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The Rita Panahi Show | 8 September · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: Starting right now, The Rita Panahy Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to The Rita Panahy Show. Coming
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Speaker 2: up tonight, Jim Chalmers under pressure as One Nation threatens
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Speaker 2: his once safest house's Labor seat. My panel will cover
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Speaker 2: that and the day's other top headlines. Anthony Albanese to
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Speaker 2: attend his first COP as Prime Minister. Professor Ian Plymer
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Speaker 2: has some thoughts on that. Kosha Gader will have the
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Speaker 2: latest from the US and from Germany, where the right-wing
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Speaker 2: AFD party has scored a resounding victory. And King Charles
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Speaker 2: lays down the law to Harry and Meghan. Diddy Dunleavy
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Speaker 2: will have all your royal and entertainment news. And Lefty's
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Speaker 2: Losing It features the Democrats' latest wine aunt, who they
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Speaker 2: hope will become governor of Ohio.
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Speaker 3: You can't buy us! You can't buy us! You can't
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Speaker 3: buy us! You can't buy us in Ohio!
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Speaker 2: But first, Labor is intensifying its scare campaign against One Nation.
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Speaker 2: Treasurer Jim Chalmers claims that the party leading Labor in
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Speaker 2: the latest news poll is is a danger to the
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Speaker 2: entire nation. This comes as polling shows One Nation's popularity
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Speaker 2: has surged in the Treasurer's own seat. A Courier Mail
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Speaker 2: poll found if an election were held this weekend, Chalmers
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Speaker 2: would record Labor's lowest ever primary vote in his seat
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Speaker 2: of Rankin. His primary vote sits at 39.9%, while One
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Speaker 2: Nation has jumped from 6.5% to over 31%. In response
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Speaker 2: to the poll, the Treasurer said, whether it's the Liberals,
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Speaker 2: the Nationals or One Nation, they are the same when
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Speaker 2: it comes to the danger that they pose to my
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Speaker 2: local community and to workers in the country more broadly.
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Speaker 2: Joining me now is News Corp senior writer Patrick Carline
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Speaker 2: and former Liberal MP Nicole Flint. Patrick, the Treasurer sounds
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Speaker 2: a little rattled there, judging by that hyperbolic language.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely. To use words like danger.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's basically implying that all these people who
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Speaker 5: have migrated to One Nation are somehow dangerous to their
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Speaker 5: own country.
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Speaker 4: And I think the two biggest proponents for.
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Speaker 5: One Nation and that migration, apart from Pauline Hanson, have
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Speaker 5: been Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers because they've brought down
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Speaker 5: this budget that's created chaos. They lied in the election campaign.
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Speaker 5: They are everything about the establishment that these people don't
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Speaker 5: like and these people are hurting.
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Speaker 4: At the moment.
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Speaker 2: Same thing, same rhetoric we heard after the secret harbour
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Speaker 2: by-election and you're right, we're talking about former Labor people
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Speaker 2: going across to One Nation and still they're being defamed
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Speaker 2: as some sort of idiots who are falling for misinformation
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Speaker 2: or they're dangers to the community. Nicole, let's hear from
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Speaker 2: the Treasurer ramping up the fear campaign on superannuation.
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Speaker 6: It's now beyond doubt that any coalition government with One
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Speaker 6: Nation in it will cut your super. This means less
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Speaker 6: money and less economic security for millions of Australian workers.
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Speaker 2: It's cute how he's set music to that, makes it
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Speaker 2: more moving. Is this an effective strategy, Nicole, for Labor
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Speaker 2: to paint One Nation as economically irresponsible?
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Speaker 7: Well, sadly for Treasurer Jim Chalmers, unlike him, the Australian
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Speaker 7: people are not stupid and they know that their superannuation
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Speaker 7: will remain theirs. And they know that what One Nation
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Speaker 7: is proposing is that people can use their money that's
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Speaker 7: in their super account to hang on to their house
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Speaker 7: if they're under mortgage stress or perhaps get into their
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Speaker 7: very first.
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Speaker 8: Home if they don't already own a home.
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Speaker 7: So Australians are absolutely sick of being told how and
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Speaker 7: what to think, particularly by Labor. And it comes back into, Rita,
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Speaker 7: the fact that they're calling One Nation dangerous. The only
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Speaker 7: dangers for the Australian people are this hopelessly incompetent Labor
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Speaker 7: Party who cannot manage the economy and have stuffed it
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Speaker 7: up in the most spectacularly bad way. But also, I'm
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Speaker 7: really concerned about this dangerous language from Labor as well,
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Speaker 7: because I am literally exhibit A of what happens when
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Speaker 7: we see people demonized and called dangerous and evil, because
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Speaker 7: that's precisely what GetUp did to me in 2019. which
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Speaker 7: encouraged a stalker, which encouraged mobs of young Labor men
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Speaker 7: and get up blokes and, you know, a few token
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Speaker 7: old women to literally chase me around my electorate and
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Speaker 7: hound me. So that's actually what becomes dangerous when we
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Speaker 7: say this language. I think it's disgusting and Labor need
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Speaker 7: to stop it for the sake of every single candidate
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Speaker 7: and MP in the nation because it won't stop there.
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Speaker 8: It never stops there. So they need to have a
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Speaker 8: good hard look at themselves.
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Speaker 2: Well, tell me about the impact of that on you
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Speaker 2: and on other women who perhaps were considering becoming candidates
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Speaker 2: and they saw what happened to you and perhaps thought,
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Speaker 2: I'm not signing up for that. I'm not signing up
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Speaker 2: to be stalked and harassed and to have my safety threatened.
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Speaker 8: Well, precisely, Rita.
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Speaker 7: And I guess in one sense, it was lucky that
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Speaker 7: I was on my own and I didn't have kids.
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Speaker 7: But if you had a family in particular, that's when
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Speaker 7: it gets really dangerous because then you're going to see
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Speaker 7: your family and your children targeted. I mean, it was
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Speaker 7: bad enough worrying about my staff and my volunteers and,
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Speaker 7: of course, my own safety. But this is why we
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Speaker 7: went so hard on GetUp, and thank goodness we have
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Speaker 7: seen them disappear, and also we saw them exposed for
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Speaker 7: the evil people that they were, because they were the
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Speaker 7: ones adopting policies like bird-dogging that came out of the
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Speaker 7: USA from the hard-left playbook. We need to see some
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Speaker 7: responsible language, particularly from the Prime Minister and the Treasurers,
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Speaker 7: two of the most senior people in Labor, and just
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Speaker 7: focus on what they should be focusing.
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Speaker 9: On, which is.
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Speaker 7: your parliamentary and political opponents' actual policies rather than attacking
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Speaker 7: them as individuals and calling them things like dangerous, which
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Speaker 7: is actually the dangerous part of this.
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Speaker 8: It's not one nation.
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Speaker 7: They're putting up what is the Australian people are very
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Speaker 7: much receiving as the first real alternative they've seen in
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Speaker 7: a while.
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Speaker 2: Now, Treasury has released a four-page summary of its tax
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Speaker 2: modelling for Labor's budget following growing criticism of its predicted
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Speaker 2: impact on the housing market. It shows Jim Chalmers was
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Speaker 2: warned that his changes to negative gearing and capital gains
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Speaker 2: tax would put downward pressure on house prices and upward
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Speaker 2: pressure on rents, plus reduce housing supply. Quite the trifecta there, Jim.
