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The Late Debate | 3 March · The Late Debate

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Speaker 1: Late General Man, Welcome to the Late Debate.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the Late Debate.
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Speaker 3: I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storra and Caleb Bond coming
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Speaker 3: up tonight. One of the fastest retractions you will ever
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Speaker 3: see an American TV host smears Elon Musk and then
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Speaker 3: just a couple of minutes later issues a groveling apology
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Speaker 3: that in.
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Speaker 2: A short time plus.
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Speaker 3: We'll look at what's making news tomorrow, including Victorian police
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Speaker 3: to lower recruitment academic standards in order to try to
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Speaker 3: get new offices on board, and the famous racing track
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Speaker 3: Mount Panorama could be off limits to the public after
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Speaker 3: an Indigenous group claims it's a sacred site and not
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Speaker 3: for Ford or Holden.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at that a bit later as well.
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Speaker 3: But first, Australian childcare centers and schools will later this
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Speaker 3: month celebrate Harmony Day. Personally, looking at the education standards
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Speaker 3: of our kids, I wish they'd just focus on reading,
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Speaker 3: writing and arithmetic, but they're going to do Harmony Day
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Speaker 3: and as part of that on March twenty first, kids
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Speaker 3: will try different foods, they'll wear costumes from different cultures,
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Speaker 3: sing different songs and the whole idea is to sort
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Speaker 3: of experience and understand the cultural backgrounds of other kids
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Speaker 3: in the class. Harmony Day fairly innocious, you would have thought,
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Speaker 3: But not so according to the Australian Human Rights Commission,
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Speaker 3: who've labeled Harmony Day a cover for racism.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: They say kids shouldn't be celebrating each other. No, no,
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Speaker 3: they should be learning about how our nation was built
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Speaker 3: on racism. Because in seventeen eighty eight white people arrived
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Speaker 3: from Britain, Indigenous groups were disenfranchised, and that's what our
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Speaker 3: children need to be learning about, because structural racism continues
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Speaker 3: until this day.
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Speaker 2: Goodness me.
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Speaker 3: You want to talk about structural racism its structures like
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Speaker 3: the Australian Human Rights Commission that are part of that
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Speaker 3: if it exists. Listen to what they said in a
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Speaker 3: report about Harmony Day to schools. This is their device
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Speaker 3: I quote. The problem with Harmony Day is that the
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Speaker 3: focus on harmony can gloss over racism.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: You can have too much harmony. It can stop people
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Speaker 3: from discussing it. This is for childcare centers. Or it
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Speaker 3: can cause people to think that speaking up upsets the
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Speaker 3: idea of a harmonious Australian society. It distracts from recognizing
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Speaker 3: and addressing the harm that racism causes to communities. The
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Speaker 3: Australian Human Rights Commission putting the harm back into harmony.
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Speaker 3: Harmony is a distraction, they claim, a distraction from what
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Speaker 3: from what they would love to be doing, which is
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Speaker 3: training our children in the fine arts of grievance and guilt.
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Speaker 3: That's right, all the colored kids can feel aggrieved and
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Speaker 3: all the white kids should feel guilty. To that end,
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Speaker 3: the Australian Human Rights Commission wish to rename Harmony Day
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Speaker 3: the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and
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Speaker 3: push that through our Kindi's caleb, these guys are nuts.
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Speaker 4: I mean you can just imagine the kids go, oh
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Speaker 4: my god, I can't wait to celebrate the International Day
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Speaker 4: for the Elimination of Racial Discriminations.
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Speaker 1: Say it once and say it tries with the kid.
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Speaker 4: I mean, seriously, the idea of Harmony Day is that
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Speaker 4: we love our neighbors and we recognize that we all
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Speaker 4: live together in one country and let's all get along
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Speaker 4: because that's a nice way to live. That's not good enough,
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Speaker 4: because the point here what they've actually led out of
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Speaker 4: the cat they have led out of the bag is
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Speaker 4: that none of it is really about harmonizing all of us.
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Speaker 4: And I've made this point before when we talk about
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Speaker 4: reconciliation when it comes to Indigenous people, we're told we
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Speaker 4: must achieve reconciliation, which, if you follow the definition of
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Speaker 4: reconcile the prefix to reconciliation, it means that we come
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Speaker 4: together and we come to some sort of agreement on
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Speaker 4: what has happened before, and now we move together as
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Speaker 4: one will know that's not what they want. They don't
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Speaker 4: want us to live in harmony. They don't want us
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Speaker 4: to reconcile. They want to con genuinely point out the differences.
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Speaker 4: The point is not to achieve harmony. The point isn't
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Speaker 4: even to end racial discrimination, because of course there is
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Speaker 4: no literal end to racial discrimination if you follow this
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Speaker 4: to its logical conclusion, because there are never enough reparations
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Speaker 4: that can be paid for the alleged racial discrimination that
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Speaker 4: has occurred before you were even a glint in your
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Speaker 4: father's eye. What they want is to divide us, and
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Speaker 4: they've got to start with the kids, because imagine if
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Speaker 4: the kids start thinking that it's all hunky dory that
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Speaker 4: we can all live together in harmony in the one country. Well,
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Speaker 4: then you don't have a racism industry anymore, do you.
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Speaker 5: This is the Human Rights Commission basically peddling critical race theory,
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Speaker 5: even on toddlers, being like, you're doing a terrible job,
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Speaker 5: but we're not talking about harmony. We want to teach
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Speaker 5: them from infancy, the politics of grievance, identity politics. How
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Speaker 5: are all so divided? And like you say, the black
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Speaker 5: kids can then feel aggrieved because they've just learned about
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Speaker 5: the injustices of the past. None of their generation is
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Speaker 5: responsible for or ours, let us not forget, And then
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Speaker 5: all the white kids can be like, oh, for heaven's sake,
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Speaker 5: I had no idea. We're here thanks to all the
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Speaker 5: dreadful things that we've done. Why would you want to
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Speaker 5: feel little kids' heads with this. I'm actually not in
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Speaker 5: favor of Harmony Day either, because this is teaching race
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Speaker 5: theory of a different kind, telling these kids, oh, he's
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Speaker 5: perfectly normal and good and wholesome and right, and everyone
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Speaker 5: should be doing it. This idea of multi culturalism, which
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Speaker 5: I've said before and will continue to say it is
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Speaker 5: a farce. A multi ethnic society absolutely but a society
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Speaker 5: that doesn't work, which we discuss every other night for
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Speaker 5: different reasons on this show and all the others. A
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Speaker 5: society that doesn't have a cohesive culture, a society that
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Speaker 5: doesn't rally around at least one particular religion anymore. No, No,
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Speaker 5: we want these kids to understand that despite having cultures
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Speaker 5: that clash, religions that are completely at odds with each other,
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Speaker 5: inherently held values hailing from those incredibly different cultures, we're
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Speaker 5: all just a melting pot and we should all get
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Speaker 5: together in harmony. Don't We talk about every single night
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Speaker 5: how this isn't working so well, especially in light of
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Speaker 5: what's playing out currently in the Middle East. It's simply
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Speaker 5: not true. So whether you're teaching kids' critical race theory
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Speaker 5: or harmony, harmony, it's all about harmony. Multiculturalism is amazing,
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Speaker 5: and all culturals, all cultures are equal. No they're not.
