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The Kenny Report | 3 February · The Kenny Report

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  Speaker 1: Line from the Skying You Center.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Kenny Report.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for joining me.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight we'll cross to far North Coinstane and update you
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  Speaker 4: on the flood situation. Also, Labour's renewable energy plans and
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  Speaker 4: their so called green hydrogen dream is in tatters as
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  Speaker 4: another major project falls over. Anthony Albaneze he doesn't even
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  Speaker 4: mention the rising tide of anti Semitism when he addresses caucus,
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  Speaker 4: while a security expert says the Prime Minister should have
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  Speaker 4: been told about the caravan of explosives plot straight away.
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  Speaker 5: If the Prime Minister wasn't told, someone should be sacked.
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  Speaker 4: Also the energy crisis hurting the food industry as prices.
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  Speaker 3: Go higher and higher.
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  Speaker 4: And the Australian who bared her all to a global
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  Speaker 4: audience at the Grammys, and of course Gematon Uni and.
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  Speaker 3: CAROLINEA also later as well. Let's get started.
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  Speaker 4: The green energy dream of Anthony Albany and Chris Bowen
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  Speaker 4: is in tatters tonight. The Labor Greens and Teals world
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  Speaker 4: first experiment in developing a renewables plus storage model that's
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  Speaker 4: never succeeded anywhere in the world is so far fetched
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  Speaker 4: that no one else is actually attempting it. Well, it's
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  Speaker 4: all falling apart before our very eyes. The latest disaster
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  Speaker 4: for Bowen and Albanezi is the Queensland government's decision to
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  Speaker 4: scrap funding for the multi billion dollar so called green
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  Speaker 4: Hydrogen Hub to be built at Gladstone after the private
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  Speaker 4: partners asked for more money.
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  Speaker 6: We took a policy to dilection that we're going to
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  Speaker 6: respect Queensland taxpayers money and the former Labor government had
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  Speaker 6: a stand or to invest one billion dollars not funded,
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  Speaker 6: not budgeted. By the way, and Stanwell have come to
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  Speaker 6: the government wanting more money than on top of the
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  Speaker 6: billion dollar. It was unfunded, unbudgeted, and that project will
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  Speaker 6: not proceed under the new government.
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  Speaker 4: That's a pretty clear decision right there. Hey, the project
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  Speaker 4: will not proceed. Compare that to the evangelical certainty that
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  Speaker 4: we've seen from Chris Bowen.
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  Speaker 7: Gladston has a great future, a future built on hydrogen,
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  Speaker 7: and our great herdsygen plans in the budget will be
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  Speaker 7: very important for Gladston's future. Hydrogen hydrogen headstart and a
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  Speaker 7: hydrogen tax production credit all important for Gladston's industrial future.
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  Speaker 4: Really, some future, Bowen is the gift that keeps giving,
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  Speaker 4: isn't he or to know that for an industrial future
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  Speaker 4: you actually need reliable power. This Gladstone decision is going
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  Speaker 4: to be welcomed by many people, especially those we've caught
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  Speaker 4: up with before who were worried about another reckless rollout
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  Speaker 4: of renewables to support this project. The whole hydrogen plan
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  Speaker 4: required an unbelievable amount of land for wind turbines and
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  Speaker 4: solar panels, and its collapse continues a pattern of green
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  Speaker 4: hydrogen projects falling over the forest FODESKEW has scrapped its
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  Speaker 4: projects and turned its back on the whole green hydrogen
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  Speaker 4: gen dream. Woodside Energy is also shoved two projects in
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  Speaker 4: Australia and New Zealand. Origin has withdrawn from a project
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  Speaker 4: in New South Wales Hunter Valley, and a Japanese venture
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  Speaker 4: in Victoria's Latrobe Valley has also.
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  Speaker 3: Gone up in a puff of nothing.
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  Speaker 4: But even as they've fallen over, Bowen has pointed to
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  Speaker 4: Gladstone as one that would go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: We do have hydrogen hubs around the country, including here
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  Speaker 7: in Gladston.
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  Speaker 4: Well that's kind of awkward, now, isn't it. Another green
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  Speaker 4: hydrogen plan bites the dust and the impractical unfinanced and
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  Speaker 4: implausible green zelatry of Labour's green hydrogen is exploding like
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  Speaker 4: a standard hydrogen balloon.
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  Speaker 8: We have an exciting future going forward in terms of
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  Speaker 8: green hydrogen.
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  Speaker 7: Under an urban, easy labor government. These jobs will be
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  Speaker 7: secure because we'll be leading the global green hydrogen revolution.
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  Speaker 8: And what we know is that the green hydrogen sector
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  Speaker 8: has an enormous potential in this country.
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  Speaker 7: We have two hundred and twenty five billion dollar pipeline
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  Speaker 7: for green hydrogen in Australia. That's across one hundred projects.
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  Speaker 8: Now, my government sees enormous potentially in green hydrogen and
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  Speaker 8: will look for opportunities to back green hydrogen projects.
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  Speaker 7: Only Labor has the plan to ensure that Australia is
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  Speaker 7: part of and is leading that hydrogen revolution, leading the.
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  Speaker 3: Global green hydrogen revolution. These people are grown ups. They're
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  Speaker 3: running our country.
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  Speaker 4: He's even doing it in his green hydrogen green jacket.
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  Speaker 3: Good lord.
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  Speaker 4: The thing is, this stuff's always looked like a pipe dream.
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  Speaker 4: The green left politicians are driven by ideology more than
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  Speaker 4: engineering and economics. That's what we've highlighted here for a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years now, when we've looked at reckless renewables
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  Speaker 4: projects in western Victoria and central New South Wales, along
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  Speaker 4: the Queensland Coast in central Victoria, as well off the
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  Speaker 4: New South Wales coast and the Illawara Coast near Golden
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  Speaker 4: of course, in the highlands of New South Wales, and
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  Speaker 4: in the Australian Alps, and all over the country where
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  Speaker 4: we've highlighted community concerns over renewables projects. It's been a
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  Speaker 4: case of government renewables subsidies and grand plans coming hard
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  Speaker 4: up against community concerns and economic reality. And that's why
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  Speaker 4: we were calling out the Gladstone plans almost a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: They're proposing to build ten thousand wind turbines and two
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  Speaker 1: and a half thousand square kilometers of solar panels just
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  Speaker 1: to power this green hydrogen column.
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  Speaker 3: They have to produce four million ton Yeah. I'll catch
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  Speaker 3: up with Colin later.
