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Credlin | 5 March · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peedo Krandland live on Sky News Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Great to have your company. Here's what's coming
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Speaker 2: up on the show tonight. More bad news for Labour's
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Speaker 2: green hydrogen dream. Nearly every single project either on hold
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Speaker 2: or scrapped.
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Speaker 3: We're still a.
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Speaker 2: Damning and assessment of Victoria's self inflicted energy crisis. Bills
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Speaker 2: in Victoria set to increase a massive one hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty percent in the next twelve months. Green shoots for
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Speaker 2: national counts today, but far from the improvement Jim Chalmers
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Speaker 2: would have you believe, with Australians experiencing the first two
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Speaker 2: year per capita economic contraction in forty one years. So
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Speaker 2: will this help labor at the ballot box? Ross Greenwood
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Speaker 2: coming up. Plus, you won't believe just how much the
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Speaker 2: Government's spent as a result of Labour's blundering in the
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Speaker 2: courts over those foreign criminals. I'll reveal that amount shortly.
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Speaker 2: And Donald Trump delivers a wide ranging address to a
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Speaker 2: joint sitting of Kongs, firing up the Republicans.
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Speaker 3: JEZI drew some anger from the.
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Speaker 4: Left because we're getting welkness out of our schools and
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Speaker 4: out of our military, and it's already out, and it's
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Speaker 4: out of our society. We don't want it. Wokeness is trouble.
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Speaker 4: Wokeness is bad. It's gone. It's gone, going to mean.
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Speaker 2: It was a couple of hours there on his feet.
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Speaker 2: I'll pull it all apart in a moment. First, with
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's twenty five percent tarifit on Canada, a smaller
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Speaker 2: one two on China, plus deep strategic uncertainty about the
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Speaker 2: solidity of America's alliances, now is not the time to
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Speaker 2: make ourselves economically weaker.
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Speaker 3: That's exactly what we're doing.
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Speaker 2: We're committing economic self harm thanks to the politics of
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Speaker 2: climate and identity. That's an article of faith for green
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Speaker 2: left labor governments. Naturally, the epicenter of this self inflicted
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Speaker 2: damage is the People's Republic of Victoria, which will be
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Speaker 2: hit with blackhouse or serious energy rationing if current policies
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Speaker 2: aren't dumped. Under Daniel Andrews, with Premier just In to
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Speaker 2: Allen as his willing accomplice, the Victorian labor government has
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Speaker 2: legislated demand coal five power within a decade, even though
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Speaker 2: coal currently provides more than sixty percent of the state's electricity.
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Speaker 2: Yet paradoxically for a government with an almost manic aversioned coal,
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Speaker 2: it's secretly spending taxpayer millions every year to subsidize the
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Speaker 2: Lawn Power station, to keep the lights on in Victoria,
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Speaker 2: and to keep the Portland Aluminium smelter going, which is
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Speaker 2: one of the state's largest employers. As well, the Allen
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Speaker 2: Labor government has made it illegal to replace gas appliances,
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Speaker 2: trying to ensure that cooking and heating is done with electricity,
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Speaker 2: even though the renewable power supplies the state government wants,
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Speaker 2: like offshore wind, are simply not happening now. A report
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Speaker 2: commissioned by the state government has said that the current
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Speaker 2: policy settings set in Victoria up for energy failure with
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Speaker 2: quote very high risks that are likely and severely to
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Speaker 2: hit affordability. And we're talking here about a one hundred
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Speaker 2: and twenty percent increase to power prices for Victorians that
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Speaker 2: are already hurting households and sending small business to the wall.
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Speaker 2: Don't forget the headlines yesterday. The Victorians have seen a
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Speaker 2: sixty three percent increase in insolvencies. So the impact here
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Speaker 2: on real people, real small businesses, well, that's happening now
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Speaker 2: and set to get a whole lot worse unless these
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Speaker 2: policies are dumped as well. The Australian Energy Market Operator
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Speaker 2: AEMO has warned of a possible gas crunch next year
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Speaker 2: and a definite gas crunch within three years as the
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Speaker 2: supplies in the Bass straight dry up and there are
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Speaker 2: no new gas fields of course in Victoria because of
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Speaker 2: government bands. Now could a state and a country with
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Speaker 2: so much coal and gas be doing this to itself?
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Speaker 2: The tragedy for Victorians is that the next election is
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Speaker 2: still eighteen months away. But to stop this happening around
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Speaker 2: the country, remember this is what you vote for, because
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Speaker 2: what's happening in Victoria is all part of Chris Bowen's
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Speaker 2: plan for every Australian. Now let's stay with that clown,
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Speaker 2: Chris Bowen, because if you believe him, green hydrogen will
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Speaker 2: solve all our energy woes. This is using wind and
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Speaker 2: solar power to electrolyze water that produces the hydrogen, which
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Speaker 2: then can be a reliable zero emissions power source they
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Speaker 2: say for homes in industry, But there are three significant obstacles. First,
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Speaker 2: hydrogen is highly unstable, very difficult to transport and then store. Second,
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Speaker 2: the process consumes far more energy than it actually produces.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's right.
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Speaker 2: And third it's completely uneconomic at scale. As yet there's
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Speaker 2: no at scale operation anywhere in the world, so no
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Speaker 2: one should be surprised to learn today, as revealed by
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Speaker 2: the CSIRO, that almost none of the proposed green hydrogen
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Speaker 2: projects have gone ahead. The u for MESOBE is that
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Speaker 2: they have been archived work either scrapped or on hold
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Speaker 2: due to market conditions or failing to move beyond mere
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Speaker 2: feasibility studies. As well, AEMO has said that the cost,
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Speaker 2: timing and the scale of a potential hydrogen economy is
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Speaker 2: now quote highly uncertain, even though the Albinezy government as
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Speaker 2: as funded a lot of these projects out of its
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Speaker 2: Future Made in Australia program. Indeed, it's set aside some
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Speaker 2: seven billion dollars for green hydrogen subsidies, plus put another
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Speaker 2: two billion into new projects under the so called Hydrogen
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Speaker 2: Headstart program. Now some of the acts screen hydrogen projects
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Speaker 2: include those proposed by Twiggy Forest BP and Origin Energy
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Speaker 2: plus one that was supposed to save the way Ella
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Speaker 2: Steel Works plus one recently canceled by the new coalition
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Speaker 2: governed in Queensland after there was an additional demand for
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Speaker 2: a further one billion dollar taxpayer subsidy. Now, honestly, we
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Speaker 2: have an abundance of colon gas in this country that,
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Speaker 2: before the greed madness took holding Canberra, gave us some
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Speaker 2: of the world's lowest energy prices. Let's just get back
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Speaker 2: to using what we know will work and what we
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Speaker 2: know we can afford because of our abundant natural supplies.
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Speaker 2: And look, we're all hoping that southeast Queensland and all
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Speaker 2: the New South Wales will be spared any damage from
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Speaker 2: Cyclone Alfred. But let's have none of the nonsense that
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Speaker 2: we've never had big cyclones like this hit Brisbane, or
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Speaker 2: that this is yet another consequence of climate change. In
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Speaker 2: February eighteen ninety three, a cyclone Don't nearly a meter
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Speaker 2: of rain on the Brisbane hinterland and twenty five Australians drowned.
