
Speaker 18: out legal authority.
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Speaker 4: Army Horowitz, No, you're not a lawyer, but what's your
32:07
Speaker 4: take on that conflict between members of the judiciary, the
32:12
Speaker 4: Trump administration, and this determination to look at the FED
32:17
Speaker 4: investigate the Fed?
32:20
Speaker 19: But I play one on TV RITA. Look, I'm going
32:25
Speaker 19: to be enough for me. You are not going to
32:28
Speaker 19: like my answer. Okay, I knew.
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Speaker 3: I knew it would be.
32:32
Speaker 4: I knew you would be in a completely different realm
32:38
Speaker 4: on this topic to me. I knew it because you
32:40
Speaker 4: were not happy even with the Trump administration sending in
32:45
Speaker 4: law enforcement to different cities. I think perhaps you've moderated
32:49
Speaker 4: your position on that.
32:50
Speaker 3: Perhaps not, But yeah, you.
32:53
Speaker 4: Think this judge is in the right here by stopping
32:56
Speaker 4: a grand jury even looking into this.
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Speaker 19: Look, I'm not going to debate with you the dual
33:03
Speaker 19: mandate of the Fed, right, which is and the efficacy
33:07
Speaker 19: of this particular.
33:08
Speaker 11: Regime on that issue.
33:10
Speaker 19: I'm not going to debate with you, you know, whether
33:12
Speaker 19: or not we need deep cuts now to juice up
33:16
Speaker 19: the economy or whether it be inflationary. Look, presidents have
33:19
Speaker 19: always had conflicts with the Fed. Every president does, right.
33:23
Speaker 19: They wanted a stronger economy and more and more federal cuts,
33:26
Speaker 19: and the Fed is a little more cautious.
33:28
Speaker 11: That's common. Look.
33:30
Speaker 19: President Johnson even famously pushed a Federal Reserve chairman on
33:36
Speaker 19: his ranch. But this is something a little bit different.
33:40
Speaker 11: Okay. This is not about building cost overruns. Okay. Trump
33:44
Speaker 11: is a builder.
33:45
Speaker 19: He famously has tons of buildings.
33:47
Speaker 11: That have cost overruns. It's part of the process.
33:50
Speaker 19: This is about him trying to find cause to get
33:54
Speaker 19: rid of jerown power. Okay, and causes not like the cause.
33:58
Speaker 19: You can't just get a president just get rid of
34:00
Speaker 19: a Federal Reserve chairman. He has to have what the
34:02
Speaker 19: were is caused the legal meaning that you have an
34:04
Speaker 19: employment contract. It's gross misbehavior of criminal activity, right, not
34:08
Speaker 19: like you're not Junior daw properly, and he's trying to
34:11
Speaker 19: pressure Jerome Powell to do deep cuts to juice of
34:14
Speaker 19: the economy. And by the way, hypocritically, I'm sorry, but
34:18
Speaker 19: Trump criticized Jerome Powell for having deep cuts under Biden
34:22
Speaker 19: to jusep be cunning for him. So I don't like this.
34:25
Speaker 19: This is as close as you get to abuse of power,
34:30
Speaker 19: and I think this is not the kind of behavior
34:33
Speaker 19: that that we need. He doesn't rankles him that the
34:36
Speaker 19: FED is outside the executive branch reach. And like you said,
34:38
Speaker 19: because you knew the way I think generally, I don't
34:41
Speaker 19: like growth and executive power.
34:42
Speaker 11: I never liked it. I think it's a dangerou to
34:43
Speaker 11: the US.
34:44
Speaker 4: Well, that's always good in Syria, I would agree with you.
34:49
Speaker 4: But when these bodies become deeply politicized and they behave accordingly,
34:54
Speaker 4: I think then you need to take action. And I
34:56
Speaker 4: would argue that's what we have seen with the FED
35:00
Speaker 4: over several years. But that's an argument that we will
35:03
Speaker 4: keep having. I'm sure we will get to the Iranian
35:07
Speaker 4: conflicts shortly, because I know there's plenty.
35:09
Speaker 3: To be said there.