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Speaker 5: All people are equal, yes, but all cultures absolutely not.
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Speaker 5: Kids should be told our culture is the best. That's
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Speaker 5: how you raise little patriots who are ready to defend
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Speaker 5: and fight for what they know to be right. For
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Speaker 5: as long as they have a melting pot. They're like, well, okay,
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Speaker 5: so everyone's right, even though people essentially believe incredibly different
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Speaker 5: things to each other. It doesn't work.
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Speaker 2: So I have a suggestion.
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Speaker 3: So the Australian Human Rights Commission want to rename Harmony Day, right,
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Speaker 3: Their suggestion is what is an International Day for the
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Speaker 3: Elimination of racism.
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Speaker 2: I've got another suggestion.
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Speaker 3: We rename Harmony Day Australia Day every day on January
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Speaker 3: twenty six. But here's the serious point. You've got to
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Speaker 3: harmonize around something exactly. So to have harmony, there's got
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Speaker 3: to be something that you harmonize around. So surely what
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Speaker 3: we harmonize around is the fact we are all Australian.
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Speaker 3: January twenty sixth Harmony Day.
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Speaker 2: I agree.
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Speaker 3: Change the name of it Harmony Days, a bit call
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Speaker 3: Australia Day.
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Speaker 2: It could really work.
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Speaker 4: And then what it kind of proves really is that
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Speaker 4: you give them an inch, they'll take a mile. Like okay,
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Speaker 4: So we started to acknowledge that we shouldn't be racist,
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Speaker 4: but then that's not good enough because apparently it hides racism.
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Speaker 1: Like how do you win? You don't win this battle.
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Speaker 1: That's the point.
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Speaker 3: Well, I forget which one of you said, the racism
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Speaker 3: industry but of course, if Harmony Day works, the Australian
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Speaker 3: Human Rights Commission doesn't need it's fifty million dollar a
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Speaker 3: year funding allowance because there'll be nothing for it to do.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's the thing that really gets their go.
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Speaker 5: We can scrap it. Tell you who is scrapping critical
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Speaker 5: race theory in the classroom is Trump's administration. They gave
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Speaker 5: schools until the twenty eighth of February to get rid
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Speaker 5: of all their DEI nonsense or their critical race indoctrination
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Speaker 5: out of the classroom or lose their federal funding. Now
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Speaker 5: what school is going to put up their hands and say, oh, yes,
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Speaker 5: we'll just shut up shop because well, we want to
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Speaker 5: keep teaching this nonsense. None of them. But the Trump
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Speaker 5: administration didn't stop there after February twenty eighth. They've launched
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Speaker 5: just last week an online portal called Getting Rid of DEEI,
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Speaker 5: which is for the use of parents, of students, everyone
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Speaker 5: on the ground. That will of course be the ones
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Speaker 5: aware if schools are not obeying this edict from the
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Speaker 5: federal government. They say, jump online. We want to know
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Speaker 5: what schools are breaking the rules. They literally tell people,
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Speaker 5: if you're using this porthole, describe it as much detail
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Speaker 5: as possible, the discriminatory practice taking place. They call these
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Speaker 5: illegal discriminatory practices. They want to identify potential areas for investigation.
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Speaker 5: This is incredible. This portal says the US Department of
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Speaker 5: Education is committed to ensuring all students have access to
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Speaker 5: meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination. So while
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Speaker 5: we've got our Human Rights Commission literally saying you're not
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Speaker 5: shoving this down kids and throats hard enough, you've got
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Speaker 5: the Trump administration saying you will. We're gutting this out
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Speaker 5: of the entire schooling system, and if you break the rules,
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Speaker 5: mom and dads around the country are going to dob
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Speaker 5: you in and you will lose your federal funding.
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Speaker 3: I love this so much, especially as a parent who's
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Speaker 3: had kids come home from school with books where they've
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Speaker 3: got a picture of an indigenous person under a tree
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Speaker 3: looking incredibly happy. And then besides that, there's a picture
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Speaker 3: of a modern city and there's smoke coming out of
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Speaker 3: factory stacks, and the implication clearly is that Australia was
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Speaker 3: this idyllic paradise until white people arrived with their industrial revolution,
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Speaker 3: and your kids are getting bombarded with that right from
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Speaker 3: an early age to now my kids in university. And
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Speaker 3: we had that story just the other night about Macquarie University,
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Speaker 3: where young people are being taught that if they're not Indigenous,
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Speaker 3: they're a settler and a guest in this country. And
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Speaker 3: you've got lecturers starting the semester by telling students if
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Speaker 3: you address me by female pronouns, though I am a female,
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Speaker 3: I will ignore you. So it's rammed down kids' throats continually.
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Speaker 3: Parents in this country you complain it falls on deaf ears,
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Speaker 3: but in the United States now you can make a
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Speaker 3: legitimate complaint and the Education Department will listen and do
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Speaker 3: something about it.
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Speaker 4: And I'm sure those books your sons were sent home
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Speaker 4: with were made by modern printers and then modern binders
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Speaker 4: and all this sort of modern technology that then allows
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Speaker 4: us to read books about how it was such an
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Speaker 4: idyllic lifestyle before the white man rocked up by the bye.
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Speaker 1: But I think it's fantastic.
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Speaker 4: They should call it the did Dorbin Division and expand
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Speaker 4: it from you know, beyond schools to everywhere. Right every
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Speaker 4: time you see DEI report it to the government and
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Speaker 4: then they can go in and do something about it.
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Speaker 4: I do wish that perhaps it would lob in my
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Speaker 4: emails first so that we've got the stories here to
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Speaker 4: do first before everyone else gets onto them. But that's
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Speaker 4: sort of been your only outlet thus far. Right, If
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Speaker 4: there's something going on in a school, or there's something
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Speaker 4: going on that you think is dodgy in terms of
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Speaker 4: DEI that the only way you could do anything about
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Speaker 4: it was to go to the media and get a
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Speaker 4: journalist to report on the story and then hope they
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Speaker 4: created enough of a ground swell for something to be done.
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Speaker 4: Now you've got a government that is proactively wanting to
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Speaker 4: do things. They're saying, look, if you see it, tell us.
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Speaker 4: It's a bit like the cops, or as if you
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Speaker 4: see something, if you hear something, say something, And they're
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Speaker 4: applying exactly the same logic here, and so it should
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Speaker 4: be because the parents are the eyes and.
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Speaker 1: The ears of the schools, and.
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Speaker 4: You know, you can imagine why a department wouldn't know
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Speaker 4: what's going on in every single school everywhere. So unless
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Speaker 4: someone does blow the whistle, these things will just continue
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Speaker 4: to happen.
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Speaker 1: So thank god someone's come up with a way.
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Speaker 4: Who would have thought, you know, the idea of a
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Speaker 4: website where you can go on and say something's.
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Speaker 1: Happening at my school and it goes off to the government.
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Speaker 1: So novel. Why did no one think of this before? Strange,
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Speaker 1: isn't it.
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Speaker 4: While we're in the United States and talking about Trump, etc.
