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The Bolt Report | 13 August · The Bolt Report

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  Speaker 1: Jus hest reform it.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight our future in danger when the Prime Minister goes
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  Speaker 2: Luke Warman developing even one of our biggest gas projects.
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  Speaker 2: A Muslim doctors is will run against Immigration Minister Tony
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  Speaker 2: Burke and his heavily Muslim Sydney seat.
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  Speaker 3: The failure of our government to represent, the failure of
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  Speaker 3: our member to represent the values that are being practiced
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  Speaker 3: here in the community regarding human rise and what's happening
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  Speaker 3: in Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: This is why Burke hasn't still said no to importing
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  Speaker 2: how much supporters from Gaza. Also tonight, Scott Morrison gives
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  Speaker 2: evidence in the defamation court actually against Britney Higgins. But
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  Speaker 2: first today another frightening warning of how the left is
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  Speaker 2: trying to shut down debate and shut it down around
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  Speaker 2: the world. This is chilling. Elon Musk, the boss of
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  Speaker 2: Tesla and Twitter or x now, today interviewed former President
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump for more than two hours on x which
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  Speaker 2: is actually perfectly normal given that Trump is running for
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  Speaker 2: election again in November. But these are not normal times.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not just because the other candidate, Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 2: of the left, has refused to give one single press
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  Speaker 2: conference or interview with the journalists. In the three weeks
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  Speaker 2: she's been the Democrats candidate. She's an airhead and scared
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  Speaker 2: of being exposed. But it seems some in the left
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  Speaker 2: don't want voters to hear from Donald Trump either. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't want the world to hear them today. For
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  Speaker 2: a start, the interview with Elon Musk was delayed for
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  Speaker 2: more than half an hour when X was allegedly hit
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  Speaker 2: by a cyber attack. According to Musk.
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  Speaker 4: We unfortunately had a massive distributed nilox service attack against
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  Speaker 4: our servers and saturated all of our dadlines. As this
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  Speaker 4: massive attack illustrates, there's a lot of opposition to people
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  Speaker 4: just hearing what President Trump has to say, but.
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  Speaker 2: There was more. A commissioner of the European Union, Thierry Breton,
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  Speaker 2: also wrote a letter to Musk ahead of the interview,
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  Speaker 2: warning that the European Union now had laws against so
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  Speaker 2: called misinformation on social media and could punish X for
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  Speaker 2: having Trump say what they didn't like and this commissioners said,
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  Speaker 2: we are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated
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  Speaker 2: with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate
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  Speaker 2: and racism, including debates and interviews in the context of elections,
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  Speaker 2: which means that Europe can smash X with massive fines
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  Speaker 2: for having Trump say his peace. It can smash X
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  Speaker 2: for Can I smash some of us right here for
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  Speaker 2: having our say on X? Can you believe that? But
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  Speaker 2: in this particular case, that's Europe's political class interfere with
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  Speaker 2: free speech and an election in the United States, I
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  Speaker 2: must reply to that impertinent commissioner was short, sharp and
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  Speaker 2: rude and justifiably rude to f Off. But even more
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  Speaker 2: extraordinary in some ways was to watch a senior report
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  Speaker 2: of the Washington Post, part of the White House Press Corps.
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  Speaker 2: Washington posters of the left seriously asked President Joe biden
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  Speaker 2: spokesman if the president would do something anything to shut
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  Speaker 2: down Trump's interview as well, and that spokesman did not
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  Speaker 2: once say are you mad censoring a presidential candidate? What
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  Speaker 2: about free speech? What has America come to when this
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  Speaker 2: is a serious exchange in the White House.
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  Speaker 5: Elon Muskus slated to interview Donald com tomorrow tonight on X.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if the President has gone today. Feel
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  Speaker 5: free to say if he is or not.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that.
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  Speaker 5: Misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue, it's
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  Speaker 5: an America issue. What role does the White House or
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  Speaker 5: the President have and sort of stopping that, or stopping
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  Speaker 5: the spread of that, or sort of intervening in that.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard us talk about this many times from here
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  Speaker 2: about the responsibilities that social media platforms have. Disgusting. Now
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  Speaker 2: that's what finally did get to air or two X.
