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Sharri | 21 July · Sharri

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Speaker 1: Live on Sky News. This is Shari.
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Speaker 2: Work at the start of a new week's steep price
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Speaker 2: in for Shari this week and next week, with all
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Speaker 2: of Shari's regulars along, including on Pleased to say my
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Speaker 2: old radio Ray Hadley. He'll be fired up as usual,
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Speaker 2: Ray coming up shortly. Also coming up on Shari tonight,
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Speaker 2: Ken the Liberal brand actually make its way back.
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Speaker 3: From the wilderness.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Federal Parliament resumed sitting tomorrow after a longer
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Speaker 2: than usual poll election break. I think they've had more
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Speaker 2: than ten weeks off. But polls out today and the
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Speaker 2: major papers have the Coalition in as bad a position
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Speaker 2: it has been in since the nineteen forties. Can you
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Speaker 2: believe that? And it's not just the federal arm the
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Speaker 2: state liberals in major states New South Wales and Victoria
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Speaker 2: are largely irrelevant. Same goes for South Australia and WA
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Speaker 2: with only the territory and Queensland in power, and who
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Speaker 2: knows what's going to happen in Tasmania. I'll talk about
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Speaker 2: the hard road back for the Liberal Party also tonight.
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Speaker 2: I'm just back from South Australia. Better part of a
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Speaker 2: week in Adelaide and South Australians are filthy that an
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Speaker 2: algie bloom that's hit the South Australian coast, killing scores
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Speaker 2: of shark and fish and destroying oyster caleases and making
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Speaker 2: beaches and orange mess. What's a natural disaster in South Australia.
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Speaker 2: Thinks they are being ignored. There's been a development on
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Speaker 2: that today. I'll have details shortly. Plus, the Greens have
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Speaker 2: labeled an authoritarian cult. Who called them that well one
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Speaker 2: of the original conveners of the far left party, Drew Hartton,
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Speaker 2: who set them up along with Bob Brown. He's been
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Speaker 2: thrown out of the party and is now hitting back
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Speaker 2: accusing the minor party recently led by defeated leader Adam Bam.
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Speaker 2: We don't miss him as being opposed to debate free
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Speaker 2: speech on issues of gender and being focused on non
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Speaker 2: environmental issues instead. We'll talk Greens a bit later, but
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Speaker 2: first up as the Federal Parliament resumes relatedly tomorrow. As
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Speaker 2: I said, with the first physical evidence of how badly
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Speaker 2: the Liberal National Coalition fared on May tenth, a long
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Speaker 2: ten weeks ago, Labor will file into the Lower House
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Speaker 2: and fill ninety four seats and actually spill over, we're
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Speaker 2: told into the coalition side of the House potentially. Polling
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Speaker 2: yesterday showed the picture is even worse now for the
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Speaker 2: opposition than it was on election day, with the coalition's
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Speaker 2: primary votes thinking to twenty nine percent. As Peter Kredlin
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Speaker 2: said tonight, she could remember when it was at that level,
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Speaker 2: and I said, you have to go back to the
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Speaker 2: nineteen forties to find them in such a dire situation.
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Speaker 2: Now you have to feel for the new leader, Susan Lee.
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Speaker 2: If she survives, she's staring at best best case scenario,
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Speaker 2: two terms in opposition and who'd want to do that job?
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Speaker 2: And as I pointed out, the states are mostly in
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Speaker 2: as bad, if not worse situations, but are probably Queensland now.
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Speaker 2: Policy is what Susan Lee and her party must concentrate
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Speaker 2: on because, believe me, labor might be hugely popular in
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Speaker 2: City Sydney, in Melbourne and New South Wales and South Australia,
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Speaker 2: and South Australians might be content with Peter malinowskis in
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Speaker 2: New South Wales with Chris Mens, but get outside the
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Speaker 2: metro areas and regional and rural Australia are on a
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Speaker 2: collision course with the state and federal governments. They feel unloved,
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Speaker 2: they feel ignored and used. Now it varies from state
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Speaker 2: to state, obviously, but the insistence from federal labor supported
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Speaker 2: by the Greens, to carpet bomb their communities with green
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Speaker 2: energy projects refusing to listen to their complaints is and
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Speaker 2: I've been saying this for some time, this is going
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Speaker 2: to explode into a massive issue.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: If you don't believe me, take a drive west of
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Speaker 2: Sydney or Melbourne. I drove through the small town of Rokewood,
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Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty six kilometers northwest of Melbourne yesterday,
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Speaker 2: just yesterday. Population of that little town, Ropewood couple one hundred,
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Speaker 2: maybe two fifty three hundred people. Now, this little community,
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Speaker 2: and I was staggered at what I saw is surrounded
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Speaker 2: by giant wind turbines of the Golden Plane's wind Farm,
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Speaker 2: the biggest wind farm in Victoria. It hosts for now
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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty two wind turbines of almost one
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Speaker 2: for every human that lives in that village. And normally
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Speaker 2: these things are situated off in the distance, but to
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Speaker 2: drive past one sitting on a boundary fence next to
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Speaker 2: an almost single lane road is frightening. Yesterday in that
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Speaker 2: area started around two or three degrees in the morning.
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Speaker 2: The sun was out, but almost zero wind, and these
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Speaker 2: things just sat there, barely turning.
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Speaker 3: I kid you not.
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Speaker 2: I felt like some alien invasion had taken place surrounding
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Speaker 2: this little town. And there were hundreds more of these
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Speaker 2: things off on the horizon doing absolutely nothing. Now, if
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Speaker 2: you were to suggest putting one of these things in
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Speaker 2: suburbia one, there would be a riot. But no, it's
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Speaker 2: a bush that will be made to suffer. Golden pl
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Speaker 2: by the way, is owned largely by two companies, TAG
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Speaker 2: Energy and a mob called inca group. On their website,
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Speaker 2: TAG admits the turbines are situated brought in broad acre
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Speaker 2: cropping land and livestock grazing land. They make a claim
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Speaker 2: this wind factory will be big enough to power seven
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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five thousand homes and then this prevent
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Speaker 2: four point five million tons of carbon dioxide being emitted
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Speaker 2: annually into the atmosphere. I mean, you and I can,
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Speaker 2: and you can make up these numbers. You can pluck
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Speaker 2: any sort of figures you like to make a case
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Speaker 2: like they are trying to make. Tag Energy, by the way,
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Speaker 2: is foreign owned by a combination of French and Italian
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Speaker 2: investors founded in twenty nineteen by French entrepreneur Jacques vai
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Speaker 2: Rat and the Agnelli family. The Agnelli family you might
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Speaker 2: know their name. They own Ferrari, the Italian football team Juventus,
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Speaker 2: and lots of other major staff. Now clearly these Europeans
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Speaker 2: see a buck to be made building wind farms in Australia.
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Speaker 2: But as the head of the Australian Industry Group Innus
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Speaker 2: Willocks said in a speech at the weekend, and here
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Speaker 2: this in the context of that foreign owned wind farm
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Speaker 2: in Rokewood in a set Australia doesn't make much of
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Speaker 2: anything anymore.
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Speaker 3: He used figures to show.
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Speaker 2: In fact, in the year ending June twenty twenty fourth
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Speaker 2: or so a year ago, saw one hundred and thirty
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Speaker 2: six manufacturing businesses closed down, and in this pointed out,
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Speaker 2: we don't even make peanut butter anymore.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't believe that, so I checked.
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Speaker 2: I've got a jar of bigger, crunchy peanut butter out
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Speaker 2: of the pantry. It carries a label saying made in Australia.
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Speaker 2: Then this with quote at least ten percent Australian produce.
