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Credlin | 22 July · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peedo Krandlin live on Skying's Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, welcome to show. Great to have your company.
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Speaker 2: He's what's coming up on credline. A massive day for
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Speaker 2: US presidential race. Joe Biden bowing out now predicted to
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Speaker 2: you this would happen for some time. We'll go to
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Speaker 2: Washington shortly for all the analysis and what this means
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Speaker 2: both the Democrat but also the Republican campaigns. Accusations of
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Speaker 2: lawlessness against the CFMU continue to mount as Australians are
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Speaker 2: left paying for the cost of their out of control thuggerye.
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Speaker 2: The housing market I bears the impact, and the Labor
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Speaker 2: Party remains unwilling to take the union head on. We'll
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Speaker 2: speak to a former building watchdog about what's really gone
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Speaker 2: on inside the CFMUU Bo's Ashoka for Labor in the
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Speaker 2: latest News poll, with more than two thirds of voters
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Speaker 2: abandoning the Prime Minister as pre third PM as the
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Speaker 2: likelihood of minority government continues to grow and there's still
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Speaker 2: a lot that could happen between now and the Democratic
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Speaker 2: Convention in August, but already the Republicans are banking on
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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris as the candidate and they've come out swinging
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Speaker 2: with it. Hours of the departure of Joe Biden.
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Speaker 3: Carmelin knew Joe couldn't do the job, so she did it.
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Speaker 3: Look what she got done. A border in vision, runaway infleetion,
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Speaker 3: the American dream dead. They created this mess. They know
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Speaker 3: Kamala owns this failed record.
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Speaker 2: We'll stay with this because, as I've said for almost
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Speaker 2: two years, there was no way that Joe Biden would
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Speaker 2: be on the ballot come November.
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Speaker 4: And once the world saw.
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Speaker 2: His mental decline during that first presidential debate, even those
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Speaker 2: involved in the cover up could no longer hire the reality.
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Speaker 4: The time was up for the lead Democrat.
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Speaker 2: It was one thing to hide him away last time
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Speaker 2: using the excuse of the pandemic, but this time his
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Speaker 2: decline was unmistakable. Even changing the stairs on Air Force
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Speaker 2: One couldn't save him anyway.
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Speaker 5: I want to hand it over to the President of Ukraine,
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Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, President.
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Speaker 6: Putin dealing with everything we have to do with. Look
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Speaker 6: if we finally beat Medicare to the.
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Speaker 2: Today, a procession of Democratic Party royalty from the Obamas
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Speaker 2: and Clinton's down all lined up to praise Biden as
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Speaker 2: a great patriot and a consequential president. Now I'm not
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Speaker 2: so sure after running is a centrist and a healer.
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Speaker 2: It turned out to be the most left wing president ever,
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Speaker 2: with all in our standard, climate and identity obsessions and
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Speaker 2: the so called Inflation Reduction Act which is a center
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Speaker 2: a green energy boondoggle for Australia. Though we can be
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Speaker 2: grateful to him for aucus which wouldn't have happened without
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Speaker 2: his support. Even if he did manage to forget Scott Morrison's.
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Speaker 5: Name, I want to thank that fellow down on him,
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Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 7: Bell.
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Speaker 4: A big question for.
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Speaker 2: The president now is how can he continue as commander
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Speaker 2: in chief until January? With yesterday's admission he isn't fit
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Speaker 2: to run for the White House, So expect the pressure
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Speaker 2: to grow for Joe Biden to step down early and
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Speaker 2: give Kamala Harris the advantage of incumbency. If that doesn't happen,
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Speaker 2: it'll be a sign that the Democratic Party would prefer
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Speaker 2: to have her campaigning rather than governing, where the pressure
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Speaker 2: on her would be much greater. Don't forget that she
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Speaker 2: wasn't originally picked for any sort of expertise. She was
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Speaker 2: picked because she ticked all the right ident boxes as
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden himself all that admitted.
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Speaker 5: And this morning, all across the nation, little girls woke up,
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Speaker 5: especially little black and brown girls who so often feel
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Speaker 5: overlooked and undervalued in their communities. But today, today, just
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Speaker 5: maybe they're seeing themselves for the first time in a
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Speaker 5: new way.
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Speaker 2: You can even see in that grab, can't you? And
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Speaker 2: that was only four years ago? How much he has declined?
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Speaker 2: And Harris too well, she's failed lamentably at the one
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Speaker 2: and only job she's ever been given, namely stopping the
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Speaker 2: human wave coming across America's southern borders. Unsurprisingly, this is
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Speaker 2: where the Republican attack ads launched within hours of Biden's announcement.
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Speaker 4: For their focus, Kamala was in on it.
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Speaker 3: She covered up Joe's obvious mental decline.
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Speaker 8: Our president is in good shape, in good health, tireless,
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Speaker 8: and I have no doubt about the strength of the
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Speaker 8: work that we have done.
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Speaker 3: But Carmelin knew Joe couldn't do the job, so she
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Speaker 3: did it. Look what she got done, a border invasion,
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Speaker 3: runaway inflation, the American dream or dead. They created this mass.
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Speaker 3: They know Kamala owns this failed record.
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Speaker 2: Still, the ability of United Democratic Party to make a
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Speaker 2: real contest of the election should not be underestimated. Expect
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Speaker 2: the left wing media to see every rebuttal point from
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Speaker 2: Trump as an attack against Harris, not as a rival candidate,
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Speaker 2: but a hit against her as a woman. But Trump
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Speaker 2: has squared off against a woman before in Hillary Clinton,
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Speaker 2: and he won least of all because women walked away
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Speaker 2: from Clinton and blue collar workers in all the must
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Speaker 2: wing swing states, and with Californian woke Harris swing states,
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Speaker 2: perhaps even women will be a problem again. But for
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Speaker 2: all the Harris spin today, let's not forget she's yet
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Speaker 2: to be confirmed as the Democratic candidate. In her own statement,
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Speaker 2: she said she wanted to earn the nomination. While those
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Speaker 2: who might have run against her have folded men like
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Speaker 2: Gavin Usam and Pete Bodhaje, she still hasn't been endorsed
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Speaker 2: by powerbrokers like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Will the
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Speaker 2: August convention then be the mother of all brawls with
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Speaker 2: someone else taking Harris on, or will the opposition folds
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Speaker 2: and the Democrats unite behind her despite her poor record
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Speaker 2: and indifferent polls, as their pick to take on Trump.
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Speaker 2: For those dismayed that the Trump Biden contest a Trump
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Speaker 2: Harris contest.
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Speaker 4: It would be.
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Speaker 2: Hardly more edifying if this is her best to date.
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Speaker 8: That's why we're here today, because we have the ability
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Speaker 8: to see what can be unburdened by what has been around.
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Speaker 9: I am Kamala Harris.
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Speaker 4: My pnouns are she and her.
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Speaker 8: I'm a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.
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Speaker 8: You think you just fell out of a coconut tree.
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Speaker 8: You exists in the context of all in which you
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Speaker 8: live and what came before you.
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Speaker 2: And after insisting for three and a half years that
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden was at the top of his game, who's
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Speaker 2: going to believe the Democrats now over all that lying.
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Speaker 4: How credible will.
