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Katie Woolf spoke about The Big Issues with Dave Tollner and Damien Hale · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: You know what time it is. Time to cover off
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  Speaker 1: on the big issues with Dave tol No, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: great to be with you. Good to have you in
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  Speaker 1: the studio, Dave. And we've also got Damian Haley's back.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's sick.
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  Speaker 3: He's coughing and splatting and putting gems this little confined spot.
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  Speaker 2: He's wearing a mask.
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  Speaker 4: Typical already.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see him in a mask, you know,
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  Speaker 2: at least.
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  Speaker 3: In solidarity with But he doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't believe there's a pandemic anyway, so why would
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  Speaker 5: he Exactly, I've heard of this man flu but true,
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  Speaker 5: it's true, the flu injection. I've had a couple of
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  Speaker 5: rounds of any good man.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to say the greatest fear in primary school
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  Speaker 3: is catching girl gems.
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  Speaker 4: From central Please leads.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to say, of all the things I was
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  Speaker 1: expecting you to say, that was naughty, A.
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  Speaker 2: Hark back to the days a girl gym.
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  Speaker 5: Enjoyed his primary school especially year six, best four years
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  Speaker 5: of his.
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  Speaker 2: Life until a long time.
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  Speaker 4: That's right to take a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, may well, I tell you what it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be an interesting morning, and not just here
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  Speaker 1: on three sixty. But we know that the presidential debates,
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  Speaker 1: the first presidential debate is set to take place. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden and Donald Trump going head to head. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be interesting. I reckon, it's going to get nasty.
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  Speaker 2: Are you kidding? I can't imagine Jay doing anything that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be nasty. I mean, but they're all infected
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  Speaker 2: with Trump derangement syndromond.
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  Speaker 4: Even Trump's got.
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  Speaker 1: That's another one you've got to be worried about. I
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  Speaker 1: hear that your hair gets very flowing and your skin
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  Speaker 1: guys a little bit orangey tinged. If you've if you've.
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  Speaker 4: Got Trump will be absolute.
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  Speaker 2: I call him orange Jesus. I think he's.
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  Speaker 3: Here to save the world, save all save all of
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  Speaker 3: us from the evils of communism and socialism.
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  Speaker 4: He's just an.
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  Speaker 5: Absolute rata both and Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: But in penus, I think this is this is a
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  Speaker 2: big thing.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, these debates, because Joe has been so long in
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  Speaker 3: the basement, and originally the view was that he wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: even have debates with Donald Trump. He was being advised
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  Speaker 3: strongly not to have debates. All of the media was
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  Speaker 3: advising him not to have debates because you know, Trump
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  Speaker 3: lies so much and it's all fake news and whatnot,
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  Speaker 3: and you're only giving him off oxygen if you debate him.
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  Speaker 3: That was their line, which I thought was a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a copy out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would say that anybody that's not prepared to
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  Speaker 1: debate their opponent in the lead into an election, it
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  Speaker 1: is a cop out.
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  Speaker 3: It was very questionable where they would have debates, but
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  Speaker 3: it's good to see they have, and in some regards
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  Speaker 3: it will frame the election because you know, so much
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  Speaker 3: of the media, the commentary and that sort of stuff
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  Speaker 3: has been dominated by Trump derangement syndrome, and in a debate,
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  Speaker 3: people actually have to start talking policy and direction. And
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  Speaker 3: I think these debates will start to show the golf
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  Speaker 3: of the divide between the Democrats public policy and the Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: And there is a gulf of divide, really, and you
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  Speaker 3: haven't heard much about that because you know, the fitness
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  Speaker 3: of Trump to be in the office is really all
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  Speaker 3: that's dominated the debate.
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  Speaker 1: What are you thinking is going to happen, Hailey, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a really interesting race, I think
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  Speaker 1: to whoever ends up president, whether it's whether Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: stays in the position, or whether Sleepy Joe takes over.
