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The Kenny Report | 6 March · The Kenny Report

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Speaker 1: Line from the Skoing New Center.
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Speaker 2: This is the Kenny Report.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 1: Cyclone watch continues as Alfred generates huge waves that are
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Speaker 1: already doing damage and authorities call for surfers and onlookers
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Speaker 1: to get off the beaches. I'll cross to Queensland and
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Speaker 1: maybe catch up with Paul Murray because he's headed north
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Speaker 1: to Senator just Center now.
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Speaker 3: But Chipper Price will join me live to discuss.
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Speaker 1: Her huge task of cutting government spending and with another
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Speaker 1: ugly swastiker attack marring the unofficial election campaign, I'll speak
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Speaker 1: with liberal candidate Roe Knox, who's taking on Teal Allegra
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Speaker 1: spender in Wentworth. All that Donald Trump's new warning to
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Speaker 1: hum Us, Alexander Downer on Elbow's Peacekeepers for Ukraine moment,
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Speaker 1: and Tim Blair and Mark Nicholson two, Let's get started.
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Speaker 1: Tropical Cyclone Alfred is toying with the people of southeast
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Speaker 1: Queensland and northern New South Wales, slowing its progress so
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Speaker 1: that it might not cross the coast till Tomorrow night
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Speaker 1: or Saturday morning, possibly building more power in the meantime.
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Speaker 1: But the fury of the stormy seas has already been
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Speaker 1: felt along the coast.
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Speaker 3: Good for some brave or crazy souls, but bad for others.
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Speaker 4: A holy Colen Alfred's definitely delivered some good barrels for
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Speaker 4: the boys and girls, weather for nonsurfers, but for ours surfers.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we love it.
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Speaker 5: We need to tell them over and over again, stay
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Speaker 5: out of the water.
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Speaker 4: It's dangerous and it's really in an effort to keep
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Speaker 4: people who are a bit stupid safe.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Elsewhere, the sandbacking and this bagging and other preparations are continuing.
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Speaker 1: Everyone has to prepare for the worst, while of course
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Speaker 1: they hope for the best and they've got at least
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Speaker 1: some more daylight to work in tomorrow. Let's go straight
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Speaker 1: to our reporter, Harry Clark. He joins us from Brisbane's
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Speaker 1: Bay Side. Thanks for joining us, har are you. It's
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Speaker 1: a strange combination, isn't it. When you've got a lot
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Speaker 1: of onlookers and surfers sort of enjoying the build up,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of people probably most get your sense
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Speaker 1: of that really busy battening down the hatches.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Well, what's interesting about this good evening, Chris, is just
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Speaker 7: how many people are expected to be affected. They are obviously,
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Speaker 7: you know, an excess of three million people in the
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Speaker 7: greater Brisbane area, and the cyclone's coming right for us.
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Speaker 7: It's about two hundred and fifty k's off the coast
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Speaker 7: at the moment, and it's barreling white towards Brisbane. The
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Speaker 7: latest path it looks like it's going to come in
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Speaker 7: the northern suburbs. But what's interesting is that the bureau
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Speaker 7: experts keep saying that it's the southern flank. They're calling
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Speaker 7: it the southern fringe of this cycle line, where the
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Speaker 7: winds are going to be particularly heavy up to one
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Speaker 7: hundred and fifty k' is an hour. And what's interesting
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Speaker 7: is that it's being felt first down on the Gold Coast,
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Speaker 7: which is further south from where I am now than
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Speaker 7: we are to the cyclone. So they're starting to cop
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Speaker 7: it a bit further down on the Gold Coast. Just
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Speaker 7: in the last hour or so it started to come
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Speaker 7: in here at Victoria Point, which is on Brisbane's base side.
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Speaker 7: You can see the surf starting to pick up a
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Speaker 7: bit here. There's been what's called a red alert from
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Speaker 7: maritime authorities. You aren't allowed out on the water, out
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Speaker 7: on the open waterways, all boats and watercraft vessels have
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Speaker 7: to be moored, and yeah, the storm surge is the
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Speaker 7: big concern here on the bay side. What they call
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Speaker 7: the astronomical high tide is the highest tide expected for
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Speaker 7: a year, and the Bureau of Meteorology is saying that
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Speaker 7: the storm surge from Tropical Cyclone Alfred, in the worst
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Speaker 7: case scenario, if it crosses the coast in time with
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Speaker 7: that high astronomical tide, could be above one meter above
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Speaker 7: what the high tide mark would use be. So that
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Speaker 7: puts this entire sort of beat front here at Victoria
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Speaker 7: Point within the tidal storm surge zone. And there's a
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Speaker 7: lot of houses, there's plenty of low country here on
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Speaker 7: these bay sides. All these houses, these waterfront houses here
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Speaker 7: technically within that storm surge sign. So there's certainly plenty
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Speaker 7: of concerned. There's already five thousand odd homes that have
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Speaker 7: lost power in southeast Queensland, two thousand SEES personnel of responding,
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Speaker 7: and there's been fifteen hundred odd calls for help from
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Speaker 7: the SEES Service. There's trees starting to come down over
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Speaker 7: power lines, cutting power and it's really started to kick
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Speaker 7: off now. Although it's been a pretty slowly moving beast
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Speaker 7: so far tropical cyclone Alfric.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, great explanation, Harry. Just to explain that thing about
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Speaker 1: the south of the cyclone. Of course the cyclone, the
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Speaker 1: winds go in a clockwise direction, so south of the
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Speaker 1: cyclone the wind will be coming off the ocean, and
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Speaker 1: north of the cyclone will be coming off the land
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Speaker 1: after it crosses landed as you're intimating at the start there,
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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Queensland is used to cyclones usual much
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Speaker 1: further north, and of course when they're much further north,
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Speaker 1: they're eating much more.
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Speaker 3: Sparsely populated areas.
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Speaker 1: The idea of having a major cyclone hitting an area
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Speaker 1: where there are three million people is just about unheard of.
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Speaker 7: Well it is not just about unheard of. It has
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Speaker 7: been heard of before. Nineteen seventy was the last time
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Speaker 7: there was a cyclone in southeast Queensland down on the
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Speaker 7: Gold Coast. They have one in the fifties. So very
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Speaker 7: rare indeed, but not unheard of. And you're right, most
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Speaker 7: of the time cyclones happen up in North Queensland. They're
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Speaker 7: used to it, and the countryside is a lot better
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Speaker 7: with runoff up there. It's just kind of you know,
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Speaker 7: built the terrain has built the sort of runoff and
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Speaker 7: withstand those tropical cyclones in those tropical areas, but it
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Speaker 7: just remains to be seen. You know exactly how it's
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Speaker 7: going to respond. With all the developments happened since the
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Speaker 7: last time there was a storm of this nature in
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Speaker 7: Southeast Crueans they had people, as you say, not used
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Speaker 7: to it, but we do know extreme weather events. Obviously,
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Speaker 7: Brisbane's flooded the twenty eleven flows was enormous and there
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Speaker 7: were thousands, hundreds of thousands of people impacted from that,
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Speaker 7: so we know at the very least to heed the
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Speaker 7: warnings and things like not driving through floodwaters and getting
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Speaker 7: inside and tiding up your home from potential missiles that
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Speaker 7: may be laying around your backyard. People do seem to
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Speaker 7: be heating those warnings, but still people so plenty of
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Speaker 7: people coming out to the waterfront to just have a
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Speaker 7: bit of a look as it gets closer and closer
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Speaker 7: to hitting landfall.