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Speaker 4: He would have seen, I'm sure over the weekend his
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Speaker 4: meeting with the Ukrainian president, LORDI mu Zelensky. Now I'm
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Speaker 4: not going to go chapter and verse into it, because well,
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Speaker 4: if you haven't seen the coverage, you have definitely been
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Speaker 4: living under a rock. But as a small reminder of
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Speaker 4: how things went, he was a little bit of the
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Speaker 4: meeting between Zelenski and Donald Trump the other day.
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Speaker 6: Cabinet, we gave you, through the stupid president, three hundred
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Speaker 6: and fifty billion dollars. We gave your military equipment, and
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Speaker 6: you've met are brave, but they had to use our
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Speaker 6: military one of if you didn't have our military equipment.
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Speaker 6: If you didn't have our military equipment, this war would
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Speaker 6: have been over.
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Speaker 4: In two weeks now, Zelensky has gone to the US
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Speaker 4: to publicly sign a minerals sharing deal between Ukraine and
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Speaker 4: the US that would then become a major plank of
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Speaker 4: negotiating an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia.
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Speaker 4: They set up a great trap for Zelenski. There he
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Speaker 4: walked in, he became argumentative, and they were just as
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Speaker 4: argumentative back, they being Trump and his Vice president J. D. Vance,
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Speaker 4: who also took up the torch against Zelenski.
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Speaker 1: Take a look, have you said thank you once? A
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Speaker 1: lot of times.
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Speaker 7: You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October,
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Speaker 7: offer some words of appreciation for the United States of
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Speaker 7: America and the president who's trying to save your country.
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Speaker 4: Now, there's been a lot of talk since then that
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Speaker 4: Vance overstepped the line. And how dare he speak directly
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Speaker 4: to Zelenski and say you should be more grateful for
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Speaker 4: what we have done to you, as though he were
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Speaker 4: the petulant child in the room. I must remind people
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Speaker 4: this is not the first time this has happened, and
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Speaker 4: it's not the first time it's happened under a Democrat
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Speaker 4: administration either. It's just that in that case, it didn't
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Speaker 4: happen publicly. It happened over the phone talking about Joe Biden. Now, yes,
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Speaker 4: it didn't happen publicly, but that's not the fault of
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Speaker 4: Joe Biden. Nor is it the fault of JD Vans
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Speaker 4: that the situation in which they got argumentative was in
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Speaker 4: front of reporters, as Zelensky could have avoided that just
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Speaker 4: as well as anyone else could have. But this has
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Speaker 4: happened before, Biden said when he was president to Zelenski,
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Speaker 4: you should be more grateful, Tager listen.
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Speaker 8: In this conversation, President Biden called President Zelensky to tell
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Speaker 8: him about a roughly one billion dollar package of additional
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Speaker 8: equipment and weapons for the Ukrainian military coming from the
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Speaker 8: United States. During the course of the call, President Zelensky continued.
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Speaker 8: According to a number of officials who we spoke with who
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Speaker 8: are familiar with the call, president Zelensky continued to talk
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Speaker 8: about the additional equipment and weapons and support that he
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Speaker 8: and his military needed. According to these officials, they said
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Speaker 8: that President Biden finally just got frustrated and lost his
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Speaker 8: temper and told President Zelensky, look, you could be a
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Speaker 8: little bit more great for he knew that the narrative
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Speaker 8: out there needed to be that the Ukrainian people and
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Speaker 8: President Zelensky were grateful for it. If this was the
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Speaker 8: support was going to continue at that same level kit like.
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Speaker 4: It's basically a carbon copy of the conversation that Vance
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Speaker 4: and Trump had with Zelensky, except that that one was
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Speaker 4: done behind closed doors. The other one with Trump and Advanced,
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Speaker 4: you actually got to see in public. The position of
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Speaker 4: the Bard administration and the Trump administration on.
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Speaker 1: That specific point is exactly the same. But the problem here.
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Speaker 4: Of course, is that if you actually want to end
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Speaker 4: the war, which is Trump's stated goal, He's got no
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Speaker 4: other state of goal here except to end this war,
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Speaker 4: and I think Zelensky to some degree wants to achieve that.
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Speaker 4: But the problem is you have to seed ground in
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Speaker 4: order to do it. Both Russia and Ukraine have to
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Speaker 4: make some kind of concessions in order to end this war. Now, Zelensky,
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Speaker 4: for moral reasons, doesn't want to make those concent sessions.
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Speaker 4: And I understand why. For moral reasons he wouldn't want
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Speaker 4: to make those concessions because Russia started this war, etc.
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Speaker 4: That's fine, but there ain't going to be an end
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Speaker 4: to the war unless you're willing to make those concessions.
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Speaker 4: And if you don't do that, more people die, and
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Speaker 4: this just goes on and on and on forever, and
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Speaker 4: that's not good.
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Speaker 1: For anyone. I mean, Russia's not losing this war.
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Speaker 4: Sure, Ukraine's been able to keep them at bay to
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Speaker 4: some degree for a very long time. Now, this war's
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Speaker 4: gone a lot longer than we thought it would, But
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Speaker 4: Russia's not losing this war. The only way to end
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Speaker 4: it as if they both say we'll give up some ground.
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Speaker 1: But it doesn't seem like that's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: And what's interesting is that Macron Zelensky was offered an
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Speaker 3: opportunity to apologize on Fox News and decline to apologize
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Speaker 3: for his behavior. He's run off to Europe. He's meeting
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Speaker 3: with Starma and Macron and others, and now they're trying
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Speaker 3: to come up with a peace plan. But it depends
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Speaker 3: again on the goodwill of America, because America have to
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Speaker 3: back it. One thing that no one's really reflected on,
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Speaker 3: I don't think, and that is Trump had been saying
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Speaker 3: for some time that European countries need to look after
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Speaker 3: their own defense, they need to raise their defense budgets.
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Speaker 3: He's been quite adamant that that needs to happen. America
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Speaker 3: can't just keep on carrying the whole world. And the
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Speaker 3: meeting that Starmer had with mccron and other European leaders.
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Speaker 3: They all said that European nations need to lift their
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Speaker 3: defense spending to three point five percent of GDP. The
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Speaker 3: average is one point seven percent across the European Union
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Speaker 3: at the moment. So whatever happens out of this, Trump
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Speaker 3: has achieved one of his stated goals, and that is
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Speaker 3: to cajole the Europeans into, hey, stop free loading of
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Speaker 3: America and start to look after your own defense.
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Speaker 5: But at this point, once America has pulled the plug,
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Speaker 5: and it well and truly has, it doesn't matter what
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Speaker 5: France and the UK do, because what also nobody talks
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Speaker 5: about is obviously this is an incredibly expensive war, but
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Speaker 5: Russia is out beforeilming both the united efforts of the
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Speaker 5: US and NATO when it comes to making artillery, and
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Speaker 5: that's something everyone seems to have missed. This has been
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Speaker 5: such an exercise in highlighting the fact that NATO hasn't
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Speaker 5: been able to turn spending power into firepower quick enough.
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Speaker 5: All the artillery that the US has sent to the
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Speaker 5: Ukraine is not coming out of stocked full shelves bountiful
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Speaker 5: with artillery. It's been coming off conveyor belts. Russia and
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Speaker 5: you can google this for yourself. Has absolutely outstripped the
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Speaker 5: combined efforts of the US and NATO when it comes
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Speaker 5: to just pumping out its own artillery. They have industrial capacity.