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Speaker 2: They be insisting that that woman Kamala Harris really is
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Speaker 2: the best person to shape the destiny of the free
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Speaker 2: world in the most challenging times we've faced in eight
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Speaker 2: decades or more. And that's all particularly so when she's
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Speaker 2: been knee deep in the house cover up. It's tried
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Speaker 2: to hire the true state of Biden's health from US
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Speaker 2: voters and the wider world. Anthony Alberinezi might have taken
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Speaker 2: leave this week, but the CFMU crisis has not gone away,
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Speaker 2: ongoing claims from senior labor figures that they knew nothing,
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Speaker 2: they were entirely innocent of any knowledge whatsoever of alleged
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Speaker 2: criminality in the building industry.
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Speaker 4: Well they don't stack up.
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Speaker 2: They knew it and they tolerated it because they were
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Speaker 2: the benefisheries of the cfwu's millions and its patronage, and
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Speaker 2: everybody knows it.
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Speaker 10: They've created a housing crisis by empowering the CFMAU, which
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Speaker 10: is involved with organized criminals and has driven up the
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Speaker 10: prices of projects.
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Speaker 2: Two months back, Ashphalters working on Melbourne Suburban Railroad complain
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Speaker 2: to the office of Victorian Infrastructure Minister Daddy Pearson about
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Speaker 2: alleged CFMU intimidation. The Minister then referred this to the
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Speaker 2: person responsible for running the project, but on the weekend
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Speaker 2: he repeatedly refused to say what his office was told
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Speaker 2: and what he'd actually referred for investigation.
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Speaker 11: Sorry, meeting occurred, I think in May. Those matters were
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Speaker 11: referred on to the department. A meeting occurred and it
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Speaker 11: was referred on to the Director General. Well, ultimately the
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Speaker 11: meeting occurred involving my office. The meeting occurred I was
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Speaker 11: not there. Well, I think we get caught up in
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Speaker 11: surmanity you.
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Speaker 2: Eventually the minister had to be rescued from his embarrassment
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Speaker 2: and obfuscation by the Premier.
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Speaker 3: Can I be can I how about we talk a
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Speaker 3: little bit about the review, the terms of reference of
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Speaker 3: the review that we released.
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Speaker 10: Yes, yes, today.
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Speaker 2: How the media let her get away with that in
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Speaker 2: that press conference is beyond me. On the weekend too,
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Speaker 2: the Premier, just Into Allen apported a former deputy secretary
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Speaker 2: in the Department of Premier in Cabinet to look into
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Speaker 2: these latter's claims of intimidation, corruption and organized crime links
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Speaker 2: and to provide an initial report within two months. A
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Speaker 2: former middling level public servant. I mean, are they kiddy?
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Speaker 2: Not a judge, not a retired police chief, not a prosecutor.
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Speaker 2: I can guarantee they'll get about as much truth on
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Speaker 2: the table as Jennifer Coke did when she investigated Victoria's
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Speaker 2: hotel quarantine fiasco that left eight hundred dead.
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Speaker 7: I can't specifically recall.
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Speaker 9: I can't recall.
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Speaker 4: I presume I did.
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Speaker 10: I don't recall the conversation.
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Speaker 4: And I have some memory, but not for memory.
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Speaker 7: I don't recall specifically, not to my recollection.
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Speaker 3: I have no recollection of that.
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Speaker 2: I can't specifically recall, but for one, every one of
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Speaker 2: those faces have now left and no one has been
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Speaker 2: held responsible. Over the weekend, the former head of the
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Speaker 2: building watchdog the ABCC, set of the allegations against the
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Speaker 2: CFMU that thuggery and I quote thuggery and standover tactics
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Speaker 2: have prevailed for decades and that extra costs on projects
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Speaker 2: ran to millions of dollars? Are we talking to that
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Speaker 2: former chief investigator at the ABCC, Nigel Hatchkiss a little
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Speaker 2: later on? If you want to know why everything to
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Speaker 2: do with building costs so much more and takes so long,
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Speaker 2: look no further than the CFMU and the extra costs
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Speaker 2: they impose on industry. No taxpayer should let the Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister get away with this. I certainly won't. Finally, what
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Speaker 2: about this? Did you know the Australian government's offering creative
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Speaker 2: scholarships to employees of the Palestinian Authority as well as
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Speaker 2: other Palestinian residents at the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem,
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Speaker 2: All though I neither until today, Pennywog might have been
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Speaker 2: shame to put on hold funding to the troubled un
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Speaker 2: refugee body that works in Gaza UNRA over its reported
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Speaker 2: links to Hummus. But these scholarships could be seen as
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Speaker 2: another way of delivering those dollars. Clearly, we're talking about
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Speaker 2: a lot of money because lucky reciproents get to return
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Speaker 2: airfares to Australia and establishment allowance once they arrive. Are
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Speaker 2: quote contribution to living expenses, all the university tuition costs
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Speaker 2: and more. Plus a scholarship is theirs for the entire
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Speaker 2: length of their course, not just one year. Now, I
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Speaker 2: can't tell you exactly how much of your money is
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Speaker 2: involved here because Pennywong's office still hasn't answered the questions
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Speaker 2: I see them. Earlier today were given that about two
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Speaker 2: thirds of Palestinians support HMAS and they approved of the
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Speaker 2: October seven attacks on Israel.
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Speaker 4: So says the polls, it's.
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Speaker 2: Hard to see how these scholarships are advancing Australia's national interest. Now,
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Speaker 2: what's the full cost here to taxpayers? What sort of
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Speaker 2: security checks are conducted on these Palestinian authority workers? Can
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Speaker 2: they bring their families to live in Australia when they study.
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Speaker 2: That's just some of the detail I sought from the
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Speaker 2: Minister's office, information that you, as a taxpayer, deserved to know.
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Speaker 2: Now this looks to me like yet another instance of
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Speaker 2: Labor using your taxpayer dollars for things you'd never support.
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Speaker 4: If you were asked.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Camber now with Olivia Kaisley
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Speaker 2: for the headlines.
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Speaker 12: Good evening. Fewer than one in three Australians want either
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Speaker 12: Anthony Alberesi or Peter Dutton as Prime Minister, As newspoll
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Speaker 12: shows the contest between the two major parties is heading up.
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Speaker 12: The latest News poll shows a coalition up two points
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Speaker 12: in primary support. The Labour Party remains ahead in the
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Speaker 12: two party preferred vote at a steady fifty one percent.
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Speaker 12: The newspole suggests a distinct lack of momentum in either
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Speaker 12: direction as the odds of minority government continue to grow
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Speaker 12: for the next election. Anthony Alberesi has interrupted his leave
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Speaker 12: to thank Joe Biden for his friendship as the US
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Speaker 12: President revealed he wouldn't be seeking re election the Prime minister,
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Speaker 12: hailing his US counterparts contribution to regional security and helping
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Speaker 12: form the ORCA Security Pact.
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Speaker 13: President Biden has been a great friend of Australia and
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Speaker 13: that will continue.
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Speaker 12: Australia's Ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, saying leadership
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Speaker 12: can be a lonely place. We can all take pause
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Speaker 12: to recognize and respect difficult decision President Joe Biden had made.