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Speaker 2: My point here we are with a dominant labor victory
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Speaker 2: in May off the back of a promise to make
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Speaker 2: things in Australia, and we are going to in the
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Speaker 2: other direction at a wrapper rate, even surrounding small country
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Speaker 2: towns with foreign owned and foreign made wind turbines dominating
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Speaker 2: the Australian fam farming landscape. Look, if Susanly in the
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Speaker 2: Coalition want to make some noise starting tomorrow, they might
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Speaker 2: start right there. Let's get into our first panel tonight.
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Speaker 2: And by sheer coincidence, and I mean that given my
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Speaker 2: experience yesterday, farmers in New South Wales have resoundingly rejected
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Speaker 2: a wind farm project plans to build ninety wind turbines.
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Speaker 2: This is between the towns have been along and Bounding.
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Speaker 2: They are clashing with green energy executives. This was a
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Speaker 2: fiery hearing at the Bounding town hall yesterday. You've seen
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Speaker 2: some of the vision already tonight. But here's some of
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Speaker 2: that drama unfolding.
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Speaker 3: Avan Tyler's where the best is gone for the transmission
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Speaker 3: lines you've driven flats?
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Speaker 4: Come on?
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Speaker 1: This is it really is? Bush?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Thanks the mental health, let's go into the mental health.
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Speaker 1: Everything's alive.
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Speaker 4: I'm and I know quite a few are there.
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Speaker 5: And I've got rain and out of like that is
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Speaker 5: looking in those hills and all actually is turbites right now.
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Speaker 2: That farm had tried to raise the issue of mental
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Speaker 2: health and someone tried to pull him away. I'm glad
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Speaker 2: he kept going. This was reported in the Daily Telegraph
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Speaker 2: today by James Willis, who joins me now in our panel,
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Speaker 2: as well as Sky and News contributed Joe hild around.
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Speaker 3: Great to see you both, Jonames. Can you tell us more?
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Speaker 3: What was the how angry was that in that room?
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Speaker 6: Well, Steve, I spent a couple of days around Yas.
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Speaker 6: This is around three hours from Sydney, and it wasn't
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Speaker 6: just Glenn Miller that you heard. It was a number
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Speaker 6: of land owners who have been on these properties for decades,
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Speaker 6: some of them dating back to World War Two. The
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Speaker 6: purchases land that have been feeding the nation or clothing
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Speaker 6: the nation.
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Speaker 3: When it comes to Marino wool.
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Speaker 6: They've had all sorts of issues with fires in regards
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Speaker 6: to drought, they've got volatile prices. The export market has
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Speaker 6: largely dried up, particularly in regards to wool, and all
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Speaker 6: of a sudden, these green energy bureaucrats not bureaucrats rather,
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Speaker 6: but executives have come up from Melbourne, have put a
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Speaker 6: map in front of them that shows around their property
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Speaker 6: and said we're going to be building ninety turbines the
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Speaker 6: size of Sydney's Crown Barangaroo, two hundred and sixty meters each. Now,
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Speaker 6: the worst part about this, Steve, and I just think
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Speaker 6: this is disgraceful behavior, is that a number of landholders
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Speaker 6: have done secret deals to host these turbines so they'll
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Speaker 6: be financially well off in the years ahead, and the
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Speaker 6: neighbors on the neighboring properties just around the edges have
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Speaker 6: no deal, found out about this via the neighbors, not
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Speaker 6: via the private company, and are now fighting back because
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Speaker 6: they're worried about these turbines being on the boundary, the
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Speaker 6: impact on land value, all the other potential impacts of
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Speaker 6: the construction and the ongo maintenance and everything like that,
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Speaker 6: and they're genuinely concerned about what this looks like, don't
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Speaker 6: have a voice, have tried to front up, and so
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Speaker 6: far they've got nowhere. So we're getting right behind them.
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Speaker 6: And as you've said off the top, you mentioned the
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Speaker 6: example in Victoria, this is happening right across the country
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Speaker 6: with these foreign owned net zero companies. They're coming in
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Speaker 6: to make a quick buck and the farmers don't even
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Speaker 6: get a cheap power bill out of it. Steve, if
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Speaker 6: they're next door, you think they get clean energy or
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Speaker 6: cheap energy for the next twenty years. It goes straight
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Speaker 6: through to the grid they've forgotten about. I think the
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Speaker 6: whole thing is disgraceful and this is one example of
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Speaker 6: many across the country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you just wonder, you know, where's Anthony Albaneze's
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Speaker 2: election promise where he said he was going to make
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Speaker 2: things in Australia. I mean, these wind turbines, Joe are
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Speaker 2: largely produced in China. They're imported into the country. And
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Speaker 2: as James and I have just pointed out, there these
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Speaker 2: two operations one hundred and twenty two of these things
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Speaker 2: at Rokewood ninety nine down there at Bounding. They're just
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Speaker 2: taking me over decent agricultu land and splitting rural communities.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be end up very ugly.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I think the thing that you really pointed to that
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Speaker 5: nailed was the fact that it is tearing farmers apart.
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Speaker 5: That there are farmers who were saying, yes, I want
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Speaker 5: this on my land, I can make money out of it,
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Speaker 5: and there are farmers who are completely blindsided by that decision,
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Speaker 5: and also the perception that these companies and operations that
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Speaker 5: don't actually have any real interest in the community. There
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Speaker 5: foreign owned and they just want to come in, make
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Speaker 5: as much money as they can.
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Speaker 3: And get out.
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Speaker 5: I was just saying to James off Air about how
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Speaker 5: a few years ago I was at a Daily Telegraph
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Speaker 5: bush summit in Tamworth and this was a white hot
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Speaker 5: issue and again we saw the same thing where it
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Speaker 5: wasn't that there was universal opposition to the wind farms.
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Speaker 5: It was the fact that people felt like the choice
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Speaker 5: wasn't in their hands, that these were decisions that had
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Speaker 5: already been made and they didn't get a say in them.
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Speaker 5: And that obviously makes people very anxious and angry if
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Speaker 5: they think it's going to affect their livelihoods or the
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Speaker 5: value of their property and be there there wasn't an
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Speaker 5: actual genuine interest, or that these big wind farm operators
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Speaker 5: weren't part of the community. And these regional communities are
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Speaker 5: really really close knit, and there are other experiences where
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Speaker 5: other operators, Australia owned operators were having the reverse result,
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Speaker 5: where they were consulting with the community. They were making
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Speaker 5: sure that everyone knew where these things were going, that
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Speaker 5: the path of the transmission lines or whatever it was
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Speaker 5: could be negotiated, that it would have less impact, that
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Speaker 5: the company would make sure they invested in community projects
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Speaker 5: and things like community sports. So they were seeing as
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Speaker 5: actually having a stake in the communities they were sticking
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Speaker 5: these things in. So I think these things will be done,
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Speaker 5: but they have to be done a lot, a lot better,
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Speaker 5: and they have to give people who were impacted either
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Speaker 5: a saying what's going on and also compensation.
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Speaker 4: If they'll see.