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Speaker 5: NATO has proved that it clearly does not, even with
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Speaker 5: the US on its side. But what I can't believe
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Speaker 5: is how many commentators today we're condemning Vance, we're condemning
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Speaker 5: Trump like this had come as some sort of surprise.
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Speaker 5: These guys had said for months in the lead up
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Speaker 5: to the election, appealing to their base, who is furious
20:08
Speaker 5: at the amount of money that has been spent on
20:10
Speaker 5: this war, they have said, and you will remember, Trump
20:13
Speaker 5: was like, within twenty four hours, within twenty four hours,
20:16
Speaker 5: I get into the White House, it's gonna be over now.
20:19
Speaker 5: Of course he hasn't been able to deliver on that.
20:22
Speaker 5: But people saying, oh, Trump advanced just totally embarrassed themselves.
20:26
Speaker 5: And this was humiliating. Do you think this wasn't calculated?
20:31
Speaker 5: Do you genuinely think this wasn't choreographed? They are playing
20:36
Speaker 5: to the base. Trump doesn't find this embarrassing at all. Remember,
20:40
Speaker 5: the guy comes from TV. He loves the theater, he
20:46
Speaker 5: loves the drama. He revels in this kind of thing.
20:50
Speaker 5: And you can bet your bottom dollar that these two said, wait,
20:53
Speaker 5: we promised our base we would not be doing business
20:56
Speaker 5: with this guy going forward. Now are being featured him
21:00
Speaker 5: sitting in the White House. It looks rather cozy. We
21:03
Speaker 5: need to send a message to the base that we
21:06
Speaker 5: are standing by the things that we promised them. And
21:09
Speaker 5: what I can't believe is the Lensky's attitude, knowing that
21:14
Speaker 5: that is what this administration had been saying four months
21:18
Speaker 5: in the lead up. In fact, on February nineteenth, this
21:21
Speaker 5: is what Trump wrote on his own social account. He said,
21:26
Speaker 5: think of it a modestly successful comedian VLADIMIRS. Skeolensky. Zolensky
21:31
Speaker 5: rather talk to the United States of America into spending
21:35
Speaker 5: three hundred and fifty billion dollars to go into a
21:37
Speaker 5: war that couldn't be won, that never had to start,
21:40
Speaker 5: but a war that he without the US and Trump
21:43
Speaker 5: will never be able to settle. The United States has
21:46
Speaker 5: spent two hundred billion dollars more than Europe, and Europe's
21:49
Speaker 5: money is guaranteed while we'll get nothing back. Why didn't
21:54
Speaker 5: sleepy Joe Biden demand equalization in that this war is
21:58
Speaker 5: far more important to Europe than it is to us.
22:01
Speaker 5: We have a big, beautiful ocean as separation. On top
22:04
Speaker 5: of this, Zelenski admits that half of the money we
22:06
Speaker 5: sent him is missing. That's a true story. He refuses
22:11
Speaker 5: to have elections, is very low in Ukrainian polls, and
22:14
Speaker 5: the only thing he was good at was playing Biden
22:17
Speaker 5: like a fiddle. A dictator without elections, Zolensky better move
22:21
Speaker 5: fast or he is not going to have a country left.
22:23
Speaker 5: In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to
22:27
Speaker 5: the war with Russia, something all admit only Trump and
22:31
Speaker 5: the Trump admin can do. Biden never tried. Europe has
22:35
Speaker 5: failed to bring peace, and Zelensky probably wants to keep
22:38
Speaker 5: the gravy train going. I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has
22:42
Speaker 5: done a terrible job. His country is shattered and millions
22:46
Speaker 5: have unnecessarily died, and so it continues very provocative to
22:53
Speaker 5: say the least. This is what Zelensky knew he was
22:56
Speaker 5: walking into in this meeting, and yet his attitude talking
23:01
Speaker 5: over the leader of the free world. You'd think you'd
23:04
Speaker 5: just be like, Okay, no matter what they do, grin
23:07
Speaker 5: and bear it. But this narrative coming out of the
23:10
Speaker 5: mainstream media that this guy was here and he was
23:14
Speaker 5: just to cement a minerals deal. That was the point
23:17
Speaker 5: of this. Put the wall to one side for two seconds.
23:20
Speaker 5: This was a minerals deal, and we're supposed to believe
23:23
Speaker 5: that it was thrown out the window because Zelenski was
23:26
Speaker 5: a little bit rude, a little bit short, do me
23:30
Speaker 5: a favor. This administration knew exactly what they were doing,
23:34
Speaker 5: making an example out of him, voicing the frustration of
23:38
Speaker 5: millions of Americans, and it worked. They're on side well.
23:41
Speaker 4: Anlys Nielsen made the point on Paul Murray's program before
23:45
Speaker 4: Us that they essentially gave him enough rope to hang himself,
23:48
Speaker 4: and he jumped into the trap and gave them the
23:52
Speaker 4: trigger to do what they wanted to do.
23:54
Speaker 1: He played that really dumb. The way he went into
23:58
Speaker 1: that meeting.
23:59
Speaker 4: It could have been a lot more civil than it was,
24:01
Speaker 4: but he took debait and handed them the easy wins.
24:04
Speaker 3: It's going to say, you know, you could say that
24:06
Speaker 3: Trump and Vance made an example of him. Zelenski made
24:09
Speaker 3: a pretty good example of himself. I thought, hey, moving on.
24:13
Speaker 3: You know, the other day I told a story on
24:16
Speaker 3: this program about a TV special run back in nineteen
24:19
Speaker 3: eighty six.
24:19
Speaker 2: It was called The Mystery of El.
24:21
Speaker 3: Capone's Vault, and television networks all over the world ran
24:25
Speaker 3: this special where they blew up el Capone's vault and
24:29
Speaker 3: everyone was fascinated by what they would find in there.
24:31
Speaker 3: Of course, when it was blown open, the worldwide television
24:34
Speaker 3: audience was greatly disappointed because there was just some dirt
24:37
Speaker 3: and some empty whiskey bottles.
24:38
Speaker 2: That was it. Well, history repeats.
24:41
Speaker 3: The whole world was waiting with baited breath at the
24:44
Speaker 3: weekend for the release of the Epstein files, which the
24:47
Speaker 3: Trump administration had promised and which Attorney General Pam Bondi
24:51
Speaker 3: had blown up to be bigger than ben her. Here
24:54
Speaker 3: she is speaking prior to the release of those files.
24:56
Speaker 3: This was on February twenty first.
25:00
Speaker 9: The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
25:04
Speaker 5: Well, that really happen.
25:06
Speaker 9: It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's
25:09
Speaker 9: been a directive by President Trump.
25:11
Speaker 5: I'm reviewing that.
25:12
Speaker 9: I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the
25:16
Speaker 9: process of being reviewed, because that was done at the
25:18
Speaker 9: directive of the president from all of these agencies.
25:22
Speaker 3: So she's getting us ready and then five days later
25:24
Speaker 3: she was building it up even more.
