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The Rita Panahi Show | 10 March · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scors Australia. This is the Rider Panete Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panahi Show. I'm
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Speaker 2: Caroline Marcus filling in for Rita. Coming up tonight. Five
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Speaker 2: members of the Iranian women's soccer team now safe after
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Speaker 2: fleeing their hotel late last night. Daniel Wilde will join
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Speaker 2: me on that and the day's other top headlines. Ozzie's
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Speaker 2: kept in the dark when it comes to data on
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Speaker 2: puberty blockers. Stephanie Bastian will explain that, and the latest
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Speaker 2: scandal involving the ABC New York mayor's or own mum.
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Speaker 2: Danny is considering getting rid of all free parking in
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Speaker 2: the city after running his campaign on making everything free.
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Speaker 2: Koshagada will weigh in and fears for Britney Spears's mental
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Speaker 2: health after she was caught.
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Speaker 3: Driving under the influence.
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Speaker 2: Loftis will cover that and the latest entertainment news. And
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Speaker 2: in Lefties Losing It, activists get Scissa happy in protest
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Speaker 2: of ice, which.
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Speaker 4: Is the first American flag I've ever owned, and I'm
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Speaker 4: about to shred it.
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Speaker 2: But let's begin with the five members of the Iranian
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Speaker 2: women's soccer team who have now been granted humanitarian visas
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Speaker 2: after escaping a.
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Speaker 3: Gold Coast hotel.
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Speaker 2: Late last night with the help of Australian Federal Police.
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Speaker 2: The players reportedly slipped past official team minders suspected of
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Speaker 2: being Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officials, shortly before seven pm,
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Speaker 2: seeking protection from local authorities. They're now being held in
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Speaker 2: a safe house in Brisbane, while Home Affairs has refuted
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Speaker 2: reports of another three players fleeing the team hotel.
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Speaker 3: I just love this. The five players broke out into
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Speaker 3: azi azzi azzi Oi oi oi.
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Speaker 2: When they were told they could stay. Home Affairs Minister
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Speaker 2: Tony Burke said other members of the team are being
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Speaker 2: offered the same chance to apply for asylum.
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Speaker 5: I signed off last night for their applications to go
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Speaker 5: on to humanitarian visas. I say to the other members
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Speaker 5: of the team, the same opportunity is there. Australia has
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Speaker 5: taken the Iranian women's soccer team into our hearts, but.
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Speaker 2: This move was only announced after a phone call between
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Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi. President
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Speaker 2: Trump had posted to truth Social overnight Australia is making
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Speaker 2: a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran national women's
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Speaker 2: soccer team to be forced back to Iran where they
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Speaker 2: will most likely be ki. Don't do it, mister Prime Minister,
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Speaker 2: give asylum. The US will take them if you won't.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for your attention to this matter. But there
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Speaker 2: was a very different post from Trump after the phone
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Speaker 2: call he had with Prime Minister Anthony Alberzi. The President
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Speaker 2: now writing, I just spoke to Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi
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Speaker 2: of Australia concerning the Iranian women's soccer team.
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Speaker 3: He's on it.
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Speaker 2: Five have already been taken care of, and the rest
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Speaker 2: are on their way. Some, however, feel they must go
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Speaker 2: back because they are worried about the safety of their families,
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Speaker 2: including threats to those family members if they don't return.
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Speaker 2: In any event, the Prime Minister is doing a very
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Speaker 2: good job having to do with this rather delicate situation.
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Speaker 2: God bless Australia well. Joining me now is the Deputy
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Speaker 2: Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, Daniel Wilde.
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Speaker 3: Daniel, this is a welcome.
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Speaker 2: Result, no doubt for these players, although concern does remain
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Speaker 2: for the welfare of the other players heading back to
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Speaker 2: a run where they've been branded wartime.
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Speaker 3: Traders, But it is a real shift.
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Speaker 2: In the government's response to this from earlier in this
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Speaker 2: whole saga. You'll remember the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs,
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Speaker 2: Matt this Alweit had said that the players would not
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Speaker 2: be given preferential treatment. What do you think was behind
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Speaker 2: this apparent change of heart? Was it US intervention here
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Speaker 2: or do you think the government had been working all
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Speaker 2: along towards this.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's a couple of things.
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Speaker 6: I mean, it does look like the US is intervening
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Speaker 6: in our domestic affairs, trying to dictate our immigration policy,
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Speaker 6: and you know, it should be the Australian government that
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Speaker 6: has sovereignty over what arrangements can be made. So it's
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Speaker 6: hard to avoid the conclusion that Anthony Abernezi is kowtowing
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Speaker 6: to the Trump administration, which is an interesting turn of events.
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Speaker 6: I think in terms of the domestic side of it, well,
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Speaker 6: I think it's good and positive that we're able to
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Speaker 6: welcome people who are under a threat from their home country.
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Speaker 6: But it's difficult to see this as anything other than political.
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Speaker 6: You know, the migration policy of this government has in
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Speaker 6: the main been driven by political considerations rather than humanitarian,
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Speaker 6: economic or social consideration, So that would have been very
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Speaker 6: much the rubric. I guarantee you they would have had
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Speaker 6: the electric map out in the offices when they're looking
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Speaker 6: as to where these people are going to be resettled.
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Speaker 6: That's how this government works, and I doubt that this
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Speaker 6: is any different two past decisions they've taken.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: I wonder how popular the decision would be in some
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Speaker 2: of the seats that labor ministers like Tony Boke himself holds,
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Speaker 2: because we've seen a lot of those seats be threatened
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Speaker 2: by the rise of Muslim independents who've supported the pro
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Speaker 2: Palestine movement, but they haven't been very active or vocal
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Speaker 2: at all when it comes to protecting their reigning regime.
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Speaker 2: I tend to think that in this case, it is
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Speaker 2: the right move from the government and a bit of
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Speaker 2: a departure from previous moves where they haven't exactly been
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Speaker 2: too keen to fall in line with the US on
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Speaker 2: things like Gaza for instance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Well, the one thing I know is Tony Burke wouldn't
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Speaker 6: do it if it didn't suit Tony Burke, So you
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Speaker 6: know that much is clear, you know, And I think
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Speaker 6: it's a shame because Australians don't have any confidence in
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Speaker 6: our migration system overall because it has been used for
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Speaker 6: political purposes. I'm not saying every single decision has been
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Speaker 6: taken for that reason.
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Speaker 1: But a lot have.
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Speaker 6: And you know, the other concern I have here is
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Speaker 6: that we don't want to see a double standard. We
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Speaker 6: want to help as many people as we can, and
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Speaker 6: people who are in genuine need off refuge should be
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Speaker 6: welcomed into our country. But that shouldn't just be because
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Speaker 6: they're in a sporting team. And I certainly hope that
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Speaker 6: this decision hasn't just been taken because it's high profile
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Speaker 6: and it's going to get a lot of media interest
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Speaker 6: in that fact, because there could be many other worthy
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Speaker 6: people that are now being excluded from coming to our
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Speaker 6: country who may be even more needy than those who
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Speaker 6: the Iranian soccer team. So I hate to think that
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Speaker 6: this is being done simply because it's a high profile
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Speaker 6: case that gets good publicity.
