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The Rita Panahi Show | 12 August · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On Scorne Wilds, Australia.
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Speaker 2: This is the winder Panahi Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panahe Show. I'm
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Speaker 3: Danikiti Giorgio coming up tonight. Anthony Albernizi claims Benjamin NETTNYA,
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Speaker 3: who is in denial in another blow to relations with
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Speaker 3: Israel as the PM forges ahead with his plan to
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Speaker 3: recognize Kalestine. See the Incredible Moment to Chinese warship flows
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Speaker 3: into its own Coast Guard vessel in the.
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Speaker 4: South China Sea.
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Speaker 3: Michael Schubrinch will explain what happened Alex Stein on Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump's plan to crack down on crime and homelessness in Washington, DC,
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Speaker 3: and it's got the Left and the Democrats in a spin.
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Speaker 3: Anti Israel group's about to take over another Australian landmark.
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Speaker 3: I will speak to Kosher Gada and of course left
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Speaker 3: he's losing it. Including an unhinged and tragic rant by
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Speaker 3: a former American TV host.
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Speaker 1: When the felon is the teeny weenie mushroom pieces Kinkles
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Speaker 1: mctaco at the top of the ticket.
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Speaker 3: The Prime Minister is desperately trying to justify his appalling
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Speaker 3: and treacherous decision to recognize Palestine.
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Speaker 4: Have a look at this.
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Speaker 5: The international community is saying enough is enough.
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Speaker 6: You can't just keep doing the same thing over and
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Speaker 6: over again and expect a different outcome. And this is
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Speaker 6: the best opportunity that there is out of a crisis
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Speaker 6: to actually provide a long term solution, one which sees
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Speaker 6: a demilitarized state of Palestine enable Palestinians to just live.
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Speaker 3: Really, because all this does is reward Humus, the same
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Speaker 3: terror group who slaughtered twelve hundred Jews on October seven,
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Speaker 3: Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Michayla Cash had this gaving assessment.
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Speaker 3: It is reckless, It is disappointing, but more than that,
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Speaker 3: it does nothing to change the situation on the ground
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Speaker 3: for the Palestinian people. Joining me now on the panel
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Speaker 3: is Deputy Executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs
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Speaker 3: Daniel Wilde and News Corpse senior writer Patrick Carlyonhi to.
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Speaker 4: Both of you. Thanks for joining me. Patrick.
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Speaker 3: Look, let's not forget that this is a lifelong dream
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Speaker 3: of Anthony Alberezi's to recognize Palestine. He's always been pro Palestine,
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Speaker 3: and now, as we've just heard, he's trying to justify
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Speaker 3: this decision by claiming Palestine just wants to live. Well,
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Speaker 3: what about Israel? I mean, Israel would love that too,
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Speaker 3: without the threat of her mus wanting to wipe it out.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's the point to Nika, isn't it.
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Speaker 7: I mean, Israel has faced this existential threat since nine
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Speaker 7: forty eight. Over the past seventy seven years, the rest
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Speaker 7: of the country is around it have tried to obliterate
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Speaker 7: it and the idea that somehow the Western world can
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Speaker 7: somehow have this feel good gesture that says, let's not
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Speaker 7: worry about the details on the ground, let's just make
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Speaker 7: it better from Afar, it actually does the opposite of
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Speaker 7: what it's intending to do. I mean, no one's talking
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Speaker 7: about the fifty hostages that Hamas have at the moment.
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Speaker 2: What's happened to them?
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Speaker 7: Are they going to be Are they innocent souls to
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Speaker 7: be forsaken for this feel good gesture that won't actually
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Speaker 7: make the place any safer exactly?
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Speaker 3: And it just seems like I don't think anybody understands
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Speaker 3: what is going on here. And Daniel Anthony Arberneezy has
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Speaker 3: also revealed details of a conversation that he had with
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Speaker 3: the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who about these plans,
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Speaker 3: have a listen to this.
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Speaker 5: I spoke with Prime Minister Netanya who he again reiterated
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Speaker 5: to me what he has said publicly as well, which
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Speaker 5: is to be in denial about the consequences that are
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Speaker 5: occurring for innocent people.
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Speaker 3: So Daniel, now the PM thinks that Benjamin Netanya, who
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Speaker 3: is in denial.
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Speaker 8: What on earth is he on about?
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Speaker 9: I mean, this really is a terrible government that is
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Speaker 9: driving our country into the ground at the moment. You know,
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Speaker 9: this is craven domestic politics that is driving this. Anthony
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Speaker 9: Albanezi wild like to pretend that he's a great humanitarian
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Speaker 9: coming on the white horse to save all the people
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Speaker 9: in Gaza. The reality is it's got to do with
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Speaker 9: labor seats in Western Sydney that are driving these decisions.
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Speaker 9: And that's what's been happening for the last couple of years.
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Speaker 9: And you know, we are so divided as a society.
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Speaker 9: This could not come at a worse possible time. And
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Speaker 9: we now have a federal government of our nation that
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Speaker 9: is making very consequential decisions as a result of an
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Speaker 9: intolerant and extreme views of a minority in our society,
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Speaker 9: and the problem is this is only going to be
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Speaker 9: the start. Whatever those from the Middle East in the
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Speaker 9: labor seats in Western Sydney demand they get from this government.
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Speaker 9: And as you identified in your monologue, this is just
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Speaker 9: rewarding terrorism, plain and simple.
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Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely and also obviously putting our long standing ally
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Speaker 3: in Israel even further offside.
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Speaker 4: It's just appalling.
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Speaker 3: Now let's go to Australia's worst premiere just into Alan
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Speaker 3: over in Victoria. She's been spooking her damaging plan to
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Speaker 3: make working from home a legal right, putting out cringey
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Speaker 3: social media videos like this have a look lovely a.
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Speaker 1: Preaching working from home is a game changer for families
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Speaker 1: everywhere and for Felicity.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for welcoming us into your home with Charlotte
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Speaker 3: as well.
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Speaker 4: Hasn't working from home been for you?
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Speaker 10: Means traveling to work is one lessing. I've got to
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Speaker 10: deal a morning with a large family. It's fantastic and
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Speaker 10: with my husband working long hours, it means that he
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Speaker 10: can do that and I'm here to help with the family.
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Speaker 11: There is no reason why you shouldn't work from the
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Speaker 11: two day work from home right as a right I
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Speaker 11: think there's actually a really important kind of flaw.
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Speaker 12: It's not dependent on the whims of the employer.
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Speaker 3: It feels like a necessary part of modern working life.
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Speaker 3: So Patrick, she's resorted to recruiting everyday punters for her
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Speaker 3: daily propaganda videos.
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Speaker 4: I mean, what do you make of her?
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Speaker 7: Well, look, as a Victorian, Dnika, I think this is
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Speaker 7: a classic piece of cheeky and cynical politics. Look, the
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Speaker 7: Victorian government doesn't have the power to enshrine two days
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Speaker 7: of working from home a week. It comes under federal laws.
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Speaker 7: But it was sort of made. It was announced with
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Speaker 7: something very cynical in mind, which is it was going to.
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Speaker 2: Be popular, and it certainly has been popular.
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Speaker 7: It's a very stale, it's a very arrogant government, but
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Speaker 7: they know that a lot of average people will say
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Speaker 7: good on you for looking after us, even though it
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Speaker 7: is such a bad government and has been for a
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Speaker 7: long time. Look, it's unlikely to get up, but it
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Speaker 7: will work in the electorate on this very cynical sort
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Speaker 7: of level, and we'll wait to see what happens.
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Speaker 2: But it is a very cynical piece of politic Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: I just think it's a shocker. Why don't you just
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Speaker 4: let businesses.
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Speaker 3: Decide for themselves. Meanwhile, two Allen government sources of total
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Speaker 3: nine newspapers that quote the backlash against the policy was
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Speaker 3: not only expected but welcomed within Allan's inner circle. It
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Speaker 3: reminds me of the phrase you would always hear within
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Speaker 3: Daniel Andrews's office. Stakeholders aren't voters. That's according to one
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Speaker 3: of the sources. I mean, Daniel, what a peculiar thing
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Speaker 3: to say that they don't care at all about business.
