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The Bolt Report | 17 July · The Bolt Report

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  Speaker 1: Is the good report it tonight that Kevin Rudd, one
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: former ambassador to Washington, says yes, the new ambassador Kevin
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Rudd might actually help Australia by saying sorry for abusing
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump as a menace now that Trump looks like
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  Speaker 1: being president again. Also tonight, the Albanezi government brazens it
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  Speaker 1: out refusing to hand over the dirty millions that got
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  Speaker 1: into nations from a corrupt union the CFMU.
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  Speaker 2: The concept of handing money back is one of the
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  Speaker 2: most astonishing and absurd ideas I've seen.
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  Speaker 1: Shameless I'll show you more from that extraordinary press conference later.
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  Speaker 1: Plus race baiting Senator Lydia Thorpe poses in a mock
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  Speaker 1: Hamas style head in the green of that terrorist group.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, and my response to this idiotic sledge
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  Speaker 1: today fake news from our disastrous energy minister.
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  Speaker 3: Full on open climate change denial is now less fashionable
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  Speaker 3: than it was ten or fifteen years. Andrew Bold still
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  Speaker 3: does it, but most other people don't bother with it.
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  Speaker 1: Bowen might regret saying that, but first, you know, I've
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  Speaker 1: been hearing so many people Trump haters, of course, spreading
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  Speaker 1: the most incredible conspiracy theory about the shooting of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just online. I mean a dozen just
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  Speaker 1: yesterday that I know of directly. Old was a setup.
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  Speaker 1: Shooting was a setup. I mean, just look how Trump
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  Speaker 1: straightaway posed for this picture, didn't miss abeat after supposedly
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  Speaker 1: being shot. Had to be a setup. Look how it's
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  Speaker 1: helped Trump's campaign made him a hero. Well, let me
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  Speaker 1: just go through this insane theory, because what is actually
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  Speaker 1: clear from the evidence is that it's far more likely
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  Speaker 1: that Trump was nearly killed by something else, the insane
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  Speaker 1: identity politics and also the health and safety obsessions of
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  Speaker 1: the modern left, the thought that infantilizes us, of course,
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  Speaker 1: and nearly got a president killed. Some amazing footage of
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  Speaker 1: this coming up. But first, the conspiracy theory. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you believe it that this was a setup, you'd have
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  Speaker 1: to believe the Trump campaign actually thought it was losing
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  Speaker 1: this election to Joe Biden and had to go for
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  Speaker 1: a hail Mary pass, and that they thought, I know,
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  Speaker 1: let's get Donald Trump wounded, but not seriously in a
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  Speaker 1: supposed assassination plot and get the sympathy vote. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: hire not some proven gunman, not some Lee Harvey Osweald
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  Speaker 1: type X army with a grudge. But of all the people,
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  Speaker 1: let's pick a random twin twenty year old loaner with
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  Speaker 1: no known profile or allegiances, and hope that he won't
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  Speaker 1: blab to his parents. And then let's order police away
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  Speaker 1: from the very building that directly overlooks Trump stage so
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  Speaker 1: that our boy gets a clear line of fire, and
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  Speaker 1: let's hope that it's such a dead shot that he
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  Speaker 1: only knicks Trump's ear from at least one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty meters away. Well, in fact, turns out this twenty
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  Speaker 1: year old had to be even better than that. He's
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  Speaker 1: even had to be able to predict that Trump would
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  Speaker 1: move his head very slightly the split second our boy
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  Speaker 1: squeezes that trigger, so that the bullet didn't actually blow
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  Speaker 1: off the back of Trump's head, only hit his ear.
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  Speaker 1: Because those were real bullets. Let's not pretend. I mean
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  Speaker 1: a New York Times photographer just happened to catch one
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  Speaker 1: on a picture flying past Trump's head, was in a
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  Speaker 1: burst of pictures he took, and one person behind Trump
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  Speaker 1: was killed. And to top off this set up this
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  Speaker 1: gunman that these Trump people had to hire, well, he
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  Speaker 1: would have had to expect that his own head would
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  Speaker 1: then be blown off, which it was well nearly figured.
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  Speaker 1: Now to all those people spreading this theory, don't you
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  Speaker 1: think you sound like a total goose? Don't you think
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  Speaker 1: you sound like a real fool? How thick would you
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  Speaker 1: have to be to believe something like that? But it's
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, but you know, look how fast Trump was
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  Speaker 1: on his feet to find luck. He kind of knew
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  Speaker 1: this was coming. Well, that's because he was a fighter.
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  Speaker 1: He is a fighter. And what's more, he will have
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  Speaker 1: thought a million times of the real wristed be shot.
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  Speaker 1: Other presidents have been shot. And imagine how it's probably imagined,
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  Speaker 1: how it to react is after all, I said, years
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  Speaker 1: of TV stardom, he knows where the cameras are. And
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  Speaker 1: then as a politician, and there were dozens of photographers around,
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  Speaker 1: he would have had at least one around surely to
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  Speaker 1: be able to take that famous picture of him refusing
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  Speaker 1: the cow shaking his fist, and indeed one was there,
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  Speaker 1: only one. Let's not bother with it anymore. If you
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  Speaker 1: hear anyone saying that showing this video whatever, just tell
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  Speaker 1: him you're a fool. But to the real issue here,
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  Speaker 1: which is both more believable and yet more amazing, Why
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that building that this gunman climbed up cleared by police?
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  Speaker 1: Why wasn't a policeman up there instead stopping people from
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  Speaker 1: getting on that roof? And that's just the first amazing thing.
