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The Rita Panahi Show | 15 September · The Rita Panahi Show

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  Speaker 1: Starting right now, The Rita Panahy Show.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to The Rita Panahy Show. Coming
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  Speaker 2: up tonight, One Nation and Labor draw level in New
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  Speaker 2: South Wales ahead of the state election. Colleen Harkin will
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  Speaker 2: be here to discuss that and today's other top headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Calls for Alistair Clarkson to receive compensation in the aftermath
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  Speaker 2: of the Hawthorne racism saga.
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  Speaker 3: Seb Costello will have more on that.
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  Speaker 2: The Liberals promise to put the biological definition of women
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  Speaker 2: back in the Sex Discrimination Act. Senator Lee Blythe will
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  Speaker 2: join the program. Kosha Gader will have the latest from
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  Speaker 2: the US and she will tell us what happened in
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  Speaker 2: the Swedish election. And Sydney Sweeney strips nude for a
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  Speaker 2: gambling ad. I'll get Didi Dunleavy's reaction to that and
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  Speaker 2: the growing outrage from female athletes. And Lefties Losing It
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  Speaker 2: features the Democrats' great new white hope, Amy Acton, who
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  Speaker 2: always looks like she's in the midst of happy hour.
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  Speaker 4: Go Bucks.
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  Speaker 3: My opponent just doesn't get it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. But first, New South Wales could be hit
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  Speaker 2: with an orange wave at the state election. New polling
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  Speaker 2: by Insightfully shows six months out from the election, One
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  Speaker 2: Nation and Labor are tied on 29%.
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  Speaker 3: The coalition trailing on 18%.
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  Speaker 2: The research also found 67% of voters support lifting the
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  Speaker 2: state's ban on uranium mining if it helps lower emissions
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  Speaker 2: and combats climate change. Joining me now is Victorian One
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  Speaker 2: Nation Upper House candidate, Colleen Harkin. Colleen, this will be
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  Speaker 2: a shock for Premier Chris Minns. One Nation had just 1.9%
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  Speaker 2: of the vote at the last state election.
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  Speaker 3: To be tied with Labor, that's quite an achievement.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and the other component of that story is the
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  Speaker 5: collapse of the Liberal Party vote. I mean, One Nation
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  Speaker 5: is a serious force to be reckoned with across the country.
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  Speaker 5: It's not a protest vote anymore. It might have been
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  Speaker 5: seen as that maybe two years ago. But enough has
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  Speaker 5: happened and enough people are dissatisfied and their vote is sticking.
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  Speaker 5: There's been lots of surveys where people have been asked
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  Speaker 5: multiple questions and, you know, the consistency of... of their
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  Speaker 5: vote has been proven time and time again. So it
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  Speaker 5: is a warning to both of the old school major parties.
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  Speaker 5: The other interesting thing about that is the support for uranium.
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  Speaker 5: You know, people pretend that it's some kind of taboo subject,
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  Speaker 5: but when you've got two-thirds of a survey showing you
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  Speaker 5: that they would support it if it's framed in the
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  Speaker 5: area of energy, and that's the big ticket item that
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  Speaker 5: people are concerned about is the cost of living.
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  Speaker 3: And energy is so integral to that.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about the coalition losing support, but Labor too,
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  Speaker 2: they had 37% of the primary vote at the last
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  Speaker 2: state election. If that's dropped to 29, that means that's
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  Speaker 2: gone to One Nation. The figures show that One Nation
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  Speaker 2: is getting votes not just from the right side of politics,
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  Speaker 2: but from Labor as well.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I think initially the support for One Nation was
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  Speaker 5: coming from disaffected Liberal voters, but increasingly showing that it's
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  Speaker 5: disaffected Labor voters too. And for the most part, it's
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  Speaker 5: people who are just sick of ideology being put ahead
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  Speaker 5: of common sense. So it's a cohort of people who
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  Speaker 5: just want to see that, you know, the standard issues
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  Speaker 5: of cost of living managed, energy security, affordability of housing, immigration, they're,
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  Speaker 5: you know, four or five big ticket items that are
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  Speaker 5: consistent across the board.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Colleen, what's your response to the outrage we've seen
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  Speaker 2: from Labor MPs, from Coalition MPs over what Pauline Hanson
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  Speaker 2: said about Australia's Indigenous history?
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  Speaker 3: She has offered a qualified.
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  Speaker 2: Apology of sorts, saying she regrets if people are offended
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  Speaker 2: by what she has said. Should she be offering a
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  Speaker 2: more fulsome apology?
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  Speaker 5: Look, I haven't heard whatever the qualified apology is, so
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  Speaker 5: I'm speaking prior to that happening.
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  Speaker 6: Prior to hearing that.
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  Speaker 5: But, look, I mean, Australia was a different place before 1788.
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  Speaker 5: It's just a factual reality that Aboriginals in Australia before
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  Speaker 5: the British came were living a very different life to
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  Speaker 5: parts of the rest of the world. That's not a
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  Speaker 5: commentary of being antagonistic or saying anything detrimental. It's just
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  Speaker 5: an observation of fact. And I don't think we need
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  Speaker 5: to sort of, you know... It is what it is
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  Speaker 5: and we ought to be able to celebrate the fact
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  Speaker 5: that that's how Aboriginal life was at the time and
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  Speaker 5: that's how British life was at the time in other
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  Speaker 5: parts of the world and not get all heated up
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  Speaker 5: over the fact that we're just recognising what was a
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  Speaker 5: fact of history.
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  Speaker 2: Now we showed yesterday Jackie Lambie's rant about Pauline Hanson
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  Speaker 2: on News 24. Well she has read out some of
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  Speaker 2: the Mean messages she has received since then.
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  Speaker 7: These are some of the nasties coming through to my office.
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  Speaker 7: From Leanne, something is wrong with this girl's mental capacity.
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  Speaker 7: From Tony, I don't know what's worse, her voice or
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  Speaker 7: her face. From Troy, sometimes it's better to shut your
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  Speaker 7: bitch ass up. From Dave, you're past it, old glove.
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  Speaker 7: A quick Botox session and get out to pasture. And
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  Speaker 7: from Joseph, we don't need people like you telling us
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  Speaker 7: what to do and most of you politicians are corrupt.
