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Speaker 1: Peedo Krandland live on Sky News Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, welcome to the program. Terrific to have your
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Speaker 2: companies always Let's see what's coming up.
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Speaker 3: Tonight on the program.
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Speaker 2: A massive blow the Labour's future Made in Australia scheme
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Speaker 2: the newly minted Queensland government asking very valid questions about
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Speaker 2: Labour's centerpiece one billion dollar psigh Quantum computer deal. Now
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Speaker 2: I reckon this has had a real stink about it
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Speaker 2: from the get go, with that tender process marred in secrecy.
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Speaker 3: More on that. Plus anger mounts as Victorians are locked.
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Speaker 2: Out of their parks land being handed over to indigenous
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Speaker 2: organizations or monetized for the climate industry. As always, Victoria's
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Speaker 2: the canary in the coal mine.
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Speaker 3: Stay tuned the details.
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Speaker 2: Who help you fight back when this push comes to
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Speaker 2: your community?
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Speaker 3: Plus wasting no time.
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's already filling key positions in his administration, which
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Speaker 2: is sure to send the left here and there into
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Speaker 2: a tail spin. Plus wait till I tell you who
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Speaker 2: we've sent to the latest UN Climate conference junket tell
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Speaker 2: you you'll be shocked. And despite what the Prime Minister says,
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Speaker 2: it's clear he's got one eye on the election as
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Speaker 2: future speculation mounts a potential date and the opposition takes
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Speaker 2: a leaf out of the Trump play book with this
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Speaker 2: one very simple question.
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Speaker 4: Well, look, I'm focused on governing. That's what I'm focused on.
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Speaker 5: I just don't think any Australian can say that they're
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Speaker 5: better off today than they were two and a half
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Speaker 5: years ago.
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Speaker 2: But first, the former ACTU president, former Labour MP Jenny
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Speaker 2: George has now gone public with some home truths about
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Speaker 2: energy policy, and the ever smart George has underscored a
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Speaker 2: point I've been making here as well as she's warning
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Speaker 2: an election in March could enable the Albanezer government to
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Speaker 2: hide its key intentions on energy policy, including it's twenty
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Speaker 2: thirty five emissions targets that are set to be released
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Speaker 2: in February and its default market offer on power prices.
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Speaker 2: That's because if the Prime Minister calls a March election,
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Speaker 2: he goes into caretaker mode in February, and if in
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Speaker 2: caretaker these new targets get pushed off until after you
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Speaker 2: have voted. George says that I quote the specific pledge
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Speaker 2: to cut two hundred and seventy five dollars from household
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Speaker 2: power bills by twenty twenty five was repeated on ninety
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Speaker 2: seven occasions, and that was the first of Labour's broken promises.
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Speaker 2: Now this is not a former liberal calling out the lies.
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Speaker 2: This is Labor Royalty. She also says that if Labor
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Speaker 2: has successfully lobbied for Australia to host the twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: six u WENT Climate Conference, possibly to be confirmed this
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Speaker 2: week at the current gathering in ajab Jahan, that would
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Speaker 2: meet and I quote her again, the Albanezer government will
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Speaker 2: have failed to read the room in pursuing a vanity
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Speaker 2: project in the midst of a cost of living crisis.
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Speaker 3: Now, by god, this is a vanity project.
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Speaker 2: Even now at the Azerbaijan meeting, the whole climate conference
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Speaker 2: has descended into a circus our delegations full of bureaucrats
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Speaker 2: knowing what it's cost in the past. We're talking about
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Speaker 2: tens of millions of dollars here in business class flights
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Speaker 2: and hotel rooms.
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Speaker 3: Then have a look who's actually there.
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Speaker 2: Labours do best made to form a Liberal Treasurer Matt Keane,
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Speaker 2: Energy Minister Chris Bowen, and they're sitting amongst all these
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Speaker 2: climate conscious countries of the world, will be the Taliban
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Speaker 2: from Afghanistan, the very same terrorists that we have fought
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Speaker 2: for twenty years as they harbored the likes of Osama
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Speaker 2: bin Laden. Now we're all sitting around the table with
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Speaker 2: them talking emissions.
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Speaker 3: Give me a break.
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Speaker 2: But back to this missing today in the Australian from
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Speaker 2: Jenny George. Now, as you'd expect from a former union
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Speaker 2: leader Labour grandee, there's a swipe with the Coalition for
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Speaker 2: not yet releasing a costed energy policy.
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Speaker 3: Fair enough, I'd say to Jenny George.
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Speaker 2: But the guts of her statement is that the Albanezy
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Speaker 2: government would be and I quote, failing in its commitment
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Speaker 2: to transparency and accountability were it not to be upfront
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Speaker 2: before the election about its own twenty thirty five targets,
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Speaker 2: about its own whole of system costings which it's never
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Speaker 2: released even if it has them, and about its draft
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five power price increases. Will need to be alert,
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Speaker 2: says Jenny George, to the possibility of missing crew information
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Speaker 2: about the energy transition during the caretaker period. And you'd
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Speaker 2: say that again today, the Prime Minister being coy about
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Speaker 2: election dates.
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Speaker 4: Well, look, I'm focused on governing, That's what I'm focused
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Speaker 4: on and I'll leave the speculation to others.
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Speaker 2: But if there's no possibility of a federal election till May,
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Speaker 2: as he's repeatedly said, why is the WA Labor premier
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Speaker 2: now trying to move his March election to avoid a
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Speaker 2: federal clash. Today the Prime Minister, though, gave away more
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Speaker 2: than I think he realized, certainly more than most in
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Speaker 2: the media have picked up with this statement.
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Speaker 3: Now, I want you to listen carefully.
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Speaker 4: The election I've said the whole way through will be
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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five, will be called April or before.
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Speaker 2: April or before all before. That's the first time he
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Speaker 2: said that. Today I say it again. He will have
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Speaker 2: an early election because he must. He must have an
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Speaker 2: early election. That's his best chance to survive. He has
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Speaker 2: to bury these new climate targets. He has to bury
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Speaker 2: the decade of deficits in his upcoming March budget, and
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Speaker 2: he has to get to the polls before the energy
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Speaker 2: and climates a turbocharge by the incoming President Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: That's why the Prime Minister wants an election before.
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Speaker 2: He can't avoid the truth about what Labour's policies are
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Speaker 2: doing to your power prices and what harm they will
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Speaker 2: do in the future should he get re elected, and
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Speaker 2: look more warnings today about the attack on free speech
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Speaker 2: inherent in the government's misinformation and disinformation ledgers. It's now
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Speaker 2: passed the House of Representatives and.
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Speaker 3: Is before the Senate.