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  Speaker 4: He said in that interview it was insane, and I
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  Speaker 4: said that it didn't seem feasible, and here we are
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  Speaker 4: less than a year later, and its toast. The trouble
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  Speaker 4: with all this is that while it all is well
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  Speaker 4: and good to laugh at the incompetence of bonn our
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  Speaker 4: power bills keep going up. Our electricity is not as
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  Speaker 4: reliable as it used to be, and communities around the
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  Speaker 4: country are confronted with these reckless renewables projects that.
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  Speaker 3: Will only make it worse.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, have a look at this exchange over the
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  Speaker 4: cost of all this on Sky News this morning.
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  Speaker 9: What is the total? Let me let me just the
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  Speaker 9: renewable plan.
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  Speaker 10: Let me let me let me just make this point
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  Speaker 10: Laura letter Dunton's nuclear react to strategy in terms of
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  Speaker 10: out EU medium right, which were.
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  Speaker 9: I don't even want to talk about his I want
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  Speaker 9: to I want to talk about your plan. What is
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  Speaker 9: the total? That's a pretty simple question.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, well it's it's a it's a question that that
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  Speaker 10: is that the Energy Minister would be very happy to
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  Speaker 10: age with you about.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a pretty straightforward question from Laura. What will
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  Speaker 4: their plan cost? They can't or won't answer it. I
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  Speaker 4: guess we get the answer in our power bills. This
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  Speaker 4: energy crisis is, as I keep saying, a devastating case
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  Speaker 4: of national self harm. It's a mess brought to you
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  Speaker 4: by labor, the Greens and the tills. And the only
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  Speaker 4: way to fix it is it the ballot box. How
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  Speaker 4: about this one for snouts in the trough. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: as you know, too many public figures, too many politicians
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  Speaker 4: just can't help themselves.
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  Speaker 3: If taxpayers money is on tap to help them.
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  Speaker 4: Out, they'll always go too far, take too much, and
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  Speaker 4: have a lend of the rest of us. And it's
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  Speaker 4: the lefties, the so called social justice warriors, who seem
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  Speaker 4: to do it most, or at least the hypocrisy stands
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  Speaker 4: out even more with them.
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  Speaker 3: So have a look at this one.
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  Speaker 4: Two ministers in the New South Wales Estate of Labor Government,
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  Speaker 4: Joe Halen and Rose Jackson, and they want to have
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  Speaker 4: lunch at a famous winery in the lovely Hunter Valley,
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  Speaker 4: and they want to take their husbands and a couple
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  Speaker 4: of other friends on this long boozy lunch. But the
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  Speaker 4: trouble is it's about an hour's drive from Halen's beach house.
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  Speaker 3: So what would you or I do? Well, we'd either.
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  Speaker 4: Dip into our own pocket and pay for a taxi
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  Speaker 4: or an uber or a higher car, or God forbid,
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  Speaker 4: one of us would volunteer to be skipper than forsake
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  Speaker 4: the booze to drive everyone home. But Halen instead summons
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  Speaker 4: a taxpayer funded ministerial chauffeur driven van for this private lunch.
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  Speaker 4: The driver spent all day driving up from south of
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  Speaker 4: Sydney to the beach house, to the restaurant, back to
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  Speaker 4: the beach house and home, the total cost of taxpayers
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  Speaker 4: of at least seven hundred and fifty dollars. The audacity
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  Speaker 4: of this titlement, the complete disconnect between their place in
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  Speaker 4: the world and the people they represent. These two are
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  Speaker 4: the Transport Minister and the Housing Minister, two portfolios that
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  Speaker 4: impact directly on the cost of living of all the
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  Speaker 4: people who pay their wages, Yet they hit up taxpayers
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  Speaker 4: for this. Now on board, as I mentioned, was Jackson's husband.
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  Speaker 4: He's a former labor candidate, Sam Crosby, who now works
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  Speaker 4: for the Catholic charity Saint Vincent de Paul. He also
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  Speaker 4: appears on Sky News occasionally. I wonder what Vinnis think
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  Speaker 4: about all this. What a disgraceful episode. But Premier Chris
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  Speaker 4: Mins won't sack them.
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  Speaker 11: I want you sack Joe Halo and Rose Jackson, but
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  Speaker 11: extraordinary use Taxpayerney.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, look, I'm not going to sack the ministers. I
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  Speaker 12: appreciate that this is a major error and a big
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  Speaker 12: lapse of judgment, and I am confident and I'm hopeful,
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  Speaker 12: and I've told them both that I expect that they'll
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  Speaker 12: learn from this mistake and that they won't repeat it.
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  Speaker 12: The truth of the matter is that both of them
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  Speaker 12: are in big portfolios and that I believe we need
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  Speaker 12: continuity in those jobs. We still have to run these
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  Speaker 12: big agencies with complicated problems associated with them, and I
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  Speaker 12: need ministers who are got experience under their belt and
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  Speaker 12: focused on the job at hand. Now only I'm going
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  Speaker 12: to finish, and I'd only do that if I was
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  Speaker 12: confident that they'd learn from this error and they wouldn't
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  Speaker 12: repeat it again.
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  Speaker 13: They think it's okay to use taxpayer funds for a
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  Speaker 13: jolly up in Newcastle or up in the Hunter Valley.
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  Speaker 13: It is clearly an abuse of taxpayer funds. It doesn't
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  Speaker 13: matter what the guidelines say. The Premier has admitted it's
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  Speaker 13: clearly inappropriate. Joe Haalen has admitted that it doesn't pass
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  Speaker 13: the pub test. And this is a test for Chris Means.
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  Speaker 13: It's not just about Joe Haalen and Rose Jackson. It's
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  Speaker 13: about Chris Means and his leadership as well. And it
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  Speaker 13: is an indictment, and a poorly indictment of Chris means
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  Speaker 13: leadership and his standards. If he doesn't sack these ministers.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't pass the pub test. It doesn't even pass the
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  Speaker 3: winery restaurant test. And it's kind of a dog bites.
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  Speaker 4: Man sort of a story, isn't It's hardly earth breaking news.
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  Speaker 4: Politicians taking us for mugs and milking their perks. It's
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  Speaker 4: what we've come to expect. Sadly, how long do you
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  Speaker 4: reckon you? Or I would remain in our job if
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  Speaker 4: we pulled an expenses rout like this. Donald Trump continues
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  Speaker 4: to shake up the world, and while there's been plenty
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  Speaker 4: to enjoy and give us hope in the first couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks, his trade and.
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  Speaker 3: Tariff wars are real worry.
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  Speaker 4: The US President has slapped hefty tariffs not just on
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  Speaker 4: Chinese goods, but significantly on imports from Canada and Mexico,
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  Speaker 4: the other signatories to the North American Free Trade Agreement,
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  Speaker 4: which means for now n after no longer exists in practice,
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  Speaker 4: trade with America is absolutely fundamental to both Mexi and Canada,
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  Speaker 4: and they're both hitting back with tariffs in retaliation. A
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  Speaker 4: little wonder the Canadians aren't very happy. They took umbradge
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  Speaker 4: when the US anthem was played in a nice hockey game.
