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Speaker 1: Is the bulk reform?
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Bolt Report.
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Speaker 3: I'm Danikiti Giorgio coming up on the show tonight. We
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Speaker 3: might have held hope the new year could bring some
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Speaker 3: real change, but the ABC just couldn't help themselves. My
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Speaker 3: thoughts on one of the most woke fireworks displays I've
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Speaker 3: ever seen. Shortly have we reached a new law in
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Speaker 3: this country? Pro Palestinian protesters have stormed a cafe in
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Speaker 3: Melbourne and spat at staff during New Year's Eve celebrations.
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Speaker 3: Disgusting behavior, a fresh warning as we head into an
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Speaker 3: election year. Labor cannot be trusted with our economy economists
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Speaker 3: leaf ban nosol and will join me shortly And finally,
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Speaker 3: is there still room for hope? It seems we might
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Speaker 3: finally be ditching the woke identity politics that has plagued
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Speaker 3: for years. Are universities and businesses realizing they've been duped
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Speaker 3: by the left? Or is it too good to believe?
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Speaker 3: But first, here we are on January one, and here
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Speaker 3: we go again. It didn't take long for the to
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Speaker 3: bring in the new year and make their presence felt.
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Speaker 3: In fact, the Public broadcaster couldn't even wait until midnight
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Speaker 3: to serve up a plate of propaganda, racially charged fireworks
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Speaker 3: and of course a side.
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Speaker 2: Of Welcome to Country.
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Speaker 3: For another year running, the ABC and the City of
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Speaker 3: Sydney made the nine pm fireworks event not a celebration
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Speaker 3: of Australia for all Australians or even for the year ahead. Instead,
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Speaker 3: it was an event to recognize Aboriginal culture, their favorite topic.
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Speaker 3: Now this is one of the most anticipated events on
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Speaker 3: the calendar every year in Sydney.
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Speaker 2: Millions tune in from.
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Speaker 3: Around the world to see the show Australia puts on. Well,
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Speaker 3: the show was a sham corrupted in Aboriginal activism from
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Speaker 3: start to end, and of course.
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Speaker 2: We are funding it. Now.
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Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with Aboriginal culture being included,
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Speaker 3: but the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the mind boggles that, despite the fact sixty percent.
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Speaker 3: Of us voted no to this division, no to being
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Speaker 3: separated by the color of our skin, the ABC continues
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Speaker 3: to pedal its weird and wacky, woke nonsense. And bear
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Speaker 3: in mind that this is actually supposed to be a
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Speaker 3: family friendly event at nine pm for children, yet it
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Speaker 3: turned into an indoctrination. Hosts Charlie Pickering and zan Roe
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Speaker 3: started the broadcast with this.
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Speaker 4: We see in the New Year, live from around the world,
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Speaker 4: from around the world.
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Speaker 2: You know, good start from the world.
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Speaker 4: Famous Sydney of House on Gadigl Country.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about you, but I don't live
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Speaker 3: on Gadigl Country. I live in Australia. Then there was
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Speaker 3: a welcome to country with a reminder.
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Speaker 5: Welcome to Gatigel Country. This always was, always will be
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Speaker 5: Aboriginal Land.
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Speaker 3: And just in case you missed it in strolls Sydney
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Speaker 3: Lord Mayor Clover Moore.
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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to Sydney's fabulous New Year's Eve
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Speaker 1: celebrations here on Gadigel and nearby lands.
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Speaker 3: Now, by my calculation, that's three welcomes to Gadigl Land
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Speaker 3: on the Gaddigl Sydney Harbor Bridge in the first three
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Speaker 3: minutes of broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Surely that's got to be enough.
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Speaker 3: No, if you look closely, the Sydney Harbor Bridge was
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Speaker 3: lit up with black, red and yellow spotlights, the colors
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Speaker 3: of the indigenous flag. The first show of the night
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Speaker 3: was themed Calling Country, Celebrating the Sky, Land and Sea
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Speaker 3: by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. It was accompanied
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Speaker 3: by a lecture on the history of Barangaroo.
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Speaker 6: I'm about to tell you the most amazing story you've
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Speaker 6: never heard.
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Speaker 2: Brengaroo was a leader in the Gumtagele.
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Speaker 5: Clan of the Ioranetian, the traditional custodians of the lands
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Speaker 5: along the northern shores of the Sydney Harbor.
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Speaker 2: When I think of Barngaroo, I think of.
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Speaker 5: Strength of spirit, of culture, of love for our land
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Speaker 5: and our people.
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Speaker 3: And to top it off, an Aboriginal rapper by the
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Speaker 3: name of Nookie then spoke about acknowledgment and performed. But
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Speaker 3: get this, it went over time and so the nine
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Speaker 3: pm fireworks started midway through the performance. The ABC and
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Speaker 3: City of Sydney had one job. One job to get
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Speaker 3: the broadcast time to correct so that the nine pm
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Speaker 3: fireworks could be broadcast from the start so that the
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Speaker 3: kids could see it before they.
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Speaker 2: Go to bed. But their propaganda ceremony ran over.
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Speaker 3: A big Happy New Years everyone, and happy New Years
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Speaker 3: kids from the ABC.
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Speaker 2: Always reliable, always has your back and.
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Speaker 3: Always determined to ruin New Years. It wasn't a celebration.
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Speaker 3: It may as well have been a thirty minute welcome
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Speaker 3: to country. The message this sends is that if you
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Speaker 3: are not Indigenous, you're the enemy or you're the problem.
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Speaker 3: When you constantly dividing people based on race, it actually
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Speaker 3: sets back efforts to improve the lives of Aboriginal people.
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Speaker 2: And this is why the culture was matter, because this next.
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Speaker 3: Generation is being brainwashed into feeling bad about being a
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Speaker 3: proud Australian and made to feel responsible for the stolen generation.
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Speaker 3: Let children have fun, Let kids be kids, Let them
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Speaker 3: enjoy the fireworks and leave politics out of it. Now,
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Speaker 3: if you're at home in Melbourne watching Channel nine's coverage,
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't blame you.
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Speaker 2: If you too were a bit confused.
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Speaker 3: Here is the City of Melbourne's fireworks with a side
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Speaker 3: of multicultural messaging. Now, given almost seventy percent of Victoria's
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Speaker 3: population speaks English only, why has what appears to.
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Speaker 2: Be Arabic popped up on the screen?
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Speaker 3: Who are they trying to appease? Because this is Australia.
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Speaker 3: We live in Australia. But do they know that? And
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Speaker 3: the scary part is it's only day one. Joining me
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Speaker 3: now is history lecturer and author Stephen Shavura and Sky
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Speaker 3: News contributor Evelyn Ray.
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Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you both.
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Speaker 3: Good to see you thank you so much for joining
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Speaker 3: me on the show this evening. We've got to start
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Speaker 3: with these racially charged fireworks, Evelyn. Every year, it's the
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Speaker 3: same thing. What is the agenda here in your view?
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Speaker 7: Look, I think it's just straight up pure virtue signaling,
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Speaker 7: and we see it across the spectrum in so many
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Speaker 7: different ways, and this is absolutely no different.
