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The Rita Panahi Show | 18 March · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scoring lives Ostrodia.
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Speaker 2: This is the Wader Panalty Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Paney Show. Coming
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Speaker 3: up tonight, the Albanezy government accused of squandering a four
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Speaker 3: hundred billion dollar win for Patrick Kyline will.
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Speaker 4: Be year to discuss the day's top headlines.
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Speaker 3: The big immigration like exposed as data shows that low
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Speaker 3: skilled workers.
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Speaker 4: Are a net drain on the economy.
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Speaker 3: Kosher Gata will have the details they always droll.
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Speaker 4: Alex Steiner the latest from the US, and later in.
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Speaker 3: The hour, seventy Bastion joins me to discuss why feminists
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Speaker 3: the Loud and Proud Sisterhood are silent as shopping mi soverigny,
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Speaker 3: institutional violence by the CFMU.
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Speaker 4: He is exposed, and of course we never neglect Lefty is.
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Speaker 3: Losing it Tonight, starring these two lovely lasses who spat
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Speaker 3: on a man for being pro israt.
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Speaker 5: Oens Yes, but first to an overgrown, spoiled brash with
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Speaker 5: a chronic case of entitlement who winges and wines more
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Speaker 5: than Greta Thunberg, despite being a billionaire living the most
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Speaker 5: charm life imaginable.
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Speaker 3: With a string of multi million dollar properties from his
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Speaker 3: mansion and the historic town of Windsor to his skiing
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Speaker 3: property in Whistler. And then there's the yachts. I mean,
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Speaker 3: one cannot yacht in the Mediterranean at one's leisure without
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Speaker 3: access to appropriately luxurious water vessels. Of course, despite living
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Speaker 3: this charm life, John Hancock has decided to moan to
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Speaker 3: the media this guy makes Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
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Speaker 3: seem grateful and relatable.
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Speaker 4: Here is a.
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Speaker 3: Direct quote from the piece that appeared in The Australian.
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Speaker 3: The dividends I received from Hancock prospecting annually don't even
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Speaker 3: cover my lawyer's bills, let alone may yacht, Hancock quips.
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Speaker 4: The victim playing is off the charts. This manchild is a.
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Speaker 3: Multi billionaire with a bee among Australia's fifty richest, and
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Speaker 3: yet he's not only suing his own mother for more,
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Speaker 3: but he's now using the media to attack her, to
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Speaker 3: demean her and her achievements.
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Speaker 4: It's frankly shameful.
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Speaker 3: It's the sort of petulant antiques that one would expect
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Speaker 3: from a teenager or a toddler, not a fully formed man.
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Speaker 3: As a mother, I struggle to understand how any son
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Speaker 3: could drag his own mother into court for a decade
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Speaker 3: long battle, and to top it off, Wine to the
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Speaker 3: National Broadsheet claiming Australia's most successful business person isn't really
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Speaker 3: that good at business.
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Speaker 4: Let me read from the piece.
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Speaker 3: Hancock is largely dismissive of his mother's track record, describing
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Speaker 3: a string of investments as toilet flushes charming.
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Speaker 4: And this is a direct quote. I think it's very
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Speaker 4: interesting that projects my.
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Speaker 3: Grandfather discovered or applied for, such as roy Hill, have
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Speaker 3: gone very well. The jury is out on some of
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Speaker 3: my mother's recent acquisitions, or really, that's how he wants
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Speaker 3: to characterize the achievements of the woman who took a
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Speaker 3: struggling business beset by all sorts of serious financial issues,
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Speaker 3: and transformed it into a goliath that employs thousands of Australians,
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Speaker 3: exports record amounts of iron ore, and is one of
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Speaker 3: the country's biggest corporate taxpayers, contributing billions annually in federal
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Speaker 3: and state taxes. Let me read now from a Sunday
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Speaker 3: Times editorial.
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Speaker 4: When Gina Ryan Hart took.
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Speaker 3: Over Hancock Prospecting after the death of her father Lang
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Speaker 3: Hancock in nineteen ninety two, she inherited a company on
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Speaker 3: the brink, far from their powerhouse it is today. Hancock
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Speaker 3: Prospecting had significant debts and many of its assets were
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Speaker 3: under mortgage.
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Speaker 4: That is the reality, and one.
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Speaker 3: Would hope a man who has benefited from gener Reinhart's
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Speaker 3: enormous success.
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Speaker 4: Would be a little more appreciative.
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Speaker 3: You think his mother's achievements would be a source of pride.
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Speaker 4: Just think of how.
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Speaker 3: Many hospitals, schools, roads have been built thanks to the
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Speaker 3: billions Hancock Prospecting has paid in taxes. Missus ryan Hart
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Speaker 3: has also been the country's largest private taxpayer. And on
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Speaker 3: top of all that, she is a generous supporter of
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Speaker 3: charitable causes, helping so many, often quietly without fanfare or
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Speaker 3: media coverage. That generosity benefits a number of medical, educational,
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Speaker 3: community and sporting organizations, including of course Australian Olympians, and
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Speaker 3: it must be noted that that generosity is not confined
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Speaker 3: to Australia. Jean Jenna Einhardt was honored by the King
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Speaker 3: of Cambodia with the country's highest award for non citizens
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Speaker 3: for the work her foundation does in rescuing impoverished girls
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Speaker 3: from a horrendous fate, giving them safety, giving them housing
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Speaker 3: and education, and the means to break the cycle of
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Speaker 3: extreme poverty. None of that was in this piece. In
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Speaker 3: the lengthy wingch fest, where John Hancock jokes about stock
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Speaker 3: market plays, this next passage was again so relatable. He
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Speaker 3: notes with a laugh that one recent play to short
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Speaker 3: Commonwealth bank stocks has yet to bear fruit. The numbers
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Speaker 3: are so small. I might be putting ten grand here
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Speaker 3: and there. It's more just to keep my mind active.
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Speaker 3: I guess a hobby of sorts. He says, yes, so
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Speaker 3: relatable during a cost of living crisis. Just ten grand
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Speaker 3: here or their hobby of sorts. Who cares if it
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Speaker 3: bears fruit. I have seldom read a piece that was
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Speaker 3: so lacking in introspection, humility, rationality.
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Speaker 4: Whoever told him.
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Speaker 3: This supposed tell all was a good idea was lying
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Speaker 3: to him or just incompetent. I'm not a lawyer. I'm
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Speaker 3: not going to pass any sort of judgment on the
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Speaker 3: long running legal case launched by John Hancock against Gina
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Speaker 3: rein Hart. But I will say this, it would be
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Speaker 3: a cold day in hell when I even consider suing
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Speaker 3: my own mother.
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Speaker 4: There are some things worth more than money.
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Speaker 3: Now our position leader Peter Dutton has called for sweeping
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Speaker 3: reforms in response to damning corruption allegations involving the CFMEU
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Speaker 3: and the Victorian state government.
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Speaker 4: Let's hear from the opposition leader.