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  Speaker 7: So bad.
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  Speaker 3: Happy time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I bet most Canadians would be andy Trump
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  Speaker 4: to start with. Then they can be a bit chippy
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  Speaker 4: about the US at the best of times. So now
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  Speaker 4: with the tariffs slapped on them, tensions are ridiculously high
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  Speaker 4: for two nations that aren't only close neighbors but also allies,
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  Speaker 4: and with economies and societies that are deeply entwined.
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  Speaker 14: This is a choice that yes, will holm Canadians, but
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  Speaker 14: beyond that, it will have real consequences for you, the
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  Speaker 14: American people, as I have consider instantly said, tariffs against
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  Speaker 14: Canada will put your jobs at risk, potentially shutting down
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  Speaker 14: American otto assembly plants and other manufacturing facilities.
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  Speaker 15: Canada's been very abusive of the United States for many years. Mexico,
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  Speaker 15: We've had very good talks with them, and this is retaliatory.
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  Speaker 15: Millions of people floated into our country through Mexico and
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  Speaker 15: Canada and we're not going to allow that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we all need to be worried about this.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Australia is unlikely to be hit by tariffs, although
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  Speaker 4: never say never, but we are an open trading nation,
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  Speaker 4: so we'll copper hit from any disruption or cost escalations
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  Speaker 4: in world trade. Our stock market fell sharply today, as
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  Speaker 4: did the value of our dollar.
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  Speaker 3: Trump threatened these tariffs before his election.
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  Speaker 4: He wants fairer trade with China, and he wants Mexico
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  Speaker 4: and Canada to do more to prevent the illegal trade
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  Speaker 4: of people and drugs across their bod.
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  Speaker 3: Into the US.
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  Speaker 4: Now, these are not unreasonable requests, but instead of letting
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  Speaker 4: the threat do the work here as many of us
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  Speaker 4: would have expected, Trump's gone straight to the action. We've
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  Speaker 4: got to hope these issues are resolved quickly and the
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  Speaker 4: tariffs go Otherwise they'll increase the cost of living and
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  Speaker 4: inflation in the US that'll flow around the global economy.
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  Speaker 4: And we should never forget that many a war has
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  Speaker 4: started over tariffs and trades, so the US China situation
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  Speaker 4: is particularly volatile. Trump needs a speedy win on these
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  Speaker 4: issues because if these tariffs stay in place, it's not
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  Speaker 4: going to be good for anyone. Let's cross up to
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  Speaker 4: North Coinslane now, where they're facing that flooding emergency with
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  Speaker 4: torrential rain, putting thousands of homes at risk and isolating communities.
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  Speaker 3: Lauren Forbes joins us from the ground in Townsvill.
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  Speaker 4: Lauren, there, good to talk to you, fascinating to watch
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  Speaker 4: what's happening up there. Just tragic for the communities. But
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  Speaker 4: the water in many areas still rising.
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  Speaker 9: Well.
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  Speaker 16: At the moment, here in Townsville, Kenny, the water, or
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  Speaker 16: the rain rather has stopped, and as you can see
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  Speaker 16: behind me, the floodwaters have begun to recede. But this
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  Speaker 16: is giving a sense folds of relief. The danger is
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  Speaker 16: far from over. There is way more relentless rain on
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  Speaker 16: the way now. I'm here located in one of those
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  Speaker 16: low lying areas in Townsville, just on the banks of
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  Speaker 16: the Ross River. Now it's among six suburbs the Railway
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  Speaker 16: estate where I am that has been ordered to evacuate.
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  Speaker 16: That deadline was midday yesterday. Residents have been told that
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  Speaker 16: these floodwaters could come in potentially tomorrow morning when the
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  Speaker 16: Ross River peaks, which could potentially be life threatening floods.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 16: This disaster has already claimed the life of a sixty
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  Speaker 16: three year old woman in Ingham on Sunday, and that's
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  Speaker 16: the main fear that more lives could be lost. At
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  Speaker 16: the moment Townsville has been cut off on road. The
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  Speaker 16: Bruce Highway has been blocked going north and south, especially
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  Speaker 16: up nor floodwaters are intensifying up there. We've actually seen
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  Speaker 16: a bridge collapse there that was near the Bruce Highway
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  Speaker 16: towards Ingham from a north of Townsville. Now the EIGHTYF
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  Speaker 16: remain here stationed, ready to ready to act in case
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  Speaker 16: this situation takes a turn for the worst tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 3: We have not seen the peak of that flood.
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  Speaker 4: It is expected in the early hours of tomorrow, so
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  Speaker 4: areas of that low lying black zone area are still
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  Speaker 4: expected to receive inundation.
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  Speaker 16: Across North Queensland, we've seen rain as much as a
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  Speaker 16: meter in the.
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  Speaker 9: Past two days.
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  Speaker 16: With Ingham coppying the brunt of this disaster. Most of
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  Speaker 16: that town is now underwater. We've actually seen some pretty
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  Speaker 16: intense footage emerging from that town today. There's footage of
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  Speaker 16: this woman who's filming a car floating past, and you
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  Speaker 16: can really see it's a bit of a captured sense
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  Speaker 16: of how strong these floodwaters are and how rapid they are.
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  Speaker 9: Further up north, Jump.
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  Speaker 17: Out, mate, drop out, romp.
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  Speaker 16: Now Kenny, this is all unfolding here. Nearly eleven thousand
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  Speaker 16: properties are without power. There are six evacuation centers set
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  Speaker 16: up across North Queensland. That's holding at least four hundred
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  Speaker 16: people who've been forced to flee their CS crews have
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  Speaker 16: been working around the cloth. They've made eleven swift swift
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  Speaker 16: water rescues as well as assisting four hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 16: calls out for help in the past twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 16: Now the Prime Minister He's also made a visit to
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  Speaker 16: the Situation Room in Canberra to get a briefing on
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  Speaker 16: this disaster, while the Premier, David Chris of Fully is
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  Speaker 16: expected to fly up here this afternoon after Townsville Airport opened.