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  Speaker 2: Conversation between Musk and Trump was actually fairly unremarkable. They
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  Speaker 2: both fans of each other. Trump talked for a long
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  Speaker 2: time about getting shot, about Baden and Kamala Harris leading
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  Speaker 2: in more than ten million illegal immigrants, about needing the
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  Speaker 2: US now finally stands strung again against hard men like
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  Speaker 2: Putin and Jijingping and Kim Jong n. They didn't quite
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  Speaker 2: see ida high about global warming. That was interesting. And
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  Speaker 2: Trump did make this promise missile defense around all America.
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  Speaker 6: One of the things we're going to do is we're
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  Speaker 6: going to build an iron dome overs you know, Israel
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  Speaker 6: has it. We're going to have the best iron dome
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  Speaker 6: in the world. We need it, and we're going to
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  Speaker 6: make it all in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look, there was a bit of bluster from Trump,
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  Speaker 2: and it's basically uncontroversial but informative, which is critical in
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  Speaker 2: an election. An interview like that, but the thought that
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  Speaker 2: such an interview would cause that much alarm in the left,
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  Speaker 2: which caused which would cause some to try to blow
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  Speaker 2: up excess service to stop it. Reporters to question, how
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  Speaker 2: can the president stop tells you everything about where we're
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  Speaker 2: going in the West. And it's one more reason than
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  Speaker 2: I hope Trump does win the election. Not so much
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  Speaker 2: because it's fantastic, because those who are trying to silence him,
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  Speaker 2: not only you know, get him jailed and shot and
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  Speaker 2: shunned or speared on fake collusion claims, but now gangged
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  Speaker 2: that they would stoop to that evil. I can ask,
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  Speaker 2: where's Tony Burke? Where is our new immigration minister? To say,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, it is crazy for this government to be
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  Speaker 2: giving visas to supporters of Hamas, to be letting in
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  Speaker 2: supporters of the band is a mis terrorist group that
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  Speaker 2: started this war with Israel. It's our Tuesday night, and
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  Speaker 2: Bert still has not contradicted the head of ASIO, our
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  Speaker 2: top spy body that does security checks and people coming here,
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  Speaker 2: the ASIO boss who said on Sunday morning that Hamas
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  Speaker 2: supporters are welcome if it's just rhetorical or support and
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  Speaker 2: they don't have an ideology or support for a violent
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  Speaker 2: stream as an ideology, then that's not a problem. Now
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  Speaker 2: today and the Opposition demanded answers for it's clearly a
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  Speaker 2: dangerous and lunatic policy of this Albanezi government.
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  Speaker 7: So today and myself with seventy colleagues have written to
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  Speaker 7: the Minister for Home Affairs, Tiny Burke.
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  Speaker 1: We've asked him to do two things.
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  Speaker 7: To direct his department to ensure that supporters of terrorist
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  Speaker 7: organizations like Hamas are not granted visas to come to
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  Speaker 7: this country, and secondly that they consider the cancelation of
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  Speaker 7: any existing visas of people who are currently in this
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  Speaker 7: country who.
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  Speaker 2: Are terrorism schools. But from Tony Burke, Minister of Home Affairs,
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  Speaker 2: Minister for Immigration as well, silence. It seems as court
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  Speaker 2: his own Sydney seat is now thirty percent Muslim after redistribution,
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  Speaker 2: and a popular Muslim doctor today said he is going
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  Speaker 2: to run against Bertford still not doing enough for Muslims.