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Speaker 6: We've essentially got organized crime figures running the construction sector
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Speaker 6: in this country. This is the biggest corruption scandal in
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Speaker 6: our country's history. Are we going to clean it up?
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Speaker 6: In the Rico style? Lords worked in the United States
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Speaker 6: and they can work here in Australia as well. The
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Speaker 6: CFMEU still sits on the National Executive of the Australian
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Speaker 6: Labor Party. The CFMU is not going anywhere and that's
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Speaker 6: why they need to be deregistered and bring it a
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Speaker 6: union like the AWU to provide the important work, particularly
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Speaker 6: on building sites around workplace health and safety. We think
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Speaker 6: that is very important.
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Speaker 3: According to media reports, the Victorian government's Big build has
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Speaker 3: been employing by keys linked to the CFMMEU who don't
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Speaker 3: even turn up to work but collect around eleven thousand
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Speaker 3: dollars a week, with bank records revealing that these payments
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Speaker 3: continued even after government promises last year to reform the
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Speaker 3: construction sector. This is all funded by taxpayers and the
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Speaker 3: most debt riddled state in the country. Big bill construction
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Speaker 3: firms are also alleged to have been paying off at
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Speaker 3: law motorcycle gangs on infrastructure projects via dummy companies to
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Speaker 3: stop them from taking industrial action. And there are also
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Speaker 3: shocking allegations of violence being perpetrated against female workers in
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Speaker 3: particular and a warning. This next clip is particularly distressing.
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Speaker 2: It's a cowardly attack on a woman carried out by
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Speaker 2: a c form me you health and safety representative while
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Speaker 2: on his lunch break from a Victorian government rail project.
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Speaker 4: That's a health and safety rep.
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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the Victorian government continues to play dumb despite being
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Speaker 3: warned of these issues for some time.
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Speaker 4: Now. This is what the Premier had to say. This
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Speaker 4: is Premier justent to Alan.
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Speaker 1: I was absolutely sickened to my core to see that
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Speaker 1: footage of an allegation of a woman being assaulted and
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Speaker 1: the experience of other women on work sites here in Victoria.
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Speaker 1: This is wrong, This is not right, and my thoughts
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Speaker 1: are weird those women. We moved quickly last year with
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Speaker 1: a zero tolerance approach to this bullying, intimidatory and allegations
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Speaker 1: of illegal behavior.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now for more on this is News. Corps
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Speaker 3: senior writer Patrick Carline. Patrick only laughed because this supposes
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Speaker 3: zero tolerance that the premiere refers to is completely lacking.
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Speaker 3: This is something the labor government here has been warned
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Speaker 3: about time and time again. They turn a blind eye
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Speaker 3: because it's in the interest to do so.
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Speaker 7: Look, there's a complete lack of accountability here. I mean
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Speaker 7: this was coming out last year. Obviously, it's been an
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Speaker 7: open secret within the industry for decades. The Allen government
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Speaker 7: doesn't want people looking at this too closely. It's been
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Speaker 7: pushing against it, and it's happened at a federal level
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Speaker 7: as well. And we're talking about billions, tens of billions
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Speaker 7: of dollars of Victorian taxpayers money. In this case, we
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Speaker 7: see big bill projects as they call go over, they
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Speaker 7: get delayed because there's extortionist type practices on the sides.
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Speaker 7: It's been going on forever and there is a complete
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Speaker 7: lack of accountability, and I think people are sick of it.
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Speaker 7: It's like where our bankrupt is a state? Where does
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Speaker 7: it stop?
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Speaker 3: You've got people Mum and Dad investors being forced to
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Speaker 3: sell their little investment properties because the land tax is
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Speaker 3: so exorbitant. Because this state is debt red riddled and
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Speaker 3: they must be looking on by kids collecting eleven grand
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Speaker 3: a week and not even showing up. It's like we
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Speaker 3: live in two different countries in this state.
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Speaker 4: It's as those who are.
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Speaker 3: In in the system who are benefiting enormously from tax
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Speaker 3: payer funds, and then there's the rest of us who
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Speaker 3: are killing ourselves trying to keep everything afloat.
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Speaker 4: And look, it's been.
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Speaker 7: Going on for years and years. That is not a
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Speaker 7: secret anymore. And that the lack of response and the
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Speaker 7: lack of sort of energy that has gone into trying
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Speaker 7: to address this. It's the same with the bail laws
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Speaker 7: here in Victoria. This has been going for three years
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Speaker 7: where people are getting attacked in their own homes and
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Speaker 7: finally the governments realized, oh this is bad, Oh we
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Speaker 7: must do something about it. I mean, it is a
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Speaker 7: sort of symptom of something bigger.
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Speaker 3: It is, and surprisingly those bail laws are going to
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Speaker 3: be reformed, coinciding with some opinion polls showing it's quite
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Speaker 3: a big issue. Before that they were just reviewing. Now
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Speaker 3: let's look at some further evidence of Labour's economic mismanagement.
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Speaker 3: Analysis commissioned by the Australian Financial review has revealed that
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Speaker 3: the federal government has wasted four hundred billion dollars.
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Speaker 4: This is a.
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Speaker 3: Massive revenue wind four since it was elected in twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty two. Chris richardson Rights in the AFR, Australia has
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Speaker 3: never seen rivers of gold like this, and what did
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Speaker 3: the Albanezer government decide to do with it? Drive a
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Speaker 3: major expansion in the size of government. Australia's prosperity should
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Speaker 3: be soaring with this kind of wealth being generated, living
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Speaker 3: standards should be improving, but instead the growth in living
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Speaker 3: standards in Australia remains one of the slowest in the world.
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Speaker 4: Patrick. Four hundred billion all but squandered.
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Speaker 7: It's a huge amount of money, isn't it, And the
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Speaker 7: fact that that money has been raised through things that
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Speaker 7: have nothing to do with government policy. We got lucky,
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Speaker 7: but we're sort of done lucky, aren't we, in the
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Speaker 7: sense where you actually get all this extra money that
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Speaker 7: we weren't budgeting for and we spend it all. Inflation
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Speaker 7: has increased those revenues as well, and Australian taxpayers are
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Speaker 7: suffering and they have been suffering for years and years.
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Speaker 7: Living standards have stayed low. They can't afford to pay
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Speaker 7: off the house mortgage or the power bill or whatever.
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Speaker 7: And all this money has come in and it's not
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Speaker 7: coming back to the Australian.
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Speaker 3: People no, and our taxes are going up because the
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Speaker 3: insane ways means that government is now even more reluctant
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Speaker 3: to do anything to address bracket creep, which is set
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Speaker 3: to push the average Australian worker into the thirty seven
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Speaker 3: percent bracket by twenty thirty one if the system remains unchanged.
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Speaker 3: Big government patrick means big expenditure and the bureaucracy has
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Speaker 3: exploded under labor and they've got to pay for it somehow.
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Speaker 3: So you can see this reluctance to actually address bracket creep.
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Speaker 3: People are in tax brackets that they shouldn't be.
