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The Bolt Report | 11 March · The Bolt Report

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  Speaker 1: It's the reform it.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show and to another leadership change in Canberra.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: If it wasn't for Pauline Hanson, I doubt that Matt
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  Speaker 2: Canavan would today become the new leader of the Nationals.
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  Speaker 2: But the Nationals took a gamble, unlike the Liberals when
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  Speaker 2: they voted last month for their new leader. That done
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  Speaker 2: what Canavan himself did this morning. Playing soccer, they kicked
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  Speaker 2: a goal and voted for the one person left in
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  Speaker 2: their party who could yet save it from One Nation.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they show someone much like One Nation leader
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  Speaker 2: Pauline Hanson herself, a person of strong convictions, who speaks
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  Speaker 2: their mind, an enemy of the woke and a nationalist,
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  Speaker 2: as was clear from his agenda today.
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  Speaker 4: I stood for this role because I think we are
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  Speaker 4: losing our country. People are losing their standard living, they're
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  Speaker 4: losing their confidence, We're losing our relaxed and Alarican nature
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  Speaker 4: and we have to fight back for Australians.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bad news.
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  Speaker 4: The bad news is that things are not going well
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  Speaker 4: under this Labor government.
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  Speaker 1: The good news.
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  Speaker 4: The good news, though, is that everything we need to
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  Speaker 4: solve the problems in front of us right now are
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  Speaker 4: here in this country. Everything we need to make Australia
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  Speaker 4: the country was in the past is here in our nation.
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  Speaker 1: We have the resources, we have the people, we have.
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  Speaker 4: The land, We've got the soil, We've got the rain
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  Speaker 4: when it comes.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it is a lot. Right now in Queensland.
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  Speaker 4: We've got everything we need here in this country. So
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  Speaker 4: all we need to do, all we need to do
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  Speaker 4: to revive our great nation, is to have more Australia.
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  Speaker 4: We need more Australian babies. We need we need more
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  Speaker 4: Australian humor, more Australian jokes. We need more Australian barbecues,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes often fueled by fossil fuels.
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  Speaker 1: We need more Australian everything.
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  Speaker 2: I think you know what he means. Matt Canavan, and
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  Speaker 2: the former Resources Minister and a regular on the show,
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  Speaker 2: is the National Party's last and desperate hope to save
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  Speaker 2: yourself from one nation. He stood for leadership before though
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  Speaker 2: and being rejected. I mean to high risk, strong Catholic
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  Speaker 2: lunt speaks it a bit too frankly, have been dead
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  Speaker 2: against some woke things that even many coalition politicians were
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  Speaker 2: going along with, including the net zero madness. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: Canavan was against that when even his own party was
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what.
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  Speaker 2: Journalists today we're honing in on, you know, is fight
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  Speaker 2: for his principles, his stand on abortion, on global warming.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that franken his coalition partner now that he could
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  Speaker 2: now that it have to mind his tongue to moderate
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  Speaker 2: your approach.
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  Speaker 4: As I say, I will focus on and fight for
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  Speaker 4: what is right in terms of the substance of your question.
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  Speaker 4: All I stood for, all I've argued for which we're
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  Speaker 4: all doing right now as the nationals and level team,
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  Speaker 4: is that we use all of our God given resources
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  Speaker 4: for the benefit of the Istrain people. I think we
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  Speaker 4: should run out energy system to deliver the lowest possible
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  Speaker 4: prices for Australians.
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  Speaker 1: That should be the primary goal. That is not the
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  Speaker 1: goal of this government.
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  Speaker 4: Their goal is to meet arbitrary emissions or renewable energy
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  Speaker 4: targets which are not delivering for these trained people.
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  Speaker 2: So there's the taste of Canavan. As you can see,
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  Speaker 2: he can handle himself in a media pack. He's as
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  Speaker 2: clever as he is tough. He's got a first class
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  Speaker 2: honors degree in economics who became a director of the
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  Speaker 2: Productivity Commission and what's more, with so much fakery and
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  Speaker 2: uncertainty and political failure and economic decline these days, now
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  Speaker 2: is the time for a leader is authentic, who's smart,
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  Speaker 2: anti the global warming scam, and not a flip flopper
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  Speaker 2: instead a values driven man and able to command attention
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  Speaker 2: in the media. Because you look at the smoking ruin
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  Speaker 2: that Canavan is inherited from David Diddleproud Now One Nation
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  Speaker 2: is destroying the Nationals in the polls, stealing so many
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  Speaker 2: of his voters. You check today's Sky News poll. One
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  Speaker 2: Nation is now on twenty six percent support, not far
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  Speaker 2: behind even Labor and why ahead of the coalition The
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  Speaker 2: Liberals and Nationals combined together on a disastrous nineteen percent.
