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The Big Issues - Tuesday 20 March 2021 · 360 with Katie Woolf

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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie wolf Thanks to Joyce Main Darwin
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Speaker 1: home Z owned Stuart Highway Beerrima.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Mix one O four point nine's three
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Speaker 2: sixty and it's Tuesday morning. Time for the Big Issues.
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Speaker 2: Mought to you by Kolano Community Association and Aborigin Alone
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Speaker 2: operated and community led organization from the Top End to
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Speaker 2: Tenant Creek and joining us in the studio this morning.
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Speaker 2: Dave Tolna, good morning, Great to be with you, Katie,
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Speaker 2: good to see you. And Damian Hale, good morning to you.
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Speaker 3: Good morning Wolfy. How are you?
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Speaker 2: Oh good, thank you. Great to have you both here.
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Speaker 2: Now we know that pretty crazy at the moment, obviously,
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Speaker 2: Queensland door Brisbane is in a lockdown, three day lockdown.
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Speaker 2: It has an enormous impact obviously on the people of
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Speaker 2: Brisbane and those surrounds even by and Bay. At the
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Speaker 2: moment they're going through all that contract, the contact tracing
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Speaker 2: and all sorts of things. It means that there's a
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Speaker 2: number of areas that have now been declared COVID hotspots
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Speaker 2: for those people that travel into the Northern territory and
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Speaker 2: some people have to go into isolation out at Howard springs,
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Speaker 2: others having to self isolate. However, you look at it,
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Speaker 2: it's going to wreak havoc on Queensland ahead of the
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Speaker 2: East Long weekend, and you know, ultimately we just caught
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Speaker 2: up with Alex Bruce from Hospitality NT. It has a
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Speaker 2: flow on effect here in the territory.
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Speaker 1: I don't they've beenned them going into West Australia too.
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Speaker 1: They've closed the border to WA from Brisbane. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: take much and they just shut the whole joint down.
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Speaker 1: But it gets me like you think, twelve months ago,
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Speaker 1: the whole thing was about flattening the curve because we're
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Speaker 1: worried that our hospitals wouldn't cope. You know, there's practically
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Speaker 1: no one's got it anywhere. There's no issue with hospitals coping.
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Speaker 1: You sort of wonder why everything has to be shut
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Speaker 1: down for one or two isolated cases.
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Speaker 2: Well, from what I can see in Queensland at the moment,
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Speaker 2: they've now got seventy eight active cases of the virus,
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Speaker 2: up from five on February twenty. But these Queensland's got
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Speaker 2: these ten new cases over the past twenty four hours,
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Speaker 2: eight of them as a result of that cammunity transmission.
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Speaker 2: The other two cases were required overseas. I guess the
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Speaker 2: ones that are in hotel quarantine. You know, we're less
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Speaker 2: concerned about those because they're being managed in hotel quarantine.
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Speaker 2: But it's that community transmission that is always a worry,
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Speaker 2: isn't it Hailey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think unless the.
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Speaker 4: Quick shutdowns are working and the fact that they used them,
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Speaker 4: it gives them an opportunity. They closed for three or
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Speaker 4: four days. I's sure. You know, it does put pressure
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Speaker 4: on businesses to put pressure on everyone, but they are
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Speaker 4: doing it and it is working to the point where
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Speaker 4: they can isolate an area they do their contract, their
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Speaker 4: contact tracing tracing. I was down in Brisbane a few
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Speaker 4: weeks ago. Everywhere you went, I've got two different apps
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Speaker 4: on me phone where they were very strict on the
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Speaker 4: checking out wherever you are, cafes, if you going to
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Speaker 4: a bar, going to the football. We had to check
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Speaker 4: in everywhere we went. So the short shutdown, get on
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Speaker 4: top of it. Make sure there's no one because the
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Speaker 4: one in Queensland, that guy was wandering around in Brisbane
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Speaker 4: for three or four days, going to all different venues
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Speaker 4: and that sort of stuff. So I think until we
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Speaker 4: get the vaccination all rolled out.
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Speaker 1: I think people vaccination, but don't you.
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Speaker 4: But they've just got to be a little bit patient.
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Speaker 4: You know, Australians are just having no patients at time.