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Speaker 9: Well, that's exactly right, and I think Patrick's point is
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Speaker 9: spot on. I mean, this will resonate with the typical
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Speaker 9: person on the streets. Certainly, young working families will probably
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Speaker 9: welcome it, although I accept the point that there's no
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Speaker 9: way the Victorian government can actually implement this at all.
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Speaker 8: And you know, they're making hay out.
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Speaker 9: Of the disaster that was the federal election, in part
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Speaker 9: because of the work from home policy that was targeted
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Speaker 9: at Canberra public servants but was interpreted by many in
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Speaker 9: the community to affect them as well. But you know,
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Speaker 9: as you point out, the issue here is that the
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Speaker 9: Victorian economy is already at the bottom of the economic
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Speaker 9: league ladder for our country. We've got states like New
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Speaker 9: South Wales and South Australia that have said, well, you know,
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Speaker 9: we're happy if Victoria does this because they're going to
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Speaker 9: poach their businesses that are going to move into states.
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Speaker 9: So yes, it might be good in the short run,
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Speaker 9: but in the long run, what you'll find is there'll
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Speaker 9: be less investment of fewer businesses and therefore fewer jobs
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Speaker 9: in Victoria.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and not.
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Speaker 3: Great for a state which has already broken and backwards
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Speaker 3: as it is.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 3: Look, let's talk about the NDIS. It's been revealed key
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Speaker 3: figures in the Gillard government, who of course founded the
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Speaker 3: National Disability Insurance Scheme have gone on to chair union
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Speaker 3: backed super funds that have become the biggest financial winners
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Speaker 3: from it. Patrick, Look, we're talking a windfall here of
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Speaker 3: around three hundred and thirty million dollars.
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Speaker 4: What do you make of the revelations?
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Speaker 7: Look, the NDIES was a nice idea back a dozen
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Speaker 7: years ago.
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Speaker 2: Its execution has been appalling.
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Speaker 7: Obviously, it's been a racket for profiteers, for cheats, for
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Speaker 7: people to make money and as taxpayers money I think
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Speaker 7: you're looking at I think it costs about fifty two
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Speaker 7: billion dollars a year at the moment that's farm more
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Speaker 7: than defense. The policing has been dreadful, and you see
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Speaker 7: these labor ministers who are part of the boards of
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Speaker 7: these super.
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Speaker 2: Funds which have made an awful lot of money.
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Speaker 7: Now I should point out none of them are personally
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Speaker 7: profited from it or anything like that. But the whole
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Speaker 7: NDIS model has been skew we from day one and.
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Speaker 2: It's cost Australian taxpayers an absolute fortune.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this whole scheme is a behemoth. It was originally
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Speaker 3: meant for the most severely disabled and gee, it's just
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Speaker 3: blowing out week by week. Meanwhile, whistleblowers have also claimed
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Speaker 3: that people on the NDS are being traded for thousands
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Speaker 3: of dollars, completely unaware that they're being auctioned off.
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Speaker 4: To the highest bidder.
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Speaker 3: They allege that so called concierges offer NDIS recipients to
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Speaker 3: service providers wanting a percentage of the plan value or
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Speaker 3: flat rate for the referral, and whichever provider pays the
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Speaker 3: most gets the patient.
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Speaker 4: Daniel.
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Speaker 3: It just feels like week by week there are new
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Speaker 3: revelations about the roughts involved.
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Speaker 4: In this scheme.
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Speaker 9: Well, that's right, another week, another rout it's become a
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Speaker 9: massive trough that various interested parties have their snouts in, unfortunately,
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Speaker 9: and it's not delivering outcomes for those who needed. I mean,
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Speaker 9: the original conception of the NDIS was to help people
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Speaker 9: that have profound disabilities or catastrophic injuries. I think it
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Speaker 9: used to be the National Injury Insurance Scheme that they're
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Speaker 9: morphed into the NDIS.
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Speaker 8: And I think that's fair enough.
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Speaker 9: I mean, there's often cases where you can't get personal
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Speaker 9: insurance for those kinds of outcomes in your life, and
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Speaker 9: there's a role for government to support that. But we've
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Speaker 9: just seen ballooning numbers that have not been rained in.
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Speaker 9: The Costs have skyrocketed, and this government is just not
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Speaker 9: interested in.
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Speaker 8: Doing anything about it.
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Speaker 9: They've waived the white flag, and unfortunately that means that
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Speaker 9: it's fifty odd billion dollars now it's going to get
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Speaker 9: to one hundred billion dollars. I mean, can you believe
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Speaker 9: that one hundred billion dollars on one scheme where something
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Speaker 9: like ten percent of young adults are on it, Like
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Speaker 9: ten percent of young adults are on the NDIS.
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Speaker 8: I mean, how does that happen?
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Speaker 9: Is any looking at this and say, well, Hey, on,
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Speaker 9: something's going very wrong with this scheme.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean this is exactly the problem, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: This is why what happens when a scheme of this
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Speaker 3: scale is not means tested. So suddenly every man and
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Speaker 3: their dog are able to sign up.
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Speaker 4: Now, look, this is interesting.
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Speaker 3: Shadow Home Affairs Minister Andrew Hasty has launched a campaign
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Speaker 3: called Together under One Flag to revive pride in the
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Speaker 3: Australian Flag, claiming that many Ossies are disappointed to see
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Speaker 3: protesters burning the national symbol.
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Speaker 4: Particularly over in Melbourne.
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Speaker 3: Patrick, I think that Hasty is a future leader of
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Speaker 3: the Liberal Party.
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Speaker 4: I think he's brilliant.
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Speaker 3: He says what it is, and I think he's right.
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Speaker 3: You know, you get labeled far right just for taking
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Speaker 3: pride in your country and waiving the flag.
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Speaker 4: So you know, what do you make of his stance
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Speaker 4: on this.
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Speaker 2: I think it's terrific.
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Speaker 7: Denika, as you mentioned, you had a flag burned at
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Speaker 7: a protest the other day down here in Victoria. Had
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Speaker 7: a local council officer describe the Australian flag as potentially
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Speaker 7: culturally unsafe to some section of Australian society. That's offensive
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Speaker 7: the idea that the Australian flag is offensive to anyone
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Speaker 7: in Australia is offensive.
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Speaker 2: It is a uniting symbol. As Andrew Hasty pointed.
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Speaker 7: Out, more than one hundred thousand Australians have died fighting
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Speaker 7: under that flag. It represents what it means and who
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Speaker 7: we are to be as Australians. And I think it's
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Speaker 7: a wonderful idea of Andrew to do this.
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Speaker 4: I agree.
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Speaker 3: I mean the thought of it being you know, culturally insensitive,
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Speaker 3: Give me a break. Where are we heading to in
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Speaker 3: society these days? Daniel, Whether the Australian flag is offensive
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Speaker 3: to the.
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Speaker 8: Left, well, exactly right.
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Speaker 9: I mean this is important leadership from Andrew Hasty, and
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Speaker 9: I hope we see a lot more of it. We've
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Speaker 9: got Flag Day coming up on the third of September
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Speaker 9: and I reckon that'll be the biggest flag day we've had.
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Speaker 8: For a long time in this country.
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Speaker 9: And quite rightly, look, the issue here on top of
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Speaker 9: what you and Patrick have said, is we've got a
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Speaker 9: Prime minister that won't even stand in front of the flag.
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Speaker 9: I mean, how did it get to a place where
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Speaker 9: the Prime minis will early stand in front of the
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Speaker 9: national flag when it has the.
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Speaker 8: Aboriginal and Torres straight under the flags there as well.
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Speaker 8: It's a complete and total disgrace.
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Speaker 9: We need to be united as a community around our
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Speaker 9: shared values, and our shared values are embodied within the
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Speaker 9: national flag. It's not just a piece of fabric with
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Speaker 9: colors on it. It represents our way of life and
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Speaker 9: the things that unite us rather than the things that
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Speaker 9: divide us. And as I say, we are more divided
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Speaker 9: than any time since World War Two, and it's important
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Speaker 9: that the flag has pride of place in our civic debate.
