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The Bolt Report | 23 October · The Bolt Report

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  Speaker 1: He's reform it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good evening, I'm James macpherson, filling in for Andrew Bolt,
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  Speaker 2: who will be back next week. Another green dream failure
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  Speaker 2: from the government, with the Energy Regulator Boss admitting he
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  Speaker 2: can't promise cheaper energy prices. A new poll shows the
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  Speaker 2: majority of Australians reject the government's Misinformation Bill and are
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  Speaker 2: worried it could be used for political purposes. Plus, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get all the latest from the US. Former White House
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  Speaker 2: Press Secretary Sean Spicer will join me shortly, but first.
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  Speaker 2: With less than two weeks to go until the US
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  Speaker 2: presidential election, Joe Biden has called for Donald Trump to
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  Speaker 2: be put in jail. Honestly, you could not make this
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  Speaker 2: stuff up. It's the Democrats who have continually warned that
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the Democrats who have continually warned that Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump is a threat to democracy. And yet here's Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden in a speech. Vladimir Putin would be proud of
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  Speaker 2: calling for the Republican candidate to be imprisoned just fourteen
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  Speaker 2: days before the election.
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  Speaker 1: I said this five years ago, you'd locked me up.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta like him up.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Biden's team have pointed out that after calling for
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  Speaker 2: Trump to be locked up, Biden did belatedly add politically,
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  Speaker 2: lock him up. But what does it mean to lock
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  Speaker 2: someone up politically? Like most of what Biden and Harris
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  Speaker 2: and Walt say, it doesn't even make sense. But isn't
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  Speaker 2: it telling that Biden's promoting jail for Trump rather than
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  Speaker 2: promoting policies in a bid to help Harris win the election.
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  Speaker 2: While Americans are dealing with a major crises at the border,
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  Speaker 2: skyrocketing inflation, crumbling national security, the Democrats are obsessed with
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  Speaker 2: putting Donald Trump in prison. Their willingness to jail a
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  Speaker 2: political opponent is not just divisive, it's dangerous. It's an
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  Speaker 2: assault on the will of the people and the kind
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  Speaker 2: of stupid, reckless moves that could spark a civil war.
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  Speaker 2: But accusing Trump of being a threat to democracy whilst
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  Speaker 2: themselves calling for him to be jailed two weeks before
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  Speaker 2: an election continues a pattern on the left where they
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  Speaker 2: accuse their opponents of doing the very thing they're doing
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  Speaker 2: while they're doing it now. This allows them to act
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  Speaker 2: shocked at the flames whilst being the arsonist. And if
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  Speaker 2: you're not sure what I mean by that he listened
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  Speaker 2: to former President Barack Obama this week.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand how we got so toxic and just
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  Speaker 3: so divide and so better, And I get why sometimes
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  Speaker 3: people just don't want to pay attention to it. And
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  Speaker 3: we all have friends like that, we have family members
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  Speaker 3: wore just like ah, you know, it's all it's all
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  Speaker 3: a circus out there.
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  Speaker 4: I get that.
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  Speaker 2: Things get so toxic and so bitter.
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  Speaker 1: Gee.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but maybe telling black men that the
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  Speaker 2: only reason they wouldn't vote for a black candidate is
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  Speaker 2: because they're sexist could have something to do with it.
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  Speaker 5: And you're coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses.
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  Speaker 5: I've got a problem with that, because part of it
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  Speaker 5: makes me fair not speaking to men directly. Part of
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  Speaker 5: it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling
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  Speaker 5: the idea of having a woman as president, and you're
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  Speaker 5: coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for them.
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  Speaker 5: That's not exciting.
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  Speaker 2: That was a week ago. Now, Obama, cris Oh, the division,
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  Speaker 2: all the toxicity. If you don't want division, maybe you
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  Speaker 2: don't promise your presidency will end the racial divide, only
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  Speaker 2: to then perform a medal winning backflip once in office
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  Speaker 2: and start dividing everyone by race. But I sympathize with
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  Speaker 2: Biden's confusion. I don't understand how those racist, transphobic, misogynistic,
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  Speaker 2: deplorable low iq backwood hillbilly Republicans are so bitter all
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  Speaker 2: the time either. It's just weird. But if you want
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  Speaker 2: the best example of projection from the Democrats, you can't
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  Speaker 2: go past Kamala's running mate Tim Waltz, who had this
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  Speaker 2: to say about Elon Musk overnight.
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  Speaker 3: Elon's on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dip
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  Speaker 3: on these stones.
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  Speaker 5: You know where.
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  Speaker 2: The toxicity, the division, where's it all coming from? And
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  Speaker 2: when Waltz accuses Musk of prancing around on stage, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's have a look at Tim Waltz's campaign so far.
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  Speaker 2: Fair bit of prancing around there. But like I said,
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  Speaker 2: accusing others of doing the very thing they are doing
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  Speaker 2: while they're doing it is about the only thing the
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  Speaker 2: Left excel at. Now, before we get into the news
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  Speaker 2: of the day, I want to show you this incredible
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  Speaker 2: footage of a two thousand pound bomb striking a multi
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  Speaker 2: story apartment block in Beirut. Israel said they dropped the
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  Speaker 2: bomb because it was the apartment building was housing Hesbila assets.
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  Speaker 2: What's incredible is that cameras caught the bomb mid air,
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  Speaker 2: right before it struck the base of the building. Check
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  Speaker 2: out this still image. The bomb is clearly visible just
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  Speaker 2: as it's about to level the apartment block. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: now you've seen that, let me show you the video footage.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: What I thought was really interesting about that footage is
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  Speaker 2: that no one is yelling, no one's running around or away,
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  Speaker 2: and at least last report, there were no casualties. When
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  Speaker 2: the bomb strikes, there's a crowd standing off at a
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  Speaker 2: safe distance with cameras out ready to record, like they
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  Speaker 2: knew the apartment building was about to be struck. The
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  Speaker 2: only conclusion is that Israel gave warning that the building
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  Speaker 2: was going to be hit, as they've repeatedly claimed they
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  Speaker 2: do where possible when taking action against terrorists embedded amongst civilians.