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Speaker 2: In its advice, Treasury wrote... the reduction in investor demand
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Speaker 2: for housing is expected to lead to a modest and
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Speaker 2: temporary slowing in housing price growth. Most of the impact
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Speaker 2: is expected to occur soon after the announcement. Nicole, only
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Speaker 2: it's not a modest slowing in housing price growth, is it?
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Speaker 2: It's the biggest depreciation we've seen in 40 years. And similarly,
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Speaker 2: rents aren't going up in a modest fashion. Experts are
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Speaker 2: warning of increases of around 30%.
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Speaker 7: And Rita, we're not seeing more first homeowners applying for loans.
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Speaker 7: All of the statistics are demonstrating that. Because now they're
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Speaker 7: too scared that they'll end up in negative equity. And
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Speaker 7: so that's the other devastating outcome for so many homeowners
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Speaker 7: and particularly your first home buyer end of the market
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Speaker 7: is that because of the drop in prices, they've now
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Speaker 7: borrowed more money than the house is worth.
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Speaker 8: And I hope that all of Labor now understand.
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Speaker 7: What negative equity is because a couple of weeks ago
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Speaker 7: we were discussing the fact that their own ministers don't
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Speaker 7: even understand the basics.
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Speaker 2: And sticking with housing policy, the Australian Financial Review reports
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Speaker 2: that the speed and scale of the housing crash won't
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Speaker 2: just cause drama for residential real estate. Commercial property giants
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Speaker 2: are also bracing for impact. The AFR reports to the
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Speaker 2: extent that capital flows into commercial property, it's going to
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Speaker 2: collide with savage and growing shortages in retail, office and
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Speaker 2: industrial property, which is forcing rents higher and adding to
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Speaker 2: already sticky inflation across the economy. Patrick, you could blame
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Speaker 2: this on the law of unintended consequences, only the consequences
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Speaker 2: were entirely predictable with these policies.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 5: Look, The word in that modelling is modest. I mean,
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Speaker 5: there's been nothing modest about the reaction to this budget.
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Speaker 5: You've got the commercial sector talking about the fact, as
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Speaker 5: you were reading there, this has the very strong chance
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Speaker 5: of actually extending inflation, exacerbating inflation, making it harder for
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Speaker 5: average Australians to keep on going. This budget is a
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Speaker 5: dog because of the unintended consequences. And we keep hearing
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Speaker 5: about more and more of them every week. It's like
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Speaker 5: they really just didn't think it through.
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Speaker 2: And I wonder sometimes are they that inept or was
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Speaker 2: it deliberate? Because they're now bragging about housing crashing as
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Speaker 2: if it's a good thing, as if Australians losing value
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Speaker 2: in the biggest asset they hold is something to be celebrated.
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Speaker 2: But I think it is nebness. I don't think they
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Speaker 2: are that crazy that they would intentionally go trying to
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Speaker 2: crash the housing market. Now let's go to a story,
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Speaker 2: an only in Victoria story. Long-suffering Victorian taxpayers in this
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Speaker 2: debt-riddled state will be thrilled to learn that they are
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Speaker 2: now paying for a triple murderer to get the fat jab. Yes,
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Speaker 2: Erin Patterson has been approved for taxpayer-funded Ozempic As she
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Speaker 2: serves a life sentence behind bars, the Herald Sun reveals,
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Speaker 2: that the infamous mushroom killer recently started the weight loss
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Speaker 2: jabs in solitary confinement. A Department of Justice and Community
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Speaker 2: Safety spokesperson said access to weight loss drugs is provided
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Speaker 2: based on a doctor's advice. Patrick, well, she is a
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Speaker 2: self-professed binge eater.
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Speaker 10: Mm.
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Speaker 2: Is this expenditure justified?
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Speaker 4: Not at all. Look, I sat through a lot of
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Speaker 4: this trial as a journalist. I mean, it was horrific
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Speaker 4: to hear how those.
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Speaker 5: Poor people died and the motivation for it and the evil, frankly,
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Speaker 5: that went into what happened to these poor people. The
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Speaker 5: idea that taxpayers are paying for diet drugs for somebody
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Speaker 5: who committed these crimes, and it also comes off the
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Speaker 5: back of another convicted killer in Victoria.
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Speaker 4: You may have read this.
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Speaker 5: Who not only is on a Zempig, but actually got
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Speaker 5: approval for IVF in prison in Victoria.
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Speaker 2: So she would give birth and the poor child would
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Speaker 2: be raised behind bars, presumably. So that makes great sense.
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Speaker 2: Sounds just like Victoria. Nicole, I mean, this was a calculated, well-planned,
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Speaker 2: multiple murder. And she would have killed more if she
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Speaker 2: could have. There was a one person very lucky to survive,
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Speaker 2: to be getting Ozempic in prison. I mean, how does
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Speaker 2: that pass the pub test?
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Speaker 8: It doesn't pass the pub test.
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Speaker 7: And especially, Rita, at a time when hardworking Australians are
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Speaker 7: struggling to make ends meet in every single area of
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Speaker 7: their lives, whether it's grocery prices, fuel prices, whether it's
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Speaker 7: paying rent or their mortgage, and they're looking at state
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Speaker 7: governments helping... convicted criminals and murderers access drugs that they
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Speaker 7: may well, normal Aussies might well want to get hold
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Speaker 7: of if they've got some weight issues. It's just beyond belief, honestly.
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Speaker 7: But as you said, only in Victoria, and we can
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Speaker 7: only hope that the sensible voting public of Victoria get
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Speaker 7: rid of this appallingly bad government at the upcoming election.
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Speaker 2: Now to a story that just caused all sorts of
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Speaker 2: waves yesterday. This was so widely read across the News
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Speaker 2: Corp papers. A veteran school principal said she was driven
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Speaker 2: out of education after refusing to promote a gay and
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Speaker 2: trans rights awareness day to primary school students. Janelle Rout
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Speaker 2: walked away from her 34-year teaching career after becoming embroiled
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Speaker 2: in a disciplinary battle against with education officials over the
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Speaker 2: Wear It Purple LGBTQIA Plus Awareness Day. She told James
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Speaker 2: McPherson on News 24 last night she has no regrets.
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Speaker 11: I didn't want my staff to have to talk about
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Speaker 11: what each of the letters meant. We're told in our
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Speaker 11: codes of conduct not to talk about the sexual nature
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Speaker 11: or sexual intimacies. And so I was attempting to support
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Speaker 11: my staff And also protect children from the content. Had
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Speaker 11: one staff member come up and say, I completely agree
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Speaker 11: with you, but I would never say anything. And since then,
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Speaker 11: I've talked to people and staff and teachers and they've said,
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Speaker 11: we don't want to talk about this stuff at schools.
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Speaker 9: It's not appropriate.
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Speaker 8: I don't regret.
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Speaker 11: Taking a stance because if I've helped one parent to
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Speaker 11: feel empowered to speak up or if I've protected one
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Speaker 11: child from hearing something that might cause trauma or that
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Speaker 11: just might give them, you know, difficulties in future life,
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Speaker 11: then that's great.
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Speaker 2: Nicole, she said her proposed Bullying No Way Week was
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Speaker 2: far more appropriate and inclusive way of dealing with real
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Speaker 2: issues for young children, but that was rejected. Again, We
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Speaker 2: were talking about primary school kids, kids as young as
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Speaker 2: four and five. What business do teachers have talking to
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Speaker 2: them about LGBTQIA + + activism?