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Speaker 7: That's right. And look as time goes on, obviously you
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Speaker 7: earn more money as your wage increases and you pay
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Speaker 7: more tax. And Terry mccran and lots of business commentators
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Speaker 7: have been going on about this for decades. Both sides
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Speaker 7: and government are guilty of this. It's an easy way
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Speaker 7: to generate more revenue without actually doing anything legislative to
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Speaker 7: actually make it happen. It just happens by default. And
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Speaker 7: Australian tax players have less money as a consequence.
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Speaker 3: And we see that bracket creep also in land tax
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Speaker 3: bills across the country with state governesses as well.
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Speaker 4: Patrick Carly and thank you so much for your time tonight.
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Speaker 4: Thanks very Joining me.
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Speaker 3: Now is Sky News contributor Kosher Gator Kosher. There was
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Speaker 3: a fascinating piece in The Economists in recent days and
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Speaker 3: what it essentially reveals is that what politicians have claimed
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Speaker 3: for so many years about immigration fueling economic growth and
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Speaker 3: raising living standards, well that may not be the case.
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Speaker 3: The results depend on the type of immigration. The well
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Speaker 3: educated immigrant, on average contributes more than they take, but
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Speaker 3: low skilled immigrants are often a net drag on public finances,
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Speaker 3: that is, they cost the tax.
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Speaker 4: Payer more than they contribute. Kosha, I'm reminded of a.
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Speaker 3: Often quoted comment from a famous economist, professor of economics,
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Speaker 3: George Borges, who said immigration redistributes wealth from those who
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Speaker 3: compete with immigrants to those who use immigrants, from the
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Speaker 3: employee to the employer. And that's I think a big
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Speaker 3: reason why we're seeing this massive political realignment in the West,
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Speaker 3: where working class people, aspirational people have kind of realized
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Speaker 3: the policies of the left don't actually work in their favor,
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Speaker 3: and they've switched their vote to the right, and we're
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Speaker 3: seeing people who have very affluents which they vote to
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Speaker 3: the left as well. It's just a fascinating time.
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Speaker 8: One hundred percent, because the latter group loves their nannies
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Speaker 8: and their gardeners and all the trappings that come with
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Speaker 8: that at the expense of the working class, who in
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Speaker 8: many ways is cut out of the conversation and trip point.
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Speaker 8: That's why populism is ascendant, because it's giving them a
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Speaker 8: seed back at the table. The first thing that I
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Speaker 8: found interesting about that piece actually is that the economy
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Speaker 8: has even decided to rate that story on the heels
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Speaker 8: of the New York Times yesterday writing about COVID origins
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Speaker 8: and all of that. So something is happening with mainstream
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Speaker 8: media that they're acknowledging what everybody else has seen a.
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Speaker 4: Few years too later.
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Speaker 3: I would have to say, it would have very last
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Speaker 3: to see the New York Times do that when it
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Speaker 3: actually mattered, yes, instead of very easy calling everyone conspiracy
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Speaker 3: theorists for even suggesting that could be a.
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Speaker 8: Possible and even now there was no apology or anything
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Speaker 8: like that. But that is interesting that the economist is
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Speaker 8: doing this. The crux of the economic argument, as you say,
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Speaker 8: is that ultimately, at its core, if you've got a
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Speaker 8: very generous immigration policy and a very generous welfare state,
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Speaker 8: it's a recipe for disaster. And there's precedence for this.
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Speaker 8: So in the US from eighteen fifty to nineteen twelve
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Speaker 8: was the biggest era of migration from Europe, and something
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Speaker 8: like thirty percent of people went back to Europe because
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Speaker 8: they couldn't make it and there was no welfare state
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Speaker 8: to fall back on, Whereas now that creates a perverse
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Speaker 8: incentive for people the are net takers rather than producers
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Speaker 8: to come in. So that's kind of the crux of
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Speaker 8: what's in this piece. The last thing I would say
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Speaker 8: that it didn't get into is the cultural cost of
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Speaker 8: immigration outside of economics, and that's another thing that's sort
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Speaker 8: of been the third rail. You can't talk about it
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Speaker 8: or you know, diversity is always our strength in every circumstance,
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Speaker 8: and that's another thing that I think is now unraveling
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Speaker 8: a little bit, where people are seeing, actually, it's really
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Speaker 8: difficult to run a harmonious society with just different groups
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Speaker 8: of people with very different cultural backgrounds, all trying to coexist.
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Speaker 3: Now, let's talk about President Trump, earlier today affirmed that
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Speaker 3: the Kennedy files will.
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Speaker 4: Be released in full. Let's see from the president.
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Speaker 9: I don't believe we're going to redact anything I said,
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Speaker 9: just don't redact.
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Speaker 10: You can't redact.
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Speaker 4: But we're going to.
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Speaker 9: Be releasing the JFK files and that would be tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Kasha.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about some eighty thousand pages.
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Speaker 4: But will we ever know the truth? Have they destroyed
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Speaker 4: anything that would.
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Speaker 3: Clarify who was involved in the assassination of the president,
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Speaker 3: who was complicit?
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Speaker 8: I think this time next week we'll have a little
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Speaker 8: bit better of an answer to that question. People are
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Speaker 8: cautiously optimistic, but very very skeptical because they've been burned
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Speaker 8: before for decades. As President Trump said, and even in
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Speaker 8: the first Trump term, he had alluded to that the
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Speaker 8: first time around and then didn't, which added to the
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Speaker 8: conspiracy thinking that you know, what was so bad that
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Speaker 8: he couldn't release it, or what were the reasons? The
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Speaker 8: key is releasing it, so he is following through. I
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Speaker 8: think we can believe him on his word there not
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Speaker 8: redacting it, because what's the point if it's released so much,
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Speaker 8: but it is reducted. He did see there that it
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Speaker 8: will not be reducted, so we'll see. And then the
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Speaker 8: third is a cold words or is it our file
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Speaker 8: is deleted?
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Speaker 4: That we won't know.
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Speaker 8: But in this day and age of social media, I
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Speaker 8: think eighty thousand pages will very quickly get processed and
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Speaker 8: summarized by all sorts of people and we will have.
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Speaker 4: A better place. Well, this is another thing.
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Speaker 3: What if they have not destroyed the key points, but
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Speaker 3: they've buried it somewhere in those eighty thousand pages. That
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Speaker 3: is a lot of documentation to go through with a
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Speaker 3: fine tooth comb and find something that may reveal something
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Speaker 3: we don't.
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Speaker 4: Already know now.
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Speaker 3: The President also today spoke about Hunter Biden's protective detail.
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Speaker 3: He just learns in this exchange that Hunter Biden has
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Speaker 3: eighteen secret Service agents protecting him in South Africa. Why
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Speaker 3: is in South Africa in the first place is a
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Speaker 3: question the prison would like answered.
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Speaker 1: Sure, super service cheams to protected Hunter bid himself there.
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Speaker 6: Paying for that perfectly secret services.
