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The Late Debate | 3 October · The Late Debate

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: Wait, well, good evening and thanks for joining us. I'm
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Speaker 2: James Macpherson with Liz Storer and filling in for Caleb
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Speaker 2: Bond Sky News contributor Claire Row And I've got to
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Speaker 2: tell you before we go on any further. Claire Row
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Speaker 2: made us magnificent Mars bar slice. Caleb, I know you're watching.
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Speaker 2: You will not be back on the show unless you
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Speaker 2: up the ante.
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Speaker 3: On Mondays, stay in Adelaide, buddy, who needs you? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we've got Brownie clan.
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Speaker 4: Now it's the start of the show. But we love
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Speaker 4: your contribution already, clear, it's magnificent.
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Speaker 5: Love to be here well.
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Speaker 4: Coming up tonight.
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Speaker 2: Signs road signs of Donald Trump have begun mysteriously appearing
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Speaker 2: right throughout New York City, but no one knows who's
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Speaker 2: doing it or why.
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Speaker 4: We'll show you that a little later.
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Speaker 2: Plus, when we look at the papers, Victoria's road network
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Speaker 2: is absolutely crumbling. You will not believe how many potholes
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Speaker 2: every day repair crews are having to fill. We'll tell
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Speaker 2: you a little later, but whatever number you're thinking of
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Speaker 2: right now, I guarantee you it'll be way more than
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Speaker 2: you could possibly imagine. On top of that, the Albanezi
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Speaker 2: government's vehicle emissions scheme has been blown apart by their
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Speaker 2: own ineptitude. They have accidentally exempted some of the most
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Speaker 2: emitting vehicles. We'll talk about that when we get to
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Speaker 2: the papers. But you know, coming into the Sky News
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Speaker 2: studio earlier this evening, I misplaced my security pass and
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself, idiot, I'm always losing either my
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Speaker 2: security pass or my car keys, and I thought, James,
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Speaker 2: don't be too hard on yourself.
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Speaker 4: Get this.
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Speaker 2: New South Wales police have misplaced five thousand, five hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy seven bulletproof vests. An audit of police resources
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Speaker 2: found that they had lost five and a half thousand
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Speaker 2: of these things. That's a lot of bulletproof vests to
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Speaker 2: slip down behind the couch. If you think I'm making
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Speaker 2: this up, have a look at this career mail report.
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Speaker 2: New South Wales Police lost track of five hundred and
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Speaker 2: seventy seven ballistic vests worth an astonishing eight point four
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Speaker 2: million dollars, according to an explosive internal audit in July
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Now, this audit went on to say
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Speaker 2: the reconciliation audit has identified a total body armor deficit
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Speaker 2: of five and a half thousand vests. This is a
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Speaker 2: police briefing signed by Miss web she's the Commissioner's chief
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Speaker 2: of staff. It went on to say this is an
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Speaker 2: estimated asset value of eight point three sixty five million
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Speaker 2: dollars and concluded that the ballistic vests had historically been
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Speaker 2: treated as a uniform item rather than a prohibited weapon.
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Speaker 2: Now most states in Australia regard bulletproof vests as a weapon.
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Speaker 2: In fact, if you want a bulletproof vest in New
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Speaker 2: South Wales you have to apply and it's only permitted
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Speaker 2: if you can prove you're a security guard who requires one,
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Speaker 2: or a member of a media organization going to report
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Speaker 2: somewhere dangerous and ironically, one of the strict conditions for
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Speaker 2: being allowed to have a bullet proof vest is that
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Speaker 2: you can prove that you will store it safely and securely.
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Speaker 2: Unlike Liz, the New South Wales Police Force they've been
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Speaker 2: treating these things like hoodies, just leaving them all over
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Speaker 2: the place. The Deputy Commissioner, David Hudson said the number
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Speaker 2: of missing vests was quote embarrassing Liz and Claire, I
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Speaker 2: reckon if you lost ten bullet proof vests. That would
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Speaker 2: be embarrassing, but to lose five and a half thousand
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Speaker 2: of them, that's beyond embarrassing.
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Speaker 4: That's just absolutely hopeless.
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Speaker 3: And now they're looking at doing a third audit. So
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Speaker 3: the audit that we're currently talking about was from twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty two, at which point Commissioner Karen Webb was asked,
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Speaker 3: can you account for these thousands of missing vests? She couldn't,
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Speaker 3: so then there was a second audit, but that audit
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Speaker 3: said that there was only and I quote two two
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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty eight vests that were on account for.
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Speaker 3: So now there's going to be a third audit, which
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Speaker 3: is why today Commissioner Karen Webb's office says no comment
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Speaker 3: until the third audit has been completed. What a plava
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Speaker 3: are they just trying to cover their tracks now and say,
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Speaker 3: actually it's half the original number, which of course the
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Speaker 3: LACC otherwise known as the Enforcement Conduct Commission with saying, well,
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Speaker 3: excuse me, what you've said in the first audit and
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Speaker 3: the second audit rather large discrepancy. So now we taxpayers
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Speaker 3: are forking out for a third order to find out
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Speaker 3: who the heck has these vests because you can bet
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Speaker 3: your bottom dollar whoever wants to be bulletproof are precisely
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Speaker 3: the people we don't want to being bulletproof.
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Speaker 6: Are these things that small, right, We're not talking about
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Speaker 6: like some caps lying around the place. If you've ever
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Speaker 6: seen the guys wearing this, these are quite big items.
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Speaker 5: Like they're not stamp uniform items.
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Speaker 6: They are rated like a category E firearm, so they
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Speaker 6: should not be in the hands of people you know
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Speaker 6: that they shouldn't be, and it's dangerous.
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Speaker 5: And I just think this.
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Speaker 6: Goes to the just ineptness again of the inefficiency of
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Speaker 6: any public run to be on a state or federal system.
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Speaker 6: Like I run a small business if I lost eight
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Speaker 6: point four million dollars worth of asset, I don't have
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Speaker 6: eight point four million.
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Speaker 5: Dollars worth of but if I did, like heads would roll.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, you can't run a business like that.
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Speaker 6: And yet suddenly you know that the public sector just
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Speaker 6: seems to be able to do this in this mismanagement
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Speaker 6: and this bloated sense of just absolute inefficiency.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, the difference between your illustration if it
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Speaker 2: was your business and of course the police service, is
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Speaker 2: that you would have to pay for the missing like
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Speaker 2: your business for the public service. We all get left
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Speaker 2: with the bill. It raises some questions though, I mean, firstly,
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Speaker 2: how do five and a half thousand book proofests just
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Speaker 2: go missing and they've only just kind of realized. But
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Speaker 2: also a lot of prosecutions rely on police being able
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Speaker 2: to prove a chain of custody of evidence.
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Speaker 4: You know exactly this.
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Speaker 2: Item went to this person to this person. Now this
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Speaker 2: person is charged with receiving stolen goods. Yes, how can
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Speaker 2: you believe police prosecutions in cases like that when they
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Speaker 2: can't keep track of their own equipment?
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Speaker 7: It's a great question.
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Speaker 3: Don't trust them as far as you can throll if
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Speaker 3: this story is anything to go by to the US
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Speaker 3: now where following the vice president their vice presidential debate.
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Speaker 7: There, I got it out.
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Speaker 3: People have taken to Twitter to share their thoughts, especially
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Speaker 3: about this bizarre line from Democrat VP nominee Tim Waltz,
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Speaker 3: who said he had some very unusual friends.
