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Speaker 1: Peter Krandland live on Sky News Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Welcome to the program. Here's a look at
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Speaker 2: tonight's top stories coming up on Kredline. No rate reprieve
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Speaker 2: for Australians, no guarantee of a cut before the end
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Speaker 2: of the year either. The RBA Governor didn't sugarcoat things
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Speaker 2: today following her decision.
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Speaker 3: So what's it all mean for you?
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Speaker 2: Our business editor at Ross Greenwood coming up. Jaw dropping
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Speaker 2: data reveals a true scale of Labor's renewables rollout a
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Speaker 2: one point three trillion dollar plan and a footprint the
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Speaker 2: size of Sydney. That's the basin just for solar panels alone.
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Speaker 2: It's no under Conservationists and now joining farmers, engineers and
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Speaker 2: others sounding an alarm on this global green madness over
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Speaker 2: in the UK and nonj Ferrage too has taken a
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Speaker 2: swipe at Anthony Albanezi. He says our PM's totally out
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Speaker 2: of touch with a political shift happening in the West.
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Speaker 2: Vote as he said, has had enough.
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Speaker 3: In this typical Farage style, he doesn't miss.
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Speaker 2: Plus we'll pick up again on that story out of
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Speaker 2: Victoria last night of a trans woman so biological male
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Speaker 2: currently imprisoned in a women's jail.
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Speaker 3: Outrage today is turned to the.
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Speaker 2: Leniency of the sentence four and a half years four
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Speaker 2: four years and nine months sorry for sexually abusing their
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Speaker 2: own daughter.
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Speaker 3: We get this.
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Speaker 2: It comes with a two and a half year non
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Speaker 2: parole period. Cause now the Victorian Premier to act.
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Speaker 4: These are sentences that are not in line with community expectations.
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Speaker 4: That is why we will make sure we will review
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Speaker 4: all of the sentencing here in Victoria.
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Speaker 2: We will stay with this issue and I should stay
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Speaker 2: up front thecter. This is very shocking. It's very shocking
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Speaker 2: some of these details.
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Speaker 3: You'll recall.
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Speaker 2: Last night, leading women's activist Rachel Wong and I discussed
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Speaker 2: the horrific case of a trans woman, a biological man
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Speaker 2: in other words, currently serving time in a Victorian women's
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Speaker 2: prison and for molesting his own five year old daughter
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Speaker 2: to please a chat room male friend, and whose appallingly
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Speaker 2: short sentence was shortened further on the grounds that he
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Speaker 2: was a female subject to coercive control, that he was
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Speaker 2: a female, even though the prosecution's material tended in court
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Speaker 2: about the graphic nature of the father's abuse of his
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Speaker 2: little girl refers to father's penis.
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Speaker 3: Please.
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Speaker 2: I know this is hard to discuss, just as it's
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Speaker 2: hard to comprehend, but please bear with me, because unless
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Speaker 2: we all understand what's happening in our courts and in
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Speaker 2: our justice system in this country, signed off by our governments,
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Speaker 2: then it will continue with our challenge and challenge we
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Speaker 2: must this madness. Here are the basic squalid facts as
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Speaker 2: contained in the County Court judgment in the case the
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Speaker 2: DPP against Maloney. Now, Maloney is a pseudonym given to
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Speaker 2: the offender to predict the identity of his five year
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Speaker 2: old victim, but which also sadly protects the perpetrator. A
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Speaker 2: father referred to by the judge as Hilary Maloney, who
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Speaker 2: sexually abused his five year old daughter, was given a
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Speaker 2: minimum two and a half year sentence because, at least
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Speaker 2: in part, the judge said, his transition to being a
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Speaker 2: woman reduced quote his moral culpability. That Maloney had become
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Speaker 2: the quote slave of an American pedophile, Sam Booth, and
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Speaker 2: agreed to molest his daughter on camera for the sexual
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Speaker 2: gratification of his quote master. Maloney had produced thirteen videos
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Speaker 2: and sixty four images in just one month, all on
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Speaker 2: Booth's instructions to quote, engage in a variety of sexual
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Speaker 2: and perverse acts with your daughter. Now today I have
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Speaker 2: read the entire judgment, and let me tell you the
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Speaker 2: various things that this father has done to his daughter
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Speaker 2: and then filmed them and transmitted them. Then to this
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Speaker 2: fellow pedophile, are a simply revolting to spare you. I
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Speaker 2: won't go into the graphic detail, but it's all there
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Speaker 2: in the court documents.
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Speaker 3: And Maloney knew that it was wrong.
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Speaker 2: His five year old daughter also knew it was wrong,
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Speaker 2: because the prosecution says she objected to it, and that
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Speaker 2: was audibly heard in the footage. Yet in sentencing the pedophile,
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Speaker 2: the judge you made excuses for Maloney, saying, quote, given booths,
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Speaker 2: manipulation and coercion, and your vulnerability is you are much
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Speaker 2: less able to objectively make the right and healthy choices.
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Speaker 2: Now I pulled up at that phrase healthy choices. It
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Speaker 2: sounds more like a common a doctor would make to
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Speaker 2: an unhealthy patient that needs to lose weight, not what
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Speaker 2: a judge says to a father convicted of abusing their
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Speaker 2: own child. It almost makes light, or somehow downgraves in
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Speaker 2: some way, the horrific nature of his offending, but Judge
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Speaker 2: Nola Carapana Geotitis went on claiming that the father, now
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Speaker 2: Hilary Maloney, had become vulnerable to Booze, the US pedophile
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Speaker 2: who had quote cultivated and exploited a relationship with you
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Speaker 2: through affirmation and attention, which in turn validated you as
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Speaker 2: a woman and a sexual person, validated you as a woman,
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Speaker 2: said the judge, even though, as I said at paragraph
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Speaker 2: fourteen of the judgment, evidence tended by the prosecution refers
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Speaker 2: to the father's penis in the offending. Again, I'm sorry
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Speaker 2: I have to be so graphic, but if we do
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Speaker 2: not expose the horrific nature of what's being allowed to
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Speaker 2: masquerade as justice in this country, it will never.
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Speaker 3: Be challenged again.
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Speaker 2: And challenged we must, just as Caravana Giatitis, a former
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Speaker 2: legal aid lawyer a refugee specialist before appointment to the
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Speaker 2: bench of the County Court, claimed that Maloney the father
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Speaker 2: will quote face additional hardship in prison as a relatively
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Speaker 2: young trans woman. Please, it's that little girl and the
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Speaker 2: mum left to pick up the pieces that deserve our care,
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Speaker 2: our concern and our compassion. When asked about this, the
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Speaker 2: Victorian Premier, normally so vocal in her denunciation of sexual predators,
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Speaker 2: referred all the questions to the Corrections Minister. For the
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Speaker 2: past two days since the story broke, she has hidden
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Speaker 2: from the media. Today it was her Energy Minister left
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Speaker 2: to try and justify the madness of a biological male
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Speaker 2: pedophile identifying as a woman being housed in a woman's prison.
