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Speaker 1: It's the Gold Report. Tonight, Treasurer Jim Chalmers gives Ailing
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Speaker 1: Albanizi the elbow. Let me do the debates, what does
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Speaker 1: this mean? And the nasty left Former labor Minnsipeter Garrett
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Speaker 1: tells his fans a dance on the grave of a woman,
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Speaker 1: Gina her own heart, and Mega Markel uses her daughter
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Speaker 1: to flock a new lifestyle show also to note a
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Speaker 1: vicious new video from Donald Trump's national intelligence chief smears
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Speaker 1: Ukraine's president. I wonder are they after regime change? But
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Speaker 1: first time for a reality check, After all, this is
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Speaker 1: theory on the weekend over Donald Trump, that's true, Anthony
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Speaker 1: Alberanezi said exactly the right thing after the US President
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Speaker 1: attacked Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelenski. Trump abused him as a
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Speaker 1: hater in a shouting match on Friday and through him
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Speaker 1: out of the White House without signing a deal over
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Speaker 1: Ukraine's minerals that could repay America and save the rest
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Speaker 1: of Ukraine from being conquered by Russia.
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Speaker 2: And your people are very brave, but you're either going
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Speaker 2: to make a deal or we're out. And if we're out,
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Speaker 2: you'll fight it out. I don't think it's going to
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Speaker 2: be pretty, but you'll fight it out, but you don't
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Speaker 2: have the cards. But once we sign that deal, you're
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Speaker 2: in a much better position. But you're not acting at all.
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Speaker 1: Thankful, and that's not a nice thing. I'll be honest.
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Speaker 1: Threatened to Ukraine is ugly. But here's Albanezi saying, Ukraine
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Speaker 1: can at least rely on us.
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Speaker 3: We will continue to stand with Ukraine for as long
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Speaker 3: as it takes, because this is the struggle of a
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Speaker 3: democratic nation versus an authoritarian regime led by Vladimir Putin
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Speaker 3: who clearly has imperialistic designs. Not to sign Ukraine but
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Speaker 3: throughout that region.
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Speaker 1: Terrific well said, and European leaders, in an emergency meeting
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Speaker 1: in London on the weekend rushed to hand Zelenski and
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Speaker 1: promise they'd also step up. They would even pay more
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Speaker 1: themselves to guarantee Ukraine's security. British Prime Minister Keyastanma talked
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Speaker 1: very big.
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Speaker 4: We will go further develop a coalition of the willing
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Speaker 4: to defend a deal in Ukraine and to guarantee the peace.
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Speaker 4: The UK has prepared to back this with boots on
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Speaker 4: the ground and planes in the air, together with others
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Speaker 4: Europe must do the heavy listing. But to support peace
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Speaker 4: in our continent and to succeed this effort must have
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Speaker 4: strong US backing.
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Speaker 1: It sounds great, and in fact, Europe paying more for
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Speaker 1: Europe's own defense is exactly what Trapp has wanted all along,
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Speaker 1: and I guess you'd want us to pay more for ours.
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Speaker 1: But here is the reality check. If Australia is standing
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Speaker 1: with Ukraine, when is this government going to stop Australia
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Speaker 1: sending billions of dollars to help fund Russia's war machine
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Speaker 1: words are cheap. We are now weak underfunding our military,
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Speaker 1: gutting our industry, especially with climate change policies. All this
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Speaker 1: is embarrassingly clear from a new report from Finland Center
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Speaker 1: of Research on Energy and Clean Air. It says the
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Speaker 1: European Union is still paying more for Russian oil and
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Speaker 1: gas than it sends in aid to Ukraine to save
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Speaker 1: it from Russia. But the shocking kicker for US is
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Speaker 1: that of all the countries in this report examined, the
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Speaker 1: country is talking tough on Russia. You know, Europe, America, Japan, Canada, Australia.
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Speaker 1: Guess which one country buys the most products made from
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Speaker 1: Russian oil it's US Australia. This reports as Russia is
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Speaker 1: getting around, the West bands on buying Russian orb by
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Speaker 1: selling it instead to giant refineries in India and Turkey,
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Speaker 1: which loved this cheap oil, and they then on sell
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Speaker 1: the petrol and other other products to the West. And
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Speaker 1: it says the single biggest buyer was Australia, whose imports
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Speaker 1: from these refineries total three point three eight billion euros
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Speaker 1: that's five and a half billion dollars over the past year. Massive.
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Speaker 1: Now much of this petrol that we've bought is coming
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Speaker 1: from the world's biggest oil refinery in Jamnagar, northern India,
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Speaker 1: which now gets a third of its oil from Russia.
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Speaker 1: That's in the dark Red and their operators just signed
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Speaker 1: a massive new deal for more supplies from Rosneft, the
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Speaker 1: Russian state owned oil and giant and that's, of course,
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Speaker 1: being state owned, a big source of cash floor President
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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin's war machine. Now, are we going to stop
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Speaker 1: paying for this petrol made from Russian oil? Would we
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Speaker 1: think of paying more for our petrol even more by
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Speaker 1: getting it somewhere else not quite so cheap as if?
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Speaker 1: And the fact is we are as dependent as hell.
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Speaker 1: A quarter of a century ago, we had eight refineries
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Speaker 1: in Australia turning oil, including our own oil, into petrol.
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Speaker 1: Now we have just two small and in trouble, and
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Speaker 1: we don't have enough oil as well at all. Ah
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Speaker 1: we are sitting ducks. I mean, China could cut our
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Speaker 1: sea lanes tomorrow, we'd be out of petrol in weeks,
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Speaker 1: and we don't have a navy strong enough to do
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Speaker 1: a thing about it. As we saw last week we
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Speaker 1: had just three Chinese warships circling Australian firing guns. Our
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Speaker 1: government needed a virgin pilot to warn it about what
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Speaker 1: was happening. And we're now going to stand with Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: We can't even stand for ourselves, as obvious they leader
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Speaker 1: Peter Dutton pointed out today.
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Speaker 5: Australia is an island nation of twenty seven million people,
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Speaker 5: effectively in the middle of nowhere, and we need to
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Speaker 5: make sure that we have strong defenses, and we need
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Speaker 5: to make sure that we have functioning relationships with allies
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Speaker 5: like the United States, because nobody can really predict what
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Speaker 5: will happen, what threats will come our way over the
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Speaker 5: next century, and that's why we need strong leadership in
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Speaker 5: this country, and it's why I think people understand that
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Speaker 5: the Prime Minister is just not up to the job.