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Speaker 7: You previously oppose an assault weapons ban, but it only
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Speaker 7: later in your political career did you change your position? Why?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, he's setting that office with those Sandiok parents. So
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Speaker 8: I've become friends with school shooters.
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Speaker 4: I've seen it.
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Speaker 3: You've become friends with school shooters. Naturally, the press was
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Speaker 3: all over this, and he was pressed very hard about
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Speaker 3: it to no avail, finding instead pizza in a display
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Speaker 3: cabinet suddenly so fascinating he couldn't possibly toss a reply
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Speaker 3: over his shoulder coverny.
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Speaker 4: He said, you'd become friends with school shooters?
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Speaker 5: Or the debate?
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Speaker 9: You clarify what you meant on that?
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Speaker 3: Can you clarify what you meant when you said you'd
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Speaker 3: be friends with school shooters? Well, today he took another
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Speaker 3: whack at it, because the press aren't giving up on
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Speaker 3: such a bizarre statement from the man who wants to
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Speaker 3: be vice president of the most powerful country in the world.
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Speaker 7: Here's what he had to say second time round.
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Speaker 5: Do you a fair thing comsy?
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Speaker 7: You need the school shooters?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: And look, you got to see me. These folks know me.
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Speaker 8: I'm super passionate about this. The question come up on
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Speaker 8: school shooting. We're talking about everything except school shootings. And
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Speaker 8: I set a remember of Congress with the Sanduo parents
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Speaker 8: and it was a profound movement. David Hogg is a
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Speaker 8: good friend of mine. You have seen me do this.
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Speaker 8: I'm talking about being people where there are school shooters.
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Speaker 3: Oh, so he just misspoke a bit like how he
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Speaker 3: misspoke about being at the Tianaman's Square protests in nineteen
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Speaker 3: eighty nine. I suppose so he did say during the debate.
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Speaker 3: He gets carried away with the rhetoric. Of course, the
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Speaker 3: Trump campaign was very quick to pick up on this
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Speaker 3: bizarre line from Tim Waltz, posting this on Truth Social
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Speaker 3: Trump and Waltz not friends with shooters, Trump and Vance rather,
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is just a hilarious line from him.
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Speaker 3: The press have not given him a minute's rest since
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Speaker 3: he said it, and now he's just trying to make
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Speaker 3: people go, oh, I just I just misspoke. Why would
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Speaker 3: you misspoke? Saying that your friends with school shooting.
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Speaker 6: The knucklehead apparently was his explanation, you admit that.
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Speaker 2: What I don't understand about this current US administration is
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Speaker 2: they are all terrible communicators. Joe Biden can't speak proper no,
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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris can't speak proper karine. Jean Pierre, the White
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Speaker 2: House spokesperson, has trouble getting out of a sentence. And
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Speaker 2: Tim Waltz, I mean, he's meant to be a school teacher,
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Speaker 2: and yet he continually stumbles and then he says I
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Speaker 2: love it, where he says, oh, I want to explain
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Speaker 2: what I.
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Speaker 7: Meant, and then go on to explain anything.
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Speaker 3: But the other people for the clarification, there was no clarification.
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Speaker 2: The other irony about this is the Democrats are complaining that,
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Speaker 2: you know, his statement's been taken out of context and
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Speaker 2: people are mischaracterized. He's of course he's not a friend
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Speaker 2: of school shooters, but they continually mischaracterized and take it
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Speaker 2: out of context. Donald Trump, for instance, remember how Trump
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Speaker 2: said that there'd be an economic blood bath if his
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Speaker 2: auto policies weren't enacted, and then they said, well, if
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Speaker 2: Trump loses the election, there'll be a blood bath, implying
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Speaker 2: he meant violence.
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Speaker 4: Trump said that he'd be dictator for a day.
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Speaker 2: When asked jokingly, what would you love to do if
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Speaker 2: you could do anything, he said, I'd be dictator for
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Speaker 2: one day.
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Speaker 4: And I think it related to energy policy. And then
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Speaker 4: the Democrats said, oh.
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Speaker 2: He's promised he's going to be a dictator from day one.
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Speaker 2: So they continually take things out of context and now
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Speaker 2: complain that Waltz is being taken out of context.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is the thing.
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Speaker 6: I think this goes to really the issue here when
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Speaker 6: you speak to someone in the street, even in Australia
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Speaker 6: at the moment, and you ask them what they think
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Speaker 6: of that, you know, the US election, and the answer
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Speaker 6: is routinely.
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Speaker 5: Is this all they've got?
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Speaker 6: Do they not have anyone better in the entire country?
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Speaker 6: And so I think the issue here is that we
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Speaker 6: can all misspeak.
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Speaker 5: Right, we're here on live TV. Things can come out
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Speaker 5: of our mouth that we can't put back.
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Speaker 4: We're good tonight, but we are not running.
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Speaker 6: To be the vice president of the United States, right,
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Speaker 6: And so I think there has to be like we
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Speaker 6: kids cannot be forgiving on that. This is such a
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Speaker 6: this is the biggest job interview ever and there needs
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Speaker 6: to be an expectation of clarity of confidence, particularly around
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Speaker 6: sensitive issues like school shootings. Really like, you do not
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Speaker 6: want to fumble your words when you're talking about subject
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Speaker 6: matters like that, And you're right, none of them can
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Speaker 6: actually speak.
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Speaker 2: The other peculiar thing about this is, I mean, we
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Speaker 2: all know that he misspoke. Of course, he's not hanging out,
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Speaker 2: you know, down the park with school shooters because he's
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Speaker 2: got a little club going on, so we all know
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Speaker 2: he didn't mean to say what he said, but it
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Speaker 2: begs the question, is this I don't understand help me.
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Speaker 2: Why can't he just simply say I got that wrong.
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Speaker 2: What I meant to say was and we would all go,
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Speaker 2: of course, but instead they go this way, they go
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Speaker 2: that way, everything except simply address the mistake. Is this
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Speaker 2: because so much of what they say is not true
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Speaker 2: that they eventually just have trouble telling him.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 3: But I think what you've missed is that was him
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Speaker 3: doing exactly what you said he should do.
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Speaker 7: He thinks that he's done. That was plain nat replied, that.
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Speaker 3: Was Here's way of saying I misspoke.
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Speaker 7: Here's my actual explanation.
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Speaker 3: Now, the media is finding it very hard to find
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Speaker 3: any fault with JD Vance's performance in yesterday's debate, and
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Speaker 3: so they've taken to picking on his body language and
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Speaker 3: namely his beard.
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Speaker 7: Check out this number.
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Speaker 3: From Politico eight body language tells from the vice presidential debate.
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Speaker 3: This article is written by Joe Navarro. He says, no,
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Speaker 3: I'm not a telepath. I'm a body language expert with
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Speaker 3: over fifty years of experience, twenty five of which I
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Speaker 3: spent with the FBI, where I served in the National
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Speaker 3: Security division's elite behavioral analysis program. I've used my expertise
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Speaker 3: in the endlessly subtle science of nonverbal communication to help
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Speaker 3: ferret out spies and put away criminals.
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Speaker 7: Well, Joe, you sound so impressive.
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Speaker 3: Do tell us your insights from the debate.
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Speaker 7: He goes on.
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Speaker 3: One of the first bits of nonverbal communication to a
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Speaker 3: here in the debate was on JD.
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Speaker 7: Vance's face his beard.
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Speaker 3: As Politico Magazine has noted before, Vance is the first
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Speaker 3: White House wanna be to wear facial hair in eighty years.