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  Speaker 3: I'm running for the seat of Watson because I believe
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  Speaker 3: our community deserves better. I've seen firsthand the things that
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  Speaker 3: we're facing, whether it's the rise and cost of living
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  Speaker 3: the House and crisis, the lack of infrastructure, the lack
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  Speaker 3: of investment in education and health, and the failure of
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  Speaker 3: our government to represent, the failure of our member to
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  Speaker 3: represent the values that are being practiced here in the
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  Speaker 3: community regarding human rights and what's happening in Gaza. Forty
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  Speaker 3: thousand people probably more have died, have been killed, as
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  Speaker 3: has been called applausible genocide by the ICG, yet not represented,
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  Speaker 3: not heard yet, our governments, our mp are unable to
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  Speaker 3: talk about it in parliament, not mentioned one by our
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  Speaker 3: local MP.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of that is simply untrue. But this Muslim
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  Speaker 2: candidate wants even more Palestinians admitted, and there's even a
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  Speaker 2: protest of refugees and left us outside Burke's own electorate office.
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  Speaker 2: The manning may be allowed to stay. Meanwhile, the Greens
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  Speaker 2: are sniffing an opportunity in this. The Wedge labor there
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  Speaker 2: today stepped up their own campaign for the Muslim vote,
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  Speaker 2: but the manding the government post sanctions on the Israeli
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  Speaker 2: government ministers there, the Prime Minister lying that it was
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  Speaker 2: responsible for a genocide, repeating clearly fake figures from Hamas,
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  Speaker 2: not once mentioning their resolution that this war was actually
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  Speaker 2: started by Hamas, which still wants Israel wiped out and
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  Speaker 2: still holds Israeli hostages.
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  Speaker 8: The genocide has been going on for over three hundred days,
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  Speaker 8: three hundred days of war crimes, over forty thousand Palestinian
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  Speaker 8: people killed in that time. We must expel the State
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  Speaker 8: of Israel's ambassador to Australia.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look at these rancid Greens backed in Parliament
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  Speaker 2: today before my lady Centator Fatima Payment Muslim as well.
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  Speaker 2: Look at them voting for this anti Israel motion. Look
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  Speaker 2: at them trying to exploit dangerous religious and ethnic tensions,
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  Speaker 2: whipping them up, whipping up hatred of Israel, making Australian
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  Speaker 2: let's save all over a war in the Middle East
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  Speaker 2: that we cannot influence. Joining me is National Senator meccanavan,
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  Speaker 2: the former Resources mister mccanavan.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you were there in the Senate with the Greens
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  Speaker 2: of Senator Payment trying to get the Senator to push
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  Speaker 2: to vote to punish Israeli politicians. My question is, though,
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  Speaker 2: where is Tony Burke and all this? Why has any
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  Speaker 2: reassured streams that he will now stop issuing visus and
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  Speaker 2: supporters of a Maasterists.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well Tony Burke is compromised.
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  Speaker 9: He's compromised and conflicted, and he's the invisible man right
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  Speaker 9: now because of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I was there in the Senate today.
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  Speaker 9: I've been in the Senate for the last few months
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  Speaker 9: when Greens and Senator Payment and others have sought to
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  Speaker 9: hijack this terrible death and destruction has occurred in the
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  Speaker 9: Middleast the last few months for their own political purpose.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, sometimes, Andrew, I feel that I'm not in
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  Speaker 9: the Australian Parliament. I'm somehow been transferred to a transported
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  Speaker 9: to a Miss Universe contest where they ask all the
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  Speaker 9: contestants what would you do as Miss Universe.
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  Speaker 1: They all say, oh, bring world peace.
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  Speaker 9: We've got about as much chance of doing that as
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  Speaker 9: an Australian Senator as a Miss Universe contestant. Just the
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  Speaker 9: only problem is, if you look at politicians, not many
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  Speaker 9: of us would actually qualify for the Miss Universe.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it is it is, it is.
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  Speaker 9: It is theater for ugly people, of course, So I
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  Speaker 9: mean it's just absurd, it's absurd.
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  Speaker 1: We've got all these problems in our own.