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Speaker 2: In February nineteen fifty four, there was another cyclone Dun't
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Speaker 2: be nearly a meter of rain on the Gold Coast hinterland.
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Speaker 2: In January nineteen seventy four, Cyclone Wander dumped another.
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Speaker 3: Meter of rain on Brisbane.
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Speaker 2: And to underscore my point, here's a map showing the
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Speaker 2: paths of all cyclones to hit Queensland since nineteen oh seven.
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Speaker 2: So whatever has caused Cyclone Alfred climate change, it is not.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: Let's get our headlines out of Canberra now, good evening.
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Speaker 5: The Prime Minister is in Queensland as the state's south
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Speaker 5: east prepares for the arrival of Cyclone Alfred.
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Speaker 6: This is a rare event. The governments across the board
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Speaker 6: are taking this seriously.
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Speaker 5: An election could be called as soon as this weekend,
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Speaker 5: but that may depend on how ferocious Alfred becomes.
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Speaker 7: I think everyone's in a preparation mode and just battening
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Speaker 7: down and making sure that no loose objects in the yard.
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Speaker 1: And it's a really important message to heat.
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Speaker 5: At the moment, economic growth is picking up and Australia's
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Speaker 5: per capita recession has finally been broken. The economy grew
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Speaker 5: by zero point six percent in the December quarter and
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Speaker 5: for the first time in twenty one months, GDP per
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Speaker 5: person rose, but only by point one of a percent.
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Speaker 2: Well, these numbers show that the Australian economies turned a corner.
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Speaker 6: The journey back to where Australian's standard of living was
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Speaker 6: when labour came to power is a long long one.
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Speaker 5: Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium will begin a
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Speaker 5: week from today and hopes of an Australian exemption are
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Speaker 5: fading fast.
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Speaker 1: All we can do is make sure that we are
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Speaker 1: pressing our cases for as fulsomely as possible, which we are.
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Speaker 5: Doing meanwhile in Congress Tariffs.
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Speaker 4: It's a beautiful word, isn't.
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Speaker 5: It, Cameron Reddin's Sky News Canberra.
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Speaker 2: Lots to get across, but I want to start with this.
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Speaker 2: Foreign criminals released into the Australian community because they refused
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Speaker 2: to go home and our courts have said they must
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Speaker 2: be released from the tension. Despite getting yourself a whole
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Speaker 2: lot of new emergency laws to deal with these murderers,
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Speaker 2: rapists and pedophiles in late twenty twenty three, the Ambanizi
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Speaker 2: governments not used any of them, or even tried to
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Speaker 2: use these powers once. Now, if that wasn't bad enough,
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Speaker 2: it's been revealed today that the cost of this law
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Speaker 2: and order debarcle is extraordinary. News Court papers have put
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Speaker 2: the figure at more than one hundred million dollars spent
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Speaker 2: by labour over the past eighteen months.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: This includes seventy four million on operational costs twenty four
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Speaker 2: million on administration and nearly twenty million dollars lawyers and
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Speaker 2: barristers working on prevention and community orders. Now, on top
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Speaker 2: of that, two hundred and ninety of this cohort, including
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Speaker 2: the murderers, rapists and pedophiles, they are now receiving fortnightly
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Speaker 2: cash payments of up to one thousand dollars.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that is right.
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Speaker 2: I've also learned that some of the two hundred and
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Speaker 2: ninety one detainees released. Of them, ninety has since been
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Speaker 2: charged by state and territory authorities, seventeen sent back to jail.
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Speaker 2: For more on this, I'm joined now by Sky News
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Speaker 2: program host, a new program host. I should say all
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Speaker 2: the programs you the Bloke's not Campaign, Confidential James Morrow
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Speaker 2: on Sunday at six pm, and of course the wonderful
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Speaker 2: Carol and Markers senior reporter out of City, James Tell
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Speaker 2: whoever said crime doesn't pay clearly hasn't met the Prime minister.
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Speaker 2: One thousand dollars a fortnight. And yet we have pensioners
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Speaker 2: in this country who cannot afford their power bills, and
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Speaker 2: we have veterans sleeping rough either.
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Speaker 7: This is outrageous, Peter, this is an absolutely disgraceful story,
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Speaker 7: and as you say, it was broken in the news
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Speaker 7: corp tabloids across the country today. And you know what
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Speaker 7: you've talked about here, that's just the tip of the
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Speaker 7: iceberg here. You know, many of the people in this
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Speaker 7: NZNYQ cohort they're really bad people, as you say, they're
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Speaker 7: the murderers, they are the rapists and pedophiles and people
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Speaker 7: that we don't want here. Yet the government has also
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Speaker 7: made no moves to actually put them back, you know,
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Speaker 7: in some other sort of detention. They went for ankle
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Speaker 7: bracelets and curfews and so on. A jug struck that
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Speaker 7: down because they weren't able to get that. Remember this
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Speaker 7: is the case, this is the case Peta where the
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Speaker 7: court telegraphed what it was going to do in regards
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Speaker 7: to his decision, and the government made no move to
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Speaker 7: have anything lined up in terms of legislation, in terms
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Speaker 7: of measures for it. And it was a disaster. It
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Speaker 7: was a predictable disaster. But this whole government has been
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Speaker 7: a disaster on all of this question of criminal migrants.
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Speaker 7: You know, remember the section of the Director of ninety
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Speaker 7: nine which Andrew Giles when he was Immigration Minister handed
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Speaker 7: down also, which made it easier for criminals who have
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Speaker 7: resided in this country for a long time, for those
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Speaker 7: ties to the country to be considered in their applications
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Speaker 7: to stay and not be deported. This government has got
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Speaker 7: a huge weakness on this, and I think it's a
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Speaker 7: huge weakness for them going into the election.
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Speaker 2: Peter James, I have to say, though, if you come
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Speaker 2: across an issue of a judicial decision changing course from
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Speaker 2: government policy, in my experience for many years, a good
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Speaker 2: government puts legislation back into the parliament and remediates.
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Speaker 3: That judicial issue.
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Speaker 2: Now, in part, that's what they did at the end
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 3: They got these new powers.
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Speaker 2: But as it was revealed in estimates only last week,
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Speaker 2: they haven't even tried to put one of these orders in.
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Speaker 2: They might have done the work in the background. There's
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Speaker 2: a billion dollar bill there to say they've done some
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Speaker 2: of the legal work, but they haven't even got the
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Speaker 2: ticker after eight eight months to put an application in.
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Speaker 3: These guys aren't serious.
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Speaker 2: This is about green votes and staving off any cranky
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Speaker 2: lefties in the caucus.
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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, look I think it is it, Reverend. You know,
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Speaker 7: they had Andrew Giles as Immigration Minister for the longest time.
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Speaker 7: He got into public life because he was a lawyer
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Speaker 7: for the Tampa arrivals. So I mean, you know, you
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Speaker 7: put somebody like that in immigration, you know that they're
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Speaker 7: not serious about, you know, trying to keep the country's
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Speaker 7: border secure. And remember too that when this whole court
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Speaker 7: kit was going through the High Court, the government was
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Speaker 7: so busy trying to get the voice over the line
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Speaker 7: that they weren't taking briefings from the Solicitor General. They
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Speaker 7: were in the meetings and so you know again they
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Speaker 7: were called completely flat footed, completely on the back foot.