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  Speaker 1: Another is that the head of the Secret Servers, meant
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  Speaker 1: to be defending Trump said, well, police were actually inside
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  Speaker 1: that very building that the gunman used. The gunman was
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  Speaker 1: up there for half an hour. Police meantime, were inside
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  Speaker 1: that very same building. Did you believe that? But they
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  Speaker 1: were in it, not on it. And that apparently is because, well,
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  Speaker 1: the roof was too dangerous. Should that roof have been secure? Period?
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  Speaker 4: That building, in particular has a sloped roof at its
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  Speaker 4: highest point, and so you know, there's a safety factor
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  Speaker 4: that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 4: put somebody up on a sloped roof, and so you know,
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  Speaker 4: the decision was made to secure the building from inside.
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  Speaker 1: Is that head of America's Secret Service serious? I mean, really,
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  Speaker 1: the roof used by the gunman that's on the left
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  Speaker 1: was too steep for police to get up on there
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  Speaker 1: now with the body, of course, But meanwhile, the roof
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  Speaker 1: on the right could be used by sniper defending Trump,
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  Speaker 1: although it was what two or three times steeper, That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. But the result of that idios is
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  Speaker 1: that this amateur gunman had a clear shot at Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and if he was any good at shooting, should have
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  Speaker 1: killed him. Should have been easy. But the stupidity doesn't
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  Speaker 1: end there. That Secret Service director had another modern cause
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  Speaker 1: to push diversity and equity. She is actually ordered in
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  Speaker 1: the past the Secret Service to employ at least thirty
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  Speaker 1: percent more women.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very conscious as I sit in this chair now
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  Speaker 4: of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates
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  Speaker 4: and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to
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  Speaker 4: everybody in our workforce, and particularly women.
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  Speaker 1: And now you've seen the results. Of course, there are
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  Speaker 1: women agents too short to protect Trump from bullets, no
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  Speaker 1: idea what they're doing, fluttering here and there while the
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  Speaker 1: male agents went about bundling Trump in through his car.
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  Speaker 1: One was not even able to holster her gun. It's
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  Speaker 1: just so nervous and flustered, and another was fiddling with
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  Speaker 1: the sunglasses. Let's see it all again, because it's almost
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  Speaker 1: Keystone cops. In fact, that was so embarrassing that I
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  Speaker 1: think that might explain something we sought three days later?
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  Speaker 1: Was it yesterday when Trump arrived at the Republican National
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  Speaker 1: Conference with another for a lot of guards, secret service
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  Speaker 1: agents and see something about them all mail, all big,
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  Speaker 1: all intimidating. I think lesson learned. So there's no need
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  Speaker 1: to look to kooky conspiracy theories to explain this shooting.
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  Speaker 1: I think you should look instead to the most monumental incompetence,
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  Speaker 1: and thanks in part to modern new identity politics and
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of health fascism, not to mention, of course,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of anti Trump hatred pushed so recklessly by
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  Speaker 1: the left. But I've now I got to interrupt this
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  Speaker 1: train of thought, go to interrupt my own show to
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  Speaker 1: put out an idiot alert. Energy Minister Chris Bone says
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  Speaker 1: something about me the National Press Club today that forces
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  Speaker 1: me to conclude he really is an idiot. If I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think that, I'd have to call him alone. That
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  Speaker 1: would be rude. So this is what this idiot said
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  Speaker 1: about me and selling his disastrous plan today to force
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  Speaker 1: Australia to run its economy totally on unreliable wind and
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  Speaker 1: solar power.
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  Speaker 3: Full on open climate change denial is now less fashionable
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  Speaker 3: than it was ten or fifteen years ago into public debate.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do it as easily. It used to be
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  Speaker 3: quite common. Now it's not so common. Andrew Bold still
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  Speaker 3: does it, but most other people don't bother with it.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, skepticism about Bones climate fear mongering and his net
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  Speaker 1: zero plans is growing. But let me deal with his
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  Speaker 1: most fundamental misunderstanding. I won't say live because, like I
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  Speaker 1: said that, it would be rude. I have never been
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  Speaker 1: in denial about climate change, as you know if you've
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  Speaker 1: been watching the show but reading my condumns for years.
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  Speaker 1: I've always said the planet has warmed slightly over the
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  Speaker 1: past century, as I pointed out again to Malcolm Turnbul
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  Speaker 1: four years ago, and he made that so a false
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  Speaker 1: claim about me climate denier. I've had to tell the
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  Speaker 1: ABC before that as well. But the real reason I
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  Speaker 1: think I anger Chris Bowen is that what I have
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  Speaker 1: done is noted correctly that we haven't had many the
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  Speaker 1: predicted consequences of that warming. We haven't had Bone's climate
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  Speaker 1: catastrophe that it was claiming today. That's what I'm denying now.
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  Speaker 1: Some examples nearly two decades ago, for instance, former Climate
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  Speaker 1: Change Commissioner Tim Flannery famously predicted global warming could dry
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  Speaker 1: our dams would then the rains that fill them, and
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  Speaker 1: Sydney could be without water in a few years. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of Sydney's dams are today ninety nine percent full of
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne's eighty seven percent. We're also told the Great Berry
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  Speaker 1: Reef would die instead hard coral cover is at or
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  Speaker 1: near record highs. We were told rising seas would drown
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  Speaker 1: at all island such as the Muldos and Tuvalu. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: both nations have grown, as even the New York Times
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  Speaker 1: now admits now. We were also told that we'd get
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  Speaker 1: more cyclones for Australias instead had fewer over the past
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  Speaker 1: fifty years. And on it goes. Yet to save us
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  Speaker 1: from this fake climate crisis, cris Bone is now defacing
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  Speaker 1: our countryside with wind farms and destroying our reliable coulified powers.