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Speaker 4: I couldn't agree more.
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Speaker 3: I mean, a couple of weeks ago, the PM's in
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Speaker 3: China at an official press conference, standing in front of
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Speaker 3: three flags.
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Speaker 4: It's just ridiculous. Now we're almost out of time.
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Speaker 3: But American rapper Snoop Dog has been officially confirmed as
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Speaker 3: the headline pre match musical act at this year's AFL
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Speaker 3: Grand Final. Not sure if you're both fans, Patrick, do
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Speaker 3: you like this idea?
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Speaker 4: A bit of Snoop for the AFL Grand Final?
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Speaker 2: Look, he's big Danige. He played at the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 7: I think in twenty twenty two, we've had Katie Perry,
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Speaker 7: We've had Tom Jones, We've had the Killers.
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Speaker 2: Everyone will have a big opinion on it.
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Speaker 7: Whether it works or not, we will find out very
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Speaker 7: clearly as soon as the match begins playing. Because we
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Speaker 7: had Meatloaf, I think back twelve thirteen years ago and
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Speaker 7: people still talk about how bad he was. Everyone will
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Speaker 7: have a very strong view.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Look, let's not even mention meat life. That was probably
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Speaker 3: the worst out of the.
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Speaker 4: Ball, Daniel, what do we wreckon a bit of Snoop?
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Speaker 4: Doggie dog? Are your fan?
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Speaker 8: Well?
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Speaker 9: I wonder if Snoop will be given the welcome the country. Oh,
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Speaker 9: I wonder how that will go down? You know you
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Speaker 9: know this to me reeks of boomer cultural cringe.
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Speaker 8: I mean you go back.
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Speaker 9: My favorite was nineteen eighty seven VFL Grand Final Slim
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Speaker 9: Dusty singing Waltzing Matilda. Now I know Slim tragically is
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Speaker 9: not with us anymore, but why can't we have an
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Speaker 9: Australian singer singing an Australian song and an Australian game.
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Speaker 9: We don't need to import from me of dollars. He's
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Speaker 9: American singers.
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Speaker 4: I feel like we've.
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Speaker 3: Almost exhausted all options for Rossie Sikers.
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Speaker 4: That's the problem, Daniel.
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Speaker 3: I think we've had Barnzy, I think we've had we've
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Speaker 3: got all the key ones, but no, I take your point,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, gosh, and welcome to country for Snoop's Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's a shocker. Daniel Wild, Patrick Carline, great to see
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Speaker 3: you both, Thanks so much for joining me. The Ukrainian
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Speaker 3: president has softened his position on giving up Ukrainian land
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Speaker 3: to Russia as part of a potential peace deal. Voladimir
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Speaker 3: Zelenski says any settlement proposal which hands over Ukrainian land
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Speaker 3: would be rejected, but Ukrainian territory in Russia's control could
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Speaker 3: be on the table now. This of course comes as
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump says he would raise it during his meeting
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Speaker 3: with the Russian president this week.
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Speaker 14: There'll be some swapping, there'll be some changes in land.
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Speaker 14: And the word that there were used is you know,
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Speaker 14: they make changes. We're going to change the lines, the
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Speaker 14: battle lines. Russia's occupied a big portion of Ukraine, they've
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Speaker 14: occupied by prime territory. We're going to try and get
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Speaker 14: some of the territory back for Ukraine.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is Director at Strategic Analysis Australia, Michael Schubridge. Michael,
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Speaker 3: good to see you, Thanks for joining me. This is
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Speaker 3: quite a concession by Ukraine on land. Do you think
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump will indeed be successful in getting land back
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Speaker 3: to Ukraine as part of any sort of deal.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's see.
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Speaker 15: But the big danger here is that Donald Trump thinks
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Speaker 15: this is like two real estate developers, him and Putin
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Speaker 15: meeting and doing some kind of development deal over property.
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Speaker 15: It's a much deeper, more difficult thing than that. Putin
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Speaker 15: wants to grab well defended chunks of Ukraine around the
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Speaker 15: Don Bass to make attacking Ukraine easier. So Trump has
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Speaker 15: to avoid that. And there are a whole lot of
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Speaker 15: other big issues like where are the thousands of Ukrainian
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Speaker 15: children that Putin's forces have abducted? And what about the
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Speaker 15: devastation that Putin's forces have caught to Ukrainian cities and
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Speaker 15: the Ukrainian population. So it can't just be some kind
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Speaker 15: of land deal, and Ukraine has to be at the table.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Look, it's very, very complicated, So it's going to be
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Speaker 3: interesting to see how that plays out, and of course
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Speaker 3: with European involvement as well. Now, look, I want to
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Speaker 3: ask you about this incident in the South China Sea.
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Speaker 3: A Chinese warship plowed into its own Coastguard vessel which
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Speaker 3: was chasing a Philippine vessel yesterday. China confirm that a
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Speaker 3: confrontation took place and accuse the Philippines of forcibly intruding
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Speaker 3: into Chinese waters. Michael, I just think that this vision
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Speaker 3: is absolutely extraordinary.
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Speaker 4: How does something like this happen?
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Speaker 15: Well, there's a lack of control in the Chinese Coastguard
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Speaker 15: and the Chinese navy, and that will disturb Chinese leader Shijingping.
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Speaker 15: He's told his coastguard and navy to be a great
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Speaker 15: when it encounters others.
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Speaker 2: Our navy has found them like that.
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Speaker 15: But this is really a massive own goal, a massive
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Speaker 15: loss of prestige for the Chinese military and coastguard.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 15: The Philippines captain that maneuvered so cleverly and successfully really
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Speaker 15: shows high quality captaining of his vessel.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, good point.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I just think that just fascinating, fascinating vision. Now,
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Speaker 3: the Defense Minister, Richard Miles was in Papua New Guinea
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Speaker 3: today finalizing a new bilateral defense treaty. The Minister also
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Speaker 3: handed over twelve armored land cruisers to the P and
18:38
Speaker 3: G Defense Force. Michael, we know that this is all
18:41
Speaker 3: to counter China's growing influence in the region. Can you
18:45
Speaker 3: tell us more details about whether this.
18:47
Speaker 4: Deal is going to be good for us and is
18:50
Speaker 4: Australia doing enough.
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Speaker 15: I think it is good for us, and it's good
18:56
Speaker 15: for Papua New Guinea. We are really each other's security partners,
19:01
Speaker 15: and it's good that Papua New Guinea wants to get
19:04
Speaker 15: closer with us.
19:05
Speaker 2: In defense terms.
19:07
Speaker 15: We'll probably see Richard Miles go to the rebuilt Lombrum
19:11
Speaker 15: naval base. I wish we'd build a bigger base for
19:15
Speaker 15: Australia and P ANDNG and others to use. So it's
19:18
Speaker 15: good news, but handing over a few up armored land
19:22
Speaker 15: cruisers shows really there's so much we could be doing
19:26
Speaker 15: with our P and G partner.
19:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, fair enough.
19:30
Speaker 3: Now let's talk about what I believe is Anthony Arbernese's
19:33
Speaker 3: disgraceful and shameful decision to recognize a Palestinian state at
19:36
Speaker 3: the United Nations General Assembly next month. This of course,
19:40
Speaker 3: goes against the position of the United States and Donald
19:43
Speaker 3: Trump at the moment, which could prove costly as OLBO
19:46
Speaker 3: still can't get a meeting with the leader of the
19:48
Speaker 3: Free World Michael, do you think it does put us
19:51
Speaker 3: in a worse.
19:51
Speaker 4: Position with the Trump administration.
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Speaker 15: Well, yes I do, because sure, lots of other countrieses
20:00
Speaker 15: have recognized a Palestinian state, a state that does not exist.
