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Speaker 1: Jez is the gold reform. Tonight a warning the Reserve
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Speaker 1: Bank says actually inflation could go up again. Plus talk
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Speaker 1: about La La Land. Why is this election not about
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Speaker 1: our defense when China has a sponship off our coast
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Speaker 1: and has now sent nineteen warships to threaten Taiwan, even
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Speaker 1: putting out a bizarre video clip abusing to one's president,
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Speaker 1: calling him a parasite. This is so ominous. Also tonight,
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Speaker 1: another deal in trouble after telling a sexual joke to
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Speaker 1: a teenage hairdresser and Prince Andrew's accused. The Sessions now
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Speaker 1: just four days from death after a horrific mystery accident.
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Speaker 1: The mystery is local. Please say we have no record,
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Speaker 1: but first I'll tell you later about the premise's latest
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Speaker 1: security blunder as China sends out that military task force
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Speaker 1: to warn the world. But underneath this election campaign, it's
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Speaker 1: something sinister. I'll show you footage that will probably shock you.
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Speaker 1: Its threats against politicians visiting moths or even being chased
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Speaker 1: out of mosques. There's something that's been downplayed because who
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Speaker 1: wants to be called racist? Who wants to be the
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Speaker 1: next target. Yesterday, Liberal MP Jason Wood form a detective
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Speaker 1: and counter terrorism officer visited a prayer event in Dandenong,
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Speaker 1: south of Melbourne, held by a local Afghan mosque in
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Speaker 1: the Afghan Islamic Center. Would went there to promise a
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Speaker 1: coalition government would give six point five million dollars of
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Speaker 1: your money to upgrade the religious facilities. Now why government's
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Speaker 1: fun places of religious worship including Muslims? That that surprises me.
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Speaker 1: It seems to be funding division. To put it mildly,
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Speaker 1: but that huge bribe didn't save Wood from being shouted
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Speaker 1: down by very aggressive men pro Palestinian, some apparently anti Australia.
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Speaker 1: There was even reportedly a fight. It was extremely ugly. Wood,
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Speaker 1: who was dressed absurdly in afghangear, was forced to flee.
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Speaker 1: Was even threatened with violence by one Muslim worshiper. You're
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Speaker 1: not welcoming here by the Gaudia.
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Speaker 2: You're not welcome.
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Speaker 1: Last week, I'll break your face for I'll break your
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Speaker 1: face Gaudia and one eye in the witness from the
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Speaker 1: Stand for Palestine activist group said that video doesn't show
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Speaker 1: just how explosive that confrontation really was. Quick work by
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Speaker 1: the email apparently saved it from getting far far worse.
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Speaker 3: It got to the point where the email had to
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Speaker 3: start the prayer because something was going to happen if
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Speaker 3: you didn't. As he was as he was, as he
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Speaker 3: was going to start the prayer, the Liberal Party guys
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Speaker 3: that were sort of leaving, and I was at the
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Speaker 3: FRONTI I could see it all happened. That it was
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Speaker 3: some photos and people were helding comments at them like
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Speaker 3: really bad stuff, right, obviously understandably bad stuff to them.
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Speaker 3: And on the way the prep happened and it could
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Speaker 3: hear a lot of commotion in the background, screaming, shouting,
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Speaker 3: and I think maybe even a fight broke out somewhere.
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Speaker 3: They had to get out and they had to get
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Speaker 3: out quick.
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Speaker 1: Now you got to think that this aggression, this threat
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Speaker 1: of violence there, the menace was from supposedly god fearing
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Speaker 1: men in a place of worship and they act like that.
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Speaker 1: Would you expect that behavior in a church or a
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Speaker 1: synagogue or the Hindu temple of Sikuan. But some Muslim
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Speaker 1: groups are cheering Ossi Turks, for instance, gloaded that the
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Speaker 1: Muslim community in Melbourne have called out the Afghan Islamic
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Speaker 1: Center and the mosque for inviting Wood because it claimed
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Speaker 1: would actually a former policeman had worked extensively the Australian
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Speaker 1: Defense Force, and many from the Afghan community have called
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Speaker 1: them out for working for an army kus are taking
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Speaker 1: part in destroying society in Afghanistan and that just makes
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Speaker 1: of course, this abuse of Wood even more frightening. Apparently,
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Speaker 1: if you're a soldier who served your country, in this
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Speaker 1: case by liberating Afghanistan from Taliban terrorists, you get treated
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Speaker 1: as an enemy of all Muslims in Australia. Really, this
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Speaker 1: reminds me, of course, it was shocking statistic. More Australian
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Speaker 1: Muslims fought from the Islamic State terrorists and served at
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Speaker 1: the time in Australia's own army. You consider what that
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Speaker 1: means now, some people tribalists will say, ah, well, that's
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Speaker 1: just what a liberal should expect. Serves them right for
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Speaker 1: not being more pro Muslim, for being too pro Israel.
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Speaker 1: Except for this Tony Burke, here's the Home Affairs Minister
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Speaker 1: in this Albanesi labor government, has been almost more Propelsan
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Speaker 1: than any other labor politician, and one or perhaps Burker's
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Speaker 1: holds one of Australia's most Muslim electorates. Watson and Sydney
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Speaker 1: a quarter of his voters a Muslim a quarter. But
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Speaker 1: even Burke is attacked now for not being pro Muslim enough.
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Speaker 1: You've got protests as his electorate claiming he supports genocide
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Speaker 1: a Palestinians. Muslim groups are backing a Muslim doctor to
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Speaker 1: run against him at this election. A man who after
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Speaker 1: hamas Terras slaughter twelve hundred Jews and two one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty one hostages posted this image of a terrorist
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Speaker 1: and a motorized hang glider. That's how Hermas attacked Jews
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Speaker 1: at a music festival, saying dreams my friends come true
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Speaker 1: for those who seek and work to see them come true.
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Speaker 1: And Burke, like Jason Wood, was also chased out of
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Speaker 1: a mosque. We just don't have footage of it. That's all.
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Speaker 1: Burke was going to a Muslim prayer event. It wasn
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Speaker 1: Sydney two weeks ago, where fliers were sent around calling
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Speaker 1: the racist to pro Israel. Messages were posted on Muslim
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Speaker 1: sites saying it would be a great service if brothers
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Speaker 1: can come to Perry Park today and hold them to
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Speaker 1: account and show them that they meaning Also Burke are
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Speaker 1: not welcome and a bunch of young men did show
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Speaker 1: up in the media reported almost like a throwaway, that
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Speaker 1: Burke was forced to leave that Muslim prayer event due
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Speaker 1: to security concerns. I mean security concerns. Which politician again
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Speaker 1: is forced to flee a prayer event at a church,
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Speaker 1: or at a synagogue or a Hindu or seek temple
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Speaker 1: for security concerns? Why must they flee a mosque? Two
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Speaker 1: feder Olympis Labor and Liberal in just two weeks, with
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Speaker 1: that same Stand for Palestine group claiming yet another Labour minister,
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Speaker 1: Jason Clair, had also been stopped from visiting a mole scanning.
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Speaker 1: Just like cockroaches, when you shine the light on them,
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Speaker 1: they run away. The Prome minister was asked about this
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Speaker 1: today and gave you a typical non answer.