25:27
Speaker 9: There are well over this will make you sick. Two
25:31
Speaker 9: hundred victims, two hundred. We have to make sure that
25:35
Speaker 9: their identity is protected and their personal information. But other
25:41
Speaker 9: than that, I think tomorrow the personal information of victims.
25:45
Speaker 9: Other than that, I think tomorrow, Jesse breaking news. Right now,
25:49
Speaker 9: you're going to see some Epstein information being released.
25:53
Speaker 3: We're going to see some Epstein information released. So binders
25:57
Speaker 3: were given out to particular people. The Epstein files phase
26:01
Speaker 3: one the most transparent administration in history. All that information
26:05
Speaker 3: was later posted online with this disclaimer from the Trump
26:09
Speaker 3: administration quote, the first phase of declassified files largely contains
26:14
Speaker 3: documents that have previously been leaked but never released in
26:16
Speaker 3: a formal capacity. Caleb, it was a bit of a
26:20
Speaker 3: nothing burger. It was like blowing open El Capone's safe
26:23
Speaker 3: and there was a bit of dirt and some empty bottles.
26:26
Speaker 2: Nothing. We didn't already know.
26:28
Speaker 1: What more could you ask for it.
26:30
Speaker 4: It's like when you know things turn up in newspapers
26:33
Speaker 4: and then five days later the government say we've got
26:35
Speaker 4: a brand new announcement for you we already knew about
26:38
Speaker 4: did Bevans say? This is really odd because Cash Patil,
26:43
Speaker 4: who's now in charge of the FBI, has previously talked
26:46
Speaker 4: about how he wants this to believe be released.
26:49
Speaker 1: He's read the files, et cetera.
26:51
Speaker 4: Pam Bondie is now saying that the reason we didn't
26:54
Speaker 4: get any more information in this tranch of documents is
26:58
Speaker 4: because the FBI refused to release them. Cash Patel has
27:02
Speaker 4: not publicly commented about this since Pam said that some
27:06
Speaker 4: three days ago. Now, there is something weird going on
27:10
Speaker 4: here right now now, whether that is that there are
27:12
Speaker 4: staff in the FBI that didn't release it and now
27:15
Speaker 4: Patel's trying to work behind the scenes, who knows, but
27:18
Speaker 4: he hasn't acknowledged publicly why any of this has happened
27:22
Speaker 4: or how any of this has happened. So it would
27:24
Speaker 4: lead you to us, why have we not actually seen
27:26
Speaker 4: anything that's of any interest yet. And the fact that
27:29
Speaker 4: they trumpeted it so hard the release right like they
27:33
Speaker 4: got influencers in and podcasters and whatever and gave them
27:38
Speaker 4: advanced copies of the documents, which was a bit weird
27:41
Speaker 4: to begin with. I mean you know, it's reasonably standard
27:44
Speaker 4: that media get embargoed versions of documents so that they
27:48
Speaker 4: can publish a story at the same time as something
27:52
Speaker 4: is released publicly. That's normal and standard practice, so you
27:55
Speaker 4: can get the praises of these things as quickly as possible.
27:58
Speaker 4: But it wasn't just a he is document in secret
28:01
Speaker 4: treat it secretly put your report out at this time
28:04
Speaker 4: on this date. They got them in in a publicity
28:07
Speaker 4: stunt and got them to walk around waiving the documents
28:10
Speaker 4: around to show that they had them, and then when
28:12
Speaker 4: they opened them up found there was nothing inside.
28:14
Speaker 1: The whole thing is bizarre.
28:16
Speaker 5: And they had to know it would massively backfire because
28:19
Speaker 5: these influences, these podcasters. Basically, if you're an American podcaster
28:24
Speaker 5: or similar with over a million followers, you get invited
28:28
Speaker 5: to these things now, which is a great plus. But
28:31
Speaker 5: some of these guys are the ones that have been
28:34
Speaker 5: following the Epstein story for years and years and years.
28:39
Speaker 5: It was six years ago now that this guy suddenly
28:43
Speaker 5: turned up dead, and just when people thought they were
28:46
Speaker 5: getting justice, no information has come to light, and they
28:50
Speaker 5: were told that they would get new stuff in this
28:53
Speaker 5: lever arch file that each of them got and as
28:56
Speaker 5: you said, Caleb, it was talked up as like, oh,
28:58
Speaker 5: please don't discuss this yet. You know, they didn't use
29:02
Speaker 5: the word embargo, but it was very much implied that
29:05
Speaker 5: you are being let into the inner sanctum with this
29:08
Speaker 5: information it's not yet to go public, to which these
29:11
Speaker 5: guys went home, read through that lever Arch file and said,
29:14
Speaker 5: this stuff is years old. There is not one scaic
29:18
Speaker 5: of new information that has come to light. What was
29:22
Speaker 5: this entire fiasco about. So they've really shot themselves in
29:28
Speaker 5: the foot, particularly Pam Bondi because of course she's very
29:32
Speaker 5: new as Attorney general. This is Trump's pick. People have
29:35
Speaker 5: very high expectations. This is something that the Trump team
29:39
Speaker 5: trumpeted for ages that they were going to do. Same
29:42
Speaker 5: with the JFK files. Haven't seen any of those either,
29:46
Speaker 5: have you know me? Neither keep me posted. These guys
29:50
Speaker 5: are owed answers and they're still seeing absolutely nothing. So
29:55
Speaker 5: this is a massive embarrassment. Then Pam turns around, like
29:59
Speaker 5: you say, he blames the FBI and says, but I've
30:02
Speaker 5: given them a deadline eight am Friday. They've got to
30:06
Speaker 5: give me the stuff that they haven't given me yet.
30:09
Speaker 5: But when The leaders of the FBI now are Cash Pattel,
30:14
Speaker 5: who's talked about this at length and how much he
30:16
Speaker 5: wants to bust it wide open. His deputy Don Borngino
30:20
Speaker 5: has also talked about this at length for years. This
30:23
Speaker 5: guy's in the no, he knows what he's talking about. Again,
30:27
Speaker 5: we're supposed to believe that the FBI are the ones
30:30
Speaker 5: who are like pussy footing around this, not being upfront
30:33
Speaker 5: and hon us not blowing it open like they promised.
30:37
Speaker 5: Everyone's smelling a rat right now and saying this guy,
30:41
Speaker 5: why won't you reveal anything to us? And what Bondi
30:46
Speaker 5: was saying there about, Oh, you know, it's about keeping
30:48
Speaker 5: the victims their information. Nobody is expecting that what they
30:54
Speaker 5: want is the client list. You promised a client list.
31:00
Speaker 5: You promised that this thing was going to peel paint
31:02
Speaker 5: off the walls and justice was going to be served
31:05
Speaker 5: at last on these rich and powerful people that participated
31:09
Speaker 5: in a child sex trafficking ring, and still we got nothing. Meanwhile,
31:14
Speaker 5: Gealing Maxwell is serving twenty years basically in a really
31:18
Speaker 5: nice place with the ankle bracelet on for crimes that
31:24
Speaker 5: involve no one, apparently involve absolutely nobody seems incredible.
31:29
Speaker 4: Bondie said, you know, promises made, promises kept seepack when
31:33
Speaker 4: it came to the release of these documents. I don't
31:35
Speaker 4: think at this point you'd say the promise has been kept,
31:38
Speaker 4: would you.