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Speaker 2: I want to start with Laura in order I want
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Speaker 2: to pick up something that's been happening in Victoria, because
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Speaker 2: this is huge news.
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Speaker 3: Caroline. It's been tough here for some time.
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Speaker 2: This is a particularly horrific twenty four hours for anyone
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Speaker 2: living in Melbourne. Yesterday morning, very early in the morning,
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Speaker 2: a black Rock resident Adele Andrews was awoken around two
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Speaker 2: am armed offenders broke into her garage, doll cars, luxury.
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Speaker 3: Goods and more.
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Speaker 2: She and her children were asleep, little kids, I might add.
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Speaker 2: You can see the vision here the Herald sign have
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Speaker 2: of the offenders. They're masked and they're carrying huge machetes.
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Speaker 2: She has gone public Adele Andrews, she's pleaded with the
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Speaker 2: Premier to get her head out of the sand, and
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Speaker 2: she says, just do something. The Premier is now conceding
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Speaker 2: that Labour's current bail laws are failing Victorians. But honestly, I honestly,
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Speaker 2: you're doing anything here to do anything about.
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Speaker 3: These failed bail laws.
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Speaker 2: And this has all been compounded today by what happened
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Speaker 2: in a Melbourne cinema overnight, also involving young gangsters.
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Speaker 8: Well, that case involved six kids and there were only
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Speaker 8: aged between twelve and fourteen, five girls and one boy
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Speaker 8: who allegedly stormed into a cinema and terrorized patrons to
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Speaker 8: the point they had to stop the movie give everyone
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Speaker 8: free tickets. The young kids fled and and then they
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Speaker 8: later allegedly broke into a shopping center's store where they
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Speaker 8: stole drinks and police found them at three am and
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Speaker 8: they were questioned and released without any charge, pending further inquiries.
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Speaker 8: You've got to ask the question, why are kids as
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Speaker 8: young as twelve out on the streets at three am?
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Speaker 3: Where are their families?
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Speaker 8: But police going to lay charges in this case, we're
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Speaker 8: yet to find out about that. It's all too common.
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Speaker 8: We speak about it all the time, Peter. And if
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Speaker 8: the Premier is only waking up to this issue with
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Speaker 8: youth crime now, honestly, where has she been for the
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Speaker 8: last not only a few months, but years in Victoria?
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Speaker 3: Beggars belief.
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Speaker 2: I think she's only paid as she's paying attention because
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Speaker 2: they polls are in the tour that I think that's
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Speaker 2: the only reason it's front of mine.
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Speaker 3: James.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to the big speech today by the President.
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Speaker 2: But in that speech, Donald Trump made law and order
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Speaker 2: a massive focus, and clearly that's what paid big dividends
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Speaker 2: for him in November. Perhaps why in Victoria brand labor
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Speaker 2: be it state or federal, is so on the nose.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, look, and I think you're right, Peter, to draw
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Speaker 7: a link between you know, crime and law and order
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Speaker 7: issues in the United States and you know the same
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Speaker 7: thing in Victoria. All politics, really, as the saying goes,
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Speaker 7: we know is local, right, and if people don't feel
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Speaker 7: secure in their own homes and their streets and their property,
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Speaker 7: then they're going to look at the people who are
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Speaker 7: in power and say, you know what, you're not doing
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Speaker 7: the job. And Victoria, clearly they're not doing it now.
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Speaker 7: Donald Trump's case, he made a very code in case
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Speaker 7: all through the campaign that crime driven by illegal migration
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Speaker 7: was out of control in the United States in many
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Speaker 7: of the cities. And frankly, many people I spoke to
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Speaker 7: in many cities when I've been traveling to the US
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Speaker 7: in the last year agreed one hundred percent. And they
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Speaker 7: said they saw, you know, foreign gangs they'd never seen before,
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Speaker 7: committing all sorts of mayhem. Donald Trump is absoluteight to
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Speaker 7: capitalize on it. He talked a lot about it in
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Speaker 7: his speech, which forgett to talk board a little bit,
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Speaker 7: which is a very powerful speech. But you know, if
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Speaker 7: a local government, and particularly a labor government, can't be
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Speaker 7: seen to be on top of crime, then they're gone.
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Speaker 2: It's something that we've talked about, Caroline, Women's sport, protecting
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Speaker 2: women's sport. It also was a big feature of the
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Speaker 2: President's speech today.
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Speaker 3: Have a listen.
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Speaker 4: I also signed an executive order to ben men from
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Speaker 4: playing in women's sports.
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Speaker 2: I know you're just as passionate about this as I am.
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Speaker 2: And you've put together a documentary, haven't you.
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Speaker 3: I have this has been.
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Speaker 8: An investigation that's been several months in the making, and
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Speaker 8: I have explosive stories that people have not heard or
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Speaker 8: seen before, Australian stories of women who've experienced horrendous injuries,
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Speaker 8: who have these claims of unfairness, of having to compete
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Speaker 8: against transgender athletes and biological males, even lawsuits.
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Speaker 3: Peter.
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Speaker 8: There's one advocate in the documentary, Kurraly Smith. She's been
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Speaker 8: hit with eight separate court actions, all for speaking out
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Speaker 8: about the inclusion of transgender soccer players. She's had police
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Speaker 8: turn up on her doorstep as a result, and has
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Speaker 8: spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending herself in these cases.
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Speaker 8: This is some of what she had to tell us
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Speaker 8: in the documentary.
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Speaker 9: The first thing that came was to police officers turned
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Speaker 9: up at my house to tell me that I had
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Speaker 9: been someone's still appear in court over violent actions.
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Speaker 10: Defend it, must not do any of the following into
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Speaker 10: the protective person or anyone they have it in a
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Speaker 10: relationship with, assault will.
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Speaker 3: Threaten her in them. So I was outraged.
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Speaker 9: I was in disbelief. I could not believe that this
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Speaker 9: was happening, and I.
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Speaker 8: Still can't now Kraly Smith is currently defending it to
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Speaker 8: villa fection complaints in the.
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Speaker 3: Local district court.
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Speaker 8: One of them has been brought by a player for
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Speaker 8: the Flying Bats team. Now that's a Sydney soccer team
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Speaker 8: that boasts have been the biggest LGBTQIA plus football club
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Speaker 8: in the world. It has five transgender players, including an
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Speaker 8: American queer activist, a former YouTuber who had a huge following,
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Speaker 8: who has taken this case against Kirile. And she was
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Speaker 8: a person who was also in a video that we've
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Speaker 8: obtained in which he appears to hit a female soccer
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Speaker 8: player while playing for a team that Riley Dennis had
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Speaker 8: previously played for before the Flying Bats.
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Speaker 3: Take a look.
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Speaker 11: There was a very late, intentional and forcfil hit then
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Speaker 11: on that female player by the transgender player.
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Speaker 3: That for me, just is very evident.
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Speaker 11: Of the different level of forcefulness and almost a little
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Speaker 11: bit of vengefulness in that sort of play, very aggressive play.
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Speaker 2: That's brilliant work. Carolina can't wait to see it. Tomorrow
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Speaker 2: night here on Sky at eight point thirty, I'm going
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Speaker 2: to pull apart the speech by the President today with
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Speaker 2: his former chief is dot Mick Mulvaaney in a moment,
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Speaker 2: Bud James. We don't do it in Australia for a
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Speaker 2: big political speeches, but it's a real feature of US politics.