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Speaker 2: Remember this is the bill that proposers fines with up
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Speaker 2: to five percent of a big tech company's revenue should
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Speaker 2: faceless bureaucrats conclude that big tech hasn't tried hard enough
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Speaker 2: to remove posts that they judge to be inadvertently or
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Speaker 2: deliberately misleading, meaning that in order to mitigate any risk
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Speaker 2: of fines these Silicon Valley lefties or they'll just remove
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Speaker 2: any content that might trigger the woke types that now
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Speaker 2: run our governments, our big institutions, and of course throughout
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Speaker 2: mainstream media. These are the big tech companies that have already,
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Speaker 2: as marked Zuckerberg admitted, censored what turned out to be
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Speaker 2: the truth regarding vaccines in the pandemic, and have canceled
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Speaker 2: people with politically incorrect opinions, including the once and now
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Speaker 2: future President of the United States. But as bad as
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Speaker 2: all that was, this bill, if it passes the Senate
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Speaker 2: would make it much worse. It would put big brother
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Speaker 2: in charge of the online world, which was once supposed
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Speaker 2: to liberate communications and strengthen free speech. Today, the constitutional
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Speaker 2: expert Professor Antomy warned that the government's bill could quote
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Speaker 2: all go very wrong. She said it would create worse
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Speaker 2: problems by suppressing free speech and undermining democracy. She said
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Speaker 2: that big tech so called fact checkers were often quote
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Speaker 2: young kids out of university with a tendency to distort
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Speaker 2: advice from experts, even if inadvertently. Make no mistake, this
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Speaker 2: is a really dangerous bill. Her government is determined to
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Speaker 2: ram through before the election, with the support of the
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Speaker 2: Teals and the Greens, doubtless to muzzle opinion it doesn't like,
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Speaker 2: as has already happened to me, for instance during the
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Speaker 2: Voice debate, and we triumphed here at Sky News because
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Speaker 2: I had the backing of my boss and our lawyers,
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Speaker 2: and getting the information out there to voters was in
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Speaker 2: part why the Voice was defeated resoundingly. But what happens
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Speaker 2: if dissent is silenced? What happens if alternative views are
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Speaker 2: not heard? If you don't get to hear all the
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Speaker 2: facts any wonder? So many activists originally wanted this legislation
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Speaker 2: passed before last year's referendum and the fact that they
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Speaker 2: are so desperate to have it passed and in place
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Speaker 2: for the election says it all all right, that's got
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Speaker 2: a camber now for the headlines. Sky newsed political reporter
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Speaker 2: Cam Reddit.
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Speaker 5: Four suspected asylum seekers walked ashore in the remote Northern Territory.
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Speaker 5: It's believed the foreign nationals arrived by boat on Monday,
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Speaker 5: landing on Croker Island, northeast of Darwin. The ABC reports
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Speaker 5: the four told locals they had paid someone to be
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Speaker 5: taken to Australia.
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Speaker 6: Our borders are not secure under the Albanzi government.
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Speaker 5: Sky News understands the Border Force responded and all four
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Speaker 5: are no longer on Australian soil.
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Speaker 3: The people spugglers believe that they're back in business. This
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Speaker 3: is now the twenty third boat arrival.
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Speaker 5: As he prepares for a trip to South America, the
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Speaker 5: Prime Minister has rebuffed calls to take a detour and
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Speaker 5: meet with President elect Donald Trump on the way home.
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Speaker 7: Anthony Albanezi and Donald Trump had never met.
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Speaker 5: It's actually not on the way and despite the emergence
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Speaker 5: of these remarks from twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 7: And as the United States in the last four years
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Speaker 7: has been run by a village idiot as heaven.
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Speaker 5: Right, the right person to be US ambassador, Yes, brushing
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Speaker 5: off protesters south of Hobart than good. The Prime Minister
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Speaker 5: has named two high profile candidates for Tasmanian seats at
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Speaker 5: the next election, and Erkhart will resign from the Senates
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Speaker 5: to run in Braden, while Rebecca White, who lost three
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Speaker 5: consecutive elections as state Labor leader, has had a change
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Speaker 5: of heart to run in Lions.
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Speaker 3: Will you run for Lions in the federal Parliament? Would
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Speaker 3: you consider that? No? There have been conversations that have
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Speaker 3: happened since then. I know I have an enormous amount
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Speaker 3: to contribute.
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Speaker 5: Cameron Reddin's Sky News Canberra.
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Speaker 3: All right, plenty of stuff to get through.
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Speaker 2: I've joined now by media writer for The Australian, Sophie Ellsworth,
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Speaker 2: Sky News political reporter to Cam Reddin, Welcome to you both.
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Speaker 2: Speculation mounting about an early federal election.
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Speaker 3: You've heard this from me.
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Speaker 2: West Australian Premier Roger Cook is looking to move the
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Speaker 2: fixed state of his state's upcoming election that's currently scheduled
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Speaker 2: for March eight next year. Now, what this says loud
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Speaker 2: to me a very loud and clear cam. The PM
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Speaker 2: is on the nose in the West. He's a drag
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Speaker 2: on Labour's brand. And Cook wants to go first. Wants
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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister take the medicine from the voters and
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Speaker 2: hopefully that will then see his state Labor government perceived
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Speaker 2: by voters as.
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Speaker 3: Separate and distinct from Canberra.
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Speaker 2: Now, if he goes first, the wa Premier thinks, says,
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Speaker 2: baseball bats waiting for Labor and he'll cop them. He thinks, unfairly,
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Speaker 2: he wants the Prime Minister to take his medicine.
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Speaker 3: And the fact that this is public now.
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Speaker 2: The fact that he's looking to change the fixed term
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Speaker 2: legislation says to me, my god, their internal polling must
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Speaker 2: be diabolical.
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Speaker 5: You can imagine from Roger Cook's perspective he'd be thinking,
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Speaker 5: if I don't have to cop the whack, then why
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Speaker 5: would I If it's the difference of a week or two.
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Speaker 5: If the Prime Minister is to go in that first
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Speaker 5: quarter or so of next year, Peter, he does hold
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Speaker 5: fifty three or fifty nine seats in the West, so
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Speaker 5: unlikely to lose government. But even still if it gets closed,
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Speaker 5: why would you give your opponents any more leg up.
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Speaker 5: It's interesting the Prime Minister didn't completely hose this down
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Speaker 5: today only to say it's all speculation. My gut tells
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Speaker 5: me still that he'll want something to really grab onto
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Speaker 5: and crow about when it comes to economic news at
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Speaker 5: the beginning of next year. You think of those first
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Speaker 5: few months of twenty twenty five, Peter. I know it's
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Speaker 5: cricket season, but it's the premiership quarter really for the
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Speaker 5: Albanezy government. He'll have inflation data out right after Australia
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Speaker 5: Day and then two opportunities before April one for the
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Speaker 5: Reserve Bank to cut interest rates. Now, I'd be thinking
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Speaker 5: if the Prime Minister was to go in the first
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Speaker 5: week of March, he's really betting the house on February
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Speaker 5: eighteen for a rate cut. My gut tells me he
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Speaker 5: might want to wait a little bit longer into April.
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Speaker 5: Then the Reserve Bank would have two chances. I know
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Speaker 5: all the commercial banks think they'll go in February, but
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Speaker 5: if Michelle Bullok's just a little bit gun shy, it
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Speaker 5: would give them that one extra chance on April one.
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Speaker 5: But never say never. Stranger things have happened.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the same commercial banks. I might add who said
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Speaker 2: we'd get a rate cup by the middle of the year.
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Speaker 2: They said we'd get a rate cup by October. That
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Speaker 2: said we'd get it on cup day, And of course
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Speaker 2: all of that's moved out, and we know that she's
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Speaker 2: focused on the underlying inflation and he's a treasurer focused
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Speaker 2: on the headline. The headline's a long way away from
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Speaker 2: when Michelle Bullock wants it to be. And she's pretty steely,
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Speaker 2: you know, Sophie, you've analyzed this along.