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Speaker 5: Do not comment, and we have never commented on individuals
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Speaker 5: nor the placement of individual prisoners. When it comes to
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Speaker 5: the placement of prisoners, that the safety of the entire
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Speaker 5: prisoner population is always considered.
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Speaker 2: How have we got to a situation in a country
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Speaker 2: like Australia where a father with intact male biology can
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Speaker 2: abuse his own daughter and then rely on the claim
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Speaker 2: that he is a woman, then he can get a
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Speaker 2: judge to agree that part of the reason and father
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Speaker 2: did it was that as a woman he was subject
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Speaker 2: to the coercive control of another pedophile, a male overseas
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Speaker 2: and because of all of that that gets a reduced sentence.
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Speaker 3: What about the rights of the little girl?
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Speaker 2: Has a female herself to a childhood of innocence and
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Speaker 2: the love and care of her parents?
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Speaker 3: Now dare that Labor.
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Speaker 2: Minister try and hire behind decisions made by prison authorities.
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Speaker 2: Is if we don't know that governments make prison policy,
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Speaker 2: the governments fund our prisons, and that governments hire and
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Speaker 2: fire the people that run them. I mean, it's bad
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Speaker 2: enough that this is sanctioned under law in Victoria, but
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Speaker 2: what makes it so much worse is that those we
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Speaker 2: elect aren't even prepared to justify their decisions to the public. Today,
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Speaker 2: the Victorian opposition has made this commitment.
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Speaker 4: Needs to be a line in the sand that says no,
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Speaker 4: there are certain things that are not acceptable and people
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Speaker 4: going into the opposite sex prisons are putting.
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Speaker 3: People at risk.
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Speaker 4: That is something that needs to be considered and wouldn't
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Speaker 4: happen under a government I lead.
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Speaker 2: Now that's strong there, Brad Batton. But I saw qualifications
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Speaker 2: later attributed to you that brought that back that said
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Speaker 2: no male should be housed in a woman's prison if
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Speaker 2: they are convicted convicted of a sex crime. No sorry,
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Speaker 2: no biological men whatsoever. It doesn't matter about their crime,
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Speaker 2: no biological men whatsoever. Put the liberals to one side.
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Speaker 2: I don't care if you have voted labor all your life,
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Speaker 2: this cannot continue this time. You cannot vote just senter
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Speaker 2: Alan back in. In the name of all that's still
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Speaker 2: good and decent in this world, this labor government in
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Speaker 2: Victoria must be thrown.
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Speaker 3: Out, all right.
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Speaker 2: Coming off the show tonight two of an interview with
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Speaker 2: Stephen Noah Kowski. He's a Queensland concerttionist, a long time
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Speaker 2: green activist, whose campaigning against the desecration of our national
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Speaker 2: parks and prime agricultural land by wind turbines and solar panels,
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Speaker 2: all in the name of saving the planet from climate change.
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Speaker 2: As Stephen says, how can you clear native forest for renewables?
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Speaker 2: This is the biggest oxymoronic policy and is right. He
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Speaker 2: and his collaborator collaborators called Rainforest Reserves Australia, have gone
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Speaker 2: through the publicly available data to produce an assessment of
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Speaker 2: what's called this green transition and what it's doing to
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Speaker 2: our country to achieve the government's emissions reduction targets. There's
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Speaker 2: almost one thousand, one hundred operational and proposed renewable projects
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Speaker 2: and this is everything, but it does not include transmission lines.
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Speaker 2: Currently there's just over four thousand, five hundred wind turbines
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Speaker 2: in Australia.
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Speaker 3: But under these plans, we're.
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Speaker 2: Going to see an twenty five thousand, and the area
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Speaker 2: covered by them is set to rise from around thirty
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Speaker 2: nine thousand hectares to almost two hundred thousand hectares or
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Speaker 2: almost two thousand square kilometers.
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Speaker 4: All.
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Speaker 2: Let's put it another way. That's a kilometer wide band
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Speaker 2: stretching from Melbourne all the way through and beyond to
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Speaker 2: Rockhampton in Queensland, or about the area the size of
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Speaker 2: metropolitan Brisbane. As Noahkowski reports, there's currently seventy four million
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Speaker 2: solar panels in Australia, but under the government's current plans,
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Speaker 2: we're going to need another one hundred and eighty million,
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Speaker 2: and the area covered will need to be increased from
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Speaker 2: around twenty seven thousand hectares as we have now to
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Speaker 2: almost half a million hectares. Now again, put that into perspective,
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Speaker 2: that's four and a half thousand square kilometers, or a
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Speaker 2: kilometer wide band that stretches from Sydney right across to Perth,
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Speaker 2: or an area as big as the entire Sydney Basin. Now,
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Speaker 2: to pay for all of this environmental desecration, Australia will
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Speaker 2: need to spend one point three trillion dollars one point
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Speaker 2: three trillion and Noah kowskis I said he did this
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Speaker 2: analysis as a conservationist. He's a lifelong green. That's his motivation.
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Speaker 2: He cares about the natural environment.
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Speaker 3: He wants to protect it.
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Speaker 2: Now, finally it feels like we might be getting to
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Speaker 2: the bottom of his whole Renewables are cheap, renewables, will
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Speaker 2: save the planet, great big global green scam. Well, let's
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Speaker 2: get the headlines now out of Canberra, Reuben Spargo.
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Speaker 6: The US Defense Department has reportedly agreed to sell nuclear
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Speaker 6: submarines to Australia, according to nick A Asia, A Pentagon
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Speaker 6: lead review has formerly backed the Orcret Pact. The US
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Speaker 6: Department has not confirm the report.
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Speaker 7: Aucas has been meeting its milestones.
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Speaker 6: Industrial setbacks could still delay delivery of the submarines. The
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Speaker 6: Prime Minister is backing the Gaza peace deal, orchestrated by
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Speaker 6: the White House. It involves the establishment of a temporary
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Speaker 6: Palestinian governing body.
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Speaker 7: Austraya has long call for a cease fire.
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Speaker 1: We'll call for the hostages to be released.
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Speaker 6: The government maintains deep concerns over the conduct of the
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Speaker 6: war and the toll on civilians. The Reserve Bank of
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Speaker 6: Australia has kept interest rates on hold. During its meeting today,
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Speaker 6: the RBA slashed the cash rate by zero point two
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Speaker 6: five percent to three point six percent in August, the
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Speaker 6: third cut this year.
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Speaker 2: Lots to get through tonight. Joining me now, Daily Telegraph
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Speaker 2: National affairs editor James Morrow and former Liberal Lampagna Cole Flint.
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Speaker 2: We'll start with the globe tropic globe trotting PM. We
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Speaker 2: obviously saw Banawatu, we saw p and G. We've had
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Speaker 2: New York, We've had London, We've now got the UAE
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Speaker 2: been touring the Grand Mosque in Aberdavi with his fiance.
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Speaker 2: He stopped in at a local grocery store, trying to convince
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Speaker 2: the Middle Eastern chain to come in enter the Australian market.
