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Steve Price | 26 July · Steve Price

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  Speaker 1: Live.
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  Speaker 2: This is Steve Price.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening, welgoin to Friday. Step Price with you, Thank you,
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  Speaker 3: erin with you. Apologies for last week by the way,
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  Speaker 3: that global meltdown of computer systems knocked us out. Coming
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  Speaker 3: up on the program tonight, a week on from the
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  Speaker 3: triumphant Republican Convention, and our hero is welcome for Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump after that attempt to kill him. Things have changed
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  Speaker 3: dramatically in seven days with the elevation of Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take you to the United States shortly for an
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  Speaker 3: update on that. Now at three point thirty Australia and
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  Speaker 3: East Coast time tomorrow morning, the Paris Olympic Games kick
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  Speaker 3: off with what's tipped to be one of the most
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  Speaker 3: spectacular opening ceremonies ever. Will preview that with our reporter
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  Speaker 3: in Paris. Sadly at the moment it's fourcass they might
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  Speaker 3: get some rain tonight and come Sunday the Albanezy government
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  Speaker 3: will see the Prime Minister reshuffle his ministerial lineup for
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  Speaker 3: the first time. Who will be the winners, who will
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  Speaker 3: be the losers? Plus cartoons of the week with my
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  Speaker 3: mate and the greatest cartoonist in the country, Mark Knight first, though,
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  Speaker 3: the election campaign that is set to change the world
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  Speaker 3: got a whole lot more interesting and much more of
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  Speaker 3: a contest when a clearly unwell Joe Biden finally handed
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic baton over to Kamala Harris. Biden clearly had
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  Speaker 3: to be dragged, kicking and screaming out of the White
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  Speaker 3: House and out of running, but bizarrely believes he can
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  Speaker 3: stay in the Oval office until January next year. He
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  Speaker 3: addressed the nation earlier in the week in an address
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  Speaker 3: that again shows how much his mental and physical faculties
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  Speaker 3: have declined him.
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  Speaker 4: Have come so far since my inauguration and that day
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  Speaker 4: I told you I stood in that winter. We're stood
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  Speaker 4: in a winter of peril and winter possibilities. When Van
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  Speaker 4: Franklin was asked as he emerged from the the convention,
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  Speaker 4: going on in this moment, we can see those we
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  Speaker 4: disagree with, not as enemies, but as fellow Americans.
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  Speaker 1: No one should take any pleasure out of that.
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  Speaker 3: I certainly don't, But it seems Joe Biden's determined to
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  Speaker 3: cling on and use his last six months in the
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  Speaker 3: role reminding the world and the United States what a
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  Speaker 3: great patriot is, how magnificent his fifty year political career
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  Speaker 3: has been but also try to prove to US voters
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  Speaker 3: that he still is there helping out his predecessor. Kamala
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  Speaker 3: Harris now she's wasting no time asserting herself into the
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  Speaker 3: election campaign. She's changed immediately overnight, and she had her
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  Speaker 3: first public appearance. She used it to have a crack
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  Speaker 3: at the character of her opponent, Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: I took on perpetrators of all kinds, creditors who abused women,
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  Speaker 5: fraudsters who are ripped off, consumers who.
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  Speaker 1: Broke the rules for their own gain.
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  Speaker 5: So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's tape.
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  Speaker 3: Nasty, but what can you expect? I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 3: part as an audience there it sets the tone.
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  Speaker 1: Really.
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  Speaker 3: Trump will paint Harris as a dangerous far left Californian radical,
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  Speaker 3: while Harris will call Trump a frauds to with no
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  Speaker 3: regard for women who tried to overturn a Democratic election.
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  Speaker 3: This is a week on from that Republican convention, a
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  Speaker 3: much more even contest, and Republicans just might rue the
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  Speaker 3: day they ran so hard to force Sleepy Joe out
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  Speaker 3: of the race. Now, Kamala Harris also now has the
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  Speaker 3: authoritative authority of the presumptive candidate to be the new president,
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  Speaker 3: meeting today with Israeli PM benumin Net and Yahoo and
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  Speaker 3: holding a press briefing after that chat.
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  Speaker 6: Israel has a rate to defend itself and how it
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  Speaker 6: does so matters. We can't look away in the face
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  Speaker 6: of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb
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  Speaker 6: to the suffering. And I will not be silent. As
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  Speaker 6: I just told Prime Minister at Yahoo, it is time
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  Speaker 6: to get this deal done.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Without reading too much into what she had to say there,
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  Speaker 3: you can pick up some of the fence sitting over
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  Speaker 3: Israel that you see back home here in Australia, where
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Albanezi or Penny Wong talk about Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: The real problem for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Though, now will be taking on our black woman as
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  Speaker 3: opposed to another old white guy. And the Republicans realize that,
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  Speaker 3: and they've now started with a series of attack ads.
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  Speaker 1: You have any plans.
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  Speaker 5: To visit the border at some point, you know, do
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  Speaker 5: you visit the border?
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  Speaker 2: Not today?
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  Speaker 7: An eighteen year old illegal immigrant on a recharge'st file.
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  Speaker 8: Officials in Texas have seen more than board million dos,
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  Speaker 8: but still no plans for Vice President Karla Harras to
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  Speaker 8: go visit the Morton.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty embarrassing for her, and she seems to have part
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  Speaker 3: that annoying laugh already. Well, a Harris tine, they've got
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  Speaker 3: an out of their own, as you'd imagine, using pop
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  Speaker 3: star Beyonce's Freedom Song and referencing gun violence, healthcare, and
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  Speaker 3: the big one in the United States, abortion rights.
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  Speaker 9: No one is above the long.
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  Speaker 5: We believe in the promise of America, and we're ready
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  Speaker 5: to fight for it because when we faint, we plan.
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  Speaker 3: This is a very different contest now and it proves
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  Speaker 3: the old at edge. A week is a long time
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  Speaker 3: in politics, and it's going to be fascinating to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Let's bring in US political commentator Stephanie hammil Stephanie, good
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  Speaker 3: to see you again. I need you to clear something
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  Speaker 3: up from me from this distance, and you know you
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  Speaker 3: and I can shume all of this stuff a lot
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  Speaker 3: more than than average folk do. But do you give
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  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris more of a chance of defeating Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: than you would have Joe Biden?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it just depends.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 10: There seems to be a lot of excitement over Harris
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  Speaker 10: right now, especially compared to Joe Biden, as we saw,
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  Speaker 10: he was flandering and failed after the debate, and I
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  Speaker 10: spoke with you on that night after the debate, and
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  Speaker 10: I had told you it was a break, make or
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  Speaker 10: break moment for Biden, and it certainly was a break,
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  Speaker 10: as we saw. Biden's cognitive decline had been very obvious
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  Speaker 10: for many of us for these past few years, even
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  Speaker 10: before twenty twenty, and it was impossible for them to
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  Speaker 10: hide that from the American people on that debate night.