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  Speaker 1: Is them claiming wind and sol that will give us
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  Speaker 1: cheaper power? Did it again? Today?
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  Speaker 3: Our grid is almost as I said, forty percent renewable. Today.
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  Speaker 3: Renewable energy is incredibly cheap because its fuel is free,
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  Speaker 3: because it's the sunshine and the wind.
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  Speaker 1: It's cheap. Look at what's happened to your power bills.
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  Speaker 1: Go and look at your power bills, Cris Bone is
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  Speaker 1: conning you. And look also at the billions as blowing
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  Speaker 1: on green energy schemes, including green hydrogen, this miracle fuel
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  Speaker 1: made from water that's actually unproven at scale anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Yet Bone today again told us that we
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  Speaker 1: can't have something that is proven, has been proven used
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: in so many countries, nuclear power stations, proven technology, and
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  Speaker 1: he says we can't have them here all the nations,
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  Speaker 1: that we can't have them because they'll be built too
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  Speaker 1: late to save us, by which he means to save
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  Speaker 1: us from the energy crisis he is causing. So no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't deny climate change. What I deny what I
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  Speaker 1: really denies that Bowen's mad spending will do anything to
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  Speaker 1: change our climate or save us from his climate disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Prove me wrong, Chris, and don't be such an idiot.
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  Speaker 1: At least understand the arguments before trashing your critics who
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: point out why you're so wrong. Join me. Is Rondinas
• 13:43
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• 13:46
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  Speaker 1: By the way, round. Now, listen, how does Bowen still
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: not get this basic argument. You've run it too, that
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  Speaker 1: the pain of his globe warming schemes is just not
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: worth the games. You add it up.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Andrew. Unlike you, I do admit I am a denier.
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  Speaker 5: I am what is called a Bowen denier. I don't
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  Speaker 5: believe Chris Bowen actually exists. I think he is a myth.
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  Speaker 5: I think he is a hoax. I think is a
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  Speaker 5: conspiracy invented by the Liberal Party back in the eighties.
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: They snuck Chris Bowen into the Labor Party with the
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  Speaker 5: sole mission of destroying the Labor Party at every opportunity
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: he can as soon as it gets close to getting
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  Speaker 5: into power, as it did there with Bill Shorten, Bowen
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  Speaker 5: exploded the whole thing. When Julia Gillard was going strong
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: and looking good, Bowen detonated that government. Same with the
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  Speaker 5: rud government. So here's the secret that you have installed,
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: the secret hoax installed inside the Labor bod and he's
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: up to his old tricks again. But I'm also proud
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  Speaker 5: to say not only am I a Bowen denier, I'm
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  Speaker 5: also a renewable denier. And I actually deny emphatically that
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  Speaker 5: renewables can do the things people like Chris Bowen keep telling.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Us they can.
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  Speaker 5: That makes me a renewables denier. For example, Chris Bowen
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  Speaker 5: promised us that renewables would bring down my electricity bill
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: by two hundred and seventy five dollars. Now, Andrew, every commoy,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to envelop the email arrives.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, you're not going to tell me that didn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: that your power bill didn't go down by two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy five dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Not only that, Andrew, but it goes up up by
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  Speaker 5: more than that every time. So I'm denying renewables do
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  Speaker 5: what they say. Now, Chris Bowen can talk all he wants,
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  Speaker 5: talk into the wind, which occasionally blows. Not often enough
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  Speaker 5: is renewables. But he can talk into the wind all
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  Speaker 5: he likes. But the reality is we are. He has
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  Speaker 5: presented a dichotomy which I'm actually really pleased he presented
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  Speaker 5: the other day. It's either renewables or nuclear, that they're
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: incompatible with each other, and he says therefore we must
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: ditch nuclear as an idea, it's the other way round.
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  Speaker 5: If nuclear and renewables are incompatible, ditch renewables, because nuclear
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  Speaker 5: is the energy the future. It's the super battery. If
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: you want a battery to store energy, the best way,
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  Speaker 5: the smallest physical entity that you can have to store
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  Speaker 5: energy is uranium, is nuclear power. So the future energy
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  Speaker 5: requirements of this continent and our growing population will require
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  Speaker 5: nuclear full stop. There's nowhere around it.
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  Speaker 1: Or coal.
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  Speaker 5: We can go back to cold because that's not as good,
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  Speaker 5: but nearly as good at storing vast amounts of energy
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  Speaker 5: in a very small space. But we cannot have only renewables.
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  Speaker 5: So if it's a contest between renewables and nuclear, I'm
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  Speaker 5: afraid nuclear must win or we have to.
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  Speaker 1: Get used to life without energy absolutely. Look, there were
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  Speaker 1: so many fossils in the in this speech. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to go through them all. But you know, saying
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  Speaker 1: today nuclear would take too long, it'd take ten to
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  Speaker 1: twenty years to build a plant. Well, if you put
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  Speaker 1: your shoulder to it, it'll take a bit shorter than
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  Speaker 1: twenty years, lot shorter. And isn't this the same guy
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  Speaker 1: that's got plans to go net zero by twenty fifty,
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  Speaker 1: which is thirty six years from now, and he says
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  Speaker 1: that gas will still need to be used beyond then,
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  Speaker 1: So really, let's start now on nuclear power. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing is a joke, now, Rowan. I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the show the ludicrous excuses given
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  Speaker 1: by America's Secret Service director for not having police on
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  Speaker 1: the roof of the building used by the man who
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  Speaker 1: shot Donald Trump, plus the diversity equity policies she's been
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  Speaker 1: pushing that might actually help explain my so many Secret
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  Speaker 1: Service agents guarding Trump were short women who seemed confused
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  Speaker 1: and even unable to holst a gun. The moral of
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: this story, Rowan, Well, the moral of.