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Speaker 3: With me as well. I mean you look at her.
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Speaker 2: I think they thought, you know, she's been appointed by us,
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Speaker 2: she'll toe the line. Absolutely not. She's really steely, and
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Speaker 2: I want to pick up that grab. You know, the
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister today said we will call it in April
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Speaker 2: or earlier, and that's the first time he's given indication
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Speaker 2: that it will be called in March.
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Speaker 3: Or perhaps even February.
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Speaker 2: That's a real shift in language and I think that's
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Speaker 2: what's playing out with this wa speculation.
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Speaker 3: Sophie.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, Peter, and this appears to be a Prime minister
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Speaker 8: that is now nervous and ready to pull the trigger
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Speaker 8: on the election. He looks already in campaign mode when
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Speaker 8: he had that gathering in Adelaide a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 8: that labor event, and the polls are not going in
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Speaker 8: his favor. So I think he is really looking at
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Speaker 8: things closely. And the move by the West Australian Premiere
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Speaker 8: is extremely interesting because Western Australians, I would imagine we
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Speaker 8: sick of elections if they have to go to the
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Speaker 8: polls twice in a short period of time.
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Speaker 3: You're not wrong.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday we had some poor polls again for the Prime Minister,
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Speaker 2: though the first time he hit a low lower than
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Speaker 2: Peter Dutton net satisfaction or dissatisfaction terms. Actually, the Resolve
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Speaker 2: poll out today is found there's a pox on the
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Speaker 2: Green's house as well. Their net likability has fallen into
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Speaker 2: negative nineteen and that's a massive drop of eighteen points
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Speaker 2: since the last election. At a band also on the nose,
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Speaker 2: his likability has tumbled some what is it fifteen points
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Speaker 2: is down negative fifteen. I have to say we saw
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Speaker 2: of his cam Is trend in Queensland. There was a
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Speaker 2: shift away from the Greens down in Socialist Victoria. They've
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Speaker 2: had some council elections the city of Yarra.
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Speaker 3: Which is ground zero for woke.
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Speaker 2: This is a hard left inner city Melbourne Borough.
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Speaker 3: They've gone backwards. They're the Greens. I suspect they're on
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Speaker 3: the nose right across the board and this.
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Speaker 2: Will be a problem for Labor because they rely on
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Speaker 2: the Greens preferences to get them over the line.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. One of the thoughts within the Greens, Peter is
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Speaker 5: that the Greens vote really benefits when Labor tries to
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Speaker 5: be a little bit more in the center, it isn't
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Speaker 5: as progressive. And when Labor tries to go a little
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Speaker 5: bit more ambitious, for lack of a better word, if
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Speaker 5: they try to be a little bit more of a
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Speaker 5: left wing progressive party, then that's when the Greens vote suffers.
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Speaker 5: And that's part of the explanation at least the Greens
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Speaker 5: have offered for why they performed so badly in Queensland.
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Speaker 5: That the Queensland Miles government was putting forward ideas like
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Speaker 5: free school lunches and fifty cent fares, basically free public transport,
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Speaker 5: and the Greens view, or their explanation, was that that
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Speaker 5: hurt their vote because some of the Greens votes shifted
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Speaker 5: back to Labor and those who were disgruntled with Labor
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Speaker 5: in the past that they weren't progressive enough, weren't voting
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Speaker 5: green this time around, so that's part of their thinking.
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Speaker 5: The big challenge, though, as you point out, for this
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Speaker 5: coming federal election won't just be where the Greens are
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Speaker 5: trying to play attack, but they're also going to have
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Speaker 5: to play defensive really for the first time in seats
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Speaker 5: like Ryan and Brisbane that they hadn't held before. Those
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Speaker 5: are two very low profile MPs, You've got to say
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Speaker 5: in the lower House, Peter and the Liberals in particular
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Speaker 5: are red hot on their chances in Ryan. They think
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Speaker 5: that's almost in their column already. So it'll be a
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Speaker 5: challenge for the Greens as a political movement because if
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Speaker 5: Labor isn't going to go full steam ahead as a progressive,
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Speaker 5: left wing strong party with those sorts of ideas, then
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Speaker 5: do the Greens hold on to their vote orders that correct,
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Speaker 5: if you like, back to the Labor column as it
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Speaker 5: had been in previous elections.
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Speaker 2: Very good point, can because when political parties have had
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Speaker 2: that blow torch applied on them, particular the minor parties,
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Speaker 2: they tend to buckle with some of that pressure. It's
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Speaker 2: been a trend of only ever up for the Greens.
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Speaker 2: This will I think put pressure on their internal factions.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to those comments.
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Speaker 2: So from and to me constitutional law expert, I know
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Speaker 2: you've got a legal background. To me, is no right
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Speaker 2: wing apologist right to me coming out and saying I
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Speaker 2: am alarmed about the constitutional risk. I'm alarmed about these
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Speaker 2: laws misinformation, disinformation, undermining democracy as citing concerns about protecting
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Speaker 2: the implied right of political communication. It wasn't so long
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Speaker 2: ago we had the very left landing Victorian Bar Association
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Speaker 2: express their concerns.
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Speaker 3: Now to me, I mean, this is.
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Speaker 2: A shocking bill, but it's already through the House, it's
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Speaker 2: now before the Senate.
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Speaker 8: Well that's a concern Peter and Australians should be worried.
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Speaker 8: Who are going to be these faithless arbiters to decide
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Speaker 8: what is right and wrong on online platforms.
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Speaker 3: I think that is a very.
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Speaker 8: Concerning state of affairs. And you know, I think you'll
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Speaker 8: see if this does pass, you will now see some
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Speaker 8: pretty serious censorship. I suspect of people's views, and we
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Speaker 8: know that largely a lot of social media platforms do
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Speaker 8: lean to the left, so they're not going to like
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Speaker 8: right leaning views. So I think the government really needs
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Speaker 8: to assess this, and I think the politicians need to
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Speaker 8: think twice before this sales through.
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Speaker 2: I think anyone at home needs to send a very
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Speaker 2: clear message to their parliamentarian, the senators and hit the phones.
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Speaker 2: This is a real push to have it through Parliament
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Speaker 2: by the end of the year. We only just commemorated
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Speaker 2: Remembrance Day yesterday, of course, but there's anger today. Federal
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Speaker 2: government has axed funds to provide headstones for the private
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Speaker 2: graves of World War One veterans.
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Speaker 3: Now Labor had pledged.
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Speaker 2: To match the coalition's funding as part of their twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty two election campaign, but it was revealed at Senate
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Speaker 2: estimates this week that the nearly four million dollars in
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Speaker 2: funds had been slashed cam ridden to less than five
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. It's a disgrace that this has just come.
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Speaker 5: Out, yeah, and it's something that will hurt veterans communities.