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  Speaker 2: And notice that the crowd was so confident at the
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  Speaker 2: accuracy of the Israeli targeting they were happy to stand
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  Speaker 2: within one block, not with heads covered, but with phones
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  Speaker 2: ready to record. And yet Israel's critics continue to accuse
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  Speaker 2: them of indiscriminate bombing. Well, that looked indiscriminate to within
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  Speaker 2: a few millimeters. For those who keep insisting that Israel
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  Speaker 2: is conducting this war without regard for civilian life, this
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  Speaker 2: would appear to back up Israel's insistence that its war
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  Speaker 2: is against terrorists, not the Gazans or the Lebanese. If
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  Speaker 2: only the terrorists were as committed to valuing human life
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  Speaker 2: as the Israelis, the death toll in this terrible conflict
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  Speaker 2: would be considerably less. But then, I guess that's the
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  Speaker 2: big difference between terrorist groups in the Middle East's only
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  Speaker 2: liberal democracy. Right. Well, if you're still holding out hope
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  Speaker 2: that Anthony Albanezi will come good on his promised two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five dollars power bill reduction, I've got
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  Speaker 2: bad news. You are completely delusional. And even if you
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  Speaker 2: weren't delusional, the government most certainly is. The boss of
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  Speaker 2: Australia's energy market operator has told a Senate Estimates hearing
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  Speaker 2: earlier today that there was no guarantee the government's renewable
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  Speaker 2: energy plans would lead to lower prices. Well, you don't say,
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  Speaker 2: here's Australian Energy Market Operator Boss Daniel Westermann.
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  Speaker 6: But you're saying you cannot guarantee that the current government
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  Speaker 6: policy settings which you model will deliver lower power prices.
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  Speaker 7: I can't guarantee that, no, And what I would say
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  Speaker 7: is we try to be quite clear about the communication
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  Speaker 7: of our message, which is that the integrated System Plan,
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  Speaker 7: which considers these things generation, storage and major transmission upgrades,
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  Speaker 7: is the lowest cost pathway. It doesn't refer to whether
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  Speaker 7: it's cheaper or more expensive for that wholesale component.
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  Speaker 2: Only last week, Energy Minister Chris Bowen had this to say,
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  Speaker 2: renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy. So who's
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  Speaker 2: telling the truth, Chris Bowen or Daniel Westerman. To be sure,
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Westerman isn't telling us anything our power bills haven't
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  Speaker 2: already said. Joining me is National's MP Keith Pitt and
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  Speaker 2: Michael Costa forming New South Wales Labor Treasurer. Gentlemen, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining me tonight. You'd both remember this promise repeated
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  Speaker 2: ninety seven times prior to Anthony Albenzi winning office.
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  Speaker 8: Reducing power prices by two hundred and seventy five dollars.
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  Speaker 9: By twenty twenty five two hundred and seven tenty five
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  Speaker 9: dollars A year.
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  Speaker 4: Two and seventy five dollars a year will.
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  Speaker 9: Get power prices down by two hundred and seventy five
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  Speaker 9: dollars a year.
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  Speaker 2: So Michael Costa helped me out with this. Was that misinformation,
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  Speaker 2: disinformation or just a complete and utter con job? I
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  Speaker 2: think the latter.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a complete con job.
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  Speaker 9: Look from the Prime Minister's point of view, I don't
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  Speaker 9: think he understands the industry anyhow, and he was just
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  Speaker 9: repeating a slogan and somebody gave him. But certainly the
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  Speaker 9: Energy Minister ort to know better or else he's a
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  Speaker 9: complete ignoramas so they've got to conclude he's being deceptive.
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  Speaker 9: And the fundamental problem here is that he keeps talking
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  Speaker 9: about energy and what people use in their home is power.
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  Speaker 9: You know, it's all very well to go around saying
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  Speaker 9: that renewables is the cheapest form of energy. You've actually
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  Speaker 9: got to get that energy into a home for it
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  Speaker 9: to be used as power, and that's really the whole
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  Speaker 9: system issue, and that's what they're being deceptive about. They
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  Speaker 9: don't talk about the transmission costs, they don't talk about
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  Speaker 9: the baseload requirements, that don't talk about the poles of wires.
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  Speaker 9: All of these things are what adds to the final costs.
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  Speaker 9: So to focus on you one minute of the day
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  Speaker 9: or an hour of the day in terms of renewables
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  Speaker 9: is just deception.
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  Speaker 2: Keith Pitt is part of the problem here. They talk
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  Speaker 2: about this being the lowest cost pathway. Now, of course
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  Speaker 2: by pathway they mean the pathway to net zero. So
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  Speaker 2: electricity is always going to be expensive. While ever we're
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  Speaker 2: on that path, is it not? The issue is net zero?
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  Speaker 2: We should scrap it?
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  Speaker 10: Well, the lowest cost pathway to the cheapest and most
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  Speaker 10: reliable electricity is coal.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely is.
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  Speaker 10: And yet we've got industry across this country that are
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  Speaker 10: offsetting their carbon emissions so they can maintain the systems
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  Speaker 10: and industry that they have in place. And yet the
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  Speaker 10: coal network gets completely denigrated by people like Chris Bowen
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  Speaker 10: and others. And yet it is the most affordable and
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  Speaker 10: most reliable mechanism to generate electricity in this country. Now,
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  Speaker 10: if you want it to be zero missions, well the
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  Speaker 10: next one up a list is nuclear.
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  Speaker 2: It's that easy.
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  Speaker 10: Labour is trying to say to the Australian people that
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  Speaker 10: they can build a network that is unreliable, intermittent and
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  Speaker 10: then have to build another network that's one hundred percent reliable.
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  Speaker 10: Put the two together and somehow that's cheaper than just.
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  Speaker 2: Building the most reliable one.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I don't think the Australian people will be fooled.
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  Speaker 10: Mister WORSTERMT has belled the cat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think the Australian public are fooled at all.
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  Speaker 2: They get reminded every time they get their power bill.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of the government's green energy agenda, reports in The
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  Speaker 2: Australian Today that Queensland is on track to miss its
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  Speaker 2: legislated renewable and emissions reduction targets because two of their
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  Speaker 2: pumped hydro projects which they're relying upon, are behind schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Well why are they behind schedule, you ask, Well, they
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  Speaker 2: yet to secure environmental approvals, ironically, and they're facing multi
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  Speaker 2: billion dollar cost blowouts. Keith Andrew Bolt has been right
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  Speaker 2: across this issue to mean the government's green dream is
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  Speaker 2: now completely broken, is it not? And I might add,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it ironic that the argument against nuclear is it
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  Speaker 2: takes too long and it costs too much. And yet
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  Speaker 2: here we are with these renewal projects behind schedule and
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  Speaker 2: blowing out in costs. That they will never be delivered.
