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Credlin | 1 August · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Petero Kranland live on Skyins Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Great to have your company as always. Here's
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Speaker 2: what's coming up tonight on Kredline. Shock revelations another child
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Speaker 2: rapist allowed to remain in Australia as a result of
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Speaker 2: changes Labour's made to immigration laws. Their will the new
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Speaker 2: Minister Tony Burt act here to fix the mess or
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Speaker 2: do we expect more of the same? Set it out
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Speaker 2: Michadia Cash tonight, demanding action. The climate change posturing by
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Speaker 2: big corporates exposed. As we predicted it would be a
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Speaker 2: growing number of companies declaring they've got no intention at
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Speaker 2: all of meeting their twenty thirty emissions targets. Most haven't
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Speaker 2: even started. And speaking of green and sanity, Chris Bowen
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Speaker 2: thinks he knows better than the market, throwing more millions
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Speaker 2: today on a new ev subsidy. Problem is electric vehicle
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Speaker 2: sales around the world are plummitting, the pusht of aalln
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Speaker 2: Victoria's rot upper house voting systems gaining support, and the
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Speaker 2: shocking footage of a Jewish man being refused service at
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Speaker 2: an office works store in Melbourne. I'll have more details
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Speaker 2: on that in a moment.
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Speaker 3: What's that I'm pro Palestine.
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Speaker 2: That's okay, you're here to do a job of eliminating.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we need we have the right to deny jobs.
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Speaker 4: Is that an office works position or your personal position?
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Speaker 2: But first, on top of all the records they already
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Speaker 2: have to keep and all the reporting they already have
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Speaker 2: to do, most Australian businesses will soon have to keep
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Speaker 2: account of the carbon emissions as well. It's all part
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Speaker 2: of the Albanazer government's emissions obsession, this mania to save
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Speaker 2: the planet by eliminating carbon dioxide emissions, when nothing that
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Speaker 2: Australia does here will have any bearing whatsoever on global levels.
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Speaker 2: Despite the big promises of politicians, reducing emissions is easier
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Speaker 2: said than done, especially if you're trying to run a
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Speaker 2: profitable business. Green Crusader Triggy Forest Twiggy Forests will He's
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Speaker 2: had to recently admit defeat and is much hyped to
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Speaker 2: bid to produce green hydrogen. Now Air New Zealand has
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Speaker 2: also officially abandon its ambitious targets. They were to reduce
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Speaker 2: emissions by thirty percent. Well they're now in the bin
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Speaker 2: because low emissions aviation fuel and emissions aircraft just aren't
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Speaker 2: readily available, and in a survey of some five hundred
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Speaker 2: big Australian businesses reported today in The Australian, we learn
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Speaker 2: that twenty eight percent of corporates have no intention of
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Speaker 2: reducing their emissions and forty two percent have not even
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Speaker 2: begun to reduce them. Now that's a seventy percent fail
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Speaker 2: when it comes to businesses reducing their emissions, but it's harder.
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Speaker 2: The fault of these businesses have more than enough to
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Speaker 2: worry about making a bark, employing staff and satisfying customers
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Speaker 2: without having to do even more work for the government.
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Speaker 2: The fault lies with the Albanezy government itself, which is
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Speaker 2: imposing more greene and walk costs on business and in
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Speaker 2: some cases make it almost impossible for them to operate
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Speaker 2: at all. As Any New Zealand's found out, you can't
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Speaker 2: run a low emissions airline, as twigging Forest has found out,
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Speaker 2: you can't make it green hydrogen profitably at scale. And
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Speaker 2: there's no such thing as low emission steel or lower
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Speaker 2: missions aluminum or low emissions bricks. So in order to
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Speaker 2: meet the mandatory targets, businesses will either have to buy
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Speaker 2: expensive carbon credits in other words, pay a carbon tax
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Speaker 2: or move their emissions offshore. In either way that means
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Speaker 2: higher costs and fewer jobs. Large companies are already or
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Speaker 2: required to report their emissions and their climate related risks
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Speaker 2: and opportunities. That's the wording of the legislation, not me
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Speaker 2: these companies, and you only have to have just fifty
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Speaker 2: million in revenue or more than one hundred staff to
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Speaker 2: fall under the ambit of these laws. Six Thousandustralian businesses
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Speaker 2: are caught up in this. We'll all have to start
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Speaker 2: reporting this in the next three years, including what's called
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Speaker 2: Scope three emissions. So this is the emissions of any
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Speaker 2: product in your supply chain. Now, given them Australia as
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Speaker 2: barely one percent of global emissions, and that big emittters
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Speaker 2: like China, like India are imposing no such requirements on themselves.
