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The Rita Panahi Show | 17 March · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scors Australia. This is the Reader Panalty Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panekey Show. Coming
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Speaker 2: up tonight. The Victorian government warned the steak may face
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Speaker 2: rationing of food if drastic action on fuel is not taken.
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Speaker 2: The panel will be here to discuss that and the
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Speaker 2: day's top headlines. More details about a horrific five hour
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Speaker 2: bullying ordeal at a Sydney high school. The Telegraphs Suzanne
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Speaker 2: Giuliani will give us the latest on that story. Kosher
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Speaker 2: Gator will have the latest from the US, including reports
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Speaker 2: that Iran's Supreme leader is gay. Only London joins the
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Speaker 2: program to dissect the latest antics of the celebrity class
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Speaker 2: of the Oscars. You won't want to miss that, and
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Speaker 2: Left is Losing It is a celebrity extravaganza tonight featuring
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Speaker 2: the likes of Jane Fonda, who I'll henceforth dub Jane Biden.
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Speaker 3: You know that Trump wants to hurt I mean, I
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Speaker 3: slept with the guy that created it.
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Speaker 4: You did.
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Speaker 2: We have a personal stake in it. But let's start
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Speaker 2: with some interesting polling from the nine papers showing Australians
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Speaker 2: are putting the blame on Anthony Albinisi and his government
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Speaker 2: for the level of inflation in this country. A new
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Speaker 2: Resolve political monitor pole for the Sydney Morning Herald shows
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Speaker 2: forty percent of voters blame the government for rising living costs,
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Speaker 2: while only seventeen percent blame it on global factors outside
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Speaker 2: of Australia's control. It follows the RBA's decision to lift
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Speaker 2: interest rates for mortgage holders earlier today. Only six percent
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Speaker 2: in that reserve pole blame the RBA for rising living
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Speaker 2: cost Fifty five percent of respondents said that the cost
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Speaker 2: of groceries was a key problem, and the same number
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Speaker 2: also said they had cut spending on non essentials like
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Speaker 2: clothes or a phone. Economists have worn that high interest
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Speaker 2: rates on top of the war's economic fallout, coupled with
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Speaker 2: spending cuts in the main federal budget, could result in
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Speaker 2: a steep slow down in growth and even plunge the
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Speaker 2: country into recession. Joining me now is News Corps senior
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Speaker 2: writer Patrick Carline and the IPA's research fellow Colleen Harken. Patrick,
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Speaker 2: I'll start with you. Not too much good news there
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Speaker 2: for the country, and voters seem to understand economics better
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Speaker 2: than the Treasurer. They seem to understand that if you
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Speaker 2: go on this mad spending spree, it's going to be inflationary.
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Speaker 5: And look, Australians go to the supermarkets and they're paying
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Speaker 5: so much more for things and they were six months
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Speaker 5: twelve months ago, and they're having to make choices, I
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Speaker 5: like nice red wine on buying cheaper red wine. That's
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Speaker 5: just a very trivial example. But everyone is having sacrifice.
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Speaker 5: It's a big downplay it. But interest rates are going up,
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Speaker 5: They're probably going to continue to go up. The war
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Speaker 5: is going to have a massive effect. But I think
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Speaker 5: pleased to say that the Australians are savvy enough recognized
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Speaker 5: that things weren't real good when the war started.
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Speaker 4: Yes, because things have been mismanaged badly.
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Speaker 2: That the government is going to be keen to blame
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Speaker 2: this conflict in the Middle East. But as Patrick said,
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Speaker 2: all the indicators were pretty poor beforehand, and we have
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Speaker 2: seen in recent years a steep fall in living standards
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Speaker 2: for Australians and we have had a per capita recession
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Speaker 2: already in recent years.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, correct, I mean Australian is not mugs.
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Speaker 7: They know that.
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Speaker 6: For the last couple of years, they've felt that they've
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Speaker 6: experienced increasing the cost of living with their energy bills
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Speaker 6: because of an ideologically driven energy policy. We've seen pressure
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Speaker 6: on housing because of mass immigration, and the stats have
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Speaker 6: come out today that January was the highest net overseas
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Speaker 6: migration ever.
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Speaker 2: So it continued people were slowing that down. Well, we're
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Speaker 2: not assured leading up to the election that they were
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Speaker 2: hailing the numbers coming in. It seems that was just
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Speaker 2: one of those non core promises we hear so much about.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about petrol prices because we've got farmers warning
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Speaker 2: that people may be forced to choose between fuel and
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Speaker 2: food as they urge city residents to avoid filling up
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Speaker 2: their cars where possible. Victorian Prematures and to Allen held
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Speaker 2: a crisis meeting with relevant ministers yesterday to lay out
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Speaker 2: the state's strategy on dwindling fuel supply. Victorian Farmers Federation
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Speaker 2: President Brett Osking said that the entire state may face
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Speaker 2: rationing of food if drastic action on fuel is not
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Speaker 2: taken now and the conflict in the Middle East continues
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Speaker 2: to choke global fuel networks. He said it's just one
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Speaker 2: in five Victorian car commuters shifted to public transport. The
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Speaker 2: fuel saved would be enough conservatively to plant half of
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Speaker 2: our entire nation's wheat, barley, canola and lentil crop. Patrick,
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Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm hearing this. I can't believe I'm
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Speaker 2: reading this. The entire state may face ration of food.
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Speaker 2: It seems inconceivable.
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Speaker 5: Look, I think there's some basis of truth there, absolutely
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Speaker 5: in the sense that farmers don't get to pick and
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Speaker 5: choose when they pick their crops. They're reliant on the
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Speaker 5: weather in the relignant on having fuel when they need it.
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Speaker 5: I think the big problem with this in Melbourne is
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Speaker 5: and both governments over decades are guilty of this. We've
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Speaker 5: had lots of new housing on the outskirts, but we
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Speaker 5: haven't had the public transport that actually allows people to
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Speaker 5: catch a bus or catch a train.
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Speaker 4: They have to drive, they don't have a choice.
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Speaker 2: But they should be able to drive. You should not
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Speaker 2: be having to choose the to fuel for your car
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Speaker 2: or food for this, I mean, this seems just completely
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Speaker 2: self inflicted. We can blame the conflict in the Middle East,
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Speaker 2: but this is a country that used to be close
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Speaker 2: to energy independent and now we have become entirely reliant,
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Speaker 2: and it's madness. We are sitting on so much gas, oil, uranium,
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Speaker 2: got every source of energy possible, but we don't refine
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Speaker 2: our own oil. We have become dependent on other nations.
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Speaker 6: We've only got two refineries and we've paid a regulatory
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Speaker 6: surcharge for a very long time, and again because of
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Speaker 6: an ideology driven process. It's interesting to note that they've
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Speaker 6: released on hundred million liters of extra fuel just by
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Speaker 6: accepting the lower grade of fuel that other countries use
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Speaker 6: all the time. We could have that in the system
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Speaker 6: every day and it would have an impact also on
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Speaker 6: the price that we pay.
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Speaker 2: Well, the price we pay is heavily impacted by taxes. Patrick,
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Speaker 2: So we've already got that happening. But all the self
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Speaker 2: harm that's happened in the energy sector in this country.