20:04
Speaker 15: But Australia choosing to do this right now is really
20:09
Speaker 15: going to be watched closely by Washington. They are not
20:12
Speaker 15: going to do this, and that's because, unlike our Prime minister,
20:17
Speaker 15: they know that the Palestinian authority that our Prime Minister
20:21
Speaker 15: says is going to magically reform itself, not be corrupt,
20:25
Speaker 15: demilitarize Hamas and all these other magical things. The Americans
20:29
Speaker 15: know that's not going to happen. So really, if the
20:33
Speaker 15: Prime Minister wanted peace in Gaza, he'd be talking maybe
20:38
Speaker 15: that idea from mccron about a UN backed security force,
20:42
Speaker 15: maybe saying Australia would contribute. But the Prime Minister is
20:45
Speaker 15: not serious. He's just after the sugar rush of people
20:49
Speaker 15: applauding him.
20:50
Speaker 3: So, I mean, what does it say that about our
20:52
Speaker 3: alignment with the United States? So we increasingly moving away
20:56
Speaker 3: from that and are moving away from a United position
20:59
Speaker 3: on important like this from our closest ally.
21:04
Speaker 15: Well yes, I mean, look at the Prime Minister's trip
21:06
Speaker 15: to China, where he said, this is a fantastic relationship.
21:11
Speaker 15: We need to grow our economic entanglement even further. Right
21:15
Speaker 15: when Trump is saying, gosh, we need to start moving
21:19
Speaker 15: away from China economically. So we're out of step on China.
21:24
Speaker 15: We're certainly miles out of step when it comes to
21:27
Speaker 15: the Middle East. And we've had the Prime Minister giving
21:30
Speaker 15: odd speeches about how strong we are by refusing to
21:34
Speaker 15: lift our own weight in defense. So I think Washington
21:39
Speaker 15: will be looking with amusement and puzzlement at the Albanese government.
21:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just such a shame it's happening with
21:46
Speaker 3: our number one ally, a long standing ally.
21:49
Speaker 4: So we'll watch this one closely.
21:50
Speaker 3: Michael Schubridge always appreciate your insights and analysis. Thanks so
21:54
Speaker 3: much for joining me. Still to come, Lefty's Losing ears
21:57
Speaker 3: Plus Donald Trump deploys the National Guard to Washington, d C.
22:01
Speaker 3: As he cracks down on crime and homelessness. Alex Stein
22:06
Speaker 3: will join me next. Now it is time for lefties
22:17
Speaker 3: losing it. Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard to Washington,
22:21
Speaker 3: d C. After announcing a crackdown on crime and homelessness.
22:24
Speaker 4: But be careful. Do not even mention it to.
22:27
Speaker 3: Democrat Representative Maxine waters She's calling it a civil war.
22:33
Speaker 16: Were to mean nothing, actions mean everything. Watch this, Watch
22:38
Speaker 16: it very jealously, ask a lot of questions. Focus those
22:41
Speaker 16: cameras on everything that's going on, because this president is
22:46
Speaker 16: trying to lead us into what could be.
22:49
Speaker 2: Called a civil war.
22:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, clearly, Maxine Waters Wig is really starting to have
22:54
Speaker 3: an impact on her brain. Meanwhile, Democrat strategist Jim Kessler
22:58
Speaker 3: had a peculiar tack.
23:00
Speaker 17: If people are afraid to come to d C, go
23:02
Speaker 17: to Disney World, get fat, eat French fries.
23:04
Speaker 2: I don't care. I've lived here thirty seven years. I
23:07
Speaker 2: am not afraid of what.
23:09
Speaker 3: Don't worry about crime, nothing to see here. Go to Disney,
23:12
Speaker 3: get fat. That's going to solve all the problems.
23:15
Speaker 4: Good one, Jim.
23:16
Speaker 3: And now to the Washington d C protests or should
23:20
Speaker 3: I say funeral procession? Is that not the most tragic
23:39
Speaker 3: and dull looking protest you have ever seen?
23:41
Speaker 4: DC is our home.
23:42
Speaker 3: You can't have it Trump. I mean all of this
23:45
Speaker 3: just to stop the crime cleanup.
23:48
Speaker 4: It's so tragic.
23:49
Speaker 3: The organizers don't even know what the heck they're trying
23:52
Speaker 3: to say, will we say we.
23:53
Speaker 18: Will go Yeah, I mean we're not going into two
23:56
Speaker 18: those mass and castle into now priss in Islam, I
24:00
Speaker 18: won't go into it now to their acose what do
24:04
Speaker 18: you call his beautiful sinners that you get? We won't
24:08
Speaker 18: go to where alligators live?
24:10
Speaker 8: Hell no, we won't go.
24:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can.
24:13
Speaker 3: You can really see that moment tick over cut you
24:15
Speaker 3: in her head. She's she's trying the hardest, she's trying
24:17
Speaker 3: to hardest, but she's got absolutely no clue whatsoever what
24:21
Speaker 3: she's on about. In fact, it is so bad the
24:24
Speaker 3: protesters even turned on each other. I mean, what sort
24:45
Speaker 3: of a protest was this? They tried to cobble it
24:48
Speaker 3: together at the last minute. And the irony of them
24:51
Speaker 3: protesting about crime when they start.
24:54
Speaker 4: Fighting each other. I mean, you can't make this stuff up.
24:57
Speaker 3: With the left lunatics great I lefties and now have
25:02
Speaker 3: to listen to some of the lefty Washington Day Saint meltdowns.
25:06
Speaker 19: Because he hates the site of homeless people. They're gone.
25:09
Speaker 19: I don't know where he's gonna move them. I assume
25:12
Speaker 19: into camps and they're gonna end up on farm somewhere
25:15
Speaker 19: doing hard labor.
25:16
Speaker 8: For people.
25:17
Speaker 4: It's not about protecting the people anymore.
25:20
Speaker 1: Now, it's about forcing the law on people.
25:24
Speaker 16: It is a president quote undermining and negating power that
25:31
Speaker 16: a city already has in play.
25:34
Speaker 1: To navigate its own city, local population.
25:41
Speaker 4: It's not democratic.
25:42
Speaker 20: This miserable has never experienced life without a golden spoon
25:46
Speaker 20: up and you're sitting there acting like he's one of us.
25:49
Speaker 20: Let me learn you something here, Kletis, you are now
25:51
Speaker 20: and always will be closer to homeless than.
25:54
Speaker 2: You ever will be to Trump.
25:55
Speaker 20: You know, he could lose ninety nine percent of his
25:57
Speaker 20: wealth and that would still be true.
26:00
Speaker 13: So you for the fact that.
26:01
Speaker 20: You're more than willing to demonize the homeless community as
26:04
Speaker 20: being the cause of crime in Washington, DC.
26:06
Speaker 21: I've said it a few times now. We need to
26:09
Speaker 21: start burning. There needs to be a consequence. We can't
26:14
Speaker 21: just let fascism take over. We can't let orange mustache.
26:18
Speaker 13: Man sen him and Hitler.
26:20
Speaker 21: We can't let him just do whatever he wants.
26:25
Speaker 3: No, not the tolerant left inciting violence again.
26:30
Speaker 4: No way, no way. And look over at MSNBC, they
26:34
Speaker 4: too are having a.
26:35
Speaker 3: Freak out, claiming President Trump sending in the National Guard
26:39
Speaker 3: to address crime.
26:40
Speaker 4: Is you've guessed it racist.
26:43
Speaker 2: You're trying to hold my temper.
26:45
Speaker 15: We have to understand this, Chris, within the context of
26:49
Speaker 15: Donald Trump's racial politics and within the context of his
26:53
Speaker 15: effort to get Epstein off the front pages.
26:56
Speaker 3: Ah, yes, that old chestnut. They just love it. They
26:59
Speaker 3: love the racist line, don't they. Everything is just so
27:02
Speaker 3: racist with the left. Meanwhile, the crime rate is worse
27:06
Speaker 3: in DC than many parts of the world, but Dana
27:09
Speaker 3: bash over at C and N is coming up with
27:11
Speaker 3: all sorts of excuses.
27:13
Speaker 22: I should note that the most violent moment in recent
27:17
Speaker 22: history in DC plus January sixth, and it was an
27:21
Speaker 22: attack on the United States Capital by a lot of
27:24
Speaker 22: people who are doing it in the name of Donald Trump,
27:26
Speaker 22: and it the people who were hurt included members of blineforcemen.