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  Speaker 9: The mainstream media had been covering for Joe Biden for.
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  Speaker 10: Some time, saying that anything that the Republicans or critics
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  Speaker 10: of Joe Biden had to say about him, even videos
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  Speaker 10: of him following up and down Air Force one steps,
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  Speaker 10: we're all cheap fakes. We weren't allowed to point that out.
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  Speaker 10: And as the American people saw real time live that
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  Speaker 10: Joe Biden just isn't with it anymore. And so Kamala
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  Speaker 10: Harris obviously can put together sentences.
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  Speaker 9: She is a strong speaker. Some are critical of her
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  Speaker 9: a so called cackle.
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  Speaker 10: And some of the jokes and some of the things
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  Speaker 10: that she says when she's speaking, but overall, she is
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  Speaker 10: a much more effective candidate than Joe Biden, and that's obvious.
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  Speaker 9: But she has a lot of problems.
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  Speaker 10: Remember this is the same woman who hardly made it
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  Speaker 10: through the Democratic primary.
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  Speaker 9: The Democrats rejected her.
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  Speaker 10: This is the party of DEI, and they ended up
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  Speaker 10: choosing an old white man, which is Joe Biden. Kamala
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  Speaker 10: Harris had very little support among Democrats and I don't
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  Speaker 10: see how that changes. And while the media is really
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  Speaker 10: hyping her up right now, talking about that she's a
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  Speaker 10: woman of color and that she's a woman, and they're
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  Speaker 10: just ecstatic of the fact that that could be the
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  Speaker 10: next potential president, they're forgetting about how radical her policies are.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, she was born and raised in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 10: She is to the left of the left. And so
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  Speaker 10: when people start to do a deeper dive on her
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  Speaker 10: policies and realize that actually she will be much more
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  Speaker 10: harmful than Joe Biden, it would be like Joe Biden
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  Speaker 10: on steroids, they might want to reconsider.
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  Speaker 3: And Stiffanie, as you've pointed out before, this hangs on
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  Speaker 3: the swing stits. So if you look at those swing
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  Speaker 3: stites where this selection is going to be won or lost,
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  Speaker 3: and then you look at the people who are voting
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  Speaker 3: in those swing stits. Do they want to elect a
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  Speaker 3: hard lift president to run the United States? Much more
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  Speaker 3: lift she is than what Joe Biden was, right.
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  Speaker 9: That's right.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, like I said, she wants to ban fracking.
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  Speaker 9: She is the type of person who has suggested that
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  Speaker 9: we should all go to electric vehicles.
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  Speaker 10: And I don't have a problem with electric vehicles, and
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  Speaker 10: a lot of people don't, but unfortunately they are very.
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  Speaker 9: Expensive right now and not practical.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I drive a Tesla cybertruck and I love it,
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  Speaker 10: but I also have other vehicles, but I would never
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  Speaker 10: force anyone to have to purchase an electric vehicle.
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  Speaker 9: So it's like they live in a bubble. They're completely
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  Speaker 9: out of touch with.
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  Speaker 10: The average American who is just struggling to pay their
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  Speaker 10: bills just to get by. And so yeah, I think
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  Speaker 10: it's going to be a hard sell for her on
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  Speaker 10: voters in these swing states. And I think there's going
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  Speaker 10: to be a huge effort to erase her past on policies.
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  Speaker 10: And I think they're going to try to gas like
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  Speaker 10: the American people on what exactly she supports, you know,
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  Speaker 10: And I think that the Trump campaign they will do
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  Speaker 10: a good job of exposing that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just back up there.
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  Speaker 3: You drive one of those tastless trucks that looks like
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  Speaker 3: a spice ship.
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  Speaker 1: Is that rod?
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  Speaker 9: That's right?
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  Speaker 10: Some people, some of my friends make fun of me
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  Speaker 10: and they say it looks like a dumpster truck, dumpster
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  Speaker 10: truck or just a dumpster. So I get teased a lot,
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  Speaker 10: but yeah, I do. I never was like a huge
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  Speaker 10: electric vehicle person, but definitely was into the truck when
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  Speaker 10: it came out.
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  Speaker 9: So yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 10: I love Elon and it is good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Both sides.
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  Speaker 3: And our rolled out some ads and they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be pretty nasty. I think they ad about Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're always going to attack him on his record,
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  Speaker 3: and the Republicans themselves have rolled out an ad about
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  Speaker 3: Hamala Harris as well. I just want to ask you
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  Speaker 3: about everyone's lept on the JD Vance comments made in
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  Speaker 3: an interview back on Fox in twenty twenty one about
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  Speaker 3: cat ladies. Is that going to play in America? Or
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  Speaker 3: people realize that this is before JD even came anywhere
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  Speaker 3: near being a vice presidential candidate.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I saw the commentary. I mean I don't take
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  Speaker 10: issue with it. And I think he has a point, right,
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  Speaker 10: that there's an effort to keep women single and child
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  Speaker 10: less so that they can keep them in the workforce,
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  Speaker 10: or that they don't take so the corporations can keep
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  Speaker 10: them in the workforce, so that they don't take time
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  Speaker 10: off from a two nity leave and can focus on
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  Speaker 10: just being just workers. So yeah, I mean, of course
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  Speaker 10: the left's going to be angry about that, and maybe
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  Speaker 10: he was just joking, who knows, but they're going to
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  Speaker 10: throw everything at him.
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  Speaker 9: They already don't like him.
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  Speaker 10: They weren't going to like any of Donald Trump's VP picks,
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  Speaker 10: so they're just going to go through all of his media,
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  Speaker 10: social media interviews and everything to see what they can
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  Speaker 10: to get out there and headlines to try to take
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  Speaker 10: him down with the ticket.
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  Speaker 9: But ultimately it's just not going to work.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, the VP pick in this case isn't really
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  Speaker 10: going to make a difference for Donald Trump. Ultimately, people
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  Speaker 10: are going to go out to vote for Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 10: not for for vans.
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  Speaker 3: What's up with Barack Obama and ultimately Michelle Obamber's well,
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  Speaker 3: what have they not endorsed terrace?
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  Speaker 9: You know, it's a.
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  Speaker 10: Good question, and you know there's two theories on this.