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  Speaker 5: The story is we used to have a song Don
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  Speaker 5: McLain about the day the music died. The assassination of
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  Speaker 5: Donald Trump was the day that DEEI did diversity, equity
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  Speaker 5: and inclusion died. It was shown for the absolute joke
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  Speaker 5: and fast that it is diversity and equity inclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Was the.
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  Speaker 5: Kim Cheetle, who's the head of the Secret Services, one
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  Speaker 5: of Jill Biden's great mates and an absolute champion of diversity,
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  Speaker 5: equity inclusion, who committed the Secret Service of the USA
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  Speaker 5: having more women I think it's thirty percent by whatever date.
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  Speaker 5: And we saw there played out in all you referred
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  Speaker 5: that Keystone Cops. I've had in mind more a kind
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  Speaker 5: of dan Ackroyd Bill Murray comedy from the nineteen eighties,
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  Speaker 5: which is what the assassination of Donald Trump mercifully was.
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  Speaker 5: You had security guards imagine Bill Murra and dan Ocred
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  Speaker 5: there in the room looking around, going, oh, we're looking
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  Speaker 5: out for snipers. And they hear these footsteps up on
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  Speaker 5: the roof. Oh, I wonder what that could be.
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  Speaker 1: Possum's in the roof, is it.
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  Speaker 5: You've got this security guards wandering around, You've got the
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  Speaker 5: public's going look, look like the worst acting you've ever seen.
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  Speaker 5: Look over there, there's a sniper on the roof. He's
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  Speaker 5: got a gun and he's pointing it at the president.
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  Speaker 5: And then the camera pans across and there's the president
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  Speaker 5: Da da da da da da da da da carrying
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  Speaker 5: on or the former president. This was a face and
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  Speaker 5: that's putting it kindly. The kindest interpretation.
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  Speaker 1: On the attempted assassination on Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: The kindest interpretation was it was a monumental stuff up
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  Speaker 5: of epic proportions, driven solely and entirely by woke ideology
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  Speaker 5: at the highest levels of the US government. Going right
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  Speaker 5: to the president that, as I say, is the kindest interpretation.
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  Speaker 5: The alternally interpretation is more sinister, but let's stick with
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  Speaker 5: the kind one. The incompetence level, you had security agents
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  Speaker 5: shorter than the person they're protecting. You had female agents
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  Speaker 5: wandering around trying to put their holster in their thing,
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  Speaker 5: not knowing which way to look, putting their do up
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  Speaker 5: with my sun, Glas is on. Do I not an
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  Speaker 5: absolute fast of what happens when you don't.
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  Speaker 1: Have the very very best and the idea that you have.
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  Speaker 5: A rooftop that has a slope, Because suddenly Kim Cheatle
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  Speaker 5: has discovered the roofs have slopes to them, we can't
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  Speaker 5: possibly have our security snipers up on the slope. They
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  Speaker 5: might twist an ankle, they might slip over and hurt themselves.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, this is every company in the world is
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  Speaker 5: forced to suffer through diversity, equity inclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Here, I am laughing at it, Rohan, here, I'm laughing
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  Speaker 1: at it. But this match the bullet going this this
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  Speaker 1: much to the right, and we would actually be talking
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  Speaker 1: about a well absolute civic havoc in America, total disaster,
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  Speaker 1: a tragedy. Question. At the moment, it's a comedy. But
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: g it is serious. It really is serious. I mean
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I even saw or so Off snipe that the gunman
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: was only I haven't had it confirmed. It as a
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: report on the American TV stop by police going into
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the venue with a rangefinder, which is you clip on
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a rifle to see exactly how and they led him through,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: which he also begs the question where was the or
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: suggests the question where indeed was the rifle hidden? And
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: how come they hadn't found it in scoping the joint themselves.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Rowan Dean, thank you so.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Much, And he bought a five foot ladder. Every Buster
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Keaton film andrew every Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin film
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: begins with a guy going to buy a ladder. This
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: bloke boy headed off to find a rooftop to shoot
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: the president.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, give me a break.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Well, if there was a ladder there, it should have
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: been given to some of those female security guards around Trump. Rowndean,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: thanks for your time. After the break, Kevin Rudd was
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: one of the worst in calling Donald Trump a crazy
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: man and a threat to democracy, really whipping up the hysteria.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: So you got to ask, why is he still our ambassador?
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: To Washington now that Trump looks like being president again.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I talked to another former ambassador who's there. The things
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: just get better and better for Donald Trump after his
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: miracle escape. He had two of his biggest Republican enemies
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: actually endorse him today the Republican National Conference. There was
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Nicky Hayley, the last of these challenges, drop out of
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the primaries race against him, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: telling the voters to back Donald Trump. And all this
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: when the Democrats, meanwhile, in contrast, they're trying to get
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: rid of their candidate, they obviously frail and mentally incompetent,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden. I suspect this is going to be a
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: huge Trump win, and that would be a nightmare for
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: our ambassador in Washington, former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: And that's because the Republicans right now quite reasonably been
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: blaming the left for demonizing Trump, making him seem such
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: a minister democracy that it would be a public duty
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to kill him and run himself. Before becoming ambassador, was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: one of the worst in pushing that meme. I mean,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: he called Trump a trader to the West. Trump was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the most destructive president in history. He was a man
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: who drags America and democracy through the mud. He abuses Christianity,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Church and Bible to justify violence.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: I think the general consensus amongst anyone concerned with the
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: public policy process, domestic or international, thinks he's nuts.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Well Rudd now the ambassador, as I said in Washington today,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: told another former ambassador Joe Hockey, who is actually a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: golfing partner Donald Trump. But hey, no worries. We'll be
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: sweet with a new president Trump.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: The really good thing about the United States is brand
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Australia is in good working order, and therefore we are
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: in a good position to work with whichever party is elected.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: If the American people vote for Donald Trump and for events,
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Australian government led by Anthony Alberanezi will be in there
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: working hard, positively, constructively with incoming Republic administration from day one.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: In fact, the same Rudd who used to be calling Trump,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you know, Minister Democracy, nuts, terrible, a man of violence,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. Is there turning ambassadors of other
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: countries not to treat Trump as a threat.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: Do you think they're overreacting to him at the moment?
