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The Rita Panahi Show | 5 May · The Rita Panahi Show

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  Speaker 1: On scoring lids Australia.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Reader Paney Show.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panehy Show. Coming
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  Speaker 3: up tonight, the government's changes to the capital gains tax
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  Speaker 3: discount and negative gearing to send red skyrocketing. My panel
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  Speaker 3: will join me to cover the day's top headlines. Another
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  Speaker 3: Melbourne hospitality venue fire bombed Earlier today. Stephen Drill will
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  Speaker 3: join me to discuss a series of attacks that have
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  Speaker 3: left police baffled. Kosher Gator will have the latest from
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  Speaker 3: the US, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rewriting that state's
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  Speaker 3: congressional map and the met galaies back. We'll look at
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  Speaker 3: all the fashions, the good, the bad and the ugly
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  Speaker 3: with Michael Loftis and left He's losing it features the
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  Speaker 3: always hysterical ladies of the.
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  Speaker 4: View they were running them down with dogs to keep
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  Speaker 4: them from Okay, let's start with that. So when they
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  Speaker 4: say that problem is gone, it's not gone.
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  Speaker 3: But first experts are warning that winding back the capital
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  Speaker 3: gains tax discount and abolishing negative gearing could force up
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  Speaker 3: rents by twenty percent, while it is expected the budget
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  Speaker 3: will scrap the fifty percent CGT discount and revert to
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  Speaker 3: the pre nineteen ninety nine model of inflation based reductions.
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  Speaker 3: The government is still pondering several options for negative gearing.
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  Speaker 3: One of those options includes a phase out model for
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  Speaker 3: existing negatively geared homes. These changes were not flagged before
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  Speaker 3: the last election, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanisi specifically pledged
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  Speaker 3: not to touch negative gearing. Ramit Economics professor Sinkler Davidson
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  Speaker 3: told a Daily Telegraph that reducing the CGT discount and
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  Speaker 3: eliminating negative gearing would also make investment property ownership more
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  Speaker 3: and more unviable for mom and dad investors. Joining me
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  Speaker 3: now for more on this is News Corps senior writer
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  Speaker 3: Patrick Carline and Institute of Public Affairs Research fellow Colleen Harken. Patrick,
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  Speaker 3: we're talking here about higher rents, less opportunity for everyday
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  Speaker 3: Australians to get ahead through investing in property. Why would
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  Speaker 3: the government want to make the property sector less attractive
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  Speaker 3: for investors given they need investment to boost construction. This
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  Speaker 3: is a supply issue. This is something the Treasurer has acknowledged,
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  Speaker 3: the Prime Minister has acknowledged, and yet they seem to
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  Speaker 3: be taking measures or contemplating taking measures that are going
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  Speaker 3: to affect supply in a negative way.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you've got to wonder whether this is just a
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  Speaker 5: brazen cash grape. Ultimately, it's about raising more federal revenue.
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  Speaker 5: We keep hearing the word intergenerational and bandied around as
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  Speaker 5: though somehow old people have sort of hoarded all the
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  Speaker 5: money and this is unfair on young people. This is
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  Speaker 5: in part probably because voters are getting younger and younger
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  Speaker 5: and younger, and old people will as they do. I
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  Speaker 5: think the devil is definitely in the detail on this.
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  Speaker 5: Whether it's grandfather or not is critical. It would be
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  Speaker 5: wickedly unfair on those investors who bought in thinking these
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  Speaker 5: are the rules, and we do have that broken election
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  Speaker 5: promise sort of overhanging all of it. So absolutely we
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  Speaker 5: need the devil is definitely in the detail on this
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  Speaker 5: at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Colleen. Yeah. The argument there that this government has no
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  Speaker 3: mandate to be doing this, because not only did they
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  Speaker 3: not take it to the election when they were asked
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  Speaker 3: about it, they ruled it out. But on a broader level,
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  Speaker 3: the bottom line is we need more homes, so why
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  Speaker 3: have policies that are going to mean possibly less homes
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  Speaker 3: less investment in property.
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  Speaker 6: And it is interesting when he sort of says it's
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  Speaker 6: building trust, and it's like, how do you build trust
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  Speaker 6: by breaking trust?
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  Speaker 7: It's quite more well in But I.
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  Speaker 6: Mean, this is a scenario where give will take about
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  Speaker 6: twenty percent of mum and dad investors have one property
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  Speaker 6: as their nest egg.
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  Speaker 7: They've worked hard to get it.
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  Speaker 6: We should be encouraging that level of independence and investment
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  Speaker 6: in yourself and your future. It makes no sense to
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  Speaker 6: make it harder for people to not be dependent on
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  Speaker 6: the government. And the real challenge here is to what
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  Speaker 6: happens when those people don't invest or they leave the market.
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  Speaker 6: It's the institutionalization of that sector of the market that
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  Speaker 6: the government takes it over and so that aspirational ladder
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  Speaker 6: step into to have a small investment, have a nest egg,
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  Speaker 6: gets taken.
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  Speaker 7: Away from you.
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  Speaker 6: The other thing is if you look back in the
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  Speaker 6: eighties when they did quarantine negative gearing for a period
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  Speaker 6: of time, it did result in, particularly in Sydney for example,
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  Speaker 6: twenty percent increases in rent. So we need to look
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  Speaker 6: back into history about what has happened in the past.
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  Speaker 6: There is evidence to say that this doesn't work. It's
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  Speaker 6: not going to solve the problem that they think it will,
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  Speaker 6: and it will only generate I mean, you know, money
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  Speaker 6: is important, but it'll only generate two or three billion dollars.
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  Speaker 6: So in the scheme of things, when we spend fifty
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  Speaker 6: billion dollars on the NBAS, it's not really going to
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  Speaker 6: change the die.
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  Speaker 7: The dial that it is going to change is at
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  Speaker 7: the lower.
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  Speaker 6: End of the investment component for people to become independent
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  Speaker 6: and the cost of rentals.
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  Speaker 3: It is, but it's all about ideology. I think with
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  Speaker 3: this government as well, I don't think it is just
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  Speaker 3: a cash grab. They keep talking about intergenerational inequity and
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  Speaker 3: all these notions that are all centered around the politics
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  Speaker 3: of envy. And I'm interested on your take on what
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  Speaker 3: Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Tony Burkers had to say
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  Speaker 3: about housing policy. He did take a break from helping
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  Speaker 3: to repatriate Isis brides to talk up his government's immigration policies,
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  Speaker 3: and he argues that high rates of immigration actually improve
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  Speaker 3: Australia's housing crisis. Try to work this out, the minister said,
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  Speaker 3: we can't build the houses we need without immigration. Economically
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  Speaker 3: we need immigration, we need the skills, we need the
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  Speaker 3: people about a quarter of the tradespeople that we need
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  Speaker 3: are born overse. Well, there you go, Colleen. Bringing in
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  Speaker 3: record numbers of migrants during a housing crisis is actually
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  Speaker 3: going to improve the housing crist It's insane. I love
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  Speaker 3: it when the immigration mister weighs in on housing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I like the fact that at least they're being honest
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  Speaker 6: about their level of intelligence being applied to these issues.
