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Credlin | 13 January · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peter Krandland Live on Sky News Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, welcome to the show.
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Speaker 3: First show for twenty twenty five, a federal election year
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Speaker 3: in the office.
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Speaker 2: I missed you. I hope you've missed me too.
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Speaker 3: Big year ahead, but importantly it's a big year for
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Speaker 3: our country's future as well. I've a feit bit to
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Speaker 3: say about that in a moment. But let's have a
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Speaker 3: look at what else is making headlines tonight.
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Speaker 2: Australia Day.
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Speaker 3: Well, the tide is well and to truly at turning
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Speaker 3: for the better you polling out today that reports the
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Speaker 3: majority of Australians want to keep celebrating a national Day.
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Speaker 2: On the twenty sixth of January.
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Speaker 3: Peter Dutton went further on that today new commitments to
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Speaker 3: protect our National Day if he.
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Speaker 2: Wins the looming election.
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Speaker 3: And how about this too for ma Andrew Hasty, who's
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Speaker 3: taken to celebrating our national flag. Well it's a whole
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Speaker 3: new level of commitment in his Australia Day campaign. It's
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Speaker 3: going gangbusters. It's all about the flag. Who's going to
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Speaker 3: join me tonight to tell you how you too can
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Speaker 3: get involved? And the sad parallel between the fires raging
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Speaker 3: in Los Angeles and our own experience has Green's dominated
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Speaker 3: the local councils here continue to ignore the warnings about
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Speaker 3: mitigating fuel loads. We'll get the latest out of the
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Speaker 3: US with Atlease and ask why despite the Royal Commission
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Speaker 3: reports here demanding change, we're not waking up here at home.
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Speaker 3: Plus a new path forward for the Victorian Liberal Party.
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Speaker 3: John Persudo turfed out just before Christmas. The new leader,
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Speaker 3: Brad Batton joins me here tonight in the studio. So
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Speaker 3: who is he and how's it going to turn things
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Speaker 3: around in a state that's desperate for change? And we're
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Speaker 3: too now for my good friend, we're redeeming and the
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Speaker 3: starter's gone has well and truly gone off. In the
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five election year, both the Opposition and PM
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Speaker 3: starting to frame their narrative.
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Speaker 4: I think will be crucial to Australians and the decision
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Speaker 4: that they need to make about what is in their
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Speaker 4: family's best interests.
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Speaker 5: How can we help back small business, how.
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Speaker 4: Can we help grow stronger economy, How do we help
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Speaker 4: alleviate the pressure that families are under at the moment,
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Speaker 4: And that's exactly what we'll be focused on.
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Speaker 3: But first, as I said, great to be back with
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Speaker 3: you in what will be a critical year for our
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Speaker 3: country and the wider world. Now, for Australia, of course,
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Speaker 3: it's a federal election year, and while we don't yet
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Speaker 3: know the date, what's clear is it Anthony Albertezy and
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Speaker 3: Peter Dutton have both started their campaigns barely by mid January.
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Speaker 3: We had the pmolt last week blitzing three states, promising,
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Speaker 3: amongst other things, to spend seven billion dollars on Queensland's
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Speaker 3: Bruce Highway, although whether the money is available now or
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Speaker 3: only in the forward estimates is far from clear.
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Speaker 6: Today's announcement of seven point two billion dollars of additional
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Speaker 6: funding for the Bruce Highway will save lives. It brings
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Speaker 6: the Australian government contribution up to seventeen b.
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Speaker 3: And do Yesterday too in Melbourne, the opposition leader Well,
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Speaker 3: for all intents and purposes, looked like a campaign launch
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Speaker 3: and it must win marginal seat in Melbourne.
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Speaker 4: Ristrabernezi says that this election is about the future versus
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Speaker 4: the past. Well, I think the past three years are
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Speaker 4: a good indication of what the future will look like
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Speaker 4: under a returned Labor government and that's a future that
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Speaker 4: Australians can't afford. This year, Australians will have an opportunity
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Speaker 4: to elect a new government and a use strong coalition
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Speaker 4: government to get our country back on track.
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Speaker 2: Now, look, people tell you this election matters. That election matters.
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Speaker 3: Every election matters because the type of government we have
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Speaker 3: impacts on the country we are. But this election matters
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Speaker 3: much more than most because the current government is hell
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Speaker 3: bent on trying to change our country. Shame our country,
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Speaker 3: send it backwards and bankrupt it. Said Whitlam is now
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Speaker 3: the refrain.
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Speaker 2: And it's accurate.
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Speaker 3: So how you vote at the looming election matters because
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Speaker 3: more than ever, you will choose Australia's future. Another term
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Speaker 3: of this Prime minister and we're locked into his trajectory
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Speaker 3: of debt, weakness and woke. Remove him and Australia has
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Speaker 3: got a chance to reset and change course. If the
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Speaker 3: Albanezer government hangs onto power and the so called green
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Speaker 3: transition continues, we will be saddled forever with much higher
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Speaker 3: electricity prices, the rejection of our traditional economic strengths and
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Speaker 3: mining and agriculture because of the supposed damage to the environment,
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Speaker 3: with a much larger and more interfering government running the economy.
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Speaker 3: If the Albanezi government hangs onto power, immigration will remain
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Speaker 3: sky high, wages will stay depressed, productivity will continue to decline,
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Speaker 3: housing costs will keep going up, infrastructure will struggle to
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Speaker 3: cope in. Our society will continue to fracture because fundamentally
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Speaker 3: the Green Left thinks Australia is built on white settler injustice,
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Speaker 3: and the more we change from the Anglo Celtic, Judaeo
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Speaker 3: Christian people we've been the better. If the Albanezy government
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Speaker 3: hangs onto power, our country will be ever more critical
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Speaker 3: of Israel, to pan it to Muslim votes in parts
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Speaker 3: of Western Sydney and Melbourne, and is shure to drift
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Speaker 3: apart from the United States and other allies, if only
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Speaker 3: because all its senior members from the Prime Minister down,
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Speaker 3: including Foreign Minister Penny Wong, who's off to Washington next
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Speaker 3: week to represent US at the inauguration, have all been
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Speaker 3: ferociously and publicly critical of the incoming president Donald Trump.
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Speaker 6: We have an alliance with the US, We're going to
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Speaker 6: deal with him, but that doesn't mean that you're uncritical
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Speaker 6: about it. He scares it out of me.
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Speaker 4: For all the American predisposition for episodic craziness.
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Speaker 5: Look at Trump, how did that happen?
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Speaker 7: It is not anti Sumitic to spect that Israel should
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Speaker 7: comply with international law that applies to all countries.
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Speaker 3: Since the Albanezer government came to office in twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 3: they have consistently refrained from any criticism of the Beijing government,
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Speaker 3: even when a Chinese warship deliberately harmed Australian sailors, so
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Speaker 3: much so that the commissars in Beijing now hold up
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Speaker 3: our prime minister, the handsome boy they call him, is
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Speaker 3: some sort of warped role model for other Western governments,
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Speaker 3: as if weakness is something to be emulated. With a
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Speaker 3: world growing more dangerous by the day, the last thing
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Speaker 3: we need is to weaken our most important partnerships or
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Speaker 3: walk away from trusted allies. But weakness is synonymous with
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Speaker 3: this Prime Minister and his government, And a government that's
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Speaker 3: been weak on the economy, on security, and on national
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Speaker 3: unity will only get worse if it's dependent on the
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Speaker 3: Greens post election, if he has to do a dirty
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Speaker 3: deal to hang on to the top job. Now, I
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Speaker 3: don't say that change of government is going to make
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Speaker 3: everything perfect.
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Speaker 2: There's much that's.
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Speaker 3: Beyond anyone's control, such as global markets, tensions and wars overseas.
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Speaker 3: And there's much that's hard to change, such as trying
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Speaker 3: to undo Labour's addiction to waste and spending. And I'll
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Speaker 3: have subsession with climate change. But in all the big issues,
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Speaker 3: the Coalition under Peter Dutton has better instincts. Yesterday's launch
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Speaker 3: in Melbourne, in a rare moment, Darton filled out some
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Speaker 3: of his own personal.
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Speaker 4: History many many years ago through to university. I through newspapers,
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Speaker 4: had a lawnmoil run. I worked at a butcher shop
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Speaker 4: after school and on saturdays from grade seven until I
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Speaker 4: started UNI. I have saved diligently over those years and
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Speaker 4: it allowed me to put together a deposit for a
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Speaker 4: house and I bought my first home at age nineteen,
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Speaker 4: one of my proudest achievements.