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Speaker 4: Social coalesion is really important. You know, elections come and go.
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Speaker 4: You know what stays our commitment to Maltic culturalism?
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Speaker 1: Mind you, Nor will the Liberals comment on what happens
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Speaker 1: to their Jason Wood, nor will Wood himself. So I
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Speaker 1: think we've got to this with our immigration policy once again.
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Speaker 1: We've gone from too few to worry about to too
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Speaker 1: many to offend, to a point where politicians dare not
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Speaker 1: speak about this ugly change to our political culture and
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Speaker 1: instead pass even more laws against free speech, making more
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Speaker 1: dangerous for you to object. Let's just quickly go to
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Speaker 1: the economic news from this afternoon. This election could have
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Speaker 1: been sealed and delivered for Labor if the Reserve Bank
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Speaker 1: had decided it's meeting today to cut interest rates for
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Speaker 1: a second time in a month and said it said no,
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Speaker 1: the official rate will stay at four point one percent,
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Speaker 1: meaning that last month's tiny cut is the only relief
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Speaker 1: you'll get before the election, after twelve rate rises in
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Speaker 1: a row under the Albaneza government. In fact, the Reserve
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Speaker 1: Bank governor warned that the bank was worried it could
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Speaker 1: be getting harder to actually cut inflation much further.
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Speaker 5: The board has discussed the possibility that there's more strength
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Speaker 5: in the economy which could make it harder to get
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Speaker 5: inflation back down.
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Speaker 1: Joining me is Leith and nonsenan co founder of Macrobusiness
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Speaker 1: excellent blog site and a former Federal Treasury official. Leath,
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Speaker 1: great to have you on the show again. What does
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Speaker 1: this decision tell you about our economy?
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Speaker 6: It doesn't tell us that much, Andrew. It's actually a
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Speaker 6: bit of a nothing burg in this decision. It was
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Speaker 6: universally predicted by the market. So in a poll of
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Speaker 6: economists by Bloomberg, twenty nine out of thirty tip that
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Speaker 6: rates would remain on hold, So it's very widely expected.
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Speaker 6: The Reserve Bank statement didn't contain a lot of new
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Speaker 6: information on the domestic economy, noted that underlying inflations sort
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Speaker 6: of falling as they expect and that wage grows a
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Speaker 6: little softer. However, it did express some concerns about the
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Speaker 6: global economic outlook because of the trade war. So the
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Speaker 6: Reserve Bank's concerned that the Trump administration could trigger a
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Speaker 6: global trade war and they could reduce confidence and activity
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Speaker 6: in the global economy. And that's basically certainly in the
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Speaker 6: RBA is going to watch going forward when it makes
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Speaker 6: future decisions.
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Speaker 1: It's weird, wasn't it. I Mean, the last statement to
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Speaker 1: put out when it cut interest rates said there were
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Speaker 1: you know, there were pressures on both sides and interest
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Speaker 1: rates whether they go up or down, pushing them up
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Speaker 1: or down. This time it went on down, sorry, pushing
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Speaker 1: them back up again. But then when she was asked
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Speaker 1: about this, Reserve Bank Governor Michel Bullock tried to play
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Speaker 1: that down, like, oh, I don't know. Still, it's nothing's changed.
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Speaker 1: It was almost like, you know, she felt she didn't
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Speaker 1: want to get big part of the election. Who ha,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, what did you make of all that?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean, certainly she's playing a very very
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Speaker 6: straight bat. And you know, she did actually say that
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Speaker 6: that the board was not explicitly considering a cut at
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Speaker 6: this meeting, and the Reserve Bank did also say that
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Speaker 6: they consider monetary policy to be restrictive, and that would
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Speaker 6: suggest to you that the next moving rates is down.
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Speaker 6: But you know, she's certainly hedging at Betts, saying that
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Speaker 6: she's going to watch the evolution of the economic data
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Speaker 6: before making a decision, as well as how this sort
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Speaker 6: of global economy issue with the Trump.
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Speaker 1: Tariffs plays out.
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Speaker 6: So the next piece of data that we really need
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Speaker 6: to look at will be the Q one inflation data
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Speaker 6: that comes out at the end of the month, and
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Speaker 6: if that comes in, you know, sort of as they
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Speaker 6: expect her a little bit weaker, which most economists think
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Speaker 6: will be a little bit weaker, then we can probably
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Speaker 6: expect a rate cut at the next meeting in mid
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Speaker 6: mid May, and of course that'll be after the federal election.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, good news. Of rate cut bad news because the
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Speaker 1: economy is weaker. On Thursday, our time, US President Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump will announce his latest round of tariff increases on
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Speaker 1: imports to the US. He calls it Liberation Day. Now
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Speaker 1: head of that, Trump's trade representative is a war for
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Speaker 1: us because they've released the report claiming that Australia bans
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Speaker 1: imports of uncle to American beef, pork and poultry, as
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Speaker 1: well as apples and pears, and we have restrictive policies
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Speaker 1: of patents and drug marketing. Anthony ALBERNISI says, well, too bad.
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Speaker 4: Here is those issues are not up for negotiation from
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Speaker 4: the Australian government. We would defend Australia's interests. The idea
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Speaker 4: that we would weaken buy security laws is really that,
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Speaker 4: as my mum would say, cutting off your nose to
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Speaker 4: spite your face.
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Speaker 7: I agree with the Prime Minister's position. I won't compromise
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Speaker 7: on any of that for our country.
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Speaker 1: So how seriously could Trump now hurt us but retaliating
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Speaker 1: against any restrictions he deems to be unfair on our
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Speaker 1: export imports of American goods.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, in terms of direct harm, I don't think
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Speaker 6: there's too much for Australia, worry about that. The US
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Speaker 6: is actually a pretty small export market for Australia. So
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Speaker 6: just to put in a perspective, Australia exports near six
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Speaker 6: times as much in value of goods to China that
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Speaker 6: then we do to the US. And also the US
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Speaker 6: shouldn't be really too concerned about Australia because theres a
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Speaker 6: massive trade surples with Australia, so the US exports more
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Speaker 6: than double as many goods and services to Australia as
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Speaker 6: it imports from Australia. The bigger risk andrew are other
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Speaker 6: indirect risks. So if this trade war creates a slow
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Speaker 6: down in the global economy, reduces confidence and reduces economic activity,
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Speaker 6: that that'll obviously have spillovers to Australia. But the biggest problem,
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Speaker 6: the biggest issue potentially for Australia is if the US
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Speaker 6: slaps big tariffs on China and China sells less stuff
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Speaker 6: into the US, that would then mean that China would
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Speaker 6: probably buy less iron, ore, coal, energy, those sorts of
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Speaker 6: things from Australia, and then that's where the rubber would
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Speaker 6: really hit the road for Australia. So I think it's
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Speaker 6: the second round indirect impacts of the things that we've
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Speaker 6: got to worry about.
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Speaker 1: The Hlonsolin, thanks so much for your time. The Prime
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Speaker 1: Minister today was dog by his false claim yesterday about
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Speaker 1: the Chinese spanship that's been sailing off our southern coast
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Speaker 1: where we have submarine data cable. So false claim that
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Speaker 1: our navy don't worry. Our navy was all over this.