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Speaker 2: This is using ornry Americans in the gallery to amplify
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Speaker 2: political points. This one in particular struck me today as
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Speaker 2: really powerful.
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Speaker 3: To have a listen.
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Speaker 4: Last June, Alexis's twelve year old daughter, her precious Jocelyn,
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Speaker 4: walked to a nearby convenience toer. She was gettnapped, tied up,
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Speaker 4: assaulted for two hours under a bridge, and horrifically murdered. Arrested.
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Speaker 4: In charge with as Henus crime are two illegal alien
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Speaker 4: monsters from Venezuela released into America by the last administration
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Speaker 4: through their ridiculous open border. Alexis moments ago, I formerly
21:03
Speaker 4: renamed that refuge in loving memory of your beautiful daughter, Joscelyn.
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Speaker 2: And look he held up the executive order that he
21:14
Speaker 2: had just signed. He made the point too that the
21:17
Speaker 2: Venezuela and Mexican gangs he has now listed as terror
21:21
Speaker 2: organizations on the same gravity level as Al Kaida. I mean,
21:26
Speaker 2: he did a number of these throughout that speech, James,
21:29
Speaker 2: but I thought they were particularly powerful.
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Speaker 7: Well, look, there were powerful moments. There was talking about
21:36
Speaker 7: Lincoln Riley, another victim of these illegal Venezuelan gang members.
21:40
Speaker 7: There was talking, There was all sorts of other heartwarming moments.
21:43
Speaker 7: There was a young boy with cancer, who suffered brain cancer,
21:47
Speaker 7: who dreamed of being a cop, and they made him
21:48
Speaker 7: an honorary Secret Service member. There on the floor. There
21:51
Speaker 7: was all these, you know, really intense, emotional, heartwarming, you know,
21:56
Speaker 7: heartrending moments, you know, stuff to make you angry, stuff
21:59
Speaker 7: to make you, you know, go all because it was
22:02
Speaker 7: just a lovely, touching moment. Trump was in absolutely full
22:06
Speaker 7: flight in this speech. But the crazy thing about this
22:08
Speaker 7: pet is how the Democrats responded, and they were so
22:12
Speaker 7: churelish during the whole thing. One of them, Al Green,
22:15
Speaker 7: got kicked out for yelling and waving his cane. This
22:18
Speaker 7: was the visual that they had during the speech. Others
22:21
Speaker 7: held up these stupid signs, and then they all got
22:24
Speaker 7: memed all over the internet and they sat on their
22:26
Speaker 7: hands and didn't even cheer. When you know, Trump announced
22:30
Speaker 7: the presidence of, say, an American citizen who had been
22:32
Speaker 7: brought home from a Russian prison camp. They refused to
22:36
Speaker 7: even count in supplauding for that. It was so low
22:39
Speaker 7: rent of the Democrats. I don't know what the Democrats
22:42
Speaker 7: now stand for. If they're going to sit on their
22:44
Speaker 7: hands for stuff that, you know, I think any decent
22:48
Speaker 7: human being would say, yeah, that's great, that's wonderful. And
22:50
Speaker 7: it's just that that party PETA is in such a
22:53
Speaker 7: mess right now, and Trump put them in their place tonight.
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Speaker 2: I think, particularly when those ordinary Americans were shown by
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Speaker 2: the President to have contributed or you know, as you say,
23:05
Speaker 2: been released from prison, or in the case of these mums,
23:07
Speaker 2: being advocates against criminals, the fact that the Democrats couldn't
23:11
Speaker 2: even stand for those ordinary Americans says everything. Thank you both.
23:15
Speaker 2: Look forward to your doco. As I said, Caroline, Hey, look,
23:17
Speaker 2: just before the break, I want to update you on
23:19
Speaker 2: news this afternoon that the second nurse involved in that
23:22
Speaker 2: anti Semitic video that we saw last month for allegedly
23:25
Speaker 2: refusing to treat Israeli's at a Western Sydney hospital has
23:28
Speaker 2: been charged.
23:29
Speaker 3: Now.
23:30
Speaker 2: Armad Rashad Nada charged with three offenses, including use of
23:34
Speaker 2: a carriage service to menace and possessing prohibited drugs. He
23:38
Speaker 2: was granted bail. He will reappear in court on March nineteen.
23:42
Speaker 2: Sarah Abu Lebda, the other nurse in the viral video, well,
23:46
Speaker 2: she was charged with three Commonwealth offenses late last month.
23:51
Speaker 2: All right after break, Donald Trump's former chief of staff
23:53
Speaker 2: for all the best analysis on that big speech today.
23:57
Speaker 2: Plus we'll get his thoughts too when the Australia will
24:01
Speaker 2: get a tariff exemption.
24:02
Speaker 3: As the clock runs down to April two.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back still the colme. The coalitions promise to overhaul
24:10
Speaker 2: heritage laws, which will have become a tool for the activists.
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Speaker 2: But first, a wide ranging address from the President to
24:18
Speaker 2: the Congress Today. I'll bring in Donald Trump's former chief
24:21
Speaker 2: of staff for his analysis in just a moment. But
24:24
Speaker 2: he's a bit of how it all played out.
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Speaker 3: Mister speaker.
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Speaker 12: The President of the United States.
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Speaker 13: Donald Trump returns to Congress for the first time since
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Speaker 13: his re election.
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Speaker 4: America is back.
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Speaker 13: Just forty three days since taking office. The president touted
24:44
Speaker 13: his initial achievements, Your.
24:46
Speaker 4: Country will be walk no longer.
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Speaker 13: In a sign of the deep divisions in Washington, Democrat
24:54
Speaker 13: Al Green kicked out of the chamber after repeated interruptions.
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Speaker 1: Take your seat, It's to restore order.
25:04
Speaker 13: Democrats Live fact check the speech. Trump taunted them in return.
25:08
Speaker 4: And I realized there is absolutely nothing I can say
25:11
Speaker 4: to make them happy or to make them stand.
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Speaker 13: Or smile as his trade war escalates tariffs.
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Speaker 4: It's a beautiful word, isn't it.
25:21
Speaker 13: Donald Trump doubled down.
25:23
Speaker 4: We have been ripped off for decades by nearly every
25:26
Speaker 4: country on Earth, and we will not let that happen
25:30
Speaker 4: any longer.
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Speaker 13: The president's address, lengthy and unorthodox, delivered to a chamber
25:35
Speaker 13: and a country divided down the middle. Trudy McIntosh sky.
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Speaker 2: News joining me in our former chief of staff and
25:44
Speaker 2: President Trump, Mick mulvaney.
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Speaker 3: Look, he's got a lot of.
25:47
Speaker 2: Support from Republicans in the room today when he ran
25:50
Speaker 2: through that shopping list to the various international bodies that
25:53
Speaker 2: he's withdrawn America from, you know, the UN Human Rights Council,
25:57
Speaker 2: the Paris Agreement, and all that money spent on woke
26:01
Speaker 2: overseas aid programs.
