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The Late Debate | 19 May · The Late Debate

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Speaker 1: Late Welcome to the Late Debate. Well, thanks for joining
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Speaker 1: us on the Late Debate.
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Speaker 2: I'm James Macpherson with Freileitch and kel Richards coming up tonight.
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Speaker 2: Fans of the newest NRL team mistakenly by memberships in
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Speaker 2: a very different kind of club.
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Speaker 1: Will explain that to you a little later.
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Speaker 2: Plus, when we look at the papers, the Albanezy government
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Speaker 2: looking at ending power bill rebates but wait until you
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Speaker 2: find out what they're going to spend the money on,
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Speaker 2: and warnings that drought in Victoria is set to send
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Speaker 2: dairy and meat prices skyrocketing. All of that when we
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Speaker 2: get to what's making news tomorrow. But first is the
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Speaker 2: Albanese government heading for war with the Trump administration over
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Speaker 2: DEEI policies. Now everyone knows Trump has shown an absolute
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Speaker 2: disdain for woke policies. He's called them ridiculous and radical,
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Speaker 2: especially when it comes to the military. And if you're
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Speaker 2: any any doubt about what the trumpet aministration thinks about
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Speaker 2: woke policies, well have listened to US Defense Secretary Pete hegseath.
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Speaker 3: We are leaving warkness and weakness behind. No more pronouns,
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Speaker 3: no more climate change obsession, no more emergency vaccine mandates,
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Speaker 3: No more dudes in dresses.
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Speaker 1: We're done with that.
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Speaker 2: So what will the Trump administration make of our military?
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Speaker 2: Where DEI policies are as common as car key. Take
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Speaker 2: the Australian Submarine Agency as an example. They're charged with
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Speaker 2: securing Virginia class nuclear subs from the US. Now have
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Speaker 2: a look at how they run their agency. Here in Australia,
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Speaker 2: the acasa's diversity and Inclusion policy requires the appointment of
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Speaker 2: senior leaders as diversity Champions focused on the culturally and
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Speaker 2: linguistically diverse lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual, neurodiversity,
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Speaker 2: First Nations, disability and mental health, and women and gender. Now,
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Speaker 2: US defense contractors have quickly ditched to DEI policy so
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Speaker 2: they can deal with the Trump administration, but not the
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Speaker 2: Albanesi government. Finance and Public Service Minister Katie Gallagher said
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Speaker 2: the Labor government is absolutely committed to diversity, inclusion and equity,
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Speaker 2: no matter what the cost. She told The Australian Today.
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Speaker 2: The Australian people voted at this election to comprehensively reject
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Speaker 2: a coalition platform that was built on the politics of
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Speaker 2: division and imported policies from overseas. Label will continue to
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Speaker 2: govern in the interests of all Australians, she explained DEEI
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Speaker 2: would continue. Kellen Freyer, it seems to me that the
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Speaker 2: Albenezi government is endangering US on two fronts. Firstly, DEI
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Speaker 2: is not smart in the military. I mean, no one
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Speaker 2: on the battlefield asks your pronouns before they shoot you.
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Speaker 1: But second, the US is our major ally.
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Speaker 2: We're in a what a three hundred and sixty billion
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Speaker 2: dollar contract re orcus and submarines. This is not the
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Speaker 2: way to indea the Trump administration to ourselves.
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Speaker 4: And if this labor government thinks that the Trump administration
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Speaker 4: will not crack down on Australian die policies, then they
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Speaker 4: are wrong because our universities have already lost up to
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Speaker 4: six hundred million dollars in grants from the US government
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Speaker 4: because of their DEI policies, and that is simply going
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Speaker 4: to happen with the military.
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Speaker 5: As well well.
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Speaker 6: I went to the White House website and I looked
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Speaker 6: up what they require and the Trump administration quote requires
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Speaker 6: federal contractors and subcontractors.
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Speaker 7: That sounds a lot.
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Speaker 6: Like people dealing with their military to comply with what
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Speaker 6: they call our civil rights laws and that means the
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Speaker 6: de EYE laws getting rid of all of that because
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Speaker 6: they say that's discrimination.
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Speaker 7: And then in the next.
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Speaker 6: Paragraph they require quote strong affirmation subcontractors will not engage
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Speaker 6: in DEI. Now, how does Australia get around that? I mean,
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Speaker 6: we've got it. We have not just a policy, an
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Speaker 6: official policy locked in in which we say DEI is good,
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Speaker 6: We're doing DEI and they've got an official policy saying no,
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Speaker 6: you won't or we can't deal with you. How do
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Speaker 6: we even deal with the American military Lockheed Martin, for example,
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Speaker 6: Lockheed Martin ditch DEI. We have a policy of DEI.
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Speaker 6: Do we have to say to Lockheed Martin, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 6: we're not buying any more F thirty five fighter jets
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Speaker 6: because you've got the wrong policy.
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Speaker 2: Lockheed Martin and Boeing have got subsidiaries here in Australia. Yes,
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Speaker 2: And so they're trying to work out they've ditched DEI
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Speaker 2: in the US, what do their Australian counterparts do and
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Speaker 2: is it going to affect their relationship with the Trump administration.
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Speaker 1: Here's the other thing I find incredible about this.
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Speaker 2: The Australian submarine agency, established in July twenty twenty three
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Speaker 2: with the intent of dealing with the Trump administration, has
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Speaker 2: in its short life span, a terrible record when it
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Speaker 2: comes to culture and morale, with senior officers having been
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Speaker 2: reported to resign on mass because of senior leadership issues.
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Speaker 2: There are one hundred and one government entities surveyed. They
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Speaker 2: published their results in terms of workplace culture the ASA
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Speaker 2: and they've got, you know, champions for diversity, for LGBTQ,
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Speaker 2: for women, for neurodivergent people, for First Nations people. They
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Speaker 2: reported the second lowest overall well being and support of
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Speaker 2: one hundred and one government agencies. They came in tenth
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Speaker 2: last when it came to communication and only fifty nine
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Speaker 2: percent of people working at the Australian Submarine Agency with
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Speaker 2: all of their diversity champions, only fifty nine percent were
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Speaker 2: willing to describe it as a good place to work.
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Speaker 2: It's almost like the more diversity champions you have, the
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Speaker 2: less appealing that workplace is for potential employees.
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Speaker 4: Because the diversity, the equity and inclusion agenda is all
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Speaker 4: about dividing people along the lines of race, gender, immutable
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Speaker 4: attributes and what that does in a workplace is it
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Speaker 4: will eventually rip colleagues apart because all of a sudden,
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Speaker 4: you're not being judged on your merit. You're not being
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Speaker 4: judged on how well you perform a job. You're being
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Speaker 4: judged on who you are as a person, things you
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Speaker 4: can't change. Now, what kind of culture would that create
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Speaker 4: in a workplace where it's not your actions that are
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Speaker 4: being evaluated, but it's aspects of your identity. And then
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Speaker 4: imagine the toxic relationships that flow from that, the envy.
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Speaker 4: I would feel so annoyed if I knew someone next
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Speaker 4: to me was going to get the promotion over me,
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Speaker 4: or get a better job just because of their skin
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Speaker 4: color or something silly like that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and we know what happens with di DEI is
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Speaker 6: what gave us Kamela Harris as an election candidate. So
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Speaker 6: we know it doesn't work. Talking about elections. Let's cast
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Speaker 6: our minds back to me the third. It's only two
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Speaker 6: weeks and two days ago. That could have been should
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Speaker 6: have been the energy election, and the Liberal Party could
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Speaker 6: have run a really powerful we are going to cut
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Speaker 6: your cost of living by cutting down the cost of energy.