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Speaker 2: The only way to describe all of this is madness.
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Speaker 2: It's economic self harm. Look, as you know, this country
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Speaker 2: is supposed to have a skills based migration system and
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Speaker 2: that'd been so the politicians tell us that we end
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Speaker 2: up getting the world's best migrants. But that's hard to
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Speaker 2: square with recent reports today and in recent days out
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Speaker 2: of our courts and tribunals. The cases currently in the
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Speaker 2: news are obviously not representative of most people who migrate
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Speaker 2: to aus Tradia. But why are people allowed to stay
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Speaker 2: here once they've been proven to be criminals, often violent
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Speaker 2: and habitual criminals. Take the case of Earl Sanchez, who's
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Speaker 2: been convicted of and I quote, aggravated sexual intercourse with
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Speaker 2: a child. Now, he came to Australia from the Philippines
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Speaker 2: eighteen years ago when he was aged nine. He's been
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Speaker 2: here for nine years as an adult without ever bothering
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Speaker 2: to become a citizen. He then commits this horrific crime
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Speaker 2: against a child in Australia, but he doesn't get sent
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Speaker 2: back to the Philippines because he claims a connection to
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Speaker 2: this country because he spent part of his childhood here. Now,
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Speaker 2: are like, you know, I don't give us stuff if
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Speaker 2: he grew up here. If he's not a citizen and
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Speaker 2: he's convicted of a violent crime, you should be put
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Speaker 2: on the first plane out of here. But I don't
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Speaker 2: make the rules in this case. Labor Minister Andrew Giles
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Speaker 2: did take another case. The case not only is k
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Speaker 2: C k J or this bloke came to Australia from
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Speaker 2: Lebanon six years ago, aged thirty three. Two years later,
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Speaker 2: he was sentenced to four years in prison for dealing drugs. Now,
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Speaker 2: how did he get here in the first place? How
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Speaker 2: has he allowed them to stay in Australia after committing
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Speaker 2: a serious crime. Honestly, these people are having a lend
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Speaker 2: of us and the judges and tribunal members who accept
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Speaker 2: sob stories are about families who love them or kids
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Speaker 2: who need them. They don't get it. I mean, you
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Speaker 2: can hardly have a genuine commitment to Australia if you've
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Speaker 2: never bothered to become a citizen and if you abuse
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Speaker 2: our hospitality by committing a serious crime here, well times up, mate,
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Speaker 2: you go home. And yes, j Alvanza governments to blame
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Speaker 2: here for changing the rules to place more weights on
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Speaker 2: a foreign criminal's connectedness to Australia. That's the result of
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Speaker 2: them notorious ministerial directions from Andrew Johs still playing out
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Speaker 2: in these two recent examples. But everyone in the system,
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Speaker 2: everyone in the legal system, judges included, need to take
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Speaker 2: a long hard look at themselves when foreigners who have
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Speaker 2: abused our trust and our hospitality by committing serious crimes
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Speaker 2: here get to stay on compassionate grounds. Who wears a
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Speaker 2: compassion for the child who was raped or the parents
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Speaker 2: picking up the pieces. The latest example is an attempt
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Speaker 2: to work the system by a Kiwi former Biki gang chief,
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Speaker 2: Dean Martin, whose visa has been canceled and he's challenging
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Speaker 2: that decision on the basis he's actually Aboriginal. He says
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Speaker 2: that even though he was born and raised in New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: because the Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation has declared he's a member,
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Speaker 2: and under a previous High Court decision, anyone with any
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Speaker 2: indigenous ancestry at all, Australian or not can't be declared
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Speaker 2: an alien, so must be allowed to stay permanently. So
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Speaker 2: that's what Martin's now claiming. He can't be removed, he says,
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Speaker 2: from Australia because he's Indigenous, and it's up to the
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Speaker 2: Commonwealth to prove he's not indigenous. He doesn't have to
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Speaker 2: prove his claim. The onus is on the taxpayer funded
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Speaker 2: lawyers for the government to do that. Now, the result
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Speaker 2: of all of this lawfare against the broader Australian community,
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Speaker 2: as we're stuck with people who buy their own actions
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Speaker 2: have forfeited any right to stay in this country and
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Speaker 2: they wonder why and up poll this week Australians are
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Speaker 2: losing faith with the system. All right, let's go to
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Speaker 2: Camber now for the headlines. Sky News political reporter Olivia Caisley,
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Speaker 2: good evening.
