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Credlin | 26 January · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peter Kremlin live on Sky News Australia.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Chris.
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Speaker 3: Happy Australia Day, everyone, Happy, Happy Australia Day.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. Here's what's coming up tonight On Kredlin.
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Speaker 3: Susan Lee and his supporters are digging in and Andre
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Speaker 3: Hasty and Angus Taylor emerges the front runners to mount
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Speaker 3: a challenge when Parliament returns in seven days time. It's
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Speaker 3: looking like a question of when not if. I'll take
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Speaker 3: you through what we're hearing behind the scenes with just
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Speaker 3: one week, as I said, for the House is back.
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Speaker 3: John Anderson, James Ashbury, Nikata Dan while Jamie Rodgers all
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Speaker 3: on the program tonight that dire warning from the OECD
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Speaker 3: that Australia's dead bomb is ticking, with neither state or
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Speaker 3: federal leaders showing any strain of spending for strength. All
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Speaker 3: the while we're being told today our power bills could
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Speaker 3: increase by twenty four percent this year. Ross Greenwood coming out,
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Speaker 3: what is exactly going on inside the Chinese military? A
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Speaker 3: massive shakeup at the top, Accusations that are senior general
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Speaker 3: lead nuclear secrets to the United States. Now, what does
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Speaker 3: this tell us of our President G's grip on power
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Speaker 3: and his military ambitions in our region. And yes, we
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Speaker 3: saw the usual mob right out of Central Casting protesting
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Speaker 3: today on Australia Day. But what's heart warming was the
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Speaker 3: number of ordinary Australians celebrating our national day and all
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Speaker 3: we have to be thankful for.
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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful day celebrating our country. It's good to
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Speaker 2: see everybody together.
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Speaker 1: It's just wonderful being in Australia. Living in Australia is amazing.
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Speaker 4: I just wanted to say Happy Australian Day, Welcome to
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Speaker 4: the NZ.
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Speaker 3: I will stay with Australia Day because this is the
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Speaker 3: day when I stop and give thanks for having won
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Speaker 3: the lottery of life. Because to live here in this magnificent,
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Speaker 3: wide brown land is to live in the greatest country
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Speaker 3: on Earth. Unlike the Americans who have Thanksgiving Day each
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Speaker 3: year to focus their nation on gratitude, we don't have
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Speaker 3: anything similar here. And that's what today has come for me.
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Speaker 3: Part celebration, sure, but also the day when I stop
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Speaker 3: and count my blessings.
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Speaker 2: Austraight A day is the.
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Speaker 3: Day where I give thanks to the generations of men
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Speaker 3: and women who have come before me, Indigenous, convict, settler
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Speaker 3: and migrant who have built this country and defended it.
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Speaker 3: And I say to myself, I hope I am worthy of.
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Speaker 2: Their sacrifice and hard work.
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Speaker 3: And I say to those who spent today out protesting,
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Speaker 3: you might think you're big in numbers, but you're not.
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Speaker 3: Seventy six percent of Australians think like me, and that number.
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Speaker 2: Is only growing.
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Speaker 3: And if you're part of the activists, rent a crowd,
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Speaker 3: if you want to spend the twenty sixth of January
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Speaker 3: angry and screaming about invasion day and shame, and I
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Speaker 3: suggest you look around the world and you get some perspective.
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Speaker 3: Nowhere on Earth is more free or more fair than Australia.
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Speaker 3: Nowhere on earth life is more prosperous like every individual.
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Speaker 3: Of course, our country is not perfect. No country is.
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Speaker 3: There's plenty two that we can improve, sure, But today's
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Speaker 3: the day we focus on what makes us the envy
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Speaker 3: of the world and promise ourselves to do more to
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Speaker 3: protect what we love. Today's a day to resolve to
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Speaker 3: make Australia better, because, especially in the wake of the
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Speaker 3: Bonno massacre, no one could really say that as a
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Speaker 3: nation we're currently our best self. The Prime Minister today
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Speaker 3: spoke about the need to leave behind the burden of
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Speaker 3: old prejudices and hatreds.
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Speaker 5: A democracy where every citizen is equal, a country united
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Speaker 5: and liberated by the Australian Covenant, a commitment that every
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Speaker 5: citizen makes to our nation, and a promise our people
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Speaker 5: make to each other to leave behind the burden of
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Speaker 5: old prejudices and hatred.
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Speaker 3: And yet from his mates on the hard left, there's
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Speaker 3: not too much evidence of that in the various protests
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Speaker 3: that took place in Sydney and Melbourne. And for all
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Speaker 3: Anthony Albanese's talk about ending division, there were plenty of
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Speaker 3: Palestinian flags and kafirs out in force today. For all
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Speaker 3: this talk of unity, here is Albanesier Today's Australian of
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Speaker 3: the Year morning tea, standing before three flags. When the
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Speaker 3: Prime Minister himself sends messages of division on the over
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Speaker 3: the very symbol of our nation, our national flag, it
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Speaker 3: doesn't build unity, does it. I think Australians are crying
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Speaker 3: out for leadership that respects our country, our flag, and
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Speaker 3: appreciates our history. I know Australians want our leaders to
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Speaker 3: do better, to be better than we have seen in
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Speaker 3: recent times. Politicians I have to say on all sides,
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Speaker 3: not just labor ones. As I said before, it's blessed,
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Speaker 3: as my dad would say, that's been shot in the
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Speaker 3: backside with a rainbow. And yet some of us want
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Speaker 3: to resent our good luck and good fortune. Well, not me,
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Speaker 3: and not the majority of Australians either, as the most
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Speaker 3: recent poll from the Institute of Public Affairs shows seventy
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Speaker 3: six percent of us love this day and we do
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Speaker 3: not want to change from the twenty sixth of January,
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Speaker 3: when the modern world, via Arthur Philip in his first
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Speaker 3: fleet of conflict convicts, arrived here on this ancient land.
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Speaker 2: And yes, that arrival brought.
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Speaker 3: Massive change for the Aboriginal people living here, some of
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Speaker 3: it bad, or don't shy away from that, but not
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Speaker 3: all of it bad, some of it good, some of
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Speaker 3: it fantastic, much of it much of it fear even
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Speaker 3: before our current more enlightened times. But what happened over
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Speaker 3: two hundred and thirty years ago was a statement of fact,
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Speaker 3: and none of us can rewrite history. With Britain's rule
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Speaker 3: of law and its Judeo Christian values that respected the
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Speaker 3: dignity of all human beings. I've always been grateful it
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Speaker 3: was the British who settled Australia, and not the Dutch
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Speaker 3: or the Portuguese or any other colonial power. Because the
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Speaker 3: truth is this land would have been settled, it would
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Speaker 3: never have remained as it was. And to have become
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Speaker 3: a modern nation under the British as we did, to
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Speaker 3: have formed our Commonwealth of Australia without a civil war,
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Speaker 3: unlike the United States among other nations, well that's a
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Speaker 3: reason again to be grateful. Not that Anthony Alberezi stayed
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Speaker 3: true to the words of our founding fathers. Today when
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Speaker 3: outlining the citizenship pledged to our newest Australians in Canberra,
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Speaker 3: the Prime Minister offered them two different versions to swear.