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Speaker 6: The final point on that, if I can just make
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Speaker 6: it very quickly, is that the price of knits zero
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Speaker 6: and the consequence of net zero and the requirement of
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Speaker 6: net zero and Frustralia to reduce its emissions surely cannot
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Speaker 6: be to force farmers in an already struggling industry. I mean,
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Speaker 6: who would be a farmer these days off their land
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Speaker 6: for good. We've still got to feed people moving forward,
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Speaker 6: and it's going to be forcing them off because of
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Speaker 6: these turbine projects or solar panels or transmission lines. Then
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Speaker 6: we really really need to consider the social license here
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Speaker 6: tiny towns have already done their heavy lifting and if
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Speaker 6: it doesn't work, well, then we need to make a
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Speaker 6: hard call.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you mentioned transmission lines in Victoria. I mean
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Speaker 2: the Victorian government is going to force through this massive
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Speaker 2: project that runs out of southern New South Wales into Victoria,
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Speaker 2: linking all these things up because the current transmission lines
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Speaker 2: can't cope with carrying what they're pumping out. And they've
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Speaker 2: told farmers, well, this is where it's going, and you've
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Speaker 2: got no say. And if you lock your gate and
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Speaker 2: refuse to let the people come on and build these
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Speaker 2: transmission towers, which are not as big as the turbines,
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Speaker 2: but they're still pretty big, then you'll be fined up
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Speaker 2: to fourteen thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: Joe.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we've got governments finding farmers for wanting to
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Speaker 2: have their own land used the way they want to
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Speaker 2: use it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And again it is just I mean, in a way,
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Speaker 5: it's almost about the bedside manner, isn't it. It's about
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Speaker 5: governments just imposing these things from the top down and saying, well,
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Speaker 5: we've got the power to do this, and we're going
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Speaker 5: to do it whether you like it or not, or
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Speaker 5: actually sitting down with farmers, with locals who know the landscape,
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Speaker 5: and say, right, is there a way that we could
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Speaker 5: put these, in this case, transmission lines in where it
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Speaker 5: wouldn't be visible from the house or the neighboring property,
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Speaker 5: or where it could follow a tree line, or so
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Speaker 5: it wouldn't be as intrusive. Is there a case for
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Speaker 5: compensation to make up for the disruption or any use
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Speaker 5: of loss of land, or even just the fact that
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Speaker 5: these things are clearly not particularly nice to look at.
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Speaker 5: So I think these things, you know, are going to
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Speaker 5: have to be done. But all everything I've heard is
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Speaker 5: that when there is real consultation, and when communities are
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Speaker 5: listened to and feel like they're given the opportunity either
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Speaker 5: to benefit from it or at least be compensated for it,
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Speaker 5: or at least have a say in it, then these
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Speaker 5: problems can disappear pretty quickly. But when it is just
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Speaker 5: a government saying, right, that's it, here's the line, we're
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Speaker 5: following it. If you don't like it, tough, because we've
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Speaker 5: got the cops on our side, then that's when you
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Speaker 5: see this sort of white hot anger that James's has
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Speaker 5: revealed today.
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Speaker 2: On the environment and the Greens. I heard an interview
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Speaker 2: today on radio with one of the founders of the
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Speaker 2: Greens Party, Drew Hutton. Now, Drew Hutton and Bob Brown
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Speaker 2: set up the Greens Party back in the eighties.
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Speaker 3: Now Drew's been expelled.
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Speaker 2: He had confirmed that in the interview I heard today,
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Speaker 2: because he had a series of Facebook posts about the
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Speaker 2: party's pro transstance. Now it wasn't what he wrote, it
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Speaker 2: was the comments that came on the back of that article.
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Speaker 2: Now he said, the party's co founder, he said, quote,
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Speaker 2: the Greens are basically a cult, and the Colts take
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Speaker 2: over the Greens. This is deeply authoritarian cult that is
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Speaker 2: opposed to any debate or any free speech on issues
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Speaker 2: of gender. These people would expel Bob Brown if he
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Speaker 2: said anything they disagreed with. I mean, James, the Greens
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Speaker 2: are no longer the Greens that we all grew up with.
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Speaker 2: I mean I remember going down the Franklin Dam interviewing
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Speaker 2: Bob Brown standing there with his no damn sign. That's
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Speaker 2: what the Greens were about. They're now pro Palestine. There
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Speaker 2: are about a whole bunch of issues that don't have
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Speaker 2: anything to do with the environment.
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Speaker 3: It was quite interesting.
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Speaker 6: Steve when we spoke about the first issue tonight in
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Speaker 6: regards to these farmers fighting back. A lot of the
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Speaker 6: farmers that I spoke to in the last few days
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Speaker 6: around Yas would be greenies, would probably vote green, or
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Speaker 6: traditionally vote close to Green, but the party has gone
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Speaker 6: so far to the wacky left you couldn't even call
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Speaker 6: them left now. I mean, they're sort of diagonal left.
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Speaker 6: I'd say maybe lower left. Joe would probably be able
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Speaker 6: to clarify that a little bit better, but certainly we
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Speaker 6: saw it the last federal election wash against the Greens
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Speaker 6: and the swings towards labor and the focus that people
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Speaker 6: like Adam Band had on issues in the Middle East,
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Speaker 6: which I mean is just astonishing. And the fact that
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Speaker 6: green governments in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe,
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Speaker 6: embrace things like nuclear power. Elected governments that are sort
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Speaker 6: of in power, that are green, that are saying that
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Speaker 6: we need nuclear as part of our energy mix moving forward.
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Speaker 6: They've just lost their way.
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Speaker 1: They need new leadership.
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Speaker 6: They need to come back to the right or the
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Speaker 6: upper right or whatever the opposite is of what I
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Speaker 6: just said. But it's crazy stuff and we saw that,
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Speaker 6: and they were punished at the ballot box and rightly so.
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Speaker 3: Well, Joe's an expert on the levels of left right.
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Speaker 3: Clear that up for us.
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Speaker 2: But Joe, we now know why Adam Bent lost at
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Speaker 2: Ceedar Melbourne, don't we. I mean Cedar Melbourne is full
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Speaker 2: of Green voters, but they turned on him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 5: Basically, the Greens have become sort of hollowed down out
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Speaker 5: and replaced with communists, basically by stalinists, the extreme hard
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Speaker 5: left who needed a place to go after the Communist
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Speaker 5: Party of Australia and various other organizations were clearly discovered
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Speaker 5: they were not going to win any elections anytime soon,
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Speaker 5: and that all these people basically infiltrated the Greens in
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Speaker 5: a similar way. So they rushed to infiltrate the UK
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Speaker 5: Labor Party under Jeremy Corbyn.
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Speaker 1: And this is the result.
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Speaker 5: I mean, imagine Bob Brown defending the vandalism or defacement
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Speaker 5: of Australian wargraves or the Australian War Memorial.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it just would never ever happen.
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Speaker 5: And this party that used to be kind of perhaps
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Speaker 5: slightly idealistic, but fairly you know, lovable, peaceful, harmless hippies
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Speaker 5: who just wanted to save the environment has become overrun
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Speaker 5: by hardcore Marxist ideologues, and so it does come with
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Speaker 5: a whole suite of sort of a shopping trolley full
18:56
Speaker 5: of beliefs that you have to either take or leave
18:59
Speaker 5: on mass, in which you have to absolutely pledge, full
19:03
Speaker 5: throat at fundamental, uncompromising, one hundred percent allegiance to Otherwise
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Speaker 5: you are immediately denounced and you're effectively politically taken out
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Speaker 5: the back and shot. And that's exactly what happened with
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Speaker 5: Drew Hutton. The trans right stuff, that's just a mcguffin.
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Speaker 5: It doesn't matter whether it's the issue of trans rights,
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Speaker 5: or if it's Palestine or any host of any other
19:25
Speaker 5: issues you could name. They say, right, this is the
19:27
Speaker 5: most ideologically pure position. This is our position. We can
19:33
Speaker 5: afford to take it, however unrealistic it is, because we
19:35
Speaker 5: never actually have to make decisions or balance a budget
19:37
Speaker 5: or be held accountable. And if you don't adopt it,
19:40
Speaker 5: you're out mate. You get taken out the back as
19:43
Speaker 5: a trader, as someone who has failed to toe the
19:48
Speaker 5: labor's party line. And again that's why you have in
19:50
Speaker 5: Victorian Greens as well. There are all these schisms between
19:53
Speaker 5: you know, sort of people who are hardcore feminists who
19:56
Speaker 5: are now being told that they have to have taken
19:59
Speaker 5: biological male people in their bathrooms with the.