27:30
Speaker 3: Well, this is just truly fanatical propaganda by a delusional woman,
27:34
Speaker 3: because Trump supporters.
27:35
Speaker 4: Actually died that day. She really is a useless liar.
27:40
Speaker 3: Now, a former TV host and alleged interior designer, Jennifer
27:45
Speaker 3: Welsh seems to have completely absolutely lost her marbles. She's
27:49
Speaker 3: gone on an unhinged rant suggesting Trump voters should not
27:53
Speaker 3: be allowed at Mexican or Chinese restaurants.
27:57
Speaker 1: I've had it with white people that triple trumped, Yeah,
28:03
Speaker 1: that have the nerve in the audacity to walk into
28:09
Speaker 1: a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go
28:15
Speaker 1: to perhaps their gay hairdresser. I don't think you should
28:19
Speaker 1: be able to enjoy anything but cracker barrel when the
28:23
Speaker 1: felon is the teeny weenie mushroom piece of candles mctaco
28:28
Speaker 1: at the top of the ticket. I have had it
28:31
Speaker 1: from top to bottom white people that triple Trump should
28:35
Speaker 1: be banned, boycotted from enjoying the best thing that America
28:39
Speaker 1: has to offer, which is multi culturalism.
28:42
Speaker 3: WHOA Okay, well, let's just unpack that psycho woman's rant. Firstly,
28:47
Speaker 3: legal immigrants are not a legal immigrants, funnily enough. Secondly,
28:52
Speaker 3: forty eight percent of Latinos at about forty percent of
28:55
Speaker 3: Asians voted for Donald Trump last year.
28:57
Speaker 4: So old Jenny's.
28:59
Speaker 3: Bizarre, common and so just disparaging against migrants who've actually
29:03
Speaker 3: come to the country legally and worked hard. And thirdly,
29:06
Speaker 3: as for cracker barrel, she's clearly never been Jennifer. Jenny,
29:10
Speaker 3: jen whoever you are, you really are the perfect example
29:14
Speaker 3: of a white, unhinged, sad liberal woman.
29:17
Speaker 4: You poor thing.
29:19
Speaker 3: Now over in Nova Scotia, they seem to be doing
29:22
Speaker 3: a real life climate lockdown experiment. I hope you don't
29:25
Speaker 3: like hiking, fishing, or being outdoors in general, because here
29:31
Speaker 3: is the premier Tim.
29:32
Speaker 12: Houston effect of four pm today. We're telling Nova Scotians
29:36
Speaker 12: stay out of the woods. We are restricting travel and activities.
29:40
Speaker 12: They really aren't necessary for most of us. Hiking, camping, fishing,
29:47
Speaker 12: and the use of vehicles in the woods are not permitted.
29:50
Speaker 12: Trail systems through woods are off limits. Camping is allowed,
29:55
Speaker 12: but only in official campgrounds.
29:57
Speaker 3: Look, don't leave home, Just stay at home, I think,
30:00
Speaker 3: just stay where you are, don't go outside. It is
30:02
Speaker 3: practically COVID two point zero stealing Canadians off from the world.
30:06
Speaker 3: Welcome to twenty twenty five authoritarianism. And now to Nancy Pelosi,
30:12
Speaker 3: who seems to have found herself a new job, this
30:15
Speaker 3: time helping kids transition.
30:18
Speaker 11: Well, that is something I'm working for at the national level,
30:22
Speaker 11: and we have, I said, I are hoping that we
30:28
Speaker 11: can have gender from care for our trans kids.
30:35
Speaker 3: Well, as I just mentioned, Donald Trump has announced a
30:37
Speaker 3: historic takeover of Washington, d C. Deploying about eight hundred
30:41
Speaker 3: National Guard troops.
30:42
Speaker 4: To bolster policing. He says it's part of.
30:45
Speaker 3: A plan to rescue America's capital city from crime and homelessness.
30:49
Speaker 4: Here is what he said.
30:50
Speaker 23: I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
30:55
Speaker 23: from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
31:01
Speaker 23: Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
31:05
Speaker 23: capital back.
31:06
Speaker 3: US Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the Trump administration
31:09
Speaker 3: would use every power at.
31:11
Speaker 4: Their disposal to restore law and order.
31:14
Speaker 24: Let me be crystal clear. Crime in DC is ending
31:17
Speaker 24: and ending today. We are going to use every power
31:21
Speaker 24: we have to fight criminals. Here, President, thank you for
31:24
Speaker 24: caring about our capital. No more, no more crime rampant
31:29
Speaker 24: in our beautiful capital.
31:31
Speaker 3: Joining me now for more on This is comedian and
31:34
Speaker 3: host of Prime Time with Alex Stein on Blaze TV.
31:37
Speaker 3: Alex Stein himself, Alex, good to catch up. Thanks for
31:41
Speaker 3: joining me. Is this a good move and can the
31:43
Speaker 3: administration actually pull it off?
31:47
Speaker 17: Well, you know, it is going to be a tough
31:48
Speaker 17: challenge when it comes to, you know, getting rid of
31:50
Speaker 17: all the crime in DC, because they have a unique
31:53
Speaker 17: situation where it is just there's basically no middle class.
31:56
Speaker 13: It's the ultra wealthy and basically people that are.
31:58
Speaker 17: Homeless, and so it's created this kind of ecosystem where
32:02
Speaker 17: people need drugs in that area. So they come from Baltimore,
32:05
Speaker 17: they come from Virginia, they come from West Virginia, they
32:07
Speaker 17: come from all areas to go and commit crime in Washington,
32:11
Speaker 17: DC because it's one of the biggest tourist spots in
32:13
Speaker 17: the world, and there's a lot of affluent people.
32:15
Speaker 13: So there's a lot of targets.
32:16
Speaker 17: So it is going to be a tough task to
32:18
Speaker 17: stop criminals from committing crime.
32:20
Speaker 13: Basically an impossible task. But anything is better than.
32:23
Speaker 17: The current situation that is going on in DC. It
32:26
Speaker 17: is truly a dangerous place. And I'm not just being
32:29
Speaker 17: hyperbolic when I say that.
32:30
Speaker 3: Oh look, no, you riise a good point, and I've
32:32
Speaker 3: got to siolics the leftings they're in a complete spin
32:35
Speaker 3: over this. They're having a meltdown, saying it's part of.
32:37
Speaker 8: A civil war.
32:38
Speaker 3: But have I actually looked at the crime situation. It's
32:41
Speaker 3: so bad you can't even wear a backpack into the
32:44
Speaker 3: supermarket anymore.
32:45
Speaker 4: Under the rules have a look.
32:47
Speaker 24: Starting today at twelve giant grocery stores in DC and Maryland,
32:50
Speaker 24: if you have a.
32:51
Speaker 25: Bag over fourteen inches, you cannot take it inside the store.
32:54
Speaker 4: So what does that look like.
32:55
Speaker 16: Here's a backpack fourteen inches, This one can't go in.
32:59
Speaker 26: Also, if you're on you're eighteen years old, you kind
33:01
Speaker 26: of go into the store.
33:02
Speaker 4: After six pm without an adult alex.
33:05
Speaker 3: Yet the left will tell you that this is undemocratic.
33:09
Speaker 17: You and you know, I see them constantly arguing. During
33:14
Speaker 17: COVID every person on the left want to wear a mask.
33:16
Speaker 17: But now in DC, which is obviously a traditionally liberal place,
33:20
Speaker 17: now you can't go.
33:21
Speaker 13: Into a store wearing a mask because they think you're
33:23
Speaker 13: going to rob the place.
33:24
Speaker 17: So maybe that's why they're mad, because they can't wear
33:25
Speaker 17: their COVID masks are around.
33:26
Speaker 13: So this is a serious problem.
33:29
Speaker 17: That's why you can't take a big backpack into a
33:30
Speaker 17: store because people are stuffing it with junk and you know,
33:33
Speaker 17: running out of the store. So I think the left
33:35
Speaker 17: are these crazy, looney leftists that actually are cheering for crime,
33:40
Speaker 17: that don't want Donald Trump to make it safer.
33:43
Speaker 13: They've really lost the plot.