26:04
Speaker 4: Eight million dollars for making mice transgender, ten million dollars
26:08
Speaker 4: for male circumcision in Mozambique, twenty million dollars for the
26:15
Speaker 4: Arab Sesame Street. I withdrew from the unfair Paris Climate Accord,
26:20
Speaker 4: which was costing US trillions of dollars that other countries
26:25
Speaker 4: were not paying, and I also withdrew from the Anti
26:29
Speaker 4: American UN Human Rights Council.
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Speaker 2: The House has been received amongst ordinary Americans as miscut
26:36
Speaker 2: through with them, even though like here, they've got more
26:38
Speaker 2: pressing domestic concerns.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that jumped out at me as probably one of
26:44
Speaker 12: the highlights of the speech. He went much longer, Peter
26:49
Speaker 12: on the specific examples of what he thought to be
26:52
Speaker 12: wastes of American money, especially money overseas. Those specifics are
26:59
Speaker 12: resonating with ordinary Americans. Give in mind, the critical part
27:02
Speaker 12: about this speech is this is the one political speech
27:06
Speaker 12: that a lot of people who don't follow politics in
27:08
Speaker 12: the country will watch.
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Speaker 1: This is it.
27:10
Speaker 12: This is what they'll see Donald Trump, and they won't
27:12
Speaker 12: turn on a news program now for probably another year
27:15
Speaker 12: or so. So for him to focus on that, I
27:18
Speaker 12: thought was a powerful message of where the Republicans think
27:21
Speaker 12: their strength is as they go into this legislative year.
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Speaker 2: I mean those lines about ending DEI hiring practices, you know,
27:29
Speaker 2: biological men and women's sport, renaming a whole lot of
27:33
Speaker 2: those points of geographical interest, like the old golf of Mexico.
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Speaker 3: Is this about locking in his base.
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Speaker 2: You know, early easy wins, all the good stuff, But
27:45
Speaker 2: what about the economic work ahead That's critical, isn't it?
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Speaker 12: It is By the way, I put those two examples
27:52
Speaker 12: in sort of different categories. I think the stuff about
27:54
Speaker 12: renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, renaming
27:58
Speaker 12: mountains and so forth, that is sort of a sort
28:01
Speaker 12: of a sop to the base. I don't really think
28:03
Speaker 12: it moves that many voters. They might like it, they
28:06
Speaker 12: might dislike it, but I don't think they really care
28:08
Speaker 12: that much about it. The stuff about the DEI especially
28:11
Speaker 12: men in women's sports, and you always have to look
28:13
Speaker 12: at who presidents bring in as their special guests and
28:16
Speaker 12: who they call out by name. And one of the
28:18
Speaker 12: president's special guests tonight was a young woman who was
28:21
Speaker 12: injured in an athletic activity by a woman who was
28:25
Speaker 12: born a man. And those types of examples resonate with Republicans,
28:30
Speaker 12: with Democrats, and with independence alike in this country. So
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Speaker 12: I put those in two different categories. Put to your
28:35
Speaker 12: question about whether that the heart stuff is coming out,
28:37
Speaker 12: Oh absolutely. At the end of the day, the next
28:40
Speaker 12: election will be about what all elections are about, which
28:42
Speaker 12: is the economy and whether or not people feel they're
28:44
Speaker 12: better off economically, and that is certainly a heavy lift.
28:47
Speaker 12: There's words now that we may be going into to
28:50
Speaker 12: a decline in the in the GDP and the economy
28:53
Speaker 12: here this quarter doesn't make a recession yet, but we
28:56
Speaker 12: might be moving in that direction. So yeah, if you
28:59
Speaker 12: want to say that the hard work still lies ahead, you're
29:01
Speaker 12: absolutely correct.
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Speaker 2: And the looming tariff deadline, no deal yet to exempt Australia. Now,
29:07
Speaker 2: given how Hardy prosecuted the points here today in this
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Speaker 2: speech on tariffs right around the world, do you think
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Speaker 2: we're going to get a break?
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Speaker 12: You know, I was just I just spent a week
29:18
Speaker 12: in Australia. I was in Canberra talking to a group
29:21
Speaker 12: just a week ago and got that question several times
29:24
Speaker 12: during my visit. And I'll say the same thing here
29:26
Speaker 12: that I said there, which is I get the feeling
29:30
Speaker 12: that the exemption is likely because the circumstances that gave
29:34
Speaker 12: rise to the exemption eight years ago still exists today.
29:38
Speaker 12: The steel and aluminum tariffs applied to types of steel
29:41
Speaker 12: and aluminum that we don't make in this country, and
29:45
Speaker 12: when we do import it, we use it heavily in
29:46
Speaker 12: our defense industry. That was the case eight years ago.
29:49
Speaker 12: It's the case now. Australia actually has a trade deficit
29:53
Speaker 12: with the United States. We have a free trade agreement
29:54
Speaker 12: with you, folks. You spend a good bit of your
29:57
Speaker 12: money defending yourselves. Australia is doing every thing that Donald
30:00
Speaker 12: Trump says he wants countries overseas to do. You're not
30:03
Speaker 12: taking advantage of the situation, your relationship with the United
30:06
Speaker 12: States of America. So those were the Those facts were
30:09
Speaker 12: the case in the first term. They're the case now.
30:12
Speaker 12: So I'm still cautiously optimistic that the exemptions will be forthcoming.
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Speaker 2: I want to pick up his comments today about immigration
30:18
Speaker 2: because I think they're worth discussing. Specifically, he made the
30:22
Speaker 2: point that after toughening the southern border in the first
30:25
Speaker 2: few weeks, the US recorded the lowest number of border
30:29
Speaker 2: crossings ever in US history, And he made the very
30:33
Speaker 2: obvious but I think profound political point.
30:36
Speaker 3: Have a listen five.
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Speaker 4: Nights ago, Mexican authorities, because of our tariff policies being
30:44
Speaker 4: imposed on them, think of this, hand it over to US.
30:49
Speaker 4: Twenty nine of the biggest cartel leaders in their country
30:53
Speaker 4: that has never happened before.
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Speaker 2: This is it, isn't it, Mick, Leadership matters. Leadership makes
30:59
Speaker 2: the difference, as it did here in Australia when we
31:02
Speaker 2: stop the vote under conservative leaders it's huge.
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Speaker 12: Even some Democrats now are admitting that things are better
31:10
Speaker 12: on the southern border, that the attitudes have changed and
31:13
Speaker 12: so forth. So they're trying to sort of take some
31:16
Speaker 12: credit for it, saying Biden was doing some of the
31:18
Speaker 12: same things. But clearly this is very popular and how
31:20
Speaker 12: could it not be. How can not keeping illegal criminals
31:25
Speaker 12: out of your country be a popular thing? So, yeah,
31:27
Speaker 12: that's not by accident that you saw several examples of
31:30
Speaker 12: that today. People I'm talking about now invited to this
31:34
Speaker 12: speech by the president. Now, this has been a very
31:37
Speaker 12: very powerful political issue. Donald Trump is now saying, by
31:40
Speaker 12: the way, right after the election, he said he won
31:42
Speaker 12: because of inflation, and now he's changing his tune a
31:46
Speaker 12: little bit, saying that he really thinks he went on
31:48
Speaker 12: as immigration and clearly immigration dramatically outweighed the economy tonight
31:53
Speaker 12: in terms of the amount of time. The topic God
31:56
Speaker 12: is part of the speech.
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Speaker 2: Look, I want to get your take on the Ukraine stout.