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Speaker 1: But you sort of wonder about the vaccinations. Now I'm
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Speaker 1: not at any vaccent at all, but you do ask questions,
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Speaker 1: don't you. When you see our chief was front of
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Speaker 1: the line lining up to get vaccination vaccinated, you know,
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Speaker 1: scouting about the fact that he was the first territory
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Speaker 1: in to get it. Now you'd think that.
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Speaker 2: He'd did one of us first.
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Speaker 1: He was the first, and then and then and then
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Speaker 1: the health officer, the chief Health officer was also getting
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Speaker 1: vaccinated at the same time. It was in the newspaper
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Speaker 1: actually that they were. They having pictured getting a vaccination
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Speaker 1: and uh, leadership.
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Speaker 3: Jump in the queue. It just depends on's terrorists. Another
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Speaker 3: means freedom for it.
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Speaker 1: But now in isolation, isolation morning, this is the first
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Speaker 1: to give.
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Speaker 2: I need to do a fact check because he wasn't
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Speaker 2: the first. He was the first astrozenica I think, but
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Speaker 2: we had had some frontline workers who obviously had that
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Speaker 2: vaccine before. But that's just a small fact check for you.
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Speaker 2: The question, though, I asked the question of the Health
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Speaker 2: minister this morning because I actually thought exactly the same
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Speaker 2: thing after going into a bit of a spin yesterday afternoon,
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Speaker 2: because he'd been in that very chair that you're sitting
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Speaker 2: in right now. Well, we thought, holy moly, do we
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Speaker 2: need to go into lockdown? But I got in contact
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Speaker 2: with his office immediately and they said, no, this is
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Speaker 2: a precautionary thing. But then a little later I thought
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Speaker 2: to myself, hang on a seck, he's had the vaccine,
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Speaker 2: So do you still need to go into isolation if
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Speaker 2: you've had the vaccine? And sure enough, that's what a
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Speaker 2: lot of people are asking this morning, who've had the
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Speaker 2: vaccine or who are about to have the vaccine? If
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Speaker 2: I then have it, do I still need to isolate
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Speaker 2: if I come into contact with somebody who's been into state.
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Speaker 2: So it actually asks it does bring up that broader
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Speaker 2: question what.
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Speaker 4: He thought there was always a broader question.
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Speaker 1: I mean it makes a sort of a man of
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Speaker 1: a joke and the whole affair, this Jacob putting himself
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Speaker 1: into isolation. I mean he's fretting, constantly fretting. Well, I'm
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Speaker 1: playing that he's a fretter. You know that he's fretting
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Speaker 1: himself silly about this virus and he's been vaccinated.
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Speaker 2: Again saying that he's being obviously extra cautious.
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Speaker 1: That's right, fretting himself to you know, his sickness.
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Speaker 4: But if he's been around of people that could be
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Speaker 4: exposed to COVID at nineteen and he just decided then
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Speaker 4: to go to a seramones a citizenship serremony, everyone would
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Speaker 4: be jumping up and down saying he's saying one thing
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Speaker 4: and doing another thing. So he does the right thing
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Speaker 4: and says, well, I'll get a COVID test on how
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Speaker 4: many times he's been tested.
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Speaker 1: But he's given We've got no one up here who's
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Speaker 1: got that.
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Speaker 4: So he's gone into isolation. He's done the right thing,
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Speaker 4: and Dave just attacks him still.
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Speaker 1: Virus he's taking vaccinated. A brazy isolation. I mean, what
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Speaker 1: did he do quickly, Bogainville or something got himself.
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Speaker 3: Tough runners Chief Ministry.
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Speaker 4: He's probably felt like he's been in isolation for five years.
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Speaker 3: To be honest.
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Speaker 1: Well, look, I.
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Speaker 2: Do want to ask you both because we asked this
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Speaker 2: question online yesterday. Obviously, Queensland's gone into a three day
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Speaker 2: lockdown this is just a bit of fun. What would
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Speaker 2: you go and buy if you were going into three
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Speaker 2: day lockdown? What can you simply not live without for
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Speaker 2: three days? Ronnie's was wine, and Maddie and Tommy.
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Speaker 1: If I said of Paul's iced coffee, wife had come
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Speaker 1: into his studio and stick a knife in the val.
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Speaker 4: The I was once sent to get the cyclone kit,
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Speaker 4: and I came back with a thirty pack of four
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Speaker 4: x and two two tins of baked beans. So imagine
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Speaker 4: you imagine what I've been gone.
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Speaker 1: And getting about twenty four years.