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  Speaker 10: Number one is that they actually don't have a good
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  Speaker 10: relationship with Harris, that she was not one of their
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  Speaker 10: first picks. The other theory is that they want to
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  Speaker 10: actually make this look like a democratic process in which
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  Speaker 10: it is not, and that would be that not one
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  Speaker 10: Democratic voter voted for Harris. And so, you know, a
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  Speaker 10: lot of there are a lot of people on the
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  Speaker 10: left who take issue with how this all went down. Originally,
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  Speaker 10: as you know, the mainstream media tried to trick everyone
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  Speaker 10: into thinking that Joe Biden's mental abilities and physical wellbeing
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  Speaker 10: were perfectly fine and that there was nothing to see there.
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  Speaker 10: All of a sudden, they turn on him, push him
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  Speaker 10: to drop out of the race essentially, and all the
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  Speaker 10: Democratic operatives behind.
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  Speaker 9: The scene, which a lot of people believe.
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  Speaker 10: That it was Obama and the Clinton's and Pelosi who
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  Speaker 10: had a say in this. So yeah, it really is
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  Speaker 10: just interesting times for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Just finally, I'm in a week in politics extraordinary, isn't
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  Speaker 3: it when you think about it? This don last week
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  Speaker 3: we just finished the Republican convey Donald Trump had survived
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  Speaker 3: an assassination attempt. The crowd was erupting in support for him,
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  Speaker 3: and now we've got a new presidential candidate in Harris,
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  Speaker 3: and we've still got the FBI going, well, we're not
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  Speaker 3: quite sure what hit Donald Trump in the year. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: what the hell is that about?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, it's completely shameful what has happened here?
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  Speaker 10: I mean, if they don't know, why would they put
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  Speaker 10: that theory out there. Donald Trump's doctor said that he
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  Speaker 10: was hit by a bullet, so it's not like they
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  Speaker 10: did the medical examination on Trump. And so this almost
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  Speaker 10: seems like it's a politically motivated comment. And instead of
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  Speaker 10: focusing on what they think they know about what h
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  Speaker 10: Donald Trump's ear, maybe they should just focus on the
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  Speaker 10: investigation as a whole and come up with some answers
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  Speaker 10: for the American people. At this point in time, the
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  Speaker 10: big question is are the candidates safe?
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  Speaker 9: Are all the protocols when it comes to security being met?
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  Speaker 10: What went wrong? How do we prevent this from happening again?
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  Speaker 10: And it just seems like nobody's really being held accountable.
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  Speaker 10: Of course, the head of Secret Service resigned, but she resigned,
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  Speaker 10: she wasn't fired.
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  Speaker 9: Nobody's been fired.
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  Speaker 10: So again it seems like there is a huge lack
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  Speaker 10: of accountability here, and so many people are concerned, and
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  Speaker 10: I would imagine if you were a candidate Donald Trump
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  Speaker 10: or Harris that you would be concerned as well.
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  Speaker 1: Stiffanie, it was great to catch up.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks a lot, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get to Cambon Newman now Veroda not regular in
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  Speaker 3: just a second. But there is some breaking news out
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  Speaker 3: of Paris and France. Now we're about nine hours of
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  Speaker 3: why from the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games. My
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  Speaker 3: just transport issues. Apparently in Paris a hid of that
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  Speaker 3: opening ceremony, French Royal Company is in Now. Anyone who's
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  Speaker 3: been to France knows that SNCF I think mainly run
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  Speaker 3: the above ground train network. It's the high speed network,
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  Speaker 3: the TGV. Apparently that's been targeted by quote malicious acts
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  Speaker 3: which has paralyzed the entire system. Now eight hundred thousand
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  Speaker 3: travelers have been effective. We're told we'll be crossing live
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  Speaker 3: to Paris a little later in the program. But if
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  Speaker 3: that's the case, that's a hell of a headache because
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  Speaker 3: that TGV, I mean, that is the super fast train network.
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  Speaker 1: So if you.
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  Speaker 3: Were in the south of France, or if you were
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  Speaker 3: across the border in northern Italy or even if you
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  Speaker 3: were tonight or today right now sitting in London at
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  Speaker 3: Saint Pancras station and had a ticket booked on the
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  Speaker 3: fast train through the chunnel and it's not going well,
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  Speaker 3: then Neil not getting to the Olympic Game.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll keep our eye on that.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just hope that it's a computer glitch and nothing
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  Speaker 3: more sinister than that. Let's get into it with former
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  Speaker 3: Queensland Liberal Premier Campbell Newman. He's been good enough to
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  Speaker 3: join us each Friday night. Campbell, that would be a disaster,
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  Speaker 3: would it not. If the I mean you've been to France,
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  Speaker 3: you've traveled on those vast tgvs.
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  Speaker 2: Like I have.
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  Speaker 3: If they're shut down nine hours before the opening of
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  Speaker 3: the Games, there'll be a lot of people are not
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  Speaker 3: going to get there.
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  Speaker 11: It's quite devastating for many many people. I think, as
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  Speaker 11: you've said, it really will impact severely on travel plans.
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  Speaker 11: And I just go back to when we hosted the
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  Speaker 11: G twenty in Queensland with the federal government and lots
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  Speaker 11: was done to try and actually protect all these vital services,
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  Speaker 11: the energy utilities and of course the rail system. So
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  Speaker 11: I've sort of been through the planning for this sort
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  Speaker 11: of big event, a security event, and it's pretty worrying
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  Speaker 11: that they've got an issue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I covered Sydney two thousand and I think
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  Speaker 3: the one thing about the Sydney Olympic Games we all
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  Speaker 3: worried what might happen with the train system, in particular
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  Speaker 3: because the major events were out in Homebush, and the
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  Speaker 3: bus system and the roads everything worked perfectly. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Sidney's never been as good as it was during that
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  Speaker 3: two weeks ever since, and probably never will be ever Again.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the US.
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  Speaker 3: We were just well, that's true, that's what he said,
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  Speaker 3: our mate Samaranch. The developments in the US. We've now
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  Speaker 3: got a real contest. I said at the beginning of
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  Speaker 3: the show that it's much more of an even contest
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  Speaker 3: now with Kamala Harris from the left, Donald Trump from
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  Speaker 3: the right, and Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Biden out of the race.