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Speaker 12: Opposition leader Peter Dutton continuing his energy pitch today at
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Speaker 12: one of two Queensland power stations he plans on turning
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Speaker 12: into a nuclear plant, Collide Power Station and Central Queensland
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Speaker 12: is in the seat of Flynn, which the Coalition holds
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Speaker 12: in a margin of around four percent.
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Speaker 10: If we want to have greener power, and if we
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Speaker 10: want to have reliable power, then nuclear is the way
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Speaker 10: in which will provide that twenty four to seven power
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Speaker 10: into the future.
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Speaker 12: The nuclear policy, the coalition says, will help sure up
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Speaker 12: the energy grid. Dovetails with its political attack that the
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Speaker 12: cost of everything has gone up underneath the Albanezy government.
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Speaker 10: So when the energy regulator talks about blackouts and brownouts
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Speaker 10: into the future, that's based on Labour's policy.
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Speaker 12: At the moment, we're still no closer though to finding
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Speaker 12: out how much a nuclear transition would cost. Peter Dutton,
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Speaker 12: batting away that question, well.
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Speaker 2: That extraordinary day in US politics. Joe Biden pulling out
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Speaker 2: of the presidential race just over one hundred days now
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Speaker 2: to the polls. So where to for the Democrats and
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Speaker 2: is Kamala Harris likely to take the nomination as a
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Speaker 2: party's presidential candidate. Sky News US correspondence and Alise Nilsen
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Speaker 2: with more from Washington.
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Speaker 14: Peter Kamala Harris has locked in a number of key
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Speaker 14: endorsements from people who could have been potential rivals. Gavin Newsom,
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Speaker 14: the governor of California, has said that he's endorsing Kamala Harris,
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Speaker 14: Pete Buddhajeedge, the Transportation Secretary, and of course, having the
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Speaker 14: endorsement of Joe Biden as he announced he was withdrawing
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Speaker 14: from the race is a huge help for Kamala Harris,
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Speaker 14: but nothing is guaranteed just yet. One of the things
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Speaker 14: that could end this early on and thrust this whole
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Speaker 14: campaign into an open convention is the fact Joe Manchin
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Speaker 14: has said he's considering changing his registration back to the
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Speaker 14: Democrat Party after he withdrew and now is operating as
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Speaker 14: an independent senator representing West Virginia in the US Senate.
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Speaker 9: He's seen as a.
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Speaker 14: Very popular centrist politician who really appeals to many of
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Speaker 14: those blue collar workers that have been abandoning the Democrats
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Speaker 14: and moving over, especially to Trump on his protectionist trade
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Speaker 14: policies and JD Vance are seen as the kind of
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Speaker 14: candidate that would appeal to those people as well. So
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Speaker 14: then it turns to how does the convention work. At
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Speaker 14: the conventions, each delegation from each state is supposed to
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Speaker 14: vote along the lines of whoever the state voted for
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Speaker 14: in the primaries or caucuses that were held in that state.
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Speaker 14: There's reporting today that a phone call with the fifty
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Speaker 14: state chairs indicated they would all support Kamla Harris. But
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Speaker 14: if another candidate does put their hand up say that
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Speaker 14: they want to be considered, there's nothing stopping them talking
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Speaker 14: to those delegations as well. Now, the other thing to
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Speaker 14: consider in all this is the Democratic Party has super delegates.
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Speaker 14: This was essentially created to help lock in the candidacy
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Speaker 14: of Hillary Clinton, and it gives elite members of the
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Speaker 14: party extra voting powers, so they get to confirm who
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Speaker 14: they want to have pitched. So that's people like the
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Speaker 14: DNC Committee. At a federal level, it's influential senators like
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Speaker 14: Elizabeth Warren. They get extra votes so they can help
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Speaker 14: put their finger on the scale. So there's plenty that
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Speaker 14: could still change. Nothing is guaranteed. Everything we're seeing is unprecedented.
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Speaker 14: And finally, just to add, while we're speaking about unprecedented,
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Speaker 14: the fact we haven't seen Joe Biden announced that he's
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Speaker 14: withdrawing from the race is extraordinary. The general consensus as
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Speaker 14: we all watched this kind of watching it come to
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Speaker 14: its natural conclusion, was that this would be an oval
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Speaker 14: office address, or that'd be a pre recorded campaign announcement.
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Speaker 14: The fact we haven't laid eyes on Joe Biden. The
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Speaker 14: letters indicated he'll explain to us later in the week,
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Speaker 14: but there's nothing in his schedule for this week really
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Speaker 14: does show that something is not normal in all this.
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Speaker 14: The last time we saw him disappear like this was
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Speaker 14: before the presidential So we're keeping a very close eye
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Speaker 14: on this. As soon as we get a glimpse of him,
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Speaker 14: it's going to answer a lot of questions. So we'll
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Speaker 14: be watching very closely over the next week, which is
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Speaker 14: going to be critical.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Analis.
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Speaker 2: I go to this point again, having worked for a
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Speaker 2: prime minister. If he has nothing in his diary for
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Speaker 2: a whole entire week. Who is running the United States.
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Speaker 2: Let's bring in Daily Telegraph National Affairs editor, our host
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Speaker 2: of the US Report here on Sky and James Morrow,
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Speaker 2: and our political reporter out of camera, Cam Reddin. James
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Speaker 2: will start with you, of course, have written about this
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Speaker 2: today in the Daily Telegraph. You say the decision by
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Speaker 2: Biden to step back from the presidential race is just
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Speaker 2: the pointy end of a massive scandal in this whole
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Speaker 2: cover up about the true extend of Biden's declining health.
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Speaker 2: But I've got to say they've left themselves wide open here, James.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if it isn't fit to run for the presidency,
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Speaker 2: how the heck's I fit to stay as president? And
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Speaker 2: doesn't this all now trigger talk of the twenty fifth Amendment.
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Speaker 15: Well, I think it has to. And I mean the
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Speaker 15: twenty fifth Amendment is the way that they can take
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Speaker 15: an incapacitated president out. It's a complicated process, It's never
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Speaker 15: been tried before. But this fact that the only thing
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Speaker 15: that we have to go on here is this one
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Speaker 15: letter that was tweeted out on Joe Biden's personal account
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Speaker 15: early this morning Australian Time, Sunday, afternoon US time, and
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Speaker 15: that says, well, I'm stepping aside for the race. I'm
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Speaker 15: staying as president. I endorsed Kamala Harris. But you know
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Speaker 15: it's so weird because in nineteen sixty eight, when Lyndon
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Speaker 15: Johnson said the same thing, I'm not going to run again,
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Speaker 15: he sat down in the Oval office, we could all
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Speaker 15: see him, and he said, I'm here and I'm going
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Speaker 15: to see out my term, but I will not accept
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Speaker 15: the nomination even if they give it to me at
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Speaker 15: the convention. We've got a Joe Biden with serious health
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Speaker 15: concerns now, and those are becoming more and more obvious.