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Speaker 5: You would think as well, Petter, because a lot of
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Speaker 5: money does go into not just the installation of these,
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Speaker 5: but reparations as well, and tender love and care and
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Speaker 5: all the sorts of things that you would expect in
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Speaker 5: terms of keeping these pretty sacred sites up to scratch
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Speaker 5: as they should be. I'll be curious to see a
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Speaker 5: more thorough explanation of this. And that's the sort of
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Speaker 5: thing that centered estimates is good for because it raises
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Speaker 5: these issues that can then be prosecuted and we get
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Speaker 5: to the decision making processes behind these. I know that
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Speaker 5: more questions have been asked of the departments in terms
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Speaker 5: of why those decisions were made. And between now and
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Speaker 5: the end of the month, which is the final two
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Speaker 5: weeks of Parliament, to come over the next fortnight, I'm
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Speaker 5: sure we'll get a better explanation. But it does raise
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Speaker 5: your eyebrows when this sort of funding money gets thrown
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Speaker 5: around all over the places. You wonder why that this
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Speaker 5: is the area that would have been chosen to be cut.
21:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I just make the point given my experience.
21:06
Speaker 2: I mean, four million dollars over three years. His chicken
21:10
Speaker 2: feeds to the Commonwealth Government, the Prime Minister's office, just
21:13
Speaker 2: his staff alone, not all his properties, not his selly,
21:16
Speaker 2: nothing like that. That's fourteen million dollars per annum. And
21:19
Speaker 2: this is four million over three years. And this is
21:23
Speaker 2: our war dead, and this is a headstone for our
21:25
Speaker 2: war dead. I think it's disgusting. I think it needs
21:27
Speaker 2: to be reversed. I'll leave it there, gents, No one
21:30
Speaker 2: gent and one lady with the green memo.
21:33
Speaker 3: Leave it there and we'll catch up with so for two.
21:34
Speaker 2: When she moves to the UK, we're thrilled to congratulate
21:37
Speaker 2: her on her new role with Ughs Court. But she
21:39
Speaker 2: will stay here thankfully as a regular on Credline.
21:43
Speaker 3: All right, Let's move.
21:44
Speaker 2: Now to an issue that's got significant impact right across
21:47
Speaker 2: the country, as more and more national and state parks
21:51
Speaker 2: are using the cover of Indigenous heritage to lock out
21:54
Speaker 2: Australians from accessing these natural wonders, which are rightly the
21:59
Speaker 2: birth right of every one of us. The latest example
22:03
Speaker 2: of this race based madness is in Victoria, where access
22:08
Speaker 2: and rock climbing bands have been put in place at
22:11
Speaker 2: Mount Rapolis. This is in the Grampians, ostensibly to protect
22:15
Speaker 2: indigenous artifacts, but as The Australian reports today, some of
22:19
Speaker 2: this rock art is so degraded and faded it's invisible
22:24
Speaker 2: to the naked eye. Already less publicized, but equally important
22:28
Speaker 2: is what's going on in Victorian high Country, where the
22:31
Speaker 2: state labor government is pushing for what they call the
22:34
Speaker 2: Great Forest National Park. Since twenty seventeen, momentum has gathered
22:40
Speaker 2: around a campaign to stop this national park, with locals
22:45
Speaker 2: feeling left out of the consultation process, something of which
22:49
Speaker 2: is a common theme in regional communities. And pleased to
22:52
Speaker 2: say that. One of the organizers of this campaign, doctor
22:55
Speaker 2: David Barton, joins me. Now, David, thank you for your time.
23:01
Speaker 2: I'm really interested in what's happening in Victoria, but I
23:05
Speaker 2: want to make the point to everyone from around the country.
23:08
Speaker 3: It's happening in your state. You might not know about
23:10
Speaker 3: it yet, and it.
23:12
Speaker 2: Will build a momentum because Victoria is the petri dish
23:16
Speaker 2: for the left in Australia. Earlier this year at the
23:19
Speaker 2: Bush Summer, the Victorian Premier just Center Allen said, we're
23:24
Speaker 2: not locking up the land.
23:25
Speaker 3: She said this, have a listen. I want to be
23:27
Speaker 3: very clear, as Premier and as.
23:29
Speaker 6: A proud country Victorian, I won't be putting a padlock
23:33
Speaker 6: on our public forests.
23:34
Speaker 3: It's not who I am, it's not what I believe in.
23:38
Speaker 3: But that's not your experience, is it.
23:42
Speaker 9: Well, I think the Premier has been rather disingenuous here.
23:45
Speaker 9: I mean not only the locking out about to fifty
23:49
Speaker 9: percent of our climbs and laboris. But we're also now
23:52
Speaker 9: saying that moves towards the locking up of the Wombat
23:57
Speaker 9: State Forest, the Mount Bwanga, Moutol and Murdered areas, which
24:01
Speaker 9: are possibly going to be pres edited as new national
24:04
Speaker 9: parks as early as the end of this year. And
24:07
Speaker 9: of course you're seeing the so called investigations into the
24:12
Speaker 9: Great Forest National Park continuing aunnovated. So I think the
24:16
Speaker 9: Premier simply cannot be believed.
24:20
Speaker 2: What clarity can you give us or are you aware
24:23
Speaker 2: of around this concept of the Great Forest National Park?
24:27
Speaker 3: What's it going to mean for everyday people?
24:31
Speaker 9: Man large areas of the land will be locked up.
24:35
Speaker 9: Around the central highlands of Victoria. You will see massive
24:40
Speaker 9: permanent road and track closures which will be obviously a
24:44
Speaker 9: fire has it. We'll see the end of free camping
24:47
Speaker 9: and obviously there'll be severe restrictions on the ability of
24:51
Speaker 9: full drivers, trailbike riders, hunters, prospectors and other campers to
24:58
Speaker 9: be actually able to there's lands anymore. And of course
25:03
Speaker 9: what's really crazy about this is that the state government
25:06
Speaker 9: will lock up the whole area of the Jamison from
25:09
Speaker 9: Walhalla Goldfield is bult which is one of the richest
25:13
Speaker 9: gold through areas in the world, and will not allow
25:17
Speaker 9: any more prospecting and mining in those areas. And one
25:22
Speaker 9: would have thought that a government that's nearly broke would
25:25
Speaker 9: be really interested in further utilizing some of the best
25:28
Speaker 9: resources that the state's got.
25:33
Speaker 2: They say it's about conservation, but what's been the consultation
25:37
Speaker 2: with local communities who, as we both know David, really
25:41
Speaker 2: rely on tourism in these areas.
25:45
Speaker 9: It's been very little consultational tool. And what we've seen
25:49
Speaker 9: happening behind the scenes see gradual transfer of public land
25:53
Speaker 9: into private corporations. So what's happening is that what was
25:57
Speaker 9: once public land is now being handed over in the
26:00
Speaker 9: freehold title or what's known as Aboriginal title, to what
26:04
Speaker 9: are essentially private Aboriginal corporations who have now become the
26:09
Speaker 9: landowners of these national parks and forests. And of course,
26:13
Speaker 9: with the federal government's new Nature repair market, these organizations
26:18
Speaker 9: are now eligible for biodiversity certificates. Those certificates can be
26:24
Speaker 9: bought and sold traded on the international climate market. So
26:28
Speaker 9: we're seeing this transfer of land which was once public
26:31
Speaker 9: land moving into private corporations that then can be monetized
26:35
Speaker 9: for personal gain to those private corporations, and I'm really
26:39
Speaker 9: not sure that that's what the citizens of Victoria want
26:42
Speaker 9: to be seeing happen to their public plan.
26:47
Speaker 2: This use of public private sorry it's a public property,
26:53
Speaker 2: common land, and the monetization of it for climate permits
26:59
Speaker 2: that's happening in Bigtoria. Where can people go to learn
27:03
Speaker 2: more about this? I know that you've got a bit
27:04
Speaker 2: of a Facebook group happening, but I'm sure my audience
27:09
Speaker 2: are hungry to know more.