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Speaker 3: Our appearance is fundamental to our body language, and research
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Speaker 3: indicates that voters see beards as surprise, surprise, more masculine.
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Speaker 3: That can be positive to some, reading as a strength
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Speaker 3: and competence, but to others, especially women, it can be negative,
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Speaker 3: conveying aggression and opposition to feminist ideals. Joe, Buddy, I'm
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Speaker 3: not a body language expert, and I don't have fifty.
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Speaker 7: Years of experience.
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Speaker 3: But here's just a small illustration of why JD.
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Speaker 7: Vance has chosen to have a beard.
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Speaker 3: Here's a shot from twenty seventeen before beard pre beard.
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Speaker 7: Does this di look presidential to you? Not very?
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Speaker 3: He looks like he's just finished Uni and he's on
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Speaker 3: the phone to his mum. Now let's compare that with
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Speaker 3: yesterday's JD Vance. Oh yes, that's a president in waiting.
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Speaker 3: We don't need you to unpack why this guy has
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Speaker 3: grown a beard, or how it could spell out aggression
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Speaker 3: or him trying.
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Speaker 7: To just look presidential. It just is what it is, buddy.
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Speaker 2: Thank god for Politico because left devices, I would have thought,
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Speaker 2: you know, the beard was either tho personal style or
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Speaker 2: maybe just facial hair. But now I know that a
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Speaker 2: beard is a sign, a surefire sign of misogyny, which
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Speaker 2: makes me see other figures in a whole new light.
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Speaker 2: Abe Lincoln terrible misogynist. Oh Jesus Christ hopeless misogynist. Santa
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Speaker 2: Claus himself a terrible misogynist.
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Speaker 3: Caleb Goodness, Caleb bon a huge misogynist, I said.
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Speaker 4: The other misogynist though, beard Karl Marx. And this is
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Speaker 4: a bit awkward. Karl Marx had a beard.
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Speaker 2: But Politico only regard a beard as a sign of
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Speaker 2: misogyny if you're a conservative. Because back in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: have a look at this from Politico. At the very
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Speaker 2: beginning of this interminable year, Justin Trudeau grew a beard.
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Speaker 2: The beard was significant, a symbol of a once useful
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Speaker 2: prime minister who was now older and wiser, and battlescarred.
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Speaker 4: So there you go.
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Speaker 2: A beard is a sign of misogyny, according to Politico
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Speaker 2: if you're a conservative, but if you're a lefty, it's
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Speaker 2: a sign of wisdom and maturity.
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Speaker 6: It is maturity, right, And let's not forget that Daily
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Speaker 6: Advance is one of the youngest candidates to be VP.
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Speaker 6: He was born of the same year and month is
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Speaker 6: myself so very young, very very and.
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Speaker 5: I think it does add.
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Speaker 6: A certain maturity the beard and strength and confidence, and
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Speaker 6: God forbid that those would actually be the qualities that
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Speaker 6: we would want.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, God Manland, Oh terrible. Look.
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Speaker 5: On a serious note, this just comes.
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Speaker 6: This is a ridiculous I actually thought it was satire
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Speaker 6: when I saw these, and I just think it's another
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Speaker 6: one of those articles that uses the word masculine. But
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Speaker 6: they've just they really didn't mean that racketed word of toxic,
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Speaker 6: you know, in front of masculine, And that never happens
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Speaker 6: with femininity, right, I never talked about toxic femininity always,
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Speaker 6: you know, And why is masculinity bad?
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Speaker 5: It's not bad? And in the case of no more
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Speaker 5: of our country. That's what we want.
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Speaker 4: So you're saying a woman with a beard that would
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Speaker 4: be an example of.
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Speaker 5: Toxic, well that that may be the case. That may
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Speaker 5: be the case. And I'm not sure whether you know
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Speaker 5: Kamala can go that way.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
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Speaker 7: Anyway she thought I was some voke she would do it.
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Speaker 7: But Joe's taking a part.
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Speaker 3: The body language of these two candidates continues, this time
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Speaker 3: focusing on Tim Woltz.
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Speaker 7: So I newly get fascinated by this.
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Speaker 3: So here's the other side of the story.
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Speaker 7: There was no beard to pick on, so.
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Speaker 3: Joe has gone with something else, he writes. When Waltz
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Speaker 3: felt especially passionate about something, he'd open his eyes wide.
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Speaker 3: As sources, eye popping can sometimes be a sign of surprise,
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Speaker 3: but for Waltz, it simply revealed his emotional intensity, like
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Speaker 3: this moment during an exchange about abortion. Early humans would
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Speaker 3: have made such facial gestures to communicate strong emotions like
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Speaker 3: danger is close, But for walt it gave extra weight
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Speaker 3: to his feelings and held our gaze. Again, mate, I
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Speaker 3: am no body language expert, but that wide eyed expression
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Speaker 3: that we basically never saw wiped off the face of
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Speaker 3: Tim Walt.
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Speaker 7: That was sheer terror. That was sheer terror.
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Speaker 3: And when they were less wide open, he just looked confused.
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Speaker 4: That's not a dear court in headline.
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Speaker 3: I'm a body language expert.
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Speaker 6: I'll tell you that that is complete and utter pop psychology.
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Speaker 6: That was either an optic twitch or a tick or
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Speaker 6: I agree, it was this absolute paddock. You know, but
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Speaker 6: maybe we could just start doing that when we need to, like,
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Speaker 6: you know, in further, there's danger here across the desk,
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Speaker 6: we'll just hypopit each other.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the amazing thing is that the world is
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Speaker 2: on fire right now and this is the sort of
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Speaker 2: stuff that pulled so running with this is what qualifies,
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Speaker 2: as you know, insightful analysis and journalism. Meanwhile, while Politico
18:09
Speaker 2: are off in fantasy land, Americans are really suffering, especially
18:13
Speaker 2: those who have been hit by the recent hurricane that
18:16
Speaker 2: tore through six states, destroying entire communities. Almost two hundred
18:21
Speaker 2: people dead, about one hundred people still missing at last report,
18:24
Speaker 2: and one one hundred and.
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Speaker 4: Fifty thousand households. It's not people. One hundred and fifty thousand.
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Speaker 2: Households have applied for federal assistance and relief. Here's Kamala
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Speaker 2: Harris with the good news.
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Speaker 9: The federal relief and assistance that we have been providing
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Speaker 9: has included FEMA providing seven hundred and fifty dollars for
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Speaker 9: folks who need immediate needs being met.
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Speaker 2: Seven hundred and fifty bucks. Your home has been destroyed,
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Speaker 2: your town is in ruins.
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Speaker 4: But it's okay.
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Speaker 2: The Democrats are going to rock up with seven hundred
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Speaker 2: and fift That's not seven hundred ffty dollars a week.
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Speaker 2: It's not like a monthly payment until you get yourself,
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Speaker 2: that's just a one off seven hundred and fifty dollars.
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Speaker 4: Good luck with.
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Speaker 5: That US dollars. You will add a bit more on.
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Speaker 2: Sure, But if you're thinking that there may be some
19:12
Speaker 2: more coming down the track, don't hold your breath because
19:15
Speaker 2: Homeland Security Secretary Alexandro mayorcus he said, and they quote,
19:21
Speaker 2: we're meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have.
19:24
Speaker 2: We're expecting another hurricane hitting. But FEMA, that's the organization
19:30
Speaker 2: committed to relief, does not have the funds to make
19:33
Speaker 2: it through the season. So Liz it raises the question,
19:36
Speaker 2: this is hurricane season. This is not a surprise. They
19:39
Speaker 2: allocate money every year so that they can help citizens,
19:43
Speaker 2: American citizens get through these times. But they've got seven
19:47
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty bucks per household and that's it. Where's
19:51
Speaker 2: the money gone?