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: What I say to many ambassadors in Washington, is it's
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: really important to chill?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Just chill.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: The simple reason is, if President Trump's elected on the
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: fifth of November, We're not going over some chasm. If
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: instead you think, my god, this is beyond the pale
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: and reached via smelling salts, well you know something. There's
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: going to cruel you from day one. That's actually the
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: wrong conclusion. I say a lot to the Euros along
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: these lines, which is childill.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Which raises this question. It's Kevin right admitting who was
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: actually wrong? When he deem knows Trump as his monster
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: trashing democracy, then maybe he should say so, Well, maybe
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: we should get ourselves an ambassador with better judgment, and
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: one Trump is more likely to talk to. Joining me
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: from the National Public Conference earlier, Scarne New's, a US
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: politics analyst and former Australian Ambassador of the US. Joe Hockey.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Joe Hockey, great to see you again, Thanks for your time. Look,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: even Donald Trump's enemies in the Republican Party today were
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: uniting behind him at the Republican Convention. Behind you, people
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: like Nicky Hayley and Florida Governor Ron De Santis. On
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the other side, many Democrat politicians are wanting President Joe
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Biden to quit as their candidate in the November election. So, really,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: chalk and cheese, what betting odds would you now give
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: on Trump becoming president again.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Well, in my view, there is a real momentum behind
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: the Republicans, and it's, as usual, taken a couple of
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: events to make that dramatically obvious. Obviously, Joe Biden failed
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: dismally in the debate, but what it illustrated was his
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: suffering cognitive to climb and there is a general sadness across.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: America about that.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: I mean, a lot of families have been affected by
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: parents and grandparents that have gone through that. So there
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: was no celebration of it. In fact, Donald Trump was
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: really careful not to overplay it or prosecute the argument.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: It was self evident and it's irreversible. The second issue,
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: of course, was Saturday Night, and you know, that just
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: goes to the safety and security of America. It goes
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: to the fact that Donald Trump showed a level of
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: defiance and a strength of character that some had not
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: seen and or many had not seen in some cases,
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: and that also had an impact as well.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: But the final thing about that is what that has done.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: It has forced Joe Biden to say, I am staying
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: he now has a legitimate exclusive for not winning the
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: election if that should happen. That this event on Saturday
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: showed that Joe Biden could not cower in the face
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: of another assassin's bullet and cannot cow when things get tough.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Well, look, since Trump was shot Joe, as you know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of blame has been put on the left
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: for demonizing Trump as a dictator. I'm not saying that
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: lead directors of the shooting. We don't know what did,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: but you know, painting him as a tata, a threat
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: to democracy. And one of the people who did that
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: is Kevin Rudd. Now, Ambassador Washington, you just had a
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: chat with him. He's called Trump at traitor to the West, nuts,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the most destructive president in history, a man who drags
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: American democracy through the mud, who abuses Christianity to justify violence. Now,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: when you interviewed Rudd, he said Australia can now work
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: with Donald Trump as president. That's all very well, But
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: is Kevin Rudd the man who can get the best
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: deal for Australia from a Trump presidency when he's been
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: as reckless as anyone in demonizing him.
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: Well, look, I don't really want to get into deep
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: criticism of Kevin Rudd or or frankly, as far as
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: I'm concerned, it's Team Australia. And look, if Kevin Rudd
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: needs a hand, I'll give him a hand other as
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: well as well.
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: You know, there was the example that JD.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Vance said some pretty extreme things about about Donald Trump
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: when he was a never Trumper. So I think the
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: road to Damascus is well worn and we'll see if
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: Kevin Rudd is going to walk that as well.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But the difference there, Joe, as you know, is
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: that JD. Van's actually publicly said he was wrong, he
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: was wrong about Donald Trump, he misread him. Rudd has
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: never said he was wrong to think that Trump was
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: a traitor, a man of violence, destructive and a threat
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: to democracy. With a little bit of humility sort of
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I see the light now kind of moment. Might that
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: help Australia?
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: It might? And again, you know, Andrew, I'll leave it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: I'll leave it to Kevin Ruddy. He's a big boy.
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: He's got to handle that.
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: And frankly, it's too important for Australia not to have
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: a strong relationship with the United States, and I think
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: if everyone's shoulder.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: Has to go, the will save it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: Uh, well, wait and see if Kevin Rud's able to
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: change his opinion on Donald Trump. Maybe he'll change his
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: opinion on Rivert Murdock as well.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm I'm not in Biden's league age wise,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: but I don't think I'll live to see that day.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: You mentioned earlier, This this Trump that you're seeing in
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the last week or two. It's been fascinated both in
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the debate with Biden, as you mentioned, especially after it's
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: been shot, calmer, less aggressive. You met him a bit
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: as ambassador. Is this a change, a genuine change? Do
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you think was it a tactical thing or was he
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: always did he always have that softer side?
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: No?