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Speaker 1: As for Europe now talking tough also weak. A new
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Speaker 1: report from the think tank Brugal says if Trump does
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Speaker 1: stop defending Ukraine, then Europe, to save Ukraine from a
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Speaker 1: full out Russian attack will need more extra fighting vehicles
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Speaker 1: than it has even now, more missiles and the lot.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Europe has been weak and lazy, leaving its
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Speaker 1: defense to America, which is what Trump has been furious
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Speaker 1: about for years. And now Britain and France say they'll
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Speaker 1: defend Ukraine with what without America. I mean, It's true
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Speaker 1: that Russia in this war has been bleeding men. Its
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Speaker 1: economy is in big trouble. Inflation is nine point five percent,
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Speaker 1: supplies are running short, the economy really well. People will
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Speaker 1: say this could be the last year when Putin can
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Speaker 1: hold it together. But Putin, with our oil money as well,
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Speaker 1: with our oil money as well, has nevertheless created a
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Speaker 1: war industry that the Brugal report said made two hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty six two hundred and twenty percent more tanks
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Speaker 1: in the past year, one hundred and fifty percent more
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Speaker 1: armored vehicles and artillery and more than four hundred percent
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Speaker 1: more long range loitering munitions, drones and things like that,
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Speaker 1: so that NATO, Germany, Poland, Denmark and the Baltic States
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Speaker 1: all think Russia will be re armed and ready to
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Speaker 1: attack again, maybe some other country next time, within three
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Speaker 1: to ten years, maybe even sooner. And it has formed
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Speaker 1: under Putin. Russia has attacked Chechia, Georgia, Ukraine first in
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, again three years ago. It's also propped up
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Speaker 1: the Syrian dictatorship until just this year, has sent to
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Speaker 1: troops to back dictatorships in Africa. Vladimir Putin's even poisoned
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Speaker 1: opponents in Britain and threat in nuclear war. That's how
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Speaker 1: little he cares about the European threat. Europe is not
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Speaker 1: going to be able to fight him alone, not when
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Speaker 1: it's got to fund these gigantic welfare states it's developed,
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Speaker 1: and when global warming schemes are killing its industry like
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Speaker 1: our schemes are killing ours. And with China backing Russia
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Speaker 1: and preparing for its own war over Taiwan, they'll be
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Speaker 1: bigger than Ukraine. Believe me, well, that's too big a
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Speaker 1: job even for the United States. In the end, the
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Speaker 1: US needs us too, It needs all of us to
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Speaker 1: really step up, not just with social media posts. I
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Speaker 1: stand with you. So I think Trump is going to
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Speaker 1: eventually sign this deal with Ukraine for a share in
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Speaker 1: its minerals in exchange for guaranteeing Ukraine's security and any
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Speaker 1: peace deal with Russia. So sure, stand with Ukraine, I do,
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Speaker 1: But with what? And can we even stand for ourselves?
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Speaker 1: Waving goodbye to one industry after another. It's time we
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Speaker 1: got serious, deadly serious, back home trity. Jim Chalmers yesterday
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Speaker 1: make clear he is the man to win this election
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Speaker 1: for Labor and his boss Anthony Albanezi. The implication is
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Speaker 1: is not. Albanez is probably a week away from calling
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Speaker 1: the election and is in big trouble. I mean a
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Speaker 1: new Redbridge poll shows he could lose up to eight
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Speaker 1: seats in Victoria alone. Tory has become a basket case.
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Speaker 1: I've oversedeen right over Albany's who seems to have all
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Speaker 1: the stuffing and any vision knocked out of him since
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Speaker 1: you lost the referendum for the voice, enter Jim Chalmers. Now,
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Speaker 1: there were real reports last week that nervous Labor MPs
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Speaker 1: were desperate for this ambitious treasurer to come help save
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Speaker 1: their seats. And yesterday Charmers said the election will be
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Speaker 1: fought on economics his strength and he wanted four debates,
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Speaker 1: it seemed during the election to win it for Labor.
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Speaker 6: I challenge the shadow Treasurer to a series of debates
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Speaker 6: about the economy. Now he has had almost three years
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Speaker 6: now and he still has no costed, coherent or credible
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Speaker 6: economic policies, and so I'd be happy to debate Angus
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Speaker 6: Taylor every week of the campaign frankly, So if Angus
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Speaker 6: Taylor wants people to take him seriously on the economy,
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Speaker 6: he will accept my challenge.
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Speaker 1: Today Jeremy's the panel Michael Kroger from the Victorian Liberal
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Speaker 1: Press and Steve Conroy form a Labor Senator and Cabinet Minister.
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Speaker 1: Michael for debates Anthony Albanezi. I think we'll be scared
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Speaker 1: to agree to you even two or three. Isn't this
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Speaker 1: charm saying that he can do what Albanezi cannot and
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Speaker 1: win this main argument of the election.
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Speaker 7: Well, he's trying to do that, but that ain't going
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Speaker 7: to happen. And the reason it's not going to happen
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Speaker 7: is Labor headquarters are going to say, listen, Jim, you
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Speaker 7: can't do four debates if the PM does one or
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Speaker 7: two because it looks as if we're trying to hide
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Speaker 7: Alban Easy. And the last thing you can do is
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Speaker 7: go into election with it looking as if you're trying
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Speaker 7: to hide your prime minister.
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Speaker 8: So that's not going to happen.
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Speaker 7: And Chalmers is obviously pitching for the leadership after the election,
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Speaker 7: so it's pretty clear why he's out in front. He's
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Speaker 7: going to try and get the leadership over Burke and
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Speaker 7: Plebasic and whoever else. So that's why he's thrusting himself forward.
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Speaker 7: But there's not going to be four debates because it
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Speaker 7: makes Alban Easy look terrible.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Steve Conroy Charmers seems to be a man who
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Speaker 1: thinks he can win the election, and Laboring Peace are
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Speaker 1: looking to him. What's stopping him from taking over completely
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Speaker 1: when the going is good.
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Speaker 9: Look, it's great that despite Michael saying that Jim Charles
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Speaker 9: was treasurer that we've ever seen training Wheels no idea
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Speaker 9: commentator for three years, he's one of the dominant figures
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Speaker 9: coming into this election. He is absolutely the Peter Costello
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Speaker 9: support and very strong debate, and Angus Taylor will run
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Speaker 9: a million miles from four debates because there is no
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Speaker 9: policy agenda on the table that Angus Taylor has put
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Speaker 9: forward at this stage. And we are maybe five weeks
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Speaker 9: from election day, five and a half weeks, so Angus
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Speaker 9: Taylor is not going to agree to four. Although I'm
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Speaker 9: sure we'll do the two usual ones, maybe an ABC
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Speaker 9: National Press Club debate and he'll do I'm sure he'll
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Speaker 9: do a Sky debate as usual. So Albo will do
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Speaker 9: the absolute usual amount. It's Angus Taylor that doesn't want
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Speaker 9: to front up for that amount of debates with Jim
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Speaker 9: Chalmers because the economic sorry for labor continues to be strong.
