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Steve Price | 8 May · Steve Price

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Speaker 1: Live.
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Speaker 2: This is Steve Price.
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Speaker 1: Good evening. Moving to the show, Steve Price with you.
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Speaker 1: I'll wrap up what's been an extraordinary news week, including
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Speaker 1: the return of the Isis Brides and Children last night
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Speaker 1: and court appearances today, plus preview for you the Pharabi
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Speaker 1: elections on tomorrow full coverage on Sky expected to be
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Speaker 1: a loss for the Coalition for the first time in history.
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Speaker 1: Here's what's coming up on the program tonight. Incredibly, the
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister, he was in Melbourne today to announce his
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Speaker 1: government will tip in another three point eight billion dollars
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Speaker 1: into Melbourne's troubled suburban rail loop, taking the total investment
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Speaker 1: by you, the taxpayer, to six billion dollars. Also in
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Speaker 1: Melbourne citywide crime wave of fire, bombings, extortion and threats
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Speaker 1: now spilling into the hospitality and entertainment industries. I'll catch
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Speaker 1: up with Shadow Police Minister Brad Battonhill join me in
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Speaker 1: the studio, and the frightening outbreak of hantavirus spread by
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Speaker 1: rats and mice on a cruise ship has turned deadly.
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Speaker 1: The vessel on its way out of the Canary Islands.
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Speaker 1: There are four Australians on board. We will catch up
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Speaker 1: with a very familiar COVID faced epidemiologist Katherine Bennett. First, though, labor,
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Speaker 1: state and federal governments can't help themselves. They love nothing
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Speaker 1: more than spending your money, and the Victorian government are
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Speaker 1: world champions at wasting taxpayers funds, everything from paying not
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Speaker 1: to build a vital freeway link, the East West Link
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Speaker 1: under Dan Andrews with a penalty payment of over one
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Speaker 1: billion dollars, to under the same hopeless premier canceling the
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Speaker 1: Commonwealth Games and burning another eight hundred million dollars a
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Speaker 1: check sent to Glasgow. Now the doozy, though, is the
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Speaker 1: eye watering thirty four point five billion dollar underground train
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Speaker 1: project called the Suburban Rail Loop. The idea of this thing.
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Speaker 1: And don't think, if you are watching in another state
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Speaker 1: or regional Victoria, that this is not your problem, because
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Speaker 1: stupidly the Prime Minister turned up today at some random
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Speaker 1: construction site, pulled out the federal checkbook your money, and
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Speaker 1: as we head to the November state election he in
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Speaker 1: a broke, busted ass Victoria alban Easy announced, oh yep,
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Speaker 1: I'll commit another three point eight billion dollars to the
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Speaker 1: SRIL East, taking your investment to an underground rail line.
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Speaker 1: Ninety nine point nine percent of you will never use
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Speaker 1: to an eye watering six billion dollars and headed to
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Speaker 1: ten billion. This latest criminal folly will be confirmed in
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Speaker 1: next Tuesday's budget. Here's the Prime Minister today cooking up
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Speaker 1: the project.
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Speaker 3: You'll see all of the details in our budget on
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Speaker 3: Tuesday night. You'll see all You'll see all of the
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Speaker 3: money flow from Tuesday night in our budget seven point thirty.
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Speaker 3: Jim Chalmers to tune in.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm stacking my neck out here, but I'm tipping
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Speaker 1: outside of staged election events. The formerly in a Sydney
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Speaker 1: resident would have never caught a train in Melbourne, let
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Speaker 1: alone from Cheltenham where this taxpayer funded sinkhole starts, to
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Speaker 1: box Iel. But there he was taking questions with the
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Speaker 1: normal nodding heads in the background, waxing lyrical about what
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Speaker 1: the project will do for housing.
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Speaker 3: What cost money is not building proper infrastructure. That's what
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Speaker 3: costs money through urban congestion, through people not getting around,
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Speaker 3: people not having homes to live in close to public transport,
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Speaker 3: universities that don't boost productivity as well. We are committed
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Speaker 3: to investment in infrastructure because that is how you grow
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Speaker 3: an economy that is one of the best things you
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Speaker 3: can do to boost productivity.
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Speaker 1: What the hell is he talking about. There's Catherine King
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Speaker 1: in the background nodding her head. He went on to
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Speaker 1: brag about being proud partners with the Allen government, so
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Speaker 1: proud that, as far as I could work out, Premier
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Speaker 1: just Into Allen didn't even have the courage to stand
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Speaker 1: next to the Prime Minister during that media conference. I'm
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Speaker 1: told she was there wandering around that construction site, but
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Speaker 1: she didn't want to stand next to him. If she had,
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Speaker 1: she could have told the Prime Minister the seven billion,
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Speaker 1: or put it in another way, seven thousand million already spent,
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Speaker 1: has not seen one centimeter of the twenty six kilometer
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Speaker 1: long Twin tunnels even being drilled. The Prime Minister said,
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Speaker 1: it's up and running.
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Speaker 3: We find projects. We don't fund theories we've run. We
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Speaker 3: fund projects. This one kind of underway. You might have noticed.
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Speaker 3: It's off and running. The money is for this project.
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Speaker 1: Off and running. Really, he acted about a game changer,
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Speaker 1: travel time slash, cutting congestion. I mean all worthy comments.
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Speaker 1: Only problem is it started on the wrong side of
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Speaker 1: Melbourne in the southeast. So Daniel Andrews could win seats
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Speaker 1: in those suburbs. It's pure political bastardry. This thing, if
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Speaker 1: ever finished, it will be around ninety kilometers around out Melbourne,
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Speaker 1: eventually reaching western Melbourne sometime off in the dim distant future.
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Speaker 1: All the time when a train link that's actually needed
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Speaker 1: and would be used by interstate foreign tourists and Melbournians
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Speaker 1: to the airport, the airport rail link not even on
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Speaker 1: the radar, more politically toxic in the Andrews school of
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Speaker 1: the dark arts. Tunneling actually dirt out of the ground
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Speaker 1: will start when, oh well, just before voters go to
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Speaker 1: the polls in November. Disgraceful. Now, just for I go
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Speaker 1: to brad Batten on crime, I want to refer to
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Speaker 1: not the returning Isis Brides last night, but the aggressive muscle,
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Speaker 1: the scrum of supporters who turned up at Melbourne Airport
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Speaker 1: last night and again at an appearance by the two
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Speaker 1: women in the Melbourne Magistrates Court today. Now, this country
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Speaker 1: is in the middle of a debate, as it should be,
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Speaker 1: about migrants committing to the Australian eath the Australian brand
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Speaker 1: loosely known as the fair Go. What we saw last
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Speaker 1: night and heard from in the court today is disturbing
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Speaker 1: in every way. The aggressive scrum last night, when reporters
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Speaker 1: were just doing their job were abused in the most misogynistic,
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Speaker 1: threatening way. Here's some of the vision captured. Now the
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Speaker 1: audio you should be able to hear it. Reporters were
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Speaker 1: asking why the women chose to marry Isis supporters, why
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Speaker 1: did you marry? Well, I hope you heard right there,
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Speaker 1: because I did. One of those men, aiming his comments
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Speaker 1: at a female reporter from one of the television networks,
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Speaker 1: told her to her face, shut up, you slut, while
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Speaker 1: a Channel ten reporter claims she was gut punched a
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Speaker 1: woman in the stomach. That happened in Melbourne last night
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Speaker 1: when these people were shut up, you slut and punching people,
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Speaker 1: Where were the police? Why were these people not dragged
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Speaker 1: away in a divvyvent? Then we have the court appearance
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Speaker 1: today of two of the women this morning. This was
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Speaker 1: in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court where they were formally charged
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Speaker 1: and will apply on Monday for bail. A group of
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Speaker 1: men's supporters sat in the court. They refused to stand
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Speaker 1: when the magistrate entered the chamber, which everybody in a
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Speaker 1: magistrates court does. They refuse to remove their hats when asked. Now,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if these people were born here. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if they migrated here. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: their children are migrants. I've got no idea. But if
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Speaker 1: that is the quality of the supporters of these women
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Speaker 1: and the community they are potentially being bailed into, or
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Speaker 1: their children are living amongst we are we seriously believing
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Speaker 1: that their attitudes are going to improve. Okay, let's get
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Speaker 1: into it today. I've written in the Herald Sun about
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Speaker 1: the latest twist in a crime wave that's sweeping Melbourne.
