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Katie Woolf spoke about this weeks Big Issues with Dave Tollner and Mix104.9's News Director Matt Hepworth · 360 with Katie Woolf

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Speaker 1: Mixed one oh four point nine, and of course it
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Speaker 1: is a Wednesday morning. It is time for the Big Issues,
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Speaker 1: joining us in the studio for the Big Issues the
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Speaker 1: big Man himself, Dave Tolder, how are you.
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Speaker 2: I'm great to be with you can and we've also
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Speaker 2: got Maddie he.
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Speaker 3: Will so you've got your news news sound. We're also
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Speaker 3: pumping my mate, Simon Watts.
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Speaker 2: Do you know Simon?
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Speaker 3: I know Simon. I used to play basketball with Simon
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Speaker 3: top good territory boy, that's good. Yeah, you know. From
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Speaker 3: what I can gather, he's doing a great job in
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Speaker 3: business too.
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Speaker 4: Haven't you played basketball again?
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Speaker 3: Everyone in Darwatt Well, no, no, no, there's a few
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Speaker 3: that I've played basketball with. Never again, but.
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Speaker 2: Good stuff. I love it. That's the great thing about
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Speaker 2: sport is Nash end up knowing every one.
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Speaker 3: Wonderful thing about the territory. If you get into sport,
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Speaker 3: you end up sort of mixing with everyone eventually because
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Speaker 3: everyone's into something.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's I want to talk about Gladys spiro jik
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Speaker 1: Land and the situation that she's in.
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Speaker 2: Obviously in New South Wyhes.
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Speaker 3: I think she's been caught with her pinstem.
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Speaker 2: Oh goodness mate.
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Speaker 1: Now now, in her first interview since revelations of her
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Speaker 1: secret love affair with disgraced MP Darryl McGuire were laid
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Speaker 1: bare at the Eye Caac, the Premier, Gladys Sparagiclian said
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Speaker 1: that she was in love and Mary but now has
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Speaker 1: all but given up on romance shattered. Gladys has admitted
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Speaker 1: that she loved the man that she had to sack
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Speaker 1: brutally from the government in twenty eighteen, the disgrace woggle
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Speaker 1: wogger MP Daryl McGuire, and she had hoped to one
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Speaker 1: day marry him. So she'd spoken to the Daily Telegraph
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Speaker 1: on the weekend and sort of, you know, I really
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Speaker 1: kind of gave all, like gave detail about it. I'm
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Speaker 1: fascinated by how much people kind of care. I think
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Speaker 1: that people were worried that maybe or maybe they thought
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Speaker 1: Gladys was a real goodie.
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Speaker 2: Two shoes and that she didn't have a private life.
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Speaker 1: I think the only way that this if it crosses
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Speaker 1: you know, if it crosses any kind of boundaries.
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Speaker 2: It's if she knew anything, you know, that was corrupt.
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Speaker 3: And think it's sort of stunning that she's she's still there. Honestly. Look,
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Speaker 3: she sacked the fellow, you know, because she knew he
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Speaker 3: was dodgy, but still maintained a relationship with him long after.
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Speaker 3: And I think if unless it was for the Ikak investigation,
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Speaker 3: she'd probably still be with the fellow.
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Speaker 1: But pron't we all had a dickhead girlfriend or boyfriend
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Speaker 1: at some point in our lives.
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Speaker 3: I've had the review, so.
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Speaker 2: To put it very I think it's.
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Speaker 5: The nature of the relationship that's never really for yourself.
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Speaker 5: The nature of the relationship has never really been defined.
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Speaker 5: It's been described as a close personal relationship. And in
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Speaker 5: that big media blitz that she did across the weekend
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Speaker 5: with the Daily Telegraph and then with Radio two GB,
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Speaker 5: it kind of left more questions than answers when ben
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Speaker 5: fordhen pressed on what was the nature, particularly after twenty
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Speaker 5: eighteen when she said she'd split with him, but she
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Speaker 5: hadn't really split with him and the term she kept
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Speaker 5: using was close personal relationship, but said he wasn't my boyfriend.
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Speaker 5: We weren't really part with the family, didn't know about it.
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Speaker 5: So I think people have been left puzzled by what.