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  Speaker 2: Colleen, is she serious? She wants to ban... hurty words
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  Speaker 2: from the internet. Some of what she read out there
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  Speaker 2: is less harsh than what she said on this station
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  Speaker 2: about Pauline Hanson and about Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, she's difficult to listen to sometimes. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: actually the hypocrisy of this is that she's reading out
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  Speaker 5: things that she finds offensive that have been said about her,
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  Speaker 5: but it was only a few days ago she was
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  Speaker 5: calling someone else a maggot.
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  Speaker 6: You know, like.
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  Speaker 3: And she also put Elon Musk in prison. She has
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  Speaker 3: said that previously.
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  Speaker 2: And what she said about Pauline Hanson, I mean, my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: that was as bad as anything you just heard there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I mean, I don't think politicians should be
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  Speaker 5: continually just because they're a politician. I do think, I
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  Speaker 5: do respect the role... It doesn't really give people the
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  Speaker 5: right to just, you know, abuse them, you know, at will.
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  Speaker 5: But there is that scenario where, you know, take a knock,
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  Speaker 5: it's OK, ignore, ignore it, move on.
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  Speaker 3: What happened to sticks and stones?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And, frankly, I've received... Far worse.
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  Speaker 2: Than that, you probably have as well, being a woman
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  Speaker 2: on the right. We cop it like nobody else and
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  Speaker 2: the sisterhood is missing. They never come running. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have the East Safety Commissioner striking down tweets about us
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  Speaker 2: that are absolutely false and disgusting. Now, the Albus and
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  Speaker 2: Easy government has appointed former Liberal.
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  Speaker 3: Leader Susan Lee to the board of Snowy Hydro. Energy
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  Speaker 3: Minister Chris Bowen announced the appointment and.
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  Speaker 2: Said she brought extensive experience in environmental regulation, regional Australia
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  Speaker 2: and major infrastructure projects. Colleen, the appointment comes less than
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  Speaker 2: 12 months after we had Susan Lee... making the coalition
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  Speaker 2: walk away from net zero. Now, personally, she may have
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  Speaker 2: not liked that decision, but she was leader when the
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  Speaker 2: coalition walked away from net zero.
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  Speaker 3: So this appointment seems a little bit odd.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and also, when did sort of losing your role
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  Speaker 5: in politics become the actual qualification for getting all these
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  Speaker 5: cosy board seats?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: It sort of seems to be a situation where, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the political class.
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  Speaker 6: Continue to look after each other.
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  Speaker 5: You know, she's always sort of been on the sort
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  Speaker 5: of the moderate side of the Liberal Party. So in
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  Speaker 5: that respect, perhaps the role is a bit suitable to her.
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  Speaker 5: But I think the average punter is out there looking
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  Speaker 5: at this and going, if they just lost their job,
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  Speaker 5: they're not in a position to go and get another cosy,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 6: Like that.
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  Speaker 5: Is she really the best qualified person for the role even?
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  Speaker 2: Colleen, I've heard the argument that a union party exists
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  Speaker 2: in Australia, and this is further evidence of that. It
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  Speaker 2: seems if you're in it, smaller Liberal, you've got some
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  Speaker 2: cosy appointments coming to you after politics.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it does seem to be the case.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Matt Keane is another example of a person
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  Speaker 5: who ended up with a nice cosy appointment after he
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  Speaker 5: left politics. And I think that it doesn't pass the
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  Speaker 5: pub test for most people. It's like, are you really
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  Speaker 5: the best person for that job or is it, you know,
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  Speaker 5: mates looking after each other? And I think that the
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  Speaker 5: average person on the street is a bit sick of
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  Speaker 5: this idea of... You know, the political class looking after
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  Speaker 5: the political class.
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  Speaker 2: That's precisely what it is. Colleen Harkin, thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much for your time. Now, AFL legend Lee Matthews has
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  Speaker 2: made his feelings clear about the conduct of the AFL,
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  Speaker 2: the Hawthorne Football Club and, most importantly, the AFL media
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  Speaker 2: in the aftermath of the so-called Hawthorne racism report, where
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  Speaker 2: three men were accused of monstrous racist behaviour by a
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  Speaker 2: number of anonymous former Indigenous players. The three men named
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  Speaker 2: and shamed were Jason Burt, current Brisbane coach Chris Fagan
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  Speaker 2: and former Hawthorne and North Melbourne coach Alistair Clarkson. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Matthews said on 3AW that Alistair Clarkson should launch legal action.
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  Speaker 8: If Alistair Clarkson, there'd be a fair argument, he might
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  Speaker 8: coach for another 10 years and another million dollars each
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  Speaker 8: year if this Hawthorne saga did not eventuate.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me now for more on this is host of
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  Speaker 2: the Integrity Unit and senior reporter with the Herald Sun.
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  Speaker 3: Seb Costello.
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  Speaker 2: Seb, before I get your response, let me play this
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  Speaker 2: for you from The Age's Caroline Wilson.
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  Speaker 9: So I always wondered why Alistair Clarkson didn't sue Russell
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  Speaker 9: Jackson and the ABC, why he didn't sue the ABC.
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  Speaker 2: Curious, but this is what she said when it mattered
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  Speaker 2: back when the racism report was leaked, when Alistair Clarkson
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  Speaker 2: released a statement pleading his innocence.
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  Speaker 3: She said it was ill-advised and combative.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to look at the Alistair Clarkson statement later,
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  Speaker 7: a very competitive and I would have thought ill-advised statement personally.
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  Speaker 2: Seb, I wrote about this saga back when it started
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  Speaker 2: in 2022, September 2022, and it was always clear that
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  Speaker 2: this racism report was deeply flawed, full of logical fallacies
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  Speaker 2: and And yet the media in this city and really
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  Speaker 2: across the country, the sports media in particular, were ready
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  Speaker 2: to destroy these men, all three of them. There was
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  Speaker 2: talk that Alistair Clarkson and Chris Fagan would never coach again.
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  Speaker 10: It was totally out of control and people were accepting
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  Speaker 10: it all as completely tested fact right from the beginning.
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  Speaker 11: And when you look at the way.
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  Speaker 10: This report was actually put together, serious questions about it.
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  Speaker 10: Interviews weren't recorded. Some people were spoken to where notes
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  Speaker 10: weren't even taken. And when you read the document, here's
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  Speaker 10: what I think happened. People were trying to exploit the
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  Speaker 10: cultural moment of the time post Black Lives Matter. Collingwood
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  Speaker 10: had had their Do Better report. And this particular document
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  Speaker 10: is dripping with with words that you associate with some
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  Speaker 10: of those cultural movements. It talks about financial compensation for
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  Speaker 10: Indigenous players but does so using the word reparations in
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  Speaker 10: a document that's about a football club.