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  Speaker 2: Ninety percent is a record low for the coalition, as
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  Speaker 2: low as its vote under previous opposition leaders.
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  Speaker 1: Is in Lee. Yet even after.
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  Speaker 2: Replacing Lee with Angus Taylor last month, the Coalition got
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  Speaker 2: no bounce in the polls at all. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you ask, how can that be Angus Taylor? After all, Pick,
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  Speaker 2: the stronger front Bench team is talking more about immigration,
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  Speaker 2: and Costa has done all the right things, and still
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  Speaker 2: the Coalition of Cactus looks like whatever Taylor is selling.
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  Speaker 2: Voters aren't listening.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I suspect one of the reasons is that Taylor is
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  Speaker 2: one of those unlucky politicians who unlike kenevan Hansen. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: it interesting to watch and to hear? Can you remember
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  Speaker 2: this shocking Sky News poll? It was taken even before
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  Speaker 2: David little Proud quit as the Nationals leader yesterday remaining
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  Speaker 2: voters again, of course, so the coalition is in chaos.
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  Speaker 2: Little Proud quit claiming he was buggered, but what was
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  Speaker 2: buggered was his party and the coalition. Now coalition, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Canavan could be his best new chance. I mean it.
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  Speaker 2: He's up for this fight. He knows that the main
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  Speaker 2: threat is one nation and he fired off at Pauline
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  Speaker 2: Hanson right from the start, although perhaps not wisely.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I'm very concerned.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very concerned that the identity politics of division that
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  Speaker 4: we've seen on the left is creeping into the right now.
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  Speaker 4: And I was very critical of Pauline's comments so dividing
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  Speaker 4: Australians to different groups, saying that suggesting there are no
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  Speaker 4: good for in certain groups of Australians.
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  Speaker 1: I totally reject that. I totally reject that.
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  Speaker 4: I worry about where Pauline is it would take this
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  Speaker 4: country to an area of more division.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's misrepresenting something Pauline Hanson said. But anyway, I
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  Speaker 2: noticed that Canavan didn't actually mention the word Muslim, and
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  Speaker 2: it was obviously attacking Hanson's comments on Muslims in Australia
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  Speaker 2: when he talked about certain groups. It's like Canavan didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to advertise what for many voters might actually be
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  Speaker 2: a reason to back Hanson, who shot back at Canavan
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  Speaker 2: this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: I know what I've said to me behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 1: I know his true feelings.
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  Speaker 5: About it, and it's not the truth.
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  Speaker 6: So you know, I thought, from a good Christian man
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  Speaker 6: that to be upfront with people, and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure that that kind of attack on
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  Speaker 2: Hansen by Canavan is going to win back the National
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  Speaker 2: voters who deserted to one nation anyway. In fact, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Angus Taylor beside him, I've got to say this
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  Speaker 2: is a real risk that the straight talking Canavan will
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  Speaker 2: seem like it's been house trained by the Liberals. And
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  Speaker 2: another problem is that Canavan is stuck in the Senate
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  Speaker 2: when showtime is of course in the House of Representing,
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  Speaker 2: which is also where a deputy prime Minister for tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: should be. And that's not all. Bunnaby Joyce, who Canavan
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  Speaker 2: used to work for as chief of Staff, is now
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  Speaker 2: with One Nation, and he today pointed out that Canavan
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  Speaker 2: might have to tame some other opinions that have got
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  Speaker 2: him attention and admiration. They were not opinions shared by
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  Speaker 2: most of the Liberals or even his deputy leader Darren Chester.
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  Speaker 2: Is the kind of Nationals that the ABC might even like.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest issue is I know Matt, I
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  Speaker 2: know him very well, and he is an exceptional guy
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  Speaker 2: and a good fellow. But his policy beliefs are just
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  Speaker 2: a million miles away from where a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: Liberal Party are is and to be quite frank, now
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  Speaker 2: big challenges. They're hitching the Canavan thoroughbred to the coalition wagon.