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Speaker 2: This has been an eleven day trip, Nicole. I've done
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Speaker 2: some back of envelope costings, given it costs about two
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars a day to put that plane in
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Speaker 2: the air, adding his entourage, the cars, the hotel rooms,
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Speaker 2: all the public servants staff he's got traveling with him.
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Speaker 2: Are we getting our money's worth as taxpayers?
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Speaker 3: Clearly we are not. Peter Gredlin.
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Speaker 8: Look, we're witnessing the return of prime Minister albo Ciz
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Speaker 8: as he was dubbed or airbus Elbow.
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Speaker 3: If you prefer goodness me.
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Speaker 8: Last time in I think it was about two two
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Speaker 8: and a half years, he spent five million dollars of
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Speaker 8: taxpayers money on international travel, which was an average of
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Speaker 8: about eighty eight thousand dollars a month I think, or
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Speaker 8: maybe it was even a week actually, And not only that,
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Speaker 8: he traveled all the way from the Earth to the Moon,
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Speaker 8: if you want to put it in those terms, something
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Speaker 8: like three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers. So goodness, mate,
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Speaker 8: We've got so many pressing issues that he should be
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Speaker 8: here at home focusing on right now. You know, a
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Speaker 8: rate pheze by the Reserve Bank today, them saying that
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Speaker 8: inflation is way too sticky. Well, Elbow's his fuel bill
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Speaker 8: and his transport bill and his hotel bill won't be
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Speaker 8: happening with cost of living and budgetary pressures here at home.
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Speaker 2: And we're going to pain results here, James. I mean
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Speaker 2: P ANDNG couldn't get that defense deal signed. They've scarveed
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Speaker 2: off to the Chinese. I expect is going to die
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Speaker 2: natural death. The same thing happened in Vanaha To. I
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Speaker 2: don't begrudge him turning up to the UN General Assembly,
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Speaker 2: but I disagree with what he did in terms of
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Speaker 2: recognizing Palestine. I can't find any redeeming feature for him
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Speaker 2: to turn up to a labor political conference and trying
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Speaker 2: to kis Dama in the UK. I mean the very
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Speaker 2: fact that the public servants from pay them and say
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Speaker 2: thy scarf. But if they would have anything to do
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Speaker 2: with that conference says it's highly political.
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Speaker 9: It was highly political. But I mean political doesn't even
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Speaker 9: begin I think to articulate the problem here, Peter. This
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Speaker 9: was unbelievably self indulgent. This was And also for the record,
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Speaker 9: I have no problem for a Prime minister of any
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Speaker 9: stripe going out and representing Australia and doing a good job.
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Speaker 9: That's their job. These trips that we're talking about here,
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Speaker 9: though you know in the South Pacific no result Vanuadu
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Speaker 9: PNG being comprehensibly outplayed by the Chinese. We know that
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Speaker 9: you know, had this happen, and we know what happened
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Speaker 9: was Scott Morrison in the Solomon Islands label would have
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Speaker 9: made and they did make a huge big deal about this.
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Speaker 9: And yet now the shoes on the other foot, and
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Speaker 9: you know they're having failure after failure in this arena.
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Speaker 9: Then the un giving this incredibly self indulgent speech. I
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Speaker 9: actual listened to it in a hole that was all
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Speaker 9: but empty, you know. And he's thinking, he's up there,
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Speaker 9: you know, with his main character moment, acting like he's
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Speaker 9: going to save the whole world with his Palestine piece
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Speaker 9: plan and everything else is standing up for democracy against authoritarianism.
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Speaker 9: Nobody cared. Come on, and then the iseg on the
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Speaker 9: cake here showing up at Downing Street to go see
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Speaker 9: Keir Starber with a four pack. A four pack, mind you,
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Speaker 9: of a beer emblazoned with his own faith. How self
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Speaker 9: indulgent can you get? And this is before you even
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Speaker 9: get into the whole question of what he was doing
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Speaker 9: speaking at that Labor Party conference. And you know, I'll
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Speaker 9: tell you what he should instead of skiding about how
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Speaker 9: wonderful Labor is doing here in Australia, he should be
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Speaker 9: taking some lessons about why Keir Starber is doing so
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Speaker 9: poorly in the UK. And there's a lot of lessons
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Speaker 9: there that he should be learning because a lot of
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Speaker 9: those same issues, particularly around immigration, are coming directly this way.
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Speaker 2: I will say to the young idiots on social media
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Speaker 2: who cheering for his canny use of the beer into
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Speaker 2: Downing Street or pulling beers at an Aussie pub in
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Speaker 2: New York while he labour's spending. His spending as a
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Speaker 2: percentage of GDP as the highest in almost fifty years.
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Speaker 3: That's why you can't get in a house. So you
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Speaker 3: might be laughing.
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Speaker 2: He gets pretty cute. Take the beers in the Downing Street.
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Speaker 2: You can't get a house because this guy can't say no.
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Speaker 3: Nicole.
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Speaker 2: My point at the top of the show about this
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Speaker 2: biological man trans female pedophile in a jail in Victoria
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Speaker 2: with women after he and I'll say he because he
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Speaker 2: had a penis at the time he abused his five
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Speaker 2: year old daughter. This has caused a horrific uproar, not
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Speaker 2: just about what he did and the fact that this
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Speaker 2: person is now in a female prison, but also the
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Speaker 2: appalling light sentence.
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Speaker 3: That's what shocked people. How do you react to it?
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Speaker 8: That clearly needs to be just sort of change in Victoria.
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Speaker 8: The laws are not strong enough to protect most vulnerable
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Speaker 8: citizens who are children. Peter, my heartbreaks, as you said
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Speaker 8: in your introduction, for this little girl and how she
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Speaker 8: will we hope recover from this appalling crime. So first thing,
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Speaker 8: the Victorian government needs to strengthen the laws that apply
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Speaker 8: to pedophiles and the penalties because this is grossly inadequate.
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Speaker 8: I believe as a penalty, I believe that the maximum
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Speaker 8: was actually twenty years and the standard sentence is ten.
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Speaker 8: But separately, clearly the law also needs to be changed
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Speaker 8: so that we don't see biological men, whether they have transitioned,
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Speaker 8: whether they're on hormone treatment, housed in women's jails, and I,
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Speaker 8: as you have, Peter, been very strident on this issue
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Speaker 8: over many years, whether it's sports, feel whether it's women's
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Speaker 8: change rooms, women's bathrooms, whether it's rape crisis centers, domestic
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Speaker 8: violent centers, or whether it's jails. We need to protect
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Speaker 8: women and ensure that they are not placed in the
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Speaker 8: same space, especially in somewhere like a jail where they
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Speaker 8: cannot leave with biological men, even if those men have
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Speaker 8: transition or if they have had hormone treatment, because we
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Speaker 8: know the hormone treatment does not change their fundamental biology,
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Speaker 8: which means that they have strength and physical characteristics that
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Speaker 8: women cannot compete with.