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  Speaker 16: Now he will take a look at this situation as
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  Speaker 16: far North Queensland braces for more rainfall and potentially life
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  Speaker 16: threatening floods.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks Lauren Lauren Forbes are live from Townsville, Albo getting
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  Speaker 4: brief that'll be a big help to everyone, I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: given his past record. I want to go further down
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  Speaker 4: the Queensland coast now away from the flood zone, to
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  Speaker 4: the town of Gladstone and the electorate of Flynn, where
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  Speaker 4: Colin Boyce is the National's MP. The LNP member for
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  Speaker 4: that area. He's joining us actually live from Canberra. Good
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  Speaker 4: to speak to you, Colin. We saw a little clip
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  Speaker 4: of you earlier in the top of the program where
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  Speaker 4: last year you were railing against the massive installation of
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  Speaker 4: wind turbines and solar farms to fuel this green hydrogen
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  Speaker 4: gam dream. You said it was insane. Then I said
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  Speaker 4: it would looked like it was not going to be feasible.
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  Speaker 4: You must be wrapped that. It seems to have fallen over.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 18: Look, Chris, this is a common sense decision, a very
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  Speaker 18: good economic decision from the Queensland government. The biggest issue
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  Speaker 18: that Australians face at the moment is the day to
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  Speaker 18: day cost of lifting issues. We've got people living in cars,
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  Speaker 18: people living in tents, people aren't unable to afford their
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  Speaker 18: electricity bills. How can the government possibly justify the spending
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  Speaker 18: of one point four billion dollars through Arena to fund
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  Speaker 18: green hydrogen That is a technology that has not yet
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  Speaker 18: advanced enough become to become economically viable. We've seen companies
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  Speaker 18: like Seatos, Origin, Fordeskew, Woodside, Crup Steel, Kinsoie Electric all
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  Speaker 18: back pedal on their commitments to green hydrogen for economic reasons.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody's pulling out of these projects, and this was
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be the biggest one in Australia. Surely there
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  Speaker 4: won't be private investors to get this one up.
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  Speaker 3: The whole thing will fall over, won't it.
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  Speaker 18: Well, I would think so, and please justify the economics
• 20:02
  Speaker 18: of it and the reality of the project.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: In Gladstone.
• 20:08
  Speaker 18: Standwell Corporation is proposing to build eight hundred tons per
• 20:12
  Speaker 18: day liquid hydrogen facility at the Port of Gladstone. We
• 20:17
  Speaker 18: know through our research the largest facility at the moment
• 20:21
  Speaker 18: is that Cape Canaveral at the Kennedy Space Center, which
• 20:24
  Speaker 18: produces thirty four tons a day. They have a storage
• 20:26
  Speaker 18: capacity of about eight hundred tons, So you could only
• 20:30
  Speaker 18: imagine that with an eight hundred tons per day hydrogen
• 20:34
  Speaker 18: facility at Gladston they would need possibly ten days storage.
• 20:39
  Speaker 18: So that's ten times as big as the facility at
• 20:43
  Speaker 18: Cape Canaveral at the Kennedy Space Center, the largest one
• 20:45
  Speaker 18: in the world. And this is just absolutely insane. Furthermore,
• 20:50
  Speaker 18: to that, liquid hydrogen needs to be compressed down to
• 20:53
  Speaker 18: two hundred and fifty two degrees center grade. That's minus
• 20:58
  Speaker 18: two fifty two degree center grade. Two seventy five minus
• 21:02
  Speaker 18: two seventy five is absolute kelvin' zero. The amount of
• 21:06
  Speaker 18: energy required to keep it at that temper is just
• 21:09
  Speaker 18: absolutely enormous, and.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: That's why they were going to go with ten thousand
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: wind turbines and two and a half thousand square kilometers
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: of solar panels. Presumably a lot of people they're very
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: relieved that that's not happening to your landscape up there.
• 21:25
  Speaker 18: Well again, you know, all of this renewable energy is
• 21:28
  Speaker 18: having an enormous impact on particularly Central Queens ending up
• 21:32
  Speaker 18: and down the East coast of Australia. Once again, please
• 21:36
  Speaker 18: justify the cost of it all. It is just economic insanity,
• 21:40
  Speaker 18: it sure is, Colin.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Thanks for starting across it for us. I appreciate it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Colin Boyce, the LMP member for Flynn around the Gladston area.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: He's down in Canberra with parliament resuming tomorrow now. Anthony
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Albanize is in Canberra too. He didn't even mention the
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: rising tide of antisemitism when he addressed his caucus meeting today.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: He still refused to say when he was told about
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: the caravan of explosives anti jew terrorism plot, no doubt
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: this will be probed in Parliament tomorrow, but it was
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: an opinion piece by former senior Defense operative and former
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: government National security advisor.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Peter Jennings that left me in a chill.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Under the heading where a coin toss away from a
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: mass casualty attack in the weekend, Australian Peter Jennings wrote.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: A caravan packed with explosives is the means?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: A note in the vehicle with Jewish addresses, including a
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: synagogue is the motive. Taken together, these facts tell me
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: that there is a growing risk of a mass casualty
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: attack in Australia, most likely directed against Jews. He said
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: one could only wonder at the media management stupidity of
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: the New South Wales Police to issue a statement on
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Wednesday last week saying there is no ongoing threat to
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: the community. Pretty tough stuff, isn't it, I asked Peter
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Jennings if the New South Wales Police.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Have it wrong, Chris, I think their management of this
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: has been pretty poor for the last fifteen or sixteen months.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: I think they've been sharpened up considerably by Premier Men's
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: in the last couple of months, but up until that time,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: what we've been getting is a sort of standard police
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: procedural where nothing seems to be happening very well, and frankly,
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: they're handling of the public explanation side of events has
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: actually been very poor. It's absurd, beyond belief to say
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: that people should now believe there is no ongoing threat
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: to the Jewish community. It's obvious that there is, and indeed,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: everything that's happened in the weekend since I wrote that
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: piece suggests that people that want to do harm to
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Jews and the Jewish community are still out there, So
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: of course they should be concerned. That's why there are
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: so many police currently on the case, and I think
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: what we need is to get a sharper focus at
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: the federal political level to drive this with more energy
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: and more effectively.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Obviously, the police now have this caravan, they have the
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: explosives that were in it, they have a number of
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: people connected to it in custody. Do you believe there
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: still is the threat of a mass casualty attack?