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Speaker 2: For a decade.
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Speaker 3: As many of you know, he was a Queensland cop,
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Speaker 3: seeing people at their best and their worst, and that
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Speaker 3: helps to explain his passion to see sex offenders and
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Speaker 3: drug dealers behind bars. While growing up in public housing
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Speaker 3: and then going straight into student and party activisms made
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Speaker 3: Anthony alban easy an advocate for ever, bigger government don't
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Speaker 3: did it hardly less tough was here. His experience of
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Speaker 3: having a go in different jobs and ultimately running a
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Speaker 3: small business before going into parliament, all of that's made
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Speaker 3: him an advocate for bigger citizens, not bigger governments.
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Speaker 4: Australians are best served by smaller government, which gets off
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Speaker 4: their back, supports free enterprise and rips up regulation.
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Speaker 3: Under the Coalition, he said, we can expect lower taxes
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Speaker 3: and an end to climate policies that destroy manufacturing jobs
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Speaker 3: and increase our cost of living pressures that are already
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Speaker 3: some of the highest in the OECD. His BacT in
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Speaker 3: his promise made here earlier on our show last year,
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Speaker 3: to honor our one national flag with new commitments today
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Speaker 3: on Australia Day.
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Speaker 4: We are a country united under one flag. And if
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Speaker 4: we're asking people to identify with different flags, not where
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Speaker 4: the country does that, and we are dividing our country unnecessarily.
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Speaker 3: If Peter Dutton gets elected, we can expect lower immigration,
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Speaker 3: more stress on our national unity over our diversity, more
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Speaker 3: focused on what brings us together rather than what makes
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Speaker 3: us different. It's going to be a big year in politics,
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Speaker 3: and it's a year in which your vote will be
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Speaker 3: more important than ever. During the Voice, you'll remember I
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Speaker 3: implored you to speck up. I said, if you spoke up,
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Speaker 3: if the silent majority didn't stay silent on this huge
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Speaker 3: constitutional issue, or the others would have the courage to find.
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Speaker 2: Their voices too. Or you did that, Look what happened.
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Speaker 3: You made history and you started to turn the tide
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Speaker 3: in rejecting woke. You started to turn the tide in
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Speaker 3: getting our country back. Let's not get complacent, Let's not
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Speaker 3: think the job's been done. Only a change of gaverning
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Speaker 3: Canberra will cement those wins. And that's the real fight,
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Speaker 3: betweenty twenty five, the fight for Australia's future.
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Speaker 2: We did it.
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Speaker 3: Before with the Voice, and I am absolutely confident we
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Speaker 3: can do it again. But it's only going to happen
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Speaker 3: if you do what you did before, and that speak
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Speaker 3: up in your business, your community, at the kitchen table,
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Speaker 3: amongst your mates. This is the best country in the
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Speaker 3: world and it's our duty this year, our duty this
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Speaker 3: year to keep it that way. Buckley, and I'll tell
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Speaker 3: you what it's going to be. A white ride twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty five federal election year. All right, let's go down
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Speaker 3: to Canbra for the headlines. Skyne is political reporter Canridden.
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Speaker 7: Back in town for an election year.
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Speaker 6: Today we get down to work building further on our agenda.
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Speaker 7: Anthony Alberanesi making his first major announcement of twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 7: tipping another three billion dollars into the NBN.
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Speaker 6: Labour created the National Broadband Network and only Labor will
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Speaker 6: finish the NBN.
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Speaker 7: These new funds would connect the remaining six hundred and
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Speaker 7: twenty two thousand households too high speed internet by twenty thirty.
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Speaker 7: For the opposition leader, it was back on the hustings
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Speaker 7: in the marginal Melbourne seat of Aston. In twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 7: Labor relaxed the rules around citizenship ceremonies, allowing them to
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Speaker 7: be held three days either side of Australia Day. If elected,
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Speaker 7: the Coalition would remove the leeway, forcing all ceremonies to
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Speaker 7: be held on January twenty six.
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Speaker 4: Bet it'll be done the first hundred days and it
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Speaker 4: will be a sign of pride and nationalism in our country.
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Speaker 7: In your view, is there any good reason why a
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Speaker 7: councils shouldn't hold it on Australia Day.
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Speaker 6: Mike Cassel holds the on Australia Day and on Australia Day,
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Speaker 6: I'll be here in Canberra at the national event.
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Speaker 7: And following another string of anti Semitic incidents in Sydney, it's.
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Speaker 6: A crime and the Purple responsible for that crime should
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Speaker 6: face a full force of the law.
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Speaker 7: Cameron Reddin's Sky News Canberra.
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Speaker 3: Well, the PM hasn't called it yet. Clearly well well
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Speaker 3: and truly into the electric campaign, aren't we? Both leaders
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Speaker 3: back at work, both leaders fighting to frame the contest
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Speaker 3: that's coming up, Both trying to frame each other too.
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Speaker 3: Now for Labor, they think they're continuing to demonize Peter
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Speaker 3: Darton will bear them fruit. But that's a risky play
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Speaker 3: because analysis of the latest Newspulp data shows Labour's lost
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Speaker 3: its edge with the female voters. It's the most significant
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Speaker 3: shift we're seen towards the Coalition coming from middle Australias
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Speaker 3: thirty five to forty nine year olds. Indeed, it's been
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Speaker 3: almost eighteen months now since Labour's had any poll turn
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Speaker 3: its way. So you got to wonder, do you what
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Speaker 3: sort of trend with that sort of trend, why the
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Speaker 3: government would want to wait until May to call the election.
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Speaker 3: If hanging around to May is only going to make
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Speaker 3: the coalition stronger or is it. For more on this,
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Speaker 3: I'm joining now by Skynia's political report of their cam
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Speaker 3: redditing you saw him in Canberra a moment ago, and
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Speaker 3: The Daily Telly's journalist James Willis. Gents, welcome, welcome back
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Speaker 3: to twenty twenty five. You are both going to be
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Speaker 3: busy young men. We'll start James with this analysis. On
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Speaker 3: top of what I said there about women and the
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Speaker 3: trend going yet again against the government, you've got Victoria,
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Speaker 3: Victoria woke old socialist left Victoria becoming a key battleground
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Speaker 3: for Peter Darton, so it made a lot of sense
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Speaker 3: to him to start that campaign, the unofficial campaign in
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Speaker 3: Victoria yesterday. But to my point, the longer the government
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Speaker 3: leave it, I reckon, the better these numbers are going
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Speaker 3: to be for the coalition.
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Speaker 2: So do you really think the.
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Speaker 3: PM is going to wait until May as he says
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Speaker 3: to call it?
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Speaker 8: Well, Peter, I think that's a strong argument towards the
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Speaker 8: idea of the PM going early, because if Victoria, which
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Speaker 8: has notoriously been quite weak for the coalition or the
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Speaker 8: weaker state, and also hasn't had a key role in
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Speaker 8: the final tally since the nineteen nineties with Bob Hawk.
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Speaker 8: If the Coalition thinks it can win three to five
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Speaker 8: seats in this area, they've spoken about four. They've also
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Speaker 8: put a lot of money towards a fifth seat coup
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Speaker 8: Yong today, which was lost by Josh Friedenberg to the
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Speaker 8: Tier Monique Ryan at the last election. If they think
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Speaker 8: they can win those seats, there really isn't anything on
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Speaker 8: the horizon that would suggest Anthony alberanize he's going to
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Speaker 8: get wins on the board between now and May to
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Speaker 8: wait to call an election. So yes, there would be
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Speaker 8: an argument to go now try and save some of
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Speaker 8: the furniture. Any sort of cost of living measures that
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Speaker 8: the Prime Minister wants to announce, including an energy rebate
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Speaker 8: lo we saw last year, can be done separately from
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Speaker 8: a budget anyway. And I don't think a set of
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Speaker 8: budget figures, once again being analyzed and criticized and the
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Speaker 8: way it has in the last twelve months, is going
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Speaker 8: to help labor at all. So certainly in regards to Victoria,
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Speaker 8: with Peter Dutton on the charge there, there's every indication
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Speaker 8: the PM go to the polls early to try and
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Speaker 8: save some of that furniture given there could be a
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Speaker 8: flow and effected in New South Wales and WA as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Look for those at home wondering if I've changed my
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Speaker 3: mind of the summer, I have not. I do not
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Speaker 3: think they'll be hanging around for the May twenty five budget.