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Speaker 15: They've said he has COVID. Have to assume that he's
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Speaker 15: laid low with that. But then that raises a couple
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Speaker 15: of questions. Number One, if he's sick, why didn't they
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Speaker 15: wait a few days to make the announcement when he
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Speaker 15: would be better to make some sort of proof of
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Speaker 15: life announcement. And b as you say, who is running
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Speaker 15: the country. I think that we have some serious questions
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Speaker 15: about what's the chain of command here? If something happens,
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Speaker 15: if there's a natural disaster, an attack, an emergency, who's
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Speaker 15: going down to that situation room. I don't know that
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Speaker 15: it's Joe Biden, and I wonder if this is moving
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Speaker 15: faster than we think it is, and by the end
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Speaker 15: of the week, whether there could be more to this story.
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Speaker 2: I might add to this has been picked up today
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Speaker 2: by pundits in the US. It's the first time since
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six that there hasn't been a Biden, a Bush,
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Speaker 2: or a Clinton on a ballot for president.
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Speaker 4: I think that's really interested.
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Speaker 2: That shows you how much of a changing of a
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Speaker 2: guard we're saying here, I cam here at home. Our
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister took a break from his holidays. It was
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Speaker 2: in Cans. You praised Joe Biden, but then he went
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Speaker 2: straight back on leave. We have learned though that finally
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Speaker 2: today his electorate office, which has been shut since December,
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Speaker 2: they are reopening the doors, getting back to work. I mean,
22:14
Speaker 2: I find this story incredible.
22:19
Speaker 13: Yeah, Petie, when you think about how long that was closed.
22:21
Speaker 13: For these electric offices, whether it's of the Prime Minister
22:24
Speaker 13: or any other MP, they do serve an important purpose.
22:26
Speaker 13: They help people to connect to social services. They help
22:29
Speaker 13: with send link payments. Even if you just want to
22:31
Speaker 13: pop in and say hey, this is an issue that's
22:33
Speaker 13: on my mind. It's an important part of our representative
22:36
Speaker 13: democracy to be able to be in contact with your
22:38
Speaker 13: local MP. I know in this circumstance, but in others
22:42
Speaker 13: as well, the attitude of the police is usually to
22:44
Speaker 13: try and avoid any action that would inflame the situation.
22:47
Speaker 13: They've seen this as a safety concern basically since Christmas,
22:51
Speaker 13: and that's why people haven't been able to access the office.
22:53
Speaker 13: We even saw when you had protesters hanging off the
22:56
Speaker 13: roof here at Parliament House that the police on the
22:58
Speaker 13: ground their approach was well, let them run out of
23:01
Speaker 13: steam and hope that they come to their senses and
23:03
Speaker 13: move on. They start to forget about it, and then
23:05
Speaker 13: we can start getting people back in as normal. Look,
23:08
Speaker 13: it's good that this is back open, Peter, but I
23:10
Speaker 13: suppose the hope that they run out of steam only
23:13
Speaker 13: goes so far. When it's been six months and people
23:15
Speaker 13: only now just agree to move away. I mean, how
23:17
Speaker 13: long do you wait for them to move completely?
23:21
Speaker 2: Well, and if the Prime Minister of this country can't
23:23
Speaker 2: get the laws enforced to open his bloody office, we're
23:26
Speaker 2: in a lot of trouble. Cam if that's the end result,
23:28
Speaker 2: And I hope it gets pursued in the Parliament, certainly
23:31
Speaker 2: through Center estimates. Let's go to News poll because I
23:34
Speaker 2: think this is in part the story that's showing in
23:37
Speaker 2: the Prime Minister's numbers, this weakness, this lack of action.
23:41
Speaker 4: You know, all talk non delivery.
23:43
Speaker 2: The coalitions now in front by five points over Labor
23:47
Speaker 2: on primary votes, lessen a third of voters, So two
23:51
Speaker 2: thirds do not see Anthony Albanese's preferred leader to the
23:54
Speaker 2: Labor Party. Two thirds do two thirds do not. Is
23:57
Speaker 2: disapproval ratings now higher than that the opposition leader can
24:01
Speaker 2: to you. I mean there's a downward trajectory here. It's
24:06
Speaker 2: now trend. It would have to go back at least
24:09
Speaker 2: a year to find a poll that went the Prime
24:11
Speaker 2: Minister's favor. They've spent billions of dollars on these tax
24:15
Speaker 2: cuts and energy bill relief. They're bleeding votes on the
24:19
Speaker 2: left of the Greens, They're bleeding votes on the right
24:21
Speaker 2: to Dutton from their old traditional working class base.
24:26
Speaker 4: I mean they're in a world of pain.
24:29
Speaker 9: Yeah, there certainly reflects.
24:30
Speaker 13: I think that News poll, Peter, and you saw the
24:32
Speaker 13: figures on your screen. There that level of apathy generally
24:34
Speaker 13: towards the government. There is an element broadly to politics
24:37
Speaker 13: in general. I think for both leaders people were asked, okay,
24:40
Speaker 13: who do you think should be leading the two major parties,
24:42
Speaker 13: and the number of people that shrug their shoulders and
24:44
Speaker 13: says I don't know outranked both Anthony Albanezy and Peter Dutton.
24:48
Speaker 13: So I suppose that shows the difference in the US,
24:50
Speaker 13: where half the challenge is getting people off their couch
24:53
Speaker 13: and energizing them up, whereas here everybody has to vote.
24:56
Speaker 13: So perhaps they just haven't formed an opinion this far
24:59
Speaker 13: out from an election, but of course, as you say,
25:01
Speaker 13: that could only be a few months away. The one
25:03
Speaker 13: interesting thing that sort of was in the mix in
25:05
Speaker 13: this news poll today as well. Keep in mind people
25:07
Speaker 13: were asked who do you think should be leading the
25:09
Speaker 13: major parties? The person who polled in second for the
25:12
Speaker 13: coalition was just Cinta nampajimp for Price. Now we wonder
25:15
Speaker 13: what the sort of legacy items were from the Voice
25:18
Speaker 13: campaign about nine months on, nearly a year now, we're
25:21
Speaker 13: coming up to the first Gama Festival in a couple
25:22
Speaker 13: of weeks. Since that campaign, just center Price has had
25:26
Speaker 13: a lower profile since that campaign, but has clearly left
25:29
Speaker 13: to Mark. She's not in the Liberal Party and she's
25:31
Speaker 13: not in the Lower House. But when people ask hey,
25:34
Speaker 13: who do you think should leave the party if not
25:35
Speaker 13: Peter Dutton or lead the opposition, they were looking to
25:38
Speaker 13: Justinenter Price. So that shows that her career is perhaps
25:41
Speaker 13: on the upwards trajectory. I'm not saying she's going to
25:43
Speaker 13: be the leader of the Liberal Party in the Lower
25:44
Speaker 13: House anytime soon, but clearly the future is bright. If
25:47
Speaker 13: after a fairly short time in federal politics she's already
25:50
Speaker 13: made that sort of an impact.
25:54
Speaker 2: It shows courage and message clarity, as we can see
25:58
Speaker 2: in the United States.
25:59
Speaker 4: Cuts through.
26:00
Speaker 2: Let's go to this story and brought to the top
26:02
Speaker 2: of the show. If I can place James. The federal
26:05
Speaker 2: government's got these scholarships specifically for employees are the Palestinian
26:09
Speaker 2: Authority as well as other Palestinian only residents out of
26:14
Speaker 2: the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. I mean there's
26:17
Speaker 2: a whole areas of policy if you work in economic
26:20
Speaker 2: public policy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, airfairs, allowances, overseas student health cover.