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Speaker 1: We got nightly arsen attacks aimed now at hospitality venues
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Speaker 1: and overnight even a nail cell on the Motus Operando
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Speaker 1: seems to be driver stolen car through the front of
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Speaker 1: a business, spread petrol from jerry cans around the floor
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Speaker 1: and leave a jerry can behind. That's what happened this
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Speaker 1: week at a bar called Electric and I went there
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Speaker 1: this morning and had a look and the building is
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Speaker 1: now all boarded up. But people with knowledge of what
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Speaker 1: happened that night with that place say there was so
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Speaker 1: much fuel on the floor it would have if it
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Speaker 1: was ignited, destroyed up to seven buildings on Chapel Street
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Speaker 1: in that strip. Luckily the potential bomb did not ignite.
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Speaker 1: There's been more than twenty attacks on pubs, bars and
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Speaker 1: nightclubs targeted in a spree of arsen attacks, prompting the
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Speaker 1: police to this week establish a task force determined to
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Speaker 1: stamp it out. One of the strongest theories swirling around
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Speaker 1: the hospitality industry is that venues are being forced into
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Speaker 1: selling off market this at alcohol, although some people have
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Speaker 1: denied that, or it could just be a protection racket
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Speaker 1: involving payments being demanded to not be burned to the
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Speaker 1: ground as a road today Melbourne and Victoria and this
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Speaker 1: really interests me basically a lawless state. Shadow Minister for Police.
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Speaker 1: Brad Baton joins me in the studio. Brad, great to
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Speaker 1: see you again. The point that I made today was
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Speaker 1: it's not happening anywhere else. It's not happening in Sydney,
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Speaker 1: it's not happening in Brisbane.
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Speaker 4: That's actually really traveling speaking to a few people today
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Speaker 4: and one of the biggest issues they've raised is why
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Speaker 4: isn't it happening around the rest of the country. Well,
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Speaker 4: the answer is quite simple. When you've got a weak
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Speaker 4: government with weak laws and you see that kids can
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Speaker 4: get away with these crimes and get bail, what other
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Speaker 4: state would you go to? It's cheaper, and the outcomes
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Speaker 4: what we're seeing today where people feel genuine unsafe.
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Speaker 1: So the rot sets in and it's a bit like
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Speaker 1: the old broken windows system in New York. If you
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Speaker 1: let people get away with stuff, they'll push it and
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Speaker 1: push it and push it. There's also this argument about
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Speaker 1: this crime syndicon in the Middle East using kids to
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Speaker 1: do it. But that's the same way that they've been
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Speaker 1: doing these home invasions, stealing cars, right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and tobacco wars, and it's a whole chain of things.
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Speaker 4: These are crimes that have continued to go on and
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Speaker 4: they've been effectively unable to stop them. So they've gone
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Speaker 4: out now and the Victoria police are really struggling. They
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Speaker 4: don't have the resources to stop these crimes. I know
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Speaker 4: Mike Bush is going to try and do what he
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Speaker 4: can with the resources he's got.
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Speaker 5: He'll start a task force.
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Speaker 4: But if I said to him, here's an extra hundred
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Speaker 4: police to go and do that, he should be saying, yep,
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Speaker 4: love it. But they haven't got the resources to do
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Speaker 4: what they need to do to get on top of this,
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Speaker 4: or we're going to end up with something like the
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Speaker 4: Carlton Wars of history here in Victoria.
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Speaker 1: The fuel bombings worry meeting that you know, they've gone
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Speaker 1: now to venues like nightclubs and bars and things. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I live off near Chapel Street. Places like Revolver are
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Speaker 1: spilling people out onto the street at five o'clock in
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Speaker 1: the morning. So not only a matter of time before
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Speaker 1: one of these things gets fired bombed with the people inside.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the big concern for many people.
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Speaker 4: We hear about it when it's a venue and it's
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Speaker 4: pretty easy to write off in your mind, but it's
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Speaker 4: not going to be long before someone ends up being
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Speaker 4: injured or killed.
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Speaker 5: People work in these places as well. This staff to
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Speaker 5: worry about that.
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Speaker 4: Some of these store owners, these club owners I've spoken to,
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Speaker 4: they've moved their family at a home like really, this
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Speaker 4: is genuine fear from these groups. And we know nightclub
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Speaker 4: owners aren't the group you look at and go you
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Speaker 4: know that can be intimidated, but they're genuinely afraid to
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Speaker 4: genuinely afraid and adding to their costs of getting security
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Speaker 4: that sleep there at night to try and prevent it happening.
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Speaker 1: So that's all led into their costs. Can I ask
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Speaker 1: you a very obvious question, unless I've missed something, The
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Speaker 1: police minister in Victoria's a blow called Anthony Carbines. Where
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Speaker 1: is he?
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Speaker 4: Well, that's a good question. If you can answer that one,
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Speaker 4: I'd be fantastic. He hasn't shown up on these occasions.
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Speaker 4: He can't come out and tell me what they're going
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Speaker 4: to do to fix it. He won't match our three
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Speaker 4: thousand extra police here in the state. He won't ensure
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Speaker 4: we have break bail, face jail with a one strike policy.
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Speaker 4: These are the things that will make sure that we
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Speaker 4: can stop these crimes in their tracks and keep Victoria safe.
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Speaker 5: And he's decided not to front.
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Speaker 1: Well, presume if you're a minister in a Jess Wilson government,
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Speaker 1: you'd be out there every day saying we've got to
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Speaker 1: stop this. We've got to you know, got to make
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Speaker 1: people feel safe in their own city. People say to me, well,
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Speaker 1: Melbourne seems lawless.
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Speaker 4: Well, I can actually say I'll be my non takeout
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Speaker 4: all the partisanship. Under a former police minister from the
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Speaker 4: Labor government, they used to go out and meet with
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Speaker 4: the police and always fronted the media, but under the
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Speaker 4: current minister and the current Premier, they fail to do
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Speaker 4: it well.
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Speaker 1: Carbine seems completely out of his depth. Look I said
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Speaker 1: at the top of the show, the Prime Minister was
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Speaker 1: committing today another three point eight billion. I like to
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Speaker 1: say three thy eight hundred million. That really puts it
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Speaker 1: into some sort of context to the Suburban rail Loop.
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Speaker 1: The federal shares now seven billion. Premier Allen wants ten billion.
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister have listen here, Brad. He calls Suburban rail
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Speaker 1: Loop a game changer.