33:44
Speaker 17: And I don't think they are really in tune with
33:46
Speaker 17: the you know, the struggles of other Americans that we
33:50
Speaker 17: go through every day.
33:51
Speaker 3: No, that live in some sort of weird, delusional realm.
33:55
Speaker 4: It's crazy. Now. Look, the President has lashed out at.
33:59
Speaker 3: Former speaker Nancy Pelosi, posting on Truth socially said crooked
34:04
Speaker 3: Nancy Pelosi and her very interesting husband beat every hedge fund.
34:09
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty four.
34:10
Speaker 3: In other words, these two very average minds beat all
34:14
Speaker 3: of the super geniuses on Wall Street, thousands of them.
34:18
Speaker 3: It's all inside information. Nancy Pelosi, of course, is denying
34:22
Speaker 3: all these accusations of insider trading. But here was her
34:25
Speaker 3: reaction when CNN brought it up.
34:27
Speaker 4: Dragged interview.
34:29
Speaker 8: So Nancy Pelosi.
34:30
Speaker 11: Became rich, I might have to read that we're here
34:32
Speaker 11: to talk about the sixtieth anniversary of Medicaid.
34:35
Speaker 8: That's what I agreed to.
34:36
Speaker 2: Come to try.
34:36
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I wanted it.
34:37
Speaker 13: That means in the election, I wanted to give you
34:40
Speaker 13: a chances to respond.
34:41
Speaker 8: He accused you of insider trading.
34:42
Speaker 13: What's your response to that. That's very ridiculous.
34:46
Speaker 3: Oh, dear Alex, it was a no comment. Didn't want
34:48
Speaker 3: to talk about it from Nancy it's a no, what
34:51
Speaker 3: do you make of this?
34:53
Speaker 17: Well, she looked guilty as can be, and then in
34:56
Speaker 17: that clip right after she blames it on her husband.
34:58
Speaker 17: I mean, it's impossible that she is a better stock
35:01
Speaker 17: trader than all of the hedge funds.
35:03
Speaker 13: On Wall Street. I mean, it's mathematically impossible. So it's
35:06
Speaker 13: obvious that she is.
35:07
Speaker 17: In in meetings and getting information that companies are getting
35:12
Speaker 17: government deals.
35:12
Speaker 13: So it doesn't make it.
35:13
Speaker 17: That difficult for her to actually have this sort of
35:16
Speaker 17: record when it comes to the stock market picks, because
35:18
Speaker 17: she has inside information. And when you're making lessan two
35:21
Speaker 17: hundred thousand dollars and you're worth hundreds of millions of dollars,
35:25
Speaker 17: it doesn't add up. So I would like it if
35:27
Speaker 17: we made laws that were more strict when it comes
35:29
Speaker 17: to politicians and stock trading, because that's the problem is
35:33
Speaker 17: they get into power and the power. They go in
35:36
Speaker 17: there with the best intentions, but as soon as they
35:38
Speaker 17: get power, they get corrupted and they look at every
35:40
Speaker 17: avenue like stock trading or you know, selling out their
35:43
Speaker 17: constitution to the military industrial complex.
35:46
Speaker 13: It doesn't matter.
35:46
Speaker 17: All these politicians get in with the best intentions and
35:49
Speaker 17: the power corrupts them all.
35:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're spot on, And I feel like she just
35:53
Speaker 3: made it completely worse by trying to deflect, by trying
35:56
Speaker 3: to dock and wave. If you really would not guilty,
35:59
Speaker 3: why couldn't you just make a comment when asked about
36:02
Speaker 3: it and just be up front. But she made herself
36:04
Speaker 3: look even more ridiculous, So the joke is really on
36:07
Speaker 3: her now. US Vice President jd Vance wants Elon Musk
36:12
Speaker 3: to return to the White House, suggesting it was a
36:15
Speaker 3: mistake for Musk to distance himself from the US President
36:19
Speaker 3: in the first place.
36:20
Speaker 4: This is a bit of what he said.
36:21
Speaker 26: My argument to Elon is like, you're not going to
36:26
Speaker 26: be on the left right even if you wanted to be,
36:28
Speaker 26: and he doesn't, they're not going to have you back
36:30
Speaker 26: that she was sealed, and so I really think it's
36:35
Speaker 26: a mistake for him to try to break from the president.
36:37
Speaker 8: So my hope is that by the.
36:38
Speaker 13: Time of the midterms he's kind of come.
36:39
Speaker 8: Back in the fall.
36:40
Speaker 26: But yeah, I don't know that he would take my
36:42
Speaker 26: call right now about.
36:43
Speaker 3: Any So, Alex Elon Musk isn't taking jd Vance's calls,
36:48
Speaker 3: But do you think that he should indeed return to
36:51
Speaker 3: the White House. I don't know about you, but I
36:53
Speaker 3: thought the bromance was cute while it lasted.
36:56
Speaker 13: I mean, I agree one hundred percent. I love seeing Elon.
37:00
Speaker 17: Wearing the Maga hat in the White House with his son,
37:02
Speaker 17: and you know, going back, it almost feels like nostalgia.
37:05
Speaker 13: It makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
37:07
Speaker 17: But what it spiraled into is Epstein allegations and pure
37:10
Speaker 17: hatred from two billionaires.
37:12
Speaker 13: So unless they can check their egos, which I.
37:14
Speaker 17: Think Donald Trump probably could and I think Elon Musk
37:17
Speaker 17: probably could, so I hope jd Vance can actually potentially minifences.
37:21
Speaker 13: But in reality, I think these midterms are going to
37:23
Speaker 13: be very bad.
37:24
Speaker 17: We're not going to like the outcome, especially after you know,
37:27
Speaker 17: Donald Trump has done a lot of great things, you know,
37:29
Speaker 17: during his presidency, but this Epstein has this Epstein stuff
37:32
Speaker 17: has been an absolute fiasco, and I think it really
37:35
Speaker 17: could negatively hurt the Conservatives and Republicans in the upcoming midterm.
37:40
Speaker 17: So jd Vance saying that it's kind of like he's
37:42
Speaker 17: waving the white flag in a good way.
37:44
Speaker 13: It's like, listen, he doesn't want to fight with Elon Musk.
37:46
Speaker 17: You need to team up with Elon Musk because the
37:48
Speaker 17: left doesn't care about Elon Musk, and at least the right.
37:51
Speaker 17: You know, he might not align with it one hundred percent,
37:53
Speaker 17: but ideologically he aligns with the right a lot more
37:56
Speaker 17: than the alignes to the left. So Elon, you know,
37:58
Speaker 17: come on back, and Donald Trump will have no hard
38:02
Speaker 17: feelings and let's try to make America great again.
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Speaker 13: As they say, yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 3: I thought it was great when Elon Musk was out
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Speaker 3: there with his quirky behavior.
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Speaker 4: I liked when they were all together.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, get the band back together, say I agree.
38:16
Speaker 13: Now.
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Speaker 8: Look.
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Speaker 3: Comedian Bill Maher claims left wing censorship died after the
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Speaker 3: Democrats loss in twenty twenty four, saying he defeated the
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Speaker 3: saying the defeat rather created.
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Speaker 4: A vibe change.
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Speaker 3: Here he was on Drew Barrymore's podcast, have a look
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Speaker 3: at this.
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Speaker 27: It's slightly less dangerous than it was two years ago
38:36
Speaker 27: because we did have a vibe change and because the
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Speaker 27: Democrats lost so badly in twenty twenty four, the blushes
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Speaker 27: off the rose on left wing censorship and oh my god,
38:52
Speaker 27: you can't say that. Stop telling me what I can do.
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Speaker 4: Well, Alex sobad.
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Speaker 3: Firstly, Drew Barrymore, she sits so close to everyone does,
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Speaker 3: and space inviting is frightening. But what do you make
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Speaker 3: of Bill Maher's comments there.
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Speaker 13: Well, I think he is accurate. There was a vibe
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Speaker 13: shift two years ago. But just the the audacity.