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Speaker 3: I reckon they'll call it before then, but he won't
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Speaker 3: stop the spending. Cam another three billion dollars today this time,
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Speaker 3: of course on the NBN, it's cost fifty one billion
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Speaker 3: dollars to date. When our good friend here at Sky News,
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Speaker 3: Stephen Conroy, the former Minister, gets on the TV, I
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Speaker 3: hope people remind him that when he sat on Kevin
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Speaker 3: Rudd's vip jet it was about four point seven billion
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Speaker 3: dollars was the cost. They wrote it on the back
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Speaker 3: of a coaster. Of the NBN, it's cost a hell
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Speaker 3: of a lot more. And it blows my mind because
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Speaker 3: at the same time you got a fifty one billion
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Speaker 3: dollar ENBN that we all still pay for when we
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Speaker 3: get our internet. But Labour wants to say nuclear power
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Speaker 3: way too expensive.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a real belief within labor and some heavy
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Speaker 7: hitters are subscribing to this. To Peter, that the NBN
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Speaker 7: is almost on par with the likes of Medicare when
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Speaker 7: it comes to the big public assets that people have
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Speaker 7: this strong affinity for, which some people demonstrably do for
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Speaker 7: things like medicare. But I'm not quite convinced that that
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Speaker 7: many people feel so enamored by the National Broadband Network,
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Speaker 7: particularly when you consider the cost. Not everybody can access it, Peter,
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Speaker 7: I know there are some buildings or homes and unit
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Speaker 7: blocks that simply aren't connected or can't be connected to
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Speaker 7: the NBN. The government says this is the final push,
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Speaker 7: that this is the last lot of three billion dollars
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Speaker 7: to go in. We will see. They've set the deadline
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Speaker 7: by twenty thirty to get this done. But they're really
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Speaker 7: backing in this idea is Labor that the NBN is
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Speaker 7: something that needs to be protected and saved from privatization. Now,
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Speaker 7: I'm not trying to draw the connect the direct link
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Speaker 7: to medi Scare and the Medicare campaign that has been
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Speaker 7: running previous elections around privatization, but Peter, that seems to
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Speaker 7: be the drawing board that this has come from, where
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Speaker 7: there's this big push from Labor to say we need
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Speaker 7: to protect this. Labour's trying to get legislation through the
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Speaker 7: Senate before the election to try and prevent any future
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Speaker 7: sale of the nbent. The Coalitions kind of just.
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Speaker 2: Show that we really don't stay it.
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Speaker 7: We don't see a need to change. Yeah, they're just
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Speaker 7: interest side of Labor trying to protect it.
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Speaker 2: Well protect what though.
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Speaker 3: I mean Kevin right when he established it along with
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Speaker 3: Stephen Conroy, and they both wanted to flop it. They
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Speaker 3: wanted to sell it. Labor had it on the table
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Speaker 3: for privatization. So see this for what it is. It's
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Speaker 3: a stunt. It's an election stunt.
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Speaker 2: We'll see plenty of those coming up. Hey.
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Speaker 3: Also, what came out of not just the rally yesterday,
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Speaker 3: comments he made today why he was still in Melbourne
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Speaker 3: in marginal Seak territory, James Willison, This is the Opposition
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Speaker 3: Leander Peter Dutton Committee putting pressure on the Prime Minister
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Speaker 3: about ending Fence City on Australia Day.
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Speaker 2: Have a listen, would.
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Speaker 4: We reinstate the requirement for councils to hold citizenship ceremonies
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Speaker 4: on Australi Day. You bet it'll be done the first
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Speaker 4: hundred days and it will be a sign of pride
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Speaker 4: and nationalism in our country. I want us as a
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Speaker 4: population to be united.
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Speaker 3: Now, the PM says in supports that we heard it
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Speaker 3: in Cam's package there, James, but he doesn't right. He
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Speaker 3: sits on the fence. He lets public servants pick another
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Speaker 3: day to have off. He lets counsels pick another day
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Speaker 3: if they don't want to have the twenty sixth of January.
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Speaker 3: What I love now about Peter Dutton, you can really
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Speaker 3: see is getting his campaign line and length, is the
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Speaker 3: simplicity of his answers. He's absolutely authentic. He's speaking simply
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Speaker 3: and directly to these questions. He's saying, I'm proud of
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Speaker 3: my country. First one hundred days, we're going to sort
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Speaker 3: this mess out. We're back on January the twenty six
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Speaker 3: This is going to pay dividends for it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: The big problem with Australia, Peter, has been that it
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Speaker 8: feels in many ways like death by a thousand cuts.
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Speaker 8: We've had parts of the private sector, we've had supermarkets,
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Speaker 8: we've had foreign owned pubs, or come out and say
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Speaker 8: January twenty six is not a good idea. You mentioned
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Speaker 8: the public service, who don't have to acknowledge it. They
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Speaker 8: can work and have another public holiday whenever they like
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Speaker 8: during the year, and every time it goes back to
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Speaker 8: the Prime Minister or a senior member of Labor, they
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Speaker 8: just parry and say it's a complicated issue. Look people
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Speaker 8: like it, some people don't. You heard from the Prime
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Speaker 8: Minister just then when he was interviewed by or asked
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Speaker 8: a question by Camp at the press conference. So look,
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Speaker 8: Peter Dutton's take is refreshing, and I think the behavior
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Speaker 8: of counsels in this matter has been very disturbing, particularly
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Speaker 8: in large parts of Melbourne and also Sydney. I also
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Speaker 8: think Peter, overwhelmingly, if you were to put this to
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Speaker 8: a vote tomorrow, a postal vote, send people to the polls.
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Speaker 8: I really believe the majority of Australia, that be fifty
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Speaker 8: one percent or more would be happy with January twenty six.
20:06
Speaker 8: I'd be happy for that to happen, to put this
20:08
Speaker 8: de bate to bed once and for all. And the
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Speaker 8: other part on this every time you hear someone say
20:12
Speaker 8: change the date, well, guess what. You rarely never ever
20:16
Speaker 8: hear someone say what the date should be changed too?
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Speaker 8: And if there was a sensible alternative, perhaps we'd be
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Speaker 8: talking about it. But instead it just feels sometimes like
20:25
Speaker 8: people are having fun protesting and looking a winge at
20:28
Speaker 8: something when we should all be proud of our National Day.
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Speaker 3: Bottom line, the numbers don't lie me to get into
20:36
Speaker 3: that poll from the IPA. In a moment with Andrew Hasty,
20:38
Speaker 3: he's coming up. But Cam, we saw in your package
20:41
Speaker 3: there the footage of the latest anti Semitic jew hater
20:44
Speaker 3: want to call it attack in cdy disgusting sort of stuff.
20:47
Speaker 3: Labour's about to send the Attorney General Mark Drafers off
20:50
Speaker 3: to Israel. They want to at least have the appearances
20:53
Speaker 3: of mending the fractured relationship.
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Speaker 2: You know, I wonder if it's little too late. That's
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Speaker 2: the first point.
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Speaker 3: But we also know that there's a lot of upset
21:04
Speaker 3: now at this trip from inside the hard left elements
21:10
Speaker 3: of Labor. That's also emerged as an issue in the
21:13
Speaker 3: last couple of days.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, this has been a delicate issue for Labor for
21:18
Speaker 7: really ever since the October seven attacks. Peter, Yes, of course,
21:21
Speaker 7: in the electorate and how that plays out politically, but
21:23
Speaker 7: internally as well, there's been internal ructures, I suppose for
21:27
Speaker 7: some time about whether the government has been not strong
21:32
Speaker 7: enough when it comes to the condemnation of a mass,
21:36
Speaker 7: but also not forthcoming enough when it comes to support
21:40
Speaker 7: for Israel and whether they've been drifting one way too
21:43
Speaker 7: far or the other. You mentioned some of the internal
21:46
Speaker 7: rumblings around this. You have this rank and file group
21:48
Speaker 7: known as the Labour Friends of Palestine. They're often vocal
21:51
Speaker 7: when it comes to things like the Labor Party conference
21:53
Speaker 7: that'll be coming up again before too long, and they
21:56
Speaker 7: are now pushing internally to say that this trip perhaps
21:59
Speaker 7: might be counter intuitive or at least counteractive for what
22:02
Speaker 7: they want when it comes to being too much in
22:05
Speaker 7: the pro Israel camp, they have argued that the entire
22:08
Speaker 7: Israeli Parliament bears some responsibility for what they call genocide.