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Speaker 2: Exactly it was.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but then you know it would be interested on
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Speaker 1: the same side of the as you.
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Speaker 3: I'd be interested to know what the old Darryl's done,
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Speaker 3: because he's just singing like a canary and he's dropping
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Speaker 3: her in all sorts of mud. You know, it's sort
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Speaker 3: of emerged now that he's introduced it to a whole
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Speaker 3: range of developers and all of these things, which I
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Speaker 3: got to say, I can't see what the issue is
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Speaker 3: in relation to that, although in New South Wales they
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Speaker 3: do have some funny laws in relation to politicians and developers. Okay,
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Speaker 3: but you know he's got some major problems going on
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Speaker 3: there with his cash for Visa's scheme and whatnot. It's
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Speaker 3: bit hard to see our he'll sort of escape jail. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: but you know, without a doubt he was using his
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Speaker 3: connection with Glass, yeah, and trying to maximize his value through.
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Speaker 1: Part of me sort of thinks, oh, we're fascinated by
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Speaker 1: this because we thought she was a goodie to shoes,
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Speaker 1: and we're sort of surprised that she's got this personal
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Speaker 1: life that no one knows about. But then the other
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Speaker 1: part of me thinks, well, hang on a second, is
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Speaker 1: he sort of has that relationship that they've had benefited
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Speaker 1: him in different ways in terms of getting information, and
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Speaker 1: has she sort of somehow whether it's intentionally or totally unintentionally,
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Speaker 1: you know, some.
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Speaker 3: Of it, you know, I mean, the fact is she
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Speaker 3: is the darling of the media. Very few on the
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Speaker 3: conservative side of politics ever achieve anything like that. But
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Speaker 3: you know, there seems to be this sexation with with
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Speaker 3: Gladys and what a wonderful person she is and that
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Speaker 3: that sort of stuff, and how we shouldn't be looking
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Speaker 3: into somebody's private life and all of this sort of
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Speaker 3: stuff where you see somebody is not so such a
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Speaker 3: darling of the media, for instance, Barnaby Joyce. You know,
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it's absolutely everybody's absolutely entitled to
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Speaker 3: pry into his personal life, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: you know, Malcolm starts his bonking Ben and I.
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Speaker 2: Forgot about it.
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Speaker 3: You know, well, yeah, we sort of do forget about that.
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Speaker 3: But that was sort of a being that applied across
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Speaker 3: the Liberal Party and you sit there and wonder, well,
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Speaker 3: we've got a bonking bean.
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Speaker 2: Go a fair point.
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Speaker 1: I think the point that you're making is a fair one.
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Speaker 1: Then if there's there's got to be sort of if
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Speaker 1: there's rules for some then they should be in place
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Speaker 1: for everybody, doesn't matter with what gender.
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Speaker 3: I've got to say, she's gone for all money, I
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Speaker 3: can't see her surviving this.
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Speaker 2: It's all funny, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: But but then you hear sort of others say, well,
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Speaker 1: why should she have to stand down? I guess I'm
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Speaker 1: not as sort of up to date with the political
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Speaker 1: issues that they've got in New South Wales is what I.
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Speaker 2: Am here in the Northern Territory.
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Speaker 1: So I'd have to do a bit more investigating to
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Speaker 1: sort of determine whether I think she's got to go
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Speaker 1: or not. But I've just found the whole thing incredibly fascinating.
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Speaker 3: I was, you know, at the time when Fattio Baryl
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Speaker 3: Barrio Farrell resigned the bottle of Wine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, you know that.
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Speaker 3: Was that was the first term of the New South
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Speaker 3: Wales Liberal government. It was an attack investigation, you know,
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Speaker 3: and and you sort of sit there and go, well,
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Speaker 3: go I resigned over was scratching the head at the time, thing,
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Speaker 3: well this is pretty sort of get caught up and
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Speaker 3: what not. But then you sit there and you see,
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Speaker 3: well this sort of stuff. You've got a bloke who's
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Speaker 3: who's pretty well fesced up to be in a dodgy
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Speaker 3: crook in front of the ikak and there's more.
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Speaker 4: Pressure on Gladys though at the moment as the premier
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Speaker 4: being in a higher position of power exactly.