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Speaker 3: This is a project that will transform the way that
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Speaker 3: Melbourne functions, will continue to make sure that we build
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Speaker 3: Australia as future, and part of that is building better
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Speaker 3: public transport networks in our cities.
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Speaker 1: I've got to say I could a bit probably that
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Speaker 1: he's never caught a train in Melbourne in his life.
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Speaker 4: Well probably a fair good chance, and to understand how
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Speaker 4: our trains work and public transport work and where people travel.
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Speaker 4: And at the moment, I'd say that they're putting the
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Speaker 4: money into something they also know either won't get built
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Speaker 4: or be so ridiculously overpriced that you will never see
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Speaker 4: more than stage one.
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Speaker 1: We spent seven billion already there's not even a hole
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Speaker 1: done well.
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Speaker 4: That's actually interesting is that we were told that they're
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Speaker 4: spending all this money and I drive around and the
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Speaker 4: only holes I found in Melbourne was a sinkhole in
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Speaker 4: an oval where the Northeast Link was.
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Speaker 5: There's no actual holes in.
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Speaker 4: The ground for a rail network. The government tell us
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Speaker 4: the works underway. Let's be honest, we just know that
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Speaker 4: there's election coming.
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Speaker 1: How annoyed would you be if you're into state? I mean,
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Speaker 1: think about this project. Who from Sydney or Queensland or
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Speaker 1: South Australia who comes to Melbourne as a tourist. They
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Speaker 1: come for major events, largely these days where.
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Speaker 5: They're running out of those in Victoria they're getting moved out.
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Speaker 1: That's true, but there's some left. Grand Prix and the
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Speaker 1: tennis and stuff. They're not catching a train from Cheltenham
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Speaker 1: to box Hill.
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Speaker 4: No, no, they're coming in here to go and see
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Speaker 4: the Grand Prix and the AFL Grand finalsis tennis.
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Speaker 5: We can't even let's be honest, we can't even with ships.
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Speaker 4: We've lost half the ships that come into Melbourne for
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Speaker 4: international tourism, which is a great money spinner, because we
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Speaker 4: can't afford to fix up the Port of Melbourne. In
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Speaker 4: Port Melbourne, There's so many things the government could be
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Speaker 4: doing with their money that actually ssuits our community and
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Speaker 4: builds up on what we need to do for income.
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Speaker 1: If I was engaged in this as an interstate person,
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Speaker 1: I'd be saying to Anthony alban Easy if I could
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Speaker 1: speak to him, why aren't you putting money into building
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Speaker 1: a train line to the airport so that when I
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Speaker 1: come to Melbourne and I get off my plane, I
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Speaker 1: don't have to go on the airport bus or take
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Speaker 1: a taxi cost to me two hundred bucks to get
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Speaker 1: to the city. I would be happy if they had
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Speaker 1: been putting money into airport rail.
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Speaker 4: Well, like the government are trying to attach airport rail
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Speaker 4: to the suburban rail Loopt's it is. It's an absolute
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Speaker 4: con The suburban rail loop is a totally separate project
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Speaker 4: and the airport rail should be the priority. You can
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Speaker 4: catch a train from Brisbane, you can catch a train
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Speaker 4: from Sydney, you can catch training nearly every capital city
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Speaker 4: around the world.
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Speaker 5: The Melbourne seems the one left out continuously.
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Speaker 1: Your leader today talked about cuts in the public service.
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Speaker 1: I mean that is just completely out of control. She
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Speaker 1: said you might be able to save as much as
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Speaker 1: twenty two billion dollars. So that right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So it's not actually and there's no cuts in here.
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Speaker 4: It's simply putting in place a freeze in employment, but
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Speaker 4: making sure we have our essential services guarantee because we're
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Speaker 4: going to recruit another three thousand police.
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Speaker 5: We're going to make sure we're.
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Speaker 4: Get the teachers, the nurses, the doctors, all the essential
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Speaker 4: services will be delivered, but we will put a free
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Speaker 4: I'm really talking.
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Speaker 1: About back off of public servants who are they've been
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Speaker 1: bulked up in all these departments that labour arks to
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Speaker 1: bulk people up in. I mean, you're going to get
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Speaker 1: rid of the treaty for start, it's going to save
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Speaker 1: a billion dollars.
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Speaker 4: Treaty will be gone, and there'll be a freeze on
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Speaker 4: the staff and the hiring of staff in the background,
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Speaker 4: because we know that over time that we can bring
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Speaker 4: it back to the twenty fourteen twenty to fifteen level
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Speaker 4: plus population growth to.
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Speaker 5: Ensure that we can deliver the services.
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Speaker 4: But at the same time we can start paying down
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Speaker 4: the debt and Victoria by bringing in a real cash surplus,
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Speaker 4: something this state hasn't seen for a long time.
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Speaker 1: Has a good idea to me, Brad. Thank you, Brad Baton.
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Speaker 1: There we'll change the place now. As I said, I
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Speaker 1: wanted to look at that extraordinary story unfolding off the
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Speaker 1: coast now of Spain. A deadly virus called Hanta virus.
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Speaker 1: A border cruise ship has left three passengers dead already.
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Speaker 1: Others have been transferred to intensive care, triggering an international
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Speaker 1: health response. And it's for Spain to accept passengers on
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Speaker 1: the Canary Islands. He was President Donald Trump today playing
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Speaker 1: down the risk.
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Speaker 6: It's very much.
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Speaker 7: We hope under control.
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Speaker 8: There was the ship, and I think we're going to
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Speaker 8: make a full report about it tomorrow.
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Speaker 9: We have a lot of people, there's a lot of
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Speaker 9: great people studying it.
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Speaker 1: It should be fund We hope.
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Speaker 5: How you be concerned he went free?
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Speaker 6: I hope, I mean, I hope.
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Speaker 7: No, We'll do the best we can.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's hope he's right. Catherine Bennett is an infectious
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Speaker 1: disease is epidemiologist from Deacon University and one of the
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Speaker 1: most prominent health professionals during the destructive and deadly COVID outbreak.
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Speaker 1: I reckon. I interviewed the professor about four hundred times
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Speaker 1: over those two years. I should say, great to see
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Speaker 1: you again, but please tell me this is not another COVID.
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Speaker 10: Oh, it's a serious infectious disease, but it's not a
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Speaker 10: serious pandemic threat, Thank goodness. This is one of the
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Speaker 10: few strains of the only strain of this particular virus
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Speaker 10: where they've seen past cases of human to human transmission.
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Speaker 10: Usually it's environmental, it's exposure to rodents who've been infected,
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Speaker 10: and this is probably how this outbreak started. Exposure on
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Speaker 10: land and then potentially both the initial person who passed
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Speaker 10: away on the ship and his wife, they might have
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Speaker 10: both been exposed before they came on the boat. But
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Speaker 10: you know, it is an awful disease. It's awful for
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Speaker 10: the people on the boat because they're waiting to see
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Speaker 10: whether they're still incubating the virus. It takes six up
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Speaker 10: to six weeks, maybe even longer before someone who's been
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Speaker 10: exposed might develop symptoms. But the good news is we've
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Speaker 10: got one hundred and forty or so people between passengers
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Speaker 10: and crew on the boat. We've had seven cases that
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Speaker 10: are either strongly presumptive or confirmed hantavirus cases from the boat.