26:29
Speaker 2: I can't get clarity about whether they can come here
26:32
Speaker 2: with their family. I've put a whole lot of questions
26:35
Speaker 2: to Penny Wong's office. I'm waiting for a response. I
26:39
Speaker 2: suspect my back of en bloc costing here it'll be
26:42
Speaker 2: millions of dollars. I'll get into that closely when I
26:45
Speaker 2: go through the budget papers tomorrow if I can't get answers,
26:47
Speaker 2: but I'll tell you what I read this with great surprise.
26:52
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think we should all be really concerned about this.
26:55
Speaker 15: I mean, what is the point of this? And as
26:59
Speaker 15: you say, as we go into tax return seas and
27:02
Speaker 15: is this really something that we all want to be
27:04
Speaker 15: contemplating as we start to contemplate our tax bill. But
27:07
Speaker 15: there's more to this as well. You know, we're talking
27:09
Speaker 15: about bringing people over from Palestine Gaza West Bank, and
27:14
Speaker 15: I was looking at the Foundation for Defensive Democracies polling
27:18
Speaker 15: of Palestinians, and they found that among Palestinians living over there,
27:23
Speaker 15: five percent, just five percent, think that Hamas committed war
27:27
Speaker 15: crimes on October seventh. Now, are we sure that the
27:31
Speaker 15: sort of people that we're going to get on this
27:33
Speaker 15: program over here are the sort of people who were
27:35
Speaker 15: in that five percent? How do we know what their
27:38
Speaker 15: ties are? Who they were in Gaza. There's no government
27:42
Speaker 15: at all that you can talk to to do background
27:44
Speaker 15: checks on. And once there here, as we know, with
27:47
Speaker 15: students who come from all over the place, you know,
27:49
Speaker 15: it's very easy to stay if you want to as well.
27:52
Speaker 15: I just think that this has got so many disasters,
27:55
Speaker 15: major and minor, waiting to happen here, and I don't
27:57
Speaker 15: know why they're doing it. I mean I can understand
28:00
Speaker 15: and politically they think it's all wonderful because you know,
28:03
Speaker 15: Palestine rah rah. But you know, it just seems like
28:06
Speaker 15: a really bad idea, Peter.
28:10
Speaker 2: I'll keep digging into that one. Cam just quickly. Britney Higgins,
28:13
Speaker 2: it seems she's forced to sell her house in France
28:15
Speaker 2: to pay for defamation action or sorry, it's Linda Reynolds
28:20
Speaker 2: defamation action against her.
28:24
Speaker 9: Yeah, Peter.
28:25
Speaker 13: If there's one thing we know about defamation cases, it's
28:27
Speaker 13: that they're not resolved quickly. They're not resolved chiefly, and
28:31
Speaker 13: rarely are they anything but messy. This latest incident, as
28:34
Speaker 13: you say, she's had to sell the family home, I think,
28:36
Speaker 13: well to the home she's brought in France. I think
28:38
Speaker 13: the legal cost, she says, already upwards of a million
28:41
Speaker 13: dollars and with no end in sight. There may be
28:44
Speaker 13: many more months ahead with this. Look, she's recently married,
28:47
Speaker 13: there's a baby on the way, we've had in recent weeks.
28:49
Speaker 13: Let's just hope that this is all wrapped up soon
28:51
Speaker 13: and there's a better chapter in life ahead for her.
28:56
Speaker 4: All right, let's what we get the truth that it'd
28:57
Speaker 4: be nice.
28:58
Speaker 2: After the break, we'll go to Washington for an answers
29:00
Speaker 2: on where to next for the Democrats. It's all uncharted territory,
29:04
Speaker 2: isn't it and what impact all of this will have
29:06
Speaker 2: on the Trump campaign last its early days. But assuming
29:10
Speaker 2: Harris does get the nomination, who's likely to be her
29:13
Speaker 2: running mate?
29:19
Speaker 4: Welcome back still to come. You won't believe just how.
29:22
Speaker 2: Much Australians have had to pay because of the CFMAU.
29:26
Speaker 2: But first, returning to the biggest news story of the day,
29:29
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's unprecedented exit from the presidential race, for more
29:34
Speaker 2: of ease and what it means for both the Democrat
29:36
Speaker 2: and Republican campaigns. I'm joined now from Washington by chief
29:40
Speaker 2: international correspondent for The Australian, Cameron Stewart. Okay, and they
29:45
Speaker 2: had to blast him out the end didn't they.
29:47
Speaker 4: I mean, he.
29:48
Speaker 2: Lost the support of people like Chuck Schumer, Pelosi, Obama,
29:51
Speaker 2: all those others, so it was inevitable he had to go.
29:54
Speaker 2: But it's taken a bit of time house the news
29:57
Speaker 2: of Biden's departure from the race being received.
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Speaker 7: Well, it's strange, Peter, because even though I think a
30:02
Speaker 7: lot of people were expecting it was going to happen,
30:05
Speaker 7: it still came as a huge shock to a lot
30:06
Speaker 7: of people across America, certainly in Washington. You know, it
30:10
Speaker 7: was a sunny, quiet Sunday afternoon and the bombshell tweet
30:14
Speaker 7: from the president came at about one forty five, and
30:16
Speaker 7: the whole place just went for a netic as people
30:19
Speaker 7: tried to work out exactly what it means. I think
30:21
Speaker 7: people were expecting it in the next week or so, because,
30:24
Speaker 7: as you say, the writing was on the for Joe
30:26
Speaker 7: Biden the moment. The party elders in Baraco, Obama, Nancy Pelosi,
30:31
Speaker 7: Chuck Schumer, etc. Did coordinated media leagues to make it
30:35
Speaker 7: very public that they had told Joe he should go.
30:39
Speaker 7: That was the end of him. It was just a
30:41
Speaker 7: case of when, because clearly he could not run without
30:43
Speaker 7: the support of his own party. But it's such a
30:45
Speaker 7: seismic and historic moment that people were still stunn when
30:48
Speaker 7: it actually happened.
30:50
Speaker 2: Well, it took a while in his departure statement to
30:53
Speaker 2: endorse his vice president.
30:55
Speaker 4: He got there in the end.
30:57
Speaker 2: And now I've seen a whole raft of others who
30:59
Speaker 2: might well have been potential challenges to Harris come out
31:02
Speaker 2: and support her. Californian Governor, Gavin Newsom, Pete buddhache Edge,
31:07
Speaker 2: the current Transport Secretary. They're all backing her, which sort
31:12
Speaker 2: of says to me, this has all been going on
31:14
Speaker 2: in the background for some time. We've not yet heard
31:18
Speaker 2: from the Obamas. We've got the Clintons, but not the Obamas.
31:22
Speaker 2: What does that tell us?
31:24
Speaker 7: I think there is a division within the Democrat Party
31:26
Speaker 7: at the moment. Obama and Nancy Pelosi appear to favor
31:31
Speaker 7: an open contest if you like, a speed dating, rapid
31:34
Speaker 7: fire contest between candidates to ensure the best one is picked.