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  Speaker 9: Country, in our own backyard, and the Greens and others
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  Speaker 9: seek to hijack the Partment's time for that purpose. Now
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  Speaker 9: some would argue, maybe it's a good thing, because we're
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  Speaker 9: wasting our time. At least it's time that we can't
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  Speaker 9: in this place put up your taxes or impose more
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  Speaker 9: red tape. But it's taken a morenifarious turn now with
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  Speaker 9: the Labor government and the Labor Minister in Tony Burke
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  Speaker 9: in particular, seemingly circumventing our migration system for their own
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  Speaker 9: based political purposes. I mean, I cannot believe that we're
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  Speaker 9: talking about a government of Australia willingly and openly taking
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  Speaker 9: in supporters of a terrorist organization that was you say,
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  Speaker 9: the words that were said on the weekend that have
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  Speaker 9: not been rebutted by this government.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how we got to this position.
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  Speaker 9: Our first job, the first job of any Australian government minister,
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  Speaker 9: should be to protect the safety of Australians, and that
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  Speaker 9: safety is not protected or guaranteed obviously by bringing in
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  Speaker 9: people that have expressed sympathy for terrorist organizations. They simply
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  Speaker 9: should not be able to come to this country and
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  Speaker 9: anyone in this country on visas that is expressing some
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  Speaker 9: sympathy should be kicked out.
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  Speaker 2: Matt. I got to stop you there. I mean, isn't
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  Speaker 2: it absolutely bonkers that we should be having a debate
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  Speaker 2: about whether it's let in supporters of a terrorist group
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  Speaker 2: banned in Australia to come to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: I just.
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  Speaker 9: And you know, we can have a disagreements with a
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  Speaker 9: Labor party, but I can never remember a labor minister
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  Speaker 9: or a government openly saying as something as crazy as
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  Speaker 9: this as I say, it's your job. You swear an
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  Speaker 9: oath when you become a minister and in deed when
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  Speaker 9: you become a senator or a member of Parliament to protect
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  Speaker 9: the Commonwealth of Australia.
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  Speaker 1: That is your job. It is not to solve global issues.
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  Speaker 9: It is not to protect and and solve other conflicts
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  Speaker 9: going around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we should do what we can to help peace
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Just a job letting in, letting.
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  Speaker 2: In terrorist supporters, I mean, wow, that is just that
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  Speaker 2: blows your mind. That says something about this alternative reality
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  Speaker 2: discoverments in Meanwhile, Matt, you know, coal and gas. If
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have colon gas and own or but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we would be stuffed. I mean, gas is our second
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  Speaker 2: biggest ex sport. It's responsible for billions and billions of
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  Speaker 2: royalties and taxes each year for our hospitals, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. What disturbs me, right when we're running out
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  Speaker 2: of energy, when we're got running up a trillion dollar
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  Speaker 2: national it is that the Albanizi government first, right, it's sponsored,
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  Speaker 2: it's paid for these activist lawyers to hold up woodside
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  Speaker 2: gas developments off Western Australia because of Wales song lines
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  Speaker 2: of Aborigines been allegedly disrupted. The Prime Minister then, and
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  Speaker 2: this really worried me, was the last week, not fast,
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  Speaker 2: that woodsize thirty billion dollar browse project out at sea
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  Speaker 2: had just been rejected by the environment Protection Authority. Here
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  Speaker 2: he is, yes, projects, it's your government supportive of that
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  Speaker 2: woodside browse project.
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  Speaker 10: Well, we of course have environmental laws in place that
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  Speaker 10: allow for proper environmental assessments. We support the resources sector
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  Speaker 10: of course, subject to those environmental approvals.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, Matt Combs comps A, I mean if
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  Speaker 2: we get this thirty billion dollar project good, if we
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  Speaker 2: don't because environment also good? I mean, really is that
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  Speaker 2: a serious answer?
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  Speaker 1: Well, as you say, Andrew.