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 2: Look, I think it's a large part of it, but
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Speaker 2: I don't think anyone can deny that these women were
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Speaker 2: truly at risk. After refusing to sing the national anthem
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Speaker 2: at one of their first games, they faced horrible consequences
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Speaker 2: back in their home country.
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Speaker 1: Look.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, President Trump provided an update earlier today, saying the
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Speaker 2: US has achieved major strides towards completing its military objective
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Speaker 2: in Iran, with every single force wiped out.
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Speaker 8: We're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective, and
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Speaker 8: people could say they're pretty well complete. We've wiped every
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Speaker 8: single force in Iran out very completely. Most of Iran's
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Speaker 8: naval power has been sunk. It's in the bottom of
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Speaker 8: the sea.
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Speaker 2: Iranian state television has also reported the country's newly installed
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Speaker 2: Supreme Leader ma Shabahamane was wounded during the ongoing conflict,
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Speaker 2: although it's not clear exactly when that happened. Dan, do
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Speaker 2: you see this conflict being over anytime soon or do
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Speaker 2: you share the concerns of some of Trump's critics many
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Speaker 2: in the US that this could be a forever war.
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Speaker 1: Well, I hope Trump's right.
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Speaker 6: I hope it is near completion because it was a
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Speaker 6: good move to take out the Iranian regime and to
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Speaker 6: stop their nuclear program.
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt doubt about that.
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Speaker 6: The big question has always been, as it always is
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Speaker 6: in any of these cases, is well, what comes next?
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Speaker 6: And so you know, we saw with Iraq, which I
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Speaker 6: think was a justifiable intervention to start with, but the
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Speaker 6: question was, well what do you do when you're removed
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Speaker 6: that avasane and they tried to implement democratic institutions, which
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Speaker 6: is understandable but ultimately failed.
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Speaker 1: So that's the big question here.
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Speaker 6: And I understand the reservations that some have, particularly those
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Speaker 6: in or to the MAGA base, about not wanting to
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Speaker 6: get drawn into a protracted conflict. So if Trump is
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Speaker 6: able to draw a line underneath it, you'd have to
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Speaker 6: say he's done a remarkable job in being able to
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Speaker 6: execute a discrete and targeted military objective without getting the
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Speaker 6: US drawn into a broader regional conflict. That would be
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Speaker 6: an outstanding and very rare achievement. So if he has
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Speaker 6: done that, or if he can draw that to a close,
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Speaker 6: you know, he gets a ten out of ten for it.
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Speaker 1: I certainly hope that's the case.
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Speaker 3: Let's hope.
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Speaker 7: So.
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Speaker 2: Albanizy has also announced Australia will send missiles, EIGHTYF personnel
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Speaker 2: and an E seven a wedge tail plane to help
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Speaker 2: Golf states defend them to defend these Golf states under
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Speaker 2: attack from Iranian drones and missiles, but the Prime Minister
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Speaker 2: reiterated Australia will not be involved in any possible troop
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Speaker 2: deployment in around itself, will be involved in offensive strikes. Daniel,
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Speaker 2: what do you make of that announcement? Should we be
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Speaker 2: more involved in this conflict or do you think we're
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Speaker 2: right to take this approach?
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Speaker 6: From my perspective, it looks like a pretty good approach,
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Speaker 6: a pretty balanced approach to start with. I don't know
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Speaker 6: what the US has asked of us. Perhaps they asked
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Speaker 6: for more and we didn't want to give it. I
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Speaker 6: don't know. I tend to be of the view that
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Speaker 6: the US is our most important ally. That has been
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Speaker 6: the case since World War Two and will be the
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Speaker 6: case now for many decades to come. So we need
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Speaker 6: to be a good, reliable and dependable ally. And if
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Speaker 6: the US has requested this of us, I'm not just
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Speaker 6: saying we do whatever the US wants, but we need
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Speaker 6: to play our role in that alliance. So if the
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Speaker 6: US has made it clear that this contribution will make
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Speaker 6: a difference to that effort, then this is a very
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Speaker 6: good move. So we'll wait and see whether anything else
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Speaker 6: is requested. I don't think that our troops should go there,
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Speaker 6: certainly not at this stage. So to me, on the
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Speaker 6: face of it, it seems like a reasonable balance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you'd have to say that Trump has spoken
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Speaker 2: very highly of Anthony ALBINIZI if he wasn't meeting the
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Speaker 2: demands from the United States of this, I think we
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Speaker 2: would hear about it. The war is also sparking huge
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Speaker 2: fears meanwhile about Australia's economic stability. There are concerns that
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Speaker 2: inflation in Australia could jump as high as five percent
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Speaker 2: in coming months due to the petrol supply crunch. But
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Speaker 2: what's Treasurer Jim Chalmers's biggest concern at the moment changes
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Speaker 2: to the capital gains tax discount.
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Speaker 3: The Australian reports.
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Speaker 2: Treasury is modeling scrapping the entire capital gains tax discount
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Speaker 2: on investment properties and replacing it with a flat tax
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Speaker 2: and indexation. Daniel, has the government got its priorities right here.
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Speaker 1: Look at this very point in time. Probably not.
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Speaker 6: I am intrigued though about the flat tax. I'm not
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Speaker 6: sure if that refers to personal income or something else.
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Speaker 1: But certainly if they're saying they're going to.
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Speaker 6: Remove the negative gearing or the capital gains tax benefits
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Speaker 6: and to replace that with a flat income tax with
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Speaker 6: the e come tax rates to be indexed. I'm not
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Speaker 6: sure you'd need indexation of its flat, but anyway, that
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Speaker 6: could be something to look at. You know, the problem
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Speaker 6: has always been, well, if you're simply going to remove
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Speaker 6: the capital gains tax discount and not do anything else,
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Speaker 6: and that's going to be a big tax slug. But
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Speaker 6: if they're offsetting it somewhere else in the tax system,
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Speaker 6: then that's something that we should keep an open mind towards.
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Speaker 6: Look in terms of the domestic situation with the inflation
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Speaker 6: and the fuel and oil, well, this is a domestic
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Speaker 6: disaster in the making for many years. I mean, we've
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Speaker 6: only got two oil refineries left in this country, which
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Speaker 6: has been a result of policy decisions taken by successive
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Speaker 6: governments in the name of climate change and net zero.
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Speaker 6: We import something like ninety percent of our liquid oil stock.
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Speaker 6: There's no reason for that. We have plenty of crude
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Speaker 6: oil in our country. We should have more refineries, not fewer,
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Speaker 6: and we should have our own sovereign abilities to refine
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Speaker 6: the oil for our own domestic market should we need to.
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Speaker 6: So Look, this is another example of what happens when
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Speaker 6: we outsource our manufacturing and industrial capabilities. When the wheeze
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Speaker 6: is on, you know we miss out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and farmers.