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Speaker 7: So that's one flank of the Labor Party, Peter, you
22:15
Speaker 7: think about how this will play out, I know Josh Fredenberg,
22:18
Speaker 7: to borrow a phrase from him, believes that this issue
22:20
Speaker 7: is going to be on the ballot in a number
22:22
Speaker 7: of different seats. And when you think about broadly too
22:25
Speaker 7: and how strong or forthcoming Peter Dutton and the Opposition
22:28
Speaker 7: broadly have been by backing Israel in some within the
22:32
Speaker 7: Liberal Party have put to me that that puts the
22:34
Speaker 7: Liberal Party and the coalition in play. In seats even
22:37
Speaker 7: like Wentworth where this issue is felt so strongly, and
22:41
Speaker 7: some of the language coming out of the Coalition has
22:44
Speaker 7: been really appealing to many voters in those areas that
22:46
Speaker 7: it might be enough to get someone like a Roe
22:48
Speaker 7: Knox in Wentworth over the line, even against one of
22:50
Speaker 7: the popular teals like a legal respender. So you're right,
22:53
Speaker 7: Mark dref is the Attorney General Judah isit there this week?
22:56
Speaker 7: Will see how much, if anything, it all comes out
22:58
Speaker 7: of those meetings.
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Speaker 3: All right, watch you closely, gentlemen. Thank you right now.
23:03
Speaker 3: On another side, the tide is turning for the better.
23:05
Speaker 3: A new poll released today by the Institute of Public
23:08
Speaker 3: Affairs has found the majority of us want to celebrate
23:11
Speaker 3: our National Day on January twenty sixth, and we've had
23:14
Speaker 3: a gutfull of the activists intent on shaming those of
23:17
Speaker 3: us who think being Australian is something to be proud of.
23:20
Speaker 3: In the poll, sixty nine percent of those surveyed agreed
23:23
Speaker 3: that's celebrating the day on the twenty sixth of January
23:26
Speaker 3: was important. Now that's a significant bump up six percent
23:29
Speaker 3: up on the poll last year. The numbers from last year,
23:32
Speaker 3: but perhaps those most heartening is the fact that there's
23:35
Speaker 3: been a ten percent increase amongst eighteen to twenty.
23:38
Speaker 2: Four year olds.
23:39
Speaker 3: Now that says that every age group now in the
23:42
Speaker 3: survey supports our National Day on the twenty sixth of January.
23:47
Speaker 3: Joining me now, someone who's defended that National Day, worn
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Speaker 3: our uniform and stood under the flag. We'll get to
23:53
Speaker 3: the lag in a moment. Shout out offends Minister Andrew Hasty,
23:56
Speaker 3: Well Andrew. Peter Darton will start with Peter Dutton and
23:59
Speaker 3: your boss. He said today as I said, authentically and
24:03
Speaker 3: simply and directly, that he'll forced counsels to hold citizenship
24:08
Speaker 3: ceremonies on the twenty six youll end this three day
24:11
Speaker 3: leeway that Labor gave them. They're clearly going off those
24:15
Speaker 3: IPA polling numbers. He's reading the room, Isn't he.
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Speaker 5: Good evening, Peter? He sure is.
24:23
Speaker 9: But we've been hearing this for about three to four
24:25
Speaker 9: years now. Regular mainstream Australians are sick and tide of
24:28
Speaker 9: being dictated to by a small.
24:31
Speaker 10: Minority of people.
24:32
Speaker 9: Those Australians are proud of their country, They're proud of
24:36
Speaker 9: their flag, They're proud of what the flag represents. Our
24:39
Speaker 9: tradition of ordered liberty, rule of law and parliamentary democracy.
24:44
Speaker 9: And they're also proud of the values it represents of equality, affair,
24:47
Speaker 9: go and madship. And it's great to see so many
24:50
Speaker 9: Australians who are keen on Australia. And it's right for
24:52
Speaker 9: Peter Dutton to insist that local councils do their jobs
24:56
Speaker 9: and administer citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day.
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Speaker 2: What I loved in this Paul Andrew.
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Speaker 3: Almost ninety percent of us so eighty six percent said
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Speaker 3: they were proud to be Australian. Sixty eight percent agreed
25:11
Speaker 3: that Australia has a history to be proud of. Now
25:14
Speaker 3: that really highlights there's a loud minority out there that's
25:17
Speaker 3: trying to dictate how we should feel about our country.
25:21
Speaker 3: But it's not just a silent majority of But these
25:23
Speaker 3: are big numbers.
25:24
Speaker 2: They reject that.
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Speaker 9: They're huge numbers, and a lot of those numbers are
25:30
Speaker 9: concentrated in out metropolitan regional areas of this country. You
25:34
Speaker 9: come down to my neck of the woods in Mandarin,
25:36
Speaker 9: people are very proud of Australia. It's an amazing achievement.
25:40
Speaker 9: What we've been able to do over the last few
25:42
Speaker 9: hundred years here in this country where we.
25:44
Speaker 10: Have people from all over the world with.
25:46
Speaker 9: Different backgrounds living together with common aspirations for our future
25:50
Speaker 9: securely and peacefully.
25:53
Speaker 10: And that's something that we need to celebrate. It didn't
25:55
Speaker 10: just happen.
25:55
Speaker 9: It's been through a lot of hard work, and if
25:58
Speaker 9: we neglect our important tradition like Australia Day, we're going
26:01
Speaker 9: to lose a lot of the good things in this country,
26:03
Speaker 9: which is why Peter Dunton they're so keen to preserve
26:06
Speaker 9: it and also to insist that as a country we
26:10
Speaker 9: come together under one flag. Only one flag can represent
26:14
Speaker 9: all of our common aspirations as a people, and that's
26:17
Speaker 9: the Australian flag.
26:21
Speaker 3: And just in that Vain you've got a fantastic campaign
26:23
Speaker 3: running in Canny. I know you had the bumper stickers
26:27
Speaker 3: together under one flag, but you've taken.
26:31
Speaker 2: It a step further.
26:32
Speaker 3: You've got these huge stickers for the bin. Not just
26:36
Speaker 3: people in Canning want them. Tell us more, where did
26:39
Speaker 3: this eventuate? What's the response be like, where can we
26:41
Speaker 3: get one?
26:44
Speaker 9: Well, the bumper stickers were very popular across the country.
26:47
Speaker 9: Together under one flag is a positive message we are,
26:50
Speaker 9: we are committed to a positive vision of this country
26:53
Speaker 9: and we want to see our country unified. So the
26:55
Speaker 9: bumper stickers have been very popular, as has that message,
26:58
Speaker 9: and so what we thought we'd do for Australia Day,
27:01
Speaker 9: we'd get binstickers, a three size stickers of the same
27:04
Speaker 9: message together under one flag, so that people can display
27:07
Speaker 9: them on their recycling and garbage bins when.
27:11
Speaker 10: They put it out each week.
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Speaker 9: It's just another way of sending a signal to people
27:15
Speaker 9: that we love our country, we want unity, and we're
27:17
Speaker 9: proud of our flag. And I think that's an important
27:19
Speaker 9: message of patriotism. So if people want to get one
27:23
Speaker 9: of those stickers, they go to my website they can
27:25
Speaker 9: order them and the details they are also on my
27:28
Speaker 9: Instagram and Facebook page.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic, So not just people in Canning, this is anyone
27:34
Speaker 3: right across the country. We're going all put them out
27:36
Speaker 3: on the street and show our support for our flag,
27:37
Speaker 3: particularly ahead of Australia Day.
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Speaker 10: Absolutely anyone in the country can order them through my website.
27:46
Speaker 3: All right, brilliant, Let's go to Obviously, the big news
27:49
Speaker 3: around the world next week will be the inauguration of
27:51
Speaker 3: President elect Donald Trump. The PM said last week this
27:56
Speaker 3: is just like you know, Pinocchio sort of stuff. His
28:00
Speaker 3: best place to deal with Donald Trump. He'll have a
28:04
Speaker 3: better relationship with him than Peter Dutton ever could. Donald
28:09
Speaker 3: Trump today has made it very clear expects all allies
28:11
Speaker 3: to dramatically lift their defense spending, particularly in relation to NATO.