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Speaker 2: We should have the cheapest energy anywhere in the world,
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Speaker 2: with the natural resources we're blessed with, and we've got
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Speaker 2: some of the most expensive and now we're talking about
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Speaker 2: fuel shortages.
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Speaker 4: What's amazing, isn't it? Isn't it? I mean, you look
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Speaker 4: at America.
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Speaker 5: The price is a skyrocketed because of the war, and
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Speaker 5: I think it's gone up to a dollar forty five
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Speaker 5: other liter.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, which for them is a shocking.
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Speaker 5: But we have mishandled this for a long time. We
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Speaker 5: were independent, we were sort of self aligned when it
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Speaker 5: came to.
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Speaker 4: Energy, and we've given that up.
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Speaker 5: And I mean, you look at the ideology that drives
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Speaker 5: we can export gas, but we're not allowed to try
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Speaker 5: and find new gas reserves.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 2: Victoria in fact changed its state constitution to limit gas explorations.
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Speaker 2: So that's how smart we are over here and talking
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Speaker 2: about Victorious. Taxpayers will foot a one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: five million dollar bill after the Victorian government settled a
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Speaker 2: class action brought by thousands of businesses which were forcibly
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Speaker 2: shut down during the COVID era. About sixteen thousand businesses
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Speaker 2: registered for the class action, but they yet to be
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Speaker 2: assessed for eligibility. They were claiming costs for the economic
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Speaker 2: damage caused by failures in the state's hotel quarantine program. Colin.
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Speaker 2: The payout will be one of the largest class actions
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Speaker 2: in Victorious history. You've got the taxpayer picking up the
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Speaker 2: bill for the government's incompetence here and their poor decision
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Speaker 2: making because they didn't need to shut down.
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Speaker 6: They didn't need to happen. I mean, I would forgive anybody.
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Speaker 6: For the first lockdown, we didn't really quite know what
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Speaker 6: was happening. But after that it was pretty clear what
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Speaker 6: was going on.
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Speaker 2: I won't even figive it. For the first one, we
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Speaker 2: knew enough, we knew enough. But that's we had six lockdowns,
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Speaker 2: So you'd think by the third one they would have
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Speaker 2: figured it out.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah.
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Speaker 6: And so here we've got a scenario. We're sixteen thousand
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Speaker 6: buses and there were thousands of other businesses that didn't survive.
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Speaker 6: These are people who were claiming damages effectively. Look, I'm
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Speaker 6: sure this is a settlement that's been reached because the
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Speaker 6: government could not afford to have some people on the
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Speaker 6: stand like Sutton and Daniel Andrews, and for internal communications
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Speaker 6: to become public knowledge. I mean, that would be incredibly
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Speaker 6: damning because we all know now what most of us
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Speaker 6: knew then. It was entirely unnecessary, it.
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Speaker 2: Was and they were well, the policies were just so
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Speaker 2: illogical and yet hugely popular because I remember writing about
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Speaker 2: it every single day, and I was in the twenty
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Speaker 2: to thirty percent at that point. The most of the
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Speaker 2: state was just loving every single crazy measure, which still
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Speaker 2: has me a little bit shook up about this state.
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Speaker 2: Now Grace's tame, we have to talk about her. She's
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Speaker 2: made some terrible claims on ABC Radio about Israeli women.
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Speaker 2: Not she claims they weren't really raped or sexually abused
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Speaker 2: by her mass during the October seven terror attacks. Grace
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Speaker 2: seems to think that news was debunked.
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Speaker 8: Timney's texted in saying can you please ask Grace why
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Speaker 8: she's selective in her outrage? She says, I've never heard
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Speaker 8: her condemn or speak out on behalf of the Israeli
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Speaker 8: women who were raped and killed by her mass on
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Speaker 8: October seven. Have you spoken about that? Have you expressed
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Speaker 8: outrage about that?
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to.
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Speaker 9: Sink to the level of entertaining any kind of propaganda, Hamish.
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Speaker 8: What's the proper included in that question?
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Speaker 2: Those things have been debunked, Patrick, the host there, Hamish
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Speaker 2: MacDonald did try to gently rebuke her and set her
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Speaker 2: down the right path, but she wasn't having it. She
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Speaker 2: was sticking to that line.
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Speaker 4: Look, she's been so political and in recent times.
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Speaker 5: She was on stage a few weeks ago talking about
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Speaker 5: globalizing the INTERFATA, and you sort of got a wonder
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Speaker 5: this extremism does it come at the cost of her advocacy,
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Speaker 5: which was a big thing. That's why she's Australian of
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Speaker 5: the Year. She wasn't there for her political views, and
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Speaker 5: you sort of got a wonder. It's sad and it's unnecessary,
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Speaker 5: and you sort of think, why isn't somebody sort of
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Speaker 5: steering her away from these sort of controversial issues. Because
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Speaker 5: she's denying the sexual assault of hundreds of women, the
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Speaker 5: sound of it, that is recognized internationally as being a fact.
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Speaker 4: Why is she actually picking this fight?
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Speaker 2: Colleen, I'd argue none of this is surprising. She was
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Speaker 2: always an activist. Some of that activism was positive, but
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Speaker 2: she was always an activist. Remember that entire scene with
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Speaker 2: Scott Morrison at the lodge and that has just been
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Speaker 2: repeated incidents, and perhaps it would be best not to
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Speaker 2: have activists made Australian of the Year.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Look, she certainly has tarnished the title of Australian of
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Speaker 6: the Year because that position is put on a pedestal
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Speaker 6: for lots of reasons, and she's certainly not living up
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Speaker 6: to the standard that people expect of that title. I
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Speaker 6: think the really objectionable thing here is that she has
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Speaker 6: made her name on the process of believing the victim,
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Speaker 6: and yet here she has done everything the opposite of that,
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Speaker 6: and it is, you know, it's incredibly objectionable that somebody
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Speaker 6: can champion for so many years that only some people
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Speaker 6: apparently need to be believed, but believed now, you know,
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Speaker 6: it's very problematic from her consistency point of view, from
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Speaker 6: what she's supposed to champion. And I do agree with you,
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Speaker 6: and she is generinely an activist.
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Speaker 10: She is.
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Speaker 2: She was some of that activism you could say was
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Speaker 2: positive and well intentioned and did good. But since then
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Speaker 2: we've seen a very different side. Now. Staying with the
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Speaker 2: issue of the treatment of the Jewish communities, Sydney Swan's
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Speaker 2: chief executive Matthew Pavolich has taken responsibility for removing references
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Speaker 2: to the Jewish community from a pre match tribute honoring
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Speaker 2: victims of the Bondai terrorist attack. Pavlich fronted the media
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Speaker 2: and said there was no directive or any instructions from
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Speaker 2: the AFL to remove that reference, but a number of
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Speaker 2: reporters claim otherwise.
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Speaker 9: That I'm told that those high up around Matthew Pavlich
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Speaker 9: believe right up until twenty four hours ago, that it
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Speaker 9: was an AFL directive to delete those references to the
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Speaker 9: Jewish community. He has only been in the last day,
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Speaker 9: but that narrative has changed Patrick.