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Speaker 1: Surpluses the two things that the first time in years
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Speaker 1: you've really seen it. Albert's will agree that's the normal case.
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Speaker 1: Charmers saying we'll agree to four. So already we see,
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Speaker 1: already we see one goes challenge of it is not
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Speaker 1: and if it's such a great treacher, I have to say,
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Speaker 1: way of living standards gone back four quarter seven quarters
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Speaker 1: in a row. So I agree, it's amazing he's got
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Speaker 1: this great era of capability. But you look at the
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Speaker 1: economy and think, what have you done? Jim? Anyway? Look
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Speaker 1: for me though, back in Black Michael Anthony, what is
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Speaker 1: he's saying he now stands with Ukraine exposes how weak
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Speaker 1: we really are when last week the government couldn't even
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Speaker 1: handle three Chinese ships circling our coast firing their guns.
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Speaker 1: What is standing with Ukraine look like? What should it
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Speaker 1: look like?
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Speaker 7: Well, Andrew, he's saying what he should say, which is
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Speaker 7: that we're standing in support of another democracy, but doesn't
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Speaker 7: mean much. It means, you know, a billion dollars worth
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Speaker 7: of support that the Albanese has government's given to the Ukraine,
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Speaker 7: which is very welcome and we've agreed with and that
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Speaker 7: support should continue. The big problem with all of this
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Speaker 7: is that the Europeans have had no hope of reaching
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Speaker 7: any kind of resolution on this war with the Russians.
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Speaker 7: It's gone on for three years, which is why Trump's
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Speaker 7: now coming and said, well, first of all, you people
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Speaker 7: should fund your own defense fair enough. And secondly, you
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Speaker 7: people have had no serious discussions with the Russians about
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Speaker 7: resolving this dispute, so I'm going to come in and
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Speaker 7: try and resolve it. So you can understand why Trump
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Speaker 7: is doing what he's doing, even though we quite rightly
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Speaker 7: stand with the Ukraine and other democracies. I think this
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Speaker 7: guy Volensky, by the way, is an international hero. I mean,
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Speaker 7: I think he's been utterly magnificent during this crisis, so,
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Speaker 7: you know, all strength of his arm and let's hope
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Speaker 7: the Ukraine succeeds.
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Speaker 1: Stephen, What do you think Donald Trump is up to?
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Speaker 1: I'm going to play later in this show an absolutely
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Speaker 1: disgusting video from his top national intelligence advisor. I've played
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Speaker 1: it after the break, but really closing up to Putin,
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Speaker 1: like his critics say, closing up to a Russian war criminal?
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Speaker 1: Or is he just trying to get Europe to pay
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Speaker 1: more for its own defense.
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Speaker 9: Look, there are ways to try and get Europe to
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Speaker 9: pay more for Insta fans, but making Ukraine the price
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Speaker 9: is not an acceptable position.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you.
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Speaker 9: Some of his appointments are disturbingly pro Russian, as well
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Speaker 9: as his own pre elections and his own sycophancy towards Putin,
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Speaker 9: which has been on display. I mean just reading out
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Speaker 9: Russian talking points. You know, Putin's a dictator. You don't
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Speaker 9: get to sort of go oh, I didn't mean.
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Speaker 1: No dictator say that, so the dictator.
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Speaker 9: Sorry, that's what when he said, Zelenski is a dictator. Okay,
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Speaker 9: you don't get to say that. And it's a bloke
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Speaker 9: that refused. Was offered we can fly you out, you
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Speaker 9: can run the opposition from outside the country. He turned
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Speaker 9: it down, said, I'm staying and fighting with my people.
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Speaker 9: Being lectured by a draft dodger in Donald Trump is
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Speaker 9: really hard to stomach. So seriously, yes, Europeans, and they're
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Speaker 9: being forced to the table to put more money on
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Speaker 9: the table. But the key premise for successful peace is
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Speaker 9: that Ukraine have to have security guarantees, whether it's formally
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Speaker 9: inside NATO, whether it's with a NATO peacekeeping force with
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Speaker 9: American backing. That has to be a precondition has to
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Speaker 9: be made to understand by Trump that you get to
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Speaker 9: keep this area. People are going to be unhappy, but
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Speaker 9: that's where the line is now, and I'm personally dictating
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Speaker 9: the line, but there's a line both sides. It'll be policed,
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Speaker 9: it'll be looked after, but there has to be security guarantees.
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Speaker 9: That is the actual at the end, after all huffing
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Speaker 9: and puffing the theater that will take place. That has
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Speaker 9: to be a precondition for a successful peace going forward.
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Speaker 1: I think so too, But you know, Trump is making
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Speaker 1: all the signs that he might not even want to
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Speaker 1: do that, but I hope that it's just blustering negotiating tactic. Michael,
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Speaker 1: let me just switch back here because there's something disgusting.
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Speaker 1: I'll do more on Ukraine after the break, a really
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Speaker 1: important fact check and that video talked about, But back
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Speaker 1: here something really appalled me. You've got Peter Garrett, former
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Speaker 1: Labor Environments Midnight or Rocker, giving a in Perth on Friday,
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Speaker 1: tells the audience to pretend they're dancing on the grave
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Speaker 1: of a woman moaning billionaire Gina Reinhardt. Pretend you're dancing
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Speaker 1: on her grave. The West Australian Labor premier accused Garrett
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Speaker 1: is something the seeds of hate. Shouldn't he apologize for
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Speaker 1: this absolute barbarity? Well he should. I mean that guy.
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Speaker 7: Marty Sheergell, the Triple M host Tom Elliott on three
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Speaker 7: at W mentioned this this morning on Melbourne Radio. He
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Speaker 7: got sacked for criticizing the Matildas by saying, you know
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Speaker 7: they weren't he good blah blah blah, reminded him of
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Speaker 7: school children. Now he got sacked. There was a massive
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Speaker 7: pilon against him by everybody. Where's the pilon against against
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Speaker 7: Garrett for these disgusting comments about Gena Reinhardt. I mean,
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Speaker 7: Gena Hinhart's done more for this country, Peter Garrett, than
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Speaker 7: you've ever done, my friend, ever done. And she's employed
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Speaker 7: thousands of people, contributed massively to the national wealth of
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Speaker 7: this country, taking massive risks as her father did generations ago,
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Speaker 7: a generation before her. You know, the Hancock family have
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Speaker 7: made an enormous contribution to this to this country. And
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Speaker 7: for this grub Garrett to say this about her, well,
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Speaker 7: shame on him and well under the western Stonian premier
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Speaker 7: for and opposition leader for criticizing Garrett. What a disgrace.
