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The Bolt Report | 24 March · The Bolt Report

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  Speaker 1: Is the gold reform it tonight, don't panic, says Chris Bone.
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  Speaker 1: Just four hundred or more petrol stations have now run
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  Speaker 1: out of fuel more than four hundred, and your reckons
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  Speaker 1: is doing a great job or so tonight. Donald Trump says,
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  Speaker 1: Iran is now talking peace, but someone is lying. And
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  Speaker 1: the Great con Anthony Albinezi announces a free trade deal
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  Speaker 1: with Europe that isn't And look what is smuggled in
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  Speaker 1: a climate change agenda. Plus a new terrorist group linked
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  Speaker 1: to Iran starts bombing Western cities.
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  Speaker 2: But first.
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  Speaker 1: Labor still doesn't get it, Not after the Bondo massacre,
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  Speaker 1: not after the stunning performance of one nation in South
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  Speaker 1: Australia's election, not even after some Muslims screened abuse and
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  Speaker 1: fought in front of the Prime Minister at the Kember
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  Speaker 1: Mosque Glass Friday. Now, like I showed you last night,
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister keeps telling us, in fact, diversity makes
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  Speaker 1: us stronger.
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  Speaker 2: Time for a reality check.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, diversity right now in some cases of ripping
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  Speaker 1: us off for millions, if not billions. Last Friday is
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  Speaker 1: Samalian immigrant mother of seven was jailed for running a
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  Speaker 1: daycare and the ndis fraud ring in Melbourne that stole
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars from Australian taxpayers, Helped by her
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  Speaker 1: Kurdish boyfriend.
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  Speaker 2: She had allegedly taught.
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  Speaker 1: Others in her immigrant community how to also steal from
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  Speaker 1: the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Also last week, and also
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  Speaker 1: in multicultural Victoria, a volunteer with the Turkish Muslim Group
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  Speaker 1: was jailed for stealing nearly three hundred thousand dollars, again
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  Speaker 1: from the NDS, targeting Indias participants from Turkish and Arabic
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  Speaker 1: speaking communities. NDAs Minister Jenny mccalacters said, oh, well, look,
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  Speaker 1: this woman is actually the fourth person convicted under the
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  Speaker 1: albanies he governs crackdown on NDAs fraudsters.
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  Speaker 2: In four years.
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  Speaker 1: So already the proportion of foreign born and Muslim fraudsters
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  Speaker 1: seems quite high to me. Now it's true that you know,
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  Speaker 1: Australian born conman are also ripping off the NDAs, so.
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  Speaker 2: Money pit out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Another person, for example, who was jailed last week
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  Speaker 1: was Kim Michael Schubert, who's prominent in the Aboriginal business community.
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  Speaker 1: But again, and yet again, just last week, the NDAs
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  Speaker 1: Fraud Task Force has executed more search warrants to crack
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  Speaker 1: an alleged gain accuser stealing and astonishing three and a
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  Speaker 1: half million dollars from the NDIS. Now, so far this
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  Speaker 1: man has been the one charged, Bill al Chami, his
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  Speaker 1: lawyer Mostafa Daudi. They said Charmi was actually born in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: But you know the pattern is here. As we showed
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  Speaker 1: last week, one western Sydney suburb, the very multiculture and
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  Speaker 1: predominantly Muslim l Kember, has an astonishing thirteen hundred DAS providers,
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  Speaker 1: one for every thirteen people. And while many are genuine,
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  Speaker 1: of course, can all of them really be kosher so
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  Speaker 1: to speak? I like to say there are also plenty
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  Speaker 1: of non Muslim or Australian born frauds this too. I
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  Speaker 1: am talking here the proportion, and I'm suggesting that people
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  Speaker 1: from very different cultures coming into a very alien community
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  Speaker 1: might not feel the same obligations to fellow citizens, might
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  Speaker 1: not share the same values.
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  Speaker 2: Now, clearly we have a.
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  Speaker 1: Massive problem with fraud against the fifty billion dollar in
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  Speaker 1: DAS scheme.
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  Speaker 2: But the even bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge is to our unity, our sense of community. How
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  Speaker 1: can the Prime Minister keep telling us that diversity makes
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  Speaker 1: us stronger.
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  Speaker 2: How much stronger are.
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  Speaker 1: We really when some twenty men fought each other last
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  Speaker 1: week in Western Sydney at an end of Ramadan event,
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  Speaker 1: leaving three in hospital and one with stab wounds. How
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  Speaker 1: strong did our diversity make us? When the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: has chased out of lakem Mosque Glass Friday, needing some
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  Speaker 1: twenty people to protect him from Muslims abusing him. And
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  Speaker 1: how wonderfully diverse and strong were we when Julian Hill,
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  Speaker 1: Albanesi's Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs, paid his respects last
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  Speaker 1: Friday at the Holland Park mosque of a Nimam who
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  Speaker 1: has preached that Jews or Yahoods are enemies of Islam.
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  Speaker 3: Yohodl were the greatest enemies of the prophet of all
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  Speaker 3: and we can see their sinister ideology, their sinister plotting
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  Speaker 3: and planning T two D.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, how deaf and blind is this assistant
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  Speaker 1: Minister of Multicultural Affairs deaf and blind to extremism? I
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  Speaker 1: mean the same Julian Hill last year promised to give
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  Speaker 1: nearly seven hundred thousand dollars of your money to a
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne mosque until people in that mosque mourned and even
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  Speaker 1: cried at a ceremony to regret the assassination three weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago around Supreme Leader, a man who'd sponsored terrorist groups
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  Speaker 1: and murdered up to thirty six thousand Iranian protesters just
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  Speaker 1: last January.
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  Speaker 4: As now, the liberals, being spooked by one nation, are
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  Speaker 4: finally realizing we have to challenge this threat to our unity.
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  Speaker 1: They can't keep pretending not to see it. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: Federal Opposition Leaduringus Taylor today went out of his way
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  Speaker 1: on that when welcoming the President of the European Union
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  Speaker 1: to Parliament, to our parliament, talking in front of her
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  Speaker 1: about defending the European legacy, the Western legacy here in
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  Speaker 1: Australia as well.
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  Speaker 5: Another mutual threat is Islamic extremism in Europe and in Australia.
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  Speaker 5: The generosity of liberal democracies has been exploited. We've opened
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  Speaker 5: our doors to some people who don't want to embrace
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  Speaker 5: our culture, who want to erase it.
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  Speaker 6: The doors must be shut.