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  Speaker 2: But that said, Canavan is whip smart, a brilliant communicator,
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  Speaker 2: the National's best hope, and even so, saving the coalition
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  Speaker 2: will be beyond even him. If his fighting solo, he
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  Speaker 2: needs a partner in the Liberals, the more senior party,
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  Speaker 2: and that requires Angus Taylor to now step up, or
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  Speaker 2: to one day step aside for Andrew Hasty who's the
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  Speaker 2: Liberals Canavan? Andrew Hasty and Matt Canavan. What a pairing
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  Speaker 2: that would be quite compelling, don't you think a real
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  Speaker 2: sign of the message massive change to the coalition needs
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  Speaker 2: to make and be seen to make well the Nationals
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  Speaker 2: they took a necessary risk today by choosing Canavan. The
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  Speaker 2: Liberals last month did not. Let's see how long that lasts.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me is the political panel Cameron Milner formative staff
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  Speaker 2: to Labor leader Bill Shorten now director of g XO
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  Speaker 2: Strategies and Michael Cossler, former New South Wales Labor treasurer.
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  Speaker 2: Ah Camera and Matt Canavan a good choice? Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's a great choice and a great choice. And
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  Speaker 2: I think the good thing is that you've had him
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  Speaker 2: on the program. Your viewers have actually had the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to hear about Matt and see what Matt's conviction politics
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  Speaker 2: is really about. I mean, he's a man of value,
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  Speaker 2: he's a man of faith, and.
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  Speaker 6: I think he speaks his mind. And I think people
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  Speaker 6: want straight talking leaders. They don't want woo for waffle
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  Speaker 6: like Albanese gives and potentially even Taylor does these days.
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  Speaker 6: So no, I think a straight shooter from Queensland. He
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  Speaker 6: needs to talk about the economy. He also needs to
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  Speaker 6: sort out being a little bit less nationalist and realizing
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  Speaker 6: that the Australia that you're going to roll in the world
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  Speaker 6: and it doesn't just stop at our borders. So on
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  Speaker 6: international affairs. I think Matt needs to get up to speed.
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  Speaker 6: But beyond that, he's going to take the fight up
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  Speaker 6: and he's certainly going to take the fight up on
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  Speaker 6: behalf of National Party voters around the country.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think there are some of his positions on
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  Speaker 2: things like he ran at the moment are a little
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  Speaker 2: bit to JD Vanslag, but we shall see. Michael Costlan.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I think that was the only choice they had.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they don't have a very deep party there
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  Speaker 3: to pick somebody. He's the right choice. But I think
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  Speaker 3: everybody's framing this the wrong way. This is not about
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  Speaker 3: him taken on elbow. This is about him taken on
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  Speaker 3: one nation and they know that for sure. Those comments
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  Speaker 3: from Pauline Hansen and Barnaby Joyce show that you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I've said all along, this is a disaster for
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  Speaker 3: the sort of center right forces because you know Albo
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  Speaker 3: is going to be the big winner out of this
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  Speaker 3: the issue of preferences. I noted that Pauline Hanson in
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  Speaker 3: that interview you played also talked about the fact there's
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  Speaker 3: been no discussion on preferences, and I think this is
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  Speaker 3: where the problem is going to be. Andrew, I think
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  Speaker 3: we're heading for a disaster on that side of politics.
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  Speaker 3: If they can't get their house in order, they'll be
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  Speaker 3: fighting each other, not Albo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a big mistake to go for
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  Speaker 2: Pauline Hanson as a racist if you're a national I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know you didn't say the word, but that's clearly
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  Speaker 2: what it is playing when in the end the Coalition
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  Speaker 2: may have no option but to beg one nation for
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  Speaker 2: a preference steel How can they have a preference deal
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  Speaker 2: with a party that is slinging off as racist.
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  Speaker 1: But Cameron is.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Canavan the man that can save the Nationals from
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  Speaker 2: one nation, do you think?
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 6: And let's not forget that the LNP and Queens and
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  Speaker 6: where Mac comes from, is actually a really strong political machine.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, if people underrestimate the LMP in Queens and
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  Speaker 6: they've go Christoph fully got state government, they're actually quite
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  Speaker 6: a strong political machine. So I think he comes from
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  Speaker 6: good stock in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: But come back to your point.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, yes, why do labours work, Why do the
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  Speaker 6: work of the Greens and call one nation racist? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: don't call that out if you're Matt Cannavan. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: go and talk about the economy, talk about cost of living,
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  Speaker 6: talk about regional Australia where he's from, talk about having
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  Speaker 6: a big family like he does. You know, talk about
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  Speaker 6: faith in politics. I mean, they're the sorts of things
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  Speaker 6: that you can actually get the groundback on. Why go
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  Speaker 6: and do you know why read off Albow's talking points
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  Speaker 6: about Pauline Hansen.