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  Speaker 2: It was evident immediately, and as I said, I wrote
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  Speaker 2: about this days after the story broke, that this was
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  Speaker 2: an activist report. It had massive issues with the way
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  Speaker 2: it was put together, some of the outrageous allegations, but
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  Speaker 2: also just the claims that did not pass the logic
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  Speaker 2: test where you think, well, that's not racism. Every player
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  Speaker 2: would have been held to that standard. How is that
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  Speaker 2: an example of a racist culture or racist treatment of
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  Speaker 2: a player? But yet the media in this country.
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  Speaker 3: Just loved it.
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  Speaker 2: It was like it fed every single narrative that they
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  Speaker 2: have been clinging to. And they reported this as if
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  Speaker 2: it was as you said, tested allegations as opposed to
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  Speaker 2: completely untested. And we had this situation where the accused
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  Speaker 2: were named and shamed, but those who were making the
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  Speaker 2: accusations were protected.
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  Speaker 3: Phil Egan, who.
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  Speaker 10: Wrote the report, found that Alison Clarkson, Chris Fagan and
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  Speaker 10: Jason Burt had engaged in human rights abuses. Now, he's
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  Speaker 10: not qualified to make a finding on human rights abuses.
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  Speaker 10: He's a former footballer. And I'll add, this is the
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  Speaker 10: author of the report, he's currently an accused fraud. He himself,
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  Speaker 10: since making this report, has been charged with more than
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  Speaker 10: 70 counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception for allegedly
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  Speaker 10: defrauding an Indigenous organisation.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's move on to the legal battle between former
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  Speaker 2: Carlton president Luke Sayers and his ex-wife.
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  Speaker 3: And that has ended in an apology.
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  Speaker 2: Luke Sayers apologising for suggesting Kate Sayers was responsible for
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  Speaker 2: posting a picture of his flaccid penis on Xbox. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Astin in Rampart News has shared his thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: this saga, writing, This was not just some opportunistic lie
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  Speaker 2: by a lifelong opportunist, though Luke is certainly that. This
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  Speaker 2: was all planned and designed to evade verification. Remember, he
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  Speaker 2: forbade the AFL from confirming any of his claims about
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  Speaker 2: Kate with Kate, or else he warned this broken, erratic
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  Speaker 2: woman might self-harm.
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  Speaker 3: And cause him inconsolable grief. Think about the.
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  Speaker 2: Ice-heartedness of constructing such an elaborate scheme given the subject
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  Speaker 2: matter and how reptilian.
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  Speaker 3: You would have to be.
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  Speaker 11: Wowee.
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  Speaker 3: So the AFL, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think, would be enormously relieved that this is over. Kate
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  Speaker 2: Sayers had an opportunity here to bring some real transparency,
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  Speaker 2: some real accountability to the way the AFL manage matters
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  Speaker 2: like this.
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  Speaker 10: So Luke Sayers has somehow found a way to make
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  Speaker 10: Tiger Woods look like a good husband. You know, we
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  Speaker 10: now have established that Luke Sayers... incorrectly inferred that his
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  Speaker 10: wife had posted a photo of him, blamed her for
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  Speaker 10: this whole scandal, as you say, also tried to make
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  Speaker 10: comments about her mental health and her medical treatment, which
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  Speaker 10: really was none of his business to put in that report,
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  Speaker 10: completely thrown her under the bus, and now he's admitted
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  Speaker 10: that's what he did, and yet the virtue signalers at
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  Speaker 10: AFL House don't have anything to say about about how
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  Speaker 10: this woman was mistreated by her husband.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because let's not forget AFL exonerated Sayers. They said
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  Speaker 2: his account had been hacked. Someone else posted this photo
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  Speaker 2: of his penis on X. That was his claim that
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  Speaker 2: he'd been hacked. And then we find out his official
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  Speaker 2: explanation to the AFL was that it was his wife
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  Speaker 2: who had hacked his account. And yet they didn't even
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  Speaker 2: give her the respect of checking any of this with her,
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  Speaker 2: which I find incredible. And If this went to court,
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  Speaker 2: I think we would get a real clear picture of
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  Speaker 2: how the AFL manage and they're so obsessed with their
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  Speaker 2: brand management. And I think they will go to any
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  Speaker 2: lengths to protect that brand.
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  Speaker 10: As my colleague Mick Warner, who also broke the story
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  Speaker 10: about the Hawthorne racism report, said, the AFL and its
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  Speaker 10: integrity process is have had their pants pulled down by
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  Speaker 10: this particular situation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, that is an interesting analogy. Now, it's been
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  Speaker 2: interesting seeing some of the reaction from Americans to the
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  Speaker 2: welcome to country we saw before the NFL game at
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  Speaker 2: the MCG. We've had all sorts of people from Fox
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  Speaker 2: News anchors like Laura Ingram tweeting about it and political
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  Speaker 2: commentators like Matt Walsh. He wrote, has any country ever
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  Speaker 2: fallen off harder than Australia? And let's have a listen
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  Speaker 2: to this from Clay Travis, who is a sports commentator.
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  Speaker 6: This is what happens when a country goes so woke
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  Speaker 6: that they can't get back out of their own way.
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  Speaker 2: Seb, he went on to talk about his experiences in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: He loves Australia, but he talked about climbing Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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  Speaker 2: And when you get to the top of the bridge,
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  Speaker 2: you're told that everything you can see before you is stolen.
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  Speaker 2: It was all Stolen sovereignty was never ceded. This is
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  Speaker 2: the sort of message we're sending to tourists who come
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  Speaker 2: here and climb our bridges. The Americans were pretty shocked
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  Speaker 2: by just how normalised this sort of activism has become
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  Speaker 2: before a sporting event.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, and in a way I'm happy that we did
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  Speaker 10: it because the rest of the world looks at how
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  Speaker 10: crazy things have become in Melbourne and they can call
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  Speaker 10: it out. I think sometimes we live in a sort
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  Speaker 10: of activism Stockholm syndrome down here when we think this
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  Speaker 10: stuff is all normal.
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  Speaker 6: It's not.
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 6: And the rest of the world is saying, what are
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  Speaker 6: you doing?