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Speaker 1: Great stuff, Harry, great to get your stuff from on
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Speaker 1: the scene, and greats across to a reporter on the beach.
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Speaker 3: There any shorts rather than people you're having around in.
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Speaker 1: Suits and whatever in these conditions.
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Speaker 3: Chris well done, mate, great stuff. Harry Clark. There barefoot, barefoot.
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Speaker 1: Many shorts on the beach, and coins are giving us
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Speaker 1: all the preparations there for Cyclone Alfred as it bears
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Speaker 1: down on that southeast Queensland coast.
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Speaker 3: Now, while all that goes on in coins, then the.
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Speaker 1: Usual political zealots out to push their climbate alarmism, of course,
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Speaker 1: as they do with every flood and fire and storm
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Speaker 1: and eat wave.
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Speaker 3: I've shown you some of these cheap.
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Speaker 1: Shots, the erroneous fear mongering over the past couple of days.
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Speaker 3: But here's another.
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Speaker 1: It's Zalie Stegel, now a teal of course, but once
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Speaker 1: a snow skiing champ, you know, spending half of their
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Speaker 1: life flying around the world and riding chairlifts in one
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Speaker 1: of the most carbon intensive sports known to humankind.
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Speaker 3: But it doesn't stop here.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't stop her linking carbon emissions to the cyclone because.
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Speaker 8: We know from scientists overwhelmingly around the world that all
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Speaker 8: weather events are being exacerbated. So you look at the
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Speaker 8: La firessr.
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Speaker 9: I didn't say that though, cyclones, but.
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Speaker 8: That might be cyclones. We know bushfires, floods, droughts, we
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Speaker 8: know everything is being exacerbated. Experts talk about it in
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Speaker 8: terms of climate whiplash events where you go from extremes,
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Speaker 8: and the meaning of extremes is that the impacts will
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Speaker 8: be greater when they hit.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's just not right.
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Speaker 1: Some sign to suggest such things might bring true. They
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Speaker 1: even stretch the records to suggest it could be happening.
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Speaker 1: But the record simply does not demonstrate that these events
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Speaker 1: are getting worse or more common. But mere facts won't
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Speaker 1: stop these climate zealots, as they pretend that they can
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Speaker 1: control the weather.
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Speaker 8: Now, we cannot ensure our way out of the crisis,
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Speaker 8: climate crisis. I can assure you that, And they will
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Speaker 8: every year reassess the likelihood of events occurring, and premiums
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Speaker 8: will keep going up. And that is how individual families
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Speaker 8: are paying for it. And I don't think that's acceptable.
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Speaker 8: And so we have to mitigate that risk by reducing emissions.
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Speaker 1: Really, she pretends that what by paying more for our power,
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Speaker 1: paying a premium for renewable energy will reduce emissions and
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Speaker 1: eliminate natural disasters and pay lower insurance pre ems.
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Speaker 3: This stuff is just so nutty, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: First, At the moment, energy costs and insurance premiums are
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Speaker 1: going skywards even though.
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Speaker 3: Our emissions are going down.
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Speaker 1: Second, no matter what we do with our emissions, the
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Speaker 1: weather can't be affected because global emissions are still growing rapidly.
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Speaker 1: All we're doing is making ourselves poorer, because growing emissions
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Speaker 1: in China, India, Indonesia and others are more than making up.
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Speaker 3: For any of our cuts.
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Speaker 1: And Third, no matter your politics, you cannot escape the
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Speaker 1: science which tells us two things. Firstly that we can't
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Speaker 1: control the weather and never will be able to, and
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Speaker 1: secondly that we've always faced natural disasters and we always will.
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Speaker 1: So Zalie Stegel and the other Tills and their mates,
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Speaker 1: the Greens really or to pull their heads in lest
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Speaker 1: people wake up to just how desperate they are. I mean,
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Speaker 1: would Steggell really have such a big carbon footprint herself
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Speaker 1: if she thought it was causing cyclones?
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Speaker 3: The idiocy of this almost hurts.
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Speaker 1: But the insensitivity of going on about it while people
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Speaker 1: are worried about their homes and their families, well that's
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Speaker 1: really low grade stuff. Now to Washington, the Middle East
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Speaker 1: War and the hostages. I told you on Monday that
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Speaker 1: US President Donald Trump would be meeting with freed Israeli hostages.
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Speaker 1: He has done that, and they've thanked him for getting
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Speaker 1: them out.
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Speaker 10: My family, myself, we believe you've been sent by a
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Speaker 10: guy reason.
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Speaker 3: You can really help.
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Speaker 11: You have the power to do it.
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Speaker 12: You were a horrible when we were.
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Speaker 6: There, and now you are in their pool.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you didn't think until they got along, you
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Speaker 2: didn't think.
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Speaker 13: We heard that you want to do it.
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Speaker 6: As and you, well, you better let us have those
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Speaker 6: people back, You better let them out.
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Speaker 3: We did say that, and something happened.
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Speaker 8: The rest. Thank you.
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Speaker 6: Terrible horrible stories.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: On the back of that meeting and the police from
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Speaker 1: those free hostages, some of them have friends and relatives
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Speaker 1: still held by HUMMUS, Trump has issued another ultimatum to
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Speaker 1: hum Us release all of the hostages.
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Speaker 3: Now, not later, and.
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Speaker 1: Immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people
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Speaker 1: you murdered, or it's over for you. The President posted,
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Speaker 1: only sick and twisted people could keep bodies, and you
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Speaker 1: are sick and twisted. I'm sending Israel everything it needs
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Speaker 1: to finish the job. Not a single HUMMAS member will
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Speaker 1: be safe if you don't do as I say. This
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Speaker 1: is another extraordinary threat from Donald Trump and Israeli Prime
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Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has upped his retric too. It's now
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Speaker 1: five hundred and nineteen days since the October the seventh atrocity,
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Speaker 1: and Humas is still holding fifty nine hostages in Gaza.
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Speaker 3: Israel believes twenty.
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Speaker 1: Four of them are alive and the other thirty five
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Speaker 1: are presumed dead.
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Speaker 3: How can anything move forward?
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Speaker 1: How can a cease fire last while these hostages are
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Speaker 1: still held. Let me highlight a disgraceful case of how
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Speaker 1: Australia is letting the evil regime of Iran off the
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Speaker 1: hook and letting down brave, oppressed women in the process.
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Speaker 1: Iranian women are some of the most abused in the world,
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Speaker 1: ordered by law to wear Islamic headscarves, arrested in the
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Speaker 1: streets by morality police if they don't uphold those and
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Speaker 1: other strict measures including curfews, and they're sometimes dying in
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Speaker 1: custody because of all this. Remember this case from just
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Speaker 1: two years ago.
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Speaker 14: They're protesting the death of twenty two year old Massa
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Speaker 14: Ameni in Iran. The Yuan said Amine was with her
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Speaker 14: brother in the capitol when she was arrested last week
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Speaker 14: for what was considered to be an improper hijab or
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Speaker 14: head covering. There are reports she was beaten on the
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Speaker 14: head with a baton, Amine, fell into a coma shortly
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Speaker 14: after being arrested and died three days later.