28:16
Speaker 3: He wants that spending to be boosted by at least
28:19
Speaker 3: five percent. Here in Australia, though we've got a government
28:23
Speaker 3: led by the same bloke. He thinks he's going to
28:24
Speaker 3: have a Trump relationship that's better than your boss, who's
28:28
Speaker 3: not strengthened our military, he's weakened it. How do you
28:32
Speaker 3: think he's going to go come the twentieth of January
28:36
Speaker 3: with the new boss in charge of the White House.
28:40
Speaker 9: I don't think the Prime Minister has a leg to
28:41
Speaker 9: stand on His record itself shows that well. He said
28:45
Speaker 9: back in twenty seventeen that President Trump scared the proverbial
28:48
Speaker 9: out of him. He's had one of his cabinet ministers,
28:51
Speaker 9: Clara O'Neil, attacked Donald Trump Junior on Twitter, which he
28:53
Speaker 9: had to take down, and Kevin Rudd, the Ambassador to
28:57
Speaker 9: the US, has said some really silly things about President
28:59
Speaker 9: try Trump over the last few years as well, so
29:01
Speaker 9: I think they're starting well behind.
29:03
Speaker 10: Just on the politics, I think.
29:05
Speaker 9: It's really stupid to attack potential leaders from another country
29:10
Speaker 9: who are close partners. It's been a really poor lack
29:13
Speaker 9: of foresight from the Prime Minister. But also on the record,
29:17
Speaker 9: President Trump is looking for America's allies to do heavy
29:20
Speaker 9: lifting in terms of defense spending and uplift. And under
29:24
Speaker 9: the alb and Easy government, we've seen defense go backwards.
29:26
Speaker 9: They've not even kept up with the rate of inflation.
29:28
Speaker 9: So what we've seen to defense is cuts to capability,
29:32
Speaker 9: cannibalization of capability, and morale is.
29:35
Speaker 10: At an all time low.
29:36
Speaker 9: In fact, labor is presiding over a recruitment and a
29:40
Speaker 9: retention crisis. Young people can't join if they want to join,
29:44
Speaker 9: and many of them are becoming more and more pessimistic
29:49
Speaker 9: about their chances of serving.
29:50
Speaker 10: In uniform, which is a real tragedy for our country, and.
29:56
Speaker 2: Just a quick one.
29:56
Speaker 3: And this is a bit of a left field one,
29:58
Speaker 3: but you served in Afghanis and when the Allies were
30:01
Speaker 3: in Afghanistan there were huge gains for women. Now it's
30:06
Speaker 3: back to where it was in the Teliban era. Under
30:09
Speaker 3: Teleiban mark two. But worse than that news in recent
30:13
Speaker 3: weeks that women's voices will now be barred in public places,
30:18
Speaker 3: not just imagery. Women are taken off billboards of course,
30:22
Speaker 3: and they're covered in in burkers, but their voices will
30:26
Speaker 3: not be audible in a public space. Australia is playing
30:30
Speaker 3: cricket soon with Afghanistan. We lectured all the time by
30:34
Speaker 3: our sporting bodies. I mean they had to go with
30:36
Speaker 3: us last year or the year before, remembering of course
30:38
Speaker 3: in the voice. Should Cricket Australia be taking a stand
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Speaker 3: here on the treatment of women, given there is also
30:45
Speaker 3: an Afghan team cricket team for women, or do we
30:49
Speaker 3: just say this sort of stuff's got no place in sport.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: The Taliban is an incredibly repressive regime, Peter, and their
30:58
Speaker 9: treatment of women is terrible. It's absolutely terrible, denying them
31:03
Speaker 9: visibility in public because they force them to wear burkers,
31:06
Speaker 9: but also denying them a voice. And so I would
31:10
Speaker 9: agree with you that it's time that organizations like Cricket
31:13
Speaker 9: Australia think very hard about their commitment to equality. If
31:18
Speaker 9: they're really committed to equality, and I know they are,
31:20
Speaker 9: then they should be consistent and apply that principle not
31:22
Speaker 9: just domestically but also in international forums as well, like.
31:27
Speaker 10: Test cricket matches.
31:28
Speaker 9: And I think if we're going to play a country
31:30
Speaker 9: like Afghanistan, we're really turning a blind eye to the
31:33
Speaker 9: inequality and treatment of women. And I don't think that's
31:37
Speaker 9: a good thing. So my instinct would be to say
31:40
Speaker 9: that we should not play Afghanistan whilst women are treated
31:43
Speaker 9: in such a manner.
31:46
Speaker 2: Good on Deandrew Hasty.
31:48
Speaker 3: Tell you what when that cricket Australia captain wants to
31:50
Speaker 3: lecture us by about climate change but then wants to
31:53
Speaker 3: dodge in issue like this, I think you had to
31:54
Speaker 3: call it out. Thank you if your time, Good luck
31:56
Speaker 3: for twenty twenty five. Now you've got a big year ahead.
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Speaker 3: Now if you want one of Andrews stickers, go to
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Speaker 3: his website. Now it's all there for you. I think
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Speaker 3: it's a terrific idea. You don't have to live in
32:06
Speaker 3: his electricive Canning, you can get one. I'll also put
32:08
Speaker 3: it up on my socials as well. Peter Kredline Instagram
32:12
Speaker 3: have a look all right after the break The newly
32:14
Speaker 3: minted opposition leader in Victoria, Brad Batten the Liberal it's
32:17
Speaker 3: going to join me.
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Speaker 2: Who is he? What's his stand for?
32:20
Speaker 3: And if elected, how the hecks are going to turn
32:22
Speaker 3: Victoria around? Blas a bit later on the bullface lies
32:26
Speaker 3: the Left, Kip perpetuating about those horrible, horrible fires in
32:29
Speaker 3: Los Angeles, and more revelations too about Kevin Rudd's big
32:33
Speaker 3: bill for parties in our US embassy. He might be
32:36
Speaker 3: a multimillionaire, but I'll tell you what you are buying
32:39
Speaker 3: his champagne.
32:44
Speaker 2: Welcome back's still to come.
32:45
Speaker 3: Why it's time to seriously reign and government spending three
32:48
Speaker 3: billions today? Of course with the NBN, that is the
32:51
Speaker 3: tip of the iceberg. I've got some good information on
32:54
Speaker 3: waste in Washington under Kevin run. We'll get to that
32:57
Speaker 3: at a moment. First, while I was off air, of course,
32:59
Speaker 3: was much you needed change in the Victorian Liberal Party.
33:02
Speaker 3: Not only was Moyer Deeming finally reinstated to the Liberal
33:05
Speaker 3: Party room, she was of course always staying on as
33:09
Speaker 3: a member. But she's now back in the fold after
33:11
Speaker 3: that massive court win against John Berzuto.
33:14
Speaker 2: But his colleagues also voted.
33:15
Speaker 3: To remove him as leader and in his place select
33:19
Speaker 3: a man from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, former police
33:22
Speaker 3: officer Brad batten Well.
33:24
Speaker 2: Who is Brad Baton?
33:26
Speaker 3: Is he up to the job of uniting a battered
33:28
Speaker 3: Liberal Party and taking up.
33:29
Speaker 2: The fight to labor.
33:31
Speaker 3: I'm pleased to say that man Brad Baton joins me
33:33
Speaker 3: now the new opposition leader in Victoria. I know you've
33:36
Speaker 3: been everywhere in the media over the last couple of weeks.
33:39
Speaker 3: It's been just a fearsome pace. I made reference there.
33:44
Speaker 3: You're from the outer suburbs of Melbourne. You're the first
33:47
Speaker 3: Liberal leader in Victoria to come from that outer suburban belt.
33:52
Speaker 2: But there the seats of Libs need to win to
33:54
Speaker 2: win government.
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Speaker 3: How's it going to change the way you lead the
33:59
Speaker 3: Liberal Party?
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Speaker 11: I think out there, obviously, I've come from a background
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Speaker 11: police working in those local communities. They're an aspirational voter
34:06
Speaker 11: and I think sometimes we haven't treated them that way.
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Speaker 11: A lot of the communities out there, I've been with them,
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Speaker 11: struggling through the cost of living and all the things
34:13
Speaker 11: we can talk.
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Speaker 5: About in there.
34:14
Speaker 11: But the reality is I speak the same as them.
34:17
Speaker 11: I've worked with those communities. I've coached their kids in football.