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  Speaker 10: I look at what's been committed to in Queensland and
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  Speaker 10: it's ludicrous. And you don't have a look at the
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  Speaker 10: local daan that I've got here Paradise. Damn biggest infrastructure
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  Speaker 10: fire in our country's history.
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  Speaker 4: And yet it'll it's just not going to be repaired.
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  Speaker 10: They want to apply all the current rules, replace that
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  Speaker 10: damn wall with one which is about forty or fifty
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  Speaker 10: meters in front of the existing one.
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  Speaker 2: Have it been the same size, and.
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  Speaker 10: Yet it's got to go through every single approval again,
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  Speaker 10: that is something that should be fast tracked. There is
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  Speaker 10: considerable safety risk with it, and yet we don't see
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  Speaker 10: anyone wants to do that.
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  Speaker 2: That they fast tracked to knock.
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  Speaker 10: That wall down, we should fast track to put it back.
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  Speaker 10: It's the same footprint and the idea that they'll build
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  Speaker 10: pump hydra all over this country and get environmental and
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  Speaker 10: heritage approvals, it's ludicrous.
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  Speaker 11: It will never be done.
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  Speaker 10: Nuclear small footprint and it works.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Lay, I want to ask you about the latest
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  Speaker 2: warning from the IMF that Australia runs the risk of
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  Speaker 2: high inflation continuing on into twenty twenty five. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: our inflation is on track to exceed all advanced economies
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  Speaker 2: except Slovakia. So I guess that's a feather in the
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  Speaker 2: government's cap. We're doing better than Slovakia. That's fantastic news.
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  Speaker 2: High inflation means, of course interest rates won't be cut
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  Speaker 2: anytime soon, something we are seeing happen in other countries.
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  Speaker 2: How much blame do Anthony Albanesian Jim Chalmers bear for this?
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  Speaker 2: Surely their excuse that, well, this is a worldwide global issue.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't cut the mustard.
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  Speaker 1: Anymore, Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 9: It doesn't cut the mustard at all, because this was
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  Speaker 9: designed this way. Remember, Australia is an outlier. Every other
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  Speaker 9: country went hard on inflation, and in fact their real
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  Speaker 9: interest rates are still in many cases higher than Australia's.
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  Speaker 9: We chose and the Treasurer was indolved in this to
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  Speaker 9: have a pathway that was mindful of unemployment. And you
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  Speaker 9: know that's a laudable thing to do, but it does
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  Speaker 9: mean that we're going to get a death by a
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  Speaker 9: thousand cuts. The IMF forecast is not really the important one.
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  Speaker 9: The important ones the RBA's forecast. They're not forecasting returning
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  Speaker 9: the ban till the end of twenty five. Those last
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  Speaker 9: unemployment figures, you know, have changed everybody's outlook in terms
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  Speaker 9: of when we're likely to get an interest rate cut.
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  Speaker 9: And this is all by design, you know. The government
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  Speaker 9: owns this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't argue with that. They absolutely own it,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll own it at the next ballot box, Keith.
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  Speaker 2: I spoke yesterday with your fellow Senator Matt Canavan about
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  Speaker 2: how disappointing it was to see King Charles way in
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  Speaker 2: on the climate change debate. He should just stay away
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  Speaker 2: from domestic policy issues. King Charles said we should be
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  Speaker 2: relying on wind and soul of it failed to mention
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  Speaker 2: some of our other key resources like gas, not to
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  Speaker 2: mention nuclear. The King left Australia today to preside over
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  Speaker 2: the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa, where climate change,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt, will be top of the agenda. And we
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  Speaker 2: all know how this is going to go right. Pacific
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  Speaker 2: Island nations will demand Australia reduce fossil fuel use and
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  Speaker 2: pay money for the damage we've done to the weather.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I think that's a pretty fair summary. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: King Charles is entitled to his view as I'm entitled
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  Speaker 10: to mine. And employees. He's not designing Australia's networks for
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  Speaker 10: electricity generation and distribution.
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  Speaker 2: But there's some fundamentals here.
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  Speaker 10: We have thirty percent of the world's geranium supplies, let's
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  Speaker 10: use them. We produce over applose to one hundred billion
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  Speaker 10: dollars worth of coal. Experts a here that props up
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  Speaker 10: our economy and helps to build hospitals and roads and
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  Speaker 10: schools and employed three hundred thousand people. And that's great
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  Speaker 10: and we should keep doing that.
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  Speaker 11: That.
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  Speaker 10: The monarch will always have a view, and I'm a monarchist,
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  Speaker 10: I'm a supporter, but the route is we've.
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  Speaker 2: Got to act in Australia's interest.
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  Speaker 10: Now, the Pacific will continue to do what they've always done.
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  Speaker 10: That there will be support for them, clearly. But the
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  Speaker 10: idea that we should have been an Australia's resources sector
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  Speaker 10: and the more than one million Australians who work in it.
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  Speaker 2: That is fraught with danger.
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  Speaker 10: It'll be the wrong decision and I'll be interested to
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  Speaker 10: see how federal labor wanders through this one.
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  Speaker 2: Keith Pitt, Michael Costa, appreciate your time tonight. Well, for
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  Speaker 2: the past couple of nights I've talked about how I
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  Speaker 2: wish we could get back to the old Australia, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a simpler time when people could afford to buy a
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  Speaker 2: house and if not buy a house and at least
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  Speaker 2: rent a place to live, and you know, maybe pay
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  Speaker 2: their electricity bills. But that dream seems a long long
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  Speaker 2: way away. The Business Council of Australia this week pushed
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  Speaker 2: for the government to dump stamp duty as a way
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  Speaker 2: to help more people get into the property market. Housing
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  Speaker 2: Mister clar O'Neil surprisingly agreed, saying stamp duty was a
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  Speaker 2: bad tax. Imagine that a labor politicians saying attacks was bad.
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  Speaker 2: But that's about the extent of the government's housing policy.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Anthi Albanesi and Jim Chalmers at war over
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  Speaker 2: whether to make changes to negative gearing. Meanwhile, they continue
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  Speaker 2: to let record numbers of immigrants into the country with
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  Speaker 2: no plan as to how to house them. Joining me
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  Speaker 2: is Shadow Housing Minister Michael Suker. Michael, thanks for your
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  Speaker 2: time tonight. I want to ask you about the coalition's
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  Speaker 2: five billion dollar housing infrastructure program that you've just announced.