27:10
Speaker 9: David Well, yes, there's nineteen thousand followers now on the
27:16
Speaker 9: Victorians Against the Great Forest National Park is also an
27:22
Speaker 9: Internet site, Victorians against the Great Forest Park. And really
27:27
Speaker 9: i'd encourage people to go and speak to their local
27:29
Speaker 9: members of parliament bed the landscape and express your concerns
27:33
Speaker 9: about this and find out what's happening in your backyard
27:36
Speaker 9: and get active about it to stop this this sort
27:38
Speaker 9: of thing happening.
27:41
Speaker 2: We'll come back to that one, because I know my
27:43
Speaker 2: audience is well across the Lockinggown the park for indigenous
27:47
Speaker 2: heritage reasons, but I think many are we surprised tonight
27:50
Speaker 2: about the use of this park basically to sell carbon
27:53
Speaker 2: sink permits to potentially foreign players. Doctor David Barton, thank
27:58
Speaker 2: you for your time.
28:00
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna have a quick break.
28:01
Speaker 2: We'll come into those Labour's signature one billion dollar deal.
28:04
Speaker 2: This is the PSI Quantum deal in Queensland.
28:09
Speaker 3: It doesn't stack.
28:10
Speaker 2: Up and unsurprisingly the Christophilier government looks ready to dump it.
28:15
Speaker 2: Plussed exclusive look at Chris Yeorman's upcoming documentary with growing
28:18
Speaker 2: alarm over our gas shortage, despite it being the only
28:22
Speaker 2: viable backup to renewables welcome back still to come. Trump's
28:31
Speaker 2: flurry of appointments to top spots highlight very clearly the
28:35
Speaker 2: thought of cabinet he wants and how quickly he intends
28:38
Speaker 2: to move on with his commitments. But first two reports
28:41
Speaker 2: today that the new Queensland government could renege on its
28:45
Speaker 2: predecessor's deal to give nearly half a billion dollars in
28:48
Speaker 2: partnership with the federal government to the US based startup
28:52
Speaker 2: PSIGH Quantum, seeking to create the world's first viable quantum computer.
28:57
Speaker 3: Now, from day one, this billion.
28:59
Speaker 2: Dollar tax payer giveaway has stunk to high heaven. If
29:03
Speaker 2: it was such a good deal, why the need for
29:06
Speaker 2: a billion dollar subsidy. If it stood up, why wasn't
29:10
Speaker 2: there an open tender process? Now, on the evidence so far,
29:13
Speaker 2: it seems that this business could be better at connecting
29:16
Speaker 2: with labor lobbyists than wisely spending those many millions. Businesses
29:22
Speaker 2: that need taxpayer support usually make us poorer.
29:26
Speaker 3: Not richer.
29:29
Speaker 2: Just doesn't get it. There's no such thing as government money.
29:33
Speaker 2: It's our money that they take from us, and when
29:36
Speaker 2: they waste it, the money.
29:37
Speaker 3: That we work so hard to earn.
29:40
Speaker 2: Well, nothing gets us more worked up jointed to me
29:43
Speaker 2: now to discuss this and more, and is in particular
29:46
Speaker 2: his new documentary coming up Skyney Is contributor Chris Yelman. Chris,
29:51
Speaker 2: I have to say, you know, a billion dollars in
29:54
Speaker 2: subsidies to something that's not ever been built to scale,
29:57
Speaker 2: where there are real probity concerns of there awarding of
30:01
Speaker 2: that contract.
30:03
Speaker 3: I can't even call it a tender.
30:05
Speaker 2: It didn't go through the usual tender processes that I'm
30:08
Speaker 2: experienced with in government. What do you make of this
30:12
Speaker 2: move that it looks like today that the Queensland State
30:15
Speaker 2: government is going to walk away?
30:19
Speaker 3: Yeah?
30:19
Speaker 1: Well, Peter, what do we know about this deal. We
30:21
Speaker 1: know that there was an expression of interest issued last
30:23
Speaker 1: year by the government to try and get people in
30:25
Speaker 1: the quantum industry to put forward for a project like this.
30:29
Speaker 1: We know that PSI Quantum wasn't part of that. While
30:31
Speaker 1: others were putting it forward their proposals, PSI Quantum was
30:34
Speaker 1: already in discussions with the Australian government and the Industry
30:38
Speaker 1: Department had already set up a task force to review it,
30:42
Speaker 1: so it wasn't part of that project at all. We
30:44
Speaker 1: also know that there was a relationship between someone in
30:46
Speaker 1: the Minister's office and someone involved in the venture capitalists
30:49
Speaker 1: that's behind this company. Now none of that necessarily means anything.
30:53
Speaker 1: It could be all squeaky clean, but of course, like
30:56
Speaker 1: so many government contracts in Australia at a state and
30:58
Speaker 1: federal level, we just don't know Peter, and that's the problem.
31:01
Speaker 1: Too often, commercial in confidence is used to disguise things,
31:05
Speaker 1: and a little bit of sunlight would go a long way.
31:07
Speaker 1: If we were in the United States, there would be
31:09
Speaker 1: a whole lot more scrutiny of this kind of deal,
31:12
Speaker 1: and a whole lot more stuff would have.
31:13
Speaker 3: To be public.
31:16
Speaker 2: I was just talking to a guest on the program
31:18
Speaker 2: a moment ago, doctor David Barton about the locking up
31:21
Speaker 2: of state national parks around the country.
31:24
Speaker 3: It's happening everywhere.
31:25
Speaker 2: They're either being used for wind turbine placement or the
31:29
Speaker 2: being closed down for indigenous heritage reasons, as we see
31:34
Speaker 2: with a rock climbing place in the Grampians. But he
31:37
Speaker 2: was also talking about the sale of or land being
31:42
Speaker 2: made available to private companies to then sell carbon permits,
31:48
Speaker 2: basically turning parks into carbon six.
31:52
Speaker 1: What sort of knowledge do you have of this, Peter,
31:56
Speaker 1: I don't have much knowledge about that at all, but
31:58
Speaker 1: I will say that many many of the government departments
32:00
Speaker 1: that we have now seen to be operating more as
32:03
Speaker 1: activists than they are as departments. One difference between Australia
32:06
Speaker 1: and the United States, and something I didn't think was
32:08
Speaker 1: a good thing about the US. When the president comes in,
32:11
Speaker 1: he'll simply clean out and an enormous amount of the
32:13
Speaker 1: bureaucracy and put his own people in.
32:15
Speaker 3: And I was.
32:15
Speaker 1: Always in favor of a bureaucracy that was frank and
32:18
Speaker 1: fearless and its advice. But I'm sorry, I feel at
32:21
Speaker 1: the moment that it's too much captured by a whole
32:24
Speaker 1: lot of vested interests and too much again is going
32:26
Speaker 1: on behind closed doors. There are decisions being made by
32:29
Speaker 1: bureaucrats that are having lives effects on the lives of
32:31
Speaker 1: ordin the Australians, and there is no transparency about what's
32:34
Speaker 1: going on.
