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The Rita Panahi Show | 13 November · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scoring leaves Australia. This is the Wader Panety Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Reader Paney Show.
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Speaker 3: Coming up tonight, the Liberals dragged kicking and screaming to
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Speaker 3: a rational energy policy. The panel will weigh in on
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Speaker 3: that and much more is the renewables grift over. A
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Speaker 3: new report shows that private investment in the sector is stalling.
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Speaker 3: I'll speak to Adan Morrison about that shortly. Army Horowitz
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Speaker 3: will have all your US news, including the real story
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Speaker 3: behind the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations, and later in the
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Speaker 3: hour we'll look at why queer characters have been slashed
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Speaker 3: from TV shows. They will be with Ddie Dunlevy and
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Speaker 3: Left He Is Losing It features this self delighted.
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Speaker 4: Fool because when you don't ever even hear the facts,
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Speaker 4: it's hard to even know that you're wrong.
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Speaker 3: Now, we'll have more on the Liberal Party's net zero
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Speaker 3: decision shortly, but first secret documents have exposed an alleged
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Speaker 3: labor plot to stitch up former Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds
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Speaker 3: in its decision to award two point four million dollars
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Speaker 3: to Britney Higgins in twenty twenty two The trove of
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Speaker 3: documents remained hidden from Reynolds until they were uncovered during
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Speaker 3: her defamation case against Higgins, and they reveal how the
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Speaker 3: upp and Easy government maneuvered to award Higgins the massive
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Speaker 3: compensation payout while keeping Reynolds.
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Speaker 2: In the dark.
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Speaker 3: The move ensured Reynolds was unable to defend herself against
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Speaker 3: higgins claims of a political cover up. Linda Reynolds is
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Speaker 3: now taking the Commonwealth Government and its lawyers to court
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Speaker 3: over the controversial settlement. After the judge in her successful
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Speaker 3: defamation case against Higgins found it was entirely reasonable for
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Speaker 3: her to question the process by which the settlement had
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Speaker 3: been achieved and gave her permission to use the documents
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Speaker 3: as evidence. Joining me now for more on this are
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Speaker 3: Sky News contributors Louise Roberts and Caroline de Rosso. Louise,
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Speaker 3: these allegations are damning for the Albanesi government absolutely.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it just looks like a complete stitch up
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Speaker 5: for Linda Reynolds, doesn't it that she was silenced and
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Speaker 5: set up? And not only Linda, but also Fiona Brown.
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Speaker 5: We had two senior political women who were hung out
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Speaker 5: to dry. Linda had no opportunity to defend herself for
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Speaker 5: Albanesi government, according to these documents, moved in and took
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Speaker 5: control of her defense and she couldn't even have her
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Speaker 5: say on things that later on were proven to be
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Speaker 5: false of course in court. So damning indictment of how
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Speaker 5: we treat senior women in this situation. And also to
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Speaker 5: fast track through a two point four men and dollar payment,
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Speaker 5: as you say to Britney Higgins, is absolutely appalling. It's
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Speaker 5: a very bad look for the Albanese government.
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Speaker 3: Caroline Linda Reynolds has been vindicated, but she's paid a
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Speaker 3: really heavy price with her health, with her reputation.
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Speaker 2: And financially as well.
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Speaker 3: Though she has won this defamation case, she is out
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Speaker 3: of pocket by an enormous sum.
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Speaker 6: She is reader and obviously I have to disclose for
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Speaker 6: particularly the purpose of this, that I'm the State president
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Speaker 6: of the lives here in Western Australia, but I also
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Speaker 6: practice as a litigation lawyer for almost fifteen years and
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Speaker 6: this has taken a huge toll. And the thing that
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Speaker 6: people often don't understand is just because you win a
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Speaker 6: court case doesn't necessarily mean that you get paid or
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Speaker 6: you get all your costs covered.
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Speaker 7: As part of that process. So earlier in the week
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Speaker 7: there were.
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Speaker 6: Bankruptcy proceedings that are going on in the federal court
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Speaker 6: at the moment in and around that and that is
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Speaker 6: because of the non payment of that judgment from the
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Speaker 6: defamation case. And just off the back of what Luise said,
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Speaker 6: very uncomfortable to read the allegations that have just that
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Speaker 6: have just come to light this week in relation to
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Speaker 6: and around the settlement. And you know, there's a lot
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Speaker 6: of lawyers who are involved here and ultimately read there's
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Speaker 6: a couple of things that you learn very early on
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Speaker 6: in the piece as a lawyer, and first that you're
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Speaker 6: primarily an officer of the court. And the second thing
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Speaker 6: we ask ourselves almost every year when we do our
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Speaker 6: ethics CPD update is who is your client and the
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Speaker 6: fiduciary duty that you owe to them. So at the moment,
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Speaker 6: there's a bunch of allegations here, but I find a
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Speaker 6: lot of them very very uncomfortable in that practice and process,
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Speaker 6: or from that practice and process point of view, I
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Speaker 6: should say, you know, what was the government doing at
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Speaker 6: the time, but also what were all the lawyers doing
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Speaker 6: at the time, and were they comfortable within the way
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Speaker 6: that this process was happening, so there's some absolutely, some
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Speaker 6: stark allegations there. It will be very, very interesting to
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Speaker 6: see how this all plays out.
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Speaker 3: Now, after hours of party room debate across two days,
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Speaker 3: the Liberals have ditched net zero, that's net zero by
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Speaker 3: twenty fifty, but they have also remained in Paris. So
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Speaker 3: it's a little bit confused if you ask me. The
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Speaker 3: party says that its new policy will prioritize making power
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Speaker 3: affordable again while reducing emissions in a responsible way and
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Speaker 3: lifting the moratorium on nuclear energy. Carol, I'll start with you.
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Speaker 3: The moderates continue to be an issue. I think this decision,
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Speaker 3: to be sort of half pregnant, is to appease those
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Speaker 3: moderates by staying in Paris but abandoning net zero.
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Speaker 2: Do you see this as a coherent policy position.
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Speaker 6: Well, my understanding is that the National's position is also
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Speaker 6: to stay in.
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Speaker 2: Paris.
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Speaker 6: I don't think anyone would be accusing anyone in the
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Speaker 6: National Party of being a moderate. I mean, ultimately, the
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Speaker 6: position in the party and there were always going to
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Speaker 6: be a variety of views, and people are allowed to
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Speaker 6: have different views in the Liberal Party, and that's what
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Speaker 6: makes us so different. From labor, so no one was
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Speaker 6: ever going to get one hundred percent exactly of what
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Speaker 6: they wanted here. So the fact that you know they've
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Speaker 6: come to this position, and like John Howard said, politics
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Speaker 6: is the art of the compromise, and I just feel
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Speaker 6: like everyone has been accommodated to an extent and now
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Speaker 6: there's going to be those conversations with the National Party
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Speaker 6: and ultimately a joint party room.
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Speaker 2: So there was always going to be that.
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Speaker 6: Bit of movement, and you might call it a bit
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Speaker 6: of friction, but a robust debate never killed anyone in politics. Frankly,
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Speaker 6: I think we should have more of them. And it'll
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Speaker 6: be interesting to see how this goes into that joint
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Speaker 6: party room because ultimately that's where that position needs to land.