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Speaker 1: That terrible case triggered some protests in the West. Not enough,
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Speaker 1: mind you, because the feminists of the West are never
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Speaker 1: particularly active when it comes to women in the Muslim world.
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Speaker 1: But importantly it triggered brave but deadly protests inside Iran.
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Speaker 15: Across Iran, anti government protests have raged for more than
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Speaker 15: a week. Authorities are using live rounds to put down
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Speaker 15: the descent. Women have risked their lives to burn their
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Speaker 15: headscarfs in defiance of Iran's religious laws and morality police.
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Speaker 1: When you see that sort of oppression and that brave resistance,
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Speaker 1: it defies belief that we've heard an Australian senator praising
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Speaker 1: the treatment of women in Iran. It's even more astonishing
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Speaker 1: given that that senator arrived in Australia as a refugee
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Speaker 1: from Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
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Speaker 3: I showed you this last.
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Speaker 16: Week incredible place that Iran is allowing for women to
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Speaker 16: participate in the workforce, to ensure that they have a
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Speaker 16: voice and their voices. I heard they're involved in the
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Speaker 16: democratic process.
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Speaker 3: Talk about propaganda.
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Speaker 1: Dying in custody for not wearing a scarf is not
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Speaker 1: being part of the political process in the normal meaning
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Speaker 1: of the term. But have a look at who Senator
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Speaker 1: Payment is talking to. That microphone belongs to Press TV.
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Speaker 1: That is the Iranian state broadcaster, a television station that
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Speaker 1: spreads propaganda for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were.
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Speaker 1: Filming that interview in Sydney at the University of Western Sydney,
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Speaker 1: an event hosted by them.
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Speaker 3: But how can that be?
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Speaker 1: You see, some Iranian entities have been banned in Australia
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Speaker 1: under sanctions aimed at fighting around human rights abuses, and
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Speaker 1: as announced in.
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Speaker 3: This press release from Foreign Minister Penny.
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Speaker 1: Wong just two years ago, the banned Iranian entity include
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Speaker 1: Press TV, the state backed TV channel, said the press release,
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Speaker 1: which was as broadcast forced confessions by Iranians detained and
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Speaker 1: tried in politically motivated cases. That was the announcement. But
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Speaker 1: clearly Press TV is operating in Australia. Their website lists
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Speaker 1: Shahana but as a Sydney correspondent, and she describes herself
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Speaker 1: in LinkedIn as. Sydney based Liberal Senator Dave Sharma has
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Speaker 1: unearthed all this and raised it in Parliament.
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Speaker 17: Press TV had an official presence at this event in
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Speaker 17: Western Sydney. They seem to be operating openly. They obviously
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Speaker 17: broadcast parts of the interview which served their own interests,
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Speaker 17: on state channels. Should they be able to operate freely
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Speaker 17: like this in Australia if they're subject to our sanctions regime?
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Speaker 3: Do John names?
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Speaker 4: Perhaps I can jump.
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Speaker 3: In, Yeah, you guessed it.
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Speaker 1: The Foreign Minister provided no answer, and departmental officials were
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Speaker 1: left to say that they would now investigate all this.
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Speaker 1: Senator Shama has now written to Senator Wong seeking more
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Speaker 1: information and more action. But if we don't enforce sanctions,
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Speaker 1: what's the point of having them? And if we can't
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Speaker 1: stand up to Iran over the persecution of women, then
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Speaker 1: what else are we turning a blind eye to? And
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Speaker 1: if Penny Wong is not diligent about enforcing sanctions aimed
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Speaker 1: at protecting the rights of brave Iranian women, then what
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Speaker 1: is she diligent about? What a weak country we've become
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Speaker 1: on international affairs under labor.
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Speaker 3: And just on women's rights.
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Speaker 1: I want to mention the doco running tonight here on
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Speaker 1: Sky News. Senior reporter Caroline Marcus has done a deep
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Speaker 1: dive into the way transgender women or biological called men
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Speaker 1: are disrupting sport for women and girls. Her special report,
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Speaker 1: fair Game, is tonight at eight thirty, and here's a
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Speaker 1: sneak preview featuring Deborah Akinson, a weightlifter who retired from
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Speaker 1: the sport because of the unfairness of including trans athletes
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Speaker 1: like Laurel Hubbard.
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Speaker 4: She abandoned her final dream of setting a world master's record.
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Speaker 4: Laurel Hubbard had already increased the record by twenty kilos.
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Speaker 18: That's why I stopped weightlifting, because I knew I wasn't
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Speaker 18: going to be able to get that record. It was unattainable.
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Speaker 10: No matter how hard I tried, I wouldn't be able
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Speaker 10: to get that record.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is such an important issue for women playing
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Speaker 1: sport now and for parents of little girls who are
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Speaker 1: going to run into this in the future. It's about
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Speaker 1: fairness for women and girls when it comes to competition.
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Speaker 1: It's about safety too when it comes to contact sports,
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Speaker 1: and it's about security when it comes to shared change
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Speaker 1: rooms and the like.
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Speaker 3: Don't miss it tonight at eight thirty with Caroline Marcus.
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Speaker 3: Now we hear a little too.
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Speaker 1: Much about so called toxic masculinity, don't we. In general,
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Speaker 1: men often get a bad rap. We're all against violent
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Speaker 1: blokes and thugs, of course, but when there are evil
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Speaker 1: blokes around, you need good men to stand up, and
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Speaker 1: most often they do. Check this out in Adelaide on
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Speaker 1: the weekend.
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Speaker 19: Dad of two Sanger Chow is the man in this
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Speaker 19: vision captured in his thongs taking down a violent attacker
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Speaker 19: in Rundell Moore with one fierce bump on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hell of a shirt front.
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Speaker 1: That was a frightening situation in a public place, and
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Speaker 1: Sanger Chow stepped in, as did some others.
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Speaker 19: The former holden worker from Port Adelaide was sitting with
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Speaker 19: his wife and children watching a basking show when he
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Speaker 19: heard a woman screaming before beelining for the thug. The
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Speaker 19: police arriving to finish the job as the mum and daughter,
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Speaker 19: who were allegedly hit several times in the random attack,
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Speaker 19: cowled on the ground.
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Speaker 3: Great stuff.
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Speaker 1: We wish, of course that it didn't happen, but we're
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Speaker 1: glad that people help.
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Speaker 3: Out when it does. And to all those who are.
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Speaker 1: Keen to get rid of the biff from footy, have
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Speaker 1: a listen to where this bloke got his inspiration.
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Speaker 19: And he admits that in the moment he may have
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Speaker 19: drawn inspiration from a Port Adelaide legend.
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Speaker 3: I'm a big power fan.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, good, choppy picket.
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Speaker 3: Is so hopefully you likes that.
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Remember when Tony Abbott was slammed for wanting to shirt
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Speaker 1: front Vladimir Putin, Well, after seeing those shirt fronts, don't
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Speaker 1: you wish he had? And look, it pains me to
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Speaker 1: say anything good about Port Adelaide all their supporters, but
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Speaker 1: the club has come through apparently.
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Speaker 3: Now, inviting a shower there.
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Speaker 1: And his family to a corporate box for the first
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Speaker 1: game of the season where they reckon. They'll even make
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Speaker 1: sure he meets the Master of the shirt front Byron Pickett.
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Speaker 3: Good job all round.
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Speaker 1: Now, isn't Elon Musk cooking up a storm in the
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Speaker 1: US with his dramatic government cost cutting campaign under President Trump?