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  Speaker 5: Our culture can only survive by putting our values at
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  Speaker 5: the very center of our immigration policies.
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  Speaker 1: But anything, albin Ezi, after everything I've just shown you,
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  Speaker 1: is still sticking to that disastrous script of the left.
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  Speaker 7: We need to continue to cherish our diversity as a
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  Speaker 7: strength for our nation, which it is.
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  Speaker 1: Now until you vote for politicians who admit we need
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  Speaker 1: more unity, not more of this kind of diversity. What
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  Speaker 1: is harming us now won't be fixed. But I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the visit of Cambride today of the President of the
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  Speaker 1: European Union Ursula Vonderland. Now I've got to say how
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  Speaker 1: great it was. I mean great spin to hide something
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  Speaker 1: dangerous here, a smuggling in of the European Climate Change
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  Speaker 1: gender Now primis anthing. Alban EASi got Vonderland to come
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  Speaker 1: to Camber to sell.
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  Speaker 2: What's she in Albanize, he felsly.
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  Speaker 1: Called the free trade deal that was supposedly make US billions.
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  Speaker 8: This agreement is set to add almost eight billion dollars
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  Speaker 8: to your GDP.
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  Speaker 1: Just eight billion dollars, almost eight billion dollars AH more
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  Speaker 1: than that, said alban Easy.
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  Speaker 7: This agreement is worth ten billion dollars to the Australian economy.
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  Speaker 1: Almost eight billion, ten billion. I mean, who cares, it's
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  Speaker 1: all made up anyway, But you know this deal was great,
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  Speaker 1: said the Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 7: It eliminates tariffs on key Australian exports including wine, seafood
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  Speaker 7: and horticulture. And it means our high quality Australian produce
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  Speaker 7: including beef, sheep, meat, dairy, rice and sugar will have
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  Speaker 7: access to consumers in the European market.
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  Speaker 1: The trouble is almost no agricultural groups agreed that this
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  Speaker 1: was a good deal that gave us meaningful extra access
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  Speaker 1: to European markets.
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  Speaker 6: It's a very disappointing day for agriculture generally.
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  Speaker 9: It really does foreshore as a kick in the guards.
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  Speaker 10: Or we never saw really any opportunity because the EU
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  Speaker 10: just give teams of billions to their agricultural sector every year,
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  Speaker 10: of which were dairy.
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  Speaker 2: Farmers over there.
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  Speaker 10: They a third of their income is actually directly from
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  Speaker 10: our government subsidies. So there was no way we were
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  Speaker 10: going to even get a footprint in there.
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  Speaker 2: But never mind the facts.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the government's spin got even more outrageous now.
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  Speaker 1: Albani is exaggerated the importance of this deal. Bay getting
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  Speaker 1: Vonderlayan to actually address our Parliament, an honor almost always
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  Speaker 1: reserved for leaders of countries which are important to us,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the US, China, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fonderline
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  Speaker 1: is a creature of the big European blob. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if she's not directly elected by Europeans, she's nominated by
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  Speaker 1: national leaders and then voted for by the European Parliament.
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  Speaker 1: She is just a politician's politician, actually, really a super
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  Speaker 1: bureaucrat with the European bureaucrats agenda.
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  Speaker 2: But Albedi says, but she's a woman.
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  Speaker 7: Crucially, you're about to make history as the first woman
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  Speaker 7: international leader to address this Parliament, an honor that will
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  Speaker 7: be forever yours.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, if she's a woman, of course you've got to
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  Speaker 1: give you this honor. But let's look behind the crass
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  Speaker 1: gender politics and the dud deal making, because this part
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  Speaker 1: a vonder Lane's speech to Parliament should be ringing alarm bells.
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  Speaker 8: I am proud that we have made decobonization a defining
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  Speaker 8: pillar of our free trade agreement.
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  Speaker 1: What this deal actually commits us to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: fossil fuels? Now, I went to look in the text
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  Speaker 1: of the deal to see, like how what and hello,
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  Speaker 1: guess what? That text has not been published anywhere yet,
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  Speaker 1: But the European Commission, unlike the Albanizer government, has very
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  Speaker 1: helpfully published a little explainer and yes, this is indeed
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  Speaker 1: Europe forcing US to follow its extreme climate agenda. For instance,
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  Speaker 1: it says both sides have agreed to effectively implement the
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  Speaker 1: Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which pushes that zero gender.
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  Speaker 1: Of course of the Liberals and Nationals now oppose. It
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  Speaker 1: says there will be a chapter in this deal with
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  Speaker 1: further provision on the fight against climate change? So what
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  Speaker 1: if we signed up for not specified? And it says
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  Speaker 1: this trade deal even integrates the European Union's approach and
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  Speaker 1: it's green and just grown plan and as novel provisions
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  Speaker 1: on the circular economy, deforestation and carbon pricing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what green manness is the government signed it's up for
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  Speaker 1: when it went to sell out our farmers. There's more
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  Speaker 1: references too, but wow, I wait for the text joining
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  Speaker 1: me is our Tuesday regular Now the Federals Federal Nationals
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  Speaker 1: leaders Senator Matt Canavan Matt Canavano, Let's start with the
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  Speaker 1: deal itself, the free trade deal, what we know of
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  Speaker 1: it isn't getting eight times more access to Europe for
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  Speaker 1: our beef better than nothing, or five times more sheep
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  Speaker 1: being sold? There is that at least worth something no
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  Speaker 1: tarotts on fruit and veg.
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  Speaker 11: Look, Andrew, I think you might be falling for that
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  Speaker 11: spin you identified just before, because whenever you hear the
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  Speaker 11: figure eight times something you need to understand, well, what's
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  Speaker 11: the base from which you're calculating that eight times? And
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  Speaker 11: if I can just take you through the detail of this,
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  Speaker 11: what has happened with European trade in the last decade
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  Speaker 11: is we used to used to have access to a
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  Speaker 11: fifty thousand ton beef quota around the world. We would
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  Speaker 11: often supply a big chunk of that, often twenty twenty
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  Speaker 11: five thousand tons. In twenty nineteen, European Union did a
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  Speaker 11: side deal, a ring fencing deal they called it, with
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  Speaker 11: their first Trump administration, where they reduced our quota to
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  Speaker 11: below four thousand tons and gave more to the US.
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  Speaker 11: And what the government is saying is because we're boosting
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  Speaker 11: it back up to around this twenty five thousand tons
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  Speaker 11: in shipped weight terms, that's eight times the three thousand.