19:51
Speaker 3: This is utterly disgusting. Just to help you realize how
19:57
Speaker 3: pitiful this is.
19:58
Speaker 7: In the last year alone, we have spent one hundred.
20:01
Speaker 3: And fifty billion dollars on the twenty million illegal immigrants,
20:07
Speaker 3: most of which have been facilitated into the country by
20:10
Speaker 3: this administration. They've been spending all that government resources on
20:16
Speaker 3: these illegals. Here we have thousands of Americans in Diony.
20:21
Speaker 3: They've lost their homes, their cars are underwater, the trail
20:25
Speaker 3: of destruction. They haven't seen this type of hurricane in
20:28
Speaker 3: fifty years in mainland America, and here they are being.
20:34
Speaker 7: Told seven hundred and fifty bucks a pop.
20:36
Speaker 3: She'll be right, it can grab some musli bars and
20:40
Speaker 3: what are the What are these people expected to do?
20:43
Speaker 7: They've lost absolutely everything.
20:45
Speaker 3: Even if they are fortunate enough to have insurance, we
20:48
Speaker 3: all know that takes a long time to kick in
20:51
Speaker 3: and for you to see absolutely any fruit from that.
20:55
Speaker 7: These people are utterly desperate.
20:57
Speaker 3: Elon Musk has already bailed them out, giving them communications
21:01
Speaker 3: via Starlink, because back in twenty twenty two, this government,
21:06
Speaker 3: rather the Communications Board, which is apparently totally independent, gave
21:12
Speaker 3: Elon Musk a grant to build it in this disaster
21:16
Speaker 3: prone area for situations like this, and then took back
21:20
Speaker 3: the grant. They claim it's got nothing to do with
21:22
Speaker 3: his political affiliations, him being a big supporter of Trump,
21:26
Speaker 3: But of course that poses a huge question mark. So
21:29
Speaker 3: Elon's coming to the rescue in terms of communications for
21:33
Speaker 3: these communities that are completely otherwise cut off. These guys
21:38
Speaker 3: have been handed seven hundred and fifty bucks from their
21:41
Speaker 3: federal government. There's no more aid coming, and you've just
21:45
Speaker 3: got Homeland Security secretary saying femas out of money. Sorry,
21:50
Speaker 3: we're not even going to make it through this if
21:52
Speaker 3: only you'd look after your own before the illegals. And
21:55
Speaker 3: that's to say nothing of the tens of billions of
21:58
Speaker 3: dollars they've spent in foreign aid this year alone.
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Speaker 5: It's ridiculous, that's the thing.
22:03
Speaker 6: And I think, you know, the Republicans do not need
22:06
Speaker 6: any other point to prosecute other the next like this
22:08
Speaker 6: is it really? And it goes to the question that
22:11
Speaker 6: I think Australians need to ask themselves as well here
22:13
Speaker 6: to look at this and say, what is the role
22:16
Speaker 6: of our elected representatives, what is it is it actually
22:19
Speaker 6: to represent our best interests?
22:21
Speaker 5: And at the end of the day, as global.
22:23
Speaker 6: Citizens, we should be giving foreign aid, we should be
22:25
Speaker 6: helping people who want you know, protection here, but not
22:28
Speaker 6: at the complete expense of our own citizens, right And
22:32
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, they've turned around and said,
22:34
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, we've got no money left for hurricanes in
22:38
Speaker 6: you know, the most hurricane you know, Staate an Erica
22:42
Speaker 6: pro area. This is not a surprise. We didn't know
22:44
Speaker 6: this was going to happen. I mean, they have not
22:46
Speaker 6: planned for this at all. As you said, they've spent
22:48
Speaker 6: the money you know, on illegal immigrants, on foreign aid,
22:51
Speaker 6: et cetera.
22:52
Speaker 2: And that's the part that would just be absolutely devastating
22:55
Speaker 2: for US citizens.
22:57
Speaker 4: The fact that, I mean, there's some examples, and.
23:00
Speaker 2: We've talked about on this program before New York City
23:03
Speaker 2: gave debit cards to illegal migrants where they were getting
23:07
Speaker 2: forty percent more money from the government as illegals than
23:10
Speaker 2: low income earners or elderly people who were accessing government.
23:13
Speaker 1: Money intellectans in America in California for their country legals
23:19
Speaker 1: were being given gender reassignment surgery paid for by American.
23:23
Speaker 2: Taxpayers in Portland, and Portland was just one of many
23:26
Speaker 2: places where illegals were being put up in hotels by
23:30
Speaker 2: the taxpayer. Then you've got the taxpayers whose homes have
23:33
Speaker 2: been destroyed and there's no money left to help them
23:36
Speaker 2: because it's all been spent on everything from hotels to
23:39
Speaker 2: gender reassignment surgery for people who should never have been
23:42
Speaker 2: in the country in the first place. And you raised
23:44
Speaker 2: a great point about government because we often talk about,
23:47
Speaker 2: you know, we need smaller government, smaller government, but if
23:50
Speaker 2: there's ever a case for saying we need the government
23:53
Speaker 2: to come in and take control, it's in the event
23:56
Speaker 2: of a natural disaster, because corporations are there for profit, right,
24:00
Speaker 2: so they're not the best people in this instance.
24:01
Speaker 4: You need government who come in.
24:03
Speaker 2: They're not trying to make a profit, they're just trying
24:05
Speaker 2: to help, and when you need them, they're absently.
24:07
Speaker 6: And let me tell you, the same thing is happening
24:09
Speaker 6: in the UK where there will be civil war because
24:12
Speaker 6: immigrants coming into the country are going straight to the
24:14
Speaker 6: front of the queue that is like community housing. While
24:18
Speaker 6: UK citizens who are born and bred their whole lives
24:20
Speaker 6: in the UK are missing out and community housing and
24:23
Speaker 6: they're angry. And governments really need to see this, and
24:26
Speaker 6: Australians need to see this, you know, like we're in
24:29
Speaker 6: such a fortunate position where things play out overseas and
24:33
Speaker 6: yet we don't seem to learn from it.
24:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've got some vision of Kamala. Howis
24:37
Speaker 2: she visited some of the devastated communities, and that will
24:41
Speaker 2: show finally vision there she is wandering through, see how
24:44
Speaker 2: she's interacting with the locals.
24:45
Speaker 3: Liz, This administration, though, has been completely m Ia.
24:49
Speaker 7: This is almost a.
24:50
Speaker 3: Week after the fact she previously said, Oh no, I'm
24:54
Speaker 3: not going to go to Georgia. I'm not going to
24:56
Speaker 3: go to North Carolina because.
24:57
Speaker 7: I just be in the way.
25:00
Speaker 3: Actually a pertinent point if you're Kamala Harris, I mean,
25:02
Speaker 3: what else are you good for? But here she is
25:05
Speaker 3: finally doing the photo op, the awkward walk through. Half
25:09
Speaker 3: the time, their lips aren't even moving, they're just kind
25:11
Speaker 3: of gesticulating it.
25:12
Speaker 7: Yes, let's make some reels for the news. But this
25:17
Speaker 7: has been.
25:17
Speaker 3: Such an incredible opportunity for once again the Trump campaign.