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Speaker 3: They go into copp an almighty backlash they already have
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Speaker 3: so far from the usual suspects, the activists, the media,
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Speaker 3: everyone who's advising them to via further left. But the
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Speaker 3: truth is as soon as they embrace net zero, they
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Speaker 3: started losing elections in landslides. And this is the only
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Speaker 3: rational position to come to, not just politically, but to
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Speaker 3: give the people a clear choice at the ballot box,
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Speaker 3: to give Australians a real choice when it comes to
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Speaker 3: deciding whether they prioritize cost and reliability or emission cuts.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and don't Australians want affordable power and a reliable grid.
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Speaker 5: I mean, and I noticed that was part of the
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Speaker 5: narrative from the Liverpool Party on this, and I do
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Speaker 5: feel although they seem to have a foot in both
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Speaker 5: cams or half pregnant, as you say quite correctly, it
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Speaker 5: is a bit more of a common sense move and
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Speaker 5: I was very relieved to see that because the end
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Speaker 5: of the day, we're all paying too much for power
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Speaker 5: and we've got plenty of natural resources, so if they
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Speaker 5: move more towards that rather than fixated on emissions target,
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Speaker 5: I think it's a good thing.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 3: Victoria Police have released photos of eight people they're seeking
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Speaker 3: in relation to a violent protest in Melbourne's CBD last month,
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Speaker 3: which saw bar Left protesters held glass bottles, rotten fruit
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Speaker 3: and rocks at police. Drone footage of the CBD clash
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Speaker 3: captured mass protesters hurling about a dozen rocks at police
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Speaker 3: from what appeared to be a pre prepared stockpile during
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Speaker 3: the October nineteen protests.
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Speaker 2: This is just horrendous.
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Speaker 9: Stuff.
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Speaker 3: Caroline officers were left injured, and it was good to
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Speaker 3: see police command come out and provide complete clarity on
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Speaker 3: precisely which side was behind this violence. They were so
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Speaker 3: fed up with it that they weren't going to be diplomatic.
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Speaker 3: They were absolutely clear that it was the left wing
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Speaker 3: protesters who were behaving in this manner.
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Speaker 2: They were and.
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Speaker 6: Look, that's probably a really uncomfortable truth for some people
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Speaker 6: to hear, but sometimes you just need to say those
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Speaker 6: things in particularly when we're talking about our police and
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Speaker 6: their lives potentially being put in danger in this way.
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Speaker 6: That is totally unacceptable. There is a right to peaceful
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Speaker 6: protest in this country. There is nothing peaceful about that
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Speaker 6: sort of behavior. Very uncomfortable obviously around a lot of
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Speaker 6: these protests is being massed. Obviously, well, firstly there are
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Speaker 6: a bunch of cowards, but it makes it much more
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Speaker 6: difficult to identify them going forward.
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Speaker 7: I know that the Victorian government.
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Speaker 6: Has said or has made overtures about outlawing the wearing
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Speaker 6: of masks at these sorts of protests, but what we've
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Speaker 6: heard in recent days it appears like they're going a
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Speaker 6: bit soft on that. I think that there is something
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Speaker 6: that absolutely must be done. Like people who are online
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Speaker 6: that can't be identified, they engage in behavior which probably
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Speaker 6: they wouldn't do if they were identifiable. So I think
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Speaker 6: mars need to go and people need to be accountable
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Speaker 6: for their behavior. And if you are being violent towards
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Speaker 6: police at what should otherwise be a peaceful protest, then
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Speaker 6: the book should absolutely be ditched.
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Speaker 9: At you.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 3: New Monash University study of a young Australians has revealed
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Speaker 3: how many young people have lost hope of owning a home.
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Speaker 3: This is really quite depressing. At nearly sixty percent say
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Speaker 3: they won't be able to buy a house and half
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Speaker 3: think that unlikely to have a child. Louise, not having
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Speaker 3: a home, not having a family, I can understand why
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Speaker 3: so many youngsters are depressed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, And isn't the family the foundation of a great,
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Speaker 5: thriving Australian society. You can sort of buy your own
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Speaker 5: home and one day you want to meet someone and
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Speaker 5: have a family with them. And I was really quite
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Speaker 5: yes sad when I saw that figure saying half of
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Speaker 5: eighteen to twenty four year olds who were surveyed here
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Speaker 5: and did the research can't imagine themselves ever having children.
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Speaker 5: I found that very, very depressing because that's all speaks
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Speaker 5: to our prosperity and they're absolute despair that under subsequent governments,
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Speaker 5: particularly the current government obviously in Victoria, they feel there's
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Speaker 5: a hopeless future ahead for them. And these are young people,
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Speaker 5: obviously very talented, worried about workforce, going for jobs, not
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Speaker 5: getting any interviews, and they're all despairing. They're only eighteen
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Speaker 5: to twenty four. We're not talking about people at the
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Speaker 5: end of their careers. We're talking about young people who
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Speaker 5: will form a very significant voter block for political parties
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Speaker 5: and will send a very strong message that you do
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Speaker 5: nothing for us, you do nothing for our future prosperity.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is pretty sad to have eighteen to twenty
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Speaker 3: four year olds be this jaded, Caroline, And the figures
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Speaker 3: are getting worse. In twenty twenty two, around one in
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Speaker 3: two young Australians thought that would be financially worse off
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Speaker 3: than their parents. This year the figure is seventy nine percent.
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Speaker 3: I mean that again is pretty damning and is something
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Speaker 3: political parties from both sides need to address.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely they do and as an order of priority, and
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Speaker 6: imagine thinking that that proportion of our young people who
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Speaker 6: should be optimistic and energized and engaged and wanting to
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Speaker 6: take on the world are actually feeling so devoid of hope. Look,
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Speaker 6: I don't think you've disagree with me, Rita. I think
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Speaker 6: that COVID and lockdowns, you know, attributed to that in
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Speaker 6: a mental health sense. I think a lot of the
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Speaker 6: government money that washed around at that time has added
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Speaker 6: to things like housing prices and whatever. And I think
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Speaker 6: our political parties are a bit slow to get there
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Speaker 6: and really understand how deep this. You know, this malaise
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Speaker 6: I suppose is within our younger generation, and reader, I
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Speaker 6: fear it is actually only going to get worse because
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Speaker 6: as you look at children coming through the education system,
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Speaker 6: they just keep getting fed this diet of crisis and
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Speaker 6: catastrophe and you're privileged, and you're this, and you're that,
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Speaker 6: and you're whatever. So if you are getting that from
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Speaker 6: a very very young age, how are you meant to
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Speaker 6: have an optimistic outlook on life and that you can
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Speaker 6: be a great contributor to it when you get to
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Speaker 6: your late teens in early twenties.