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Speaker 2: An independent fuel retail is a warning of the supply
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Speaker 2: crisis and how it's left parts of Australia running out
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Speaker 2: of fuel and of course leading to panic buying with
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Speaker 2: seeing long queues out of petrol station. So I dare
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Speaker 2: say this isn't going to wrap up anytime soon with
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Speaker 2: this conflict ongoing. Let's quickly talk about this year's Sydney Baynale,
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Speaker 2: which has opened without its controversial artistic director attending the
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Speaker 2: exhibition's launch. The Emirati Princess jor Al Cassimi had been
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Speaker 2: expected at today's opening, but organizers said she wants to
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Speaker 2: the focus day on the artists and their work. But
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Speaker 2: her absence comes after a former Biinali director, Maurice Schwartz,
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Speaker 2: raised concerns that the country's largest contemporary art event could
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Speaker 2: provide a platform for vocal anti semites and The Australian
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Speaker 2: is also reporting today that krla Zan Patty Chief executive
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Speaker 2: Officer Alex Schuman will host a party for the bayern
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Speaker 2: Aarley patrons at his penthouse apartment, and that's despite having
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Speaker 2: such concerns about the overwhelmingly pro Palestinian programming that he
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Speaker 2: had the company pull its funding from the event. So
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a turnaround there, Daniel.
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Speaker 3: We've seen the arts sector.
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Speaker 2: Here become an increasingly hostile place for Jews or Zionists,
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Speaker 2: as the artists themselves like to call them. What do
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Speaker 2: you make about this turnaround from one of our biggest
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Speaker 2: fashion companies.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm mean it shows that the tide right be
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Speaker 6: turning a little bit on this issue. But you know,
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Speaker 6: I'm deeply disappointed in what's happened in the arts sector
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Speaker 6: over not just recently, but over many many years. I mean,
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Speaker 6: the anti semitism and the platform for one group of
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Speaker 6: people based on their beliefs that the exclusion of others
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Speaker 6: is the most recent manifestation of an art sector that's
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Speaker 6: becoming divisive.
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Speaker 1: Art is something that should bring people together.
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Speaker 6: It should speak to timeless human values of beauty and truth,
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Speaker 6: rather than engaging in fairly low rent, day to day
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Speaker 6: political propaganda and activism. Also, a lot of the artistic
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Speaker 6: community is depended upon government subsidization in some way, shape
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Speaker 6: or form. Now there is a role for that to
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Speaker 6: tax pays to support certain artistic endeavors, but there is
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Speaker 6: absolutely no role for that money to be put to
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Speaker 6: a political use. That is unfair that tax payers need
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Speaker 6: to fund that. So I just think it's an example
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Speaker 6: of wherever we turn in our society, sport, art, schooling
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Speaker 6: elsewhere unfortunately have been turned into platforms for political grandstanding
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Speaker 6: rather than undertaking things that can unite the community. And
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Speaker 6: I hope that we are at a turning point too.
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Speaker 2: True and sadly, as you point out, our taxpayer funding
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Speaker 2: is going straight towards that. Daniel Wilds, thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: True time tonight, let's bring in Women's Forum Australia ahead
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Speaker 2: of advocacy now, Stephanie Bass, Stephanie, good to see you.
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Speaker 2: We spoke earlier in the program about the Iranian women's
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Speaker 2: soccer team.
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Speaker 3: They have of course been.
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Speaker 2: Granted humanitarian visas and Anthony Albanizi has extended an offer
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Speaker 2: of assistance to the other team members. He said his
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Speaker 2: government had been preparing for some time for these defections. Stephanie,
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Speaker 2: despite the silence from many feminists on the left on
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Speaker 2: the plight of Iranian women and other women living under
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Speaker 2: Islamist rule. This is some very welcome news for these
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Speaker 2: five offered asylum.
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Speaker 9: Well good evening, Caroline, great to join you. Yes, of
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Speaker 9: course it is.
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Speaker 10: I mean, we have protection visas for situations like this,
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Speaker 10: so very welcome news. I do not understand the feminist
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Speaker 10: so called feminists that are silent on this issue. We
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Speaker 10: know how women, particularly brave women like these Iranian women.
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Speaker 9: Who have obviously stood in solidarity with.
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Speaker 10: Their felomen back home as they try and fight the
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Speaker 10: regime are.
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Speaker 9: Treated, particularly women.
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Speaker 10: Some of the report thought about the abuse and sexual
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Speaker 10: assaults are horrendous. So I just I do not understand
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Speaker 10: where these feminists are coming from. I can only assume
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Speaker 10: that they're so caught up in their omni causes. They
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Speaker 10: hate the West so much that they're quite happy to
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Speaker 10: decide with oppressive regimes. I mean, it makes as much
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Speaker 10: sense as you know queers for Palestine. So yes, once
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Speaker 10: again brilliant news about the fact that these women are
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Speaker 10: being offered protection at this time, and I look forward
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Speaker 10: to seeing this situation evolve.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you've nailed it.
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Speaker 2: I think it's driven by the utter hatred of the
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Speaker 2: West that they've chosen these very strange bedfellows who are
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Speaker 2: certainly no fans of women and no supporters of women.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the former liberal health ministers who've called
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Speaker 2: out the high degree of secrecy being adopted across the
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Speaker 2: country when it comes to releasing data on puberty blockers.
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Speaker 2: It's been revealed six out of eight states and territories
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Speaker 2: have refused to release any information on the number of
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Speaker 2: children prescribe puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria. Former Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister Tony Abbott, who is Health Minister from two thousand
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Speaker 2: and three to two thousand and seven, called for a
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Speaker 2: full national inquiry into the matter. Stephanie, this is outrageous,
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Speaker 2: especially as there's more evidence emerging now about the flaws
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Speaker 2: in this gender affirming healthcare model.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 10: Absolutely, this is a huge scandal. I mean, we call
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Speaker 10: this contested science, but there's very little to contest about
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Speaker 10: what we know in terms of.
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Speaker 9: The side effects of these drugs.
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Speaker 10: It is completely unacceptable that they're not keeping recalled. There
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Speaker 10: is regulatory oversight for these drugs used for their intended purpose,
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Speaker 10: but none when they're being given to minors.
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Speaker 9: With these horrific side effects.
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Speaker 10: Of things like cancer and image damaged to bone density
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Speaker 10: and infertility. It's absolutely shameful. I'm so pleased that Tony
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Speaker 10: Abbot is continuing to support calls for a national inquiry.
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Speaker 10: Queensland has held a small enquiry of its own and
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Speaker 10: the findings there have been so aiming that they've restricted
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Speaker 10: the use of puberty blockers until the Queen until the
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Speaker 10: UK complete their trials. So the fact that our federal
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Speaker 10: government hasn't reacted in response to that. In fact, private
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Speaker 10: practice is now prescribing these drugs and it's been fundraised
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Speaker 10: through OSPATH. There's been no response by the federal minister
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Speaker 10: in relation to that. But we need an urgent national
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Speaker 10: inquiry because all the states are doing different things. It's
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Speaker 10: hard to know what's going on and they're not being
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Speaker 10: forthcoming with the data.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some shroud of secrecy around this issue is ludicrous.