31:39
Speaker 5: No, not at all to Romania now, where here we
31:42
Speaker 5: have another European country who is trying to get a
31:46
Speaker 5: right leading government. We've seen this in the Netherlands. We've
31:50
Speaker 5: seen this in France, We've seen this in Italy. We've
31:54
Speaker 5: seen this across the board as countries in the European
31:57
Speaker 5: Union go the European Union is not serving our interests.
32:02
Speaker 5: We want a radical We want someone who is going
32:05
Speaker 5: to put our country first. Well, this guy called Kaylin
32:11
Speaker 5: George Estu, Sorry mate if I've mispronounced your name. He's
32:16
Speaker 5: heading up what Once again the mainstream media is calling
32:19
Speaker 5: a far right party. They love to do this. They're
32:23
Speaker 5: even using the whole oh he loves Russia, his mates
32:27
Speaker 5: with Putin, even though the guy has literally said, quote,
32:31
Speaker 5: I'm not a fan, end quote. Just to make it
32:34
Speaker 5: really clear, do not try to be smirched me with that.
32:37
Speaker 5: I know it's worked in the past for you, but
32:40
Speaker 5: I am not a Putin fan. Well, he run. He
32:44
Speaker 5: won the first round of elections in Romania. They have
32:48
Speaker 5: a complicated system there, but all went well during the
32:52
Speaker 5: first round. The second row was stymied, and now this
32:57
Speaker 5: guy ends up in prison. He was just in a
33:00
Speaker 5: car on his way to a rally when he was
33:03
Speaker 5: taken into custody in Romania on what I can only
33:08
Speaker 5: tell is trumped up chargers. Now it's very hard to
33:12
Speaker 5: know what are the facts and figures about this. Who
33:15
Speaker 5: knows much about Romanian politics, but this looks like a
33:19
Speaker 5: stitch up, as most stitch ups are when it's pertaining
33:22
Speaker 5: to a right leaning leader trying to get up in
33:26
Speaker 5: the EU who has made great promises to their country.
33:30
Speaker 5: They have the popular vote, and so the media goes
33:33
Speaker 5: to town on them, as do the powers that be,
33:35
Speaker 5: to make sure that they never actually get the gong.
33:40
Speaker 5: But check out the crowd protest trying to get Kaylin
33:45
Speaker 5: George Escue out of jail. Look at the masses that
33:50
Speaker 5: are gathered to say, get our guy out of prison.
33:54
Speaker 5: We elected him in the first round, we'll elect him
33:57
Speaker 5: in every other round. You guys are trying to stick
34:00
Speaker 5: our guy, and you've arrested him, you've indicted him, and
34:05
Speaker 5: on what charge. It's very hard to believe any of this.
34:10
Speaker 5: But once again, this is what they tried to do
34:12
Speaker 5: with Lee Penn, with smirching her as some crazy right
34:16
Speaker 5: wing nut job. This is what they did with Garrett
34:18
Speaker 5: Wilda's crazy nut wing right job. You can go through
34:22
Speaker 5: each of the countries. Germany, they tried this on really
34:26
Speaker 5: hard with the AfD. Didn't work. They have the popular vote,
34:31
Speaker 5: and here we are in Romania. It just seems like
34:33
Speaker 5: copy paste.
34:34
Speaker 3: It's always interesting when they use smears like far right,
34:37
Speaker 3: which as far as I can tell, means you believe
34:38
Speaker 3: in God, country and family.
34:40
Speaker 5: They probably have very hard immigration policies.
34:43
Speaker 2: They've called him a.
34:44
Speaker 3: Populist, which I guess is true since he did win
34:46
Speaker 3: the first round of the election, an ultranationalist, which means
34:50
Speaker 3: he rejects the EU globalist fantasy and he believes in
34:53
Speaker 3: national sovereignty, and he's admirer of Trump, which is one
34:57
Speaker 3: of the worst things you can be these days.
35:00
Speaker 2: Calling in sixth.
35:01
Speaker 3: Position going into the first round of the presidential election,
35:05
Speaker 3: so literally came out of nowhere to win that first round.
35:08
Speaker 3: And one of the charges against him is and I quote,
35:11
Speaker 3: setting up an organization with fascist, racist, and xenophobic characteristics,
35:17
Speaker 3: which sounds like a very subjective sort of criminal charge.
35:20
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and they're claiming that he's set up some
35:22
Speaker 4: sort of anti Semitic group. And the reporting out of
35:26
Speaker 4: the Romanian media has been all this stuff leaked from
35:28
Speaker 4: the charges that they're they're laying against him, saying he
35:31
Speaker 4: tried to lead some coup against the government and that's
35:34
Speaker 4: anti constitutional. Look, if governments just listened to their people,
35:39
Speaker 4: you wouldn't have to deal with people like him in
35:41
Speaker 4: the first place, would you.
35:43
Speaker 1: You wonder how you end up with these supposedly far.
35:46
Speaker 4: Right candidates because people have got no other choice. Seriously,
35:49
Speaker 4: just listen to people when they say they want their
35:53
Speaker 4: countries to be looked after. Quickly, before we go to
35:55
Speaker 4: a break, If you've been watching this program for the
35:58
Speaker 4: better part of two years, if you've been reading my columns,
36:01
Speaker 4: you'll know I've been banging on about the illicit tobacco
36:04
Speaker 4: trade and the fact that it was all created by
36:07
Speaker 4: the federal government because they charge it a high heaven
36:10
Speaker 4: with tobacco excise. If you try to buy a packet
36:13
Speaker 4: of daries down at the supermarket, and.
36:14
Speaker 1: Would you believe it? Everyone else has now jumped on board.
36:18
Speaker 4: There's been some great reporting over the weekend from the
36:21
Speaker 4: nine newspapers and sixty Minutes last night Nick Nick mackenzie sorry,
36:25
Speaker 4: great investigation. Four Corners has run an investigation this evening
36:29
Speaker 4: on the ABC about this booming illicit tobacco trade. If
36:33
Speaker 4: you're not a smoker and you don't know exactly how
36:36
Speaker 4: easy it is to buy a packet of illegal cigarettes
36:39
Speaker 4: with no tax on it, and exactly how cheap they are,
36:43
Speaker 4: this is how easy it is.
36:46
Speaker 5: Hi, thanks Manchester Satires plase just one packs.
36:54
Speaker 1: For thirteen bucks a pack o good.
37:00
Speaker 4: That's going on in thousands of tobacconists and convenience stores
37:04
Speaker 4: across the country, basically with zero impunity. The money that
37:08
Speaker 4: you spend on that elicit packet of cigarettes goes on
37:11
Speaker 4: to fund all sorts of other crime human trafficking, murder, etc.
37:16
Speaker 4: That's the sort of stuff that goes on. Because the
37:18
Speaker 4: crime gags are forgetting about drugs. Now they're getting involved
37:21
Speaker 4: in elicit tobacco why because the federal government created this market.
37:26
Speaker 1: Even the police agree.
37:28
Speaker 4: Sixty Minutes last night and the nine newspapers today were.
37:31
Speaker 1: Quoting Rowan Park.