34:21
Speaker 11: I was the paperboy in Berwick at the age of twelve,
34:23
Speaker 11: walking up and down the street. And I've seen the
34:25
Speaker 11: changes of those outer suburban areas really important, not just
34:28
Speaker 11: there out in.
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Speaker 5: The west, up in the north.
34:31
Speaker 11: These are the new areas of Victoria where the votes
34:33
Speaker 11: are going to be.
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Speaker 5: These are the new seats. There's going to be more seats.
34:36
Speaker 11: In these areas than inner Melbourne as we grow and
34:38
Speaker 11: continue to grow in Melbourne.
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Speaker 5: I'm one of them.
34:40
Speaker 3: So you're not a political operator. You're not someone who
34:43
Speaker 3: blew into that seat just because you wanted to run
34:45
Speaker 3: to Parliament.
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Speaker 11: I'm born and bred. I lived in Harkaway and Burick
34:49
Speaker 11: my parents. I was born at Noble Park Hospital in
34:52
Speaker 11: the seat of Mulgrave, believe it or not in They're
34:53
Speaker 11: but brought up in the seat of Harkaway or the
34:56
Speaker 11: elector of Harkaway. It was a really beautiful area to
34:58
Speaker 11: be raised. I understood how hot and community was to
35:01
Speaker 11: raise kids. We always talk about, you know, you need
35:03
Speaker 11: the village to raise a family.
35:05
Speaker 5: We actually had that.
35:05
Speaker 11: You know, Diane Olzac, who was a neighbor down the
35:08
Speaker 11: road with you, that yell at me if I did
35:09
Speaker 11: something wrong. It wasn't just mum and dad I grew.
35:11
Speaker 2: Up in a country down and talk about but.
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Speaker 11: I think that's actually what made me like I'd say,
35:15
Speaker 11: I've got my mum and dad's values. My parents are fantastic.
35:18
Speaker 11: They live up in Queensland now they've retired up that way.
35:20
Speaker 11: But that whole community, I could name nearly every person
35:23
Speaker 11: in that street that was part of the discipline, action, part.
35:26
Speaker 5: Of the support community.
35:27
Speaker 11: And I think we have moved a long way away
35:29
Speaker 11: from that. But these growth corridors, they're screaming out for it.
35:32
Speaker 11: They just want a community that works together, that they
35:35
Speaker 11: feel safe in, and I think we need to make
35:37
Speaker 11: some major changes around that.
35:39
Speaker 3: You mentioned you're a police officer. You come from a
35:41
Speaker 3: family of police officers. You also, this is interesting, you
35:44
Speaker 3: left school at fifteen. Later on you go back and
35:47
Speaker 3: you do higher education and you get to where you
35:49
Speaker 3: are now. But that's a lived experience of a lot
35:52
Speaker 3: of people.
35:56
Speaker 2: Crime, law and order.
35:58
Speaker 3: It's huge in Victoria, not just in Melbourne, but right
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Speaker 3: across the board. I caught up with a family friend
36:03
Speaker 3: last weekend. They've been broken into three times. Aggravated burglary,
36:08
Speaker 3: which is burglary. Of course, you know as a copper
36:10
Speaker 3: when you're in the home home invasions. The last one
36:14
Speaker 3: was a gang of seven. So mom, dad and two
36:16
Speaker 3: ten age girls are at home, a gang of seven
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Speaker 3: comes over their fence. You're in the top job, put
36:23
Speaker 3: yourself there. You're in there one treasury place.
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Speaker 2: How do you fix it? And fix it fast? How
36:29
Speaker 2: do you fix it?
36:30
Speaker 5: Priority? First thing you'll do is fix the bail.
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Speaker 11: If you continue to tell kids that you can commit
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Speaker 11: violent offenses, break into someone's home when they're home, and
36:37
Speaker 11: you can go home that afternoon from court, then you're
36:39
Speaker 11: sending the wrong message and they're going to continue to
36:41
Speaker 11: do it. So we've said we'll introduce that as our
36:43
Speaker 11: prior priority.
36:44
Speaker 5: If we get into parliament. The second thing is give
36:47
Speaker 5: the police the resources they need and ensure that the structure.
36:50
Speaker 2: And fix the pay deal, move on, fix the pay did.
36:52
Speaker 11: Mix and fillty eleven hundred vacancies that they've currently got.
36:55
Speaker 11: But actually say to the police, your priority is to
36:58
Speaker 11: protect the community. Now, the Victory Police have many other departments.
37:01
Speaker 11: We need to reallocate a lot of them to making
37:03
Speaker 11: sure that the police are on the beat and on
37:05
Speaker 11: the street. One van through all of that Paran and
37:07
Speaker 11: Malvin area is not good enough. We need to make
37:09
Speaker 11: sure that we've got more vans on the road to
37:11
Speaker 11: respond when you're calling.
37:12
Speaker 5: That'll be our priorities.
37:14
Speaker 3: So less police bureaucracy or less attention to the woken
37:17
Speaker 3: more where it matters one hundred.
37:18
Speaker 5: Percent, we've got to get them back on the street.
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Speaker 11: I was in Dan, you know, and we used to
37:21
Speaker 11: have three vehicles on the road almost all the time.
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Speaker 5: They struggle to get all their vans out.
37:25
Speaker 11: We had proactive police patrols walking the streets on the bikes.
37:28
Speaker 5: Engaging with kids, building respect.
37:31
Speaker 11: All of that's gone, and until you get that back,
37:33
Speaker 11: it's going to be really difficult to actually have the
37:34
Speaker 11: long term changes in crime reduction you need.
37:37
Speaker 3: The other thing, of course, is when I get around
37:39
Speaker 3: over summer, I look like Peter Kredlin, So people come
37:41
Speaker 3: up and to tell me, we know, what's the top
37:43
Speaker 3: of mine. The other huge issue is tax not just
37:46
Speaker 3: property taxes that the B and B taxes coming, the
37:48
Speaker 3: empty holiday home taxes. I mean that Victorians are drowning
37:52
Speaker 3: in taxes. Please don't tell me, yeh stuck with Labour's taxes.
37:56
Speaker 3: If we vote liberal, what can you do about this stuff?
37:59
Speaker 3: Are you prepared to have a crack.
38:01
Speaker 5: You've got to go and review all the taxes to
38:03
Speaker 5: start with.
38:03
Speaker 11: But the priority is if you're going to grow the economy,
38:06
Speaker 11: you can't continue to tax every person that's tried to
38:08
Speaker 11: go and make something of their life. We spoke about
38:10
Speaker 11: property taxes. Most investors are firefighters, police officers, teachers, and
38:15
Speaker 11: they get penalized just for trying to protect themselves and
38:18
Speaker 11: have an opportunity investment. We need to look at the
38:20
Speaker 11: airbnb tax. How unfair is the airbnb tax? Not only
38:24
Speaker 11: just for everyday families who want to go on holiday,
38:26
Speaker 11: A lot of people who have someone in the house
38:28
Speaker 11: who's living with a disability have to use airbnb because
38:31
Speaker 11: it gives me an opportunity to go to the beach.
38:32
Speaker 11: Now they've been charged seven and a half percent extra
38:34
Speaker 11: because this government's nearly broke. So we have to review
38:37
Speaker 11: all these taxes. But at the end of the day,
38:39
Speaker 11: the liberal value will come through. We want to be
38:41
Speaker 11: a state of less tax so we can create more
38:43
Speaker 11: investment here in Victoria that creates jobs and the return
38:46
Speaker 11: is in dividends to the status self.
38:48
Speaker 2: What about guests?
38:49
Speaker 3: You hate gats like labor, You're prepared to have gas
38:51
Speaker 3: in the system.
38:51
Speaker 11: Love gas, got gas at home. I think it's best
38:53
Speaker 11: to cook with to be honest, I've spoken to some
38:55
Speaker 11: of the restaurants in Melbourne. We've got new high rises
38:58
Speaker 11: where the government's trying to say to them, going to
39:00
Speaker 11: put gas on, but we want an Asian restaurant at
39:02
Speaker 11: bottom of it who needs gas just to actually operate.
39:05
Speaker 11: We will have a focus on gas, will continue to
39:07
Speaker 11: air gas exploration.
39:08
Speaker 5: We're very public on that.
39:09
Speaker 11: We will fight for gas in Victoria because we know
39:11
Speaker 11: it's best for environment and it's actually best for people's
39:14
Speaker 11: power bills.