20:02
Speaker 2: Mate taken out them, taken out the back and executed.
20:06
Speaker 3: Joe James. Good to see you boys. Thank you very much.
20:08
Speaker 1: Mate.
20:09
Speaker 3: We'll catch up with you next week. Now.
20:11
Speaker 2: I sped last week, as I said, in Adelaide, and
20:13
Speaker 2: I can tell you South Australians were filthy that an environmental,
20:18
Speaker 2: speaking of the environment, environmental disaster was unfolding on their doorstep.
20:22
Speaker 2: Now until today, this has been largely ignored by Canberra.
20:27
Speaker 2: It's an algae bloom that started south and South Australian
20:30
Speaker 2: capital that since spread north along even suburban Adelaide beaches,
20:34
Speaker 2: killing marine life, threatening tourism leading into the warmer months.
20:38
Speaker 2: I mean, those beaches are beautiful, but who's going to
20:40
Speaker 2: drive over to South Australia to swim there if you've
20:43
Speaker 2: got this bloom attack underway?
20:45
Speaker 3: Now.
20:45
Speaker 2: I heard an interview on Adelaide's talkback station five Double
20:48
Speaker 2: A on Friday with the Federal Minister for the Environment
20:51
Speaker 2: and Water Murray What who basically said, oh well, I'll
20:54
Speaker 2: go and look into this outbreak. I mean what followed
20:57
Speaker 2: was a barrage of angry callers labeling worry what the
21:00
Speaker 2: Minister for Mirrors are always looking into things now? He,
21:03
Speaker 2: I believe, was shocked by the reaction, and I tailed
21:07
Speaker 2: it over to Adelaide today to have a look for
21:09
Speaker 2: himself and talk to people in the fisheries industry about
21:13
Speaker 2: the impact. One oyster farmer by the way on your
21:16
Speaker 2: peninsula says he's not been able to harvest and cell
21:18
Speaker 2: oysters for over seventy days, so that's how long this
21:21
Speaker 2: has been going on for. And a worker I talked
21:24
Speaker 2: to face to face on Friday pumping sand along Adelaide's
21:28
Speaker 2: beaches even told me that a baby dolphin at Glenelg
21:32
Speaker 2: had to be euthanized last week after.
21:35
Speaker 3: It washed up barely alive.
21:37
Speaker 2: Now late today, miraculously we learn the federal government's going
21:41
Speaker 2: to sign a check for fourteen million dollars for a
21:43
Speaker 2: rescue plan. But still no declaration of a natural disaster
21:48
Speaker 2: as you would have say, during a flood or a cyclone.
21:51
Speaker 2: Joining me now, South Australian Liberal Senator Leah blythe a
21:56
Speaker 2: senator too little, too late from Murray, what.
22:05
Speaker 7: Dolphins, seals, all sorts of marine life.
22:11
Speaker 3: Go ahead, you got me?
22:13
Speaker 7: Sorry, yes, So I was going to say, this has
22:14
Speaker 7: been going on for months in South Australia and we
22:17
Speaker 7: have had marine life washing up along our beaches. I
22:21
Speaker 7: was briefed by the Department back in June and they
22:26
Speaker 7: were saying if this hit the metropolitan beaches, that would
22:29
Speaker 7: be absolute worst case scenario. That's now happened. This is
22:34
Speaker 7: far too little, too late. What has the government been
22:39
Speaker 7: doing for all of these months preparing South Australians looking
22:43
Speaker 7: out for fisheries. I mean it's hundreds of millions of dollars.
22:47
Speaker 7: Those industries are worth to the national economy and they've
22:52
Speaker 7: heard nothing until today. So you know, this seems to
22:55
Speaker 7: be something that's happening at the eve of Federal Parliament
22:58
Speaker 7: going back. It's not enough and we want to see more.
23:04
Speaker 2: And what flies in and starts peering at the sand.
23:07
Speaker 2: I mean he would not have a clue. I mean,
23:09
Speaker 2: I'm a South Australian, so I understand the purity of
23:12
Speaker 2: the seafood industry out of your state. Whether it's fish
23:17
Speaker 2: or whether it's crayfish, whether it's.
23:18
Speaker 3: Oysters, prawns, you name it.
23:20
Speaker 2: That is all at risk, let alone the impact this
23:24
Speaker 2: might have down the track on tourism.
23:28
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and as you've mentioned, we've got oyster farmers who
23:32
Speaker 7: haven't been able to harvest their oysters and sell them on.
23:36
Speaker 7: And you know, I'm biased, I'm born and bred in Adelaide,
23:39
Speaker 7: but i think we have some of the best seafood
23:42
Speaker 7: in the world, and you know it is at risk
23:44
Speaker 7: of some of those international markets that we export into.
23:48
Speaker 7: But also we're very spoiled in South Australia. We get
23:51
Speaker 7: to eat some of the most amazing seafood and I'm
23:55
Speaker 7: really concerned. We've got regional communities that absolutely rely on
23:59
Speaker 7: the seafood and aquaculture industries in South Australia and they
24:05
Speaker 7: haven't been able to do their jobs. So this is
24:08
Speaker 7: this is absolutely impacting the livelihoods of everyday Australians and
24:13
Speaker 7: South Australians along our coast, and there doesn't seem to
24:16
Speaker 7: be any sort of plan. And you know, I might
24:18
Speaker 7: add that these are communities that are also facing significant
24:22
Speaker 7: drought in South Australia, so this is just something else
24:25
Speaker 7: to add to their plate. And as you've rightly mentioned,
24:28
Speaker 7: you know we will come into peak tourism season as
24:32
Speaker 7: the months get warmer. You know, do you want to
24:35
Speaker 7: be going to our beautiful, pristine seaside locations if we've
24:40
Speaker 7: got dead marine life washing up on it? You know
24:43
Speaker 7: that it's not something that our tourists are going to
24:46
Speaker 7: want to do.
24:48
Speaker 3: Leah.
24:48
Speaker 2: What puzzles me is Premier melnowskis, who I've got some
24:52
Speaker 2: regard for. I think, you know, he's one of the
24:54
Speaker 2: good guys in the in the Labor party. What has
24:57
Speaker 2: he been shouting at Canberra saying what are you going
24:59
Speaker 2: to do? I've not seen any reports of him making
25:03
Speaker 2: a rock solid case to his labor mates in Canberra
25:08
Speaker 2: to get this situation under control and fixed.
25:12
Speaker 7: It seems like they were sort of burying their head
25:14
Speaker 7: in the sand, so to speak. And that's a little
25:16
Speaker 7: bit of a pun when we're looking at coastal waters.
25:19
Speaker 7: But I certainly didn't see any evidence of that. In
25:23
Speaker 7: South Australia. It was very much let's wait and watch
25:26
Speaker 7: and see what happens. And what seems to have happened
25:29
Speaker 7: is the worst case scenario is now playing out for
25:33
Speaker 7: South Australia and it certainly appears to me as a
25:36
Speaker 7: South Australian that the government, both state and federal have
25:41
Speaker 7: been caught unawares and unprepared, and it is really really disappointing,
25:48
Speaker 7: as I said, for all of those businesses that rely
25:50
Speaker 7: on the ocean for their livelihood and tourists that want
25:54
Speaker 7: to come and enjoy the pristine waters, not to mention
25:56
Speaker 7: just local South Australians who walk every day with their
26:00
Speaker 7: dogs and their children along the beaches. You know, we've
26:03
Speaker 7: had even instances of dogs that have been sick because
26:06
Speaker 7: of the algall blooms. So you know, this is something
26:09
Speaker 7: where I don't think the premiere of South Australia has
26:12
Speaker 7: done enough to put this absolute disaster on the map.