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Speaker 3: Musk hams it up all right, doesn't he?
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Speaker 1: But the Department of Government Efficiency is the agency involved.
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Speaker 1: And when you think about a federation like the US
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Speaker 1: and the way that federal departments often double up on
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Speaker 1: areas where the state governments and private sector do most
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Speaker 1: of the heavy lifting.
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Speaker 3: There's lots of scope for cutting.
21:37
Speaker 1: Just listen to Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman twenty
21:41
Speaker 1: five years ago.
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Speaker 20: Department of Agriculture, my abolish gone. Department of Commerce, abolish gone,
21:49
Speaker 20: Department of Defense, keep keep it. Department of Education, abolish
21:54
Speaker 20: gone energy, abolish Department of Justice.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, keep that, keep that. No gone, Steate, keep
22:03
Speaker 3: keep it.
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Speaker 20: Transportation gone gone.
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Speaker 3: The Treasury you have to keep it to collect taxes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to keep treasury to keep the taxes
22:14
Speaker 1: coming in. Anyway, sounds great getting rid of all those departments,
22:17
Speaker 1: doesn't it.
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Speaker 3: But tell him he's dreaming. Let's go to our.
22:20
Speaker 1: Own recently appointed Shadow Minister for Government Efficiency, Senator just
22:25
Speaker 1: into Nampa, jimper Price, thanks for joining us again.
22:29
Speaker 3: When you see Milton Friedman sort of just saying a.
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Speaker 1: Whole departments like a federal education department or a federal
22:36
Speaker 1: Commerce department not required.
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Speaker 3: Do you get excited?
22:40
Speaker 1: Is there any possibility to go that hard in Australia?
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Speaker 18: Well, I guess. I mean I have always said that
22:48
Speaker 18: ultimately what success would look like is to actually probably
22:53
Speaker 18: put myself out of a job and no longer require
22:58
Speaker 18: a Minister for Indigenous Australia because we'll be serving Australians
23:01
Speaker 18: on the basis of need, not race. But you know,
23:05
Speaker 18: I've always said that and that is certainly what success
23:07
Speaker 18: looks like. You know, I'd say that's probably a lot
23:11
Speaker 18: further down the road. But you know, we are looking
23:15
Speaker 18: at what waste currently exists, and let me tell you
23:19
Speaker 18: now that there is a very long list developing as
23:24
Speaker 18: we speak. But we're looking forward to being able to
23:28
Speaker 18: identify all of that waste, to be able to redirect
23:32
Speaker 18: it where it's going to be most effective for the
23:33
Speaker 18: benefit of all Australians.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: See, when it comes to the federation, that's where the
23:38
Speaker 1: big savings are that we had are.
23:40
Speaker 3: There are a lot of governments.
23:41
Speaker 1: Talk about the getting rid of the duplication, but there's
23:44
Speaker 1: massive duplication in areas like health and education, where you
23:47
Speaker 1: know where the states run the hospitals and the states
23:50
Speaker 1: run the schools. Yet we have massive federal departments overlaying them.
23:54
Speaker 3: I mean, if you can really.
23:55
Speaker 1: Cut out the duplication, there will be a huge saving
23:58
Speaker 1: to tax players.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 18: Look, duplication is huge on our agenda and identifying where
24:06
Speaker 18: that duplication exists. I mean, you know, I mean I
24:09
Speaker 18: can speak also about the Indigenous Affairs portfolio, where there
24:12
Speaker 18: is an incredible amount of duplication and where we're funding
24:18
Speaker 18: service providers ridiculously. So say, for an example, a place
24:22
Speaker 18: like Muda Julia, where there's three hundred residents and there
24:25
Speaker 18: are thirty different service providers going into that community. That
24:30
Speaker 18: is ten service providers per person. They're the sorts of
24:34
Speaker 18: things that we need to ensure that we're pulling back on.
24:38
Speaker 18: But there's lots of areas of spending that are taking place,
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Speaker 18: like you know recently discovering twenty five thousand dollars being
24:45
Speaker 18: spent by Services Australia for thirteen bureaucrats to receive drama
24:53
Speaker 18: training from NIDER. You know, where where there's a a
25:00
Speaker 18: twenty thousand dollars desk sitting in storage that department secretary
25:05
Speaker 18: didn't even realize were sitting in storage.
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Speaker 3: Well, there is a lot.
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Speaker 1: Let me just share some other examples with you because
25:13
Speaker 1: in the US they're attacking overseas eight a lot. I
25:15
Speaker 1: just want to have a look at the Australian aid budget.
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Speaker 1: The latest figures here show there's two and a half
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Speaker 1: billion dollars spent on overseas aid in Australia and when
25:23
Speaker 1: you drill down into it, there's things like one hundred
25:26
Speaker 1: and forty four million dollars of that is spent on
25:29
Speaker 1: climate change and environment initiatives, one hundred and two million
25:33
Speaker 1: is spent on gender equality and LGBTQIA programs overseas. And
25:39
Speaker 1: when it comes to countries and how much they get,
25:42
Speaker 1: we're sending fifty million dollars a year to Afghanistan even
25:45
Speaker 1: though we fought a war, we lost forty more or
25:48
Speaker 1: more lives there and now it's run by the Taliban.
25:51
Speaker 1: Surely foreign eight is an area week and make some
25:54
Speaker 1: savings too.
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Speaker 18: Oh, absolutely, no doubt. And really, if we're supporting in
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Speaker 18: terms of foreign aid, then it should be about the
26:03
Speaker 18: absolute essentials, you know, to ensure that people's human rights
26:07
Speaker 18: are being upheld, and not in terms of you know,
26:10
Speaker 18: I mean, I think I've spoke about it recently. There's
26:12
Speaker 18: also grants made available for scientists to learn how to
26:16
Speaker 18: put on drag shows so as to encourage more of
26:20
Speaker 18: the lgbt QI community into STEM. You know, this is
26:23
Speaker 18: right across the border. This has been embedded right across policy,
26:27
Speaker 18: across portfolios, and this is where we really need to
26:30
Speaker 18: drill down and look at how we need to pull
26:32
Speaker 18: back on this amount of waste and this amount of spend. Again,
26:36
Speaker 18: it should be invested where we're supporting the lives of
26:40
Speaker 18: marginalized people, marginalized Australians, every day Australians to improve their
26:45
Speaker 18: the lives of those Australians right here in Australia. And
26:49
Speaker 18: again just what is essential in terms of foreign aid
26:53
Speaker 18: is all we should be taking care of and supporting.
26:56
Speaker 1: It's a hell of a task, but I think the
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Speaker 1: majority of Australian's we barracking for you all the way
27:01
Speaker 1: if you can make sure our dollars are not wasted
27:04
Speaker 1: and I spent more efficiently.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us again, Senator, just into nembership a
27:10
Speaker 3: price there.
27:11
Speaker 1: She'll be the shadow Minister obviously for Indigenous Australians, but
27:13
Speaker 1: also for government efficiency. So if the Coalition gets in,
27:17
Speaker 1: she's got two big jobs and all power to her.
27:20
Speaker 3: Got to get to a break.