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Speaker 10: The other people on the boat are still symptom free
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Speaker 10: and testing negative. One of those cases is actually someone
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Speaker 10: who has no symptoms, they're just testing positive. And we've
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Speaker 10: only so far seen one confirmed case in someone who
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Speaker 10: was exposed to one of the people on the boat,
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Speaker 10: the actual wife of that original deceased passenger, who was
18:40
Speaker 10: exposed on a plane or at the airport, and he
18:43
Speaker 10: subsequently became unwell. But most of the people are doing okay,
18:47
Speaker 10: and in fact, we've had recent reports in the last
18:50
Speaker 10: twenty four hours that some people are now on the improved,
18:52
Speaker 10: which is really good news.
18:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does take very good just talking about this.
18:57
Speaker 1: I've got to say, I remember the Ruby Princess. These
19:00
Speaker 1: ships are like floating petri dishes. I think, what do
19:04
Speaker 1: we know about this virus? What does it do to you?
19:07
Speaker 1: What are the symptoms?
19:08
Speaker 10: So it often it starts off with a flu like illness,
19:11
Speaker 10: which is why they missed it. In that first gentleman.
19:13
Speaker 10: He came down with fever and general unwell, but had
19:17
Speaker 10: diarrhea the sorts of things that could be influenza, but
19:21
Speaker 10: then deteriorated really quickly and developed respiratory distress, which is
19:24
Speaker 10: actually how this particular version of the HANT of virus
19:28
Speaker 10: that and Is strain can actually kill people, you know,
19:32
Speaker 10: that's when it gets into the lungs and you actually
19:35
Speaker 10: can become very unwell quickly. We don't have treatments for it,
19:39
Speaker 10: so what they're doing is supporting people through the symptoms
19:41
Speaker 10: and helping them recover. So it really depends on the
19:44
Speaker 10: infecting dos how well a person is generally how they
19:47
Speaker 10: might do with this particular virus. It's been around for
19:51
Speaker 10: quite a while. There's strains in Asia and Europe. This
19:55
Speaker 10: particular one is only seen in the Americas. Australia doesn't
19:59
Speaker 10: as never had any reported cases of antivirus, though there's
20:03
Speaker 10: some indication that our native rodents have been exposed to
20:07
Speaker 10: it at some point. You know, they've got antibodies in
20:09
Speaker 10: their system. But generally it takes very close contact for
20:13
Speaker 10: the virus to spread. If it spreads human to human,
20:16
Speaker 10: that's very rare. Only with this Andy strain, and it
20:19
Speaker 10: takes quite close contact the doctor treating a patient or
20:22
Speaker 10: a husband and wife. So that's why they want to
20:25
Speaker 10: chase anyone who was potentially in close contact with those
20:29
Speaker 10: people who've come off the ship over the last few weeks.
20:32
Speaker 10: But also knowing that the risk is small, but going
20:36
Speaker 10: that extra mile to make sure that those people are tested,
20:41
Speaker 10: they're kept safe, and if they become infectious, you know
20:46
Speaker 10: that they're not a risk to other people as well.
20:48
Speaker 10: But you're right, ships, it's not only that people are
20:50
Speaker 10: in close quarters. It's actually that if it comes to port,
20:54
Speaker 10: you've got people from in this particular case, twenty eight
20:57
Speaker 10: different countries on the boat. And so there's that worry
21:01
Speaker 10: that if you have a slow incubating virus like this,
21:03
Speaker 10: that you can see it's spread to a number of countries,
21:07
Speaker 10: and just to create that need for a really coordinated
21:11
Speaker 10: effort to follow this up and make sure the outbreak
21:14
Speaker 10: doesn't go beyond this initial, first and second chain of exposure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we learned a lot during COVID. I really mean
21:22
Speaker 1: it most sincerely, professor, it's fairly good to see you again.
21:25
Speaker 1: Thank you for helping us out and thank you for
21:27
Speaker 1: giving us that good news. All right after the break
21:29
Speaker 1: the countdown of the Pharabyah election. One nation that looks
21:32
Speaker 1: like they're in the hot seat. We'll have more on
21:34
Speaker 1: that up next. Welcome back to Steve Price with you
21:42
Speaker 1: Ron Deane coming up. In a reminder, of course, tomorrow
21:44
Speaker 1: night at six East to East Coast Time, full coverage
21:47
Speaker 1: here on Sky of the Phara by election, which we'll
21:50
Speaker 1: be talking with Camber Newman about at the moment. We'll
21:52
Speaker 1: also across the UK for the latest time. They had
21:55
Speaker 1: a bunch of council elections during the week. Doesn't sound
21:58
Speaker 1: particularly exciting, but if you're the British Prime Minister, Sakir Starmer,
22:03
Speaker 1: you would be watching them very closely because it might
22:06
Speaker 1: actually cost him his job. But as I said, let's
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Speaker 1: go to Farah. Now, let's talk Farah the by election.
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Speaker 1: It's going to play out tomorrow. Locals who have not
22:14
Speaker 1: already hold in the pre polling booths are expected to
22:17
Speaker 1: vote candidates last minute, pushed to get across the line. Now,
22:20
Speaker 1: the outcome here could be historical, really, it could be
22:23
Speaker 1: a watershed moment in Australian politics. Here was Barnaby Joyce
22:27
Speaker 1: addressing National Volunteers today One Nation Volunteers, I'd.
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Speaker 8: Say to the people of Parah, you have an opportunity
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Speaker 8: now to be at the forefront of the change in
22:39
Speaker 8: politics for Australia. You have the opportunity to say to Canberra,
22:45
Speaker 8: to say to Parliament, no, you're not doing a good
22:47
Speaker 8: enough job.
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Speaker 5: We're not just going to accept.
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Speaker 2: What you've delivered.
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Speaker 1: Joining us now Friday Night Regular from the Queensland Premier
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Speaker 1: Friday Night Regular Campbell neimen, good to see your Campbell.
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Speaker 1: Barnaby's probably right. If One Nation picks that up, gives
23:04
Speaker 1: them a Lower House seat, Haulen potentially in the election
23:07
Speaker 1: in a couple of years time could go to the
23:09
Speaker 1: Lower House. I can see written all over this. I'm
23:12
Speaker 1: getting another dose of PTSD where we go back to
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Speaker 1: Rob Oakshot, Tony Windsor and Bob Catter.
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Speaker 11: Oh gosh, mate, I hope not not that situation. And
23:24
Speaker 11: I mean those guys, you know, as far as I'm concerned,
23:27
Speaker 11: abandoned the people who really they were meant to represent.
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Speaker 7: But that's another debate, isn't it.
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Speaker 11: But look, you know what Barnaby just said, I think
23:36
Speaker 11: is the message that has been resonating the One Nation
23:39
Speaker 11: campaign as the candidate David Farley. They've come in some
23:44
Speaker 11: heavy weather sort of from their own actions or Paul Vetting, etc.
23:51
Speaker 11: But I think they get through that, and I guess
23:53
Speaker 11: my tip is that Barley, the One Nation candidate, will
23:56
Speaker 11: win with that sentiment of great dissatisfaction with the politics
24:01
Speaker 11: of usual that's right across Australia at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Well, this seat's never been held by anybody but the
24:07
Speaker 1: Nationals or the Liberal Party. Susan Lee had it for
24:10
Speaker 1: over twenty years. Angus Taylor, he was on with Andrew
24:13
Speaker 1: Clenell earlier this week basically have a look at this.
24:16
Speaker 1: I'll get your assessment. Conceding defeat. Are you bracing for
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Speaker 1: a loss in the Pharaoh by election at the weekend.
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Speaker 5: I was always going to be tough, Andrew. I've said
24:27
Speaker 5: that to you before that you know, we've.