25:22
Speaker 3: Days previous was already on the ground in Georgia. Here's
25:26
Speaker 3: a short clip of Trump giving his condolences to the
25:29
Speaker 3: families who have lost lives. Over one hundred and twenty
25:33
Speaker 3: people are deceased due to this hurricane, and also promising aid.
25:40
Speaker 10: It was hospitals, highways, and cars have been plunged underwater.
25:44
Speaker 10: Entire neighbors have been turned into lakes. Nobody's seen anything
25:48
Speaker 10: like it. And every family that's been displaced here in
25:51
Speaker 10: Georgia and North Carolina, who which has really been had
25:55
Speaker 10: We're going there also, and they don't have communication. They
25:59
Speaker 10: don't have any thing right now that we're trying to.
26:02
Speaker 10: I just spoke to Elon. I'm getting him. We want
26:05
Speaker 10: to get starlink hooked up because they have no communication whatsoever.
26:10
Speaker 10: And Elon will always come through, we know that, and
26:14
Speaker 10: so we're working on that getting them hooked up. They
26:16
Speaker 10: asked me whether or not that would be possible. We're
26:19
Speaker 10: going to try and get the starlink in there as
26:21
Speaker 10: soon as possible because they have no communication.
26:24
Speaker 7: So the actual.
26:25
Speaker 3: Biden administration no one on the ground for days and days.
26:29
Speaker 3: Trump wasted no time in making his way to Georgia,
26:33
Speaker 3: which is where he was making that speech, and also
26:36
Speaker 3: the Biden administration tried to take credit for the fact
26:38
Speaker 3: that on now we're getting thirty star link whatever they
26:43
Speaker 3: call those things. They're like little they don't have to
26:46
Speaker 3: be plugged into the communications. They're like satellites that work
26:49
Speaker 3: all by themselves, giving people access to the Internet so
26:53
Speaker 3: that they can use.
26:54
Speaker 7: Their phone and computers.
26:55
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Elon's tweeting about the fact that he and Trump
27:00
Speaker 3: were the ones who were organizing this, and he was
27:02
Speaker 3: already sending these starlinks to North Carolina and Elston Elon Musk.
27:07
Speaker 2: Let's not forget he's also bailing out Boeing by rescuing
27:10
Speaker 2: US astronauts from out of space where they've been stranded.
27:14
Speaker 2: But Musk to the rescue. Is there nothing this man
27:16
Speaker 2: cannot do? But there's some other interesting questions about this
27:19
Speaker 2: quick Well.
27:19
Speaker 6: I was just looking at that and just said, which
27:22
Speaker 6: kind of forgets she's not the president.
27:23
Speaker 5: I know she's on a campaign, but she's not the president.
27:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, by the president of the United States, where is
27:30
Speaker 6: he giving that, you know, seven hundred and fifty dollars announcement?
27:33
Speaker 5: Maybe he even realized that was a bit too pitiful
27:35
Speaker 5: and didn't want to do it, but we kind of
27:38
Speaker 5: forget that.
27:38
Speaker 6: I get she's in in campaign mode and so they're
27:40
Speaker 6: putting her forward to make these announcements, but she is
27:44
Speaker 6: not the sitting president, and the country needs to see
27:47
Speaker 6: the sitting president.
27:47
Speaker 5: Where is he?
27:48
Speaker 2: Well, he was sitting on the beach and they said,
27:52
Speaker 2: what do you do? He said, We've been on the phone,
27:54
Speaker 2: as if sitting on.
27:55
Speaker 4: The beach in Delaware the phone.
27:57
Speaker 2: I've got it all under control, showing compassion and care
28:00
Speaker 2: for US citizens. This is quite incredible, and you're right,
28:03
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris has forgotten that she is in office at
28:07
Speaker 2: the moment, pretending like she hasn't been responsible at all,
28:11
Speaker 2: and she continues to be irresponsible. Let's go to let's
28:14
Speaker 2: stay in America for a moment. There's an incredible story
28:16
Speaker 2: in Virginia where a Christian teacher was fired from his
28:21
Speaker 2: job because he refused to address a biological female student
28:26
Speaker 2: using male pronouns. Peter Vlaming was a French teacher at
28:31
Speaker 2: West Point High School and one of his students transitioned.
28:35
Speaker 4: From female to male.
28:37
Speaker 2: So, in trying to stay true to truth and to biology,
28:43
Speaker 2: he decided, I'm not going to use the wrong pronouns
28:47
Speaker 2: for this girl. I'm not going to call her a
28:49
Speaker 2: he or a hymn, but neither do I want to offend,
28:52
Speaker 2: so I'll simply use the child's name.
28:54
Speaker 4: But that wasn't enough.
28:56
Speaker 2: And so when he explained to the child, who wanted
28:59
Speaker 2: to know why out you using he and him, the
29:03
Speaker 2: parents got in contact with the teacher and said, leave
29:05
Speaker 2: your beliefs, leave your principles at the door. You must
29:10
Speaker 2: address our son using the proper pronouns. And then the
29:15
Speaker 2: school came to him, requiring him to sign a written
29:18
Speaker 2: document agreeing that he would use the preferred pronouns, which
29:22
Speaker 2: he said he could not do.
29:24
Speaker 4: Quote.
29:25
Speaker 2: I was wrongfully fired from my teaching job because my
29:28
Speaker 2: religious beliefs put me on a collision course with school
29:31
Speaker 2: administrators who mandated that teachers ascribed to only one perspective
29:36
Speaker 2: on gender identity, their preferred view. I loved teaching French
29:41
Speaker 2: and gracefully tried to accommodate every student in my class,
29:45
Speaker 2: but I couldn't say something that directly violated my conscience.
29:50
Speaker 2: He took the school to court, and incidentally, he won
29:54
Speaker 2: on appeal five hundred and seventy five thousand dollars in damages.
29:59
Speaker 2: But according to his complaint in the court case, mister
30:05
Speaker 2: Lemming's conscience and religious practice prohibits him from intentionally lying,
30:11
Speaker 2: and he sincerely believes that referring to a female as
30:13
Speaker 2: a male by using an objectively male pronoun is telling
30:17
Speaker 2: a lie. Now, as I said, he won the court case.
30:21
Speaker 2: He won a significant amount of money. This is the
30:24
Speaker 2: guy you want teaching your kids.
30:26
Speaker 4: By the way.
30:27
Speaker 2: But he didn't win because he was factually and scientifically true.
30:32
Speaker 2: He won because of his religious beliefs. The court ruled
30:35
Speaker 2: that his religious freedom had been violated by the school
30:39
Speaker 2: mandating he had to speak in a particular way.
30:42
Speaker 4: So lucky he was a Christian.
30:45
Speaker 2: Otherwise, I'm not sure what argument he would have had
30:48
Speaker 2: since we've decided biology is no longer an argument.
30:51
Speaker 3: Well, one wonders if he weren't a Christian and again
30:54
Speaker 3: was simply refusing to lie. I mean, you don't have
30:56
Speaker 3: to be a Christian to recognize biological sex is. There's
31:00
Speaker 3: plenty of secular people who believe that just as much,
31:03
Speaker 3: though they may not have as much conviction around it
31:06
Speaker 3: and aren't going to pursue matters in court. But certainly,
31:09
Speaker 3: if they were fired, who knows what they would do.
31:12
Speaker 3: This story made me remember Enoch Burke, who has spent
31:16
Speaker 3: four hundred days in prison and just last month went
31:19
Speaker 3: to prison for.
31:20
Speaker 7: The third time.