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Speaker 6: But because they very closely resembled in that campaign, Ruth
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Speaker 6: Park's much love character, the muddle headed wombat. They had
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Speaker 6: nothing like that. Muddled about nuclear, didn't even try to
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Speaker 6: sell their nuclear policy, muddled about energy policy. Now, sadly,
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Speaker 6: having been demolished in that election, they are still muddled.
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Speaker 6: They still really don't know where they're going. Their coalition
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Speaker 6: partners or would be partners that thats have already said
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Speaker 6: we're dumping that zero, and well the that's dumped that zero.
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Speaker 6: The Liberals dither about nuclear now. Joe O'Brien was the
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Speaker 6: man who helped to draw up the nuclear policy and
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Speaker 6: sell the nuclear policy, and now he's the deputy leader of.
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Speaker 2: The It's Ted O'Brien, you said Joe Joe on the
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Speaker 2: ABC Good Guy. I did buy cannection with the career
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Speaker 2: out with Joe O'Brien.
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Speaker 1: But it's Ted O'Brien.
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Speaker 7: He's here as my submedit. He's excellent. Ted O'Brien was
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Speaker 7: the man who did that.
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Speaker 6: Now he is the deputy leader of the Liberal Party
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Speaker 6: and he doesn't sound all that clear.
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Speaker 7: Have a listen.
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Speaker 8: Are the National saying to you that in order to
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Speaker 8: get this agreement together, you'll have to commit to a
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Speaker 8: nuclear policy.
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Speaker 9: The Liberal Party has already made it very clear what
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Speaker 9: our approach is, and that is we need to be
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Speaker 9: listening to the Australian people. We'll be looking at the
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Speaker 9: evidence of the data also as it comes in, and
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Speaker 9: together we will be drawing conclusions and formulating policy. That's
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Speaker 9: the approach that Susan has rightly laid out.
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Speaker 6: Ted Ted, Ted, Ted, I mean that's not even the
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Speaker 6: muddle headed wombat.
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Speaker 7: That is the waffling wombat. That's really terrible.
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Speaker 6: And listening to the Australian people, I've got a better
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Speaker 6: idea tech. Listen to engineers, because engineers will tell you
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Speaker 6: if you don't drop NED zero, the system won't work.
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Speaker 6: I interviewed on my radio show an engineer who explained
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Speaker 6: to me the way the grid works is the out
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Speaker 6: put in the input have to just about balance, so
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Speaker 6: the amount of energy being generated has to eku all
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Speaker 6: the load, and the load varies, whereas with renewables it
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Speaker 6: peaks early in the afternoon when there's not much load,
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Speaker 6: and then the load peaks in the early evening when
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Speaker 6: there's not much from renewables.
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Speaker 7: He said, you can't make it work in engineering terms.
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Speaker 6: Now I understand Chris Bowen doesn't understand that that baffles him,
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Speaker 6: but somewhat in the Liberal Party's got to understand.
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Speaker 2: Well, I've got to say the deputy leader of the
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Speaker 2: Liberal Party who we heard from just there, that is
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Speaker 2: the worst ted talk I have ever heard in my life.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you who does make sense.
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Speaker 2: So Chris Ullman was speaking to Peter Kredlin earlier this
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Speaker 2: evening about just what a mess the energy policy is
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Speaker 2: if the Liberals continue down this track of net zero,
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Speaker 2: have a listen.
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Speaker 8: Unfortunately for the coalition along the way, they're going to
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Speaker 8: tear themselves apart on this on a policy position, because
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Speaker 8: clearly the Nationals, or the large part of the Nationals,
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Speaker 8: have a different view to the Liberal Party. I assume
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Speaker 8: now they'll spend the next three years fighting over this.
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Speaker 8: It's from a Liberal point of you, what will be
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Speaker 8: required to try, without succeeding, to hit net zero will
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Speaker 8: be permanent COVID level intervention in your lifestyle. We've only
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Speaker 8: just begun.
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Speaker 7: To see the tip of this iceberg.
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Speaker 2: Here's my big problem with what the Liberals are doing
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Speaker 2: at the moment. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding them, but they're
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Speaker 2: talking a lot about we're trying to work out why
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Speaker 2: we lost the election and we're going to adjust our
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Speaker 2: policies accordingly.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: I may not be naive Freer, but this to me
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Speaker 2: seems exactly the wrong way to go about establishing your policies.
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Speaker 2: What they should be working out is not what we'll
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Speaker 2: win them an election, but what's the right thing to
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Speaker 2: do for the country. And so they're saying things like, well,
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Speaker 2: we can't dump net zero now because having run with
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Speaker 2: it since Scott Morrison introduced it as a policy, it
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Speaker 2: would be inconsistent to walk away from it.
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Speaker 1: Well, if it's wrong to persist with net zero, then
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Speaker 1: admit your inconsistency. Do what's right.
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Speaker 2: Another argument they've said is that well it will cast
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Speaker 2: us Australia as a global pariah if we ditch net zero. Well,
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Speaker 2: you know, there's plenty of nations, including the United States
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Speaker 2: of America, who seem to be doing pretty well having
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Speaker 2: cast aside net zero, and damn the consequences in terms
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Speaker 2: of reputation. I think the Liberal Party need to search
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Speaker 2: their souls, not about what's going to make them electable,
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Speaker 2: what's the best thing for the country, promote and communicate.
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Speaker 1: That well and then see what happens.
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Speaker 2: But this well, what can we do to try and
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Speaker 2: curry favor with people, regardless of whether we agree with
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Speaker 2: it or not.
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Speaker 1: On principle, is the wrong way to go.
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Speaker 4: Policy making, according to the polls, is part of what
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Speaker 4: lost the Liberals the last election. When you follow the
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Speaker 4: pulses and just go what do the people want, turns
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Speaker 4: out you end up valueless, You end up not standing
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Speaker 4: for anything, and as soon as you get any pushback,
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Speaker 4: you backflip, which makes the original policy even worse. And
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Speaker 4: so the Liberals, if they do want to come back,
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Speaker 4: pick a position and defend it and bring the Australian
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Speaker 4: people along with you. For some of the greatest political
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Speaker 4: reforms in our country, they haven't happened because politicians looked
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Speaker 4: at the polls and found that Australians wanted a GST,
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Speaker 4: that they wanted serious tax reform, that they wanted to
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Speaker 4: end the waste. Those things were often extremely unpopular, demanding
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Speaker 4: politicians to make real decisions and cast a vision for
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Speaker 4: this nation and then make the argument. And I think
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Speaker 4: that is what people are so afraid of now. They
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Speaker 4: want to know people are on their side before they
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Speaker 4: even put policy out there.
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Speaker 5: That's not how good politics work.
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Speaker 6: They're going to throw it a positive idea because it's
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Speaker 6: easy to be negative about the LIPS because they've fallen
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Speaker 6: apart and they're fraying continue to freight at the edges.
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Speaker 1: It would be fairly.