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: So what we don't know is the nature of the
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: network which exists behind the plot which brought the explosives
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: and the caravan together. It seems to me that the
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: people the police have in custody are not the sorts
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: of folk that would be planning this, and therefore the
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: police don't know what they don't know Chris. So they
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: don't know if there's more plans of attack out there.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: They don't know if there's more vehicles which have been
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: stolen or potentially could be used in this type of attack,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: and I think that does give rise to considerable short
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: term risk. I have no doubt the police are working
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: as hard as they possibly can on this to try
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: and identify further leads. But at the stage we're all
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: at risk of not knowing what we don't know, and
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: I think that's the problem.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Given we've seen fire bombing attacks, constant hateful graffiti and
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: the like, but two instances of cars are being fire
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: bombed in Sydney's suburbs. We've had a childcare center fire
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: bomb We've had a synagogue firebombed in Melbourne. Does it
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: pass muster for you that the Prime Minister wouldn't be
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: told about the location of this caravan full of explosives
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: that had gone ten days without being told about it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: So if the Prime Minister wasn't told, someone should be sacked.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: I find it unbelievable that the PM should be so
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: relaxed in his management of this issue that people in
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: our police service, people in our intelligence community wouldn't understand
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: the importance of bringing this information instantly to the awareness
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: of the Prime Minister. Contrary to what mister Albaneze said,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: this is not about you know, him getting in the
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: way of police investigations or anything like that. It's about
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: how the government deals with a clear and present danger,
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: not about whether the police have enough evidence to make
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: a prosecution. And if you know Albanese is so unfocused
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: in his oversight of this, that is I think something
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: about which we should you know, seriously be concerned. He's
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: turning himself into their spectator in chief, Chris. But that's
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: not good enough. He has the lead management role here
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: in driving agencies to be on their metal and dealing
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: with this situation. And so you know, I'm just astonished
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: that he didn't know, and I'm astonished that the Prime
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Minister isn't outraged about the fact that he didn't know,
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: and is trying to find out why exactly.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: It's a pointless being a spectator when you're in that position.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: We know we'll find out more about this in coming days.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I just want to see segue to a completely unrelated issue, Peter,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: and tap into your brains when it comes to global
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: security and strategic issues, and that is, of course the
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: tariff wars being being set in train already by Donald
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Trump against Mexico and Canada, two close neighbors of course,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: as well as China. War was often start over trade
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: in tariff. So just how worried should we be about
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the way Donald Trump's opened this front up?
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Well, we know that there is an element of almost
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: impulsive behavior at times on the part of the President.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: I would prefer that Canada and Mexico weren't the two
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: first countries that he wanted to go after in trade terms.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: But I think his point, which has perhaps not been
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: as clearly made as it might be, is that what
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: he has immediately focused on is the trade in illicit drugs,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: mostly across the Mexican war, but to a tiny degree
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: across the Canadian border as well, fentanyl coming from China,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: which has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans,
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: and the use of tariffs is a sort of a
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: means to try and force more concentrated behavior from Mexico
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: and Canada. Okay, well, that's where we're at with that
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: with China. I think that it's entirely appropriate. And what
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: we're seeing with Trump's tariffs is that he is continuing
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: really a hard policy line which began under his first
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: term and was continued by Joe Biden, and reflects a
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: fact that many of us don't focus on, which is
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: that China is still using its own trade means to
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: steal American intellectual property and to do damage to the
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: American economy. And I think it's entirely appropriate that Trump
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: should push back on that, all in the interests of
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: trying to make China a more reasonable fair player on
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: the international trade front, which China is not and probably
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: will not be.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Peter Jennings, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, Chris, Okay,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I got to take a break. On the other side
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: of that, we'll go back to Queensland and check in
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: on those floods.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: We'll cross to London as well, and we'll also talk
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: about the food industry arcing up about Labour's ridiculous renewable push.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: They want more focus on coal and gas.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: So that they can actually deliver stuff at a reasonable price.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Don't go away.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: The food distribution businesses who supply our pubs, restaurants, supermarkets
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: are arcing up against Labour's energy policies. They want Labor
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: to drop the eighty two percent renewables target and focus
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: on driving more coal and gas production to push prices down.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: They've implored Albo to do exactly that.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Richard Forbes is with the Independent Food Distributors Australia.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: He's the CEO. Joins me live from Adelaide, Richard, the
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: bold move.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: People don't like opposing or demanding policy changes from government.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: You must be really filling the squeeze.
• 30:06
  Speaker 19: Well we are, Chris, and you know it's come to
• 30:09
  Speaker 19: a head really. I mean in the last two years
• 30:12
  Speaker 19: of food distributors who are in massive warehouses with freezers
• 30:16
  Speaker 19: and chillers that are part of Australia's food supply chain
• 30:19
  Speaker 19: have seen energy price increases of fifty percent in just
• 30:23
  Speaker 19: two years. I mean it's got to a point now
• 30:26
  Speaker 19: where not only are businesses being impacted but the community
• 30:30
  Speaker 19: at large as well well.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: The government said they were going to cut the Labor
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: government coming into power said they were going.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: To cut electricity prices. They've gone by double or more
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: in the other direction.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: What chance do you see of the government actually delivering
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: on those lower power prices.
• 30:47
  Speaker 19: Well, at the moment, I'm very, very skeptical, as most
• 30:51
  Speaker 19: of my members are. I mean, these are hard working, independent,
• 30:55
  Speaker 19: family owned businesses and they are paying thirty thousand dollars
• 31:00
  Speaker 19: a month. Just think about that, that cost to doing business.
• 31:03
  Speaker 19: And the problem with that is that it goes right
• 31:07
  Speaker 19: through the food supply chain. So farmers are suffering, manufacturers, distributors,
• 31:12
  Speaker 19: and then to retail learn who sell to customers. So
• 31:17
  Speaker 19: the cost of doing business is intertwined, deeply intertwined with
• 31:22
  Speaker 19: the cost of living crisis. When energy prices are high,
• 31:26
  Speaker 19: food prices will be high, and we believe both will
• 31:30
  Speaker 19: be high for some time to come.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we will pay the price in the end. Thanks
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: for calling it out, Richard. The original's power to your arm.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Richard Forbes there with the Food Distributors Australia.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: He's the CEO.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: This issue is one we won't relent on. Right up
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: to the election they promised as cheap of power. We've
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: got much more expensive power. I want to cross back
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: to Townsville now and catch up with Philip Thompson. He's
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: the member for Herbert in the Townsville area. He's there
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: by the flood damaged area. Good to talk to you, Philip,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: but just tell us about what your town, what your
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: city is been through, and what you're worried about over
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: the next twenty four hours.
• 32:06
  Speaker 20: Well, thanks for having me, Chris. As you can see
• 32:08
  Speaker 20: behind me, this is Applan's. We are normally safe to
• 32:11
  Speaker 20: walk across. It's not safe to go across now. In
• 32:14
  Speaker 20: a couple of hours that bridge will be fully underwater.
• 32:18
  Speaker 20: Where you've got me between a break in the rain,
• 32:21
  Speaker 20: which is good, but there is a lot of homes
• 32:24
  Speaker 20: that have been inundated with floodwater. Rain has been quite
• 32:28
  Speaker 20: intense here and over the next few days we'll see
• 32:31
  Speaker 20: more rain and a rain event tonight and then we'll
• 32:35
  Speaker 20: move into hopefully move into the cleanup. But our evacuation
• 32:38
  Speaker 20: centers are full and it is quite tough and a
• 32:42
  Speaker 20: tough time for the people of towns Will.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a garrison town, so many military assets around
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: the place.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Has that been a help?
