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Steve Price | 10 July · Steve Price

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Speaker 1: Live.
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Speaker 2: This is Steve Price.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the program. I'm James Morrow,
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Speaker 3: filling in tonight for Steve Price, who will be back
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Speaker 3: next week. Don't you worry? Well, big show tonight. Here's
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Speaker 3: what's coming up. A rural revolt is growing. Farmers are
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Speaker 3: digging in against the new South Wales government over a
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Speaker 3: major renewable energy project they say is going to destroy
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Speaker 3: prime farmland, send power bill soaring and become a twenty
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Speaker 3: billion dollar white elephant. Have that up soon. Plus just
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Speaker 3: sin to Alan is under fresh pressure tonight after being
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Speaker 3: referred to Victoria's anti corruption watchdog over explosive big build allegations.
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Speaker 3: We'll have the latest on all that from Melbourne. Plus
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Speaker 3: Angus Taylor, Well he's taken aim at one Nation, but
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Speaker 3: Pauline Hansen says, why is the opposition leader targeting her
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Speaker 3: instead of fighting a bad labor guy in Canbra And
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Speaker 3: of course we'll be talking about the death of Darren Hinch,
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Speaker 3: the human headline back of the News for the last time.
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Speaker 3: We're going to pay tribute to him tonight with our
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Speaker 3: Friday Night panel. But before we get to all of that,
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Speaker 3: I wanted to have a little chat with you about
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Speaker 3: what happened in Melbourne last night and what it says
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Speaker 3: about the ongoing debate about multiculturalism. You see, there was
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Speaker 3: a major political rally held last night at Melbourne's Marvel Stadium,
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Speaker 3: and not just any sort of rally, but a rally
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Speaker 3: for Indian Prime Minister Noreenzra Modi, who was hosted by
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Speaker 3: our own Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi. The crowd numbered in
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Speaker 3: the tens of thousands, and according to one report, tickets
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Speaker 3: to the event sold out quote faster than a Taylor
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Speaker 3: Swift concert. Albanizi was almost sickophantic in his welcome, saying
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Speaker 3: that Modi was quote a dear friend unquote of his,
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Speaker 3: though he didn't quite go so far as giving him
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Speaker 3: the full highly Minogue treatment, thank gosh. But anyway, the
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Speaker 3: two post for selfies and Mody was just as effusive
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Speaker 3: in return, even doing a welcome to country.
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Speaker 2: I would like to begin.
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Speaker 4: By acknowledging the traditional owners of the line on which
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Speaker 4: we met and I pay my respecse who their elders,
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Speaker 4: both region and emer ding.
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Speaker 3: And they were joined by Victorian Premier Jacinta Alan, who
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Speaker 3: is deeply on the nose and hoping, of course, to
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Speaker 3: win over the large Indian community in her state. Allan
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Speaker 3: was also effusive, bragging that Victoria had a larger Indian
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Speaker 3: population than anywhere in the country. Now, before I go
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Speaker 3: any further, I want to make sure that we're all
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Speaker 3: very clear here. I don't want to be us misunderstood.
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Speaker 3: Austraians of Indian heritage are great contributors to our community.
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Speaker 3: They are hard working and enterprising. They put a massive
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Speaker 3: value on education, their kids do phenomenally well in school,
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Speaker 3: and they are happily seriously underrepresented in crime statistics. But
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Speaker 3: that said, does anybody else find it a little weird
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Speaker 3: that our Australian Prime minister hosted a political rally for
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Speaker 3: a foreign leader on Australian soil, particularly someone like Modi,
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Speaker 3: who is frankly often criticized for his brand of Hindu nationalism.
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Speaker 3: I thought we might do a little thought experiment here.
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Speaker 3: Think about this. Imagine if Nigel Farage, a great, if
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Speaker 3: controversial exponent of British nationalism. Well, imagine if he becomes
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Speaker 3: Prime Minister of the UK at their next general election.
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Speaker 3: Then think about this, Well, there is a huge British
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Speaker 3: population here in Australia, too. But does anyone imagine that
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Speaker 3: whomever the Prime Minister of the day is could be
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Speaker 3: helping Easy Taylor Pauline Hansen. Do you think that they
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Speaker 3: would get away with holding a rally for them or
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Speaker 3: Australian soil. I'm not so sure. And the reason why
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Speaker 3: I am not, and the reason why I think there
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Speaker 3: is such a debate right now over this whole issue
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Speaker 3: of multiculturalism, monoculturalism, Australian identity. Why this debate is so
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Speaker 3: poignant right now is precisely because Australians see the way
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Speaker 3: under Labour's version of multiculturalism, other cultures, other nationalities are celebrated, elevated,
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Speaker 3: even with political rallies, even as their own culture is
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Speaker 3: run down or denigrated. I want to bring a little
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Speaker 3: bit here of Victoria's premiere just to Alan, who I
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Speaker 3: mentioned before. Here's a bit of what she had to
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Speaker 3: say at the rally.
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Speaker 5: Let me say this to Victoria's great strong Indian community,
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Speaker 5: who are here tonight.
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Speaker 2: You are welcome here.
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Speaker 5: Your children never have to choose between being proudly Indian
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Speaker 5: and proudly Victorian, because in this state you can be both.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you see the issue here, I mean this is
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Speaker 3: where Tony Abbott goes when he talks about the problem
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Speaker 3: of an immigration program that encourages people to treat Australia
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Speaker 3: more like a hotel than a home. And this is
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Speaker 3: why I am concerned and why I think Australians are
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Speaker 3: a bit concerned, because not only does this feel like
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Speaker 3: blatant ethnic politicking, and I guess in some ways there's
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Speaker 3: nothing new there. But I would say that perhaps a
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Speaker 3: few people owned just enter price, maybe a little bit
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Speaker 3: of an apology because this was absolutely about labor courting
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Speaker 3: ethnic votes. But also think of the message. Think about
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Speaker 3: what JACINTHA Allan is saying there. It sounds very much
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Speaker 3: like come to Australia, but you don't need to bother
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Speaker 3: becoming full members of the Australian community, the Australian mainstream,
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Speaker 3: which of course is welcoming of people from all over
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Speaker 3: the world, instead of saying you can live within your
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Speaker 3: own communities, do your own thing. I mean, the word
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Speaker 3: assimilation has gone out the window a long time ago.
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Speaker 3: But this here what we're talking about. I'm sorry, this
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Speaker 3: is not a recipe for social cohesion. It's a recipe
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Speaker 3: for ethnic separatism and ghettoization. I don't think anybody wants
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Speaker 3: to see that. Now there's a bit more that was
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Speaker 3: funny about this trip. Remember this back during the last
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Speaker 3: federal election campaign, when Labor was having a scare campaign
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Speaker 3: around nuclear energy of leaning heavily on the Simpsons, Blinky
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Speaker 3: the Three Eyed Fish and how many times have you
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Speaker 3: heard Energy Minister Chris Bowen say lines like this.
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Speaker 6: The renewables are the cheapest form of energy and nuclear
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Speaker 6: is the most expensive form of energy in this suspigure.
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Speaker 6: This is consistent with findings diversis that has been consistent
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Speaker 6: with continual findings by the SIA, SAIRAH and i EMA.