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Speaker 6: Easy to say, we can defend own nuclear policy by
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Speaker 6: proposing dropping the moratorium on nuclear science as a moratorium,
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Speaker 6: a ban on nuclear science in Australia and banning any
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Speaker 6: type of science a silly if they say, we're not
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Speaker 6: proposing that that we build half a dozen nuclear power stations,
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Speaker 6: just drop the ban on nuclear science. You can justify
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Speaker 6: it on the basis that it allows Australian universities to
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Speaker 6: set up nuclear science departments and it allows them to
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Speaker 6: train people ready for ORCUS. Now you could put that
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Speaker 6: up in the Parliament embarrassed the government, embarrassed Chris Bow
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Speaker 6: and you'd have to oppose it and you'd actually get somewhere.
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Speaker 6: There are positive things they could do and they ain't
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Speaker 6: doing them.
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Speaker 2: They ain't doing them at all, and it's going to
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Speaker 2: be a while, i think free before we find out
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Speaker 2: what they're going to do, because they don't know at
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Speaker 2: this point.
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Speaker 4: And the thing that no one really wants to take
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Speaker 4: into account is the impact this is going to have
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Speaker 4: on the Australian people. China's building two new coal fire
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Speaker 4: power plants every week while we are shutting ours down
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Speaker 4: and the people who will ultimately pay the price for
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Speaker 4: that are Australians. But moving on now, the AFL world
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Speaker 4: has been absolutely shattered by the heartbreaking news that one
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Speaker 4: of their great players at Selwood, who played eleven seasons
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Speaker 4: for the West Coast Eagles, has tragically taken his life
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Speaker 4: over the weekend. He was just forty one years old. Now,
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Speaker 4: suicide in and of itself is always a tragedy, but
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Speaker 4: this is made even worse by the fact that his
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Speaker 4: twin brother took his life just three months ago, and
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Speaker 4: in researching for this I also found out that he
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Speaker 4: was just one week away from doing a charity run
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Speaker 4: in his brother's honor to raise money for mental health
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Speaker 4: and suicide prevention. So it is absolutely heartbreaking. Now an
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Speaker 4: internal study by the AFL Players Association has found that
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Speaker 4: the numbers of former players seeking mental health support has
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Speaker 4: increased by twenty three percent in the last year and
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Speaker 4: has doubled in the last three years. Now it is
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Speaker 4: an absolute tragedy, and of course suicide no matter what
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Speaker 4: the circumstances are is tragic. But in this case, when
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Speaker 4: you see two suicides in one family in such a
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Speaker 4: short period of time, it really makes you wonder what
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Speaker 4: more can we do to be supporting these people. And
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Speaker 4: it does raise the idea that suicide can often end
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Speaker 4: up as a social contagion, where if you see someone
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Speaker 4: who's committed suicide in your close network, suicide then becomes
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Speaker 4: more prevalent within that group of people.
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Speaker 5: We see it in.
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Speaker 4: Schools, in communities and in families as well.
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Speaker 2: You're right to say it's an absolute tragedy. The cell
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Speaker 2: would family legendary in the AFL. If you don't follow
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Speaker 2: the AFL, you just need to know that family, four
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Speaker 2: young men, all of them absolutely champion footballers. If we
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Speaker 2: can go back to the photograph we showed earlier of
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Speaker 2: the funeral, Adam Selwood, who just took his life most recently,
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Speaker 2: is pictured there speaking at the funeral of his twin
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Speaker 2: brother Troy, who had taken his life in February. So
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Speaker 2: a lot of people are concluding there's a social contagion
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Speaker 2: part to this. And Andrew bolt Out colleague wrote a
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Speaker 2: brilliant article in The Herald Sun over the weekend talking
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Speaker 2: about the fact that typically we don't speak about suicide
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Speaker 2: at all, partly because of the social contagion issue.
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Speaker 1: We don't want it to be encouraged.
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Speaker 2: But he made the point that maybe we need to
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Speaker 2: have a conversation about just the damage suicide does, and
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Speaker 2: typically we don't talk about it because we're trying to
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Speaker 2: spare the memory of the departed person. But Andrew Bock
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Speaker 2: made a good point, what about the lives of those
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Speaker 2: who are still here, who are so devastated by this,
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Speaker 2: and some of whom do end up going down that
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Speaker 2: same route. We need to talk about the devastating consequences
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Speaker 2: of suicide, that it's not a noble way out, it's
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Speaker 2: not a brave or courageous thing to do. It has
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Speaker 2: devastating consequences long after that person has gone.
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Speaker 6: There was a study done in South Korea which showed
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Speaker 6: that in a family where one person who committed suicide,
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Speaker 6: another person was three times more likely to commit suicide
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Speaker 6: then a family that had lost someone to some other
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Speaker 6: course of death accident and illness or whatever. So, in
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Speaker 6: other words, it does work like a contagion. It does actually.
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Speaker 7: Trip the idea.
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Speaker 6: See there would be people for example, who would look
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Speaker 6: at something like euthanasia legislation and misreaded or misunderstand it
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Speaker 6: as saying, oh, well, our society has said suicide is
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Speaker 6: a way to deal with the hurts of life. So
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Speaker 6: we need to do two things. We need to persue.
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Speaker 6: We need to help people with who are hurting, who've
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Speaker 6: got the hurts of life. We need to be there
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Speaker 6: beside them. The community has to do that. That's why
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Speaker 6: the AFL having a special round on this could really
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Speaker 6: help if they are there and they're.
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Speaker 7: Supporting their AFL family.
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Speaker 6: And the second thing is we need to make it
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Speaker 6: clear of the whole community suicide is not a solution.
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Speaker 6: If life is hurting, it is really bad for you,
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Speaker 6: that's terrible. We feel for you, we want to be
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Speaker 6: there for you and help you, but suicide is not
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Speaker 6: one of the options.
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Speaker 2: And the other interesting thing here is the AFL is
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Speaker 2: starting to talk a lot more about the mental health
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Speaker 2: of players. They they do have unique challenges. You've got
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Speaker 2: young men who are earning an absolute fortune. They are
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Speaker 2: feted as gods, but it's a pretty short career in
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Speaker 2: professional sport. You know, you start as an eighteen year old.
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Speaker 2: By the time you're thirty, you're washed up and then
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Speaker 2: all of that adulation, all of that profile, it's gone
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Speaker 2: overnight and you haven't even lived half your life.
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Speaker 1: You've got to figure out what do I do now.
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Speaker 2: It's not that surprising that many AFL players have suffered
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Speaker 2: from mental health issues. So the AFL and the NRL
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Speaker 2: and other sporting bodies do need to do something to
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Speaker 2: help those young men. Hey, if you're struggling with mental
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Speaker 2: health issues or you know someone who is, don't forget
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Speaker 2: Help is only a phone call away. There's the Lifeline
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Speaker 2: number on your screen, and so make use of Lifeline.
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Speaker 2: They're a great organization who provide help to a lot
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Speaker 2: of people. I'll tell you what else is being promoted
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Speaker 2: as a help to people, and that's medicinal cannabis, which
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Speaker 2: was legalized in this country in twenty sixteen. But shocked surprise,
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Speaker 2: it's being prescribed at an alarming rate. The explosion of
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Speaker 2: prescriptions for legalized medicinal cannabis for things like insomnia, anxiety,
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Speaker 2: and chronic pain is just quite shocking. There's data from
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Speaker 2: the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency that found eight doctors
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Speaker 2: had each issued ten thousand prescriptions for medicinal cannabis. In
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Speaker 2: just six months, one doctor had issued seventeen thousand prescriptions.