27:21
Speaker 1: On the other side, I'm going to speak with Wentworth,
27:23
Speaker 1: a Liberal candidate Roeknox after another ugly Swastiker attack as
27:27
Speaker 1: marring the unofficial election campaign in Wentworth. Well, the city
27:34
Speaker 1: seat of Wentworth is still one of the most high
27:36
Speaker 1: profile seats in the country. Til MP Allegra Spender is
27:40
Speaker 1: under fire for flipping on support for UNDRA. That's the
27:44
Speaker 1: United Nations aid body in Gaza that was infiltrated by Hummas.
27:49
Speaker 3: The UN sacked nine staff.
27:51
Speaker 1: Because they were involved in the October the seventh atrocity
27:55
Speaker 1: no less than that, and that prompted Australia among other countries,
27:59
Speaker 1: to cut funding. But in February last year, Spender joined
28:03
Speaker 1: her fellow tials demanding that Foreign Minister Pennywong restore funding
28:08
Speaker 1: to UDRA, this body implicated in terrorist activities against Israel.
28:14
Speaker 1: Yet now on the cusp of the election, Spender, who's
28:19
Speaker 1: a Teal member for Wentworth of course, which has a
28:21
Speaker 1: large Jewish population, Well she's had a change of heart.
28:26
Speaker 1: She's told the Australian Jewish News that I believe we
28:29
Speaker 1: should move away decisively from UNRA and we should look
28:32
Speaker 1: to build the next generation. Let me bring in Roeox,
28:36
Speaker 1: the Liberal candidate hoping to unseat Allegra Spender.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, sir, Roe, Welcome to the program.
28:43
Speaker 5: Thanks Chris great fans I.
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Speaker 1: Was astounded way back in February that Allegra Spender would
28:48
Speaker 1: have supported putting money back into UNRA when we know
28:52
Speaker 1: that it's people were involved in the October seventh atrocity.
28:56
Speaker 3: What do you make of her now backflipping on that?
28:58
Speaker 3: Just what maybe dave out from the election.
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Speaker 5: Well, Chris, it was extraordinarily disappointing for the Wentworth community,
29:05
Speaker 5: which has the largest population of Jewish people in Australia.
29:10
Speaker 5: And just to add a little bit more background to
29:13
Speaker 5: your introduction, then in May Israel said very definitively, after
29:18
Speaker 5: an extensive investigation, that AWA workers were not only involved
29:25
Speaker 5: in the anti Semitic education, but they were physically involved
29:28
Speaker 5: in the horrific attacks of October the seventy.
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Speaker 1: We've seen vision of UNRAUS staff involved in taking hostages.
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Speaker 5: That's exactly right. So, as you said, this letter was
29:37
Speaker 5: signed in February. In May, Israel said very definitively with
29:42
Speaker 5: a huge amount of evidence that they were involved. And
29:44
Speaker 5: then in August the United Nations themselves came out and
29:48
Speaker 5: said that staff were physically involved in.
29:52
Speaker 1: The leg Responder, I think worried about the Jewish community
29:54
Speaker 1: in Wentworth is now after backing unre and wanting more
29:58
Speaker 1: Australian taxpayers money go to this organization, she's now saying,
30:02
Speaker 1: oh wow, were perhaps we could pull back, We should
30:05
Speaker 1: find another way to give aid to the Palestinian.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Chris, and I was in December asking for her
30:10
Speaker 5: once again to publicly recind this letter, and it's taken
30:14
Speaker 5: till now for her to do that, and I think
30:17
Speaker 5: it just feels like a very cynical vote grab. And
30:22
Speaker 5: the community that I've spoken to today, we're also particularly
30:25
Speaker 5: distressed that she only did this in the Australian Jewish News,
30:28
Speaker 5: she didn't go out to the mainstream media, and this
30:32
Speaker 5: just feels very cynical. And people in Wentworth they want
30:37
Speaker 5: to know what their local member stands for. They want
30:40
Speaker 5: to have values based leadership, and this flip flopping on
30:43
Speaker 5: such an important issue has been extremely distressing to the community.
30:48
Speaker 3: Talk about distressing.
30:48
Speaker 1: I want to show some pictures now of a campaign
30:51
Speaker 1: poster of yours inward Wentworth and the way it's been
30:54
Speaker 1: defaced there with a swasticker, an attempted swasticker on your
30:58
Speaker 1: forehead and perhaps an attempt Hitler mustache on your upper lip.
31:03
Speaker 1: Given the amount of anti semitism we've seen in Wentworth
31:07
Speaker 1: in those eastern suburbs.
31:09
Speaker 3: Over the past year. This is pretty horrible stuff.
31:11
Speaker 5: RNT, it really is. And for our community that, as
31:15
Speaker 5: you said, has experienced so much anti Semitic graffiti, to
31:19
Speaker 5: have this on a political poster only one candidate is
31:23
Speaker 5: completely unacceptable. We've reported this to the police.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt the police will look at it pretty seriously.
31:29
Speaker 1: Given the fire bombing attacks, the other graffiti I mean
31:33
Speaker 1: in those suburbs have been hit by this stuff repeatedly
31:36
Speaker 1: in recent months.
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Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, and this was just another very distressing moment
31:41
Speaker 5: for our Jewish community.
31:43
Speaker 1: Now there's another issue with posters. I want to show
31:45
Speaker 1: here to me, this is a little unclear, but there's
31:47
Speaker 1: a poster commemorating, of course, the BBAs family that we've
31:51
Speaker 1: highlighted so many times on this show, and it's Allegra
31:53
Speaker 1: Spender campaign poster over the.
31:55
Speaker 3: Top of it.
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Speaker 1: It's impossible for us to say from those pictures whether
31:59
Speaker 1: it was place there beforehand or who might have done it.
32:02
Speaker 3: But you're concerned about that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're very concerned, and we would ask a Llegra
32:06
Speaker 5: Spender to talk to her team about this the Beabers family.
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Speaker 5: Of all the horrific things that happened on October seventh,
32:15
Speaker 5: what happened to the Babis family was absolutely horrifying for everyone.
32:22
Speaker 5: And for a campaign team to be putting up posters
32:27
Speaker 5: over the Bibers family, I think adds to the distress
32:31
Speaker 5: of our community.
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Speaker 1: I would hope that no one did that deliberately, but
32:34
Speaker 1: it looks a bit that way at the moment.
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Speaker 3: We'll keep We'll try and find out. Let us know
32:37
Speaker 3: if there's any update. Thanks for joining us, Roight.
32:39
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and hopefully we can catch you again
32:42
Speaker 1: during the campaign.
32:43
Speaker 3: Sounds great. Thanks for having us. Chris ro Knox there
32:45
Speaker 3: a Liberal candidate for Wentworth.
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Speaker 1: I should say that we often ask Allegra Spender onto
32:49
Speaker 1: this program. She doesn't come on to talk politics. She
32:52
Speaker 1: came on once to talk about that horrific knife attack
32:55
Speaker 1: at Bondi Junction, but the office stands. I love to
32:58
Speaker 1: have a Legraspender on the program talk about the election
33:01
Speaker 1: policy issues.
33:02
Speaker 3: But for now we better get to a break.
33:03
Speaker 1: And on the other side, I'm going to catch up
33:05
Speaker 1: with Alexander Downer to find out what he reckons.
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Speaker 3: So the Prime minister, saying he might look.
33:09
Speaker 1: At Australian peacekeepers being sent to Ukraine. Going to Alexander
33:17
Speaker 1: Downer in just a moment, But first up a couple
33:19
Speaker 1: of bits of breaking news.