26:17
Speaker 7: And I think it's fair to say, you know, we've
26:19
Speaker 7: been saying for a long time that if this was
26:22
Speaker 7: on the coast of Sydney or Melbourne, we would have
26:25
Speaker 7: seen action far sooner. And you know, today, while I
26:29
Speaker 7: welcome sum Relay, fourteen million dollars is a drop in
26:34
Speaker 7: the ocean. You know, we are talking about, you know,
26:37
Speaker 7: half a billion dollar industry and this is not going
26:40
Speaker 7: to help. That doesn't even take into account tourism providers,
26:44
Speaker 7: you know, people that are going out recreational fishes. This
26:48
Speaker 7: is you know, far too little and I don't think
26:52
Speaker 7: we are going to see any kind of plan in
26:56
Speaker 7: terms of what does it mean when the water's warm
26:59
Speaker 7: up again with the warmer summer months coming, are we
27:02
Speaker 7: going to see the bloom get bigger?
27:05
Speaker 8: You know, where.
27:06
Speaker 7: Is the planning that's coming to make sure that South Australians.
27:09
Speaker 1: Are prepared.
27:12
Speaker 3: A complete disaster?
27:13
Speaker 2: And you know, keep talking about it because obviously Camber
27:17
Speaker 2: needs to be embarrassed before they do anything. Senator, thank
27:19
Speaker 2: you very much for your time tonight. Now coming up
27:22
Speaker 2: after the break still to come, Victoria's facing what is
27:25
Speaker 2: called an economic day of reckoning?
27:27
Speaker 3: Is it ever?
27:28
Speaker 2: That's the assessment of experts from out of the state.
27:31
Speaker 2: I'll be joined by Shadow Victorian Treasurer James Newbury a
27:34
Speaker 2: little later to discuss that. But first up, politicians. They're
27:39
Speaker 2: all back in Canberra this week. The PM even walked
27:41
Speaker 2: to work with his son as the Liberal Party languishes
27:45
Speaker 2: in the polls. Radio legend Ray Hadley, a regular with
27:48
Speaker 2: Shari on a Tuesday on a Monday night, will join
27:52
Speaker 2: me live. That's up next, welcome back to see price
27:58
Speaker 2: in for Sharima.
28:00
Speaker 3: All this week and next.
28:01
Speaker 2: Now Prime minust Anthony Albanez. He walked to work today
28:04
Speaker 2: with his son Nice Pitchers, and he addressed the Labor
28:06
Speaker 2: Party caucus once he got there. Parliament doesn't sit until
28:10
Speaker 2: tomorrow and that will largely be ceremonial. It won't have
28:13
Speaker 2: a question time. I don't think it was exactly a
28:16
Speaker 2: visionary speech, but the Prime Minister did promise quote a
28:20
Speaker 2: year of delivery for Australians.
28:22
Speaker 9: Have a look at what he had to say, permanently
28:26
Speaker 9: lowing people's power bills as well as helping the entire
28:32
Speaker 9: system because it takes pressure off.
28:35
Speaker 10: The energy grid.
28:37
Speaker 4: That is our down.
28:38
Speaker 10: Payment on what will be our year of delivery. That
28:42
Speaker 10: is our focus. We've just been through an election. We
28:45
Speaker 10: had clear commitments and we want to deliver them this
28:50
Speaker 10: week and this fortnite. We start on the next trunch.
28:56
Speaker 2: Well, that comment at the beginning there, it was about
28:58
Speaker 2: batteries and people being able to put the.
29:01
Speaker 3: Energy that they actually bring in in.
29:03
Speaker 2: Solar and wind into a battery. Well, the whole thing
29:06
Speaker 2: seemed like a grab bag of handing out money, which
29:08
Speaker 2: I guess is what got Anthony Albaniz he elected in
29:11
Speaker 2: the first place. Hex's debt payments to youngsters, maternity leaves, superannuation,
29:17
Speaker 2: minimum wage rises, all very labor promises. Joining me now
29:20
Speaker 2: Sharrige Monday Night regular and my old mate from Rato
29:23
Speaker 2: two GB days now a retired professional golfer and professional grandfather,
29:28
Speaker 2: Ray Hadley.
29:28
Speaker 3: Great to catch up with you, my friend.
29:30
Speaker 11: How are you who could believe it too retired or
29:33
Speaker 11: semi retired in your case shock jocks back together. We
29:37
Speaker 11: started our time to back in most two thousand at
29:39
Speaker 11: the Sydney Olympics when I only did sport and you
29:42
Speaker 11: were a trumpet three aw and gave me the gig.
29:47
Speaker 1: And I really enjoyed it.
29:48
Speaker 11: And here we are back there. Did all the work,
29:50
Speaker 11: well that was you did all the work.
29:52
Speaker 3: I did all the celebrating.
29:54
Speaker 11: Yeah, you're on that boat down on the harbor somewhere
29:56
Speaker 11: most of the time.
29:57
Speaker 1: I think.
29:58
Speaker 11: Anyway, we got bigger fister right now, Steve, look my
30:04
Speaker 11: eyes glaze over every time is to talk about energy.
30:09
Speaker 2: Well, you and I at some time over the past
30:13
Speaker 2: few years have had some regard for Anthony alber Easy.
30:16
Speaker 2: I mean you used to have him regularly on radio.
30:19
Speaker 2: I used to talk to him occasionally on radio. I
30:21
Speaker 2: once went and had a very pleasant lunch with him.
30:24
Speaker 2: That was when he was both in opposition serving under Rudden.
30:27
Speaker 2: But it doesn't seem to have grown into the job
30:31
Speaker 2: at all. You're a great observer of these things. What's
30:34
Speaker 2: happened to his personality.
30:36
Speaker 11: He's been promoted beyond his station in life, That's simply
30:39
Speaker 11: what's happened.
30:40
Speaker 1: I used to knock around with him at football games.
30:43
Speaker 1: He's an Arden South City supporter.
30:45
Speaker 11: Of course, when I called a lot of football back
30:47
Speaker 11: in the day, and I always had a lot of
30:48
Speaker 11: time for him. But as I just said, my eyes
30:52
Speaker 11: glaze over every time I listened to him talk about energy.
30:56
Speaker 1: I listened to Joe and James a bit earlier.
30:59
Speaker 11: The greens are non event now and we're relying upon
31:02
Speaker 11: Casnova Bowen and the Prime Minister to guide us through
31:06
Speaker 11: wind farms, solar panels, electric cars that only get your
31:10
Speaker 11: three hundred and fifty k's in a pinch and then recharge.
31:14
Speaker 1: In the middle of nowhere.
31:15
Speaker 11: We've got offshore wind farms being spoken about still, despite
31:19
Speaker 11: the fact that people that are supposed to build them
31:20
Speaker 11: from Europe said leave us out of it.
31:22
Speaker 1: The tender process is flowed.
31:24
Speaker 11: We don't want to do it anymore, either off Wollongong
31:26
Speaker 11: or Port Stevens and probably off the Victorian.
31:28
Speaker 1: Coast as well.
31:30
Speaker 11: And I mean he just said again in that clip
31:33
Speaker 11: you played for your viewers that you know he's promising reductions.
31:37
Speaker 1: We've been listening to that for four years. Where's the
31:40
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy five bucks we were promised all
31:42
Speaker 1: those years ago?
31:43
Speaker 11: Never materialized and this is just another promise that he'll
31:46
Speaker 11: break down the track.
31:50
Speaker 3: Yeah he got I.