31:38
Speaker 7: It's very pointed that Obama did not endorse Kamala Harris
31:41
Speaker 7: and Pelosi has been reported as thinking that they want
31:43
Speaker 7: an open contest as well, and also Chuck Schumer didn't
31:47
Speaker 7: mention Kamala Harris either. So there is a wing of
31:50
Speaker 7: the Democrat Party, a very powerful wing, that wants an
31:53
Speaker 7: open contest here, and the other half of the Democrat
31:55
Speaker 7: Party wants the party to coal less quickly around Kamala Harris.
31:59
Speaker 7: So there is no friction. They have an appearance of unity.
32:03
Speaker 7: They think that is the best way forward. And what
32:06
Speaker 7: we're actually seeing at this minute unfold is that is,
32:11
Speaker 7: as you say, really real contenders like Pete Woodage Edge,
32:14
Speaker 7: the Transport secretary, is a very very good campaigner. You've
32:18
Speaker 7: got Gavin Newson the Californian government. Now they are two
32:20
Speaker 7: of the top three names always mentioned when it comes
32:23
Speaker 7: to candidates, and they've come and endorsed Carmala Harris, so
32:26
Speaker 7: they're not going to run against it, which doesn't leave
32:28
Speaker 7: many high profile ones. It only leaves really Gretchen Whitmer,
32:32
Speaker 7: who is the very tough talking Michigan governor, but she
32:37
Speaker 7: has said previously she wouldn't run against Harris. We haven't
32:40
Speaker 7: heard from her so far in relation to Sin since
32:43
Speaker 7: Joe Biden said they step aside. So we'll just have
32:46
Speaker 7: to see what happens here. But it might be an
32:48
Speaker 7: open contest where it really isn't much of a contest.
32:52
Speaker 2: It's interesting it'll come down to those key swing states.
32:55
Speaker 2: Michigan's one obviously, Pennsylvania, Ohio. I can't see her having
33:01
Speaker 2: Gavin Usim on her ticket. That'd be two peak California
33:05
Speaker 2: types on the one ticket.
33:07
Speaker 4: So who do you think lend up her VP in
33:09
Speaker 4: the end?
33:10
Speaker 7: Look, it could be a range of people. She probably
33:13
Speaker 7: hasn't settled on one herself. I mean, an obvious one
33:16
Speaker 7: would be Josh Shapiro, who's the governor of Pennsylvania, East
33:19
Speaker 7: swing state, who I know is just industr I would
33:22
Speaker 7: think a male in the Midwest would be what she'd
33:25
Speaker 7: be looking for to round off her ticket because Krmala's
33:28
Speaker 7: problem is that she is not popular in the Midwest.
33:32
Speaker 7: I've traveled a lot through their bars, cafes, farms, talk
33:35
Speaker 7: to people. They really don't like it, and they don't
33:37
Speaker 7: like it for all the reasons they do like it
33:39
Speaker 7: in the big liberal cities in America. You know, she's
33:42
Speaker 7: a progressive form prosecutor from California, she's a woman of color.
33:47
Speaker 7: All those factors that make a very popular in the
33:49
Speaker 7: big cities make it quite unpopular in the midwere. So
33:52
Speaker 7: I think she would have to find a VP candidate,
33:56
Speaker 7: Peter who would round her off there because her biggest
33:59
Speaker 7: challenge would be to win those key swing states in
34:02
Speaker 7: the Midwest, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. That would become as
34:06
Speaker 7: big challenge as a candidate.
34:08
Speaker 2: All right, let's assume it is Harris that she gets
34:11
Speaker 2: the Democrat nomination. How does this change things for Trump?
34:14
Speaker 2: Because her record on illegal migration really plays into one
34:19
Speaker 2: of his key attacks against the administration, doesn't it.
34:23
Speaker 7: It does, And straight away we can see Trump and
34:26
Speaker 7: the Republican machine are very much their tactic is going
34:30
Speaker 7: to be to align Karmala Harris directly with Joe Biden.
34:35
Speaker 7: They'll say, look, you know, the failed policies of Joe
34:37
Speaker 7: Biden are the filed policies of Karmala Harris. If you
34:40
Speaker 7: elect Carmela you're electing Joe Biden's agenda, And they will
34:44
Speaker 7: point to the border, the border thing. I mean, Joe
34:46
Speaker 7: Biden appointed her to try and reduce some aspects of
34:49
Speaker 7: illegal migration across the border, and the Republicans said that
34:54
Speaker 7: she was effectively a borders are and that was one
34:56
Speaker 7: of the most you know, the greatest failure of the
34:58
Speaker 7: Guidan administration. Is the board and the weakness at the border.
35:02
Speaker 7: So look, that's going to be a problem for her
35:04
Speaker 7: on the Campain trail. Absolutely. However, she also has been
35:08
Speaker 7: far more prominent in recent times as an abortion pro
35:14
Speaker 7: choice abortion activist after the Roe versus Wade decision, and
35:18
Speaker 7: she's been quite visible on the hustings doing that. She's
35:23
Speaker 7: been quite effective there, and that's a big boat when
35:24
Speaker 7: if the Democrats say yes, she certainly has problems as
35:27
Speaker 7: far as the border goes with the Republicans, She's got
35:30
Speaker 7: a bit of a winner with abortion with the Democrats.
35:32
Speaker 7: So it'll be fascinating to see how she actually goes
35:34
Speaker 7: on the campaign trail, because don't forget, she had a
35:36
Speaker 7: disastrous campaign in twenty twenty. I mean, she was seen
35:40
Speaker 7: as one of the big challenges early on. She had
35:44
Speaker 7: the name, she had the reputation, and it was a shamble.
35:49
Speaker 7: Her staff kept quitting on her. She had a very
35:52
Speaker 7: incoherent message. She wasn't a good campaigner, and so she
35:56
Speaker 7: needs to have improved a lot on that twenty twenty
36:00
Speaker 7: campaign to make any to have any chance against Donald Trump.
36:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, you're right to point out that her lack
36:05
Speaker 2: of message clarity has been at a fining feature of
36:09
Speaker 2: her time as VP. That and her record of not
36:13
Speaker 2: resolving any of the chaos on the border. Trump up
36:16
Speaker 2: until now, well, his age hasn't been an issue. It's
36:19
Speaker 2: been all about Biden's age. She's obviously a much younger candidate.
36:23
Speaker 2: Does his age now come into play from here on
36:26
Speaker 2: in and ten days on from his assassination attempt? How
36:31
Speaker 2: much resonance will that have in the campaign going forward?
36:36
Speaker 7: I think it'll stay, certainly for his base, it will
36:39
Speaker 7: remain quite a motivated such an extraordinary moment, and of
36:42
Speaker 7: course that then supercharged the Republican Convention that we just
36:45
Speaker 7: had to finished a few days ago. So Trump is
36:47
Speaker 7: absolutely in the ascendate at the moment. He's as strong
36:49
Speaker 7: as he's ever been, really, and in theory he should.
36:54
Speaker 7: I mean, he claims that he could beat Kamala Harris
36:56
Speaker 7: Moore's living he could be Joe Biden in theory. He
36:59
Speaker 7: has a massive event over here. He has, he's cashed
37:01
Speaker 7: up his experience, as I say, is ascendant at this minute.