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  Speaker 9: Our nation will be bankrupt without the bounty that comes
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  Speaker 9: from our resources sector, including our gas industry. West Australia
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  Speaker 9: would be in a much more poor state if not
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  Speaker 9: for those industries. And through the Prime Minister's answer, you're
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  Speaker 9: getting a prism, a small insight into why our economy
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  Speaker 9: is going backwards so badly. Why you're struggling to pay
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  Speaker 9: for basic items at your shops, why people struggling to
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  Speaker 9: stay in their homes and pay their mortgage. Because this
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  Speaker 9: government has no productivity agenda, and our productivity has been
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  Speaker 9: the dol drooms and it's one of the reasons that
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  Speaker 9: inflation is persisting in this country, persisting long, long beyond
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  Speaker 9: the COVID hangover, because we're not focused on improving our economy.
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  Speaker 9: And to improve our economy we need to attract big
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  Speaker 9: investments like this woodside in vestment. And by saying no
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  Speaker 9: to it, or by standing on the sidelines, as if
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  Speaker 9: you're not Prime minister, you somehow have no power. You've
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  Speaker 9: just got to stand back. Why are we put in
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  Speaker 9: there do anything? And put someone in there.
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  Speaker 2: Like a is there like a tennis spectator? Whack?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Environment development, environment development, environment, So I can't do anything,
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  Speaker 2: Matt Canavan. It's always it's gone downhill since you were
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  Speaker 2: resources minister. Thank you so much for your time. Now
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  Speaker 2: before we go to the break, I've got to correct myself.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a criticized foreign mister. Pennyone called her a
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  Speaker 2: useful idiot for Hamas for condemning Israel's missile attack on
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  Speaker 2: a school in Gaza and for not mentioning there was
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  Speaker 2: actually an attack on a Hamas command post hidden there.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, Israeli claimed to have killed nineteen terrorists,
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  Speaker 2: these ones no women and children that it knew of.
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  Speaker 2: But what I should now add, did me, is that
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  Speaker 2: Israel has since identified twelve more terrors from Hamas and
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  Speaker 2: Islamic Jihad that believed it killed there thirty one in all,
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  Speaker 2: Doeswang still condemn Israel for killing all those terrorists? After
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  Speaker 2: the break, I'm now going to defend the Abanizi government
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  Speaker 2: from its most of the range former leader Labour's version
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  Speaker 2: of Maltham Turmol. After this, Paul Keating really got a
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  Speaker 2: slap today. This former Labor Prime Minister is still influential
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  Speaker 2: in the party. Is such a cheerleader for China despite
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  Speaker 2: it being the world's most threatening dictatorship, and last week
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  Speaker 2: he again started with China and attacking Austroi's defense a
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  Speaker 2: lines with the United States and Alliance. The Abnezi government, sticking.
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  Speaker 6: With Trailer is quite capable of defending itself. We don't
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  Speaker 6: need to be basically a pair of shoes hanging out
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  Speaker 6: the American backside.
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  Speaker 2: We're obviously not capable of defending ourselves alone against China,
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  Speaker 2: which tells me the shoes hanging out of the Chinese
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  Speaker 2: backside are Keatings. In fact, Keating also backed China's warm
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  Speaker 2: anger in claims the Democratic Taiwan.
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  Speaker 6: What this is all about is the Chinese lay in
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  Speaker 6: climb to Taiwan, and the Americans are going to say, no, no,
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  Speaker 6: We're going to keep these taib when these people are
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  Speaker 6: protected even though they've got they're sitting on Chinese real estate.
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  Speaker 6: The Chinese real estate is part of China.
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  Speaker 2: That craziness copy misribute from an American Congressman, Nancy Pelosi until
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  Speaker 2: recently the Democrats Speaker of the House.
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  Speaker 11: That's ridiculous. It is not Chinese real estate, and he
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  Speaker 11: should know that Taiwan is Taiwan and it's of the
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  Speaker 11: people of Taiwan. Who have a democracy there. I think
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  Speaker 11: that was a stupid statement with or I have no
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  Speaker 11: idea about Keating, but I think it was a stupid
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  Speaker 11: statement to make. And I don't know what his connection
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  Speaker 11: is to China that he would say such a thing.
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  Speaker 11: But it is really not in the security interest of
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  Speaker 11: the Asian Pacific region for people to talk that way.