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Speaker 2: It's empty, it's void.
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Speaker 7: I think that probably majority of people participating in this
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Speaker 7: are probably just doing it because it makes them feel good.
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Speaker 2: On the outside.
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Speaker 7: But like you mentioned earlier with what you were saying
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Speaker 7: on the show, I'm not sure there are many tangible,
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Speaker 7: practical things that a lot of these people are doing
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Speaker 7: in their real life to make a difference where it matters.
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Speaker 2: But what this is doing is having.
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Speaker 7: The complete opposite effect because they have overdone it so
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Speaker 7: much that people are sick of it. You can't even
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Speaker 7: open a can of coke, you can't even go to
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Speaker 7: a football match, you can't even let your kids go
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Speaker 7: to school and have an assembly without having this stuff
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Speaker 7: shoved down your throat. People just want to enjoy life,
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Speaker 7: People want children to be children, and it's planting these
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Speaker 7: ideas and forcing these ideas that are really having an
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Speaker 7: effect on our culture in this country.
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Speaker 3: I completely agree. And then the other problem is is
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Speaker 3: I feel like we've become so used to it now
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Speaker 3: that we just sit there, We politely listen to the
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Speaker 3: Welcome to countries, We sit there as the fireworks display,
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Speaker 3: the carry on. And it's because nobody is pushing back,
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Speaker 3: and I think it is really incumbent on corporations and
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Speaker 3: organizations to say no, enough is enough. Stephen, why do
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Speaker 3: you think we're constantly being pummeled with racially charged fireworks
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Speaker 3: and the rest that comes with it.
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Speaker 4: Well, a lot of it comes from the ABC and
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Speaker 4: local governments and they are just obsessed with this kind
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Speaker 4: of thing that are completely out of touch with what
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Speaker 4: the average Australian thinks. And I think it's a great
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Speaker 4: opportunity for Peter Dutton, who I think is actually going
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Speaker 4: to win the next election, to show leadership on this
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Speaker 4: particular issue in the same way that John Howard's in
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Speaker 4: the nineteen nineties showed leadership by doing his best to
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Speaker 4: revitalize the ANZAC tradition and emphasize what Australians have in common.
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Speaker 4: And Howard used to say things like that he was
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Speaker 4: uncomfortable with the term multiculturalism, and Peter Dutton can do
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Speaker 4: the same thing. He can re emphasize, you know, we
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Speaker 4: are one people, we have one flag, and he can
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Speaker 4: actually attack and discredit a lot of this divisive wokism
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Speaker 4: which does nothing good for Australia and certainly does nothing
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Speaker 4: good for Indigenous Australians. Now he will fall f of
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Speaker 4: the mainstream media and the ABC and the academics, but
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Speaker 4: Australians in general will love it.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely and in the end it's not like the ABC
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Speaker 3: is representing Australians anymore, clearly based on last night's effort
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Speaker 3: and then the previous years. Now let's move on, because
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Speaker 3: Woolworks will be apparently proudly celebrating Australia day after its
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Speaker 3: decision to ditch celebratory merchandise such as flags and thongs
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Speaker 3: last year. So Woolas is apparently going to once again
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Speaker 3: make room for paraphernalia as well as heavily advertise the
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Speaker 3: event to shoppers as they walk through the doors. Evelyn,
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Speaker 3: has Corporate Australia learned its lesson?
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Speaker 7: I'd love to be able to say yes, I think
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Speaker 7: that they have, but sadly I really don't. I think
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Speaker 7: that they listen to money more than they listen to
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Speaker 7: anything else. And I think that we've seen this with
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Speaker 7: the whole rainbow capitalism. You know, it was once cool
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Speaker 7: to you know, fly the rainbow flags, you know, any
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Speaker 7: chance that you could get. We're seeing it now with
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Speaker 7: climate things. We're seeing that it's cool for big corporations
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Speaker 7: to say that they're going to start loading up their
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Speaker 7: beef with all of these different products to lower methane emissions.
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Speaker 7: And so I think what they're going to do is
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Speaker 7: latch onto whatever's cool, whatever's popular, whatever they think is
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Speaker 7: going to get them lots of money. So at the moment,
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Speaker 7: there's a really big push against this woke political agenda,
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Speaker 7: particularly when it comes around the Australia Day debate. So
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Speaker 7: I think they're listening to people right now because if
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Speaker 7: they don't, they're going to lose a lot of money
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Speaker 7: that could normally line their pockets. I mean, Kamar did
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Speaker 7: something similar at the beginning of the year, but they
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Speaker 7: actually stood staunching and said, well, we don't make money
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Speaker 7: off it anyway. I feel like that's a very different discussion.
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Speaker 7: But there are so many obvious and blatant attempts to
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Speaker 7: force this in people's throats, and I think that they've
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Speaker 7: finally listened to the people, but who knows, in six
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Speaker 7: or twelve months time, whatever's popular.
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Speaker 2: I feel like they're just going to jump ships.
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Speaker 7: So people need to keep talking and keep us speaking
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Speaker 7: with their money and with their wallets and hopefully eventually
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Speaker 7: turn the tide.
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Speaker 3: Look, I agree, and I do think it's all got
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Speaker 3: to do with money, because you remember Peter Dutton called
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Speaker 3: for a boycott of Wilworks when this all happened last year,
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Speaker 3: and I know a lot of people who still refuse
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Speaker 3: to shop at Woolworths for this particular reason. Stephen, you know,
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Speaker 3: Wilworth says, okay, we're going to now proudly celebrate Australia Day,
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Speaker 3: but it really is only because of the backlash they received.
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Speaker 2: Is that right?
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Speaker 4: I think that's absolutely correct. But at least they've listened.
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Speaker 4: But I also think that Sky and you should pat
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Speaker 4: itself on the back a little bit, maybe even a lot,
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Speaker 4: because I think that the backlash was largely it was
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Speaker 4: largely created by Sky pointing this out, and I think
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Speaker 4: in actual fact this is an example of people power,
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Speaker 4: So it doesn't mean that actually people power can work,
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Speaker 4: and of course there is a financial incentive to this,
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Speaker 4: but at the end of the day Willworths have backed off.
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Speaker 4: I would actually like to see us talking more about
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Speaker 4: Australian Month. That is the whole of January being Australia Month,
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Speaker 4: from the first of January, because we must remember today
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Speaker 4: is Federation Day. It's the first of January. This is
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Speaker 4: when our colonies officially became a single Commonwealth nation. So
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Speaker 4: this is a fantastic day and we want to carry
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Speaker 4: Australia Month from January the first to its high point
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Speaker 4: to the twenty sixth of January when the first fleet arrived.
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Speaker 3: Look, I think that's a fair point and we should
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Speaker 3: be very proud to celebrate that as well.
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Speaker 2: And that's one of the points I made earlier.
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Speaker 3: We can't feel bad about being proud Australian.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's a good point.