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  Speaker 3: What did you make of Biden's address and his resignation speech.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, look, I'm I guess I'm fairly conflicted because I
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  Speaker 11: was a terrible critic. I suppose I don't think much
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  Speaker 11: of the way that he went, the way this whole
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  Speaker 11: thing went in recent weeks, and I think the initial
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  Speaker 11: issuing of a letter saying he was going was very
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  Speaker 11: very strange, the whole thing, and frankly it hasn't been
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  Speaker 11: a good look in terms of the way the Democrats
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  Speaker 11: have sort of then after years of telling us this
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  Speaker 11: guy was in great shape, suddenly turning around saying he
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  Speaker 11: can't do the job. Well, he hasn't been able to
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  Speaker 11: do the job for quite a long time, I'd say,
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  Speaker 11: and it's really been other people pulling the levers of.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Power, and you just wonder how he can stay there
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: for another six months. Let's talk about death taxes. Now,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: there's developments on this today. Essentially Victoria looks like it
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: might try and introduce by stealth a death tax.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: The premier to.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Cindra Allen's labeled criticism of this is scaremongering, it's not.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: And now we've got a top law firm warning that
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: they're going to put a significant burden on grieving families.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: The government's broke. Let's remind our viewers the government in
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Victoria is planning to hike fees to process a funeral
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: will by up to six hundred and fifty. Now I
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: can tell you if this goes through, that'll be it
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: for me, I'll be out of here and I'll be
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: knocking on your door saying where should I live in
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Queensland Because I've been through this before. I fought a
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: newspaper campaign back in the eighties to stop this and
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: here we go again, and all because the state government's
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: broke Camble.
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: Well, it just shows that they are incredibly desperate and
• 19:22
  Speaker 11: everywhere you look they will seek to increase the revenues
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: of government because of their ineptitude, because of their reckless
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: financial management, poor and reckless financial management. If you want
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: the proof of the pudding, the increase in Furz means
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: that for an estate worth about two and a half
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: million dollars, it will be twice as expensive in Victoria
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: to lodge with the court for probate that in New
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: South Wales. And I just say people will vote with
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: their feet. They did so back in the seventies when
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: Joe the Jockie pedis and got rid of death duties
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: here and people moved up here in drives, and there'll
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: be many people saying exactly what you've just said, Steve,
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: they will move. And I would say to Victorian's right now,
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: just another fact, Like I'm in the commercial property game.
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: My firm will not invest in Victoria period. We will
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: not buy office buildings, industrial buildings, fuel stations. We have
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: agents all the time bothering us. No, we'll go to
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: any other state other than Victoria because we don't know
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: what the governor will do next. They've already cranked up
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: land tax, stamp duties and the like. They just see
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: anybody with a bit of cash as a milchcow. And
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: this court probate issue is just another example.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there'll be a traffic gem on the hum Highway
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: heading north, there's no doubt about that, or west to
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: somewhere like Adelaide. Let's talk about this reshuffle that Anthea
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Albanese is going to announce on Sunday. Now we know
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Bernie's retiring, Skills and Training Minister
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Brendan O'Connor's out the.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Door as well.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I have to laugh a labor parties going around saying, well,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: look we've been here two years and no one's got sacked. Well,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: that says to me that you haven't had the courage
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: to sack people who don't know what they're doing, like
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Andrew Giles and Claire O'Neil for a start.
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: Well, the ones you've just mentioned, they should be definitely
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: burning given the heave hon going out the door because
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: they both failed to deliver in their portfollow area. And
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: of course it's particularly about the release of these hardened
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: criminals into the community one hundred and fifty three.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I think, so they should.
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: Go for that and that alone. But then going back
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: to what you said, I do love the way that
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: the Prime Minister says, Look, I haven't lost anyone. That's
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: how good my government is. Well, that's because you haven't
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: burn accountable, that you haven't followed Westminster principles and actually
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: given the heave ho to ministers that don't perform. Then
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: it's just that they will stonewall. They will stonewall and
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: stonewall this government rather than actually making ministers accountable.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and of course the factions will decide who replaces them. Anyway,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: just before you go, I want to talk about this
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: truth telling idea. The federal government reportedly working on a
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: plan to in quotes tell the truth about indigenous suffering
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: throughout Australia's history. This is apparently being viewed within the
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: party as a way to make up for the failure
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: of the voice. Boy, that won't be the visive.
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: At all, will it, Well, Steve, Look, look, let's be
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: very clear. I think Australians have a general strong well
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: a strong sense of sympathy for Aboriginal people and they
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: want to see their lot improved. But they made a
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: very clear statement in the referendum last year and more
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: of this stuff is divisive and it's only going to
• 22:55
  Speaker 11: push people against the whole whole thing. And I mean
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: we've seen in our schools, I mean, our kids are
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: being indoctrinated on this whole thing right now and being
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: you know, we see many tales of kids at primary
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: schools being told to apologize or having to apologize for
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: for past wrongs. So look, the idea that Austrainers don't
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: know that some bad things happen, or that our Aboriginals
• 23:21
  Speaker 11: were dispossessed is a nonsense. What we've got to do
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: as a society is move on and find practical ways
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: to help advance Aboriginal people as equals, as opposed to
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: separate a separate identity, a separate, separate race of people.
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: That's what I think all Austrains want right now.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I think your one hundred percent correct. Just be for
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: you go, who decides what's the truth? How does that work?
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: Yes, well that's that's that's very contentious. I mean, you know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: we've seen people these days suggesting Aboriginal people were involved
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: as in fart with I think one of the I
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: think a federal minut the other day said that they
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: were the first farmers. Now, look that's just rubbish. The
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: historical record does not support that Aboriginal people were cultivating
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: the land, sort of rearing animals in some sort of
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: methodical way. They hunted, They were nomadic people who worked
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: incredibly well on the landscape to actually eke out a
• 24:28
  Speaker 11: living if you like. But farmers know they weren't. So
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: when you've got federal minister suggesting they were the first farmers,
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: if that's the agenda of the government, there's going to
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: be a lot of untruths in this truth telling.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Came when you mean, my friend, great to catch up,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot to see your next Friday now coming
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: up after the break. This is a story that needs
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to be told. One in six older Australians have experienced
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: elder abuse, but a new campaign launching this weekend is
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: hoping to curb that trend, the Age Discrimination Commissioner joins me. Next,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: we're live to Paris ahead of the Olympic opening ceremony,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: with news, of course, that the transport system maybe under
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: a big, big problem. Back after the break, Welcome back,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Steve Price with you, Dinika de Giorgia are coming up
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: after me. Just an update on what's going on in France.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: It now piers that arsonists are setting fires along some
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: of the fast train tracks that are used by the TGV,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: the super fast French network operated by the SNFC rail company.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: We'll go to Paris shortly and find out what sort
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: of disruption. But it has been reported on Sky News
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: UK and on the BBC among others, that what's actually
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: happening is causing a major disruption. Now that's not surprising
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: given that a lot of people would descend on Paris
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: from quite a distance away, because these trains travel three
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: hundred miles kilometers an hour. So we'll keep an eye
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: on that. It looks like sabotage. Let's hope that the
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: French police can sort that out in a hurry. Now,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: how's this for an appalling statute? I mentioned it earlier
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: one in six older Australians will have faced elder abuse.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: And I think we're not only just getting our heads
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: around this. I mean I think it could be worse
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: than that. Many Australians are living, as we know, a
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: lot longer into their late eighties and early nineties, and
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: not surprisingly many victims they don't want to admit that
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: it's happened to them. I mean they're embarrassed or in
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: many cases they're not willing to report the abuser or
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: abuses if they are, particularly if they are members of
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: their own family. So bad has this problem become? The
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Federal government from Sunday will release a series of ads
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: to make more Australians aware of the problem. Now, my
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: guest Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald in a sec but
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: as I said, this abuse comes in many forms, including
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: the elderly being taken advantage off by crooked tradees. Now
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: this is personal for me. It happened to my mother
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: two weekends ago when she woke up on a Saturday
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: morning with no power. She checked with her neighbors. They
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: were still connected, so she googled not bad. She's ninety
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: in November and arrange for the first twenty four hour
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: electrical company to come and fix the problem. Now, I
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: won't name them yet. When I can get legal clearance,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: I will suffers to say they ripped her off, demanded
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: she pay before the work began. Who what trade he
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: does that? And then she transferred three four hundred dollars
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: to this mob for a job.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: When I checked with.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: My electrician, he looked at the invoice and figured it
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: should have cost six hundred, So she paid three four hundred.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: They've been outed by a current affair dozens of times,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: but they continue to trade a ninety year old woman.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: What a bunch of scumbags those people are. Let's bring
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: in Commissioner Fitzgerald. Thank you very much for spending some
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: time with us. How serious is the problem?