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Speaker 2: There is speculation that the AFL has pressured the Swans,
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Speaker 2: perhaps pressured Pablaged to take the blame because of well
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Speaker 2: after discussions began about the League being referred for investigation
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Speaker 2: by the Royal Commission into Anti Semitism. That would be
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Speaker 2: hugely embarrassing for the AFL if that would happen, and
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Speaker 2: the AFOL staff or perhaps even the CEO was the
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Speaker 2: one who made that direction. Not that I'm saying that,
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Speaker 2: do not sue me.
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Speaker 5: I think a big question here is why would you
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Speaker 5: want to take out them we're Jewish or Jewish people
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Speaker 5: for a tribute about Jewish people who were killed because
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Speaker 5: they were Jewish.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's not inclusive. Apparently, what are.
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Speaker 4: They pandering to even considering this?
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Speaker 2: Well, we know the politics of the AFL. I've got
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Speaker 2: to say I'm not shocked because again, their acknowledgment of
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Speaker 2: October seven itself, I would think wasn't what it should
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Speaker 2: have been. And they are very happy to play politics
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Speaker 2: when it's in a certain direction. But here Colleen, suddenly
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Speaker 2: they were scared to politicize that ceremony.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Again, they're very selective with who they want to promote
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Speaker 6: on what causes they choose, and they always happen to
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Speaker 6: be surprisingly progressive ones that they choose to put on
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Speaker 6: a pedestal. I mean, I agree with you, Patrick, I
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Speaker 6: don't see how you can possibly do a memorial speech
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Speaker 6: or service and not mention the Jewish people when you're
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Speaker 6: talking about Bondai. It's a very clearly a very considered
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Speaker 6: decision to remove that, and the question.
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Speaker 2: Is why absolutely, Colleen Hark and Patrick Carline, thanks for
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Speaker 2: your time. Now we have more details about the Sydney
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Speaker 2: High school student who was allegedly the victim of a
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Speaker 2: horrific five hour attack. For those unfamiliar with the story,
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Speaker 2: seven News filed this report. Are warning. Images you're about
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Speaker 2: to see are disturbing. It is humiliating and demeaning. See
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Speaker 2: now that smile at the camera, smill smooth, you getting.
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Speaker 11: That.
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Speaker 12: If their intention was to call fear, they did, forcing
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Speaker 12: the thirteen year old to behave like a dog.
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Speaker 2: Neil.
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Speaker 3: Neil now say say start bucking and start saying pious,
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Speaker 3: plea conscious flee.
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Speaker 12: They shoved the tip of a dirty shoe onto her
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Speaker 12: lips now and smile at the camera.
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Speaker 2: Smow. Soon, the thirteen year old at the center of
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Speaker 2: the alleged attack spoke to The Daily Telegraph and shared
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Speaker 2: the text she sent to her mother at the time
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Speaker 2: of the attack. They read, Mum, I'm getting bashed. Go
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Speaker 2: to the office now, she says. Another student then grabbed
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Speaker 2: her phone and sent texts pretending to be her, saying no,
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Speaker 2: don't come, I'm okay. It was a prank. Joining me
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Speaker 2: for more on This is The Sunday Telegraph's weekend Investigations
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Speaker 2: editor Suzanne Juliani. Suzanne, You've been following this story very closely.
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Speaker 2: It is horrific. I've watched the video. It is absolutely sickening,
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Speaker 2: the cruelty and what that poor child had to endure.
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Speaker 2: What more can you tell me about what's happened so far?
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Speaker 13: Thanks Reta. It is such a distressing case of bullying,
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Speaker 13: and look, yesterday my colleague had actually spoken with the victim.
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Speaker 13: So I've been following this issue closely because it has
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Speaker 13: been known to me that there has been bullying at
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Speaker 13: the school, and particularly allegedly from these students. But I
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Speaker 13: think the biggest issue here is that there was further
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Speaker 13: alleged incidences last year basically targeting the victims. So it's
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Speaker 13: so distressing because no action was taken and she's then
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Speaker 13: had to endure five hours of this just cruelty. It
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Speaker 13: is horrific, the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: The parents of the alleged victim are extremely unhappy with
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Speaker 2: how the school has handled this matter. Have we had
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Speaker 2: much of a reaction from the school and an explanation
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Speaker 2: of what actions they've taken.
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Speaker 13: Look, it's understood that they are going to be expelling
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Speaker 13: the students involved. However, the parents are so upset because
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Speaker 13: they had raised issues earlier. And also while this poor girl,
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Speaker 13: the victim, was in hospital, the school, according to the parents,
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Speaker 13: did not even call her once to check in on her.
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Speaker 13: And so it's just been a whole distressing ordeal for
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Speaker 13: them and understandably so.
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Speaker 2: It's you send your kids to school and expect them
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Speaker 2: to be safe, and I just hope, yeah, that poor
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Speaker 2: child has a happier days at school after this. Now,
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Speaker 2: the New South Wales Department of Education has put out
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Speaker 2: a statement. They've said this kind of behavior is completely unacceptable.
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Speaker 2: The school is now working closely with New Southwales Police
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Speaker 2: who are investigating this matter as is appropriate now, Suzanne,
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Speaker 2: You broke a story in the Daily Telegraph this week
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Speaker 2: about a female foster carer who was cleared to work
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Speaker 2: with children despite the state's Child Safety agency deeming her
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Speaker 2: a serious risk. Details about the allegations leveled against the
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Speaker 2: terrar were heard during a recent hearing at the New
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Speaker 2: Southwest Civilian Administrative Tribunal. The tribunal heard that a fourteen
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Speaker 2: year old girl who was in the woman's care in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three indicated that she felt uncomfortable when her
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Speaker 2: care discussed sexual matters. The foster care strongly denied those allegations.
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Speaker 2: Her Working with Children's Check clearance was then canceled because
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Speaker 2: the Office of the Children's Guardian was satisfied the carer
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Speaker 2: posed a real and appreciable risk to the safety of children.
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Speaker 2: But she appealed the officer's decision and zan the tribunal
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Speaker 2: found the woman did not pose a risk to the
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Speaker 2: safety and well being of children and the granting of
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Speaker 2: the Working with Children's check would be in the public's interest. Now,
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Speaker 2: why is that considered to be in the public's interest? Surely,
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Speaker 2: whatever is in the children's interests should be the priority.
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Speaker 13: Well, last year here in New South Wales, the right
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Speaker 13: to appeal a working with Children check was actually stopped,
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Speaker 13: so law reforms came in where if you have any
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Speaker 13: criminal convictions you cannot reappeal this. And through the work
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Speaker 13: I exposed many there were dozens of people with convictions
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Speaker 13: who were being granted working with children checks. Now with
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Speaker 13: this particular case, because there was just a complaint in
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Speaker 13: allegations made about her, with the lack of criminal charges,
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Speaker 13: that is how she has been able to overturn this decision.
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Speaker 13: And it is just speakable that it was granted to
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Speaker 13: her by the tribuneral even though the OCG, the governing
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Speaker 13: body for child safety, deemed her a risk. So I'm
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Speaker 13: concerned that we could see more cases where this could
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Speaker 13: happen and it poses a serious risk to children here
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Speaker 13: and across Australia.