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: No, Well, privately yes, he is. He is a He
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: has a curious mind. Donald Trump does care about people.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: I always ask how you know the family were, and
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: he'd care about individuals. He did a lot of things
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: for a lot of people that was never publicized. That's
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: Donald Trump. But there is no doubt that the assassination
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: attempt has had a big impact on him. You could
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: see his face last night he had tears in his eyes,
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: and he sees someone who cries as a sense of weakness. Well,
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: last night he had tears in his eyes, and because
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: he was overwhelmed, not just with the support, but with
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: the fact that he was.
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: Half an inch away from death.
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: And quite frankly, it has changed, and the fact is
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: illustrated best by the Donald Trump has come into the
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: convention center to listen to Nicki Haley, who was his
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: chief critic in the Republican Party, and Ron de Sanders
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: to listen to their speeches. Nicky Haley wasn't going to speak,
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: but Nicky Haley has spoken and illustrates the fact that.
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: Donald Trump is going down a different course.
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: If he is conciliatory on Thursday night, if Donald Trump
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: is measured during the rest of the campaign, he will
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: win by seven to eight points and deliver forty seats
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: in the Congress. But if he reverts back to the
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: old Donald Trump, it'll be a much closer election.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I think you've called it exactly correctly. Finally, a president
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: in America under Donald Trump. How's that going to affect Australia.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: What's going to change?
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: Well, I think Donald Trump already has a very high
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: opinion of Australia. It'll be up to Prime Minister Albernizi
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: and Kevin Rudd to establish a good rapport from the
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: very beginning, and that will depend on the relationship that
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: has been built, relationships that have been built with a
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: number of the people that.
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: Are around Donald Trump.
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: Also, importantly, it'll be advocacy from others who know Donald
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: trumpould have dealt with him, from Greg Norman and Rupert
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: Murdock through to a range of others that dealt with
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: him in the previous lives.
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: You know, Andrew, you know this better than anyone.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: This is an election that is not just being fought
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: on personalities.
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: It's being fought on policy.
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: And today it was dominated about by immigration and about
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: personal security, about the despair on the streets of major
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: American cities of fentanyl, of the abuse of individuals of
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: gun crime. This is the stuff that resonates with America's base.
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: Everyone wants to feel safe, everyone wants to feel secure,
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: and everyone wants to ensure that there is not a
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: free and open border with Mexico. And these are the
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: issues that are going to deliver Donald Trump a victory
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: if it should happen on the fifth of November.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Jure Hockey always great to talk to you. Thank you
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: so much for your time.
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: Thanks Andrew, thanks very much.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: After the break, the ABC tried such a dirty trick
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to fool its audience. This is so bad. What a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: joke today, total joke. The ob eazy government's response to
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the union scandal with claims of organized crime corruption, a
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: scandal that got even worse today now with photographs of
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: cash payments allegedly a kickback handed to one union official
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: in New South Wales has since been charged with corruption. Now, yes,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of course the government is now put in the cfmu's
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: construction branch under administration. But the rest, I mean, you
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: got to ask, do they think we're fools? The first
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: thing is this that went of the labor says, Oh,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: never suspected this union was dirty, This union that has
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: so many votes in labor pre selections, that are so
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: many mates in the Albanezy government. It never knew. No
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: one believes that.
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: The Only thing that's changed here is that the Prime
• 35:06
  Speaker 9: minister's mates have been caught on tape. And that's what's
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: happened here. The Prime Minister has known of the activities
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: of the CFMU for years and years he chosen to
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: do nothing about it.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I get the answer today from workplace Minster. Tony Burker
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: claims he and his department never knew anything about never
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: suspect that he had to wait for some journalists to
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: tell him, and I don't think they believed them either.
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: Today are you telling us that you had your department
• 35:36
  Speaker 10: had no inclination of organized crime infiltrating this union, which
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: has been going on obviously for some time. And if so,
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: how can Nick mackenzie know about it, but your department,
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: you and others don't.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: I think some of this goes to the nature of
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: organized crime.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Remember that this Burke is the same minister who had
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the Building Industry watchdog scrap the Strain Building and Construction
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Commission because this CFMU said, oh, the ABCC is back,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: got to have it sacked, and that ABCC would have
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: warned labor that this union was misusing its power trying
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: to run the closed shop, et cetera. And they did
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: scrap it. That's what you get when you donate to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the labor parties, state and federally four million dollars of
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: union money. And now Burke says us up to journalists
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to help alert him to corruption. He got serious. But
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: as I said, the Liberals and me, we've all said,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: pay back that money you got from this dirty union,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: those millions Burke. Then today, who's amazed? What labor? Give
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: it up? Should you have some of suggested beheading some
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: of that money back.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: The concept of handing money back is one of the
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: most astonishing and absurd ideas I've seen. Are the liberal
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: parties seriously suggesting that at this moment the action of
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: the government should be that we hand money to the CFMU.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Nice spin, minister, But as I said here last night,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: pay that money back not to the union but to
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the real victims of this scam. The taxpayers have had
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: to pay more for government building products about twenty percent
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: more of some say because the CFMEU got its snout
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: in there and paid labor for the favor. It's disgusting.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Joining me is the panel Federal Queensland Liberal MP Garth
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Hamilton and James Ashby, Chief of Staff to One Nation
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: leader Pauline Hansen GAF Should the government give back the money,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: not to the CFMU, but to the taxpayers who ultimately
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: had to pay more.
• 37:53
  Speaker 11: Absolutely they should, of course they should, no question. They
• 37:56
  Speaker 11: should also be looking at money received from other unions
• 37:58
  Speaker 11: that they have suspicions about. I'll just say the words ETU. Look,
• 38:02
  Speaker 11: we've got to remember here, this is a party that
• 38:04
  Speaker 11: intends to bring laws changing the political donation legislation in
• 38:08
  Speaker 11: Australia so that they think that they have some right
• 38:11
  Speaker 11: to talk about political donation law reform in Australia. At
• 38:14
  Speaker 11: the same time, they've taken what six million dollars from
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: the CFMU since mister Albanez became the leader. It's absolutely extraordinary.