37:05
Speaker 7: She only has three and a half months to find
37:09
Speaker 7: a coherent message, well to a unify her own party frankly,
37:12
Speaker 7: and then find a coherent message and get herself out there.
37:15
Speaker 7: That's a very big call. However, the big thing that
37:19
Speaker 7: we don't know is she is a generational change candidate.
37:22
Speaker 7: As you say, you know, she's not in her seventies.
37:25
Speaker 7: I mean, we're not having two geriatrics fight off for
37:28
Speaker 7: the presidency now and seventy percent of Americans so they
37:30
Speaker 7: didn't want another Biden Trump clash. Now they've got their wish.
37:34
Speaker 7: So what does that mean with the voters? I mean,
37:36
Speaker 7: are there a lot of unknown voters out there who
37:39
Speaker 7: will be so relieved to have a younger candidate that
37:43
Speaker 7: they will flock towards Harris? We just don't know that.
37:46
Speaker 4: Well, watch it all with interest, won't we? Karon Stewart,
37:48
Speaker 4: thank you, thank you very much.
37:52
Speaker 2: All right, after break, a former ABCC insider on what's
37:57
Speaker 2: really going on inside See plus Labor puts this so
38:01
Speaker 2: called well being budget on hold. I mean, this was
38:05
Speaker 2: copied from Descinder r Dern. They're plainly embarrassed for taking
38:09
Speaker 2: on such a dumb idea. Welcome back to the come
38:16
Speaker 2: more woke madness in Victoria as the government calls on
38:20
Speaker 2: males who identify as female to take part in an
38:23
Speaker 2: inquiry that was set up to investigate women's pain. More
38:28
Speaker 2: on that shortly at first. Every day it seems more
38:31
Speaker 2: allegations of lawlessness against the CEVBU were coming to light,
38:35
Speaker 2: and it's ordinary Australians are paying the price. Since twenty fourteen,
38:39
Speaker 2: productivity in the construction sector has fallen just over eighteen percent,
38:44
Speaker 2: and across the country construction costs are up, meaning people
38:49
Speaker 2: are hit twice, first as a homeowner and secondly as
38:52
Speaker 2: a taxpayer. My next guesse is someone who's well versed
38:55
Speaker 2: in the cfmu's behavior, having served as head of the
38:58
Speaker 2: ABCC when it was brought back into existence after Tony
39:01
Speaker 2: Abbott was elected. He was also a former long term
39:04
Speaker 2: police officer, a former assistant commissioner at the AFP, a
39:08
Speaker 2: former head of the New South Wales Office of Public Prosecutions.
39:12
Speaker 2: So someone who knows what he's talking about and pleased
39:15
Speaker 2: to say. Nigel Hatchkiss joins me. Now, Nigel, well, thank
39:18
Speaker 2: you for your time. I've mentioned before that the fact
39:22
Speaker 2: that the CFMU paid out some sixteen million dollars in
39:25
Speaker 2: penalties when the abc C was the cop on the beat.
39:30
Speaker 2: So how on earth can labor claim they know anything
39:32
Speaker 2: about the behavior of this union.
39:44
Speaker 4: Have we got you there?
39:44
Speaker 9: Nice? Having difficulty with sound? Yes, I'm sorry, I'm having
39:48
Speaker 9: difficulty to sound. Have you got me now your question? Yes,
39:54
Speaker 9: I've got your Latin claib.
39:55
Speaker 4: It's good, excellent.
39:57
Speaker 2: My point is, how on earth can labour say know
40:00
Speaker 2: anything about these CFMU allegations when we know the union
40:04
Speaker 2: paid some sixteen million dollars in fines when the ABCC
40:10
Speaker 2: was in place.
40:13
Speaker 9: Well, to make that kind of statement is at landish,
40:19
Speaker 9: I mean blind. Freddie has known the depth of the
40:23
Speaker 9: problem within the building construction industry throughout Australia. This goes
40:28
Speaker 9: back forty years I think to nineteen eighty eight when
40:31
Speaker 9: the first of three raw commissions into building and construction
40:37
Speaker 9: were undertaken. Each of those royal commissions made very damning
40:43
Speaker 9: findings about unlawful activity within the industry. Moreover, certainly from
40:51
Speaker 9: my experiences two thousand and four, the infiltration of organized crime,
40:55
Speaker 9: particularly at motorcycle gangs and say colorful identities have got
41:04
Speaker 9: that grip on what is a very important industry.
41:10
Speaker 2: Labor are rejecting calls to register the union, as we
41:14
Speaker 2: saw the Hawk government did with the BLF in the
41:17
Speaker 2: nineteen eighties. There's calls today for a fit and proper
41:21
Speaker 2: person's tests to be instituted. We know, of course they're
41:25
Speaker 2: merely suspended the CFMU at the moment, and that there
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Speaker 2: will be an administrator brought in and an investigation held.
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Speaker 2: How much hope do you hold we're going to see
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Speaker 2: changes here that actually make demonstrable differences in the way
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Speaker 2: law is treated on construction sites, and of course make
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Speaker 2: a difference to getting rid of some of the illegal
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Speaker 2: and thuggish behavior.
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Speaker 9: I have no confidence anything realistic, meaningful will be accomplished
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Speaker 9: an administrator. Yes, we need to wrap up the CFME EU,
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Speaker 9: it's activities, it's asshold matters. That's essential. But we need
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Speaker 9: we need a strong body with sufficient powers to tackle
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Speaker 9: a serious problem that's not just the building industry as
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Speaker 9: a results, affecting the whole of the economy. We could
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Speaker 9: get more hospitals built, we could get more schools built
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Speaker 9: with the savings of greater productivity. You need us what
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Speaker 9: was turned once upon a time a strong cop on
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Speaker 9: the beat. At the moment you haven't.
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Speaker 2: If the CFMU, of course is doing the right thing,
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Speaker 2: that have nothing to fear by a strong cop on
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Speaker 2: the beat, would they absolutely?
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Speaker 9: I mean This is not a a Monty Python approach
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Speaker 9: of there a bunch of naughty boys. This is really
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Speaker 9: serious conduct and now working hand in glove with organized
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Speaker 9: crime figures out or motorcycle gangs terrorizing building sites. This
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Speaker 9: is on Australia. This is not the way to go.
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Speaker 2: I remember when there was the Dyson Hayden Royal Commission
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Speaker 2: into unions, there was volumes that were kept secret about
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Speaker 2: the CFMU in the Hope. I think at the time
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Speaker 2: that those volumes would be used then as evidence to
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Speaker 2: take forward criminal prosecutions.
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Speaker 4: This has long been known.
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Speaker 9: Correct and to my knowledge, they've never seen the light
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Speaker 9: of day. And I'll leave it to your viewers to
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Speaker 9: try to worker while they're still buried the damage that
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Speaker 9: they could inflict upon interested parties.
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Speaker 4: Jansaram with this one.
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Speaker 2: But you know, do you believe the labor party, given
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Speaker 2: and takes millions of dollars in donations from the CFMU,
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Speaker 2: is compromised here and can't possibly get to the bottom
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Speaker 2: of these issues.