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  Speaker 6: But the other component here is that IPA research will
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  Speaker 6: show show that fifty four percent of people don't recognize
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  Speaker 6: Australia anymore. They don't recognize the country that they grew
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  Speaker 6: up in. And seventy eight percent of migrants want less
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  Speaker 6: migrants in. They want, you know, Captain about one hundred
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  Speaker 6: thousand year, which is what it was give will take
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  Speaker 6: twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 7: So the population is not supportive of.
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  Speaker 6: His view and his comments to say that he disagrees
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  Speaker 6: with assimilation. I mean, it's outrageous to say that the
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  Speaker 6: reason people come here is to continue the culture that
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  Speaker 6: they had at home.
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  Speaker 7: It's not why they came. They came here because of
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  Speaker 7: what we offer.
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  Speaker 6: Our shared values, our rule of law, all of those
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  Speaker 6: things that we bandy on about, but they're the things
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  Speaker 6: that really do make us straightly different and that's what
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  Speaker 6: people come here for.
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  Speaker 3: He was a really absurd position to take. Patrick to
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  Speaker 3: say that he is against the term assimilation people should
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  Speaker 3: be who they want to be, is that he's also
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  Speaker 3: against the term melting pot. I don't know how you
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  Speaker 3: could be against that. I don't know how you could
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  Speaker 3: be against people from all sorts of backgrounds or religions,
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  Speaker 3: races coming together and creating a new society that's blended.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, does he want everyone because there are cultures
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  Speaker 3: that are not equal to ours. We don't want people
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  Speaker 3: here who think female genital mutilation is a great idea,
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  Speaker 3: or marrying off children is a great idea. Surely you
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  Speaker 3: should be able to say, if you come here, you
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  Speaker 3: should adopt Australian values.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I think at best what he said there is
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  Speaker 5: disingenuous because he's basically saying, and he said straight assimilation
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  Speaker 5: means the complete loss of identity for the migrant nobody.
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  Speaker 5: No Australians want that, for the mirgrant. They want migrants
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  Speaker 5: who embrace our values of freedom, who believe that men
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  Speaker 5: and women are equal, who believe that it's a secular society,
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  Speaker 5: and the religion and religious laws have no place. That's
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  Speaker 5: what we want as Australia. And to actually suggests, oh,
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  Speaker 5: yet we want people to give up who they are.
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  Speaker 5: It's not what anyone wants to all.
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  Speaker 3: No, not at all. And Yeah, to characterize the word
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  Speaker 3: assimilation in those terms, I think again pretty false. Now
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  Speaker 3: One Nation is using former sas Commander Ben Robert Smith
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  Speaker 3: for its campaign in the Pharah by election. The party
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  Speaker 3: has plastered his face on pre poll booth posters alongside
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  Speaker 3: the message he fought for us. One Nation stands with him.
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  Speaker 3: One Nation spokesman said they were the only party which
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  Speaker 3: is expressive support for Ben Robert Smith and we're making
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  Speaker 3: sure voters in Barah, where many veterans live, know it. Patrick,
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  Speaker 3: just say, risky strategy if you ask men in the
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  Speaker 3: media and paign against Ben Robert Smith has been enormous.
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  Speaker 3: He's facing the most severe charges you can face. What
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  Speaker 3: do you make of this strategy by One Nation?
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  Speaker 5: Look, I think it is very risky myself. Look, you've
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  Speaker 5: had a defamation case that went for years. You have
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  Speaker 5: Ben Roberts Smith who is at this moment a defendant
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  Speaker 5: in a murder case.
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  Speaker 3: That's what life counsel.
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  Speaker 5: It's a judicial process. It's not a popularity contest. I
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  Speaker 5: think the matter, the manner of his arrest and public
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  Speaker 5: probably galvanized a lot of support for him. He was
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  Speaker 5: arrested in front of his children. I'm not sure that
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  Speaker 5: putting his face on polling booths during a by election
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  Speaker 5: is actually a smart thing to do, because you would
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  Speaker 5: know yourself as a journalist, everyone asks you all the time,
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  Speaker 5: what do you know about this that we haven't been told?
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  Speaker 5: What do you think about it? And everybody has a
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  Speaker 5: strident year and some people are supporters and some people
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  Speaker 5: are not.
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  Speaker 3: The people who are veterans, though Colleene seemed to have
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  Speaker 3: a far deeper knowledge of this case, the investigation how
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  Speaker 3: it all came about. So I guess one nation accounting
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  Speaker 3: on that demographic. I don't know how big that is
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  Speaker 3: in that particular electorate. But on on the by election,
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  Speaker 3: do the coalition expect to hold that seat? They have
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  Speaker 3: held it since its inception, but it doesn't look like
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be holding on to it after.
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  Speaker 6: No And on the Ben Roberts Smiths and know there
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  Speaker 6: are some great podcasts out there about you know, the
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  Speaker 6: veterans speaking about what they know about it, which is
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  Speaker 6: quite interesting. But and of course you know it is
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  Speaker 6: under it's in the courts, So it is a risky
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  Speaker 6: move for one nation to sort of present themselves so
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  Speaker 6: strongly on one side of making something a decision when
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  Speaker 6: it is innocence until proven guilty. But that none of
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  Speaker 6: that has been proven one way or the other yet.
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  Speaker 6: But look, I think it'll be close.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: The Levels have held that seat for a very long time.
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  Speaker 6: There is in by elections the opportunity for people to
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  Speaker 6: voice a you know.
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  Speaker 3: What, do you call it an OBJECTIVEBJEC thank you objection,
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  Speaker 3: and normally do do that against the sitting government of
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  Speaker 3: the time. So yeah, not so Coalition can't explain to
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  Speaker 3: that if they were ready. Yeah, and if you look
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  Speaker 3: at the Nepan by election in Victoria just on the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: the party had a ten percent swing against which is
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  Speaker 3: significant even though they held the seat, is still a
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  Speaker 3: significant message to the major extraordinary in nepent I think
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  Speaker 3: to have a ten percent swing against a seat where
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  Speaker 3: Labour didn't even run a candidate, correct, that is I
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  Speaker 3: know they were all out there celebrating and this was
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  Speaker 3: the dawn of a new age. Labor weren't even running
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  Speaker 3: blue ribbon seat, you had a massive swing against you.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're celebrating.