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  Speaker 11: So isn't it really great that we've gone back to
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  Speaker 11: the exact arrangement we had roughly speaking with the European
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  Speaker 11: Union before before Trump was able to able to gazump
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  Speaker 11: us a few years ago. I mean, that's why those
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  Speaker 11: simple facts which the government did not outline, are exactly
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  Speaker 11: why the NFF out and said this provides no meaningful
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  Speaker 11: extra access. You played others saying that this is completely.
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  Speaker 6: A dud deal.
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  Speaker 11: Almost all farm groups are in one opposing this deal
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  Speaker 11: because they're not as stupid as the government seems to think.
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  Speaker 11: They're not going to fall for the spent of eight
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  Speaker 11: times access when in living memory they know that they
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  Speaker 11: had as great, if not greater access to the European
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  Speaker 11: Union than what the government has delivered today under a
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  Speaker 11: so called free trade agreement.
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  Speaker 1: And of course one other part of their argument is
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  Speaker 1: that here it's a poor deal which is now locked in.
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  Speaker 1: It's locked in because it's now part of the deal
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  Speaker 1: instead of something we still argue and pressure to change.
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  Speaker 1: Does it concern you that the European Union is saying
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  Speaker 1: this deal is based on decarbonizing, on sticking with the
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  Speaker 1: Parents Agreement, on adopting further provisions of funding climate change
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  Speaker 1: that have still not been revealed.
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  Speaker 11: Well, not only Andrew has the Prime Minister reneged on
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  Speaker 11: He promised not to sign just any deal. He said
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  Speaker 11: he would only sign a good deal. Not only has
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  Speaker 11: he broken that promise. He's also sold out our nation's sovereignty.
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  Speaker 11: You played one aspect of Angus's excellent speech today. Another
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  Speaker 11: part of it he said we should not trade away
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  Speaker 11: our national sovereignty through a trade deal. Absolutely right, absolutely right.
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  Speaker 11: But the Prime Minister has not lived up to that
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  Speaker 11: very important principle because here in this deal, as you've outlined,
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  Speaker 11: for the very first time, the Coalition has never signed
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  Speaker 11: a deal like this. For the very first time, we
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  Speaker 11: have used a trade deal to say that we would
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  Speaker 11: make a binding commitment to a climate agreement. Well, I
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  Speaker 11: think the only people that can make a binding agreement
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  Speaker 11: to something like on climate change are the Australian people.
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  Speaker 11: They should get to decide whether or not we sign
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  Speaker 11: these agreements, and this particular agreement, particularly the net zero
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  Speaker 11: commitment under that agreement, will be an election issue at
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  Speaker 11: the next election. So this is a backdoor way of
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  Speaker 11: the Prime Minister trying to avoid the screwt of the
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  Speaker 11: austral people. And then on top of that, Andrew the
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  Speaker 11: government's done nothing to push back on the EU's efforts
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  Speaker 11: to regulate our country. The EU currently has something called
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  Speaker 11: a deforestation Initiative where they've taken it upon themselves to
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  Speaker 11: decide which parts of our country we should be able
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  Speaker 11: to grow and raise catal on And if they view
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  Speaker 11: something as a forest, which in this country can just
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  Speaker 11: mean some trees, some scrub, they will say that you
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  Speaker 11: can't have cattle grazing under those trees and that won't
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  Speaker 11: be allowed to go into the EU. The government's done
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  Speaker 11: nothing to push back on that, and I do ask
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  Speaker 11: the question, who in Australia elected the EU to decide
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  Speaker 11: what happens in this country. Didn't we didn't we go
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  Speaker 11: through a whole process of gaining our independence and not
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  Speaker 11: genuflecting to European sovereigns, not thinking that they could dictate
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  Speaker 11: to the rest of us what can happen in this country.
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  Speaker 11: But under this government, under the Labor Party, they're happy
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  Speaker 11: to walk aside the globalists and take away the sovereign
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  Speaker 11: rights of Australians to decide what happens in their own nation.
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  Speaker 1: I just found an extraordinary that it's served right through
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  Speaker 1: this agreement apparently according to the Europeans, and this govern
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  Speaker 1: hasn't told us exactly what it signed up to.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it seems that the.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the government is doing a little decarbonization project of itself,
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  Speaker 1: Benji Minister Chris Bowen today had we now had more
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  Speaker 1: than four hundred petrol stations around the country now without
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  Speaker 1: some kind of fuel diesel or normal petrol or both
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  Speaker 1: no fuel at all.
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  Speaker 12: Here is In New South Wales the figure is one
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  Speaker 12: hundred and sixty four without diesel, two hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 12: two hundred and eighty nine without at least one type
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  Speaker 12: of fuel. In Queensland the figure is fifty five with
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  Speaker 12: no diesel, a thirty five with no regular unleaded. In
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  Speaker 12: Victoria the figure is one hundred and sixty two with
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  Speaker 12: one or more grades unavailable. In South Australia, it's forty six.
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  Speaker 12: In Western Australia, I'm advised it's six. In Tasmania it
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  Speaker 12: is one with no diesel and six with no unleaded.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Bonen says has done a lot to fix this,
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  Speaker 1: like releasing twenty percent of our reserves, like telling Ampole
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  Speaker 1: that can now sell high self for petrol here instead
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  Speaker 1: of having descended overseas, lowering diesel quality requirements so we
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  Speaker 1: could import more diesel sources from overseas.
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  Speaker 2: What more do you think should be done?
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  Speaker 11: Well, it's surprising us. Taken two weeks for the government
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  Speaker 11: to get this information. We asked about this yesterday and
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  Speaker 11: the apartment they have an answer today they seem to
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  Speaker 11: we have. The Nationals Party of launched a website called
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  Speaker 11: no fuel here dot com dot I you that you
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  Speaker 11: can go in and put in information that we will
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  Speaker 11: feed onto the government of the officials if your town
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  Speaker 11: has no fuel. We're trying to take action ourselves to
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  Speaker 11: give voice to the people that this government is ignoring.
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  Speaker 6: And in terms of.
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  Speaker 11: The action the minister needs to take, I just don't
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  Speaker 11: think the government has really used all the tools in
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  Speaker 11: its armory here to get the fuel flowing. In my
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  Speaker 11: experience as a resources ministry, you don't have to use
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  Speaker 11: the powers you have, but you can make sure through
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  Speaker 11: conversations that action happens. For many days, the government even
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  Speaker 11: denied that there was a crisis at all, despite people
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  Speaker 11: clearly not being able to fill up in many many towns.