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Speaker 4: Please leave now and come home. That's the Commonwealth's message
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Speaker 4: to Australians in Lebanon.
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Speaker 5: Do not travel to Lebanon at the moment.
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Speaker 1: The security situation called deteriorate quickly with little or no notice.
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Speaker 4: Amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. There's no guarantee
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Speaker 4: citizens will be repatriated if Bayirut's airport is forced to close.
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Speaker 1: And if that happens, the government may not be able
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Speaker 1: to help Australians still in Lebanon to evacuate.
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Speaker 4: The UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting overnight. They
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Speaker 4: say Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah and Hamas leaders are
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Speaker 4: making matters worse, as Iran threatens to retaliate.
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Speaker 6: The dangerous escalation at a moment in which all efforts
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Speaker 6: should instead be leading to a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Speaker 4: The opposition says Israel's actions are understandable.
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Speaker 2: Certainly close an existential threat to the Israeli people, and
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Speaker 2: you would expect the Israelis to take action.
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Speaker 4: The Prime Minister has criticized Rex Airlines, accusing it of
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Speaker 4: prioritizing city routes over its initial regional focus.
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Speaker 5: Sydney Melbourne is not a re route. What my government
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Speaker 5: is focused on is making sure that those people in
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Speaker 5: regional communities continue to have access to aviation services.
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Speaker 4: After entering voluntary administration on Tuesday, up to two thousand
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Speaker 4: staff of facing redundancy. There are deep concerns about the
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Speaker 4: impact on the regions.
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Speaker 7: So for the Prime Minister to stand up and say
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Speaker 7: that Rex doesn't have the right, the expertise or the
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Speaker 7: skill to actually compete against his favorite customer, Quantas, I
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Speaker 7: think says a lot about this Prime Minister's view of Quanas.
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Speaker 2: All right, we're going to cross those stories and more
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Speaker 2: and to do that on Joy my media writer for
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Speaker 2: The Australian, Saphie Ellsworth, and the Deputy Executive director of
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Speaker 2: the Institute of Public Affairs, Daniel Wilde. Well, we just
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Speaker 2: heard from Olivia there about the collapse of Rex. It's
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Speaker 2: the second airline to fall into administration in four months
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Speaker 2: calls today for the government to step in and prop
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Speaker 2: up Rex. The Prime Minister of course today and I'm
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Speaker 2: ruling our taxpayer support. I have to say I'll upset
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Speaker 2: my friends in the country here, but I am not
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Speaker 2: a fan of governments strowing taxpayer money at any sort
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Speaker 2: of private business, even if it's an airline we need
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Speaker 2: in a country area. But if the government had done
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Speaker 2: what it was told to do, open up competition, to
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Speaker 2: act on recommendations that are on the minister's desk, to
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Speaker 2: give Rex access to Sydney Airport landing rights, I tell
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Speaker 2: you what, Daniel, all of this might actually been averted.