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Speaker 2: That's a prescription every four minutes, every working day for
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Speaker 2: medicinal cannabis. If you think that's shocking, it gets worse.
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Speaker 2: One practitioner had issued prescriptions for nine hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: nine thousand cannabis products in just one year. A nurse
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Speaker 2: issued thirty one thousand prescriptions in twelve months, and on
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Speaker 2: and on it goes fray up. I understand that some
20:04
Speaker 2: people have been really helped by medicinal cannabis. There's many
20:08
Speaker 2: anecdotal stories from people saying, look, this really made a
20:11
Speaker 2: massive difference.
20:11
Speaker 1: I was in chronic pain. It really helped me.
20:15
Speaker 2: But there are a lot of people accessing this now
20:19
Speaker 2: legal drug. You have to start to ask is this
20:22
Speaker 2: being dispensed like Lolly's to people who really it's less
20:26
Speaker 2: about chronic pain that can't be treated any other way,
20:30
Speaker 2: and it's a way for people who want to access
20:32
Speaker 2: cannabis to do just that.
20:34
Speaker 4: Well, some people maybe getting medicinal benefits from this scheme.
20:38
Speaker 4: I suspect others maybe getting financial benefits from these schemes.
20:42
Speaker 4: I mean, where do you find this many people to
20:44
Speaker 4: prescribe that much cannabis. To one pharmacist is prescribing over
20:50
Speaker 4: two six hundred doses a day. I can't imagine that
20:54
Speaker 4: they're seeing two six hundred people a day. That would
20:58
Speaker 4: be physically impossible. Well, yet they're prescribing all of this.
21:02
Speaker 4: So it does make you wonder what's going on here.
21:05
Speaker 4: But my deeper question is how are they no restrictions
21:09
Speaker 4: around the number of prescriptions.
21:11
Speaker 5: You can order?
21:12
Speaker 4: Because I presume this stuff is all tracked, and if
21:15
Speaker 4: someone is prescribing thousands of doses of cannabis per day,
21:19
Speaker 4: surely that should raise some alarm bells.
21:21
Speaker 6: Kel Oh, yes it should, And there is a doseyge
21:25
Speaker 6: gissue involved here. When it was first proposed, I interviewed
21:28
Speaker 6: on radio a psychiatrist who'd worked with legalized cannabis in
21:32
Speaker 6: New Zealand and he was advocating it here, and I said,
21:35
Speaker 6: do people get high on legalized on medicinal cannabis and
21:40
Speaker 6: he said they shouldn't. If you get the right dose,
21:43
Speaker 6: it should have a calming effect, it should treat seizures
21:46
Speaker 6: or whatever the problem is, but you should not get high. Now,
21:51
Speaker 6: my worry is the people who are prescribed prescribing it
21:54
Speaker 6: aren't using the right There are different types, by the way,
21:57
Speaker 6: there are some types of medicinal cannabis which feature CB
22:00
Speaker 6: and others which feature THHD. THHD is the one that
22:03
Speaker 6: can get you high, but not if the dosage is right.
22:05
Speaker 6: CBD almost never will. So you almost need to say, okay,
22:10
Speaker 6: we're going to license particular doctors and they will have
22:13
Speaker 6: to do training. They will have to be specialists in
22:16
Speaker 6: medicinal cannabis so they understand appropriate dosages for each individual person.
22:21
Speaker 6: If they're doing if they're doing a script every four minutes,
22:24
Speaker 6: they're not looking at the patient.
22:25
Speaker 1: And part of the problem problem is telehealth, right, so
22:29
Speaker 1: a lot of yes, medicinal cannabis is.
22:31
Speaker 2: Being prescribed over the phone by a medical practitioner that
22:35
Speaker 2: the client has never met personally, a phone call that
22:38
Speaker 2: lasts a matter of minutes. So things like how could
22:41
Speaker 2: you possibly you don't even.
22:43
Speaker 6: Know things like their body weight and that kind of
22:45
Speaker 6: thing which will make decisions, will help you make decisions
22:48
Speaker 6: about the correct dosage. So it's obviously being done in
22:51
Speaker 6: the wrong way, and there must be a medical way,
22:54
Speaker 6: in a legal way to say, okay, do a specialist
22:56
Speaker 6: training thing it's weekend training and you learn how to
22:58
Speaker 6: do the dosage and those people and only those people
23:02
Speaker 6: are allowed to prescribe, and you've got to go there.
23:05
Speaker 7: You can't do it on the telephone.
23:06
Speaker 1: You're right the thin edge of the wedge of course
23:09
Speaker 1: with this.
23:09
Speaker 2: And we've seen members of the cannabis party elected to
23:13
Speaker 2: state governments. We've got the Greens pushing continually for the
23:16
Speaker 2: legalization of cannabis just generally to the community, and this
23:21
Speaker 2: will be seen as an argument in favor of that.
23:26
Speaker 2: With the prevalence of medicinal cannabis, so one thing will
23:29
Speaker 2: lead to the other.
23:30
Speaker 6: Except in California, where they've had a cannabis freely available
23:34
Speaker 6: as a recreational drug for a long time, the increase
23:37
Speaker 6: in paranoia has been enormous. It does cause psychiatric problems.
23:40
Speaker 6: So we can't go down that route. We have to
23:42
Speaker 6: make sure that's blocked off.
23:44
Speaker 2: Tell you, walking around the CBD in Melbourne as I
23:46
Speaker 2: have recently, and the number of people who very clearly
23:50
Speaker 2: have got mental health issues or who are on some
23:54
Speaker 2: kind of substance wandering around the last thing we do.
23:57
Speaker 2: I know we're talking about medicinalnabis, but it's only matter
24:00
Speaker 2: of time until the push for just a broader legalization
24:03
Speaker 2: will take it and.
24:04
Speaker 5: It makes its way into the system.
24:05
Speaker 4: And I remember in school, by about age fourteen year
24:09
Speaker 4: nine kids had already started doing marijuana and you could
24:12
Speaker 4: see the decline. And once you start doing marijuana, funnily enough,
24:16
Speaker 4: the high ways off. It's not as strong and you
24:18
Speaker 4: move on to stronger and stronger drugs. It's a really
24:21
Speaker 4: slippery slope for us to go down.
24:22
Speaker 6: And being in the media, I have worked with people
24:25
Speaker 6: who've had very colorful younger years in which they got
24:28
Speaker 6: into what we might call the medicine cabinet quite heavily.
24:31
Speaker 7: And I know from working with these people.
24:34
Speaker 6: That there are some dead brain cells in there that
24:37
Speaker 6: should not be dead. But can I take us to
24:39
Speaker 6: a different level of government that we don't talk about
24:42
Speaker 6: nearly enough.
24:43
Speaker 7: Local government.