32:37
Speaker 2: Sometimes I think Chris is no line of sight even
32:39
Speaker 2: from the Minister. I think the delegated powers to some
32:42
Speaker 2: of these chief bureaucrats are being signed off quite legally,
32:46
Speaker 2: but governments are not aware of what's going on. Let's
32:49
Speaker 2: go to your documentary. Of course, it's going to air
32:51
Speaker 2: here on Sky News next Tuesday. Because all the experts
32:54
Speaker 2: are saying that the gas is the only backstop we
32:58
Speaker 2: have at scale to keep the lights on as we
33:01
Speaker 2: head down the path of net zero.
33:03
Speaker 3: Have a listen.
33:04
Speaker 10: We will have batteries, we will have pumped hydro, but
33:07
Speaker 10: we'll have times like we've seen earlier this year where
33:11
Speaker 10: there's not much wind and there's not much sun and
33:14
Speaker 10: the gas find power stations are really required to back
33:18
Speaker 10: up the reliability of the green and.
33:21
Speaker 1: That's a big problem because Australia's East coast is running
33:24
Speaker 1: out of gas.
33:26
Speaker 11: Just go to the report of the Energy Market Operator
33:28
Speaker 11: who said that energy shortfalls are likely as early as
33:31
Speaker 11: next year. There was a warning earlier this winter saying
33:34
Speaker 11: we're approaching the crisis points. So I think we're dangerously
33:38
Speaker 11: close to that point already.
33:42
Speaker 3: So we're running out of gas, Chris.
33:44
Speaker 2: But the issue is in gas in the ground or
33:48
Speaker 2: austraight as supply of gas. It's the availability of gas,
33:52
Speaker 2: and that's a very different thing.
33:56
Speaker 3: Yes, Peter.
33:56
Speaker 1: And we've made gas rare and how we made gas
33:59
Speaker 1: rare because Victoria banned the exploration of gas for a decade,
34:03
Speaker 1: and that's what Meg O'Neil was saying. There money goes
34:09
Speaker 1: where it's welcome, and gas wasn't welcome in Victoria. New
34:12
Speaker 1: South Wales has been not much better at all. And
34:15
Speaker 1: both of them are bleeding for gas that comes from Queensland,
34:17
Speaker 1: from coal seam gas, and of course Victoria has a
34:19
Speaker 1: ban on coal seam gas in Victoria even though it's
34:22
Speaker 1: got gas under its own feet. Look, it would be
34:25
Speaker 1: hard to make up what a mess we have made
34:28
Speaker 1: of the electricity sector as we try to decarbonize. But
34:32
Speaker 1: I'll point this out is that the Energy Minister who's
34:36
Speaker 1: now off overseas about this time last year told the
34:38
Speaker 1: cop conference, that's the Council of Parties, that's the jamboree
34:41
Speaker 1: they go to every year, that fossil fuel had no
34:43
Speaker 1: ongoing role in Australia's electricity generation. Well, he didn't seem
34:48
Speaker 1: to understand the system that he was building, because the
34:50
Speaker 1: system that he's building demands gas and lots of it,
34:53
Speaker 1: fifteen gigawatts, enough to back up fifteen million homes. So
34:57
Speaker 1: this is not, as I say, a backup, this is
34:59
Speaker 1: a backbone of the system. This system will not function
35:03
Speaker 1: as a reliable electricity grid unless it has a fossil
35:06
Speaker 1: fuel in the system to twenty fifty and beyond.
35:11
Speaker 2: So I've made the point at the top of the show, Chris.
35:14
Speaker 2: We've got an election due by May. We've got a
35:17
Speaker 2: budget in March. We've got the Prime Minister today saying
35:20
Speaker 2: he'll call it in April. No surprises in April, he says,
35:25
Speaker 2: or before, which falls into my argument they're going to
35:30
Speaker 2: have to go early because I think they've got two
35:32
Speaker 2: key dates looming in February. One is the twenty thirty
35:36
Speaker 2: five emissions reduction targets. We're working to the twenty thirty targets. Now,
35:41
Speaker 2: those twenty thirty targets are tough. That's why our power
35:44
Speaker 2: prices are going up. They will only get worse for
35:48
Speaker 2: twenty thirty five because they've got to really go hard
35:51
Speaker 2: on two things the food we eat, agriculture and also transport.
35:56
Speaker 2: But allied with that most twenty five five just mentioned
36:01
Speaker 2: sorry that the default market offer, this is what we
36:04
Speaker 2: will pay for power prices in the short term. Both
36:08
Speaker 2: of those are due and that would be a shocking
36:11
Speaker 2: start to an election campaign.
36:15
Speaker 1: Well, electricity prices are going up, and that's what our
36:17
Speaker 1: documentary will tell people, and we will tell people why
36:19
Speaker 1: those electricity prices are going up and why they must
36:21
Speaker 1: go up because of the kind of system that we're building.
36:23
Speaker 1: The two things that you need to know about this system.
36:26
Speaker 1: It will be expensive and it will be unreliable. And
36:29
Speaker 1: the people that are building it, I don't believe actually
36:31
Speaker 1: understood what they were doing when they were building it.
36:34
Speaker 1: Because the people who demonized gas, Victorian New South Wales
36:38
Speaker 1: and the Energy and Climate Change Minister were the people
36:42
Speaker 1: who are demonizing gas. Now they can't get enough. Their
36:44
Speaker 1: system operator is demanding that they get as much as
36:47
Speaker 1: they possibly can between now and twenty fifty to keep
36:50
Speaker 1: the lights on. So one of the things that's culpled
36:52
Speaker 1: about this, Peter is I genuinely think the people that
36:55
Speaker 1: talk about this all the time have no idea, no
36:58
Speaker 1: understanding what they're talking about. But guess what physics is
37:01
Speaker 1: going to platitudes all the time.
37:07
Speaker 2: They make it all sound very complex because they don't
37:09
Speaker 2: when people at home understand what's going on. Chris, that's
37:13
Speaker 2: precisely why I'm really looking forward to this doco. I
37:16
Speaker 2: can't believe you've got Daniel Westerman on camera. He doesn't
37:19
Speaker 2: do a lot of media. I'll look forward to seeing
37:21
Speaker 2: it and thank you for your time there. It is
37:24
Speaker 2: that documentary. Do not forget to watch it Tuesday, the
37:27
Speaker 2: nineteenth of November, next Tuesday, eight o'clock Eastern daylight time.
37:32
Speaker 2: I'm sure it'll be the first of many from Chris Uoman.
37:36
Speaker 2: All right, after the break, the new President elect, Donald
37:38
Speaker 2: Trump wasting no time with some key senior positions already filled,
37:42
Speaker 2: make it very clear is going to stick to his
37:44
Speaker 2: America First agenda. Well, surely after such a comprehensive loss,
37:49
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, that political career is done.
37:52
Speaker 3: And dusted, or is it? The panel? After the break?
38:00
Speaker 3: All right, let's bring in my panels. I want to
38:02
Speaker 3: talk about a whole range of things.
38:04
Speaker 2: The swing states in the lead up, no one thought
38:06
Speaker 2: they would all be collected by one of the players,
38:09
Speaker 2: but they were. Donald Trump pulling off a queen clean sweep,
38:14
Speaker 2: winning all seven. The transition team voluntarily underway. They are
38:18
Speaker 2: already talking about the largest mass deportation in US history,
38:24
Speaker 2: basically on day one. The president alex also expected to
38:27
Speaker 2: reverse some of the Biden administration's climate policies. Well, hallelujah
38:31
Speaker 2: to that, and introduced tariffs on imported goods. Let's bring
38:35
Speaker 2: in the panel out to discuss the US election and more.