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Speaker 9: Well, we have done that with many I would say,
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Speaker 9: if they're eighteen with Hunter Biden, that will be something
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Speaker 9: I look at this afternoon. Okay, sure, I just heard
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Speaker 9: about it for the first time. So you have eighteen
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Speaker 9: Secret Service going out? Where is he executive in South Africa?
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Speaker 9: In South Africa and South Africa you know, is on
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Speaker 9: a watch list? You know that because what they're doing
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Speaker 9: to people is brutal. And I've stopped having money go
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Speaker 9: to South Africa. You know that billions of dollars. So
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Speaker 9: he's in South Africa.
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Speaker 4: That's very interesting.
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Speaker 10: All right, I'm going to take a look at that.
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Speaker 11: Thank you, Berna.
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Speaker 3: Well there goes the protective data eighteen. What is huntbot
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Speaker 3: need eighteen?
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Speaker 4: People? I know he gets up to some mischief, but
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Speaker 4: that seems excessive.
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Speaker 8: Oh boy, And it's funny when he learned it in
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Speaker 8: real time along with the rest of us.
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Speaker 4: So it's really interesting.
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Speaker 8: I was looking into this in terms of the entitlements
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Speaker 8: of Secret Service for former first families, it is governed
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Speaker 8: by statute, but only for the former president, his orhear
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Speaker 8: spouse and minor children, children hunters. What in is fifty
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Speaker 8: and it's fifty So this is discretionary and it's up
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Speaker 8: to ultimately the sitting president to revoke that.
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Speaker 3: Now we also have to speak about this News report
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Speaker 3: that the Trump administration is contemplating a new travel ban
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Speaker 3: on more than forty countries.
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Speaker 4: This time.
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Speaker 3: They include countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Cuba, Bhutan, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, Yemen.
20:29
Speaker 3: So they can't call this a Muslim ban again like
20:32
Speaker 3: they did last time. There's a number of countries there
20:34
Speaker 3: and plenty others that haven't named.
20:37
Speaker 4: Are we going to have another travel ban under this administration? Possibly?
20:40
Speaker 8: I mean it is one of many strategies in his
20:43
Speaker 8: or role policy around immigration and national security. And the
20:46
Speaker 8: premise here is that those some forty three countries have
20:49
Speaker 8: very dubious vetting policies of how they're their end of
20:53
Speaker 8: the bargain of what has to happen was a vetting
20:55
Speaker 8: people that are coming out of their country and coming
20:57
Speaker 8: into the US. Now, this was the original time that
21:01
Speaker 8: we saw judicial intervention in the first term with him,
21:03
Speaker 8: So I think the team is smarter now. They have
21:06
Speaker 8: the benefit of that hindsight, and they have a Supreme
21:09
Speaker 8: Court ruling in their favor because they did win and
21:11
Speaker 8: the Supreme Court upheld that in twenty eighteen. So I
21:13
Speaker 8: think they're on firmer ground. But we do know the
21:16
Speaker 8: judges that are going wild right now, So I would.
21:18
Speaker 4: See activist judges.
21:19
Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about a constitutional crisis, that's the
21:22
Speaker 3: that's the constitutional crisis. There's activist judges who think they
21:26
Speaker 3: can overrule the president, and it's astonishing they do get overturned.
21:33
Speaker 3: But for a period you've got some lowly judge who's
21:37
Speaker 3: determining the diagonal policy.
21:39
Speaker 8: Thirty one of them right now, active cases where they're
21:42
Speaker 8: a single judge somewhere is doing these niche and wide
21:45
Speaker 8: injunctions on matters of national security.
21:47
Speaker 3: Before you go, we've been talking this week about the polling.
21:51
Speaker 3: The polling has been fascinating. There are different polls, and
21:55
Speaker 3: as we know, with Trump, the polling is often underreporting
21:59
Speaker 3: his But there was a CNN poll showing that Democrats
22:03
Speaker 3: have got record low figures twenty nine percent approval rating,
22:08
Speaker 3: and an NBC poll this week showing Trump having the
22:10
Speaker 3: highest figures he has ever had. What do you make
22:13
Speaker 3: of that? Because so much of the coverage is relentlessly negative,
22:18
Speaker 3: not just negative, but crisis mode negative, and yet it
22:22
Speaker 3: doesn't seem to be impacting public opinion as much as
22:26
Speaker 3: the use I.
22:27
Speaker 8: Think it's just run out of its potency. If you
22:29
Speaker 8: look at what they did before, Russia, Russia, Russia, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.
22:33
Speaker 8: It just when everybody is Hitler and Russia, everything that
22:36
Speaker 8: Trump does is that, then nothing is that. Plus, people
22:39
Speaker 8: can see eventually policy becomes real and it comes to
22:43
Speaker 8: your pocketbook, your kitchen table, and that has been happening
22:46
Speaker 8: for so long. And when they're just seeing the improvement
22:48
Speaker 8: in the country and the border went literally in a
22:50
Speaker 8: month from an insane amount of crossings to practically zero
22:54
Speaker 8: and all the rest of it, people are happy and
22:56
Speaker 8: they don't think that he is the Hitler Russia puppet
22:59
Speaker 8: that they want thought he was.
23:00
Speaker 3: You can only cry wolf so many times, Kosher, thank
23:04
Speaker 3: you so much for your time to still to come.
23:07
Speaker 3: Left is losing it Plus the latest from the US,
23:10
Speaker 3: including the end goal of Trump's economic reforms. Alex Stin
23:15
Speaker 3: joins me nex welcome back. It's time for lefties losing
23:28
Speaker 3: it And the mystery may have been sold. Who was
23:31
Speaker 3: the member of the media who hit Donald Trump in
23:35
Speaker 3: the face with a mic? Let's play the incident from
23:38
Speaker 3: the weekend and Trump's reaction here is priceless.
23:42
Speaker 4: This is how I look at my son when he
23:44
Speaker 4: forgets to put the milk back in the fridge.
23:47
Speaker 10: Mister President, Gods your.
23:52
Speaker 12: You're concerned about the situation in Ghazia.
23:54
Speaker 3: Now, everyone assumed that was an accident, a clumsy member
23:57
Speaker 3: of the media embarrassing themselves. But what if it was
24:01
Speaker 3: a little bit more sinister than that, What if it
24:03
Speaker 3: was some teds afflicted lefty.
24:06
Speaker 4: Well perhaps both things can be true. But the woman
24:10
Speaker 4: who has been named as the culprit.
24:12
Speaker 3: By various Internet salutes is this one. She is a
24:17
Speaker 3: lefty activist masquerading as a journalist.
24:21
Speaker 4: Like the bulk of the US media, She's not special.
24:24
Speaker 4: She even wrote a piece accusing Donald Trump of mimicking
24:28
Speaker 4: Adolf Hitler's language.
24:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's see if there are any more clumsy moments
24:33
Speaker 3: from reporters. But at least we can exonerate this dude.
24:38
Speaker 3: He clearly had nothing to do with it whatsoever.
24:42
Speaker 4: God, I do love the memes. At the moment, people
24:45
Speaker 4: are doing some very good work.