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Speaker 3: But I you know, my thought would have been that
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Speaker 3: Gladys probably would have pulled the pin immediately rather than
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Speaker 3: drag and the government through with was mud now.
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Speaker 1: But she stood firm, hasn't she to stand out at all?
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Speaker 3: You know? And it's not going to go away while
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Speaker 3: she's there. The story is just going to keep continue
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Speaker 3: to build. The there's so much interest in it now.
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Speaker 3: Every time there's a new hearing, a new little bit
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Speaker 3: of gossip comes out. You know, it's just going to
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Speaker 3: go on and on and on. It'll be a slow
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Speaker 3: and bloody death for her. But you know, like I say,
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Speaker 3: easier to pull the pin ages ago as soon as
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Speaker 3: it came out, and come and get on and find
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Speaker 3: a new leader.
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Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, there's lots to discuss this morning.
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Speaker 1: I do want to quickly touch on the Northern Territory
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Speaker 1: Parliament and and Dave, I'm sure you would have heard
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Speaker 1: throughout the morning that obviously moves were made yesterday in
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Speaker 1: Parliament that I guess surprised quite a few people, and
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Speaker 1: the government had been fairly quiet on this, but they
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Speaker 1: made moves to scrap the integrity measures that they introduced
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Speaker 1: themselves back in twenty sixteen. At the time that they
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Speaker 1: introduced these measures, they said that the changes would restore
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Speaker 1: trust in government. So the Leader of Government Business, Natasha Fhiles,
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Speaker 1: yesterday moved to introduce these new sessional orders, the rules
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Speaker 1: the Parliament operates under, introducing the scrapping of this legislative
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Speaker 1: Scrutiny Committee and giving Labor government more time to ask
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Speaker 1: itself questions in question time. The old Dorothy dixter, what
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Speaker 1: are your thoughts, Dave, because obviously you've operated under the
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Speaker 1: way that things used to be, not under these new
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Speaker 1: changes that came into place in.
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Speaker 3: The last thought unsurprising really. You know, You've got to
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Speaker 3: remember it was Labor government who bought in the fiscal
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Speaker 3: Integrity and Transparency Act, the Fitter as they call it.
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Speaker 3: You know that was Dearly Laurie who bought that way.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, the first person to breach it
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Speaker 3: was actually the person who introduced it into the parliament,
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Speaker 3: you know, the previous Labor government with Dearly a Laureus
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Speaker 3: treasurer or where anything but accountable, and they break their
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Speaker 3: own legislation. Oddly enough, in that legislation, well typically that
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Speaker 3: legislation was actually no penalty for breaching it, so you know,
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Speaker 3: so they come out this is the same story. You know,
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Speaker 3: are we going to increase transparency, be more accountable and
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Speaker 3: then completely ignore it and then slowly scrap I found
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Speaker 3: out yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Then it's the first day of parliament sitting like it's
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Speaker 1: literally the first opportunity they've got to do it.
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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't they do it now? You know, drag out your.
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Speaker 2: Dead It doesn't look good, doesn't.
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Speaker 4: I'm just surprised that Dorothy Dixons still exists in our
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Speaker 4: parliamentary system. I mean that is literally me standing up
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Speaker 4: and going, Katie, can you tell me why you're so
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Speaker 4: good and what you're doing to be so good?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 4: And I mean that you know you say that all
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Speaker 4: the time we did the Federal Parliament as well, and
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Speaker 4: I didn't actually realize that wasn't a thing on Wednesdays
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Speaker 4: in the Northern Territory Parliament until it was pulled back today.
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Speaker 4: But it will be something very interesting to see how
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Speaker 4: Labour used that as well.
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Speaker 3: Where the Dorothy Dixie. You have to understand now that
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Speaker 3: there's so many rules around questions. Yeah, it's almost impossible
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Speaker 3: to ask a question off the top of your head
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Speaker 3: because you're going to breach some sort of a rule.
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Speaker 3: So questions are well thought out in advance as to
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Speaker 3: how you're going to you know what you're going to ask,
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Speaker 3: but more importantly, how you ask that question, because a
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Speaker 3: speaker will rules something out of order at a drop
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Speaker 3: of a hat.
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Speaker 2: It just looks like a good bit of speak, of.