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Speaker 12: Had two coalition breakups. There clearly was a breach of
24:33
Speaker 12: trust with people in Pharah and elsewhere, and you know
24:39
Speaker 12: we've got to pay the price for that.
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Speaker 1: Following obviously Campbell says they're gone, and we presume they are.
24:46
Speaker 11: Yeah, look that there's a bit of expectation management going
24:50
Speaker 11: on there. Steve for sure, and in his early days
24:55
Speaker 11: in his period of leadership, so I think you know,
24:58
Speaker 11: he could hardly start to claw stuff back after what
25:02
Speaker 11: Lee had done to the party. I think that's where
25:07
Speaker 11: we're going, as I said before, where we're going for
25:10
Speaker 11: a situation where one nation will get up. Notwithstanding that
25:14
Speaker 11: they had Mark sort of knocked off them during the
25:16
Speaker 11: period of this campaign, and rightfully so, because one nation
25:20
Speaker 11: clearly need to do a better job of vetting candidates
25:23
Speaker 11: and sort of stepping up a level in terms of professionalism.
25:27
Speaker 11: I know if some of them are watching, they might
25:30
Speaker 11: get a bit offended. But you know, I'm only just
25:32
Speaker 11: sort of saying that in a spirit of friendly, friendly advice.
25:38
Speaker 11: I mean, you know that's what you have to do.
25:40
Speaker 11: By the way, Stephen, is a bit of a digression.
25:43
Speaker 11: You know, if I had a dollar for every time
25:44
Speaker 11: I've sat in front of a potential candidate and said,
25:47
Speaker 11: you know what the other.
25:49
Speaker 7: Side, you know, I will find out everything about you.
25:51
Speaker 7: You've got to tell us now, is there anything else
25:54
Speaker 7: we need to know? And guess what, Steve, they never
25:56
Speaker 7: tell you. They never tell you the truth, the whole truth.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about not telling everyone the truth. I read
26:04
Speaker 1: your quotes this morning in the Australia. This is a
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Speaker 1: state government issue. In Queensland. David Chris A Filly, the
26:10
Speaker 1: Premier under pressure around integrity. Now Ministers Tim Mander and
26:15
Speaker 1: Amanda cam They did not disclose that they were having
26:21
Speaker 1: an extramarital relationship before they went into cabinet. What's your
26:25
Speaker 1: view on this.
26:28
Speaker 7: Well, Steve, very very quickly.
26:31
Speaker 11: For viewers and perhaps for interstate viewers, this is what
26:36
Speaker 11: brought Gladys Beregiiclian's political.
26:40
Speaker 7: Career to an end.
26:40
Speaker 11: It was the affair that was undisclosed with Daryl McGuire involved,
26:45
Speaker 11: the gun club in Wagga and government grants. Okay, we
26:50
Speaker 11: have a situation here now where we have two ministers
26:53
Speaker 11: who had an extramarital affair. Then the affair was off,
26:57
Speaker 11: then it was back on again. Finally it was formally declared.
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Speaker 11: But frankly, Steve, everybody in the LNP knew, including the Premier.
27:06
Speaker 11: I knew, and I wasn't in the LNP in February
27:09
Speaker 11: twenty twenty two.
27:10
Speaker 7: I was told there was supposed the affair going on.
27:12
Speaker 11: So the problem is then that under the Ministerial Code
27:16
Speaker 11: of Conduct which has David at Chris of Foley's own
27:19
Speaker 11: name on it when they became a government in November
27:22
Speaker 11: twenty twenty five, sorry twenty twenty four, when he put
27:28
Speaker 11: his own name to a Ministerial Code of Conduct that
27:30
Speaker 11: said these things should be declared. And then we have
27:32
Speaker 11: the Integrity Commissioner in Queensland, a independent statutory person who
27:38
Speaker 11: hasn't put out an opinion.
27:40
Speaker 7: Paper on this.
27:40
Speaker 11: It says that clearly, notwithstanding that the fair was on
27:44
Speaker 11: and off again and things like that, that there was
27:46
Speaker 11: a duty to disclose.
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Speaker 7: And then we have the overlay of significant money.
27:51
Speaker 11: The granting of obsidivient money by one minister to another
27:57
Speaker 11: minister's electorate and vice versa from the respect of departments,
28:01
Speaker 11: and then the transfer of the Olympic rowing from Morton
28:05
Speaker 11: Bay off Brisbane's Bayside up to the whit Sundays in
28:09
Speaker 11: Minister Cam's own electrics.
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Speaker 7: So that's a very quick version what's going on. Bottom line, I.
28:15
Speaker 11: Think it's now got to a point where the ministers
28:19
Speaker 11: have to go. I think they've got to be sin
28:21
Speaker 11: bend for this lapse. And that's the standard it seems
28:26
Speaker 11: the Premier set he wanted to adhere to, and that's
28:30
Speaker 11: what as I said at the beginning, Gladysbury Jicland was
28:33
Speaker 11: called out on.
28:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems to me that Chris Philly won't do that.
28:37
Speaker 1: To be fair to my old mate Gladys Birgicalian, I
28:40
Speaker 1: mean she was in a consensual relationship. Both of them
28:44
Speaker 1: were single at the time. I mean, you wouldn't label
28:46
Speaker 1: at an affair, but you're quite right to point out
28:48
Speaker 1: that it was central to her her demise as Premier
28:53
Speaker 1: of New South Wales.
28:55
Speaker 11: Well and by by the way, Steve, just to be
28:57
Speaker 11: very crystal clear of you, is this is not about
29:00
Speaker 11: people's private lives. This is about principles of government that
29:05
Speaker 11: have been set down by successive administrations over the last
29:08
Speaker 11: thirty five years since Fitzgerald in Queensland, about how government
29:12
Speaker 11: we run. Again, the ministry or handbook says these things
29:17
Speaker 11: have to be declared.
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Speaker 7: They clearly were not.
29:19
Speaker 11: I don't give two hoots about people's private lives. This
29:23
Speaker 11: is about good governance and good government.
29:27
Speaker 1: Well said Campbell. See you next week, Cambe Newman, there
29:30
Speaker 1: form a Premier of Queensland. I want to go to
29:32
Speaker 1: the UK now talking in politics, residents they're headed out
29:36
Speaker 1: to polls for council elections. It's very weird in the
29:39
Speaker 1: UK they go and vote midweek. I mean in Australia
29:42
Speaker 1: we always have our elections on the weekend on a Saturday. Now,
29:46
Speaker 1: critics are saying this is likely to play out as
29:49
Speaker 1: a referendum on the Labor government. Well so Keith Starmarf.
29:52
Speaker 1: I had a referendum on him, he would be out
29:55
Speaker 1: of a job. Our Friday Night regular Sky One, his
29:57
Speaker 1: contributor Adrian Hayes joins us, what are these local? These
30:02
Speaker 1: are local council elections. Why will I have an impact
30:06
Speaker 1: on the you know, the national government and the Prime Minister.
30:11
Speaker 9: Yeah, goodem Siven Goadema with your viewers as well. Yes,
30:15
Speaker 9: you know you think this is local issues. It's about
30:17
Speaker 9: popoles and the roads, about where council spends its money.
30:20
Speaker 9: But no, it is being referred like a referendum on
30:25
Speaker 9: the government's performance. And so you've got issues like gaza
30:28
Speaker 9: appearing everywhere. You've got sort of the economy, you've got
30:31
Speaker 9: the whole issue of the Labor Party.