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Speaker 3: Now I have a look at this because the AGEK
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Speaker 3: Minister Anika Wells. Her press conference today was interrupted when
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Speaker 3: one of her staffers realized that the MP was not
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Speaker 3: standing in front of the Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait
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Speaker 3: Islander flags.
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Speaker 2: Have a look at this, sorry, w those the.
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Speaker 1: Flags in five facts ours.
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Speaker 8: Literally well look it's you can't see the toy straight Islander.
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Speaker 8: Just bring it into the left of it and bring
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Speaker 8: the Australian one a time, the closer to thank you, prefect.
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Speaker 3: Yep, Okay, ready, yes, we've got to get it right.
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Speaker 2: We've got to get those centimeters right.
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Speaker 3: All three flags have to be there, standing proud Evelyn.
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Speaker 2: I'll look all the fuss here. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: About you, but I only support one of those flags,
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Speaker 3: and that's the Australian.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, and we all should only support one flag because
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Speaker 7: that one flag represents all Australians. It's the flag where
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Speaker 7: every single Australian season can stand under in unity without
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Speaker 7: this division. I don't know about you, but I'm sick
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Speaker 7: and tired of these small groups within Australia constantly warring
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Speaker 7: against each other, of who you know has the biggest
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Speaker 7: social injustice. You know, one flag, one people, one nation,
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Speaker 7: we all stand under it together, and what a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what I.
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Speaker 7: Feel like somebody in that room is going to get
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Speaker 7: sacked after that debacle. That was one of the most
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Speaker 7: cringe worthy moments I've seen this year and we've only started.
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Speaker 7: So goodness, help US of the year progresses.
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Speaker 3: Even just sitting watching this, I was cringing, Stephen, just
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Speaker 3: sitting watching how they were fussing over these three flags.
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Speaker 3: And this is a thing because they're so worried that
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Speaker 3: they're going to offend somebody exactly.
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Speaker 4: And now we've got I mean, we've got two indigenous flags.
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Speaker 4: I mean, three flags for one nation. It just doesn't
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Speaker 4: make any sense. It looks silly. I mean, why isn't
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Speaker 4: the Australian flag even in the middle. It should be
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Speaker 4: the center flag. I mean, one flag is enough Now.
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Speaker 4: I used to sort of say, oh, we can have
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Speaker 4: all three flags, but over the years I've really changed
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Speaker 4: my mind, and I think a message needs to be
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Speaker 4: sent to a lot of these activists and these professional
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Speaker 4: dividers of Australia that we're not going to stand for
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Speaker 4: it any anymore. Australians love their flag. We only need
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Speaker 4: one flag. There should only be one flag in these meetings. Again,
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Speaker 4: another good move by Peter Dutton, because that's exactly what
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Speaker 4: he's going to do. He's going to just have the
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Speaker 4: Australian flag and again, Ossie's are going to love that.
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Speaker 2: Look, I absolutely agree. I think that Peter Dutton.
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Speaker 3: Good on him for taking a stand and just coming
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Speaker 3: out so boldly, because that's what we need, some bold policies.
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Speaker 3: We've run out of time. Evely and Ray Stephen shaverro
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Speaker 3: good to have you both on.
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Speaker 2: Happy New Year. Thank you very much for joining me
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Speaker 2: on the show this evening.
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Speaker 3: Well let's move on now, because we really have reached
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Speaker 3: the lowest of the low in this country. Pro Palestinian
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Speaker 3: protesters stormed a Starbucks cafe and spat at staff during
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Speaker 3: New Year's Eve celebrations in Melbourne's CBD overnight. Police there
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Speaker 3: are now searching for a group of people who intimidated
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Speaker 3: approximately four staff members at the venue. Joining me now
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Speaker 3: to discuss this is VERV Communications PERU McSween, Happy New Year,
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Speaker 3: Great to see you, thanks for joining me to look
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Speaker 3: this is out of control.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: How much longer can we sit back and let these
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Speaker 3: lunatics not only run our streets but now so brazenly
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Speaker 3: spit on people.
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Speaker 6: Well, Danika, I think as long as our politicians and
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Speaker 6: police force who take their orders from the politicians survive.
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Speaker 6: But we're hoping that once Peter Dutton gets in this
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Speaker 6: may change. You know, we have a series of untouchables
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Speaker 6: in this country, whether it be these pat pro Palestinian
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Speaker 6: activists or Indigenous youth who are committing atrocities and getting
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Speaker 6: bailed sixty seventy eighty times.
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Speaker 2: So we need to get tough.
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Speaker 6: We all know that Australians generally are fed up with
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Speaker 6: these people taking over our streets. They're not persuading anyone,
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Speaker 6: they're not changing anything. They've introduced these historic issues and
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Speaker 6: created mayhem on our streets and we are damn sick
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Speaker 6: of it.
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Speaker 3: Well, we are damn sick of it because it's week in,
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Speaker 3: week out disruptions. It's been going on now for fourteen
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Speaker 3: months and now we've gotten to the point where people.
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Speaker 2: Are being spat on.
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Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable that we're at that stage now at PREU. Now, look,
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Speaker 3: let's move on, because the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen has
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Speaker 3: finally condemned a Victorian ALP social media post attacking Peter
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Speaker 3: Dutton's wife. As we know that's circulated earlier this week.
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Speaker 3: But what's extraordinary here is it comes a day after
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Speaker 3: she refused to criticize her own party social media attack
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Speaker 3: on the Dutton family and actually described it as a
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Speaker 3: matter for the ALP head office.
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Speaker 2: Proue. What took her so long? Well, she learned from
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Speaker 2: the master.
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Speaker 6: Dan Andrews was the king of the gutter politics. He
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Speaker 6: was disdainful of rules of engagement. He set new ones
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Speaker 6: and it was a policy of whatever it takes. And
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Speaker 6: this is what he adopted in everything he did in
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Speaker 6: the years he was bankrupting his state. And she's learned
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Speaker 6: from the master the contempt and the toilet bowl approach
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Speaker 6: of this government. You know, Labor is now you know,
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Speaker 6: pooing themselves really and resorting to you know, toilet humor,
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Speaker 6: toilet gutter sort of politics. And sadly, because they are
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Speaker 6: policy dry, they have nothing to say, nothing to sell themselves.
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Speaker 6: So this is what we're going to be in for
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Speaker 6: whatever they want to do that may you know, take
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Speaker 6: the eye off what Albaneze he's doing or not doing
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Speaker 6: or not saying. Is what they're resorting to. But it's
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Speaker 6: not fooling anyone. And people are sick of it.
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Speaker 3: Well, they are sick of her. And I think we
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Speaker 3: are in for a very grubby campaign and the lead
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Speaker 3: up to the federal election if this is anything to
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Speaker 3: go by. Plus, as we know, Labor has been putting
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Speaker 3: out those ridiculous nuclear images of fish.
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Speaker 2: With three eyes.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's just getting grubby, Prue and the campaign
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Speaker 3: hasn't even kicked off yet, but you can see where
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Speaker 3: Labour's going with it now. Look, Donald Trump has held
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Speaker 3: his New Year's party at marri Lago and it looks
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Speaker 3: like and Ozzie got an invite former Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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Speaker 2: Here is a pick he posted to social.