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Speaker 2: Let's just quickly go to the Israel deal or potential
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Speaker 2: deal that's on the table now. There were meetings overnight,
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Speaker 2: of course with Donald Trump and Benjamin net Yahoo. They've
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Speaker 2: released a twenty point piece plan. It would of course
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Speaker 2: see the release of the hostages or sadly, I say,
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Speaker 2: what we expect will be the bodies of hostages within
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Speaker 2: twenty seventy two hours, and that would then mean an
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Speaker 2: end to the war and the formation of a new
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Speaker 2: international body to uphold stability in the region. We do
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Speaker 2: not know if Humas will agree, and on that the
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Speaker 2: President did not mince his words.
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Speaker 7: If the Master rejects a deal, which is always possible,
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Speaker 7: they're the only one left. Everyone else has accepted it.
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Speaker 7: But I have a feeling that we're going to have
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Speaker 7: a positive answer. But if not, as you know, BB,
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Speaker 7: you'd have more full backing to do what you would
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Speaker 7: have to do.
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Speaker 2: James, just quickly, I mean, is this what we hope,
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Speaker 2: really hope.
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Speaker 3: Is the end?
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Speaker 9: Well, you got to hope it is. I mean, it's
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Speaker 9: all in a mass's court now, and that doesn't make
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Speaker 9: one optimistic. That said, there's moral clarity to this. What
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Speaker 9: happens is done in the right order. According to this deal,
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Speaker 9: the Arab nations are all on board with it pretty much.
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Speaker 9: It is and critics have said the last best hope
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Speaker 9: for peace and if it comes off, well Tonald Trump
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Speaker 9: will certainly deserved that Nobel Peace Prize.
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Speaker 2: All Right, I'll leave there, Thank you, James, Thank you
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Speaker 2: to Cole. Right now to the implications of today's RBA
22:15
Speaker 2: decision to keep the.
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Speaker 3: Cash rate on hold.
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Speaker 2: It's on the hold at three point six percent. What's
22:20
Speaker 2: it all been, particularly for your mortgage if you've got
22:22
Speaker 2: one host of business?
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Speaker 3: Now, Ross greenwand joins me.
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Speaker 2: Three rate cuts this year, which is terrific. Not today though,
22:30
Speaker 2: how's the market reacted? And now obviously speculations shifting to
22:35
Speaker 2: Melbourne Cup day.
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Speaker 1: Give us a read, Ross, Yeah, it won't happen, Peter.
22:40
Speaker 1: And the reason for it is the Reserve Bank unless
22:42
Speaker 1: it's see something in the inflation numbers that come out
22:45
Speaker 1: in late October, effectively are giving notice to the market,
22:49
Speaker 1: giving notice to the community that you can probably sort
22:53
Speaker 1: of water down the expectation of future rate cuts because
22:58
Speaker 1: the economy, frankly, and this is not news, this is
23:00
Speaker 1: good news, is starting to grow. There's signs that the
23:04
Speaker 1: three raid cuts already this year have seen consumer sort
23:07
Speaker 1: of confidence and consumer spending start to pick up, that
23:11
Speaker 1: starting to boost the economy just that little bit. But
23:13
Speaker 1: the real concern for the Reserve Bank is that maybe
23:16
Speaker 1: as a result of that that they really haven't sort
23:19
Speaker 1: of slain the inflation dragon, and so therefore, as a result,
23:23
Speaker 1: it seems to me they're just being a little sort
23:26
Speaker 1: of wary about sort of being too gung ho about
23:30
Speaker 1: sort of telling people are going to cut interest rates,
23:32
Speaker 1: because the likelihood is if there are raid cuts to
23:35
Speaker 1: be coming, they're more likely now to be next year,
23:39
Speaker 1: unless really this inflation number in late Octoo becomes out
23:42
Speaker 1: as a big surprise as compared with what most expected
23:46
Speaker 1: to be.
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Speaker 2: I've got to get your take on that announcement by
23:50
Speaker 2: the government yesterday of a reduction in the deficit. We
23:53
Speaker 2: are still running a deficit budget, so we're spending more
23:57
Speaker 2: perannum then we're earning in terms of revenue as a country.
24:00
Speaker 2: But you know, they go out there was twenty seven
24:04
Speaker 2: point nine twenty eight percent twenty eight billion dollars sorry
24:07
Speaker 2: in deficit was the forecast. They brought it down to
24:09
Speaker 2: a round ten. Most of the media last night ran
24:12
Speaker 2: that as the big headline, but that was a p
24:14
Speaker 2: and thimble trick, because over here, if you lift that
24:16
Speaker 2: thimble up, the real story was the fact that we
24:19
Speaker 2: are spending at the highest level in about forty years
24:23
Speaker 2: as a percentage of GDP because the government is addicted,
24:26
Speaker 2: hopelessly addicted to spending. Now, that's where we need to
24:31
Speaker 2: educate Australian So that is what they need to understand,
24:33
Speaker 2: because that is the reason why the budget is simply
24:37
Speaker 2: not sustainable.
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Speaker 3: So why aren't we talking about that enough?
24:40
Speaker 1: Ross, Well, it's pretty simple, and that is if the
24:43
Speaker 1: government is spending at a faster rate than what the
24:46
Speaker 1: economy is growing, then ultimately it can't get back into surplus. Now,
24:51
Speaker 1: the strange thing is that if the government had had
24:54
Speaker 1: more discipline, or had been able to get even further savings,
24:57
Speaker 1: or had not spent literally being upon billions of dollars
25:01
Speaker 1: and committed that the government would most likely be having
25:04
Speaker 1: a third surplus, it would have been announcing yesterday and
25:08
Speaker 1: that would have been, to be honest, a pretty good
25:09
Speaker 1: tribute to a labor government and to a labor treasurer.
25:13
Speaker 1: But they couldn't do that simply because of the spending
25:15
Speaker 1: that you're talking about. Then the second factor is the
25:18
Speaker 1: economy is not growing, so therefore the government is really
25:21
Speaker 1: the responsibility for not only so many people having jobs,
25:25
Speaker 1: more than fifty percent of jobs created in the past
25:28
Speaker 1: couple of years have come from government programs. But people
25:32
Speaker 1: are now beholden to the government. And it's strangely enough,
25:36
Speaker 1: the reason why they improve the budget is because all
25:38
Speaker 1: those people are employed by the government or its programs
25:42
Speaker 1: and so therefore paid tax back. So this is an issue.
25:46
Speaker 1: But you can't improve your productivity, you can't improve your
25:50
Speaker 1: economic growth if you have a lot of people working
25:53
Speaker 1: in non productive jobs. You've got to get your farming industry.
25:57
Speaker 1: You've got to get your mining industry. You can't have
26:00
Speaker 1: as we had today our co closing down an alumina
26:03
Speaker 1: refinery in Quanana for the cost of another couple of
26:06
Speaker 1: hundred jobs, which was the key to basically adding value
26:10
Speaker 1: to our minerals to Baukside to create a lumina and
26:13
Speaker 1: then aluminium. You can't have those things. You can't have
26:16
Speaker 1: almost every foundry on the East Coast of Australia and
26:19
Speaker 1: steel works in aluminium works in government under government subsidy.