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Speaker 3: Course it is. But you know, the question time has
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Speaker 3: always been the circus of the Parliament. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's the only thing that people interested in watching it. It's
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Speaker 3: you know, it's where all the school school ground games
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Speaker 3: sort of happened in the antics and all of that
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Speaker 3: sort of stuff, so you know, and it's and it's
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Speaker 3: supposedly good entertainment, but it.
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Speaker 1: Is also a good opportunity, like we've just heard from
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Speaker 1: from Greg Neck in Alice Springs about the issues with crime.
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Speaker 1: It's also a good opportunity for those members that are
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Speaker 1: in the likes of Alice Springs, that are in opposition
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Speaker 1: to be able to ask the government questions on the
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Speaker 1: record about issues that are impacting territories.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that well? Actually, I got in there yesterday. I
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Speaker 3: watched Jared Marley's maiden speech and also heard Mike Monahan's
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Speaker 3: maiden speech. Was wonderful, actually listen to both of them,
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Speaker 3: but I couldn't get over of the feeling that the
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Speaker 3: government looks awfully cocky at the moment. And you know,
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Speaker 3: they're quite full of themselves. They've just won an election
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Speaker 3: quite comfortably and I don't think they feel any pressure
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Speaker 3: to be accountable whatsoever. And now it's a good time
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Speaker 3: from their perspective, is to do away with some of
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Speaker 3: these things. You've got to remember, these guys haven't had
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Speaker 3: a budget in over eighteen months. You know, everybody's been
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Speaker 3: left in the dark. No one's really screaming blue murder.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you should be, every body should be, but
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Speaker 3: these guys are getting away with it. So why wouldn't
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Speaker 3: they throw out another level of scrutiny.
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Speaker 2: I find it quite our. I find it really quite arrogant.
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Speaker 3: When they wind up the olocac, you know, which is
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Speaker 3: surely coming. We can't afford that in this jurisdiction. It's
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Speaker 3: a ridiculous expense.
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Speaker 2: Well, others you differently, well.
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Speaker 3: Particularly when you're eight point three billion dollars in debt,
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Speaker 3: you know, have a lawyer's picnic. I mean, it's just ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: But anyhow, look we're going to have to have a
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Speaker 2: very short break.
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Speaker 1: I actually think the i CA's a good idea myself.
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Speaker 1: You are listening to mix Ono four point nine. It
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Speaker 1: is the big Issues and the big Issues brought to
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Speaker 1: you by Simon Watt's from Real Estate Centron.
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Speaker 2: We've got Dave Tolner.
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Speaker 1: And Maddie Hepworth in the studio and we know that
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Speaker 1: Queensland is going to an election. It's been really fascinating,
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Speaker 1: I reckon to see the campaigns roll out and a
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Speaker 1: stage of palichet. Well, I think Michael Gunner must have
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Speaker 1: sent his how.
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Speaker 2: To election because it's all about Corona.
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Speaker 1: It's all about keeping the borders shut, it's all about
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Speaker 1: saving Queenslanders lives and then Deb Precklington obviously with the
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Speaker 1: Nash with the Liberals. She's all about the economy and
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Speaker 1: saving jobs and and you know, I'm making sure that
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Speaker 1: people have jobs. I guess it's been fascinating. Have you
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Speaker 1: kept much of an eye on it, Dave?
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Speaker 3: I have kept a bit of an eyel And of
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Speaker 3: course I'm originally from Queensland.
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Speaker 2: And a political nerd like us.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well you'd have to say that
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Speaker 3: Palichet is probably on the right track. You look at
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Speaker 3: the the most recent history, particularly you know, like particularly
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Speaker 3: here in the Northern territory. You know, Michael Gunnan didn't
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Speaker 3: talk about anything apart from how any lives he supposedly
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Speaker 3: saved and all of that sort of nonsense. But she's
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Speaker 3: doing the same She's doing the same thing. They like
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Speaker 3: that nut job over the over the trough, that Jacinda Radn. Yes, careful, look, Okatie, look,
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Speaker 3: I'll give you this. You know, she's a pretty face,
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Speaker 3: she's all style. She there's just this total lack of substance.