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Speaker 3: Media with Donald Trump, Milania Trump as well as his
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Speaker 3: wife Jenny Morrison at the New Year's event. Prewe I
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Speaker 3: wonder though, did Kevin Rudd get an invite? Perhaps Somo
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Speaker 3: should be the new ambassador. He's got more access to
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Speaker 3: the big Man than what Kevin Rudd does.
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Speaker 6: Clearly, well, Kevin's probably packing, you know, he's probably at
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Speaker 6: the Shulder as we speak, because he must know that
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Speaker 6: his time is up. You know the fact that he
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Speaker 6: has been snubbed for this event and our former Prime
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Speaker 6: minister is there, who has obviously made a good impression
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Speaker 6: on Trump.
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Speaker 2: Whereas Kevin's done the exact opposite.
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Speaker 6: He's made an impression, but it's not a very positive one.
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Speaker 6: So look, Kevin's days are numbered. He can he can
21:22
Speaker 6: suck up to as many Republicans as he likes. The
21:25
Speaker 6: man's contemptible chickens have come home to roost, and it
21:29
Speaker 6: couldn't happen to know a sneakier, repulsive guy as far
21:34
Speaker 6: as I'm concerned.
21:37
Speaker 3: I wonder if he's seen that photo pro and is
21:39
Speaker 3: just upset.
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Speaker 2: He's probably at.
21:41
Speaker 3: Home thinking, I know one of my done scomo got
21:44
Speaker 3: an invite.
21:45
Speaker 2: I don't get an invite. I wonder how he are
21:47
Speaker 2: here that he'll be in the fetal position.
21:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll be in the corner corner quietly rocking.
21:55
Speaker 2: Now.
21:55
Speaker 3: I've also show you this from the party pro because Trump,
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Speaker 3: this guy really knows how to party, because here he
22:03
Speaker 3: is with his famous dance moves to YMCA at marri Lago.
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Speaker 3: And you know, when I first saw this pro, I
22:10
Speaker 3: thought I want to be at a party with Donald
22:14
Speaker 3: Trump because he looks like he would be the life
22:17
Speaker 3: of any party.
22:21
Speaker 2: I agree with you.
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Speaker 6: The only thing is I don't think I think he'd
22:24
Speaker 6: be blining for you because you're such a good sort, so.
22:27
Speaker 2: You might find you have to be a little careful here.
22:30
Speaker 6: But look, he is certainly he's certainly a party guy,
22:36
Speaker 6: and knows, well, what's what's he not got to like?
22:40
Speaker 6: I mean, he's king of the world now, isn't he?
22:44
Speaker 3: He really is king of the world. And that dance
22:47
Speaker 3: everyone does it now.
22:48
Speaker 2: This is a thing. It was once.
22:49
Speaker 3: Uncool to do that Ymca Donald Trump dance, but now
22:53
Speaker 3: you see it everywhere. It's become a cultural phenomenon. I
22:56
Speaker 3: just think he'd be a really great at a party.
22:59
Speaker 2: Now.
22:59
Speaker 3: Look, let's talk about work from home, because bosses are
23:03
Speaker 3: more likely to give pay rises and promotions to employees
23:06
Speaker 3: who go into the.
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Speaker 2: Office instead of working for home. Who would have thought?
23:11
Speaker 3: Research by a recruitment company called Reed found nearly seven
23:14
Speaker 3: in ten companies set employees in the office will go
23:17
Speaker 3: further and faster than those who insist on staying at home.
23:23
Speaker 3: Pro Look, you didn't need research to tell you this,
23:25
Speaker 3: and I completely agree. I've been saying this for a
23:28
Speaker 3: long time. Go back to work. It's time to go
23:31
Speaker 3: back into the office. You cannot foster an environment if
23:34
Speaker 3: you're a boss, if you own a company, a small business,
23:37
Speaker 3: you can't foster a proper environment when you've got half
23:39
Speaker 3: of your staff at home, still in their pajamas, taking
23:42
Speaker 3: zoom calls and Microsoft teams meetings at midday, go back
23:47
Speaker 3: to work and if you do.
23:48
Speaker 2: That's when you get rewarded. What do you think, Well.
23:52
Speaker 6: One hundred percent put themselves in the boss's position. This
23:57
Speaker 6: is a person if there a small business is probably
23:59
Speaker 6: mortgage their house. It probably hasn't paid themselves for several
24:03
Speaker 6: weeks because so many people owe the money, you know,
24:05
Speaker 6: they have everything on the line, and then they've got
24:08
Speaker 6: an employee who's dictating to them the terms of their engagement. Well,
24:12
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way. If you've got
24:16
Speaker 6: good employees, you love them. I know with my employees,
24:20
Speaker 6: I offered you know so many times go home you've
24:22
Speaker 6: worked really hard this week, or go and get your
24:25
Speaker 6: hair done or whatever it is, you know, because you
24:27
Speaker 6: want them to stay with you. You value your employee,
24:31
Speaker 6: and most employers are treating their employees like that.
24:35
Speaker 2: But it's a two way street and it has to
24:36
Speaker 2: be mutual respect.
24:38
Speaker 6: And productivity in this country, as we know, is down
24:41
Speaker 6: the toilet. So we need people back at work and
24:45
Speaker 6: looking at how they can improve the bottom line, which
24:48
Speaker 6: will improve their pay check in the end.
24:52
Speaker 3: Absolutely, there are ways to reward your staff, and I
24:55
Speaker 3: think that that's what it's about.
24:56
Speaker 2: It's about give and take reward your staff.
24:58
Speaker 3: You are putting in that effort, not those who continuously
25:02
Speaker 3: stay at home and their productivity has fallen.
25:04
Speaker 2: So and the pandemic's over.
25:06
Speaker 3: It's been over for a while now, so go back
25:08
Speaker 3: to work.
25:09
Speaker 2: Now. Let's talk about New Year's resolutions.
25:11
Speaker 3: Around seventy four percent of Australians will actually make one
25:15
Speaker 3: for twenty twenty five. The most popular are health based,
25:18
Speaker 3: with thirty nine percent of Aussies aiming to improve their
25:22
Speaker 3: diet and make healthier food choices. Thirty seven percent want
25:25
Speaker 3: to improve their fitness levels, and thirty three percent want
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Speaker 3: to lose weight. Oh look, I don't mind New Year's resolutions.
25:34
Speaker 3: I've always done them. Whether or not I actually stick
25:37
Speaker 3: to them is a different thing.
25:39
Speaker 2: But how do you feel about them? Jan?
25:41
Speaker 3: Are you one to put together a New Year's resolution list?
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Speaker 2: Well, not really.
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Speaker 6: Look, I think it's a time where we do assess
25:50
Speaker 6: our lives, and so many of us are so busy
25:53
Speaker 6: that well, I don't stop and think about my life enough.
25:57
Speaker 2: I'm so busy doing it and rushing here and there.