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  Speaker 2: But before we get to that, I want to ask you,
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  Speaker 2: as a Lebanese Australian. The war in the Middle East
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  Speaker 2: is really reaching a boiling point. The IDF has begun
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  Speaker 2: targeting infrastructure related to the financial arm of Hezblah, with
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  Speaker 2: a military spokesperson warning Lebanese residents to steer clear of
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  Speaker 2: those areas ahead of the assault. This is a big escalation.
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  Speaker 2: I know you've got family in Lebanon. What are you
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  Speaker 2: hearing and the people that you know they're how are
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  Speaker 2: they reacting to all of this?
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  Speaker 12: Well, obviously, James, it's a hugely troubling time for everybody
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  Speaker 12: in Lebanon. But the truth here is is that hes
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  Speaker 12: Bala is a terrorist organization, is not fighting on behalf
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  Speaker 12: of Lebanon. It's a terrorist organization that takes its orders
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  Speaker 12: from Tehran. It's a proxy of the Iranian regime. And
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  Speaker 12: I suspect most Lebanese are celebrating its downfall and hoping
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  Speaker 12: that the IDF can take hes.
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  Speaker 1: Bala out once and for all.
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  Speaker 12: That hes Bala A as a terrorist organization is one
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  Speaker 12: that no one is going to in Lebanon. Is going
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  Speaker 12: to bemoan their downfall, but it of course causes huge
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  Speaker 12: issues for Lebanese and sadly, has Bala's been bringing this
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  Speaker 12: sort of trouble onto Lebanon for a very long time,
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  Speaker 12: and so my view is that hopefully the IDF can
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  Speaker 12: can deal with has Bala quickly.
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  Speaker 1: They've obviously been doing a very effective job thus far.
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: Hopefully they can finish it off and Lebanon can get
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: back to being one of the most wonderful countries in
• 19:04
  Speaker 12: the Middle East without Iran having their finger in the
• 19:07
  Speaker 12: piso to speak.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very true. Well, certainly our thoughts for family members
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: you've got there, We trust they are kept safe. To
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: the housing crisis, Anti Albanesi certainly doesn't seem to have
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: much of a plan, but you do. Over the weekend
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: you announced a five billion dollar infrastructure fund to unlock
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: up to half a million new homes. Tell us how
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the coalition of proposing that would work?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Well, thanks James.
• 19:34
  Speaker 12: Yes, we announced the Housing Infrastructure program to unlock five
• 19:37
  Speaker 12: hundred thousand homes because over the last couple of years,
• 19:40
  Speaker 12: in speaking to hundreds of councils and developers, it's very
• 19:45
  Speaker 12: clear that one of the major things holding back housing
• 19:48
  Speaker 12: development in this country is a lack of funding of
• 19:51
  Speaker 12: the critical infrastructure that you need to get housing built.
• 19:55
  Speaker 12: And we're not talking about particularly exciting infrastructure. We're talking
• 19:59
  Speaker 12: about things as ask as water and sewage and telecommunications
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: and access roads, but things at the moment that there's
• 20:05
  Speaker 12: no money to fund.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: And if you can't.
• 20:07
  Speaker 12: Get the sewage and water in and the talent, communications
• 20:11
  Speaker 12: and the roads, then you don't get any housing projects approved.
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: So we've identified hundreds of these projects around the country
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: where with a relatively modest Commonwealth investment you can unlock
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: new housing developments. And as I said, five hundred thousand
• 20:26
  Speaker 12: homes will be unlocked by our Housing Infrastructure program with
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: an investment of five billion dollars. These are things that
• 20:33
  Speaker 12: are not being done at the moment, and sadly, as
• 20:35
  Speaker 12: you say, James, we're building fewer homes than we've built
• 20:38
  Speaker 12: for a very long time. We've got housing approvals at
• 20:41
  Speaker 12: ten year layers, we've got first home buyers down, we've
• 20:44
  Speaker 12: got rentsap and meanwhile we've got Anthony Albanezi running a
• 20:49
  Speaker 12: massive migration program. So the problem's big, the problems getting worse,
• 20:53
  Speaker 12: and that's why we felt we needed to step up
• 20:56
  Speaker 12: with the Housing Infrastructure program.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: You know, a really huge to unlock five hundred thousand homes.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean you certainly write about the immigration issue.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Letting thousands of people into the country with no means
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: to house them was always going to end in tears.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Your announcement sounds great, but what do you do with
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the red tape? How do you get local governments to
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: agree to this and get things moving faster.
• 21:24
  Speaker 12: Well, the beauty here is, James, we've identified shove already projects.
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: So the truth is there are tons of projects out
• 21:31
  Speaker 12: there that are sitting on a bureaucrat's desk or a
• 21:33
  Speaker 12: state government sesk, awaiting approval. The projects we're talking about
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: a typically projects that there are no other impediments in
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: the way. There are no sort of bureaucratic impediments. The
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: only impediment is the infrastructure, and we have that infrastructure funded,
• 21:52
  Speaker 12: you can actually get going. Of course, more systemic work
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: should be done by the states, predominantly to cut red
• 21:59
  Speaker 12: tar and get the bureaucrats.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Out of the way.
• 22:01
  Speaker 12: But why this fund, why this program is so powerful,
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: is we're not relying on any bureaucrats ticking off on it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: These are shove already projects.
• 22:11
  Speaker 12: And a huge caveat of this program, the housing infrastructure
• 22:15
  Speaker 12: program is use it or lose it. If the project
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: doesn't get started in twelve months, you lose the funding
• 22:21
  Speaker 12: and that money will go somewhere else.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, well that's good motivation. Just before I let you go,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: one other thing that just really annoys me is this
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: issue not of red tape, but of green tape. You've
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: got Victorian Premier just into Alan making a big deal
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: about getting rid of gas, the new homes, labor and
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: the greens to me, seem more concerned about reducing emissions
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: than increasing productivity. Builders are having to go out of
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: their way to be green and all that does is
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: increase costs. How do you combat that issue?
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 22:52
  Speaker 12: As part of our announcement on the weekend, in addition
• 22:54
  Speaker 12: to the Housing Infrastructure program, we announceday ten year freese
• 22:58
  Speaker 12: to the National Construction Code. The National Construction Code is
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: one of the means by which more and more green
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: red tape is being put on housing projects.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Estimates are that the.
• 23:11
  Speaker 12: Latest rate latest changes to the NCC increased housing by
• 23:16
  Speaker 12: about thirty thousand dollars a home, or up to sixty
• 23:19
  Speaker 12: thousand dollars in some cases.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: So we've said freezing the NCC no more.