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  Speaker 11: Now they say, yes, there are hundreds of towns without fuel,
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  Speaker 11: but that's good that they've got that information. The question
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  Speaker 11: is what are they doing about What are they doing
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  Speaker 11: going to the majors fuel supplies get fuel to that
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  Speaker 11: town or else? Because they keep saying, and I think
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  Speaker 11: they're right of it is that there's fuel in the country.
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  Speaker 2: There's fuel here.
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  Speaker 11: The boats have largely turned up since the crisis. It's
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  Speaker 11: just not getting out to many of these country places
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  Speaker 11: that need it.
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  Speaker 1: No, but it is four nearly four four hundred. That's
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  Speaker 1: worse than yesterday. I mean, the more they act, the
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  Speaker 1: worse it gets. I don't know what leaves their pulling,
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  Speaker 1: but this is even be the.
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  Speaker 2: Right ones, I think. Again.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time. Yeah, thank you mate.
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  Speaker 1: And to be sure to tune in on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It's Chris Human presents a special program on Australia's fuel crisis.
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  Speaker 1: It's this Sunday at seven thirty pm Australian eastn going
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: back to where we'll go back later to one nation's vote,
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  Speaker 1: because I think that needs to be talked about. But
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  Speaker 1: after the break, Donald Trump says Iran wants to talk peace.
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  Speaker 2: Iran says it's lying, but something is up.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's critics claim is just chickened out caved into Iran.
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  Speaker 2: But is it Iran that's caving.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday, the US President gave around forty eight hours
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  Speaker 1: let all tank US through the straight up from US,
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  Speaker 1: or he'd knock out the country's electricity supply.
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  Speaker 2: Well today our time, Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Said someone in the regime was now talking peace, so
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: he'd hold off on his threat for five days.
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: Be jointly controlled.
• 20:58
  Speaker 13: Maybe me, maybe me, But we're dealing with some people
• 21:02
  Speaker 13: that I find to be very reasonable, very solid.
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: The people within know who they.
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: Are, They're very respected, and maybe one of them will
• 21:12
  Speaker 13: be exactly what we're looking for.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: But the speaker of the Iranian parliament is a hardliner
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: called Mohammad Gharibuff. He claimed that Trump was lying, and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: he posted no negotiations that have been held with the US,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: oil markets, and maybe is even telling the truth. Maybe
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Trump is just buying time, getting people off his back
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: while the US and Israel keep bombing Iran's military and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: security apparatus. Yet Donald Trump is preparing to send Vice
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: President JD. Vance, especially Envoys Steve Whitkoff and Trump's son
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: in law Jared Kushner to Pakistan to indeed negotiate with
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Iranian representatives there, including or representing exactly that Mohammed Garlibuff
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: now Garnibuff, the White House reckons, is now the man
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: in charge forget the new Supreme leader. And he's a
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: terrible man, I mean as a hardliner, is corrupt, but
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: he has power. He's served with the Revolutionary Guard, he's
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: said it it's air force, and he was police chief.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: He could make a deal that could stick, but the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: dealer reportedly wants so far as crazy Israeli media is
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: reporting the Iran is offering to stop funding terrorists like
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a mask good, suspend its.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Missile program for five years.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: And limit uranium enrichment, but it wants to keep control
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: of them straight and get the US to close all
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: its US military bases in the Gulf region, which is
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: obviously a no go. Joining me, and I'm delighted to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: say is our new Sky News defense analyst is Peter Jennings,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: who's had senior roles in our defense department and head
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: of the Astran Strategic Policy Institute. Peter Jenny's great to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: see and great have you on board now this Obviously,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: if Garibuff is in fact the man, it's not a process.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: It's going to end up with Iran as a democracy,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: although Trump never promised that, but could it give the US.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Could this man give the US what it wants?
• 23:24
  Speaker 14: I think Trump is open to exploring that in talks,
• 23:27
  Speaker 14: and that's about as far as I would take it
• 23:29
  Speaker 14: at the moment.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Garibuff is an interesting guy.
• 23:33
  Speaker 14: He's the one senior figure which has managed to have
• 23:36
  Speaker 14: both a career in the Revolutionary Guards Corps and a
• 23:40
  Speaker 14: senior level political career, and as such, I think what's
• 23:44
  Speaker 14: emerging is he's become the Revolutionary Guards Corp contender for
• 23:50
  Speaker 14: a takeover of Iran, which really means that the theocracy
• 23:55
  Speaker 14: has finished, the Mullers are over, and I think it's
• 24:00
  Speaker 14: probably sensible that Trump should at least listen to see
• 24:04
  Speaker 14: how much room to maneuver Gali buff has to have
• 24:08
  Speaker 14: a negotiation. As you said, Andrew, there are some things
• 24:11
  Speaker 14: that the Americans will not give up. They won't give
• 24:13
  Speaker 14: up their Middle East bases. I don't think they can
• 24:16
  Speaker 14: accept in any way the idea that the Iranians control
• 24:19
  Speaker 14: the Straits of Homers. And note that Donald Trump was
• 24:22
  Speaker 14: talking about maybe there's some sort of joint control that
• 24:25
  Speaker 14: can be done.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: So Trump now has the luxury of an option.
• 24:29
  Speaker 14: He can see if there is something that he can
• 24:32
  Speaker 14: work with through Garibuff and negotiators going to Pakistan, or
• 24:37
  Speaker 14: he can continue the military campaign. And as we're now
• 24:41
  Speaker 14: dealing with the guy who was probably the fourth or
• 24:43
  Speaker 14: fifth on the level of political hierarchy, you can see
• 24:48
  Speaker 14: the Americans and the Israelis are working their way through
• 24:51
  Speaker 14: the senior leaders of the country and if that continues,
• 24:55
  Speaker 14: they're not going to be in a position to negotiate
• 24:58
  Speaker 14: any time soon. So I think it's a chance for
• 25:01
  Speaker 14: a run to maybe end the war, but if it
• 25:04
  Speaker 14: doesn't suit what Trump's looking for, they can continue the campaign.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Well, in fact, they can kill him.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I mean the fact that Galibuff is still alive might
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: indicate that the Americans won.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Him there alive to talk to.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And on your point that he had a career outside
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the Revolutionary Guard, he was mayor of Tehran and he
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: did run for president three times, although never got more
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: than seventeen percent vote.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: He does talk tough.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Is a bit trump like in that it's posted that
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the worlds are there with Gaza and against this colonial
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: terror regime meaning Israel in the US or it stands
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: for the Epstein class and child torture. Is a bit
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: rich him calling the US the Epstein class pedophiles when
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: he married his own wife when she was just fourteen.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Is it right for the US to help keep such
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: a man in power?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Do you think.