26:23
Speaker 1: That's not how you get economic growth. You've got to
26:26
Speaker 1: have the country growing to be able to afford the
26:29
Speaker 1: spinning that the Governor's committed to. And that's the big
26:32
Speaker 1: issue for Australia right now.
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Speaker 2: And just quickly there Ross, I mean, the problem there
26:37
Speaker 2: is those industries you mentioned. You mentioned the farmers about
26:40
Speaker 2: to be hit with the twenty thirty five targets, you
26:43
Speaker 2: mentioned mining the same you mentioned the clothes of Quanana,
26:46
Speaker 2: and this puts all the other smelters, as you know,
26:48
Speaker 2: are on the East Coast on death watch. We're closing
26:52
Speaker 2: down coal, We're not doing enough in terms of gas.
26:56
Speaker 2: This is how we pay our way in the world,
26:58
Speaker 2: and so we've all we've got left a pump primed
27:01
Speaker 2: economy of people on the gatherment teat and migration.
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Speaker 3: None of this adds up, no.
27:08
Speaker 1: Because ultimately, at some stage you've got to pay for it.
27:11
Speaker 1: You've got to make something in the world. And it's
27:14
Speaker 1: not enough to say, well, our future is greenness or
27:16
Speaker 1: greenness when green hydrogen planes have literally evaporated, so they're
27:20
Speaker 1: not the future. When as you've described, you know, sort
27:23
Speaker 1: of if you try and roll out the renewables, and
27:25
Speaker 1: now you've got to backlash from even green groups lobbying
27:28
Speaker 1: gainst that, And the one thing that was the hallmark
27:31
Speaker 1: of Australia's economy over so many decades was cheap energy,
27:35
Speaker 1: and we don't have that anymore. So we don't have
27:37
Speaker 1: We've got some of the highest taxes in the world,
27:40
Speaker 1: corporate taxes, we've got energy prices that are now three
27:43
Speaker 1: times high than what they are in the United States.
27:46
Speaker 1: And now we don't have economic growth because a lot
27:48
Speaker 1: of the money that otherwise should be invested here has
27:50
Speaker 1: gone to America. And this is no way in which
27:53
Speaker 1: the country long term is going to get the growing
27:56
Speaker 1: economy that will match the growing spending of the game.
28:00
Speaker 1: And yes, they've done pretty well in the past little
28:02
Speaker 1: while to have a lot of people employed, you know,
28:05
Speaker 1: sort of and have them on jobs that are largely
28:08
Speaker 1: go to be case type of arrangements. But the reality is,
28:12
Speaker 1: what is the future that is going to get Australia
28:14
Speaker 1: to grow faster? And there is no narrative right now
28:18
Speaker 1: as to what that future is, and that fundamentally is
28:21
Speaker 1: a big problem for Australia's economy and for your kids
28:25
Speaker 1: and your grandkids into the future.
28:29
Speaker 2: Well I'm not very cheery eight Ross. I think I'll
28:31
Speaker 2: leave it there and go to a break. Not much
28:33
Speaker 2: hope out there are long term even medium term economics,
28:36
Speaker 2: is there or after the break we'll get into the
28:38
Speaker 2: detail of Labor's renewables roll a, particularly what it's going
28:41
Speaker 2: to cost to you. But the fact that you know
28:44
Speaker 2: these projects we're not going to make current targets, so
28:47
Speaker 2: why are they going up even higher? In twenty thirty five?
28:56
Speaker 3: Welcome back Stiel to come.
28:56
Speaker 2: We'll get a legal expert to weighing in the two
28:59
Speaker 2: and a half year minimum sentence the pedophile received after
29:02
Speaker 2: abusing their own five year old daughter. This is the
29:06
Speaker 2: biological man you know Women's prison in Victoria at first
29:09
Speaker 2: startling revelations today that the rollout of renewable energy projects
29:13
Speaker 2: across Australia will cost all of US one point three
29:17
Speaker 2: trillion dollars and will require twenty five thousand wind towers
29:23
Speaker 2: and some two hundred and fifty million solar panels across
29:26
Speaker 2: an area larger than the entire Sydney basin. This is
29:31
Speaker 2: just for the solar panels. The figure which reveals there's
29:34
Speaker 2: around eleven hundred existing or proposed projects right now, is
29:39
Speaker 2: Australia's first and very comprehensive glimpse of the drifts scale
29:43
Speaker 2: of the renewables revolution, and it's been compiled by conservationists
29:49
Speaker 2: and communities that are pushing for a.
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Speaker 3: Better planned rollout.
29:53
Speaker 2: Queensland conservationist Stephen noah Kowski's led the project along with
29:57
Speaker 2: a group known as the Rainforest Reserves Australia, and they
30:01
Speaker 2: want all of us to wake up to the impact
30:04
Speaker 2: of what's happening in our beautiful, pristine bushland. Stephen joins me. Now,
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Speaker 2: all I have to say, Stephen, congratulations, this is an
30:15
Speaker 2: enormous data mapping project and what you're able to show
30:19
Speaker 2: us is the plans that our government has to destroy
30:23
Speaker 2: some of our most pristine, most spectacular environment. Destroying the
30:29
Speaker 2: environment to somehow save the planet does not stack up.
30:34
Speaker 2: What shocked you most from this research.
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Speaker 10: What shocked me most is the fact that this is
30:41
Speaker 10: really it's at a hoc, it's random, and no one
30:47
Speaker 10: has ever really looked at it cumulatively. We hear about
30:51
Speaker 10: a wind fine project here, wind project there, but no
30:54
Speaker 10: one has actually put them all together. And that's what
30:56
Speaker 10: we've done. So we've put all these projects together onto
31:00
Speaker 10: one map so Australians can see the cumulative scale and
31:04
Speaker 10: spatial footprint. Some of the really alarming projects that have
31:08
Speaker 10: come to light projects in places like the Tarquine Wilderness
31:14
Speaker 10: on the west coast of Tasmania. There's a project down
31:18
Speaker 10: there called Whaleback Ridge that is five hundred and twenty
31:21
Speaker 10: industrial scott scaled wind towers in an area that's emarked
31:26
Speaker 10: for a World Heritage Area. We've also got v Anulla
31:29
Speaker 10: ball Plane where there's three thousand wind towers planned there
31:34
Speaker 10: called the Green Western Green Energy Hub, and that area
31:38
Speaker 10: there is proposed as a World Heritage Area. It contains
31:42
Speaker 10: some of the largest limestone cave systems on Earth. So
31:46
Speaker 10: we've got a collagists racing against the clock to try
31:49
Speaker 10: to get some of these really special areas protected Underworld
31:53
Speaker 10: Heritage with World Heritage values to try to save these
31:59
Speaker 10: areas because the turbinees getting but we're not getting any
32:02
Speaker 10: help from the established conservation groups and it's time for
32:04
Speaker 10: these groups to start waking up and seeing what's going on.