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Speaker 4: Always and coals, Alls and coals will open during the
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Speaker 4: eye of a cyclone. Mare that keen to make your sales,
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Speaker 4: so you have to worry too much about it.
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Speaker 1: Exactly three sixty with Katie Wolf on Mix one oh
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Speaker 2: You are listening to Mix one oh four point nine's
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Speaker 2: from the top end to Tenant Creek and Dave Tolner
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Speaker 2: and Damian Hale are in the studio with me. Now
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Speaker 2: I do want to and having.
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Speaker 1: A laugh cough. He was sitting on this seat, not
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Speaker 1: that one.
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Speaker 3: Actually, I've got it twice.
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Speaker 2: Hale's going to go into isolation now.
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Speaker 1: He's been an isolator. The next he went to Adelaide
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Speaker 1: a little while back. I had to come back, put
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Speaker 1: himself a nice and got to test what these labor
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Speaker 1: people do. They like isolation an actual fact. It's good
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Speaker 1: for the community to how longer they spend in isolation.
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Speaker 2: I've had to test.
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Speaker 4: You've got to put it up, make sure you get
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Speaker 4: your mouth first.
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Speaker 3: It feels no second. That's all of them. That's my
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Speaker 3: only to people.
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Speaker 2: Look, I want to talk about the fact that there
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Speaker 2: has been a cabin reshuffle, the Prime Minister obviously making
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Speaker 2: that announcement yesterday. The Attorney General Christian Porter and the
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Speaker 2: Defense Minister Linda Reynolds have been dumped from their roles,
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Speaker 2: but will remain on the Morrison government front bench. Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister Scott Morrison unveiled this new little cabinet in the
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Speaker 2: wake of more than a month of bungled responses. Is
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Speaker 2: how it's been reported to the issues regarding harassment and
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Speaker 2: assault raised by women inside the Parliament, House and around
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Speaker 2: the country. I guess what he'll be hoping for. Why
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Speaker 2: are you too laughing?
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Speaker 4: I'm just looking at Dave response to the reshuffle.
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Speaker 2: I'm hoping. I'm guessing what the Prime Minister is hoping
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Speaker 2: for is some clear air by moving these two sort
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Speaker 2: of sideways.
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Speaker 1: So you came up with it, Hailey Aiy said it's
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Speaker 1: a sort of woke cabinet reshuffle, which I think pretty
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Speaker 1: well everybody says it is. I mean, Christian Porter hasn't
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Speaker 1: been convicted of any crime.
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Speaker 4: Is is not even there's a lot of suggestion that
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Speaker 4: the reasons.
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Speaker 2: That's to keep him in that position when he's you know,
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Speaker 2: when he is what do they call it, the first
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Speaker 2: law officer, that's the conference, that's right.
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Speaker 1: But he's been completely defined. He's trying to defend himself,
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Speaker 1: and you know, there's I don't think anybody has seriously
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Speaker 1: considered the idea that he was a rapist.
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Speaker 2: Thirty idears well, the time will tell, I guess in
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Speaker 2: terms of that defamation case.
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Speaker 1: So it's viewed, well, the defamation case is something completely
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Speaker 1: separate than the than the rumor an innuendo that went
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Speaker 1: on before it. You know, but Ultimately, no crimes have
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Speaker 1: been committed by either Linda Reynolds or Christian Porter, but
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Speaker 1: they've been moved sideways because because perceptions, well there's seriously
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Speaker 1: they do like in this situation, is he you know,
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Speaker 1: in in your view, is there a guilt before?
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Speaker 2: But I think when you're talking about in the particularly
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Speaker 2: in the case with Britney Higgins and with Linda Reynolds,
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Speaker 2: then you know, having to to apologize for calling her
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Speaker 2: a lion cow, and and the way that she and
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Speaker 2: her office has managed it I think is very it's
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Speaker 2: it's very bad. You know, we've got a situation around
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Speaker 2: Australia at the moment where women are saying this that
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Speaker 2: you know, they do not want to be treated poorly
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Speaker 2: in any workplace. But then when you're talking about it's.
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Speaker 1: Pretty careman, see that what happened in the last week
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Speaker 1: or two hasn't really been followed. But there's this story
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Speaker 1: about you know, or he's in the prayer room and
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Speaker 1: people leisuring themselves on the desks of women, which is
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Speaker 1: we're discussing exactly. But when you actually do a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a dig around on that sort of stuff,
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Speaker 1: you find out that he's in the prayer room, we're
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Speaker 1: done by gay staffers.