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Speaker 4: The Australian Defense Force are monitoring what is happening. I
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Speaker 4: have every confidence, every confidence in our Defense Force and
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Speaker 4: our security agencies to do just that.
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Speaker 1: In fact, if the Chinese ship was being tracked, it
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Speaker 1: was by our Border Force. We were later told. You
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Speaker 1: might say small detail, but again makes you wonder whether
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Speaker 1: Albinizi is on top of security issues because you just
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Speaker 1: have to remember last month he false and the claimed
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Speaker 1: that China had sent advanced warnings of live fire exercises
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Speaker 1: it was doing off the New South Wales coast when
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Speaker 1: it actually sent none at all. It took instead of
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Speaker 1: Virgin Pilot to raise the warning.
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Speaker 7: The first charge of any Prime minister is to protect
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Speaker 7: and defend our country, and Anthony open is at six
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Speaker 7: and sevens on what to do. One part of the
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Speaker 7: government is saying that the Australian Border Force is monitoring
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Speaker 7: what's happening. The other part of the government saying that's
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Speaker 7: the Australian Defense Force that's monitoring what's happening. The Prime
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Speaker 7: Minister himself doesn't know what's happening. It is unbelievable that
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Speaker 7: the Prime Minister can't explain to the Australian.
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Speaker 1: People what is happening here.
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Speaker 7: Of course there's a collection of intelligence and of course
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Speaker 7: there is a mapping of undersea cable. Australia is an
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Speaker 7: island nation and we require on We require the connectivity
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Speaker 7: to the rest of the world, our Internet. The way
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Speaker 7: in which we communicate with our partners, with our allies
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Speaker 7: and with the rest of the world is contingent on
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Speaker 7: those cables.
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Speaker 1: Joining me is Simon Banks of the lobby in firm
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Speaker 1: Hawker Britain. He's worked in seeing positions for three federal
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Speaker 1: labor leaders and Jason Vlinski, the former Federal Liberal MP.
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Speaker 1: Jason is this serious or just a manor bit of
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Speaker 1: sloppiness who cares border force defense for same thing?
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Speaker 8: Well, Andrew, this campaign is turning into a gaffathon for
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Speaker 8: the Prime minister.
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Speaker 1: He's you know.
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Speaker 8: Yesterday he tried to tell us that he wouldn't be
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Speaker 8: doing a deal with the Greens, but ended up ruling
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Speaker 8: out that he wouldn't be doing a deal.
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Speaker 1: With the Greens.
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Speaker 8: Then we today he confused the ADF with the ABF.
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Speaker 8: He confused South China Sea with a great Australian bite.
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Speaker 8: He confused Australian Freedom of navigation exercises with a foreign
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Speaker 8: warship trying to map our sea cables and our communication cables.
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Speaker 8: This is not good enough from a Prime minister of
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Speaker 8: a serious government, and it's something that I think all
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Speaker 8: Australians should be seriously worried about.
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Speaker 1: Simon, you'll call well, I think it's pretty extraordinary, isn't it.
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Speaker 5: I mean, in twenty twenty we had a similar Chinese
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Speaker 5: vessel off the Western Australian coast mapping submarine cables there.
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Speaker 5: I don't remember the flapping of gums that we've seen
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Speaker 5: from the Coalition today about that. And of course we
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Speaker 5: all know now why Peter Dutton wants to move to carability,
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Speaker 5: because just like in twenty nineteen, he wants to see
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Speaker 5: a Chinese fotell. He wants to see it firsthand when
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Speaker 5: they turn up unexpected in Sydney Harbor.
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Speaker 1: I mean this is a joke, right.
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Speaker 5: The truth is the thing that keeps Australia safe is
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Speaker 5: our ability to protect ourselves towards our northern border. And
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Speaker 5: one of the biggest change we've seen over the last
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Speaker 5: three years is the development of a new missile capacity,
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Speaker 5: which this government has funded, which Peter Dutton didn't fund
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Speaker 5: when he was Defense Minister. And not only are we
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Speaker 5: putting missiles on the ground to create capability and defense
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Speaker 5: for Australia to our north, we're actually going to be
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Speaker 5: building missiles in Australia so that we've got a sovereign
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Speaker 5: defense capability. These are the types of things that actually
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Speaker 5: matter to Australia's defense. And if Jason wants to complain
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Speaker 5: about activities that took place by the Chinese when they
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Speaker 5: were last in government and call them gaffes, well I
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Speaker 5: got to tell you these guys just clearly don't know
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Speaker 5: what they're talking about.
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Speaker 1: I think that's you make a point, but you're missing
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Speaker 1: I think some important context. And there's China's the change
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Speaker 1: in China over the last few years. In particular, I
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Speaker 1: find it amazing that defense has got almost no mention
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Speaker 1: in this election, given that China, Jason's just has been
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Speaker 1: threatening US and just sent an aircraft carrier and eighteen
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Speaker 1: other warships for a joint Army, Navy and Rocket force
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Speaker 1: exercise off Taiwan to intimidate it, to punish it for
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Speaker 1: talking up independence. China's army at the same time, in connection,
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Speaker 1: released an astonishing video You've got to see it, calling
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Speaker 1: Taiwan's president a parasite. Here it is a few moments
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Speaker 1: laid out and it's astonishing that video was actually created
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Speaker 1: by the Chinese governments spread by the Chinese Department of
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Speaker 1: Foreign Affairs. It's not normal behavior at all, Jason. With
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Speaker 1: this going on in our region, how can we be
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Speaker 1: having an election with defenses in a central issue? Andrew,
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Speaker 1: I totally agree with you.
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Speaker 8: I mean, the fact of the matter remains that the
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Speaker 8: Chinese government says the quiet part out loud. Shijingping is
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Speaker 8: on the record as having said many times that he
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Speaker 8: wants reunification, including by force, of Taiwan by twenty thirty.
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Speaker 8: And Taiwan is critical not just to Australia but to
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Speaker 8: the West generally because it has the most sophisticated chip
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Speaker 8: manufacturer in the world and If that comes under the
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Speaker 8: control of the Chinese government, everything from electric vehicles through
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Speaker 8: to iPhones will not be possible to make. We also
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Speaker 8: have many of the strategic military colleges in China have
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Speaker 8: said that one of their war plans includes isolating Australia
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Speaker 8: from its support necessarily invading Australia, but making sure that
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Speaker 8: Australia is unable to reach its support and its allies
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Speaker 8: in order to support us. And look, you know, I
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Speaker 8: don't want to go around announcing Labor Party defense policy,
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Speaker 8: but I think it amounts to them giving free sets
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Speaker 8: of binoculars to Virgin airline pilots and corners our line
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Speaker 8: pilots so they can check what foreign warships are in
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Speaker 8: our territorial waters. I mean, simon, if they want to
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Speaker 8: be serious about defense, now's the time to be serious
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Speaker 8: about it and not make a false equivalency between what
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Speaker 8: Australian warships are doing in Southeast Asia to ensure freedom
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Speaker 8: of navigation versus what a foreign war vessel is doing
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Speaker 8: in our territorial waters mapping data cables in.