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Speaker 2: All right, unless anyone think you're a stooge for fossil
32:12
Speaker 2: fuels or right wing politics, explain to my viewer Stephen,
32:17
Speaker 2: your sort of green credentials.
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Speaker 10: We all very involved with the Australian Greens back in
32:24
Speaker 10: the early days up here in North Queensland. I've run twice.
32:27
Speaker 10: I was involved with the Local Environments Center up here
32:30
Speaker 10: for a decade. I was the editor of the local newsletter,
32:35
Speaker 10: being involved in very many in many environmental campaigns and
32:40
Speaker 10: currently involved with rainforest reserves where we've actually planted three
32:43
Speaker 10: hundred thousand trees. We've connected rain national parks and fragmented
32:50
Speaker 10: protected areas. We have a plant nursery, we sell plants.
32:57
Speaker 10: We also have the Caswhary Rehabilitation Center up here in
33:00
Speaker 10: Off Queensland. So we do really great on the ground
33:04
Speaker 10: conservation work. And I suppose the reason why we're actively
33:08
Speaker 10: engaged in this issue is because it takes us, you know,
33:11
Speaker 10: five years to try to plant ten hectares, just ten
33:14
Speaker 10: hectares of forest, whereas the vision you're seeing there that's
33:18
Speaker 10: Lotus Creek. They're clearing seven hundred hectares of classified remnant
33:24
Speaker 10: forests old Great Forest for one wind farm, for forty
33:28
Speaker 10: six wind towers. That's a one point three billion dollar
33:32
Speaker 10: project that you're seeing there now. That's owned by us,
33:35
Speaker 10: the Queensland takespayer, the Queensland Government owns that and this
33:41
Speaker 10: is the hypocrisy of what we're what we're doing. The
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Speaker 10: Clark Creek wind farm lead two thousand hectares of classified
33:49
Speaker 10: remnant forests full of koalas greater gliders, and what this
33:53
Speaker 10: mapping is showing us is that accumulatively we're clearing hundreds
33:58
Speaker 10: of thousands of hec of remnant forests in the name
34:02
Speaker 10: of green energy. And it's completely ludicrous. It's crazy, and
34:08
Speaker 10: people just have to have to wake up to what
34:10
Speaker 10: is going on, because I don't think the average Australian
34:13
Speaker 10: person out there when they think of green energy, they
34:17
Speaker 10: think or you know, a couple of wind towers here
34:20
Speaker 10: there in maybe sheep country or whatever. But what we're
34:24
Speaker 10: seeing on the ground, particularly in Queensland where we don't
34:27
Speaker 10: have the wind resources like other states we have the
34:30
Speaker 10: wind resources up in the high elevation mountaintops. It's those
34:34
Speaker 10: areas that have escaped industrialization urbanization, and it's those areas
34:39
Speaker 10: that the wind farm companies are going for to build
34:41
Speaker 10: their turbines. So we're seeing the tops of these mountains
34:45
Speaker 10: completely smashed to smithereens and silence from the conservation groups
34:52
Speaker 10: is deafening and they just need to wake up and
34:55
Speaker 10: see what's going on. This is a one trillion dollar
34:59
Speaker 10: wall of infrastructure carpet Boeing Australia, and if no one's
35:07
Speaker 10: going to look at the planning, I can't believe that
35:10
Speaker 10: this is a one trillion dollar industry. Yet no one
35:14
Speaker 10: has done any space for footprint mapping to show where
35:18
Speaker 10: any of this stuff is going. We don't know where
35:20
Speaker 10: the transmission was.
35:21
Speaker 3: Stephen. I've got to jump in there.
35:24
Speaker 2: I would guarantee you those maps are inside government. This
35:27
Speaker 2: is what government does. They would at least have state
35:30
Speaker 2: by state maps because they'd have to have approved from
35:32
Speaker 2: the state government to get in and around all the
35:36
Speaker 2: state planning legislation. But they don't want us to know
35:39
Speaker 2: about them. So congratulations to you, Congratulations to your team,
35:42
Speaker 2: because you've done what the government refuses to release. Someon'
35:46
Speaker 2: say they haven't done it, but they're refusing to release it.
35:48
Speaker 2: People are going to want to support you. I know
35:50
Speaker 2: the map's not yet online as interactive, but it will be.
35:54
Speaker 2: I'm going to put some information up there on the screen.
35:57
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time, Stephen. We'll come back to
35:59
Speaker 2: this again, Stephen Kowski there. I'll leave that qr CO
36:03
Speaker 2: there as long as I can, please jump online, support
36:06
Speaker 2: Steven's work and spread the message. This could be the
36:10
Speaker 2: beginning of the end. After the break, we'll get into
36:13
Speaker 2: that pedophile issue when it calls for just into Alan
36:16
Speaker 2: to front the media. Stop hiding under your desk, just
36:18
Speaker 2: in a get out there and explain with the undefensible
36:22
Speaker 2: illegal expert in a moment, Welcome back to the come
36:30
Speaker 2: the dark money trail, the foreign money behind a large
36:33
Speaker 2: number of our renewable projects in Australia. The first to
36:36
Speaker 2: the extraordinary revelations of the father convicted for the sexual
36:39
Speaker 2: abuse of his five year old daughter given a jail
36:42
Speaker 2: term of just four and a half years or sorry
36:44
Speaker 2: four years nine months with a two and a half
36:47
Speaker 2: year minimum sentence.
36:48
Speaker 3: The details are sickening.
36:50
Speaker 2: I've gone through them at the top of the show,
36:51
Speaker 2: but they are all there in the judgment you can
36:54
Speaker 2: find it online. But in the sentence the magistrate the
36:58
Speaker 2: County Court site of the difficulties that the offender had
37:02
Speaker 2: had transitioning to being a woman. Now, this isn't easy,
37:07
Speaker 2: As I said, it's a difficult thing to discuss, but
37:10
Speaker 2: discuss that we must and join me nowt to do that.
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Speaker 2: Legal expert Chris Merit Chris. A lot of Australians are
37:17
Speaker 2: outraged today. Not only is there a biological man in
37:21
Speaker 2: a women's prison, but when you read the judgment and
37:25
Speaker 2: you read the abuse that was perpetrated on a five
37:29
Speaker 2: year old child by that child father, you've got to
37:33
Speaker 2: wonder why a two and a half year minimum sentence
37:38
Speaker 2: has been given by the judge.
37:41
Speaker 11: Well, thanks for having me on, Peter. This is the
37:45
Speaker 11: most shocking judgment I've ever read. I wish i'd never
37:48
Speaker 11: read it. The detail is sickening and once it's in
37:52
Speaker 11: your mind it's very hard to put it to one side.