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Speaker 7: They don't, and we've seen too much of this rubbish
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Speaker 7: for too long. It started with safe schools. So much
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Speaker 7: more should have been done about it over the past
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Speaker 7: 10 years. But quite frankly, I think this lady should
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Speaker 7: be made Australian of the Year. She's shown courageous leadership.
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Speaker 7: She's really paid the ultimate price in losing a job
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Speaker 7: or walking away from her job because she had the
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Speaker 7: courage to stand up for her principles, but not just
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Speaker 7: her principles. Well, standing up for principles, it's fantastic. But
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Speaker 7: for the same principles of all of the frustrated, quiet
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Speaker 7: Australians out there who have had a gutful of the
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Speaker 7: state brainwashing their children in the most inappropriate of ways.
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Speaker 7: So I hope that she will be a role model
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Speaker 7: for other leaders in education to make the same sort
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Speaker 7: of gutsy decisions. And then maybe we'll see some common
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Speaker 7: sense come back into our particularly our primary school system,
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Speaker 7: but the entire school system.
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Speaker 2: Patrick, there has been an enormous response from readers, from Australians,
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Speaker 2: but also from educators. I had a bunch of emails,
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Speaker 2: but none of them want to go on the record
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Speaker 2: because they don't want to face what she has faced.
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Speaker 2: And she's been driven out of the system. This is
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Speaker 2: their career. They don't want to have a black mark
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Speaker 2: against their name for the rest of their career because
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Speaker 2: they've taken a stand like this. But parents are just
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Speaker 2: thoroughly sick of this sort of activism being shoved down
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Speaker 2: their kids' throats, often without their knowledge.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think Janelle Rowe has been scapegoated here, obviously.
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Speaker 5: And what really strikes me about her story and her
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Speaker 5: point of view is she's not an activist. She's not
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Speaker 5: secretly trying to push back against, you know, the ideology of,
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Speaker 5: you know, this transgender stuff for kids.
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Speaker 4: She's saying this does not belong in schools. This is wrong.
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Speaker 5: We should not be talking about sexualised behaviour to four-year-olds.
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Speaker 5: And I think most people... as that response reflects that
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Speaker 5: you talk about.
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Speaker 12: Look at that.
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Speaker 4: Why is that happening? Does this need to happen?
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Speaker 5: How has it got to this point where one of
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Speaker 5: the good teachers is out of the system because of this?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Patrick Carlyle, Nicole Flynn, thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: your time tonight. Now, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris
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Speaker 2: Bowen has declared Anthony Albanese will attend his first COP
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Speaker 2: as Prime Minister. as if there was any doubt that
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Speaker 2: Airbus would skip an overseas junket. Minister Bowen said the
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Speaker 2: PM's attendance at the conference would show the world how
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Speaker 2: serious Australia was about leading global environmental action. Scott Morrison
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Speaker 2: was the last Australian Prime Minister to attend the UN
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Speaker 2: conference in 2021. with then Energy Minister and now Opposition
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Speaker 2: Leader Angus Taylor. That was also when the Coalition adopted
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Speaker 2: its net zero target by 2050 and became unelectable. The
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Speaker 2: Coalition has now abandoned net zero. The only other Prime
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Speaker 2: Ministers to have attended the summit are Kevin Rudd in
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Speaker 2: 2007 and 2009 and Malcolm Turnbull in 2015. Joining me
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Speaker 2: now is esteemed geologist, author and Executive Director at Hancock Energy,
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Speaker 2: Professor Ian Plymer. Professor, is Australia leading global environmental action?
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Speaker 1: Well, while our wonderful fish who rots from the head
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Speaker 1: leads this country and leaves behind people who are struggling
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Speaker 1: to pay their food bills, pay their electricity bills and
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Speaker 1: to just survive, he's going to Turkey and going to
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Speaker 1: do all sorts of deals and agreements that are going
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Speaker 1: to make things even tougher for people. So we are
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Speaker 1: not leading in any serious environmental activity at all. What
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Speaker 1: we're leading in is knowingly sending our country bankrupt and
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Speaker 1: causing huge grief for the average person who's trying to survive.
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Speaker 1: This is an absolute turpitude, a waste of taxation money,
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Speaker 1: and we have huge problems at home to solve. I
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Speaker 1: don't think he should be going to a COP 31
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Speaker 1: to actually give away Australia's hard-earned money. Now, if COP
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Speaker 1: was really serious, they would have solved the problems in
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Speaker 1: one or two meetings. They've had 31 bloody meetings. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this isn't George. This is Albo getting together with all
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Speaker 1: the lefty mates and making deals to.
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Speaker 12: Give away our money.
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Speaker 1: Stay at home, solve the problems here, and forget prancing
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Speaker 1: around showing your peacock feathers.
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Speaker 12: It doesn't work.
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Speaker 1: You're going to go the same way as other prime
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Speaker 1: ministers who went to COP meetings.
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Speaker 2: And the 31 meetings doesn't even include the pre-COP meetings
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Speaker 2: like the ones held in Fiji recently, which most world
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Speaker 2: leaders decided to skip. Now, the supposed far-right Alternative for
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Speaker 2: Germany AFD party has won a decisive victory in Germany's
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Speaker 2: eastern state of Saxony and Hall. As well as stopping
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Speaker 2: mass migration, the party campaigned on energy policy. German energy
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Speaker 2: prices have skyrocketed in recent years, and AFD has blamed
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Speaker 2: the high prices on the country's plans to reach net
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Speaker 2: zero by 2045. Ian, let's look at some of what
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Speaker 2: the AFD want to do. They want a moratorium on
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Speaker 2: all onshore wind farms and many solar projects. They want
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Speaker 2: to end state subsidies for renewables. They want to stop
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Speaker 2: Germany's coal phase out. And they plan to end all
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Speaker 2: carbon pricing schemes. How does that sound so far, Professor?
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Speaker 1: Well, that sounds absolutely magnificent, bringing Germany to a credible
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Speaker 1: economic force. Germany's got massive coal deposits. They had so
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Speaker 1: much coal in the Second World War that they were
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Speaker 1: able to use it to make liquid hydrocarbons for tanks
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Speaker 1: and for aeroplanes. Germany has had a big nuclear industry
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Speaker 1: for a long period of time. When I lived in Germany,
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Speaker 1: I used a nuclear reactor at Munich. This was a
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Speaker 1: reactor that not only generated electricity, but was a research reactor.
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Speaker 12: Germany has led the world in nuclear power.
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Speaker 1: And what Governments over the years have done, and these
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Speaker 1: are coalitions and coalitions with the left, and just think
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Speaker 1: of Labor and the Green Coalition. These coalitions from the
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Speaker 1: left got rid of Germany's cheap power, which allowed it
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Speaker 1: to have a big automotive and manufacturing industry. It got
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Speaker 1: rid of nuclear, which allowed it also to have these
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Speaker 1: industries and went for sea breezes and sunbeams. Now, Germany
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Speaker 1: is not a country like Australia where we are blessed
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Speaker 1: with a lot of sunshine. Up in the north of Germany, yes,
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Speaker 1: you get wind on the coast, but it's not a
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Speaker 1: country where you can use the sun and the wind
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Speaker 1: to generate electricity for a major industrial country. And this
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Speaker 1: is why Germany is actually falling behind in its industrial output. Now,
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Speaker 1: the AFD has been attacked enormously, the same as Trump has,
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Speaker 1: the same as Hanson has, the same as Farage has,
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Speaker 1: the same.