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Speaker 8: Well that's right, Peter. I'm not holding my breath through
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Speaker 8: any pro competitive policies coming out of this government when
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Speaker 8: it comes to the aviation sector. Of course, Quanas works
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Speaker 8: hand in glove with the government, and there was a
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Speaker 8: quid pro quo whereby the government blocked the access of
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Speaker 8: guitar Airways into Australia to restrict that competition to further
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Speaker 8: support the profits of Quantas in exchange for Quantus supporting
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Speaker 8: the divisive Voice to Parliament. It was basically taxpayer funds
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Speaker 8: go to quantas and that gets back out recycled to
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Speaker 8: care paign in favor of the Voice to Parliament, which
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Speaker 8: sixty percent of Australians rejected. So there's that issue. So look,
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Speaker 8: the issue, Peter is that we need a government's actually
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Speaker 8: focused on better outcomes for consumers rather than protecting the
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Speaker 8: duopoly in the aviation sector, and that comes down to
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Speaker 8: structural reform of the sector. I agree with your assessment.
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Speaker 8: We can't just be shoveling tens of millions of dollars
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Speaker 8: out to support companies that might not be able to
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Speaker 8: make it commercially. But clearly we need to get much
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Speaker 8: more serious about making sure that Rex and other airlines
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Speaker 8: can get on those more profitable routes, and we have to.
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Speaker 2: Make it so that the regional routes are profitable for them,
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Speaker 2: because I'm going to We've got to have planes in
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Speaker 2: the region, and no doubt about that. But I don't
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Speaker 2: like the idea of taxpayers money being thrown at private businesses.
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Speaker 2: As I've said, home buy so we know now in
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Speaker 2: the current climate, they can't borrow as much money as
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Speaker 2: they could two years ago, and as a result there's
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Speaker 2: been a real slump in Melbourne house prices. Well, I
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Speaker 2: think house prices across the board, but Melbourne's really suffered.
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Speaker 2: In fact, Perth's about to eclipse Melbourne from next month
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Speaker 2: for the first time since February twenty fifteen, and this
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Speaker 2: will rank Melbourne below Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide and Perth.
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Speaker 2: Now no secret in Victoria, of course, labor's hitting the
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Speaker 2: property sector with more and more taxes. But my worry
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Speaker 2: is Melbourne pretty soon is going to be the Australia's
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Speaker 2: biggest capital city, but it'll have the cheapest homes, which
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Speaker 2: is a worrying sign to me. We could end up,
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Speaker 2: you know, like streets of San Francisco, all those other
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Speaker 2: rundown cities in California, if we're not careful.
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Speaker 9: Well Peter there we Obviously, some members of the public
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Speaker 9: could be thrilled to think that that could happen because
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Speaker 9: buying a home has been so difficult for people trying
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Speaker 9: to break into the market.
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Speaker 10: But for those with.
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Speaker 9: Homes this is shocking news. I do think people borrowed
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Speaker 9: far too much money, particularly in the last decade or so,
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Speaker 9: and then I think prices were far too high and
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Speaker 9: this has had.
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Speaker 10: To settle down.
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Speaker 9: But obviously with all these interest rate rises and potentially
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Speaker 9: more on the way. We could even have one next week,
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Speaker 9: although many experts are saying that we won't.
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Speaker 10: There's more pain to be felt.
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Speaker 9: So this is very uncomfortable for people who already own property.
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Speaker 9: But as they say, Peter, it's always a good time
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Speaker 9: to buy and sell in the same market, so you
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Speaker 9: could see people trying to optimize these lower house prices
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Speaker 9: in cities such as Melbourne.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's go to Adelaide, where you are right now,
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Speaker 2: Daniel Wilde, Opposition Energy spokesman ten O'Brian said, to make
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Speaker 2: a big speech there outlining the coalition's position on nuclear security,
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Speaker 2: with a little bit more detail on the development of
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Speaker 2: uranium enrichment industry. This speech comes as an engineer and
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Speaker 2: a pro nuclear advocate was forced out of delivering a
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Speaker 2: speech at a recent conference to the Engineer's Australia Association
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Speaker 2: because of an objection from telback a Simon Holmes. The court. Now,
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Speaker 2: finally the bloke will get to give his remarks. But
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Speaker 2: you are a part of tonight's of NBIPA is hosting
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Speaker 2: the event. What can we expect to hear from tito'brian.