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Speaker 1: Order to isolate us from the rest of the world. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I agree about.
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Speaker 5: In twenty twenty, off the West Australian coast.
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Speaker 1: I mean the difference is simon. Sorry.
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Speaker 5: First of all, the Virgin Pilot did detect those Chinese
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Speaker 5: Li Fi missiles first. They are actually under the surveillance
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Speaker 5: of the New Zealand Navy at the time through a
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Speaker 5: cooperative agreement that's been existing over many, many years. The
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Speaker 5: delay in communicating that was at the New Zealand government
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Speaker 5: and Peter Dutton of course is running around with the
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Speaker 5: sam same campaign slogan as the New Zealand Conservatives took
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Speaker 5: to their last election campaign. If you want to talk
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Speaker 5: about defense commitments in this most recent budget and lead
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Speaker 5: up period, Labour's buying more missile something that can be
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Speaker 5: deployed quickly and soon if needed to defend Australia from
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Speaker 5: the Chinese. What we've had from the coalitions is they're
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Speaker 5: going to buy an extra squadron of Joint Stride fighters.
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Speaker 5: Now I've got nothing against the Joint Stride fighter, but
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Speaker 5: they're not buying any fuel for it, they're not buying
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Speaker 5: any weapons for it, they're not buying not training any
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Speaker 5: extra CRUs for it. We're spending three billion dollars under
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Speaker 5: the coalition for some planes that are going to sit
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Speaker 5: on the tarmac compared to Labour actually buying missiles that
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Speaker 5: will be capable of being deployed within the next twelve
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Speaker 5: to twenty four months.
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Speaker 1: So that's all very well, but I find it frankly
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Speaker 1: impossible to believe that the by fighter is without missiles,
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Speaker 1: without weapons or fuel. I think that must be a
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Speaker 1: little rhetorical florid.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's what I'm sorry, Andrew, but that's what the
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Speaker 5: fence expert said the moment when Andrew Hasty came out
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Speaker 5: with that announcement. They're provisioned three bare wells, which is
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Speaker 5: merely the cost.
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Speaker 1: Let's have a sad bet. Let's take a bet it
21:19
Speaker 1: will be for any of the add on areas. I
21:22
Speaker 1: will bet you, I will bet your bippy that those
21:26
Speaker 1: planes will be in the air, and it will be
21:27
Speaker 1: because they've got fuel in their tanks. All this, though,
21:31
Speaker 1: has given Peter Dutton a little opportunity to try and
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Speaker 1: turn around a problem, a real problem for him. I
21:36
Speaker 1: think that I don't think he's addressed properly, and I
21:39
Speaker 1: think it is behind a lot of his recent falls
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Speaker 1: in the polls. It's a Trump fact that Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: attacking Britain Canada Australia has made all their left wing
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Speaker 1: leaders more popular, makes them look like they're standing up
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Speaker 1: for their countries. Doesn't try to turn this around a
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Speaker 1: bit today by saying Albanezi was weak, but Peter Dutton
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Speaker 1: wasn't and he could fight Donald trum Here is the.
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Speaker 7: President of the United States is going to stand up
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Speaker 7: for America. I'm going to stand up for Australia. I
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Speaker 7: have the strength of leadership in the experience to be
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Speaker 7: able to stand up to the President of the United
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Speaker 7: States or anyone else if they're acting against our country's interest.
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Speaker 1: Jason, how do you think the Trump factor is working
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Speaker 1: out in this election campaign, and especially if he now
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Speaker 1: hurts Australia with more tariffs on Thursday.
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Speaker 8: Well, Andrew, as your previous guest was pointing out, America's
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Speaker 8: tariff war against Australia is not going to be of
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Speaker 8: any great significance. We don't sell that much to them.
22:33
Speaker 8: We're a net importer of American goods. On top of
22:37
Speaker 8: all of that, what we do sell to them, Trump
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Speaker 8: is not talking about including in his tariff regime, so
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Speaker 8: Australia will probably ironically be a net beneficiary of the
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Speaker 8: Trump tariff war. That's going on at the moment, But
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Speaker 8: beyond that, I think the real problem is that Donald
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Speaker 8: Trump is a chaos agent. He's crowding a lot of
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Speaker 8: chaos and uncertainty in the global community at the moment,
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Speaker 8: and when Australians are feeling that there is a tendency
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Speaker 8: to a flight to safety, which includes the person who
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Speaker 8: is in government at the moment now, while people are
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Speaker 8: not focused on twice ahead.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah, Jason, I think it's going a bit beyond that.
23:16
Speaker 1: I mean, I saw Jim Charm's treasurers today directly linking
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Speaker 1: Peter Upton to Donald Trump, say he was getting his
23:23
Speaker 1: ideas from the same area, and I think this is
23:26
Speaker 1: the issue that he really needs to pick a fart
23:28
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump, but he's been painted as a Trump
23:31
Speaker 1: light and that's going to hurt him. I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's right, I don't think it's honest, but it's going
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Speaker 1: to hurt him. Josephiliski, Simon Banks, thank you very much
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Speaker 1: to you both. Really appreciate your time. By the way,
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Speaker 1: there's been another success for Sky and for democracy. The
23:48
Speaker 1: two leaders have agreed to a debate here on Sky News.
23:50
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday at seven thirty. It's a pitis during my
23:53
Speaker 1: half of my show. But anyway, it's a people's forum
23:56
Speaker 1: in Western Sydney and it could be crucial because it's
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Speaker 1: the only debate the Preme Ministers dared so far to
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Speaker 1: agree to after the break a shocking attack on democracy
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Speaker 1: and judges banned France's most popular candidate from the right
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Speaker 1: of course, from running for president at the next election.
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Speaker 1: This could be dynamite. The Trump administrations are ready protesting.
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Speaker 1: It's one big thing that Donald Trump and his Vice
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Speaker 1: President Jady Vance have got right. Other Western leaders are
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Speaker 1: trashing freedom, and Donald Trump could actually make Australia pay
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Speaker 1: for that too. For now, the White House has been amazed,
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Speaker 1: as we all should be, that a French judge has
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Speaker 1: just banned Marie Lapin, leader of the right wing National Rally,
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Speaker 1: from standing for president of France in the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: seven election one she was favorite to win.
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Speaker 9: What this represents for our democracy and for our country
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Speaker 9: where millions of French people will be denied by a
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Speaker 9: court judge without any possible recon the candidate who wasn't
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Speaker 9: heel today the favorite to win the presidential elections miss
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Speaker 9: Surely that must shock and horrify all those who respect
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Speaker 9: democracy and the rule of law.
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Speaker 1: Now lape was found guilty and also census to jail
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Speaker 1: for embezzlement, taking money as a member of the European
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Speaker 1: Parliament there was meant to pay for parliamentary aids and
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Speaker 1: using that money to pay stead for staff doing party
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Speaker 1: work like a bodyguard for example. Leapen's crime is actually
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Speaker 1: much like what victorious Labour Party under Dan Andrews was
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Speaker 1: accused of in the Red Shirts affair. Staff paid for
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Speaker 1: parliamentary work doing party work. There, the money was repaid
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Speaker 1: to taxpayers and police didn't even lay charges. Now, okay, fine,
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Speaker 1: if Lappen is guilty, then find her whatever. But she
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Speaker 1: denies it. But banning her from standing for election, from
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Speaker 1: letting the French people decide that is so undemocratic. As
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration has said.