39:16
Speaker 3: Internally, the party and your colleagues, you know you've got
39:20
Speaker 3: a big job to unite a broken team.
39:23
Speaker 2: All credit to you, and.
39:23
Speaker 3: I say this to my audience at home. You back
39:25
Speaker 3: to Moira all the way through. You're always in her camp.
39:28
Speaker 3: You've put more DMan back into the party room, which
39:31
Speaker 3: is important for unity. But it says to all the
39:33
Speaker 3: women who vote for Liberal or are supportive of liberal
39:37
Speaker 3: values that you're willing to take a stand on women's
39:39
Speaker 3: issues and our access to single sex toilets and change
39:43
Speaker 3: rooms and all the things that matter. Where do you
39:46
Speaker 3: see the role of someone like Moira from Melbourne's West
39:49
Speaker 3: in the future.
39:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, more is really important.
39:51
Speaker 11: Much like my suburbs out in the city of Casey
39:54
Speaker 11: and Kadinya, she's out in the West. These are families
39:57
Speaker 11: that have been neglected for such a long period of time.
39:59
Speaker 11: The importance is they're talking about really are that. They
40:01
Speaker 11: talk about cost of living, crime, they talk about the
40:03
Speaker 11: infrastructure they neglected on. They care about their kids, their
40:07
Speaker 11: family values. There's a lot of religion out through that
40:09
Speaker 11: West area. It's not all just Catholic. We've got Hindus,
40:12
Speaker 11: We've got Muslims. There's so many different religions out there
40:14
Speaker 11: who focus on the fact that they want to have
40:16
Speaker 11: the right to raise their kids the way they want
40:18
Speaker 11: to without government interference.
40:20
Speaker 5: That's where Moira is really important.
40:22
Speaker 11: She can go out talk to them, communicate with them
40:24
Speaker 11: and tell them our values are your values. Your future
40:27
Speaker 11: is going to be built from the fact that a
40:29
Speaker 11: liberal party can ensure that we protect your rights at
40:31
Speaker 11: home to raise the kids, your kids the way you
40:34
Speaker 11: want to without interference from an education department that wants
40:37
Speaker 11: to send them one way or a government that wants
40:39
Speaker 11: to interfere in your life.
40:40
Speaker 2: Are you going to be able to stay authentic.
40:43
Speaker 5: It's a big challenge. I know someone's already told me that.
40:45
Speaker 12: You know.
40:46
Speaker 5: The thing is, I try. I try. I try to
40:49
Speaker 5: be the real deal. And I said it the other day.
40:50
Speaker 5: This is me and this is what I hope to
40:51
Speaker 5: be when I get to election.
40:53
Speaker 11: I've already had people tell me buy a new suit,
40:55
Speaker 11: or do your hair differently, or someone told me a
40:57
Speaker 11: straighten my teeth.
40:58
Speaker 5: Well, my teeth are staying the way they are.
41:00
Speaker 11: I'll probably have messy hair some days, some days I'll
41:02
Speaker 11: be unshaven, and some days I'll get caught swearing down
41:05
Speaker 11: at the pub. That's who I am. And if I
41:07
Speaker 11: change that, the day I change it is a day
41:09
Speaker 11: for me negator politics, because then I'm not who I
41:10
Speaker 11: actually was elected to be.
41:12
Speaker 2: Breath of fresh air, bread, baton all the.
41:13
Speaker 5: Best, Thank you very much.
41:15
Speaker 2: See what we'll watching closely now, won't we?
41:17
Speaker 3: After the raak the sad parallels between the fires in
41:20
Speaker 3: LA and what we're facing in Australia. To the left recusing,
41:23
Speaker 3: of course, failing to reduce fuel loads bus, insane amount
41:27
Speaker 3: of your money being spent on welcome to countries and
41:30
Speaker 3: all that, and those bills too from Kevin Rudd.
41:32
Speaker 2: Living up big in Washington, but for how long?
41:39
Speaker 5: Welcome back.
41:39
Speaker 3: I just had a message Vanda Andrew Hasty. He sold
41:42
Speaker 3: a couple thousand of those bin stickers, So get onto
41:45
Speaker 3: his website there if you want one on your bin
41:47
Speaker 3: to be proud about your Australians flagate have Australia Day.
41:50
Speaker 3: We'll crossing to London too in a moment on this
41:53
Speaker 3: groomy gangs scandal and the PC kind of silence that
41:57
Speaker 3: went around the background, the Muslim background, these perpetrators. It
42:00
Speaker 3: goes all the way to Kirstarma. We'll get to that
42:02
Speaker 3: at a moment. But of course we've all been watching
42:04
Speaker 3: in horrow, so we've watched the fires in Los Angeles.
42:08
Speaker 3: Twenty people now have tragically lost their lives. Here's an
42:11
Speaker 3: update from our Washington correspondent and Less Nielsen, Peter.
42:15
Speaker 13: We're here at one of the checkpoints leading into the
42:18
Speaker 13: Pacific Palisades. This is one of the areas of Los
42:21
Speaker 13: Angeles that's been devastated by these wildfires that continue to
42:26
Speaker 13: rage and threatening to pick up throughout the week. It's
42:29
Speaker 13: Sunday evening local time. The latest figures are that twenty
42:33
Speaker 13: four people have died in these fires and more than
42:37
Speaker 13: twelve thousand structures have been either damaged or destroyed. Now
42:42
Speaker 13: we are expecting those fatality numbers to rise, and that's
42:46
Speaker 13: because there is still some uncertainty about whether more people
42:49
Speaker 13: have been trapped under structures that were destroyed by fire.
42:53
Speaker 14: When we've spoken to people who've been.
42:54
Speaker 13: Displaced, they have questions about things like where was the
42:58
Speaker 13: water when they need it. They want to know what's
43:01
Speaker 13: going to be done to help with the rebuild. They
43:04
Speaker 13: want to know that something like this won't happen again.
43:07
Speaker 13: And I've had a few people mentioned to me their
43:09
Speaker 13: concerns about Los Angeles hosting the Olympics.
43:12
Speaker 14: They want a decision made soon.
43:14
Speaker 13: On whether that will happen here, how it can feasibly
43:17
Speaker 13: happen with the logistics required to hold an event that large,
43:21
Speaker 13: and why they would spend so much money on that
43:23
Speaker 13: when they do need money going to this rebuild and
43:26
Speaker 13: most likely building more water reservoirs, so there's not the
43:29
Speaker 13: same problem with firefighters going to fire hydrants and finding
43:33
Speaker 13: them running dry after two years of record.
43:36
Speaker 14: High rains in this part of the world.
43:39
Speaker 13: Annalise Nielsen four Sky News and Peter Gredlin here in
43:43
Speaker 13: Los Angeles.
43:46
Speaker 3: It's shocking no water to fight a fire? Good speech show.
43:49
Speaker 3: Environment Minister Jonathan Dannaium joins me now, and so too
43:52
Speaker 3: does Liberal MP James Stevens from South Australia. A whole
43:55
Speaker 3: lot there to unpack, of course, not just for Americans
43:59
Speaker 3: but also John O. They've got a lot of the
44:02
Speaker 3: growth undergrowth issues in their forestry areas as we do
44:06
Speaker 3: in Australia. Go back to the two thousand and nine
44:08
Speaker 3: Blacks Thatdeday Royal Commission report recommended really aggressive and robust
44:13
Speaker 3: burning back programs. We're not doing that, despite the loss
44:17
Speaker 3: of life, that massive loss of life back then in Australia.
44:21
Speaker 3: Are we watching la? Are we learning the lessons again?
44:24
Speaker 3: Are we sending messages to our hard left green local
44:27
Speaker 3: councils that if we do not get this under control,
44:31
Speaker 3: if we don't build the dams to have water in
44:32
Speaker 3: those hydrants, that's what we're looking at. And it's not
44:35
Speaker 3: about climate change. It's about bushfire preparedness.
44:42
Speaker 2: Peter.