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: I would much rather we had regime change in a
• 26:04
  Speaker 14: more open society could come forward in Iran, but we've
• 26:09
  Speaker 14: not seen signs of that yet.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Let's be clear, gully Buff is a nasty piece of work.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: He was a police.
• 26:15
  Speaker 14: Chief at a time when student protests were put down
• 26:19
  Speaker 14: in two thousand and nine. He's rumored to be highly corrupt,
• 26:23
  Speaker 14: but then all of the senior leaders are so. He's
• 26:26
  Speaker 14: no Scandinavian social democrat. But he is the person on
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: the phone talking now to the Americans. And as I say,
• 26:36
  Speaker 14: at the very least, what he's done is he's brought
• 26:38
  Speaker 14: himself another five days of being alive. Because I'm sure
• 26:42
  Speaker 14: Trump will now hear what it is that he has
• 26:44
  Speaker 14: to say, without in any way putting ultimate constraints on
• 26:48
  Speaker 14: what the American campaigns should be.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: It might just work. And I guess we have to
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: be used to the idea that there.
• 26:54
  Speaker 14: Are pleasant, many unpleasant leaders around the world to deal with,
• 26:58
  Speaker 14: and Gullibuff become one of those, or maybe not. Perhaps
• 27:02
  Speaker 14: the war just continues. I think probably there's more chance
• 27:05
  Speaker 14: of that happening, that there is going to be some
• 27:08
  Speaker 14: miraculous deal agreed in Pakistan in the next five days.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I suspect you are right.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we're learning that a war in the Middle East
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: these days means war at home thanks to mass immigration.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: He had three mass men in London yesterday, burned four
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: ambulances of a Jewish charity parked outside of synagogue. A
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: new terror group calling themselves had cut Ashab al Yamin,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: linked to Iran's hardline Islamic Republican Guard Corps. It's claimed responsibility.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: British police are investigating that claims if it's right. But
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: if it is that group, it is the one that's
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: also claimed responsibility for bombing a synagogue in Belgium a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, then claimed responsibility for torturing a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: synagogue in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and then claimed responsibility
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: for bombing a Jewish school in Amsterdam. Like I said, Peter,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: responsibility for this latest attack is not confirmed, but it
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: is one more sign that maybe Middle East the wars
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: in our fort in western streets.
• 28:09
  Speaker 14: Well, this has very much been a strategy of the
• 28:11
  Speaker 14: Revolutionary Guards Corps, which have been responsible for building the
• 28:15
  Speaker 14: wherewithal to take these terror actions around the world, including
• 28:20
  Speaker 14: let's not forget Andrew into Australia at the end of
• 28:23
  Speaker 14: twenty twenty four with attacks both in Melbourne and Sydney.
• 28:28
  Speaker 14: So in some respects, it's almost a little surprising that
• 28:31
  Speaker 14: we haven't seen more of this in the context of.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: The last few days.
• 28:35
  Speaker 14: It may be that the Iranians calculated that they didn't
• 28:37
  Speaker 14: want to give Western governments excuses to more actively support
• 28:42
  Speaker 14: the Americans, but I think we should expect more, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 14: even if it's not actively directed by Tehran anymore, people
• 28:52
  Speaker 14: can still be radicalized online and self.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: Elected to undertake these sorts of attacks.
• 28:57
  Speaker 14: So there should still be concerned in Australia and all
• 29:01
  Speaker 14: through Europe that these are highly likely I think over
• 29:05
  Speaker 14: coming weeks and months.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Peter Jennings, thank you so much, and we had to
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: see you very very regularly on this show.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: After the break, Donald Trump gives a shout out to
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a Bolt Report.
• 29:18
  Speaker 13: Regular John Spicer, where Sean where shuon? Great job and
• 29:23
  Speaker 13: he's got a very successful television career.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump last week gave a shout out to a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: regular Tuesday commentator here on the Bolt Report, which I'll
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: also take as a tribute.
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: Members of the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors. Sean Spicer
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: has going on to a great thing, John Spicer, where
• 29:43
  Speaker 13: Sean where shon? Great job, and he's got a very
• 29:47
  Speaker 13: successful television career.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Indeed a great TV career. He's on the show, isn't he.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: He also has a think called the Sean Spicer Show.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: But this is the main game.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Seawan was, of course Trump's first White House spokesman.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Now not really that vain, it was a joke.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: And the US President also signed a copy of his
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: new book, Trump two point zero, The Revolution That Will
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Permanently Transform America Shawn Spicer, John me earlier Sean Spicer,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: congratulations on the book. I have to say, Donald Trump
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: has been president again, though for only a year, after
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: being so rudely interrupted by Joe Barden for four years.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: So why do you conclude after just that one year
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: that he has permanently transformed America?
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: Excellent question.
• 30:38
  Speaker 15: I actually talked with him about this in the Oval office,
• 30:40
  Speaker 15: and I said to him, quite frankly, I know that
• 30:44
  Speaker 15: sometimes you get upset about the four year gap between
• 30:48
  Speaker 15: your terms. But I said, the ability to stop and
• 30:52
  Speaker 15: think about the people and the process and the policies
• 30:56
  Speaker 15: is what's going to make this the most consequential and
• 30:59
  Speaker 15: what I mean by that Andrews. In the United States,
• 31:01
  Speaker 15: Donald Trump is only the second president ever to have
• 31:04
  Speaker 15: two nonconsecutive terms, and the first one was over one
• 31:07
  Speaker 15: hundred years ago, so he's the first modern one. And
• 31:10
  Speaker 15: when you're out of office, I said, think about it.
• 31:12
  Speaker 15: If you had stayed in office January twentieth were to
• 31:15
  Speaker 15: become the twenty first, were to become the twenty second,
• 31:17
  Speaker 15: you would have the same chief of staff, the same
• 31:19
  Speaker 15: press secretary.
• 31:20
  Speaker 9: You would have just keep doing.
• 31:21
  Speaker 15: What you were doing on Wednesday, that you were on Tuesday, etc.
• 31:24
  Speaker 9: And things would have just kept going.