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Speaker 6: And I think that perhaps this is a time of
26:03
Speaker 6: appraisal now, whether it's a resolution or not to say okay,
26:06
Speaker 6: I want to spend more time on me. It should
26:09
Speaker 6: be happy new Year, not happy new Year. And I
26:12
Speaker 6: think if more of us did that, then maybe, you know,
26:15
Speaker 6: life would be more fulfilling. But look, it's nice, you know,
26:20
Speaker 6: let's have a few drinks and swap happy New Year ideas.
26:23
Speaker 6: But in the end they do go down the toilet
26:26
Speaker 6: pretty quickly. I'm sad to say, I know they do it.
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Speaker 2: Such a shame.
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Speaker 3: But we can't put pressure on ourselves because our life
26:32
Speaker 3: gets in the way. Pro We get busy and then
26:34
Speaker 3: we forget about goals and New Year's resolutions that.
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Speaker 2: We had for ourselves.
26:39
Speaker 3: We're all optimistic at the start of the year. Pro mcsweet,
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Speaker 3: Happy new Year, good to see you. Thank you very
26:44
Speaker 3: much for joining me.
26:48
Speaker 2: We'll stay with us after the break.
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Speaker 3: A fresh warning as we head into an election year,
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Speaker 3: labor cannot be trusted with our economy economists, Leaf band Unsulin,
26:56
Speaker 3: we're joined me after this. Former Prime Minister John Howard
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Speaker 3: and former Treasurer Peter Costello have criticized the Alban Eazy
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Speaker 3: government's financial management, warning Australia's deteriorating budget bottom line and
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Speaker 3: escalating debt could put the nation's credit rating at future
27:14
Speaker 3: at risk. Not that Jim Chalmers will tell you that
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Speaker 3: the Treasurer told us the worst.
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Speaker 2: Is behind us.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is chief economist and co founder of
27:24
Speaker 3: Macro Business Leith van Nonsolin. Leith, good to see you,
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Speaker 3: John Howard and Peter Costello.
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Speaker 2: Right. Is the budget out of control?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, certainly, it's a worrying situation, Danika. So that the
27:36
Speaker 9: December Mejia Economic and Fiscal Update that was reviewed released
27:40
Speaker 9: a few weeks ago that projected that Australia's headline budget
27:43
Speaker 9: deficit will cumulatively be two hundred and thirty three billion
27:47
Speaker 9: dollars over the next four years, and that's a thirty
27:49
Speaker 9: four billion dollar deterioration on the May budget and the
27:53
Speaker 9: federal budgets also projected to be deficit for the next decade.
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Speaker 9: So the key issue here that thereker is that the
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Speaker 9: federal government's lock in expensive expendature programs like the NDIS,
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Speaker 9: which is projected to roughly doubling costs over the next
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Speaker 9: decade at the same time as the budget revenues projected
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Speaker 9: to grow more slowly, mostly because of falling commodity prices. Now,
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Speaker 9: it's important to recognize here that the Albanese government when
28:16
Speaker 9: it came to offers, it experienced unbelievable federal budget luck.
28:22
Speaker 9: So estimated budget revenues over the four year period were
28:25
Speaker 9: revised up by about one third of a trillion dollars
28:28
Speaker 9: when it came to office, and that was because of
28:31
Speaker 9: mainly because of the Russia Ukraine War, which massively lifted
28:33
Speaker 9: commodity prices. Obviously, we had record immigration which boosted federal
28:38
Speaker 9: government personally in come textra seats, and we also had
28:40
Speaker 9: high inflation which lifted up bracker creep. The problem that
28:43
Speaker 9: face that Labour's got is that all these factors are
28:46
Speaker 9: now slowing, which means the federal budget revenues are going
28:49
Speaker 9: to slow going forward. And the other problem facing Labor
28:53
Speaker 9: is that this record government spending is the only thing
28:56
Speaker 9: that has kept Australian's economy afloat. So public spending's account
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Speaker 9: for seventy percent of Australia's GDP growth since the Albaneze
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Speaker 9: government came to offers. Public spinning's also driven nearly all
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Speaker 9: of the nation's jobs growth since the end of twenty
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Speaker 9: twenty two. Meanwhile, the private sector economy is in recession
29:13
Speaker 9: and that's the main problem. So I think the federal
29:15
Speaker 9: government's about to learn that running a tax and spend
29:18
Speaker 9: economy is only viable when you have growing revenues through
29:23
Speaker 9: good luck, but that those rivers of gold are our
29:26
Speaker 9: running out.
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Speaker 3: And as I said, it puts to shame Jim Chalmers
29:29
Speaker 3: comments that the worst is behind us leaf, which brings
29:33
Speaker 3: me to my next question, where does that leave us
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Speaker 3: this year?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so the deteriorating budget position basically means that neither
29:41
Speaker 9: side of politics will be able to go to the
29:43
Speaker 9: next election with very expensive promises and bribes. And I
29:47
Speaker 9: think they're going to need to provide a credible story
29:49
Speaker 9: on how they're going to get the budget back into control.
29:53
Speaker 9: So whether that's labor or liberal, they're going to have
29:55
Speaker 9: to provide us with a credible story on how they're
29:57
Speaker 9: going to fix this federal budget deficit.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and speaking of Labour's answers to inflation, they seem
30:04
Speaker 3: to be actually spending more, okay, doing the exact opposite
30:07
Speaker 3: of what is required. And as of today, cost of
30:10
Speaker 3: living measures come into force that includes an increase in
30:13
Speaker 3: youth allowance, wage increase for age care workers, and a
30:16
Speaker 3: number of other measures. Realistically, though leath how far will
30:20
Speaker 3: these measures go and what will it do to inflation.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so this is an ongoing theme here, Danika. So
30:27
Speaker 9: Labour's approach throughout its term in office has been to
30:30
Speaker 9: basically band aid over policy failures with subsidies. So we
30:33
Speaker 9: saw it with the rental market where Labour increased rental
30:36
Speaker 9: subsidies to offset the rental crisis that in effectively, you know,
30:41
Speaker 9: cause through excessive levels immigration. We also saw it. We've
30:44
Speaker 9: also seen in the energy market where Labour's basically doled
30:46
Speaker 9: out subsidies to paper over the federal government's own failed
30:50
Speaker 9: energy policies. So these subjects that you're talking about are
30:52
Speaker 9: more of the same, like all government spending. It's you,
30:55
Speaker 9: it'll be mildly inflationary and the reality of the situation,
30:59
Speaker 9: this is fortunate reality here, Danika, is that we have
31:01
Speaker 9: a burnout economy at the moment. So the Reserve Bank
31:04
Speaker 9: has got a foot on the brake trying to slow
31:06
Speaker 9: the economy down, trying to reduce inflation and also lower
31:09
Speaker 9: interest to allow it to lower interest rates. Meanwhile, the
31:12
Speaker 9: federal government's pumping demand via record public spending, and this
31:16
Speaker 9: excessive spending is basically preventing the Reserve Bank of Australia
31:20
Speaker 9: from cutting interest rates. So ultimately what we need here
31:23
Speaker 9: is we need genuine policy action and cost of living
31:25
Speaker 9: and not just band aids and policy gimmicks, which is
31:28
Speaker 9: what we've gotten.