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Speaker 2: What it was, it shouldn't matter, It shouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Matter, right, but it's never been sort of mentioned then
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Speaker 1: that that's the terms that the thing about the fellows,
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Speaker 1: you know, ejaculating on the desks of female politicians. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't just female politicians. There was more politicians involved, but
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Speaker 1: it was all those politicians that farted against same sex.
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Speaker 2: Marriage, oh my goodness, very badly.
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Speaker 1: But these reported honestly, because it doesn't feed into that.
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Speaker 2: Make it all right, any of that behavior, It.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't make it at all.
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Speaker 2: And this is the whole point that people are making,
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Speaker 2: like it's absolute bullshit. It's not the point that people
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Speaker 2: are making.
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Speaker 1: It's not the point that people are making.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's the point I'm making.
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Speaker 1: The point that people are making is that it's somehow
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Speaker 1: targeted women. It's not targeted women. This is just a
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Speaker 1: depraved bunch of people, seriously depraved, you know, who are
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Speaker 1: seriously screwed up in the head. Right, But it's it's
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Speaker 1: not it's certainly not an issue of misogyny as it's
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Speaker 1: being portrayed.
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Speaker 2: I don't want a situation where anybody in Parliament House
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Speaker 2: is behaving in those manners, anybody within any.
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Speaker 1: The reporting on these issues has led left a lot
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Speaker 1: to be desired because it's sort of being portrayed as
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Speaker 1: you know, privileged white men talking down or badly about women.
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Speaker 1: It's not. It's about seriously depraved people acting appallingly badly.
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Speaker 1: It's not anything to do with misogyny.
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Speaker 2: You and I will agree to disagree because, particularly in
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Speaker 2: the case of Britney Higgins, I think if you've got
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Speaker 2: a situation where there's an alleged sexual assault of a
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Speaker 2: woman inside of Parliament House, like to me, it's like
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Speaker 2: to me, that is unbelievable, and we have got an
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Speaker 2: issue inside of Parliament House. If something that's happening.
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Speaker 1: That's right. But the point is you sit there and
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Speaker 1: you say, well, she never reported it, the security guards
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Speaker 1: should have done something about it, when not even the
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Speaker 1: security guard should have done something about it when he
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Speaker 1: walked in and saw her naked in the office. You know,
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Speaker 1: why wasn't something done? Then? Why is it all sort
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Speaker 1: of slowly coming out there the.
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Speaker 2: Event you go months after the event, we have got
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Speaker 2: we've actually got the point here where you can look
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Speaker 2: at things in hindsight and go should I have managed
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Speaker 2: this differently, Yeah, you should, but should you actually manage
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Speaker 2: things that are at the four right now? Well, yes,
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Speaker 2: and that's what Linda Reynolds should have done and she
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Speaker 2: did not do well.
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Speaker 4: I think there's been back on what you were just saying, though,
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Speaker 4: Wolf you around the reshuffle obviously, I think there is
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Speaker 4: a need for Christian Porter to move sideways, not about
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Speaker 4: the allegations that are being made against him, more so
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Speaker 4: in the fact that he's suing the ABC.
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Speaker 3: So he's actually got a live legal.
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Speaker 4: Case against the ABC and he's the Attorney General of Australia.
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Speaker 4: So I think that's a normal sort of process to occur.
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Speaker 4: But the Liberal Party have just so clunky when it
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Speaker 4: comes to issues around women and in our peace well
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Speaker 4: in our party, yeah, in the Labor Party or we
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Speaker 4: had affirmative action thirty years ago. We had all these
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Speaker 4: debates thirty years ago. So now we have a situation
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Speaker 4: where if Anthony Albanezi wins the election, we'll have a
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Speaker 4: fifty to fifty split of women and men in our cabinet.
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Speaker 4: And that's what a land like that was. I mean,
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Speaker 4: so we're actually no, let me finish David. So we've
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Speaker 4: got women that have won their positions in the cabinet
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Speaker 4: simply on their ability and on merit. And we've had
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Speaker 4: all these debates within the Labor Party and we don't
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Speaker 4: have them anymore. If you look at the Liberal Party,
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Speaker 4: everything around women is very clunky in the way that
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Speaker 4: the prime minister, and the prime minister's default position is oh, well,
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Speaker 4: I like women. I married one, she's all right, and
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Speaker 4: we've got two women for daughters and I love them,
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Speaker 4: And that's his default position. Every time he starts getting
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Speaker 4: really clunky about women's issues and what is good for women,
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Speaker 4: and I find that they're still having debates.