30:32
Speaker 6: So it is a mid it's like a midterm elections.
30:35
Speaker 9: And by the way, there's quite a few things going
30:37
Speaker 9: on weird in the UK right now. But results are
30:39
Speaker 9: coming in and it's showing a clear surgeon resport in
30:44
Speaker 9: support for the Reform Party led by Nigel Farage, a
30:47
Speaker 9: disastrous night for the Labor Party led by Keir Starmer.
30:50
Speaker 9: Some support for the Greens were not not so much
30:53
Speaker 9: as as was expected, and a pretty bad night for
30:56
Speaker 9: the Conservatives as well.
31:00
Speaker 1: So if there was a real contender to replace Stammer,
31:03
Speaker 1: I would presume that they would have got rid of
31:06
Speaker 1: him already.
31:07
Speaker 2: Right.
31:08
Speaker 9: Well, look to give him his credit, he's quite a
31:10
Speaker 9: deterbinate individual, desperate to hang on for power. But where
31:14
Speaker 9: do we hear that before? I think, look what it's showing.
31:17
Speaker 9: There isn't a natural obvious success. But I think what
31:21
Speaker 9: these elections are showing, because council election is probably the
31:23
Speaker 9: same in Australia, they're often used as a protest vote,
31:26
Speaker 9: so the ruling government gets a bloody nose.
31:30
Speaker 6: But I'm personally thinking that this is a realignment. It's
31:33
Speaker 6: the big.
31:34
Speaker 9: Parties, there's great dissatisfaction and the smaller parties are going
31:38
Speaker 9: to come to four so there is no and you know,
31:41
Speaker 9: star War's leadership is under a great threat, as I
31:43
Speaker 9: expect things are going to be happening next week.
31:46
Speaker 6: As early as that.
31:47
Speaker 9: But I just don't think as a natural successor, which
31:49
Speaker 9: shows the sort of the weakness of politics or leaders
31:52
Speaker 9: in the Labor Party as a whole and in politics
31:55
Speaker 9: in general.
31:57
Speaker 1: We're in the middle of a very big debate here
31:59
Speaker 1: about a number of women and some children who've come
32:03
Speaker 1: back from Syria. They were living in that rage refugee
32:08
Speaker 1: camp and they've arrived back in Australia last night. Three
32:11
Speaker 1: of them have been arrested. They'll appear in court next
32:14
Speaker 1: week over charges that relate to procuring in one case
32:20
Speaker 1: procuring slaves. Have you had returning ISIS brides or ISIS
32:28
Speaker 1: women and children to the UK over the after ISIS
32:32
Speaker 1: caliphate fell apart?
32:34
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, we've had the case of very high proofile
32:36
Speaker 9: cases Shaban Begum, who I think has actually gone to
32:40
Speaker 9: Australia right now. But I think these individual cases sort
32:44
Speaker 9: of masked the bigger, the wider problem we are getting,
32:48
Speaker 9: as you will well know, crossings across the channel of
32:51
Speaker 9: radical Isthmus, you know, and the results have been clear
32:57
Speaker 9: on the streets of our country now, you know.
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Speaker 6: But that is not being sold to say.
33:01
Speaker 9: It's very easy to distract the bigger picture with some
33:04
Speaker 9: individual cases.
33:05
Speaker 6: So we have had some, but it's a far bigger
33:08
Speaker 6: problem Steve.
33:10
Speaker 1: Anti Semitism, I mean you had those attacks in gold
33:14
Speaker 1: as Green, which is a very heavily Jewish populated area
33:17
Speaker 1: of London. Is anti Semitism as bad in your country
33:21
Speaker 1: as it is here. I mean, you know, we had
33:23
Speaker 1: the shocking event that took place at BONDI. How bad
33:27
Speaker 1: is it in the UK?
33:29
Speaker 9: Yeah, we're well aware we haven't had anything on that scale,
33:32
Speaker 9: but the number of individual cases of stabbings, of assault
33:36
Speaker 9: of arson is increasing rapidly. The problem you've got is
33:42
Speaker 9: that the government's in all this great thing to show
33:45
Speaker 9: they're doing something. You know, we'll put fifteen million pounds
33:48
Speaker 9: to special measures, and there's talk about a special police
33:52
Speaker 9: force to protect Jews.
33:53
Speaker 6: What we actually need is proper policing. But what I
33:55
Speaker 6: would say, it's very easy.
33:57
Speaker 9: To come out grandstand show boning on the on the
34:00
Speaker 9: stage to rant against anti Semitism.
34:04
Speaker 6: Far harder to cure the underlying.
34:06
Speaker 9: Cause, which is this radical Islam which is on our streets,
34:11
Speaker 9: excuse me, and harder.
34:13
Speaker 6: To do this, you know. So the IR do you
34:15
Speaker 6: see the.
34:16
Speaker 9: Raign of Revolutionary Guards still not prescribed, the Muslim brotherhoods
34:19
Speaker 9: still not prescribed. We've still got these boat crossings, and
34:21
Speaker 9: we've got you know, we've got a situation in the
34:24
Speaker 9: UK where radical Islam is is that bad that even
34:28
Speaker 9: countries like the UAE where I've lived, have been warning
34:31
Speaker 9: against it.
34:31
Speaker 6: For ten years, but we are still not doing anything
34:33
Speaker 6: about it.
34:35
Speaker 1: So do you have enclaves that are largely populated by
34:41
Speaker 1: either illegal Muslim refugees or those people who've come to
34:46
Speaker 1: the country legitimately. I mean, are they gathering in suburbs together?
34:52
Speaker 1: Is that part of the problem.
34:54
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, we have you know the word that.
34:57
Speaker 9: Look, there's nothing wrong with immigration, No one is anti
35:00
Speaker 9: immigration at all. The problem is it's it's that integration.
35:04
Speaker 9: It's a game of numbers. So when the numbers are
35:06
Speaker 9: so high, both legitimate legal, legal immigration and illegal immigration,
35:11
Speaker 9: you have got these enclaves. You have got enclaves where
35:15
Speaker 9: English is barely spoken and it's within most in the
35:18
Speaker 9: North of England. You've had some various effects from that
35:21
Speaker 9: on the crime front. But it's it's it doesn't help
35:24
Speaker 9: the case and say we're all it doesn't matter. Even
35:27
Speaker 9: you know, moderate Muslims are even against what is happening
35:30
Speaker 9: in our in our inner cities, particularly in the North
35:33
Speaker 9: of England. So this is a problem, the law of
35:35
Speaker 9: unintended consequences. You're bringing immigration measures to try and boosting
35:40
Speaker 9: our economic growth, but there are impacts and this is
35:43
Speaker 9: one factor.
35:43
Speaker 6: And I say crime is rife in these areas.
35:48
Speaker 1: Yep, same things happening here. Adrian High is good on
35:50
Speaker 1: you mind. I'll talk to you in a couple of
35:51
Speaker 1: weeks time. Adrian High is there in the UK coming up.
35:54
Speaker 1: One of my favorite segments of the day, Patoons of
35:57
Speaker 1: the week with the wonderful Mark nine. It's after the break.
36:04
Speaker 1: Welcome a boat coming up. More on the mind boggling
36:07
Speaker 1: money getting poured into that suburban rail link is loop.
36:11
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Speaking of unbelievable, Mark Knight is unbelievable. To
36:15
Speaker 1: our week in cartoons, best in the business. You have
36:18
Speaker 1: so much material to work with, and you're very kind.