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  Speaker 5: I heard an interesting comment, and I was mentioning to
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  Speaker 5: Dave when we were coming in that some commentator over
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  Speaker 5: there said, look, we believe that Joe Biden will understand
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  Speaker 5: the questions, but we're not sure whether you'll understand his answers.
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  Speaker 4: So Sleepy Joe.
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  Speaker 5: It's a pretty sad state of affairs when you know,
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  Speaker 5: a population of three hundred and thirty million can only
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  Speaker 5: come up with Donald Trump and Sleepy Joe.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is the interesting thing that I kind
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  Speaker 1: of think to myself is that, And you know, I
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  Speaker 1: know Dave that you luck you obviously have your views
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  Speaker 1: on Donald Trump, and everybody's got different opinions, whether you
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  Speaker 1: think he's great or think he does a terrible job.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm of the view like I'm actually surprised that
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  Speaker 1: the best you can come up with is Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: On the other side as well, like I sort of think,
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  Speaker 1: surely there's more people putting their putting their hands up,
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  Speaker 1: and surely there's a younger generation wanting to come up
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  Speaker 1: through the ranks. And I'm not being ages here, but
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  Speaker 1: he's already sort of identified that he if he was
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  Speaker 1: to win, that he would only stay in there for
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  Speaker 1: that one turn.
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  Speaker 3: Look to me, I just look at the golf in
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  Speaker 3: the difference of views, and there really is such a golf.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you've got on one hand, you've got Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump with his massive tax cuts, his efforts to lower
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  Speaker 3: the price of energy and exploiting those gas resources that
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  Speaker 3: they have in the US, a whole range of different
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  Speaker 3: things like that. Obviously, he's the absolute antithesis of political correctness.
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  Speaker 3: He makes that one of his centerpieces, the fact that
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  Speaker 3: it will say anything, do anything, and doesn't really care.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's sort of appreciated by a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: And then you have a look at the other side,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats, who almost are the exact whole or opposite
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  Speaker 3: of Donald Trump. You know, they've got a policy to
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  Speaker 3: pull up most of the gas pipelines in the US.
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  Speaker 3: You know they're going to be back there in the
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  Speaker 3: Paris Accord quicker than you can blink. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: increase taxes, very similar to Bill Shorten's last election campaign.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this idea of increasing taxes, increasing the level
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  Speaker 3: of health cover across the US, all of that sort
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  Speaker 3: of stuff. So there really is a massive divide in
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  Speaker 3: what they both steen for, and I.
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  Speaker 4: Think Biden too.
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  Speaker 5: It plays into that Trump narrative around the establishment, and
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  Speaker 5: having a senator of forty years standing.
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  Speaker 4: Gives Trump plenty of ammunition.
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  Speaker 5: I think that today in the debate, he will be
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  Speaker 5: highlighting the fact that Joe, you know, what have you
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  Speaker 5: done in forty years as a senator? Admittedly he was
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  Speaker 5: a solid vice president for eight years under Obama, but
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  Speaker 5: it'll play into the narrative of Trump will be attacking
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  Speaker 5: the establishment, in the taxi establishment through his Twitter at
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  Speaker 5: camp most of the times.
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  Speaker 1: He was on a tear on Twitter the other day,
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  Speaker 1: and his.
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  Speaker 5: Contempt he has for the media, and he'll run you know,
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  Speaker 5: the days of walking out the front and doing doorstop
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  Speaker 5: after doorstop. Well, when it comes to Donald Trump, he
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  Speaker 5: doesn't do that. He'll leave the media sitting outside and say, well,
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  Speaker 5: why will I come and talk to you, because you'll
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  Speaker 5: only report what you want to report to make me
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  Speaker 5: look bad, and you won't.
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  Speaker 4: Report the good story.
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  Speaker 5: So I think the candidate the Democrats have got plays
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  Speaker 5: into that narrative.
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  Speaker 4: That he will really go on about this establish the.