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Speaker 17: Of Drew Barrymore to try to act like she is
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Speaker 17: getting censored by the Trump administration when it was always
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Speaker 17: the left that constantly canceled people, canceled athletes on Draft
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Speaker 17: night for tweeting a bad word when they're fifteen years old,
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Speaker 17: canceled people, got people.
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Speaker 13: Fired from their jobs for you know, having an emotional outburst.
39:30
Speaker 17: It was the left that constantly canceled people for speech,
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Speaker 17: when her whole job is to talk, and under any
39:35
Speaker 17: administration she will be able to speak freely, more unor
39:38
Speaker 17: Donald Trump than any previous administration. So it just shows
39:42
Speaker 17: you that once again, she's another rich, multi millionaire, great actress.
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Speaker 13: I'll give her that.
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Speaker 17: Drew Barrymore's a classically you know, well known, famous A
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Speaker 17: list actress, But she has no idea about politics, and
39:52
Speaker 17: she has no idea what the everyday average American struggles with.
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Speaker 17: So you know, that just shows you she's worried about
39:59
Speaker 17: the vibe shift. Now, well, this is the only time
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Speaker 17: in my lifetime where I've been able to speak freely
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Speaker 17: and not worried about constantly getting canceled.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, a good point before we let you go.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what do you make if you've got Bill
40:10
Speaker 3: Maher coming out saying this? Yesterday, Jimmy Kimmels was critical
40:15
Speaker 3: of the Democrats. We're talking lefties, Democrat voters who were
40:19
Speaker 3: so hateful and spiteful towards Donald Trump now suddenly having
40:22
Speaker 3: some sort of come to Jesus moment.
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Speaker 8: What do you reckon?
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Speaker 13: Well, you know it is that come to Jesus moment.
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Speaker 17: I like that description because they're realizing that most people
40:31
Speaker 17: aren't on the far right, most people aren't on the
40:33
Speaker 17: far left. Most people are somewhere in the middle. And
40:35
Speaker 17: we want to be able to speak freely and we
40:37
Speaker 17: don't want to cancel people. And I think you know,
40:39
Speaker 17: South Park right now has been going after Trump, but
40:41
Speaker 17: they're getting great ratings, and the right we don't care
40:44
Speaker 17: when they make fun of Donald Trump. You know, we're
40:46
Speaker 17: not as sensitive as a left. And I think comedians
40:49
Speaker 17: like Colbert and Jimmy kimmeler are seeing that, Hey, you know,
40:51
Speaker 17: they actually have a sense of humor on the rate.
40:53
Speaker 17: Maybe we should actually change our content to appeal to
40:56
Speaker 17: all Americans and not just half of the country. And
40:59
Speaker 17: that's why Stephen Colbert's show is gone, That's why Howard
41:02
Speaker 17: Sterns show is going to be gone. It's because they
41:05
Speaker 17: only appeal to half of the American population instead of
41:08
Speaker 17: trying to appeal to everyone. So I think this is
41:10
Speaker 17: a big wake up call and the vibe is shifting
41:13
Speaker 17: and people are allowed to speak more freely and unapologetically
41:16
Speaker 17: in America and twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 3: Well, it is about time. Seriously, Alex Side, great to
41:22
Speaker 3: catch up with you. Thanks so much for joining me
41:24
Speaker 3: on the show.
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Speaker 13: It's always a pleasure. Thank you guys for having me.
41:28
Speaker 4: Still to come.
41:29
Speaker 3: Donald Trump extends China's tariff deadline hours before a truce trade.
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Speaker 4: Between Washington and Beijing was due to expire. Kosher Gata
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Speaker 4: or join me next, welcome back.
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Speaker 3: Well, Donald Trump has decided to extend China's tariff deadline
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Speaker 3: for another ninety days.
41:54
Speaker 4: Hours before a trade truce.
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Speaker 3: Between Washington and Beijing was due to expire. Joining me
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Speaker 3: now for more on This is Guy and US contributor
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Speaker 3: Koshagada kosher. It's lovely to see you again. Thank you
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Speaker 3: for joining me. Look, the US and China, they've gone
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Speaker 3: tip for tat on tariffs before.
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Speaker 4: How do you see this playing out?
42:10
Speaker 3: And is it gearing up to the anticipation that there
42:12
Speaker 3: might be a meeting soon between the two leaders.
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Speaker 25: All indications seem to be suggesting that. I think the
42:17
Speaker 25: extension is interesting because it does show that while President
42:20
Speaker 25: Trump is not afraid to wield the political mate of
42:23
Speaker 25: the US economy, he does want to deal. He understands
42:27
Speaker 25: that there are negative consequences to having this war with
42:31
Speaker 25: China keep escalating. So I think that's interesting, and I'm
42:34
Speaker 25: sure the other side, President She feels the same. So
42:36
Speaker 25: hopefully we're getting there. I think the bottom line is, though,
42:39
Speaker 25: the fundamentals are going to change a little bit from
42:41
Speaker 25: what it's been for the last forty fifty years, so
42:43
Speaker 25: it's certainly not going to be a returned to the past.
42:45
Speaker 25: There is going to be more pressure and more of
42:47
Speaker 25: this reciprocity concept on China, but hopefully we're getting close
42:50
Speaker 25: to some kind of deal that the world can get
42:51
Speaker 25: its heat around.
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Speaker 8: Well.
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Speaker 3: Look, fingers crossed, because they're two big trading nations, for
42:56
Speaker 3: the world.
42:56
Speaker 4: So let's see what happens.
42:58
Speaker 3: Let's move on European leaders demanding Donald Trump tell Vladimir
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Speaker 3: Putin that Ukraine's interests must be defended and Europe's security
43:06
Speaker 3: mustn't be compromised. When the pair meet later this week
43:09
Speaker 3: for that very important, highly anticipated peace summit at Kosher,
43:14
Speaker 3: how much is the EU blocks cooperation as well as
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Speaker 3: the UK is actually crucial to safeguarding American interests in Ukraine?
43:21
Speaker 4: Does there need to be a level of given take
43:23
Speaker 4: somewhere here?
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Speaker 25: This one is interesting because there is the Russia Ukraine Agreement,
43:28
Speaker 25: and that's kind of the core of this meeting, but
43:30
Speaker 25: there is so much more to it as well, the
43:32
Speaker 25: fact that it's happening in Alaska, which has historical significance
43:35
Speaker 25: both for Russia and the US. They might be discussing shipping,
43:38
Speaker 25: leans and energy and an off ramp for Russia away
43:42
Speaker 25: from this escalatory situation. So there's a lot that I
43:44
Speaker 25: think Trump and the Trump administration is working on that
43:48
Speaker 25: includes but extends beyond the Ukraine conflict. So when you
43:51
Speaker 25: look at it through that context, the Europeans kind of
43:54
Speaker 25: get boxed out a little bit. I think there are
43:56
Speaker 25: I'm sure a call is taking place behind the scenes.
43:59
Speaker 25: Present trumpunders stands what they want, what their position is.
44:01
Speaker 25: But he is America first, and insofar as Europe's interests
44:05
Speaker 25: fit in his America First framework, greet, when they're diverged,
44:09
Speaker 25: he will be America first. And if that means Europe
44:11
Speaker 25: having to swallow some medicine that maybe they weren't expecting
44:14
Speaker 25: or won't like to swallow, They're probably going't have to.
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Speaker 3: They're probably going to have to. Well, yeah, look, I
44:18
Speaker 3: think all eyes will be on that meeting. It's D Day.
44:21
Speaker 3: It's D Day for both Russia and Ukraine. So let's
44:23
Speaker 3: see what happens. I want to move on to Palestine now.
44:27
Speaker 3: My colleague James Morrow has pointed out in the Daily
44:29
Speaker 3: Telegraph today that Anthony Albernesi's decision to recognize a Palestinian
44:33
Speaker 3: state is more evidence that Labor is tilting Australia's foreign
44:37
Speaker 3: policy towards the EU and away from the US, even
44:40
Speaker 3: as our need for a strong American alliance is greatest.
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Speaker 4: Koha, do you think this is the case.