31:50
Speaker 2: Mean you think he would have learned, because I mean
31:52
Speaker 2: he went around promising low power bills and we never
31:54
Speaker 2: got him. As you say, it's interesting too the words
31:59
Speaker 2: that have disappeared out of the agenda. Now we don't
32:03
Speaker 2: hear much about the cost of living crisis anymore. I mean,
32:06
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you about the opposition in a moment,
32:08
Speaker 2: because part of that is their fault. But Albo doesn't
32:11
Speaker 2: seem to realize he's off running around with pandas and
32:14
Speaker 2: wandering around the Great Wall of China. How does he
32:17
Speaker 2: think that looks to people sitting down in their lounge
32:19
Speaker 2: room tonight with their electricity bill, trying to work out
32:22
Speaker 2: if they can pay their mortgage next month.
32:25
Speaker 11: He should be more concerned about what Donald Trump thinks
32:27
Speaker 11: about him having his fourth visit to the Chinese leader
32:30
Speaker 11: without even meeting Donald Trump, despite him being there for
32:33
Speaker 11: a fair time, and as you say, it was all
32:36
Speaker 11: about pandas it was all about feeling good and hail fellow,
32:40
Speaker 11: well met, and then misquoted a Taiwan as the Chinese do.
32:46
Speaker 11: They said, I know he's fully supporting us moving into
32:49
Speaker 11: Taiwan and taking over.
32:51
Speaker 1: It's not what he said.
32:52
Speaker 11: But because he's over there shaking hands and glad handing
32:56
Speaker 11: the Chinese leaders looking like one of them, well of
33:01
Speaker 11: course they're going to misquote him and misuse his language
33:05
Speaker 11: and say things he didn't say. And he's got to
33:08
Speaker 11: now clarify all that and say, well, on a second, now,
33:11
Speaker 11: I'm opposed to what they're trying to do to Taiwan.
33:13
Speaker 11: And he still has enunciated really in clear terms that
33:18
Speaker 11: we rely upon the United States of America, not just
33:20
Speaker 11: in trade, but they saved us in World War tours.
33:24
Speaker 1: I've said here previously with.
33:25
Speaker 11: Shari, and if we're in strife sometime down the track,
33:28
Speaker 11: we're going to need some help from them again. So
33:31
Speaker 11: he's got to really really work hard to make sure
33:34
Speaker 11: they're not offside, particularly the leader. He's got to make
33:38
Speaker 11: sure Donald Trump's happy with him, and whatever it takes,
33:41
Speaker 11: he's got to do it.
33:44
Speaker 3: You've always been a winner in life.
33:46
Speaker 2: How'd you like to be? Susan lee trying to run
33:49
Speaker 2: the coalition? She's staring at least six years probably in opposition.
33:54
Speaker 2: The Libs are down to the worst polling figures they've
33:56
Speaker 2: had since the nineteen forties, their primary votes down at
34:00
Speaker 2: twenty nine percent. Is that brand, in your view savable?
34:06
Speaker 2: I mean, could Jerry Harvey even savored.
34:09
Speaker 1: No, not if he offered you five years interest free.
34:13
Speaker 11: As far as Susan Leed's concerned, I've said before she
34:15
Speaker 11: won't lead the party.
34:16
Speaker 1: To the next election. I wouldn't think and that's not
34:20
Speaker 1: denigrating her.
34:22
Speaker 11: But you know they've been battling all these weeks and
34:25
Speaker 11: months since the election about gender equality and the first
34:29
Speaker 11: thing she did when she's in the chair and sack
34:31
Speaker 11: two of the most capable females that were serving under
34:34
Speaker 11: Peter Dutton. Look, it's uninspiring stuff. I'm not surprised by
34:40
Speaker 11: the news poll out the day. They've got a herculian task.
34:43
Speaker 11: Of course, it's not good use for labor. Either their
34:45
Speaker 11: primary voters down as well, but two party preferred. They've
34:48
Speaker 11: increased their lead over what they did in May, so
34:52
Speaker 11: you know they're coasting along. But look they've been looking
34:57
Speaker 11: at themselves for the last three or four months. They've
35:00
Speaker 11: been talking about things both in New South Wales and
35:02
Speaker 11: federally that people.
35:04
Speaker 1: Don't care about.
35:05
Speaker 11: They don't care about gender equality, and they don't care
35:07
Speaker 11: about whether they.
35:08
Speaker 1: Want the best person in the Liberal Party for the job.
35:11
Speaker 11: That's what they want, and it happens to be Susan Lee,
35:14
Speaker 11: or it happens to be just hit a.
35:15
Speaker 1: Price or anyone else. That's who they want doing it.
35:18
Speaker 11: And they're preoccupied with all this stuff and it's just
35:21
Speaker 11: it's green stuff. And as Jay said, I mean the
35:25
Speaker 11: Greens are being wiped off the face of the earth
35:28
Speaker 11: because the environmentalists who started the party been taken over
35:31
Speaker 11: by these people who have social agendas, namely at the moment,
35:35
Speaker 11: Palestine and Gaza and supporting Hamas and all the other
35:39
Speaker 11: rubbish they go on with. And they're irrelevant now. But
35:42
Speaker 11: Susan Lee faces a peculian task to pull this all together.
35:46
Speaker 1: I don't think she can do it. I don't know
35:48
Speaker 1: who can in the party.
35:50
Speaker 11: Maybe Hasty down the track, I don't know, but I
35:53
Speaker 11: don't think she can lead them to the next election
35:55
Speaker 11: and have any hap of winning.
35:58
Speaker 2: I'm glad you mention this because I mean you and
36:01
Speaker 2: I could go out with a bag one hundred dollar
36:02
Speaker 2: notes in the street. You would not find one person
36:05
Speaker 2: who could tell you who the opposition leader of New
36:08
Speaker 2: South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and you might get wa
36:13
Speaker 2: because it's Basil Zempless and he's known for doing what
36:16
Speaker 2: you do so well, calling sport. They wouldn't know, They
36:19
Speaker 2: would have no clue about the rest of them. So
36:21
Speaker 2: they're not only in trouble at a federal level, they're
36:25
Speaker 2: just a basket case in the States.
36:28
Speaker 11: Well, I'd leave Victoria to you because of your expertise
36:30
Speaker 11: down there, but I can talk with some authority in
36:32
Speaker 11: New South Wales. Mark Speakman, every day he leads the
36:36
Speaker 11: Liberal Opposition is a day further away from being elected.
36:39
Speaker 11: Chris Mins, who's not perfect but pretty good, plays him
36:43
Speaker 11: off a break and when really important things are up
36:46
Speaker 11: for the bait. Mark Speakman's are catautionous. Elian's further left
36:51
Speaker 11: than some people on the Labor Party. But the problem
36:55
Speaker 11: is the same as Susan Lee, who you replace him with.
36:57
Speaker 11: There's some very capable women in the Liberal Party in
37:01
Speaker 11: New South Wales, but they're not quite ready I don't
37:03
Speaker 11: think to take over.
37:04
Speaker 1: But it's the same deal with him.
37:07
Speaker 11: They can't possibly win an election in New South Wales with.
37:10
Speaker 1: Mark Speakman as leader. And one day they're.
37:12
Speaker 11: Going to wake up with the fact and say, oh jeez,
37:14
Speaker 11: we've made a blue ear.
37:15
Speaker 1: We better move in another direction.
37:17
Speaker 11: And as you say, you know among New South Wales vaders,
37:23
Speaker 11: I think you find half of them, whether the.
37:25
Speaker 1: Liberal supporters Labor supporters. If you put a photo up,
37:27
Speaker 1: they'd be flat out identifying here he is.
37:32
Speaker 2: I just want to give you a minute to talk
37:34
Speaker 2: about the Newsander campaign to Save the Children campaign. I
37:37
Speaker 2: know you're an ambassador for this. What is this trying
37:40
Speaker 2: to achieve?
37:42
Speaker 11: Well, quite simply working with children checks conducted on the
37:46
Speaker 11: state by state basis, Steve hasn't worked.
37:49
Speaker 1: It hasn't worked. Pedophiles by their.