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Speaker 7: Peter Garrett, you should you should apologize. You're a former
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Speaker 7: federal cabinet minister. You should apologize, my friend because you
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Speaker 7: you had, you put in a shock of my friend.
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Speaker 7: You put in a shaka and you're in disgrace. And
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Speaker 7: the quicker you apologize, the better for you and your
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Speaker 7: rock bands.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think Garrett's bed is burning here. Stephen, you
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Speaker 1: serve with this guy as a Christian is supposed to
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Speaker 1: be for the cuddly, you know, social welfare, you know,
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Speaker 1: hag a hoody kind of generation. What does it say
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Speaker 1: about where does this come from? Do you know this
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Speaker 1: kind of Peter Garrett that says this kind of thing?
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Speaker 1: Look to be honest.
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Speaker 9: I mean I served in cabinet with him for six years,
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Speaker 9: in Parliament with him for probably ten, and I hadn't
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Speaker 9: seen in temperate remarks like that from Peter. I think
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Speaker 9: it is deeply unhelpful to the West Australian election. West
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Speaker 9: Australian is a minimal resources state. They're a valuable part
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Speaker 9: of our national economy. Gena Wrighthart's played a role. You
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Speaker 9: don't have to like her where you don't have to
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Speaker 9: respect her. But I would think if I was Roger Cork,
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Speaker 9: I'd be beside myself, you know, a week out from
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Speaker 9: election someone from the East coming in and trying to
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Speaker 9: give a lecture and use that sort of intemperate language
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Speaker 9: would have been unhelpful to the West Astralian Labour's chances.
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Speaker 1: I think Peter, I've invested in many years. We reassure you, Steven.
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Speaker 1: I hate to see you in discomfort here. I think
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Speaker 1: Labour's going to win. Will Mark cost them a couple
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Speaker 1: of seas. Michael Kroeger, Stephen Conroy, thank you very much
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Speaker 1: to you both. After the break, Trump's top intelligence advisor,
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Speaker 1: she releases a video spearing Ukraine's president with Russian lies.
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Speaker 1: It's just extraordinary and it makes me wonder our Trump
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Speaker 1: officials now trying to topple Zelenski to a very disturbing
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Speaker 1: video put out by Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence
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Speaker 1: Tulsey Gabbard and promoted by Elon Musk. And this is frightening.
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Speaker 1: It's the US. Makes you wonder if the US is
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Speaker 1: trying to topple a foreign leader, Ukraine's elected president. I
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Speaker 1: think good people can disagree about what a piece steal
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Speaker 1: between Ukraine and Russia wood or should look like, and
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Speaker 1: even disagree about who started that terrible shouting match last
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Speaker 1: Friday between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President VOLTIMD Zelensky. To me,
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Speaker 1: there was fault on both sides. But now we're also
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Speaker 1: seeing filthy attacks on Zelenski personally Russian propaganda and to
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Speaker 1: repeat it, you know, Zelensky's a dictator, Zelensky's a crook.
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Speaker 1: Even Zelensky is Jewish and is banning churches in look
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Speaker 1: candas owns for that of Tucker Carlson. But to hear
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Speaker 1: some of these attacks repeated now by Tulsey Gabbard, a
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Speaker 1: top Trump security official who was already accused of being
22:18
Speaker 1: too much of a fan of letting me putin, is shocking.
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Speaker 1: This TikTok video by Gabbard is clearly meant to destroy
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Speaker 1: Zelensky's credibility, even to get rid of him.
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Speaker 10: Ukraine's President Zelensky has just banned yet another political opposition party,
22:33
Speaker 10: one that questioned his legitimacy as president. He began banning
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Speaker 10: major political opposition parties in twenty twenty two, when he
22:42
Speaker 10: also started banning TV channels that were associated with his
22:46
Speaker 10: political opponents. He counseled elections in the name of martial law,
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Speaker 10: suspending Ukraine's constitution so that he could stay in power.
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Speaker 1: And then that was followed up by Trump's national security
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Speaker 1: advisor with a hint that Zelenski should go.
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Speaker 10: Are you suggesting that President Trump wants Zelensky to resign?
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Speaker 11: We need a leader that can deal with us, eventually
23:14
Speaker 11: deal with the Russians and end this war. Uh And
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Speaker 11: if it becomes apparent the President Zelenski's either personal motivations
23:23
Speaker 11: or political motivations are divergent from ending the fighting in
23:26
Speaker 11: his country, then I think we have a real issue
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Speaker 11: on our hand.
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Speaker 1: Joining from Ukraine to put the facts. Is Ilia Uponomarenko,
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Speaker 1: a brilliant journaist I have followed on social media, an
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Speaker 1: analyst with a Kiev independent, brilliant publication, an author of
23:42
Speaker 1: I will show you how it was the story of
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Speaker 1: wartime Kiev. Ilia Ponomarenko, thank you so much for your time.
23:50
Speaker 1: Donald Trump himself has called your president the dictator, although
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Speaker 1: it did seem last week that he was backing down
23:57
Speaker 1: here he is.
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Speaker 8: Then, what is the thing that Lensky is Did I
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Speaker 8: say that?
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Speaker 12: I can't believe I said that?
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Speaker 1: Next version, can you tell me is your president a dictator?
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Speaker 8: Well?
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Speaker 13: President Znansky could be accused of a lot of things,
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Speaker 13: especially when it comes to his domestic policies, because we
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Speaker 13: live with him in this country and we have somewhat
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Speaker 13: less idealized view of him because of a lot of
24:29
Speaker 13: his decisions, chaotic decision making, the way he positions himself
24:36
Speaker 13: among institutions. But of course that's fiercely a galaxy away
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Speaker 13: from being a dictator in this country, and for good reason,
24:45
Speaker 13: because Ukraine is a kind of country where it's extremely
24:48
Speaker 13: hard to be a dictator and to grow up the
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Speaker 13: dictatorial power, because Ukraine is the kind of country who
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Speaker 13: had two revolutions, major revolutions within ten years against the tictorial.
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Speaker 8: Tendencies in those times, and Ukraine has.
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Speaker 13: Peers and extremely brutal political life, and in general, Ukraine
25:12
Speaker 13: is a country that has a very strong culture of
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Speaker 13: being oppositional to any kind of authority.
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Speaker 8: That's that is there. We extremely antagonistic.
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Speaker 13: Average Ukrainian is extremely antagonistic and extremely critical towards whoever.
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Speaker 8: Is in charge.