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Speaker 12: As Maloney has.
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Speaker 1: And on we go simply because they are speaking common sense.
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Speaker 1: The average punter recognises that they're speaking common sense. The
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Speaker 1: average punter has realised that they're being conned. And so
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Speaker 1: everything is being done to destroy this party by calling
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Speaker 1: them neo-Nazis or, as.
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Speaker 12: Mr Albanese wants to call people in this Australia, far-right.
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Speaker 12: These are not far-right people. These are the average people
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Speaker 12: who are suffering.
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Speaker 1: Who cannot pay their food bills, who cannot pay their
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Speaker 1: electricity bills. I think this is a really interesting stage
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Speaker 1: in European politics.
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Speaker 2: And it's not confined to Germany, as we've spoken about
21:37
Speaker 2: in the past. It's happening on all parts of the
21:39
Speaker 2: continent there. Now, there have been repeated warnings about AI
21:44
Speaker 2: wiping out white-collar and entry-level jobs, but America's thriving energy
21:49
Speaker 2: sector is going to need hundreds of thousands of more workers.
21:54
Speaker 2: The Energy Apprenticeship Pipeline says only had 45,000 entrants in 2024.
21:59
Speaker 2: It needs 65,000 professionals flowing in yearly to close the
22:05
Speaker 2: labour supply gap. America's energy sector is employing roughly 8.5
22:10
Speaker 2: million workers as of 2024. Ian, a recent report from
22:14
Speaker 2: Goldman Sachs says the US power and grid value chain
22:19
Speaker 2: is going to need around 500,000 additional workers by 2030.
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Speaker 2: What are we missing out on in this country by
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Speaker 2: not employing similar strategies with our energy policy?
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Speaker 12: Well, we're missing out on common sense.
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Speaker 1: We are very well blessed with a lot of energy,
22:37
Speaker 1: a lot of uranium, a lot of gas, thousands of
22:40
Speaker 1: years of coal. And to have workers in these industries
22:43
Speaker 1: mean they have to be highly skilled. This means that
22:46
Speaker 1: you've got a whole training industry setting up workers for
22:49
Speaker 1: the industry. The 500,000 people that America needs will have
22:53
Speaker 1: to be skilled people. Now, those working in the wind
22:56
Speaker 1: and solar industry, there are quite a few people that
22:58
Speaker 1: work in it in the construction phase. And after that,
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Speaker 1: there are very, very few people who work in those industries.
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Speaker 1: So this is a wonderful thing for the community, creating jobs,
23:08
Speaker 1: which has a multiplier effect of about three to one
23:10
Speaker 1: for someone working in wind in these industries.
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Speaker 12: And this means that the country will boom.
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Speaker 1: What we are doing, a country that's so blessed with resources,
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Speaker 1: a country that was once in the 19th and early
23:23
Speaker 1: 20th century, we were the richest country in the world.
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Speaker 1: We are blowing it. And you can see this from
23:28
Speaker 1: our productivity, from our GDP. We are blowing it. And
23:32
Speaker 1: the sooner we start using our resources, the better.
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Speaker 2: Professor Ian Pimer, thank you so much for your time.
23:40
Speaker 2: Still to come, lefties losing it, plus the latest from
23:43
Speaker 2: the US and from Germany, where the right-wing AFD party
23:47
Speaker 2: has scored a resounding victory. Kosher Gator is up next.
23:59
Speaker 2: You're watching The Rita Panahy Show and it's time for
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Speaker 2: Lefties Losing It. Let's start in the great state of Ohio,
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Speaker 2: where the Democrats have put up this wine aunt, Amy Acton,
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Speaker 2: to be the next governor, and she has this eloquent
24:14
Speaker 2: message for her Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Speaker 3: This is a movement of everyday people who are going
24:22
Speaker 3: to tell Mr Ramaswamy in no uncertain terms.
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Speaker 11: We are telling this once and for all.
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Speaker 3: You cannot buy this state. You cannot buy Ohio. You
24:36
Speaker 3: can't buy us. You can't buy us. You can't buy us.
24:43
Speaker 3: You can't buy us in Ohio.
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Speaker 2: That is the end of this. Oh, what a sad
24:50
Speaker 2: attempt to start a chant. It did not work. And
24:53
Speaker 2: she sounds like she came to that campaign event straight
24:55
Speaker 2: from happy hour. as she clearly suffers from delusions of grandeur.
25:01
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
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Speaker 3: So goes the nation.
25:05
Speaker 9: This is it.
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Speaker 10: We are ground zero.
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Speaker 3: I'm going all down the valley.
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Speaker 2: Columbia, I'm going all the way down the valley.
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Speaker 10: And that's the thing.
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Speaker 3: I want you guys to know that I've never been
25:16
Speaker 3: in a room in two and a half years where
25:19
Speaker 3: people don't tear up while I'm talking.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd cry too if I had to hear her
25:24
Speaker 2: speak for more than 30 seconds. Look, I'm not saying
25:28
Speaker 2: she's a drunk. I'm just saying she sounds like she's
25:31
Speaker 2: a drunk. Hi everybody!
25:34
Speaker 3: Happy Labor Day! Oh, good to see everyone.
25:40
Speaker 2: It is so good to see you all here today.
25:44
Speaker 2: It's a little warm. Thank you. It's a little hot.
25:48
Speaker 2: Let's go now to the leftiest of lefty hellholes, the
25:52
Speaker 2: dysfunctional city of Portland. It doesn't get much worse than this, folks.
25:57
Speaker 2: Watch here as these polite diners are chucked out for
26:01
Speaker 2: the crime of wearing T-shirts that state biological reality, not
26:05
Speaker 2: even in-your-face biological reality like men can't be women. These
26:10
Speaker 2: shirts just say XX or XY. Feel the tolerance from
26:15
Speaker 2: the trans-crazed activists.
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Speaker 9: People that are.
26:17
Speaker 2: In here that are uncomfortable with those shirts, and so
26:19
Speaker 2: I'm asking y'all to leave.
26:23
Speaker 13: If I have to call authorities to get y'all removed,
26:25
Speaker 13: I will, but I don't want to do that.
26:26
Speaker 1: You don't have to leave.
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Speaker 14: No, no, what I am just asking if you would
26:32
Speaker 14: please consider them.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with these shirts. What is wrong with
26:38
Speaker 2: these shirts? What is wrong with it?
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Speaker 3: I don't understand what's wrong with these shirts.
26:43
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with these shirts. Now, this was a
26:47
Speaker 2: thing of beauty on CNN of all places. After listening
26:51
Speaker 2: to former ESPN blowhard Jemele Hill call everything, including capitalism,
26:56
Speaker 2: a tool of white supremacy, Camille Foster stepped in to
27:00
Speaker 2: drop some knowledge.
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Speaker 15: It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working ideally.
27:06
Speaker 15: It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive,
27:09
Speaker 15: that it is bound up with white supremacy. Their resources
27:12
Speaker 15: to good use, those private property... and profit in a
27:16
Speaker 15: way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there
27:18
Speaker 15: can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These
27:21
Speaker 15: are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any
27:26
Speaker 15: other system in human history.