31:22
Speaker 3: He is a teacher in Ireland who similarly refused to
31:26
Speaker 3: refer to a student by them pronouns and just kept
31:31
Speaker 3: rocking up at work because, as he kept pointing out,
31:34
Speaker 3: I'm still on the payroll. They keep paying me, so
31:37
Speaker 3: I'm rocking up to do my job. It is incredible
31:42
Speaker 3: that certainly Ireland doesn't recognize similar rights, because his argument
31:48
Speaker 3: is exactly the same.
31:49
Speaker 7: He is a religious man, he.
31:51
Speaker 3: Refuses to use they then pronouns. This student is either
31:55
Speaker 3: a he or she I can't remember, and yet he's
31:59
Speaker 3: spent four one hundred days in jail. Yes, ladies and gentlemen,
32:03
Speaker 3: this is the world we are living in now, and
32:06
Speaker 3: he's still in jail.
32:07
Speaker 5: As far as far as I know.
32:08
Speaker 6: I mean, when you said that the teacher was calling
32:11
Speaker 6: the student by their name, their preferred name, right, he
32:14
Speaker 6: was gracious enough to actually say, if you want to
32:17
Speaker 6: go by a different name, I will call you by
32:19
Speaker 6: that name. When he sat down and had a meeting,
32:20
Speaker 6: which he said he thought went very well with his student.
32:23
Speaker 6: It wasnt until later that he got this phone call
32:26
Speaker 6: and it was just a matter of pronouns. And I
32:28
Speaker 6: don't actually know how many times you need to use
32:31
Speaker 6: someone's pronoun when you're teaching a class, you know, if
32:34
Speaker 6: you're just referring to someone by their first name.
32:36
Speaker 5: I don't even think he did missgender.
32:38
Speaker 6: It did come up as an issue, but obviously he
32:41
Speaker 6: refused to sign that agreement and stuck to his convictions.
32:45
Speaker 6: And ironically, on a lighter note, I do think it's
32:48
Speaker 6: rather funny that he was, you know, a teacher, a
32:50
Speaker 6: scholar of the French language, and French take their language
32:54
Speaker 6: very very seriously, where literally every single object la pen
32:59
Speaker 6: is feminine or masculine.
33:00
Speaker 5: It's binary and after.
33:02
Speaker 6: The word when a couple of years ago the French
33:03
Speaker 6: language had to come up with a new word, okay,
33:06
Speaker 6: they had to invent a non binary word pronoum really
33:10
Speaker 6: have one, and the member of parliament in French said
33:13
Speaker 6: that the way forward is not this way for our language,
33:16
Speaker 6: and they were in uproar that their.
33:18
Speaker 5: Dictionary included it.
33:19
Speaker 6: So you know, he's got the French in him, and
33:21
Speaker 6: he's you know, am a Christian.
33:23
Speaker 2: While we've got you with us on the late debate.
33:25
Speaker 2: You're a child psychologist.
33:27
Speaker 4: So did he handle it well?
33:28
Speaker 2: Is there anything he could have done better to both
33:31
Speaker 2: maintain his Christian beliefs and look after the welfare of
33:35
Speaker 2: this child.
33:35
Speaker 5: I don't know if.
33:37
Speaker 6: There's an answer to that, actually, and I don't. I
33:39
Speaker 6: think he did everything he could have done. He said
33:41
Speaker 6: he did it graciously.
33:42
Speaker 5: I think he did.
33:43
Speaker 6: I think sitting down and explaining his sight, he didn't
33:46
Speaker 6: bereat the student. He didn't say that they were, you know, silly,
33:49
Speaker 6: or if it was nonsense, and you know, he did
33:52
Speaker 6: what he could to say, this is where i'll meet you,
33:54
Speaker 6: and I.
33:54
Speaker 5: Will call you by your preferred name.
33:56
Speaker 6: My concern of what I see in my clinical practice
33:59
Speaker 6: is actually teachers starting to refer to students by their
34:03
Speaker 6: preferred pronouns or their preferred name without the permission of parents. Yeah,
34:07
Speaker 6: and I see that, And that is more worrying that
34:11
Speaker 6: it's our parents.
34:12
Speaker 5: And I know parents who have found out after a.
34:14
Speaker 6: Term or two a school when they turn up at
34:16
Speaker 6: a parent teacher interview and that the teachers are referring
34:20
Speaker 6: to their daughter as a head. Well, hang on a second,
34:23
Speaker 6: we had no idea about this and we never gave permission.
34:26
Speaker 4: That is alarming, incredible, all right.
34:29
Speaker 2: Speaking of alarming, people in Chatswood, New South Wales are
34:32
Speaker 2: alarmed because a McDonald's has applied to offer twenty four
34:36
Speaker 2: hour in store dining and they say this is going
34:40
Speaker 2: to absolutely destroy the tranquility of Chatswood. Residents are up
34:46
Speaker 2: in arms and so angry that will it be. Counsels
34:49
Speaker 2: said to McDonald's, look, you can have your new eight
34:51
Speaker 2: million dollar store, but you have to shut down indoor
34:54
Speaker 2: dining at ten pm.
34:55
Speaker 4: After ten o'clock it's drived through.
34:57
Speaker 2: Only listen to some of the arguments that chat residents
35:00
Speaker 2: made against twenty four in store dining. Resident Sean Feritis
35:07
Speaker 2: was among opponents who wrote to the council arguing the
35:10
Speaker 2: store could lead to quote increased noise levels due to
35:13
Speaker 2: car movements, customer interactions and the general buzz.
35:18
Speaker 4: Of activity which is a little vague, but listen to
35:21
Speaker 4: this one.
35:21
Speaker 2: Another local, Jessica Whitebourne, complained the semi industrial location of
35:26
Speaker 2: the store on Smith Street could provide would be criminals
35:29
Speaker 2: a dark playground of industrial units and streets in which
35:32
Speaker 2: to do as they please. But my favorite argument against
35:36
Speaker 2: this twenty four hour McDonald's is from Zoe Hart, who
35:41
Speaker 2: said the impact on the health of residents was another
35:44
Speaker 2: sticking point for locals, arguing that the store could quote
35:48
Speaker 2: contribute to Australia's growing obesity and health crisis.
35:52
Speaker 4: Now just let me understand this argument.
35:54
Speaker 2: If you go through the drive through, it's not going
35:56
Speaker 2: to affect ABC levels in Australia. But indoor die after
36:00
Speaker 2: ten pm, I'll tell you what people will be stacking
36:02
Speaker 2: on the weight list.
36:03
Speaker 7: Didn't you know it's calorie free. It's calorie free if
36:06
Speaker 7: you get it in drive through the day.
36:08
Speaker 3: Yeah lutely, it's all about hours because if you eat
36:12
Speaker 3: things closer to bedtime, it's in your system longer and
36:16
Speaker 3: you get fatter. So Claire Zoe Heart rather you're giving
36:20
Speaker 3: her a bit of a bad run there. There is
36:22
Speaker 3: some science to what she's the hour that you eat
36:26
Speaker 3: it count.
36:27
Speaker 5: Come on, north Shore peeps like it. It's macas.
36:30
Speaker 6: It's not, you know, the troublesome activity that's taking place.
36:34
Speaker 5: It's not an outlaw bike above for God's sake.
36:38
Speaker 4: That's what it's going to become.
36:39
Speaker 2: It's going to become a criminal underground, playground of criminal
36:43
Speaker 2: activity on that note. We're going to go to a break,
36:45
Speaker 2: but when we come back, we'll look at the papers.
36:47
Speaker 2: You won't believe how many potholes every day they're having
36:51
Speaker 2: to repair in Victoria. It's an astonishing number. We'll talk
36:53
Speaker 2: about that in a moment.