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Speaker 5: Here he is, there are two pledge options, Pledge one
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Speaker 5: and pledged two. Pledge one has the words under God
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Speaker 5: in the first line, whereas Pledged two does not. The
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Speaker 5: words under God are optional. I will read the pledge
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Speaker 5: with the words under God. You do not need to
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Speaker 5: repeat these words if you do not wish to do so.
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Speaker 3: And yet the words of our Australian Constitution open with this.
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Speaker 3: It says, whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria,
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Speaker 3: South Australia Queensland and Tasmania, humbly, relying on the blessing
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Speaker 3: of a mighty God, have agreed to unite in one
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Speaker 3: indissoluble federal commonwealth.
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Speaker 2: Seriously, Alban easy.
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Speaker 3: If we want our young Australians to love this country,
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Speaker 3: we need a Prime Minister that doesn't want to dump
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Speaker 3: what's made us what we are. And maybe, just maybe,
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Speaker 3: though young Australians have stopped listening to him and all
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Speaker 3: the other lefties and elites who want to run our
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Speaker 3: country down, because as well as seventy six percent of
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Speaker 3: us saying that we support Australia Day, there's a new
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Speaker 3: Resolve poll also out that shows nine out of ten
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Speaker 3: eighteen to twenty four year olds are proud to be Australian,
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Speaker 3: and eighty three percent of them say they're proud of
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Speaker 3: our history, as they should be. When I think about
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Speaker 3: the hard life ancestors experienced arriving in eighteen fifty four
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Speaker 3: into early Victoria as settlers, a state I think that
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Speaker 3: was only about three years old back then, I'm incredibly
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Speaker 3: proud of their resilience and their grit in building a
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Speaker 3: life in the unforgiving Maley Country northwest of Melbourne. These
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Speaker 3: incredible men and women and many more just like them
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Speaker 3: across the country. You hardship and tragedy on an epic scale,
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Speaker 3: and yet they dug in and they succeeded. This is
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Speaker 3: why refuse to allow their contribution to this country to
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Speaker 3: be diminished by those who want to demonize our colonial past.
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Speaker 6: There is no international issues. International issue right now is
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Speaker 6: Australia being against First nations people. Let's not get it wrong.
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Speaker 2: But what it means to me today is a standing.
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Speaker 6: For my people, for our sovereignty, for our people that
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Speaker 6: have been fallen, for every single destin custody, for every
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Speaker 6: stolen child right now, for every ten year old sitting
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Speaker 6: in your mind behind bars.
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Speaker 3: It's a rant, that is a rant, But I much
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Speaker 3: prefer this message from a proud Indigenous Australian lance walk.
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Speaker 4: On today me as an Indigenous man, I celebrate Australia Day. Sure,
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Speaker 4: there are some things in the past that were quite shameful,
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Speaker 4: but I celebrate Australia Day not because of those things
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Speaker 4: that we did, but those things that we are and
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Speaker 4: those things that we're becoming. So happy Australia Day and
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Speaker 4: have a great day.
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Speaker 2: Hager was that it's Australia day.
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Speaker 3: Let's drop the nonsense of flying three flags, not one,
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Speaker 3: and pretending that the country belongs to some of us
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Speaker 3: rather than equally to all of us. After all, to succeed,
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Speaker 3: we all need to believe that we've got an equal
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Speaker 3: stake in the future, to come together as one people.
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Speaker 2: And let me finish with this little ad.
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Speaker 3: It's an add from the days when Corporate Australia celebrated
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Speaker 3: our country good living.
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Speaker 2: Can I have your attention for the next three minutes.
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Speaker 7: I'd like you to see and hear something which we
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Speaker 7: feel is rather special.
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Speaker 8: In this dark given this road posers on our own
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Speaker 8: gees honor that was billed by UP as high in
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Speaker 8: in Australa.
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Speaker 9: The land no upper.
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Speaker 8: Ski in Australa. We to as your bar and tea
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Speaker 8: are away off of.
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Speaker 9: Life or for one one for a.
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Speaker 10: Way of the lobby waste but your danger. Ever, let
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Speaker 10: the world know we will have for the call.
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Speaker 4: God mo in a whole.
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Speaker 7: As a friend.
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Speaker 3: I know it's old, but it always makes me emotional
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Speaker 3: and I just hope watching that, I just hope we
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Speaker 3: are still that country. I also love that Ampole put
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Speaker 3: its own money there and had that add out in
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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty eight, wouldn't be nice if we had corporates
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Speaker 3: today who were proud of Australia. Let's head to Camper
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Speaker 3: now for the headline. Sky News political reporter Reverend Spargo.
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Speaker 11: The opposition leader's future hinges on private discussions between Liberal colleagues.
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Speaker 11: They're considering whether to challenge sersainly and if so, who
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Speaker 11: would replace her. Tension is increasingly turning to Andrew Hasty
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Speaker 11: and Angus Taylor. Both men are from the right faction
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Speaker 11: and are not ruling out a tilt, just.
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Speaker 3: Sort of conversation that you'd.
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Speaker 2: Have over a glass of wine, and it's a complete hypothetical.
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Speaker 11: At this stage. Any leadership developments are expected from Friday onwards.
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Speaker 11: More than eighteen thousand people from one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 11: countries have officially become citizens at ceremonies held across the country.
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Speaker 11: A twenty one gun salute and flyover took center stage
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Speaker 11: at the National Citizenship and Flag Raising ceremony in Canberra.
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Speaker 5: Unity not Division, that is the Australia of two thousand
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Speaker 5: and twenty five.
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Speaker 11: There was heightened security following the Bondai Terra attack and
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Speaker 11: an alleged plot to kidnap the Prime Minister. Notable Australian
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Speaker 11: names have been awarded the country's highest honor. Former Premiers
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Speaker 11: Christina Kanneely, Anastasia Palichet and Stephen Marshall have been appointed
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Speaker 11: as a Companion of the Order of Australia. So too
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Speaker 11: has former Federal Finance Minister Mattias Corman. Nearly one thousand
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Speaker 11: Australians were recognized in the Australian Day twenty twenty six
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Speaker 11: on his list.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll come to this issue. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: the leadership as well.
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Speaker 3: The usual ravel, of course of Invasion Day protests. You
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Speaker 3: saw that there, but by and large across the country
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Speaker 3: it was ordinary people out celebrating our national day. So
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Speaker 3: rather than give those rat bags any more airtime that
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Speaker 3: they don't deserve tonight, I asked our reporters out amongst
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Speaker 3: it today to ask real people why they were celebrating
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Speaker 3: and just what this day means to them is what
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Speaker 3: they had to say.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful day, celebrating our country. It's good to see everybody together,
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Speaker 2: and I think.
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Speaker 4: The heritage of this station is very important and it
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Speaker 4: should be cherished and.
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Speaker 12: Celebrated.
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Speaker 5: I just wanted to say happy Australian Day.
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Speaker 12: Welcome to the nd.