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Speaker 2: It seems strange that it's considered in the community or
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Speaker 2: in the public interests for these working with children's clearances
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Speaker 2: to be issued. You would think the priority is the
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Speaker 2: safety of children and if there's any risk, you just
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Speaker 2: don't grant grant access. I don't understand why you would
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Speaker 2: be giving these working with children clearances when there's a
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Speaker 2: measure of doubt.
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Speaker 13: I completely agree. And this is what concerns me is
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Speaker 13: that we've seen in past cases and people who have
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Speaker 13: been convicted of serious offenses against children, that when complaints
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Speaker 13: are made, they go from childcare center or another educational
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Speaker 13: facility or school to school and they.
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Speaker 7: Basically go unchecked.
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Speaker 13: And I think that even if a complaint is made
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Speaker 13: against someone's conduct, they should not have the right to
21:14
Speaker 13: work with children. I think if it's a serious complaint
21:18
Speaker 13: like this, and there was a clear pattern of history
21:20
Speaker 13: in this case of this type of behavior, our children's
21:24
Speaker 13: best interest should be in front of mind and not
21:27
Speaker 13: that of these alleged perpetrators.
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Speaker 2: Susan and Julianna, thank you so much for your time tonight.
21:35
Speaker 2: Still to Karma, Lefty is Losing ed plas the latest
21:39
Speaker 2: from the US, including reports that Iran Supreme Leader is
21:43
Speaker 2: a homosexual. Kosher Gator has the details. You're watching the
21:57
Speaker 2: read of Hannah his show and it's time for Lefties
22:00
Speaker 2: Losing it. And we touched on the oscars and mindless
22:03
Speaker 2: feckless celebrity virtue singling last night. But let's get into
22:07
Speaker 2: the nitty gritty tonight with the worst of the worst,
22:10
Speaker 2: starting with the tiresome, self delighted professional victim Jimmy Kimmel.
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Speaker 14: As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't
22:19
Speaker 14: support free speech. I'm not at liberty to say which.
22:24
Speaker 14: Let's just leave it at North Korea and CBS.
22:27
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Yes, it is the painfully unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, again
22:37
Speaker 2: pretending he's a victim like the downtrodden folk of North Korea.
22:42
Speaker 2: He's still carying on about being censored in Trump's America,
22:46
Speaker 2: even as he criticizes Trump in every single program and appearance,
22:51
Speaker 2: and a reminder he will suspend it for less than
22:53
Speaker 2: a week because he lied deliberately and shamelessly lied about
22:57
Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk's killer. For CBS's decision to act Stephen Colbert, well,
23:03
Speaker 2: they had nothing to do with free speech and everything
23:06
Speaker 2: to do with his awful ratings. Now let's check in
23:09
Speaker 2: on the eternally wrong about everything, Jane Fonda and see
23:13
Speaker 2: if you can keep up with this die tribe.
23:17
Speaker 3: You know, that's why hag Seth said that the Secretary
23:20
Speaker 3: of Defense, Oh, he said, we can't have CNN can't
23:24
Speaker 3: come soon enough to be under the control of paramount
23:27
Speaker 3: because we know that Trump wants to hurt I mean,
23:33
Speaker 3: I slept with the guy that created it. You did,
23:37
Speaker 3: you have a personal stake in ith What?
23:41
Speaker 2: Why is she glitching like that? Seriously? Does she thinks
23:44
Speaker 2: sleeping with the media tycoon gives hers some deep inside?
23:48
Speaker 2: Let's see if the rest of this rant is a
23:51
Speaker 2: little bit more coherent.
23:53
Speaker 5: And the days of mister Turner creating CNN to be
23:57
Speaker 5: the news source of the trusted.
24:00
Speaker 3: Trusted it did not take positions. It reported the news
24:05
Speaker 3: and to see what's happening, and so we have to stop. No,
24:11
Speaker 3: I did have many conversations with Ted Sarandols about it,
24:16
Speaker 3: because you and I are friends.
24:18
Speaker 2: Forget about Hanoy Jane I hereby dub her Jane Biden. Yes,
24:23
Speaker 2: she's got the bidens about her. Now, get ready to
24:26
Speaker 2: really turn up the stupid because we're about to hear
24:28
Speaker 2: from Patricia ar Kit. Patricia ARKit, the woman who once
24:33
Speaker 2: tweeted kick Russia out of NATO. Seriously, she did do that.
24:37
Speaker 2: She deleted it, but only after she was mocked mercilessly.
24:41
Speaker 2: Now the actress is claiming that the trans community in
24:44
Speaker 2: America is under attack.
24:47
Speaker 15: You know, right now we're looking at a real attacked
24:49
Speaker 15: on the trans community. We're seeing people lose their driver's
24:52
Speaker 15: license suddenly.
24:53
Speaker 2: With no way to get to even the DMV.
24:57
Speaker 15: We're seeing people not allowed to go to the bathroom
25:00
Speaker 15: even though they clearly present, you know, the way that
25:03
Speaker 15: they are who they are as, but they're forcing them
25:08
Speaker 15: to go to the bathroom and the non corresponding bathrooms.
25:11
Speaker 15: We're seeing people having to flee the country.
25:13
Speaker 2: She really is desperate for men to be in women's bathrooms,
25:17
Speaker 2: isn't she? What a bizarre heel to die on the
25:20
Speaker 2: rejection of biological reality. Now to the rejection of logic
25:25
Speaker 2: and decency. Here is Javier Bardem not to war.
25:32
Speaker 4: I'm free by the state.
25:36
Speaker 2: Saying no to the war against the Iranian regime just
25:39
Speaker 2: as they're on their knees and close to defeat. Shameful
25:43
Speaker 2: antics from Javier, who was there to present the Best
25:46
Speaker 2: International Feature Film. One of the directors nominated in that
25:50
Speaker 2: category this year was Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahee. No relation.
25:55
Speaker 2: Now Panighee is facing imprisonment and worse if he returns
25:59
Speaker 2: to Iran. He was luckily out of the country late
26:02
Speaker 2: last year when he was sentenced to prison for what
26:05
Speaker 2: Iranian government called propaganda activities against the regime. But you've
26:10
Speaker 2: got Javier calling for an end to the war against
26:13
Speaker 2: that regime. It just shows a breathtaking level of ignorance.
26:18
Speaker 2: And if you think I'm being too harsh and he
26:21
Speaker 2: was just making a general statement against war in all
26:24
Speaker 2: regions across the world, then listen to this. He was
26:28
Speaker 2: talking about Iran.
26:29
Speaker 1: With another illegal war created by Trump, Banatania with another
26:36
Speaker 1: like which is like to defeat the regime. But they
26:39
Speaker 1: are radical lighting the regime by their horrific actions. So
26:44
Speaker 1: that's not the reason.
26:45
Speaker 2: Trump is radicalizing the Uranian regime. Is a double line,
26:50
Speaker 2: because I don't see too many other options at this point.