31:29
Speaker 3: It wouldn't it be great to have some tangible solutions now.
31:32
Speaker 3: We have a serious housing crisis in this country as
31:34
Speaker 3: we know, and Poor Logic's Daily Dwelling Value Index results
31:38
Speaker 3: for last year in showing that home prices ended the
31:41
Speaker 3: year in negative territory least.
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Speaker 2: What does this mean?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so what it basically means. It means that gravity
31:47
Speaker 9: is finally catching up with the housing market. So most commentators,
31:50
Speaker 9: most observers, including myself, we all expected home prices to
31:53
Speaker 9: fall when the Reserve Bank of Australia began aggressively increasing
31:58
Speaker 9: interest rates, which obviously makes property more expensive. So usually
32:03
Speaker 9: when the Reserve Bank heights interest rates, you get falling
32:05
Speaker 9: home prices. But this time around was very weird in
32:08
Speaker 9: that house prices to fed gravity and actually increased despite
32:12
Speaker 9: much high interest rates. And the reason why they increased
32:14
Speaker 9: was due to this record net overseas migration, and we
32:17
Speaker 9: also had acute housing shortages. But now that net overseas
32:21
Speaker 9: migration is slowing and stock levels are now rising again,
32:26
Speaker 9: we're basically getting that the high intrach rates and poor
32:29
Speaker 9: affordability are now pushing prices lower. So realistically, you know,
32:33
Speaker 9: home prices are probably going to continue to fall until
32:36
Speaker 9: the Reserve Bank of Australia cuts interest rates sometime this year.
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Speaker 3: All right, well, we'll be standing by to see how
32:41
Speaker 3: that all goes.
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Speaker 2: Lee ban Onslom good to chat. Happy new year, Thank
32:44
Speaker 2: you very much for joining me on the show this evening.
32:46
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks to be. Happy new year to you.
32:48
Speaker 3: Two after the breaker, universities and businesses realizing they've been
32:52
Speaker 3: duped by the left and finally turning away from the
32:55
Speaker 3: wok identity politics that has plagued us for years or
32:58
Speaker 3: is it too good to believe?
33:00
Speaker 2: Next welcome back.
33:04
Speaker 3: Well, it seems we might finally be ditching the woke
33:07
Speaker 3: identity politics that has plagued us for years.
33:10
Speaker 2: Author Lionel Shreiver rights.
33:12
Speaker 3: There is genuine hope Donald Trump's emphatic victory is a
33:16
Speaker 3: woke watershed and that universities and businesses are realizing they've
33:21
Speaker 3: been duped by the left.
33:23
Speaker 2: But Is it too good to be true?
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Speaker 3: Joining me from London is writer and commentator Esther Kraku.
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Speaker 2: Esther lovely to speak with you. Thank you for joining me.
33:31
Speaker 3: Look, there is no doubt that Donald Trump's victory has
33:34
Speaker 3: given a renewed sense of optimism, that the woke is
33:37
Speaker 3: petering out. I'm optimistic, though I do think we still
33:41
Speaker 3: have some way to go. Are we jumping the gun?
33:43
Speaker 3: Is it too good to be true? What do you think?
33:47
Speaker 5: Well, those were happy to year to you, and it
33:48
Speaker 5: seems like it's going to be a happy year indeed,
33:51
Speaker 5: because we're seeing, at least on the corporate side, some
33:53
Speaker 5: indications that work is finally dying a slow and painful death.
33:57
Speaker 5: We saw that Walmart and basically in the week of
34:00
Speaker 5: or Trump selection basically mentioned that they're no longer going
34:02
Speaker 5: to take into account race and gender policies, weren't choosing
34:06
Speaker 5: a supplier, and they're going to review a lot of
34:09
Speaker 5: their sort of DEI initiatives. You have companies like Boeing
34:13
Speaker 5: Boeing basically phasing out their DEI program. Starbucks hasn't had
34:17
Speaker 5: a DEI program basically since April. You have Harley Davidson
34:20
Speaker 5: as well, saying they're going to review the new well
34:23
Speaker 5: the DEI policies. You have HBO, the network standing by JK. Rowling,
34:29
Speaker 5: even though she's received a lot of heat for her
34:32
Speaker 5: gender critical views and her views on basically men and
34:34
Speaker 5: women's spaces, and the network has decided to stand by her,
34:38
Speaker 5: which is an incredible thing. I mean, even in the
34:39
Speaker 5: statement that Walmart released when they were talking about reviewing
34:42
Speaker 5: their de policies, you know, they said they were they
34:44
Speaker 5: were a shop for all Americans, which is quite indicative
34:47
Speaker 5: of the fact that they know that these kind of
34:49
Speaker 5: work policies are dividing people and it's doing businesses more
34:53
Speaker 5: harm than good. We've saw what happened with Jaguar with
34:55
Speaker 5: their ridiculous adverts and all the backlash they face from that.
34:58
Speaker 5: No one can forget bud Light and the controversy around there,
35:02
Speaker 5: and how much you know, their stock prices were severely
35:04
Speaker 5: hit by the fact that they decided to go with
35:07
Speaker 5: you know, the transgender activist Dylan Molvanian their advertising, which
35:10
Speaker 5: really annoyed their customer base. So on the corporate side,
35:14
Speaker 5: we're seeing a lot of indications that actually work is
35:16
Speaker 5: finally dying because they're realizing it's not good for their
35:18
Speaker 5: bottom dollar. However, on the public sector side, many sort
35:21
Speaker 5: of jurisdictions around the world, particularly the Western world, work
35:26
Speaker 5: is dying. Is not dying as slow and as painful death.
35:29
Speaker 5: You can see still like rainbow crossings, pedestrian crossings. Here
35:33
Speaker 5: in the UK, particularly in London, thanks to Sadi Khan,
35:37
Speaker 5: you see sort of initiatives where like in Canada, for example,
35:40
Speaker 5: a districts in Ontario had to pay eight thousand pounds
35:44
Speaker 5: the equivalents of eight thousand British pounds for not announcing
35:48
Speaker 5: their pride initiatives from four years ago. I mean, these
35:52
Speaker 5: are the kinds of things that are still happening in
35:53
Speaker 5: the public sector, but certainly in the private sector. In
35:55
Speaker 5: the corporate space, work is certainly dying and it's a
35:58
Speaker 5: joy to see.
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Speaker 3: Well, what's the old saying, go broke as I it's
36:04
Speaker 3: all about their bottom line, It's all about the money.
36:07
Speaker 3: So yeah, I completely understand why this is happening. Now,
36:11
Speaker 3: let's talk about the hapless wonder that is the UK
36:13
Speaker 3: Prime Minister Keir Starmer. He has doubled down on his
36:17
Speaker 3: pledge to deliver change. Here was part of his New
36:20
Speaker 3: Year's address.
36:20
Speaker 2: He he look.