• 31:26
  Speaker 15: But when you had four years out of office, you
• 31:27
  Speaker 15: could stop. You could think, who are the people that
• 31:30
  Speaker 15: are most effective that I want back, Who are the
• 31:32
  Speaker 15: people I want to keep out, What are the priorities
• 31:35
  Speaker 15: that I want to do, and what do I want
• 31:36
  Speaker 15: to learn? I tell people all the time it's like
• 31:38
  Speaker 15: a sports metaphor. If you play a team at the
• 31:41
  Speaker 15: beginning of the season, and then you play the same
• 31:43
  Speaker 15: team at the end of the season. When you play
• 31:45
  Speaker 15: them the second time, you know about the plays that
• 31:49
  Speaker 15: they use, the direction that they move the ball, or
• 31:51
  Speaker 15: the certain players on the field, if who are good,
• 31:53
  Speaker 15: who are not so good, and you have a much
• 31:56
  Speaker 15: different way of approaching that team than you.
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: Do when you played them the first time.
• 31:59
  Speaker 15: And I think very much the same as true in
• 32:01
  Speaker 15: politics here Trump is able to come into a second term.
• 32:04
  Speaker 15: Think about how we hit the ground running on day one.
• 32:07
  Speaker 15: When we did it, it was very epically. We had
• 32:09
  Speaker 15: a bunch of missteps coming out of the gate, just.
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: Because we were new.
• 32:13
  Speaker 15: Things weren't well known, the process wasn't baked in this time.
• 32:17
  Speaker 15: When he started on the twenty first, twenty second, twenty
• 32:19
  Speaker 15: third of January of last year, he came out of
• 32:22
  Speaker 15: the gate killing it because he knew exactly what he
• 32:25
  Speaker 15: wanted to do, how to do it, and he had
• 32:26
  Speaker 15: the right people to make it happen.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: And you've talked about why is consequence? You haven't talked
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: about what is actually done in what why has America
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: been transformed?
• 32:37
  Speaker 15: Well in several ways. I think the first and foremost
• 32:40
  Speaker 15: is that for those of us on the right, when
• 32:42
  Speaker 15: I graduated from college, we canceled our senior speaker. This
• 32:46
  Speaker 15: is going back into the nineties. Conservatives were taught sit
• 32:50
  Speaker 15: in the corner and take it. You're going to be censored,
• 32:52
  Speaker 15: You'll be canceled. Donald Trump taught us to fight. Think
• 32:55
  Speaker 15: about the woke DEI culture that for four years of
• 32:58
  Speaker 15: Biden ran rampant through the United States, the open border policies.
• 33:03
  Speaker 15: Donald Trump has shown us that if we stand and
• 33:05
  Speaker 15: fight as conservatives, we can win. We were told that
• 33:08
  Speaker 15: you couldn't close the border unless you had legislation passed
• 33:11
  Speaker 15: through Congress.
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: Donald Trump did it.
• 33:13
  Speaker 15: He was told that we couldn't level the playing field
• 33:16
  Speaker 15: with other countries. He went and did it right. There
• 33:19
  Speaker 15: are so many things that he has shown us how
• 33:21
  Speaker 15: to do differently that Republican presidents, Democratic presidents. You even
• 33:25
  Speaker 15: look at the MAHA movement to make America Healthy Again movement.
• 33:29
  Speaker 15: We've van dies and processed foods in ways that people
• 33:32
  Speaker 15: have just kicked the can down the road for years on.
• 33:35
  Speaker 15: So there has been a consequential shift in our culture,
• 33:39
  Speaker 15: in our society, in our policies in a way that's
• 33:42
  Speaker 15: never happened before, especially in such a short period of time.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Well, just on that very point.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Symbolically speaking, I noticed that Donald Trump's got a replica
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: of the statue of Christopher Columbus that was tossed into
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the harbor by protests under Joe Biden. As you know,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: we can colle on a list, how dare he and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: has put it back in front of the Eisenhower Building.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: So I mean that's an example too. I think, well,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I'm with you now, Sean. A lot of people are saying, well,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's come in and is you know, Mighty's right
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: kind of guy. He has torn up the rule book,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: torn up the rules based order that allegedly the world
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: lived under, and just, you know, my way the highway
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: kind of approach. I'm not so sure. I think that's
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: actually a bit of a con. I think the rules
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: base sort of was used to control democracies while the
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: autocracies went nuts and did things like invade Ukraine.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: But what is your response to that?
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: This this big, blustering America first kind of style of his.
• 34:53
  Speaker 15: I'm a fan of it. I mean, look, you look
• 34:55
  Speaker 15: at tariff's and trade. I was the assistant US Trade
• 34:58
  Speaker 15: rep in the last three years of W.
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: Bush.
• 35:01
  Speaker 15: I wasn't a trade guy by training by any means
• 35:03
  Speaker 15: I kind of stumbled into the job, but I bought
• 35:05
  Speaker 15: into this notion about US using soft power, and I
• 35:09
  Speaker 15: think there's something to that.
• 35:10
  Speaker 9: I'm not completely denouncing it, but I think.
• 35:12
  Speaker 15: What Trump said is, for example, we treated India and
• 35:15
  Speaker 15: China's third world countries and allowed the massive preferential treatment
• 35:18
  Speaker 15: insert of non tariff barrier options to enter into our market.
• 35:22
  Speaker 15: That was wrong, like we have for too long in
• 35:25
  Speaker 15: the United States. You look at NATO as an example. Again,
• 35:27
  Speaker 15: this was a collective agreement to pay two percent of
• 35:30
  Speaker 15: your national defense whatever your GDP was, for the collective good,
• 35:35
  Speaker 15: and country after country said, yeah, we won't have to
• 35:37
  Speaker 15: do it because the United States will pick up the tab.
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: They'll do more than we do.
• 35:41
  Speaker 15: Why shouldn't we just invest in social programs and roads
• 35:44
  Speaker 15: and bridges and let them carry the burden. For too
• 35:47
  Speaker 15: many times, the rules based order was really good if
• 35:51
  Speaker 15: you were everybody but the United States. And what Donald
• 35:53
  Speaker 15: Trump said, Hey, we've been picking up the tab for
• 35:55
  Speaker 15: too long.
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: It's time that we leveled that playing field.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: And there's another thing that many people outside of America
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: don't get, and that rubs him up the wrong way.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: In Australia, to the style like he'll say anything, whether
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: it's true or not, whether it's just a negotiating position.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Although a lot of people that are critics want to say, no,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: that's not a you know, a negotiating position, that's what
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: he really means, what he really wants, and they say, well,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: that makes him a liar or a man without a plan.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: To the point where now when he says he's having
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: talks with an Iranian leader and Heron denies, its assumed
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: that Trump or not Iran is a liar.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Here, explain what's really going on.