24:44
Speaker 6: They should be interested in rates and roads and rubbish
24:46
Speaker 6: important things like that. But one of the things that
24:48
Speaker 6: local governments like to do is they set up what
24:50
Speaker 6: are called sister city programs or twin city programs. Quite
24:54
Speaker 6: often a town or a city will set up a
24:57
Speaker 6: sister city twin city program a city on the other
25:00
Speaker 6: side of the world in a very interesting place so
25:02
Speaker 6: they can have tax tax funded, ratepayer funded holidays. Oh no, sorry,
25:09
Speaker 6: working trips to those interesting places. But in the Borough
25:14
Speaker 6: of Brent in London, they've done something quite different. They've
25:17
Speaker 6: decided to become a twin city with Nablus. Nablus is
25:20
Speaker 6: a city whose local government is dominated by Hamas, a
25:24
Speaker 6: registered terrorist organization, so they've just one of their local
25:28
Speaker 6: council members, a labor member, idasham Afsal, suggested to the council,
25:34
Speaker 6: which is a labor dominated council, we should twin city
25:37
Speaker 6: with this Nublus because there'd be a really good idea.
25:42
Speaker 6: By the way, it's in the West Bank, it's not
25:44
Speaker 6: in Gaza. Hamas is still powerful and influential outside of Gaza.
25:50
Speaker 6: They simply haven't worked out what this means and what
25:53
Speaker 6: kind of signal it's sending. I wonder if in Brent
25:56
Speaker 6: there are any Jewish citizens, any Jewish ratepayers, and whether
26:00
Speaker 6: they were consulted by the Barra Council before they decided
26:04
Speaker 6: to twin up with a Hamas controlled city.
26:06
Speaker 2: The fifteen council members in this West Bank city are
26:10
Speaker 2: members of Hamas.
26:11
Speaker 1: So it's absolutely outrageous.
26:13
Speaker 2: That a British local government would nominate them as a
26:17
Speaker 2: sister city or as a twinning city. And this was
26:21
Speaker 2: promoted by a council member who describes himself on social
26:25
Speaker 2: media as a Pakistani Muslim. He was wearing a cafif
26:30
Speaker 2: as he spoke to council and he said that the
26:34
Speaker 2: reason for twinning with this city in the West Bank
26:37
Speaker 2: was and I quote, to allow children living under Israeli
26:40
Speaker 2: occupation a better future, so Fara. It's pretty clear from
26:44
Speaker 2: his own confession a couple of things. Firstly, this British councilor,
26:48
Speaker 2: by his own social media doesn't see himself first and
26:51
Speaker 2: foremost as British. He promotes himself as a Pakistani Muslim.
26:55
Speaker 2: Now there's nothing wrong with being Pakistani, there's nothing wrong
26:57
Speaker 2: with being a Muslim.
26:58
Speaker 1: But if you're a.
26:59
Speaker 2: British local government counselor and you see yourself as something
27:03
Speaker 2: other than British first, that's a problem. Keir Starmer, the
27:08
Speaker 2: Prime Minister of the UK, just recently talked about the
27:11
Speaker 2: problem we've got in the UK is we've become a quote.
27:13
Speaker 1: Unquote island of strangers. That's a problem.
27:17
Speaker 2: The second problem with this is not only does he
27:19
Speaker 2: not see himself first as British, but he says the
27:22
Speaker 2: reason the motivation for having a city in the West
27:26
Speaker 2: Bank as a twinning city is so that children quote
27:31
Speaker 2: living under Israeli occupation can blah blah blah blah blah.
27:35
Speaker 2: Clearly this is highly political. He's pushing a cause rather
27:41
Speaker 2: than doing something to benefit his local ratepayers who gave
27:45
Speaker 2: him the platform to speak in the first place.
27:47
Speaker 1: This is my problem with local government.
27:49
Speaker 2: It's full of wannabes, people who ah, no, I'm far
27:52
Speaker 2: too good to rubbish about Rhodes rates and rubbish I.
27:55
Speaker 1: Want to change the world.
27:57
Speaker 2: Well, if you're that good, run for the prime minister ship,
28:00
Speaker 2: run for federal parliament. Don't use rate payer money in
28:04
Speaker 2: a local borough or a local council somewhere here in
28:08
Speaker 2: Australia for instance, to push policies and things that are
28:13
Speaker 2: way beyond your pay grade.
28:15
Speaker 4: Well over ten councils in the UK and now twin
28:18
Speaker 4: cities with cities in the West Bank or Gaza, so
28:23
Speaker 4: it's like a bit of a fad over there. They
28:25
Speaker 4: must think it's really cool. But the most ridiculous part
28:28
Speaker 4: of this story is the councilor who pushed for the
28:31
Speaker 4: twinning of the cities, said that he hopes Palestinian children
28:36
Speaker 4: can dream of a brighter future while becoming a twin
28:40
Speaker 4: city where the mayor of that city is a member
28:42
Speaker 4: of Hamas. Do you not realize that her maas are
28:46
Speaker 4: the ones stopping children from having a bright future. As
28:50
Speaker 4: long as they hate Israelis more than they love their
28:53
Speaker 4: own people, there will never be peace, and those poor
28:56
Speaker 4: Palestinian children will never have a chance because they'll be
29:00
Speaker 4: endless cycle of war and violence. If they were serious
29:04
Speaker 4: about peace, they would be looking at real dialogue, real
29:07
Speaker 4: coming together of Israelis and Palestinians. But they're not because
29:11
Speaker 4: this is not about peace. This is about hating Israel,
29:15
Speaker 4: which personally, I think comes down to deew hatred and
29:18
Speaker 4: that is what.
29:19
Speaker 5: It is, plain and simple. And also keep in mind
29:22
Speaker 5: Nablus is.
29:23
Speaker 4: Notorious for being a hotbed of terrorism. Just in the
29:27
Speaker 4: last year, the IDF recorded six thousand terror incidences in
29:34
Speaker 4: the whole West Bank. One thousand terror incidents were thwarted
29:39
Speaker 4: by Israeli security forces. This is a dangerous place. Nablus
29:43
Speaker 4: in particular, has around I think it's four refugee camps,
29:47
Speaker 4: which basically are breeding grounds for Hamas. So it's really dangerous.
29:51
Speaker 2: So if you're a rate payer and you're listening to
29:53
Speaker 2: your local councilor say part of having a twin city
29:56
Speaker 2: with Nebulus is that we can bring young Palestinians to
29:59
Speaker 2: our borough in the UK to bond with our young people.
30:02
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's such a great idea. One more
30:05
Speaker 2: thing before we move on. You know, there's a common
30:07
Speaker 2: feature with all these woke councils, whether they're in the
30:09
Speaker 2: UK or in Australia. You start to look at their
30:12
Speaker 2: finances and you always find they're raising their rates continually.
30:17
Speaker 2: I don't know how rate payers put up with it.
30:19
Speaker 2: But this particular Burrow in the UK, they have just
30:22
Speaker 2: raised their rate levey to the highest permissible level.
30:26
Speaker 1: It's an absolute outrage.
30:27
Speaker 2: They're charging the maximum amount for people living there to
30:31
Speaker 2: pursue these internationalist policies that have nothing to do with
30:35
Speaker 2: helping locals.
30:37
Speaker 6: And they should have They should have consulted an Australian
30:39
Speaker 6: local council Australia.
30:41
Speaker 1: That would not have helped.
30:43
Speaker 7: He would have.
30:43
Speaker 6: Said, mate, mate, really bad idea twin with suv in
30:47
Speaker 6: FIGI much better beature.
30:49
Speaker 4: Look, something weird must be going on in the UK
30:53
Speaker 4: because we have just received news that the UK and
30:56
Speaker 4: the EU appear to have agreed to the bigest reset
31:01
Speaker 4: in relations between the EU and the UK since Brexit.