• 27:45
  Speaker 12: Look, aging is an issue that's really very contemporary at
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: the moment in Australia because we realize that the population
• 27:52
  Speaker 12: of older people, our own aging and that our aging
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: of our family means this is a significant issue. But
• 27:58
  Speaker 12: in relation to ABEUS, at least one in six are
• 28:01
  Speaker 12: abused every year, and what they identify in those studies
• 28:05
  Speaker 12: is not simply like somebody insulted me or somebody upset me.
• 28:08
  Speaker 12: This is serious abuse and it's psychological abuse, it's financial abuse,
• 28:13
  Speaker 12: its exploitation as you've been describing. It can be physical
• 28:16
  Speaker 12: neglect or even sexual abuse. But what we know is
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: it's increasing at a fairly significant rate because, as you
• 28:22
  Speaker 12: rightfully say, as we get older, a number of things
• 28:24
  Speaker 12: happen to us.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: We become a bit frailer, we become more.
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: Dependent on us, and for some of us we start
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: to have cognitive declient. So those risk factors make it
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: a position where people become very vulnerable.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: And in my experience, I mean older people, they feel
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: embarrassed when something happens that could be their fault because
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: of their age, and they don't want to talk about it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, my mother could have picked the phone up
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: to me to see whether this bloat was doing the
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: right thing, but she thought he was.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 28:55
  Speaker 12: What we absolutely know from the elder abuse operations that
• 28:58
  Speaker 12: exist around Australia, clearing in New South Wales and South
• 29:02
  Speaker 12: Australia and so on, is that older people themselves won't
• 29:05
  Speaker 12: complain about the abuse they're experiencing. It can be about shame,
• 29:09
  Speaker 12: it can be about fear. It certainly is about embarrassment,
• 29:12
  Speaker 12: and of course you know more than fifty percent of
• 29:14
  Speaker 12: all the abuse of old people are by adult children,
• 29:17
  Speaker 12: their adult sons and daughters, or close relatives.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: So what we.
• 29:20
  Speaker 12: Find is it's people that are near them that can
• 29:23
  Speaker 12: see changes in behavior, people like yourself that observe or
• 29:26
  Speaker 12: actually are aware of that abuse taking place, frontline workers,
• 29:30
  Speaker 12: home care workers, community nurses, community workers generally. So what
• 29:34
  Speaker 12: we find in elder abuse, unlike domestic violence, very very different,
• 29:38
  Speaker 12: is the older person themselves will suffer in silence, notwithstanding
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: the fact that they know what's happening to them is
• 29:44
  Speaker 12: dangerous and something that really really worries them. But all
• 29:48
  Speaker 12: of those factors you've identified and I've just discussed are
• 29:51
  Speaker 12: reasons why. It's about neighbors, care as other family members
• 29:55
  Speaker 12: coming forward when they see that sort of abuse starting
• 29:58
  Speaker 12: to happen, and it's not actually making the decision that
• 30:00
  Speaker 12: it's abused. It's about saying something's wrong. I'm concerned that
• 30:03
  Speaker 12: something's happening to my mum, or my neighbor, or the
• 30:06
  Speaker 12: person in the church pews next to me. And that's
• 30:09
  Speaker 12: why our elder abuse is quite different.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: So Robert tell us about the campaign, I think I'm
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: right that the ads will go to hear from Sunday night.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: What are they going to highlight?
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: How are they going to make Australians who are not
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: aware this is happening wake up to it.
• 30:25
  Speaker 12: So the Commonwaalth Government's decided to start a campaign around
• 30:28
  Speaker 12: having conversations around this issue because it is an issue
• 30:32
  Speaker 12: that really confronts people. We don't want to believe that
• 30:34
  Speaker 12: adult sons and daughters of people are abusing children, sorry,
• 30:38
  Speaker 12: abusing their parents in the way that they are. We
• 30:40
  Speaker 12: don't want to be believe that people outside, like those
• 30:43
  Speaker 12: tradees you've been talking about, would actually exploit eighty ninety
• 30:46
  Speaker 12: year old people. So what the comical company is saying,
• 30:49
  Speaker 12: let's have a conversation. Let's start to talk about this
• 30:51
  Speaker 12: place and this sort of issue in the workplace, between
• 30:55
  Speaker 12: frontline workers, between first responders, between family members and care
• 31:00
  Speaker 12: and those that are working in institutions. And by having
• 31:03
  Speaker 12: their conversation, what immediately starts to happen is people will say, oh, gee,
• 31:07
  Speaker 12: I can see something happening in my mother's life. I
• 31:10
  Speaker 12: can see that somebody is taking control of my father's
• 31:13
  Speaker 12: sort of decisions. And worse than that, I can actually
• 31:15
  Speaker 12: see that the spending patterns, the way in which that
• 31:18
  Speaker 12: money is being used is very different. All of those
• 31:21
  Speaker 12: sorts of signs and signals may not necessarily be abused,
• 31:24
  Speaker 12: but there are actually reasons why you need to call
• 31:26
  Speaker 12: the old Abuse helpline at the national level or seek
• 31:30
  Speaker 12: support at the local community level. Because the one thing
• 31:32
  Speaker 12: about elder abuse is this, it doesn't stop until it's stopped.