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Speaker 3: So this is apparently the Labor position. Nuclear power is
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Speaker 3: scary and it's expensive. It's the most expensive form of
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Speaker 3: energy again, at least according to Labor during the last
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Speaker 3: federal election campaign. And yet on this trip Mody and
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Speaker 3: Albanizi agreed for Australia to export uranium to India for
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Speaker 3: use in their civilian nuclear power program. Huh, that's kind
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Speaker 3: of funny. But think about the contradiction here. On the
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Speaker 3: one hand, we are told that nuclear power is too
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Speaker 3: expensive for a rich country like Australia, but it's just
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Speaker 3: jake for a developing country like India. What are we
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Speaker 3: doing here? How does this make sense? And it's all
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Speaker 3: the more interesting when you recall that back in twenty eleven,
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Speaker 3: at the Federal Labor Caucus that year, Anthony Albanizi opposed
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Speaker 3: the then Gillard governments moved to lift a ban on
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Speaker 3: exporting uranium to India. It's certainly changed his tune, hasn't he. Now, Look,
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Speaker 3: I'm glad we've found a bit of the mining industry.
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Speaker 3: Labor is not rushing to kneecap by jumping on ancient
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Speaker 3: wu about blue banded bees or whatever. But again, I ask,
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Speaker 3: where's the logic India gets cheap energy, Yes, I said,
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Speaker 3: cheap from Australia via our uranium. That's great getting closer
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Speaker 3: economic tized visas. But what's it for us here? I'm sorry,
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Speaker 3: but it does feel like Albo has let himself and
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Speaker 3: Australia get a bit played here in exchange for a
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Speaker 3: blessing from a foreign leader and the big swag of
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Speaker 3: votes he can potentially bring home for labor. Okay, there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of other news going around tonight. Let's take
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Speaker 3: a closer look at the coverage out of the New
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Speaker 3: England region of New South Wales today amazing coverage in
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Speaker 3: the Daily Telegraph reporting on the New South government, which
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Speaker 3: claims its highly controversial renewable energy zone is essential for
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Speaker 3: the state's energy future. But according to the Telegraph, farmers
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Speaker 3: in the area say this is a brutally expensive project
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Speaker 3: that will scar productive farmland, drive up power bills and
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Speaker 3: devastate regional communities. Joining me now to talk us through it,
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Speaker 3: one of the lead campaigners against this, Cameron Grigg, Aaron,
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Speaker 3: welcome to the program. Just quickly, countenance, just tell us
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Speaker 3: about what exactly we are talking about, because not everyone
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Speaker 3: here is watching from New South Wales. They don't necessarily
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Speaker 3: know what's being contemplated with these renewable energy zones.
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Speaker 7: Thanks James, well, thanks for having us. But the renewable
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Speaker 7: energy zones are a design to collate a lot of
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Speaker 7: the generation into areas and then they're connected to the
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Speaker 7: main grid and that's all designed by amos SO. The
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Speaker 7: New England res is located in the northeast of the
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Speaker 7: state of New South Wales, the largest of all the
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Speaker 7: ress but it is the most complex.
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Speaker 1: Without doubt.
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Speaker 7: It's rising up through high elevation, steep high rainfall. It's
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Speaker 7: got poor access native forest, snow prine area. The engineering
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Speaker 7: challenges are really immense in this area, and energy cozone
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Speaker 7: resource studies identify that we just simply do not have
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Speaker 7: the resources in this area to build this. One example
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Speaker 7: is water alone. Forty six metal is per day is
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Speaker 7: required to build this generation project and we sit on
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Speaker 7: the top of the range. We don't have large rivers,
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Speaker 7: and they're in fact suggesting that we get our water
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Speaker 7: from the Hunter River three hundred kulumbs away via truck,
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Speaker 7: So it makes no sense. Fourteen hundred trucks a day
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Speaker 7: for many years. It's a ridiculous plan. That's why we're reacting.
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Speaker 3: Cameron, tell us about what the actual proposal is. It
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Speaker 3: is very high, massive transmission towers, transmission lines with large
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Speaker 3: exclusion zones around them that would go through some of
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Speaker 3: the most beautiful, pristine farming and horse country in the country.
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Speaker 3: Am I right?
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Speaker 7: Absolutely? I mean this is the highest hanging fruit, It
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Speaker 7: is the most complex, hardly because that land is so
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Speaker 7: sought after, people are just not willing to yield because
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Speaker 7: it is highly productive farmland. I mean, we only have
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Speaker 7: four percent of Australia that's arable, and you just don't
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Speaker 7: need to destroy and impact what is left with the
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Speaker 7: these permanent structures that don't just destroy the farmland, but
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Speaker 7: they are dividing up some of the most pristine native
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Speaker 7: forest coming up from Bayswater up to the New England.
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Speaker 7: It's complex, it's expensive, and it's really damaging to the ecology.
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Speaker 3: And Cameron, you know, I recall a number of years
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Speaker 3: ago in this region the government put around moratoriums around
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Speaker 3: the mining industry because there's a lot of call around
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Speaker 3: there to protect farm and industry from mining. But it
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Speaker 3: seems like when it comes to renewables, this labor government
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Speaker 3: in New South Wales doesn't seem.
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Speaker 7: To care absolutely. I mean, they seem to get a
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Speaker 7: free pass with a lot of things, but decommissioning is
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Speaker 7: one of those things, and decommission decommissioning is a big
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Speaker 7: risk with these projects. We've seen an abandoned solar project
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Speaker 7: that was burnt and left to rot. We've seen plenty
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Speaker 7: of overseas. We've seen plenty of wind turbine plants that
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Speaker 7: have been left to rot. And in Australia we haven't
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Speaker 7: got that got to that point yet because I haven't
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Speaker 7: reached end of life. But that's that's what we say
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Speaker 7: that the businesses that I'm in these projects don't have
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Speaker 7: a lot of capital at the end of their life.
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Speaker 7: They can design things that way and they are very
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Speaker 7: expensive to do commissioned.
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Speaker 3: And you know, the thing is Cameron that really galls
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Speaker 3: me every time I hear one of these stories. You know,
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Speaker 3: the government says, oh, we're consulting with local communities and
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Speaker 3: we're talking to people and we're going to get the
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Speaker 3: best outcome. But it seems to me that the Environment
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Speaker 3: Minister Penny Sharp in New South Wales has actually zero
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Speaker 3: interest in real consultation. Is am I being unfair here?
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Speaker 7: I'll think you're being generous. I mean zero interests. Zero
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Speaker 7: interests would would be leaving us align. What happens is
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Speaker 7: pretty insulting. Really, it's that's a that's a five process.