36:22
Speaker 2: You're right.
36:23
Speaker 1: You draw a cartoon attached to my column every week.
36:27
Speaker 1: Columns up online now, but it will be in the
36:28
Speaker 1: paper tomorrow with them the highlight of my week with us,
36:31
Speaker 1: it's not with a night cartoon. What have you done?
36:33
Speaker 1: I've talked about fire bombing.
36:35
Speaker 2: Well, you can't walk around this town.
36:37
Speaker 13: The passive smoking problem is terrible because everything is on fire,
36:40
Speaker 13: whether it's a liquor store, a pub or or a nightclub. Now,
36:43
Speaker 13: and you know we have these things in the bush.
36:46
Speaker 13: The fire danger negative and a high fire day. It's
36:53
Speaker 13: catastrophic and well, we need these in Melbourne now because
36:56
Speaker 13: the danger of fire bombing.
36:57
Speaker 1: Is someone asked me during the week and that's why
37:00
Speaker 1: at that column, why was it only happened in Melbourne.
37:03
Speaker 1: It's not happening anywhere.
37:04
Speaker 2: Place to be, where the place to be anywhere else?
37:07
Speaker 1: Budget coming up Tuesday night. You always draw a great
37:10
Speaker 1: budget cartoon, but you did a bit of a preview.
37:14
Speaker 13: Well, we had the state budget this week, which is
37:16
Speaker 13: a problem for the federal budget. And just sent to
37:21
Speaker 13: Alan was was to get the debt dumped on her.
37:25
Speaker 13: She was crowing about her little surplus she had, what
37:28
Speaker 13: is it a working service, But I mean lurking in
37:32
Speaker 13: the background was this huge, truntable billion dollar debt which
37:36
Speaker 13: Victorians have, And so I thought that was the elephant
37:38
Speaker 13: in the room. And yes, beautifully, the elephant is going
37:41
Speaker 13: to dump sports story.
37:42
Speaker 1: Of the week. There was a whiteboard somehow inside the
37:45
Speaker 1: Brisbane Lions change room. Yes, and they put all the
37:49
Speaker 1: opposing players the players and said what do you describe
37:53
Speaker 1: those people?
37:54
Speaker 2: All their weaknesses and strength, And.
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Speaker 13: It was it was just a laid down maziar for
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Speaker 13: a cartoonist to take that white Yeah, and I've turned
38:04
Speaker 13: it into the labor Jess Wilson there, This is the
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Speaker 13: Liberal party in the Labor Party in Victoria and their weakness.
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Speaker 13: So just into Allen's weakness is that she's really just
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Speaker 13: into Andrews things like Harriet sheing, she's her weaknesses. She's
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Speaker 13: always standing behind the premier nodding.
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Speaker 1: Luber grigorovichs the hell out of I means hard to
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Speaker 1: draw because you've got to see the nodding to actually
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Speaker 1: work it out. Now, Dr Chalmers, our treasurer, Yes, as
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Speaker 1: grim Jim Grim Jim in our area court in the
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Speaker 1: act of trying to steal from property investors.
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Speaker 13: Well, he promised he would not do this, he would
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Speaker 13: not touch these these these tax i guess breaks for investors.
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Speaker 1: But he had gearing and capital gains and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: He couldn't help himself.
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Speaker 13: And so like what's going on a lot of capital
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Speaker 13: cities is Agberg's he's breaking into I guess an investment
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Speaker 13: property and as he says, he's not stealing, he's just
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Speaker 13: about helping people break into the housing markets.
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Speaker 1: Yeah right, you must have been watching me fill in
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Speaker 1: on Peter Kredlin Show this week. Because I didn't need
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Speaker 1: a troil earlier in the week saying that I presume
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Speaker 1: that when the Isis Brides return, they will be taken
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Speaker 1: off the plane on the tarmac with a camera crew,
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Speaker 1: just as Ben Roberts Smith was. And you've drawn a
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Speaker 1: cartoon to that end, And that's not what happened here
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Speaker 1: is what really happened.
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Speaker 2: No, this was drawn before they arrived.
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Speaker 13: But I was just sort of going drawing the comparison
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Speaker 13: what's going to happen here?
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Speaker 2: And I mean the Isis Brides.
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Speaker 13: The government says it hasn't assisted the beginning into the country,
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Speaker 13: but it hasn't hindered them either, No, and so they've
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Speaker 13: sort of come in like a congole. And there was
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Speaker 13: amazing scenes at the airport today as their crew, I
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Speaker 13: guess helped them.
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Speaker 1: Did anyone put them in handcuffs and stick them in
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Speaker 1: a van? And then till Channel nine were the car
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Speaker 1: and their.
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Speaker 2: Children were not removed from them like Ben Roberts.
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Speaker 13: Smith was taken a great cartoon. So I thought I'd
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Speaker 13: just do the comparison between two. One is a war
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Speaker 13: hero and the others are people who sided with.
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Speaker 1: Having very similar thoughts about that. Now, the Royal Tour
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Speaker 1: went to Washington, Big Trumpy loves Charles, said that his
40:28
Speaker 1: mother used to have a thing for Prince Charles. Here
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Speaker 1: he is look at that in their way. What's Camilla,
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Speaker 1: Queen Camilla saying?
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Speaker 2: This is when they leave?
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Speaker 13: And I was watching when they got into the car
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Speaker 13: and they left the White House, and I was just
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Speaker 13: imagining what would Camilla and Charles be talking about as
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Speaker 13: they drove away from the White House. And I think
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Speaker 13: they'd be saying, we did pretty well here. I think
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Speaker 13: we charmed America and not even you know, Vladimir Putin
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Speaker 13: gets that sort of warm reception.
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Speaker 1: He loved drawing Charles's ear.
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Speaker 13: I've just rediscovered drawing Charlie now because he's changed.
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Speaker 2: He's got much older, and it's very different to a.
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Speaker 1: Good sense of humor. I thought he did. He had
41:06
Speaker 1: a good tour.
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Speaker 13: We actually sat down on YouTube and we watched all
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Speaker 13: his speeches and they very entertaining, very entertaining, and it
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Speaker 13: was interesting watching who was standing up and clapping when
41:16
Speaker 13: he addressed the Congress and Jade Vance clapped a couple
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Speaker 13: then he didn't clap a few more, he clapped for
41:22
Speaker 13: another one.
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Speaker 1: And he's got a cheeky sense of him we should
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Speaker 1: end with the Isis Brides because obviously they now are
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Speaker 1: back got back last night. There was some pretty ugly
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Speaker 1: scenes at the airport that I talked about earlier in
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Speaker 1: the program. What have we got going? Oh, well, of
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Speaker 1: course they've landed back in They thought that was bad
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Speaker 1: in Syria. They ain't seen nothing.
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Speaker 2: Yet, mate. Syria is like Shangri La compared to Melbourne.
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Speaker 1: Machettes, firebombing, very stolen and what are they saying?
41:53
Speaker 2: I think glad to be back in Melbourne. Syria doesn't
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Speaker 2: look so bad after all.
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Speaker 1: That's very fun. I wonder if they're thinking that tonight.
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Speaker 2: I reckon they would be good on your marker.
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Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing your cartoons in the Heralds next
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Speaker 1: week as well. Mark back with us in a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks Up Next supporters were out in force for
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Speaker 1: the return of those Isis brides. It was disgraceful, So
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Speaker 1: what does that say about the people we are letting
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Speaker 1: into the country? Friday Night panel Up Next.