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  Speaker 6: There was a low voter turnout as well, so that
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  Speaker 6: will change again come November when there's a higher representation
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  Speaker 6: of people and the preference slow will change.
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  Speaker 7: Preference flow will change again.
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  Speaker 6: So you know, there's a lot to unfold yet in
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  Speaker 6: the next couple of months.
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  Speaker 3: Now. Look at a poll where parents are calling for
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  Speaker 3: the government to invest more in child health, saying they
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  Speaker 3: should be prioritizing it over infrastructure projects. A Redbridge Pole
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  Speaker 3: found sixty five percent of parents believe the government places
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  Speaker 3: too little priority on children's health. Seventy percent of parents
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  Speaker 3: also believe children today are less healthy than previous generations. Colleen,
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  Speaker 3: is this, I don't know, some sort of a captain
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  Speaker 3: obvious research or push polling? What did you make of this? Starter?
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  Speaker 8: Look?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I mean everybody wants children to be well, right,
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  Speaker 6: But when you sort of say kids aren't as healthy
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  Speaker 6: as they used to be, to me, most of that.
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  Speaker 7: Lies with parents exactly.
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  Speaker 6: You know, get them off the phones, feed them well,
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  Speaker 6: get them outside playing. It's not something that a government
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  Speaker 6: should get involved with at all. From a financial point
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  Speaker 6: of view. You know, I don't know that we need
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  Speaker 6: to be raiding. You know, one can to pay for
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  Speaker 6: another infrastructure for example, has been cited in that research,
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  Speaker 6: and I don't know that it's necessary. There's plenty of money,
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  Speaker 6: it's just how it's being spent. The government does waste
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  Speaker 6: a lot of money, just you know, quickly when you
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  Speaker 6: run the numbers on fifty billion dollars in Das, the
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  Speaker 6: renewables transition, the suburban rail loop here in Melbourne, you
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  Speaker 6: know there's a lot of money that he spent on
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  Speaker 6: things that are not great returns on investment. But the
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  Speaker 6: overriding attitude that I have to this research report is
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  Speaker 6: that most of.
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  Speaker 7: It lies with the parents and the parents.
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  Speaker 6: Being able to do what they think is the right
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  Speaker 6: thing for their own child. Government doesn't need to be
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  Speaker 6: involved in that.
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  Speaker 3: No Patrick. The polling also found fifty five percent of
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  Speaker 3: Australians sixty five percent of parents say that would be
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  Speaker 3: more likely to support a government that increases funding for
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  Speaker 3: children's health research. Again, such a broad sort of statement.
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  Speaker 3: What is children's health research? Exactly? What We're going to
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  Speaker 3: put more stars and warnings on packaging? I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: worked so beautifully well, hasn't it. I mean, the whole
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  Speaker 3: health pyramid that they sold to us was bogus, telling
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  Speaker 3: us not to eat, have protein and have all these
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  Speaker 3: oats and carbs. Then we wonder why everyone's so fast.
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  Speaker 5: Look, one of the case studies they brought up in
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  Speaker 5: this research was asthma and the fact that I think
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  Speaker 5: eleven percent of kids get asthma. They haven't met any
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  Speaker 5: great sort of new research developments in the treatment of asthma.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps governments should be doing more to sort of promote
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  Speaker 5: things like that that are common problems that can be
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  Speaker 5: managed better. I think, certainly here in Victoria, I think
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  Speaker 5: we're all sick of seeing politicians at big infrastructure projects
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  Speaker 5: wearing hard hats and high visa and saying, here's our
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  Speaker 5: monument to you. But perhaps I tend to agree with
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  Speaker 5: Colleen a bit, taking from one to give to another.
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  Speaker 5: They're not mutually exclusive.
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  Speaker 3: Mother, Patrick Carline, Colleen Harken, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 3: your time. In the early hours of this morning, another
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  Speaker 3: Melbourne hospitality venu came under attack. Sibity nightclub Ladi Dah
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  Speaker 3: was set a light around three thirty am this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Please say a vehicle was leaving the premises. Around that time,
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  Speaker 3: The Herald Sign has also obtained chilling text messages sent
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  Speaker 3: to several Melbourne nightclub owners by a criminal syndicate dubbed
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  Speaker 3: the Cartel, some call it the Ghost. The text reads,
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  Speaker 3: if you got this message, where after you, your family, your business,
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  Speaker 3: homes and souls. We will take it by force. If
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  Speaker 3: you don't comply, the police can't help you. It's inevitable.
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  Speaker 3: We won't stop till we get what we want. Joining
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  Speaker 3: me now for more on this, as Herald Son investigative
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  Speaker 3: journalist Stephen Drill. Stephen, what is going on in Melbourne?
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  Speaker 3: Every single day we wake up and there's another venue
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  Speaker 3: or multiple venues that have been hit every single day.
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  Speaker 3: It seems in recent weeks we have had hospitality venues
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  Speaker 3: being firebombed, having cars driven into their premises, shots fired.
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  Speaker 3: Will seem to live in a lawless state.
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  Speaker 9: It is out of control.
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  Speaker 10: Reader.
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  Speaker 9: The city of Melbourne is now almost feels like it's
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  Speaker 9: been run by criminal gangs. And what I'm hearing is
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  Speaker 9: that these criminal gangs are actually overseas And if you
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  Speaker 9: look at the text message closely, there's a US number
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  Speaker 9: in the message, So these aren't people the US.
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  Speaker 3: Number, but it's linked back to Iraq. Is that some
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  Speaker 3: of the.
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  Speaker 9: Conjecture suggestion that I've been hearing Scept Costello and Jen
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  Speaker 9: Pierino wrote the story this morning. They did a great
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  Speaker 9: job and they uncovered this text message where it showed
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  Speaker 9: that there was a link to potentially link to Iraq. Now,
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  Speaker 9: there are some high profile Australians who have been over
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  Speaker 9: there in Iraqs. One has been arrested, but it's still
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  Speaker 9: unclear exactly who is behind it and perhaps whether there's
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  Speaker 9: another whether the messages are going through Indonesia potentially as well.
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  Speaker 3: Now Victoria Police has released a statement, but they haven't
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  Speaker 3: confirmed if they're investigating this Iraq based gang, so we're
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  Speaker 3: not sure how legitimate that line is. But what seems
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  Speaker 3: to be glaring here is we've had weeks of attacks,
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  Speaker 3: so many venues hit, and yet please seem to be
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  Speaker 3: oblivious about who's actually behind it, what's the motivations. Because
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  Speaker 3: typically if you're having extortion, you have a demand for
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  Speaker 3: money and if that money isn't paid, then your premises
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  Speaker 3: are fire bombed. Here often there seems to have been
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  Speaker 3: no demand before the attack.