37:32
Speaker 4: He's the former head of the Border Forces Tobacco Task Force,
37:37
Speaker 4: and he says the Federal Health Department's ideological zealotry in
37:41
Speaker 4: relation to elicit tobacco has caused the problem and continues
37:45
Speaker 4: to fuel it.
37:46
Speaker 1: These are the people who.
37:48
Speaker 4: Are trying to combat the illicit tobacco trade that is
37:52
Speaker 4: being run by organized crime. The government is at fault.
37:57
Speaker 4: If they weren't so greedy with their tax, the government
38:00
Speaker 4: wouldn't be funding indirectly murder, rape, all sorts of stuff
38:05
Speaker 4: in this country right now. This is what happens when
38:07
Speaker 4: you go overboard on tax. They've been worn so many
38:11
Speaker 4: times on this and they've done nothing. If you're the
38:14
Speaker 4: leader of the Hells Angels or any of the other
38:16
Speaker 4: Middle Eastern crime gangs, I'll tell you what, they won't
38:18
Speaker 4: be voting for Peter Dutton. They'll all be voting for
38:20
Speaker 4: Anthony al but Easy, and they should be sending him
38:22
Speaker 4: a letter of thanks for giving them a brand new
38:25
Speaker 4: market that has been so damn lucrative.
38:27
Speaker 2: We're going to go to a break when we come back.
38:29
Speaker 3: Well, it's making news tomorrow, including the racetrack. Mount Panorama
38:32
Speaker 3: could be off limits to the public after an Indigenous
38:35
Speaker 3: group claims it's a sacred sight.
38:37
Speaker 2: All of that and law in a moment.
38:42
Speaker 3: Welcome back. Well, let's give you the first look at
38:44
Speaker 3: tomorrow's front pages. We'll start with the Herald's Sun, which
38:47
Speaker 3: has got a great story on the front page.
38:50
Speaker 2: The headline reads Easier to be a Cop.
38:53
Speaker 3: Police in Victoria are loosening their academic standards to lift
38:57
Speaker 3: an abysmal recruitment rate. The force has relaxed several education
39:02
Speaker 3: and health requirements for some recruits. The article goes on
39:06
Speaker 3: to say applicants who receive an Australian Tertiary Admission ranking
39:09
Speaker 3: of sixty five or above will no longer be required
39:13
Speaker 3: to sit the entrance exam. Just for context, the average
39:17
Speaker 3: ATAR in Victoria last year was sixty nine point five,
39:22
Speaker 3: So you can now score sixty five fairly well below average,
39:27
Speaker 3: and that will be considered good enough for the Victorian Police.
39:30
Speaker 3: Of course, you can score lower than that and score
39:33
Speaker 3: your spot in the federal government's cabinet. I love this
39:36
Speaker 3: quote in the article from Chief Commissioner Rick Nugent.
39:39
Speaker 2: He says there is no.
39:41
Speaker 3: Minimum ATAR study score or education level required to join
39:45
Speaker 3: Victoria Police.
39:47
Speaker 2: That's hardly a ringing endorsement.
39:50
Speaker 4: No, I mean, I've got to say, I'm looking at
39:53
Speaker 4: your doodles on the front of the Herald Sun tomorrow, James.
39:56
Speaker 1: I am shocked. I tell you the things he draws.
40:00
Speaker 1: I was on his newspapers.
40:01
Speaker 4: But if you were thinking of joining the coppers, right,
40:06
Speaker 4: would you really go?
40:07
Speaker 5: Hmm?
40:08
Speaker 1: I can't be there, goes my pen off.
40:10
Speaker 4: That is, I can't be bothered being a copper anymore
40:13
Speaker 4: because I'd have to take a test in order to
40:15
Speaker 4: be entered into the police force. Is that really the
40:18
Speaker 4: thing that's preventing anyone from signing up to the police
40:21
Speaker 4: force in Victoria. I don't think it is. As if
40:24
Speaker 4: they can say this is going to get one single
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Speaker 4: extra person into the police force. I can't see how
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Speaker 4: it's going to do anything. If you're that lazy that
40:35
Speaker 4: you don't want to take a test to become a
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Speaker 4: police officer, do we even want you as a police
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Speaker 4: officer in the first place.
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Speaker 2: Get some more people in, but they'd be all the
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Speaker 2: wrong kind of people.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. The message is if you don't do well at school,
40:47
Speaker 5: there's always the Victorian Police.
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Speaker 2: We'll give you a gun.
40:50
Speaker 5: Don't worry, We'll give you a gun and a chaser
40:53
Speaker 5: for good measure to the front page of the Northern
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Speaker 5: Territory News. Now show us the Mondays Northern Territory government
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Speaker 5: wants federal cash on the table for port buy out. Yes,
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Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen, we're talking about the Port of Darwin.
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Speaker 5: Could it be at last stump it up? The Northern
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Speaker 5: Territory Government is sending representatives on a key mission to
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Speaker 5: Canberra that could see the Federal Labor government put up
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Speaker 5: the cash to buy the Port of Darwin from Chinese
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Speaker 5: operator's land bridge. Ultimately it will be a case of
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Speaker 5: stump up or shut up on the table for the
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Speaker 5: Albanesi government. Now, I'm sure you, like any rational thinking person,
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Speaker 5: thinks is absolutely nuts that this port that was once
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Speaker 5: bonded to eternity by the Japs during World War Two,
41:44
Speaker 5: because port's are very important strategic logistical I mean they
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Speaker 5: make or break, especially during wartime, that we just handed
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Speaker 5: it over to our chief enemy, thank you, Malcolm Turnbull
41:59
Speaker 5: for a pole tree just over half a million dollars
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Speaker 5: and they have it for ninety nine years. This is
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Speaker 5: the stupidest thing I have ever seen in my entire life,
42:10
Speaker 5: and yet ALBANSI stood by it. Remember in twenty twenty
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Speaker 5: three there was a blistering report that came out. Morrison
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Speaker 5: also did one because he was like, well, you know,
42:21
Speaker 5: got to be seen to be doing something. Every defense
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Speaker 5: expert has screened their lungs out over this, saying we've
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Speaker 5: got to buy it back, We've got to break this agreement.
42:32
Speaker 5: And then Albanesi came out and said, look, we've had
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Speaker 5: a review and it's all a okay. Three days before
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Speaker 5: he announced that he was going to China to visit
42:43
Speaker 5: Jijingping and be called a handsome boy. So this farce
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Speaker 5: has continued for a very long time. Tensions are very
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Speaker 5: high with regards to our relations with China, especially now
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Speaker 5: that Trump's in the White House. The tiny has never
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Speaker 5: been better. But do you I think this government's actually
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Speaker 5: going to do something about it.
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Speaker 3: This is the sort of thing you do in the
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Speaker 3: lead up to an election where national defense is becoming
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Speaker 3: an issue. People are doubting your commitment to it, so
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Speaker 3: you hint that we're going to do this, and then you.
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Speaker 2: Win the election and you forget all about it. I
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Speaker 2: think that might be what.
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Speaker 1: Happens here, maybe, though I don't know that.