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Speaker 3: Before you two go, there are growing rumors of a
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Speaker 3: plot to our British Prime minister here Starmer, the Labor
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Speaker 3: leader's popularity has gone into free for all. These figures
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Speaker 3: are incredible. A uguf Pohl says seventy three percent disapprove
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Speaker 3: of the job. He's doing this as a man who
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Speaker 3: won in a landslide not too long ago. Starmer's allies
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Speaker 3: have warned his job might be under immediate threat and
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Speaker 3: have singled out Health Secretary Was Streeting as a possible
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Speaker 3: challenger Loise. The Brits seem to finally have had enough
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Speaker 3: and they've got.
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Speaker 2: A clear choice.
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Speaker 3: Their system is a little different to ours that don't
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Speaker 3: have a proferential system. They've got a first past the
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Speaker 3: post system and they are wanting the Trumpelin Nigel Farage
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Speaker 3: ahead of Labor and the Tories at this point.
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Speaker 5: Yes, isn't that interesting And of course it's not compulsory
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Speaker 5: to vote in the UK, so they really need to
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Speaker 5: do turn up at the ballot box and actually have
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Speaker 5: their say. And this is two weeks before the government's
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Speaker 5: about to hand down a significant budget as well, so
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Speaker 5: it's the last thing the keystar and the government need.
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Speaker 5: But for the bridge point of view, as you say,
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Speaker 5: they've absolutely fired enough. They've seen knife crime, they've seen
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Speaker 5: mobile phone crime, they've seen mass immigration, they've seen all
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Speaker 5: the issues with asylum seekers, and they've seen their beautiful country.
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Speaker 5: And I lived there for seventeen years and I look
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Speaker 5: at England now and I can barely recognize parts of that.
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Speaker 5: I barely recognize London because of the crime problem there.
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Speaker 5: So I would encourage people to go and vote when
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Speaker 5: they can and push the government out because Kids dar
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Speaker 5: mclearly is not the prime minister they need.
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Speaker 2: Louise Robbers. Caroline dei Rosso, thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: your time.
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Speaker 3: Now let's bring in Center for Independent Studies Director of
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Speaker 3: Energy Research Aidan Morrison for more on the Liberals net
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Speaker 3: zero decision.
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Speaker 2: Aiden.
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Speaker 3: The party has dumped net zero by twenty fifty, but
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Speaker 3: it remains committed to Paris.
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Speaker 10: The Liberal Party I lead will not stand by and
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Speaker 10: let Australians get crushed by these high power prices. We
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Speaker 10: will have an energy and emissions policy driven by two
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Speaker 10: key objectives.
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Speaker 2: Affordable, reliable power.
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Speaker 10: And responsible emissions reductions. And our energy and emissions policies
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Speaker 10: will use Australian resources for Australian families, So you pay less.
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Speaker 2: For your power, Aiden, Can you have that?
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Speaker 3: Can you have two objectives that seem to be in
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Speaker 3: common fleeked to have cheap, reliable energy but also emission
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Speaker 3: cuts or as she puts at, responsible emission cuts.
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Speaker 11: Look, I guess you can have the two, so long
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Speaker 11: as you're brutally honest and clear about which one has
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Speaker 11: the upper hand, in which one is more important. And
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Speaker 11: in this case in credits to the Liberal Party, it
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Speaker 11: seems they have said that price is the priority here.
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Speaker 11: And as for the Paris Agreement, well, the good thing
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Speaker 11: about the Paris Agreement is that your specific contributions, they're
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Speaker 11: called nationally determined contributions, they're up for individual member countries
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Speaker 11: to set for themselves, so we can actually just dial
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Speaker 11: them back to something that is really small, even meaningless,
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Speaker 11: and stay in the Paris So really it's not that
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Speaker 11: dangerous to remain in Paris.
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Speaker 9: It's a little bit odd.
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Speaker 11: It's kind of like going through a messy breakup with
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Speaker 11: your X and then keeping a photo on the mantelpiece.
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Speaker 9: For a little bit longer. Not that dangerous, but definitely
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Speaker 9: a little bit weird.
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Speaker 3: It is a little bit weird, and I do like
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Speaker 3: that analogy. I think it confuses the messaging because they're
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Speaker 3: trying to again appease those smaller liberals, a peace the
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Speaker 3: inner city affluent types who are preoccupied with this issue.
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Speaker 3: But I don't think they're going.
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Speaker 2: To be a piece.
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Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to be confused that easily.
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Speaker 3: But it confuses selling cheap, reliable energy to the rest
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Speaker 3: of the electorate, and I think hopefully they'll slowly realize
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Speaker 3: that it's taken them a long time to get to
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Speaker 3: this position. We've been telling them for years, well before
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Speaker 3: the last election. Now, aiden you and your colleagues at
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Speaker 3: the Center of Independent Studies released a report into Australia's
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Speaker 3: renewables roll out last month, and it showed that it
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Speaker 3: does not pass the cost benefit test. Explain to my audience,
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Speaker 3: what are the issues and costs that are encountered at
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Speaker 3: just thirty percent renewables in the grid, and what's that
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Speaker 3: going to look like if it's seventy or eighty percent.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 11: The short story is that renewable energy is subject to
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Speaker 11: something of a honeymoon. A very little bit, a small
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Speaker 11: amount is line of harmless, not necessarily that helpful, but
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Speaker 11: doesn't hurt the grid. And that's because you just dial
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Speaker 11: back whatever other energy source. So be it coal and gas,
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Speaker 11: they have a bit of flexibility. You just dial that
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Speaker 11: back a little bit to make room for the wind
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Speaker 11: when it's windy and the sun when the sun is shining,
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Speaker 11: and that existing flexibility of the grid it runs out
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Speaker 11: somewhere around the twenty five thirty percent mark, which is
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Speaker 11: where we are. And at that point you're stuck with
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Speaker 11: too much energy at some places and sometimes and still
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Speaker 11: not enough at other places and other times, and so
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Speaker 11: you have to start the expensive, difficult business of moving
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Speaker 11: energy around through space and through time. So you do
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Speaker 11: that with batteries for storage and pumped hydro, you do
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Speaker 11: that with major new transmission lines. Moving energy around the clock,
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Speaker 11: the calendar and the country is the expensive bit. And
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Speaker 11: about thirty percent is where that really starts to bite it,
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Speaker 11: and you have to do a lot, which is why
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Speaker 11: we're seeing so many new transmission projects and battery projects.
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Speaker 11: But up around eighty percent, the majority of the energy
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Speaker 11: is actually going to be consumed thousands of kilometers away
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Speaker 11: or hours after it's actually generated, and that just becomes
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Speaker 11: extremely expensive. Indeed, so things always get harder from here,
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Speaker 11: and right now we've already discovered that renewable energy at
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Speaker 11: the moment is more expensive than the energy system we
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Speaker 11: had before, which was dominated by stable, steady, reliable thermore generators.
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Speaker 3: If it's costing this much a thirty percent, and it's
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Speaker 3: going to be a lot worse than forty fifty sixty
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Speaker 3: seventy percent, I mean, you would hate to predict what
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Speaker 3: the cost is going to be to households, to businesses
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Speaker 3: to try to deal with that intermitsion power. And we've
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Speaker 3: got to start calling renewables intermitsion power because that's a
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Speaker 3: far more.