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Speaker 10: We have got to do more as the West than
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Speaker 10: just talk about democratic values. We must live them. Exclusion
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Speaker 10: of people from the political process is particularly concerning given
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Speaker 10: the aggressive and corrupt lawfare waged against President Trump here
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Speaker 10: in the United States.
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Speaker 1: But Trump's administration is also attacking Britain for portraying free
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Speaker 1: speech and other freedom It has worn that there could
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Speaker 1: be no free trade with the US without free speech.
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Speaker 1: After a British anti abortion campaigner was charged with just
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Speaker 1: holding this sign here to talk if you want, which
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Speaker 1: he was apparently too close to an abortion clinic. The
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Speaker 1: US State Department says we are monitoring a case. It
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Speaker 1: is important to the US UK respect and protect freedom
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Speaker 1: of expression. And this is also a warning to Australia
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Speaker 1: because this week in a Melbourne court X the platform
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Speaker 1: of Elon Musk, Donald Trump's right hand man and anti
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Speaker 1: puberty blocker activist Billboard Chris, that was on My show
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Speaker 1: last week fighting Australia's The's Safety Commissioner for demanding that
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Speaker 1: they take down a post on X by Billboard Chris
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Speaker 1: attacking a transgender activist. Now, if they fail in this court,
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Speaker 1: you can be sure that the Trump team will notice
27:23
Speaker 1: that too and send us a warning. Joining me is
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Speaker 1: Sean Spicer, Donald Trump's first White House spokesman, Shawn Spice.
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Speaker 1: Are great to see you again. Look a French judge
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Speaker 1: banning France's most popular candidate for president, someone of the
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Speaker 1: right for standing in the next election. This is exactly
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Speaker 1: the attack on freedom and democracy that JD. Vance has
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Speaker 1: been attacking Europe over where's this going to go?
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Speaker 2: Well, not only that, but when Vice President Vance went
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Speaker 2: and made those comments, he was mocked for kind of
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Speaker 2: going that, if you will, also sort of talking down
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Speaker 2: to the folks in Europe. And that was specifically a
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Speaker 2: speech conversation at the time. And now look at what's
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Speaker 2: happening banning candidates from being on the ballot. There's nothing
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Speaker 2: more undemocratic than that, allowing people to not have a
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Speaker 2: choice who to have represent them. But this, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's funny. It's just amazing how many times in the
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Speaker 2: past the US was just allowing stuff like this to
28:27
Speaker 2: go unchecked, unnoticed. And as much as sometimes people may
28:31
Speaker 2: not be used to the rhetoric that President Trump and
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Speaker 2: Vice President Vance are using, it really is warranted. When
28:36
Speaker 2: you scratch beneath the surface, you realize that they're speaking
28:40
Speaker 2: a real solid truth to these issues that just more
28:43
Speaker 2: than anything people have been afraid to say.
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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. And I noticed also a statement put out
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Speaker 1: by the State Department about Britain attacking attacking the court.
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Speaker 1: A woman who was standing out side to an abortion
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Speaker 1: clinic with a sign simply saying, you know, talk to me,
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Speaker 1: saying this is an issue and could have implications on trade.
29:08
Speaker 1: I mean, the reason I raised this one, Sean, is
29:12
Speaker 1: that we have in Australia Billboard Chris the Canadian activists
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Speaker 1: against the transgender Treatments for Children in court in Melbourne,
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Speaker 1: along with x Elon Musk's x trying to take the
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Speaker 1: Ease Safety Commissioner to force her to drop a ban
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Speaker 1: on a post that he put up about this. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the White House doesn't look kindly of this kind of stuff,
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Speaker 1: does it.
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Speaker 2: No, But it's not just the White House, Andrew, I
29:39
Speaker 2: don't think any of us should look kindly on this.
29:41
Speaker 2: One of the things that I remind my conservative friends
29:45
Speaker 2: is that part of free speech here in America is
29:48
Speaker 2: allowing that which you detest. So, for example, as someone
29:53
Speaker 2: who has served in the military for over two decades,
29:56
Speaker 2: I find flag burning just just grotesque. I also believe
30:00
Speaker 2: that the Amendment, our first Amendment, gives people the right
30:03
Speaker 2: to say the most heinous and despicable things, and that
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Speaker 2: if we truly believe in freedom here in America have
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Speaker 2: to defend that which we detest. The idea that you're
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Speaker 2: shutting down the speech in the UK and throughout Europe
30:18
Speaker 2: just shows that despite the ability to want to protest
30:22
Speaker 2: jd Vance's comments a couple months ago, the reality is
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Speaker 2: very starkly different. They do stifle free speech, free thought.
30:29
Speaker 2: The idea that somebody merely can't have a conversation without
30:33
Speaker 2: being arrested or attained or fined speaks volumes as to
30:36
Speaker 2: what's really going on. And I think it's good for America.
30:41
Speaker 2: For all of the talk about America's retreat, the reality
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Speaker 2: is America will always and should always stand for and
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Speaker 2: defend freedom around the world.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think this is a real issue, and I
30:54
Speaker 1: agree with you. I mean, I've interviewed Billboard chrits. I
30:57
Speaker 1: think sippoling what was done to him, but I think
31:00
Speaker 1: it could have consequences for trade policies. Now. The White
31:03
Speaker 1: House has issued a long list of grievances against our
31:07
Speaker 1: trade policies towards America, including bands on uncleok Bee from
31:11
Speaker 1: your country, for instance, and other imports. Ahead of Wednesday,
31:15
Speaker 1: your time, when Donald Trump's going to announce a whole
31:18
Speaker 1: list of extra tariffs is going to impose an inputs
31:20
Speaker 1: from around the world. It hasn't added air attacks on
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Speaker 1: free speech yet, but I suspect that might be on
31:26
Speaker 1: the agenda suit, But what are you expecting on what
31:29
Speaker 1: it's called. I think it's calling it Freedom Day Liberation Day.
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Speaker 2: But I talked to some folks over the last over
31:36
Speaker 2: the last seventy two hours, and one of the best
31:39
Speaker 2: quotes that I got from somebody was, it's clearly unclear.
31:42
Speaker 2: What we do know is that Donald Trump has been
31:45
Speaker 2: talking about the use of teriffs for a long long time,
31:47
Speaker 2: going back into the nineteen eighties in Japan and how
31:51
Speaker 2: it treated the United States. The bottom line is this,
31:54
Speaker 2: I will expect a list of countries major trading partners
31:58
Speaker 2: where we have a trade terror in balance, meaning if
32:01
Speaker 2: you charges ten percent for our cars to go into
32:04
Speaker 2: your country, we're going to charge you ten to come
32:07
Speaker 2: into ours. The funny thing about this, Andrew, is for
32:09
Speaker 2: everyone who gets all you know, I'll just be kind
32:14
Speaker 2: and say all upset and then a tither about this.