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  Speaker 2: And I think we have come to a position now
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  Speaker 2: where it's controversial not to do it. If you just
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  Speaker 2: want to have a sporting event and hold a sporting event,
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  Speaker 2: you are somehow making a political statement by not going
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  Speaker 2: through all these processes and all this virtue signalling, despite
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  Speaker 2: the fact that that I think if we had a
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  Speaker 2: referendum on welcome to countries and acknowledgement of countries, the
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  Speaker 2: result would be very similar to the voice referendum.
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  Speaker 3: Seb Costello, thank you so much for your time.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks, Rita.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me now is South Australian Liberal Senator Leah Blythe. Leah,
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  Speaker 2: I want to ask you about the Report in the
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  Speaker 2: Herald Sun about a transgender hockey player who previously competed
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  Speaker 2: at an elite level in a men's league but is
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  Speaker 2: now allowed to compete against women, including schoolgirls. The player
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  Speaker 2: is reportedly dominating, has scored 31 goals in 20 games
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  Speaker 2: in Women's Vic League One. This is surely a safety issue, Leah,
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  Speaker 2: as well as a fairness issue.
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  Speaker 3: What could be done to protect women's sport?
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  Speaker 11: I think this is, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 13: It's absurd that you can have a grown man playing
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  Speaker 13: against girls as young as 14, it's been reported. What
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  Speaker 13: can we do to protect it? I think it's been
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  Speaker 13: devastating to see the High Court deny leave to Sal
• 18:27
  Speaker 13: Grover's appeal, which means that the full court of the
• 18:30
  Speaker 13: Federal Court, their ruling stands. The only way now to
• 18:35
  Speaker 13: protect women's rights is for Parliament and the Federal Parliament
• 18:39
  Speaker 13: to change the legislation and reintroduce biological definitions for men
• 18:44
  Speaker 13: and women back into the Sex Discrimination Act. It seems
• 18:49
  Speaker 13: crazy to have to say that we need to actually say,
• 18:51
  Speaker 13: you know, women are women, men are men, and we're
• 18:54
  Speaker 13: going to define that against biological reality.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: The question is going to be asked, though, when the
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Coalition were in charge, why didn't they address this issue?
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: The definition was changed.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Under Julia Gillard's leadership of the Labor Party, there was
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: ample opportunity for the Coalition to address this issue and
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: they neglected to.
• 19:18
  Speaker 13: I think that's a very fair criticism. I obviously wasn't
• 19:22
  Speaker 13: part of the Coalition before coming in, you know, 18
• 19:26
  Speaker 13: months ago. It's something that I'm very passionate about and
• 19:29
  Speaker 13: have advocated for a long time before coming into the Parliament.
• 19:33
  Speaker 13: But not to make excuses, I think it's fair to
• 19:36
  Speaker 13: say that the instances of men now playing in female sports,
• 19:41
  Speaker 13: men who are being housed in women's prisons, men who
• 19:46
  Speaker 13: are you know, going into female apps. I think it's
• 19:49
  Speaker 13: fair to say that Sal Grover really did bring the issue,
• 19:51
  Speaker 13: you know, before then it was all hypothetical. It was, well,
• 19:55
  Speaker 13: you know, blokes aren't going to do that. You don't
• 19:57
  Speaker 13: need to have a biological definition.
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: But we've been proven wrong.
• 20:02
  Speaker 13: And so now the coalition is acting and Michaelia Cash
• 20:06
  Speaker 13: has drafted a a fantastic bill which looks to put
• 20:10
  Speaker 13: back in those biological definitions back into the act so
• 20:13
  Speaker 13: that we can protect women's only spaces, but men's only
• 20:17
  Speaker 13: spaces as well. And we're trying to act. So we're
• 20:22
  Speaker 13: putting this back to the Labor government now. It's on
• 20:24
  Speaker 13: them to fix the mistake that was made in 2013
• 20:27
  Speaker 13: under Julia Gillard. The irony is not lost on me
• 20:31
  Speaker 13: that the first female Prime Minister of Australia is the
• 20:35
  Speaker 13: one who actually stripped away women's and girls' rights in
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: our country.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I remember Anthony Albanese before he was first elected
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: on the front page of the Daily Telegraph saying, I
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: am not woke. And he seemed to know clearly what
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: a woman was. He gave the dictionary definition, an adult female.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: But Labor have backed away from that position and they
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: seem to have bought into the activism of the trans lobby. Now,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: before you go, I want to ask you about a
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: report in the Australian newspaper revealing it will take young
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: people up to eight years longer to save for a
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: home deposit by investing in shares under the government's new
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: capital gains tax rules. This is according to modelling by
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: former New South Wales Parliamentary Budget Office Chief Economist Derek Francie. Leah,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: are you hearing any acknowledgement from your Labor counterparts about, well, maybe.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: We got this policy wrong? Has the regret set in yet?
• 21:38
  Speaker 13: That's a funny joke to see Labor want to change
• 21:41
  Speaker 13: their mind. I mean, this is a government who, you know,
• 21:43
  Speaker 13: this is a Prime Minister who fell off a stage
• 21:45
  Speaker 13: and said, no, I didn't. And there's video footage of it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 13: This is a Prime Minister who said, I won't touch
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: capital gains tax in Australia and said it over 50 times.
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: He said his word was his bond. And then he said, oh, well,
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: you know, we've had a change in position. So no,
• 22:02
  Speaker 13: there has been no hint that Labor are going to
• 22:05
  Speaker 13: concede that they've made a big mistake on this. And unfortunately,
• 22:08
  Speaker 13: it's young Australians who are paying the price for it.
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: You know, since I was.
• 22:13
  Speaker 13: Old enough to buy my first home, housing prices have
• 22:17
  Speaker 13: increased over 400%. And I don't want to say, I
• 22:21
  Speaker 13: don't feel like I'm that old that it should have
• 22:23
  Speaker 13: increased that much. and that this next generation of young Australians,
• 22:28
  Speaker 13: they're just being locked out of the housing market. And
• 22:31
  Speaker 13: this Labor government, it is self-inflicted. It's their policies that
• 22:35
  Speaker 13: are doing this.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Leah Blyth, thank you so much for your time.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Still to come, lefties losing it and the latest from
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: the US and what happened in the Swedish election. Kosher
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Gator is up next. You're watching The Rita Panaghi Show
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: and it's time for.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Lefties Losing It.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Let's start in the deeply dysfunctional city of Chicago where
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the criminals run riot, dozens of people being shot every week.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Of course, it's one of the deepest blue Democrat cities
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: in all of the United States. And its current mayor
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: seems rather comfortable with how terrible this city is faring
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: compared to the rest of the country. Here is Mayor
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Brandon Johnson doing whatever this is. And staying in crime
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: riddled Chicago, watch how this defence attorney celebrates getting her
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: client off serious firearm charges. The Democrats' great white hope
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: in Ohio, the woman they hope will beat Vivek Ramaswamy,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: has posted another cringe fest onto her ex account. Go Bucks.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: My opponent just doesn't get it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Yep, that's Amy Acton.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Now to New York for this left-on-left abuse.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: This dude seems very unhappy.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Watch your right mouth.