37:56
Speaker 11: I agree, but let's get to the point here. This
38:00
Speaker 11: shocking on another level. It raises big questions about a
38:05
Speaker 11: fundamental principle of the rule of law, which is equal
38:09
Speaker 11: treatment before the law. What we've got here is a
38:12
Speaker 11: situation where a biological man fronted the court and said
38:18
Speaker 11: he was a woman, and evidence pointed to evidence saying
38:24
Speaker 11: that because I'm a woman, I'm weak minded, I'm more
38:29
Speaker 11: susceptible to coercion by men, and that was one of
38:33
Speaker 11: the main factors that persuaded the judge to reduce the
38:37
Speaker 11: moral culpability of this person This is despite the fact
38:42
Speaker 11: that psychiatric evidence before the court made it very clear
38:47
Speaker 11: that this person knew right throughout what he was doing.
38:51
Speaker 11: He knew the difference between right and wrong, and he
38:54
Speaker 11: knew that what he was doing was wrong. There was
38:57
Speaker 11: psychiatric evidence that there was no native impairment in this fellow.
39:02
Speaker 11: He knew exactly what he was doing, but the moral
39:07
Speaker 11: culpability was reduced, and that's why this fellow, this person
39:12
Speaker 11: did not get the maximum twenty five years in prison.
39:15
Speaker 11: He got a non parole period of two and a
39:17
Speaker 11: half years. Now, that raises questions about fundamental issues in
39:22
Speaker 11: criminal law. If you knew when you were committing a
39:27
Speaker 11: criminal offense the difference between right and wrong, that should
39:31
Speaker 11: be pretty well determinative of your moral culpability. The question
39:36
Speaker 11: of your gender identity or your hormonal balance should not
39:44
Speaker 11: count at all. A pedophile is a pedophile and should
39:48
Speaker 11: be treated as such. What we've got is confusion here.
39:53
Speaker 11: When I opened this judgment, I thought, well, this is
39:56
Speaker 11: obviously a case where a poor judge is a victim
40:00
Speaker 11: of a poorly drafted law. But I don't hold that view.
40:06
Speaker 11: I think the judge here needs guidance on how to
40:10
Speaker 11: deal with fundamental questions such as moral culpability. What we've
40:15
Speaker 11: got here is it's misfired. This is a pedophile. It
40:20
Speaker 11: doesn't matter that this person identifies as a woman and
40:25
Speaker 11: has implicitly been recognized as such by the court. A
40:29
Speaker 11: crime has been committed. A small child years from now,
40:33
Speaker 11: decades from now, will grow up and read this judgment
40:37
Speaker 11: and realize what this girl's father did. And we'll look
40:43
Speaker 11: at the sentence that was handed out by the County
40:46
Speaker 11: Court and we'll have to live with that. We've had
40:49
Speaker 11: two victims here. The court has treated this as two victims,
40:53
Speaker 11: not just the girl who is the victim of this pedophile,
40:56
Speaker 11: but the court has actually treated the pedophile as a
40:59
Speaker 11: vis victo and has gone through at some length, the
41:02
Speaker 11: extreme length, I would say, outlining the very poor educational background,
41:09
Speaker 11: the poor family background, the poor psychiatric state, even factors
41:18
Speaker 11: such as well, we need to consider the disruption of
41:22
Speaker 11: this person's hormonal treatment if we're going to imprison this
41:27
Speaker 11: person for a substantial period. Now, those are all factors
41:32
Speaker 11: that appear in this judgment, and I think it's now
41:36
Speaker 11: beholden on the Parliament of Victoria to clarify the root
41:42
Speaker 11: cause here. At this problem, and that is the court.
41:45
Speaker 11: All judges need clarity on who is a man and
41:49
Speaker 11: who is a woman. This issue started bubbling to the
41:53
Speaker 11: service in the Tickle and Giggle case, a civil case.
41:58
Speaker 3: But this is.
41:58
Speaker 11: Crime we're talking about. This is far far more important
42:02
Speaker 11: than whether someone can engage with a women's only website.
42:08
Speaker 11: This is about justice, criminal justice in the state of Victoria,
42:12
Speaker 11: and in my view, the fundamental principle of a quality
42:16
Speaker 11: before the law is now at risk.
42:21
Speaker 2: You're not wrong the rights of women in prisons, but
42:25
Speaker 2: also the rights most importantly here of a five year
42:27
Speaker 2: old girl. I'll leave it there, Chris, beautifully expressed, and
42:31
Speaker 2: I think like you and I will never get the
42:32
Speaker 2: time back having read that judgment to get it out
42:35
Speaker 2: of our head. All right, we know about this story
42:38
Speaker 2: in part, no small part, I have to say, because
42:40
Speaker 2: of the work of Women's Forum Australia.
42:43
Speaker 3: They have a petition.
42:44
Speaker 2: If you fired up about this issue and I go
42:46
Speaker 2: my my phone, my emails, many of you are, please
42:49
Speaker 2: hit this QR code, send a strong message to the
42:53
Speaker 2: Victorian Premier, Justinda Allen, and we've got fifteen thousand signatures
42:56
Speaker 2: already to stop housing male sex offenders in women's prisons.
43:02
Speaker 2: There is apparently about seven or has been up to
43:05
Speaker 2: seven such biological.
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Speaker 3: Men in prisons in Victoria.
43:09
Speaker 2: So there you go, all right, after break the massive
43:11
Speaker 2: amount of foreign money being pumped into renewable projects in Australia,
43:15
Speaker 2: we're also lobbying the net zero plus A day on
43:19
Speaker 2: from that shocking car pursuit dangerous wine in Melbourne, CBD,
43:23
Speaker 2: We've got more horrific car jacking statistics at today.
43:32
Speaker 3: Lots to get across.
43:33
Speaker 2: Let's bring you my panel, our Victorian little MP, she's
43:35
Speaker 2: a firecracker, Nicole Warner and the IPA Chief Economist, Institute
43:40
Speaker 2: of Public Affairs. Of course, senior fellow too, Adam Crichton Nicle.
43:43
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to you at the top of
43:44
Speaker 2: the show. Good on your boss for getting out there
43:47
Speaker 2: and saying, you know, no biological men who are sex
43:50
Speaker 2: offenders in women's prisons. Can we go a bit further
43:54
Speaker 2: and say just no biological men in women's prisons?
43:58
Speaker 12: Come on, yeah, Look, it's against community expectations absolutely, and
44:02
Speaker 12: reading this particular story, particularly as a parent, and I
44:06
Speaker 12: mean any right minded Victorian, just made me sick to
44:09
Speaker 12: my stomach. The fact that a pedophile father would be
44:13
Speaker 12: housed amongst women vulnerable women in prison is horrifying.
44:18
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's you put some quiet pressure on
44:20
Speaker 2: your boss to go the whole hog and you might
44:23
Speaker 2: be back in the race electorally. Let's talk about the
44:27
Speaker 2: research out from the Page Institute in relation to all
44:31
Speaker 2: of these third party organizations, and a lot of them
44:33
Speaker 2: have foreign entities adam that are funding renewables projects, the
44:39
Speaker 2: lobbying around renewables. We're talking about one hundred and seventy
44:43
Speaker 2: million in the last financial year alone, and they're linked
44:47
Speaker 2: to outfits like the Sunrise out That's.