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  Speaker 9: That's what's crazy about this. It doesn't seem like there's
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  Speaker 9: any logic behind it, and because it's been potentially directed
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  Speaker 9: from overseas, there's no consistent person. Now, traditionally you might
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  Speaker 9: think of New York in the sixties and seventies, where
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  Speaker 9: there might be a mafia person who comes knocked on
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  Speaker 9: your door and says you need to pay me to
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  Speaker 9: keep the bar open. This is just a message from
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  Speaker 9: some random phone number, and then you may or may
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  Speaker 9: not get firebombed. And what's the risk that you want
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  Speaker 9: to take? It seems like it's sort of this machine
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  Speaker 9: gun approach by these criminals.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: And we're talking about some of the most well known
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: venues in Melbourne, not just nightclubs but restaurants. You've had
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: strip clubs here, You've had Francois, which is a well
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: known restaurant. You've had bars like the Emerson, the Albion, Soho,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Lardie dar Electric. It just seems to be across all
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: the big venues. And is this a failure of policing?
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: How can you have so many attacks, so many people
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: arrested after an attack, and yet really no clue as
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: who's doing this, who's the big week behind it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: Well, as you say, there are so many people arrested,
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: and if it is one person, and if that person
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: is overseas, actually trying to find them is going to
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: be a lot harder than if they were based in
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: broad Meadows. So I think the difficulty is is these
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: kids aren't necessarily connected. It's younger, younger crew. Some of
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: these jobs are actually put up online as do you
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: want to go and five on this place?
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: You know, but like an air tasker, an air tasker
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: get in and just who's free to five bomber night
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: club tonight four am, five am, bring BYO Jerry Can.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, we can't joke about this because someone's going
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: to get killed eventually it's a miracle, or someone hasn't
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: already been.
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: Killed in the cigarette fire bombings, which we sort of
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: haven't touched on, but there's been two hundred fire bombings
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: of cigarette shops over the past few years. This seems
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: like an extension of that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: And there's again conjecture that this may be about alcohol.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: It may be about illegal alcohol, but we don't know
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: for sure. But one of the issues we have in
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: this state. We're told we've got the toughest bail laws
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: anywhere in the country, but we see women these people
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: get arrested, whether they're kids or adults, they're bailed. They're
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: bailed within hours, So I guess it's not too difficult
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: for whoever's behind this to find more candidates to send
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: out there to fire bomb places.
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: They're just getting on the texts and on what's up
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: now it's not even hidden on encrypted apps. They're getting
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: blatant and brazen with this.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: At what point are we going to see some commitment
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: from politicians or the police hierarchy about this, because this
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: is really damaging the image of this city. This is
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: beyond just hurting the hospitality sector. It is making Victorians
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: feel unsafe, but also making us look like a absolute
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: basket case to the rest of the country.
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: I've got friends from Sydney who ask is it really
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: that bad done in Melbourne, And sadly I have to say,
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: yes it is. These are this is happening, and it's
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: not really been taken seriously by spring Street.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Stephen Drell, thank you so much for time. Tonight still
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: to come. Lefty's losing Ed, plus all the latest from
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: the US, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rewriting that state's
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: congressional map. Kosher Gator is up next. You're watching the
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Reader Paney Show, and it's time for Lefty's and the
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Democrats and the propagandists in the media are not even
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: pretending to care about equality anymore. After the US Supreme
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Court essentially banned racial gerrymandering racist gerrymandering, they have been
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: having meltdowns meltdown after meltdown, including the views Wiopy Goldberg,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: who gave us this hysterical take.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: They were keeping people from voting, right, They were literally
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: shooting people.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: They were running them down with.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Dogs to keep them from voting. Okay, let's start with that.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: So when they say that problem is gone, it's not
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: gone because you're still doing it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: They're still doing it. Woopee. Tell me where exactly in
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: America are folks shooting black people to prevent them from
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: voting or running them down with dogs. She's utterly unhinged.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: But not to be done in the hysterical, hyperbolic victim
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: playing stakes is the views Sunny Houston. You know, the
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: woman whose ancestors own slaves. Well, listen to this nonsense.
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: He told me when I turned forty years old that
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: I was the first person in his family to enjoy
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: full civil rights. And he is still alive today. And
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: I am still alive today, and I have been discriminated against,
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: and now I have to tell my children that they
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: have less civil rights than I did when I was blest.
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: That is disgusting, despicable, and I am devastated by this
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: particular Supreme Court decision, even though we did know this
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: was coming.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: What about Wait a second, what about Clarence Thomas. Didn't
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: he stick up for his own Now he.
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: Did not know and he's part of the majority here.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: You know what's disgusting and despicable is the lies, the
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: blatant lies. You hear on that program every single day.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: And did you hear enjoy bahat t to race? Shame
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas because he voted with the majority in the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Supreme Court, because he voted against institutional racism. That's what
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: that is, real institutional racism and it's gone. And in
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: news that's going to no doubt shock and discuss the
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: ladies of the view Cinn Polster. Harryenton reveals Donald Trump
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: is increasing his support among black voters and that could
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: get the Republicans over the line in a number of
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: southern seats.
• 23:29
  Speaker 12: President Trump and the Republican Party are chipping away at
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: the long term advantage that Democrats have had with black voters.
• 23:36
  Speaker 12: With African Americans. You can see it right here. Look
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: Trump's approval among African Americans at this point in term one,
• 23:41
  Speaker 12: he was at twelve percent. You know, he's been losing
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: ground with a lot of it.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: He's gaining He's gaining.
• 23:46
  Speaker 12: Ground with African Americans. He's up to sixteen percent at
• 23:49
  Speaker 12: this point. And you say, this isn't that big of
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: a shift, but I will tell you Republicans absolutely love
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: this shift that's going on because Democrats have had such
• 23:57
  Speaker 12: a long term advantage. The fact that he's actually gaining
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: ground versus where he was in term number one, this
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: has major implications for elections down the line because Democrats,
• 24:08
  Speaker 12: especially in a lot of these type races. You talk
• 24:10
  Speaker 12: about places like Georgia, right down on the South, you
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: see this type of movement for Trump actually gaining ground.