• 24:32
  Speaker 14: How about that?
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I'm talking to him, not you.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I know you're talking to him.
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: So reflect your privilege and leave.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: It alone.
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: How dare you?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you?
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: How dare you? How dare you? How dare you? Let's
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: hear from Dr.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Camilla Phillips, injecting race into this sick lunacy. She hopes
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: that black women who murdered their own children also receive sympathy.
• 25:10
  Speaker 15: And the other thing that I would just be remiss
• 25:13
  Speaker 15: to not say is I hope this never happens again.
• 25:18
  Speaker 15: We know statistically it really will.
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: It will.
• 25:22
  Speaker 15: I want us to have the same passion for people
• 25:25
  Speaker 15: who don't look like Lindsay, who don't have her same access.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 15: Who don't have her same access and education, her melanin,
• 25:42
  Speaker 15: her privilege. There are women of color sitting around this
• 25:46
  Speaker 15: country in prisons for the same thing that we've never
• 25:49
  Speaker 15: heard of. And I just want to remind us to
• 25:51
  Speaker 15: have the pink shirts and the energy for them as well.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: You know, frankly, I don't give a stuff if the
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: murderer is black or white or green or blue. They
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: all belong in prison. And of course, let's not forget
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the lone holdout juror is black. Joining me now is
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: News 24 contributor Kosha Gader.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Kosha, let's start in New York.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: And Mayor Zoran Mamdani has blasted the Trump administration for
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: what he claims is a campaign of violence and terror.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: against immigrant communities, which he has described as the backbone
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: of the city.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: And like I said once before, to get to any
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: of us, you will have to get through all of us.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: That is why today we are confronting this injustice with
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the solidarity and action that it demands. New York City
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: is leading a coalition of cities and counties, including Chicago
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, Seattle, Santa Clara County, and King County to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: sue the federal government for the gross illegality of their
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: new public charge rule and the irreparable damage that it
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: will cause.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Kosha, tell me more about this legal action. What are
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: these Democrats trying to achieve here?
• 27:04
  Speaker 16: So they are saying that there's a statute called the
• 27:07
  Speaker 16: public charge statute that Congress drafts and then the executive branch,
• 27:11
  Speaker 16: the president, has to implement the laws as Congress passes them,
• 27:14
  Speaker 16: which says that if you're applying for a green card,
• 27:17
  Speaker 16: permanent residency or other visas, you cannot be a public charge.
• 27:20
  Speaker 16: You cannot be somebody who immediately comes and falls on
• 27:23
  Speaker 16: the public dime effectively. And what they're doing is trying
• 27:26
  Speaker 16: to nitpick what that means and saying that the Trump
• 27:30
  Speaker 16: administration's interpretation of that law is too broad and it
• 27:34
  Speaker 16: should be narrower because hence you're being violent and terroristic
• 27:37
  Speaker 16: against welfare recipients.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Those words are very interesting to choose just days after
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the 25th anniversary of 9-11 in New York. And What
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: we're talking about, I would have thought, would be widely
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: supported by Americans that you can't have immigrants arriving and
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: immediately getting on welfare. I mean, surely that's not something
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: that is of benefit to the country.
• 28:01
  Speaker 16: The logic I think everybody supports, there's often this stat
• 28:04
  Speaker 16: cited that when immigration started back.
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: After World War II, there was no welfare.
• 28:09
  Speaker 16: And so 30% of immigrants from Europe went back home
• 28:12
  Speaker 16: because they couldn't make it without welfare in the new land.
• 28:15
  Speaker 16: But over time, that has crept. All these countries have
• 28:18
  Speaker 16: become bigger and bigger welfare states, whether we like it
• 28:21
  Speaker 16: or not. And that has just led to this complete
• 28:23
  Speaker 16: perverse incentive that people just come, immediately fall on the system.
• 28:26
  Speaker 16: So everybody does support that. However, the statute reigns the
• 28:31
  Speaker 16: power of the presidency in. I think what this will
• 28:33
  Speaker 16: do is wind its way through the courts. And so
• 28:36
  Speaker 16: long as the Trump administration plays within the framework of
• 28:39
  Speaker 16: the courts, they're just buying time. And even if ultimately
• 28:42
  Speaker 16: it gets slapped down by the Supreme Court, months and
• 28:44
  Speaker 16: months will get lost.
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: In the process.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I think the Trump administration is also a victim of
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: its own success in closing that southern border. Because remember,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: during the Biden years, where we had the hotels that
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: were full of illegal immigrants, the strain on resources, back
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: then Mayor Eric Adams saying this city cannot absorb any
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: more migrants who are coming here and requiring and welfare
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: and And that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Seems to have dissipated.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: So now they can grandstand on this issue without having
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: the issues that they had under the Biden years where
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: really even those blue cities, once they started chipping out...
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the immigrants all across the country, they were feeling it
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 29:30
  Speaker 16: Each rung in the ladder just gets harder and harder.
• 29:32
  Speaker 16: So the lowest rung in the ladder is seal the border.
• 29:35
  Speaker 16: And he did that within 30 days. And that stopped
• 29:37
  Speaker 16: that issue. And then now you're trying to chip away at, well,
• 29:39
  Speaker 16: we don't want welfare recipients or the spigot of even
• 29:43
  Speaker 16: legal immigration, all of that to flood the country. And
• 29:45
  Speaker 16: it just keeps getting fought every step of the way
• 29:48
  Speaker 16: from these sanctuary cities. And unfortunately, that is the battle
• 29:50
  Speaker 16: of our day.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Now, staying in New York, there was a big attempt
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: to inject race into this year's US Open, including.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: By some of the players. Here is Taylor Townsend.