• 23:23
  Speaker 12: Changes for ten years to ensure that we don't keep
• 23:27
  Speaker 12: piling more of this green tape onto houses, because in
• 23:31
  Speaker 12: the end, it's not the developers who wear these costs.
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: These costs are ultimately borne by the people who buy
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: the homes at the end, and a thirty or sixty
• 23:41
  Speaker 12: thousand dollars increase in a home could be the difference
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: between a first time buyer being able to afford the
• 23:46
  Speaker 12: home or not being able.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: To Michael Suke, thanks for your time tonight. Thanks so much, James,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Well after the break. Two weeks to go until the
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: US election, Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer will
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: join me in just a moment to the US now,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: and with only two weeks to go until voting day,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the race is tight. Latest polls show Kamala Harris has
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: a marginal lead over Donald Trump. But this is politics
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: and a lot can change in two weeks. Joining me
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: is former White House spokesperson Sean Spicer. Sean, thanks for
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: joining me. Early voting has already begun in the US,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: with reports seventeen million ballots already cast. From what analysiss
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: are saying, early voting tends to favor the Democrats, doesn't it,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Because Trump typically says early voting is a stupid idea.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: So Republicans tend to wait until polling day, Is that right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: Well, James, Yes, traditionally that's been the case. Republicans tend
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: to want to vote on election day. But what's going
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: on that's so fascinating. The first day of early voting
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: in Georgia, for example, I saw the number of the
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: people that voted, and when, oh God.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Were screwed.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: When you start to break down the data, though not
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: just in Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, in those key battleground states, James,
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: it's Republicans who are either out doing and closing the gap.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: So what people have to understand is, yes, Democrats do better,
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: but they normally run up a massive, massive vote advantage
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: in early vote and then Republicans try to catch up
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: on election day. What we're seeing right now, James, throughout
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: the battleground states where the early voting has begun, Republicans
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: are doing better than they ever have in early votes.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: And this is sending chills through Democrats.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I found it interesting, and this would send some chills
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: through Democrats as well. I imagine that the La Times has,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: for the first time in fifteen years, refused to endorse
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: either presidential candidate. I would have thought that's a big blow,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: particularly for Kamala Harris.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, start to put the list together, James.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: Right, it's the Muslim American groups in Detroit.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: There's two of them. They've refused to endorse.
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: The International Association of Firefighters, they refuse to endorse, the Teamsters,
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: they refuse to endorse.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: But what do all these groups, including the LA Times
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: have in common.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: These are normal Democrat constituencies that they count on to
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: get their base fired up, get people turned out, to
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: get people excited.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: And they're saying no to Kamala Harris. No Republican thinks
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: that we're going to get the support of these organizations.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: So for Kamala Harris not to.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: Get it is a big, big deal. She is having
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: a major problem. Look, James, I'll be honest.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Coming out of that.
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: First debate, I was a little worried. Kamalas Harris was
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: having a sugar high. She had the wind at her back.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: The media is all in for her. But what Donald
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: Trump has done in the last ten days to seven
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: days is really turn this thing around.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: We are going into the election with the wind that
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: are back.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: Now things have really changed as we head into these
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: final thirteen days, I'd much rather be us than them.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: You know the Shawan they talk about the October surprise.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe the October surprise is that Kamala Harris is a
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: much worse candidate than anybody actually thought. Another one of
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Kamala's problems seems to be men, a demographic Trump has
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: really capitalized on. Is it fair to say there's a
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: lot of frustration among men in the US who feel
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: like the Democrats are at best dismissive and maybe even
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: problematic for them.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: Well, look, when your vice presidential candidate thinks he's trying
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: to dress up as a man for Halloween by putting
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: on a flannel shirt and a camo hat, men get offended.
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: I mean, look, it's the most unauthentic ticket in modern
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: American history. These people are faking who they are. Tim
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: Waltz looks like he walked out of a Walmart when
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: he went to try to go do that stunt the
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: other day and had the price tag still hanging off
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: the clothing, like he couldn't figure out how to get
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: the gunloaded. He was trying to show that he was
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: a tough guy, he could go out there and go hunting.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: It's all fake, and I think men see right through it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: There's a reason that the gap exists, and I would
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: put my finger on it being authenticity. They both lack it,
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: men particular see through it. We're focused on policy. We
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: want this country to be safer and more prosperous, something
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: that they're severely lacking in any policies.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: For Joe, Biden seems to be missing on the campaign trail.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: He seems to be missing as president. Actually, when he
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: announced he wouldn't run in this election, he gave Kamala
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: a glowing endorsement, but since then he's only been to
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: one or two official campaign events with Kamala. He's done
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: a couple by himself. I think he's doing one with
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders either today or tomorrow. But with two weeks
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: to go, Kamala and Joe are barely seen together. So
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: who's avoiding who?
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: It's a great question. I think she's avoiding him.
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: There's no question that the people in Biden world are
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: very upset about the level of disrespect that Kamala Harrison
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: her team has showed.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: It's not just Joe Biden.
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: You rarely hear about Jill Biden, who would seemingly want
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: the first female the president's right hand person to be successful.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: They're not putting in the effort.
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: I can't believe they're not using him more in Pennsylvania,
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: it's a battleground state. I had somebody on my podcast
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: today that said, you know, look, we used to view
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: Joe Biden as a third senator. He's barely been seen
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: since he got pushed out. Why isn't he being used
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: in Pennsylvania. I'm not in the business of giving Democrats
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: any hints, but for goodness sake, like I get not
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: bring him into every battleground state, but in Pennsylvania they
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: view him as a native son.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: For goodness sake, use the guy.
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: But it's an embarrassment and so disrespectful what they have
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: done and how they have treated Biden. And my guess
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: is that when this election is over, Joe Biden's going
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: to say, you know what, you pushed me aside and
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: look what happened. But I can't believe the way that
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: the Harris campaign has treated that guy.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Now, Sean, I've got to say, I wasn't expecting
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: the contest to decide the leader of the free world
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: to come down to who could make the best McDonald's employee.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: And yet that's where we are. Donald Trump decided to
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: work the fire machas in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Take a look, and I could do this.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind this show like this. I think I'm
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: gonna come back and do it again.
• 30:09
  Speaker 12: Thank you, thank you, mister president.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Many but many people like us, I mean.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: MSNBC as you would imagine how to meltdown over Trump
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: working at McDonald's. Have a look at this.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: There's no logic to it.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: It's a stunt.