35:10
Speaker 4: But the oscars were on today, and as usual, we
35:13
Speaker 4: had more incoherent virtue signaling from the celebrity class, including
35:18
Speaker 4: calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran army.
35:24
Speaker 4: These adults can't even figure out what a woman is,
35:27
Speaker 4: but they think they can lecture the Trump administration about geopolitics.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, I'm sorry, but I prepared a statement I need
35:36
Speaker 19: to read to you. The Tongva were the primary indigenous
35:40
Speaker 19: people of Hollywood, California before the Spanish colonization, including the
35:45
Speaker 19: stolen land beneath the Dorby Theater.
35:47
Speaker 11: Tongva. We acknowledge you, Tongva. We salute you. So I
35:51
Speaker 11: just want to get that out of the way, just
35:53
Speaker 11: so we're clear.
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Speaker 19: Thank you, Yeah, no, thank you, and yeah, by the way,
35:59
Speaker 19: I am, I'm so upset at you that you've I
36:01
Speaker 19: had no interest in watching the Oscars Now I had
36:03
Speaker 19: to kind of flip through it to prepare for this.
36:06
Speaker 19: By the way, Javier bardam, if you're going to wear
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Speaker 19: this big egregious sign saying no more war on your
36:12
Speaker 19: chest right into English, because I hate to tell you,
36:15
Speaker 19: but more than double the population the world's English versus Spanish.
36:19
Speaker 19: So I'm just putting out there to help you out
36:21
Speaker 19: going forward. Yeah, there's a lot of comments about troubling times,
36:25
Speaker 19: frightening times.
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Speaker 11: Yeah. I don't know.
36:27
Speaker 19: Were they referring frightening times to the multitude of Islamic
36:31
Speaker 19: attacks that we've seen across Europe and the United States,
36:35
Speaker 19: or maybe when they're saying troubling times, they're referring to
36:38
Speaker 19: the fact that a Jew can't walk into a synagogue
36:41
Speaker 19: anywhere in the world, that a fear that he won't
36:44
Speaker 19: be able to live because he will be killed by
36:46
Speaker 19: a terrorist action. I wonder if that's what they meant
36:49
Speaker 19: by frightening times.
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Speaker 3: I don't think they made that.
36:53
Speaker 4: I think they mean the Iranian regime being on its naise,
36:57
Speaker 4: her mask being on its NAIs, and the West having
37:01
Speaker 4: a fight back of sorts. But while the Hollywood elite
37:05
Speaker 4: want to cease fire, Iranians in the US are marching
37:09
Speaker 4: for Iran to be freed of the regime. This was
37:12
Speaker 4: a march earlier today in New York City.
37:23
Speaker 3: Army.
37:24
Speaker 4: I think Iranian Americans have found out that the left,
37:27
Speaker 4: and many of them may be from the left, they
37:30
Speaker 4: found out they're not their allies. This is something Jews
37:34
Speaker 4: have also discovered since October seven.
37:38
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean some of the Jews discovered that.
37:40
Speaker 19: I mean, I wonder how many and thankfully only a
37:43
Speaker 19: minority of Jews voted for Mam Danni as Mayor of
37:47
Speaker 19: New York, but some did. And I wondered if they
37:49
Speaker 19: had buyers of Morse when they saw those images of
37:52
Speaker 19: Mamdani sitting and breaking bed with Mahmu Khalil, an open
37:56
Speaker 19: rampet terror supporter, or one of the buyers of Morse,
38:00
Speaker 19: when Missus Cardamom would post and support the rape and
38:03
Speaker 19: murder of Jews across Israel. I don't know if they
38:07
Speaker 19: did actually look the Iranian people across the world. Just
38:12
Speaker 19: spend thirty seconds with a Persian and Tearanjulus and ask
38:16
Speaker 19: them what they think of the Iranian regime with the left,
38:19
Speaker 19: and they'll disabuse you of any notion they had any
38:21
Speaker 19: connection or help from the left before now and going forward. Okay,
38:26
Speaker 19: the Iran diaspora has not ever been in support of
38:30
Speaker 19: the left because they understood at the left supports the
38:33
Speaker 19: Iranian regime and it was proven during this particular war.