36:22
Speaker 8: Until you could look forward and believe in the promise
36:25
Speaker 8: and the prosperity of Britain again, that this government will
36:29
Speaker 8: fight for you, a fight for change that will define
36:33
Speaker 8: this year, next year and indeed every waking hour of
36:37
Speaker 8: this government est.
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Speaker 2: I don't even think this guy believes himself.
36:41
Speaker 3: How much optimism is there that he will actually make
36:44
Speaker 3: genuine change.
36:47
Speaker 5: The answer to that will be zero. That news announcement
36:50
Speaker 5: went down like a lead balloon. There is really no
36:52
Speaker 5: optimism in the country to be found. The problem with
36:55
Speaker 5: the Labor Party is they say one thing and they
36:57
Speaker 5: do the other. Unless you're a union or you know,
37:00
Speaker 5: a train driver here in the UK, you really feel
37:02
Speaker 5: like Labor is only out there to benefit its client
37:05
Speaker 5: groups and basically give nods to its friends alas SAIDI Khan.
37:10
Speaker 5: But if you're really a pensioner, if you're a farmer,
37:12
Speaker 5: if you're a student, if you're just a working person
37:14
Speaker 5: trying to be productive, pay taxes, you know, take care
37:16
Speaker 5: of your families, the Labor Party has nothing to offer you.
37:18
Speaker 5: If anything, they're detrimental. We talk about the ridiculous immigration
37:22
Speaker 5: figures that have hit basically two million in the last
37:24
Speaker 5: couple of years on this tiny island. But what no
37:27
Speaker 5: one's talking about the people that are leaving. We just
37:29
Speaker 5: talk about net migration. We're not talking about the people
37:31
Speaker 5: that these people are replacing, these sort of lower value,
37:36
Speaker 5: more working class people from the developing world that are
37:38
Speaker 5: replacing you know, high productivity, high net worth individuals. Can
37:42
Speaker 5: you believe that the UK has lost more millionaires than China,
37:45
Speaker 5: Communist China in the last year alone, and that's a
37:48
Speaker 5: trend that's only going to continue. The UK's Labor Party
37:51
Speaker 5: has nothing to offer the country growth. Economic growth is
37:54
Speaker 5: nowhere to be found. You know, they're still closing up
37:56
Speaker 5: to the EU that's struggling economically themselves. I mean, Germany
37:59
Speaker 5: hasn't groom and really close to a decade. And yet
38:03
Speaker 5: we have a Prime Minister and a cabinet that's enthralled
38:05
Speaker 5: to the EU and the EU Promise and everything to
38:07
Speaker 5: do with Germany and France and all these dying European economies.
38:10
Speaker 5: So unfortunately everything that he says falls on deaf is.
38:13
Speaker 5: I think the biggest problem that the UK faces that
38:15
Speaker 5: the League Party just seems completely hopeless to address his
38:18
Speaker 5: energy We have the highest energy prices in the developed world,
38:21
Speaker 5: and that affects everything from businesses to investment to households,
38:24
Speaker 5: and yet nothing is being done. We're going down this
38:26
Speaker 5: net zero madness with steaming fury, and unfortunately there's not
38:30
Speaker 5: really much optimism to be found when this is the
38:32
Speaker 5: direction of travel.
38:35
Speaker 3: No, it sounds like it's absolutely in a complete mess
38:38
Speaker 3: over there. And to add to that, thirteen hundred illegal
38:42
Speaker 3: migrants have now crossed the English Channel since Christmas Day alone,
38:46
Speaker 3: and hundreds more cross today Esther. Look, it's clear that
38:51
Speaker 3: labor cannot get this under control because that is a
38:53
Speaker 3: significant amount of migrants in just a week.
38:58
Speaker 5: Yes, and when we talk about the idea of safety,
39:01
Speaker 5: they say, oh, but legal migration is so much higher,
39:04
Speaker 5: we should worry about them. At least legal migrants we
39:06
Speaker 5: know who they are. They're veted in some way or form.
39:08
Speaker 5: A lot of these illegal migrants crossing the channel, they
39:11
Speaker 5: destroyed their documentation. They tend to come from regions of
39:13
Speaker 5: the world that are hotbeds for religious extremism. Many of them,
39:18
Speaker 5: the vast majority of them, are working age males. You're
39:20
Speaker 5: trying to tell communities, women and children that they should
39:23
Speaker 5: feel safe with having unvetted mainly males from dangerous parts
39:26
Speaker 5: of the world, coming into the communities, living up in hotels,
39:29
Speaker 5: taking over their local communities, and the Lavor Party has
39:32
Speaker 5: nothing to do that, like, has basically no plan to
39:34
Speaker 5: solve this. They scraped them around the scheme. They continue
39:37
Speaker 5: to hand out hotels and benefits to these illegal aliens
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Speaker 5: whiles people in this country struggle to heat their homes,
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Speaker 5: or to find housing, or even to feed their families.
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Speaker 5: It is a complete and utter joke.
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Speaker 3: Now you mentioned earlier Sadate Kahan, of course the London mayor.
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Speaker 3: He has been awarded a knighthood in the new Year's
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Speaker 3: honors list esther. Some have said that this decision makes
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Speaker 3: the UK the laughing stock. How on earth did he
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Speaker 3: get this honor?
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Speaker 5: Well again, if you're one of the Labor Party's buddies,
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Speaker 5: if you're part of part of their client groups, you
40:10
Speaker 5: obviously get a gone even if it's for failure. London
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Speaker 5: has become unrecognizable since twenty sixteen, since City Cant became
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Speaker 5: the mayor, it has become more dangerous. Knife crime has
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Speaker 5: been up by fifty percent. If you're a woman, forget
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Speaker 5: traveling around at night in London. I mean it's it's
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Speaker 5: completely unrecognizable. It's just you know, balganization of ghettos and
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Speaker 5: and you know at no religious basically enclaves, and yet
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Speaker 5: he's being rewarded for this failure. Now, I personally don't
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Speaker 5: think any sitting politicians should get an honor anyway, because
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Speaker 5: I think it's extremely partisan and in very poor taste.
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Speaker 5: But to give it to someone like Cid can't just
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Speaker 5: make a mockery of the entire system. And unfortunately people
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Speaker 5: are going to lose more and more faith in this
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Speaker 5: labor government as a result.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just unbelievable. It's always jobs for the mites.
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Speaker 3: As I say, Esther Cracker, good to say happily. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: thank you very much for joining me on the show
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Speaker 3: this evening. Well, let's move on now, because King Charles
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Speaker 3: is expected to ring in the new year with a
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Speaker 3: series of wholesome traditions. It's expected the seventy six year
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Speaker 3: old will replicate previous celebrations and traditions adopted by the
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Speaker 3: late monarch, Queen Elizabeth the Ion. Joining me now is
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Speaker 3: Royal biographer Angela Levin. Angela, Happy New Year, good to
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Speaker 3: see you, how are the rong?
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Speaker 2: Thank you? The New Year.
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Speaker 1: Adon what did you say.
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Speaker 3: I was asking how are the royal How are the
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Speaker 3: royals ringing in the new year?