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: This could have major ramifications and help put Republicans over
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: the top and a number of Southern places in the
• 24:21
  Speaker 12: midterm elections.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Let's now have a look at the Party of Love
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: and Tolerance, the Party of Science and High Standards. Here
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: is main Democrats center candidate Graham Platna, who has a
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: history of saying some hideous things about women and rape.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: They're not sending their best, are they. You would have
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: noticed that big, fat, ugly tattoo on Platinum's chairs. That's
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: a Nazi tattoo. Folks, Even having a big fat Nazi
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: tattoo isn't disqualifying to be a Democrat. These days, the
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: situation is so dire that even sin In's Abby Phillip
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: is noticing the double standard and asking what in God's
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: name is going on now?
• 25:16
  Speaker 13: If this were a Republican candidate who had a Nazi
• 25:19
  Speaker 13: tattoo covered it up when he was running for something
• 25:24
  Speaker 13: and had said all the things that he had said
• 25:26
  Speaker 13: about black people, about women, about rape, etc. Do you
• 25:30
  Speaker 13: really think there's a world in which Democrats would be like,
• 25:33
  Speaker 13: let's just let bygones be bygones.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: That's the past.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: Today is the president.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: I think we're entering a new era and we'll see
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: what the base wants. We'll see who wins when the
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: actual election happens. But for the past decade, Democrats have
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: been unified by our opposition to Donald Trump, and now
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: Graham Platner has a forward looking message. So if Donald
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: Trump or if another Republican had a Nazi tattoo, I
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: don't know, Donald Trump has dinner with nazis not that
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: far from you know, what's happening.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: What can you say, Dudes with Nazi tattoos or signed
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: the Democrats are forward looking. That's what that lefty soy
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Voya just said. Astonishing. Let's bring in Sky News contributor
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Kosher Gaida Kosher. This character has a literal Nazi tattoo,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: and he has said some awful things about women, blaming
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: women for getting drunk and getting into compromising situations where
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: they're assaulted. It's pure victim blaming. And yet the Democrats
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: are very happy for him to represent them.
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: You know, once you're in the club, you're in the club,
• 26:33
  Speaker 14: and I mean the Democrat club, until something happens and
• 26:37
  Speaker 14: the situation becomes so egregious that they have to cut
• 26:40
  Speaker 14: you loose, like Eric Swollwell in California or other instances
• 26:43
  Speaker 14: here in there. But generally, when you're in the club,
• 26:45
  Speaker 14: they really the Democrats are very very good at protecting
• 26:48
  Speaker 14: their own.
• 26:49
  Speaker 15: We've seen this time and again.
• 26:50
  Speaker 14: I thought it was interesting that Abby Phillips said that
• 26:53
  Speaker 14: it's almost like she glitched for a second.
• 26:55
  Speaker 15: I didn't expect that from her, but.
• 26:57
  Speaker 14: Then you know the fannel wept in certainly that guest
• 27:01
  Speaker 14: over there, as you mentioned, and you know covered it up,
• 27:04
  Speaker 14: papered over that little little.
• 27:06
  Speaker 15: Masks that maybe that she gave us there.
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: Why she said that, And I think I would only
• 27:11
  Speaker 14: pause that that the Nazi tattoo is beyond the pal
• 27:14
  Speaker 14: for Abby Phillips. So that went far enough for her
• 27:16
  Speaker 14: to glitch for a second.
• 27:17
  Speaker 15: But all will be forgotten.
• 27:19
  Speaker 14: He will be forgiven, and if he's running in Maine,
• 27:22
  Speaker 14: you know he has a good chance of winning.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Now to the extraordinary events in a DC courtroom earlier today,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: where a leftist judge apologized to the man charged with
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: attempting to assassinate President Trump.
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: Judgeia Ferraqui apologized to suspect Paul Allen for the treatment
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: he's received so far while he's been behind bars. He's
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: been put on suicide watch by the Department of Corrections,
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: and the judge was asking why. An attorney for the
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: government said that he was put on suicide watch because
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: he told FBI agents the Knight of the White House
• 27:56
  Speaker 10: correspondence dinner attack that he didn't expect to survive, and
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: his language suggested that he really was not expecting to
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: survive his trip to Washington, d C. And the ultimate
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: incident where he allegedly showed up with a weapon to
• 28:11
  Speaker 10: try and assassinate President Trump. He's been charged with that crime,
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: but the judge very concerned about his constitutional rights.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, the judge Zia Feruke Farikee, very concerned about the
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: constitutional rights of this character. I mean, is it at
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: all surprising that he was on suicide watched Kosher when
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: this entire crime, alleged assassination attempt were calling it was
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: described as a suicide mission.
• 28:40
  Speaker 14: Not at all surprise he was described as a suicide
• 28:43
  Speaker 14: mission even if it wasn't you know, a lot of
• 28:45
  Speaker 14: the manifesto was quite narcissistic, where he believed that he
• 28:49
  Speaker 14: somehow had this role, this history shaving rule to play
• 28:53
  Speaker 14: and to save the world from what he believed President
• 28:55
  Speaker 14: Trump and the cabinet administrations were. And then when reality
• 29:00
  Speaker 14: and you're not successful and you get caught and you're
• 29:02
  Speaker 14: facing life in prison or even beyond that death penalty potentially,
• 29:08
  Speaker 14: it's not surprising at all that he would be on
• 29:09
  Speaker 14: Suicide Watch and that's part of the process. The judge
• 29:12
  Speaker 14: certainly showed his hand there. He was appointed by Judge
• 29:16
  Speaker 14: Barrel Obama appointee.
• 29:19
  Speaker 15: We know that in a DC it's often going to
• 29:22
  Speaker 15: be the way.
• 29:22
  Speaker 14: But look, the only constitutional right that does matter is
• 29:26
  Speaker 14: the presumption of innocence for everybody, including this character. Beyond
• 29:29
  Speaker 14: that in terms of the conditions of the jail cell.
• 29:32
  Speaker 14: And he didn't get his Bible fast enough. And like
• 29:34
  Speaker 14: all sorts of things news around this are breaking of
• 29:37
  Speaker 14: what the judge was supposedly apologizing for is ridiculous and
• 29:40
  Speaker 14: not really the judge's job or role.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: But here we are, and all it does is undermine
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: trust in the process. When you've got activist judges like
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: that behaving in that manner, people are just watching and saying,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: are we going to get a fade income process? Here?
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Are we going to have these activist on the bench
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: behaving in this manner, apologizing to disploke Jesus Now to
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: the redistricting wars and Democrats are going to regret what
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: they tried to pull off in Virginia. Florida Governor Ronda
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Sanders has just signed a new congressional map into law
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: today that could flip as many as four additional US
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: House seats to red. This comes after the bill passed
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: the House eighty three to twenty eight and prompted this
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: meltdown from Democrat and Ji Nixon.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Viola, get it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Kosher.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: This is a consequential move by the Florida Republicans. Will
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: other Southern states follow?