26:53
Speaker 2: And wasn't it interesting that Javier, along with the rest
26:56
Speaker 2: of the Hollywood elite, said nothing about the plight of
26:59
Speaker 2: the Iranian people, tens of thousands of whom were just
27:04
Speaker 2: slaughtered this year by the Iranian regime. We didn't hear
27:07
Speaker 2: much about that on the night, did we. We did
27:09
Speaker 2: hear from one piece actress Sharithra Shandran, who seems to
27:15
Speaker 2: have missed the news that the war in Gaza is
27:17
Speaker 2: actually over and that a Ceaspire has been in place
27:21
Speaker 2: now for months.
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Speaker 13: It's an artist for Ceespire pen and what we are
27:25
Speaker 13: demanding as ac spire in Gaza.
27:28
Speaker 7: And I think that I am so blessed.
27:31
Speaker 13: To have a platform and this is the least I
27:34
Speaker 13: can do to use it. And like sometimes the new
27:37
Speaker 13: cycle is so fast and people move on.
27:39
Speaker 2: Oh, you're right, the new cycle does move us.
27:42
Speaker 7: Love.
27:42
Speaker 2: But there's been a seaspir in Gaza since October ten,
27:46
Speaker 2: that's more than five months ago. Do keep up. The
27:49
Speaker 2: sad reality is that actors celebrities in general are far
27:53
Speaker 2: dumber than your lowest expectations. But that thickness often comes
27:58
Speaker 2: with enormous amount of ego. It's a dangerous mix.
28:03
Speaker 16: When we act complicit when a government murders people on
28:07
Speaker 16: the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything,
28:11
Speaker 16: when oligarchs take over the media and control how we
28:15
Speaker 16: could produce it and consume it.
28:20
Speaker 2: Now, if these actors cared even a little about free
28:23
Speaker 2: speech and artistic integrity, they would say something about the
28:28
Speaker 2: real mccafeism that exists in Hollywood, where if you admit
28:31
Speaker 2: that you're anything other than hard left, you're pretty much
28:35
Speaker 2: blacklisted and often driven completely out of the industry. But
28:39
Speaker 2: the Hollywood hypocrites are all on board with that. And
28:43
Speaker 2: I'll be discussing the celebrity classes antiques later in the
28:47
Speaker 2: hour with Ollie London. You don't want to miss that.
28:50
Speaker 2: But let's bring in Sky News contributor Kosher Gata now.
28:53
Speaker 2: And Kosher, let's start with this incredible story suggesting Iran's
28:58
Speaker 2: Supreme leader is gay. The New York Post is reporting
29:02
Speaker 2: US intelligence indicates Muchabat Khomeni maybe gay, and that his father,
29:08
Speaker 2: the late Iotola Ali Khomeni, feared his suitability to rule
29:13
Speaker 2: the Islamic Republic for that reason. Kosher. The Post also
29:18
Speaker 2: reports President Trump couldn't contain his surprise and laughed out
29:23
Speaker 2: loud when he was briefed on the Intel.
29:26
Speaker 7: Didn't see that one coming. I have to say, do.
29:29
Speaker 2: You think this is manufactured or is this real? Because
29:33
Speaker 2: this is a fantastic way just to undermine the new
29:37
Speaker 2: Supreme Leader and also embarrass him, embarrass the entire hierarchy there.
29:44
Speaker 7: It's almost too perfect. And I was just going to say,
29:46
Speaker 7: like Brenda fog of War, the Intel community, all of them,
29:51
Speaker 7: including the US, this is not exactly a trustworthy in general.
29:54
Speaker 7: You know, we know what we've lived through, the Russian
29:56
Speaker 7: ED and all the rest of it, and they have
29:57
Speaker 7: an incentive to manufacture it. Certainly possible there are some
30:01
Speaker 7: details in there we just don't know at the stage.
30:03
Speaker 7: It's only being picked up by the Post, some more
30:05
Speaker 7: tabloid publications like the Sun, and there hasn't been any
30:08
Speaker 7: independent verification as of yet.
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Speaker 2: So you know, I can picture President Trump laughing out
30:13
Speaker 2: loud being briefed about that is very because it's.
30:17
Speaker 7: So dark and paradoxical, or maybe ironic is the better
30:21
Speaker 7: word to.
30:21
Speaker 2: Because Iran is a country that absolutely homosexuality is criminalized.
30:29
Speaker 2: The sentences and the punishments are very harsh, and in fact,
30:34
Speaker 2: they sometimes force transgender surgeries on men who are gay,
30:39
Speaker 2: because they're all very happy for you to go and
30:41
Speaker 2: get surgery and pretend you're a woman. But if you
30:44
Speaker 2: just want to be a gay man, living your life,
30:47
Speaker 2: choosing who you to love, that's not okay. If it's true.
30:52
Speaker 7: He probably laughed because it was so ironic, but also
30:54
Speaker 7: would change the equation a little bit, because it's a
30:56
Speaker 7: whole other attack vector if actually it's truth to it,
31:00
Speaker 7: and if there's photographic evidence or some other evidence, and
31:03
Speaker 7: blackmail potential all the rest of it. But at this
31:04
Speaker 7: point I think we have to take you with the
31:05
Speaker 7: big green of salt, because we don't know if it's real.
31:07
Speaker 2: Now we know, President Trump has asked the Allies to
31:10
Speaker 2: join an effort to ensure safe passage through the Strait
31:13
Speaker 2: of her Moves, and he had this assessment of France
31:16
Speaker 2: and it's president. Have you been speaking with the French
31:20
Speaker 2: president Macon about the coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormosia?
31:25
Speaker 5: I have to well, he's been on a scale of
31:31
Speaker 5: zero to ten, I'd say he's been an eight.
31:35
Speaker 4: Not perfect, but it's friends, are you quick to expect perfect?
31:43
Speaker 2: Macrown should probably be happy with eight out of ten.
31:45
Speaker 2: It's probably as well as he is going to do.
31:47
Speaker 2: In Trump's eyes, how do you see the international effort
31:51
Speaker 2: here to minimize the fallout of this conflict?
31:54
Speaker 7: Reminded everyone he used to for Haidi Klum, who used
31:57
Speaker 7: to be as now and nine they should be happier.
31:59
Speaker 7: Maybe not. The recruitment is tepid at best. He plucked
32:04
Speaker 7: Macron out there and seemed to suggest that France is
32:07
Speaker 7: maybe a little bit more bullish on their willingness to help.
32:09
Speaker 7: Don't know commitments have officially been made. The rest of
32:12
Speaker 7: the NATO allies either have given hard rejections Germany, Italy, Spain,
32:17
Speaker 7: or sort of cagey tepid ones like curiost Armor of
32:20
Speaker 7: the UK. He's also trying to build a broader coalition
32:23
Speaker 7: in China, who is one of the biggest recipients of
32:25
Speaker 7: oil shipments that go through that lane, South Korea, et cetera.