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Speaker 3: I wasn't actually save that one. We'll save that one
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Speaker 3: for a future show. We'll do a pritty on each other.
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Speaker 3: You know that, and I mean really, when you look
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Speaker 3: at it in practical terms, for a useless woman, she
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Speaker 3: everything she touched turns and mud. I mean, seriously, it does.
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Speaker 2: You know, well, let's talk, let's go anywhere.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, palichet is a similar cup of tea
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Speaker 3: to to both Michael Ganner and and.
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Speaker 2: Zinda you know, is similar to Michael or on the station.
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Speaker 3: Well, they're all the same, They're all style. There's no substance.
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Speaker 3: There's no substance, you know. Yeah, that's well, let's see,
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Speaker 3: it's all it's all sizzle and no sausage.
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Speaker 2: It's yeah, well opinions very obviously.
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Speaker 3: Look clearly it's working. I mean at this stage you
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Speaker 3: sort of feel sorry for the poor old kiwis what
15:03
Speaker 3: the next next four years means for them? But in
15:06
Speaker 3: any case, you know, that's that seems to be the
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Speaker 3: political playbook at the moment, and it'll probably get around.
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Speaker 1: Like the interesting thing I reckon in Queensland is, as
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Speaker 1: we all know and everybody listening will know, is that
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Speaker 1: the issues in the likes of Brisbane are really different
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Speaker 1: to what they are in towns will Cans, Bwniser anywhere.
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Speaker 3: The other thing t Kdie is that there's more nuanced
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Speaker 3: information that's coming out now every day. You know, the
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Speaker 3: World Health Organization a week or so ago coming out
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Speaker 3: and saying emphatically lockdowns don't work. Stop your lockdowns.
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Speaker 2: I would have to fact check that. I'm sure. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if they check that.
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Speaker 3: It was a whole bunch of the World Health Organization doctors,
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Speaker 3: because what they're finding now is that the economic damage
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Speaker 3: that's being done is causing farm or havoc than the
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Speaker 3: virus itself. That's certainly the side of the World Health
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Speaker 3: Organization have come out and said listen, it's time to
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Speaker 3: sort of in the lockdown.
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Speaker 1: I do want to just draw you guys to some
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Speaker 1: of the issues though in Queensland at the moment, or
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Speaker 1: one of them in particular. So the Queensland Premier Anastosa
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Speaker 1: Palichet said she's going to read the Riot Act to
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Speaker 1: a labor MP and candidate and candidates who are flouting
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Speaker 1: her direction to tell voters to put one nation last now.
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Speaker 1: Volunteers apparently for Baron River MP and Emergency Services Minister
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Speaker 1: Craig Crawford and Keppel MP and Education Assistant Minister Brittany Laguner.
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Speaker 2: I believe it is have been.
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Speaker 1: Seen waving bright yellow placards today asking people put the
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Speaker 1: LNP last. It comes after Burtikin candidate Mike Brunker was
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Speaker 1: caught out asking voters to put sitting LMPMP Dale last last.
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Speaker 2: In social media fots.
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Speaker 1: It's sounding as though she maybe doesn't have such good
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Speaker 1: control over her candidates as what she would like.
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Speaker 4: I guess last already sounds like a great marketing To
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Speaker 4: not say that would just be a missed Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You might recall before the last territory election, Haley and
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Speaker 3: I were both sitting here saying that Labor and the
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Speaker 3: sea or P should do a deal. Well, that's right,
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Speaker 3: they should do a deal. And I think they've done it,
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Speaker 3: well had they done it yet, But I mean the
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Speaker 3: point is that, you know, neither party did it. And
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Speaker 3: the reality is I think the reason they didn't do
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Speaker 3: it is because they couldn't direct their candidates one way
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Speaker 3: or the other how they should do it. Some people
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Speaker 3: were sitting there saying, oh, if we don't preference Terry,
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Speaker 3: where did in the water. Others are saying, well, if
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Speaker 3: we don't preference labor, where did in the water. But
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Speaker 3: so they all, you know, across the board did different things,
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Speaker 3: and I think that's what will happen in.
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Speaker 1: Queen And so then you've got one of the other
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Speaker 1: minister's Deputy Premier, Stephen Miles has previously worn voters that
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Speaker 1: freaks and weirdos could be elected because of the LMP's
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Speaker 1: plan to put one nation ahead of labor across the States.