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: He has not put forth an economic agenda. He, as
• 30:36
  Speaker 13: you know is, appears to be not well and he's
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: engaged in some really bizarre types of activities during this campaign.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Now, this campaign line from the Harris camp, trump is
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: mentally unwell. Kamala Harris had another cheap shot targeting Trump's age.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Here's her latest attack.
• 30:56
  Speaker 14: A Trump advisor told producers that Trump was exhausted and
• 31:00
  Speaker 14: refusing interviews.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: He would be the oldest president ever inaugurated. If he
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: wins in November.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: People not agree to a second presidential debate.
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: The former president was swaying and asked to play songs
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: for about forty minutes.
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: Donald Trump's public appearances have deteriorated.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: The stomach is speaking many.
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: As erasis, just like putting a million rambos to put
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: Al Sylvester still owners.
• 31:24
  Speaker 15: My friend, there is no way that this man who
• 31:26
  Speaker 15: can't make it through an entire speech, who keeps canceling things,
• 31:30
  Speaker 15: is going to be the person that does four more years.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: No, I just cannot believe that the Democrats, after propping
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: up Joe Biden for all those years and now taking
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: a shot at Donald Trump's mental acuity and age. I mean,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: they've got a hide.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: I'm with you, James.
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: I mean it's kind of rich the way that they
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: didn't have a problem with, you know, goo, with the
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: mental acuity of anybody or their stamina several months ago.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: In fact, they denied it, and now they're taking pot
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: shots at Donald Trump.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: Who look, I will say.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: The funny thing is I always tell people that there
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: are narratives in politics.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Right, somebody is a really good fundraiser, they hard work
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: or whatever.
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: No one accuses Donald Trump of not being active enough.
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: In fact, I would argue a lot of people say
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: I wish you would tone it down, like I work
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: for the guy. You can't keep up with him, and
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: I'm a third of his age, right, I mean, this
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: is a guy who's up first thing in the morning,
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: well past midnight every night. Like the idea that anyone
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: thinks he has a stamina problem is laughable.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: So they're trying to cut against a well, well laid
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: narrative and that's the problem.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: And I find it rich coming from Harris, who was
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: the primary cover upper of what happened with Bidney.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: They a very good point. Well, Seawan Spice, I always
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: enjoy catching up with you the next two weeks. I'm
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: going to be fascinating. Thanks for joining me.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Tonight, you bet, James, Thanks sir, Well, don't go.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Anywhere after the break. Channel nine in more turmoil and
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: the Media Union goes after Peter Dutton for being too
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: aggressive to ABC journalists. That's up in a moment, welcome back. Well,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: there's more turmoil at Channel nine following its review into
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: the culture at the company. Not only has the company's
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: television News and Current Affairs boss Fiona Dea told staff
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: in an after hours email that she knows employees are hurting,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: but she also is apparently furious at having to clean
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: up the mess left by her predecessor Darren Wick. Joining
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: me at the desk is the Australians media writer Sophie Ellsworth. Sophie,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: thanks for joining me talk to me about this after
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: hours email from the news director Fiona Dea. What else
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: did it say?
• 33:35
  Speaker 15: So, James, For days I've been contacting Fiona Deer, the
• 33:38
  Speaker 15: news boss at nine, to ask her what is she
• 33:41
  Speaker 15: doing in the aftermath of the cultural review and has
• 33:45
  Speaker 15: she dressed staff? Now she works in the news business
• 33:48
  Speaker 15: and still to date I'm yet to hear boo from her,
• 33:51
  Speaker 15: but she basically said to staff, look, I understand that
• 33:54
  Speaker 15: you're hurting. You've all been very professional in this situation
• 33:59
  Speaker 15: and you know she's offering, you know, to listen to
• 34:01
  Speaker 15: anyone if they have grievances. But today she's yet to
• 34:05
  Speaker 15: address the entire News TV division and there's a lot
• 34:09
  Speaker 15: of people in there. James incredibly angry because Fiona Wick
• 34:14
  Speaker 15: took o. Fiona Deer took over from Darren Wick. They
• 34:17
  Speaker 15: were working very close together until he left in March.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: So one of the concerns or complaints has been that
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: management have not followed up on things, They've not listened.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: So does this go to that narrative that she's now
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: in charge of the news division and is not communicating herself.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Now you've got this late night.
• 34:36
  Speaker 15: Missive, absolutely, James. So she's sent out this message at
• 34:41
  Speaker 15: eight point thirty on Monday night, which is quite late
• 34:43
  Speaker 15: to be addressing your entire staff. But then she has
• 34:47
  Speaker 15: come out subsequently today in our Women in Media report
• 34:51
  Speaker 15: basically to say that she was angry that she had
• 34:54
  Speaker 15: to and I'm quoting clean up someone else's shit now
• 34:58
  Speaker 15: excuse the language there, but she's vented her anger at
• 35:02
  Speaker 15: the mess that she had to take over from Darren Wick,
• 35:06
  Speaker 15: and she said, look, I got this really important appointment.
• 35:09
  Speaker 15: I couldn't enjoy it because I was mopping up the mess.
• 35:12
  Speaker 15: Now there's more coming out in the Australian tonight. I
• 35:15
  Speaker 15: suggest people read that there's a lot of angry stuff
• 35:18
  Speaker 15: inside and outside nine that are going Hang on a minute,
• 35:21
  Speaker 15: Fi Owner, you were working there alongside Darren Wick for
• 35:25
  Speaker 15: a long time.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Did you know what was going on?
• 35:28
  Speaker 15: And there's a lot of complaints flying around about behavior
• 35:31
  Speaker 15: from managers in there. This is far from over well.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you how long is it going
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: to be befour Channel nine are through this I mean
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: there was a survey that said, what fifty seven percent
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: of staff claimed they'd been bullied, harassed, discriminated against. This
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: is not the sort of thing that can be cleaned up,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: you know, in a couple of days. But I mean,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: it's been going on for months. Is there an end
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: to this? What are they going to do to finally
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: move beyond it?
• 35:55
  Speaker 15: Well, I believe that they have a lot of managers
• 35:58
  Speaker 15: in there that were there during wik regime, and there's
• 36:01
  Speaker 15: a lot of people of saying it's the same people.