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Speaker 2: But there's another outrageous story because the ABC has refused
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Speaker 2: to reveal key documents submitted to trans lobby Group ACON
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Speaker 2: in the broadcasters pursuit of gold and platinum status with
19:47
Speaker 2: the charity. The public broadcaster declined to hand over more
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Speaker 2: than a dozen submitted documents and heavily redacted others that
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Speaker 2: it did release to the Australian newspaper. Under freedom of information.
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Speaker 2: The ABC is required by law to release documents Stephanie,
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Speaker 2: unless it would, on balance be contrary to the public interest,
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Speaker 2: but the broadcaster claims this issue is of only moderate
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Speaker 2: public interest and disclosure would adversely impact its business affairs.
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Speaker 2: As Stephanie, I'm sure you'd agree this is unacceptable. I
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Speaker 2: don't think it's a moderate interest.
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Speaker 3: What's happening in this.
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Speaker 2: Issue, and this is a taxpayer funded organization to the
20:30
Speaker 2: tune of a billion dollars a year. We deserve to
20:32
Speaker 2: know if it's been compromised in its impartiality covering such
20:39
Speaker 2: a public interest topic as this.
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Speaker 10: No, I've got absolutely no doubt in my mind, nor
20:47
Speaker 10: would anyone else look at these issues that it is compromised.
20:50
Speaker 10: You can see in the lack of its reporting, particularly
20:53
Speaker 10: around issues. For example, in the High Court there's been
20:56
Speaker 10: a number of serious judgments involving young people being put
20:59
Speaker 10: on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. The prison issue
21:03
Speaker 10: where male trans identifying prisoners have been housing women's prisons
21:07
Speaker 10: and those women subsequently assaulted. There's a whole range of
21:10
Speaker 10: issues around gender ideology that they are either not reporting
21:14
Speaker 10: on or reporting in favor of transactivists.
21:18
Speaker 9: This is not good enough because as you mentioned, they
21:20
Speaker 9: have a.
21:21
Speaker 10: Billion dollar budget and on top of that, they are
21:24
Speaker 10: still widely used by the Australian people. Forty five percent
21:27
Speaker 10: over twelve million people still go to the ABC for
21:30
Speaker 10: their news and they are not being informed of the
21:31
Speaker 10: facts as these things develop, which is very serious because
21:35
Speaker 10: the harms of gender ideology are really coming to the
21:37
Speaker 10: surface now and with their queer channel on Instagram, the
21:41
Speaker 10: fact that they're still promoting gender ideology and the transition
21:45
Speaker 10: of kids. It's devastating for these developments and it's just
21:50
Speaker 10: keeping the public in the dark and quite frankly, I
21:53
Speaker 10: think the ABC should be really wound back in its
21:55
Speaker 10: funding and just kept reporting basic news items.
21:58
Speaker 2: Look before you go one again your reaction quickly to
22:01
Speaker 2: the story broken by Ben Fordham on two GB. He's
22:04
Speaker 2: spoken with a woman who claimed that a brutal serial
22:08
Speaker 2: killer who now identifies as a woman, has moved in
22:12
Speaker 2: with two young foster children aged twelve and fourteen in
22:16
Speaker 2: Western Sydney. Reginald Arthurrel, who goes now by Regina, was
22:21
Speaker 2: released from prison in twenty twenty after serving a twenty
22:24
Speaker 2: four year sentence for murder of a woman in central
22:28
Speaker 2: western New South Wales. Arthur All's five year extended supervision
22:32
Speaker 2: order expired in December.
22:34
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four.
22:35
Speaker 2: No application was made to the court to extend the
22:37
Speaker 2: monitoring period. Stephanie, the fact he's now apparently living with
22:42
Speaker 2: a woman and two children, that's very worrying, isn't it.
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Speaker 10: It's very disturbing, And the fact is less than four
22:53
Speaker 10: years ago he was also convicted of another sex offense.
22:56
Speaker 10: I mean, I just have to wonder whether his transition
22:59
Speaker 10: is the reason that the authorities no longer want to
23:01
Speaker 10: look into it. Sometimes they feel like there's accusations around
23:05
Speaker 10: Transfhobi you're tied to this. But it's absolutely not good enough.
23:08
Speaker 10: There are children now that are at risk, young people
23:11
Speaker 10: who are early teens, twelve and fourteen.
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Speaker 9: I believe they are who are at risk living with
23:14
Speaker 9: this man.
23:15
Speaker 10: And even the daughter felt that her own mother was
23:17
Speaker 10: being manipulated by this person. So it's absolutely not good
23:21
Speaker 10: enough that the police aren't looking into it, and I
23:23
Speaker 10: think the New South Wales Corrections Minister should be asking questions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly there's something not right with him. Mentally, so
23:32
Speaker 2: he should be monitored at the very least. Stephanie Bastian,
23:35
Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time. Still to come.
23:38
Speaker 2: Feminists for Palestine attack Iranians protesting for women's rights under
23:43
Speaker 2: Islamists rule. These people have no shame or brains. That's
23:47
Speaker 2: next on Left, he's losing it. Welcome Back is filling
24:01
Speaker 2: in for reader, and now it's time the left, he's
24:04
Speaker 2: losing it. The Democratic nominee for Texas, James Tallerico, has
24:08
Speaker 2: a history of controversial statements, including once claiming God is
24:13
Speaker 2: non binary. Now, the self described progressive Christian is being
24:18
Speaker 2: mocked for telling a podcast he loves trans children.
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Speaker 11: Something that you love that's not family or friends.
24:29
Speaker 12: I love and just.
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Speaker 1: Saying this because it's on my mind.
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Speaker 12: The trans children who.
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Speaker 13: Showed up yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for
24:39
Speaker 13: their humanity.
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Speaker 2: Right, you love trans children. That's not crippy at all. Meanwhile,
24:45
Speaker 2: he's a transgender adults calling for activists to target a
24:49
Speaker 2: US boutique after being rejected for a job the store,
24:53
Speaker 2: pointing out it only hires women to help dress girls
24:56
Speaker 2: and women in their changing rooms.
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Speaker 13: One it's Emily, I'm here at the Wheaton Mountains in Wheaton, Maryland,
25:05
Speaker 13: and despite this store being hiring, you have beautiful justices.
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Speaker 1: I just went in and asked if I could be hired.
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Speaker 9: And they told me that I couldn't because.
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Speaker 12: I'm not a woman and only a woman can work
25:19
Speaker 12: at that job.
25:20
Speaker 4: So Cinderella in the.
25:25
Speaker 1: Wheaten Mall, you're on notice.
25:28
Speaker 2: Sorry again, not creepy it ll Meanwhile, an artist called
25:34
Speaker 2: Cricket has cut up the American flag out of anger
25:38
Speaker 2: at us.
25:40
Speaker 12: This is the first American flag I've ever owned, and
25:42
Speaker 12: I'm about to shred it.