• 31:36
  Speaker 12: Elder abuse continues and continues and continues, especially financial abuse,
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: until the money's gone. So if you don't act, if
• 31:43
  Speaker 12: you don't raise those sort of alerts, if you don't
• 31:45
  Speaker 12: find out what's happening, that abuse just continues on. And
• 31:49
  Speaker 12: that's a frightening prospect for older people who do become
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: more dependent on others, do become more frail, and for
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: some of us, we'll lose some of our cognitive abilities.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Congratulations on your work, Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald. Thank you very
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: much for telling us about it tonight. Let's go back
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: to this breaking news now out of France, where arsonists,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: we're told, have been targeting the Paris Olympic Games by
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: setting fires along the rail lines of the fast trains,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: the TGVS. Apparently, journey times have increased by ninety minutes.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Several trains in fact have been canceled. Absolute nightmare, with
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: the opening ceremony to kick off in a matter of hours,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I think about.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Nine hours from now.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: France's Sports minister says quote, this is probably a large
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: scale sabotage. This is the last thing the organizers wanted.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Fox Sports reporter Hannah Hollis in Paris. Hannah,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: I wanted to talk to you about much more joyful things,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: given what's going to happen in nine hours time.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: But this has happened. What are you hearing about that?
• 32:52
  Speaker 13: Oh? See, what's great to chat to you and the
• 32:54
  Speaker 13: likes of Selendio will have to wait for now because
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: as the world eyes turn its attention on Paris, this
• 32:59
  Speaker 13: is not what France wanted them to see. So what
• 33:02
  Speaker 13: we can tell you is there have been vandals attacking
• 33:06
  Speaker 13: the high speed train network, setting fire to installations connecting
• 33:11
  Speaker 13: that the French capital with the Northwest and East services.
• 33:14
  Speaker 13: So what's happening is several of those lines have now
• 33:16
  Speaker 13: been canceled. Those services have been canceled completely, and in
• 33:20
  Speaker 13: an effort to get people moving where they need to go,
• 33:23
  Speaker 13: they have re routed and diverted the train lines so
• 33:26
  Speaker 13: people can at least try and continue on with their journey.
• 33:30
  Speaker 13: The Eurostar has also been affected from Paris to London
• 33:33
  Speaker 13: as well. That has been rerouted, and we're talking of
• 33:37
  Speaker 13: extensions of time up to ninety minutes, which is substantial
• 33:40
  Speaker 13: considering what is at play. In a couple of hours time,
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: we expect hundreds of thousands of people to descend on
• 33:48
  Speaker 13: Paris for the opening ceremony here in the capitol. Now,
• 33:51
  Speaker 13: the French Sports Minister, as you touched on, has declared
• 33:54
  Speaker 13: that this was malicious and calculated, premeditated sabotage will disrupt
• 34:00
  Speaker 13: today and the weekend ahead. Steve, I can tell you
• 34:03
  Speaker 13: this comes on top of what is already a palpable
• 34:07
  Speaker 13: mood of tension within Paris. We have security ramping up
• 34:11
  Speaker 13: by the second, it feels. We've had police, the jeen Beree,
• 34:15
  Speaker 13: the military as well, and the counter terrorism units all
• 34:19
  Speaker 13: lining the streets, going to Olympic venues, going to popular
• 34:22
  Speaker 13: tourist destinations, standing on street corners, and of course their
• 34:26
  Speaker 13: presence has certainly felt across all the public transport networks.
• 34:30
  Speaker 13: That is making it incredibly difficult for anyone to move
• 34:33
  Speaker 13: around the city. As the road closures continue to take
• 34:36
  Speaker 13: place in the lead up to the opening ceremony a
• 34:39
  Speaker 13: little later tonight, I can tell you when we are
• 34:41
  Speaker 13: trying to move around as broadcasters, even with accreditation, we
• 34:45
  Speaker 13: have to go through several police checkpoints. We also have
• 34:47
  Speaker 13: to produce our passports at times as well for second
• 34:50
  Speaker 13: layers of identification. Just paints the picture a little bit
• 34:54
  Speaker 13: for you at home of how tight the security is
• 34:57
  Speaker 13: here and how important it is to get this opening
• 34:59
  Speaker 13: So we need right and for it to go smoothly
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: and with everyone safe. But these fires on the high
• 35:05
  Speaker 13: speed rail network is not what France needed at.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: All, absolutely not.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: And I know I looked at my weather at before
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: I saw you doing a cross on sky earlier and
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: it was raining.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: There might be some rain tonight.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Let's finish with some good news, Lady Gaga Celene Dion
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: doing an Edith Pf tribute on a bridge over the scene.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: It doesn't get much better than that, does it.
• 35:31
  Speaker 13: Oh, it's going to be spectacular, isn't it. And we
• 35:33
  Speaker 13: cannot wait for the opening ceremony to officially get the
• 35:36
  Speaker 13: games underway. We know our Aussie men sevens and the
• 35:39
  Speaker 13: Matildas have already been in action, but it's going to
• 35:42
  Speaker 13: be magnific. I think el something for the ages. Of course,
• 35:47
  Speaker 13: we've had some amazing opening ceremony moments in years gone
• 35:50
  Speaker 13: by the Archer My goodness, that was a favorite of mine.
• 35:53
  Speaker 13: So looking forward to seeing what Paris can deliver tonight.
• 35:57
  Speaker 13: And I'm hearing a rumor that Celendion's fee for this
• 36:00
  Speaker 13: one is just a casual two million dollar Steve.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: That'd be nice, it would be, and she's worth every cent.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Hannah Hollis, look after yourself, keep out of the rain.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much for updating us. Appreciate it very much.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Now still to come on Friday night to walk through
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: the biggest stories of the week with my favorite cartoonist,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Mark Night. Lous lots to get to with my panel
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  Speaker 3: a little later. Welcome back, Steve Price with you. We'll
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: keep you updated on what's happening with Paris and that
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: arson attack on the fast train tracks, and I'm sure
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Danika will have an update for you at the top
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  Speaker 3: of the hour as well. It's been a huge couple
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: of weeks in news, and last Friday, sadly we couldn't
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: go to where we were due to talk to our
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: great friend Mark Knight, the greatest cartoonist in the country,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: so he's back with us tonight. We're going to have
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: a look at some of the biggest stories with our
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  Speaker 3: favorite cartoonist.
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  Speaker 1: Mark.
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  Speaker 3: You couldn't come in last week, and we had a
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: whole batch of good cartoons.
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  Speaker 2: My pencil didn't stop working, Steve. That never breaks down.
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  Speaker 7: But all you guys were off the air because you're
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: on those computer things.