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Speaker 7: So I mean, I'll give you two examples of what
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Speaker 7: happened with consultation. I mean, there are processes that are
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Speaker 7: put together that are supposed to protect us and that
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Speaker 7: we are asked to trust. Now rasonally, the community put
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Speaker 7: together the parliamentary but opposing the transmission of the New
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Speaker 7: England and for a town of three thousand people, we
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Speaker 7: were told good luck go and get twenty thousand signatures
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Speaker 7: and it's a big issue. And we got those twenty
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Speaker 7: thousand signatures and more and that debate that triggered that
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Speaker 7: parliamentary debate. Three hundred people from our region and other
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Speaker 7: regions and also from Victoria and many many people in
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Speaker 7: Sydney came to see that debate to see whether Labor
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Speaker 7: could defend their designs. Labour didn't even turn up, and
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Speaker 7: it was quite extraordinary. I mean, they must have known
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Speaker 7: that there would be a political cost an embarrassment to
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Speaker 7: not turning up, but I guess they figured that turning
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Speaker 7: up and not being able to defend that hopeless design
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Speaker 7: would carry more political embarrassment.
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Speaker 3: Cameron greg We're gonna have to leave it there. Thank
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Speaker 3: you so much for your time, Good luck with your campaign.
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Speaker 3: And I'm reliably informed that there's going to be more
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Speaker 3: about this story coming out in Tomorrow's Daily Telegraph. So
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Speaker 3: everybody out there was an interest in this, check that out. Now.
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Speaker 3: Let's move on to Victoria, where Premiere just sent to
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Speaker 3: Aled has been laying out the red carpet for the
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Speaker 3: Indian Prime Minister this week, but behind the scenes, allegations
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Speaker 3: of corruption are threatening to overshadow the lead up to
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Speaker 3: the election. Here to talk us through it, Shadow Industrial
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Speaker 3: Relations Minister Brad Rousewell, Brad, welcome to the program. Great
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Speaker 3: to have you here. Justint to Allen has been referred
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Speaker 3: to that Jimes. Happy Friday to you too. Possibly not
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Speaker 3: so happy a Friday for Jacinta Allen, who has been
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Speaker 3: referred to the state's anti corruption body over allegations that
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Speaker 3: she personally intervened to enable big build corruption when she
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Speaker 3: was a Transport Infrastructure minister. These allegations gonna be on
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Speaker 3: poor oversight. It suggests Premiere's own office was intervening to
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Speaker 3: pressure builders. Tell us about this.
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Speaker 6: This sounds shocking, Well, James Cina Allen has been either
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Speaker 6: premier or responsible for Victoria's big build for a very
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Speaker 6: long time. In Victoria, We've got an election coming up
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Speaker 6: in November. Justin Dearellen, over the last twelve years of
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Speaker 6: this Labor government has been responsible in one part or
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Speaker 6: another for Labour's big build. That puts her at the
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Speaker 6: center of the crime and corruption in our state. Something
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Speaker 6: that only a vote for the Liberals or Nationals in
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Speaker 6: November state election will deliver a Royal commission. That is
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Speaker 6: my clear message THECE Evening, James, if you're a Victorian
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Speaker 6: and you're listening to this, if you're a Victorian and
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Speaker 6: you are disturbed by the crime and corruption that has
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Speaker 6: been free for all under Cine Ellen over the last
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Speaker 6: twelve years, vote Liberal, Vote National at the November state
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Speaker 6: election for a royal commission.
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Speaker 2: It's as simple.
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Speaker 6: As that this premier will go to every length, any
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Speaker 6: extent to cover up crime and corruption because she knows
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Speaker 6: that if she opens up the option of a royal
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Speaker 6: commission here in Victoria, it will be a Pandora's box
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Speaker 6: of problems for her as premier. She's the premier that
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Speaker 6: has accepted, as part of the Labor Party Victorian branch
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Speaker 6: donations on behalf of from the CFMU four hundred thousand
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Speaker 6: dollars James, of donations from the CFMU to the Victorian
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Speaker 6: branch of the Australian Labor Party in this turm of
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Speaker 6: parliament alone, every single one of the elected Labor members
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Speaker 6: of Parliament in this state are stained and tainted by
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Speaker 6: corruption tied to the CFMEU. And you know, just Cinda
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Speaker 6: Allen's got this wrong. Victorians want a royal commission. They
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Speaker 6: want their taxpayer dollars to be respected, to be valued,
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Speaker 6: and you know, I dare say as we get closer
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Speaker 6: to November, victorians want to change because they're sick and
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Speaker 6: tired of the excuses from this premiere.
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Speaker 3: Well, it is shocking, and we have seen the reactions
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Speaker 3: that she's had when she's been asked about this corruption,
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Speaker 3: about putting a figure on it. Some people are seen
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Speaker 3: fifteen million dollars. But is it my understanding that she
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Speaker 3: hasn't even checked her old records to verify whether these
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Speaker 3: allegations are also I mean, this doesn't seem like credible leadership.
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Speaker 3: It seems more to me like she is helping to
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Speaker 3: bunk her down right out of the storm, hope to
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Speaker 3: get through it, and then people forget about it.
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Speaker 6: Look, I know through one Lens James, you're in a
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Speaker 6: better place in New South Wales and Victoria. We seem
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Speaker 6: to have a different standard down here.
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Speaker 8: You know, in New.
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Speaker 6: South Wales not that long ago there was a premier
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Speaker 6: whose career was ended because of a.
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Speaker 2: Bottle of plank.
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Speaker 6: And here you've got an allegation of a ministerial office
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Speaker 6: interference and pressure to get CFMU contractors lined up and
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Speaker 6: c IFMU connected workforce lined up for a government project
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Speaker 6: and the Premier can't even check her own records. The
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Speaker 6: standards are completely different. The standards are wrong, and Victorians
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Speaker 6: to serve so much better. Again, it's quite simple. If
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Speaker 6: you want a Royal commission to get to the bottom
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Speaker 6: of this, if you value integrity, if you value transparencyte
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Speaker 6: Liberal at November's election.
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Speaker 3: It's shocking what has happened in Victoria, and not just
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Speaker 3: with the crustion, but also with the crime. I want
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Speaker 3: to ask you about FP Officer Rowin Pake, who has
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Speaker 3: warned that the firebombing of Melbourne's businesses is only set
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Speaker 3: to continue unless governments tackle policies fueling tobacco and alcohol
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Speaker 3: black markets. Is there any prospect of that happening.
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Speaker 6: Well, we've had so many promises here in Victoria and
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Speaker 6: nothing's happened, you know. Front of mine for me, James,
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Speaker 6: is a local circumstance in my own community. Just a
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Speaker 6: couple of days ago, I spent about half an hour
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Speaker 6: on the phone to the proprietor of what was a
19:40
Speaker 6: very successful cafe in Mentone here in Victoria. Some twelve
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Speaker 6: months on a couple of doors down from him, there
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Speaker 6: was a fire bombing in mentone and some twelve months
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Speaker 6: on there's been no works undertaken to his premises and
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Speaker 6: he still has uncertainty. You know, the insurance money's running out, James,
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Speaker 6: and he's now in a position where he's legitimately questioning
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Speaker 6: do I reopen my business do I not? And you know,
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Speaker 6: sometimes I think that after twelve years of being in government,
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Speaker 6: as the Australian Labor Party has been in Victoria, they
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Speaker 6: actually lose sight and lose track of what matters to
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Speaker 6: people on the ground. And for me, I have people
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Speaker 6: like d'vesh that cafe own a front of mine. He's
20:22
Speaker 6: got uncertainty. He is now former almost former employees have
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Speaker 6: got uncertainty. And the institution and opportunity he created, not
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Speaker 6: just for locals in terms of jobs, but the community
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Speaker 6: that he created has been absolutely utterly destroyed because Labor
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Speaker 6: don't give us stuff. I mean, that's the bottom line.