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Speaker 8: Well, thanks, Peter, that's right.
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Speaker 2: Look.
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Speaker 8: Tonight, Ted O'Brien will be outlining a very ambitious reform
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Speaker 8: agenda for the Coalition, not just in relation to the
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Speaker 8: energy supply from potential nuclear power stations that we know about,
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Speaker 8: but an entire new industry in Australia around uranium and
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Speaker 8: the value add process that that industry could have for
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Speaker 8: our nation's future. And there's been some reports in the
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Speaker 8: media about that already, and I think it goes to
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Speaker 8: the point Peter, that what we're seeing is the Opposition
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Speaker 8: providing a debate for the community. They're willing to undertake
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Speaker 8: what is often considered to be tough issues and to
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Speaker 8: make sure there's better information out there for people to
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Speaker 8: make a choice, because clearly the current approach of this
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Speaker 8: government is not working. Prices are going up, reliability is
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Speaker 8: going down, the jobs are going out, but they're doubling
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Speaker 8: down on a failed strategy with the net zero policy
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Speaker 8: of these large scale solo and win projects in country
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Speaker 8: areas that are dividing the communities and are expensive and
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Speaker 8: not getting the job done in terms of energy reliability.
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Speaker 8: So I think what the Coalition's offering is is very
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Speaker 8: exciting for the future and clearly Australians are very hungry
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Speaker 8: to have a proper debate about this critical matter.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's go to the US. More controversy there in the
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Speaker 2: US presidential campaign, Donald Trump openly questioning with Kamala Harris
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Speaker 2: became a black person, that's his quote to get ahead
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Speaker 2: in politics, during an appearance at an event for black journalists. Now,
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Speaker 2: she did not appear at this event for the journalists,
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Speaker 2: nor has she done an interview at all with journalists
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Speaker 2: since she became the nominee or the defacto nominee. But
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Speaker 2: President Trump was there. US correspondent Analise Nielsen has.
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Speaker 11: Moore from the moment he stepped onto the stage at
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Speaker 11: the National Association of Black Journalists conference, it was clear
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Speaker 11: there wasn't going to be a warm welcome for Donald Trump.
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Speaker 5: So do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is
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Speaker 5: only on the ticket because she is a black woman.
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Speaker 12: I've known her a long time indirectly. She was always
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Speaker 12: of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage.
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Speaker 12: I didn't know she was black until a number of
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Speaker 12: years ago when she happened to turn black, and now
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Speaker 12: she wants to be known as black. I respect either one,
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Speaker 12: but she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the
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Speaker 12: way and then all of a sudden she made a
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Speaker 12: turn and she went she became a.
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Speaker 10: Black just to be.
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Speaker 11: One of the weaknesses in Joe Biden's re election campaign
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Speaker 11: was the deterioration of support for the president among Black voters,
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Speaker 11: who typically lean more Democrat. Those same voters have been
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Speaker 11: leaning towards Donald Trump, and polling shows that flowed largely
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Speaker 11: because of his economic policies. However, messy appearances like this
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Speaker 11: one will undoubtedly be a setback for Trump's campaign.
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Speaker 3: Is repulsive, it's insulting, and you know, no one has
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Speaker 3: any rate to tell someone who they are, how they identify.
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Speaker 3: That is no one's rate.
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Speaker 11: Meanwhile, Kamala Harris skipped out on attending the National Association
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Speaker 11: of Black Journalists' conference entirely, but following backlash, has agreed
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Speaker 11: to organize a zoom call in September. Harris has not
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Speaker 11: taken part in a single interview with a journalist since
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Speaker 11: it was announced Joe Biden was stepping down as the
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Speaker 11: Democratic candidate for president.