• 30:03
  Speaker 16: I also just take a lot of pride in this,
• 30:05
  Speaker 16: being a black woman here.
• 30:07
  Speaker 17: It's two black women here in this finals.
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: They're two black men in the semifinals.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: And.
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: This is a phenomenal.
• 30:14
  Speaker 16: Time for tennis, for inspiration, for representation.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Kosha, I'm old enough to remember Venus and Serena Williams
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: dominating the women's side of the.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Competition for years. What is she on about?
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Acting like they've just broken some glass ceiling.
• 30:34
  Speaker 16: It will never be enough for them. Venus and Serena,
• 30:38
  Speaker 16: of course. the country elected President Obama. It's still not
• 30:41
  Speaker 16: enough no matter what you do. That is their framework.
• 30:45
  Speaker 16: You will forever and ever be a racist or racially
• 30:49
  Speaker 16: unjust country and anytime anybody wins any category, that.
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: Has to be what they talk about. And it's just
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: so boring. It's so boring.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Any other race did that, particularly anyone who happens to
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: be white, if they highlighted their whiteness? We've got obviously
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: black athletes dominating professional sports like basketball, football. Could you
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: imagine a WNBA player or an NBA player standing up
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and saying, you know, this is a big win for
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: the white race, look at me here, like dominating when...
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: we are such a small percentage of those who make
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: it to these elite ranks.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: And it would be outrageous, but it seems to be okay.
• 31:31
  Speaker 11: Absolutely.
• 31:32
  Speaker 16: That's why in the trans thing, we saw those two
• 31:35
  Speaker 16: former basketball stars identify as women to troll them. So
• 31:39
  Speaker 16: that was funny. That's like one example where they're showing
• 31:41
  Speaker 16: you how absurd it is. But yeah, if you're still
• 31:43
  Speaker 16: in the game, we know that it's anathema for a
• 31:46
  Speaker 16: white male to even go anywhere near that.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: But we've got to pay credit to Ben Shelton.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: He wasn't interested in turning his participation into a race issue.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: 2003, since the last time an American man won this title,
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: but it's been since 1972 that a black man has
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: played in the final of the US Open, and it
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: was Arthur Ashe. On Sunday, you will step foot on
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Arthur Ashe Stadium looking... to take your very first Grand
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Slam title. When you hear that, what goes through your
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: mind as you prepare for Sunday?
• 32:20
  Speaker 17: Yeah, it's a lot of emotion. My dad and my
• 32:23
  Speaker 17: mom have sacrificed a lot for me to be in
• 32:25
  Speaker 17: this position today. My dad lost his mom earlier this year,
• 32:30
  Speaker 17: and she's the reason that he was able to play tennis.
• 32:33
  Speaker 17: Without her, you know, there's no Ben Shelton standing here today.
• 32:36
  Speaker 18: So, this one is for her. This one is for her.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I thought that was really sweet because he's got his
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: mixed race parents there. He paid tribute to his family
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: and really just steered clear of that entire celebration of
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: race or background becoming obsessed with identity politics.
• 33:04
  Speaker 16: That's how it's done. He didn't take the bait. He,
• 33:07
  Speaker 16: as you said, talked about his family. He thanked the country.
• 33:10
  Speaker 16: He said, I'm doing this for America and asked for support.
• 33:14
  Speaker 16: He remembered 9-11 and talked about how it's the greatest
• 33:16
  Speaker 16: city on earth and he wants New Yorkers to turn out.
• 33:19
  Speaker 16: He said all the things that you should say, focus
• 33:22
  Speaker 16: on your game, stay in your lane.
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: Thank God. Thank the country. Thank your family. That's all
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: you have to do.
• 33:27
  Speaker 16: And if only every athlete followed in those footsteps, they
• 33:31
  Speaker 16: would be a lot more popular.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Now let's go to Europe.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: We've got French authorities actively helping migrants board boats crossing
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: the English Channel bound for the UK. The Australian newspaper's
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Jacqueline Magnet was in France and watched as illegal migrants
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: were were brought to the dinghies, but not only that,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: the dangerously overloaded dinghies were followed by French vessels until
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: they reached international waters. Kosher, at this point, the illegal
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: migrants were handed over to the British, taken on board
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: a boat and sped to an English port for processing.
• 34:10
  Speaker 16: It really is outrageous, just like the Mamdani topic, that
• 34:13
  Speaker 16: these people will die unless they're allowed to have green
• 34:15
  Speaker 16: cards to get on American welfare. The argument here that
• 34:18
  Speaker 16: they're making is these people will die in the channel
• 34:21
  Speaker 16: unless we allow them to get onto the shore and
• 34:24
  Speaker 16: then they're your problem.
• 34:25
  Speaker 11: But it's absurd. Both these stories are absurd. Everybody knows that.
• 34:29
  Speaker 16: The way the UK government is handling it, I think
• 34:31
  Speaker 16: they signed a three-year deal with the French a few
• 34:34
  Speaker 16: months ago. paying them basically to as an incentive, a
• 34:38
  Speaker 16: performance incentive to stop this and give safe harbor to
• 34:43
  Speaker 16: migrants that are coming to their country so that they
• 34:44
  Speaker 16: don't cross over into the UK. But that's not working.
• 34:47
  Speaker 16: And that's more of a carrot approach. Maybe they should
• 34:50
  Speaker 16: take more of a stick approach, which is what Trump
• 34:52
  Speaker 16: did when he tried to do the remain in Mexico
• 34:54
  Speaker 16: policy in its first term and other such things, saying
• 34:57
  Speaker 16: that it will tariff you, will put all sorts of
• 35:00
  Speaker 16: negative incentives on you if you allow people to pass
• 35:03
  Speaker 16: through Mexico to come into the US. Maybe something a
• 35:05
  Speaker 16: little bit stronger like that is in order, but I
• 35:07
  Speaker 16: don't think the current sitting government in the UK has
• 35:09
  Speaker 16: the spine to do that.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: They don't have the spine because ideologically they don't believe
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: in those policies. They may pretend to because they know
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: the electorate is very much in favour of those policies,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: but Their own ideological position is very clear.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: And there's a reason why they're weak. We've seen it
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: right here in Australia.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: We were told the boats can't stop until they were
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: stopped and same with the US with that southern border,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: which you would think would be even more difficult given
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: it's you can just walk across and millions did during
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: the Biden years and they shut it down almost immediately
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: once Trump took charge. Now let's stay in Europe and
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: go to Sweden. And despite the centre-right government there achieving
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: major geopolitical and domestic wins, including a reduction in crime,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: they have lost support in the weekend election. It's still
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: too close to call it, but it appears the centre-right
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: coalition led by Prime Minister Ulf Christensen with the support
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: of the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats, they may have lost
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: their majority. Kosha, the Social Democrats are emerging as the
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: largest party and could now secure a narrow majority if
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: they can form a centre-left coalition.