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Speaker 6: We value community safety and that should be the first
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Speaker 6: priority of any government. That's why we've said we will
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Speaker 6: recruit three thousand new police, recruit two hundred additional PSOs.
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Speaker 6: If you break bail, you will face jail. There will
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Speaker 6: be a serious time for adult crime here. In Victoria
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Speaker 6: are serious about security and safety because that's what the
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Speaker 6: community deserves and that's what the community expects.
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Speaker 3: Well, Brad, I think you need those officers, but I
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Speaker 3: think you might need to do something about a few
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Speaker 3: of your magistrates as well. Brad Roswell, thank you so
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Speaker 3: much for your time this evening. Now stick around, we're
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Speaker 3: going to hit a quick break. But when we come back,
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Speaker 3: Angus Taylor has gone on a brutal attack against not
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Speaker 3: Labor but One Nation. Nauline Hassen has said, hey, I'm
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Speaker 3: not the enemy and is urging a united front on
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Speaker 3: the right to push out labor or on that. After
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Speaker 3: the break, welcome back to the program. James Morrow here
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Speaker 3: filling in for Steve Price. Now let's take a closer
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Speaker 3: look at the attack Angus Taylor is mounting on Pauline
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Speaker 3: Hanson and her One Nation party. Here's a bit of
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Speaker 3: him this morning.
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Speaker 2: It's got to be changed. That's going to deliver the
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Speaker 2: right outcomes for Australia, and that is not going and
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Speaker 2: spending a trillion dollars and driving up in flash and
21:58
Speaker 2: driving up interest rates. And that's what One Nation's policies
22:02
Speaker 2: would do. It's a one person show the policies are incoherent,
22:06
Speaker 2: they don't add up. I will work with anyone to
22:08
Speaker 2: get rid of this right and labor government, of course
22:10
Speaker 2: I will. That's what we need to do. But what
22:12
Speaker 2: I am saying is that one nation doesn't have the answers. Well.
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Speaker 3: Here to discuss this and a whole lot more is
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Speaker 3: our Friday Night regular and former Queensland premiere Campbell Newman. Campbell,
22:24
Speaker 3: Welcome to the program. Pauline Hansen is still in London,
22:28
Speaker 3: but I want to play a little bit of her here.
22:30
Speaker 3: Responding to what Angus Taylor said this morning.
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Speaker 8: I'm very disappointed with this. You know, Angus, I'm not
22:37
Speaker 8: your enemy. We both need to get rid of the
22:40
Speaker 8: Labor the Greens government. That toxic government's done so much
22:43
Speaker 8: damage to this country. Here can reflect back on your
22:47
Speaker 8: Budget reply speech. You picked up and sent a lot
22:50
Speaker 8: of one nation's policy. So I don't agree with you
22:53
Speaker 8: having to go out me and what I stand for.
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Speaker 8: Let's work together, That's right. It keeps saying all the time.
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Speaker 8: The people of Australia are crying out for change. Listen
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Speaker 8: to the people, Angus and work with me. Stop denigrating
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Speaker 8: one nation and work together.
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Speaker 3: She's going to be a point here, hasn't you, Campbell.
23:10
Speaker 3: I mean, it feels like Angus Taylor is tearing the
23:13
Speaker 3: Liberal Party apart here on the one hand, saying, oh, yeah,
23:16
Speaker 3: we want to get rid of labor, but they're attacking
23:19
Speaker 3: a one nation party that shares an awful lot of
23:21
Speaker 3: their policies.
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Speaker 9: James, I'm not sure this has been the right response
23:28
Speaker 9: from Angus Taylor. Indeed, I've said that on this show
23:31
Speaker 9: in the past few months. I think the only way
23:35
Speaker 9: to deal with the threat that one Nation pose the
23:37
Speaker 9: Liberal and National parties is to outcompete one nation and
23:42
Speaker 9: get on the front foot with ongoing clear statements about
23:48
Speaker 9: what the Liberal and National Party stand for. Well, that's
23:51
Speaker 9: the only way to deal with it. I don't Yeah,
23:53
Speaker 9: I don't think it was the right thing to attack
23:55
Speaker 9: her an affront one way like this.
23:57
Speaker 3: Well, it's just interesting, and I mean, I know social
23:59
Speaker 3: media only captures so much of the audience, but everywhere
24:03
Speaker 3: I have seen bits of this interview and other things
24:05
Speaker 3: Angus Taylor has said, including his Sydney Institute speech yesterday,
24:10
Speaker 3: He's just getting absolutely tailed up by Liberal Party sympathizers
24:14
Speaker 3: who say, stop attacking one nation you're driving us to
24:17
Speaker 3: one nation. Why aren't you fighting this horrific labor government
24:22
Speaker 3: which is running us into socialism and penury.
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Speaker 9: Look if just another example on that front is to
24:31
Speaker 9: look at the comments against this story on the Australian
24:36
Speaker 9: Newspaper's website. And I'm afraid that Angus Taylor is getting
24:40
Speaker 9: an absolute pizzling with people who, you know you would
24:44
Speaker 9: be traditional coalition voters.
24:47
Speaker 3: You know.
24:48
Speaker 9: Again, the trick here, I think is to outcompete. There
24:52
Speaker 9: are so many people who have gone to one nation.
24:54
Speaker 9: I mean I left, Just to be upfront about this,
24:57
Speaker 9: I left the Liberal National Party five years ago and
25:02
Speaker 9: joined the Libertarian Party. So I'm not in the one
25:05
Speaker 9: nation camp either, sure, but I just say I left
25:08
Speaker 9: because I was so despondent, so dismayed about the things
25:12
Speaker 9: that the Liberal National Party government had done during COVID.
25:17
Speaker 9: I won't go through all that now, but yeah, I've
25:20
Speaker 9: not seen in the last few years anything from the
25:22
Speaker 9: Liberal National Parties who would make me really think that
25:26
Speaker 9: they realized what they did wrong. That they haven't been
25:29
Speaker 9: for small business and private enterprise and balance balanced budgets
25:33
Speaker 9: and low tax and by the way, stopping the onslaught
25:37
Speaker 9: of red tape in bureaucracy on business that has been
25:41
Speaker 9: empowered by the Coalition, I'm afraid, and then followed on
25:45
Speaker 9: by labor. Well, let's see a concerted attack on allows
25:50
Speaker 9: e labor government.
25:52
Speaker 3: No. And it just seems to me that I'm not
25:54
Speaker 3: hearing anything from the Liberal Party about growing the pie economically.
25:58
Speaker 3: They seem almost to be buying in to cam Well
26:00
Speaker 3: Newman the labor rhetoric about oh, well, you know this
26:04
Speaker 3: policy is going to cost the taxpayer, rather than saying
26:07
Speaker 3: it's going to return money to the taxpayer.
26:11
Speaker 9: Look, the fight on tax you know, well, it's pathetic.