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  Speaker 3: Other problem too, Alien I don't sort of want to
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  Speaker 3: focus on you go side too much. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: where you look across the world, the left wing political
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  Speaker 3: parties are in enormous turmoil at the moment. You sort
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  Speaker 3: of have on one side, you have the woke bob,
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  Speaker 3: and then you have the other side, which are your
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  Speaker 3: traditional you know, old star lefties who support the worker
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  Speaker 3: and all of that sort of stuff, and there's a
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  Speaker 3: real conflict. We see it happening in labor in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: You know that the arguments that they're having internally Joel
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  Speaker 3: fits given and and the lean mob, you know, Labour's
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  Speaker 3: environmental arm you know, are going toe to toe, hammer
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  Speaker 3: and tongs constantly. The same is happening in the US.
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  Speaker 3: But it seems to me that the woke mob are
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  Speaker 3: in the ascendants in pretty well all left wing parties
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  Speaker 3: around the world, and the ones that are run under fire.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose that the people like dam are you you know,
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  Speaker 3: the traditional style labor bloke.
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  Speaker 2: Who supports the union, supports the worker.
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  Speaker 4: The true working class.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of thing.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: They don't really take to this idea of being told
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  Speaker 3: how they have to think on gaining marriage and all
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  Speaker 3: of these other trendy things, you know, black history, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't call that a true I would call that a
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  Speaker 1: fairness thing myself.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you can call it what you like, but there
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  Speaker 3: are some people who some people who place more importance
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  Speaker 3: on that than they do on workers' rights, and other
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  Speaker 3: people who sit there and look and say, well, look,
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  Speaker 3: our bread and butter is the work, and we're quite
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  Speaker 3: happy to focus on all these other things as secondary issues.
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  Speaker 3: But the problem is the ones who want to focus
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  Speaker 3: on those woke issues are in sen and seeing that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that Joe Biden wants to focus
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  Speaker 1: on is Donald Trump's taxes. And Donald Trump was not
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  Speaker 1: having a bar of it on Twitter throughout the week. He,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, went on a bit of a tear,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, the fake news media, just like election
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  Speaker 1: time twenty sixteen, is bringing up my taxes and all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of other nonsense with illegally obtained information and only
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  Speaker 1: bad intent. I paid many millions of dollars in taxes,
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  Speaker 1: but was entitled like everyone else to depreciation and tax credits.
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  Speaker 1: He went on and said, also, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: the extraordinary assets owned by me, which the fake news hasn't,
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  Speaker 1: I'm extremely underleveraged. I have very little debt compared to
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  Speaker 1: the value of assets. Much of this information is already
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  Speaker 1: on file, but I have long said that I may
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  Speaker 1: release financial statements from the time that I announced I
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  Speaker 1: was going to run for president, looking goes on and
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter, which.
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  Speaker 4: Which you know, I suppose.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that I find quite surprising about at all
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  Speaker 1: is we've actually, you know, we're talking about the working class,
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  Speaker 1: and you're talking about the working class maybe not being
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  Speaker 1: as well represented not only overseas but also I guess
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  Speaker 1: here in Australia as well as we might like. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're also then talking about to what seems
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  Speaker 1: like two quite wealthy men, you know, fighting it out.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously they're hardly the working class.
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  Speaker 3: Politics politician politics has never been the industry for people
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  Speaker 3: who are wildly wealthy.
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  Speaker 5: But you would expect to someone who you'd expect a
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  Speaker 5: Republican president to be pretty well healed, like you'd expect
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  Speaker 5: a Liberal Party president or Prime minister to have a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of money in the bank.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a problem. I remember there was a
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  Speaker 4: big debate about.
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  Speaker 5: Joe Hockey's portfolio of houses, and at the time I said, well,
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  Speaker 5: he's a liberal member of parliament. I'd expect a liberal
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  Speaker 5: to houses. That's sort of that's why of the things
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  Speaker 5: that they like to do. What I get upset about
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  Speaker 5: was when I see a labor person who says they're
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  Speaker 5: a labor person that's collecting houses as well, I sort
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  Speaker 5: of say, well, that's sort of probably a little bit
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  Speaker 5: against the grain of what I would expect a labor person,
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Some to do.