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Speaker 4: That is what capitalism is.
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Speaker 9: That is not white supremacy.
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Speaker 2: Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?
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Speaker 15: I've just described the actual, I've actually just described the
27:37
Speaker 15: basic facts of the denials.
27:39
Speaker 2: And CNN was having a meltdown today about the triumph
27:43
Speaker 2: of the Trump-esque AFD party who want to close Germany's
27:48
Speaker 2: borders and start mass deportations.
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Speaker 14: The German borders are closed, dear friends.
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Speaker 4: They are closed.
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Speaker 2: Of course, CNN are worried about the dangers of the
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Speaker 2: so-called far right, a label that has been stripped of
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Speaker 2: all meaning.
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Speaker 15: Is the guy with this big smile really Germany's most
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Speaker 15: dangerous man?
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Speaker 4: People are striving for positive change through conservative parties that
28:24
Speaker 4: work in the interests of their own country and don't
28:26
Speaker 4: believe they have to save the world.
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Speaker 6: This is Ulrich Siegmund, a politician from the far-right Alternative
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Speaker 6: for Germany, or AFD.
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Speaker 2: And there was this cheap and nasty report from CBS
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Speaker 2: by activist journalist Trevor Phillips invoking Nazi Germany.
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Speaker 10: Did two million Germans just vote to put a bunch
28:48
Speaker 10: of neo-Nazis in power? Europe's biggest, richest nation, Germany, is
28:53
Speaker 10: in a state of shock. A people who spent a
28:55
Speaker 10: century trying to escape the shadow of Nazi horror now
28:59
Speaker 10: finds that a party deemed an extremist organization by Germany's
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Speaker 10: own security services and at many regard as the inheritors
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Speaker 10: of Adolf Hitler's mantle, could be about to seize power
29:10
Speaker 10: in part of the nation. Elections in the province of
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Speaker 10: Saxony-Anhalt yesterday gave a runaway victory to the Alternative für Deutschland,
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Speaker 10: the AFD, a radical anti-immigrant, socially conservative party.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, a socially conservative party that wants the best
29:26
Speaker 2: for German citizens? The horror. And Alice Wedel, the AFD
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Speaker 2: party leader, is a lesbian whose partner is of Sri
29:35
Speaker 2: Lankan descent. Don't believe the media hysteria about the supposed
29:40
Speaker 2: far right. Here she is last year talking about what's
29:44
Speaker 2: really happening in Germany.
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Speaker 14: Our legacy media and establishment politicians fear us like no
29:51
Speaker 14: other party, with good reason. More and more voters in
29:56
Speaker 14: Germany are simply fed up with being lied to and
30:00
Speaker 14: watching their quality of life deteriorating year for year. Establishment
30:09
Speaker 14: politics have turned Germany into a danger zone for its citizens.
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Speaker 2: Let's bring in News24 contributor Kosha Gaider. Kosha, tell me
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Speaker 2: about the significance of this victory.
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Speaker 16: It's huge.
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Speaker 17: So they doubled, I think they got 44% of the
30:25
Speaker 17: vote in this state, which doubled what they had last
30:28
Speaker 17: time in 2021. That is a definition of where the
30:31
Speaker 17: momentum is and which party is ascendant. The Chancellor's party
30:35
Speaker 17: completely collapsed, so they took basically all of the juice
30:39
Speaker 17: or the oxygen out of that party into their own.
30:41
Speaker 17: And they're only three seats shy of a super majority,
30:44
Speaker 17: of an absolute majority, I should say.
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Speaker 2: Which is rare in Germany.
30:47
Speaker 9: Very rare.
30:47
Speaker 17: And important, because of their parliamentary system You see these
30:51
Speaker 17: unholy alliances. You've seen it in France and elsewhere where
30:53
Speaker 17: the left and the moderate right and other factions will
30:56
Speaker 17: band together to sort of create a firewall against what
31:00
Speaker 17: they call the far right. You could call it the
31:02
Speaker 17: party of the people and what the people demand right now.
31:04
Speaker 17: But this makes it harder to do that, the more
31:06
Speaker 17: of an absolute majority that they can claw for themselves.
31:10
Speaker 17: So it's very significant for what it means nationally, though
31:12
Speaker 17: this was a state election. It's certainly a bellwether of
31:14
Speaker 17: what could come. And it's also significant for what's happening
31:17
Speaker 17: in the rest of Europe because this tide is continues
31:20
Speaker 17: these trends sort of seep across borders for the very
31:23
Speaker 17: simple reason people are fed up, as she said. They
31:26
Speaker 17: want immigration culled or even a moratorium. That's a valid
31:32
Speaker 17: discussion to have or whatever the right number is, certainly
31:34
Speaker 17: much less than what it is now. And they want
31:37
Speaker 17: security and crime and cost of living and all of
31:38
Speaker 17: that down. That is the message. So CNN and all
31:41
Speaker 17: these people will go back to their dustbins of showing
31:45
Speaker 17: Hitler photos and trying to castigate everybody in that way.
31:47
Speaker 17: But it's coming down to just immigration, cost of living,
31:49
Speaker 17: common sense.
31:50
Speaker 9: And that is popular.
31:51
Speaker 2: They did the same thing with Georgia Maloney. When she
31:54
Speaker 2: was about to win, they were calling her a fascist,
31:58
Speaker 2: far right, dangerous. And now she's... probably the most popular
32:03
Speaker 2: leader in all of Europe. And you talked about this
32:07
Speaker 2: five wall. Tell me about that. The other parties and
32:11
Speaker 2: also the media have tried to isolate this party, regardless
32:16
Speaker 2: of how many votes it gets, and they won't enter
32:20
Speaker 2: a coalition with it. And to me, that's a threat
32:22
Speaker 2: to democracy because the German people are making their feelings known,
32:26
Speaker 2: but the other centre-right parties are refusing to form a
32:29
Speaker 2: coalition with the AFD.
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Speaker 17: It really is a mask-off moment because you've seen these
32:34
Speaker 17: alliances that just, you know, strange bedfellows that you'll get,
32:37
Speaker 17: even factions or weird extremes from the left and the
32:40
Speaker 17: centre and maybe the more moderates on both sides of
32:43
Speaker 17: the centre band together to just not let this group
32:47
Speaker 17: take power. And Technically, it's within their democratic framework because
32:51
Speaker 17: that's what the parliamentary system allows, these coalitions and things
32:53
Speaker 17: that you do. The two-party system in America has certain flaws,
32:57
Speaker 17: but one of the advantages is that you cannot do that.
32:59
Speaker 9: It is a two-party system.
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Speaker 17: Here, that is a vulnerability, but then the solution is
33:03
Speaker 17: that the ascendant party will just have to, on their own,
33:05
Speaker 17: stand on their own two feet and get closer and
33:07
Speaker 17: closer to an.
33:08
Speaker 9: Absolute majority, as these guys did, just three seats shy.
33:11
Speaker 17: Then they won't need the others. And if and when
33:13
Speaker 17: that happens, I think it'll be a real challenge. reckoning
33:15
Speaker 17: and realignment.
33:16
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because then they can do whatever they want.