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  Speaker 2: When your name, Well, I think they do need Pauline Anson,
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's a big mistake. Michael Costa. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: you know the Liberals when you look at the overall
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  Speaker 2: coalition primary vote, but this is a big reflection on
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  Speaker 2: the opposition leader, his whole team. The primary vote back
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  Speaker 2: down to just nineteen percent.
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  Speaker 1: Conclusion.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first thing I'd say is, let's be careful about
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  Speaker 3: these polls.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of these ups and downs are within the
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  Speaker 5: margin of era.
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  Speaker 3: And when he went up, when Taylor went up a
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  Speaker 3: couple of points, that was well within the margin of era.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there's been any change, and as you remember,
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  Speaker 3: I think all three of us predicted that whilst they
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  Speaker 3: had to do this, this wasn't the end game. There's
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  Speaker 3: got to be a change at some point in the future.
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  Speaker 3: He's holding pattern. I sort of worry about him. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think he's a good performer even in the Parliament.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's too laid back for the role that
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  Speaker 3: he needs to take. So you know, nothing's changed in
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  Speaker 3: my mind in terms of where the coalition's going.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's a hint that Andrew Hasty was probably the braver,
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  Speaker 2: riskier But can you imagine Cameron, Andrew Hasty and Matt
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  Speaker 2: Canavan together as a team, the two respective leaders of
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  Speaker 2: the coalitionion parties. That really does signal change. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's missed the opportunity. But maybe they can revisit that
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  Speaker 2: in the future.
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  Speaker 5: I think they can.
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  Speaker 6: There's certainly time on Andrew Hasty's side. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: poor Andrew Hasty, he was going to have to partner with.
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  Speaker 1: David Little Proud.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, who would have wanted that role? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: David Little Proud was a disaster, A treacherous disaster, treacherous
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  Speaker 6: disaster and so thank goodness he's gone. But no, Matt
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  Speaker 6: Canavan's really good if he had the choice, hasty any
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  Speaker 6: other day over Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that is probably not going to be decided for
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  Speaker 2: a little while. But I don't think it. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: think he'll be a live issue before the next The
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  Speaker 2: lead the petrol so called crisis, Michael, that the opposition
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  Speaker 2: has been hammering again today. You know, some fuel outlets
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  Speaker 2: in the country running out of petrol, prices at one
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  Speaker 2: outlet in Armadale even hitting three dollars thirty nine cents
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  Speaker 2: a leter. Look, I'm actually buying the government's response to
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  Speaker 2: this is panic buying, the kind of madness we saw
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  Speaker 2: so often in the pandemic. We're not sure to petrol nationally.
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  Speaker 2: If I had one criticism, of course, it'd be fuel
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  Speaker 2: supplies being diverted away from country outlets where it's actually
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  Speaker 2: most needed. Or is there a bigger issue here that
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  Speaker 2: I'm overlooking.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Andrew, I one hundred percent with you on this.
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  Speaker 3: I think the opposition, particularly in the context of this
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  Speaker 3: Iran war, needs to back off. I mean, the fact
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  Speaker 3: of the matter is there is going to be short
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  Speaker 3: term pain and you know we went through this in COVID.
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  Speaker 3: The prices are very similar, but at least now where
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  Speaker 3: the environment is one where the outcome, if Trump is successful,
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  Speaker 3: will be a better environment for all of us long term.
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  Speaker 3: So I wish the opposition would drop it. They look
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  Speaker 3: silly today. I thought even Chris Bowen scored some points
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  Speaker 3: off them, which is you know, for me to say
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  Speaker 3: that is quite amazing. You know, the problem they've got
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  Speaker 3: here is that our supplies are in the position they're
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  Speaker 3: in because we've rejected things like fracking. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: we had done something with fracking, we would have decades
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  Speaker 3: worth of supply. We've left ourselves, both parties, by the way, Andrew,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know the Coalition did the same thing
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  Speaker 3: in a position where we've got what thirty two days supply.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's the real issue. The opposition ought to
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  Speaker 3: back off support the government, support the government in its support,
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  Speaker 3: lookewarm as it is of what Trump's doing.
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  Speaker 2: Look, there may be a political payoff for them, but
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  Speaker 2: the more they talk about, oh there's a few shortage
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  Speaker 2: here and there, and there and there and there, they
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  Speaker 2: encourage exactly the panic bone that's causing fuel shortages here
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  Speaker 2: and there, and there because people are filling up, even
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Cans. But Cameron Milner, what do you make of this?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think we should all keep calm and let
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  Speaker 6: Trump carry on. I mean, this is a situation where
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  Speaker 6: where less than two weeks into a water get rid
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  Speaker 6: of a horrible, horrible regime that's entrenched, entrenched in Iran.