33:20
Speaker 3: The Age is reporting.
33:21
Speaker 1: That an armed man attempted to board a commercial flight
33:25
Speaker 1: at avalon this afternoon, but he was stopped and detained
33:28
Speaker 1: by police.
33:29
Speaker 3: Before he was able to get on the Sydney bound
33:32
Speaker 3: Jet Star flight.
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Speaker 1: We'll bring you more details, of course as they come
33:35
Speaker 1: to hand. But also Australian two time Grand Slam Singles
33:40
Speaker 1: winner Fred.
33:41
Speaker 3: Stolly has died at the age of eighty six.
33:44
Speaker 1: The tennis icon gained notoriety in his first appearance at
33:48
Speaker 1: the Davis carp come from behind five set victory over
33:52
Speaker 1: American Dennis Rolston at Cleveland back.
33:55
Speaker 3: In nineteen sixty four.
33:56
Speaker 1: Of course, Arsi's retirement, we all heard so much from
34:00
Speaker 1: Stolly because he was a brilliant and regular voice on
34:03
Speaker 1: television broadcast, including on Fox Sports. He's survived by his
34:07
Speaker 1: wife pat Son Sandon, and daughters Monique and Nadan, and
34:12
Speaker 1: tennis legend Rod Laver has paid a special tribute to
34:16
Speaker 1: his mate, saying that, as I wrote in my book
34:19
Speaker 1: on the gold near of Ossie tennis. Fred Stolly was
34:22
Speaker 1: too nice a guy to hold a grudge. He won
34:24
Speaker 1: many Grand Slams and was in the finals of many more.
34:28
Speaker 3: It took the best to beat the best.
34:30
Speaker 1: We never tired of reliving the past as we traveled
34:33
Speaker 1: the world, looking into the future with an.
34:35
Speaker 3: Enduring love of the sport. You will be missed, fiery rip.
34:40
Speaker 1: There are those parting words for Fred Stolly from his
34:44
Speaker 1: great Aussie adversary Ken Rose Rod Laver. Sorry, now we've
34:49
Speaker 1: got to go to for Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.
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Speaker 3: He now joins me.
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Speaker 1: Live from Adelaide. Good to speak to Alexander here. Must
34:57
Speaker 1: have been stunned.
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Speaker 3: I would have thought, as it as a.
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Speaker 1: Foreign minister who's actually been through the very difficult decision
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Speaker 1: a number of times of deploying Australian troops to dangerous settings,
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Speaker 1: whether it be to East Team or whether it be
35:12
Speaker 1: peacekeeping in the Solomons and of course to Iraq and Afghanistan,
35:16
Speaker 1: that our Prime Minister is actually contemplating the idea of
35:19
Speaker 1: sending peacekeepers to Ukraine.
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Speaker 21: Well, his reply just shows his lack of experience. Really,
35:29
Speaker 21: I think he's somebody who doesn't do any detailed homework.
35:33
Speaker 21: But first and foremost, the mission that he's being asked
35:37
Speaker 21: about has yet to be even defined. I mean, there
35:41
Speaker 21: isn't a cease fire in Ukraine. If there is a
35:43
Speaker 21: CEASEPAR and there's to be some British or European led
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Speaker 21: peacekeeping force, what will its mission be, what will the
35:52
Speaker 21: parameters of it be? What Anthony ALBANIZI should be focusing
35:58
Speaker 21: on is the capacity of the Australian Defense Force to
36:01
Speaker 21: operate effectively in the Indo Pacific region. And what we
36:06
Speaker 21: saw last week was the extraordinary failure of the Australian
36:11
Speaker 21: government to monitor effectively a Chinese naval fleets circumnavigating our country.
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Speaker 21: These are the priorities for the Australian Defense Force, not
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Speaker 21: some hypothetical peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
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Speaker 3: Well, let me just.
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Speaker 1: Show you a couple of comments from the past few
36:28
Speaker 1: days and test a theory with you. First up here
36:31
Speaker 1: is the Prime Minister when he first talked about this.
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Speaker 12: The discussion at the moment about potential peacekeeping and from
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Speaker 12: my government's perspective, we're open to consideration of any proposals
36:47
Speaker 12: going forward.
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Speaker 1: And here's Peter Darton responding to that on this program
36:52
Speaker 1: last night.
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Speaker 22: I think the Prime Minister was shooting from the hip.
36:55
Speaker 22: I don't think it was well considered and I think
36:58
Speaker 22: he was trying to take his moment to look tough
36:59
Speaker 22: and strong, but in fact the opposite happened. It was
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Speaker 22: just another example of where Anthony Auberanesi constantly makes the
37:07
Speaker 22: wrong call.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Peter Dutton's right.
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Speaker 1: There is what I'd said the day before too, Alexander Downer,
37:13
Speaker 1: that Albanesi is under pressure because he was so weak
37:17
Speaker 1: on China, making excuses for China that he thought he
37:21
Speaker 1: had to sound tough on Ukraine rather than doing what
37:23
Speaker 1: was obviously and saying what was obviously in the national interest.
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Speaker 21: So his comments give me the impression he's just making
37:33
Speaker 21: up an answer to a question that he was asked
37:36
Speaker 21: somewhat unexpectedly. That there's been no consideration given by the
37:41
Speaker 21: British who in theory would lead this peacekeeping force if
37:47
Speaker 21: it ever were to happen, to whether as to whether
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Speaker 21: to invite Australia. I mean, there's been no discussion about that.
37:55
Speaker 21: So Alberanesi is just making up an answer for the
37:59
Speaker 21: purpose of the cameras. He should dismiss it. As a
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Speaker 21: hypothetical question and say the priority for the Australian Defense
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Speaker 21: Force is the security of the Indo Pacific region. I mean,
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Speaker 21: if it ever came to it and there was a
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Speaker 21: peacekeeping force, maybe we could send a medical unit or
38:20
Speaker 21: something like that for symbolic reasons, but no, the our
38:24
Speaker 21: Defense Force needs extra funding, reinforcement and to focus on
38:29
Speaker 21: dealing with the threat of China, not worrying about Russia.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well s, thanks for joining us, Alexander. Alexander down
38:37
Speaker 1: a it live from Adelaide. I want to duck back
38:39
Speaker 1: up to Queensland now as we wait the approach of
38:42
Speaker 1: tropical cyclone. Alfred and Paul Murray's joining us from outside
38:46
Speaker 1: the Queensland Emergency Services Complex in Brisbane.
38:49
Speaker 3: Good to talk to you, mate.
38:51
Speaker 1: Good of you to head up there into the eye
38:52
Speaker 1: of the storm, to your you know, your home state
38:55
Speaker 1: really the home state of your heart, and tell me
38:58
Speaker 1: how do you reckon?
38:58
Speaker 3: Queenslanders are bearing up as they prepare for what could
39:01
Speaker 3: be a pretty tough weekend.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, remarkably, Well, Chris, It's been a weird day today
39:09
Speaker 10: because obviously the expectations were on Thursday, maybe Friday, and
39:14
Speaker 10: now there's a potential edge towards Saturday, and it doesn't
39:17
Speaker 10: mean that anyone's going to start thinking it's not as serious,
39:21
Speaker 10: but I continue there's a very strange vibe because all
39:25
Speaker 10: of the schools were closed in the affected areas all
39:27
Speaker 10: the way from the Sunny Coast down to the Gold Coast.