25:54
Speaker 2: Someone please remove all sharp instruments from that individual. Cricket, though,
25:59
Speaker 2: is now planning to make a cozy quilt with the
26:01
Speaker 2: shredded flag and patches with the names of illegal aliens
26:06
Speaker 2: who've lost their lives in ICE custody, as well as
26:09
Speaker 2: protesters who were killed during anti ice action, but nothing
26:14
Speaker 2: with the names of Americans killed by illegal aliens.
26:17
Speaker 3: Of course.
26:18
Speaker 2: Now check out this Canadian tiktoker's foulmouth plea for someone
26:22
Speaker 2: to take out Trump over his operation to disarm the
26:27
Speaker 2: truly evil Iranian regime, while throwing in the old libel
26:32
Speaker 2: he's a pedophile for good measure.
26:35
Speaker 4: Can Anybody tell me why this world is headed into
26:40
Speaker 4: World War three just to protect a pedophile piece of.
26:49
Speaker 3: Why somebody take him out?
26:53
Speaker 2: Well, let's hope she's never allowed over the border now.
26:57
Speaker 2: Tucker Carson is by no means a lefty. It's what
27:00
Speaker 2: I would call the new woke right. But his latest
27:03
Speaker 2: take on Trump's military action in Iran is so unhinged
27:08
Speaker 2: you have to now admit the man has well and
27:10
Speaker 2: truly lost it.
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Speaker 14: Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife
27:15
Speaker 14: and daughter if they want, and everyone knows that, and
27:18
Speaker 14: that has been if there's one consistent lesson of history means,
27:22
Speaker 14: unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife
27:27
Speaker 14: and daughter. Everyone can feel that.
27:30
Speaker 2: That is bonkers and I am truly lost for words.
27:34
Speaker 3: But speaking of bonkers.
27:35
Speaker 2: Check out these useful idiots at a Feminists for Palestine
27:39
Speaker 2: rally in London over the weekend, screeching at Iranian dissidents
27:44
Speaker 2: fighting for women back home living under real oppression. Way,
27:55
Speaker 2: maybe these feminists should try protesting in Iran and see
27:58
Speaker 2: how long they last there. But let's finish now with
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Speaker 2: a few words from the CEO of United Airlines Scott Kirby.
28:06
Speaker 2: He joined the Katie Miller podcast where he claimed his
28:09
Speaker 2: company only hired pilots on merit.
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Speaker 6: How do you reassure passengers that says who's flying your
28:16
Speaker 6: plane is the one for the job, who is qualified
28:19
Speaker 6: at his merit based.
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Speaker 15: So I can't speak the FA but I can speak
28:22
Speaker 15: to United and by the way, I can speak the
28:24
Speaker 15: whole airline industry when I say this, we hire based
28:29
Speaker 15: on merit and we only hire the best.
28:34
Speaker 2: Sounds good, but that seems very different to what he
28:38
Speaker 2: has said previously during an interview with Axios five years ago.
28:43
Speaker 13: We have committed that fifty percent of the class of
28:47
Speaker 13: the classes will be women are people of color. Today,
28:50
Speaker 13: only nineteen percent of our pilots at United Airlines are
28:53
Speaker 13: women or people of color, and by the way, from
28:55
Speaker 13: all the data I've seen, that's the highest of any
28:57
Speaker 13: airline in the country. One of the things we do
28:58
Speaker 13: is for every job, when we're doing an interview or
29:01
Speaker 13: require women and people of color to be involved in
29:04
Speaker 13: the interview process, bringing people in early in their careers
29:08
Speaker 13: as well and giving them those opportunities.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, Scott, the internet has a long memory. Well.
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Speaker 2: Joining me now is Sky Andese contributor Kosher Gada.
29:18
Speaker 3: And let's get back to that top.
29:20
Speaker 2: Story about the Iranian women's soccer team we mentioned earlier
29:23
Speaker 2: in the show. Donald Trump had praised the Prime minister
29:26
Speaker 2: for his role in securing the safety of some of
29:29
Speaker 2: these players, but that praise came after Trump had earlier
29:33
Speaker 2: accused Australia making a terrible mistake by letting these women
29:37
Speaker 2: go back to Iran and implore to Albanizi to give
29:40
Speaker 2: them asylum. Kosha, do you think the President helped to
29:44
Speaker 2: change Australia's mind here after this reported forty minute conversation
29:49
Speaker 2: on the phone between the leaders, or had he just
29:51
Speaker 2: not been made aware of the back channel work that
29:54
Speaker 2: was already in place to help these women.
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Speaker 16: I think it's a fair assumption to make. I mean,
30:01
Speaker 16: we'll never know the intricacies of the timeline and how
30:04
Speaker 16: much backchanneling was happening that President Trump was or wasn't
30:08
Speaker 16: aware of. But I think if the President of the
30:10
Speaker 16: United States goes on social media and publicly names and
30:14
Speaker 16: shames another world leader, prime Minister Aben Easy in this case,
30:18
Speaker 16: and chastising him for not doing more or not doing
30:20
Speaker 16: it more quickly, I'd have to imagine that that had
30:23
Speaker 16: some effect and at least turning up the pressure the heat,
30:26
Speaker 16: even if maybe that was already in process. And he
30:29
Speaker 16: certainly called global attention to it and amplified the issue
30:33
Speaker 16: on the world stage in a way that only he can.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: True, and you know, the language from the government had
30:39
Speaker 2: been really cautious about this issue, and that even initially delied.
30:44
Speaker 3: One minister had delied that.
30:46
Speaker 2: They could give preferential treatment to these soccer players.
30:50
Speaker 3: So it was a real shift.
30:52
Speaker 2: Donald Trump in the US has now been demanding that
30:55
Speaker 2: Senate Republicans ram his voter id laws through the upper
31:00
Speaker 2: chamber and a truth Social post another one. He went
31:03
Speaker 2: so far as to say he won't sign other bills
31:06
Speaker 2: until this one is passed. Now it comes as the
31:10
Speaker 2: US Senate is wrestling with reopening the Department of Homeland Security.
31:15
Speaker 2: It's entered its fourth week of shutdown. A White House
31:19
Speaker 2: official had to clarify to Fox News that Trump wasn't
31:22
Speaker 2: referring to the Department when he made his comment about
31:26
Speaker 2: not passing bills. Kosher, what is this whole thing all about.
31:34
Speaker 16: Yeah, so there's two issues over there that you know,
31:36
Speaker 16: sort of get mixed and they're related. But the issue
31:39
Speaker 16: that Trump is maximizing pressure on is passing the so
31:43
Speaker 16: called Save Act that would mandate proof of citizenship in
31:47
Speaker 16: order for confirming that the person trying to vote is
31:50
Speaker 16: actually you a citizen and therefore has the right to vote.
31:53
Speaker 16: It's an eighty twenty issue. There are many of those
31:55
Speaker 16: in the country. That's very divided right now, very very popular,
31:58
Speaker 16: and even though the Republicans the House and the Senate
32:01
Speaker 16: and the White House, they've been really really slow and
32:04
Speaker 16: dragging their feet to bring this to the floor in
32:06
Speaker 16: the Senate. It has passed the House, and now the
32:08
Speaker 16: Senate needs to bring it to the floor. There's all
32:11
Speaker 16: sorts of machinations and horse trading supposedly going on behind
32:14
Speaker 16: the scenes, and it's just another reminder of how a
32:17
Speaker 16: big faction of the Republican Party is not really that
32:20
Speaker 16: supportive of the Trump agenda. The more establishment wing. They're
32:23
Speaker 16: sort of dragged along, kicking and screaming. The Department of
32:26
Speaker 16: Homeland Security issue is separate, where they've been mired in
32:30
Speaker 16: controversy a little bit. The Secretary Gnome has been removed
32:34
Speaker 16: from her position.