• 32:51
  Speaker 15: It has?
• 32:52
  Speaker 20: And just last night I got a phone call, a
• 32:55
  Speaker 20: distressing phone call from a person that needed a hand.
• 32:58
  Speaker 20: She had you know, she was quite disabled. She needed
• 33:02
  Speaker 20: an electric wheelchair to move around and she had cerebral
• 33:06
  Speaker 20: palls in. I put a call out to some army
• 33:08
  Speaker 20: mats of mine and they were there very quickly and
• 33:11
  Speaker 20: we got her to a safe location. Without the defense Force,
• 33:14
  Speaker 20: towns will be in a much worse place. We've been
• 33:16
  Speaker 20: door knocking getting people out of the dangerous areas, but
• 33:20
  Speaker 20: we are still bracing for more severe weather. And whilst
• 33:25
  Speaker 20: Townshill has been through its fair share of natural disasters,
• 33:28
  Speaker 20: every natural disaster is different. If it's flooded, you've got
• 33:32
  Speaker 20: to forget about it, and if you don't need to
• 33:34
  Speaker 20: be on the road, you shouldn't be.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Philip, thanks for joining us. Appreciated, good luck for the
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: days ahead. Philip Thompson, the local MP in Townsville and
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: army vector in himself. You can see he's been out
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: in amongst it. He's out amongst it, helping his family,
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: helping people in need.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: What a riper bloke. Stay safe in.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: North Queensland for the next twenty four hours with more
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: rain on the way.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Got to go to a break.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: On the other side, We're going to check in with
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Sophie Ellsworth in London. You know that National Health Service
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: there just totally their doctors and nurses that they shouldn't
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: call fat people obese.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: There you go the PC world. It's carrying on.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: That's cross to London and catch up with Sophie Ellsworth,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: News Corps Europe correspondent of course, live in London.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Good to talk to you against Sophie. There's a bit
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: of man.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: That's a foot in the National Health Service in the UK.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: I love this story that all the workers there where
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: they be doctors, nurses or other staff, now they're not
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: to refer to fat people as being obese, but they
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: are people with obesity.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Explain the difference, please, what is the difference?
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: Chris?
• 34:43
  Speaker 21: That is a question that remains to be answered. But
• 34:45
  Speaker 21: this is growing a little bit crazy over here. Many
• 34:49
  Speaker 21: would argue that they're now worried about the language used
• 34:54
  Speaker 21: when people are using the NHS service. Now, the NHS
• 34:57
  Speaker 21: over here is riddled with problems, there's long waiting cues.
• 35:01
  Speaker 21: People are complaining about the NHS every day. But instead
• 35:05
  Speaker 21: bureaucrats here are worried about the language that they're using.
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: So you can't call someone a smoker.
• 35:11
  Speaker 21: You need to say people who smoke. You need to tone
• 35:15
  Speaker 21: down the language and wrap people in cotton. Will it
• 35:18
  Speaker 21: seems Chris, which is quite crazy.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Well, don't call me bald. I am a person with baldness,
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: or more to the point, I am a person without
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: much hair. It's just extraordinary, is And as you say that,
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: the wasted energy and priorities of these people, it drives
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: you nut. Now, another fascinating story came out in the
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Sun is that Prince Andrew has been seen by the
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Chinese as a sort of I suppose as a susceptible person,
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: a person who could be a high value target. I
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: would have thought what we know about his dealings in
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: New York and Epstein, now there was certainly a period
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: when he would have been seen in normal espionage terms
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: as someone who was very ripe to be blackmailed.
• 36:01
  Speaker 21: Well, Chris, this is really worrying developments for the royal family.
• 36:05
  Speaker 21: It seems that a week doesn't go by where Prince
• 36:07
  Speaker 21: Andrew is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. And
• 36:11
  Speaker 21: as you said, now he's meant to really be seen
• 36:14
  Speaker 21: as an easy or was meant to be seen as
• 36:16
  Speaker 21: an easy target for the Chinese to do business dealings with.
• 36:21
  Speaker 21: And more documents were released last week about his relationship
• 36:25
  Speaker 21: with alleged spy Yang Tembo and all this bad press
• 36:30
  Speaker 21: is coming out again about him, and it's really coming
• 36:33
  Speaker 21: across that Prince Andrew is very much on the outer
• 36:36
  Speaker 21: because he just keeps making or it seems from these documents,
• 36:41
  Speaker 21: making very serious mistakes that are implicating the Royal family.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Should they just be sitting at home, riding a horse
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: or whatever they do, playing some polo, just get out
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: of the way.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: A bit of a worry for the Royals. Now.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: I want to go to another issue that relates to
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: renewable energy. We've been focused on that again a lot tonight.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: But in the UK a fire in a wind turbine.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: We've got a picture here, tell us about what went
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: on here. But I'm really interested in the Australian implications.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: You're from country Victoria.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: You know what sort of chaos could be started if
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: we've got fires like this on a hot day in
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: the Australian bushland.
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right, Chris.
• 37:21
  Speaker 21: There was this turbine fire up in Cambridge here, a
• 37:25
  Speaker 21: couple of hundred k's north of London, and they don't know.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: What caused it.
• 37:31
  Speaker 21: They don't know what causedes wing turbine to catch a light.
• 37:35
  Speaker 21: So again this has caused a lot of issues because
• 37:38
  Speaker 21: it's really hard to get figures on wing turbine vaults
• 37:44
  Speaker 21: or issues such as fires. But I can speak from
• 37:47
  Speaker 21: experience because in terms of the drama that wind turbines
• 37:52
  Speaker 21: can cause, in my own regional community near Ballarat where
• 37:56
  Speaker 21: I grew up, there was plans to put a wing
• 37:59
  Speaker 21: turbine far near there and Chris I can tell you
• 38:02
  Speaker 21: it's split the community in half and there's relationships fractured
• 38:06
  Speaker 21: from that.
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: It didn't proceed.
• 38:08
  Speaker 21: But these wind turbines, it's all well and good for
• 38:10
  Speaker 21: the people in the cities to say, oh they're wonderful.