• 36:25
  Speaker 16: This is interesting because it's a little bit counter-cultural to
• 36:27
  Speaker 16: what we saw in Germany just the other week, France
• 36:30
  Speaker 16: and all across Europe, really. But maybe this is the Swedes,
• 36:33
  Speaker 16: that there's only so much of the right that they
• 36:36
  Speaker 16: can handle before they return back to sort of the centre-left.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of that, I think you're right, because
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: traditionally there have been voted a certain way. But I
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: also think it's a demographic change. The demographic changes in
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Sweden are dramatic. And those new block of voters tend
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: to vote a certain way.
• 36:54
  Speaker 11: That's a good point.
• 36:55
  Speaker 16: That's where this really is a ticking time bomb, really,
• 36:59
  Speaker 16: to be dramatic on purpose about it. And they say
• 37:01
  Speaker 16: demographics is destiny.
• 37:03
  Speaker 11: That's true.
• 37:03
  Speaker 16: If you import too many of them by a certain
• 37:06
  Speaker 16: point in time, you sort of lose the ball. And
• 37:08
  Speaker 16: then the entire demographic and electorate looks different. So that's
• 37:11
  Speaker 16: certainly part of it as well. Also, they are a
• 37:13
  Speaker 16: little bit the victims of their own success, because when
• 37:14
  Speaker 16: this right wing party came in, crime has improved in Sweden,
• 37:19
  Speaker 16: cost of living, all those things have had a little
• 37:20
  Speaker 16: bit of a dent. And so maybe the electorate, even
• 37:23
  Speaker 16: though it's changed, says, okay, you've solved that problem a
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  Speaker 16: little bit and we want to go back to the
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  Speaker 16: cushy platform of the left-leaning party and all their social
• 37:31
  Speaker 16: programs that they love over there as well. So I
• 37:33
  Speaker 16: think it's a medley of all of those things, but
• 37:35
  Speaker 16: it's a reminder that even when the right is making
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  Speaker 16: gains across Europe and across the world, it's one election
• 37:40
  Speaker 16: away from coming back Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And like you said, demographics is destiny. If you have
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: a new voters coming in in great numbers, they're going
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: to impact elections. And I think some would say there's
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: a reason why the left favours open borders, because it
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: knows it's importing more voters and voters who stick. They're
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: not going to be as easily changed. Kosha Gader, thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much for your time.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Still to come, Sydney Sweeney strips nude for a gambling
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  Speaker 2: ad and causes an online meltdown from female athletes.
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  Speaker 3: Didi Dalivi is next. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Sydney Sweeney has caused a stir again, this time
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  Speaker 2: for getting naked for an ad for a sports gambling site.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have a little look at the ad first.
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  Speaker 2: That has inspired so many women to have meltdowns online.
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  Speaker 3: These women are filled.
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  Speaker 2: With rage and have posted reels of themselves condemning Sweeney.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have a look at the ad.
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  Speaker 12: Think you know sports?
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  Speaker 6: Prove it.
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  Speaker 12: Novick is just sports. So they wanted to show just sports.
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  Speaker 12: You can trade this for it. and the sport.
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  Speaker 14: How about this.
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  Speaker 2: This sport too yes the ad has sparked a flurry
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  Speaker 2: of angry reactions from women disappointed reactions too it must
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: be said including from many female athletes let's have a
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  Speaker 2: look at just a few of them.
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  Speaker 10: You know sydney sweeney it's it's not that you did
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  Speaker 10: the ad that perpetuated the sexualization of women.
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  Speaker 12: In sports sydney sweeney is absolutely disgusting and such a hypocrite.
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  Speaker 2: Thinking of sports?
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  Speaker 17: Thinking of sports?
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  Speaker 11: Go for it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I have three points to make about this controversy. Firstly,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I'd take the Sydney Sweeney-inspired meltdown from these ladies a
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: little bit more seriously if they had supported the likes
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: of Sophie Cunningham, Riley Gaines and many others who took
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: a stand for women's sport and have copped enormous abuse
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: for it. If you said nothing, or worse than that,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: you joined the pile-on, then take a seat. Your opinion
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: is irrelevant.
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  Speaker 3: Secondly.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: If you post videos of yourself working out in essentially underwear,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: like a few of the videos we've seen, then it's
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: a little bit rich to blame Sydney Sweeney for objectifying women.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: And thirdly, I've got to admit, I don't like the ad.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: It's cheap and tacky. I don't like the normalisation of
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: porn culture. But I also know I'm not the target market.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: It's a gambling ad, not a promotion of women's sport.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me now is broadcaster and News24 contributor Didi Dunleavy. Didi,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I've got to say I've been waiting to hear your
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: take on this.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea where you're going to go with it.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: That's the beauty of you. You could be anywhere on
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: the spectrum of opinions.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I think it's not the moral catastrophe that we're
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: being led to believe that it is.
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  Speaker 6: I agree with you in part. Look, it's provocative. It's
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: a little bit tacky.
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  Speaker 11: But these are.
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: The women, most of the women complaining are the same
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: ones who've been telling us over and over again about
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: female empowerment, my body, my choice, I can do what
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: I want with my body, but not if it's Sydney Sweeney.
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: As soon as she gets a gear off, it's a problem.
• 41:52
  Speaker 9: She's a marketing genius. That ad in its various forms
• 41:56
  Speaker 9: on different platforms has had over 50 million views and
• 41:59
  Speaker 9: that will increase.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I've already forgotten the name of whatever the betting
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: agency is.
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  Speaker 2: I made a point not to mention it because, well,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: they're not advertising on this station so they can get stuffed.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: But it's been presented as if this ad was supposed
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: to be a celebration of women's sport. And they've somehow
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: missed the mark when really it has nothing to do
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: with women's sport unless the blokes who sign up to
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: that company want to bet on women's sport.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Otherwise, it's a gambling product.
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: But Sydney Sweeney is an investor in that betting agency.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: So they should be celebrating her initiative here.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: Yes, they could.