24:46
Speaker 3: Now, let's check in with someone the Secret Service should
24:49
Speaker 3: never allow around Donald Trump, perhaps Elon mass This is
24:53
Speaker 3: one hilarious comic, Bill Burr, who went a little nutty
24:57
Speaker 3: during COVID and has never really recovered. Maybe long COVID
25:01
Speaker 3: is real. Watch this insane die tribe about Elon Musk
25:06
Speaker 3: claiming he gave a shout out to Hitler.
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Speaker 13: This is nuts, veterans that the people in the arm
25:13
Speaker 13: services that died trying to stop Hitler. And then this
25:16
Speaker 13: guy comes in, you know, and does that while being
25:22
Speaker 13: an immigrant too, which is kind of fat. The whole
25:23
Speaker 13: thing that's none and none of it, like tracks how
25:26
Speaker 13: you can be to support the troops, you know, America,
25:30
Speaker 13: love it or leave it. And then this guy comes
25:31
Speaker 13: in and gives a shout out to Hitler.
25:35
Speaker 4: You know what.
25:35
Speaker 3: I'm old enough to remember just a few years ago,
25:38
Speaker 3: when Bill Burr was still funny and when he was
25:41
Speaker 3: mocking those who use stupid Hitler analogies.
25:46
Speaker 14: He is the reference.
25:47
Speaker 13: Anytime you want to say somebody's evil, you just say
25:49
Speaker 13: he is the next Hitler. Donald Trump, He's the next Hitler.
25:52
Speaker 13: It's always he's the next Hitler. He died like what
25:54
Speaker 13: seventy five years ago. Nothing quiet's a room like dropping
25:59
Speaker 13: the h bar.
25:59
Speaker 3: Now to a disgusting piece of jew hatred. This is
26:03
Speaker 3: real jew hatred in twenty twenty five, and as we've
26:06
Speaker 3: seen in the past eighteen months, there's been an explosion
26:09
Speaker 3: of these incidents, often perpetrated by the left. The people
26:13
Speaker 3: who call everyone Nazis and Hitler and fascists are the
26:17
Speaker 3: ones that have revealed a virulent strain of anti Semitism
26:21
Speaker 3: amongst them, including these young ladies in Ireland. Watch the
26:25
Speaker 3: frightening levels of hate and ignorance here as they abuse
26:28
Speaker 3: and spit on a Jewish Man.
26:36
Speaker 14: Welcome Oens, I love you too.
26:47
Speaker 3: I think it's time for a trip down memory lane
26:55
Speaker 3: and let us marvel at how Australia's international repute as
27:00
Speaker 3: a laid back, same country with robust, resilient people was altered,
27:06
Speaker 3: perhaps forever altered, when our leaders lost their ever loving
27:11
Speaker 3: minds during COVID. Never forget the lunacy that was cheered
27:14
Speaker 3: on by the media, the activists and academic class for
27:18
Speaker 3: those watching overseas, and this segment is watched by millions
27:22
Speaker 3: of people overseas every week. The following thirty four seconds
27:26
Speaker 3: features various state leaders and chief health officers starring the
27:31
Speaker 3: sunset fearing former Victorian Premier Dad.
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Speaker 1: Andrews, playgrounds, basketball courts, skate parks and exercise equipment. Despite
27:38
Speaker 1: the fact that its outdoors will be closed. People can
27:41
Speaker 1: walk the dog around the street, don't talk teenighbors.
27:44
Speaker 4: Browsing is not allowed.
27:46
Speaker 1: So please, when you open your front door, just think
27:48
Speaker 1: for a moment do you really need to go out?
27:51
Speaker 1: If you are at Adelaide Oval and the ball comes
27:54
Speaker 1: towards you, my advice to you is to duck and
27:57
Speaker 1: just do not touch that ball.
27:58
Speaker 6: The whole bunch of people down the righte which last night,
28:00
Speaker 6: who thought the best thing to do is to go
28:02
Speaker 6: and watch the sunset? I'm sure it was a beautiful sunset.
28:05
Speaker 10: That's not in the spirit or in the letter of
28:09
Speaker 10: these rules.
28:10
Speaker 3: You gotta watch out for those dangerous sunsets. Yeah, that's
28:13
Speaker 3: that's where COVID strikes most outdoors watching sunsets. And let's
28:17
Speaker 3: not forget this gem then wa Premier Mark McGowan having
28:22
Speaker 3: a woman translate English into English.
28:26
Speaker 4: I still can't believe this happened.
28:28
Speaker 13: You can die from the corona or get really thick.
28:33
Speaker 14: You belagin pass.
28:35
Speaker 10: Away from this corona, or you betag and get really sick.
28:39
Speaker 2: One.
28:41
Speaker 15: It's time to get the corona needle to keep people
28:44
Speaker 15: and country strong.
28:47
Speaker 10: Again.
28:50
Speaker 2: Any time to get them this needle longer Corona to
28:55
Speaker 2: keep them, but all the people and country probably strong one.
28:59
Speaker 3: Now let's hear from this non binary personal trainer who
29:03
Speaker 3: thinks having a gym for just women is sexist, dangerous,
29:08
Speaker 3: not safe for women.
29:09
Speaker 11: What So I keep seeing stories about this new women's
29:14
Speaker 11: gym that's for biological women but no trans women, right,
29:17
Speaker 11: and I just I just can't help but think this
29:20
Speaker 11: isn't a safe space for women, not for CIS women
29:24
Speaker 11: or any women, because if trans women are very explicitly excluded,
29:28
Speaker 11: then that means any woman who doesn't perform femininity the
29:32
Speaker 11: way that the woman that owns the gym thinks they should,
29:35
Speaker 11: they're going to be like, Oh, you've got too much muscle,
29:37
Speaker 11: you're not a real woman.
29:38
Speaker 4: Oh you're a bit hairy, you're not a real woman.
29:41
Speaker 4: Oh you're a bit tall, you're not a real woman. Ah.
29:43
Speaker 3: No, more like, oh you've got x y chromosomes that
29:48
Speaker 3: you're not a realman. Biological reality doesn't care about your
29:52
Speaker 3: feelings or your delusions. Now more good news for Donald Trump,
29:57
Speaker 3: and even NBC couldn't hide the truth behind this starter.
30:01
Speaker 3: The last time so many Americans thought the country was
30:04
Speaker 3: headed in the right direction was more than twenty years ago.
30:08
Speaker 12: First of all, the mood of the country.
30:10
Speaker 16: This really jumped out.
30:11
Speaker 12: We asked, folks, is it done the right direction or
30:13
Speaker 12: the wrong direction? That forty four percent? You say, right direction.
30:16
Speaker 12: That's up since November. And if that doesn't seem like
30:19
Speaker 12: a lot the last time it cracked forty percent, you
30:22
Speaker 12: got to go back to twenty twelve, the last time
30:24
Speaker 12: it actually hit forty four or higher January of two
30:27
Speaker 12: thousand and four.