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Speaker 13: So even if Dnansky wanted to impose some sort of
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Speaker 13: dictatorial power, there were a lot of people who tried
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Speaker 13: to do this and ended up being disposed and flee
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Speaker 13: into Russia. So the answer is, of course know, and
25:46
Speaker 13: of course we must understand that with this back and
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Speaker 13: forth on whether he is dictator or not, with many
25:53
Speaker 13: other things, but with the elections, it's not really about
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Speaker 13: Zansky being a dictator. It's about Ukraine, and it's about
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Speaker 13: finding finding an excuse to usk him and remove him
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Speaker 13: from this equation of trying to make a great surrender.
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Speaker 13: It's about him and Ukraine, not about whether his dictator
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Speaker 13: or not.
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Speaker 1: I noticed that the Ukrainian partner are the unanimously, at
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Speaker 1: least the politicians who were there. I think it was
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Speaker 1: about a week or two ago to confirm that Vladimir,
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Speaker 1: that Voladimira Zelensky was acting lawfully under the constitution. But
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Speaker 1: why did Ukraine cancel elections? Tell us that.
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Speaker 13: They didn't cancel elections, and you know what Deparliament did
26:39
Speaker 13: in terms of your confirming the legistency of his actions.
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Speaker 13: It was more and more of a public move for
26:47
Speaker 13: you know, people outside Ukraine to see that, you know,
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Speaker 13: Zelensky is acting lawfully in a in full of callings
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Speaker 13: with constitution, with the law, because in what the Ukraine,
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Speaker 13: it's a non issue that Ukraine simply cannot have elections
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Speaker 13: during wartime. And we're not even talking about the constitution
27:06
Speaker 13: because constitution and the specific legislation on elections, they have
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Speaker 13: the direct ban on presidential and parliamentary elections during wartime.
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Speaker 8: So Derensky didn't cancel them.
27:17
Speaker 13: The actual situation is that as presidents during wartime acts
27:24
Speaker 13: as long as we as we dropped the martial law
27:29
Speaker 13: and hold another elections and elect another president. So he
27:33
Speaker 13: didn't cancel it because we can't have them during wartime.
27:37
Speaker 13: But just putting legal things aside, there's a consensus with
27:43
Speaker 13: the Ukraine that you know, with millions of people brought,
27:46
Speaker 13: up to ten millions brought to the refugees, with over
27:49
Speaker 13: a million people in the military, with twenty percent of
27:53
Speaker 13: the country occupied on the Russian occupation, but the active hostilities,
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Speaker 13: brutal or hostilities and will missile to acted happening daily
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Speaker 13: on the daily basis. It's going to be a very unrepresentative.
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Speaker 13: It's going to be a very competitive elections. And I
28:16
Speaker 13: can tell you that, uh, we have the consensus within
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Speaker 13: the society from the reaction of Zensky's opposition and I'm
28:24
Speaker 13: believe me when I tell you Zanski's opposition is feerce.
28:27
Speaker 13: You know, public figures like former President Petro Parashenka, if
28:31
Speaker 13: they had a chance, if they knew, if from their
28:35
Speaker 13: own polls and posters, that there is a public demand
28:39
Speaker 13: for you know, voting Lansky out, they will simply go
28:43
Speaker 13: high hell of high water to run another elections because
28:47
Speaker 13: you know, the position is brutal. You can have got
28:50
Speaker 13: a brutal political life. So by the time knowing that now.
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Speaker 1: When when you say this, right, all the critics trying
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Speaker 1: to make this out like there's a coup and all
29:04
Speaker 1: that going on, Why aren't they look at Vladimir Putin.
29:07
Speaker 1: He actually murders his opponents, even opponents in Britain he murders,
29:12
Speaker 1: and in Russian jails he murders. If you're worried about
29:17
Speaker 1: lack of democracy, look at Russia. But then this was
29:19
Speaker 1: this really cheap shot attack of President Zelenski's clothes on
29:23
Speaker 1: Friday by a fire right journalist relatively close to Donald Trump,
29:27
Speaker 1: repeating something that's infuriated the conspiracy right for years that
29:31
Speaker 1: Zelenski dresses like a man. This country really is at war.
29:35
Speaker 1: I have a look at this, do you ever, why don't.
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Speaker 8: You wear a suit?
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Speaker 1: Why don't you wear a suit?
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Speaker 13: You're the highest level in this country's office and you
29:44
Speaker 13: refuse to wear a suit.
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Speaker 1: I just want to see if you do own a suit.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, problem.
29:50
Speaker 7: A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting
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Speaker 7: the dangy in his office.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I find this a taxo hypocritical from Trump fans to
29:58
Speaker 1: say absolutely nothing when trumpel Elo mass the boss of it,
30:02
Speaker 1: turns up in the White House in even sloppier clothes
30:05
Speaker 1: with his Fidgiti sun wiping his nose on the president's desk,
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Speaker 1: holds the media spotlight with the president just sitting there.
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Speaker 1: Tell us about your president's refusal to wear a suit?
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Speaker 1: What's that about?
30:19
Speaker 8: What I told it on social media?
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Speaker 13: Trying to explain this is that you know there in
30:23
Speaker 13: the tactical sema military outfits is a very important part
30:28
Speaker 13: of Ukrainian life right now amid war. We have a
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Speaker 13: very developed culture of you know, military critiques, semi military
30:35
Speaker 13: tactical gear, things like that. It's it's about the military,
30:39
Speaker 13: it's about the people who are at some extent a
30:45
Speaker 13: tributal to war and you know Ukrainian national defense, such
30:49
Speaker 13: as journalists, such as volunteers. So it's a very important
30:53
Speaker 13: aspect of life amid war in Ukraine. There's entire culture,
30:58
Speaker 13: a domain of culture in this and it's also a message.
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Speaker 13: You may not be a soldier, but at the same
31:03
Speaker 13: time you know you are working for this country, you
31:06
Speaker 13: are adjacent to hostilities.
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Speaker 8: You work as a journalists for instance, and this is
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Speaker 8: the message.
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Speaker 13: I may not be a soldier, but I support my
31:14
Speaker 13: country's defense and I contribute to my part into this,
31:18
Speaker 13: so Zenansky actually represents this spirit and this nature, and
31:23
Speaker 13: it's to me it's very important that he does not
31:25
Speaker 13: wear like camouflage, fatigues like a soldier or military uniform
31:28
Speaker 13: because frankly, he's not a soldier. He presents the country
31:32
Speaker 13: at war, but he's not a soldier, and he treats
31:35
Speaker 13: the fighting soldiers with respect. So this is the message.