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Speaker 4: Finocchiaro in the Northern Territory would actually he would just
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Speaker 4: hand that a little freebach to Albanizi. But it's even
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Speaker 4: worse than you described is in terms of that report,
43:29
Speaker 4: because it was three days before he said he was
43:31
Speaker 4: going to go to China, but he dropped it on
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Speaker 4: a Friday afternoon, which is the oldest trick in the
43:36
Speaker 4: book when you're trying to bury a story. Six months
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Speaker 4: after he had received that report. He sat on the
43:43
Speaker 4: report for six months before he decided to tell us
43:47
Speaker 4: that it was okay to keep the Port of Darwin
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Speaker 4: in Chinese hands. It is absolutely staggering that that still exists.
43:55
Speaker 4: If he's got at least two brain cells, ALBERANIZI will
43:58
Speaker 4: do something about it. But I'm not going to breath
44:01
Speaker 4: because of course we saw how he treated those warships,
44:03
Speaker 4: Chinese warships floating around the Australian coast. I think China's
44:07
Speaker 4: just able to do what they want really basically. Oh
44:10
Speaker 4: also slide of hand in television. I've got another pen,
44:12
Speaker 4: and now I didn't get up out of my seat
44:14
Speaker 4: to retrieve.
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Speaker 1: The one that I threw off the desk. F I
44:17
Speaker 1: can do.
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Speaker 2: Anything made that's going to be so you had one
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Speaker 2: in your pocket.
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Speaker 4: Well, well I had one next to the desk. Look
44:24
Speaker 4: you know, you know I've always got pins because you
44:26
Speaker 4: never know when I'm going to have a hissy fit
44:28
Speaker 4: and throw one at my producer. Let's go to the
44:30
Speaker 4: Australian tomorrow where it is sacred status bid for iconic
44:34
Speaker 4: motor race site. The fringe indigenous group that brought down
44:37
Speaker 4: the billion dollar Blaney Mind Project has laid the groundwork
44:41
Speaker 4: for an unprecedented legal bid to declare the peak of
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Speaker 4: Mount Panorama, overlooking Australia's iconic motor racing circuit, a sacred
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Speaker 4: site after one of its former members ashes were scattered there.
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Speaker 4: Can you imagine this, James, I know how much you
44:57
Speaker 4: enjoy your your supercars sport.
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Speaker 1: Can you imation making it a sacred site?
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Speaker 4: Actually it should be a sacred site because it is
45:05
Speaker 4: so bloody important to Australian culture, But not for the
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Speaker 4: reasons they suggest.
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Speaker 3: I've been to a couple of smoking ceremonies at Mount
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Speaker 3: Panorama in nineteen eighty six and in nineteen eighty eight.
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Speaker 1: It's smoking, so it's coming out of the back of
45:17
Speaker 1: the car.
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Speaker 3: Yes, But this indigenous group applied for permission and received
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Speaker 3: it from the council to go to this summit on
45:25
Speaker 3: Mount Panorama, to conduct a smoking ceremony, to sprinkle the
45:29
Speaker 3: ashes of an indigenous man who had no connection to
45:32
Speaker 3: Mount Panorama at the top of the mountain mark a tree,
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Speaker 3: and now they've claimed it's a sacred site because this
45:39
Speaker 3: man's ashes have been sprinkled. Think about those surfers who
45:42
Speaker 3: go out after a mate gets taken by a shark
45:44
Speaker 3: or whatever, and they sprinkle their mate's ashes out in
45:46
Speaker 3: the ocean. What are they going to start to claim
45:48
Speaker 3: that that now belongs to them and their mates because
45:51
Speaker 3: ashes are there. This is unbelievable that they're doing this.
45:54
Speaker 3: We're going to go to a break when we come back.
45:57
Speaker 3: One of the most incredible retraction that you'll see on TV.
46:01
Speaker 3: An American show blasts elon Musk and then just moments
46:04
Speaker 3: later issues the glovalent groveling apology that's coming up with us.
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Speaker 2: The moment welcome back.
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Speaker 3: Well, LISZT TV hosts get it wrong occasionally, but this
46:15
Speaker 3: one was a doozy.
46:16
Speaker 5: Oh, this was deliberate. We all know that Musk derangement
46:20
Speaker 5: syndrome has taken off since Trump made it to the
46:23
Speaker 5: White House and decided to make this guy his sidekick.
46:27
Speaker 5: Lefty's love to hate him. So, of course that includes
46:31
Speaker 5: the panel of the View, but none more so than
46:35
Speaker 5: Joey Biha, who decided to just go full misinformation disinformation,
46:40
Speaker 5: spouting her hatred. For one, Elon Musk.
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Speaker 10: Was upborn in this country, who was born under apartheid
46:49
Speaker 10: in South Africa, so has that mentality going on? He
46:52
Speaker 10: was pro apartid as I understand it. Now, I'm getting
46:55
Speaker 10: some flat because I said that Musk was pro apartheid.
46:59
Speaker 10: I don't really know for sure if he was. He
47:01
Speaker 10: grew up at that time when a part time was
47:04
Speaker 10: in phil Blom before the great Nelson Mandela fixed out
47:08
Speaker 10: he was around at that time, but maybe he was.
47:10
Speaker 5: Maybe he wasn't He might have.
47:11
Speaker 10: Been a young guy too, So don't be so emmy, O.
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Speaker 5: Can you a very formose way of saying, I just
47:18
Speaker 5: made that up? I imagine if each of us were
47:21
Speaker 5: responsible and clearly supported whatever was going on in our
47:25
Speaker 5: nation of birth.
47:26
Speaker 4: Well, well, you know, Joy Biha was born in nineteen
47:30
Speaker 4: forty two, and I think Hippler was running around the
47:33
Speaker 4: world in nineteen forty two, wasn't he? She must be
47:36
Speaker 4: a Nazi. For goodness sake, how dumb can you get?
47:41
Speaker 5: Now?
47:41
Speaker 4: Look, it's no secret that I have a thing about
47:44
Speaker 4: people dressing well, particularly for the circumstance they are in.
47:47
Speaker 4: You might remember I had a spray in the early
47:49
Speaker 4: days of this program about Senator David Poe, cup Poke,
47:53
Speaker 4: cup po Cox sorry, rocking up to Parliament with so
47:56
Speaker 4: much as a suit and tie and he's walking around
47:57
Speaker 4: the corridors in a T shirt. Adam Sandler did much
48:02
Speaker 4: the same today at the Oscars. You know, I really
48:04
Speaker 4: couldn't give two rats about the Oscars, the degenerate nonsense
48:07
Speaker 4: that goes on there. But seriously, mate, if you're rocking
48:11
Speaker 4: up to an awards night, you can do better than this.
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Speaker 7: And finally, for such a prestigious night, it's important that
48:18
Speaker 7: everyone is properly dressed.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you're dressed well.
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Speaker 7: Adam Gold here, what's.
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Speaker 4: Up, my brother?
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Speaker 5: What's going on?
48:36
Speaker 7: Adam?
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Speaker 1: What are you wearing?
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Speaker 5: What? What are you doing right now?
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Speaker 2: And asking you what you're wearing?
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Speaker 9: Nobody even thought about what I was wearing.
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Speaker 1: You brought it up.
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Speaker 2: There you go. He's the Zelenski of the Oscars. That's
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Speaker 2: it from us. Stick around coming up is the readependent,
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Speaker 2: his show, good Night