32:35
Speaker 3: There were those.
32:36
Speaker 16: Bad events that happened in Minneapolis recently, So they're just
32:39
Speaker 16: trying to use that the Democrats, I think, to make
32:42
Speaker 16: hay of that situation and sort of hold the funding
32:45
Speaker 16: of that department hostage. But that is separate from the
32:48
Speaker 16: Save Act and a few other things that President Trump
32:50
Speaker 16: is putting in there, and he is saying that that
32:52
Speaker 16: is existential. It is fundamental to the country's security and
32:56
Speaker 16: democracy and sovereignty. Get it done. Don't show me any
32:59
Speaker 16: other bill until this has past.
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Speaker 2: You'd think it would be fairly straightforward. People have to
33:04
Speaker 2: show their idea if.
33:05
Speaker 3: They want to vote.
33:05
Speaker 2: It's one of those issues that seem strange to us
33:08
Speaker 2: here in Australia, where we have compulsory voting and people
33:11
Speaker 2: need to be registered and show their idea. But anyway,
33:15
Speaker 2: a video has gone viral of Congressman Brian Mask questioning
33:20
Speaker 2: a State Department official over Biden era grants. The DEI
33:24
Speaker 2: programs around the world take a look as she tries
33:28
Speaker 2: and fails to explain what she means by making a
33:32
Speaker 2: map more gay?
33:34
Speaker 3: But what is queering the map?
33:36
Speaker 11: So I think we were trying to make the maps
33:39
Speaker 11: more gay.
33:41
Speaker 3: Literally, well, how do you make a map more gay?
33:43
Speaker 11: I mean, especially we're gay. You know, since the age
33:45
Speaker 11: of cartography, we've had pretty good maps, but maybe they
33:48
Speaker 11: weren't gay enough.
33:49
Speaker 3: So I know.
33:50
Speaker 11: Also, I took critical theory in college. I think sometimes
33:52
Speaker 11: people use queer as a verb. I do understand that
33:55
Speaker 11: the maps that we were trying to make gay were
33:58
Speaker 11: I think of Chukia and Slova, so maybe those countries
34:01
Speaker 11: asked for it. I doubt it, but I don't.
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Speaker 3: Know kosher, I mean, this is loopy.
34:05
Speaker 2: Can we just go back to how can a map
34:08
Speaker 2: be gay in the first place?
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Speaker 16: You and me, both Carolina are scratching our heads and
34:15
Speaker 16: millions of other people. I thought for a moment when
34:17
Speaker 16: she referenced her credential and whatever degree she had, I
34:21
Speaker 16: forget what it was, but I was thinking, maybe it's
34:23
Speaker 16: like English, Lid, and she's going back to old world English.
34:25
Speaker 3: We're gay and happy, and she's trying to make the
34:27
Speaker 3: maps happy. I don't know.
34:28
Speaker 16: I really wasn't a.
34:29
Speaker 3: Lot, she said, referring to there. But yeah's disappointed and clarified.
34:36
Speaker 16: Yes, it's you know, it's just an example of the
34:38
Speaker 16: money that was slashing around for many years, actually even
34:41
Speaker 16: before Biden, but certainly accelerated under Biden. Usaid all these
34:45
Speaker 16: DEI programs all over the world. There's like a gay
34:48
Speaker 16: friendly Sesame Street episode somewhere in the Middle East, and
34:51
Speaker 16: then Irish dancing that was queer, and now this, and
34:55
Speaker 16: the second story beneath that is not only is this
34:57
Speaker 16: pushing an agenda that nobody wants globally using taxpayer dollars,
35:02
Speaker 16: but also a lot of the NGOs and entities that
35:04
Speaker 16: push that have been enriching themselves in the process with
35:07
Speaker 16: that money. And when you have thirty seven trillion dollars
35:10
Speaker 16: in debt in a country and then you see this,
35:12
Speaker 16: it really makes people's blood boil.
35:14
Speaker 3: Understandably.
35:15
Speaker 2: The NYPD has provided an update on these improvised bombs
35:21
Speaker 2: that were hurled outside the New York City Mayor's residence,
35:25
Speaker 2: confirming that their belief the two suspects.
35:28
Speaker 3: Were inspired by ISIS.
35:29
Speaker 2: And had planned for an attack deadlier than the Boston
35:33
Speaker 2: Marathon bombing.
35:35
Speaker 17: Cayumi said in recorded post arrest statements that he had
35:39
Speaker 17: watched ISIS propaganda on his phone and that his actions
35:43
Speaker 17: that day were partly inspired by ISIS. A lot made
35:47
Speaker 17: spontaneous statements without being questioned by NYPD officers that were
35:51
Speaker 17: captured on body worn camera footage. She said, this isn't
35:55
Speaker 17: religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed
35:58
Speaker 17: name of the prophet, we take action. We take action
36:02
Speaker 17: as well as if I didn't do it somewhere else,
36:06
Speaker 17: someone else will come and do it.
36:09
Speaker 2: But Kosha New York Mayazar on Mom Donnie is still
36:13
Speaker 2: trying to link this allegedly Islamist attack to white supremacy.
36:19
Speaker 7: A protest was held outside Gracie Mansion where I live
36:22
Speaker 7: with my wife Rama. Neither of us were home at
36:26
Speaker 7: the time. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy,
36:30
Speaker 7: entitled stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City Kosher.
36:34
Speaker 2: The mental gymnastics involves here to blame white people off
36:38
Speaker 2: of what police say was an ISIS attack is quite remarkable.
36:44
Speaker 3: It really is.
36:45
Speaker 16: He is twisting himself into a pretzel there, and that
36:48
Speaker 16: won't age well because right now the FBI is widening
36:51
Speaker 16: its probe into these two assailants. Where a second generation
36:54
Speaker 16: Americans born and raised in America. Their parents immigrated from
36:56
Speaker 16: Afghanistan and Turkey, and supposedly they had more ie D's
37:00
Speaker 16: built or in the process of being built in their residences.