26:17
Speaker 9: They get sucked into the language of the left, you know,
26:21
Speaker 9: sort of sort of sort of giving people back their
26:25
Speaker 9: money is somehow a cost to government. It's our money
26:31
Speaker 9: and they should be fighting. From a standpoint is that
26:34
Speaker 9: the bureaucracy across this nation should be as small as possible.
26:38
Speaker 9: And for example, one hundred thousand businesses small businesses across
26:43
Speaker 9: this nation, primarily real estate agents, have as of the
26:47
Speaker 9: first of July, had to adopt this absolutely crazy red
26:52
Speaker 9: tape paper chase to identify people who they're doing business
26:58
Speaker 9: with because of the Aiding Money DRM laws which have
27:01
Speaker 9: been extended to them, to accounting firms and to lawyers.
27:05
Speaker 9: And look, it's something that should never have happened. It's
27:09
Speaker 9: a step too far. And by the way, the criminal
27:12
Speaker 9: gangs will still be busy doing what they do quite
27:16
Speaker 9: effectively despite this red tape being imposed on all these businesses.
27:20
Speaker 9: So those are the things that the Liberal National Party
27:22
Speaker 9: should be fighting on instead of rolling over or attacking
27:27
Speaker 9: one nation.
27:28
Speaker 3: Hey Campbell, I touched on this in mydriatorial at the
27:30
Speaker 3: top of the show. But Anthony even easy has the
27:34
Speaker 3: last twenty four hours announced a series of agreements struck
27:36
Speaker 3: with the Indian Prime Minister Nourendra Modi, including this deal
27:40
Speaker 3: to green lay billions of dollars worth of uranium exports
27:43
Speaker 3: to India, which is great. I suppose your uranium minor,
27:48
Speaker 3: but why is our uranium good enough for India? But
27:53
Speaker 3: Campbell k newman not good enough for us?
27:56
Speaker 9: Like it's extraordinary, it's like somehow which is a developing nation.
28:02
Speaker 9: And you know, I have so much admiration for by
28:04
Speaker 9: the way, the Indians that I haven't got enough time
28:08
Speaker 9: this evening. So the way they're going ahead, that they're
28:11
Speaker 9: building prosperity and trying to lift people out of poverty,
28:15
Speaker 9: and they're doing it by ruthlessly going after energy security
28:22
Speaker 9: and driving the cost of energy down. So they want
28:24
Speaker 9: to have nuclear power. They will develop nuclear power, but
28:27
Speaker 9: somehow the mantra from the elites in Australia is particularly
28:31
Speaker 9: the left, is that we can't have it here, it'll
28:33
Speaker 9: cost to marginal take too long. But then so that's
28:37
Speaker 9: sort of I don't know how the Prime Minister can
28:40
Speaker 9: can consider do this work. A lot of hoots part
28:42
Speaker 9: of actually.
28:43
Speaker 2: Make such an announcement.
28:44
Speaker 9: But then, by the way, we've got the Liberal National
28:46
Speaker 9: Party premier in this state who has not only been
28:49
Speaker 9: against the nuclear power policies of so Peter Dutton when
28:52
Speaker 9: he was load of the opposition, but Christa Fooley won't
28:55
Speaker 9: even overturn Labor Party ban on uranium mining. So that
29:00
Speaker 9: means the under the Prime Minister's policies, the Northern Territory
29:03
Speaker 9: in South Australia will be benefiting from uranium mining, but
29:07
Speaker 9: William Queens and will not. So I've got to be
29:11
Speaker 9: fair the scene and handed out the brick bats to
29:13
Speaker 9: both parties.
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Speaker 3: It's just it just figures belief Campbell Newman. We should
29:18
Speaker 3: be so rich off of this stuff and have so
29:20
Speaker 3: much cheap energy. It's so frustrating, Campbell Newman, But thank
29:24
Speaker 3: you so much for your time. Great to chat as always,
29:26
Speaker 3: we'll catch up soon. Now let's go over to London
29:29
Speaker 3: where Nagel Farage led the news this week after the
29:32
Speaker 3: dramatic political chess move that could make or break his
29:35
Speaker 3: political career. Here to discuss it, Scott's regular Adrian Hayes. Adrian,
29:40
Speaker 3: welcome to the program. What's the feeling on the ground there, Adrian?
29:45
Speaker 3: With this news that reforms, Nagel Farage has decided to
29:49
Speaker 3: go and have a by election in his own electorate.
29:53
Speaker 3: Is this gonna work?
29:55
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, good question, James. Look, you know politics is
29:58
Speaker 10: a device of business. The best of times, those who
30:01
Speaker 10: detest Barrage and those who love him won't be changed.
30:03
Speaker 10: It's those in the middle. There is some unease, there
30:06
Speaker 10: is some unsettlement and people sitting on the fence whether
30:09
Speaker 10: this was a right move. Look on the on the
30:11
Speaker 10: basis he's been under a systematic attack by the establishment,
30:15
Speaker 10: not just politicians we expect from, but from the media,
30:19
Speaker 10: from the National Crime Agency, from banks, from the civil service.
30:23
Speaker 10: He has to subject himself to his own security. There's
30:26
Speaker 10: a timing suspicion what's this about? And of course a
30:30
Speaker 10: media channel went round to his house and confront and
30:32
Speaker 10: knocked on the door to meet his daughter, which got
30:34
Speaker 10: him very angry. So there's people that that's where he
30:37
Speaker 10: and he would say has broken no laws. On the
30:39
Speaker 10: other hand, anger is never a great place to make rational, logical,
30:44
Speaker 10: analytical decisions from some people say, well, look he's a
30:47
Speaker 10: delaying tactic himself. It's a distraction and this may he
30:51
Speaker 10: may have taken on more than he can chew. So
30:54
Speaker 10: there's an unknown, unknown outcome on what's what's going to.
30:57
Speaker 7: Happen on this?
30:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, but tell me about what's happening here with the
31:01
Speaker 3: other side of this competition, because the only competition in
31:05
Speaker 3: Clacton seems to be as far as I can tell,
31:07
Speaker 3: a bloke who's dressed up as a bin. It's a
31:10
Speaker 3: bit this just you know, for the people who say, oh,
31:13
Speaker 3: we've got to take democracy seriously, this really screams farce.
31:18
Speaker 10: Yeah, you've got the actually you're certain the pictures of
31:20
Speaker 10: the Macafielder by election where Andy Burnham, new Labor leader,
31:24
Speaker 10: and Waiting came with a fox. So we've actually had
31:26
Speaker 10: a few more. Come on, we've got count Binface real
31:29
Speaker 10: name John Harvey, who's a comedian, and you've got a fox,
31:34
Speaker 10: You've got monster raving, Looning Party, looning Party. Some people
31:38
Speaker 10: say it's a rich democracy, that the UK is good
31:42
Speaker 10: grace that others say it is a farce. You know,
31:44
Speaker 10: it's hard because all the other parties, of mainstream parties
31:47
Speaker 10: have taken back. They're not standing. So you know, pharaohs
31:50
Speaker 10: did this to get on the front foot people versus
31:52
Speaker 10: the establishment. Now the establishment the other parties have sort
31:55
Speaker 10: of hit back. So again you could be rightfully thinking
31:59
Speaker 10: that it does look a bit of a farce.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
32:01
Speaker 3: Hey, let's just talk about Andy Burnham for a second,
32:04
Speaker 3: the man who, you know, again, with the robust democracy
32:07
Speaker 3: of the UK, has but to become Prime Minister without
32:09
Speaker 3: a single vote cast for him on a national basis.