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Speaker 1: Couple, just sentence to here. You know the way the
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Speaker 1: country going and it's you know, the left wing.
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Speaker 7: Work situation is out of control and we just want
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Speaker 7: to get back to what Australia was.
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Speaker 12: I don't know sex seventh time here every.
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Speaker 6: Winner has country in the world and Sydney's the best
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Speaker 6: city in the world.
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Speaker 1: It's just wonderful being in Australia.
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Speaker 3: Living in Australia is amazing, all right, Johnny me Now
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Speaker 3: my panel senior fellow at the men'sis Research Center, Nick Cata,
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Speaker 3: and the Deputy Executive Director at the Institute of Public
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Speaker 3: Affairs Dan Wild.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to you both. Happy Australia Day.
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Speaker 8: Nick.
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Speaker 3: We saw the protest, but it really feels like the
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Speaker 3: winds coming out of the sales of the activist mob
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Speaker 3: and I think, you know, to be fair, we in
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Speaker 3: the media give them way too much airtime because that
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Speaker 3: IPA poll says it's seventy six percent of us love
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Speaker 3: today and they love the date. So your take on
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Speaker 3: Australia Day twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 13: Nick Cata, Well, it's my thirty fourth year as an
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Speaker 13: Australian citizen. Thirty four years ago today I became a citizen,
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Speaker 13: so it's always a special day for me. I think
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Speaker 13: the heat is coming out of this issue. And this
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Speaker 13: is consistent the IPA's pole of course this year in
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Speaker 13: last year, but other poles Ipsos Morgan, you can go
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Speaker 13: across the board. Every pole is showing ever resurgence in
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Speaker 13: interest in Australia day. And I don't think it's a
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Speaker 13: coincidence Peter, that this surge happened began to happen after
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Speaker 13: the voice. I think that was a very cathartic moment.
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Speaker 13: You know, as long as we had this unfinished business
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Speaker 13: we were supposed to deal with, it was very hard
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Speaker 13: to be proud of our nation. But once we'd thought
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Speaker 13: that one through and thought, well, no, we're all equal
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Speaker 13: citizens here, Aborigine, Australian, all of us, we are all Australians.
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Speaker 13: Once we got that to that moment, I think it
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Speaker 13: opened the way up for people to feel pride in
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Speaker 13: this country, which they naturally feel. You've only got to
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Speaker 13: look out of the window to see what a great
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Speaker 13: country this is. And I think so that pride is
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Speaker 13: coming back now and it's a terrific thing.
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Speaker 3: Look, I agree with your point there on the voyce,
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Speaker 3: Nick and you, and I and Dan and members at
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Speaker 3: the IPA, we read the move from the get go,
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Speaker 3: even when the polls were the other day the other way.
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Speaker 3: I think we all had a good understanding of what
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Speaker 3: was really in the hearts of ordinary Australians, and not
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Speaker 3: just your poll. I mentioned your pole, Dan, but that
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Speaker 3: Resolve poll it says sixty eight percent of young people
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Speaker 3: are in behind Australia Day.
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Speaker 2: They don't want the date to change.
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Speaker 3: I think that's also a huge issue for the Left
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Speaker 3: because they've spent so much time through the education system
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Speaker 3: demonizing our country. But these young people now are not
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Speaker 3: for turning.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right, Peter.
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Speaker 14: It's one of the most heartening parts of these surveys.
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Speaker 14: And as Nick rightly pointed out, it's not just any
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Speaker 14: one survey. There's a number of surveys that showed the
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Speaker 14: exact same thing. That support has surged across the community
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Speaker 14: and particularly among young Australians, and a big part of
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Speaker 14: that is a pushback against the established institutions of our society.
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Speaker 14: Your right to point out the education institutions where if
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Speaker 14: you're say eighteen or twenty years old, you've basically spent
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Speaker 14: all of your life, since you were five years old,
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Speaker 14: six years old, being presented with one view of Australia,
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Speaker 14: of our history, of our culture, of our way of life.
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Speaker 14: And many of them accepted it understandably. And as I've said,
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Speaker 14: I never blame young people for their views. I blame
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Speaker 14: the institutions because they are victims of those broken and
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Speaker 14: corrupt institutions. One of the great benefits of the world
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Speaker 14: we live in today, with the ubiquitous nature of information
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Speaker 14: that's available, is younger people have availed themselves of that
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Speaker 14: information and they've said, well, hang on a minute, I
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Speaker 14: was told Australia is a terrible country. Now I'm learning
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Speaker 14: all this other information. What else am I being told
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Speaker 14: that's a lie? What else am I being told that
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Speaker 14: might not be true? So they are starting to look
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Speaker 14: through this woken doctrination and ideology. They have found it wanting.
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Speaker 14: And the support is not just for Australia Day. You
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Speaker 14: look at it on the national flag, the opposition to
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Speaker 14: the welcome to country ceremonies and so forth. So we
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Speaker 14: are having a very important cultural moment. What we need
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Speaker 14: are political standard bearers on the center right that will
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Speaker 14: drive it home in a legislative sense.
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Speaker 3: Right, Well, let's go to the issues on the center, right,
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Speaker 3: nic Cata, of course we've got more fevered leadership speculation.
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Speaker 3: Will make mention the parliament doesn't return for a week.
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Speaker 3: You can't challenge a leader without a party room meeting.
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Speaker 3: That will occur a joint party in Liberal Party in
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Speaker 3: the first couple of days next week. And of course
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Speaker 3: this Friday there's a memorial service following the death of
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Speaker 3: former Liberal Melbourne MP Katie Allen. So I suspect we
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Speaker 3: won't hear much really until the weekend, but there's no
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Speaker 3: doubt it's on. There's no doubt Nick Cata, that Susan
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Speaker 3: Lee is under challenge. Two challenges are in the mix, obviously.
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Speaker 3: Andrew Hasey, of course, Angus Taylor as well. You've watched
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Speaker 3: the last ten days or so unfolding. Give me your
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Speaker 3: take on where things stand tonight.
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Speaker 13: Look, and I think they've got to resolve this quickly,
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Speaker 13: very quickly, Peter, because we are two years away from
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Speaker 13: an election campaign. You don't have the luxury to stare
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Speaker 13: at your own naval for a year when you're in
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Speaker 13: opposition in this country.
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Speaker 12: Because you're in a three year cycle.
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Speaker 13: They've got to get they've got to get the party
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Speaker 13: back together. They've got to get back in coalition with
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Speaker 13: the Nationals, because to go to an election and not
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Speaker 13: be in coalition with the Nationals, well that is a
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Speaker 13: recipe for disaster or a disaster on what could already
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Speaker 13: be a disaster. But the bottom line is, Peter, the
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Speaker 13: party has to move forward at the next election. It
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Speaker 13: has to win more seats. And right now you can
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Speaker 13: see with the primary vote down at twenty one percent,
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Speaker 13: I mean, it is ridiculous, but they have to turn
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Speaker 13: that round very quickly, start moving the momentum in the
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Speaker 13: other direction. Crucially, start putting the pressure on Anthony Albanesi,
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Speaker 13: the Prime Minister, who, as we've seen since Bondai, it
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Speaker 13: can be very shaky and very.