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  Speaker 1: So don't we actually like, I don't feel like, don't
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  Speaker 1: we actually want our Polleyes to be you know, to
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  Speaker 1: be performing well in their personal life or in there
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about their own sort of you know
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  Speaker 1: what they do, I guess in their own professional careers
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  Speaker 1: before politics.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm fascinated with this tax debate in the US.
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  Speaker 5: Like their economy is about twenty two trillion dollars yep,
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  Speaker 5: ours is about what one point three trillion. It's a
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  Speaker 5: massive it's a massive economy, but they've also got half
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  Speaker 5: that again in offshore. They're offshore economy of people that
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  Speaker 5: have put money into tax havens and that are business
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  Speaker 5: people in the US. Tax evasion in the US is
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  Speaker 5: probably something they teach at school because everyone's doing it
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  Speaker 5: and I remember the famous thing with Kerry Packer. Remember
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  Speaker 5: when he said he paid seven hundred dollars tax. He's
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  Speaker 5: probably got all his outgoings are all connected to his business.
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  Speaker 5: He's paying himself fifty grand a year, takes his thousand
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  Speaker 5: bucks a week, and that's the tax that he pays. Well,
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  Speaker 5: that's the way these guys set their businesses up. So
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  Speaker 5: you know, in America, there's.
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  Speaker 3: An argument too, is why would I give you more
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  Speaker 3: more of my money? He says, you don't seem to
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  Speaker 3: be doing a very good job with a countenance.
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  Speaker 2: And the rest of us.
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  Speaker 1: That I was going to say, then the rest of
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  Speaker 1: us for buggers, Well we are. We're all paying our taxes.
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  Speaker 1: That's the argument.
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  Speaker 5: See the government come out and announce billions of dollars
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  Speaker 5: for further stimulus. And you think, you know, if you're
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  Speaker 5: a middle class person or somebody who's just in the
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  Speaker 5: sitting there and you go to work, you work, you're
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  Speaker 5: thirty eight hours a week and you're on your eighty
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  Speaker 5: or ninety thousand a year, you're paying forty two or
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  Speaker 5: thirty seven cents in every dollar and the heavy.
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  Speaker 4: Lifting will be done by this.
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  Speaker 3: But I think he's a sad part of what politics
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  Speaker 3: has devolved into. It's become much more personal than it
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  Speaker 3: ever was. I mean, we any of playing the men
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  Speaker 3: all the time. You know, everyone will talk about sleepy
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  Speaker 3: Joe and how he can't string tw these sentences together,
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  Speaker 3: and and.
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  Speaker 2: How how Donald Trumps to see Donald.
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  Speaker 3: Trump's of such a vile person and doesn't care what
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  Speaker 3: he says, and all of that sort of stuff. But
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  Speaker 3: the real guts of it, you know, the real meat
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  Speaker 3: of it, is actually what they both stead for and
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  Speaker 3: what they both are going to deliver. And you've got
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  Speaker 3: to give it to Trump, He's got a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: track record, you know, of delivering, you know, of doing
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  Speaker 3: what he said he's going to do.
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  Speaker 6: And well, but the point is, look in regards to
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  Speaker 6: some issues, the point is this is this is what
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  Speaker 6: in my view, people should be focusing on, is what
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  Speaker 6: what his policies, whether they're achievable, what, well, firstly what
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  Speaker 6: they are, whether they're.
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  Speaker 3: Achievable, and whether the person has committed enough to deliver
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  Speaker 3: on what they say they're going to do. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: those sort of things that have mad are important, not
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  Speaker 3: whether the guy you know, gretes women all that.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of stuff. I mean, there's all this talk about
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  Speaker 2: Jabe and such.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I mean all this talk about Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden graping young girls and you know, all all of
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  Speaker 3: those stuff that you see on Twitter with him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with his arms around them and that sort of I
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  Speaker 3: just sort of sit there and think, well, this is
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  Speaker 3: just I mean, all right, if he was such a
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  Speaker 3: dreadful person, surely he would have been charged by now.