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Speaker 2: Accurate description of what it actually is.
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Speaker 3: Now, before you go, how much transparency is there in
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Speaker 3: the amount of tax payer money that is going into
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Speaker 3: renewables that is propping up the sector. What would happen
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Speaker 3: without that sort of market intervention, Yeah.
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Speaker 11: There is no transparency at all. The major previous subsidy
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Speaker 11: scheme I called the Renewable Energy Target that's about to
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Speaker 11: phase out in twenty thirty and the replacement scheme is
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Speaker 11: called the Capacity Investment Scheme. And every subsidy is basically
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Speaker 11: determined project by project, with the Minister signing off on
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Speaker 11: a confidential deal that we'll never know about, giving them
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Speaker 11: basically as much money as they ask for, so I'm
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Speaker 11: quite confident. I've made the statement before about a billion
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Speaker 11: dollars for a single wind farm in Victoria, in the
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Speaker 11: kent Brook wind farm, and that wasn't challenged by the
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Speaker 11: experts of proponents.
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Speaker 9: When I was put to a planning committee meeting.
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Speaker 11: So this is untold billions of dollars that are being
20:36
Speaker 11: spent here, and if those subsidies are taken away, there
20:38
Speaker 11: would simply be no more investment in Australian renewable energy generation.
20:43
Speaker 11: It's an absolute myth of falsehood that the market is
20:46
Speaker 11: somehow teetering and waiting to put all of this money in.
20:50
Speaker 11: Absolutely none of the money moves in without the government
20:53
Speaker 11: basically forcing or compelling it in with some sort of
20:56
Speaker 11: subsidy or a regulatory instrument that forces us to.
20:59
Speaker 9: Pay higher bills to cover the costs.
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Speaker 11: So if there was no more subsidies, the renewable energy
21:04
Speaker 11: would stop dead in its tracks, and in fact it
21:06
Speaker 11: almost has even with the latest round of subsidies. A
21:09
Speaker 11: lot of the major projects are not even reaching financial
21:13
Speaker 11: clothes and that's just an indicator of how bad the
21:15
Speaker 11: economics currently are for renewable energy in Australia. Because we
21:18
Speaker 11: already have basically too much in the system. The honeymoon,
21:22
Speaker 11: it's definitely.
21:23
Speaker 3: Over and it wasn't much of a honeymoon either it
21:27
Speaker 3: and Morrison, thank you so much for your insights. Tonight,
21:31
Speaker 3: still to come left He's losing it past. The latest
21:34
Speaker 3: from the US, including today's Jeffrey Epstein revelations, are me
21:38
Speaker 3: Horowitz as the details. You're watching the Reader Panehy Show,
21:54
Speaker 3: and it's time for lefties losing it. And we've seen
21:57
Speaker 3: some astonishing stuff in this segment.
22:00
Speaker 2: We've heard from.
22:01
Speaker 3: Liars, gas lighters, the deluded, the deranged, and the dull witted.
22:06
Speaker 3: And I'm about to play you a clip that brings
22:08
Speaker 3: a lot of those elements together. Here is CNN's Abby
22:12
Speaker 3: Philip talking to former MSNBC anchor and conspiracy theorist Joy Read.
22:17
Speaker 2: The projection here is incredible.
22:20
Speaker 4: Conservatives are living in a completely different information world, absolutely
22:24
Speaker 4: and liberals, and breaking that down needs to be done
22:30
Speaker 4: because when you don't ever even hear the facts, it's.
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Speaker 7: Hard to even know that you're wrong.
22:37
Speaker 4: And that happens a lot.
22:39
Speaker 2: Wow, just wow.
22:41
Speaker 3: First, she says facts, she means her demented opinions, not
22:46
Speaker 3: actual facts, and a reminder she's been wrong on just
22:50
Speaker 3: about every consequential issue in recent years, along with Joyreid,
22:55
Speaker 3: whose podcast she seems to be appearing on Joyread not
22:59
Speaker 3: too long ago, pushing conspiracy theories about Donald Trump not
23:03
Speaker 3: really being hit with a bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania. She's
23:07
Speaker 3: as loopy as they come, but she's on the same
23:10
Speaker 3: side as self delighted, self aggrandizer Abby Half.
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Speaker 4: My job sometimes is knowing what the latest conspiracy is
23:19
Speaker 4: so that if it comes up, I'm ready to address it.
23:23
Speaker 4: Because it happens a lot where people don't even know
23:25
Speaker 4: that what they're saying or what they've seen and believe
23:29
Speaker 4: is not true. And so that happens a lot, and
23:33
Speaker 4: I don't come away from that saying, what's the point
23:37
Speaker 4: of this? People are just saying false things. I think
23:41
Speaker 4: that one time that that person brings up something that
23:43
Speaker 4: is debunked and false and I debunk it at the
23:46
Speaker 4: table might be the very first time that someone out
23:49
Speaker 4: there has heard an alternative point of view.
23:52
Speaker 3: Yes Week, conservatives really need Abby Philip, the hopelessly biased,
23:58
Speaker 3: hopelessly wrong at Philip to debunk laws for us.
24:03
Speaker 2: Let's have a look at her recent form.
24:05
Speaker 4: It's clear as today the FBI put out statistics crime
24:09
Speaker 4: is going down. You don't have to you don't have
24:12
Speaker 4: to twist the facts.
24:13
Speaker 12: The FBI quietly comes out with this new data that
24:17
Speaker 12: shows actually violent crime.
24:20
Speaker 2: Is up four and a half percent during that time frame.
24:22
Speaker 4: The only person making an accusation that people are not
24:25
Speaker 4: getting what they've asked for is Trump falsely claiming that
24:28
Speaker 4: the administration is withholding resources because of political affiliation.
24:33
Speaker 9: That is just not as well.
24:35
Speaker 13: The Federal Emergency Management Agency is facing major backlash after
24:40
Speaker 13: confirming reports that a supervisor ordered disaster relief workers to
24:44
Speaker 13: avoid homes with Trump yard signs.
24:48
Speaker 4: There's actually not any evidence linking any of Hunter Biden's
24:52
Speaker 4: wrongdoings to.
24:53
Speaker 1: Joe by laurencerect You.
24:55
Speaker 4: Think that Biden would actually pardon Hunter Biden, despite him
24:58
Speaker 4: saying pretty yes, a he would.
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Speaker 2: Now he's going to get pardoned by his dad.
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Speaker 8: There's no question about that.
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Speaker 4: The President has ruled out pardoning his son.
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Speaker 2: Breaking news. President Biden has just pardoned his son.
25:11
Speaker 3: There's so much more, and thanks to May's Moore for
25:13
Speaker 3: that great compilation. Now to another CNN simpleton, Brian Stelter,
25:18
Speaker 3: who has launched a spirited defense of the BBC after
25:21
Speaker 3: the British broadcaster ed deceptively and deliberately doctor footage of
25:26
Speaker 3: President Trump's January sixth speech. Stelt is writing articles and
25:30
Speaker 3: a slew of typically stupid tweets claiming things like the
25:34
Speaker 3: BBC is feeling the Trump squeeze. It's a move we
25:37
Speaker 3: have seen several times this year against vulnerable, vulnerable media companies.