30:28
Speaker 3: Jentymen A as comedian and host of Primetime with Alex
30:32
Speaker 3: Stein on Blaze TV. Alex, this start is good news
30:37
Speaker 3: for Donald Trump. It looks like a low figure forty
30:39
Speaker 3: four percent. But as you just heard that, it's been
30:42
Speaker 3: twenty one years since Americans were so positive about the
30:47
Speaker 3: direction that country is headed.
30:48
Speaker 10: In Well, Rita. I mean, I'm sure you can tell
30:51
Speaker 10: from Australia that we had a country with no hope.
30:54
Speaker 10: I mean, it was like a car with four flat tires.
30:57
Speaker 10: And now with Donald Trump's president, I think we have
30:59
Speaker 10: a rocket. We're literally saving astronauts. So it's just the
31:03
Speaker 10: whole outlook for our country is much more positive now
31:06
Speaker 10: that we actually have a president that is, you know,
31:09
Speaker 10: coherent and making decisions that are in our country's best
31:12
Speaker 10: interest instead of having an actual puppet or you know,
31:16
Speaker 10: for lack of a better word, just a walking corpse.
31:19
Speaker 3: Sadly, let's see now from Secretary of Commas Howard Lutnik
31:26
Speaker 3: on what is the end gold of Trump's economic reforms?
31:31
Speaker 17: Two trillion dollar deficits don't bother you at all? How
31:37
Speaker 17: could you ask me while we're running a two trillion
31:41
Speaker 17: dollar deficit and not care you're destroying the people who
31:46
Speaker 17: have run this country before, are destroying the future for
31:51
Speaker 17: my children and my children's children. And when we balance
31:54
Speaker 17: the budget, you know what that means. That means our
31:56
Speaker 17: deficits stop, interest rates come smashing down. No tax on tips,
32:01
Speaker 17: how about no tax on overtime? How about no Social Security?
32:04
Speaker 17: How about all those things? These are the kind of
32:07
Speaker 17: thoughts that will change America. I know what his goal is,
32:11
Speaker 17: no tax for anybody who makes less than one hundred
32:14
Speaker 17: and fifty.
32:14
Speaker 10: Thousand dollars a year.
32:16
Speaker 17: That's his goal. So that's what I'm working.
32:18
Speaker 4: For, Alex.
32:19
Speaker 3: That's the first time I've heard that that the end
32:22
Speaker 3: goal is no tax for anybody who's earning less than
32:25
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty thousand. He also made the point
32:29
Speaker 3: there that the US is the biggest consumer in the
32:32
Speaker 3: world and it's time that they use that buying power
32:35
Speaker 3: to their advantage, to the advantage of American workers. And
32:40
Speaker 3: all of that must be music to the ears of
32:42
Speaker 3: American voters.
32:45
Speaker 10: Oh, one hundred percent reader, because now listen, you look
32:48
Speaker 10: at our country. It's not the American's fault that our
32:51
Speaker 10: economy is the way that it is, our national debt
32:54
Speaker 10: is the way that it is. It's the fact that
32:56
Speaker 10: we have multinational corporations that can take advantage of us.
32:59
Speaker 10: They can use keep labor in China, basically slave labor.
33:02
Speaker 10: And so the reason is the rules are not fair
33:05
Speaker 10: for these multinational corporations. And Donald Trump will actually create
33:08
Speaker 10: a system that holds these companies and these other countries
33:11
Speaker 10: accountable and they'll have to fa i mean, pay their
33:13
Speaker 10: fair share. And that's why Donald Trump is going to
33:16
Speaker 10: be as a great president, because he's going to actually
33:18
Speaker 10: help US Americans be able to buy more, be able
33:21
Speaker 10: to finally afford a home, and actually make our middle
33:24
Speaker 10: class bigger instead of what Biden has done for the
33:27
Speaker 10: past four years making it much much smaller.
33:32
Speaker 3: Now we've seen Donald Trump say that Joe Biden's preemptive
33:36
Speaker 3: pardons were not valid. He argues the pardons are void
33:40
Speaker 3: because they were signed ya an oto pen and that
33:45
Speaker 3: Biden did not even know about them or what they meant.
33:48
Speaker 3: President Trump wrote the necessary pardoning documents were not explained.
33:53
Speaker 4: To or proved by Biden. He knew nothing about them,
33:57
Speaker 4: and the people that did may have.
33:59
Speaker 3: Committed a He also wrote, Therefore, those on the Unsolect
34:04
Speaker 3: Committee who are destroyed and deleted all evidence obtained during
34:08
Speaker 3: their two year witch hunt of me and many other
34:10
Speaker 3: innocent people should fully understand that they are subject to
34:14
Speaker 3: investigation at the highest level. Alexa is that Liz Cheney
34:21
Speaker 3: in trouble? Are all the others that is referring to
34:24
Speaker 3: their in trouble? Can a presidential pardon be vacated?
34:31
Speaker 10: Well, Liz Cheney should be in trouble, But I think
34:33
Speaker 10: the idea that they can be vacated is almost impossible
34:37
Speaker 10: because I believe it was Gerald Ford when he pardoned
34:39
Speaker 10: President Nixon, and a lot of people were upset about
34:42
Speaker 10: that and tried to get that pardon vacated and they
34:45
Speaker 10: were unable to do so. I think if they're not
34:47
Speaker 10: able to do it in that case. Then sadly, the
34:50
Speaker 10: Biden administration was able to use an autopen to get
34:53
Speaker 10: out corrupt judges that arrested children and took bribes to
34:56
Speaker 10: put these young kids in jail. I mean, some of
34:58
Speaker 10: the most repugnant criminals, you know, people that were you know,
35:02
Speaker 10: child predators, let out by the Biden administration. There's just
35:06
Speaker 10: no excuse for it. And really, honestly, I kind of
35:09
Speaker 10: I'm happy that I know this information because it makes
35:11
Speaker 10: me even more empathetic to Joe Biden, and it just
35:13
Speaker 10: confirms what we all knew, that he was not in
35:16
Speaker 10: charge of anything, and that there is a deep state
35:18
Speaker 10: or there were people that were making the decisions for
35:21
Speaker 10: him the entire time.
35:24
Speaker 3: I'm wondering who, who you suspect is responsible for Joe
35:30
Speaker 3: Biden's decisions, because of course we've talked at length about
35:36
Speaker 3: Biden's term being Obama's third term, but who within his
35:40
Speaker 3: inner sanctum was really making those calls.
35:44
Speaker 4: Was it Jill Biden?
35:45
Speaker 3: Did we have our first female president without even knowing?
35:50
Speaker 10: Maybe, I mean, maybe it was Jill Biden, But the
35:53
Speaker 10: person that was making the decisions was probably the same
35:56
Speaker 10: person that left the cocaine in the White House. It
35:58
Speaker 10: was probably that same person. Reader, I just speculate.
36:02
Speaker 3: The person with the eighteen I think secret Service agents,
36:07
Speaker 3: which have already been removed whilst this program has been happening.
36:12
Speaker 3: Apparently Donald Trump has pulled those secret service agents.