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  Speaker 1: So you started.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start tonight with the Olympic Games. We've got that
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: bad news just recently, but terrible. Have a look at
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: how you decide that the Olympic torch should best be used.
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  Speaker 3: Describe what we've got here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, like, you know that the French.
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  Speaker 7: The French have this sort of sense of chic and
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: they love a cigarette. So I imagined as the torch relay
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  Speaker 7: was winding its way through Paris, there would be sort
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: of a Francois Hardy, sort of elegant woman sitting there
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  Speaker 7: and he would just lean across with the cigarette holder
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  Speaker 7: no a gitan, and he would.
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  Speaker 2: Just light it with the Olympic torchu and then move on.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: And how French is that?
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  Speaker 3: Do we think the bloke of the torches, Mike Sneezeby
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: the Boss and online.
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  Speaker 1: Who just lost all his stuff?
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: What is he doing that if he didn't want to
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: attract any attention running around Paris.
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  Speaker 3: That's set you a challenge, hasn't it, Because in about
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: nine hours time that the actual Olympic flame will be lit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've gone early with the Yeah with the lighter.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: I have gone out on a limb there. But it'll
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: be interesting to see how it launches. It's going to
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: be on the seend though. We've got fire and water.
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: I just don't know how these two things are.
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  Speaker 3: Going to My favorite one was probably the Barcelona arrow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: where the guy stood up and just went whack and
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  Speaker 3: it flew across the stadium and lit the torch.
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  Speaker 7: I reckon, there's just some guy up there with a match,
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: you know, just Kathy Freeman. Remember that that was a
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: full bodysuit and they were in the control room and
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: the thing that was going up stopped, yes, and they
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: had to reboot the computer so I could keep going.
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: They were going to set fire to the woman who
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: was going to win the four hundred meter gold medal, and.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Then she went out and she won that race.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: It's just the greatest bit of sports individually.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm old enough to remember in La they had
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: a boat with a rocket pack on his back up
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: in the air.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Flying through the stadium.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: What did you go wrong?
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump? And Kamala Harris? Yes, is come on a
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: new draw for you.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: Let's look at what you I've drawn her a couple
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: of times, but I really will welcome her to the campaign.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: She's good to draw it.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look she you know Joe sleepy.
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: Joe has basically tapped out Camel has jumped into the
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: ring because this campaign is going to be a lot
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: like WrestleMania.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's on. They've both been swinging at each other.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Well Trump did use at his convention the bloke who
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: owns UFC as he's warm up men.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: Exactly, I mean, And so you know, Kamela has grabbed
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: Joe's zimmer.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Frame and she's going to run into the arena and
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: she's just going.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: To go for help as a Miss America. What's a
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: big why it's a.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Wrestle media outfit.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: You know you're going to stay in that outfit for
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: the Joe Biden's out Yes, he's exited stage right according
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: to you have a look at the.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Sleepy. Joe's on his way. I don't know where to.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: He's not going to run. He was never going to run.
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: He can barely walk, so you know, he's just going
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: to He's just sort of toddled off to the side
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: of the stage.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Hopefully he didn't fall off. But one of the things
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: that I'm glad I don't know about you see, but
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I'm glad we.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: Don't have to watch Joe Biden walking down the stairs
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: of Air Force one anymore.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: It's like it's the most stressful thing to watch.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Well, we have played at seven thousand times Network showing
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: you're falling up down the stairs, and the other day
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: when he had his resignation speech. You can barely stay
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: awake to actually do it. Now, I know you're a
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: brave man, very brave. The cartoon you drew on AFL
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: this week, you've really gone out. Given you're not a
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Collingwood supporter.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I wrote a column about this, I've taken my life.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the Collingwood bus going off the cliff.
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I can hear the Collingwood cheer squadter outside
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: the studio of Baseball bats. It is probably the riskiest
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: drawing i've ever done to criticize Collingwood in their premiership
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: defense here, but I'm not scared to draw the hard particularly.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I mean you're entitled to do it because you drew
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: the Magpie's victory poster yp that you do every Grand Finals.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, you're probably entitled to do that.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Well it fair, Colin.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I think you don't go to a Collingwood gate.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Please don't do that, mate, got on your nice to
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: see that's Mark night. You'll see his cartoons in the
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Herald Sun tomorrow, included one attached to my column on
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: graffiti after the break.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Your fuel and beer.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Is about to get more expensive unless labor gets serious
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: about tackling the cost of living. Plus, female customers are
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: allowed to refuse to sit next to males on planes
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: in one country.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Is that a good idea? That's up next? Welcome back,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: toeve price with you. Just an update on France.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: The operators of the fast trains, the tgvs, are urging
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: passengers to delay their trip if possible. I'm not quite
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: sure how you do that, given you're probably getting on
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: the train to go into central Paris to go to
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. It's a horrible
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: thing that's happened. Danika will have an update for you
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: as well. Let's bring in our Friday panel, Small Business
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Women Australia CEO Amanda Rose and Sky News contributor Gary Hargrave.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Welcome to you.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Both hands up to who's getting up at three thirty
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: tomorrow morning to watch the Olympic Games opening ceremony?
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Not me.
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  Speaker 9: What you can record it now.
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: You can record these things and watch them later on
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: the treadmill, right, Can you love my IQ?
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you the team.
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  Speaker 3: Just a tip for you, Gary, because I know you
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: know you and I getting on a bit, so if
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: you do get up Australia, I found this out yesterday
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: for the first time. I'm telling you this because you
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: know you've got the Brisbane Games in twenty thirty two,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: so it's your fault. Australia comes in last because.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: You have all the nations.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Then you have the Australia because Brisbane's got twenty thirty two.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Then you've got the United States, who's got the next
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Olympics in la and then you've got the French. So
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: if you were thinking having the country starting with an A,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: he was going to give you an advantage.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow morn.
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  Speaker 3: No, we're third last, so it's going to take about
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: four hours.
• 43:04
  Speaker 14: So we can get up at a stadium up at
• 43:06
  Speaker 14: seven o'clock and.
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  Speaker 1: Have you got a stadium?
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: We get system over.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: No, No, we're going to run.
• 43:15
  Speaker 14: We're going to get into the gas I know, the MCG,
• 43:20
  Speaker 14: which of course is a former cow paddock. So look,
• 43:23
  Speaker 14: anything is possible, Steve, but nothing seems to be probable
• 43:27
  Speaker 14: here in Brisbane. No one can make a decision about
• 43:30
  Speaker 14: anything anytime anywhere anymore. But they're all over in Paris
• 43:35
  Speaker 14: right now. They're all over in Paris enjoying taxpayer funded
• 43:37
  Speaker 14: large s and checking out things that we don't have,
• 43:41
  Speaker 14: like transport systems, and they're all heading off to la
• 43:44
  Speaker 14: to have a look at freeway systems, which we don't
• 43:46
  Speaker 14: have either.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: So it's going to be.