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  Speaker 6: So let's keep going and let's get the job done.
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  Speaker 6: And to Michael's point, I mean it's a relatively short
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  Speaker 6: term pain for a very long term gain if we
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  Speaker 6: have proper, proper pieces in the Middle East, we finally
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  Speaker 6: remove a terrorist state like Iran that was doing the hoodies,
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  Speaker 6: HEZBLA and Hamas. Now let's not forget those three as
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  Speaker 6: well they're doing in the region.
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  Speaker 2: Let's remove them.
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  Speaker 6: Let's remove the oil that they were using for their
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  Speaker 6: terrorists state as well and get supplies back to normal.
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  Speaker 2: Cameron Milon and Michael Costa, thank you very much to
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  Speaker 2: you both. Now on Monday, I promised to check a
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  Speaker 2: claim by one of my guests that Queensland police ask
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  Speaker 2: one Iranian Australian woman to leave the hotel she was
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  Speaker 2: staying in with a family after she tried to offer
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  Speaker 2: help to the Iranian women's soccer team there was also
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  Speaker 2: staying there.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I said it was outrageous that Iranian security goons could
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  Speaker 2: get our police to keep people away from women they
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  Speaker 2: were essentially holding prisoner. Now, the woman who was kicked
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  Speaker 2: out for trying to tell these players they could claim
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  Speaker 2: asylum now confirms the police did ask her and a
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  Speaker 2: family to leave after Iranian goons complained to the hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Queensland Police confirm yes, they did attend on what they
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  Speaker 2: call a community assistance matter, which they said was resolved
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  Speaker 2: no further comment. I don't think that's good enough. This
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: is Australia, not Iran. But the good news is that
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: six women from the Iranian team had now been given
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: protection visas and are staying.
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  Speaker 1: After the break.
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  Speaker 2: The one million dollar ad we never saw for a
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  Speaker 2: Comwealth Games we never held, even after spending more than
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: a half a billion dollars, this year's Comonwealth Games will
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: be held in Glasgow, Scotland. It was going to be
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  Speaker 2: held a Victoria until the incompetent labor government there let
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  Speaker 2: costs get so wildly out of control it had to cancel.
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  Speaker 2: It spent five hundred and sixty nine million dollars for
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: nothing for not holding the games. And now the Herald's
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  Speaker 2: son has found an ad that the government spent a
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: million dollars to make to sell the games it never
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: held and couldn't afford.
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  Speaker 1: And seriously, a million.
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  Speaker 2: Dollars for this. Joining me is Ron Dean, Chief of
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  Speaker 2: the Spectator Australia, host of Outsiders every Sunday at nine
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: am and host of his own show on Fridays at
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: seven pm. Rownie used to be a top advertising executive.
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  Speaker 2: Your exploits were mentioned in a lightly disguised novel that
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: was a lightly disguised autobiography. A million dollars for that
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  Speaker 2: ad that people never saw for a Commonwealth Games. They'll
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: never see your verdict.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Andrew, the economic rot or the financial row to
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: that ad. A million dollars for that ad, I think,
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: come on, but the financial route is equaled by the
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: creativet What a creative joke that ad is. For a start,
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  Speaker 7: it's a young girl running through the streets of Melbourne
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  Speaker 7: with her dream of getting to the Commonwealth Games. It
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: would have been a little bit more truthful. I believe
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: in honesty and truthfulness in advertising, Andrew, so it would
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: have been a little bit more truthful if she'd been
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: running down the street being chased by a couple of
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: machete wielding gangs, and she'd been sprinting a lot faster,
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: if she was leaping over the discarded needles outside the
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: injecting rooms, and by the time she got to the
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: view at the end there, instead of that running through
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: the bush and the beautiful view it would have been,
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: she would have been jumping over transmission lines, jumping over
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: dead koalas or whatever else, and the view at the
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  Speaker 7: end would have been just win mills and transmission lines
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: and what is left of rural Victoria.
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  Speaker 5: So on a creative basis, the add.