31:39
Speaker 13: It's the message, and it's just a reflection of the
31:42
Speaker 13: country that Zenski represents. And frankly, speaking of this suit issue,
31:49
Speaker 13: it's it's not really about suits, it's about much more
31:52
Speaker 13: fundamental things. It was this confrontation over petty things like
31:57
Speaker 13: suits and this disregard. It simply simply a clash between
32:02
Speaker 13: two worlds in the new situation.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well look, Eliah, what I think is going on, Well,
32:09
Speaker 1: like I said before, the conspiracy cooks there hate and
32:14
Speaker 1: Putin hates Pete Vladimir of Vladimir is Zelenski turning up,
32:20
Speaker 1: reminding people that this country is in partial occupation and
32:23
Speaker 1: farding for its survival. They don't like that, reminder that
32:26
Speaker 1: this is series, it's not a game. Ilia Panamarenko, you
32:30
Speaker 1: did a brilliant post on this. I recommend people go
32:32
Speaker 1: to your account on x and read it for themselves
32:35
Speaker 1: and follow your journalism. Thank you so much, indeed, and
32:38
Speaker 1: good luck with your book. Are you so many people
32:42
Speaker 1: who really should know better joining some of these attacks
32:45
Speaker 1: on Zelenski? I get it. You know, there's a huge
32:49
Speaker 1: audience for it. On x ex owner Elon Musk is
32:52
Speaker 1: repeating some of it. They retweeted from him. Well, that
32:54
Speaker 1: could make you a star. So they're playing to this crowd.
32:57
Speaker 1: But this is not a joke. This is not someone's
33:00
Speaker 1: ratings battle.
33:02
Speaker 2: This is going to have been a great television I
33:04
Speaker 2: will say that.
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Speaker 1: No, this is really about people in Ukraine fighting for
33:10
Speaker 1: their freedom. This is about stopping the Russia China alliance
33:14
Speaker 1: from starting yet another war, and a bigger one this time,
33:17
Speaker 1: say Taiwan. So while I thought the Ukrainian president should
33:21
Speaker 1: have acted more gratefulness meeting with Trump that went so
33:23
Speaker 1: hire And while you heard Elia Panamarenko just say there
33:27
Speaker 1: are decisions Zelenski has made that are wrong whatever, who
33:32
Speaker 1: knows mistakes get made? I feel very much his frustration
33:36
Speaker 1: afterwards when he was explaining what went wrong in that
33:39
Speaker 1: White House meeting.
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Speaker 15: Well, they for example, said that Ukraine is almost destroyed,
33:47
Speaker 15: that our soldiers run away, that they are not heroes,
33:52
Speaker 15: that Ukraine lost million of civilians, that his president is dictator.
33:58
Speaker 15: You know what is the reaction. It's not funny, you know,
34:02
Speaker 15: or fairy tale. This is real live.
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Speaker 1: I think the people who are joining this baiting and
34:08
Speaker 1: mocking of Zelenski, they are signing with thugs and bullies,
34:12
Speaker 1: and only because they seen these thugs and bullies seem
34:15
Speaker 1: to be strong and winning, winning, winning. This is what
34:18
Speaker 1: coward's do, Pandera's lickspittles for dictators. Freedom should have better
34:24
Speaker 1: friends and on sky I hope it does. After the break,
34:31
Speaker 1: talking about smearing, how about spearing Australia. The Human Rights
34:34
Speaker 1: Commission and Anthony Albnezi both caught out. We have institutions,
34:43
Speaker 1: many of them taxpayer funded, who seem desperate to teach
34:46
Speaker 1: as strands. This is a terrible country, so racist. Take
34:52
Speaker 1: our Human Rights Commission. It's now upset that Australia's school
34:55
Speaker 1: celebrate something these days called Harmony Day. It says that
34:59
Speaker 1: name actually hides to suppose long standing systemic racial discrimination
35:03
Speaker 1: many people have faced in Australia, and it wants the
35:05
Speaker 1: name changed back to the International day for the elimination
35:09
Speaker 1: of racial discrimination. Now, this Human Rights Commission should be
35:14
Speaker 1: defunded for causing harm to the nation, for always assuming
35:17
Speaker 1: the worst of us. Take the latest example a case
35:22
Speaker 1: going through the courts right now. Two and a half
35:25
Speaker 1: years ago, an Aboriginal fifteen year old Cassius Turvy, an
35:29
Speaker 1: apparently kind and bright boy, was killed in what a
35:32
Speaker 1: prosecutor has now told the trial was a vengeful act
35:35
Speaker 1: of vigilante violence after Carver's damage, apparently by others. Now
35:40
Speaker 1: the time, though, the Human Rights Commission jumped on this
35:43
Speaker 1: strategy is somehow race based, saying the violence that has
35:46
Speaker 1: killed Cassius Turvy is structural and the solution is indigenous
35:51
Speaker 1: self determination. And it blamed colonization and history of discriminatory
35:57
Speaker 1: laws and policies which it said were fundamental in justice
36:00
Speaker 1: that echo through the lives of First Nations people's and
36:03
Speaker 1: all Australians are They similarly weighed in activist groups, churches,
36:10
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister all blaming racist Australia.
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Speaker 3: This attack that clearly is racially motivated, just breaks your heart.
36:20
Speaker 8: We've seen what it's been like to be a blackfellow.
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Speaker 12: We will be seeing.
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Speaker 16: People turning out and record numbers across Australia because we
36:30
Speaker 16: want an end to violence, We want an end to
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Speaker 16: the alleged racism that allegedly murdered Cassius and we need
36:41
Speaker 16: allies to stand up.
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Speaker 1: And indeed more than forty rallies were held around Australia,
36:47
Speaker 1: often by socialist groups attacking our racism. One was even
36:51
Speaker 1: held in Los Angeles. Now, I make no comment on
36:54
Speaker 1: guilt or innocence or even motive in this case, and
36:56
Speaker 1: talking about people leaping to the worst conclusions about their
37:01
Speaker 1: own country before a word of evidence was heard, and
37:05
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the court has now actually been told
37:07
Speaker 1: so far. The prosecutor said, in fact, there was not
37:10
Speaker 1: a shred of evidence that the alleged murder was racially motivated.
37:15
Speaker 1: One of the defense barrises agreed, saying anyone who said
37:18
Speaker 1: racism was behind this was misinformed, ill advised and misguarded.
37:23
Speaker 1: So any apology from all those people who exploited this
37:27
Speaker 1: tragedy to scream racist joinings the panel. This story of
37:31
Speaker 1: the late debate here on Sky Weekdays at ten pm
37:34
Speaker 1: and Stephen Trevura, an author and senior lecture and history
37:37
Speaker 1: at Campion College. As Stephen again I don't want any
37:41
Speaker 1: of us to comment at all about this case. But
37:44
Speaker 1: here is the Human Rights Council, which gets thirty million
37:47
Speaker 1: dollars a year from taxpayers, now saying don't call it
37:51
Speaker 1: Harmony Day because kids will think we're not that racist.