32:28
Speaker 7: And they're all being noncommittal. Their argument is you started this,
32:33
Speaker 7: so why are you asking us basically to come in,
32:35
Speaker 7: is their side of the equation. It shows that this
32:39
Speaker 7: does remain unpopular in a lot of places. I think
32:41
Speaker 7: there's protests in South Korea, so they're managing the domestic
32:43
Speaker 7: fallout as is Trump as well against it. And then
32:46
Speaker 7: the flip side though is it's also certainly in the
32:49
Speaker 7: case of NATO, it's highlighting this fundamental issue of if
32:52
Speaker 7: you outsource national security, which is the most vital thing
32:55
Speaker 7: that a government arguably should be providing for its citizens,
32:58
Speaker 7: to another country, we'll wind up in this situation where
33:01
Speaker 7: maybe your interests have diverged, maybe those countries don't want
33:04
Speaker 7: to engage in military action. They're under the umbrella of
33:06
Speaker 7: the US. US tells them they have to do it.
33:09
Speaker 7: If they don't do it, Trump is signaling some sort
33:11
Speaker 7: of fallout from a NATO perspective. So far, it's it's
33:14
Speaker 7: words and rhetoric. But this is getting a little bit dicey.
33:18
Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned that domestic fallout, and certainly the war
33:21
Speaker 2: is not grateful President Trump. Domestically, the midterms are coming up,
33:26
Speaker 2: and he was asked earlier today whether the war could
33:29
Speaker 2: be wrapped up this week.
33:31
Speaker 16: If Iran, as I said, totally obliterated, got the missiles,
33:35
Speaker 16: got the first two rounds of leadership, air force gone,
33:39
Speaker 16: maybe gone.
33:39
Speaker 14: Can we wrap this war up this week?
33:42
Speaker 4: Yeah? Sure? Okay, will we I don't think so, but
33:46
Speaker 4: it'll be sure.
33:47
Speaker 3: We'll be alone, and we're gonna have a much safer
33:50
Speaker 3: world when it's wrapped up.
33:52
Speaker 4: It'll be wrapped up soon. We're gonna have a much
33:55
Speaker 4: safer world.
33:57
Speaker 2: Kosher. Do we need to see Reiji change Ran for
34:01
Speaker 2: this US action to be considered a success.
34:03
Speaker 7: I think many would say hopefully not, because that has
34:06
Speaker 7: been one of the three central pillars of the populist movement,
34:10
Speaker 7: and Trump that we're not in the interest of changing regimes.
34:13
Speaker 7: That doesn't mean we don't recognize there are many awful,
34:15
Speaker 7: evil regimes around the world. That's not what we want
34:17
Speaker 7: to do. Can you change regime just from air power?
34:20
Speaker 7: If not, are we leading into the slippery slope of
34:23
Speaker 7: boots on the ground and quagmire and all of that.
34:25
Speaker 7: And it is he is paying a big price. It
34:27
Speaker 7: remains very divisive this issue. Democrats are completely against it.
34:31
Speaker 7: The Independence are seventy percent against it.
34:33
Speaker 2: That's the big thing.
34:34
Speaker 7: That's a big thing given the timing.
34:36
Speaker 2: It's so cool as the guess prices and the guess
34:38
Speaker 2: press felt by everyone.
34:39
Speaker 7: Absolutely around the world, even among Republicans. The latest polling
34:43
Speaker 7: shows twenty percent are against it, which is not great
34:45
Speaker 7: when you're this close to an election. You would want
34:47
Speaker 7: ninety percent support, which he does have for other issues.
34:50
Speaker 7: And the eighty percent that do support it, they support him,
34:53
Speaker 7: they support they want the success coming out of it.
34:56
Speaker 7: I think the answer to your question is in the question,
34:58
Speaker 7: we don't know what success looks like. Was never properly defined.
35:01
Speaker 7: You know what the objectives are, but they're unclear. They're
35:04
Speaker 7: unhappy with the fact that the case was not made
35:07
Speaker 7: very clearly. People don't know. Are we after regime change?
35:09
Speaker 7: Are we after just denuclearizing them? Are we after taking
35:13
Speaker 7: away en Richmond capability, which is one step before nuclearization.
35:17
Speaker 7: Are we doing it for humanitarian reasons? Are we doing
35:20
Speaker 7: it for oil? So when the polls start to pick
35:22
Speaker 7: and choose, you know exactly what the real reason for
35:25
Speaker 7: it was. That's where I think you see support fraying.
35:28
Speaker 7: And the longer this continues, he's going to keep paying
35:31
Speaker 7: a political price. Hence the question if you can wrap
35:33
Speaker 7: it up quickly, take an off ramp, now you can
35:37
Speaker 7: claim victory on the things that did happen at all
35:39
Speaker 7: has gone, most of the leadership has gone and get
35:41
Speaker 7: back to domestic issues.
35:42
Speaker 2: And they're already in campaign mode over there, so they
35:45
Speaker 2: really do need to have this wrapped up nicely and
35:49
Speaker 2: to focus on domestic issues where he can show his
35:52
Speaker 2: record with the border, with the economy and all sorts
35:57
Speaker 2: of other issues. But staying on Iran, the captain of
36:00
Speaker 2: Iran's women's soccer team is the latest to withdraw her
36:04
Speaker 2: bit for asylum in Australia Kosha. This comes as fears
36:08
Speaker 2: grow that the players families are in danger if that
36:12
Speaker 2: don't return home. Shiva Amani, and exiled Iranian player former
36:17
Speaker 2: soccer player, has said the players are opting to go
36:21
Speaker 2: home because of intense and systematic pressure on the players'
36:25
Speaker 2: families from Iran's football federation. She wrote on x Several
36:30
Speaker 2: of the players decided to go back because the threats
36:33
Speaker 2: against their families became unbearable and the intimidation was relentless.
36:40
Speaker 2: That's the point here, isn't it. Why would you seek
36:43
Speaker 2: asylum one minute and be going home the next And
36:47
Speaker 2: we know how that regime operates, and I've got to say,
36:51
Speaker 2: I really do fear for the safety of these women
36:55
Speaker 2: once they get back to Iran.
36:56
Speaker 7: Right, It's not like everything will be magically, you know,
36:58
Speaker 7: the tin of blind eye to all this that happened.
37:00
Speaker 7: It is a reminder of how tyrannical this regime is.
37:05
Speaker 7: We know it, you know it better than most, but
37:07
Speaker 7: people do forget that. And I think these stories are
37:10
Speaker 7: a reminder of that. And you would think that the
37:13
Speaker 7: problem ends with getting asylum, and there was political horsemenu
37:16
Speaker 7: ring that happened around that between Trump and Albinesi and
37:19
Speaker 7: we all saw that. But that isn't the end because
37:21
Speaker 7: even if they get asylum as we're seeing their families
37:23
Speaker 7: are being threatened, and it just as a reminder of
37:26
Speaker 7: who we're dealing with. And as you say, even if
37:27
Speaker 7: they go back, I think people will continue to stay
37:30
Speaker 7: on the story and we sadly won't be surprised if
37:32
Speaker 7: there's more dark stuff that happens.
37:34
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, this is a regime that walked into
37:37
Speaker 2: hospitals and shot people recovering from the protest and killed
37:42
Speaker 2: them in the hospital beds. I mean, this is evil personified.