39:29
Speaker 10: They'll be closed again tomorrow. Most people were told to
39:33
Speaker 10: work from home. So it felt a little bit like
39:36
Speaker 10: it was the best part of five years ago in
39:39
Speaker 10: the times we don't talk about anymore. But also what's
39:42
Speaker 10: incredible is the way that Queenslanders have this now extra
39:46
Speaker 10: time to prepare. And we went to one of those
39:48
Speaker 10: places today where they were doing the sandbags, and I've
39:51
Speaker 10: got to say, as a person who loves this state,
39:53
Speaker 10: would dearly love to live here one day, but has
39:56
Speaker 10: not seen in the places where we live the response
40:01
Speaker 10: of local government towards preparing for a natural disaster. I'll
40:06
Speaker 10: give you a little example. When people are filling up
40:08
Speaker 10: all of those sandbags. Those sandbags are provided by the
40:11
Speaker 10: local council. There was a chance that they weren't going
40:15
Speaker 10: to have any available today, but they decided to open up.
40:18
Speaker 10: Within ninety minutes, there's an hour long queue all right,
40:21
Speaker 10: you'd think the agro kicks in not at all, as
40:23
Speaker 10: the car snake up and down like a game on
40:26
Speaker 10: an old Nokia phone. There's not just one place to
40:29
Speaker 10: pick up. Trucks come in and another pile of sand,
40:32
Speaker 10: another pile of sand, another pile of sand, another pile
40:34
Speaker 10: of sand. People were picking them up for their neighbors,
40:37
Speaker 10: and I've got to say I was really impressed. I mean,
40:40
Speaker 10: we spend so much time talking about the failures of government,
40:43
Speaker 10: and I've got to say the preparedness has been pretty impressive.
40:47
Speaker 10: We're invited into somebody's house today and you'll see that tonight.
40:50
Speaker 10: I'm on the show about how they've been preparing. People
40:53
Speaker 10: are taking it in their stride.
40:54
Speaker 2: Mate.
40:54
Speaker 1: I got to tell you I heard David Chris a
40:56
Speaker 1: fully today talking about how you get these emergency service people.
40:59
Speaker 1: It's so busy looking after other people's houses that they
41:02
Speaker 1: haven't got around to sandbagging their own houses.
41:04
Speaker 3: That's an incredible azzy spirit.
41:06
Speaker 1: Tell us where you're broadcasting from tonight and what we
41:09
Speaker 1: can expect at nine o'clock on Paul Murray Love.
41:13
Speaker 10: Well right now about where this thing's going to hit
41:15
Speaker 10: and the outer edges of it. It can be anywhere,
41:17
Speaker 10: as I said, from the Sunny Coast through to Brisbane
41:20
Speaker 10: and into the Gold Coast. Our focus is probably going
41:24
Speaker 10: to be up and around the Redcliffe area where we're
41:26
Speaker 10: up a bit earlier today, Wins. We're pretty blustery, but
41:29
Speaker 10: the whole point and purpose of tonight's show is to
41:31
Speaker 10: talk about that preparedness. Also, David cruci Foley, I've just
41:34
Speaker 10: come from an experience where we've got to see behind
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Speaker 10: the scenes of how they put the information together that
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Speaker 10: we see at the top of each.
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Speaker 3: And every hour.
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Speaker 10: So if you want to know about the what's to
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Speaker 10: come and the behind the scenes of this pretty significant event,
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Speaker 10: I'll see at nine o'clock.
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Speaker 3: Great stuff, Paulie, thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 1: Paul Murray there, he'll be back at nine o'clock tonight
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Speaker 1: bringing to this program live from Brisbane as you heard there,
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Speaker 1: talking about preparations. Also an exclusive insight behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: with Queensland Premier David chris A. Fully we'll take a break.
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Speaker 1: On the other side of that, we'll catch up with
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Speaker 1: Mark and Tim talking about Adam Bant pushing his climate
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Speaker 1: alarmism while Queensland is of course are busy trying to
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Speaker 1: protect their homes and families.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to the National Cabinet now.
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Speaker 1: Tim Blair from the Daily Telegraph and step Mat Studios,
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Speaker 1: Mark Nicholson join us as ever on a Thursday, and Jens,
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Speaker 1: we're all fearing the worst in Queensland.
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Speaker 3: You know, let's hope it's a fizzle.
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Speaker 1: Let's hope Albert just stays out at sea and the
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Speaker 1: whole thing dwindles. But at the moment we're really worried
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Speaker 1: about it. But when you go to the Greens leader
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Speaker 1: Adam Bant, he's got a very easy solution to all
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Speaker 1: of this.
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Speaker 3: All we have to do is vote Green and we
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Speaker 3: don't get this stuff.
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Speaker 1: He says that these climate disasters are always devast starting
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Speaker 1: and to prevent these disasters getting worse, we need to
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Speaker 1: take strong climate action.
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Speaker 3: That means no new coal and gas.
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Speaker 1: And this election the Greens will keep Dutton out and
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Speaker 1: they'll get Labor to act on climate problem solved.
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Speaker 3: I knew it.
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Speaker 2: I knew it wasn't just some sort of natural disaster. Chris,
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Speaker 2: I knew it. An he's so enlightened. Of course, this
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Speaker 2: isn't just some sort of tragedy. Of course it was
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Speaker 2: Conservative's fault. It's it's climate change, it's Peter Dutton, it's
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Speaker 2: that nasty CO two. Of course there's someone to blame.
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Speaker 2: He almost came out with glee today. It was repulsive.
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Speaker 2: I found it really repulsive. You can almost see it
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Speaker 2: rubbing their hands together, just how quickly they could get
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Speaker 2: out there and score some political points. But if CO
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Speaker 2: two was really the big enemy here, why don't they
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Speaker 2: just shut up?
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Speaker 3: They just make it worse. They should just shut their
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Speaker 3: mouths if they just.
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Speaker 1: Of course, as I said earlier, Zari's steggle was out
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Speaker 1: at too have a loot Because.
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Speaker 8: We know from scientists overwhelmingly around the world that all
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Speaker 8: weather events are being exacerbated. So you look at the
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Speaker 8: LA fires CSR.
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Speaker 9: I didn't say that though, but.
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Speaker 8: That might be cyclones. We know bushfires, floods, droughts. We
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Speaker 8: know everything is being exacipated. Experts talk about it in
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Speaker 8: terms of climate whiplash events where you go from extremes,
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Speaker 8: and the meaning of extremes is that the impacts will
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Speaker 8: be greater when they hit.
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Speaker 1: Everything's getting worse ten when there's beautiful whether you never
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Speaker 1: see them, they're either skiing the slopes or down at
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Speaker 1: the beach down to come out when there's a storm on.
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Speaker 11: What are the what are the mathematical hods? What are
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Speaker 11: the chances that literally everything related to climate change makes
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Speaker 11: things worse. It makes rain rain damper, it makes winds windier,
44:32
Speaker 11: it makes some too bright. This this doesn't make sense
44:37
Speaker 11: as well, Just to get back to Adam birdt you know,
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Speaker 11: which are the sentence we never want to use. But
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Speaker 11: just to get back to the Greens leader, does he
44:44
Speaker 11: know how basic mathematics works, Like if Australia stops all
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Speaker 11: coal and all gas, that doesn't make any difference to
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Speaker 11: the global numbers at all. Like we're miniscule. We we're
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Speaker 11: in about one percent of all emissions.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it still goes on with this where you
44:59
Speaker 3: can shut the whole country down.