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Speaker 1: No, they're ringing in the new year largely to do
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Speaker 1: follow what the late Queen Elizabeth did, because King Charles
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Speaker 1: is wanting to keep her in everyone's life still. So
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Speaker 1: one of the things that they did, which the late
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Speaker 1: Queen adored was charades. And the English serads are hilarious really,
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Speaker 1: because you have to think of what you going to do.
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Speaker 1: A book title or a film or a play is
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Speaker 1: something like that, and you then said, it's the first word,
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Speaker 1: or it's the third word, and then you have to
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Speaker 1: do body movements to make sure that somebody is okay.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to say something about crying, you
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Speaker 1: do it. I cried, it's the second word, and then
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Speaker 1: you go and everybody has to guess what it is,
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Speaker 1: and the first one who gets what is they take
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Speaker 1: over and they do the next charade. It's fine for
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Speaker 1: all ages. They don't try and make it for adults only.
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Speaker 1: And then there's another one, which is a very unusual one,
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Speaker 1: and it's about I take a tub of sawdust and
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Speaker 1: you drop into that all sorts of bits of paper
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Speaker 1: which you're saying is going to happen in the world,
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Speaker 1: or certainly in the UK in the next year, and
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Speaker 1: you have to dig in the saw dust and pull
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Speaker 1: out the basic paper and say what it is and
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Speaker 1: then you can talk about it. I think he's a
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Speaker 1: bit messy that one, but there we are. And I
43:09
Speaker 1: do know that Prince George loves playing Monopoly. It's very
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Speaker 1: good at it and that's one of his favorite games.
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Speaker 1: So I'm sure they've now popped that in.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's clear it's not all just for the young ones.
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Speaker 3: The adults can enjoy a game of charades or two
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Speaker 3: in the royal family as well.
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Speaker 2: Now I want to ask you about Prince William.
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Speaker 3: He of course isn't Great Britain's king quite yet, but
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Speaker 3: it really hasn't stopped him from stepping up when it
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Speaker 3: comes to taking care of his family, especially with his
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Speaker 3: wife and father's cancer diagnosis last year Angela. But now
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Speaker 3: he's really been described as the rock of the family,
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Speaker 3: the rock of Britain.
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Speaker 1: I think he's absolutely the right thing to say about him.
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Speaker 1: He's been absolutely amazing. Are you thinking about it? You're
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Speaker 1: the heir of the throne, but the king and your
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Speaker 1: wife both suffering from cancer. You are a family man.
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Speaker 1: He had a difficult childhood, so he wants to be
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Speaker 1: a father NonStop as much as he can. And they
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Speaker 1: take it in terms, he and Catherine to take the
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Speaker 1: children to school, and he doesn't give it to somebody else,
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Speaker 1: you know. To just help out and to do all
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Speaker 1: those things and to look after them emotionally is very difficult.
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Speaker 1: But actually physically and mentally it's actually almost impossible because
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Speaker 1: there's so much work. Yet he remained dignified. He did
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Speaker 1: whatever he could. He took over from his father, and
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Speaker 1: he has been a very loving and supportive husband and
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Speaker 1: in every way he's done everything so good. I think
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Speaker 1: we are incredibly lucky with him, and he's very accessible now.
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Speaker 1: He used to be quite shy and a little more difficult,
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Speaker 1: but now he's got confidence about himself and he recognized
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Speaker 1: what he wants to do, and we're very proud of him.
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Speaker 3: Oh, look, absolutely, you can tell he's really stepped up
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Speaker 3: to the plate in what has been a really very
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Speaker 3: difficult time for him and the rest of the royal family. Now, look,
45:21
Speaker 3: we've got to talk about Meghan and Harry. I know
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Speaker 3: it's one of your favorite topics. Angela, but om at
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Speaker 3: Scovie's expose about the royal family derailed Prince Harry and
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Speaker 3: Meghan Michael's plans to leave the firm behind and enter
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Speaker 3: a new era.
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Speaker 2: These are the latest claims.
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Speaker 3: And as we know that this biography Endgame actually supported
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Speaker 3: those two while criticizing popular royals such as Princess Catherine. So, Angela,
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Speaker 3: do you think that it did indeed backfire for Harry
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Speaker 3: and Meghan.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's very much so, because I think most countries,
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Speaker 1: especially I think America or Australia in the UK actually
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Speaker 1: like the monarchy and to have someone who attacks everybody
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Speaker 1: in it and some of the things weren't true at all,
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Speaker 1: and I think that they could get it off their
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Speaker 1: chest once. I think when you go on and on
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Speaker 1: and on about it, it's really unpleasant to complain about
46:24
Speaker 1: their lives. And people are suffering quite hardly at the moment.
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Speaker 1: But they have, you know, a house with sixteen bathrooms,
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Speaker 1: lots of money, go anywhere they like. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: they have. There's no gratitude there. But the interesting thing
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Speaker 1: is that it's doing a book called Now Royal Spin
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Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to be associated with Megan, which
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Speaker 1: is very unusual. He said, it's so boring to keep
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Speaker 1: calling her my friend. It is not true, which I
47:04
Speaker 1: think he's very brave of him to do that. Meanwhile,
47:09
Speaker 1: Meghan is no longer interested in so it's a mutual thing.
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Speaker 1: But this new book, Royal Spin, he says it's nothing
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Speaker 1: about her, but she feels anxious about what's going on.
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Speaker 1: So the two of them are now no longer friends.
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Speaker 1: But I think that he would never have written a
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Speaker 1: book without their agreement on that. They read it all.
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Speaker 1: They knew it all. Now they pretend they don't, but
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Speaker 1: some of it from the things from the Operah Winfrey
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Speaker 1: interview that they did in twenty nineteen when they accused
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Speaker 1: the brought a family of being racist and all that
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Speaker 1: and also attacked Catherine. And they can't then say it
47:56
Speaker 1: was nothing to do with you, because it actually and
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Speaker 1: he could see that, and it's I think Meghan really
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Speaker 1: doesn't ever like to take the responsibility if things go wrong,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's what's been happening now.
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Speaker 3: No, well, and you know, look, there's no surprises. There
48:17
Speaker 3: was a report out Angela that said that Harry and
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Speaker 3: Meghan are like the most unpopular kids in school, they've
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Speaker 3: lost their charm in America, and they've lost their appeal
48:26
Speaker 3: among Americans.
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Speaker 2: Who would have thought that they would get to that point.
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Speaker 3: That's what happens when you publicly slam your own family.
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Speaker 2: Through a series of interviews and books.
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Speaker 3: People eventually do get sick of hearing the same old
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Speaker 3: thing over and over again. Angela eleven, Happy New Year.
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Speaker 3: Really great to speak with you this evening. Unfortunately we've
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Speaker 3: run out of time, but lovely to have you on
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Speaker 3: the show.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining me.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 3: That's all we've got time for this evening. Thanks for
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Speaker 3: joining me. I'll be back again tomorrow night. Up next
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Speaker 3: is the Late Debate.
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Speaker 2: Good night,