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Speaker 2: Where are we at meet.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a really good question. I watched I watched
32:05
Speaker 12: the Oval Office meeting last week live and I've watched
32:08
Speaker 12: it four or five times since then. And look, Presidents
32:13
Speaker 12: Lensky made a huge mistake and he needs to fix it.
32:17
Speaker 12: I've been in those Oval Office meetings before, when I
32:19
Speaker 12: was chief of staff in the president United States. I've
32:21
Speaker 12: never seen anything like that. Look, we all like to
32:24
Speaker 12: think that the international affairs are driven by geopolitics and
32:28
Speaker 12: self interest and national interests and all those types of things,
32:30
Speaker 12: but personalities play a role in Zelensky was just a
32:33
Speaker 12: bad partner, a bad friend in that Oval Office meeting
32:37
Speaker 12: last week, and he's going to have to fix it,
32:40
Speaker 12: I think, in order to get things back on track.
32:42
Speaker 3: Mick Maldini, thanks for your time.
32:44
Speaker 9: Thank you.
32:44
Speaker 3: Peter have a golf camera.
32:48
Speaker 2: When we were talking about the fact that he's just
32:49
Speaker 2: written an article about that, the sort of the human
32:51
Speaker 2: involvement of leaders in these big political issues, I know
32:56
Speaker 2: it sounds pretty straightforward, but people forget the human personal
33:00
Speaker 2: involved here And funny enough, I've written the same thing
33:02
Speaker 2: tomorrow for The Australian Here in Australia or after the
33:06
Speaker 2: break more hypocrisy from the teals habit to voice renewables
33:09
Speaker 2: on everybody.
33:10
Speaker 3: Else not in their backyard.
33:12
Speaker 2: Plus what bearing the cycle one Alfred have on the
33:15
Speaker 2: PM's decision to call the election as expected this weekend.
33:22
Speaker 2: Welcome about still to calm kel Richards as always on
33:25
Speaker 2: a Wednesday. But my panel's up next. LMP Senator for
33:28
Speaker 2: Queensland James mcgra joins me a National Senator or LMP
33:31
Speaker 2: senator too from Queensland, Matt Canavan. Gents, Welcome a cyclone Alfred.
33:37
Speaker 2: Not just occupy occupying news in Queensland, it's making news
33:41
Speaker 2: right around the country of course. Expected to make landfall
33:44
Speaker 2: early on Friday morning. The PM's already canceled his trip
33:48
Speaker 2: to w Way. I suspect that was to stand on
33:51
Speaker 2: the stage with the WA Premier and Baskin is expected
33:55
Speaker 2: win on Saturday night. So James McGrath, you know a
33:58
Speaker 2: bit about campaigns spook him out of calling the election
34:01
Speaker 2: on Sunday or Monday, as many things. And if he
34:04
Speaker 2: does go then how will they go down with Queenslanders.
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Speaker 10: I think Queenslanders would be pretty upset with the Prime
34:15
Speaker 10: Minister if he calls it on Sunday, especially those of
34:18
Speaker 10: us who live in the southeast corner this. People are
34:21
Speaker 10: pretty scared here at the moment. And if they're cleaning
34:24
Speaker 10: up their homes if there have been deaths, god hope not.
34:28
Speaker 10: If there's just been the normal damage that comes with
34:31
Speaker 10: a cyclone that regularly hits the northern parts of Queensland.
34:35
Speaker 10: And for the Prime Minister to play politics and call
34:38
Speaker 10: an election, they won't like it, especially when you compare
34:41
Speaker 10: and contrast him to Peter Dutton's leadership this week and
34:44
Speaker 10: that of Adrian Shrinner and David Chrusa fully how they've
34:47
Speaker 10: come together as a team. So it will be big
34:49
Speaker 10: thumbs down from Queensland if he calls the election on Sunday.
34:54
Speaker 2: Okay, let's say he doesn't call it. Matt very hard
34:57
Speaker 2: from not then to deliver his budget because he's basically
35:01
Speaker 2: in a rock and a hard place politically.
35:05
Speaker 1: Well, he's backed himself into this corner. Peter. I agree
35:08
Speaker 1: with James, this would not be the time to do that,
35:10
Speaker 1: but he has got a very short or small small window.
35:13
Speaker 1: He's been playing games at the media of his trained
35:15
Speaker 1: public all year about the day of election. I think
35:17
Speaker 1: people do just want to date. But I agree that
35:20
Speaker 1: it can't be done during the middle of a cyclone
35:22
Speaker 1: or a cleanup if he doesn't do it within the
35:24
Speaker 1: next few days. Yes, you're right, he potentially gets pushed
35:27
Speaker 1: into Easter an Anzac day, so that might push it
35:30
Speaker 1: out to May. But look, I think people do just
35:33
Speaker 1: want to want to get on and have this done
35:35
Speaker 1: one or another. It doesn't look like the PM has
35:38
Speaker 1: much plans for the country right now. He's just burning
35:42
Speaker 1: rubber waiting for the election date to come.
35:46
Speaker 3: Let's just go to your Twitter feed too, or your
35:47
Speaker 3: ex feeed.
35:48
Speaker 2: I looked at something you'd posted today about all this
35:50
Speaker 2: stuff from people saying that this is only happening in
35:53
Speaker 2: this cyclone because of climate change.
35:56
Speaker 3: Show us what you've got there, Matt.
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Speaker 1: Well, somebody sent this to me. Someone much smarter than
36:03
Speaker 1: me has tracked all the cyclones that have crossed the
36:06
Speaker 1: Eastern Sea board of Australia since nineteen oh seven. This
36:09
Speaker 1: is from the Bureau of Meteorology, this data and if
36:12
Speaker 1: you are playing eat screen there, I don't think it's
36:14
Speaker 1: climate change. I mean I think something might else be
36:16
Speaker 1: going on. Back back in nineteen ten when the Kaiser
36:20
Speaker 1: was still in charge. So I mean Queenslanders always get cyclones.
36:25
Speaker 1: Sometimes they go as fast out as Brisbane. As you
36:27
Speaker 1: can see on that track map, a category two cyclone
36:30
Speaker 1: hit Risband just fifty years ago. So these things do happen.
36:33
Speaker 1: They're unusual, but they happen. And will Queenslanders will give
36:36
Speaker 1: Alba thumb down if he calls the election. I think
36:38
Speaker 1: they're giving him two thumbs down to anyone who's trying
36:41
Speaker 1: to link this to climate change. Focus needs to be
36:44
Speaker 1: on keeping people safe and helping people recover.
36:48
Speaker 3: James.
36:49
Speaker 2: If, as expected, laborhole government in Wa on Saturday night,
36:53
Speaker 2: how does that.
36:54
Speaker 3: Play in to the federal labor race.
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Speaker 10: I think what's interesting happening over in Wa at the
37:03
Speaker 10: moment is that the Liberal brand is coming back. You know,
37:08
Speaker 10: it's probably it's not hard to come back when you
37:10
Speaker 10: think about how low they went, but it makes a
37:13
Speaker 10: number of seats in Wa look very very interesting for
37:17
Speaker 10: Peter Dutton. There's three or four seats there that if
37:20
Speaker 10: we win, because the Liberal brand is coming back and
37:23
Speaker 10: Albanize is not popular over there, that makes it more
37:27
Speaker 10: likely that Peter Dutton becomes Prime Minister compared to Anthony Albanesi.