32:12
Speaker 3: He's issued an apology over Gaza this week, which has
32:16
Speaker 3: been called a reset moment for labor. But as they
32:20
Speaker 3: seek to win back progressive voters, what is this all
32:24
Speaker 3: about and how is it that Gaza has wound up
32:27
Speaker 3: driving all politics on the left. Because whenever I see Gaza,
32:32
Speaker 3: I think a lot of other lunacy comes in the
32:35
Speaker 3: train behind it. Yeah.
32:37
Speaker 10: Look, notwithstanding the actions in the Gaza strip, the actions
32:42
Speaker 10: of Vista everything, this this move is about winning back
32:45
Speaker 10: the progressive so called progressive voters who've deserted labor for
32:50
Speaker 10: the Greens or anything about the Greens these days, your
32:52
Speaker 10: party and the backbench MPs. But it's ironic that of
32:56
Speaker 10: all the issues that the British people are so concerned about,
33:01
Speaker 10: illegal immigration, the blurgeoning budget, welfare, the budget deficit, we've
33:06
Speaker 10: got energy costs that he's gone with this statement. So
33:10
Speaker 10: as I said, I think it's more to do politics
33:12
Speaker 10: than anything substantial. And we await we talk about we
33:15
Speaker 10: just spoke about face on Clacton, on sea farages.
33:18
Speaker 1: By election.
33:19
Speaker 10: You know, some people say, how can an MP who
33:22
Speaker 10: was an MP a few weeks ago, who's been voted
33:24
Speaker 10: by twenty five thousand voters now become prime minister in
33:28
Speaker 10: a few weeks time. I mean that is something that
33:30
Speaker 10: we used to laugh at in Italy, but we're sort of,
33:33
Speaker 10: you know, another prime minister every sort of year, but
33:35
Speaker 10: we're doing it ourselves. It doesn't look good on the
33:38
Speaker 10: institutions of the British democratic system.
33:41
Speaker 3: And when you mentioned anything with Green's Party or anything
33:44
Speaker 3: but Green Tinge Now Party. A moment ago, one of
33:48
Speaker 3: the things I was thinking about was those recent by
33:50
Speaker 3: elections they had in the UK where those Green parties
33:53
Speaker 3: seem to be dominated by this very Islamist sort of streak.
33:58
Speaker 3: Is this one of the concerns that lives is fighting off,
34:01
Speaker 3: this islamicization of British politics.
34:05
Speaker 10: Yes, in a word, As I said before, they party
34:09
Speaker 10: lost lots of the Greens who who moved from being
34:11
Speaker 10: a part They moved long ago from being a part
34:14
Speaker 10: of the environment to a party of Netza alone. But
34:16
Speaker 10: even that they've abandoned for this, for Gaza, for radical progressive,
34:21
Speaker 10: no trans riots and everything like this. So you're right,
34:24
Speaker 10: you know, Labor Party has lost a lot of people.
34:27
Speaker 10: The Green bubble is slightly bursting. When their leader, Zach Polanski,
34:30
Speaker 10: he's been sort of brought down a little bit to reality.
34:34
Speaker 10: But it'd be interesting, it'd be fascinating to see what's
34:36
Speaker 10: going on, and I put this whole thing, what's going
34:38
Speaker 10: on with Farretch just go back to the whole story.
34:41
Speaker 10: Is there an election waiting? Is there this systematic attack
34:43
Speaker 10: on him because he's going to call an early election.
34:46
Speaker 10: At the very least, it's a distraction from the under
34:49
Speaker 10: democratic way that he is becoming the leader.
34:51
Speaker 1: Of the UK.
34:52
Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for that, Adrian. Good to
34:55
Speaker 3: chat and good luck with everything over there. I know,
34:57
Speaker 3: I know it's a bit rocky at the well, so Adrian,
34:59
Speaker 3: thanks for your time. Now we're gonna hit a quick
35:01
Speaker 3: break here, but when we come back, this is a
35:03
Speaker 3: fun bit here cartoons in the week with one of
35:06
Speaker 3: the best in the business, the great Mark Knight. Well,
35:14
Speaker 3: it's Friday night, so let's have a bit of fun
35:15
Speaker 3: and jump straight into what has been a very busy
35:18
Speaker 3: week of news. And who better to sum it up
35:20
Speaker 3: than Harold's son, cartoonist Mark Knight. Mark, welcome to the show.
35:26
Speaker 3: Let's talk about this one here a rock star welcome, James.
35:30
Speaker 3: Great to have you. It's we had a rockstar welcome
35:32
Speaker 3: for the Indian Prime minister. You've summed it up very nicely. Here.
35:36
Speaker 3: Tell us about this one here.
35:40
Speaker 2: Well, Larendra Modi came into Melbourne to catch up with
35:44
Speaker 2: Elbow and do some deals on uranium. But I thought
35:47
Speaker 2: the most interesting thing was this event at Marvel Stadium
35:51
Speaker 2: and he sold it out and it was like a
35:53
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift concert for the Indian diaspora of Melbourne, and
35:57
Speaker 2: of course Albo was invited, as was our premier just
36:00
Speaker 2: sent to Alan. But Australian politicians just couldn't pull off
36:05
Speaker 2: an event like this. And I had Elbow standing on
36:09
Speaker 2: stage there if you can see, and he's saying, oh, yeah,
36:11
Speaker 2: I sell out Marvel Stadium all the time, as if yeah, yeah, No.
36:17
Speaker 3: It's pretty interesting the way alban ez he's trying to
36:21
Speaker 3: write a foreign leader's coattails here on his own home soil.
36:25
Speaker 3: I thought that was pretty amusing. Also, it's pretty funny.
36:30
Speaker 3: But I also want to do with this network failure
36:33
Speaker 3: that Telstra had. I, like millions of other Australians, was
36:37
Speaker 3: caught up in it, and I didn't have a great
36:40
Speaker 3: morning I know other people had a far worse morning
36:42
Speaker 3: as a result of this. Tell Us about this. I
36:44
Speaker 3: love the punchline here.
36:48
Speaker 2: It just shows you how dependent we are James on technology,
36:51
Speaker 2: but the same I love to conflate two issues at
36:55
Speaker 2: once because there's so much happening. I find I like
36:58
Speaker 2: to bring two issues together. And on that day when
37:01
Speaker 2: the network went down, Melbourne was actually voted by the
37:04
Speaker 2: economist magazine of all places, Australia's most livable city. Now
37:09
Speaker 2: we that live in Melbourne, we refer to it now
37:11
Speaker 2: as Gotham City. The crime, the potholes, the debt. It
37:20
Speaker 2: is like living in Gotham City. And so I had
37:23
Speaker 2: the Premier League, just Center Allen holding up the announcement
37:27
Speaker 2: and saying, I haven't had a single person call me
37:31
Speaker 2: to disagree with this decision. And of course nobody was
37:35
Speaker 2: getting calls that day.
37:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, And it is you are right.