36:17
Speaker 4: So Hunter Biden can look after himself. Alex.
36:19
Speaker 3: Let's have a look now at Benny Johnson interviewing folk.
36:23
Speaker 4: About Black Lives Matter.
36:24
Speaker 3: This is shortly after BLM Plaza in DC was torn down.
36:29
Speaker 10: What has Black Lives Matter done for you?
36:35
Speaker 4: That's a strong question for you to act with. YACHTI
36:40
Speaker 4: say on ideals, bad mansions.
36:42
Speaker 10: Little YACHTI is a rapper and he's out saying like
36:45
Speaker 10: they bought a bunch of mansions.
36:46
Speaker 2: Yell and was this?
36:46
Speaker 11: It was literally a scam.
36:48
Speaker 10: They had bought mansions and oh that's tougher scam.
36:50
Speaker 4: Yes, seven mansions is not the Bessi's a hundred million dollars.
36:53
Speaker 4: Do you see any of that money?
36:55
Speaker 10: Did they ever reach out to you and say, hey,
36:56
Speaker 10: you're a veteran, can we can help you?
36:57
Speaker 11: No?
36:58
Speaker 13: It rais one hundred million dollars.
36:59
Speaker 4: Did you see Do we ever see any of it?
37:01
Speaker 11: I didn't see, you know?
37:02
Speaker 4: The one hundred million dollars has not been a bit
37:04
Speaker 4: at the black community. Alex.
37:06
Speaker 3: Was there much fallout from the decision to tear down
37:09
Speaker 3: BLM Plaza. We saw some wild demoting in the usual places,
37:15
Speaker 3: the Washington Posts and the New York Times, the painful
37:18
Speaker 3: destruction of Black Lives Mataplaza and Black Lives Mataplaza is gone.
37:23
Speaker 4: It's a rasia feel symbolic.
37:26
Speaker 3: But beyond that, I didn't see much fallout, not many protests,
37:32
Speaker 3: not many people making a big deal.
37:33
Speaker 4: Out of it.
37:36
Speaker 10: Well, you know, you saw everybody that Benny spoke to,
37:38
Speaker 10: you know, little Yachty basically just exposed it. He kind
37:41
Speaker 10: of put the final nail and the BLM coffin that
37:44
Speaker 10: this was a money laundering or ponse scheme for Patricia
37:47
Speaker 10: Colors and her family that were able to buy mansions
37:51
Speaker 10: with this money. And seriously, if the African American community
37:55
Speaker 10: actually benefited from all the donations from BLM, people would
37:58
Speaker 10: love that, But that's not what happened. That Black community
38:01
Speaker 10: were used as a prop in order to raise money.
38:05
Speaker 10: And where that money went. Some say that it went
38:07
Speaker 10: to people's you know, private mansion. Some say that it
38:09
Speaker 10: went to the Biden campaign. So all I know is
38:12
Speaker 10: that marginalized black people in America did not have access
38:16
Speaker 10: to all the money that was supposed to be raised
38:17
Speaker 10: for them. So it was a scam. And now it's
38:20
Speaker 10: been exposed and it's it's you know, it feels kind
38:22
Speaker 10: of good to just be able to move on and
38:25
Speaker 10: start a whole new, you know, trajectory for helping out
38:29
Speaker 10: the marginalized under Donald Trump, not taking advantage of them
38:33
Speaker 10: to raise money to help out the Biden crime family.
38:37
Speaker 3: Now, at the very top of our chat, you mentioned
38:41
Speaker 3: astronauts being rescued. I've been shocked by how little coverage
38:47
Speaker 3: this has received. You would think this would be a
38:49
Speaker 3: momentous occasions. These two astronauts stranded in space and Elon
38:56
Speaker 3: mask has successfully brought them home.
38:59
Speaker 4: Safe sound, and it seems to be now more reporting on, you.
39:05
Speaker 3: Know, whether they were grateful to be rescued or not,
39:08
Speaker 3: or whether they were doing important work.
39:09
Speaker 4: Whilst they were stranded.
39:12
Speaker 3: I'm shocked that this isn't something that's bringing the country together.
39:17
Speaker 10: Well, Rita, it should. But you know why that they
39:19
Speaker 10: were left in space is because Joe Biden didn't want
39:22
Speaker 10: to give Elon musk Oh when he didn't want to
39:25
Speaker 10: make Elon Musk look a hero, considering Elon Musk and
39:28
Speaker 10: Donald Trump had become good friends, so they were left
39:31
Speaker 10: in space for political reasons. I mean Joe Biden literally,
39:34
Speaker 10: instead of deporting illegal immigrants, he deported two astronauts and
39:38
Speaker 10: made them live on the International Space Station for eight months.
39:41
Speaker 10: You know he's doing it wrong. The Americans are supposed
39:43
Speaker 10: to stay in America, President Biden.
39:48
Speaker 4: Oh, that is hilarious.
39:49
Speaker 3: But you know what Elon Musk I think is copying
39:53
Speaker 3: even more hate and vitriol and just completely demented commentary
40:00
Speaker 3: from segments of the media that even Donald Trump at
40:02
Speaker 3: the moment I have again been shocked by a man
40:05
Speaker 3: who is, you know, essentially a businessman doing a role
40:09
Speaker 3: assigned to him, being treated like he's on know, some
40:11
Speaker 3: sort of war criminal. It's absurd, but it gives us
40:15
Speaker 3: something to laugh about. Alex Stein, It's always a pleasure.
40:19
Speaker 10: Thank you, red It touching again soon.
40:21
Speaker 4: Still to come.
40:22
Speaker 3: The Sisterhood is silent amid evidence of institutional misogyny on
40:27
Speaker 3: sir new work site.
40:29
Speaker 4: Stephanie Bastian and Don's me next welcome back.
40:41
Speaker 3: Joining me now is Women's Forum, Australia's head of advocacy.
40:44
Speaker 3: Stephanie Bastian Stephanie, let's return to the CFIU.
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Speaker 4: I started the show talking about the CERFEMU and.
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Speaker 3: The shocking allegations of violent misogyny within the union. And
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Speaker 3: here's some more of the sixty minutes or detailing, this
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Speaker 3: time the experiences of a woman who are sexually harassed,
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Speaker 3: bashed and then banned.
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Speaker 2: When Lily first started working on the Big build in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, she was making good money in traffic management,
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't long before she started to receive requests
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Speaker 2: for sexually explicit favors from CA for MEU figures as
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Speaker 2: well as building firms superiors working on site.
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Speaker 16: We just don't belong there.
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Speaker 4: Why are you hrd the way you look?
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Speaker 16: What use you can be to the men?
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Speaker 3: The situation only got worse for her when she made
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Speaker 3: a complaint about her treatment.
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Speaker 2: While working at the redevelopment of the Footscray Hospital, Lily
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Speaker 2: was exposed to a violent ice using criminal. We've recently
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Speaker 2: been released from jail for stalking and threatening to kill
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Speaker 2: a woman, a man placed on that site on the
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Speaker 2: orders of the CEA.