25:43
Speaker 3: The BBC is not vulnerable. It's that taxpayer funded goliath.
25:48
Speaker 3: It's funded by a mandatory license fee paid by households,
25:52
Speaker 3: and it receives close to four billion pounds per annum.
25:56
Speaker 3: But those sort of facts are clearly beyond Brian. Joining
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Speaker 3: me now is filmmaker and commentator Army Horowitz. Army more
26:05
Speaker 3: on the BBC scandal that has seen the resignation of
26:08
Speaker 3: the BBC's Director General Tim Davey and head of News
26:11
Speaker 3: Debra Turness after the taxpay funded broadcaster deliberately and dishonestly
26:17
Speaker 3: adopted footage of Donald Trump's January sixth speech. But despite
26:21
Speaker 3: the BBC's history of institutional bias, the British left is
26:26
Speaker 3: circling the wagons as Donald Trump demands accountability. Let's hear
26:30
Speaker 3: from Tim Davey, you have to be.
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Speaker 14: Very clear and stand up for our journalism. We are
26:37
Speaker 14: and a unique and precious organization. And I see the
26:41
Speaker 14: free press, I see the weapon under pressure, I see
26:45
Speaker 14: the weaponization. I think we've got a fight for our journalism.
26:50
Speaker 14: I'm really proud of our work and the amazing locally
26:54
Speaker 14: globally that we're doing is utterly precious.
26:58
Speaker 2: Unique and precious. Really, let's see it.
27:01
Speaker 3: From liberal democrat and pay Manira Wilson, who is terrified
27:05
Speaker 3: by the prospect of what she calls the trumplification of
27:10
Speaker 3: our politics and media, get ready to lose some brain cells.
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Speaker 12: When Donald Trump got involved and called the BBC corrupt
27:19
Speaker 12: that we've had these two resignations overnight and we've now
27:23
Speaker 12: had his press secretary claiming this as a victory for Trump.
27:27
Speaker 12: Now the BBC belongs to Britain, and I think we
27:29
Speaker 12: should all be concerned, whether it's foreign powers or indeed
27:33
Speaker 12: domestic powers. And we know that there are the likes
27:36
Speaker 12: of Farage and Reform who would love to see the
27:39
Speaker 12: BBC destroyed. That really worries me because we cannot see
27:42
Speaker 12: the Trumpification of our politics and our media landscape. We've
27:46
Speaker 12: seen what that's done in Americas this is a moment
27:49
Speaker 12: for the BBC to reset and restore trust.
27:52
Speaker 3: Army there really are terrified of any sort of accountability.
27:56
Speaker 3: Let's not forget the BBC is taxpayer funded, are obliged
28:00
Speaker 3: to pie for this leftist activist machine.
28:05
Speaker 15: Yeah, what a grift. They pay twenty US dollars a month.
28:11
Speaker 15: That's more than Netflix. Okay, I don't know what that
28:14
Speaker 15: comes out to an Australian dollars, like one thousand dollars.
28:16
Speaker 15: I can't do the math in my head, but very
28:19
Speaker 15: interesting lot okay, but very interestingly.
28:24
Speaker 1: If you're blind you get a fifty.
28:27
Speaker 15: Percent discount, I'm not joking. And if you have a
28:30
Speaker 15: black and a white television you get a sixty six
28:33
Speaker 15: percent discount. So go figure. There are deals to be
28:36
Speaker 15: had at BBC. Oh god, Look, the truth is I
28:40
Speaker 15: learned so much from the BBC. For example, did you
28:45
Speaker 15: know that male breast milk is just as nutritious as
28:49
Speaker 15: female breast? I bet you didn't know that, Yes, because
28:52
Speaker 15: they have so much invested in men being women. That
28:54
Speaker 15: did a story on how if you pump a man
28:58
Speaker 15: with enough hormones, he will creep milk. Oh god, I
29:01
Speaker 15: want to I want to. I want to poke my mind.
29:05
Speaker 15: Ah my god, I'm sorry. I couldn't finished that.
29:09
Speaker 1: No, they're the worst. They're the absolute worst.
29:11
Speaker 15: And it's always so funny to me when my my
29:14
Speaker 15: liberal friends here, they always go, oh uh, American news
29:18
Speaker 15: is such bs CNN and Fox News garbage.
29:22
Speaker 1: I listen to the BBC.
29:24
Speaker 15: Oh my god, the the effect reactions.
29:27
Speaker 1: It's so gross that the BBC is awful.
29:31
Speaker 15: Let's not forget that during the Gaza conflict, they did
29:34
Speaker 15: a documentary on Gaza and the narrator of this documentary
29:40
Speaker 15: was the son of Hamas Minister. Look, they're awful, obviously,
29:46
Speaker 15: and there's no wonder that gb News, which is called
29:49
Speaker 15: the center right, the right outlet there is eating their lunch.
29:54
Speaker 15: They are now, for four months in a row, the
29:57
Speaker 15: number one UH news show news news channel in England.
30:01
Speaker 15: It's no wondering they've failed all across the border.
30:07
Speaker 2: Well, that's extraordinary.
30:08
Speaker 3: I didn't know that because GBN used their resources are
30:13
Speaker 3: tiny compared to the BBC, and every household with the
30:18
Speaker 3: television is obliged to give them money, as you explained now.
30:23
Speaker 2: Nigel Farag's Reform.
30:24
Speaker 3: Parties leading the polls, was also asked about Donald Trump
30:28
Speaker 3: putting pressure on the BBC.
30:30
Speaker 2: This was his response, what do you make.
30:33
Speaker 6: Of President Trump weighing into the conversation about the BBC
30:37
Speaker 6: and the British media landscape.
30:40
Speaker 2: Do you welcome that or does that concern you?
30:42
Speaker 8: Well, if I was the president of the United States
30:44
Speaker 8: of America, if I was the person making sure that
30:47
Speaker 8: the United Kingdom had security guarantees, that meant that it
30:51
Speaker 8: could be defended, whereas on its own it would be helpless.
30:56
Speaker 8: And I'd been stitched up on the eve of a
31:00
Speaker 8: national election. I mean, people talk about election interference. What
31:04
Speaker 8: the BBC did was election interference. If you put yourself
31:09
Speaker 8: in Donald Trump's shoes, I think you'll understand why. When
31:13
Speaker 8: I had a chat with him on Friday, he made
31:17
Speaker 8: his feelings on the subject known to me in no
31:20
Speaker 8: uncertain terms and not in a quotable form.
31:25
Speaker 3: I really do want to know what he said precisely.
31:28
Speaker 3: But the British media army, the left will try to
31:32
Speaker 3: use this to damage Nigel Farage. Given the relentless negative
31:37
Speaker 3: media Donald Trump receives in Britain, they believe that can
31:40
Speaker 3: hurt Forage because of his closeness to the President, But it.
31:44
Speaker 2: Hasn't hurt him.
31:45
Speaker 3: Yet look at this Reform, as you can see, is
31:48
Speaker 3: well ahead of Labor and the Tories.