37:38
Speaker 3: I mean, I just I love what these outfits like
37:40
Speaker 3: The Economist, which used to be a really respectable magazine,
37:44
Speaker 3: come out with this nonsense. I see Melbourne is the
37:47
Speaker 3: most liberal. I'm sorry, Mark, I loved Melbourne, but boy
37:49
Speaker 3: they've had some problems. I also this one here, you've
37:53
Speaker 3: put the Prime Minister in the doghouse. This was a
37:57
Speaker 3: great take on that story that Alban Easy would love
38:01
Speaker 3: to see the back of his.
38:03
Speaker 1: I don't know.
38:03
Speaker 3: I had a couple of whiskeys with the podcasters and
38:05
Speaker 3: decided to mouth off about Kylievendoga walk us through this
38:09
Speaker 3: one because this really bade me laugh out loud.
38:13
Speaker 2: It seemed like a good idea at the time probably
38:15
Speaker 2: for Albo get on Nova. You know, when you get
38:17
Speaker 2: on FM radio stations, you can just talk crap and
38:20
Speaker 2: have a bit of fun. And of course he's been
38:23
Speaker 2: sort of leading to this, this shag marry or date game,
38:27
Speaker 2: and quite foolishly he said that, well, yes, I would
38:30
Speaker 2: like to shag Kylie. And in the caption of the
38:34
Speaker 2: cartoon is Albo in the doghouse outside the lodge, And
38:39
Speaker 2: of course Jody has thrown all his clothes over the balcony.
38:42
Speaker 2: He's saying, of course, and he's in there with Toto,
38:44
Speaker 2: poor little Turto's doghouse. And Albo was saying, So I'm
38:48
Speaker 2: on this Nova program and this podcast, and from a
38:53
Speaker 2: list of celebs, I'm asked, who would I shag, marry
38:56
Speaker 2: or date? Well, I said Kylie, clearly. How was I
38:59
Speaker 2: to know? But Jody listens to podcast.
39:03
Speaker 3: Oh so good. I love the little character out of
39:06
Speaker 3: the bottom of saying, so, who's mister unpopular now? Anyway? Oh,
39:10
Speaker 3: Melbourne viewers would also be familiar with but I was
39:13
Speaker 3: less so with.
39:15
Speaker 2: Pam the bird.
39:17
Speaker 3: Does not Pam the verb Pam the bird because I
39:20
Speaker 3: don't live in Victoria. But I think it's a bit
39:23
Speaker 3: of a hoot. Tell us about this.
39:26
Speaker 2: We love Pam the Bird. You know, we are the
39:29
Speaker 2: city of the arts and there is an infamous alleged
39:34
Speaker 2: graffitist in Melbourne, Jack Gibson Burrell, who was I think
39:37
Speaker 2: he's up on over two hundred chargers for graffiti and
39:40
Speaker 2: other misdemeanors. But we all woke up the other morning
39:43
Speaker 2: and they're on the huge pylons off the Balty Bridge.
39:47
Speaker 2: Was a giant Pam the Bird spray painter and Jack
39:51
Speaker 2: sitting atop it as happy as Larry, even though he's
39:55
Speaker 2: on bail. Of course, yes, and so I drew the
39:57
Speaker 2: car to what is he doing up there? Well, he's
40:00
Speaker 2: victorious bayor Lord's the Bird the Bird.
40:03
Speaker 3: In fact, he wouldn't be the only one who's been
40:06
Speaker 3: doing that. But finally, Mark, we've had the sad news today.
40:09
Speaker 3: Valet Darren hinch sad day for the Australian media was
40:13
Speaker 3: the passing of the human headline. I suspect you probably
40:17
Speaker 3: de picted him many times, but let's have a look
40:19
Speaker 3: at this one from twenty eleven, which I thought is
40:22
Speaker 3: one of these brilliant examples of the cartoonist arts that
40:27
Speaker 3: says the whole situation without saying a word, give us
40:30
Speaker 3: the context on this.
40:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, James, Well, I you know, it's a sad
40:36
Speaker 2: loss to lose Darren. He was one of the great
40:39
Speaker 2: tabloid fighters in journalism and I dug this one out
40:44
Speaker 2: from my files in twenty eleven when he had his
40:46
Speaker 2: liver transplant. But at the same time he who's actually
40:50
Speaker 2: the courts had done him for contempt of court for
40:55
Speaker 2: revealing the names of sexual offenders on his radio program.
40:59
Speaker 2: So I've got the stitches for the liver on his tummy,
41:02
Speaker 2: but of course the court is actually stitching his mouth
41:05
Speaker 2: shut at the same time. Now, Darren love this cartoon.
41:08
Speaker 2: I did actually give him the original and we had
41:10
Speaker 2: a good laugh about it. But yeah, it's a very
41:13
Speaker 2: sad day for journalism in this country. Indeed.
41:16
Speaker 3: Indeed, Darren Hinch rest in peace, Mark Night, Thank you
41:18
Speaker 3: so much for your time. Really appreciate it. Great fun
41:20
Speaker 3: to chat with you. Now stick around because after the
41:22
Speaker 3: break we have some more trevious to the human headline
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Speaker 3: with our Friday night panel. That's next. You're not gonna
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Speaker 3: want to miss this, Okay, welcome back to the program.
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Speaker 3: James Morrow, sitting in here for Steve Price. Let's jump
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Speaker 3: into all the news of the week with our Friday
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Speaker 3: night panel, Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrown, the climate Criminal
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Speaker 3: Jemma Todgnedy from GP Communications. Welcome to you both, Hey, guys,
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Speaker 3: let's get the sad news out of the way first.
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Speaker 3: We did have the sad news of the passing of
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Speaker 3: veteran broadcaster Darren Hints. He passed away at eighty two
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Speaker 3: after a long battle with a whole lot of health
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Speaker 3: issues that have been fairly well documented. But Joe, I
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Speaker 3: want to ask you, first of all, one of the
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Speaker 3: things I discovered today that he was known for. He
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Speaker 3: came up with his own diet plan at one point,
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Speaker 3: and it was the soup and wine diet.
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Speaker 2: Off for a little bit here.
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Speaker 1: I'm actually on that diet. I just cut out the soup.
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Speaker 3: Just cut out of the soup, and I thought it
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Speaker 3: was quite inventive.
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Speaker 1: Very inventive. Yeah, And that's one of the things I
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Speaker 1: really like about Darren that he's always completely or was
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Speaker 1: always keeping people guessing. He was irrepressible. He got in
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Speaker 1: trouble once for having a bit of wine after he'd
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Speaker 1: been donated somebody else's live off kidneys and I was
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Speaker 1: on Darren's side for that. But I grew up in
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Speaker 1: Melbourne in the era where Darren was just absolute king.
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Speaker 1: His show Hinch was compulsory viewing on Channel ten, the
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Speaker 1: famous catchphrase shame, shame, shame. It had its own spin
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Speaker 1: offactic or spinoff hunch on Fast Forward.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: So I grew up with him just being an absolute titan.