37:53
Speaker 11: Very nature are devious individuals and what they're able to
37:57
Speaker 11: do is cherry picked from one jurisdiction to the other,
38:00
Speaker 11: as we've seen. Without going into the legalities of it
38:03
Speaker 11: in both Queensland and Victoria at the moment, and after
38:07
Speaker 11: the Raw Commission that Julia Gillard God bless Her initiated,
38:12
Speaker 11: we get to twenty eighteen and the commissioners said, among
38:15
Speaker 11: many recommendations, we need one national body for working with children.
38:21
Speaker 11: We've had successive Liberal National Party governments and Labor governments
38:25
Speaker 11: ignore that plea from the Raw Commissioners. So surely, to
38:29
Speaker 11: goodness Michelle Rowland, the Attorney General and the attorneys general
38:33
Speaker 11: across the states, and the chief ministers from the two
38:38
Speaker 11: places we're talking about, Canberra, the Act and Northern Territory,
38:42
Speaker 11: they've already said, along with five premiers, we need to
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Speaker 11: make it national. It's too hard to deal with on
38:47
Speaker 11: a state by state basis. A national register is needed.
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Speaker 11: As you and I well know. I'm a grandfather of seven,
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Speaker 11: a father of four. We need to protect children. They're
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Speaker 11: our greatest asset. And at the moment, given the charges
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Speaker 11: against these men in Victoria and the conviction and the
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Speaker 11: guilty plea from the Blake in Queensland Ashlee Griffith, I
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Speaker 11: mean it's a race to the bottom. So it's a
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Speaker 11: very simple one for the Attorney General look, I beg you, Michelle, you're.
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Speaker 1: A good person.
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Speaker 11: Line them up at the meeting next month and say, listen, guys,
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Speaker 11: what we're doing is it's national.
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Speaker 1: No debate required, it's national.
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Speaker 11: We're going to formulate a policy to give the working
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Speaker 11: with children check a national register so these grubs can't
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Speaker 11: cherry pick where they work with children.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well said, good luck with that campaign. I hope
39:40
Speaker 2: it's very successful. Very nice to catch up with you,
39:42
Speaker 2: my old friend, Ray Hadley. They're now coming up after
39:44
Speaker 2: the break of Bombshall report from the US Director of
39:47
Speaker 2: National Intelligence accusing the Obama administration of all things of
39:51
Speaker 2: a year's long campaign or a coup against Donald Trump.
39:55
Speaker 2: Skye News contributor Kosher Gada has the latest on that,
39:58
Speaker 2: plus surging crime woes and tea and biscuits. What on
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Speaker 2: earth's going on in Victoria?
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Speaker 3: Welcome back.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: I've learned not to be surprised by anything the Victorian
40:14
Speaker 2: State Labor government does. But this will make your hair curl.
40:17
Speaker 2: I mean, there's got to be night works on the
40:20
Speaker 2: dreaded suburban rail loop at a place called Heatherton in Melbourne,
40:23
Speaker 2: and the people who live in the surrounding areas had
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Speaker 2: a knock on the door and someone handed over a
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Speaker 2: package which was supposed to make them feel better about
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Speaker 2: being awake all night while machinery bores its way through
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Speaker 2: the ground around their houses. They were given a paper
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Speaker 2: bag full of tea and biscuits. I'm not kidding that
40:42
Speaker 2: construction of a stabling yard. It'll continue until ten o'clock
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Speaker 2: at night, every night, seven days a week. Joining me
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Speaker 2: in our shadow, Victorian Treasurer James Newbury. I mean you
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Speaker 2: imagine the look on people's faces, James, when someone turns
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Speaker 2: up with a package of tea and biscuits and saying,
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Speaker 2: I don't worry, We're only going to work till ten
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Speaker 2: o'clock at night.
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Speaker 4: Pretty condescending, isn't it.
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Speaker 8: Can you imagine someone jack hammering against your wall and
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Speaker 8: just Cindra Avellan sends you a tea bag. I mean, seriously,
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Speaker 8: it's got to be a joke. Sadly, in Victoria, it's not.
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Speaker 8: So you're going to be up all night and just
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Speaker 8: Cinterre Allen's solution is to send you a couple of
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Speaker 8: tea bags. Well, you're going to be sitting up in
41:21
Speaker 8: bed because the government doesn't care about where you live.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't care about your amenity.
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Speaker 8: It doesn't care about Frankly, you're having sleep at night,
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Speaker 8: But don't worry.
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Speaker 4: Just Cintra Allen's going to send you a tea bag.
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Speaker 8: I mean, let's be frank I mean, she's really giving
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Speaker 8: Victorians the two fingers salute, isn't she?
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Speaker 12: She is?
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Speaker 2: And I'll get it on a moment to machetes. And
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Speaker 2: what's happened at another shopping center in the last three
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Speaker 2: or four days where a man tragically lost his hand.
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Speaker 3: In your role as.
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Speaker 2: Shadow treasure businesses in Victoria, you hear about it day
41:54
Speaker 2: after day after day. Places shutting in record numbers, unemployment,
41:59
Speaker 2: tough regulation. And there's some new data in the Herald
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Speaker 2: some today showing a forty eight percent annual increase of
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Speaker 2: the number of businesses that have collapsed or in have
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Speaker 2: a financial controller in charge. Doesn't surprise me. I bet
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Speaker 2: it doesn't surprise you.
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Speaker 8: No. And the speed of closure, by comparison to other
42:19
Speaker 8: states is what's really shocking. So the level of growth
42:22
Speaker 8: year on year is exponential in Victoria. But you hear
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Speaker 8: lots of numbers, and you know forty four thy three
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Speaker 8: hundred roughly over the last year but let me break
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Speaker 8: that down so that people understand just under a dozen a.
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Speaker 4: Day over the year, every day over the year. So
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Speaker 4: that's the number you need to remember.
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Speaker 8: In Victoria, about a dozen a day are closing in
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Speaker 8: this state.
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Speaker 4: Are we surprised? No taxes?
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Speaker 8: We know the government's already increased over sixty two of them.
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Speaker 8: We know that taxes are too high. We know that
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Speaker 8: energy costs are too high. I mean, is there anything
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Speaker 8: that government's not doing well?
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Speaker 4: Actually, there's one thing.
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Speaker 8: The government's not doing to businesses. It's not seending them
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Speaker 8: tea bags. But apart from that, it's taxing them out
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Speaker 8: of existence. It's bleeding them through energy costs. And now
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Speaker 8: we're losing on average twelve a day, a dozen a day.
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Speaker 4: It's shocking.
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Speaker 8: I mean, frankly, we've got a small business closure crisis
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Speaker 8: and the only thing the Victorian government is doing is
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Speaker 8: it's in the business of shutting down businesses.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tragedy and the economy is just so
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Speaker 2: weak it's on its knees. I mentioned machetes. I thought
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Speaker 2: that it takes a lot to shock Melbourne people now
43:36
Speaker 2: because we've seen pictures of people running down Chapel Street
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Speaker 2: with a machete in their hands. But a bloke in
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Speaker 2: a shopping center at the weekend there was two attacks,
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Speaker 2: one a teenager still fighting for his life, another tragically
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Speaker 2: losing his hand. These attacks came where they just they
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Speaker 2: wanted his phone and they lashed out at a machete.
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Speaker 2: I thought the Premier was going to ban machetes, I
43:58
Speaker 2: mean the sales ban, but she's going to wait until
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Speaker 2: September to make it illegal as I understand it, to carry.
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Speaker 4: One, that's right. I mean, why wait?
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Speaker 8: These crimes, every single crime that occurs over the delay
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Speaker 8: until the Premier does something properly and brings in the
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Speaker 8: changes now are frankly at the government's feet, aren't they.