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Speaker 2: Go Back.
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Speaker 1: Disgraceful scenes both mainly in Melbourne but also Sydney overnight
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Speaker 1: with the return of the Isis Brides. But what struck me,
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Speaker 1: as I said earlier in the program was the response
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Speaker 1: from some of the heavies who gathered, particularly at Tullamarine Airport,
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Speaker 1: to protect these women or at least one of the
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Speaker 1: women and the children that were being taken.
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Speaker 5: To a bus.
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Speaker 1: Have a look at this, get on my way.
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Speaker 7: Why did you marry alisac Terras?
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Speaker 14: Turn up?
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Speaker 1: Your answer to one of those questions, one of those
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Speaker 1: men said to a female, shut up, you slut, and
43:02
Speaker 1: the Channel ten reporter was punched in the stomach. Joining
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Speaker 1: me Now, Sky News contributed Joe Hildebrand and joining us
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Speaker 1: for her debut appearance on the panel. Welcome to multimedia
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Speaker 1: reporter from the herold's own Gracefood. Welcome to you, Grace Frost,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to you both. Great to have you with us. Yes,
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Speaker 1: who are we letting into this country? If that happens?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, well, I mean I suppose part of the problem
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Speaker 15: is that the blokou said those disgusting remarks is already here.
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Speaker 15: I think there is, obviously, And again I've been saying
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Speaker 15: this since the cows have come home. But we have
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Speaker 15: no choice but to let these people in.
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Speaker 2: Legally.
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Speaker 5: We might not like it, but we have to lump it.
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Speaker 15: But I think it's incredibly illuminating that they couldn't even
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Speaker 15: they and their allies, their supporters couldn't even make it
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Speaker 15: to the cab rank without showing their true colors, and
43:52
Speaker 15: the nature of just how vile, misogynistic and of course
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Speaker 15: far far worse this kind of radical is, this ideology is.
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Speaker 15: It is disgraceful language, It is disgraceful behavior. If this
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Speaker 15: is how they and their supporters are behaving on day
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Speaker 15: one of their return to Australia, I think that the
44:12
Speaker 15: process of deradicalization and rehabilitation might just take a while.
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Speaker 15: And the fact that this was the only one of
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Speaker 15: the three who wasn't hauled off to face slavery charges
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Speaker 15: coming under the Crimes against Humanity Banner tells us just
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Speaker 15: how much these people are in fact victims.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I worry for the children. Grace. You're a multi
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Speaker 1: media reporter with the Herald Sun. I mean, it's probably
44:34
Speaker 1: just luck that you weren't out there last night. How
44:36
Speaker 1: would you have reacted if someone had.
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Speaker 5: Said that to you?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean it's hard to even consider it. We
44:43
Speaker 14: had our reporter Kylie Douglas out there doing a fantastic
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Speaker 14: job last night. She captured some insane footage that you
44:51
Speaker 14: can see online on our socials. I mean just being there,
44:54
Speaker 14: the intensity that you could even feel through that footage
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Speaker 14: and the things that were said, it just makes you
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Speaker 14: he questioned, the whole thing all over again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just disgraceful. And look, I just wonder why
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Speaker 1: the police didn't maybe drag a couple of these blokes away.
45:11
Speaker 1: But I mean, we'll let it play out. Grace still
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Speaker 1: in Victoria, the Prime Minister today he was having fun
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Speaker 1: tipping another three point eight billion dollars into the Suburban
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Speaker 1: rail Loop, which takes people from somewhere where they don't
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Speaker 1: want to be to somewhere they don't want to go here.
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Speaker 3: He was, we fund projects. We don't fund theories we've run.
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Speaker 3: We fund projects. This one kind of underway. You might
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Speaker 3: have noticed it's off and running. The money is for
45:41
Speaker 3: this project.
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Speaker 1: Nodding heads, Grace, But I don't think he knows where
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Speaker 1: he is, and I would be tipping that Joe's made
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Speaker 1: elbow has never been on a train in Melbourne ever.
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Speaker 12: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, Well we're talking Suburban Rail Loop East, so the
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Speaker 14: twenty six kilometer underground rail that's going to be built
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Speaker 14: between Cheltenham and box Hill. Today's announcement three point eight
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Speaker 14: billion dollars brings the federal contribution up to six billion dollars.
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Speaker 14: Now it sounds like a lot, right, but really the
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Speaker 14: Victorian government has always been hoping for eleven point five
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Speaker 14: billion dollars in contribution from the federal government, about a
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Speaker 14: third of the total project cost, which is thirty four
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Speaker 14: point five billion dollars. So it's still about five to
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Speaker 14: five and a half billion dollars short of what we
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Speaker 14: actually need to get this underway, and it leaves us
46:36
Speaker 14: in a bit of a tricky spot because on one
46:38
Speaker 14: side you've got labour telling us this is a game changer,
46:42
Speaker 14: You've got tunnel boring machines already getting underway out at
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Speaker 14: the sites or about to get underway. And then on
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Speaker 14: the other side you've got Victoria heading toward two hundred
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Speaker 14: billion dollars in debt by twenty thirty, a thirty four
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Speaker 14: point five billion dollar project that only some people are
46:57
Speaker 14: going to use, and fifty billion dollars in operating costs.
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Speaker 14: So I don't know, I think I know where you
47:03
Speaker 14: sit on this one, Steve.
47:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just like a train of the airport. That'll
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Speaker 1: do me Joe, I mean, how did you build the
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Speaker 1: metro system in Sydney without all of this carry on
47:13
Speaker 1: that we're having with this bloody thing.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, well, I think Look, inevitably rail projects go over
47:17
Speaker 15: time and over budget.
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Speaker 5: Now metro program is no different.
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Speaker 15: But when people are happy with the result and it's
47:23
Speaker 15: being used, you find that those cares about about, you know,
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Speaker 15: the project being delayed just immediately evaporate. I'm actually on
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Speaker 15: the new Southwest Metro line. My station isn't quite built.
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Speaker 15: It will be open at the end of the year,
47:36
Speaker 15: and no one's even upset that's been delayed because the
47:39
Speaker 15: Metro system. From anyone who's used it, you can clearly
47:42
Speaker 15: see it is an absolute game changer. I think with
47:45
Speaker 15: I mean, I'm a massive rail nut. The PM is
47:47
Speaker 15: a massive rail nut. Inevitably this will be necessary, That's right,
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Speaker 15: such a nerd. Inevitably, Melbourne is growing at such a
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Speaker 15: huge rate, despite the fact that people are getting broken
47:58
Speaker 15: into and having their cars stolen, the population is growing.
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Speaker 15: It will overtake Sydney sooner or later. This rail will
48:04
Speaker 15: be necessary, so you might as well build it, given
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Speaker 15: that so much money has already been plowed into it.
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Speaker 15: But yes, it will be a painful process.
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Speaker 1: Grace, just quickly a dollar forty four a year added
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Speaker 1: to your power bill so we can have electric vehicle
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Speaker 1: charging stations here. Do you feel about that?
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Speaker 14: Oh? Look, you could say it's not even a couple
48:24
Speaker 14: of coffee worth, but you could also say why it's annoying.
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Speaker 1: Literatur is out and I don't want to so, you know,
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Speaker 1: take your dollar forty four readick off. Grace, appreciate you
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Speaker 1: joining us. Joe, thank you much as well. Knowing up
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Speaker 1: though heats exactly. Talk to you next week. Make sure
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Speaker 1: you stick around by the way for Sky News coverage
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