36:57
Speaker 4: Welcome back. Let's take a look at what's making news tomorrow.
37:00
Speaker 2: You've got the Herald's sun and potholes are the big story.
37:02
Speaker 3: I know we've teased it to death and now you're
37:05
Speaker 3: about to find out the actual digits.
37:08
Speaker 7: How many are they fixing in Victoria? Well wonder no more.
37:12
Speaker 7: Exclusive repair queues.
37:15
Speaker 3: Repair Crewise otherwise known as repair Cruise forced to fill
37:19
Speaker 3: seven hundred potholes a day. I med record drop in
37:24
Speaker 3: vital upgrades on crumbling road system.
37:28
Speaker 7: Whole lot of strife.
37:29
Speaker 3: The splash reads Victorian repair crews are being forced to
37:33
Speaker 3: feel almost seven hundred potholes a day across the state's
37:36
Speaker 3: crumbling road network amid a record drop.
37:39
Speaker 7: Well, it's just.
37:40
Speaker 3: Exactly the same as the exclusive splash.
37:43
Speaker 7: I'm disappointed.
37:44
Speaker 3: We bought the total number of potholes filled over the
37:47
Speaker 3: past five years to an estimated one point two five million.
37:53
Speaker 7: That's a heck of a lot of potholes.
37:55
Speaker 3: Who's in the pothole filling industry, because you guys are
37:58
Speaker 3: in a well fed paddock Victoria right now.
38:01
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, the Victorian Orditor General's Office said
38:04
Speaker 2: fifteen percent of Victoria's roads were in a quote very
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Speaker 2: poor condition. That was up from eleven percent ten years earlier.
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Speaker 2: But that was when they filled seventy one thousand, five
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Speaker 2: hundred potholes.
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Speaker 4: So now they're.
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Speaker 2: Filling two hundred and twenty thousand last over left.
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Speaker 4: He's got a lot more.
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Speaker 2: World, but were you're literally swerving in a single lane
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Speaker 2: trying to not fall down and disappear into a whole.
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Speaker 4: That's just incredible. But it just goes to show.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we pas fortune for car registration tolls, fuel excises.
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Speaker 4: Where's our money going road repairs? I'll tell you those
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Speaker 4: keep pulling into disrepair.
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Speaker 6: I just diod a story on the Victorian government issuing
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Speaker 6: a paper about how librarians need to check with five
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Speaker 6: year olds on their gender preferences.
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Speaker 5: First, that's where it's got.
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Speaker 7: That's important tax payer money well or events.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a revital to a flourishing society. Ladies
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Speaker 3: and gentlemen staying on the front page of the Herald
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Speaker 3: Sun frontline cops down and out. Victoria police vacancys have
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Speaker 3: surged to more than one thousand, with the latest force
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Speaker 3: figures revealing there are twenty two more unfilled positions now
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Speaker 3: then on June thirtieth this year. They're saying this is
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Speaker 3: due to a wave of retirements and a slowing in
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Speaker 3: the number of recruits graduating. So I would also like
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Speaker 3: to say it's probably got something to do with the
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Speaker 3: fact that they fired a bunch of them when they
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Speaker 3: refused to be vaccinated during the pandemic and stood up
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Speaker 3: for their bodily autonomy. But the roosters are coming home
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Speaker 3: to roost, that's a thing. It's so Thursday night here
39:41
Speaker 3: on the Late Debate ladies, that the chickens are coming
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Speaker 3: up to FoST. Well, you know, I would never have
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Speaker 3: known it was a rugby league thing, So anyway, this
39:53
Speaker 3: would also I would whenever I read.
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Speaker 7: These, I always think that if I was a Krim, i'd.
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Speaker 3: Be reading this with great int to be like.
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Speaker 5: So the fall.
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Speaker 3: Since you're telling me the lines are thin, it's not.
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Speaker 4: Just a Victorian issue.
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Speaker 2: In South Australia, they've lost two hundred and twenty seven
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Speaker 2: police in the last twelve months, while recruiting only two
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Speaker 2: hundred and eighteen. So the problem is not just recruiting,
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Speaker 2: but it's retention. And you can say, well, they lost
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Speaker 2: two twenty seven, they recruited to eighteen, all's good, but
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Speaker 2: don't forget these to eighteen that have been recruited. They're cadets,
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Speaker 2: so they've got zero experience. They've got to be trained.
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Speaker 2: It's all that expenditure, and then you can only gain
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Speaker 2: experience by being in the job. So even if you're
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Speaker 2: replacing them one for one, you're still worse all.
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Speaker 6: And the dropout rate is huge from not just retiring
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Speaker 6: after a full career, but after the ten fifteen year
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Speaker 6: career on burnout.
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Speaker 5: It's huge.
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Speaker 6: And I actually misread that list to Victoria Police vaccines
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Speaker 6: have searched, and I went, what what vacancies have searched?
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Speaker 5: Not vaccines.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to the front page of Tomorrow's Daily Telegraph.
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Speaker 4: Mad Monday is the headline.
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Speaker 2: Of course, that's a part on Mad Monday that the
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Speaker 2: AFL teams are all doing at the moment end of
41:03
Speaker 2: season dress ups. But this of course refers to something
41:07
Speaker 2: a little more sinister. Fury at pro Palestine vigil to
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Speaker 2: commemorate October seven. I don't know how pro Palestinians are
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Speaker 2: commemorating October seven, since that was the day twelve hundred
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Speaker 2: Jews were killed. A pro Palestine candlelit vigil planned for
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Speaker 2: the anniversary of October seven will still go ahead on Monday,
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Speaker 2: despite organizergreeing in court not to hold a march on
41:31
Speaker 2: that day. So there were two developments today being reported
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Speaker 2: in tomorrow's paper. The first is that a pro Palestinian
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Speaker 2: march will take place in Sydney on Sunday. Police were
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Speaker 2: trying to stop it but then agreed with organizers that
41:46
Speaker 2: provided the march didn't go directly past the Great Synagogue,
41:50
Speaker 2: it would be permitted. Personally, I can't understand how they
41:54
Speaker 2: can permit a march that's been demonstrated to not prevent
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Speaker 2: people from waving flags supporting Hezblaa, registered terrorist organization and
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Speaker 2: holding pictures of a terrorist leader as if he's some
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Speaker 2: sort of iconic figure. When it comes to Monday, which
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Speaker 2: is October seven, the protesters wanted to have a march,
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Speaker 2: but then they said no, no, we're not going to
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Speaker 2: do a march, and everybody thought Okay, well, thank god
42:21
Speaker 2: common sense has finally come to the fore. But what
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Speaker 2: they've decided is instead of doing a march, which they
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Speaker 2: need a permit for, they're going to have a static
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Speaker 2: visual which they don't require a permit for. So that
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Speaker 2: will still take place on Monday, much to our authorities
42:39
Speaker 2: and our leaders.
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Speaker 4: Shame Claire. You've got the mercury.
42:43
Speaker 6: The mercury down in Tasmania and the headliners still on
42:47
Speaker 6: the menu. I feel like I'm a little invested in
42:49
Speaker 6: this story, but it says salmon stockers and restauranteurs hold
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Speaker 6: the line despite new protest tactics. Antisman activists have launched
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Speaker 6: protest outside grocery stores, supermarkets and restaurants, provoking the ire
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Speaker 6: of Tasmanian Hospitality Association CEO, who says the behavior will
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Speaker 6: have a dentrial.
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Speaker 5: Impact, detrimential impact on businesses.