• 30:53
  Speaker 15: It seems that way.
• 30:54
  Speaker 14: And I was as curious if she bought the pink
• 30:56
  Speaker 14: bullhorned matter outfitter the other way around, because back I
• 31:01
  Speaker 14: think you floor it absolutely. Four states flipping, and it
• 31:05
  Speaker 14: goes a little way to counteract Virginia and California that
• 31:09
  Speaker 14: you know that havevon in the other direction in Texas
• 31:10
  Speaker 14: also did this. There are some Republican states in the
• 31:13
  Speaker 14: Midwest that did not do this, much to the chagrin
• 31:16
  Speaker 14: of the.
• 31:16
  Speaker 15: Base that believes, you know, they should have.
• 31:18
  Speaker 14: And then you ask the real question the Southern the
• 31:21
  Speaker 14: districts in the South, especially after that Supreme Court ruling
• 31:24
  Speaker 14: that came out last week that said jerrymandering on the
• 31:27
  Speaker 14: basis of race effectively is unconstitutional. That's going to pull
• 31:32
  Speaker 14: apart some districts that I think she've just as John
• 31:35
  Speaker 14: Roberts described as a snake where they cut it around
• 31:38
  Speaker 14: racial lines and this very unnatural way in order to
• 31:41
  Speaker 14: create artificially create an extra seat for the Dems. So
• 31:45
  Speaker 14: if they can get their act together, there's a lot
• 31:47
  Speaker 14: of procedural stuff that has to happen, and time is
• 31:49
  Speaker 14: short because we're only a few months away from November.
• 31:51
  Speaker 14: But it is certainly plausible, and it's sad. It's an indictment.
• 31:55
  Speaker 14: I think of society in the US or the electorate
• 31:58
  Speaker 14: right now that's so divided that this is what we
• 31:59
  Speaker 14: are to do arms reces to rebalance the House.
• 32:03
  Speaker 15: But you know that's where we are.
• 32:04
  Speaker 14: We know there are many states in the Northeast antial
• 32:07
  Speaker 14: balance at all if you look at the population of
• 32:09
  Speaker 14: Republicans relative to the representation, and so you've got to
• 32:11
  Speaker 14: fight fire with fire, and that's what they're doing.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Well, you have to you can't allow the Democrats to
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: do this and do this to an extreme level. I
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: mean you look at say New England where the Democrat
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Jerrymanderings is no Republicans represented it. So it's you can't
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: have one side doing this on the other side saying, oh,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: we're going to play by the rules, because then it's
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: just not an even fight, so I can understand why
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: the Republican base are absolutely crying out for this. Now,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: let's talk about Iran. US has destroyed seven Iranian boats
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: since the beginning of the mission to guide tankers out
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: of the Strait of HORMUSA Treasury Secretary of Scott Bissen
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: has also said the US is suffocating the Iranian regime
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: using escalating financial pressure, frozen assets, and a naval blockade.
• 33:04
  Speaker 16: Three weeks ago, the President gave the order to Treasury
• 33:07
  Speaker 16: myself to begin economic fury. And the way to think
• 33:11
  Speaker 16: about that, We're running a marathon over the past twelve
• 33:15
  Speaker 16: months and now we are sprinting towards the finish line.
• 33:18
  Speaker 16: And I can tell you that we are supplicating the
• 33:22
  Speaker 16: regime and they are not able to pay their soldiers.
• 33:27
  Speaker 16: This is a real economic blockade.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Kosher, the Treasury Secretary, also predicted that oil prices could
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: fall as more non Iranian supply reaches the market.
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: That is what the world is waiting for. It certainly
• 33:44
  Speaker 14: benefits the US A little bit of US isn't a
• 33:46
  Speaker 14: big export of oil, but it is a big export
• 33:48
  Speaker 14: of energy overall, and if it rebalances the world a
• 33:51
  Speaker 14: little bit where oil supply shifts away from this choke
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: point to the straight up removes and now we all
• 33:57
  Speaker 14: can see is highly controllable by the Iranians, and that's
• 34:01
  Speaker 14: a good thing.
• 34:01
  Speaker 15: Time will tell. I think the big picture here is
• 34:04
  Speaker 15: as long as more escalatory.
• 34:06
  Speaker 14: Action doesn't happen, which would potentially suck the US into
• 34:10
  Speaker 14: doing something that leads us down that slippery slope of quagmire,
• 34:14
  Speaker 14: that word that keeps coming up that everybody's very afraid
• 34:17
  Speaker 14: of and wants to kind of stay. Keep this as
• 34:19
  Speaker 14: short and sharp as possible. As long as that doesn't happen,
• 34:21
  Speaker 14: and if oil prices come down in a reasonable timeframe,
• 34:24
  Speaker 14: then the story can still end fairly well for President Trump.
• 34:29
  Speaker 15: If not, he is swimming upstream a little bit.
• 34:31
  Speaker 14: As we've discussed time and time again since this war
• 34:34
  Speaker 14: broke out, including his base, they are not happy with it.
• 34:37
  Speaker 14: The clock is ticking towards November, so that's sort of
• 34:39
  Speaker 14: a deadline that he's marching towards, and that I think
• 34:42
  Speaker 14: is that big picture still remains. People are hopeful that
• 34:45
  Speaker 14: we might see the tide turn a little bit here,
• 34:47
  Speaker 14: but we don't know yet, and there are many many
• 34:51
  Speaker 14: unpredictable possibilities and eventualities that can come out of this
• 34:55
  Speaker 14: because we don't control every actor. But hopefully we're turning the.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Time to LA now. And let's hear from meryal hopeful
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Spencer Pratt, the outsider to be the next mayor of
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles. Here he talks about the industry around homelessness.
• 35:14
  Speaker 17: Every one of these people is breaking the law. You
• 35:16
  Speaker 17: cannot live on the street, you cannot do drugs on
• 35:18
  Speaker 17: the street, you cannot be naked on the street. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 17: people go, what are you going to do, Spencer, where
• 35:23
  Speaker 17: are you going to put these people? Well, first off,
• 35:25
  Speaker 17: most of these people are not from California. They've been
• 35:28
  Speaker 17: busted in by body brokers because it's such a business
• 35:31
  Speaker 17: as people make so much money. So once you shut
• 35:34
  Speaker 17: down the business and you go in and you unplug
• 35:36
  Speaker 17: all these angils, they're going to go to Seattle or
• 35:39
  Speaker 17: they're going to go out and they're going to grab
• 35:40
  Speaker 17: all these people. They're gonna put them on buses themselves,
• 35:42
  Speaker 17: because these are their products.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: This is what they make the money.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Kosher La California, but particularly LA spends a fortune on
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: this issue, and yet it seems to be getting worse
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: and worse, it does seem to be an industry around
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: home lansleness. Is that message from Spencer Pratt going to
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: resonate with people in California and LA in particular.