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: I think you just said it best.
• 36:39
  Speaker 15: You believe the Iranian regime that says something, and that's
• 36:42
  Speaker 15: what the US media's defaulted. They sort of they love
• 36:45
  Speaker 15: to talk about misinformation and propaganda, and yet the Iranian
• 36:49
  Speaker 15: regime is somehow they go to.
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: Again, I think that the president and his team have
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: met with a lot of people, there's no question about it.
• 36:57
  Speaker 15: But again, if that's what we're really getting our head
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: wrapped around the Axelon, it's misplaced. What we should be
• 37:03
  Speaker 15: focusing on is are we making sure that we are
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: a safer country because Iran's capabilities to enact us our
• 37:10
  Speaker 15: neighbors anybody in that region, the Europeans is degradated.
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: That's what we should be focused on.
• 37:16
  Speaker 15: Now, if you want to spend all your time try
• 37:19
  Speaker 15: to figure out whether he exaggerated a phrase or if
• 37:21
  Speaker 15: that was just a negotiating tactic. Again, I would argue
• 37:24
  Speaker 15: that you're focused in the wrong place. What we should
• 37:27
  Speaker 15: focus on is results, and that's what I focus on
• 37:29
  Speaker 15: as an American.
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: Are we safer? Are we more prosperous as a country?
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Shul Sparser, congratulations on the book. I look forward to
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: finishing what you've started. So thank you so much, indeed
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: for your time.
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: Always a pleasure inngrew. Thank you.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: After the break two of just twenty seven projects given
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: special help by the Albanize government I linked to the
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: former Labor Party president. The Albanizer government spends billions of
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: our dollars on its pet industries, you know, businesses it
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: thinks will take off or make us stronger, especially businesses
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: that make it look green. Now, two problems with that.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Of course, the governor is terrible of picking winners with
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the green hydrogen projects in back went belly up. But
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: also this can give the impression of crony capitalism or
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: at least the inside is profiting from their connections. Now
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that is the story here. I'm talking
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: about the look because Wayne swan is a former Labor
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Treasurer and Labor National President and is now linked to
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: two of the twenty seven projects given major Project status
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: by the Albanezi Labor government, and getting that status means
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: getting fast tracking status. The thing is one of those
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: projects of a company chaired by swan was to mine
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: silaca sand so that we then build soul panels right here,
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  Speaker 1: except it's now just exporting the stuff.
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  Speaker 2: To China and other foreign buyers.
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  Speaker 1: The other project is the planned star of the South
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  Speaker 1: Wind farm in Victoria, which the Sebast superfunder has a
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  Speaker 1: ten percent share. Swanish chairman of that as well. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Swanner's representatives say you did absolutely no lobbying of the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: government for either project. He didn't lobby ministers, didn't lobby
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: The Federal Environment in Climate Change Department, now run by
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: another former Queensland labor heavy Mike Kaiser, who once headed
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the Queensland Labor Premiers Department, joined me. Amir Schlid, the
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, and Michael Danby,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: former Federal Labor politician and chairman of the Joint Committee
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Michael Danby
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  Speaker 1: Again let me underline there is no evidence that anyone
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: did anything wrong at all in these examples. But it
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: is interesting that a former National Labor president has an
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: interest in two some projects approved by Labor government.
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  Speaker 2: Is it not.
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  Speaker 16: It's sad, Andrew that these projects were fast tracked in
• 40:07
  Speaker 16: order to help renewables by providing the silica, and in
• 40:12
  Speaker 16: the end it's just being exported the product to China
• 40:18
  Speaker 16: so they can build solar panels. I would have thought
• 40:21
  Speaker 16: during COVID we would have learnt about supply chains. And
• 40:26
  Speaker 16: you know, I don't denigrate Wayne personally, but it's all
• 40:30
  Speaker 16: of these projects looks like they're just going to benefit
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  Speaker 16: Beijing in the end.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Well at the start of the sea wind farm, well
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: that will require probably imports from China, although we yet
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: to see one of these massive wind farms. But the
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: concept mere of governments picking winners and in these cases
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: green projects, both which I think have big question marks
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  Speaker 1: on them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a sound way to run an economy, No.
• 41:04
  Speaker 17: Andrew, it's certainly not a sound way, and looking at
• 41:06
  Speaker 17: Wayne Swan's track record for his contributions to public life,
• 41:09
  Speaker 17: I'm not sure I touch and if his project's a
• 41:11
  Speaker 17: ten foot pole, but there you go. But look labor
• 41:14
  Speaker 17: inside as they certainly know what projects get ahead, and
• 41:18
  Speaker 17: that is net zero industry projects. Net zero has got
• 41:21
  Speaker 17: to be the biggest example of crony capitalism here in Australia.
• 41:25
  Speaker 17: These projects don't benefit anybody except the elites and the
• 41:29
  Speaker 17: select few billionaires whose projects stay afloat by a river
• 41:33
  Speaker 17: of subsidies and tax loopholes that are ultimately stay afloat
• 41:38
  Speaker 17: by taxpayers are footing the bill or through higher electricity prices.
• 41:42
  Speaker 17: So it's disappointing that we have a government who consistently
• 41:44
  Speaker 17: puts ahead the interests of those of their own rather
• 41:48
  Speaker 17: looking at the interests of Australians.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Now, Michael Danby, I have wondered, let me put it
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: as mildly as that. David Rowe, he's the cartoonist of
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: the Financial Review. He once drew this cartoon of Prome,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Minister of Scott Morrison with Treasurer Josh Friedburg, who is Jewish.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: A Frodburg drawn with a big hook nose which he
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't have and carrying a golden dollar. It was accused
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: of using anti Semitic stereotypes, which Row denied, but the
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: cartoon was then edited and republished. But now Rowe has
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: drawn this of this is Raeli Prime minister going of
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: as he drives and checks the blood of a Donald
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Trump missile going tore Torra, which is a reference not
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: just the Pearl Harbor of course Japanese war crab, but
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: the Jewish holy book, the Torah. As if Trump is
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: just a Jewish pawn.
• 42:49
  Speaker 16: Your response, well, David Rowe is a consistent crank and
• 42:54
  Speaker 16: bigot on these issues.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: He's well known.
• 42:58
  Speaker 16: This is a disgusting, dish, Durama kite kind of cartoon.