37:32
Speaker 10: But it also comes down to to Matt's point of
37:35
Speaker 10: I think people do just want to date. They want
37:36
Speaker 10: to know what the election is going to be, because
37:38
Speaker 10: it's creating business uncertainty and it's allowing labor to just
37:43
Speaker 10: play politics with the country's finances.
37:47
Speaker 2: Now put your old economists had on national accounts out today,
37:51
Speaker 2: welcome but slight improvement in the economy for the December quarter.
37:55
Speaker 2: GDP expanded by zero point six so very slight improvement.
38:00
Speaker 2: But as I said, welcome, and your growth there is
38:02
Speaker 2: brought up to one point three percent, although if you
38:05
Speaker 2: listen to the treasurer he was crowing pretty hard.
38:09
Speaker 3: But it's still one of the weakest.
38:10
Speaker 2: Results we've had since the Keating recession era outside the pandemic.
38:15
Speaker 3: Of course, what do you make of it.
38:16
Speaker 1: All, Well, it seems to be just the result of
38:20
Speaker 1: a sugar hit. The meal that the economy's had late
38:22
Speaker 1: last year is just one of a bowl of smarties
38:25
Speaker 1: delivered by your taxpayer dollars. The goverment has, of course
38:28
Speaker 1: flowered electricity bills through that some of that extra some
38:31
Speaker 1: of that freed up money in your budget's gone to woods,
38:35
Speaker 1: restaurants and other things. Seems to boost a GDP artificially.
38:39
Speaker 1: But what we really need. The economy really needs a
38:41
Speaker 1: t bone steak. It needs something real and when you
38:43
Speaker 1: look into the data, the real economy is not doing well.
38:46
Speaker 1: Productivity dropped again in these numbers. We've actually had a
38:49
Speaker 1: five point seven percent fall in labor productivity since Anthony
38:53
Speaker 1: Albanezi got elected. There's never been a drop like this
38:56
Speaker 1: at all. And in bad news for mortgage holders, the
38:59
Speaker 1: former is Bank governor revealed this week that it is
39:02
Speaker 1: a productivity which is what the Reserve Bank looks at.
39:04
Speaker 1: They look at that to see if the spare capacity
39:07
Speaker 1: in the economy and whether the scope to cut interest rates,
39:09
Speaker 1: and with productivity still being in the doldrums under this government,
39:13
Speaker 1: it's unlikely the Reserve Bank's going to give that extra
39:15
Speaker 1: interest rate cut. And that can be sheeted home to
39:18
Speaker 1: the poor economic policies of this government that have raised
39:20
Speaker 1: energy prices, that have reregulated the labor market, that have
39:23
Speaker 1: taking ages to approve just basic projects, sometimes banning or
39:27
Speaker 1: not approving projects because of mythical bees or stories about
39:29
Speaker 1: mythical bees. That's what's led to this poor economic outcome
39:33
Speaker 1: that we've never experienced our economic history. And it's what
39:37
Speaker 1: will be on It will be on the ballot, the
39:39
Speaker 1: economic record of this government beyond the ballot whenever this
39:42
Speaker 1: election date is called soon.
39:45
Speaker 2: Let's just pull up a graph there to underscore Matt's point.
39:48
Speaker 2: This is OECD data. It's Australia's position on real gross
39:53
Speaker 2: household income, so standard of living where we actually are.
39:57
Speaker 2: You can see where Australia is in relation to the
39:59
Speaker 2: rest of the world. There's been a massive eight percent
40:02
Speaker 2: drop in your living standards Australia since the election of
40:06
Speaker 2: the Albanese government. In the United States it's about three
40:09
Speaker 2: point one percent eight point nine and Spain nine point six.
40:12
Speaker 2: In Hungary, but I mean there's some shocking numbers there
40:15
Speaker 2: for Australia. Let's go to another set of bad numbers.
40:19
Speaker 2: Ninety nine percent of the green hydrogen programs. We're spending
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Speaker 2: billions and billions and billions on James McGrath and not
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Speaker 2: even out of the driveway. I mean, if it was
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Speaker 2: a car race, you wouldn't have even got into first gear.
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Speaker 2: And most of them are going to be dumped. They're
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Speaker 2: called archived.
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Speaker 3: We know what that is. That's politically that they're dumped.
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Speaker 2: And Chris Bowen though is still talking out green hydro
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Speaker 2: as the way to save Australia.
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Speaker 10: Look, if you could use the ego of Chris Bowen
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Speaker 10: to power the country wouldn't have to worry about other
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Speaker 10: forms of electricity. This guy has no shame for billions
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Speaker 10: and billions of dollars to be effectively wasted on green hydrogen.
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Speaker 10: For the fact that where Australians are coming from at
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Speaker 10: the moment, going back to the OEC data, is you
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Speaker 10: put into a simple question, are you better off today
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Speaker 10: than you were three years ago? And no one says
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Speaker 10: yes to that. I've just been up in Cans with
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Speaker 10: Candid up there Jeremy Neil. People are doing it up
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Speaker 10: tough there, insurance, electricity, everything's going going through the roof.
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Speaker 10: Yet we've got a labor government of so out of
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Speaker 10: touch you do not understand that people are doing it
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Speaker 10: tough and they're worse off. And this is what the
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Speaker 10: coming election effectively is going to be is a referendum
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Speaker 10: on alban Easy and Labor in terms of their economic
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Speaker 10: management which has been so poor, and whether it's green hydrogen,
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Speaker 10: whether it is just that the cost of living is.
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Speaker 10: I think it is going to be a big note.
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Speaker 2: I went through this at the top of the show
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Speaker 2: Matt Canavan. This is a report data sets coming into
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Speaker 2: Infrastructure Victoria released today. A little bit of data out yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but basically, when they start to close coal fired power
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Speaker 2: in Victoria forced closures by labor in twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 2: the price of wholesale power in the state will go
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Speaker 2: from about fifty dollars a mega what hour to one
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Speaker 2: hundred and ten dollars, So it's a doubling of the
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Speaker 2: price of power. Victorians can barely keep the lights on
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Speaker 2: as it stands. Now, we've got over sixty percent of
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Speaker 2: businesses going to the wall.
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Speaker 3: There's been as.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, a sixty percent increase in foreclosures. Business is closing
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Speaker 2: this year already, and yet power's going to double.
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Speaker 1: Well, you're absolutely right, Peter. I mean, the reason that
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Speaker 1: power source the brown coal of Victoria, beautiful brown coal
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Speaker 1: of Victoria's so cheap is because it's not really mining.
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Speaker 1: The brown coal is just there under the ground. It's
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Speaker 1: more of a gardening exercise. They just dig it straight
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Speaker 1: up and chuck it into a burner and it's very
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Speaker 1: very cheap. And to put it in technical terms, the
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Speaker 1: cost of producing the cost of that energy in brown
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Speaker 1: coals about fifty cents a gigadel. When you compare that
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Speaker 1: to black colds about two dollars gigadel in Australia to
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Speaker 1: dig a bit deeper to get to the black coal.