• 38:23
  Speaker 11: There's no question they should be handing this back. And
• 38:25
  Speaker 11: I think the big point here is there is no
• 38:28
  Speaker 11: differentiation between Labor and the CFMU. It's not like this
• 38:31
  Speaker 11: is some deal between them. This is how they work.
• 38:33
  Speaker 11: This is the organized part. And sadly these allegations I
• 38:38
  Speaker 11: think they speak to the broader Isshary Andrew. You know,
• 38:40
  Speaker 11: there's two issues in Australia right now, crime and cost
• 38:43
  Speaker 11: of living that we've got allegations of serious crime in
• 38:46
  Speaker 11: the CFMU and their actions are driving up the cost
• 38:49
  Speaker 11: of things, making inflation work worse for every Australian. And
• 38:53
  Speaker 11: I don't think there can be any argument whatsoever for
• 38:55
  Speaker 11: condemning the CFMU, handing the money back and then turning
• 38:58
  Speaker 11: the spotlight onto the other union back to.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Were as successful. Absolutely exactly. Now, James Ashby, you know
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: what strikes me. Look, Labor for state governments have now
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: said we're not accepting any more donations or we're pausing
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: from this union because the money is dirty, it's tainted, suspicious,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: and yet Labour's going to keep the money it's already got.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, something doesn't fit there.
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: No, Burke reminds me of Sergeant Schultz. I know nothing,
• 39:29
  Speaker 12: because look, I can't believe you just got up on
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: stage and just point blank lied about knowing nothing here. Look,
• 39:37
  Speaker 12: as someone who's done a number of political campaigns in
• 39:40
  Speaker 12: the past, the Labor Party are joined at the hip
• 39:44
  Speaker 12: with the CFMU and so many other militant style unions,
• 39:48
  Speaker 12: and all you have to do is be a volunteer
• 39:51
  Speaker 12: on a polling booth and you can see this grubby
• 39:54
  Speaker 12: bullying behavior that happens just on polling booths on election days.
• 39:59
  Speaker 12: I've had candidates walk out of pollingberg's in tears just
• 40:03
  Speaker 12: by the militant behavior of some of those unions that
• 40:06
  Speaker 12: line up with Labor. So they've known for a very
• 40:07
  Speaker 12: long time that this behavior is going on. Now they
• 40:11
  Speaker 12: have acted more like a cartel in this country, which
• 40:14
  Speaker 12: we have outlawed in industries like the service station industry,
• 40:18
  Speaker 12: the insurance companies, banks, they're outlawed from acting like cartels.
• 40:23
  Speaker 12: And yet here's a union that has been setting the
• 40:27
  Speaker 12: price of construction right across this country and jacking it up,
• 40:31
  Speaker 12: and that has added to the cost of construction right
• 40:34
  Speaker 12: across all sectors. That's including the households as well, and
• 40:38
  Speaker 12: we're not getting bank for buck on our infrastructure as
• 40:41
  Speaker 12: a result of this. There needs to be a oral
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: commission into it because it also goes as far as
• 40:47
  Speaker 12: our major superannuation firms who are handling close to four
• 40:51
  Speaker 12: trillion dollars with the Australian taxpayers money, those people who
• 40:55
  Speaker 12: have worked hard and these people may get a slap
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: on the wrist here, because that's what Albanese is aiming at.
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  Speaker 12: Let's let's face it. He couldn't sack almond pain or
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: payment should I say, from the Greens, sorry, from his
• 41:09
  Speaker 12: own party who's gone to the cross bench and he's
• 41:12
  Speaker 12: not going to do anything about these unions. Someone's got
• 41:15
  Speaker 12: to take I should take commissions.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Now jump in here, and I should jump in here
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: and say that the sea Bus, the c IFMU appointees
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: to the super funds, that they are like SeaBus. They're
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: not involved, they're not implicated. We're not suggesting for a
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: second that they're involved. But it's the union. It's the
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  Speaker 1: some in the union itself down.
• 41:36
  Speaker 12: The line, given some of these people positions on their boards.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Andrew, Yeah, well, exactly right. They should have no right
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: to do that, absolutely none. I thought one lesson from
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the Trump shoot. He was toned down the rhetoric. But
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Senator Olivia Thorpe, a race Bata and pro Patasan activists.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: She's just posted a picture of herself with a green
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: band on her hand with Arabic writing which actually says
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: I love chocolate milk. That writing is obviously different from
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: the writing on the headband of the mass terrorists. But
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I'd be astonished she didn't pick out that same green
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: color deliberately to troll people. What do you make of that?
• 42:12
  Speaker 11: There's no question whatsoever, and no matter what it is,
• 42:16
  Speaker 11: the Senator Thorpe is angry about whether it's it's men,
• 42:19
  Speaker 11: or whether it's the colony, or whether it's now Israel.
• 42:24
  Speaker 11: The common thread is that she's just always angry. You know,
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: that's that's what we're talking about here, is someone who
• 42:29
  Speaker 11: has deep seated anger issues. Yeah, this is not a
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: sensible conversation.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I sit back with a couple, everything's going She's not
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: just angry, she's divisive and actually out of time, James.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: But quick response from you because Pauline Hans has had
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: to deal with her.