38:37
Speaker 19: So yeah, and by the way, you see, and how
38:40
Speaker 19: do you know that? Just look at the images universally
38:44
Speaker 19: I'm not talking about a minority or a small majority. Universally,
38:48
Speaker 19: you see Iranians around the world celebrating this war against
38:53
Speaker 19: tyranny and the eventual fall God willing of the Irani regime.
38:59
Speaker 4: Now, let's hear Iran's Foreign minister, Abbess Aragachi who claims
39:04
Speaker 4: that President Donald Trump launched attacks against Iran because it
39:08
Speaker 4: is fun. That's a direct quote, because it is fun.
39:11
Speaker 4: And he also said.
39:12
Speaker 3: The Iranian regime had the right to enrich uranium.
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Speaker 7: Why should President Trump consider allowing Iran to have even
39:21
Speaker 7: the smallest bit of enrichment.
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Speaker 17: Well, first of all, enrichment is our right. We are
39:29
Speaker 17: a member of NPT and we have every right to
39:32
Speaker 17: enjoy a peaceful nuclear energy, including enrichment. How we use
39:39
Speaker 17: this this right is something related to us only.
39:45
Speaker 3: Army. There appears to be a level of delusion there.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 19: Now, she didn't mention at any point in time the
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Speaker 19: tens of thousands of civilians murder bized regime. She did
40:02
Speaker 19: not push back for one second when he said we're
40:05
Speaker 19: not targeting civilian targets around the world. Didn't one time
40:10
Speaker 19: push back against that. This is par for the course
40:13
Speaker 19: for the media. They had built in this narrative that
40:16
Speaker 19: the Iranian war is bad despite the very clear results
40:20
Speaker 19: of what's happening now and what will happen to the world,
40:24
Speaker 19: God willing.
40:25
Speaker 11: If the Iranian regime falls.
40:26
Speaker 19: Okay, I did you know when the twenty four hours
40:30
Speaker 19: between the ISIS attack, the ISIS sympathizers who attacked threw
40:35
Speaker 19: a bomb attack in New York, I did.
40:37
Speaker 11: I asked three different.
40:38
Speaker 19: AI engines to say how much ink and how much
40:42
Speaker 19: airtime CNN gave to the civilians that were killed in
40:46
Speaker 19: this war versus an actual ice attack in New York
40:50
Speaker 19: and they all told me there was three times as
40:53
Speaker 19: much coverage by CNN about the under two thousand civilians
40:56
Speaker 19: who've been killed, not on purpose, by the way, not targeted.
41:01
Speaker 19: Then they gave time to an actual terrorst attack in
41:05
Speaker 19: New York City. It just goes to show where their
41:07
Speaker 19: sympathy lies. It goes to show what they really care about,
41:10
Speaker 19: and frankly, it is so disgusting.
41:14
Speaker 4: Well, we saw the New York Times reporting on the
41:18
Speaker 4: ISIS attack in New York.
41:20
Speaker 3: I mean, that was just laughable.
41:23
Speaker 4: It was almost like a comedy sketch, something that the
41:26
Speaker 4: Babylon b would come up with. That's how poorly they
41:30
Speaker 4: handle it. But we've got used to the New York
41:33
Speaker 4: Times be clowning themselves. But you're right, CBS anchor there,
41:37
Speaker 4: Margaret Brennan, she was far more civil and far less
41:41
Speaker 4: hostile than when she interviews someone like JD.
41:44
Speaker 3: Vance or Marco Rubio.
41:47
Speaker 4: Now there's a report Army that the son and successor
41:51
Speaker 4: of Iotola Ali Komeni, was not his father's choice to
41:55
Speaker 4: rule Iran. This is according to US and Israeli intelligence assessments,
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Speaker 4: which was shared with The Times. It seems Ali Romani
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Speaker 4: had misgivings about his son's abilities, and he was perceived
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Speaker 4: as not very bright and was viewed as unqualified to
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Speaker 4: be leader Army.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, talk about daddy issues. Yeah, he's gonna have a
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Speaker 19: lot to discuss this therapist if he survives the next
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Speaker 19: few days, which I don't think.