• 36:08
  Speaker 14: I think though, because it is such a visible, tangible problem.
• 36:12
  Speaker 14: This is the city of Dreams. It has some of
• 36:14
  Speaker 14: the most beautiful people in places ever, and then you
• 36:17
  Speaker 14: turn a corner and you see these homeless encampments and
• 36:20
  Speaker 14: it's embarrassing, like there's no reason why it should exist
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  Speaker 14: in California anywhere in the US for that matter. It
• 36:26
  Speaker 14: is enabled by these policies like the NGOs, like soft
• 36:30
  Speaker 14: on crime, giving them handouts instead of solving the root cause,
• 36:34
  Speaker 14: et cetera that he's touching on. So I do think
• 36:37
  Speaker 14: that the problem is well understood, the solution should also
• 36:40
  Speaker 14: be easily understood. And he Spencer Pratt Hatt brings to
• 36:44
  Speaker 14: the table his social media presence. He's kind of an
• 36:46
  Speaker 14: interesting character. He comes from a reality TV background. He
• 36:50
  Speaker 14: and his wife together have millions and millions of followers,
• 36:52
  Speaker 14: so he's got sort of his own independent channel as
• 36:55
  Speaker 14: well of how to reach distribution channel of how to
• 36:57
  Speaker 14: get that message.
• 36:58
  Speaker 15: Out there, so hopefully it cuts through. He is running
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: as an independent, so he doesn't have the stigma of
• 37:04
  Speaker 15: being a Republican candidate.
• 37:05
  Speaker 14: That unfortunately carries a lot of voters in California.
• 37:08
  Speaker 15: So you know, we shall see.
• 37:09
  Speaker 14: Karen Bouss isn't all that popular, but it is generally
• 37:13
  Speaker 14: always a tough climb to displace the Democratic Party candidate
• 37:17
  Speaker 14: it is, so he definitely has his work cut off.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, absolutely. I know a lot of people are
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: assuming he's some sort of a front runner, but it's
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: an uphill battle. He is the outsider. I think. Yeah,
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: the Democrats hold all the cards, but good luck to
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: him because La doesn't need some change. Now, before you go,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I want to play this clip from AOC She was
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: asked an interesting question too, actually, and she gave this
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: very an intriguing answer.
• 37:45
  Speaker 18: If you could click your fingers and Tucker Carlson his
• 37:47
  Speaker 18: president instead of Donald Trump, would you do it?
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 37:55
  Speaker 18: I don't think so, but I and it's kind of
• 37:59
  Speaker 18: a tough I'm not really sure. Okay, last thing, then,
• 38:03
  Speaker 18: what do you think we're going to have first? Are
• 38:05
  Speaker 18: we going to have a female president first? Or a
• 38:07
  Speaker 18: gay president?
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Well, we don't know.
• 38:10
  Speaker 18: If we've already had a gay president.
• 38:13
  Speaker 17: That's true.
• 38:14
  Speaker 18: I think there are chances.
• 38:15
  Speaker 9: That maybe we have.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: But Kosher, who could she be talking about?
• 38:21
  Speaker 15: Oh, that was funny.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 38:22
  Speaker 14: James Buchanan is one president that some historians believe may
• 38:26
  Speaker 14: have been because he never married. There's no official record
• 38:29
  Speaker 14: of that though. I doubt AOC knows her history to
• 38:31
  Speaker 14: that level of death, So who knows. You can only
• 38:34
  Speaker 14: guess she maybe tipped her hand or a little bit.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I've got my I don't want to name any names,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: but there may have been some poetry written in this
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: area in recent years. Kosher, Gator, we've run out of time.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: I think that's a very good time to and this segment.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for your time. Still to come,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: we'll have a look at the med Gala, The Good,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: the Bad, and the Ugly. Michael Loftus is up next.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Welcome back.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: It's one of the biggest days on the calendar for
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: the world's most famous celebrities. The twenty twenty six met Gala,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: with the theme of Costume Marts, all stars of Hollywood
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: and entertainment sport. Pretty much anyone who's anyone, strutted out
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: on the red carpet as Jeff Bezos and his wife
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Laurence Sanchez co hosted the event. Joining me now to
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: discuss this and more is writer and comedian Michael Loftus.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Michael possibly overstating the importance of this. It's kind of
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: jumped the shark a little bits. Some of the biggest
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: stars now don't bother showing up. But Nicole Kidman is
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: certainly there. She's returning as co chair for the third time,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: and she's always amongst one of the best stressed. I'm
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: sure you're going to be full of praise for a
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: ound Nicole.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Well, of course, Nicole looks stunning. I think it's impossible
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: for her to not look good. She's one of those
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: those ladies just incredibly gifted. She's gonna look look at
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: her with her with her red, it's like somebody dipped
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: her in candle wax.
• 40:16
  Speaker 15: She's she's so hot. She's a human candle.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Human candle. I don't know if that's what she was
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: going for with the theme costume, mart but you know,
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: I think she'll buy it. Now, the Kardashians and the Jenna's,
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: they have dominated this event for several years.
• 40:35
  Speaker 16: Now.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Let's have a look at a couple of them. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: think we've got Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner. I've got
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: to say, Kylie Jenner's dress is going to split opinion.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: It's almost like she's taken the top half off. But
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: I think she nailed the brief and she looks spectacular.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Look at that pH Zeke.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, like when you pay a hundred dollars for a
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: ticket to this narcissism ball.
• 41:04
  Speaker 15: You're allowed to wear whatever.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: But it looked like it looked like she got halfway
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: done dressed and then just gave up. It's like her
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: outfit was sponsored by spanks.
• 41:14
  Speaker 15: I just I don't see it. She gave up halfway through.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Her designer was like, what if you were halfway through
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: getting dressed and then you just quit? So that's like
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: commit either go naked or wear a dress.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what I enjoyed, Kylie. I'm giving her
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: best dressed or best undressed if you prefer. I've got
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: to say, also, Chris Jenna, the matriarch of that family,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: is looking bloody good. I mean, the woman's like seventeen,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: she looks barely fifty.
• 41:45
  Speaker 12: Now.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: Model Heidie Clume, she certainly nailed the theme too. Let's
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: look at her arriving at the event and Michael, I've
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: got to say, it's another astonishing outfit. And what I
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: really admire about her is she's all about the art.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: She doesn't care if she comes out looking ugly as
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: long as it's interesting. And you've got to say, I mean,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: she's a stunning woman, but she looks around one hundred
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: years old. There. You've got to admire a woman who's
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: willingly willing to ugly herself up on the red carpet.