44:44
Speaker 3: I mean, Albot can't even get a meeting with Donald
44:46
Speaker 3: Trump at the moment, but do you think that This
44:48
Speaker 3: is indeed part of a bigger policy shift.
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Speaker 25: It seems like it. It's inn one hundred and forty
44:54
Speaker 25: countries or so that have either signed on to this
44:56
Speaker 25: two state solution or indicating that there will more and
45:00
Speaker 25: more out there, kind of on a limb by themselves,
45:02
Speaker 25: obviously the strongest ally over here, where the current administration
45:05
Speaker 25: does not support that. They kind of dismiss this thing
45:08
Speaker 25: is highly symbolic in nature, which is true. It's more
45:11
Speaker 25: just a statement, but symbolism does have value. Things can
45:14
Speaker 25: be undone with future administrations. The US has evolved its
45:17
Speaker 25: position on this under the Clinton Bush Here's Obama Biden.
45:21
Speaker 25: They were more favorable to the two state solutions. So
45:23
Speaker 25: this is really the Trump administration has veered away from
45:26
Speaker 25: that and thinks it's prohibitive to getting some kind of
45:29
Speaker 25: peace given the current context over there.
45:31
Speaker 4: But it is interesting.
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Speaker 8: I think the big.
45:33
Speaker 25: Picture is showing that the mood of the world and
45:36
Speaker 25: many countries is shifting more into that realm. Whether we
45:41
Speaker 25: like it or not, that is happening, and so Primate
45:43
Speaker 25: Astablan easy is taking stock of that whole dynamic doing
45:47
Speaker 25: what he thinks he's going to do. There might be
45:49
Speaker 25: consequences to it, because he is breaking from the US
45:51
Speaker 25: strongest ally, and we shall see where the story ends.
45:54
Speaker 3: I mean, this is all happening at the UN General
45:55
Speaker 3: Assembly next month, but doesn't the America have the right
45:58
Speaker 3: to veto have veto power, So realistically it's probably gonna
46:02
Speaker 3: veto it anyway.
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Speaker 25: Right, So this is all Hans his secretary Rubia's point
46:07
Speaker 25: that this is all symbolic and you can sort of,
46:09
Speaker 25: I think you're called it a publicity stunt that you
46:11
Speaker 25: can put statements out there, but it doesn't really mean
46:13
Speaker 25: anything other than people signaling that the mood of the
46:17
Speaker 25: electorates and these countries probably are pushing them towards something
46:21
Speaker 25: that was not the policy historically and that we have
46:23
Speaker 25: to take that for what it is.
46:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's a symbolic gesture, but it means so
46:27
Speaker 3: much more deep down, and you know, it's not great
46:30
Speaker 3: for the Jewish community here either.
46:31
Speaker 4: Look, let's move on.
46:32
Speaker 3: A pro Palestinian group has vowed to take its fight
46:35
Speaker 3: to shut down Brisbane story Bridge for a mass protest
46:38
Speaker 3: to court if needed after police flag security and safety concerns.
46:42
Speaker 3: Justice for Palestine has also begun preparations for the major
46:45
Speaker 3: rally despite not yet getting the green light.
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Speaker 8: Koscha.
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Speaker 3: We saw this weeks ago here in Sydney. The protesters
46:52
Speaker 3: didn't get the green light.
46:53
Speaker 4: They took it to court.
46:54
Speaker 3: They won at the eleventh hour, hijacked the Harbor Bridge.
46:56
Speaker 3: You know, the terror flags were being waved. It was
46:59
Speaker 3: an embarrassed The pictures went worldwide. Now these protest is
47:03
Speaker 3: now more and more emboldened because we saw the steps
47:06
Speaker 3: of the Cydney Opera House, the Harbor Bridge, now the
47:08
Speaker 3: story Bridge in Brisbane.
47:09
Speaker 4: It's a weakly thing now.
47:11
Speaker 25: They are I think the precedent of Sydney and with
47:13
Speaker 25: a High Court there did is obviously something that they
47:16
Speaker 25: are looking at and they're I'm sure we're going to
47:18
Speaker 25: do the same thing in Queensland and will see each
47:20
Speaker 25: court is different. But it's striking to the heart of
47:22
Speaker 25: taking advantage of the laws in free countries like Australia
47:26
Speaker 25: that do protect the right to peaceful assembly, but they're
47:30
Speaker 25: using it for a cause that not everybody's sympathetic to.
47:34
Speaker 25: There are people who are sympathetic to it, but when
47:36
Speaker 25: you block traffic and take over iconic landmarks for something,
47:39
Speaker 25: they're not exactly the most sympathetic figures even if people
47:42
Speaker 25: have sympathy for the humanitarian crisis and things like that
47:45
Speaker 25: over there. So it is interesting. I think it's an
47:47
Speaker 25: example of multiculturalism. You import a lot of people with
47:51
Speaker 25: different allegiances and values into the country and then you've
47:54
Speaker 25: got sort of these laws that protect protests, peaceful protests
47:56
Speaker 25: as they should.
47:57
Speaker 4: Those are good laws to have.
47:58
Speaker 25: You are going to see them use to their advantage.
48:00
Speaker 25: And the Sydney President I think just is a blueprint.
48:03
Speaker 25: So I do think we're going to see it more
48:05
Speaker 25: and more everywhere.
48:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, which is a shame.
48:06
Speaker 3: And again just it's a terrible precedent. And just the
48:10
Speaker 3: Australian Jewish community right now and just tearing their hair out.
48:14
Speaker 13: Now.
48:14
Speaker 4: Look, this is interesting seeing and.
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Speaker 3: Is reporting that Google searches for Epstein are down eighty
48:20
Speaker 3: nine percent from just three weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: Have a look at this.
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Speaker 7: I would say that this is from at least a
48:25
Speaker 7: political point of view, quickly turning into a dud of
48:29
Speaker 7: a story.
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Speaker 2: What am I talking about?
48:30
Speaker 4: Which is wild?
48:31
Speaker 2: Which is wild?
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Speaker 4: Which is this has been for three weeks exactly?
48:35
Speaker 2: Take a look here.
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Speaker 20: Google searches for Epstein down eighty nine percent versus just
48:40
Speaker 20: three weeks ago, falling through the floor, a dout of a.
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Speaker 3: Story now kosher, they say, see it in a shock
48:47
Speaker 3: that they can barely contain their shock right now.
48:49
Speaker 4: But what do you put it down to?
48:51
Speaker 25: They say, a week is a lifetime in politics, and
48:53
Speaker 25: maybe we're seeing that. There's so much coming out of
48:56
Speaker 25: this administration. They call it the flood, the Zone strategy,
48:59
Speaker 25: just news and every we just talked about right now
49:01
Speaker 25: in this segment, and then one hundred things on top
49:03
Speaker 25: of that. So there's just so much going on that
49:05
Speaker 25: when you're trying to save the world and the world
49:07
Speaker 25: is on fire, so to speak, a story does eventually diminish.
49:11
Speaker 25: It is interesting, though, because the Epstein story is about
49:13
Speaker 25: so much more than just Epstein, the character. It really
49:16
Speaker 25: goes down to transparency and the government, the perception that
49:20
Speaker 25: the government covers things up or protects powerful people, and
49:22
Speaker 25: all of that that I think remains a very potent
49:25
Speaker 25: strain in the electorate. A lot of people are very
49:28
Speaker 25: angry about that in all sorts of contexts, from the
49:30
Speaker 25: way COVID was handled to all sorts of other things,
49:33
Speaker 25: and this kind of symbolizes that.
49:35
Speaker 4: But I think the.
49:35
Speaker 25: Story itself, we have bigger fish to fry is what
49:38
Speaker 25: this pole is saying. And it is interesting that the
49:40
Speaker 25: Google search results are down.
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Speaker 4: That surprised me. It's incredible.
49:44
Speaker 3: Well you know what it comes and swings and roundabouts
49:47
Speaker 3: that us so we'll say. I'm sure at some point
49:50
Speaker 3: it'll emerge that news cycle. Kochhagarta, lovely to say you
49:53
Speaker 3: thanks so much for Johnny va as a show this evening.
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Speaker 4: Really appreciate it. Well that is from me. Up next
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