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Speaker 11: I'm not sure that he will. Yeah.
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Speaker 19: No, he's been portrayed as kind of an idiot.
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Speaker 11: Sorry, but yeah, I think at the least of his problems.
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Speaker 19: I think that he's gonna find himself six feet under
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Speaker 19: very very soon. And he's not too careful. Look, it's
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Speaker 19: said that his son is even worse than his father.
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Speaker 19: In terms of his villainy and he's how extreme he is.
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Speaker 11: But hopefully we're never going to find out.
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Speaker 4: Well, he may already be six feet out there. We're
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Speaker 4: not even sure if he's is with us right now
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Speaker 4: before you go, there were all sorts of rumors circulating
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Speaker 4: online that Iran had killed Israeli President Benjamin Nettan Yahoo.
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Speaker 4: BB has responded to those rumors by posting a video
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Speaker 4: of himself getting a cup of coffee and chatting with
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Speaker 4: his aid, mocking those sorts of that sort of talk Army.
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Speaker 4: It seems this entire story came about in part at
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Speaker 4: least because BB's son had stopped posting on social media.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, it looked a really nice cup of coffee there.
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Speaker 11: I'm actually kind of jealous.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, this is what I have to say the Iranian
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Speaker 19: regime when it comes to that.
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Speaker 11: Good luck to you. I don't think they have any
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Speaker 11: shot of the world of killing Bib Natan Yahoo.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the internet was very, very excited, and I looked
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Speaker 4: into why so many were posting about this, and the
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Speaker 4: evidence they had was very flimsy, to say the least.
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Speaker 3: Army Horowitz, It's always a pleasure. Pleasure is mine still
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Speaker 3: to come, we'll.
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Speaker 4: Have the latest on publishing big week Anthony Catalano, who
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Speaker 4: is facing serious allegations. Stephen Drill joins me on the desk.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back now. The executive chair of Australian Community Media
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Speaker 4: and View Property Group, Anthony Catalano, has stepped down after
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Speaker 4: he was charged with assault, false imprisonment and making threats
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Speaker 4: to kill after he allegedly swung an iron at a
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Speaker 4: woman's head and dragged her by her hair and ankles
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Speaker 4: in his luxury sinkilled at Penthouse. For more on this,
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Speaker 4: let's bring in Harold's son, investigative journalist Stephen Drill. Stephen,
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Speaker 4: this is potentially a massive fall from grace for Anthony Catalano.
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Speaker 4: What more do we know about these allegations and I
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Speaker 4: stress they are at this time only allegations.
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Speaker 20: Rider Catalina has not entered a plea yet. His year
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Speaker 20: back in court on May eleven. But these are serious charges.
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Speaker 20: They do have a jail term that could be attached
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Speaker 20: to them. And there is CCTV of the incident. Now,
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Speaker 20: the incident was captured by those cameras inside mister Catalina's home.
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Speaker 20: We believe that the victim was his wife Stephanie Catalino.
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Speaker 20: It's a concerning development for their family relationship, but it's
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Speaker 20: also very concerning for his companies because they are a
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Speaker 20: major employers and they run the Canberra Times, the Iluorra
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Speaker 20: Mercury and the Newcastle Herald, along with about one hundred
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Speaker 20: community papers across the country.
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Speaker 3: So he's a powerful figure in the media landscape and
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Speaker 3: influential figure.
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Speaker 20: I mean, the Canberra Times is the paper of record
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Speaker 20: in Canberra, very big connections with Parliament House, and these
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Speaker 20: aren't allegations that one would take lightly and they're quite concerning.
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Speaker 4: Now do we know about the injuries suffered by the
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Speaker 4: alleged victim here? And you mentioned CCTV and US. There
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Speaker 4: was a statement from the Anthony Catillano camp.
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Speaker 3: What has he said so far?
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Speaker 20: He's saying that he's stepping down from his roles, he'll
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Speaker 20: take a six month leave of absence and he will
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Speaker 20: go to rehab on My understanding is he hasn't entered
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Speaker 20: rehab yet. He's had an assessment for that, but there
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Speaker 20: are waiting lists. It's not like you can just walk
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Speaker 20: straight into a rehab center, so that may not happen
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Speaker 20: for a number of days. The injuries to the victim.