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Speaker 1: We gonna all move off shore tomorrow and leave the
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Speaker 1: joint alone and China would make up our missions in
45:05
Speaker 1: about three weeks. It is just so ludicrous, so ludicrous.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, we'll get to have that election soon. But
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Speaker 3: as Adam Bank.
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Speaker 1: Kindly pointed out, if you vote for the Tills or
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Speaker 1: the Greens, then you get labor, and you get labor
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Speaker 1: doing more of what the Greens and the tills want
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Speaker 1: them to do. But Albo apparently he's not even thinking
45:24
Speaker 1: about the election.
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Speaker 12: He was asked today, I'm focused as much as some
45:29
Speaker 12: people here are focused on something else. I'm focused on
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Speaker 12: the needs of Australians. This isn't a time for party politics.
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Speaker 12: I'm just focused on doing my job and governing, and
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Speaker 12: that's something I've been focused on since the twenty third
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Speaker 12: of May twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: He's saying focused a lot there, tim It sounds like
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Speaker 1: he's been listening to a few too many focus groups.
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Speaker 11: It's going to happen for the next few cycles in
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Speaker 11: Australian politics at both staying for a level, we're going
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Speaker 11: to get another decade of this at least, because everyone
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Speaker 11: is terrified of being the next Schomo. Everyone is terrified
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Speaker 11: of not holding the hose. Yes, so you know that
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Speaker 11: this we're just lock it in it so you're never
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Speaker 11: going to need a case where any Prime minister or
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Speaker 11: state leader is going to stay away from a disaster zone,
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Speaker 11: even though they don't do much when they're actually there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, heaven forbid, there was a cyclone now
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Speaker 1: on the Northwest Shore, he wouldn't know which side of
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Speaker 1: the country to go to.
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Speaker 3: Then you'd have to focus on the electoral map.
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Speaker 1: It's running out of options, though, Mark, he just he
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Speaker 1: can't put it out.
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Speaker 3: Of his mind for much longer.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think, yeah, you're right, man, he's got he's
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Speaker 2: even got a bigger disaster looming, which is this budget
46:43
Speaker 2: that if he holds on any longer, that's going to
46:45
Speaker 2: be an even bigger mess if that's if that gets released,
46:48
Speaker 2: he's not going to be able to clean that one up,
46:49
Speaker 2: even if it's just for show. But hey, everyone knows,
46:53
Speaker 2: or at least I think anyway that once once he
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Speaker 2: does announce this election, it's essentially he's announcing his retirement.
46:59
Speaker 3: So we could all do with.
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Speaker 2: Some good news if it doesn't announce it on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: if he comes out and says it.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of retirement, I wanted to get your thoughts both
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Speaker 1: of you are starting with you Tim. On federal public servants,
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Speaker 1: one in five of them don't ever turn up at
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Speaker 1: the office.
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Speaker 3: When will they ever know if.
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Speaker 1: They're retired, They'll send them a gold watch.
47:19
Speaker 3: I got.
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Speaker 11: I don't mind the idea of them never showing me
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Speaker 11: the office. It's paying them that's the big issue. And
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Speaker 11: as someone who is like myself. I've for a long
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Speaker 11: time worked outside the office. But in my case, Chris,
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Speaker 11: as you're aware, my profound work ethic makes up for
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Speaker 11: any kind of any kind of issues with Brookick from home,
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Speaker 11: I just put in the hour as my friend, and
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Speaker 11: I only wish the public servants had my similar dedication
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Speaker 11: to the task.
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Speaker 1: So you have to work from home so everybody else
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Speaker 1: in the office can get some work done. Now, I
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Speaker 1: hate to do this to the viewers, but I'm going
47:53
Speaker 1: to have to show them something again that I showed
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Speaker 1: last night.
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Speaker 3: It's a former princess.
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Speaker 16: I don't think anyone in the world knows that Megan
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Speaker 16: Markle has eaten Jack in the.
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Speaker 14: Box and loves funny too.
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Speaker 13: That you keep saying, Megan Markle, you know I'm Sussex.
48:08
Speaker 13: Now you have kids and you go no, I share
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Speaker 13: my name with my children, Yes, and that feels so.
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Speaker 13: I didn't know how meaningful it would be to me,
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Speaker 13: but it just means so much to go this is
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Speaker 13: our family name.
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Speaker 1: M So she's not longer Megan mock who now she's
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Speaker 1: making Sussex as of night up called me nine, but
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Speaker 1: no one's listening.
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Speaker 3: I have a look at lightested of you.
48:33
Speaker 4: Fast five with Megan Sussex.
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Speaker 9: All Right, you talk about like surprise and delight.
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Speaker 10: On the show with your guests.
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Speaker 1: When was the last time you were surprised and delighted?
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Speaker 9: Last night and also this morning, but last night, when
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Speaker 9: I went back to my hotel, there was this sweet
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Speaker 9: card from my kids and my husband saying, we're so
48:57
Speaker 9: proud of you, mama, and congrats on the show with flowers,
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Speaker 9: and I just thought, Okay, here were going.
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Speaker 11: I felt so loved.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's Megan Sussex. Already they're they're picking up on
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Speaker 1: it in Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: But she's loved.
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Speaker 11: Yes, yes, I love the passive aggressive tone of that.
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Speaker 11: I love the passive aggressive way she corrects her best
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Speaker 11: friend Minnie Kayley, like, did you know, by the way,
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Speaker 11: it's Meghan Sussex. You know, by the way, if I
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Speaker 11: was Mindy Kelly in that circumstance, she'd come back with, oh,
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Speaker 11: by the way, I'm princess, princess you know as well,
49:33
Speaker 11: I'm just name yourself, I'm a queen, I'm a god.
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Speaker 11: It's so pretentious and so stupid. And by the way,
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Speaker 11: no one's seeing no one watching that clip where she's
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Speaker 11: talking about the big surprise a lovely card she received
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Speaker 11: the previous night. No, it never happened. Wouldn't bet a
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Speaker 11: cent on that?
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Speaker 21: Numb?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Do you reckon? It's made up? Mark?
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Speaker 17: Oh my?
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Speaker 2: That that she's as transparent as glad rap. That is disgusting.
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Speaker 2: She's the only word I can put on there is
49:59
Speaker 2: in so I don't know who is advising her or
50:03
Speaker 2: giving her brand recommendations. It must be Anthony up and
50:05
Speaker 2: easy to be honest, because that is she's so unlikable
50:08
Speaker 2: and so funny. That is ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: She said that her kids come up with a lot
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Speaker 1: of British pronunciations. Still they say zebra instead of zebra,
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Speaker 1: and then she tried to think of another word that
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Speaker 1: they said within English pronunciation and said zebra again. She's
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Speaker 1: not doing too well, Meghan Sussex. Thanks for joining us,
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Speaker 1: Mark and sim We'll catch you next week. And thanks
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Speaker 1: to one viewer last night he said, it's not Megan,
50:37
Speaker 1: it's not Meghan, it's me again. Well, we won't show
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Speaker 1: her again tomorrow night. We're off tomorrow night. I'll see
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Speaker 1: you next week. Here's Peter Kridlin