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Speaker 9: Well, simply, would you really bite the hand that feeds
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Speaker 9: you and has fed you constantly over decades. I mean,
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Speaker 9: it's it's good to see that they have seven for
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Speaker 9: the moment the rather rich pickings forthcoming from the CFMU,
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Speaker 9: But as the industry participants continually tell me, it'll rise
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Speaker 9: again from the ashes like the phoenix if it's not
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Speaker 9: properly dealt with now, thoroughly and professionally.
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Speaker 2: Nigel had kiss thank you for your time. I think
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Speaker 2: what he's saying there is very much a stake through
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Speaker 2: the heart of the CMF you you or it will come.
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Speaker 4: Back as a has in a past.
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Speaker 2: All right after break Labor's well being budget scrapped in favor,
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Speaker 2: I'll scrap your favor of what I mean, cost of
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Speaker 2: living's biting. It was a stupid idea from Jacinda r
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Speaker 2: Dern and this insult to women Victorian government calling on
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Speaker 2: biological men to partake in a women's pain inquiry. Wellcome back,
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Speaker 2: let's get straight into it now. Lots to get across
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Speaker 2: my panel here. As always on a Monday Sky In
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Speaker 2: his contributor for Howard Government Minister Gary Hargrave and a
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Speaker 2: bloke who had the big boss in town, Peter Dutton,
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Speaker 2: was up his way. Keith Pitt m and p MP
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Speaker 2: from Queensland miss wellbeing budget. This came straight out of
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Speaker 2: Jacinda r Dern. The ABS says it's not set to
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Speaker 2: release a tracking survey of our well being until well
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Speaker 2: after the.
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Speaker 4: Next federal election.
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Speaker 2: I suspect Keith, it's because we don't feel much well
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Speaker 2: being at the moment.
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Speaker 4: That's probably what's happening.
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Speaker 7: Peter.
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Speaker 1: That noise, you can hear that grind, he noises, Jim
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Speaker 1: Charmers grinding his teeth together, and Treasury looking for reverse gear.
46:05
Speaker 1: Because this is the bloke who brought you Jim Boonomics,
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Speaker 1: that six thousand word dire tribe that said Jim was
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Speaker 1: going to change how economics works, that every other economist
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Speaker 1: around the world was wrong, and Jimbo was right that
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Speaker 1: budgets had to be about feelings and not about numbers.
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Speaker 1: And we're now seeing the results and every single Australian
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Speaker 1: is painful. This federal Labor government has no idea and
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Speaker 1: the idea that the ABS has to go and determine
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Speaker 1: how people are feeling and how they're dealing with things
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Speaker 1: at the moment in a physical sense. That is an
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Speaker 1: absolute insult to every single Australian. The Treasure should have
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Speaker 1: a look at the window. He should get in his
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Speaker 1: car and go for a drive around. In fact, all
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Speaker 1: labor MPs.
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Speaker 4: Should do it.
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Speaker 1: You just can't abok And see how many people are
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Speaker 1: living in their cars and living in tents and living
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Speaker 1: in caravans because of what this labor government has done.
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Speaker 1: They can't afford to live.
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Speaker 4: Let's go to Victoria.
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Speaker 2: The government there is on the fire following revelations today
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Speaker 2: the biological men who identify fires female but got all
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Speaker 2: their tackle are encouraged to make a submission to an
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Speaker 2: inquiry into women's pain. This was an inquiry Gary, meant
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Speaker 2: to look into things like endometriosis and menopause. Now, how
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Speaker 2: the heck if someone hasn't got a uterus, are they
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Speaker 2: qualified to give any evidence about menopause or endometriosis. I
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Speaker 2: find this bloody outrageous. It makes me really angry that
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Speaker 2: tax payers that anyone's putting up with this crap anymore.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm with you, Peter.
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Speaker 16: Look and as me and male like an udy bit
47:33
Speaker 16: offer empathy and understanding. But I have not lived through this,
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Speaker 16: and so I get that part of it. But when
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Speaker 16: you make the point that as people, blokes who identify
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Speaker 16: as women are somehow rather given exactly the same status
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Speaker 16: as women, you know this whole thing has just gone
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Speaker 16: completely barking man. This is from a political party that
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Speaker 16: cannot act fight what a woman is. So they just
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Speaker 16: say if you feel like a woman and you want
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Speaker 16: to identify as women, and you can be a woman
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Speaker 16: for the purposes of this. This is insulting. This is
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Speaker 16: dreadfully difficult for many women who've been through it, and
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Speaker 16: as I said, as a bloke, I can only but
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Speaker 16: offer empathy for it and support if necessary. But I
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Speaker 16: just think this is just an outrageous, outrageous rebuke of
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Speaker 16: common sense. And this is labor. This is labor in
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Speaker 16: the twenty first century. They have lost their way in
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Speaker 16: a big way and they just should be shown the door,
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Speaker 16: chuck them out, get rid of them.
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Speaker 2: Well, one of your Queenslay ministers, well she certainly federal
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Speaker 2: minister at Queensland based. This is the Sports Minister, Arnika Wells.
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Speaker 2: She wants quotas now for women on boards. Dealing with
48:44
Speaker 2: sport sixty five sports are receiving taxpayer funding from the
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Speaker 2: Australian Sports Commission. She doesn't think there's enough women on
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Speaker 2: these boards. She wants more women on boards. If there
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Speaker 2: isn't more women on boards, she'll start taking money off them.
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Speaker 2: This will be now quota, Keith Pitt. Now Labor doesn't
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Speaker 2: know what a woman is. They're allowing blokes to turn
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Speaker 2: up to these committees, but now they reckon they can
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Speaker 2: have quotas for women when they can't decide what a
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Speaker 2: woman is in the first place.
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Speaker 1: I think you're on the money, Peter. I mean, is
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Speaker 1: this like actual biological women or are these women who
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Speaker 1: identify as men as identify as women. Do they have
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Speaker 1: skills and qualifications? Because that's the bit I'm worried about
49:26
Speaker 1: now that these are serious jobs on these boards and
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Speaker 1: I just want people who can actually do the job.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't worry me if it's one hundred percent women.
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Speaker 1: I just want ones that are actually capable. And you
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Speaker 1: look at your story before.
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Speaker 10: That's really dangerous.
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Speaker 1: What if those individuals skew the results in Victoria and
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Speaker 1: that results in a really bad outcome for women who
49:46
Speaker 1: have serious problems. I think this stuff's just all completely
49:49
Speaker 1: out of hand and the Australian people there should be
49:51
Speaker 1: a revolt and they should put an end to it.
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Speaker 15: Yep.
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Speaker 2: I think the Liberal Party, if I'm really frank there, Keith,
49:58
Speaker 2: need to make this a huge issue with the next election.
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Speaker 2: I think this is something people absolutely care about. And
50:04
Speaker 2: if you look at the Republican National Conference, every time
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Speaker 2: this issue was spoken about in big speeches, there was
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Speaker 2: a huge cheer from the crowd, much bigger than on
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Speaker 2: other issues. It's a sleeper and you're crazy if you
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Speaker 2: don't take a head on.
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Speaker 4: All right, gener's gotta leave it there.
50:17
Speaker 2: I've got to get off my soapbox because it fires
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Speaker 2: me up, it really fires me up.
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Speaker 4: That's it for me. Tomorrow at six, I'll be back
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Speaker 4: here now. He's Andrew Bott