• 43:47
  Speaker 14: More of a bring your own swag that's what we're
• 43:51
  Speaker 14: going to have the johnsh Swagman Games in twenty thirty two.
• 43:54
  Speaker 14: Bring your own your own slipping bag.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon, I reckon.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Amanda.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: He'll get very positive about it when it gets closer
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: and he wants some tickets to go. Now I'm old
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: enough to remember by the way, you two when you
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: had the federal budget and the headline in the paper
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: the next day was.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Beer SIGs up.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Now these are taxed xis on beer and cigarettes are
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: taxed and it goes up according to inflation, Amanda, So
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: you're looking at a case of beer for twenty dollars seventy.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: God knows how much petrol's going to be. God knows
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: how much cigarettes are going to cost. I want to
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: drill this down to cost of living. It's still the
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: biggest issue in the country. We might demand to have
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: another tax, another interest rate rise next Wednesday when the
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Reserve Bank. How much pain of people that you're talking
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: to out there going through right now.
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: Well, they're not coping. And this is just another example.
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: You know, the Albanezy government is essentially the frenemi of
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: the working class in the middle class. So to their
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: face they make out that they're your friend, but behind
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: your back, they're stabbing you in the back and they're
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: pretty much destroying you, white anting you in every possible way.
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: I mean, it is absolutely horrific.
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: That people say, oh, well, then you should cut back
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: in your alcohol or cut back in your cigarettes, and
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: it's so self righteous they need to look at the
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: fact that the government is taxing the hardest workers in
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: the country, the people that build your houses, that clean
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: your houses, that are trying to build small businesses. They're
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: the ones holding up the economy and they're the ones
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: that being taxed the most every possible angle, Gary.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: How long is this our an easy government going to
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: be able to say, look, there's nothing to see here.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: We've had these great budgets, We've had two surpluses, everything's
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: going swimmingly. When you've got every economist in the country saying, well,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: hang on a minute. You know, we're probably in a
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: recession and if inflation arises again next week, we probably
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: will have another interest rate rise. And all those economists say,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: if you have one, you're going to get two. I mean,
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: how long are they going to be able to dodge
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: at the fact that they've been there two years?
• 46:06
  Speaker 14: Well, fully one, shame on you, Pholly twice, shame on me.
• 46:10
  Speaker 14: Is kind of the mantra of this mob. And the
• 46:12
  Speaker 14: cost of living is one thing. So if everything's on
• 46:14
  Speaker 14: the back of a truck in a country like Australia,
• 46:16
  Speaker 14: so the cost of fuel means the cost of everything
• 46:20
  Speaker 14: delivered viral truck is going up, but the cost of
• 46:22
  Speaker 14: dying is also going to be I think a real
• 46:25
  Speaker 14: issue for the next election because the Greens have got
• 46:28
  Speaker 14: the idea of an inheritance tax. They're after the family home.
• 46:30
  Speaker 14: They want to start to draw down on any money
• 46:32
  Speaker 14: you've saved up and any money you want to pass on.
• 46:35
  Speaker 14: So even those who may well have reached the end
• 46:37
  Speaker 14: of their life and think I'll leave a bit for
• 46:39
  Speaker 14: the kids are going to find themselves with more complex
• 46:41
  Speaker 14: rules and more likelihood that the government will start to
• 46:45
  Speaker 14: rake money out. And I think that's a real big
• 46:48
  Speaker 14: and important issue because the cost of living is one thing.
• 46:51
  Speaker 14: The cost of dying is coming back on the agenda
• 46:53
  Speaker 14: as well. But this mob just they've never seen a
• 46:56
  Speaker 14: dollar that they can't take out of your pocket, and
• 46:58
  Speaker 14: they're finding more and more ways of doing it. In
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: the middle of a cost of living crisis, they're increasing
• 47:03
  Speaker 14: the cost of living.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: You can't make it up, No, you can't.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: And I was talking to Cambel Newman before Victoria is
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: about is looking at increasing the cost to actually get
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: a will and once your relative passes, the cost of
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: then getting that will sorted out exactly going to be
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: increase by something like six hundred percent, Amanda. The number
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: of business is falling over I mean, no one ever
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: talks about this, and no one really puts into place
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: that the number of big and small businesses we've lost
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: week after week after week. Are you still seeing small
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: businesses that are not coping and having to shut Absolutely?
• 47:43
  Speaker 8: And I was only speaking to unjust yesterday that said
• 47:45
  Speaker 8: that they pay thirty thousand dollars a month in electricity
• 47:49
  Speaker 8: because it's a hospitality venue, right, And that is just astronomical.
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: That is ridiculous and a lot of people need to
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: realize that. You know, sometimes I get a bit too
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: comfortable and go, oh, that's a shame that that shop
• 48:00
  Speaker 8: has shut But once it's five along the strip and
• 48:03
  Speaker 8: then ten along the strip, they're families that can't afford
• 48:06
  Speaker 8: their rent and mortgage, children have to be taken out
• 48:09
  Speaker 8: of the schools, they can't afford their groceries at all.
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: And then there's a high unemployment and we're starting to
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: see high unemployment. So the government's trying to counteract that
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: by employing people within the government when the reality is
• 48:21
  Speaker 8: unemployment is going up and people are desperate for jobs.
• 48:25
  Speaker 8: But it' small businesses closing down. Big business are cutting back,
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: and we're in die straits.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Gary, I'd pay to fly on an airline that said
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: children are down the back and no one can get
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: on board wearing fongs. We've got an Indian airline saying
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: they're going to get a female customers the option to
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: refuse to sit next to our mail on the plane.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Good idea, bad idea.
• 48:51
  Speaker 14: I've be a cultural idea and it may well work
• 48:53
  Speaker 14: in India. I don't know. At least they've got choice
• 48:55
  Speaker 14: in India, and I'm sure none of their airlines welcome
• 48:57
  Speaker 14: you to India every time you land, so you know,
• 49:01
  Speaker 14: airlines can market themselves as they see fit. But I
• 49:04
  Speaker 14: would reckon that it'll either work or it wain't. But
• 49:07
  Speaker 14: there'll be some who'll like it. There will be some
• 49:09
  Speaker 14: who like it.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Thank you both, Amanda Ros Gary Hargrave for joining us.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: Just to repeat, there has been an incident in France
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: with the TGV and the fast trains Dunika to Giorgio's
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: coming up next. I'm sure she will have an update
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: on this, but it appears that vandals have tried to
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: set fires on those train lines. So opening ceremony tomorrow.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. See you next Friday.