43:11
Speaker 6: So these guys are protesting against salmon farming. I think
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Speaker 6: it may affect other wildlife, other fishes, other.
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Speaker 5: Fish, fishes, fish.
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Speaker 6: I just want to know those fish tastier than salmon,
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Speaker 6: you know, smoked salmon, sashimi, poach, give me my sage.
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Speaker 7: Okay, do I really care? Do we really?
43:33
Speaker 5: I'm just yeah, I love my salmon.
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Speaker 2: Think about this is they're protesting outside grocery stores, supermarkets
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Speaker 2: and restaurants. I was at a restaurant in Melbourne on
43:42
Speaker 2: the Yarra and I'm having a steak or whatever as.
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Speaker 7: Animal salmon steak.
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Speaker 4: No, no, it was just.
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Speaker 2: A regular beef and PETA the Animal rights organization. They
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Speaker 2: were literally protesting right adjacent to where diners, including my
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Speaker 2: good self, are trying to enjoy a guilt free piece
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Speaker 2: of steak. And they're holding up, you know, pictures of cowc.
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Speaker 5: It's been made like it's half gone, you're eating it.
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Speaker 5: It's like what, It's a bit laid.
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Speaker 2: On the food chain to be I didn't really care,
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Speaker 2: but I felt for the restaurants. It's hard enough to
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Speaker 2: make a dollar at the moment without animal rights activists
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Speaker 2: standing outside your restaurant holding up pictures of animals looking
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Speaker 2: sad as dinas survey the menu and think maybe I'm
44:27
Speaker 2: going to have just a salad.
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Speaker 7: Good to the front page of the os Now.
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Speaker 3: Origin pulls the plug on hydrogen project. Origin Energy is
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Speaker 3: abandoning its ambitious plans to develop hydrogen, striking another blow
44:42
Speaker 3: to the Albanezy government's dreams for the energy source to
44:46
Speaker 3: help drive the transmission to net zero. The article goes
44:50
Speaker 3: on to see the corporate retreat follows the decision by
44:53
Speaker 3: billionaire Andrew Forrest to scale back his own green hydrogen
44:57
Speaker 3: targets earlier this year, in a major business back down
45:01
Speaker 3: that coincided with the loss of seven hundred jobs at
45:04
Speaker 3: his flagship company for Tesque terrible news for the alban
45:11
Speaker 3: Easy government.
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Speaker 7: We already knew that your targets were bs and.
45:15
Speaker 3: No one was ever going to reach them, but now
45:17
Speaker 3: the people responsible for making them happen in real time
45:21
Speaker 3: are pulling the plugs simultaneously.
45:24
Speaker 7: I mean, this is kind of glorious.
45:25
Speaker 2: And headlines like this right as Peter Dutton is about
45:29
Speaker 2: to detail his nuclear policy will just be gold for
45:35
Speaker 2: the opposition because to see the government's renewable energy dreams
45:40
Speaker 2: fall to the ground just enables him to make his
45:43
Speaker 2: case fun or powerful.
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Speaker 6: Sure, this is just evidence as well that the big
45:47
Speaker 6: companies and people like Twiggy, they're not in it.
45:50
Speaker 5: For environmental reasons. They're enough for profit.
45:53
Speaker 6: I'm sorry to burst that bubble, right, and so when
45:56
Speaker 6: the hypeer's going off it, I mean they're smart people
45:58
Speaker 6: they're not stupid, and when they don't.
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Speaker 5: See the profit there, they start retruting. That's just what's.
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Speaker 3: Happening, absolutely to the second splash on the front of
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Speaker 3: the Oars vehicle emissions loop all for raw.
46:10
Speaker 7: Some of the.
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Speaker 3: Highest polluting cars in Australia are set to be excluded
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Speaker 3: from Labour's vehicle emissions regime over the next few years,
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Speaker 3: with car retailers blaming the loophole on Anthony Albanesi's rush,
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Speaker 3: rushing the process to set up a scheme to slash
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Speaker 3: the carbon footprint of the transport sector.
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Speaker 7: So slashing the carbon.
46:31
Speaker 3: Footprint, but not for the people who did your betting
46:34
Speaker 3: and got e These got it.
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Speaker 2: And the reason for this is the government are trying
46:38
Speaker 2: to rush through all this legislation and whether it relates
46:42
Speaker 2: to vehicle emissions, whether it relates to the problems we're
46:45
Speaker 2: seeing with We talked the other night about wind turbines
46:48
Speaker 2: in Victoria and they're really worried that none of them
46:50
Speaker 2: are fire safe and that we're coming to bush fire
46:54
Speaker 2: season and the Victorian government, oh, we didn't think about that.
46:57
Speaker 2: And we could name dozens of examples where the gun
47:00
Speaker 2: has rushed these things through without thinking about potential consequences.
47:05
Speaker 4: Here's just another example.
47:06
Speaker 2: It's just one hit after another when it comes to
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Speaker 2: the government's renewable dreams. We're going to go to a
47:11
Speaker 2: break when we come back. Traffic signs featuring the image
47:15
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump are appearing all around New York City,
47:18
Speaker 2: and no one knows why.
47:18
Speaker 4: We'll show you that in just a second.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So images of Donald Trump have begun mysteriously appearing
47:28
Speaker 2: right throughout New York City as traffic signs have Look
47:31
Speaker 2: at this vision. As you drive through different neighborhoods in
47:34
Speaker 2: New York, Trump signs are appearing.
47:36
Speaker 4: All over the road.
47:38
Speaker 2: Now my only take on this, Claire and Liz is
47:40
Speaker 2: that it must indicate it's a safe area. I haven't
47:44
Speaker 2: seen any Camala signs yet, but I imagine that would be
47:48
Speaker 2: like warning word, sellar ahead or something like that. It
47:51
Speaker 2: reminds me of the bat signal in Gotham City.
47:54
Speaker 3: I love it because this is like a not necessarily
47:57
Speaker 3: dead red area. So exactly, this guy either has a
48:01
Speaker 3: death where she's probably done it under the cover of night,
48:03
Speaker 3: much like Batman would, but so far no graffiti. So
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Speaker 3: two thumbs up from us before we leave you tonight,
48:11
Speaker 3: the Libs are telling us that they are going to
48:13
Speaker 3: oppose this Combating Misinformation Disinformation Bill that the Labor government
48:19
Speaker 3: has put up, although we all remember that it's in
48:22
Speaker 3: fact the brainchild of a liberal government and if they
48:26
Speaker 3: want us to believe them, they might want.
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Speaker 7: To check their Liberal Party.
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Speaker 3: Website, which still reads quote, a re elected coalition government
48:35
Speaker 3: will introduce new laws to provide the AKMA with stronger
48:39
Speaker 3: enforcement and information gathering powers to hold big tech companies
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Speaker 3: to account for harmful misinformation and disinformation online.
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Speaker 7: Wow, that sounds pretty much like the bill, you guys,
48:52
Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: They've got an entire page on their website dedicated to
48:57
Speaker 3: how they're going to combat fake news. So I'm finding
49:01
Speaker 3: it very hard to believe them at this point.
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Speaker 2: Well, since it was the former Communications Minister under a
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Speaker 2: Liberal government, Scott Morrison's Paul Fletcher who came up with
49:08
Speaker 2: the idea brainchild, I think they still have a soft
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Speaker 2: spot for a little bit of censorship.
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Speaker 4: That's it from us.
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Speaker 2: We're going to go now, but stick around. Coming up
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Speaker 2: is the Riata peneheshow