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  Speaker 2: Joining mister Penno Kingston, host of far at Will, a
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  Speaker 2: podcast and a spectator on politics and culture, a Scarne's
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  Speaker 2: host to Niko di Giorgio, a regular host of almost
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  Speaker 2: everything on this station.
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  Speaker 1: Will.
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  Speaker 2: Keating has claimed that he got just five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: presumably each year in the thirteen years he was on
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  Speaker 2: the board of the China Development Bank, has no commercial
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  Speaker 2: interest in China whatsoever. But gee, you know, if that's
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  Speaker 2: the case, how to explain how he never appears to
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  Speaker 2: publicly criticized China but very much does criticize the US,
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  Speaker 2: Taiwan and Australia.
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  Speaker 12: Well, in the nineteen nineties, Cheating and Pelosi actually leaders
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  Speaker 12: of their ILK. They made a bet. They bet that
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  Speaker 12: economic liberalization would lead to political liberalization in China, and
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  Speaker 12: that bet has backfired spectacularly. China has got more repressive
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  Speaker 12: as they got wealthier. But unlike the Pelosis and the
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  Speaker 12: Clintons and the Blairs, who have pivoted somewhat, he has
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  Speaker 12: doubled down and double down and double down, and he's
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  Speaker 12: now the gambler who is morally bankrupt. And it makes
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  Speaker 12: you wonder why he does remain just a useful idiot
• 20:09
  Speaker 12: for China. And it also makes you wonder, and I'll
• 20:11
  Speaker 12: add this in why he will yell and scream about
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: Gaza along with so many other members of the left,
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: but they stay horrifically quiet when it comes to the
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: extreme human rights abuses in China, from human rights suppression
• 20:26
  Speaker 12: all the way through to the genocide of the vegan Muslims.
• 20:29
  Speaker 12: It is morally abhorrent.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: It will makes a point there that I very much
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: agree with. Danika Labour's tactic has been to say, well,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: you know, Paul Keating was primise of his time, things
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: are different. What Nancy Pelosi put a finger on is
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: what he is saying is morally repugnant. And none of
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: them actually come out and say, this guy is saying
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: nutty not just nutty things, but evil things.
• 20:57
  Speaker 13: Well that said, only Labour's turned a blind eye to it. No,
• 21:00
  Speaker 13: a former prime minister. We respect what he's saying. He
• 21:02
  Speaker 13: doesn't hold our views, but no, and that's typical of
• 21:05
  Speaker 13: Labor because you know, they also try and keep this friendship.
• 21:09
  Speaker 13: They try and keep this relationship with China without calling
• 21:11
  Speaker 13: them out, So we can hardly be surprised that they're
• 21:13
  Speaker 13: not calling out one of their own. Look, Andrew, I
• 21:15
  Speaker 13: can't tell if Paul Keating is suffering with a serious
• 21:19
  Speaker 13: case of relevance deprivation syndrome or if he's now just
• 21:22
  Speaker 13: a complete grumpy old man, But at this point I
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: think it's a.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Bit of both.
• 21:26
  Speaker 13: I don't believe we have ever had a former prime
• 21:28
  Speaker 13: minister be such a champion for China be so enthusiastic
• 21:33
  Speaker 13: about Beijing as Paul Keating appears to be. But his
• 21:36
  Speaker 13: comments are actually dangerous. They are reckless and highly irresponsible,
• 21:41
  Speaker 13: particularly given the sensitive geopolitical climate. I mean, he's out
• 21:45
  Speaker 13: there saying that Taiwan is China's real estate. Well, let's
• 21:48
  Speaker 13: not forget that China has been ramping up its threats
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: toward Taiwan, particularly in recent weeks.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: It has been.