33:18
Speaker 2: They don't have to moderate any position because they're not
33:21
Speaker 2: in a coalition with anybody else. So they've created this situation,
33:26
Speaker 2: the media and other parties. Now, let's hear from the
33:30
Speaker 2: national leader of the AFD, Alice Weedle, again. Here she
33:34
Speaker 2: tells the leftists that the people they want to continue
33:37
Speaker 2: to import en masse really will have no intention of
33:41
Speaker 2: coexisting with their queer lifestyles.
33:44
Speaker 14: Kosher, she's highlighting this unholy alliance we've talked about so
33:48
Speaker 14: often between the left and Islamists.
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Speaker 2: And it's not going to end well for the left
34:15
Speaker 2: because we have seen how that works in other parts
34:18
Speaker 2: of the world.
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Speaker 9: There's a lot of cognitive dissonance with them.
34:20
Speaker 17: I call it the coalition of the fringes, where everybody
34:22
Speaker 17: who's a fringe and the only thing they have in
34:25
Speaker 17: common is that they're against what is having popularity by
34:29
Speaker 17: the majority, the ascendant party. That's the only thing they
34:31
Speaker 17: have in common, whether it's Trump, whether it's Brexit, whether
34:33
Speaker 17: it's AFD, whether it's Marine Le Pen, whether it's One
34:36
Speaker 17: Nation over here.
34:37
Speaker 9: You just see these fringe.
34:38
Speaker 17: Groups who have nothing else in common band together It
34:41
Speaker 17: may work in the short term where they do stem
34:43
Speaker 17: this tide and they defeat this group, but they're completely
34:46
Speaker 17: incongruent after that.
34:47
Speaker 9: To have Islamists and queers makes no sense. They're fundamentally
34:51
Speaker 9: opposed other than in their opposition for AFD.
34:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, my enemy's enemy is my friend. That's got a
34:57
Speaker 2: short lifespan. It's got a short lifespan. Now let's talk
35:00
Speaker 2: about U.S. news. Nike stock has plummeted nearly 80% in
35:06
Speaker 2: value in recent years. The collapse is so dramatic. profound
35:10
Speaker 2: that the stock is now out of the SP100. And
35:14
Speaker 2: there are several reasons for this, Kosha. And one that's
35:17
Speaker 2: being highlighted today is how proudly woke the brand has
35:22
Speaker 2: become in recent years, promoting everything from hijabs to BLM
35:28
Speaker 2: to trans activism. As they say, go woke, go broke.
35:33
Speaker 9: That's certainly the most visible thing.
35:35
Speaker 17: You know, there might be Other bread and butter issues
35:38
Speaker 17: like heightened competition for the shoe category and cost of
35:42
Speaker 17: goods and all of that, but the real most visible
35:44
Speaker 17: thing with Nike that the whole world has seen now
35:47
Speaker 17: is that, Go Woke, Go Broke, starting with Colin Kaepernick,
35:51
Speaker 17: all these other ad campaigns that they did. And there
35:54
Speaker 17: is something to just staying true to your brand identity
35:57
Speaker 17: and your genesis. Not that you can't innovate, but Nike
36:00
Speaker 17: is named after the Greek goddess of victory. It was
36:04
Speaker 17: started by Phil Knight, who was a runner from Oregon.
36:06
Speaker 17: And it was all about just great shoes for running,
36:09
Speaker 17: pushing your personal boundaries, chasing victory.
36:12
Speaker 9: Stick to that. But they tried to be everything for everybody,
36:15
Speaker 9: jumping on this.
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Speaker 2: Well, not everybody. They were very, very narrow in their worldview.
36:20
Speaker 2: They wanted the leftist activists to be on board and
36:22
Speaker 2: everyone else could go and get stuffed. And everyone else said, oh, wow,
36:26
Speaker 2: there's a lot of other brands on the market we
36:28
Speaker 2: could be purchasing. I mean, when Michael Jordan was really
36:31
Speaker 2: leading the charge, he was just so apolitical. He didn't
36:35
Speaker 2: know his politics. He didn't want to know it. And
36:37
Speaker 2: everyone loved Nike. Everyone loved his shoes.
36:40
Speaker 9: Republicans buy sneakers too. You're right.
36:42
Speaker 17: They try to pretend that it's for everybody, but it's
36:44
Speaker 17: not for everybody. And that's why they're paying the price now.
36:46
Speaker 17: And they're stuck at $ 280 billion in value.
36:49
Speaker 2: It was one of the very few brands where if
36:53
Speaker 2: I saw a Nike for sale, even if it was
36:55
Speaker 2: a bargain price, and often they were at a bargain price,
36:57
Speaker 2: I'd go, no, thank you. I don't want a Nike.
37:00
Speaker 2: because their brand stinks. I mean, they had all sorts
37:03
Speaker 2: of issues with sweatshops, which I didn't like, but also
37:06
Speaker 2: their political activism. Now, I played footage of the Democrats'
37:11
Speaker 2: latest star, Amy Acton, who they hope will defeat Vivek
37:15
Speaker 2: Ramaswamy to be the next governor of Ohio. Kosha, how
37:19
Speaker 2: do you see this race?
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Speaker 17: This is interesting because Ohio, traditionally a swing state, my
37:24
Speaker 17: home state, by the way, in the last four cycles,
37:27
Speaker 17: it has been reliably red, reliably Republican in the gubernatorial
37:31
Speaker 17: and in the presidential since Obama, every time by double digits.
37:35
Speaker 17: Having said that, Vivek Ramaswamy now is in a toss
37:38
Speaker 17: up with her.
37:39
Speaker 9: So that is not great.
37:41
Speaker 2: But we know in the midterms, the party that controls
37:44
Speaker 2: the White House. typically gets a backlash. That's just how
37:47
Speaker 2: the pattern runs. So this is the Democrats' great chance
37:51
Speaker 2: to seize Ohio. Is this the right candidate, though? Because
37:55
Speaker 2: goodness me, surely they could have come up with someone
37:57
Speaker 2: a little bit better.
37:58
Speaker 17: It's kind of in this post-candidacy world, I would say,
38:01
Speaker 17: that just the machine is really 90% of what it's
38:04
Speaker 17: going to take to win. And the candidate is just
38:06
Speaker 17: the finishing polish, that last 10%. She came to fame
38:10
Speaker 17: during the COVID era. So the Republican governor, Mark DeWine,
38:13
Speaker 17: actually passed recruited her to be the face of COVID,
38:16
Speaker 17: which I'm sure Vivek will find a way to turn
38:18
Speaker 17: that against her, but that's just given her name ID.
38:20
Speaker 9: She's a doctor. She's a political outsider.
38:22
Speaker 17: So is he, but he's sort of on the national stage,
38:25
Speaker 17: sort of linked to Trump, which can be a little
38:26
Speaker 17: bit polarizing in certain sectors of the economy. It is
38:30
Speaker 17: still favoured for Republicans to win, even though it's a midterm,
38:32
Speaker 17: but it's very close.
38:33
Speaker 2: But he's so eloquent. I mean, whatever you think of Vivek,
38:36
Speaker 2: and he's got his detractors on the right as well,
38:39
Speaker 2: the man is.
38:39
Speaker 9: He's a great communicator.
38:41
Speaker 2: His intellect is undoubted and he's a great communicator, he's
38:45
Speaker 2: a great debater. I can't wait to see the debates
38:48
Speaker 2: because I can see it's almost like he needs to
38:51
Speaker 2: go easy on her because I think there will be
38:53
Speaker 2: a sympathy vote afterwards because... He'll.
38:56
Speaker 9: Run circles around her.