31:05
Speaker 5: Now, this is a huge deal, which.
31:08
Speaker 4: Nigel Faraj and Brexit proponents have called a surrender summit.
31:15
Speaker 4: Kir Sama has basically backflipped on protecting Brexit and respecting
31:21
Speaker 4: the choice of Britain's to vote to leave the EU,
31:25
Speaker 4: and now he is essentially putting the UK back under
31:29
Speaker 4: European law through.
31:31
Speaker 5: A back door.
31:33
Speaker 4: So some of the notable features of this deal are
31:36
Speaker 4: the EU will now have access to UK fisheries for
31:39
Speaker 4: another twelve years that is three times longer than what
31:44
Speaker 4: the UK government said they would commit to. They will
31:48
Speaker 4: also bring food safety standards in line with the EU.
31:51
Speaker 4: That essentially puts the UK back under the jurisdiction of
31:56
Speaker 4: European courts. And what does the UK get in return
32:01
Speaker 4: for all of this eGate passport checks at airports, pet
32:07
Speaker 4: passports and the ability to bid for European defense contracts. Now,
32:13
Speaker 4: Britain's voted for independence, they voted for sovereignty, they voted
32:19
Speaker 4: for democratic accountability, and Kiir Starmer appears to have signed
32:25
Speaker 4: all that away for what.
32:28
Speaker 1: He's never queued up at an airport.
32:29
Speaker 2: I mean, if you can get faster through the queue,
32:32
Speaker 2: you'd give up your national sovereignty, wouldn't you.
32:34
Speaker 1: And that's the problem that this is about.
32:36
Speaker 2: Whatever you think about Brexit, right, whether you thought it
32:38
Speaker 2: was a good idea or a bad idea, the fact
32:40
Speaker 2: remains BRIT's voted in a referendum against joining with the EU.
32:45
Speaker 2: So for Kiir Starmer, especially with his low level of
32:49
Speaker 2: support in the electorate, he's deeply unpopular. He didn't go
32:53
Speaker 2: to an election with a mandate for this to now
32:57
Speaker 2: bring the EU's control from Brussels.
33:00
Speaker 6: But James, this is not Starmer acting alone. This is
33:03
Speaker 6: Starmer speaking for the ruling class. The ruling class in
33:06
Speaker 6: Britain never accepted brigs It. They challenged it in the courts,
33:11
Speaker 6: The bureaucracy, the civil service did all they could to
33:14
Speaker 6: slow it down and stop it from working. They've never
33:17
Speaker 6: accepted the people's decision. They've never accepted Brigsit. They've never
33:21
Speaker 6: accepted that Britain should have its own sovereignty. We should
33:24
Speaker 6: take they should all take their orders from unelected bureaucrats
33:27
Speaker 6: in Brussels. That's been their view. He is now acting
33:31
Speaker 6: on their view. The fact that he doesn't have the
33:32
Speaker 6: support of the people doesn't matter.
33:34
Speaker 7: The ruling classes said, this is what can I tell you.
33:37
Speaker 6: There was an interesting study showing that over the last
33:40
Speaker 6: decade or so, Britain's trade with non EU countries has
33:44
Speaker 6: risen twenty five percent faster than trade with Europe. So
33:48
Speaker 6: there's no economic benefit in it. And in a Trump
33:50
Speaker 6: tariff world, trading outside of Europe and outside is going
33:53
Speaker 6: to be really popular, So there's no economic reason for
33:56
Speaker 6: doing this.
33:57
Speaker 7: This is just ideological.
33:59
Speaker 6: This is just saying we want to be in Europe,
34:01
Speaker 6: even if they are the puppet masters and we are
34:04
Speaker 6: the puppets.
34:04
Speaker 2: This is absolute political suicide for Kirs Starmer, isn't it.
34:07
Speaker 2: Because the person who will win out of this frame,
34:10
Speaker 2: I mean you know his.
34:10
Speaker 5: Name, don't you, Nigel for Rush.
34:14
Speaker 2: I mean, Reform are going to absolutely benefit from this
34:18
Speaker 2: because half of labor supporters don't want to join again
34:21
Speaker 2: with the EU. So for Starma to do this, as
34:24
Speaker 2: you said, Kel, just shows how strong the globalist push
34:28
Speaker 2: is that he would do something so detrimental to his
34:31
Speaker 2: own re election chances in the name of globalization that
34:34
Speaker 2: that's how strong that urge is.
34:36
Speaker 4: And it was that Red Wall labor heartland that pushed
34:40
Speaker 4: back the most against Brexit because they want sovereignty, they
34:44
Speaker 4: want control over their own country. They don't want to
34:47
Speaker 4: be burdened with regulations coming from unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
34:51
Speaker 5: And Kirs Starmer has just said stuff you.
34:54
Speaker 2: The other issue is got he just made this fine speech.
34:56
Speaker 2: I mean we were applauding Kiir Starmer. We don't do
35:00
Speaker 2: that often, but we were the other week because remember
35:03
Speaker 2: he spoke about we need to slash immigration. We don't
35:06
Speaker 2: want an island of strangers, and he committed to reducing
35:09
Speaker 2: immigration significantly.
35:11
Speaker 1: So that's on this hand.
35:12
Speaker 2: But now he's come out joining with the EU, which
35:15
Speaker 2: will allow pretty much unfettered access to the UK from
35:19
Speaker 2: eighteen to thirty year olds throughout Europe. So he's trying
35:22
Speaker 2: to tighten immigration on the one hand, he's opening up
35:25
Speaker 2: immigration on the other. There's all sorts of problems. I
35:28
Speaker 2: suspect he wasn't that serious when he talked about slashing immigration,
35:33
Speaker 2: not of what he says, but what he does. We're
35:35
Speaker 2: going to go to a break now, but when we
35:37
Speaker 2: come back, we'll look at what's making headlines tomorrow, including
35:40
Speaker 2: the Albanezy government considering dropping the energy rebate. But wait
35:45
Speaker 2: until you hear what they're considering doing with that money
35:48
Speaker 2: that's coming up in just a moment. Welcome back to
35:54
Speaker 2: the program. Let's take a look at tomorrow's headlines. As always,
35:57
Speaker 2: the Australian Newspaper's got some cracking stories on the front page,
36:01
Speaker 2: especially the one frayer about government energy policy.
36:05
Speaker 4: Yes, apparently energy bill rebates must end. Albanese's welfare experts
36:10
Speaker 4: declare members of Anthony Albanese's Welfare Working Group are pushing
36:15
Speaker 4: labor to end it's six point eight billion dollar power
36:19
Speaker 4: bill rebates instead funneling taxpayer money into solar panels and
36:24
Speaker 4: renewable batteries for poorer Australians, reducing power prices more sustainably
36:30
Speaker 4: and raining in the deficit. Now, I am all for
36:33
Speaker 4: cutting wasteful government spending, but I'm not sure cutting rebates
36:40
Speaker 4: to build more solar panels is going to have the
36:43
Speaker 4: desired effect, especially for poorer families, because, as I recall,
36:48
Speaker 4: we got into this mess because our grid became unstable,
36:52
Speaker 4: because we lost baseload power because we're building so many renewables,
36:56
Speaker 4: and it's leading to instability.
36:57
Speaker 5: And power shortages very soon.