37:04
Speaker 16: They grew up by the way in middle class to
37:06
Speaker 16: upper middle class affluent neighborhoods in Pennsylvania and another jurisdiction,
37:11
Speaker 16: and that's where now the FBI is going. So this
37:13
Speaker 16: story is going to develop more and that comment of
37:15
Speaker 16: trying to frame it as white supremacy is going to
37:17
Speaker 16: make Mayor mum Donnie look pretty foolish. I think obviously
37:20
Speaker 16: he doesn't want to admit the religious undertone there or
37:24
Speaker 16: the connective tissue given you know, that's obviously his background
37:28
Speaker 16: of what he ran on. If he were smart, which
37:31
Speaker 16: I think he is. I don't think he's dumb. He's
37:33
Speaker 16: actually very savvy politically, he probably would have been better
37:36
Speaker 16: off going with an argument that, oh, look, this is
37:38
Speaker 16: blowback from the Iran War, which is one of many
37:41
Speaker 16: things that you know, people who are not happy with
37:43
Speaker 16: the war because it remains very controversial site. He would
37:46
Speaker 16: have been better going in that direction rather than trying
37:48
Speaker 16: to brand it as white supremacy and looking like a fool,
37:50
Speaker 16: which is what he does.
37:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very strange. I mean, it's confusing to me
37:54
Speaker 2: how he even makes that link. But look, that's not
37:58
Speaker 2: the only controversy. Mum Donnie is embroiled in at the moment.
38:01
Speaker 2: Despite failing to make everything free during his election campaign,
38:06
Speaker 2: his office is surprise, surprise, already tries to do the
38:10
Speaker 2: precise reverse. The mayor is now considering getting rid of
38:13
Speaker 2: all free parking in New York and making it paid.
38:17
Speaker 2: Is the city grapples with a five point four billion
38:20
Speaker 2: US dollar budget shortfall, Kosher, let me tell you as
38:23
Speaker 2: a Sydney Sider who has to pay an exorbitant amount
38:26
Speaker 2: to park in the city New York, because ain't gonna
38:30
Speaker 2: like this one bit. Do you think he's going to
38:31
Speaker 2: take a hit in his popularity over this.
38:36
Speaker 16: Probably a little bit, because a big part of what
38:38
Speaker 16: he did, you know, he promised rainbows and unicorns and
38:41
Speaker 16: free grocery stores and free everything else, and a lot
38:44
Speaker 16: of the younger gen Z people that voted for him,
38:46
Speaker 16: that was a big part of their calculus. There are
38:48
Speaker 16: many other reasons why people voted for him, but that
38:50
Speaker 16: was a big part of it. So they won't love this,
38:52
Speaker 16: and it is the kind of thing that will, you know,
38:54
Speaker 16: hit many many people. The other one is taxes. He's
38:58
Speaker 16: increasing property taxes, one of the few things where he
39:01
Speaker 16: has the authority to do that. Everything else has to
39:03
Speaker 16: go through the legislature. So wherever he has the authority,
39:06
Speaker 16: which is actually quite limited as mayor, he is going
39:09
Speaker 16: in the other direction of increasing taxes, increasing prices, and
39:12
Speaker 16: it won't work well. However, he benefits from a structural advantage.
39:16
Speaker 16: New York City today is not what it was in
39:18
Speaker 16: the Juliana years or even the Bloomberg years. And now,
39:21
Speaker 16: if you're the person who wins the Democrat nomination, you're
39:24
Speaker 16: pretty much on a glide path to winning the mayoral election.
39:28
Speaker 16: And he probably knows that. So he said what he
39:31
Speaker 16: had to say to sound good on the campaign trail,
39:33
Speaker 16: and he's making a calculation that if he goes back
39:36
Speaker 16: on his word on these things, it won't really make
39:38
Speaker 16: a difference in practical terms when the next election rolls around.
39:41
Speaker 2: Well, if pivolare learning thought socialists, not everything is free
39:46
Speaker 2: and it can't be. Kosha Kata, thank you for your
39:48
Speaker 2: time Still to come. A luxury brand refuses to sell
39:52
Speaker 2: Kim Karashi in a seventy five thousand dollars handbag for
39:56
Speaker 2: her twelve year old. We'll talk to Michael Loftus about
40:00
Speaker 2: and more celebrity news next.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back.
40:13
Speaker 2: I'm Caroline Marcus filling and for reader, let's bring in
40:16
Speaker 2: comedian and why to Michael Loft is now, Michael, great
40:19
Speaker 2: to see you. Let's start with pop superstar Rihanna because
40:22
Speaker 2: she's become the victim of a terrifying home shooting overnight,
40:26
Speaker 2: a source telling People magazine she is freaking the f
40:31
Speaker 2: out and doesn't understand why her family was targeted. Thirty
40:36
Speaker 2: five year old Avanna Oritz has been arrested on suspicion
40:40
Speaker 2: of attempted murder after allegedly birring multiple shots from a
40:44
Speaker 2: rifle into the singer's Los Angeles mansion.
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Speaker 3: Michael, this is terrifying.
40:49
Speaker 2: Indeed, do we know why AT's allegedly targeted Rihanna yet?
40:56
Speaker 12: I don't think we know yet, But I have ah
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Speaker 12: that she's a crazy woman. That's just me. I'm just
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Speaker 12: gonna go on ango and say it. And I'm just
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Speaker 12: glad that Rihanna and her kids hashtag and amper sand
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Speaker 12: and exclamation point are okay. I guess they all hid
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Speaker 12: behind her umbrella Ella Ella.
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Speaker 2: Michael, Seriously, I guess I asked for it when I
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Speaker 2: used to Rihanna as a topic with a comedian fears
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Speaker 2: for Britney Spears's mental health are growing after she was
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Speaker 2: caught driving under the influence of a combination of drugs
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Speaker 2: and alcohol. She's now reportedly keeping a low profile, but
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Speaker 2: it does come after a series of disturbing videos she
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Speaker 2: posted of herself dancing on Instagram, including one where she
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Speaker 2: is dancing with knives. It's now been revealed that Spears
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Speaker 2: has reportedly fired her sobriety coaches just before this arrest,
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Speaker 2: as well as several other people who have been looking
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Speaker 2: after her, including a number of security guards. It's Michael,
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Speaker 2: remember that whole free Brittany movement? What about to get
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Speaker 2: Brittany into rehab movement?
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Speaker 12: Yeah? I think that's that would be a great movement
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Speaker 12: to start. She's like, she's like everybody's little sister. I
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Speaker 12: think everybody wants Brittany to be well and do good
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Speaker 12: and and hats off to Brittany's sobriety coaches. What a
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Speaker 12: gig that must be. Just go to Britney's house, don't
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Speaker 12: drink that, put that down. You should do that now,
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Speaker 12: she was she was tired of being treated like a
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Speaker 12: sex symbol, and so she she quickly found the solution
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Speaker 12: for that, the crazy dance with knives. So so, ladies,
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Speaker 12: if you're ever being tired of being treated like a
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Speaker 12: sex symbol, just get those crazy eyes work and start
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Speaker 12: dancing with knives. We will leave you alone.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't think anyone thinks that's particularly sexy on
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Speaker 2: pul Brittany. Let's hope she does get some help. She
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Speaker 2: desperately needs it. I got think Christie's great grandson. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: James pritchadd he said he doesn't have a problem with
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Speaker 2: the BBC's woke casting after an independent review commissioned by
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Speaker 2: the British Public Broadcaster criticized tick box diversity casting. For example,
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Speaker 2: one of Agatha Christie's books was reimagined with a black
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Speaker 2: lead character and an entirely new storyline about racial oppression.