31:52
Speaker 2: That could be the next British prime minister.
31:55
Speaker 3: But there is just this, as you touched on, this
32:00
Speaker 3: occupation with just how terrible politics and the media is
32:04
Speaker 3: in the US and how much more free and rational
32:08
Speaker 3: they are in the UK as they're arresting grandmothers for
32:13
Speaker 3: tweeting memes.
32:16
Speaker 15: Yeah, I get ready to say, Prime Minister Farage, the
32:20
Speaker 15: Conservative Party whose lunch he's eating is not the party
32:25
Speaker 15: of Margaret Thatcher.
32:26
Speaker 1: That's for sure.
32:28
Speaker 15: As the great poet philosopher Money Python says, it has
32:31
Speaker 15: ceased to be. The Conservative Party has been hemorrhaging voters
32:37
Speaker 15: and votes they and made they had. They had a
32:40
Speaker 15: local election and they were trounced by the Reform Party
32:44
Speaker 15: and many sort of an exit of a Brexit if
32:49
Speaker 15: you will, of Conservative members going toward the Reform Party.
32:53
Speaker 15: The Conservative Party had sixteen local councils defend. They lost
32:58
Speaker 15: sixteen out of sixteen. That's just not going to do it. Yeah,
33:03
Speaker 15: if you look at what the polls are saying in
33:04
Speaker 15: terms of what British voters want, well, far and away,
33:07
Speaker 15: far and away, the number one issue is immigration and
33:11
Speaker 15: that's where their Foreign Party shines. The Conservative Party has
33:15
Speaker 15: been echoing much of the sentiment of the Labor Party. Frankly,
33:18
Speaker 15: when it comes to immigration, the number two issue is
33:22
Speaker 15: the NHS, the National Health Service. That's a total tire
33:24
Speaker 15: fire and a tire fire not only under the Labor
33:27
Speaker 15: Party but also on the Conservative under the Conservative Party.
33:30
Speaker 15: Which you have to understand for for certainly for our
33:32
Speaker 15: American viewers, is that the politics in England is different
33:36
Speaker 15: the American political process.
33:37
Speaker 1: And same with you guys, is.
33:39
Speaker 15: That in our in our in our in their process,
33:41
Speaker 15: like the the Conservative Party is more like the middle
33:45
Speaker 15: of the road. Democrats and the Labor Party are more
33:48
Speaker 15: like you know, the squad. They're really become far left, uh,
33:52
Speaker 15: and it's just not just it's just not getting done.
33:56
Speaker 15: And now the Conservaive Party is kind of getting hip
33:58
Speaker 15: to that and they're trying to like out Catholic the Pope,
34:02
Speaker 15: and they have a new leader and she is trying
34:04
Speaker 15: to out reform the Foreign Party, but the polls are
34:07
Speaker 15: showing the voters aren't buying it.
34:09
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's what's going on there.
34:15
Speaker 3: They've been burnt too many times the Brets, They the
34:18
Speaker 3: Tories say all the right things, kind of like those
34:21
Speaker 3: rhinos say all the right things before an election, and
34:24
Speaker 3: then they get into power and they govern like they're
34:28
Speaker 3: from the left. And now that there is a reform option,
34:31
Speaker 3: as you saw in the in the polling, they're getting
34:36
Speaker 3: a lot of support. Now, Ami, we will get to
34:39
Speaker 3: the Jeffrey Epstein saga, but first I want to play
34:42
Speaker 3: you a clip from a drag queen named Ariel who
34:45
Speaker 3: explains her devotion to the New York City mayor elect
34:50
Speaker 3: Zora and Mamdani.
34:51
Speaker 16: It gives me, maybe for the first time in my
34:54
Speaker 16: life in American politics, a real sense of hope to
35:05
Speaker 16: actually have a politician that I really believe in and
35:09
Speaker 16: that I feel like really stands up for the people
35:13
Speaker 16: I care about most, from Palestinians to trans people, to Jews,
35:20
Speaker 16: to just my neighbors all around your own heights where
35:23
Speaker 16: I live, who live in reun stabilized apartments, the working
35:26
Speaker 16: families of New York. To actually have a politician who's
35:31
Speaker 16: truly standing with them, who has policies and planned.
35:35
Speaker 3: There you go, who really cares about Muslims, the trans community, Jews.
35:41
Speaker 3: You are a Jewish New Yorker, do you agree with
35:44
Speaker 3: the ariel?
35:45
Speaker 2: There is zorad.
35:46
Speaker 3: Committed to make your life better?
35:50
Speaker 15: A Muslim, a trans and a Jew walk into a
35:53
Speaker 15: bar and that's a party. She was very sweet. I'm
35:59
Speaker 15: a sucker for trying, lady. What can I tell you? Okay,
36:03
Speaker 15: what was your question again? I Do I feel safer
36:06
Speaker 15: as a Jew with mom?
36:07
Speaker 1: Donnie? Yeah? The the I'm gonna go with no. On that,
36:11
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with no.
36:12
Speaker 15: You know, it's so way and I've missed this before
36:14
Speaker 15: and it's it bears repeating.
36:15
Speaker 12: Right.
36:16
Speaker 15: So when you go to synagogue here in New York
36:18
Speaker 15: and other cities in America, but I'll speak about New York,
36:22
Speaker 15: there's security threats we have. We have to pay for
36:26
Speaker 15: security to stand in front of our synagogue. And during Bloomberg,
36:31
Speaker 15: what Bloomberg would do is he gave us a police officers.
36:34
Speaker 15: The police officer would go to and they would be
36:36
Speaker 15: stationed a squad car outside of every major synagogue in
36:40
Speaker 15: New York. And then during during Bolshevik Bill de Blasio,
36:45
Speaker 15: he took that away. He said no more police officers
36:47
Speaker 15: in front of synagogues. And then when Eric Adams came
36:50
Speaker 15: he put them back. I guarantee you there'll be no
36:54
Speaker 15: police cars in front of synagogues under the Mom Donnie regime,
36:58
Speaker 15: and and.
36:59
Speaker 1: Put us out all the Jewish issues.
37:02
Speaker 9: You know.
37:02
Speaker 1: Let's let's play a game. You like games. I love games.
37:05
Speaker 1: Let's play a game called Did he say these words okay?
37:08
Speaker 15: Did Mom Donny say the words violence is an artificial construction?
37:14
Speaker 1: Yes he did. When asked.
37:17
Speaker 15: About prisons, he said, Did he say what purpose do
37:22
Speaker 15: they serve?
37:24
Speaker 1: Yes?
37:24
Speaker 9: He did.
37:25
Speaker 1: He's a madman.
37:26
Speaker 15: He is going to destroy New York City. So I
37:28
Speaker 15: don't feel safe here as a Jew. I don't feel
37:31
Speaker 15: safe here as a New Yorker. No American will feel
37:33
Speaker 15: safe in the new New York City made under the
37:37
Speaker 15: model of Zoel.
37:38
Speaker 1: I'm Donnie.