32:17
Speaker 2: The reality is I don't to understand how you can
32:20
Speaker 2: talk about fairness when one country charges X and prohibits
32:24
Speaker 2: the other country from getting into its market and expects
32:27
Speaker 2: unfettered access into the United States. To me, that is
32:30
Speaker 2: inherently unfair trade. What Donald Trump is asking for is
32:33
Speaker 2: simply if your tariff is ten on x product or industry,
32:37
Speaker 2: whether it's agriculture, services, manufacturing, then we're going to charge
32:40
Speaker 2: you ten. But if you want to take your ten
32:42
Speaker 2: down to two or to zero, we'll take ours down
32:45
Speaker 2: to ten or two. That to me makes a ton
32:47
Speaker 2: of sense. It's literally when he says the word reciprocal,
32:51
Speaker 2: that's the very.
32:52
Speaker 1: Nature of it.
32:53
Speaker 11: Let's have an even playing field.
32:55
Speaker 2: You get access to our market, we get access to
32:57
Speaker 2: your market, easy pasy. There's nothing wrong with that. And
33:00
Speaker 2: as a byproduct of that, by the way, President Trump
33:03
Speaker 2: has brought in hundreds of billions of dollars of investment
33:07
Speaker 2: Taiwan's Semiconductor, Honda, Hondai, Apple, Samsung, all bringing manufacturing and
33:12
Speaker 2: investment back to the United States because they would rather
33:15
Speaker 2: do business here and have more certainty here. That's what
33:18
Speaker 2: we need finally in this country. When President Trump says
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Speaker 2: America first, it means that we're going to start looking
33:22
Speaker 2: out for our workers, our farmers, our ranchers, our service providers,
33:26
Speaker 2: our manufacturers.
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Speaker 1: I'm shocked at a people are shocked that that would
33:32
Speaker 1: be the case that an American president would put America first.
33:36
Speaker 1: But there you go, that our leaders put Australia first
33:40
Speaker 1: always shut spot, so always great to talk to you.
33:43
Speaker 2: Thank you so much you've had Andrew, thank you.
33:48
Speaker 1: After the break. More embarrassment for the Tals, this time
33:50
Speaker 1: over a six joke and Prince Andrew's accused us. It's
33:55
Speaker 1: just four days from dying from an accident. But there's
33:59
Speaker 1: a real mystery. More embarrassment for the Teals today. I
34:06
Speaker 1: wonder what it is with these guys. How did the
34:09
Speaker 1: teals get this image of being nicer than the usual politicians.
34:14
Speaker 1: I mean, for one, why do they lie, in my opinion,
34:18
Speaker 1: lie that they're independent. We're nearly all are funded by multimillionaires.
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Speaker 1: Simon Holmes a court and it's two climate two hundred group.
34:25
Speaker 1: And in last week we had a teal in Peter
34:27
Speaker 1: Monique Ryan embarrassment her husband's called stealing a sign of
34:30
Speaker 1: a liberal opponent. And Ryan herself then was filmed snapping
34:34
Speaker 1: a journalists who were just asking if she was sorry.
34:37
Speaker 1: And now another teal has made a fool of herself,
34:39
Speaker 1: Nigolette Bully. She's running in Sydney's North Shore seat of Bradfield.
34:43
Speaker 1: She's now been banned from a local hairdressers after telling
34:47
Speaker 1: a sexual joke to a nineteen year old apprentice who'd
34:49
Speaker 1: done her hair, reportedly saying that was amazing and I
34:52
Speaker 1: didn't even have sex with you. Bullet says my comment
34:56
Speaker 1: was a poor, attempted humor and I've apologize. Everyone deserves
34:58
Speaker 1: if you're respected in the workplace, and I'll do better
35:01
Speaker 1: joining them is my Tuesday panel. Will Kingston hosts Afar
35:04
Speaker 1: at Will, a weekly podcast from the Spectator on politics
35:07
Speaker 1: and culture to Nikods Georgio with her own show here
35:10
Speaker 1: on every Friday at five pm. Will. A small party
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Speaker 1: which had this much embarrassment in just two weeks from
35:19
Speaker 1: a couple of its scanders would be in a pr
35:21
Speaker 1: crisis if they were, you know, one Nation or something
35:24
Speaker 1: of the right, or the Nationals even But what does
35:26
Speaker 1: it say about the Teals.
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Speaker 11: The Starter and Andrew What an absolutely bizarre thing to say.
35:34
Speaker 11: I'm just taken aback by it. But what it says
35:37
Speaker 11: is that the whole party has this bizarre mixture of
35:40
Speaker 11: naivety and entitlement. It's a naivity that comes from living
35:44
Speaker 11: in bubbles like Sydney's Low North Shore or Melbourne's Eastern suburbs,
35:48
Speaker 11: and in its entitlement that comes from their luxury beliefs,
35:51
Speaker 11: which says, no matter how they act, they still have
35:54
Speaker 11: say the right things in the right circles and therefore
35:57
Speaker 11: wirally superior to the rest of us. It would be
36:00
Speaker 11: really interesting to see if this woke branded politics actually
36:04
Speaker 11: still connects with those targeted electorates at this election. We've
36:08
Speaker 11: been saying now for some time that we think wok
36:10
Speaker 11: is in retreat, we think common sense is returning to
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Speaker 11: Australia and the Western world. Well, I think the little
36:16
Speaker 11: Teals are a living, breathing embodiment of Wokism. So if
36:19
Speaker 11: they do perform poorly in this election, it is hopefully
36:22
Speaker 11: comforting news. But we will see.
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Speaker 1: What do you make of it.
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Speaker 12: Danika, I just think they're a big joke. Andrew, though,
36:30
Speaker 12: I have to pull you up on something you said
36:32
Speaker 12: there in your intro.
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Speaker 13: It is a.
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Speaker 12: Doctor Monique Ryan. Don't forget that, that's what she is,
36:37
Speaker 12: so sure it's to be cold? How could you forget exactly? Look,
36:42
Speaker 12: I just think the comment made by that teal is
36:46
Speaker 12: just very strange and entirely inappropriate. But can you imagine, though, Andrew,
36:51
Speaker 12: if it was a male politician saying it to a
36:54
Speaker 12: female staff member. They would have to be sacked, they
36:56
Speaker 12: would have to stand down. But once again it just
36:59
Speaker 12: shows thepocrisy of the Tials. You listed off some examples there.
37:02
Speaker 12: Don't forget the Teals were elected on a platform of integrity.
37:07
Speaker 12: That was their big shtick at the last election. They
37:09
Speaker 12: were going to clean up the Parliament. They were going
37:11
Speaker 12: to change it.
37:12
Speaker 3: But as we see.
37:12
Speaker 12: Time and time again from the left is this do
37:15
Speaker 12: as I say, not as I do kind of attitude.
37:19
Speaker 12: I don't know what the Tials honestly have achieved in
37:21
Speaker 12: the last few years. I can't think of one thing.
37:24
Speaker 12: But I really do hope that what were traditionally blue
37:27
Speaker 12: ribbon seats. I really hope that voters have seen that
37:29
Speaker 12: the Tials do not represent their community, and let's hope
37:32
Speaker 12: that they get booted out at this election.