37:00
Speaker 4: So I really don't think a cutting tangible relief for
37:03
Speaker 4: this government created crisis just to spend on creating more
37:07
Speaker 4: of a crisis is going to do anything.
37:09
Speaker 2: They're in a massive hole, aren't they, Because if they
37:12
Speaker 2: continue with rebates, that's an admission that energy prices are
37:16
Speaker 2: not coming down, therefore we need to be subsidized. But
37:20
Speaker 2: if they don't continue with rebates, then they can't say, oh,
37:24
Speaker 2: we've done tangible things to bring down the costs that
37:28
Speaker 2: people would otherwise have faced. So through their own stupid policy,
37:33
Speaker 2: they're now.
37:33
Speaker 1: Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
37:36
Speaker 6: And what happens when the rebates come off, There'll be
37:38
Speaker 6: a sudden bump in inflation, and we know what's going
37:42
Speaker 6: to happen, then that will be the So we're told
37:45
Speaker 6: we're going to get a rate cut tomorrow. That's nice
37:47
Speaker 6: if it happens, but the rate cuts will end if
37:50
Speaker 6: the rebates come off and inflation bounces up.
37:53
Speaker 2: But this idea that they can scrap the rebates to
37:56
Speaker 2: buy more solar powers and batteries for poorer peace people
38:00
Speaker 2: is just it's doubling down on.
38:02
Speaker 4: Stupid exactly to just make the situation worse.
38:06
Speaker 5: Now.
38:06
Speaker 4: Also in the Australian six year old viewing pawn school
38:10
Speaker 4: principles say, based on schoolwork, children as young as six
38:15
Speaker 4: appear to be accessing online pornography and young female teachers
38:19
Speaker 4: increasingly subjected to sexual innuendos. This is truly shocking but
38:26
Speaker 4: kind of unsurprising in the digital age that we're living in.
38:30
Speaker 4: I think the average age of exposure to pornography is
38:33
Speaker 4: around ten or eleven years old.
38:35
Speaker 6: It's speed there for a while, and those kids have
38:37
Speaker 6: got their own devices. When I looked at this, I'm
38:39
Speaker 6: a grandpa. One of my grand grandsons is six years old.
38:43
Speaker 6: I couldn't work out how it happened. I mean, with
38:46
Speaker 6: the six year old, you always see the screen they're
38:49
Speaker 6: looking at. There's a parent or a grand bearer or
38:51
Speaker 6: someone who sees the screen. And they play computer games,
38:55
Speaker 6: you know, they can race the cars or whatever, or
38:59
Speaker 6: they now do things like reading eggs which help them
39:02
Speaker 6: learn to read. How a six year old gets on
39:05
Speaker 6: to pornography is something I do not understand.
39:08
Speaker 7: If they see.
39:08
Speaker 6: It, it's going to frighten them and confuse them and
39:12
Speaker 6: damage them. So it's really important this stops if it's happening,
39:15
Speaker 6: But I just don't understand how it's happening.
39:17
Speaker 4: The problem is a lot of parents don't adequately supervise
39:20
Speaker 4: their children when they're on screens because it's so much
39:23
Speaker 4: easier to just give your kid an iPad and send
39:25
Speaker 4: them away than it is to actively parent. And then
39:28
Speaker 4: pornography finds children. That's the other thing. You'll get ads,
39:31
Speaker 4: you'll get pop ups, and kids are curious, they might
39:34
Speaker 4: just click things, and then before you know it, you're
39:36
Speaker 4: rubbing a child of innocence.
39:38
Speaker 5: It's really sad.
39:39
Speaker 2: The reason you give your kid a screen is so
39:40
Speaker 2: you don't have to supervise them.
39:42
Speaker 1: Kel a six year old? What's that? Grade two?
39:45
Speaker 7: Grade one?
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Speaker 1: Grade one in primary skills?
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Speaker 2: And the other interesting part of this article is young
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Speaker 2: female teachers being sexualized by students even in primary school.
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Speaker 2: It's a pretty shocking story and a reminder that parents
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Speaker 2: really do need to take responsibility for their kids. Let's
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Speaker 2: have a look at the front page of tomorrow's Herald Sun.
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Speaker 1: Milk dry reads.
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Speaker 2: The headline drought ravaged farmers sending perfectly good dairy cows
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Speaker 2: to slaughter amid hay crisis, with a protest to hit
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Speaker 2: the CBD. The article reads that drought stricken Victorian farmers
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Speaker 2: are being forced to send, as I said, thousands of
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Speaker 2: perfectly good milking cows to slaughter and transport similar numbers
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Speaker 2: of beef cattle into state, with warnings the cost of
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Speaker 2: dairy and meat products could soar. Hay supplies are dwindling
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Speaker 2: and farmers are facing huge increases in the price of bales.
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Speaker 2: Many are struggling to even feed their animals, and livestock
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Speaker 2: agents say it's so bad that abattoirs are battling to
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Speaker 2: keep up with the demand to slaughter dairy cows as
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Speaker 2: a massive rally plan for outside Parliament tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: You know, you really feel for.
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Speaker 2: Farmers kel because they get hit on every side, whether
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Speaker 2: it's wind turb being erected on their properties without them
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Speaker 2: having much opportunity to complain, whether in Victoria it's levees
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Speaker 2: being forced on farmers to pay for the rural Fire
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Speaker 2: Brigade because the state government has got themselves into so
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Speaker 2: much debt. They just get hit on every side, whether
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Speaker 2: it's indigenous heritage laws as we saw in Western Australia,
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Speaker 2: that caused a massive problem for people in rural communities.
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Speaker 1: And that's before we talk about drought.
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Speaker 6: That's right, And I hadn't even heard about this until
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Speaker 6: the weekend when I came across the story. This drought
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Speaker 6: is huge, stretches from a Victoria across into South Australia.
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Speaker 7: So it's having a massive impact.
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Speaker 6: And you're quite right about the demonstration of Parliament House
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Speaker 6: tomorrow when the budget is well. There's an Act of
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Speaker 6: Parliament that's been brought down which will impose what's called
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Speaker 6: a fire levy on them. It's a tax on them
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Speaker 6: and basically the firefighters Union wanted to unionize everyone, including
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Speaker 6: the volunteers who did it fun nothing, so there's now
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Speaker 6: not as many volunteers, more people being paid, it costs more,
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Speaker 6: and the state government, the dreadful Brax government, is coming
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Speaker 6: up with this notion that will just tax the farmers
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Speaker 6: more because that's the place where the bushfires are. Everything
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Speaker 6: is happening to them and it matters because what the
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Speaker 6: farmers produce is what you eat, so this is actually
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Speaker 6: vital to Australia's life.
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Speaker 2: It'd be interesting to see what Sinta Allen does because
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Speaker 2: she's backflipped on so many policies trying to make herself electable.
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Speaker 7: For she keeps making noises like this is locked in,
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Speaker 7: doesn't she?
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Speaker 1: She does.