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Speaker 3: Vulnerable down I also have to say, though, they can't
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Speaker 3: just keep changing the leader. It will become like Victoria
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Speaker 3: where it's a constant, revolving circus. They've got to put
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Speaker 3: meat on the table. They've got something to fight about.
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Speaker 3: They've got to have policies, and I think the moment
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Speaker 3: that the Federal Opposition stopped being policy advocates and just
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Speaker 3: became personality debaters and that's been the case for some time.
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Speaker 3: They've down gone down that very slippery sort of path
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Speaker 3: that we've seen so many of the state liberal oppositions.
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Speaker 3: So yes, I want to see a strong leader at
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Speaker 3: the helm, but I want to see some policies. I
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Speaker 3: want to see some conservative policies and have a fight
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Speaker 3: about some of the stuff that I know Australians are
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Speaker 3: concerned about.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, you spot on, Peter, And there's always the temptation
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Speaker 14: to just say that, there's always the temptation to say that,
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Speaker 14: well we'll just change leader and everything will be okay,
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Speaker 14: and to say that all the problem is with the
22:49
Speaker 14: personality of the leader. Now as you say, that's just
22:52
Speaker 14: not the case. And the number one job of whoever
22:55
Speaker 14: takes over the role as leader, which I think is
22:57
Speaker 14: inevitable at some point in the near few, is they
23:00
Speaker 14: actually have to regain the trust of the Australian public
23:03
Speaker 14: in the Liberal brand. The last ten years have not
23:05
Speaker 14: been good for the Liberal Party, whether it was the
23:08
Speaker 14: COVID lockdowns, the massive debt they ran up. Don't forget
23:12
Speaker 14: the misinformation laws which were the brainshold of the Morrison government.
23:16
Speaker 14: So they presented themselves as to the community as one
23:19
Speaker 14: of fiscal discipline, freedom of speech and to support our values.
23:23
Speaker 14: But time and time again they've gone with labor and
23:26
Speaker 14: gone against those values and policies. So whoever the next
23:29
Speaker 14: leader is has to really communicate to the public what
23:32
Speaker 14: it is that the Liberal Party believes and regain that
23:35
Speaker 14: trust which they've lost over the past decade.
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Speaker 2: Oliver there, Nick dam thank you.
23:41
Speaker 3: Let's going out of the dire state of both the
23:43
Speaker 3: federal and state budgets across Australia with a whole Raft
23:46
Speaker 3: of Australia honors recipients using their award to call for
23:50
Speaker 3: budget reform and spending restraint. Matias Corman the form of
23:54
Speaker 3: Finance Publition Minister now of course Secretary General to the OCD.
23:59
Speaker 3: He has said governments need to prioritize spending restraint and
24:03
Speaker 3: tax reform, with debt pressures rising and the government's future
24:07
Speaker 3: Made in Australia subsidies at risk of distorting the market.
24:11
Speaker 3: Joining me now to discuss this and more a business
24:14
Speaker 3: editor here at Sky Ross Green with Ross thank you
24:16
Speaker 3: for your time. Decteran company director, Happy Australia Day. Graham Bradley,
24:22
Speaker 3: former head of the BCA, The Business Council also on
24:25
Speaker 3: it today and he called our quote unconscionably large budget deficits.
24:31
Speaker 3: That follows, of course, not just Matias Corman's comments, but
24:35
Speaker 3: that's scathing OCD report on the Australian economy as well.
24:41
Speaker 1: Is anyone listening, No, nobody's listening. There is the problem.
24:44
Speaker 15: There is no discernible opposition to any of the moves
24:49
Speaker 15: of the government right now, simply because the coalition being
24:52
Speaker 15: a rabble leaves what he should be fertile ground for
24:55
Speaker 15: an opposition to mount a case that the government, basically
25:00
Speaker 15: with its own spending, has really got the economy in
25:03
Speaker 15: some difficulty. There are rising interest rates as a result
25:07
Speaker 15: of government policy around the corner literally next week. There
25:11
Speaker 15: could be three interst rate rises this year according to
25:14
Speaker 15: the money markets, which would undo.
25:16
Speaker 1: The three interst rate cuts from last year.
25:18
Speaker 15: And Australia fundamentally is stuck, and it's stuck because of
25:22
Speaker 15: inactivity by government and incorrect activity by the government. It
25:26
Speaker 15: hasn't produced productivity gains that Australia needs.
25:29
Speaker 1: And so here's a dilemma for Australia.
25:31
Speaker 15: If Australia's economy starts to grow, even if it's subpar
25:36
Speaker 15: long term growth trend is three percent. At the moment,
25:39
Speaker 15: it's growing between two and two and a half percent.
25:41
Speaker 15: But as it starts to grow, it creates inflation. Now,
25:45
Speaker 15: the reason for that is because much of the government spending,
25:49
Speaker 15: sadly has gone into areas that people might like, such
25:52
Speaker 15: as health, education, and also has gone into the NDS.
25:57
Speaker 15: But sadly this is not producing productive outcomes for Australia.
26:02
Speaker 15: And when you've got to slow down in the mining industry,
26:04
Speaker 15: which we've got, what happens now is because of the
26:08
Speaker 15: really over commitment to the government sector. Every time the
26:11
Speaker 15: economy starts to try to grow, you get higher inflation
26:15
Speaker 15: and therefore higher interest rates, and therefore the standard of
26:18
Speaker 15: living in Australians goes backwards and the government can't get
26:22
Speaker 15: the economy to grow fast enough to be able to
26:25
Speaker 15: pay off those mounting debts. Now, this is really, if
26:28
Speaker 15: you like, the argument that an effective opposition should be
26:31
Speaker 15: able to put to the government, to the Treasurer, to
26:33
Speaker 15: the Prime Minister. But the fact of the matter is,
26:35
Speaker 15: as you say, nobody's listening right.
26:37
Speaker 3: Now, So no restraint we can see for the future
26:42
Speaker 3: on spending, which means, of course Australians, particularly middle income Australians,
26:47
Speaker 3: are going to get hit harder and harder with taxation,
26:51
Speaker 3: but they're also hit harder and harder with the energy costs.
26:53
Speaker 3: I mean, it was mid forties in Melbourne on Saturday
26:57
Speaker 3: Tomorrow in Melbourne on Tuesday, it's forecast to be forty
26:59
Speaker 3: five six degrees in Melbourne. Line will be much hotter
27:02
Speaker 3: out in the country. And you've got Westpac economists today
27:05
Speaker 3: saying that our power prices could increase by twenty four
27:09
Speaker 3: percent this year, which would be about a five hundred
27:13
Speaker 3: dollars hit to a household. This is on the back
27:16
Speaker 3: of course, of tumulive increases year in year out that
27:19
Speaker 3: have been increasing.
27:21
Speaker 2: How could anyone afford this ross?
27:23
Speaker 1: This is the ongoing problem.