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  Speaker 3: And is that really what we're going to focus on
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  Speaker 3: in a presidential campaign?
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  Speaker 2: Or Donald Trump's taxes?
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  Speaker 1: Well, none of us want that kind of behavior to
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  Speaker 1: be you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, you know, he knows who those young girls were
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  Speaker 3: that were there. But you know, as soon as you
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  Speaker 3: put a picture up of somebody putting their arm around
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  Speaker 3: someone or whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: It's just too easy to sit there and say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: what a creep.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the fact is we're not voting on any of that,
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  Speaker 3: and who knows the circumstances those photos were taking in.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know more about what he actually stands for,
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  Speaker 3: what he believes in, and how he thinks he's going
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  Speaker 3: to deliver it, rather than looking at you know, all
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  Speaker 3: of the piccadillos in their private life.
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  Speaker 1: We might take a very short break when I do
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  Speaker 1: just want to point out that none of us can
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  Speaker 1: down any kind of growing in any way, shape or form.
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  Speaker 1: That's standards you've got in public life exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Can it just be all about your policies? It was funny.
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  Speaker 5: Can I just say something, Katie in two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 5: I ran against this boke and we've got we agree
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  Speaker 5: on a lot of stuff, but there is stuff that
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  Speaker 5: we're fundamentally we don't agree exactly. But during the campaign,
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  Speaker 5: I think as dirty as it got was I said,
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  Speaker 5: Dave doesn't deliver a couple of times, and Dave said, Haley,
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  Speaker 5: or promise you anything a couple of times. And that's
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  Speaker 5: why thirteen years on we can still sit out and
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  Speaker 5: have a beer. We love debating politics, we love arguing
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  Speaker 5: about it, but it's done in.
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  Speaker 4: A good spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: You get I get sick of the muckraking.
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  Speaker 5: I get sick of people attacking personally, attacking other peopeople
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  Speaker 5: instead of just working on the policies.
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  Speaker 3: I think that gives me Most people and don't know
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  Speaker 3: the person they're actually attacking, you know, and you read
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  Speaker 3: it all the time and newspapers and not talking about
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  Speaker 3: this particular politician or whatnot, and you sit there and
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  Speaker 3: you go, you don't know them, you've never met them,
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  Speaker 3: you've never talked to them, or you're basing your opinion
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  Speaker 3: on is what you've read in the newspapers and what
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  Speaker 3: I can say about Hailey. I mean, I read some
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  Speaker 3: dreadful stuff about Haley in the newspapers. I'm sure other
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  Speaker 3: people have read dreadful things about me.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing the guy, you both got blokes.
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  Speaker 3: Knowing the guy sort of puts a different perspective on it,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, you sort of put things into perspective,
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  Speaker 3: you say, well, this is a good story from a
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: newspapers perspective, you know.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: I meant.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Arthur Hamilton said to me one a couple of months
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: back at lunch, we go to the boardroom lunch, and
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: he said, you're not bad for a labor boat.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: There's plenty for us to cover off this morning on
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the big issues, and we've got Dave Toler and Damian
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Hale in the studio.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: And well, the time which.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Has been really having a really close look into it
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: is the fact that hotel quarantining, obviously in Victoria, is
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: really being looked at us, whether it is the main
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: cause of spread or we know that it has been
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: with that second wave of coronavirus in Victoria, and some
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: really key questions about Victoria's problem plagued hotel quarantine system
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: are under the microscope, you'd have to say, have been
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: for quite a few days now. It's really been interesting
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: to see the way that this has all played out,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and obviously the Health minister standing down, I'll.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Tell you what's going to be interesting.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I'm dead keen to how highly tries to defend the indefensible.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: So take it away, a big fellow.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Well, I think there's a raft of problems here and
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: wherever you allow the privatization of a health issue, and
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: we've seen it in age care as well.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: It's the same things happened.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: How it's spread through age care because where you've got
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: age care facilities that are driven by profits and not
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: through looking after people properly, and they're having casual staff,
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: moving casual staff amongst different age care facilities, you're going
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: to get problems. And what we've seen with the hotel
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: quarantining bringing in people from overseas should have been alarm
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: bells that these people were coming back many of them
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: could be infected, but yet they had they put out
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: the security to these to look after these people, to
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: private suppliers that had people that weren't even trained properly.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: In doing this job.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: No one's repeated to sort of put their hand up
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and say who made that decision?