38:57
Speaker 17: He does have a likeability issue with certain parts of
38:59
Speaker 17: the electorate for some reason.
39:01
Speaker 9: He robs them the wrong way a little bit.
39:02
Speaker 2: Well, because he does seem like he's the smartest man
39:05
Speaker 2: in the room and that's not always appealing.
39:07
Speaker 16: Likeable, yeah.
39:08
Speaker 2: Likeable, yeah. Now, there has been a lot of victim
39:12
Speaker 2: playing by Hollywood A-listers of late, Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon.
39:16
Speaker 2: Javier Bardem, complaints of roles drying up because of their
39:21
Speaker 2: radical activism. But as Anne Speaks points out, Susan Sarandon
39:25
Speaker 2: has three upcoming projects listed IMDb. That's despite her saying
39:29
Speaker 2: she's been cancelled by Hollywood. We talked about that last night.
39:32
Speaker 2: Javier Buadam has four projects coming up and Mark Ruffalo
39:36
Speaker 2: has six. So much for them being cancelled kosher.
39:40
Speaker 17: It's really rich coming from them to be talking about cancel.
39:44
Speaker 9: We all know how that story has gone. It only
39:46
Speaker 9: goes one way.
39:47
Speaker 17: There's this underground group in Hollywood, Friends of Abe or
39:50
Speaker 17: something it's called, where they quietly, it's like a secret
39:53
Speaker 17: society of people that dare to vote to the right,
39:55
Speaker 17: sort of underground, try to help each other out because
39:57
Speaker 17: there's these open blacklists. We know Kevin Sorbo, who played Hercules,
40:01
Speaker 17: was one of the original ones.
40:02
Speaker 9: Gina Carano.
40:03
Speaker 17: Stacey Dash, who is African-American, was in Clueless. She just
40:07
Speaker 17: came out for Mitt Romney, which is such a milquetoast
40:10
Speaker 17: thing to do. And even that, she says, she completely
40:12
Speaker 17: destroyed her career.
40:13
Speaker 2: And none of these so-called heroes of free speech, like
40:17
Speaker 2: George Clooney, who's been saying, oh, you know, I'm going
40:20
Speaker 2: to take a stand for Mark Ruffalo and he's right.
40:23
Speaker 2: None of them came out when it actually mattered. None
40:25
Speaker 2: of them came out and said, Disney, you shouldn't cancel
40:28
Speaker 2: Gina Carano for having a political opinion that's not of
40:32
Speaker 2: the left. It seems like even if you've just got
40:34
Speaker 2: a centrist position, you can get cancelled by Hollywood.
40:37
Speaker 9: Absolutely. They never, ever come out.
40:39
Speaker 17: The few that are so big, too big to cancel,
40:41
Speaker 17: Kelsey Grammer, Bruce Willis, those people, John Boyd, they made it.
40:44
Speaker 2: Well, they write and produce and direct. They do everything themselves.
40:48
Speaker 2: Mel Gibson as well.
40:49
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's your only answer.
40:51
Speaker 2: Kosher Gator, thank you so much.
40:52
Speaker 16: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Still to come, King Charles lays down the law to
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Speaker 2: Harry and Meghan. Diddy Dunleavy has all your royal and
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Speaker 2: entertainment news next. Welcome back. Now, you may remember Ray Gunn,
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Speaker 2: the woman whose catastrophically awful performance at the Olympics will
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Speaker 2: ensure breakdancing never returns as an Olympic sport. Well, you'll
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Speaker 2: be happy to know there is now a documentary starring
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Speaker 2: Ray Gunn and her hubby and coach, Sam Free.
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Speaker 13: And I kind of thought, my naivety, you qualify for
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Speaker 13: the Olympics and this big, like, team surrounds you and
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Speaker 13: gets you ready.
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Speaker 2: Here's your strength and conditioning.
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Speaker 6: Here's your dietician.
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Speaker 9: Here's your salary.
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Speaker 2: Here's your coach's salary.
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Speaker 8: I had nothing.
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Speaker 2: The audacity. Not bad enough that she took the spot
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Speaker 2: of someone with actual talent. She wanted to get paid
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Speaker 2: as well. Of course, Ray Gunn scored zero points at
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Speaker 2: the Olympics. There was this frenzy. It was this growing monster.
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Speaker 9: Zero points.
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Speaker 2: How did this person go to the Olympics?
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Speaker 9: I know I'm a dorky white woman who's an academic.
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Speaker 16: And I'm a b-girl.
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Speaker 2: Joining me now is broadcaster and News 24 contributor Didi Dunleavy. Didi,
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Speaker 2: people have said this doco is a parody. I wish
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Speaker 2: I could play the bits that... Have people saying that? Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: copyright laws prevent me from doing that. But wowie, the
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Speaker 2: clips I have seen, it's like The Office but real life.
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Speaker 16: I would have said a Chris Lilley character.
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Speaker 2: Chris Lilley, in fact, perfect.
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Speaker 9: Isn't it?
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Speaker 16: When you watch it now, absolutely it is.
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Speaker 13: Look, you have to remember it's not a documentary. Netflix
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Speaker 13: has this formula where they present a story but they
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Speaker 13: don't give both sides. They don't give the opposing point
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Speaker 13: of view. And so what they do is they get
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Speaker 13: somebody who's been aggrieved in some way, they gather up
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Speaker 13: everything terrible that was said about them on the internet,
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Speaker 13: and then they let the person be the victim, and
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Speaker 13: then they create this narrative. So what they're doing is
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Speaker 13: creating a story where emotionally they want you to come
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Speaker 13: to a conclusion, and that is the poor girl, wasn't
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Speaker 13: she treated badly?
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Speaker 2: They want you to, but it is sometimes when you
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Speaker 2: give people enough rope, when you don't actually challenge them,
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Speaker 2: they hang themselves. And to me, the clips I've seen...
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Speaker 2: this this couple is ridiculous and I don't understand why
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Speaker 2: nobody in her circle the husband her family friends nobody
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Speaker 2: said this ain't a good idea you're gonna make an
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Speaker 2: absolute fool of yourself I don't know fake an injury
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Speaker 2: the night before anything to prevent what we saw because
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Speaker 2: it was it wasn't just a little bit bad it
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Speaker 2: was awful she got zero points zero I mean you
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Speaker 2: could Stand up and you get a couple of points.
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Speaker 13: She was universally ridiculed afterwards. And that was valid because
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Speaker 13: we felt as though she had humiliated, well, she did.
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Speaker 13: She humiliated Australia in the eyes of the world. And
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Speaker 13: the breaking community, you know, we may find it amusing,
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Speaker 13: but they take their craft very seriously. And as you
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Speaker 13: said a moment ago, it's unlikely they'll be in the
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Speaker 13: Olympics again because it was made a laughingstock by her.
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Speaker 13: And the documentary doesn't answer the question, why did she
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Speaker 13: ever go in the first place?
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 13: For the attention and here's a documentary. I don't imagine
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Speaker 13: Netflix came knocking at her door.
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Speaker 16: She probably saw it.
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Speaker 2: Could they have been that delusional and they thought, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we'll just go in there and do– you know, hop
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Speaker 2: around like a kangaroo and just twist around in some
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Speaker 2: unco fashion and do the, what was her signature move
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Speaker 2: that she did there?