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Speaker 1: And if you go to gas, you're looking. You're paying ten, twelve,
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Speaker 1: fourteen dollars a gig deal right now for gas. So
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Speaker 1: brown coal is some is a blessing to Victoria, blessing
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Speaker 1: this country. It's what our manufacturing heritage in Victoria has
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Speaker 1: been built on. And the idea that you could just
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Speaker 1: take that away and keep the same manufacturing sector that
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Speaker 1: you had before is lunacy. And we're all seeing that
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Speaker 1: before our eyes as our manufacturing industry is destroyed. Our
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Speaker 1: nation is de industrializing, just at the time when we're
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Speaker 1: getting more geopolitical threats on our doorsteps, as we saw
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Speaker 1: from the circumnavigating Chinese vessels last week. I mean, Europe's
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Speaker 1: done this. They put themselves in this vulnerable position to
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Speaker 1: Russian aggression by not developing their own resources. We will
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Speaker 1: be mad to go down the same path. But it's
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Speaker 1: exactly what the Labor Party has in store for us
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Speaker 1: with their plans to shut more and more power stations.
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Speaker 3: Let's stay with Victoria.
43:52
Speaker 2: I want to go to the seat of one and
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Speaker 2: this is a country seat in Victoria's West, currently held
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Speaker 2: by Liberal Dan Tea. And something very interesting I picked
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Speaker 2: up here. There's a candidate loosely a Teal, Alex Dyson.
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Speaker 3: Well, he's a Teal. Well, I'll get to that in
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Speaker 3: a moment.
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Speaker 2: He's backed by Climate two hundred, so that's why I
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Speaker 2: say he's a Teal.
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Speaker 3: Now he's come out sounding.
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Speaker 2: Pretty lukewarm James McGrath about wind farms, but that's only
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Speaker 2: because they're unpopular in that seat. So two questions here
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Speaker 2: for me. One, nefi's elected, he's going to change his mind.
44:24
Speaker 2: He's going to support wind farms because that's what the
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Speaker 2: Teals do. But secondly, he's campaigning in orange colors. He's
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Speaker 2: not campaigning in the Teal green because I know outside
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Speaker 2: of the leafy suburbs of Melbourne that Teal brand is poison.
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Speaker 3: Do you think that's why he's doing it?
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Speaker 10: Yes, because the Teals have been painted as the political
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Speaker 10: wing of the reuble secret or the renewable sector. But
44:50
Speaker 10: also it's the Teals finally have some accountability being shown
44:54
Speaker 10: on them. We've got a Teal candidate McPherson on the
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Speaker 10: Gold Coast, who is recently I was January twenty four
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Speaker 10: or said to vote green. So you vote Green, you're
45:04
Speaker 10: going to get the Teals. You vote teals, you're going
45:05
Speaker 10: to get the Greens. And you're also getting up with
45:07
Speaker 10: Anthony Albanese's Prime minister. So we've got teals in Queensland
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Speaker 10: who effectively do support the decriminalization of hard drugs, cutting
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Speaker 10: defense spending, getting rid of the private health insurance rebate.
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Speaker 1: So outside of.
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Speaker 10: The city, inner city lat said teals are off color,
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Speaker 10: and we've got to make sure we all keep holding
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Speaker 10: them to account for what their true policies are, especially
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Speaker 10: if they're saying vote Green.
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Speaker 2: Thank you gentlemen, Matt, are you playing cricket there or
45:36
Speaker 2: at your kids' sport soccer training?
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Speaker 1: My chol's soccer training, so I'm about to pick him up.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for fitting me in well.
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Speaker 2: I hope you wins on the weekend. Mate, You're a
45:46
Speaker 2: good dad. All right, Jens, I leave it there, see
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Speaker 2: you vote next week. All right, after the break, plenty
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Speaker 2: of words to get through with kel Richards after break,
45:56
Speaker 2: welcome back, joining me as he does every Wednesday. My
45:58
Speaker 2: good friend Wordsmith and broadcaster cal Richards.
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Speaker 3: You've got a good list this week. Cal let's get
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Speaker 3: into it.
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Speaker 2: Russell, one of our viewers, says that he read recently
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Speaker 2: university students that have been asked to complete learning modules
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Speaker 2: describing non Indigenous Australians as settlers and guests. But he says,
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Speaker 2: I was born here, so why am I a settler
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Speaker 2: and not an Australian.
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Speaker 6: Russell, you are not a settler. You were born here.
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Speaker 6: You're definitely not a settler. The word settler dates to
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Speaker 6: about sixteen fifty three, and it meant then and it
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Speaker 6: still means now, a person who moves to take up
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Speaker 6: residents in a country or territory where they had not
46:37
Speaker 6: lived before. Now just think about that meaning. That's what
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Speaker 6: the word means. To say anything else is to disembowel
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Speaker 6: the word of its meaning. And that's what these university
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Speaker 6: modules are doing. They're disemboweling the English language in a
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Speaker 6: really ugly way. And in the case of Australia, even
46:54
Speaker 6: with more recent migrants, when they go through a citizenship ceremony,
46:58
Speaker 6: we don't induct them into settlers status. We duct them
47:02
Speaker 6: into Australian citizenship. So the thing that worries me as
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Speaker 6: a language bloke, is this is destroying the English language.
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Speaker 6: It's taking the common sense meaning out of the word
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Speaker 6: settler and that's a very destructive thing to do. Why
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Speaker 6: is this happening in universities.
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Speaker 2: It's designed to diminish the citizenship of those Australians, whether
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Speaker 2: they've earned their citizenship by doing the test and decree
47:29
Speaker 2: or whether they were born a citizen. That's what is
47:31
Speaker 2: designed to do and disenfranchise them from their rights in
47:35
Speaker 2: this country. The Human Rights Commission thinks the word Harmony
47:39
Speaker 2: Day or the phrase Harmony Day highs systemic racism. But
47:43
Speaker 2: we've had a lot of viewers contact us on this
47:45
Speaker 2: to say, what on earth is wrong with harmony? Isn't
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Speaker 2: harmony where we're all supposed to want a head?
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Speaker 3: Says Irene.
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Speaker 6: I think this is another attack on the English language.
47:54
Speaker 6: One way to undermine language is to replace positive words
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Speaker 6: with negative expressions, and that's what they're trying to do.
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Speaker 6: I mean Harmony Day this year is Friday March twenty first,
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Speaker 6: I think, and all the little kids in school will
48:06
Speaker 6: be celebrating Harmony Day. The Australian Human Rights Commission wants
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Speaker 6: them to celebrate in an International Day against Racial discrimination.
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Speaker 6: Can you imagine that rolling off the tongue of a
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Speaker 6: five year old and it's just silly, And you're right.
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Speaker 6: It's a wonderful way for kids to celebrate what is
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Speaker 6: going on in our multi ethnic mixing pot sort of society.
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Speaker 6: It's a great idea. And harmony goes back to fifteen
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Speaker 6: thirty three comes from a Greek source word meanings jointly together.
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Speaker 6: We normally use it in music, and it's a wonderful
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Speaker 6: word to describe our society, which is harmonious.
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Speaker 2: And we're teaching little ones at a young age that
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Speaker 2: we are harmonious and we've got to keep it that way,
48:47
Speaker 2: as opposed to saying you're born inherently racist, which is rubbish.
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Speaker 1: Health, yes, exactly.
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Speaker 3: That's it for me. See you all tomorrow night.