37:40
Speaker 3: Well, you're gonna have a lot of sort of social
37:42
Speaker 3: workers doing great hugs with everybody. So it maybe not
37:45
Speaker 3: as many police officers, but there'll be some alternatives that
37:51
Speaker 3: I'm sure will work beautifully. Now let's get to the
37:54
Speaker 3: latest revelations about disgraced financiers sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
37:59
Speaker 2: Let's start with.
38:00
Speaker 3: These emails between discredited author Michael Wolf and Jeffrey Epstein,
38:05
Speaker 3: who was a friend of his, where he told the
38:07
Speaker 3: pediphile that he could be the bullet to end Donald
38:11
Speaker 3: Trump's twenty sixteen campaign. Wolf told Epstein in an email,
38:16
Speaker 3: you can hang him in a way that potentially generates
38:19
Speaker 3: a positive benefit for you, or if it really looks
38:23
Speaker 3: like he could win, you could save him generating a debt.
38:28
Speaker 3: What a slimy character, Army. I just want to go
38:34
Speaker 3: to the biggest revelation. What was the headline news earlier
38:37
Speaker 3: today and what much of the media focused on, And
38:41
Speaker 3: sadly many people don't look beyond the headline. The headlines
38:44
Speaker 3: read Trump spent hours at Epstein's house with victim of
38:50
Speaker 3: sex trafficking email allegers. But Armie the victim who was
38:54
Speaker 3: referred to as simply victim one with the Democrats on
38:57
Speaker 3: the House Overside Committee deliberately withholding her name. Well, the
39:02
Speaker 3: name has now been revealed, and it is the late
39:05
Speaker 3: Virginia Giuffrey.
39:07
Speaker 2: Who has said before her death.
39:09
Speaker 3: Repeatedly, including earlier this year, that she witnessed no wrongdoing
39:14
Speaker 3: from Donald Trump during their interactions.
39:17
Speaker 2: So to ask you a very lengthy.
39:20
Speaker 3: Question, are today's revelations another nothing burger?
39:25
Speaker 2: Or is there something there? That concerns you.
39:29
Speaker 1: How got I hate that term nothing burger. Yeah.
39:33
Speaker 15: Michael Wolfe and Jeffrey Epstein two incredibly credible people, two
39:39
Speaker 15: upstanding pillars of society.
39:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, answer your question. I went through.
39:45
Speaker 15: I sat and combed through all those emails. It took
39:48
Speaker 15: me twenty seconds. There were three emails. Each one was
39:52
Speaker 15: like two sentences long. Okay, did I miss something I read?
39:56
Speaker 15: We read them, and we read them.
39:59
Speaker 1: I don't know what we're talking about. I don't know
40:01
Speaker 1: what the issue. He spent hours there, you know, alone
40:03
Speaker 1: hours is hours?
40:04
Speaker 15: Is like going to like an event for a couple
40:07
Speaker 15: of what is our days is something hours? And then
40:10
Speaker 15: the other email that the smoking gun that the media
40:12
Speaker 15: is talking about.
40:13
Speaker 1: Is, is he knew about the girls.
40:15
Speaker 15: He asked Julaane Maxwell to stop. I mean, I don't know,
40:19
Speaker 15: he asked Jelaine Maxwell to stop.
40:21
Speaker 1: I don't.
40:21
Speaker 15: I just don't see where the smoking gun is. I
40:23
Speaker 15: don't see the issue.
40:24
Speaker 1: I think.
40:25
Speaker 15: Actually, the more fascinating part of his whole Epstein saga
40:28
Speaker 15: is how the hard right is dealing with this right.
40:31
Speaker 15: She have Marjorie Taylor Green strutting her stuff with the
40:34
Speaker 15: left wing media, and she's being hailed right the View
40:37
Speaker 15: loves her all of a sudden.
40:39
Speaker 1: And she's you know, she's using this as to weaponize
40:42
Speaker 1: against Donald Trump. She's so gross. She really is gross,
40:48
Speaker 1: you know.
40:48
Speaker 15: She again she's embodying this, this this horseshoe theory of politics.
40:53
Speaker 1: Right right there on the View. And it's really gross.
40:57
Speaker 15: But even even more grosses people like her and her
41:00
Speaker 15: ilk using this. The anti Semitism is all streaming out
41:05
Speaker 15: of them right where.
41:06
Speaker 1: They are.
41:06
Speaker 15: All the claims unsubstantial, with zero evidence.
41:09
Speaker 1: The masade, the mosade is involved in this. Look, the
41:12
Speaker 1: whole thing is just gross.
41:15
Speaker 15: And Cash Bartel is a good guy and I think
41:19
Speaker 15: if a something there it be released. They'res nothing there,
41:22
Speaker 15: but they will not let this thing go.
41:26
Speaker 2: Me Horowitz, thank you so much for your time still
41:29
Speaker 2: to come.
41:30
Speaker 3: Why queer characters have been slashed from TV shows?
41:34
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41:48
Speaker 3: Joining me now is veteran broadcaster Daity dun Levy. Now,
41:52
Speaker 3: we love a good apology, d d A genuine apology
41:55
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41:59
Speaker 3: delivered a heartfelt apology to tennis legend Novak Djokovic for
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Speaker 3: the absurd a taxi launched because Novak refused to submit
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Speaker 3: to the COVID shot.
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Speaker 17: You got thrown out of Australia over what seemed to be,
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Speaker 17: on the face of it, from what the media were
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Speaker 17: being told and what was being reported, was you trying
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Speaker 17: to bend the rules of getting into playing in Australian
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Speaker 17: Open without having taken the COVID vaccine. And I was
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Speaker 17: actually quite censorius about a lot of people at the time,
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Speaker 17: and I've since apologized to some people. I was too censorious.
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Speaker 17: And when more information emerged about your situation, the fact
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Speaker 17: you'd had COVID several weeks before you went to Australia,
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Speaker 17: the fact that you hadn't actually done anything wrong on
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Speaker 17: the form filling, the fact that in the end it
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Speaker 17: became a political decision to throw you out based on
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Speaker 17: likely public anger if they didn't take action. When I
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Speaker 17: look back on that and reflect on that, I would
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Speaker 17: like to say, I'm sorry for the intemperate language I
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Speaker 17: used against you. Because I didn't know you. I took
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Speaker 17: what I was reading and hearing at face value. It
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Speaker 17: turned out to be more complicated, Diddy.
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Speaker 3: There are plenty of media pundits in this country who
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Speaker 3: need to be lining up to apologize to Novak as well.
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Speaker 2: I want to say I'm not one of them.
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Speaker 3: I was one of the few voices defending him at
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Speaker 3: the time, but some of the coverage he received was
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Speaker 3: just unhinged. He was called the most hated man in
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Speaker 3: Australia at one point.
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Speaker 18: Well, I'm filled with shame right now, and I hats
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Speaker 18: off to Piers Morgan.
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Speaker 7: I'm absolutely with him.
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Speaker 18: But I as you know, because you were on my show.
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Speaker 18: I hosted a radio show at the time, and I
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Speaker 18: joined the pylon and look for me, it wasn't so
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Speaker 18: much about hating Novak Jokovic or necessarily wanting.