37:54
Speaker 1: Why do we fund this.
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Speaker 17: It should be absolutely defunded. And as you say, it
37:59
Speaker 17: is actually a harmful organization for Australia because it teaches
38:03
Speaker 17: children to hate this country. But it also teaches children
38:08
Speaker 17: to hate one another, because when you teach children that
38:11
Speaker 17: Australia is racist against them, that teaches them that their
38:15
Speaker 17: fellow Australians are actually their enemies. So it's actually sowing
38:18
Speaker 17: the seeds of division. We actually know statistically and via
38:22
Speaker 17: studies done by the Washington Post and the World Population Review,
38:26
Speaker 17: that Australia is actually one of the least racist countries
38:29
Speaker 17: in the world. The most racist countries are countries like India, Lebanon, Egypt.
38:35
Speaker 17: Many countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East are much
38:39
Speaker 17: more racist than Australia. In fact, immigrants who come to
38:42
Speaker 17: Australia are far more likely to be coming from a
38:45
Speaker 17: much more racist country than any racism in Australia. They'll
38:49
Speaker 17: experience and the Human Rights Commission is absolutely trashing this country,
38:54
Speaker 17: and it is simply teaching people to hate this country
38:58
Speaker 17: and really just sort of creating more work for itself
39:02
Speaker 17: because they're never going to say Australia is fine, and
39:05
Speaker 17: say Australia it's fine, that's exactly right.
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Speaker 1: They're out of a job. They're out of a job,
39:10
Speaker 1: exactly This is what do you make of this? I mean,
39:12
Speaker 1: shouldn't be funding this crowd, of.
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Speaker 2: Course, not.
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Speaker 18: What they're trying to do here Andrew is enforced. They're
39:19
Speaker 18: trying to enforce critical race theory in our schools. It's
39:24
Speaker 18: as simple as that. I love what the Trump administration
39:26
Speaker 18: has done recently about this. In America. They gave schools
39:30
Speaker 18: until February twenty eight to get rid of all DEI,
39:33
Speaker 18: all critical race theory out of the classroom. They're sick
39:36
Speaker 18: of the indoctrination. They recognize it as a cancer upon
39:40
Speaker 18: their nation. They said, get rid of it by the
39:42
Speaker 18: twenty eighth of February or lose your federal funding. And
39:46
Speaker 18: what school is going to risk that Now that the
39:49
Speaker 18: date has passed, They've sent up a porthole online for
39:53
Speaker 18: parents and teachers to access to Dobbs schools. In so
39:58
Speaker 18: those schools, those teachers. Do you think they can still
40:01
Speaker 18: get away with it? All parents have to do is
40:03
Speaker 18: jump online and say hey, this is going on in
40:06
Speaker 18: this school. This is their address, this is the name
40:08
Speaker 18: of the teacher.
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Speaker 7: Go get them.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think the problem is the Human Rights Commission
40:13
Speaker 1: set up to be funded for the problems. It finds
40:16
Speaker 1: if it was funded for the good, it finds we'd
40:19
Speaker 1: have a very different organization. And meanwhile, Stephen, why do
40:23
Speaker 1: we let some people into this country or back into it?
40:27
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of here now this time Asala Sayara, she
40:31
Speaker 1: helped launch the Muslim Vote, which is a movement now
40:35
Speaker 1: to get more Muslims the parliament of this election. She
40:37
Speaker 1: also helped organize the ugly pro Palacinian Opera House protests
40:41
Speaker 1: on October nine, just after the massacre of twelve hundred
40:44
Speaker 1: Jews by Hamas, and now as photographed herself add a
40:48
Speaker 1: rally in Jordan in December last year to celebrate that
40:52
Speaker 1: same Hamas theist group. She joined in the chants there listen, Stephen,
41:05
Speaker 1: I'm not saying she supports terrorist acts, but I'm saying
41:08
Speaker 1: this footage suggests she supports alliced terrorist group and we
41:13
Speaker 1: took her in from the Palasinian West Bank. What did
41:15
Speaker 1: you say about our immigration system.
41:17
Speaker 17: That it's a form of national suicide. Our immigration system
41:21
Speaker 17: after World War II was absolutely fantastic. We focused on
41:25
Speaker 17: people from cultures and regions which were very conducive, very
41:30
Speaker 17: compatible with our British heritage.
41:33
Speaker 8: We knew who we were back then.
41:35
Speaker 17: With the policy of multiculturalism that largely came in in
41:39
Speaker 17: the nineteen seventies, we refuse to acknowledge who we are
41:43
Speaker 17: that is a British based nation, and that meant we
41:46
Speaker 17: just started bringing in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands
41:50
Speaker 17: of people from cultures that just do not sit easily
41:53
Speaker 17: with our culture. Now in Australia, we have thousands of
41:57
Speaker 17: people who hate Australia, who hate jew who's who love
42:01
Speaker 17: who love terrorist organizations. And again, Peter Dutton would be
42:05
Speaker 17: on to a winner if he said he's just going
42:07
Speaker 17: to deport all the people that he can deport who
42:11
Speaker 17: are openly praising a terrorist organization.
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Speaker 1: Our immigration policy is just extraordinary to me. Where's the gratitude?
42:20
Speaker 1: I mean, Liz, what do you make of this?
42:23
Speaker 18: More of the same, isn't it? Andrew and doctor Fusheviro
42:27
Speaker 18: is absolutely right there.
42:29
Speaker 10: It's our fault.
42:30
Speaker 18: We have imported I'd say up to a million people
42:34
Speaker 18: now that we know that's how many people who look
42:37
Speaker 18: not all Muslims are going to be of a worldview
42:40
Speaker 18: that they do support Hamas or any other terrorist group.
42:43
Speaker 18: But we know that we have masses of numbers here
42:46
Speaker 18: from cultures that are not compatible with our own. Who
42:50
Speaker 18: among us is enjoying this cultural enrichment, Absolutely no one.
42:54
Speaker 18: But this is the lie, Andrew, that people throughout the
42:57
Speaker 18: West have been sold wonder of multiculturalism, and it's no
43:03
Speaker 18: coincidence that that has been done at the same time
43:06
Speaker 18: that our countries have been absolutely flooded with people from
43:11
Speaker 18: incompatible cultures, incompatible religions, and incompatible deeply held value.
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Speaker 1: They might not be incompatible cultures, but I tell you what,
43:20
Speaker 1: and a significant number of people are trying to prove it.
43:22
Speaker 1: Seem to be determined to prove that they are. And
43:26
Speaker 1: that is my issue here is Liz Storo, Stephen Javera,
43:29
Speaker 1: thank you very much to you both. After the break
43:31
Speaker 1: the King to the rescue of Ukraine, while son while
43:36
Speaker 1: the King's son and Mega Markel used their daughter to
43:39
Speaker 1: flog Michael's lifestyle show. What happens to their desire for privacy?