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Speaker 1: And then obviously as I moved to Sydney and then
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Speaker 1: he became a Senate and I actually got to know
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Speaker 1: him a bit when he'd sort of come on Studio
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Speaker 1: ten and he's on social media a lot, and so
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Speaker 1: it's just really interesting to find out it was actually
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Speaker 1: much more three dimensional. And I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: people thought he was. Really it was nuanced. He wasn't
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Speaker 1: as right wing as everybody thought he was. He once
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Speaker 1: lamented that that that was hurting his re election.
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Speaker 3: So me and I got very offended. Jet, Well, were
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Speaker 3: your memories of Darren Hinch?
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Speaker 11: Well, I mean, like Joe, but I grew up in Perth,
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Speaker 11: but he was compulsory viewing. He was like the shame
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Speaker 11: shame shamee Bat's life. I'm Darren Hinch, but do you
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Speaker 11: know what. I never actually met him in person, but
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Speaker 11: we interacted quite a lot on you know, the cesspit
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Speaker 11: that is Twitter, and he was always kind and considered
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Speaker 11: and funny and nuanced. But what I liked about him
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Speaker 11: from a distance at least, was the old part of
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Speaker 11: my life. He was a journo's journo. You know, he
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Speaker 11: was a and of conviction in the role of a
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Speaker 11: journalist and his work around you know, sexual abuse and
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Speaker 11: sexual abuse crimes long before it was a done thing,
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Speaker 11: long before there were there were royal commissions and the like.
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Speaker 11: He was really ahead of the pack and really trailblazing
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Speaker 11: in bringing people to accounts and of course famously went
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Speaker 11: to jail for contempt of court. In fact, I think
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Speaker 11: PI Court took call it the worst case of contempted
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Speaker 11: had ever seen that a sun.
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Speaker 1: That a son anyway, that was just the biggest story, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I remember this. Hey, I just want to talking about
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Speaker 3: a couple of other things, and Joe, you know, I
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Speaker 3: do want to roll up the baseball bat and give
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Speaker 3: you a little knock over this one, because you know,
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Speaker 3: we're in the middle of cost a living crisis here
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Speaker 3: and Labour's big plan now out of the labor conference
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Speaker 3: is to rev up its support for from welcomes to Country.
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Speaker 3: Joe Pauline hands.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to rerun the voice campaign and say, hey, guys,
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Speaker 1: this works so well last time, let's do it again.
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Speaker 1: This is obviously the most idiotic act of self harm
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen. I was on the late debate tonight
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Speaker 1: when the papers came through. You what now what that's
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Speaker 1: it was? It's absolutely insane. It's the left of the
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Speaker 1: Labor Party just putting forward idiotic stuff, not having any
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Speaker 1: idea of how to actually combat one nation. This will
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Speaker 1: of course make the threat far far worse and make
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Speaker 1: workers who are already in their majority supporting my nation
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Speaker 1: over labor think even more that labor has nothing to
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Speaker 1: offer them. It is the idiotic left of the party.
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Speaker 1: It is not government policy, however, it is what happens
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Speaker 1: in these labor conferences.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jimma, you know, I keep hearing, you know, from
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Speaker 3: all these people on the left who have nothing better
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Speaker 3: to do, but gives the right advice. Oh no, don't
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Speaker 3: go for the rate, don't engage in culture wars. This
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Speaker 3: seems to me like labor engaging in a huge culture war.
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Speaker 11: But this is the labor government that we have unfortunately
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Speaker 11: landed with through our own idiocy as a nation. You know,
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Speaker 11: a government that says one thing and does another. The
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Speaker 11: hypocrisy of this government on a range of issues is
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Speaker 11: there for all of us to see. So it says
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Speaker 11: one thing. It says, for example, rents will go down
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Speaker 11: and will go up no longer than no more than
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Speaker 11: two dollars a week. And we know that rents have
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Speaker 11: gone up significantly more tens fifty bucks a week. The
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Speaker 11: government said we're going to bring down you know, energy
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Speaker 11: prices by two hundred and seventy five dollars, and I don't.
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Speaker 11: My point is that Albanzi says things like he says
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Speaker 11: things like, oh, that modeling is rock solid, and then
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Speaker 11: six months later, when it's all gone to manure, it's
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Speaker 11: not my modeling. The Voice loss not my loss. So
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Speaker 11: this is, this is, this is absolutely unsurprising. My advice
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Speaker 11: to mister Albanzi by all means, run the Voice campaign again.
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Speaker 11: It was a great idea. Do it again.
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Speaker 3: It was so much fun to do it again.
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Speaker 2: Do it again.
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Speaker 5: People ring out for it.
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Speaker 3: We loved our Voice campaign, didn't we People kind of
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Speaker 3: for hey, let's let's go to the Northern Territory, and
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Speaker 3: we know that Territorians are just a bit different than
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Speaker 3: the rest of us here, but even Territorians have been
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Speaker 3: left stunned after a man was captured on field swimming.
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Speaker 3: My god, in Crack Territory. Nobody tell Bob Catter you
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Speaker 3: retrieve his boat in the middle of the very river.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Joel, look, I can see we've all done
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Speaker 3: a couple of silly things. Are like, this is pretty silly.
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Speaker 1: That this I have done all Like Paul Kelly, I've
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Speaker 1: done all the dumb things except that I've even even
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Speaker 1: for my bachelor party. I even got nude skinny dipping.
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Speaker 1: I got thrown off nude into Sydney Harbor in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night in woolm Maloo, where so I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't do that sober. It's fair to say, but this
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Speaker 1: is insane. It's not even a territory in doing it.
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Speaker 1: This is this sort of thing you would expect to
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Speaker 1: This is the problem. This is a Victorian goes and
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Speaker 1: does it. And the worst part was that, despite the
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Speaker 1: fact that he looked completely ill AT's in the water,
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Speaker 1: he struggled to get out of the water. He struggled
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Speaker 1: to get into his boat. He actually survived, which is
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Speaker 1: a huge slap in the face to Darwinism.
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Speaker 2: Well, then it's not natural.
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Speaker 1: Selection is not.
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Speaker 3: Working, particularly when Northern Territories capital is Darwin. You'd think
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Speaker 3: that it would have to do it very quickly. Got
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Speaker 3: twenty seconds to have a fancy I.
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Speaker 2: Dip here rock.
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Speaker 11: No, I don't. And I grew up in Perth where
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Speaker 11: shark sharks are a thing and you get taught from
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Speaker 11: a young age how to manage them. But and look,
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Speaker 11: there's another story about that which I'm not super proud of,
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Speaker 11: but I'm still with just a little bit of it. Well, listen,
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Speaker 11: I might have been on the beach with Caroline Russo
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Speaker 11: one day, saw the shark chop rop ahead and said
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Speaker 11: I'm gonna have a quick deep before they shut the beach.
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Speaker 1: Well, story, that's top of logic.
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Speaker 3: That is a great bit of logic. Now, look we're
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Speaker 3: gonna have to leave it there. So much fun to
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Speaker 3: chat with you both. Thank you so much, very happy
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Speaker 3: Friday with you all. Thank you Jebba Talking and Joe Hildebrand,
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Speaker 3: and thank you. That's the show for tonight. James McPherson
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Speaker 3: is in for Rowan Dean next, and guess what. I'll
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Speaker 3: be back a little later in the evening for the
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Speaker 3: US report, so i'll catch you then