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Speaker 2: Michael Audiences have been criticizing the BBC's woke bias, not
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Speaker 2: only over these Agatha Christie adaptations, but also it's news coverage.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, the BBC has real problems. I mean they have
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Speaker 12: gone over the edge. But like Agatha Christie's great grandson,
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Speaker 12: I'm sure he has no problems with whatever they want
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Speaker 12: to do as long as he gets a paycheck, because
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Speaker 12: that's what it's about. The almighty dollar, right, but it's
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Speaker 12: gonna make the shows kind of boring because it's always
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Speaker 12: it's the fun of Agatha Christie is trying to figure
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Speaker 12: out who done it? An all these ones, it's gonna
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Speaker 12: be the white butler, right, You're like, oh, was it
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Speaker 12: the black millionaire brain surgeon? Was it the Middle Eastern player?
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Speaker 11: Oh?
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Speaker 12: No, the white butler did it? Every time?
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Speaker 2: That's true, there's not going to be much of a
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Speaker 2: mystery left because they're certainly not going to point the
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Speaker 2: finger at the diversity characters. Meanwhile, Steve Carrell's new comedy
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Speaker 2: Rooster is out, but it's been criticized for not going
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Speaker 2: far enough in its war on woke and for being
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Speaker 2: a bit too bland. Obviously, with that kind of review,
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Speaker 2: I can safely say you weren't a writer on the show,
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Speaker 2: Michael No, I.
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Speaker 12: Wasn't a part of that. But in full disclosure, I
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Speaker 12: once did have a deal with Steve Correll's production company.
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Speaker 12: He's a wonderful guy. He's really warm, and this is
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Speaker 12: one of those shows where you make the pilot, you
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Speaker 12: have a good time doing it, and then you're you're
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Speaker 12: kind of shocked when HBO is like, yeah, we want
44:56
Speaker 12: to go to series with that, and you're like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 12: I guess we'll keep making more. It's not going to
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Speaker 12: be angry, it's going to be gentle, and who knows,
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Speaker 12: maybe Steve Carell's fans will enjoy it. I'm gonna I'm
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Speaker 12: going to watch at least one episode.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like Steve Carell.
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Speaker 2: I'll check it out and see if it's bland or
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Speaker 2: if it has a go at woke I'm thick of
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Speaker 2: too overly woke.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it's.
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Speaker 12: On those sleepless nights You're like, boy, I just need
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Speaker 12: something like it. Oh, Steve Carell.
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Speaker 3: Maybe the reviewer did say it's a good show.
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Speaker 2: To have on the background when you're doing things like
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Speaker 2: scrolling your phone.
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Speaker 3: So I guess that's the way people these days look.
45:37
Speaker 2: Let's go to reports that luxury brand Immense has refused
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Speaker 2: to sell Kim Kardashian and Kanye West a rare Kelly bag.
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Speaker 2: They're said to be worth about seventy five thousand American dollars.
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Speaker 2: And let's remember this is that four their twelve year
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Speaker 2: old daughter Northwest. The bag was meant to be for her,
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Speaker 2: but the company's no. Michael, Kanye and Kim they were
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Speaker 2: reportedly quite taken aback that someone didn't want to take
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Speaker 2: their money. But what on earth what a girl that
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Speaker 2: young have to do with such an expensive bag?
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Speaker 12: Yeah? What is she going to put in a seventy
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Speaker 12: five thousand dollars What is she gonna owe? I need
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Speaker 12: to get these magic markers to school. No, and I
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Speaker 12: in a seventy five thousand dollars bag. That's crazy. That's
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Speaker 12: like the entire Iranian Navy.
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Speaker 16: You could.
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Speaker 12: And their air Force if you know, you don't sell
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Speaker 12: that bag to a kid so they can go trick
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Speaker 12: or treating and carry around their gummy bears. No, thank you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you're right. It's an obscene amount of
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Speaker 2: money for a bag, no matter if it's for a
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Speaker 2: twelve year old or a seventy two year old.
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Speaker 3: But look, it's their money, so they can do with
46:53
Speaker 3: it what they please.
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Speaker 2: Are talking about having too much money to know what
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Speaker 2: to do with it. Millionaire Melbourne's riches man, billionaire Anthony
47:01
Speaker 2: Pratt has done what the AFL seemingly couldn't, and he's
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Speaker 2: secured Kylie Minogue to perform at a private party of
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Speaker 2: his own later this month. Michael, there's been some speculation
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Speaker 2: Minogue could command upwards of three million dollars for this
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Speaker 2: performance in front of about three hundred guests. I mean, wow,
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Speaker 2: that it's a lot of money for a private party.
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Speaker 3: But it would be very hard to say no.
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Speaker 12: To it, really, it really would. And Kylie she's she's fantastic,
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Speaker 12: and hey, the guy made her an offer and she
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Speaker 12: said yes. So I would like to publicly make a
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Speaker 12: counter offer. I have thirty dollars American. So if Kylie,
47:47
Speaker 12: if you could just swing by my backyard, make sure
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Speaker 12: my wife's not home. Oh god, what a different No na, na, no, no, no,
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Speaker 12: no no. I will give you thirty five. I'm a
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Speaker 12: man of wealth and taste.
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Speaker 2: You're throwing in the extra five dollars for the gold hotpants.
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Speaker 2: I know you are, my guess of Nicole Kinman's daughter,
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Speaker 2: Sunday Ros. She's spoken out about her famous mom following
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Speaker 2: her divorce from Keith Urban.
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Speaker 3: She's told Elle.
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Speaker 2: Australian magazine Kidman is the biggest inspiration in her life
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Speaker 2: and a key part of everything she does.
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Speaker 3: Michael, her daughter, is now enjoying a taste.
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Speaker 2: Of celebrity life herself. Like many children of celebrities these days,
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Speaker 2: She's got more magazine covers and walking in shows for
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Speaker 2: some big fashion names.
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Speaker 12: Yeah. I mean, good for her, but it's kind of
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Speaker 12: it's always creepy. You've got a very public divorce. Now
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Speaker 12: she's siding with her mom, and it's like she's only
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Speaker 12: picking her mom's side because it was her mom's publicist
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Speaker 12: who got her the gig and got her the interview.
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Speaker 12: So I tell you, if if Dad can get her
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Speaker 12: into the grand old Opry, she'll be like, oh, my Dad,
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Speaker 12: he was really he was my rock. He was the one.
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Speaker 12: So they'll just go back and forth. It's a push
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Speaker 12: me pull you. It's it's kind of a blatant fame chase. Though.
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Speaker 12: For for Sunday Rose, hopefully her brother Monday Chrysanthemum, and
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Speaker 12: her other sister Wednesday Daisy, which is not when that's
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Speaker 12: hard to say Wednesday Daisy, hopefully the whole family can
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Speaker 12: get together and enjoy some nepotism.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just they're so reliable.
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Speaker 2: Michael loftis just like us. Yeah, Michael loftis, thank you
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Speaker 2: for your time.
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Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure to speak to you.
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Speaker 12: Have a good one.
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Speaker 3: That's it for me. I'm next is News Nights