27:25
Speaker 15: You can't afford the fact that your texts are going
27:28
Speaker 15: up because of inflation. You can't afford the fact that
27:30
Speaker 15: interest rates are going up potentially as I said, three
27:33
Speaker 15: interest rate rises this year, which households are not going
27:36
Speaker 15: to be happy about. And then on top of that,
27:38
Speaker 15: you've got a situation where the government now can't afford
27:41
Speaker 15: to keep on handing out those energy subsidies because it
27:45
Speaker 15: will create even more inflation, so there is a situation
27:49
Speaker 15: where somebody has to pay.
27:51
Speaker 1: And really this is about.
27:53
Speaker 15: The standard of living that Australians will enjoy now and
27:56
Speaker 15: in the future as compared within the past. And unless
27:59
Speaker 15: we get that productivity going businesses that actually make money,
28:03
Speaker 15: that invest competitive businesses, that is going to be the
28:07
Speaker 15: answer to these problems. But the government is put in
28:10
Speaker 15: place a whole series of policies which make business harder
28:14
Speaker 15: to do, industrial relations policy, tax policy, all of these
28:18
Speaker 15: policy environmental policies in some cases, so you see those
28:22
Speaker 15: things are counterproductive to actually creating the sort of productivity
28:26
Speaker 15: gains that we need that would keep inflation lower, that
28:29
Speaker 15: would keep interest rates lower, and would keep the nation
28:32
Speaker 15: going forward and being able to afford the government stebts.
28:36
Speaker 15: There's no drama with the government being able to spend
28:38
Speaker 15: things on certain things.
28:40
Speaker 1: It's the question about whether you.
28:41
Speaker 15: Have been disciplined in the way in which you do
28:43
Speaker 15: it to be able to afford those debts going forward
28:46
Speaker 15: with higher economic growth without creating that inflation and higher
28:51
Speaker 15: interest rates.
28:54
Speaker 3: And of course, while the oppositions scrapping amongst themselves, there's
28:57
Speaker 3: no pushback on the quantum of government spending or the
29:02
Speaker 3: quality of the spend, the waste and everything else we
29:05
Speaker 3: see so often in the system.
29:06
Speaker 2: We've got to leave it there. Rosbert, thank you after
29:09
Speaker 2: the break.
29:09
Speaker 3: The haters might be in the headlines, but they're losing
29:12
Speaker 3: a fight when it comes to a resurgence of pride
29:15
Speaker 3: in Australia Day. Someone who knows what it takes for
29:17
Speaker 3: the libs of Nationals to succeed together, the brilliant John
29:20
Speaker 3: Anderson coming up, you won't want to meet.
29:23
Speaker 2: Blunt advice, welcome back, coming up.
29:30
Speaker 3: The massive riff appears to be emerging within the Chinese
29:33
Speaker 3: army as Jijingping shakes up the top brass and he
29:37
Speaker 3: claims of leeks by one of his former generals to
29:39
Speaker 3: the US government the first on Australia Day. There's no
29:43
Speaker 3: better times to reflect on who we are as a
29:46
Speaker 3: nation and our future than today. It feels to me,
29:50
Speaker 3: after more than a decade of more of the activism
29:52
Speaker 3: and anger, the pendulum starting to swing back the other way,
29:56
Speaker 3: and we can, while respecting the past, acknowledge the reality
30:00
Speaker 3: that we are blessed to live in this wide brown land.
30:03
Speaker 3: But if we want future generations to have the sort
30:06
Speaker 3: of life that we've enjoyed the peace and the prosperity.
30:10
Speaker 3: Well it's now one asked to speak up and protect it.
30:13
Speaker 3: Here to give us his thoughts, he's former Deputy Prime
30:16
Speaker 3: Minister and leader of the National Party, John Anderson. Jan Anderson,
30:19
Speaker 3: Happy Australiday to you. I'm thrilled at you with us
30:22
Speaker 3: tonight of all nights, really, and I want to ask
30:26
Speaker 3: you to reflect if you can, on where we are
30:29
Speaker 3: as a nation as we start to rebuild some of
30:33
Speaker 3: the identity wars and culture wars from decades past, and
30:38
Speaker 3: I guess find our feet and debate about where we're headed.
30:44
Speaker 7: Well, thank you, Peter, and good to be with you.
30:46
Speaker 7: I think that Australians there's a bit of a downside
30:51
Speaker 7: to laid back, irreverent Australian character. It's complacency. But when
30:58
Speaker 7: we go on a slow burn, we do heat up.
31:01
Speaker 7: And I actually think what's happening at the moment is
31:04
Speaker 7: that we've seen a weak and inadequate government. We've seen
31:07
Speaker 7: serious failure of leadership even of character from the Prime
31:11
Speaker 7: Minister over Bondai. We're reflecting on the ugliness of what's
31:15
Speaker 7: happened in front of the Opera House in the Bridges
31:18
Speaker 7: it seems in Melbourne all the time, the horrific rise
31:22
Speaker 7: of anti Semitism, and we're saying we want our Australia back.
31:27
Speaker 7: I actually think that's the slow burn. And keep in
31:30
Speaker 7: mind everybody who wants Australia back, that our Prime minister
31:32
Speaker 7: still stands in front of three flags, not one.
31:38
Speaker 3: Today when he announced or introduced the pledge for new
31:41
Speaker 3: citizens like Billy Griffith and Canberra, the Prime Minister introduced
31:47
Speaker 3: that pledge with two different offerings, one with God and
31:52
Speaker 3: one without having listen.
31:54
Speaker 5: There are two pledge options, Pledge one and Pledge two.
32:00
Speaker 5: Pledge one has the words under God in the first line,
32:04
Speaker 5: whereas Pledge two does not. The words under God are optional.
32:11
Speaker 5: I will read the pledge with the words under God.
32:14
Speaker 5: You do not need to repeat these words if you
32:18
Speaker 5: do not wish to do so.
32:22
Speaker 3: Now look our Constitution, John, as you well know, leads
32:25
Speaker 3: off and says, you know, as a number of states.
32:28
Speaker 3: It reads off, humbly, relying on the blessings of Almighty God,
32:33
Speaker 3: have agreed to unite in one indissoluble federal Commonwealth. Now
32:39
Speaker 3: you're a man of faith. I find this offensive that
32:43
Speaker 3: our Constitution references God but the Prime ministers remove that
32:47
Speaker 3: line in the pledge.
32:50
Speaker 7: Well, I think it's a very good point. It probably
32:52
Speaker 7: follows on the fifteen years or so of the rise
32:55
Speaker 7: of new Atheism, which has now stumbled so badly. That'sson
33:00
Speaker 7: has just recently commented that he sees the beginning of
33:03
Speaker 7: a new age of rebirth of Christianity in the West.