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Speaker 20: She believed she had a broken coxic, so they're quite serious.
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Speaker 20: She didn't need to go to hospital and my understanding
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Speaker 20: is now that she's up in Byron Bay.
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Speaker 4: Now, since these allegations came to light, we've had media
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Speaker 4: reports of claims from twenty eighteen alleging that Stephanie Catalano,
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Speaker 4: the current wife of Anthony and the mother of his
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Speaker 4: four of his nine children. She told friends at the
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Speaker 4: time that in separate incidents, Anthony allegedly assaulted her. What
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Speaker 4: more can you tell me about these allegations, and again
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Speaker 4: I emphasized they're just allegations. There were no charges or convictions.
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Speaker 20: Well, Anthony Catalina is known as the cat who sort
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Speaker 20: of seemed to have nine lives.
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Speaker 11: But they may have run out.
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Speaker 20: Now the allegations from several years ago is a recording
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Speaker 20: that's been heard by people where Stephanie has made claims
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Speaker 20: about a headbutting incident. At the time, there was also
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Speaker 20: quite for.
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Speaker 4: Someone who she was talking to recorded this and now
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Speaker 4: that recording is circulating.
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Speaker 20: Recirculating around the WhatsApp grips around Melbourne.
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Speaker 3: I believe that's but there were no charges at.
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Speaker 20: No charges I mean, Jackie Epstein spoke to some friends
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Speaker 20: of Stephanie's and they made the point that they've got
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Speaker 20: four kids together. It's not like you can just walk
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Speaker 20: away in five minutes. This is it's a long term relationship.
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Speaker 20: It's quite complicated.
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Speaker 4: It certainly is complicated now. On a separate matter, entirely
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Speaker 4: before you go, Kyle Sandalans will on Tuesday issue an
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Speaker 4: ultimatum to end it up and company aarn Following his suspension.
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Speaker 4: Kyle will demand that either he be reinstated as the
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Speaker 4: co host of kissfm's top rated breakfast show or be
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Speaker 4: paid out the remaining eighty eight million dollars under his
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Speaker 4: decade long contract. It has understood Kyle Sandalanz and his
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Speaker 4: on air partner Jackie o'henderson have been talking amicably in
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Speaker 4: recent days, and Sandalans was also spotted catching up with
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Speaker 4: Stu Launde, who recently took over to GB three. Aw
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Speaker 4: interesting developments there, Stephen.
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Speaker 20: That is the world's biggest golden handshase.
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Speaker 3: Eight million dollars. Not bad, not bad. He negotiates a
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Speaker 3: mean deal. He knows what he's doing, Kyle.
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Speaker 8: He does.
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Speaker 20: I mean, this could bankrupt IRN very really if they
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Speaker 20: pay that money out, the company's only worth about one
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Speaker 20: hundred million dollars.
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Speaker 4: But why would they want to get rid of their
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Speaker 4: biggest start. Yes, the show doesn't work in Melbourne. They've
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Speaker 4: tried the Melbourne experiment again, but it works brilliantly in Sydney.
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Speaker 4: And really without it, what is that station?
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Speaker 20: Well, either way they're cornered because, as you say, without
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Speaker 20: that program, all the advertising that comes in through them,
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Speaker 20: we will probably disappear, or it may go across to
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Speaker 20: two GB or three AW when Cole jumps ship. So
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Speaker 20: they will still be picked up somewhere, and they have
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Speaker 20: moved stations before. Yes, but it's a matter of maybe
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Speaker 20: he just maybe they'll still get back together and they
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Speaker 20: come back and collect that eighty eight million dollars.
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Speaker 4: Well, someone is going to have to eat humble pie
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Speaker 4: in this. I'm not sure who that is going to be.
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Speaker 4: Steven Drill, Thanks for your time tonight, and that's all
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Speaker 4: the time we have.
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Speaker 3: I'll see you at eleven tomorrow night. News Night is
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Speaker 3: up next.