37:47
Speaker 2: But you're right about the domestic pressures on Trump when
37:51
Speaker 2: it comes to this conflict. How is he going to
37:56
Speaker 2: handle an issue like gas prices, because again that was
38:00
Speaker 2: something it was spooking that prices were coming down under
38:04
Speaker 2: his watch and now they're skyrocketing. How does he handle
38:08
Speaker 2: that leading up to the midterms if this conflict continues,
38:12
Speaker 2: or if gas prices stay high.
38:14
Speaker 7: It's a real problem. If the prices stay where they are.
38:17
Speaker 7: What he keeps saying, I think he just said it
38:19
Speaker 7: the other day is we're going to wrap this war
38:21
Speaker 7: up soon, even though he won't put a time on it,
38:23
Speaker 7: and we can understand why, and then the prices are
38:26
Speaker 7: going to come way down. He keeps asserting that, and
38:28
Speaker 7: if that happens, people do have short memories in politics,
38:31
Speaker 7: and I think he can claim a victory and the
38:33
Speaker 7: prices come way back down again in time for the midterms, but.
38:35
Speaker 2: Many say it it won't be that easy. And then
38:38
Speaker 2: because the production has been interrupted and it's going to
38:42
Speaker 2: take some time to catch up, flip.
38:44
Speaker 7: It on and off, and then he is going to
38:46
Speaker 7: have to sell around that and make the case. And
38:48
Speaker 7: notwithstanding that this was good for the world, good for
38:50
Speaker 7: the country, it's in our national interest and that is
38:52
Speaker 7: where the case has been weak. Is it really good?
38:56
Speaker 7: Did it have to happen right now at this point
38:57
Speaker 7: in time for the national interest? That is still a
39:00
Speaker 7: very very dividing issue. As we know, people are fighting
39:02
Speaker 7: about it on the rate, on the left, in the
39:04
Speaker 7: independent lean and this is now going to be the
39:07
Speaker 7: number one issue I think going into the midterms, and
39:09
Speaker 7: it would not have been two weeks ago.
39:10
Speaker 2: But absolutely not. Now before you go, we've looked at
39:13
Speaker 2: how Apple News shuts out pretty much any right leaning
39:18
Speaker 2: news outlets. MSN is similar, and now the data is
39:22
Speaker 2: in for Google MRC. This is the Media Research Center
39:26
Speaker 2: uncovered that just two percent of Google's news. Google News's
39:31
Speaker 2: top morning stories in February came from sources rated right
39:36
Speaker 2: leaning by Media Ratings Firm, all sides. And you don't
39:40
Speaker 2: get much bigger and more powerful than Google. Dear Kosha,
39:43
Speaker 2: this is huge and the bias is overwhelming.
39:48
Speaker 7: Yes, most powerful company in the world. Those five or
39:50
Speaker 7: six big tech companies went from nothing from launch to
39:53
Speaker 7: I think they're now fifteen trillion in market cap in
39:56
Speaker 7: twenty years. It's never happened in human history. And on
39:59
Speaker 7: top of that, not just market cap, but the product
40:01
Speaker 7: that they sell is information, which controls public opinion, controls masses,
40:05
Speaker 7: controls decisions that we make as countries, as the world.
40:09
Speaker 7: It's a big deal. It's not like Exonomobile or a
40:11
Speaker 7: Widget or other powerful companies we've had in the past.
40:14
Speaker 7: They've been sort of throwing a bone, if you will,
40:17
Speaker 7: after the whole Trump come back a little bit here
40:19
Speaker 7: and there, but not really not really structurally that that
40:21
Speaker 7: is the window to the world. You layer on AI
40:24
Speaker 7: on top of that now, which these companies are all
40:26
Speaker 7: playing in, it's gonna get even worse. I think you
40:28
Speaker 7: feel like you're having a conversation and you're getting truth,
40:32
Speaker 7: and when it comes to political news, you may not
40:34
Speaker 7: be so people.
40:34
Speaker 2: Have now very visual absolutely not do not just trust
40:38
Speaker 2: GPT or even Grock because the political bias exists. They're
40:42
Speaker 2: also Koshergata. Thank you so much for your time. Tonight
40:46
Speaker 2: still to come, well dissect the antics of the celebrity
40:49
Speaker 2: class at the Oscars. Ollie London joins me in next
41:03
Speaker 2: welcome back. Let's bring in author and media personality Ollie
41:07
Speaker 2: London to discuss the latest antics of the celebrity class. Ollie,
41:11
Speaker 2: let's start with Jimmy Kimmel's Oscar speech. The alleged comedian
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Speaker 2: took aim at broadcaster CBS's decision to drop Stephen Colbert's
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Speaker 2: The Late Show, and he framed it as an attack
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Speaker 2: on free speech. Have a listen.
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Speaker 14: As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't
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Speaker 14: support free speech. I'm not at liberty to say which.
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Speaker 14: Let's just leave it at North Korea and CBS.
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Speaker 2: Now, while Jimmy Kimmel there was making jokes about America's
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Speaker 2: supposed lack of free speech. In Iran, filmmakers behind the
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Speaker 2: Oscar nominated film It Was Just an Accident were being
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Speaker 2: arrested Olie by the Islamic regime. Did we hear anything
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Speaker 2: against the Iranian game amongst all the political posturing we
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Speaker 2: heard from the celebrities last night.
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Speaker 10: So at the Oscars, not a single celebrity or Hollywood
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Speaker 10: star mentioned Ran. You didn't see any pins. You had
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Speaker 10: the classic ice out pins, you had the artists for
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Speaker 10: ceasefire pins, the Palestine pins, you had Yavia Baden having
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Speaker 10: a Palacinian resistance pin anti warpin, but not a single
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Speaker 10: pin for the brave Iranian people, the thousands, tens of
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Speaker 10: thousands that have been killed over the last several months protesting.
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Speaker 11: Jane Bonder had a Stopped the Merger pinned.
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Speaker 10: Protest against the paramount Warner Broos merger, but nothing for
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Speaker 10: the Iranians. You know, people are kind of stick and
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Speaker 10: tied of these Hollywood celebrities virtues.
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Speaker 11: Signaling about, you know, what's going on in the world, but.
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Speaker 10: Meanwhile they're completely ignoring and silent on the brave people,
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Speaker 10: the men, women and children that have been taken to
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Speaker 10: the streets knowing that they're likely going to be shot,
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Speaker 10: knowing they're likely going to be killed by the Islamic
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Speaker 10: Republic regime.
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Speaker 11: Yet they're still going out there.
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Speaker 10: So it's just very sad that these Hollywood celebrities would
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Speaker 10: completely ignore the Iranian people.
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Speaker 2: So shameful, even as they have members of that community
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Speaker 2: in that auditorium. Jaffar Panahy was there, who is the
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Speaker 2: director behind that Oscar nominated movie. And in December he
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Speaker 2: was sentenced to prison in Iran in his absence. So
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Speaker 2: if he enters the country, if he goes back home,
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Speaker 2: he is going to be locked up. You would think
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Speaker 2: the Hollywood community would rally around him, but no, they're
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Speaker 2: talking about Stephen Colbert's supposed free speech issues. I mean,
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Speaker 2: his show was axed because it doesn't rate and he
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Speaker 2: costs a lot of money. Now, in that same speech,
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Speaker 2: Olie Jimmy Kimmel had a bit of a shot at first,
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Speaker 2: Lady Milania Trump's documentary have listened.