• 36:04
  Speaker 15: It's the same people, and we're still carrying on business
• 36:07
  Speaker 15: as usual. So I expect before the year's end we
• 36:10
  Speaker 15: will see more managers in nine showing the door.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to Peter Dutton, because the
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Media Union has called Peter Dutton's behavior towards two ABC
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: reporters unnecessarily aggressive. First, we had this exchange.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Nation even though men, where are you from?
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: I'm sorry which organization ABC?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I had presumed up.
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: Until this point at least that the ABC supported the
• 36:42
  Speaker 11: government's laws, and the government has passed laws supported on
• 36:46
  Speaker 11: a bipartisan basis, but not by the ABC. It seems
• 36:49
  Speaker 11: in relation to the prescribing or the listing of a
• 36:51
  Speaker 11: terrorist organization.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: And last week we had this exchange with another ABC reporter.
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  Speaker 13: Last majority of the public in colleagues.
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  Speaker 1: Support well, how do you know that they don't.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Well, I have spoken to a number of them.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen you spoken to a single member.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Of the public. Shame.
• 37:08
  Speaker 11: Look, I understand the position of the ABC. The ABC
• 37:10
  Speaker 11: has an ideological position against that's an issue for you.
• 37:13
  Speaker 11: I don't really care. I'm not interested in the politics
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: at the ABC. You could all be advocates and play
• 37:20
  Speaker 11: your games.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Now. I don't know about you at home, but I
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: don't think Peter Dutton was aggressive. I think he was
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: very direct with two ABC reporters who clearly had agendas.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: But Sophy, what's the ABC saying about this?
• 37:33
  Speaker 15: Well, the ABC is saying they stand by their reporters
• 37:37
  Speaker 15: and that they are journalists. They're asking questions on behalf
• 37:40
  Speaker 15: of the public. But I think the problem here is
• 37:43
  Speaker 15: we often see the ABC leaning to the left, James,
• 37:46
  Speaker 15: and I think a lot of people would agree with that,
• 37:49
  Speaker 15: and they don't attack politicians on the left side as
• 37:52
  Speaker 15: the same on the right side. Now, if you recall
• 37:55
  Speaker 15: last year, Attorney General Mark dreyfirst had to go at
• 37:58
  Speaker 15: our colleague Sky News Order Lvia Kasley, let's have a
• 38:01
  Speaker 15: look at that.
• 38:04
  Speaker 14: I an apology to those in the community that have
• 38:06
  Speaker 14: been subjected to misteem to my son these maditions.
• 38:10
  Speaker 16: I want to suggest to you that that question is
• 38:13
  Speaker 16: an absurd question. You are asking a cabinet minister, three
• 38:17
  Speaker 16: ministers of the Crown, to apologize for upholding the law
• 38:21
  Speaker 16: of Australia, for acting in accordance with the law of Australia,
• 38:26
  Speaker 16: for following the instructions of the High Court of Australia.
• 38:30
  Speaker 16: I will not be apologizing for upholding the law. I
• 38:35
  Speaker 16: will not be apologizing for pursuing the rule of law,
• 38:38
  Speaker 16: and I will not be apologizing for acting do not interrupt.
• 38:42
  Speaker 16: I will not be apologizing.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: For acting Australia.
• 38:46
  Speaker 16: I will not be apologizing for acting in accordance with
• 38:51
  Speaker 16: a High Court decision. Your question is an absurd one.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So James, there you go.
• 38:58
  Speaker 15: There You've got Attorney General Mark Drefus pointing the finger
• 39:02
  Speaker 15: quite aggressively at Olivia Caysley. Now, I don't recall the
• 39:05
  Speaker 15: me Double A coming out pretty disgusted at this. And
• 39:09
  Speaker 15: this is where the Double A let themselves down because
• 39:12
  Speaker 15: they take a position that suits their politics. So if
• 39:15
  Speaker 15: we're going to treat all journalists the same, many would
• 39:18
  Speaker 15: argue the treatment there by a labor politician perhaps isn't good.
• 39:22
  Speaker 15: But what about the treatment on Peter Dutton's side, and
• 39:25
  Speaker 15: are they like for like you be the judge.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I think we all just saw with our own
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: eyes it was pretty clear who was aggressive in that exchange.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Sophie Ellsworth, appreciate your time tonight. We'll stick around because
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: after the break we'll talk about why Australians are rejecting
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: the government's Misinformation Bill and the left sure do love
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: to self flagellate. More of that in just a moment. Well,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: if you think Lydia Thorpe has any regrets over her
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: confrontation with King Charles earlier this week, think again. When
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: asked this afternoon about the King's genuine affection for Indigenous people,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: which was evident during his visit, Thorpe had this to say.
• 40:04
  Speaker 17: Well, that's called smoothing the dying pillow. You know, we'll
• 40:08
  Speaker 17: just say some niceties niceties along the way while we
• 40:12
  Speaker 17: continue to commit genocide against first peoples in this country.
• 40:18
  Speaker 17: I'm sorry, Charlie, but You can't come here and think
• 40:22
  Speaker 17: that you can say a few nice words about our
• 40:25
  Speaker 17: people while you still have stolen goods. You are in
• 40:31
  Speaker 17: receipt of stolen goods, which makes you complicit in theft.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Charlie. And as for cause for her to resign, well,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: have a listen.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: If I get given up.
• 40:46
  Speaker 17: My job, I'm not resigning. I don't listen to the
• 40:48
  Speaker 17: noise of those who have chosen to assimilate into the
• 40:52
  Speaker 17: colonial system.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Well, for a woman who's chosen not to assimilate into
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: the colonial system, Leah Thorpe does seem to be doing
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: rather well. She's racking up thousands of dollars in taxpayer
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: funded interstate travel as well as benefiting from a membership
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: to the VIP Quantus chairman's lounge. Oh and that system
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: that she's not assimilated into also pays her a salary
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: of more than two hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: plus an extra twenty five thousand dollars because she chairs
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: a committee. So that's a quarter of a million taxpayer
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: dollars plus other privileges. Imagine if she had assimilated. Joining
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: me is Daniel Wilde, Deputy Executive Director, of the Institute
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: of Public Affairs and Skyne is contributor Evelyn Ray. Evelyn
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Lydia Thorpe isn't going to resign, but she loves the controversy.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: This is what she does.