• 42:49
  Speaker 12: Oh look, I thought she was supposed to represent the
• 42:51
  Speaker 12: Black Sovereign movement. She's had more to say on Palestine
• 42:55
  Speaker 12: than she has on the people she's supposed to represent
• 42:58
  Speaker 12: as part of this Black Sovereign But that's Ledia thought
• 43:01
  Speaker 12: for it. She'll always jump on the bandwagon of whatever's
• 43:04
  Speaker 12: hot in the news.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: And very divisive every time. Garth Hamilton, James Ashby, thank
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: you for your time. After the Break, the ABC honestly
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: well to media watch. I'll tell you what The ABC.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: The ABC, I mentioned this show last night on Monday,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: had this incredible hit job on Donald Trump where they
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: absolutely butchered a quote, took it totally out of context
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: to make it seem like he was preaching an armed revolution,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: blood in the streets if he wasn't elected in November.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Have a look at how it used the quote.
• 44:00
  Speaker 13: Now, if they don't get elected, it's going to be
• 44:02
  Speaker 13: a bloodbath in the COUNTRT.
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: I do worry there's a real group of American citizens
• 44:06
  Speaker 9: for are willing to engage in violence for Donald Trump.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Now, as I've shown you before, that is totally dishonest
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: because this four Corners report omitted all the context of
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the full quote, which tells you and the agency lift
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: this out that Trump wasn't threatening violence if he wasn't elected.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: He was talking about his plan to impose huge tariffs
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: on Chinese made cars and stop a bloodbath for the
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: US car industry.
• 44:38
  Speaker 13: Put a one hundred tower on every single car that
• 44:42
  Speaker 13: comes across the line, and you're not going to be
• 44:44
  Speaker 13: able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now,
• 44:47
  Speaker 13: if they don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Joining me with Sophie Elsworth, media writer in the Australian newspaper, Sophie,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: that is the most That was the very first bit
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: of ever of Trump dictator in this one hour show,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: first of two parts, the very first bit of evidence
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: they use, and it was totally dishonest. In my opinion.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: What did you make of it?
• 45:13
  Speaker 14: Well, I did watch four Corners on Monday night, Andrew,
• 45:17
  Speaker 14: and this is the beginning of the anti Trump material
• 45:22
  Speaker 14: content episodes that are going to be wheeled out by
• 45:26
  Speaker 14: the ABC. They are just warming up four or five
• 45:29
  Speaker 14: months out from the presidential election. They have an agenda
• 45:33
  Speaker 14: at the ABC, and this is where they let themselves down.
• 45:36
  Speaker 14: They show their true colors, which I believe they did
• 45:39
  Speaker 14: with the Voice campaign. They cannot help themselves when it
• 45:43
  Speaker 14: comes to federal elections.
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: We know they're left leaning.
• 45:46
  Speaker 14: Bias, and we know that they despise at the ABC
• 45:49
  Speaker 14: of Donald Trump, and we see this in their anti
• 45:52
  Speaker 14: Trump content. And also, Andrew, of the content that came
• 45:56
  Speaker 14: out on Sunday at the ABC, some of the radio
• 45:59
  Speaker 14: present is when that assassination attempt occurred basically said, oh look,
• 46:04
  Speaker 14: let's move on. You know this has happened, but we've
• 46:06
  Speaker 14: got other issues today to talk about. It was a
• 46:08
  Speaker 14: non event on Radio National and one of their most
• 46:13
  Speaker 14: important radio stations. So this is the beginning of the
• 46:16
  Speaker 14: anti Trump campaign that I believe the ABC will be running.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: But it does at least I have some good news, Sophie.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: It seems that some Donald Trump haters do have some shame.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Now we've talked. I've talked before about the Tenacious de
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: band of American comedian Jack Black, who starred, by the Way,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Jack Black a month ago at a massive Hollywood fundraise
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: for Joe Barden, but in Sydney gave a birthday cake
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: to a band member who wished that the next person
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: to try to assassinate Trump wouldn't miss. Here it is again.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: Trump.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Now after that, Black has now canceled the rest of
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: the band's tour in Australia. He's put his future creative
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: plans on hold. He said the comments had blindsided him
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and he didn't condone any hate speech. You could have
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: said that on the stage. The band member who said
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: that don't miss Trump has been dropped by his agent
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: and apologized. Does that give you some heart.
• 47:21
  Speaker 14: Well, Andrew, I think at that situation, which was pretty disgraceful,
• 47:25
  Speaker 14: may I say that they should have actually pointed out
• 47:29
  Speaker 14: this is a joke. They were trying to be funny,
• 47:31
  Speaker 14: and it is not a joke. It's very serious matter.
• 47:35
  Speaker 14: I don't believe in cancel culture. I don't think that's good,
• 47:38
  Speaker 14: and I do believe in free speech. However, there becomes
• 47:42
  Speaker 14: a line, and I think it was crossed in this
• 47:44
  Speaker 14: situation to try and make light of a pretty horrifying,
• 47:49
  Speaker 14: what could have been a catastrophic and fatal attack on
• 47:53
  Speaker 14: former President Donald Trump. So pretty disgraceful stuff in my view.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Andrew, Yeah, But worse I think, Sophie, for me, was
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: the audience. So many in the audience laughing with it.
• 48:08
  Speaker 14: I mean, that just shows how low society is today.
• 48:11
  Speaker 14: It doesn't matter which politician you like them or you
• 48:15
  Speaker 14: loathe them. You do not wish death upon anyone. That
• 48:18
  Speaker 14: is shocking. That should be condemned and it is not acceptable.
• 48:23
  Speaker 14: And I really think that's an embarrassment for our country
• 48:26
  Speaker 14: to show an audience that actually finds this humorous.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm afraid that's where we are, Sophie, Sophie Elsworth,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time. That's it from
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: me coming up next to Sharry, except this not really
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: because this host is my very good friend, Steve Price.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Good note