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Speaker 2: But she's flipped on a whole lot of things. And
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what she'd want to flip on this
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Speaker 2: because farmers in Victoria are furious.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 6: On the front page of the Daily Telegraph tomorrow, one
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Speaker 6: of the headlines is the kind of thing that sub
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Speaker 6: editors love, drawing up a slight play on words, war
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Speaker 6: and preach is the headline of the story. The story
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Speaker 6: says a Western Sydney Islamic preacher claims court action against
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Speaker 6: him over his allegedly anti Semitic comments. Is about the
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Speaker 6: Jewish lobby wanting to destroy Islam, and he says a
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Speaker 6: religious conflict is currently gripping our city. I can't think
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Speaker 6: of anything sader and somehow, or rather you think, one
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Speaker 6: of the roles that our federal government has got is
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Speaker 6: to set the tone for our society, so our society
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Speaker 6: is less divisive and more cohesive.
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Speaker 7: And it hasn't been that way for the last few years.
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Speaker 7: As a James, it.
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Speaker 1: Certainly has not. Kill it certainly hasn't.
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Speaker 4: Now this is a bit of a wild one coming
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Speaker 4: from the advertiser. Dead sea like a plot from a
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Speaker 4: Hollywood horror movie. Marine creatures are hemorrhaging, behaving erratically and
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Speaker 4: being suffocated by the algal bloom off the South Australian coast,
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Speaker 4: which is only.
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Speaker 5: Expected to worsen.
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Speaker 4: The dire situation, described as a bushfire in the ocean,
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Speaker 4: caused in part by sea temperature's two point five degrees
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Speaker 4: higher than you comes as an expert describes the dangers
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Speaker 4: posed by the bloom as the most alarming marine event
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Speaker 4: in South Australia's history. Environment Minister Susan Close also says
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Speaker 4: dead sea life, including sharks, have a pinkish tinge from hemorrhaging.
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Speaker 4: That is just I mean, I'm kind of speech.
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Speaker 7: It's a weird story, isn't it.
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Speaker 4: It's weird, but it's incredibly sad for the wildlife.
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Speaker 1: It's not well, I mean, it's a dead shark. That's sad.
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Speaker 1: I'll get in trouble for that. I recently right how
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Speaker 1: they're taking care of the show.
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Speaker 7: Some of the They've got a serious story here.
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Speaker 6: But I've got to say the way that the way
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Speaker 6: they frame from of their pictures is odd. Next to
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Speaker 6: the picture of the.
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Speaker 7: Sting rays, it says deranged stingrays and I've.
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Speaker 6: Got no idea how they worked out the sting rays
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Speaker 6: out a mental health problem.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what is it?
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Speaker 2: A great front page though, it's it's worth the having
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Speaker 2: a look at the advertiser tomorrow just for that front
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Speaker 2: page and the photographs they've got there. We're going to
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Speaker 2: go to a break when we come back. Football fans
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Speaker 2: rushing to join the NRL's latest team mistakenly buy memberships
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Speaker 2: in a.
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Speaker 1: Very different kind of club. We'll tell you about that
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Speaker 1: just the moment.
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Speaker 2: Well, if you're a rugby league fan, you'd be aware
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Speaker 2: that the NRL have announced, to great fanfare, a brand
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Speaker 2: new franchise beginning in twenty twenty seven in the city
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Speaker 2: of Perth.
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Speaker 1: It'll be called the Perth Bears.
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Speaker 2: Now, as I said, they don't start playing until twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty seven, but already people are pretty excited and wanting
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Speaker 2: memberships for this new franchise. They're expecting about thirty thousand
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Speaker 2: people to become members, so people from all around Australia
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Speaker 2: have gone online to join.
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Speaker 1: The Perth Bears. There's just one problem.
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Speaker 2: There's another club in Perth called not the Perth Bears,
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Speaker 2: but the Bears Perth and the Bears Perth, well they're
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Speaker 2: not an NRL club, they're a gay club. And so
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Speaker 2: people have mistakenly been buying memberships in the gay club
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Speaker 2: thinking they were joining a football team. Here's the Perth
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Speaker 2: the Bears Perth president gay club president on two GB
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Speaker 2: radio explaining the mistake.
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Speaker 10: It's been weird because we got like fifteen or twenty
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Speaker 10: membership applicants from our state, which we hardly ever get
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Speaker 10: stuff from our state, right, so we got all these
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Speaker 10: memberships and then we have to call them up and say,
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Speaker 10: you do realize we are not the rugby club.
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Speaker 8: You've got another add online for the Bears big pool party.
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Speaker 8: I imagine getting some of the rugby league players to
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Speaker 8: drop in for a deep.
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Speaker 10: Well, yes, feel free to give any of them my
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Speaker 10: phone number.
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Speaker 1: Oh what a shock you would get.
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Speaker 2: You think you're joining the NRL team kel and it's
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Speaker 2: a very different kind of team.
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Speaker 6: Yes, there'd be some people might get a surprise having
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Speaker 6: taken out membership after the very first Perth Bears game
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Speaker 6: they go there for a drink.
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Speaker 7: That might be a bit surprising, mind you.
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Speaker 6: It also means the gay meta Perth now know which
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Speaker 6: code of football they have to follow and which team
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Speaker 6: they have to support.
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Speaker 1: There is that kel, there is that to add to
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Speaker 1: the confusion.
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Speaker 2: Of course, the gay club is located right next to
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Speaker 2: a major sport arena as well, so you can understand
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Speaker 2: a bit of the confusion. But people are being refunded
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Speaker 2: they're mistaken membership.
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Speaker 5: So funny.
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Speaker 4: Now a range of parking spaces in the Sydney CBD
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Speaker 4: have sold at auction for more than what many Australians
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Speaker 4: would pay for an entire home. These parking spaces have
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Speaker 4: sold for six hundred and eight thousand dollars per space.
47:27
Speaker 4: Now there were six spaces up for grabs that totaled
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Speaker 4: three point sixty five million dollars in car park sales.
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Speaker 5: Now, I know Sydney is expensive.
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Speaker 4: As a recent first home buy I looked at some
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Speaker 4: interesting properties just to get my foot on the property ladder.
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Speaker 4: But a car park would seem to be I mean
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Speaker 4: that might be what first home buyers are going for
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Speaker 4: these days.
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Speaker 5: Picture tens warm dry. Why not?
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Speaker 1: Well, the demand was incredible, had ninety two inquiries, sixteen inspections,
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Speaker 1: truck workout imagine inspecting a car parking space. We can spect.
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Speaker 1: I mean, how different can they be?
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Speaker 2: But they had thirty bids before they finally sold at
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Speaker 2: what was it, three point six five million dollars for
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Speaker 2: eight spaces, just over eight hundred grand space.
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Speaker 7: It's amazing.
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Speaker 6: Mind you, there would be, as fray I suggested, there
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Speaker 6: would be the odd person who says, I'm going to.
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Speaker 7: Install a bathroom, but move in.
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Speaker 6: We've seen those programs on television where they do the
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Speaker 6: tiny houses, and you know how much they can get
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Speaker 6: in a really tiny space. So for six hundred thousand dollars,
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Speaker 6: put in the bathroom, move in.
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Speaker 2: If you want to know how much of a premium
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Speaker 2: these things are. Prior to this sale, the highest priced
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Speaker 2: parking space in Sydney. Bear in mind these have just
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Speaker 2: been sold for six hundred and eight grand. Previous highest
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Speaker 2: price was three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It was
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Speaker 2: steel It parking spaces in Sydney. You can't go wrong. Well,
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Speaker 2: that's all we've got time for tonight. Thanks for your company,
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Speaker 2: stick around. Coming up in just a moment is the
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Speaker 2: reader Penety Show.
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Speaker 1: Good Night