43:47
Speaker 1: Is Britain great again or kidding itself? We saw early
43:50
Speaker 1: in the show the British Prime Minister is saying, don't worry.
43:52
Speaker 1: If the US won't, we will put boots on the
43:55
Speaker 1: ground in Ukraine to guarantee it's security from Russia in
43:58
Speaker 1: any piece deal. There's even be talking Britain and France
44:00
Speaker 1: protecting Europe from Russia. Within nuclear weapons of the works,
44:04
Speaker 1: we say, hang on, you need at least another one
44:06
Speaker 1: thousand nuclear bombs to match what Russia has. Journally from
44:09
Speaker 1: London is author, commentator and presenter is the who is
44:12
Speaker 1: the great to see you again? Oh this sounds great? Yeah,
44:15
Speaker 1: great Britain again? Or is this just talk to mask
44:19
Speaker 1: Europe's crippling weakness without the US to back it up.
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Speaker 14: Well, if you can see through it quite clearly, I
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Speaker 14: think you can guess the mood here in Britain, which
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Speaker 14: is one of utter despair and bewilderment.
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Speaker 12: I mean, just to put.
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Speaker 14: Into context the dire state of Britain's armed forces. By
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Speaker 14: the end of this year, we're expected to have less
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Speaker 14: than seventy thousand seven zero thousand trained soldiers in the
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Speaker 14: British Army.
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Speaker 12: That's not enough to fill Wembley's stadium.
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Speaker 14: We've had more people coming across the channel illegally in
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Speaker 14: the last few years than we have soldiers standing in
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Speaker 14: the British Army. And yet kirstarm Our Prime Minister prematurely
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Speaker 14: committed our troops to the Ukraine.
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Speaker 12: Border without approval from.
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Speaker 14: Parliament, without even running it by any other politician, and
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Speaker 14: without actually understanding the legit six of how underfunded our
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Speaker 14: military is. I mean, he decided to extend olive branch
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Speaker 14: to Donald Trump by saying that we're going to increase
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Speaker 14: military spending as the presensus of GDP by zero point
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Speaker 14: two percent, which is about thirteen billion pounds.
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Speaker 12: Where that money will come from, we don't know.
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Speaker 14: We can't keep our pension as warm for the winter,
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Speaker 14: but somehow they can conjure up money for our defense
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Speaker 14: forces that have been severely underfunded.
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Speaker 12: Over the last thirty years. I mean, it's almost embarrassing.
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Speaker 14: I don't think they understand the severity of this and
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Speaker 14: all the anger that's being thrown at Donald Trump for
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Speaker 14: somehow not wanting the US to continue to bankroll Europe's security.
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Speaker 14: It's completely missing the point. How have European leaders failed
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Speaker 14: in their most basic duty to protect their.
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Speaker 12: Citizens over decade?
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Speaker 14: Instead, they've been pilfering wealth, tax money on welfare, spending
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Speaker 14: on vanity projects like net zero and all of this,
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Speaker 14: and now you know, the chickens have come home to roost.
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Speaker 14: The fact that Germany and other European countries were happy
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Speaker 14: to take Russian gas and make it the base for
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Speaker 14: the industrial capacity for years just shows how so they
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Speaker 14: had paid attention to the threat of Russia. But unfortunately
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Speaker 14: they can't do that anymore.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that you put it so well, I mean you'd
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Speaker 1: laugh if it wasn't so tragic and one day potentially
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Speaker 1: very very serious. I think King Charles has been brought out,
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Speaker 1: brought out to side with Zelenski or that was meant
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Speaker 1: to stay out of politics. Well good on him, But
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Speaker 1: what do you make of that.
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Speaker 12: I don't envy King Charles.
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Speaker 14: I mean, if you think Kisal is doing a lot
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Speaker 14: of the heavy lifting, then King Charles must must have
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Speaker 14: a second career as a bodybuilder, because to be honest,
46:35
Speaker 14: it's only King Charles and the royal family that has
46:37
Speaker 14: basically smooth over the relationship between Trump and and Starmer's.
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Speaker 12: He's the only real reason why.
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Speaker 14: Why Trump's team is even tolerating him, because we know
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Speaker 14: that President Trump has a ponesce for the Royal family.
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Speaker 14: You know, Kiss was trying to make his position clear
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Speaker 14: and his you know, his support for the Ukraine cause clear,
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Speaker 14: while also not trying to ruffle Donald Trump's feathers. He's
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Speaker 14: been very complimentary, saying, you know, Donald Trump wants peace,
46:58
Speaker 14: he wants what's best for everyone, and his handlers are
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Speaker 14: working over time to make him seem like a centrist,
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Speaker 14: sensible leader, when really Trump is just steamrolling all over
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Speaker 14: all these European leaders who really have to look at
47:09
Speaker 14: themselves and how much they've disappointed and let down their
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Speaker 14: own populations over decades. And unfortunately that's that they can't
47:15
Speaker 14: run away from that anymore.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, that is so true. Sticking with the
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Speaker 1: Royals to see that Megan Michael has use their daughter
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Speaker 1: Princess a Lily Bit to promote a new lifestyle show
47:26
Speaker 1: coming up. Playing a game with Markel and Tens champions
47:30
Speaker 1: Serenda Williams is supposed And I thought they wanted Harry,
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Speaker 1: Meghan wanted ultimate privacy, especially for the children.
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Speaker 14: Yes, well, with that privacy only extends to when they
47:40
Speaker 14: don't have something to flog. That doesn't that doesn't extend
47:44
Speaker 14: so much when there's money to be made.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 12: The series is coming out tomorrow.
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Speaker 14: And the US Megamarkels new series of Netflix, and really
47:50
Speaker 14: it's kind of the last ditch effort to make sure
47:53
Speaker 14: the Netflix has some bang for their buck.
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Speaker 12: So we'll see how it turns out.
47:56
Speaker 14: Everyone is waiting with bated breath to see what this
47:58
Speaker 14: you know, closet mother Stewart has for the rest of
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Speaker 14: the world.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I thought it was you know, what a
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Speaker 1: coincidence that the one person that she's seen playing a
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Speaker 1: game with apart from her mother, is a famous world
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Speaker 1: champion tennis star, Like you know, I mean, seriously, can't
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Speaker 1: they just have Mazie from down the road or a
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Speaker 1: real aunt. I don't get it. It's the correctly, Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much, indeed for your time. That's it from
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Speaker 1: me with the world going to hell now. Coming up
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Speaker 1: is Sherry Markson Good Night