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Speaker 7: A needle jabbed in his arm.
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Speaker 18: It was more about the fact that we didn't want
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Speaker 18: him to be seen to be getting special treatment when
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Speaker 18: the rest of us were going through hell. And I
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Speaker 18: remember you and I discussed him this. I do remember
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Speaker 18: the first time sort of COVID came up in the
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Speaker 18: news and you saying, look, we're all going to get it.
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Speaker 18: Let's just get it and get on with our lives.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 18: I remember looking at you and thinking Ritus lost her mind.
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Speaker 18: But you know, you were proven to be right and
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Speaker 18: The reason I feel feel for shame is because we
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Speaker 18: were as broadcasters, as media figures, we were encouraged to
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Speaker 18: get people to you know, encourage them to get the
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Speaker 18: jab because that's what we were being told. Get to
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Speaker 18: ninety percent, ninety eight percent, whatever it was, and they'll
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Speaker 18: let us out of our homes. We can return to
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Speaker 18: our normal lives. And so, you know, I joined in.
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Speaker 18: I thought I was doing the right thing. But looking back,
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Speaker 18: you know, I wish I had my time again. I
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Speaker 18: did question it at the time, but I wish that
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Speaker 18: i'd pushed harda.
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Speaker 3: You were nowhere near the people I was thinking of
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Speaker 3: when I made that statement. I do remember those discussions,
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Speaker 3: but you weren't launching into these ugly attacks against Novak.
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Speaker 3: You just thought you didn't want any sort of special
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Speaker 3: treatment for a celebrity and millionaire. So I think your
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Speaker 3: apology that is not all that necessary. Now, talking about apologies,
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Speaker 3: let's discuss the ongoing feud between David and Victoria Beckham
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Speaker 3: and their son Brooklyn and his wife Nikola. A source
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Speaker 3: and stole The Daily Mouth that Brooklyn would only accept
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Speaker 3: something that is considered a substantive and public apology from
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Speaker 3: his parents before.
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Speaker 2: Reconciling with them. Did he what's going on here?
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Speaker 18: Well, look, I can understand him standing by his wife.
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Speaker 18: This all goes back to their wedding when he and
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Speaker 18: he's taken on his wife's name, it's Peltz Beckham.
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Speaker 7: Now for him.
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Speaker 18: They felt, or the couple, Nicola and Brooklyn felt that
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Speaker 18: David and Victoria were planting stories in the.
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Speaker 7: Press around them, which is look at it. It is
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Speaker 7: conceivable because the two of them do have a hotline
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Speaker 7: to the media. But I don't know whether that was founded.
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Speaker 18: It may have been happening through an agent of Victoria
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Speaker 18: and David.
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Speaker 7: But I don't think you can tell and Beck's what
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Speaker 7: to do.
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Speaker 18: And I also don't think you will ever win a
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Speaker 18: pr war against this couple. They seem to go from
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Speaker 18: strength to strength. He's just been knighted. She's got a
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Speaker 18: really successful well I.
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Speaker 7: Loved it anyway, a series on Netflix. And I don't
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Speaker 7: think you can tell them what to do.
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Speaker 18: I do have a feeling though, that Victoria, if anyone
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Speaker 18: can fix it, Victoria can.
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Speaker 7: She's very strong, very family oriented.
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Speaker 18: I think that she will be able to broak us
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Speaker 18: some sort of a piece deal.
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Speaker 7: But I think it will take more time Now.
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Speaker 3: Insider has told Page six that Meghan Markle was apparently
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Speaker 3: in networking mode at christ Jenna's seventieth birthday party. There
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Speaker 3: were a lot of A listers there, including Mariah Kerry,
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Speaker 3: Justin Bieber, Hayley Bieber, Oprah Winfrey, Gail King, and Ddi.
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Speaker 3: The sau said, Megan was schmoozing with a lot of
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Speaker 3: power players.
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Speaker 2: How do you see that? Because she's copying.
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Speaker 3: Some criticism for not wearing a Remembrance Day poppy.
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Speaker 2: We covered that story first here on Monday, and it was.
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Speaker 3: So glaringly obvious because Harry was wearing a poppy and
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Speaker 3: obviously the day holds a lot of significance for him.
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Speaker 18: Well differently, and her excuse was incredibly lame. She said
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Speaker 18: that she couldn't get one. Look, you could order them
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Speaker 18: on Amazon, cost you about five bucks or something and
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Speaker 18: it'll be there the same day. Look, the grifter was hustling.
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Speaker 18: Are we surprised?
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Speaker 7: I don't think we are at all.
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Speaker 18: I find their appearance at this party looked not surprising,
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Speaker 18: because you know, she could not be happier. This is
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Speaker 18: her happy place, She's found her people. She's wallowing in
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Speaker 18: this pit of narcissistic, self loving people.
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Speaker 7: But what about the irony here? So Harry and.
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Speaker 18: Meghan detest the intrusion of the press. They absolutely hated
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Speaker 18: that get away from us. We're terrified of the paparazzi,
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Speaker 18: And yet here they are metaphorically in bed with a
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Speaker 18: family who have made and built their entire empire on
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Speaker 18: sharing every little detail of their lives, who have the
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Speaker 18: paparazzi on speed dial.
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Speaker 7: So which one is it? Harry and Megan?
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Speaker 18: These two are so insincere, and I'm just I'm not
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Speaker 18: surprised by their presence there. She's just doing anything she
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Speaker 18: can to grasp, but keeping herself in the headlines.
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Speaker 3: Now before you go, Queer characters have been slashed from
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Speaker 3: TV shows amid a massive U turn on woke DEI
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Speaker 3: policies and initiatives in the US, with Deadline reporting that
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Speaker 3: around forty one percent of the four hundred and eighty
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Speaker 3: nine LGBTQ characters that were on the small screen this year,
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Speaker 3: well they won't be returning, with further cancelations also likely.
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Speaker 3: Is this the case of the market speaking? Are they
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Speaker 3: just as our viewers, just sick of the over representation?
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, and these networks should have seen this coming.
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Speaker 18: I mean, it was one of the major pillars of
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Speaker 18: Donald Trump's election campaign was getting rid of all this
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Speaker 18: DEI and all this woke rubbish and some of these programs.
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Speaker 7: They just make you feel uncomfortable in your own living room.
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Speaker 7: And we don't want that. We just want to be entertained.
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Speaker 18: And if you feel as though you're being given a
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Speaker 18: lecture rather than being able to just relax and enjoy
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Speaker 18: a story unfolding, you know you can hear them scratching
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Speaker 18: and ticking the DEI boxes in the background. We don't
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Speaker 18: want that, and that's not what people want it. It's
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Speaker 18: not what the people have a mouth are so right,
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Speaker 18: and the ratings have shown that those shows had to go. Yeh,
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Speaker 18: it's the box ticking.
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Speaker 3: It's just when it's absolutely unnecessary and you can almost
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Speaker 3: see they're putting together a production by just ticking boxes.
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Speaker 3: Diddie dune Levy always a pleasure. And that's it for me.
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Speaker 3: I'll see you tomorrow night at nine pm for Left
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