38:38
Speaker 2: Sky and Is contributed Kosher Gada and the past chair
38:41
Speaker 2: of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Michael Danby.
38:45
Speaker 3: Well, well, well it's the wash up.
38:46
Speaker 2: We could keep talking about it for reverend and ever
38:48
Speaker 2: because so many people got wrong, they left. The mainstream
38:52
Speaker 2: media are delightful in their hysteria in recent days.
38:56
Speaker 3: I'm sure you're enjoying it as much as we are.
38:58
Speaker 2: Were you surprised at Kosha by the skil of this weed?
39:03
Speaker 12: Yes and no, so I think probabilistically it was such
39:06
Speaker 12: a toss up and We were saying that up until
39:08
Speaker 12: the bitter end, but the fundamentals were so different. It
39:11
Speaker 12: was such a high contrast election that the connective tissue
39:14
Speaker 12: between the different states can run through them and does
39:18
Speaker 12: run through them when it's such a fundamental issue set
39:20
Speaker 12: at play as this was economy, immigration, inflation, foreign policy,
39:23
Speaker 12: et cetera. And there was a thinking that if there's
39:26
Speaker 12: a rising tide phenomenon, and if you start to see
39:28
Speaker 12: the momentum on those issues moving in one direction, then
39:31
Speaker 12: it'll pull all of them in it. But it is
39:33
Speaker 12: that said, it is remarkable if you think about not
39:36
Speaker 12: just the seven states, but how much the popular vote
39:38
Speaker 12: is huge.
39:39
Speaker 7: So there was a beigtween in California and nu Ja.
39:41
Speaker 12: Every single county moved towards him, Every single demographic group
39:45
Speaker 12: moved towards him. That I think is quite stunning, and
39:48
Speaker 12: just given how fragmented the electro it is, it hasn't
39:51
Speaker 12: happened since Reagan years nineteen eighty eight, so that is
39:53
Speaker 12: quite stunning.
39:54
Speaker 7: That really ahead in the bronx. Who's indicative?
39:56
Speaker 2: I think I was ready analysis IV and I said
39:58
Speaker 2: that this will be even bigger. This is the biggest
40:01
Speaker 2: sort of demographic popular vote win as surpassing even the
40:05
Speaker 2: Reagan period.
40:06
Speaker 3: Is that right, Michael Well.
40:07
Speaker 7: I think it's the biggest swing of demographics that haven't
40:11
Speaker 7: swung before, young black men, Hispanics. He's done better than
40:17
Speaker 7: George Bush in some areas. And if they permanently stay
40:21
Speaker 7: in a Republican coalition, it's very bad for the Democrats.
40:23
Speaker 7: And I think that woke agenda of the left wing
40:27
Speaker 7: Democrats pushed on mainstream Democrats has been killing them and
40:31
Speaker 7: it has the same effect here. So there are lessons
40:33
Speaker 7: from you know, the result there for here, although.
40:37
Speaker 3: Labor like a monkey's on the bench.
40:39
Speaker 2: You know, don't see, you don't watch, don't know, nothing to.
40:42
Speaker 7: Do with us, Go work, go politically broke one.
40:45
Speaker 2: Talk to me about Tim Homan, this will be the
40:48
Speaker 2: new borders. Are a former police officer, former immigration official.
40:53
Speaker 2: A lot of people are a big rap for him.
40:56
Speaker 3: What do we know about him?
40:57
Speaker 7: Well, he's been on Fox News the ensuing year since
41:00
Speaker 7: he's been critical of the Biden administration. I think he
41:04
Speaker 7: was the ICE director beforehand, and he is going to
41:08
Speaker 7: do what the presidents will. You know, particularly focus on
41:13
Speaker 7: criminal people who've come into the United States who were
41:18
Speaker 7: involved in murdering, raping or robbing, and they'll be the
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Speaker 7: first out and people will have little sympathy for them,
41:27
Speaker 7: and they're playing a strong card if you ask me.
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Speaker 7: We had that huge debate here in Australia about you know,
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Speaker 7: both political parties determining that Australia will determine who is
41:37
Speaker 7: going to say who comes to this country and the
41:39
Speaker 7: fact that Peter dunn't' spicking up on people who who
41:43
Speaker 7: are getting in under the radar is very bad for
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Speaker 7: the government.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, you know, for all the talk that he hates
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Speaker 2: women and women finally polarizing, he has appointed a female
41:54
Speaker 2: chief of staff. I think we'd have to go back
41:56
Speaker 2: a long way, if at all, to say is there
41:58
Speaker 2: a slight we can start?
41:59
Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I think it's the first one, full stop. Certainly the
42:01
Speaker 2: first one on the Republican side, female chief of staff.
42:05
Speaker 2: But also he's put another woman back in the UN job.
42:08
Speaker 2: That's the job that the rest of the world also
42:10
Speaker 2: cares about. There's a strong UN ambassador for the United States.
42:14
Speaker 2: What do we know about at least defining.
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Speaker 12: A's congressman from New York, Ele Stefani. She's interesting because
42:19
Speaker 12: she's been on a little bit of a journey when
42:21
Speaker 12: she first came out onto the sea, and she wasn't
42:23
Speaker 12: exactly a Trump lover, but soon she did actually realize
42:27
Speaker 12: and embrace the populist nationalism message of his and that
42:30
Speaker 12: brand of Republican politics, and where she comes from an
42:33
Speaker 12: upstate New York, that is what the people want. So
42:36
Speaker 12: she recognized that and pretty quickly became a stalwart loyalist
42:39
Speaker 12: of his. She also rose to prominence with those interrogations
42:42
Speaker 12: on the college campuses and the anti Semitic protests and
42:45
Speaker 12: how that was mishandled, and she very masterfully questioned.
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Speaker 7: That's the point that the ABC John Lyons, who is
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Speaker 7: bagging her on the ABC network, of course, doesn't mention,
42:55
Speaker 7: so he doesn't mention what she's known for. He just
42:57
Speaker 7: mentions the fact that she's now a trumpet. So it's
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Speaker 7: just one.
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Speaker 3: Eyed, keep moving.
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Speaker 2: I want to mention that there's a climate skeptic going
43:05
Speaker 2: in to run the EPA Lalalo to that. But also
43:08
Speaker 2: Mike Pompeo, Nicki Haley, they're not part of the mix. Haighy,
43:11
Speaker 2: I can I can see why. But Pompeo, that's about JD. Vance.
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Speaker 3: That's taking away any chance that Pompeio will build or
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Speaker 3: renewed a renewed.
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Speaker 2: Brand to challenge Vans at the end of the president's term.
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Speaker 7: It's very sad because I think Pompeo would have given
43:28
Speaker 7: the Trump administration international continuity. And it's part of a
43:31
Speaker 7: campaign which I think is very unfortunate. It's a minor
43:34
Speaker 7: influence the isolationist Tucker Carson influence who's been running ann
43:39
Speaker 7: enormously vicious campaign against Pompeio. But you know these things.