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  Speaker 16: Mister Chesel, who's the editor of the Australian Financial Review,
• 43:06
  Speaker 16: should hang his head in shame for showing this. Imagine
• 43:09
  Speaker 16: someone else's holy books being used in an expression, with
• 43:13
  Speaker 16: this ugly beast being written by a Jewish manipulator in
• 43:18
  Speaker 16: this case Bibe Netta, yell, shame, mister chesl eternal shame.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: You're the boss there.
• 43:24
  Speaker 16: You should have stopped this like Gwenda stopped some of
• 43:26
  Speaker 16: Lunig's cartoons.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Me is that how you see it. Are we being
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: too sensitive here? Is this just the you know, good
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: old fashioned stirring the pot or something worse?
• 43:41
  Speaker 17: Now, Andrew, I've got to echo Michael sentience there. This
• 43:45
  Speaker 17: is just tasteless, completely tasteless. And I will just say
• 43:48
  Speaker 17: David was a repeat offender. In twenty twenty three, right
• 43:52
  Speaker 17: before the Voice referendum, he released a cartoon in which
• 43:54
  Speaker 17: he depicted no voters are as Nazis. So, according to him,
• 43:59
  Speaker 17: sixty of the Australian population are fascists. So I don't
• 44:02
  Speaker 17: trust his judgment at all. He consistently performs in this way,
• 44:06
  Speaker 17: and he's got this issue completely wrong. It's completely takesless
• 44:09
  Speaker 17: and offensive. Make no mistake. Trump is doing the right
• 44:12
  Speaker 17: thing here under the eyetolers. In Iran, we have seen
• 44:14
  Speaker 17: the mass murder of tens of thousands of people of
• 44:17
  Speaker 17: their own people. They have made it very very clear
• 44:19
  Speaker 17: that they will not stop acquiring or building nuclear weapons,
• 44:22
  Speaker 17: and they absolutely pose a threat to the rest of
• 44:24
  Speaker 17: the world. But rather than talking about that problem, instead
• 44:28
  Speaker 17: of we're going to sit here and buy into tired old,
• 44:30
  Speaker 17: insulting anti Semitic tropes. It's just disgusting.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Look, you know, to both of you'll say, you know,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: calling him a bigot. I don't know David Rowe is
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: a bigot. All I know is that if you draw
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: something like that unconsciously, not unwittingly, whatever, that to me
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: seems to be very attuned to very notorious stereotype apes.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Of the past.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Then well, you mentioned de Sturma shows to me an
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: unbelievable ignorance of how these things can be perceived.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Let me put it that way.
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: There's a pat total's ignorant and helps to the result.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: There's a pattern, there's a pattern, and then he should
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: know a lot better. Or if he does know better
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: and still does that, oh yeah, yeah, I don't know
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: about this at all, Michael. More than four hundred fuel
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: stations in Australia have now run out of diesel or
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: unleaded or whatever. Strikes me as a massive failure. How
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: do you judge the government's handling of this?
• 45:39
  Speaker 16: Poor and the fuel reserves being so low is the
• 45:45
  Speaker 16: reason for this. I can't believe that there isn't more
• 45:48
  Speaker 16: storage in Australia available of In fact, I know some
• 45:52
  Speaker 16: private business people have offered to in the past to
• 45:56
  Speaker 16: put up their refineries or places to store still more
• 46:00
  Speaker 16: more diesel and petrol. But I don't think this situation
• 46:06
  Speaker 16: is such a crisis I'd be very interested in Australia yet.
• 46:10
  Speaker 16: I mean, there is an international fuel crisis coming because
• 46:13
  Speaker 16: of Hormuz, but I'd be very interested if our active
• 46:17
  Speaker 16: journalists found out more what was in the discussions with
• 46:20
  Speaker 16: Singapore from where most of our just in time oil comes.
• 46:28
  Speaker 9: Me.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Look, I tend to believe the government it says, you know,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: we haven't had one tanker not arrive yet. This is
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: driven by panic buying. I've got all that, but not
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: being able to ensure even so that the more than
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: four hundred petrol stations around the country don't go dry.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: That seems to me mismanagement.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 46:54
  Speaker 17: Certainly? And I think it definitely highlights just how short
• 46:57
  Speaker 17: sighted this government can be. I mean, it was forty
• 47:00
  Speaker 17: years ago that we had a Parliament sitting talking about
• 47:03
  Speaker 17: this exact scenario and talking about the need for Australia
• 47:06
  Speaker 17: to invest in its own oil. So we weren't seeing
• 47:08
  Speaker 17: the crisis that we're seeing now. Yet instead we have
• 47:11
  Speaker 17: a government who has spent more time are overseas playing
• 47:14
  Speaker 17: the globalist game. You know, indulging in various summits and
• 47:17
  Speaker 17: shaking hands at dinner parties and basically outsourcing our sovereign
• 47:21
  Speaker 17: capabilities to hostile foreign nations. And now we're in a
• 47:24
  Speaker 17: situation where Australia is in real trouble and I think
• 47:27
  Speaker 17: it has opened the eyes of many Australians just how
• 47:30
  Speaker 17: important it is that we have leaders who put Australians
• 47:34
  Speaker 17: first because national so international events like these will there
• 47:38
  Speaker 17: will be more of them. So if we don't have
• 47:40
  Speaker 17: a government who puts Australia first, we will consistently see
• 47:43
  Speaker 17: ourselves in trouble like we're seeing now.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: And instead we get a government that's just signing a
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: free trade deal with so called free trade deal with
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: the European Union that apparently has got lots and lots
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: of climate change clauses in it yet to be revealed.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: That's a real Worrychael. I've only got half a minute left.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: But the one nation performance in South Australia. What messages
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: that send labor? We know what messages sends the liberals?
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: What messages send labor?
• 48:11
  Speaker 16: Lift your game on immigration? How could possibly after promising
• 48:15
  Speaker 16: to depress the overall rate of migration there'll be five
• 48:18
  Speaker 16: hundred thousand people arrived in the last year, including fifty
• 48:21
  Speaker 16: thousand in January. Crazy. I was in favor of high
• 48:25
  Speaker 16: migration when Philip Ruddick was there, but it was about
• 48:28
  Speaker 16: two hundred thousand a year. This is a ridiculous and
• 48:31
  Speaker 16: it's the people are aware of where some of these
• 48:34
  Speaker 16: people come from that don't share Australian values, from Gaza
• 48:38
  Speaker 16: and isis Brides. That's what's driving working class concerns in
• 48:42
  Speaker 16: South Australia and elsewhere.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Very true, Michael Dambi Meerschlick. Thank you very much to
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: you both. Next Sharry Markson for me.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Good note.