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Speaker 13: Right, the Sunrise Project, which is partly funded by George
44:53
Speaker 13: Soros and the Clinton Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. I
44:56
Speaker 13: think something like one hundred million dollars actually over the
44:58
Speaker 13: last decade has come from these foreign institutions. These these
45:01
Speaker 13: foreign foundations, and these foundations have an ideological bent. They
45:05
Speaker 13: are extremely pro solar and wind, they're extremely against fossil fuels.
45:09
Speaker 3: And they are interfering in Australian politics.
45:12
Speaker 13: And I think actually this this inquiry in Canberra that
45:15
Speaker 13: the Greens and Labor have set up is actually going
45:17
Speaker 13: to backfive. There's a lot of these figures are actually
45:19
Speaker 13: coming out of the various submissions that have gone in
45:21
Speaker 13: And actually I did have a look today the number
45:23
Speaker 13: of submissions one hundred and sixty nine. The bulk of
45:25
Speaker 13: the submissions are from ordinary Australians who are clearly not
45:28
Speaker 13: funded by big oil, and you know from a random
45:31
Speaker 13: sample of them, they're all accusing the government of misinformation.
45:34
Speaker 13: So you know, far from the the big end of
45:36
Speaker 13: town actually funding the critics of climate's illitry, it's actually
45:41
Speaker 13: the other way around.
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Speaker 2: And remind people what this whole inquiry is meant to do.
45:44
Speaker 2: It's cover to start filtering what we can discuss about
45:49
Speaker 2: climate online.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, look, that's right. I think the government's worried because
45:52
Speaker 13: more Australians are realizing, certainly the Greens and Labor are
45:54
Speaker 13: realizing that Australian's emissions are very tiny, it's very expensive
45:57
Speaker 13: to do next zero and probably impossible, and support for
46:01
Speaker 13: it is thin, and so they're frantically trying to find
46:04
Speaker 13: ways to crack down on so called misinformation. But it's
46:07
Speaker 13: not misinformation, it's just a valid scientific debate. And I
46:09
Speaker 13: would say, just like COVID as you would agree, most
46:12
Speaker 13: of the misinformation is actually coming from the government and
46:14
Speaker 13: they're very well.
46:15
Speaker 2: We all found out how false a lot of that
46:16
Speaker 2: was and we all heard it top the show Stephen
46:18
Speaker 2: noah Kowski. I mean, he's a long time political Green
46:22
Speaker 2: supporter and he's done the mapping.
46:24
Speaker 3: It's irrefutable. It's out there. Let people judge.
46:28
Speaker 2: Let's go to the crime crisis in Victoria of copsing
46:31
Speaker 2: nicole on the weekend. We had statistics come out or
46:34
Speaker 2: just prior to the weekend, pretty horrific statistics across the board.
46:38
Speaker 2: And then we had an incident yesterday, you know, four
46:42
Speaker 2: young people in a vehicle driven through the CBD of Melbourne. Unfortunately,
46:47
Speaker 2: you've got the case where the premier is gone missing
46:49
Speaker 2: over the last two days. Happens too often in Victoria.
46:52
Speaker 2: Let's have a listen to commitments made by your boss today,
46:55
Speaker 2: Brad Baton.
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Speaker 4: When the premier has got nothing to say, that's the
46:59
Speaker 4: reasons you wouldn't come out and speak to the media,
47:01
Speaker 4: the Victorian libels and nationals. We've got plenty to say
47:03
Speaker 4: when it comes to crime in Victoria and how we
47:06
Speaker 4: can keep your community safer with break bail, Jack's Law,
47:10
Speaker 4: Restart and Youth Start and one hundred million dollars in
47:12
Speaker 4: crime prevention will come out each and every day and
47:15
Speaker 4: talk about these issues.
47:19
Speaker 2: We have that story obviously last week that a lot
47:21
Speaker 2: of Victorian police they don't feel supported, they're jumping ship,
47:25
Speaker 2: they're going to work for the police in Queensland. And
47:28
Speaker 2: then reports from the Herald Sunday there's been a thirty
47:30
Speaker 2: six percent rise in carjackings to March this year.
47:35
Speaker 12: That's right, and what that looks like statistically is nine
47:38
Speaker 12: carjackings happening every single week. And what is really alarming
47:41
Speaker 12: about this, Peter, is seventy percent of them these crimes
47:44
Speaker 12: are being committed by people under twenty five, so they're.
47:47
Speaker 3: These youth offenders.
47:49
Speaker 12: And we even have seen in these same crime statistics
47:51
Speaker 12: that it's one percent of the population that are responsible
47:54
Speaker 12: now for forty percent of the crimes here in Victoria.
47:58
Speaker 12: Many instances of these being these repeat recidivist offenders. And
48:02
Speaker 12: this is why we have urgently tried to pass in
48:05
Speaker 12: the Parliament greg Bail Face Jail, so that we actually,
48:08
Speaker 12: instead of weakening the bare laws like the Allen Labor
48:10
Speaker 12: government did in March, we actually get serious about being
48:13
Speaker 12: tough with consequences for these criminal offenders.
48:17
Speaker 3: Let's talk about evs.
48:18
Speaker 2: The Treasurer says he's not in any hurry to put
48:21
Speaker 2: taxes on evs. Of course, if you drive an ev adam,
48:24
Speaker 2: you're not contributing to the maintenance of our roads. But
48:28
Speaker 2: he wants us to get up to eighty percent of
48:29
Speaker 2: EV's by twenty thirty five.
48:31
Speaker 3: How's that going to work. Yeah, well, look it's not
48:32
Speaker 3: going to work. I mean, the really is.
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Speaker 13: Even in the state of California in the US, which
48:36
Speaker 13: has huge subsidies to evds, the share of new castles
48:39
Speaker 13: have actually been falling. So they've fallen over the last
48:41
Speaker 13: six months, right, and yeah, yeah, that's right even there.
48:45
Speaker 13: And so here they're around you at seven percent. There's
48:46
Speaker 13: no way that they're going to get to fifty percent.
48:48
Speaker 13: And I think the government realizes this, and so a
48:51
Speaker 13: couple of months ago they did want to equalize the taxes.
48:53
Speaker 13: They wanted to have some sort of charge of EV's,
48:55
Speaker 13: which they should because, as you point out, fuel exercise
48:58
Speaker 13: is meant for the care of the roads, for the
49:00
Speaker 13: upkeep of the roads. But now they're backing off because
49:03
Speaker 13: they're worried that the Australians aren't going to buy them
49:05
Speaker 13: and they're not. I mean we can her for seas
49:07
Speaker 13: that they're not going to so and that's even with
49:10
Speaker 13: a glut of cheap Chinese Chinese Chinese ev So yeah, look,
49:15
Speaker 13: it's rather embarrassing for the government, I think, to change
49:17
Speaker 13: their tunes so so quickly, in just a couple of months.
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Speaker 3: All right, gonna live there, Thank you both.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, that's it for me. Up next to James McPherson
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Speaker 2: with the Bolt record.