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Speaker 8: I mean, just down the road from where I am now,
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Speaker 8: only a couple of weeks ago, there was a shooting
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Speaker 8: in a suburban street and I met with dozens of
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Speaker 8: local residents who are saying, well, what if there's a
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Speaker 8: ricochet bullet?
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Speaker 4: What about our kids?
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Speaker 8: I mean, you go to a super you go to
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Speaker 8: a shopping center and you might have your hands chopped off.
44:38
Speaker 8: You're in a suburban street and you've got to watch
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Speaker 8: out for stray bullets. The proof is in the pudding
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Speaker 8: in Victoria. And as I said, every time the government
44:46
Speaker 8: talks about crime, and just Cindre Allen talks about crime,
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Speaker 8: I say, she's not going to fix it. You know,
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Speaker 8: Victorians don't believe she's going.
44:53
Speaker 4: To fix it.
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Speaker 8: They're all hollow words. The premier is just the queen
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Speaker 8: of vacant words.
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Speaker 4: She says things to try and buy herself time.
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Speaker 8: But you know, we're contesting with stray bullets and machetes
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Speaker 8: chopping off people's hands in Victoria. If you're living into state,
45:10
Speaker 8: you think this is some kind of dream. I mean,
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Speaker 8: you can't imagine this stuff and stuff happening in Victoria.
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Speaker 8: But just I mean, it's shocking, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: It's an absolute nightmare. I mean, she is just a
45:22
Speaker 2: failure as a premier. There's no doubt about that. James,
45:24
Speaker 2: as usual, thank you very much for joining us. We'll
45:26
Speaker 2: catch up again soon. Now, coming up, Tulsi Gabbard's shocking
45:29
Speaker 2: Obama accusation and another US socialist secures mayoral nomination. Sky
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Speaker 2: News contributor Kosher Garda talks about that right after the break.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Let's talk American politics. Now, let's bring in
45:45
Speaker 2: Kosher Garda Sky News contributor Kosher. Great to see you again.
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Speaker 2: What has Tulsi Gabbard, who is the Director of National Intelligence,
45:54
Speaker 2: what she's accused the former Obama administration of doing a coup?
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Speaker 12: Yes, creative with you, Steve, So. This is pretty historic news.
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Speaker 12: But I would say it's the beginnings of what could
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Speaker 12: be historic rather than the release itself in terms of
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Speaker 12: what kind of accountability is received because of it or
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Speaker 12: is effectuated because of it. This is all about, you know,
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Speaker 12: what's been now in the monikerb been known as Russia gauge,
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Speaker 12: or the Russia collusion hoax or Trump cocluding with Russia,
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Speaker 12: that whole thing that has been largely discredited and it
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Speaker 12: led to the Mulor investigation and all sorts of other
46:29
Speaker 12: things that ended up doing nothing. And Trump obviously has
46:31
Speaker 12: been re elected in a landslide victory. However, the American
46:35
Speaker 12: people feel like that the accountability for that and a
46:38
Speaker 12: true proper investigation for that has never quite been had,
46:41
Speaker 12: even though other actors like Devin Nunaz and Ratcliffe and
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Speaker 12: others have talked about it. She now in her role
46:46
Speaker 12: for the last six months, has gone in there and
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Speaker 12: done sort of a forensic audit of what kind of
46:53
Speaker 12: steps led to that that foundational report that led the
46:56
Speaker 12: Obama administration into believing that there is collusion with Russian
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Speaker 12: that the quote unquote hacked the US election in twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 12: And she's basically released over one hundred documents that detail
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Speaker 12: that there is no intelligence that was saying that was
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Speaker 12: the case until December, right after President elect Trump won
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Speaker 12: the election, and then suddenly they did a U turn
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Speaker 12: and created this intelligence allegedly that led to the ground
47:18
Speaker 12: sool of everything else that happened from that. So this
47:21
Speaker 12: is a big deal if it leads to indictments and
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Speaker 12: arrests of people, maybe not Obama but others in his
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Speaker 12: orbit Clapper, Brennan, et cetera. But that we'll sit with
47:28
Speaker 12: the DOJ. Pambondi, and it remains to be seen if
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Speaker 12: that happens.
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Speaker 2: Democrats A said, I mean, how populous is former President
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Speaker 2: Obama still in the States.
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Speaker 12: He is popular, and that is one of many reasons
47:45
Speaker 12: why people believe he is untouchable. Even if these allegations
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Speaker 12: are true, and how much was he personally involved in it?
47:51
Speaker 12: Obviously none of that has been litigated. It would be
47:54
Speaker 12: a big deal to go after any president, including him.
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Speaker 12: The issue is the rubicon has been crossed the way
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Speaker 12: in which they went after Trump from raiding his home
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Speaker 12: and indiced in him and rusting him for all sorts
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Speaker 12: of things. But I don't think that's going to happen.
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Speaker 12: It's more other people that are not exactly sympathetic figures
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Speaker 12: around him, like the head of the CIA under him,
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Speaker 12: John Brennan, or the head of d and I, James Clapper,
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Speaker 12: James Comey of the FBI. These people are not exactly
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Speaker 12: sympathetic figures. And it will be very interesting if Tulsia
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Speaker 12: Gabbard's released today is a first step towards seeing some
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Speaker 12: kind of accountability in terms of indictments. But a lot
48:28
Speaker 12: of people are not holding their breath because it's been
48:30
Speaker 12: eight years now since that and nothing has really happened.
48:33
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Democrats, what's the Minnesota branch up to
48:36
Speaker 2: that I've endorsed a Democrat, socialist and farlift candidate Oma Feta.
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Speaker 3: What do we know about him?
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Speaker 12: Yeah? So this is from Minnesota, of course, which was
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Speaker 12: the springboard for the infamous twenty twenty riots in the
48:50
Speaker 12: Black Lives Matter movement and all the rest of it.
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Speaker 12: He is being indoorsed. He's another socialist who was born
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Speaker 12: in DC, but he's of Somalian heritage and he just
48:58
Speaker 12: feels like he's cut from a cloth as Mamdani from
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Speaker 12: New York. And if you look around the world, the
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Speaker 12: mayor of London, the mayor of Rotterdam, the mayor of
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Speaker 12: Calgary are all sort of similar people with very left
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Speaker 12: wing socialist proclivities, and they come from backgrounds that are
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Speaker 12: probably not representative of the majority of these cities that
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Speaker 12: they're presiding over. He hasn't won, of course. The election
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Speaker 12: is in November, and he's going up against the incumbent,
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Speaker 12: who was somebody who famously cried crocodile tears during Black
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Speaker 12: Lives Matter Jacob Fryes his name and did a lot
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Speaker 12: of pandering to this group. And I think the lesson
49:31
Speaker 12: here is pandering will only take you so far, because
49:34
Speaker 12: now he's potentially being challenged by somebody that is much
49:39
Speaker 12: more to the left of him, and everything that he
49:41
Speaker 12: did is not necessarily serving him very well for his reelection.
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Speaker 11: VID.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not going to go well for them. Kausher,
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Speaker 2: appreciate your time. I'll talk to you again next Monday,
49:51
Speaker 2: not now.
49:51
Speaker 3: The prisons.
49:52
Speaker 2: Speaking to prison Trump, he's a bit to go to Scotland.
49:55
Speaker 2: He's going to open a brand new golf course. He'll
49:58
Speaker 2: be out of the country, and he's He also told
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Speaker 2: the Washington Commanders and the MLB's Cleveland Guardians, go back
50:04
Speaker 2: to your original names. Forget about that. Become the Washington
50:07
Speaker 2: Redskins again, and become the Cleveland Indians again. I wonder
50:12
Speaker 2: how that'll go down with those various teams. But Donald Trump,
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Speaker 2: he does what he wants. I'll see himorrow night.