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Speaker 2: Okay, then this is a sensitive issue, But just like
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Speaker 2: the whole identity debate here in Australia. It's pretty hard
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Speaker 2: to criticize being asked about your identity when it's been
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Speaker 2: your calling card for decades, when it's been how you
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Speaker 2: have defined yourself politically, that's not an easy line to tread.
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Speaker 8: I agree, Peter, and as Analyse outlined in that snippet there,
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Speaker 8: Trump was doing very well with African American and minority voters.
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Speaker 8: So clearly the Democrats are concerned about this, and you
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Speaker 8: just look at, well, why was he doing well because
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Speaker 8: he was talking about issues that they care about and
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Speaker 8: that mainstream Americans care about. I watched the entire interview
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Speaker 8: that Trump did, and he basically said, look, we've got
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Speaker 8: this mass unlawful migration that's taking jobs and causing crime.
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Speaker 8: We've had the offshoring of manufacturing and industrial jobs, and
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Speaker 8: there's a huge challenge presented to families with the drug epidemic. Now,
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Speaker 8: all of these things are challenges for all Americans, but
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Speaker 8: especially those in minority and a lot of African American communities.
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Speaker 8: So that's why he's done so well with those people,
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Speaker 8: because he speaks about the issues they're concerned about, and
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Speaker 8: he doesn't talk down to them. I think that a
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Speaker 8: lot of people in sort of those minority communities are
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Speaker 8: getting fit pretty fed up and being put into a
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Speaker 8: box and told, you know, just because you've got this background,
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Speaker 8: you have to vote Democrat. I don't think that's the
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Speaker 8: case whatsoever. And Trump really presents her, I think, a
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Speaker 8: challenge to that established thinking.
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Speaker 2: So Joe Bines often referred to the ethnicity of his
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Speaker 2: vice president. Clearly that's treacherous for Donald Trump. She has
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Speaker 2: a shocking record on boarders. Surely that's where she's the
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Speaker 2: most vulnerable.
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Speaker 10: Well, you would think so, Peter.
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Speaker 2: We know that she has got a bad record there.
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Speaker 9: And I do find it very interesting that she has
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Speaker 9: not done media interviews since she's announced that she'll be.
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Speaker 2: Taking over from Joe Biden.
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Speaker 9: I find that extremely curious, Like why isn't she fronting
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Speaker 9: the media. Sometimes she is not a good media performer,
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Speaker 9: and I think she could run into problems down the
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Speaker 9: track when she does do interviews, and perhaps she is
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Speaker 9: nervous of fronting the media for what she might say
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Speaker 9: and if there are slip ups. So I think a
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Speaker 9: lot of the contingency and the public will be anxiously
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Speaker 9: waiting for her to front the media.
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Speaker 2: I think right now, though most of them are running
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Speaker 2: a protection racket like they did for Joe Biden for
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Speaker 2: many years. But we'll see if that changes. Sophie. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for your time.
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Speaker 10: Dan.
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Speaker 2: I hope everything goes well tonight with that big nuclear
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Speaker 2: speech in Adelaide. Right now, I want to go to
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Speaker 2: the traveling footage that's emerged today showing a pro Palestinian
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Speaker 2: employee at office works. This is a store in elston Wick,
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Speaker 2: a bayside suburb of Melbourne, refusing to serve a Jewish customer.
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Speaker 3: What's that I'm pro Palestine.
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Speaker 10: That's okay, here to do a job of laminade. Yeah,
21:39
Speaker 10: we need.
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Speaker 3: Have the right to deny jobs.
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Speaker 4: Is that an office works position or your personal position?
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Speaker 2: It is an officer. We have the right to deny jobs.
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Speaker 4: So office works position is that you're pro Palestine and
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Speaker 4: you want to take.
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Speaker 2: Why that's my position? But we have the right to
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Speaker 2: deny jobs.