33:07
Speaker 7: That was if you like the faith that gave us
33:10
Speaker 7: the worldview that said that every citizen matters because we're
33:14
Speaker 7: all equal in the eyes of God, and that what
33:17
Speaker 7: springs from that is everything equality before the law, the
33:20
Speaker 7: vote rather than the gun as a means of choosing
33:23
Speaker 7: who will lead you and where you will go. This
33:26
Speaker 7: heritage is unbelievably rich. If the Prime Minise is good
33:30
Speaker 7: at one thing he does know, I think how to
33:33
Speaker 7: read poles. He ought to be looking. Australians are saying
33:36
Speaker 7: we want our country back, and even people who don't
33:39
Speaker 7: share Christian faith, I think see its centrality to the
33:45
Speaker 7: genius of the way that we have. If you loved
33:48
Speaker 7: our neighbor and got on with one another that is
33:50
Speaker 7: now being so shattered.
33:53
Speaker 3: Is that why you're so committed to this Aspire conference
33:57
Speaker 3: that's coming up I mean tell my viewers about what
34:00
Speaker 3: you're doing. I guess to get back in the fight
34:03
Speaker 3: about saving our country and saving our values so important.
34:07
Speaker 7: It's inspired by ARC, the international movement that is really
34:10
Speaker 7: gathering pace, but it's being done in a particularly Australian way,
34:15
Speaker 7: addressing the challenges that are common to the West by
34:18
Speaker 7: which are really critical to Australia. Our foundations, our social fabric, housing,
34:23
Speaker 7: immigration and the family formation crisis because it is becoming that,
34:28
Speaker 7: and our energy mess and geopolitics. We can't stop ignoring
34:33
Speaker 7: the elephant in the room. It's a dangerous world and
34:36
Speaker 7: unpredictable world. Our four bears would be rolling in their
34:41
Speaker 7: grave at our lack of preparedness. They're the great challenges.
34:45
Speaker 7: Twenty four to twenty five of February. It's invitation only,
34:49
Speaker 7: but a lot of invitations out There is a website.
34:52
Speaker 7: If people are really interested, think it might be something
34:54
Speaker 7: I'd like to attend to. They think they can make
34:56
Speaker 7: a difference. Expressions of interest now welcome.
35:02
Speaker 3: I was certainly covering here on the show. John just
35:04
Speaker 3: quickly of course, that you led the National Party. I
35:06
Speaker 3: know you're a strong coalitionist. What's your message to the
35:10
Speaker 3: National party leaders and the Liberal leader in Canberra, because
35:15
Speaker 3: we cannot rebuild our country while the center right is
35:20
Speaker 3: so split.
35:23
Speaker 7: My message would be very simple one. This is a
35:25
Speaker 7: really serious time for Australia and your country comes first,
35:29
Speaker 7: and the Australian people read who's committed to them and
35:33
Speaker 7: at the moment we have a government that they are
35:35
Speaker 7: plainly saying they don't think he's up to the task.
35:38
Speaker 7: And I think that peeling off, particularly in rural areas
35:41
Speaker 7: to one nation, is actually people saying get to your
35:45
Speaker 7: house in order. That is the key message.
35:51
Speaker 2: You go wrong and thank you.
35:54
Speaker 3: As I said, i'll cover the Aspire conference that we've
35:56
Speaker 3: got some stuff there on the screen for you. But
35:58
Speaker 3: look just before the break to call that something that's
36:01
Speaker 3: been happening online. This is a fake news page on
36:05
Speaker 3: Facebook that uses my name and images of me. Last
36:09
Speaker 3: week it claimed that my husband was gravely ill with
36:12
Speaker 3: just hours to live. Absolutely fake news. But then today
36:17
Speaker 3: it got a whole lot worse. There is a post
36:20
Speaker 3: announcing the death of my dear mum, who I can appreciate,
36:25
Speaker 3: you'll appreciate that's a deeply, deeply upsetting thing. It's upset
36:29
Speaker 3: my mum. It's upset her grandchildren, my siblings, and all
36:33
Speaker 3: of her many friends, particularly because she's alive and well.
36:38
Speaker 4: Now.
36:38
Speaker 3: The wonderful here at Sky News have been in contact
36:41
Speaker 3: with Facebook and they've told better they need to take
36:44
Speaker 3: this rubbish down, but we've heard nothing. So I've decided
36:48
Speaker 3: to name and shame them here on air in the
36:50
Speaker 3: hope they do the right thing and take down that rubbish.
36:55
Speaker 3: I've got a thick skin. I'm in the game here,
36:59
Speaker 3: but as far as I'm concerned, my family are absolutely
37:03
Speaker 3: off limits.
37:05
Speaker 2: All right. Coming up, the.
37:06
Speaker 3: Massive shakeup of the Chinese military and what it can
37:10
Speaker 3: mean for peace in our broader region. Class powderkeg moment
37:13
Speaker 3: in the US city of Minneapolis for a second fatal
37:16
Speaker 3: shooting involving Ice agents.
37:23
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
37:24
Speaker 3: You won't believe this amazing tribute from one Aussie farmer
37:27
Speaker 3: on our national Day. That's coming up show that shortly.
37:30
Speaker 3: But now to China, where in recent hours we've learned
37:33
Speaker 3: that the President Jiji Ping has purged one of his
37:35
Speaker 3: most trusted and senior generals.
37:37
Speaker 2: This is huge news.
37:38
Speaker 3: This is the biggest military shakeup since the Cultural Revolution,
37:42
Speaker 3: underscoring and regime. We're loyalty to the leader now outweighs rank, experience,
37:48
Speaker 3: or even proximity to power. Here to discuss this, and
37:51
Speaker 3: we'll cover other topics too. Our skinnies contributed to Kashagata.
37:55
Speaker 3: We were wondering how to pronounce his name, General Jiang
37:58
Speaker 3: yujia is. We've got to He was a princeling, so
38:03
Speaker 3: he was descended of people involved in the Cultural Revolution.
38:06
Speaker 3: These individuals in the Chinese regime are usually untouchable. The
38:12
Speaker 3: alligations look to be in relation to hey or people
38:16
Speaker 3: around him are leaking nuclear secrets to the United States. Now,
38:20
Speaker 3: if that's true, and the fact that a man of
38:23
Speaker 3: this statue has been removed and you don't know what's
38:26
Speaker 3: actually happened to him, this is really significant.
38:30
Speaker 16: It is significant, and with China as we know, it
38:33
Speaker 16: is really impossible to know what the allegations are. Are they
38:36
Speaker 16: sue or not. It feels on the surface hard to
38:38
Speaker 16: believe that somebody of his stature and level and history
38:41
Speaker 16: in the party would be an asset, or that the
38:43
Speaker 16: US might have turned him, though anything is possible. But
38:46
Speaker 16: it is very surprising that he's been removed from the
38:48
Speaker 16: little that we know. Not only his aristocratic background in
38:51
Speaker 16: the party, he is one of the few people in
38:54
Speaker 16: the party that actually served in combat and Vietnam, so
38:56
Speaker 16: he actually has direct first hand experience with war. He's
39:00
Speaker 16: in charge of the Taiwan unit, and he has stayed
39:03
Speaker 16: seven years past his retirement. So President she picked him
39:06
Speaker 16: to stay past his retirement because of his importance. And
39:08
Speaker 16: then to see this, certainly people are wondering, is it
39:12
Speaker 16: in relation to Taiwan? Is it in relation to nuclear secrets?