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Speaker 16: For me you pulling out a cockpipe and it's making
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Speaker 16: that with lass in it and blowing it in my
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Speaker 16: face and locking the door of the stone, really.
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Speaker 2: Claimed she reported the incident to the sea for me,
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Speaker 2: you SENI official responsible for women's rights, Lisa's and artor.
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Speaker 16: She yelled at me and told me of and told
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Speaker 16: me why would I do something like that? Now we
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Speaker 16: had to get him drug tested and he came up clean.
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Speaker 16: And she said, yet they don't want you back there.
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Speaker 16: You never welcome back there, and I'd be off the site.
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Speaker 4: What does that mean for you?
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Speaker 16: I can't work on any site. I can't provide. I
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Speaker 16: can't provide for my family, Steph.
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Speaker 3: Where is the sisterhood in all this? Seems they're more
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Speaker 3: offended by jokes. Some radio hosts making jokes about the
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Speaker 3: matildas seem to get them more animated. Then what we're
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Speaker 3: seeing here is institutional misogyny, institutional violence against female workers.
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Speaker 4: And I'm not hearing the outrage from the system.
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Speaker 3: And I include in that all the loud and proud
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Speaker 3: male feminists who chip in when there is some trivial matter,
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Speaker 3: but nothing about this.
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Speaker 15: The response there's been crickets. It's very concerning when it
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Speaker 15: comes from their own neck of the Woods just how
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Speaker 15: much they betray the sisterhood with their silence. These allegations
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Speaker 15: are extremely serious. I'm glad they've been referred to the
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Speaker 15: federal police. But make no mistake, the Labor Party is
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Speaker 15: a representation of the CFMU. And while the Labor Party
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Speaker 15: runs around spending billions of dollars, they've committed three point
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Speaker 15: four billion dollars to a domestic violence campaign over the
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Speaker 15: next ten years. They can't get their own house in order.
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Speaker 15: They seem to turn a blind eye when it comes
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Speaker 15: to the issues on their work sites and the union
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Speaker 15: run projects.
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Speaker 4: This has been going on for years.
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Speaker 15: It's not good enough, and I think it's time that
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Speaker 15: the Labor Party step up and they take responsibility for
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Speaker 15: what's going on. They hold an inquire as to how
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Speaker 15: these men are getting onto work sites, the processes that
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Speaker 15: are in place, why women are being punished for speaking out.
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Speaker 15: And they should also go and reinstate the industry Watchdog,
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Speaker 15: which they abolished in twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: Let's not forget the watchdog that they eliminated as pretty
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Speaker 3: much as soon as they got into powers, one of
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Speaker 3: the very first things they did. Now, let's talk about
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Speaker 3: the Newcastle Herald, Buckling under pressure from leftist activists, they've
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Speaker 3: apologized for allowing a trumpet of Patriots Party ad that
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Speaker 3: said there are only two genders, male and female. The
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Speaker 3: paper has posted this on Facebook saying the advertisement offended
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Speaker 3: many of our readers and did not meet our values
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Speaker 3: as a company.
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Speaker 4: It should not have appeared.
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Speaker 3: It has been withdrawn from our e edition and will
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Speaker 3: not be published again. How pathetic can you get Stephanie
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Speaker 3: in the Newcastle Herald issuing this groveling apology for a
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Speaker 3: statement that was statement of fact there are two genders
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Speaker 3: male and female. I mean, how is that worthy of
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Speaker 3: an apology and a takedown from the edition?
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Speaker 15: Absolutely, and as you know, newspapers can't discriminate against political
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Speaker 15: parties in their advertising, so this was wholly about the message,
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Speaker 15: a factual message talking about gender. But this has been
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Speaker 15: a criticism of women's forums for a long time.
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Speaker 4: Too few media.
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Speaker 15: Outlets, including the ABC nine, they refuse to cover these issues.
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Speaker 15: They shy away, or if they do, when there's pushback,
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Speaker 15: they then apologize and retract, or they have acon a
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Speaker 15: government funded lobby group influencing their writings, which the Media
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Speaker 15: Watchdog has also found and what this has done is
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Speaker 15: it's actually held back the issue. It's created a problem
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Speaker 15: where our politicians and our industry bodies haven't been able
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Speaker 15: to investigate gender ideology and the impacts on young people
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Speaker 15: and the consequences have been devastating. But it all comes
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Speaker 15: back to the power behind the groups that are forcing
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Speaker 15: these you know, the newspaper like the Herald to apologize
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Speaker 15: and to retract.
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Speaker 3: It's incredible that the power they willed is considerable and
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Speaker 3: completely disproportionate to who they represent in the community. And
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Speaker 3: the media outlets need to stop being spooked and the
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Speaker 3: corporates need to stop being spooked while what is a
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Speaker 3: very small but loud group of activists. Now before you go,
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Speaker 3: steph Australian D transitioner mel Jeffries is calling on Victorians
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Speaker 3: to sign her petition to halt so called gender affirming practices.
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Speaker 3: She was left permanently scarred by these often irreversible treatments
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Speaker 3: and she got this treatment from the Victorian health system,
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Speaker 3: and I wonder how many others are in a similar position.
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Speaker 3: It's very difficult to come out and speak publicly if
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Speaker 3: you are a D transitioner, if you are someone who's
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Speaker 3: changed your mind and gone back to the gender that
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Speaker 3: you were born and no longer is engaging in this
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Speaker 3: sort of behavior because there are so many attacks.
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Speaker 4: I have seen D.
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Speaker 3: Transitioners attacked horribly online for just talking about their experience
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Speaker 3: and trying to warn others.
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Speaker 15: Absolutely, and Mel is unique. She's one of a few
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Speaker 15: transition D transitioners that have spoken out and her courage
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Speaker 15: has moved the dial significantly. But the Victorian government also
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Speaker 15: doesn't like data we've been able to We have been
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Speaker 15: able to get very much through FOIS to understand the
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Speaker 15: extent of the issue. Of course, Australia, Victoria also has
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Speaker 15: some of the most extreme conversion therapy laws, which really
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Speaker 15: restricts a medical professional's ability to treat gender dysphoria holistically
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Speaker 15: and to look at alternate pathways other than gender affirmation,
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Speaker 15: because if you're not affirming the agenda, then it's considered
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Speaker 15: conversion practices. So I really really urge Victorians to get
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Speaker 15: behind Mel's petition. She was obviously a very young person
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Speaker 15: when she started her transition journey, and I think that
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Speaker 15: her testimony shows just how harmful the treatments are, particularly
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Speaker 15: when you're a vulnerable young person suffering from a whole
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Speaker 15: range of mental health issus and suddenly all that's discarded
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Speaker 15: to affirm your gender.
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Speaker 4: It's devastating, absolutely so.
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Speaker 3: If any bastion, thanks for your time, and that's all
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Speaker 3: the time we have tonight. I'll see you tomorrow night
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Speaker 3: at eleven. Newsnight is up next