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Speaker 3: He needs to look at in his own mirror and
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Speaker 3: have anthwatch in the Labor Party talking about freaks and weirder,
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Speaker 3: I mean an artful of getting them elected.
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Speaker 1: I love it when Davis, like when he just did
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Speaker 1: know he doesn't hold back.
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Speaker 3: That's true, isn't it. You look at anyone on the
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Speaker 3: Labor side, it's like looking at them, it's just full.
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Speaker 1: Of free to expect you to say that, Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: coming back to get well.
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Speaker 3: He's sort of liked the Uncle Fester of.
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Speaker 2: Everyone.
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Speaker 3: We all love Uncle Fester.
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Speaker 4: I do want to I've got a quick story about
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Speaker 4: Mark Bunker though. When I first started working here with
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Speaker 4: with Pete Davies, a cyclone it might have been cyclone, yass.
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Speaker 4: He whipped through northern Queensland. Yeah, and Pete Davis and
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Speaker 4: Mike Brunker were on air at the time having a
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Speaker 4: war over who should host the premiere of the movie.
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Speaker 4: Australia's part of it was filmed in Bowen and another
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Speaker 4: part was filmed hearing Down, and so they were having
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Speaker 4: this war. So this cyclone whipped through and Pete said
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Speaker 4: to to Mike on Are He goes, what if we
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Speaker 4: bring the show to Bowen for a week and we
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Speaker 4: can broadcast there and tell all the people in Darwin that,
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Speaker 4: you know, the WIT Sundays is still open for business. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: what turned out to be an off the cuff comment
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Speaker 4: on air. We did some work behind the scenes managed
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Speaker 4: to do it. And I remember sitting around a table
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Speaker 4: having dinner with Mike Bronker one night who invited us there.
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Speaker 4: So he's the former man to get.
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Speaker 2: To do the bloody show in the Wit Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Yes, thanks to Mike Bronker. Now saying what does it
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Speaker 4: put Dale last last?
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Speaker 3: Before? We were talking about this in the break Bob Catter,
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Speaker 3: Now there's another great there's another great Queansing politician. Well,
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Speaker 3: I've got to tell you my my favorite personal Bob
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Speaker 3: Cattter story. And I got on very very well with Bob.
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Speaker 3: I got to say I went up into his office
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Speaker 3: one day there in canber. You know, he wears a
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Speaker 3: three piece seat with big hat. Walk into his office,
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Speaker 3: sitting down in front of him. We're having a chat
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Speaker 3: about something. I said, geez, Bob, I said what, Blake
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Speaker 3: doesn't even get a cup of tea in this place.
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Speaker 3: He says, oh, you want a cup of tea? I
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Speaker 3: said yeah. He picks up the phone. He says, love
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Speaker 3: love tolm, I wants a cup of tea. Clank, hangs
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Speaker 3: up the phone. Five minutes later, his pa comes in
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Speaker 3: and she's got this massively cracked panicking chips off it everywhere,
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Speaker 3: dened in on the side and whatnot, steaming hot black
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Speaker 3: tea right gems it right in front of me, walks
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Speaker 3: out the door, and I'm looking at this cup and think,
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Speaker 3: oh my god. I look at Bob and I said, Bob,
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Speaker 3: I said what. You don't even get milk and sugar
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Speaker 3: in this place. He says, what do you want milk
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Speaker 3: and sugar? I said, well, milk and sugar wood wouldn't
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Speaker 3: be bad. And he picks up the phone. Lave lave talm,
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Speaker 3: I wants milk and sugar. Now get this, this is
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Speaker 3: fair income right. She comes in, She's got a stick
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Speaker 3: and a tube of condensed milk. This is in his
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Speaker 3: camera office and then he points at that. He points
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Speaker 3: at the still. I said, what's with the stick. Bobby says,
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Speaker 3: that's from Cloncurry.
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Speaker 1: On that night.
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Speaker 2: We are going to have to leave it there.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Dave, Dave good to chat with you
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Speaker 1: on Wednesdays and Mattie Hepworth will will get the news
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Speaker 1: from you in a.
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