• 38:12
  Speaker 21: Put them out in the country. People don't want them
• 38:15
  Speaker 21: in their backyard.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've seen that right around the country. It's
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: going to continue to go and the fire threat, bushfire
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: threat is.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Just going to be another element added to that because
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: if you had a fire like that on a wind
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: turbine in central Victoria, western Victoria, where there are lots
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: of wind farms already, it would be absolutely devastating starting
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: a bush fire.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Thanks so much for joining us, Sophia.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Appreciative soph Your's worth in London all over it for
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: news Court newspapers as usual and for Sky News.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: We'll take a break. On the other side, going to
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: catch up with a Gemma and Caroline. One of the
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: things we're going to talk about is the Aussie who
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: literally bear it all at the Grammys. I mean, how
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: desperate are you to get some attention?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, it all gets real now, let's bring in Gematon
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  Speaker 4: Jini on the desk, y with me, Je Cases today
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: and Carolines. They're also joining us from Perth. We're going
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: to sort the joint out. First up, I want to
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: show you too what the Labor Party is telling the
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: country about Peter Dutton.
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  Speaker 22: These are all cost of living measures introduced by the
• 39:21
  Speaker 22: federal Labor government because we understand the pressure families are
• 39:26
  Speaker 22: under and every little bit helps.
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  Speaker 23: But look who was opposed to every single one of them.
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  Speaker 23: Whichever way you look at it, you'll be worse off
• 39:39
  Speaker 23: under Dutt.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta say, Caroline, I just think this is hilarious right.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Labour's essential strategy is it might be bloody bad now,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: but if you vote for him, it might even get worse.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, which is pretty hilarious.
• 39:58
  Speaker 11: But I think a lot of people I'm probably looking
• 40:00
  Speaker 11: at that going I'm paying so much more tax and
• 40:03
  Speaker 11: in fact, all of those little red squares are all
• 40:05
  Speaker 11: things that I'm paying for and I may or may
• 40:08
  Speaker 11: not be getting the benefit of any of them. Look,
• 40:11
  Speaker 11: a lot of people are hurting out there, a lot
• 40:13
  Speaker 11: of people are hurting, and I'm not really quite sure
• 40:17
  Speaker 11: that people are going to buy that it's going to
• 40:19
  Speaker 11: be worse under under the other bloke. I mean, look,
• 40:23
  Speaker 11: we said it's not going to be easy under alban
• 40:25
  Speaker 11: Easy didn't work for us in the last campaign. Unfortunately,
• 40:29
  Speaker 11: it kind of turned out to be true after all
• 40:32
  Speaker 11: of that, So we'll be very interesting to see.
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: But if that's the best they've got, well.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, to you what, Jimmy, that's right, it's not going
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: to be easy after Albanize. That turned out to be
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: a prediction rather than that campaign. This reminds me a
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: little bit though, of the old Monty Python thing.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: You know, how could be worse? Jehovah, jehovah, jevah, How
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: could it be worse than this? They've broken every promise.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: They've got cost of living up, electricity prices up, standard
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: of living down.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: My first thought as I saw that ad was nobody
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: is going to believe that, And the reason nobody's going
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: to believe. That is because nobody believes the government who lies.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Nobody believes the government who says X and does why.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Nobody believes the government who says we will lower costs
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: and costs skyrocket. Nobody believes the government that says we
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: are committed to keeping this country safe, and the opposite
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: has happened. Australians have unfortunately come to know firsthand that
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: mister Albaneze's word cannot.
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: Be trusted, that he is a week week leader, that
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: he is like a read in the wind Chris.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: He blows this way and he blows that there is
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: no integrity to him. That's the unfortunate lesson that the
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Australian people have learned about this government over the last
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: three years, and they don't buy it.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: You talk about all those little squares of course being
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: more government spending and that it makes more inflation, the
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: coalition promising to cut some spending and just in the
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: naw but jimper Price is going to be leading the charge.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: A couple of obvious targets straightway.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: One hundred and thirty thousand dollar job in defense on
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: gender diversity and inclusion.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: And cutting back on money for welcome to country ceremonies.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I think broadly, I mean those sorts of things will
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: come to light as we progress down this road. But broadly, Chris,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: you live within your means. I live within my means.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Our viewers are living within their means as best they can.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: As Caroline said, everybody's hurting. So why does the federal
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: government act as if money grows on trees like The
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: practical reality is that it doesn't know how to.
• 42:33
  Speaker 9: Live within its means.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: It says we're going to give you free this, and
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: we're going to give you free that.
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: Nothing is for free.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Everybody else is paying for it via increased taxes, increased
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: you know, tax on goods and services. This is an
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: absolute fraud. They are economic wreckers. And the reason the
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: country that dollar is so weak like this is an
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: absolute economic catastrophe that sits at the feet of mister Chalmers,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: he who has the PhD in keating and not much
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: how and mister Albanz.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, now, I'll tell you what, Carolin. The thing here
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: is there's so much low hanging fruit.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: For instance, get rid of the diversity, equality and gender
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: person in defense. We can get rid of that across
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: the whole federal government and that'll be a few hundred
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: thousand dollars in every department.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: And also the welcome to the country.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: I argue, it's good to have a welcome to country
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: in the right circumstances, for the right occasion, but you
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: shouldn't be sureving out thousands of dollars for it.
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: That's not the purpose, right, No, that's not the purpose.
• 43:32
  Speaker 11: And when people look at and I've said this before
• 43:34
  Speaker 11: on your show Quiz, you know it might only be
• 43:36
  Speaker 11: one hundred and fifty thousand, let's say, but people know
• 43:39
  Speaker 11: every day.
• 43:40
  Speaker 9: People know how hard it is to earn one hundred
• 43:42
  Speaker 9: and fifty thousand period.
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: So we work hard to make that money and to
• 43:45
  Speaker 11: save that money. And the government's like, oh, we just
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: would like some more fluff around the office. Let's do it,
• 43:50
  Speaker 11: and let's all feel good about it. I mean, the
• 43:53
  Speaker 11: fact of the matter is, and this is what I
• 43:55
  Speaker 11: love about Labour's response to this now, is that it's
• 43:59
  Speaker 11: very much well, it's all cutting frontline services. It's like
• 44:02
  Speaker 11: the ABC can't cut the ABC because we'll shoot b Louie.
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: No one's shooting.
• 44:06
  Speaker 11: Blueye, no one Loo makes money productive frontlines. Blue he
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: does make money the only thing of the ABC I
• 44:12
  Speaker 11: think there's ever got money. No one wants to cut
• 44:15
  Speaker 11: good frontline services, but there is all this spending going
• 44:19
  Speaker 11: on that is not productive and that's what people are
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: looking at.
• 44:22
  Speaker 9: And if you go back to the Labor Party when.
• 44:25
  Speaker 11: They are in opposition right before the election, you will
• 44:28
  Speaker 11: remember the words we are going to go through the budget.
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: Line by line to cut wastes and rules. Yes, what
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: is the difference money?