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Speaker 1: Well to suddenly bizarre that, you know, I don't want
37:38
Speaker 1: to call anyone alia or imply that at all, and
37:41
Speaker 1: mean it might be an innocent explanation for all this
37:43
Speaker 1: was very odd. Victoria Roberts or Gilfree, who claimed she
37:46
Speaker 1: was traffic as a teenager and have sex with Prince Andrew,
37:50
Speaker 1: has now post on an Instagram this is just four
37:53
Speaker 1: days to live after getting kidney damage when a car
37:57
Speaker 1: was hit by a school bus doing a hundred and
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Speaker 1: five kilometers an hour, of all things, and she just
38:03
Speaker 1: wants to see her kids before she dies. Now, the
38:06
Speaker 1: thing is this happened in Perth. Apparent if it happened
38:10
Speaker 1: in Perth where she lives, please say there was actually
38:13
Speaker 1: no accident with a school bus. That there was one
38:17
Speaker 1: school bus accident, but it was a minor one with
38:19
Speaker 1: no reported injuries. Now maybe this was a different incident,
38:25
Speaker 1: but it's the only one known in Perth remotely like
38:28
Speaker 1: what Jeffrey describes. Maybe it happened in What do you
38:31
Speaker 1: make of all this?
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Speaker 11: I've got no reason not to believe for Andrew, and
38:36
Speaker 11: if he's the case, it's incredibly sad. And if it
38:40
Speaker 11: is true, then we will sadly know the outcome in
38:42
Speaker 11: three or four days. It may very well have been
38:44
Speaker 11: into state. I think she was from America initially, she
38:47
Speaker 11: could have been there. There will be conspiracy theories abounding
38:51
Speaker 11: obviously as a result of this, most of which I
38:53
Speaker 11: think we can safely discard. I just think it's incredibly sad,
38:57
Speaker 11: and you know, to a reminder that life is fleeting
38:59
Speaker 11: and round and hug you loved ones.
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Speaker 1: Basically well and safely responded Danika.
39:09
Speaker 11: Look, I don't know.
39:11
Speaker 1: I have to look.
39:11
Speaker 12: I hope that she's okay. Obviously she doesn't look well,
39:14
Speaker 12: and I really do Obviously we're sure are the best,
39:16
Speaker 12: but I don't know. The journalist in me smells a
39:19
Speaker 12: bit of a rat with this one, Andrew, because given
39:22
Speaker 12: the fact that the police have said that there was
39:24
Speaker 12: a car crash, it was only a minor car crash
39:26
Speaker 12: and only minor injuries reported. I know she's got a
39:29
Speaker 12: fair share of problems, as you would. She's had issues
39:32
Speaker 12: with her kids in recent years. I'm not one hundred
39:35
Speaker 12: percent sure on this one, and I don't like the
39:37
Speaker 12: idea either of announcing how many days you've got left
39:40
Speaker 12: to live on social media. That in itself is very
39:42
Speaker 12: odd to me. Obviously, I hope she is okay. I
39:45
Speaker 12: do agree hug your loved ones, but I'm not sure
39:48
Speaker 12: about this one.
39:48
Speaker 1: I've got to say, just raises a few questions, said,
39:52
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, theories going all around the world. But anyway,
39:56
Speaker 1: we shall see what we shall see, and as you say,
39:58
Speaker 1: if it's true, it's tragic. Will the Greens another party
40:04
Speaker 1: which ministrands seem to think very kind and gentle and
40:07
Speaker 1: how stupid do you have to be one of their Canadas.
40:11
Speaker 1: A former Victorian politician, in Wang Trong is the daughter
40:14
Speaker 1: of Vietnamese parents who fled communist Vietnam. Was given safety
40:17
Speaker 1: here they were, but she was born here. Now trashes
40:21
Speaker 1: her home. This democracy, this parliament as and I quote
40:25
Speaker 1: a racist, white supremacist colonial institution that still is not
40:29
Speaker 1: grappled with the fact that it's illegitimate until it recognizes
40:32
Speaker 1: sovereignty for First nations people. Seems a very unappreciative comment
40:36
Speaker 1: about a country, his institutions bill, a country so safe
40:39
Speaker 1: that her parents fled here.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm so bored of this stuff, Andrew so bored
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Speaker 11: of it. It's just so lazy. It's the same undergraduate
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Speaker 11: tropes that we continuously hear from the far left. They
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Speaker 11: never do anything about it, They never actually focus on
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Speaker 11: solid solutions, They just continue with this nonsense. The other
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Speaker 11: thing that this points to, and I'm aware that I'm
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Speaker 11: not sure about the attitudes of her parents, but it
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Speaker 11: does speak to a broader conversation that needs to be
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Speaker 11: had in countries like Australia in the UK, which is
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Speaker 11: why do we continue to let people into our countries
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Speaker 11: that hate us? This is a theme that runs through
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Speaker 11: our immigration systems today. There are so many people in
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Speaker 11: these countries that are arriving who don't share our values
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Speaker 11: and who don't seem to have a respector of FINDI
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Speaker 11: for our history and our culture. Again with the caveat that,
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Speaker 11: I'm not sure about the archides of her parents, but
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Speaker 11: it is unfortunately something that we need to grapple with
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Speaker 11: in Australia and further afield.
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Speaker 1: I must say I haven't come across many Vietnamese immigrants
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Speaker 1: have been ungrateful to Australia at all. I might talk
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Speaker 1: about other communities before that, but I would have thought
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Speaker 1: Denika she'd have some appreciation of what this country meant
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Speaker 1: to her parents and speak a little bit more respectfully
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Speaker 1: of it.
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Speaker 12: Absolutely, I mean, given that she and her parents have
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Speaker 12: fled oppression, they've come here, been welcomed here with open arms.
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Speaker 12: It's really disappointing. And if she truly believes all that,
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Speaker 12: not only do we have to ask why is she here,
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Speaker 12: but also the question has to be asked, well why
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Speaker 12: are you running?
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Speaker 1: Then?
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Speaker 12: If you believe that Parliament is this big racist entity. Look,
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Speaker 12: it just represents a bigger problem that there have been
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Speaker 12: some people who have been welcomed into this country with
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Speaker 12: open arms, who hate our values and treat our democracy
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Speaker 12: with such contempt. We have obviously seen a record number
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Speaker 12: of migrants. This needs to be a broader discussion. It
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Speaker 12: was not front and center at the last election. It
42:28
Speaker 12: should be front and center at this election. But as
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Speaker 12: for the greenso, I honestly just think it's some sort
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Speaker 12: of prerequisite Andrew, that you run on I guess an
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Speaker 12: anti Australia platform and you're suddenly a candidate.
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Speaker 1: There you go, Danika, Georgia Wilkinson, Thank you to you both.
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Speaker 1: After the break energy Mister Chris Bone shots an ad
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Speaker 1: that actually promotes Peter Dutton. Do you think he knows
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Speaker 1: what he's doing? For five days, the five days of
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Speaker 1: this campaign, the premise has been going around the talking
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Speaker 1: about his dear mum who was an invalid pensioner, and
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Speaker 1: flashing his Medicare card and claiming the Coalition would rip
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Speaker 1: it up.