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Speaker 16: It was the kangaroo hop. Oh, doesn't she lay on
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Speaker 16: the floor like a worm or something?
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Speaker 2: Whatever, whatever that was. And somehow the world's going to
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Speaker 2: warm to that, please. Now let's talk about the royals.
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Speaker 2: A formal letter on behalf of King Charles has made
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Speaker 2: it clear that Harry and Meghan will remain private citizens
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Speaker 2: while they live in the UK and they will not
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Speaker 2: be working royals. The letter strictly outlines that the Duke
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Speaker 2: and Duchess cannot use his and her Royal Highness titles
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Speaker 2: and any charitable work they do will be done in
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Speaker 2: their private capacity. Dee Dee, that's all good and well,
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Speaker 2: not using HRH titles. Does it really mean anything when
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Speaker 2: people refer to you as Prince Harry, the Queen? Dude's
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Speaker 2: a prince.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, and he will stay in the line of succession
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Speaker 13: and there's nothing that can be done about that. An
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Speaker 13: Act of Parliament is the only thing. King Charles can't
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Speaker 13: do anything about that.
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Speaker 2: But they're going to capitalise on their positions in the
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Speaker 2: royal family. I mean, this letter is really not going
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Speaker 2: to do anything to stop them.
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Speaker 13: Yes, their modus operandi is not going to change because
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Speaker 13: this letter really is only stating what was agreed upon
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Speaker 13: when they left in 2020. So it's all the same things.
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Speaker 13: The only difference being, and you would know this in business,
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Speaker 13: get it in writing. So it's in writing now. And
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Speaker 13: I just find the timing very curious. Harry was spotted
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Speaker 13: going into a podcast, a place that makes podcasts and
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Speaker 13: media productions.
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Speaker 16: Does the palace know something?
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Speaker 13: Have they put this out as a warning, made it
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Speaker 13: very clear to the two of them?
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Speaker 16: You may not use those royal titles.
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Speaker 13: Because if there is some sort of a breach of that,
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Speaker 13: that the palace can then take harsher action. And they
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Speaker 13: could start by taking him off the official palace website.
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Speaker 16: He's still up there.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's all sorts of reports that Prince William is
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Speaker 2: upset with King Charles for opening the door to this return,
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Speaker 2: for being too soft. So yeah, it's going to be
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Speaker 2: interesting how it plays out. Now let's talk about some
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Speaker 2: local news. Alistair Clarkson has dumped his kangaroos gear at
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Speaker 2: a Melbourne op shop after the appalling way the club
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Speaker 2: treated him. The four-time premiership coach took two enormous bags
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Speaker 2: into Vinnie's in Hampton in Bayside, Melbourne on Sunday. Indeed,
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Speaker 2: a witness said he appeared very pleased to make the donation. Now,
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Speaker 2: I've heard criticism of this, like why did he need
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Speaker 2: to do this? Surely he knew it would become public.
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Speaker 2: Why didn't he just dump it in the bin? I mean,
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Speaker 2: he would be criticised if he did that. At least
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Speaker 2: now it's gone to a charity. They'll get some use
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Speaker 2: out of it. The desperation to try to blame Alistair
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Speaker 2: Clarkson for the way he's been mistreated is quite comical almost.
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Speaker 13: I absolutely agree with you. I think what he did
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Speaker 13: was the right thing. It would have been worse for him.
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Speaker 13: Someone would have seen him putting it in the bin
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Speaker 13: and that would have been a worse look. I can
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Speaker 13: understand him doing it because he feels very aggrieved at
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Speaker 13: the way that the club treated him. And, you know,
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Speaker 13: the club is perfectly entitled to sack him, but he's
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Speaker 13: a four-time premiership coach and he deserves some respect.
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Speaker 16: And I don't think they did treat him with respect.
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Speaker 2: Oh, not even a modicum of respect. It was a
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Speaker 2: most disgraceful way I've seen any coach treated to suggest
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Speaker 2: that the game's passed him by, that they're going to
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Speaker 2: now find a coach who knows what he's doing and...
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Speaker 2: Who understands the modern game. And this guy invented the
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Speaker 2: modern game. What are you talking about?
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Speaker 13: It was one thing to sack him, another thing to
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Speaker 13: humiliate him in that way. And the people who are
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Speaker 13: saying that he's being petulant by giving these things to charity,
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Speaker 13: I think they need to get a group. It's not
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Speaker 13: like he burned down the clubhouse. He gave some clothes
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Speaker 13: to charity.
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Speaker 2: And it's not his fault. Someone spotted it and called
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Speaker 2: the Herald Sun and made the papers. I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: not like he placed a call or called the paps
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Speaker 2: to picture him doing it. Now let's go back to
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Speaker 2: some US news. Pink, pop star Pink, appears to have
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Speaker 2: called out fellow artist Macklemore over his pro-Palestine comments at
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Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran's concerts. Macklemore is the opening act. Diddy the
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Speaker 2: singer Pink reposted an Instagram story from Stop Anti-Semitism which
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Speaker 2: slammed Macklemore's performance. This is getting... a little bit ugly
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Speaker 2: with these pop stars because Ed Sheeran himself is copying
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Speaker 2: all sorts of criticism for tolerating this. Because Macklemore's not
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Speaker 2: just saying free Palestine, he's taking it a lot further
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Speaker 2: than that.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 16: I'm curious to see whether Ed Sheeran will do something.
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Speaker 16: They're friends.
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Speaker 13: Ed Sheeran has performed on a song of Macklemore's. But
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Speaker 13: Pink knew exactly what she was doing. She knew what she.
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Speaker 16: Was amplifying by putting this statement out.
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Speaker 9: So she.
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Speaker 13: It's clear that she thinks that the criticism of Macklemore
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Speaker 13: is legitimate. And today, boy, George has backed her up
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Speaker 13: very strongly.
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Speaker 2: But they're in the small, small minority in the pop world,
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Speaker 2: it has to be said. The overwhelming majority are on
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Speaker 2: the other side or they say nothing. whatever it is
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Speaker 2: they think.
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Speaker 13: Because a lot of artists know that if they speak
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Speaker 13: out politically in one way or another, they run the
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Speaker 13: risk of alienating half their audience. And so I think
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Speaker 13: that's why a lot of them don't speak up. But
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Speaker 13: I think Ed Sheeran is in a position now where
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Speaker 13: he's effectively endorsing Macklemore's comments. And I don't believe that
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Speaker 13: Macklemore should lose his job. I don't think he should
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Speaker 13: be dumped from the tour. I don't think just because
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Speaker 13: you don't agree with someone and the things they say,
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Speaker 13: however hateful, I don't think they should be silenced.
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Speaker 2: I mean, and he's calling ICE terrorists. He's saying things
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Speaker 2: that are pro-Iran and Cuba, so pro-Islamist, pro-communist. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he's your typical hard leftist. But Shirin can come out
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Speaker 2: and say whatever he says is his free speech rights.
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Speaker 2: I don't agree with him. In fact, I stand here.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 16: I mean.
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Speaker 2: You're right, his silence has been taken as acceptance of
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Speaker 2: Macklemore's position.
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Speaker 13: And he has to say something because people are coming
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Speaker 13: to that show to see him and Jewish children are
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Speaker 13: leaving that concert crying because they wanted to see Ed
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Speaker 13: Sheeran and they're getting that instead.
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Speaker 2: Diddy Dunleavy, thank you so much for your time. And
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