44:43
Speaker 15: If we aren't learning the lessons we should have learned
44:45
Speaker 15: by now, then there is something very very wrong. And
44:48
Speaker 15: you only have to look at those tragic events occurring
44:50
Speaker 15: in California right now, and it's not the first time
44:53
Speaker 15: they've had them. But if anyone is seriously arguing that
44:56
Speaker 15: we shouldn't be doing fuel reduction burns to save some
44:59
Speaker 15: plant animal species, well I wonder how those plant and
45:02
Speaker 15: animal species are going now that they've had those wildfires
45:04
Speaker 15: rip through them. Analysa's talking about where's the water. Locals
45:09
Speaker 15: wondering where the water supply was. Gavin Newsom, the Democrat
45:12
Speaker 15: governor of California, oversaw the destruction of four dams on
45:16
Speaker 15: the Klamath River and that project ending in October of
45:20
Speaker 15: last year, and that water resource was vital for fighting
45:23
Speaker 15: these wildfires. So government decisions to not do fuel reduction burns,
45:28
Speaker 15: to actually destroy dams and then blame it on climate
45:32
Speaker 15: change is the worst sort of government you could ever have.
45:36
Speaker 15: It's an appalling situation and all of those lives lost,
45:39
Speaker 15: I hope could have been avoided if this government had
45:42
Speaker 15: done the right thing. We need to learn lessons from
45:44
Speaker 15: what's happening and unfolding there in California.
45:49
Speaker 3: Let's stay in the United States because the tea what
45:51
Speaker 3: James Stevens, You've become a real thorn in the side
45:55
Speaker 3: of the former Prime Minister Kevin right, of course, who's
45:58
Speaker 3: living it up big in what I don't begrudge an ambassador,
46:02
Speaker 3: you know, putting on a nice feed and some decent
46:06
Speaker 3: wine to showcase Australia. I'm not suggesting he has cask
46:10
Speaker 3: wine or serves takeaway, but I mean his spending is
46:15
Speaker 3: now at obscene levels, isn't.
46:16
Speaker 16: It Pety, You're quite right. I mean Kevin Rudd is
46:22
Speaker 16: really living high on the hole at the taxpayer's expense
46:25
Speaker 16: over there in Washington, having a great time. We've accessed
46:29
Speaker 16: his private or personal expenditure report through FOIS and he's
46:34
Speaker 16: spent nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on his
46:36
Speaker 16: own entertainment and breakfasts, lunch and dinners, etc. At the
46:42
Speaker 16: residents over there in Washington. I mean, Kevin Rudd is
46:45
Speaker 16: in charge of our relationship with the United States, and
46:49
Speaker 16: they've obviously got an incoming Trump administration. We know what
46:53
Speaker 16: President Trump thinks of Kevin Rudd, so he's got a
46:56
Speaker 16: very big job ahead of him. But he seems to
46:58
Speaker 16: be spending most of his time doing a whole range
47:00
Speaker 16: of other things apart from being Australia's ambassador to the
47:04
Speaker 16: United States.
47:07
Speaker 3: Let me just move on to the issue of Australia
47:09
Speaker 3: and the Australian Open, which treated Australia Day at least
47:14
Speaker 3: the twenty sixth of January is kryptonite in recent years.
47:18
Speaker 3: Here's the tournament head, Craig Tiley, though on Radio three
47:22
Speaker 3: AW a couple of days ago.
47:25
Speaker 1: This year Australia, they does fall on the men's final day,
47:30
Speaker 1: and we will be continuing to ramp up our display
47:33
Speaker 1: of Australian flags and the celebration of Australian flags. We
47:38
Speaker 1: will also be announcing in the next week some of
47:41
Speaker 1: the events that we'll have around Australia Day.
47:44
Speaker 3: I know we choked on my wadings and tea when
47:46
Speaker 3: I heard that, John, we're turning the tide. Surely, if
47:49
Speaker 3: that's the response of Tennis Australia.
47:55
Speaker 15: Oh hallelujah, Peter, I mean far gone the days hope
48:00
Speaker 15: of elite sporting entities and corporate entities telling Australia that
48:06
Speaker 15: they should, in an indirect way be ashamed of the
48:09
Speaker 15: country they're a part of and they won't participate in
48:12
Speaker 15: this terrible celebration of this terrible dark history. Thank God
48:18
Speaker 15: that we're seeing this organization take the take heed of
48:23
Speaker 15: what happened that the Voice referendum not so long ago.
48:26
Speaker 15: I mean the fact that it was such an overwhelming
48:28
Speaker 15: rejection of this divisive approach to how we should view
48:32
Speaker 15: ourselves as a country, and the fact that now Tennis
48:34
Speaker 15: Australia seems to have gotten the message.
48:36
Speaker 5: I hope others do.
48:37
Speaker 15: Too, because frankly, Australians I talk to are proud of
48:41
Speaker 15: their country. They're sick of being told that they should
48:44
Speaker 15: be ashamed, and I just hope it starts to permeate
48:47
Speaker 15: through society, including in our schools.
48:50
Speaker 3: I feel it is. I feel it is. I'll leave
48:52
Speaker 3: with their gents, catch up soon. All right, after the break,
48:55
Speaker 3: quick break, We've got London, the UK Groomy Gang's saga.
49:00
Speaker 3: It's all back in the headlines. I'll explain why in
49:02
Speaker 3: just a moment.
49:06
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
49:07
Speaker 3: Well, if you've been following the international news over their
49:09
Speaker 3: Christmas break in the United Kingdom and around the world,
49:12
Speaker 3: there's been calls for a national inquiry into the Groomying
49:15
Speaker 3: Gang's scandal that's now back in the spotlight following a
49:18
Speaker 3: series of posts from Elon Musk. The scandal refers to
49:22
Speaker 3: the sexual exploitation, I say, rape of more than fourteen
49:26
Speaker 3: thousand girls in the town of Rotherham between nineteen ninety
49:29
Speaker 3: seven and twenty thirteen. Musk has accused the Prime Minister
49:33
Speaker 3: Kirs Starmer of failing to tackle the issue during his
49:35
Speaker 3: time as the DPP. The Director of Public Prosecutions in
49:39
Speaker 3: the United Kingdom joining me now, Spiked Online editor Tom Slater.
49:44
Speaker 3: I hope, Tom there. I've given a brief explanation as
49:46
Speaker 3: to why it's back in the headlines, But what do
49:49
Speaker 3: you make of claims by people like Brendan O'Neill. You know,
49:52
Speaker 3: you will that the crimes were buried back then, that
49:55
Speaker 3: they were called grooming, when in fact, the rape of
49:58
Speaker 3: young girls, that they were so buried because of political correctness.
50:03
Speaker 10: And I think that's absolutely right.
50:05
Speaker 12: Depressingly so. I mean, every time there's been an investigation
50:09
Speaker 12: in the media or an inquiry into the grooming gang scandal,
50:13
Speaker 12: as you said, this euphemism for rape gangs targeting young,
50:16
Speaker 12: working class and poor girls, the same story repeats itself.
50:19
Speaker 12: You hear the phrases political correctness, you hear the phases
50:22
Speaker 12: fear of what it will do to race relations and
50:24
Speaker 12: local authorities and local police paralyzed by the sense that
50:28
Speaker 12: if they tackle this crime, the mass rape of children,
50:31
Speaker 12: that it would somehow cause unrest, that it would cause
50:35
Speaker 12: too much discord because the perpetrators tended to be British
50:39
Speaker 12: Pakistani men. So this is a story we've seen repeat itself,
50:42
Speaker 12: not just in Rotherham, in Rochdale, in Telford, in Oxford,
50:45
Speaker 12: all across the country. And you could only hope that
50:47
Speaker 12: we're the beginning of a reckoning now. Even if Kirstin
50:50
Speaker 12: is a little bit slow to respond to those calls
50:52
Speaker 12: for a national.
50:52
Speaker 3: Inquiry, I'm almost out of time and just quickly, I mean,
50:58
Speaker 3: are we going to say an inquiry?
50:59
Speaker 2: Is this going to hit Keir Starmer?
51:03
Speaker 5: It has already hit him.
51:04
Speaker 12: Are we going to see inquiry? He's holding firm. But
51:06
Speaker 12: at the same time, there are already cracks beginning to show.
51:08
Speaker 12: Prominent labor figures breaking ranks because of the fact that
51:11
Speaker 12: this isn't a left right issue. This is an issue
51:14
Speaker 12: of are we protecting the most vulnerable in society? And
51:16
Speaker 12: I think we're starting to see some movement.
51:20
Speaker 2: We will watch her close.
51:20
Speaker 3: Say thank you, Tom, thank you for your Tom. Great
51:23
Speaker 3: to have you back, great to be back look forward
51:25
Speaker 3: to a fantastic twenty twenty five. He's Andrew Bolt.