43:43
Speaker 7: Marco Rubio, maybe Secretary of State, his mainstream Lee Zelden,
43:47
Speaker 7: who you were talking about, the former New Yorker candidate
43:49
Speaker 7: for governor, he's main stream. He was a congressman there.
43:53
Speaker 7: You know, they're they're questioning the Chris Bowen agenda in
43:57
Speaker 7: the United States, and good luck to them.
43:59
Speaker 2: Blood letting them Democrat side. She's gone, is she? Surely
44:01
Speaker 2: Harris at the end of Harris.
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Speaker 12: I think her political career on the national stage, if
44:05
Speaker 12: she never really had one, she never got out of
44:07
Speaker 12: the geed successfully, it's over. I wouldn't be surprised if
44:09
Speaker 12: she gets some kind of qushy job somewhere, the president
44:11
Speaker 12: of university or her book tour or something like that,
44:14
Speaker 12: because they tend to take care of their own.
44:15
Speaker 3: But politically, I think she's done.
44:17
Speaker 2: And all the celebrities we find out today a lot
44:19
Speaker 2: were paid to spreak for her. But George Clooney is
44:22
Speaker 2: looking his wounds. He says he's out of politics.
44:24
Speaker 7: Now, well he should be. George Clooney the political history
44:27
Speaker 7: of George Clooney running the big fundraiser for Biden in
44:32
Speaker 7: Los Angeles, and then Biden was said he was going
44:36
Speaker 7: to question that International Criminal Court, which Amalle Clooney is on.
44:40
Speaker 7: George rings up Biden and shouts and screams at him,
44:43
Speaker 7: and Biden drops that plan. I'm glad he's getting out
44:46
Speaker 7: of politics. It's undue influence of a person that doesn't
44:49
Speaker 7: know what he's talking about.
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Speaker 2: Stick tacting well if he's that good anyway, all right,
44:53
Speaker 2: I live there, Thank you very much.
44:54
Speaker 3: It's eleven quick break out for the break some good news.
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Speaker 2: I want to show you something that make a huge
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Speaker 2: practical difference to women doing it tough. After the break, well,
45:10
Speaker 2: welcome back. You don't need me to tell you people
45:12
Speaker 2: are doing it tough in Australia at the moment. But
45:14
Speaker 2: I love to learn about a charity that offers a
45:17
Speaker 2: hand up, not just a hand out, And when I
45:20
Speaker 2: heard about the work of my next guest and her organization,
45:24
Speaker 2: it was something I wanted to share with you. Fitted
45:27
Speaker 2: to Work is a charity that's based in Melbourne, but
45:30
Speaker 2: it's got a national footprint and it helps unemployed women
45:34
Speaker 2: get work ready. It helps them get off welfare and
45:37
Speaker 2: into paid work by building their self esteem and in
45:42
Speaker 2: other very practical ways as well. And to help fund
45:45
Speaker 2: what they do, every year they run a big charity
45:49
Speaker 2: clothes sale. All the designer staff they might get from
45:52
Speaker 2: people that support them that won't work for their clients,
45:56
Speaker 2: but if it works for you, it raises them serious
45:59
Speaker 2: man to do the incredible work they do and have
46:02
Speaker 2: been doing for nineteen years. I'm pleased to say that
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Speaker 2: the managing director of Fitted for Work, Donna de Swart,
46:08
Speaker 2: joins me, now I love what you do. When we
46:12
Speaker 2: caught up recently, I thought I have to tell my
46:14
Speaker 2: viewers about your amazing work.
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Speaker 3: Fitted for Work. What does it do and why is
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Speaker 3: it important?
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Speaker 6: So Fitted for Work we believe that every woman is
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Speaker 6: entitled to economic security and independence, and we believe the
46:28
Speaker 6: best way for a woman to achieve that is through employment.
46:31
Speaker 6: So all of our services revolve around getting women ready
46:34
Speaker 6: for work, helping them find work, but then helping them
46:38
Speaker 6: stay in work and navigate their world of work.
46:41
Speaker 3: And so what that means is.
46:42
Speaker 6: It might be services everything from outfitting to resume writing,
46:47
Speaker 6: interview skills, and very importantly confidence building.
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Speaker 3: And we know our formula works.
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Speaker 6: It can reduce the job search duration time by about
46:55
Speaker 6: seventy eight percent.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: So you're not a job provider. You don't have jobs
47:00
Speaker 2: on a board. But if someone goes.
47:02
Speaker 3: And registers with an employment agency and they have a
47:05
Speaker 3: look at her and say, look, we're going to have
47:07
Speaker 3: to get you a bit polished up, we need a CV,
47:11
Speaker 3: the woman says, oh, gosh, I've done an interview for
47:14
Speaker 3: a long time. They then get referred across to you.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they can get referred across to us, or women
47:19
Speaker 6: can come to us directly. And we get lots of
47:23
Speaker 6: referrals from other sources as well. So we're working with
47:26
Speaker 6: some of the major banks and telecommunications companies as well.
47:31
Speaker 6: Anyone that's doing it tough.
47:32
Speaker 2: So when you say banks and telcos, they watch what
47:36
Speaker 2: someone get into a bit of financial trouble and know that.
47:39
Speaker 3: They need more hours or they need a new job,
47:41
Speaker 3: and they put them in touch with you.
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Speaker 6: They do, and that's one of our social enterprises that
47:46
Speaker 6: we've built. We've built too over the last nineteen years
47:49
Speaker 6: because we really believe we have to practice what we
47:51
Speaker 6: preach as an organization, and I suppose we're breaking the
47:54
Speaker 6: mold for a charity. So with our Supervention project, we're
47:59
Speaker 6: working with four major banks now and basically they do
48:03
Speaker 6: recognize when a woman is in financial distress and it's
48:06
Speaker 6: usually because of her financial situation, not enough hours, or
48:11
Speaker 6: perhaps unemployed. They'll refer her through to us and then
48:15
Speaker 6: we'll help her find work. It's a win win for
48:18
Speaker 6: the bank, it's a win for us because they pay
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Speaker 6: us for our services.
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Speaker 2: Right, let's get to plug in for a big style
48:23
Speaker 2: because yeah, yes, you get closed donated that would work
48:26
Speaker 2: for someone doing an interview, but you get a lot
48:28
Speaker 2: of stuff that's high end that doesn't really work for you,
48:31
Speaker 2: but you can sell it and make money and you
48:33
Speaker 2: do this once a year and.
48:34
Speaker 3: We can all go and buy clothes and we do
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Speaker 3: it absolutely.
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Speaker 6: So our sale will run starting Thursday going through till
48:42
Speaker 6: sorry Friday, going through till Sunday from ten till four.
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Speaker 3: It's open to the general public.
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Speaker 6: It's all on our website and we encourage people because
48:53
Speaker 6: every single cent will go through to our charity and
48:57
Speaker 6: that will help the growing demand that we have, the
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Speaker 6: many women that seek our services.
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Speaker 3: Brilliant, dont I'm going to try and get out there
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Speaker 3: and have looked myself. Please do. All the details are
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Speaker 3: up there on the screen, the Conscious Closet.
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Speaker 2: It's in Richmond and my right, it's in Richmond. That's correct,
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Speaker 2: in Richmond Place. It's a great way to help yourself
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Speaker 2: and help a fantastic charity.
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Speaker 3: They're fitted for work. That's it for me. Andrew bolts
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Speaker 3: up next.