39:15
Speaker 16: I think time may or may not tell, but definitely
39:17
Speaker 16: something is amuck.
39:19
Speaker 2: Or was he maybe against Jay? Was there, you know,
39:22
Speaker 2: a cabal of people.
39:23
Speaker 3: I'm happy with particular directions of the President. We will say,
39:27
Speaker 3: we will say, talk to me about what's happening in
39:29
Speaker 3: the United States. It's sick and I shooting in Minneapolis.
39:33
Speaker 3: It's dominating the major in the United States. Give me
39:36
Speaker 3: your assessment.
39:36
Speaker 16: It's definitely a powder keg. I think the big picture
39:39
Speaker 16: is it is unfortunately a predictable consequence downstream of half
39:44
Speaker 16: a century of policy that the US has pursued in
39:46
Speaker 16: many other countries to greater or lesser extents, very very
39:49
Speaker 16: generous immigration policy that turned into suicidal you could say,
39:52
Speaker 16: just from an illegal immigration standpoint. At the federal level,
39:55
Speaker 16: the state and local level, these sanctuary cities, and a
39:58
Speaker 16: deliberate direction of and specifically not cooperating with the FEDS,
40:02
Speaker 16: which creates the sort of environment. And the third thing
40:05
Speaker 16: is the culture where the left has won the culture
40:08
Speaker 16: war up until now, at least was more dominant in
40:12
Speaker 16: sort of moralizing, normalizing, and moralizing I would say immigration.
40:16
Speaker 16: And when you have that, then you see US citizens
40:18
Speaker 16: and people like that who feel so righteous in their
40:20
Speaker 16: belief of that cause that they feel perfectly comfortable injecting
40:24
Speaker 16: themselves into active law enforcement operations, which is what this is.
40:27
Speaker 16: And then unfortunately these kinds of things happen. The last
40:31
Speaker 16: person that was killed was there with a gun. It's
40:33
Speaker 16: the land of the Second Amendment. You're free to have
40:35
Speaker 16: a gun, you're not free to inject yourself into an active,
40:38
Speaker 16: live operation. And that happened. But it makes it tough
40:41
Speaker 16: because this is already a very contrasting viewpoint and very
40:46
Speaker 16: controversial issue, polarizing issue, and when you have things like
40:48
Speaker 16: this happen, it's not a good look. But I think
40:51
Speaker 16: the administration is just powering through and you're trying to
40:52
Speaker 16: get anywhere from forty to fifty million illegals out of
40:55
Speaker 16: the country.
40:56
Speaker 3: And do you think broadly across the United States there
40:58
Speaker 3: is still support for Trumb's views that you know, we
41:01
Speaker 3: will control our borders and we will control the people
41:04
Speaker 3: in the country who come into our country.
41:06
Speaker 16: The big picture, Yes, the shift that has happened is
41:09
Speaker 16: remarkable just since he entered the political renais. Seventy percent
41:12
Speaker 16: of people on illegal immigration at least want all of
41:14
Speaker 16: them out, even the non violent defenders. But then when
41:17
Speaker 16: you get into the how and the execution of it,
41:19
Speaker 16: this one is very polarizing. Countries very divided, and it's
41:22
Speaker 16: about fifty to fifty. A lot of the Democrats and
41:24
Speaker 16: independents don't like what it looks like federalizing the streets
41:27
Speaker 16: and sending ACE agents in there, but unfortunately that is
41:29
Speaker 16: the way it stub.
41:31
Speaker 3: Liberals didn't like the fact that when we said we
41:32
Speaker 3: stopped the boats, we'd have to actually stop them. We
41:34
Speaker 3: have to put the navy out there and at the
41:37
Speaker 3: border protection and things would get messy. But if you're
41:39
Speaker 3: going to do what you say you're going to do,
41:41
Speaker 3: this is what it looks like.
41:41
Speaker 2: That's what it looks like.
41:43
Speaker 3: Just quickly, the Supreme Leader of Iran reportedly in hiding
41:47
Speaker 3: fearing there could be a US strike. I know that
41:50
Speaker 3: there's been battlegroup movement for the United States in and
41:54
Speaker 3: around the region. Again, another opaque regime like China, give
41:59
Speaker 3: me you take Iran.
42:02
Speaker 16: Very opaque. I think he understands self preservation. He's obviously
42:05
Speaker 16: watching what happened with the Twelve Day War, taking out
42:08
Speaker 16: the nuclear sides, what happened with Maduro and Venezuela. He
42:11
Speaker 16: knows that Trump really really does not like the idea
42:13
Speaker 16: of the US getting sucked into quagmire and boots on
42:15
Speaker 16: the ground. But he also has seen, has everybody, that
42:18
Speaker 16: Trump is very comfortable doing these big surgical strikes, taking
42:21
Speaker 16: out people at the top, doing symbolic things like that.
42:24
Speaker 16: And I think that's why he's worried. Regime is very
42:27
Speaker 16: weak with those protests, and that's probably why he's finding
42:30
Speaker 16: himself in a bunker.
42:31
Speaker 3: And he's unpredictable, and I think that's his biggest strength
42:35
Speaker 3: at in the moment with these bad guys.
42:37
Speaker 2: Here's his unpredictability. Coachhit, thank you, thank you for the program.
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Speaker 2: We're not the break.
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Speaker 3: What lessons are they for both sides of the government
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Speaker 3: in Labour's post election review that went out publicly on Friday,
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Speaker 3: that Amazing Australia, A tribute to from the South Australian
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Speaker 3: farmer coming out.
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Speaker 2: Right, Let's go straight to it.
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Speaker 3: Bring in my final gift, Guy News contributor Jamie Rodgers
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Speaker 3: and One Nation Chief is toft James.
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Speaker 2: Ashby, Happy Australia to you both. And I want to
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Speaker 2: start off with this.
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Speaker 3: For the third year running, a young South Australian farmer's
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Speaker 3: plowed a powerful Australia image into his family's wheat stubble crop.
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Speaker 3: This time this year it was to honor the ANZACs.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, James, this is a twenty nine
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Speaker 3: year old, a twenty nine year old farmer and this
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Speaker 3: is patriotism.
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Speaker 12: Isn't it.
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Speaker 17: What I actually had to do a double take because
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Speaker 17: when I first saw the photo when I woke up
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Speaker 17: this morning, I thought it may have been AI generated.
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Speaker 12: But then when the news came out.
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Speaker 17: It was this twenty nine year old, I just thought,
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Speaker 17: good on you. And this is the big thing, the
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Speaker 17: patriotism that is coming from more younger and younger people.
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Speaker 17: We know that people in regional areas of the country
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Speaker 17: have been patriotic for a very long time. I don't
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Speaker 17: think they've ever lost it. But it was great to
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Speaker 17: see in the cities today. We're at the Brisbane March
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Speaker 17: and it was just incredible the volume of young people,
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Speaker 17: all under thirty, plenty of kids and just ride in
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Speaker 17: the spirit of Australia Day. They're not going to let
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Speaker 17: the White Brigade shut them down any longer. And the
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Speaker 17: flags flying across the city of Brisbane today was just tremendous.