• 44:38
  Speaker 11: This is just a continuation of something that some people
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: would think is waste and ruts. And frankly, a diversity
• 44:45
  Speaker 11: officer in defense is the last thing we need in
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: defense when you think about all the actual stuff we
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: need in defense.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Well, when we're going to talk about waste and roots,
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: let's stick with the classic of the gender and what
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: we talked about here in New South Wales with the
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Transport Minister and the Housing Minister deciding that taxpayers could
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: shunt them and their husbands and their friends around for
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: a nice, long, boozy lunch at a winery. Carolyn, Well,
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: we always get these examples, but this is beyond belief,
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: isn't it.
• 45:15
  Speaker 11: Well it is, Annie, isn't like you have to live
• 45:18
  Speaker 11: in a tiny entitled enough bubble to think that you
• 45:22
  Speaker 11: could actually get away with that, which is the ultimate point.
• 45:25
  Speaker 11: It's only because this got leak that there was an
• 45:27
  Speaker 11: apology and bad judgment and YadA YadA. This yere Joe
• 45:32
  Speaker 11: Halen thought that she could get away with it, and
• 45:34
  Speaker 11: Rose Jackson was obviously going along with it.
• 45:36
  Speaker 9: All fine.
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: I mean, we know that she's totally disconnected. She thinks
• 45:40
  Speaker 11: you can get it too better in Sydney for a
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: couple of hundred bucks a week. These people live on
• 45:45
  Speaker 11: a different planet to the rest of us.
• 45:48
  Speaker 9: No normal everyday.
• 45:50
  Speaker 11: Person would think that it is okay to go, oh, well,
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: I'm just I'm just going to go out and have
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: a long, pissy lunch and the taxpayer can pay for it.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: These people represent the Workers Party gem. They claim to
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: be the heroes of the workers, and they're living like
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: kings on the workers' taxes.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a really great point that you raised, because
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: I read also today in this story the poor driver
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: I think had to do a twelve or a thirteen
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: hour shift. I mean, nothing sickens me, and I use
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: that word deliberately. It turns my stomach. These people like
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: where for the people? Where for the people? We are
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: for spending other people's money with impunity. We are for
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: making this bloke work an extra long shift so that
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: we could go out on the booze, so that we
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: go to our holiday home. And I read later today
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: that there were other allegations that the minister had used
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: her government car to ferry her kids to sport. I mean,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: the thing about it is this, I don't reckon she's sorry.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: I reckon she's embarrassed.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: She got caught.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, And the reason I will say that
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: with a degree of confidence because had she not got caught,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: would she be apologizing and paying.
• 46:54
  Speaker 9: The money back? You people voted for these.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: People, She'd be worting the next one, next winery.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Seriously, It's like, when do you expect socialists to not
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: act like socialists? When do you expect socialists to spend
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: other people's money with the alacrity that they spend it?
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, when do you expect them to stop doing that?
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Leopards don't change their spots. You people voted for them.
• 47:16
  Speaker 9: I didn't. She didn't live here.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: Out of you are now now, I just want to
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: go to the Grammys that Look, there's an Australian woman
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: who's a.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: I don't even know her name.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: Some of you will.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: She's married to Kenye west Or she's got something. She's
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: he's partner or something. She turns up at the Grammy's
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: with him and have a look. We don't have the
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: vision here. She just turns up in a fur coat.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: She unfurls this fur coat.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: Caroline, I'm certain you've seen this, and she's essentially she's
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: got a bit of fly screen wrapped around.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: What sort of a brain and low source esteem do
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: you have that you're that desperate to get some global attention.
• 47:58
  Speaker 11: She didn't even have a couple of band aids scripts. Look,
• 48:01
  Speaker 11: I was actually quite shocked at this. I was actually
• 48:04
  Speaker 11: quite shocked at this.
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: And look at you.
• 48:06
  Speaker 11: If that's the statement that you want to make and
• 48:08
  Speaker 11: it makes you feel empowered or whatever, knock yourself out.
• 48:11
  Speaker 11: Her name is Bianca Chenzori and her non Na is
• 48:14
  Speaker 11: sitting somewhere in five Diane Ella somewhere dying of share.
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: Is really really I thought it was Kim. I thought
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: it was Kim Kardashian.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: She's like, I think Kanye has issues because his missus
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: is like his ex missus. She's like just a different version,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: but yeah, not even a band aid over a bits.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: While we're on the ridiculous, Well, while they're on we're
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: on topics that I dare not have a view on.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Let's show that famous.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Kiss when the Spanish women won the women's Football World
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: Cup and the Spanish football president kissed one of the
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: winning players. He is now facing a sexual assault chads.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: That'll be in court overnight. Your thoughts, Caroline, Oh.
• 49:06
  Speaker 11: Look, I don't think it's ever appropriate to kiss a
• 49:10
  Speaker 11: colleague on the lips.
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: I'm so sorry, but that there.
• 49:14
  Speaker 11: When I saw that footage, I was just like, you
• 49:17
  Speaker 11: know what, mate, you should be lucky, you shouldn't head
• 49:18
  Speaker 11: butt you in the face.
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: Have to agree with that. I don't want any I mean, yeah,
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: I just don't.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Don't do it.
• 49:27
  Speaker 9: Don't kiss me on the lips man without an invitation.
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: I'm off the kissing program, right, I mean, but I
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: mean I have been known after victorious football match which
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: kiss me on check people of all ages and all
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: genders and cheek is fine.
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: But don't don't come here. This is this is invitation only.
• 49:44
  Speaker 9: This is fine, this is fine, hug me whatever.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: But you know what my dad said to me, Jemma,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: violence is not the answer, but don't you slap like
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: a woman. If you have to punch, close your fist
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: and hit like a man.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: Could have been I'm still left.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: I'm still left one eye back with Kanye West's mother
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: in law, Alburn, the Nona in Melbourne, just extraudery.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: So thanks so much for joining us, Caroline and Jemma.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: We'll look forward to our next catching up and sorting
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: out of the world's problems. I want to include some
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: of your feedback from what I had to say about
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Chris Bowen's Instagram antics last week. One viewer says, if
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: Australia can't have our gas colon or why should we
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: be selling it? Then well let's see it the other
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: way around. If we're selling it, why can't we use
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: it here? Another viewer says, blackout Bowen is living proof
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: you don't have to be smart to hold a lifelong
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: position as a politician. Ain't that the truth? Dale says,
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: blackout Bowen is the gift that keeps on giving. He
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: totally sums up exactly what's wrong with the Labor Party.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: And also we had one saying I wish we had
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: a Donald Trump figure in this country. Perhaps Peter Dutton
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: will be the man to make Australia great again.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: We shall see. Thanks for joining me. I'll be back
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: tomorrow night at five o'clock. Here's Quedlin