• 41:40
  Speaker 14: Oh absolutely, this is exactly what she does. And James,
• 41:44
  Speaker 14: it's because it's all that she can do, you know,
• 41:48
  Speaker 14: short of a good idea to make Australia a better
• 41:52
  Speaker 14: place for everybody, the only thing she can do to
• 41:55
  Speaker 14: maintain any form of relevance is to resort to these
• 41:59
  Speaker 14: charms stunts. I mean, look, it's a sham. She's not
• 42:03
  Speaker 14: a serious person, let alone politician. I think it was
• 42:07
  Speaker 14: not long ago that her father even came out and
• 42:09
  Speaker 14: admitted that she has English ancestry, and yet somehow, shocker,
• 42:14
  Speaker 14: she figured out a way to forgive and live with herself. So,
• 42:20
  Speaker 14: you know, I think it's about time she learned how
• 42:22
  Speaker 14: to do that with everybody else in this country.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Indeed, Daniel, what's the point of swearing allegiance to the
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: crown as Lydia Thorpe did if you then denounce the
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: crown to the King's face. If she won't resign, shouldn't
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: she be removed? Otherwise? The oath of allegiance is effectively
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: pointless and a bit of a joke, is it not.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: Well exactly, James. I mean, there's seventy six senators across Australia,
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: twelve of whom are from Victoria, and Lydia Thorpe is
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: one of them. Yet she's the oppressed one. I'm not
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: too sure how that works. You know, as you say,
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: she's pulling in a quarter of a million dollar salary,
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: she's not doing too bad. But just like Evelyn said,
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: this is really her stock in trade, you know, provoking
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: and causing controversy to get a headline, and that's exactly
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: what she's gotten out of it. Let's not forget that
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: she's only in the Senate because she was elected as
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: a part of the Greens ticket. She then abandoned shit
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: because the Greens weren't to the left to her liking,
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: not far enough to the left, you know. So I
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: think this is going to drag on for many months
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: and we're going to see a lot more of this, unfortunately,
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: up until the next time she's up for election, James.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Daniel. Communications Minister Michelle Roland loves to tell us that
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: survey show eighty percent of Australians are concerned about so
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: called misinformation. What she doesn't mention is that doesn't necessarily
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: then mean they want the government to start censoring all
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: of us. In fact, a new poll from the IPA
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: show sixty five percent of Australians are concerned that the
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: government's proposed misinformation laws could be used for political purposes.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Now I guess that means Australians aren't stupid. But tell
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: us more about this poll, Daniel. What else does it reveal? Well, thanks, James.
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: Look what it reveals is that Australians don't support these
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: very bad laws, and they don't support them for three reasons.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: The first is.
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: That they would be the biggest attack on freedom of
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: speech in Australia's peacetime history, because it would empower an
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: unelected bureaucracy to define the truth and then enforce that
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: truth on mainstream Australians. Secondly, it's an unfair two tiered
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: system because you've got professional news organizations, academia and others
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: in elite society that are actually exempt from the laws,
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: so it doesn't matter what they say.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: There's no penalties.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: But if a mainstream Australians someone listening to your program. Now,
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: were to say the exact same thing on their Facebook
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: or some other social media platform, they could be censored
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: under these laws. And third, it would be a sense
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: of first, ask questions later regime because the social media
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: giants will be hit with a fine of up to
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: five percent of their global revenue if they fail to
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: censor what's considered misinformation. But there's no cannavaling incentive to
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: encourage freedom of speech or debate on their platforms. So
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: this is a massive weaponization of these big tech companies
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: against mainstream Australians. And as you say, Australians aren't silly,
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: they know exactly what's going to happen, which is the
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: government is going to shut down debate and dissent in
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: this country.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so eighty percent of Australians are concerned about misinformation,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: but to almost seventy percent of them say, that doesn't
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: mean that we want the government interfering. Daniel, while we're
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: talking about IPA analysis, you've done some analysis on Australian
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: university students who are dropping out at record numbers. Just
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: sixty two percent of students are completing a degree within
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: six years, and of course taxpayers are footing these hex bills,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: many of which will never be repaid. What's the issue, Well,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: that's right, it's not just that.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: It's that at the same time as you've got plummeting
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: of graduation for domestic students, you've got skyrocketing rates of
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: graduation for foreign students. And so it goes to the
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: point that universities are now just factories for backdoor visa
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: entry of those who would otherwise probably never attain a visa.
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: Now I've got nothing against the students themselves. Of course
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: you'd want to come to Australia. What a great country
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: and what a great opportunity, So good luck to them,
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: but you know, universities have lost their way. They've getting
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: all this money and the rivers of gold from the
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: international students, but that's not being shared.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: With the community.
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: In fact, the community bear the costs in terms of
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: the rental situation, international students taking up the rental market
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: and other social pressures. So we're seeing a collapse of universities.
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: They're not providing good services for domestic students because they're
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: catering towards the international market, and that's why we need
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: a hardcap.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: On international students.
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: That's well below the one that the government is currently proposing.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: James, I do love it when the left self flagellate.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about the arch Bishop of Canterbury,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Justin Welby, who has just discovered he's related to a
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: slave owner. It turns out his great great great grandfather
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: owned slaves in Jamaica, and a recent trip to the
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: area helped him to confront the legacies of enslavement in
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: the Caribbean. Now, Evelyn, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has approved
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: a plan to set aside one hundred million pounds of
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: parishioner's money to address the church's involvement in the slave trade.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Do you think he'll now be pulling out his own
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: wallet now that is great great great grandfather was a
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: slave owner.
• 47:35
  Speaker 14: I doubt that he will. But look, James, he really
• 47:38
  Speaker 14: should just resign in disgrace for all of this. You know,
• 47:42
  Speaker 14: it certainly wouldn't hurt the church either.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 47:45
  Speaker 14: Worse than his ancestry is his theology. You know, if
• 47:50
  Speaker 14: the archbishop were a little bit more familiar with the Bible,
• 47:53
  Speaker 14: he'd be aware of the fact that God says the
• 47:55
  Speaker 14: son shall not suffer for the sins of the father.
• 48:00
  Speaker 14: You know, absent of real oppression. We now have folks
• 48:03
  Speaker 14: scouringancestry dot com for guilty bloodlines. I mean, can you
• 48:09
  Speaker 14: believe that? But of course, this whole shtick is just
• 48:12
  Speaker 14: another pretext, pretext for the confiscation of white man's property
• 48:17
  Speaker 14: being the taxpayer money. You know, Communism always comes as
• 48:22
  Speaker 14: an angel of light, and this is exactly that.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Very well said Evelyn and Daniel. Appreciate your time tonight.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Well that's all I've got time for this evening. I'll
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: be back tomorrow night, but don't go anywhere. Sherry Markson
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: is up right now.