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Speaker 1: What is your response me, what is your response? You're
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Speaker 1: saying that you know that it's not an adequate response
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Speaker 1: to say that he likes women, that he respects women.
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Speaker 1: What what response would.
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Speaker 4: You give whenever different to that, whenever he's talking about
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Speaker 4: things like having an equal balance in his cabinet or
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Speaker 4: promoting women into the cabinet. And he's still got these
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Speaker 4: dinosaurs on his back bench that say things like, well
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Speaker 4: it should be merit based. We don't want you know.
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Speaker 1: You should just get animation.
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Speaker 4: Well sometimes they look at some we had it, so
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Speaker 4: it was we had affirmative action, which was quotas if
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Speaker 4: you like.
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Speaker 3: But what the affirmative action.
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Speaker 4: Quotas did was it actually gave women the opportunity all
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Speaker 4: right to show what they could do. And that is
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Speaker 4: why our party doesn't have this.
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Speaker 1: You know. The Labour's affirmative action policy is we pre
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Speaker 1: select ford percent men, we pre select forty percent women.
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Speaker 1: The other are the twenty percent of pre selected on merit.
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Speaker 1: And I always sat there and wondered, well, if you've
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Speaker 1: got to Labor member in your seat, you know, are
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Speaker 1: they one of the forty percent who's a woman or
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Speaker 1: are they one of the forty percent of men? Or
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Speaker 1: are you going to be lucky enough to have, you know,
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Speaker 1: for your seat to be represented by that twenty percent
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Speaker 1: who are pre selected on merit. You know, but getting
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Speaker 1: back to the religion point.
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Speaker 2: You know, I just think to myself, I for me
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Speaker 2: getting back to the original point. You know, we need
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Speaker 2: to understand in Australia at the moment that we've got
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Speaker 2: a movement of women. It's not just one or two women.
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Speaker 2: There is a huge majority of women at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Who I reckon? You know, I could sit down and
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Speaker 2: tell you both, I could sit down and tell you
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Speaker 2: both where I've been treated unfairly in the workplace, or
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Speaker 2: where I've been treated in a sexist way, or where
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Speaker 2: I've gotten paid less than a coworker who does exactly
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Speaker 2: the same job because I'm a cheek. Is that fair?
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Speaker 1: No, of course not fair.
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Speaker 4: But he missed the opportunity, the Prime Minister when they
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Speaker 4: had the protest and the women marched, Why didn't he
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Speaker 4: go out there, like who's advising him?
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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't he be gone out there?
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Speaker 1: That solved the problem.
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Speaker 4: Listen, ye, that's what they're saying to him, Dave, You
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Speaker 4: don't listen to what we're saying. Albanez, he was out there,
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Speaker 4: the National partner out there and the Prime Minister whoever's
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Speaker 4: advising him, they shouldn't be getting paid this week.
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Speaker 1: You just had on television last night talking about solely
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Speaker 1: what goes on within the Labor Party. How she says
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Speaker 1: that she put up with it through her entire political career,
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Speaker 1: did not and said specifically in that interview nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with the opposition I the Liberals Nationals. This is
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Speaker 1: all internal of the Labor Party. But to sit there
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Speaker 1: and suggest that, oh, I know, this is all a
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Speaker 1: problem for the Liberal Party. It's nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: the This is a problem to do with our country representation.
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Speaker 4: Dave not Behaviors, was saying representation of women. We hose
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Speaker 4: you a lot, so don't pretend for one moment near
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Speaker 4: us representation.
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Speaker 3: Nowhere near us, back to the fifties. I'd love to
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Speaker 3: get on board.
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Speaker 2: I would love to keep talking because I did wanted
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Speaker 2: to talk about this new South Wales national MP well
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Speaker 2: doing some inappropriate things in Parliament House, but we run
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Speaker 2: out of time. It is always good to have you
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Speaker 2: both to the studio, Daili and Hale. We love having
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Speaker 2: the studio. Thank you very much for your time. You
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Speaker 2: have been listening to the big issues. The big thanks
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Speaker 2: to to Kolano Community Association who sponsored that segment.