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: From what I understand, it was an indigenous organization, so
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: it sort of fit neatly into that procurement requirements because
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: they didn't actually have their licenses and all of that
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: sort of stuff which were fast tracked for them in
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: order to do that contract.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: So that's in Victoria.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: In Victoria, Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you've got these but
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: you know, look, I mean talk about dissembling. I mean,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: the fact of the matter is you've got a government
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: now that's probably past the most stringent industrial manslaughter laws
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: in the world that apply across the board, whether you're
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: in government business to anyone, and all of a sudden
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: you're finding, surprise, surprise, no one is taking responsibility anywhere.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: There's not a soul putting the hand up and saying
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I made the decision. The reason for that is that
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the very next step is that work Safe will step
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: in and start making prosecutions. You cannot kill almost eight
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: hundred people and walk away. I mean, if that happened
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: at a BEHP site, for instance, you'd never hear the
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: end of it. I mean Reo Tinta course blew up
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: that those caves in Western Australia, the CEO and others
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: was gone. They're gone now. I mean that is absolutely
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: small beer in comparison to what's occurred in Victoria. So
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: it's unsurprising that there's people put in their hands that
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: there aren't more people putting their hands up for sixteen
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: years Jarl in Victoria. The other interesting thing about their
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: laws is that they were copied by Western Australia. West
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Australia now are scrambling to change those laws to make
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: politicians and public servants exempt from industrial manslaughter laws because
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: it's going to catch up with them. And I suppose
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: the big question that everybody's waiting to see answered is
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: what is work Safe in Victoria going to do about
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: the premiere all of the ministers in that government who
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: had some sort of responsibility and all the public servants
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: who were involved in that fiasco.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: And we can sit there and we can.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Talk about, oh, was this reason that it was private
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: sector people involved in rather than public service people involved
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: but that doesn't wash.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: The fact is.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: I was saying that it's coming out that people weren't
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: given adequate training in doing the job that they were doing.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Shoehorned into the job this particular company Victoria.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: And the question has been asked, why wasn't either the
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: military or the police, And the police have obviously got
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: other issues going on with curfews and shutdowns and all
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: that stuff, but then.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just should have been.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: It's an absolute debarkle, There's no doubt about it.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Is.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: The reason they're all duck and for cover is because
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: of these industrial menslaughter laws that they've enacted in Victoria,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: and it's going to come back and bite a lot
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: of them and it will just be interesting to see
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: what happens.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you what, it's always an interesting morning
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: with you two in the studio. Thank you both very
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: much for your time this morning.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Day.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It's good.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: And the first if I get an infection, you do
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: realize it's one A four point nine.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I haven't got any money for any medical bills.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Just on a side note, the afl NT kicks off
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: this weekend and of course the first game under lights
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: at Gardens. It's exciting it's been a long time coming.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: The lights down there and a lot of debate over it,
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: but the mighty Parmeston Magpies go up against Wartars down
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: at Gardens on Friday nights be part of history. I'm
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: going to head along and have a look and yeah, I'll.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Enjoy that good stuff.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you both very much for your time this morning.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you again next Wednesday for the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: big issues. You are listening to Mix one O four
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