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  Speaker 7: Is complete nonsense, but the idea and lacks any kind
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: of insight.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, yes, kids dream of being in the Olympics.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Not many people in under the Victorian labor government would
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: probably have realized that dream because most of them spent
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: COVID locked up and not allowed to go even down
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: to the beach or for a run in the park.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: So I think the labor government would have destroyed more
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: Olympic or Commonwealth Games dreams, and they did actually foster them.
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  Speaker 5: But there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, add for come Wealth Games, we will not hold.
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  Speaker 2: So when people see the Glasgow one, remember the Victorian
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: government spent half a billion dollars on not holding those games. Unbelievable.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: But to the big political news, Matt Canavan as the
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: new leader of the Nationals immediately whacking Paul in Hansen
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: for being too divisive hint hint, racist. Really a good start.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: Not on that, No, I hope Matt gets that bee
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: out of his bonnet because the rest of what Matt
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: had to say today was terrific and I loved all
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: the stuff about let's bring back the Aussie Alarican and
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: Aussie barbecues, and there's so much more in the Australian
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: way of life, the Australian personality and character which actually
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Matt embodies. So that is terrific. That's the sort of
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: stuff people want to hear. Whacking Paul Enhnson is irrelevant.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: Matt should be aiming for the gold, not for the silver.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: To use our Commonwealth Games analogy. The enemy is labor,
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: the target is government. Not having a fight with one nation.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: There will need to be preference steels, as you've discussed
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: earlier on the show.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: So it's a pointless and futile pursuit.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: What Matt is brilliant at is destroying the entire myth
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: of climate change, the entire entire net zero hoax. That
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: is what he is brilliant at, the economics of it,
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: the science of it, the effect on rural economies and
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: rural lifestyles.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: That is what he is good.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: The way to destroy this labor government is to destroy
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: their economic credibilities. Your Matt Canavan is a thousand times
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: more economically literate than Jim Charmers, and certainly ways smarter,
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: and certainly are far far more appealing personality to the
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: Australian electorate. Secondly, Chris Bowen is a dunce compared to
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: Matt Canavan, who is an absolute genius in comparison to
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: Chris Bowen. Want anything, literally, anything to do with net
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: zero climate change, the Paris Agreement, the effect of renewables,
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: nuclear you name it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Canavan can run circles around Bowen.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: The one man who's sitting there tonight absolutely terrified is
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: and should be Chris Bowen.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Matt Canavan can destroy the labor government. Matt.
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: That is your enemy, not Pauline Hanson. Go after labor
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: and you will destroy them.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: That's my message.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's see if the Liberals will find him
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: a bit too rich a meal for their liking, because
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: he is far more damning of the global warming wrought
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the financial roughts than they are, and I wonder whether
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: he'll push them to go harder than they have been going.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: We're about to show Chris Yeoman's documentary on John Howard
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: thirty years after he first became Prime Minister. Rowan, I
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: mean from the Howard years right where you know the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: coalition the Liberals essentially won four elections in a row
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: to today the Coalition just nineteen percent in the polls,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: way behind even one nation.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: What happened, well two things.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: Firstly, people knew what the coalition stood for, what John
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: Howard stood for, what Tim Fisher, John Anderson stood for.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: But also an interesting point on what.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: We were just talking about, John Howard actually specifically says
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: in this documentary that the way he dealt with Pauline
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: Hanson was to not over attack her because that only
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: built her up in the eyes of the electric but
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: rather to understand why people were voting for her and
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: tack accordingly. Now, I think I wish Matt Canavan had
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: seen the doco tonight before the conference press conference he
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: had done this morning. John Howard was superb at understanding
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: the Australian people.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Matt Canavan has that, Angus Taylor.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: Has that, but it's that idea today that Matt Canavan
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: was pushing of the Aussie Alarican. John Howard knew that
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: he knew the soul of the Australian people. That's what
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: the Coalition needs to get back to, representing that soul,
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: not the Renewables lobby groups of New South Wales who
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: have destroyed the Coalition, and everybody knows exactly who they
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: people are.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I think also John Howard gave people assurance that he
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: had a vision of where to go, He was flexible
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: and I think Canavan could do that providing he adds
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: that little flexibility to his outlook.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: Absolutely and the personality Canavan has a personality that the
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: Australian people love instinctively and ultimately that's what politics is
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: all about, and that's what John Howard understood. And we
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: haven't had a Prime Minister as good as John Howard
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: since then. We're all looking forward to the day we do.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Well. Thank you very much for that, Rowan Dean and
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: for people to understand exactly what kind of Prime Minister
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Roan's talking about. John Howard. You can now get your
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: fill because coming up is Chris Human's documentary John Howard,
• 25:49
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