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Speaker 4: They hated the idea that this little card here would
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Speaker 4: be able to give the same healthcare to a billionaire
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Speaker 4: that it gives to an invalide pensioner.
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Speaker 1: Now, I find that claim actually very strange, not least
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Speaker 1: because Medicare about billion rates have actually fallen under Albin Easy,
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Speaker 1: who also slashed in half the number of Medicare sessions
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Speaker 1: the poor could get with a psychologist. Billionaires do get
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Speaker 1: better care, joining me as much Tuesday regular Matt Canavan
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Speaker 1: and Mat I've got to say, I'm amazed that you
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Speaker 1: have the height to show your face on the show
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Speaker 1: when your coalition are i'm told, is going to destroy Medicare.
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Speaker 1: Really stick it up those invalid pensioners. Apparently you hate
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Speaker 1: seeing invalid pensioners get the same care as a Malcolm Turnbull.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about your secret plans to destroy Medicare.
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Speaker 13: Well, I think Andrew, the Prime Minister is under the
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Speaker 13: delusion that people trust what he says, or even what
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Speaker 13: most politicians say. I think what people are interested in
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Speaker 13: is what politicians do, not what they say. And the
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Speaker 13: Prime Minister since he's been in office, has made Medicare worse,
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Speaker 13: not better. That's what the fact show when he came
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Speaker 13: to office. The bog billing rate, that's the rate of
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Speaker 13: people being able to charge just the Medicare rebate, not
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Speaker 13: having your pain any on top the bog billing rate.
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Speaker 13: We're sitting at ninety percent under the coalition government. It's
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Speaker 13: fallen to lower than eighty percent under his watch, and
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Speaker 13: now he's on a last ditch, desperate effort to pump
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Speaker 13: billions more into Medicare to make up for his failings
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Speaker 13: in government. The question has to be asked is if
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Speaker 13: he cared about Medicare so much, why didn't the Prime
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Speaker 13: Minister fix this in the last three years. Why is
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Speaker 13: he just making these promises in the last of three
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Speaker 13: weeks as his job is on the line. And the
44:53
Speaker 13: other point to make here, Andrew is we're only going
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Speaker 13: to have a strong Medicare system, a strong health system
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Speaker 13: if we have a strong economy. We don't have a
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Speaker 13: strong economy, we won't have the revenue to pay for
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Speaker 13: what we need, particularly as things become more expensive and
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Speaker 13: people live longer. And his watch, of course, our productivity
45:11
Speaker 13: has fallen through the roof. Our GDP growth has been stagnant.
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Speaker 13: We've gone backwards in terms of economic growth by person,
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Speaker 13: and because partly because he's bringing in so many people
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Speaker 13: this country, so we have fewer resources to devote to
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Speaker 13: the protection health of our people. With a stronger economy
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Speaker 13: under at the obanezy one economy.
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Speaker 1: I can I assure viewers that we can. I assure
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Speaker 1: viewers that Matt, the reason you're in such a colorful
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Speaker 1: area is not because you can't wait to get back
45:38
Speaker 1: on the beers. But you've been just coming off a
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Speaker 1: political event at the pub, and for that we are
45:43
Speaker 1: very grateful. Matt. Amazing news. The ambanies of government center him,
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Speaker 1: mister Chris barn You and I have been wondering what
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Speaker 1: rock they've been hiding him under. Been very quiet in
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Speaker 1: this campaign, almost invisible now it seems, has actually been
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Speaker 1: secretly making ads to get people to vote for Peter Dunton.
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Speaker 1: Take this.
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Speaker 4: He wants to say no to our plan to get
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Speaker 4: to eighty two percent renewables supported by gas, speaking new
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Speaker 4: transmission and storage.
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Speaker 1: Boy, he'd be grateful for that shout out, wouldn't you.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, well exactly, Andrew, He's hiding under a rock. I
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Speaker 13: think it's called blue Sky there on the He's deleted
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Speaker 13: his own ex account, doesn't want people to see or
46:24
Speaker 13: reply to that he was coppying it online on that
46:27
Speaker 13: platform because of his failure to control our energy system.
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Speaker 13: I am here at a political that I'm here at
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Speaker 13: Michelle Landry's campaign launch here in rock Hampton. She's going
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Speaker 13: for her fifth term and I was speaking to the
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Speaker 13: public and here Robin at Coco Brew in Rockhampton. His
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Speaker 13: power bill has doubled in the last few years. That's
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Speaker 13: the record of Chris Barwin. So the more Chris Bowen
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Speaker 13: talks and says is out there, the better for us,
46:48
Speaker 13: because he's been a complete and utter failure. The Prime
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Speaker 13: Minister this week has walked away. He's dumped his energy
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Speaker 13: modeling that he promised at the last election, used to
46:56
Speaker 13: promise those lower power bills. Well, I don't think the
46:59
Speaker 13: Prime ministers should be dumping his energy modeling. He should
47:02
Speaker 13: be dumping Chris bolm because he's been an absolute failure.
47:05
Speaker 13: And it shows here in that video there that Chris
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Speaker 13: Bowen is more interested in hitting an arbitrary target of
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Speaker 13: eighty two percent who cares eighty two percent of renewable
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Speaker 13: energy than he is of hitting a cost of living
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Speaker 13: target that he is of hitting a target of lower
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Speaker 13: power prices. He did set another target. He set a
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Speaker 13: target of cuming your power bills by ten thre and
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Speaker 13: seventy five dollars he's filed at that. He's filed as
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Speaker 13: an energy minister because the Prime Minister won't remove him.
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Speaker 13: The only way you can do that is to remove
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Speaker 13: the prime minister at the election.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. See, this is the thing. I mean. I saw
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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister tried to blame supermarkets for inflation this week.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what did Joe you talk about power prices
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Speaker 1: for that public and going up double That feeds into
47:43
Speaker 1: the price of beer. It has to do. I mean, that
47:46
Speaker 1: is what's burning people.
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Speaker 13: Exactly right, Andrew, and the Promister couldn't even define what
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Speaker 13: price gouging was. He says he's going to ban it,
47:55
Speaker 13: but he can't even say what it was. Well, I
47:58
Speaker 13: think people understand what price gouging is. The price gouging
48:01
Speaker 13: has happened by the ineptitude of this government. It's a
48:03
Speaker 13: price gouging that occurs when we have a government that
48:06
Speaker 13: car controls energy system. Not just the cost of beer,
48:08
Speaker 13: the cost of milk, the cost of cheese, the cost
48:10
Speaker 13: of everyday items all goes through the roof. That's what
48:14
Speaker 13: that's the gouget of Australians of stuff and under. It's
48:16
Speaker 13: not the supermarkets. They haven't just woken up in the
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Speaker 13: last few years to this. It's the thing that's changed
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Speaker 13: in the last few years is the governor of Australia
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Speaker 13: and their mismanagement of our economy and our energy system.
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Speaker 1: Matt Kenevan, I'll let you get back to your grateful
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Speaker 1: public over there. Thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 1: That's it for me, coming up now, Sherry markson good note,