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Speaker 14: Fortunately for all of us, there's an international community of
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Speaker 14: filmmakers dedicated to telling the truth, oftentimes at great risk,
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Speaker 14: to make films that teach us, that call out injustice
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Speaker 14: then aspire us to take action. And there are also
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Speaker 14: documentaries where you walk around the White House trying on
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Speaker 14: shoes hilarious.
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Speaker 2: I think just a little bit jealous because that doco
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Speaker 2: is doing far better than I think any of them imagined.
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Speaker 10: Well, Jimmy Kimmel is definitely jealous. So many celebrities and
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Speaker 10: liberal media outlets have been taking aim at First Lady
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Speaker 10: Millennia's new documentary film, yet it was number.
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Speaker 11: One on Amazon.
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Speaker 10: It broke records for the best documentary in ten years
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Speaker 10: in cinemas across the US.
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Speaker 11: And you know, so.
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Speaker 10: Many people love and ad are Millennia Trump. She's a
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Speaker 10: pure class act. And I think people like Jimmy Kimmel
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Speaker 10: are completely jealous that she is getting higher ratings. She's
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Speaker 10: getting higher numbers, and people don't care about these late
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Speaker 10: night talk shows anymore. They're too political. It used to
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Speaker 10: be fun, it used to be a laugh. Now it's
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Speaker 10: all about politics, taking digs at Trump, taking digs at
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Speaker 10: Millennia Trump, who does nothing but tried to help people,
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Speaker 10: what she's doing with the Ukrainian children, trying to unite them.
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Speaker 11: She's doing so much good in the world.
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Speaker 10: And you know they should be actually taking digs and
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Speaker 10: anyone at the Uranian regime and calling them out instead.
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Speaker 2: Now, there were other political protests at the oscars, other
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Speaker 2: political messaging. Actor Javier Barden cried out free Palestine whilst
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Speaker 2: he was on stage, and he also had donned a
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Speaker 2: big pin saying no to war in Spanish and a
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Speaker 2: free Palestine pin as well. Ollie. We also had a
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Speaker 2: number of attendees having anti ICE pins, including singer songwriter
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Speaker 2: Sarah Berrillis and British actress Shariitra Chandran. Just tell me
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Speaker 2: about what other political messaging was evident on the night.
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Speaker 10: Well, you had Jane Fonda, who is you know, nicknamed
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Speaker 10: Hannoia Jane, She's constantly protesting about something. As soon as
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Speaker 10: the US and Israel laud stripes Iran, she was protesting
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Speaker 10: against that, against the US and Israel, trying to free
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Speaker 10: the Iranian people and to help them, you know. So
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Speaker 10: at the Oscars she was wearing a stop the Merger pin,
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Speaker 10: protesting against the paramount Warner Bros. Merger And come on, Jane,
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Speaker 10: there's more important things going on in the world. There's
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Speaker 10: people in Iran that need a voice like yours, and
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Speaker 10: instead you're focusing on silly little things, claiming that free
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Speaker 10: speeches under attack, the Ice out pins, the Palestine pins,
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Speaker 10: you know, saying there's no cea spy yet there's been
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Speaker 10: a Ceaspire in place since October twenty twenty five, so
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Speaker 10: you know they need to get a reality check. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 10: Hollywood stars live in abobble. We saw Billie Eilish at
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Speaker 10: the Grammys saying no one is a legal on stolen land.
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Speaker 10: Yet she didn't seem to let their local native tribes
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Speaker 10: into her mansion when they said that they were going
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Speaker 10: to come take back their land. So they're just full
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Speaker 10: of virtue singling. And to be honest, nobody cares about
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Speaker 10: their opinions anymore.
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Speaker 2: You're right, no one cares about the Hollywood hypocrisy. And
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Speaker 2: it's just so painful and intellectually vacuous. And the reason
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Speaker 2: why they won't speak out against the Iranian regime, we
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Speaker 2: know why. It's because Trump is at war with the
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Speaker 2: Iranian regime and they don't want to be on the
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Speaker 2: same side as the president. So in their minds, my
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Speaker 2: enemy's enemy is my friend. It is just such an
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Speaker 2: unprincipled way to behave. But that's Hollywood for you, And
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Speaker 2: there was something else that was amiss that night. Viewers
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Speaker 2: were left shocked after a number of Hollywood stars were
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Speaker 2: omitted from the memoriam segment. Some big stars including James
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Speaker 2: Van Derbeek, Eric Dane and the late great Bridget Bardo. Olly,
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Speaker 2: how can you not feature Bardo? She is an icon.
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Speaker 10: Well, Bridget Bardou was an icon, but then Hollywood, unfortunately
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Speaker 10: her opinions were too considered by right. In France, she
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Speaker 10: was very outspoken events the migrand crisis. Over the years,
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Speaker 10: she was very outspoken against so many issues, and she
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Speaker 10: was branded far right. And you know, after her death,
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Speaker 10: literally days after a death, you had a Vogue magazine
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Speaker 10: calling her far right. And it's like, this is a
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Speaker 10: woman that gave so much to Hollywood. They should be
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Speaker 10: remembering her and honoring her legacy. And you know, people
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Speaker 10: should be allowed to have political views, but unfortunately in
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Speaker 10: hollywoods it's only left wing views allowed. If you dare
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Speaker 10: straighten that narrative, you are canceled. And it's again it's
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Speaker 10: very sad. But again, nobody seems to watch the Oscars anymore.
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Speaker 10: Nobody seems to care. And I think Bridget Bardos fans
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Speaker 10: are honoring her. They don't need these Hollywood celebrities to
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Speaker 10: honor her.
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Speaker 2: Now, before you go, I'm interested in your reaction to
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Speaker 2: this image that has gone viral. There's been a number
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Speaker 2: of news stories about it. It shows all the trash
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Speaker 2: left behind by the Oscars celebrity attendees. Ollie, I've got
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Speaker 2: to say, I'm not too surprised these actors. They're not
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Speaker 2: going to clean up after themselves. What do we really
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Speaker 2: expecting them to? This is to me completely predictable, but
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Speaker 2: a lot of people are talking about it.
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Speaker 11: Well.
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Speaker 10: Jane Vonda was in attendance. She's a climate change activist.
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Speaker 10: Leonardo DiCaprio, he's a climate change activist. Why were they
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Speaker 10: not practicing what they preach and picking up the trash?
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Speaker 10: You know, come when they left all that trash in
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Speaker 10: there for the workers that have to clean up. And
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Speaker 10: you know they're always lecturing other people, recycle, say the planet,
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Speaker 10: you know, stop using, stop flying, Yet they're flying around
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Speaker 10: in private jets, they're trashing auditoriums, and you know, they're
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Speaker 10: just a bunch of virtue signalers that really don't practice
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Speaker 10: what they preach.
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Speaker 2: Ollie London, always a pleasure. Thanks for your time tonight,
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Speaker 2: and that's all the time we have. I'll see you
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Speaker 2: at eleven tomorrow Night Newsnight is up next.