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Speaker 2: You're not wrong.
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Speaker 3: And then we've talked about the polls, but there was
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Speaker 3: also a reaction Jamie by people that were polled saying
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Speaker 3: that if a business is going to boycott Australia Day,
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Speaker 3: they're not going to have much to do with the business.
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Speaker 3: They're going to walk away from those businesses. And this
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Speaker 3: is all about too, you know, that intersectionality with protesters,
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Speaker 3: and you know, we saw the pro Palestinian crowd, we
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Speaker 3: saw the Indigenous crowd, we saw the trans crowd. They
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Speaker 3: all come together, they all coalesce on this day. But frankly,
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Speaker 3: I think punters out there are saying we want the
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Speaker 3: day to stay where it is. We're not ashamed of
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Speaker 3: our country.
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Speaker 2: And if you don't back us. We're not going to
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Speaker 2: back you.
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Speaker 18: Absolutely spot on Peter. Looking at the polls recently, all
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Speaker 18: of them across the book order showing the increase in
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Speaker 18: people wanting Australia Day to remain on January twenty six.
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Speaker 18: But I found it really interesting this latest newsreader poll
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Speaker 18: that showed ninety percent of those that were asked would
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Speaker 18: boycott a business who did not celebrate Australia Day or
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Speaker 18: were encouraging them to not celebrate January twenty six. And
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Speaker 18: I actually just saw it recently in the Quarry Center. Lush,
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Speaker 18: a brand that sells like bath Bomb sort of products,
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Speaker 18: had a huge sign in the window that said to
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Speaker 18: not a date to celebrate, and that has a pop
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Speaker 18: up that comes up if you go on to their website.
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Speaker 18: And I saw that and I just had to shake
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Speaker 18: my head. And I actually noticed that there weren't that
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Speaker 18: many people in their shop, and I wondered if it
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Speaker 18: had anything to do with this huge sign out the front,
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Speaker 18: and I thought, we all now need to be not
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Speaker 18: going anywhere near these sort of businesses. I also look
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Speaker 18: at Cole's, who I went in to uya the merchandise
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Speaker 18: for my sons and I would happily want to say.
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Speaker 18: Their merchandise was practically all sold out. And I stood
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Speaker 18: there and I just a little clap to everyone and said,
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Speaker 18: well done, you've come in, you've bought the merchandise, and
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Speaker 18: just showed Coals and all of these big brands that
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Speaker 18: we want to celebrate. We are proud of our nation and.
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Speaker 2: So we should be.
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Speaker 18: We can't keep looking back at the past, Peter, because
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Speaker 18: we can't do anything about it. But what we can
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Speaker 18: do is continue to move forward and celebrate all of
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Speaker 18: the amazing things that we've achieved as this country. And
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Speaker 18: I was the same as you when you showed that
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Speaker 18: Ampole ad from nineteen sixty eight at the top of
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Speaker 18: your show. I found it really emotional because it was
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Speaker 18: sad to see what businesses used to do in the
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Speaker 18: lead up to Australia Day and now sometimes we're starting
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Speaker 18: to see these not a date to celebrate. It actually
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Speaker 18: was really quite sad watching that.
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Speaker 3: I was out in Western Melbourne on Saturday supporting Moyrademi.
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Speaker 3: Warren Mundane was there, Tiny Abbott was there. There was
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Speaker 3: five hundred people. That was mid forties, so it was
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Speaker 3: pretty warm. They all had flags in their hands, A
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Speaker 3: lot of them were from migrant backgrounds. They are all
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Speaker 3: angry being told by elites they should be ashamed of
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Speaker 3: our country. I mean, I think there's a massive pushback here, James,
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Speaker 3: and I think you know, your boss has always been
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Speaker 3: strong with a flag and defending Australia. But the more
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Speaker 3: of us speak up about this, I think the more
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Speaker 3: that this whole movement's dead in the water.
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Speaker 17: And it's not just Australia that's suffering this, by the way,
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Speaker 17: this woke culture that seems to be seeping in across
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Speaker 17: Western society. There is pushback, but I think sadly for
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Speaker 17: a lot of countries it's too late.
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Speaker 12: Look at England, look at much of Europe now it.
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Speaker 17: Is far too late. But it isn't for Australia. And
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Speaker 17: I think that's the wake up call. Since you know,
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Speaker 17: we've seen the death of Charlie Kirk and we've seen
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Speaker 17: the Bondai massacre occur as a terrorism attack late last year,
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Speaker 17: I think young Australians and the rest of proud Australians
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Speaker 17: are starting to say, listen, if we don't change this behavior.
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Speaker 12: We're going to lose this country as well.
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Speaker 17: So Western society is starting Tom what did you make
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Speaker 17: it say? For summ it's too late, but yeah, I.
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Speaker 3: Just want to ask you, just on the back of
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Speaker 3: that that that cultural analysis, what did you make of
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Speaker 3: Labour's post election review. I mean, they won, they won well,
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Speaker 3: so it will be pretty self serving, but went out
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Speaker 3: publicly on Friday and they basically argue that they won
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Speaker 3: because they got back their old blue collar, blue collar
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Speaker 3: worker base the out of Superban vote. I think that's
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Speaker 3: because the Coalition used to have them under Howard and
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Speaker 3: Abbott and threw them away. But they certainly didn't get
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Speaker 3: them back, and the coalition campaign was seen as negative.
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Speaker 3: What's your analysis.
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Speaker 12: I think it's pretty accurate.
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Speaker 17: There was some stumbling blocks that the coalition hit early,
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Speaker 17: and one of which was that silly policy to come out.
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Speaker 17: It was a fight they didn't need to pick at
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Speaker 17: the time by trying to get government workers back into
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Speaker 17: the workplace. So I don't think it was explained very
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Speaker 17: well and they fell over themselves. It was like they
48:57
Speaker 17: lit little fires that they had to go and spend
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Speaker 17: age is putting out. But what was interesting Labour always
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Speaker 17: play a very good election game and they certainly knew
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Speaker 17: how to target those young university students by taking twenty
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Speaker 17: percent off their HEXTEBT.
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Speaker 12: But what did surprise me.
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Speaker 17: Was they got those young voters with mortgages.
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Speaker 12: That really did surprise me.
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Speaker 17: But obviously, look, Labors released their report early.
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Speaker 12: We haven't seen the coalitions yet. I'd love to read it.
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Speaker 17: But look, if the Labor Party continue in the same
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Speaker 17: vein as what they have in previous elections, we run
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Speaker 17: the risk of allowing them to have a third term.
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Speaker 12: So we on the conservative side have.
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Speaker 17: To get our act together if we're going to beat
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Speaker 17: Labor and the Greens at this next election.
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Speaker 3: Well they have it there, gents and Jamie gent and
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Speaker 3: Jamie were out of time.
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Speaker 2: I labored there. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: Have a good day for the remainder of Australia day.
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Speaker 3: I hope you are too, having a barbecue and a beer,
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Speaker 3: and enjoined, what is the best of our country?
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Speaker 2: That's if it be so tomorrow.
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Speaker 16: His entry