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: And you don't have to choose between being sexy and successful.
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: And we don't have to choose between looking at successful
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: female athletes and a successful actress who happens to be gorgeous.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Now, let's be honest, yeah, if that same ad was
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: filmed with a model who was all about body positivity,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: if they were a little bit overweight, a little bit unattractive,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: if they were trans, for example, everyone would be saying
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: how stunning and brave it is.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: It is because it's Sydney Sweeney in particular.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: She does seem to trigger... The sisterhood, why do you
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: think that is?
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: We saw that with the American Eagle ad, but really
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: the reaction to that was so ridiculous.
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: I think because at that time they had pigeonholed her
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: as a conservative and although she never confirmed that, she
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: also never denied it as well. And so I think
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: that the activist class are out to get her whatever
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: she does.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: I really think a big part of the reaction here
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: is the suspicion they have that she is conservative, that
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: she is MAGA. I actually suspect she's not at all.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: But I think she's also smart enough not to come
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: out and take sides. She's actually apolitical. She's not left
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: or right thus far.
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, it remains to be seen if she's bullied
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: into taking a political position at some point.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: Possibly, yeah.
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: But also she responded by posting images of athletes who've
• 43:58
  Speaker 9: posed naked or near naked, which it's okay, but I
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: think I would have rather heard just a response, to
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: have a response something like, who cares?
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I would have just ignored it because you can make
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: the argument that those athletes were posing naked to show
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: off their athletic bodies. They weren't just offering titillation. They
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: had these magnificent bodies that have achieved great things. So
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: it's a very different... thing to be stripping off under
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: those circumstances.
• 44:27
  Speaker 14: Possibly you think nudity is nudity well she's not the
• 44:31
  Speaker 14: greatest actress in the world she has become a great
• 44:33
  Speaker 14: success because of her stunning looks and her incredible body
• 44:36
  Speaker 14: so she's showing that off it's a different job same ones.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Who tell us you know sex work is real work
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: and you can't be judgmental of only fans girls and
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: my body, my choice. They're the ones who are upset
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: by this. So there's a lot of contradictions. Now let's
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: talk about Prince Harry and Meghan. They've removed their children
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: from their new school in the UK just two days
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: into the term over security concerns. The Duke and Duchess
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: of Sussex moved. Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to a
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: new school after heavy traffic was straining their small security team.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Dee Dee, the family reportedly lives far from.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: The school, making the commute impractical and challenging for their
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: security vehicles to remain in a convoy.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: I But surely this could be foreseen.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Why would you put them in a school far away
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: from where you've chosen to reside?
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: It's a lot like these two are trying to manufacture
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: problems for themselves.
• 45:42
  Speaker 9: It's an absolute miracle, Rita, that every parent in Australia
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: has managed to get their children to and from school
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: generally using one vehicle.
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: Why can't Harry and Meghan do that?
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: And I'm still puzzled as to what this perceived threat is.
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: If there is a threat.
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: Of some sort against a member of the royal family,
• 46:03
  Speaker 9: wouldn't it be William or Kate or George or somebody
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: higher up the line of succession than Harry or Meghan?
• 46:09
  Speaker 9: Harry and his bizarre claim in an interview that someone
• 46:12
  Speaker 9: wanted to throw acid in Meghan's face. I mean, it's
• 46:16
  Speaker 9: just mad. I don't know who they think the threat
• 46:18
  Speaker 9: is from. They don't need an entourage. They should have
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: known what this traffic in the Cotswolds was like. They
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: lived there when they were newlyweds and everyone knows there's
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: tiny little roads in And they've made this mess themselves,
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: she in particular, by posting an Instagram post, which people
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: were able to piece it together very easily to work
• 46:37
  Speaker 9: out exactly where they were.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Well, these days it's very simple, isn't it, through all
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: the technology that's available if someone posts a photo to
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: determine precisely where it is. Just a lot of conflicting
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: messages from these two. And let's not forget, they have
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: returned to a nation they said they had to flee
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: for their peace of mind, for not just their safety,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: but for their mental health.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: And now they're back there.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Now, Macklemore, singer, rapper Macklemore, has been dropped as the
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: opening act on.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: Ed Sheeran's US Stadium Tour. It follows.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: His Free Palestine speeches at some of the recent shows,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: McLemore issued a statement saying Ed was in an.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Effed up position. He knew it.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: it never had been before.
• 47:25
  Speaker 11: Did he?
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: We predicted this.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: He's not just an activist saying pro-Palestine statements. He's not
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: just saying Free Palestine. He's dressed up in what has
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: been called Jew face. in the past, which has been
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: enormously upsetting to many people.
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, he has.
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: And I think we have to be very careful not
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: to allow him to be painted as a victim in
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: this situation. So he's lost these shows on Ed Sheeran's ticket,
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: and I think rightly so. But he hasn't been arrested.
• 47:57
  Speaker 9: The government hasn't done anything to him. He's still entitled
• 47:59
  Speaker 9: to say all of the things that he's been saying,
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: but he can't do it on somebody else's stage.
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: Particularly where these.
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: Venue owners have said, we're not going to give you
• 48:08
  Speaker 9: our microphone in order to spread your message.
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: So he can still do what he does.
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: He can still make all the music that he wants
• 48:14
  Speaker 9: to make, but he can't do it using somebody else's facilities.
• 48:18
  Speaker 9: And I think this comes back to the fact that
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: I'm sure it was hurting them on the bottom line.
• 48:22
  Speaker 9: People were not going to buy tickets to go and
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: see Ed Sheeran, knowing that, you know, if they've had
• 48:27
  Speaker 9: children with them, children go to Ed Sheeran concerts, that
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: they would have to listen to Macklemore's hate music.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it wasn't just about pro-Palestine, anti-Israel. It was
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: all sorts of comments calling ICE agents terrorists and.
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: All sorts of other comments.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: And he wouldn't be playing in those stadiums, those mega venues,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: if it wasn't for Ed Sheeran. He's not going to
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: be selling out those stadiums. And I'm sure if he
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: had the star power to sell out those stadiums, He
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: would be there and he would be able to say
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: whatever he wants to say on his own stage. But
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: trying to take someone else's stage to make those statements
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: was a little bit unfair.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Diddy Dunleavy, thank you for your time.
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Rita.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: And that's all the time we have. Don't go anywhere.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Late Edition is up next.