• 21:55
  Speaker 13: Really testing the waters. All the while China is cozying
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: up to Russia. I mean these are country that do
• 22:00
  Speaker 13: not share our values. So whose values does Paul Meeting share.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I don't. That's exactly right. It's this selling out of
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the values that I think Labour's got to speak to now.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: To Perth, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison today gave evidence
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: in the defamation case there against former Liberal staff in
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Britain Higgins, who's been super a former boss, and Linda
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Reynolds for claiming that Reynolds, when she was Defense ministers
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: to try to cover up Higgins alleged rape in Parliament
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: House by then Liberal staffer and that she treated her badly,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: and Morrison today said there's absolutely no cover up. Higgins
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: claims were webinars destroy his government? That's absolutely true. And
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: he said the attacks on Reynolds was so bad that
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: he found a sobbing and that he worried that she
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: could even die from the stress, which is why he
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: said he replaced her as Defence minister. Well, this case
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: is now caused so much harm to so many people,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: including Higgins herself. It's this is just well, what do
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: we make of it?
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: It is Australia's purgatory. Andrew, we are doomed to repeat
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: this awful saga feels like for the rest of time
• 23:09
  Speaker 12: what I make of it. We need a higher caliber
• 23:12
  Speaker 12: of person in Australian politics, both in terms of character
• 23:15
  Speaker 12: and competence, and both in terms of MPs and advisors.
• 23:19
  Speaker 12: And you know where that starts. That starts at the universities.
• 23:21
  Speaker 12: We get these people Lucturas and Lehman and Higgins, who
• 23:25
  Speaker 12: are mediocrities who go through university politics. They get delusions
• 23:29
  Speaker 12: of grandeur and then they go straight into Canberra without
• 23:33
  Speaker 12: any sort of real world experience and to be honest,
• 23:36
  Speaker 12: without any sort of talent to justify advising some of
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: the most important leaders in our country. I think we
• 23:42
  Speaker 12: need to look at the university political establishment and we
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: need to find a way to get more impressive people
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: in there, and then we need to tell them to
• 23:49
  Speaker 12: leave university, forget all about it for ten years, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 12: then come back when they can actually actually offer something
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: of value to the leaders of our country.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I can't help but think there's something there. Higgins, sorry Reynolds,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: says that she could win her lose her house, win
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: or lose the Nieka, and people say, well, why would
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: you go through this process? But your good name discount
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: for something still doesn't it?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Absolutely?
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: And look, you know, in the end, Linda Reynolds is
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: a woman who has nothing to lose if we cast
• 24:20
  Speaker 13: our mind backs only a few months ago, when Justice
• 24:23
  Speaker 13: Michael Lee handed down his decision in the Bruce Lheman
• 24:26
  Speaker 13: Lisa Wilkinson case, he actually found that the basis for
• 24:29
  Speaker 13: Britney higgins claim that there had been a political cover
• 24:32
  Speaker 13: up was untrue. And he found that Britney Higgins made
• 24:35
  Speaker 13: a string of false claims about her time in Senator
• 24:38
  Speaker 13: Linda Reynolds's office which led to that two point four
• 24:41
  Speaker 13: million dollar payout, which we still don't know what that
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: was about. There's still no answers to that one. So
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: I guess from Linda reynolds perspective, she is a woman
• 24:49
  Speaker 13: who has nothing to lose. But if we look at
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: this story as a whole, Andrew, the moral of this
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: story is that it has wrecked everybody's lives. Anyone who
• 24:58
  Speaker 13: has been touched by it since the very beginning when
• 25:01
  Speaker 13: this all began has had their lives, their livelihoods, and
• 25:05
  Speaker 13: their careers turned upside down. And this saga is still continuing.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I would say, will that the messages here. Prosecute
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: your claims through the courts, not through the media, because
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the media burns all it touches. Actually, we'd better leave
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: it there because we've got a great documentary coming up.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Will Kingston, Denika di Giorgio, thank you so much for
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: your time. I should add that Britney Higgins is set
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: to give her side of this case for five days
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: in court from August twenty six, and she says she's
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: going to lose her actually selling a house in France
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: now as well. So who hasn't this saga damaged? Seriously?
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: That's it coming up now? Is the scar you Special
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: investigation Clash of faiths the Fate from WUS. It's goodnight, mhm.