• 42:18
  Speaker 15: Yes, you have to.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: You have to honor her, her commitment to the outfit
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: and her sense of bladder control. I don't know what
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: what her plan was for the rest of the evening.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: You get two good minutes walk in that red carpet.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Look at me, I'm a statue. Did she go to
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: like a home and garden center and go ooh, what's
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: next to the concrete rabbit?
• 42:42
  Speaker 15: Make me look like one of.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Those I would, Oh my gosh, I got what's the bomb?
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: We've got a couple with thumbs. I don't know. I
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: admire the art of that one. Another one that has
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: divided opinion is Katie Perry. Have a look at this one.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: She rocked up with a futuristic look, you could say,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: like a robot, her face covered there. I don't know
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: why she's trying to hide her identity. Maybe she's deployed
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: to get away from the cops investigating some of her
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: alleged behavior in the past.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she's trying to hide her identity so
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: she won't be accused of a crime. The moment she
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: leaves this thing, that outfit, it's like, Hey, who wants
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: to go Who wants to go fencing with a penguin
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: sex robot? That's another Just how much money do they paper?
• 43:38
  Speaker 15: I could have made that outfit.
• 43:40
  Speaker 19: Girl slap some chrome spray pain on a fencing mask.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're going to the met gallap That'll be one
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Please.
• 43:49
  Speaker 15: What a waste of an evening.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Did you say penguin sex robot? I mean your imagination
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: or something else?
• 43:58
  Speaker 19: I said penguin, I said fencing penguin sex robot, which
• 44:03
  Speaker 19: I guarantee that's someone's fetish. Someone's having the best night
• 44:06
  Speaker 19: of their life to night they're like, Oh, Katie Perry,
• 44:08
  Speaker 19: she really brought it home.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: I don't want to ever explore that section of the
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: dark web. If there's a niche for people with that
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: particular fetish. Now, four time Women's Tennis Grand Slam winner
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Naomi Osaka arrived wearing this removable dress, kind of two
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: outfits in one. She said it was inspired by the
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: shedding of the skin and the human anatomy. Michaell your
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: thoughts on this particular production. Okay, so it's basically two
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: boring dresses. It's two boring dresses if you ask me.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: But no, no, it really is. And that's this girl.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: She's like an advocate for like mental health. And if
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: you're an advocate for mental health, do you wear a
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: dress like, oh, this symbolizes my flesh and then taking
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: off the flesh and that's the red blood.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: It's like, why would you do that? Why would you
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: do that? It's a it's a stunning dress.
• 45:07
  Speaker 15: Though that one actually looks like a dress.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I'll give her credit that.
• 45:11
  Speaker 15: Actually she can check that one off.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: The orange dress. Now pronoun warriors. Sam Smith. He arrived
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: wearing this awful outfit, some sort of heather feather headpiece.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: You know what, I expected worse from him, So he
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: met my expectations. It's certainly not worse than I thought.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: What do you do You see anything redeeming about this
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: little outfit? Not so little really, you know what, I
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: guess I have.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: To be happy for Sam Smith that he can he
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: can go out with his head held high and just
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: say look at me. It's like Kruell and Deville and
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: zach Gallifanakis had a baby. It's like the villain from
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: one hundred and.
• 45:57
  Speaker 15: One Talmatians decided to her life as a man. He's
• 46:01
  Speaker 15: subverting expectations.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: And the good pony was that feather so tall it
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: dusts half the light bulbs in the in the conference
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: room where they're doing this thing.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Very very useful. I've got to say, you've got to
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: give him some credit for dodging o Zen pig. Unlike
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: pretty much everyone else on that red carpet, he has
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: decided to stay plump. Good on you, Sam Smith. Now
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: the final while we're going to look at is someone
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: who I've never even heard of before. She's apparently one
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: of the Real Housewives Reality TV style, Raquel Chevmont, and
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: she had a political message on her. She had a
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: bulletproof dress that red gun violence is killing our kids.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: There you go, she's flashing. That is the met Gala
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: really the place for political posturing. Michael, I don't think so.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: I really don't like it. Like all these people are
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: about social justice and all these causes. Seriously, if you're
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: spending one hundred thousand dollars on a ticket to this thing,
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: you're not allowed to talk about social justice or anything.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: I would say, you're not allowed to have a political
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: opinion for two years, a solid two years. And you
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: know what, Hopefully on the back of that best was
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: like her name, no one knows who that is.
• 47:21
  Speaker 15: She can have her message.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: And then like a football player, she can have her
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: name on the back. So when everybody goes who is
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: that as she walks away, we can all figure it out.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Now we have to talk about other matters as well.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Before you go, tell me about Hollywood's biggest legal dispute
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: coming to an end. Justin Baldonian Blake Lavely agreed on
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: a settlement after Lively accused Baldonia of sexually assaulting her
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: on the set of their twenty twenty four hit film
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Wasn't Much of a Hit. Actually it ends with us.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: In a joint statement, the side said, raising awareness and
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: making a meaningful impact in the lives of domestic violence
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: survivors and all survivors is a goal that we stand behind.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: It is our sincere hope that this brings closure and
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: allows all involved to move forward constructively and in peace,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: including a respectful environment online. I mean, Michael, I really
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: resent the fact they put out this statement bringing in
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: the issue of domestic violence, a really important issue that
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: had nothing to do with their tawdry legal fight. This agreement, though,
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: this ceasing of hostilities came as a massive shock. Who
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: are the winners and losers of this battle?
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: The two the people who were suing each other, they're
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: the big losers in this. Now you could say that
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: anybody who's been following this case, we're on losers too,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: because it was just getting interesting. She's like, oh, he's
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: a sex pervert, and he's like, oh, she's stupid, And
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: right as we're about to get some juicy courtroom drama,
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: they do this. They settle out of court, so now
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: they both look like morons, and then they bring this
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: domestic violence thing out of the field. This is lawsuit
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: interrupt us. We should make them finish this. We should
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: make them I need a conclusion. I need closure to this.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: You can't just sue somebody and then go domestic violence
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: is bad. Yeah, we all agree, but let's get back
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: to the meat of the issue. It was a horrible story.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: It fell apart in the third act, like their movies.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: I one hundred percent concur this is like the end
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: of the Sopranos, where you are just you feel empty,
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: you feel like there should be more. You've been robbed
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: of closure. Yes, so we should talk about that, whether
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: that was actually a genius end or whether it left
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: a lot to be desired. Michael LOFTI is always a pleasure.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: Thanks for your time, and that's all the time we have.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: I'll see you tomorrow night at eleven. Newsnight is up next.