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Speaker 9: What's the reason of denying.
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Speaker 2: I'm not comfortable proceeding with that.
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Speaker 3: He entire thing the archet.
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Speaker 2: And then it gets worse. In that video, there is
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Speaker 2: a woman who identifies as the manager simply referring to
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Speaker 2: the Jewish man. Simply referring to the Jewish man to
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Speaker 2: the office Works policy that allows staff to refuse to
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Speaker 2: perform services in these sorts of circumstances. Now, the man
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Speaker 2: then questions why he's being refused. The manager chastises him
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Speaker 2: and then threatens to call the police, at which point
22:30
Speaker 2: he walks out of the store. Now, the individual concern
22:33
Speaker 2: then engaged a lawyer who wrote to Office Works demanding
22:37
Speaker 2: the store stopped discriminating against him as well as apologize,
22:41
Speaker 2: reprimand the manager and we're told terminate her employment. The
22:46
Speaker 2: response from Office Works, well, that was to offer the
22:49
Speaker 2: man a one hundred dollars about you and say we're
22:51
Speaker 2: investigating all of this. That's it.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 2: The customer, who's chosen to remain anonymous at least at
22:57
Speaker 2: this time, has launched legal action at Victorians Civil and
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Speaker 2: Administrative Appeals Tribunal. For more on this, let's bring in
23:03
Speaker 2: the President to the Jewish Association of Australia, David Adlai. Well, David,
23:09
Speaker 2: what was your reaction seeing that video from a suburb
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Speaker 2: in Australia.
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Speaker 13: Peter Firstley, good to be with you, and I want
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Speaker 13: to thank the Anti Defamation commissioned via a Bromovitch for
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Speaker 13: bringing this into the public light. The person involved is
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Speaker 13: a member of ours. We were aware of this incident
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Speaker 13: since March. He's kept it quiet, hoping that legal process
23:37
Speaker 13: would provide a resolution. And let me tell you, it's
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Speaker 13: not the only incident out of that store. But I'll
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Speaker 13: give you two reactions. The first is that everyone should
23:50
Speaker 13: be absolutely shocked. Denial of service to Jewish people is
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Speaker 13: a Nazi strategy. Let's not gloss over it. That is
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Speaker 13: exactly what the Nazis did in the lead up to
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Speaker 13: the Holocaust to isolate and try to punish on block
24:10
Speaker 13: the Jewish people. But the other reaction, if you look
24:13
Speaker 13: closely at the imagery, you'll see that the person who
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Speaker 13: denied the service is wearing a rainbow lanyard. The parent
24:24
Speaker 13: company of Office Works is West Farmers, known as Big
24:29
Speaker 13: as one of the big woke corporate companies in this country.
24:35
Speaker 13: I think they were one of the companies that put
24:38
Speaker 13: a couple of million dollars into the failed Voice campaign.
24:42
Speaker 13: But the bizarre imagery there of someone who denies a
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Speaker 13: Jewish man Servers says that they're pro Palestine, wears a
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Speaker 13: rainbow lanyard around their neck supporting the place in the
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Speaker 13: Middle East which would kill lbgt Q people saying they're
25:07
Speaker 13: against the place where such people are safe. It's just
25:13
Speaker 13: bizarre intersectionality, so really.
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Speaker 1: Dreadful.
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Speaker 13: It is trashing Australia's reputation incident after incident like this.
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Speaker 2: What horrifies me in all of this, though, David, is
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Speaker 2: it wasn't just actions of a rogue employee. Someone who
25:32
Speaker 2: claimed to be the departmental manager there back them in
25:36
Speaker 2: and then points to what they regard as a policy
25:39
Speaker 2: of the company to be able to refuse service based
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Speaker 2: on in this case, religious grounds I would presume, or
25:45
Speaker 2: Zionist grounds or whatever grounds they've got. They're pretty pretty
25:48
Speaker 2: slim flimsy. And you make the point, you're right, Office
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Speaker 2: Works is part of West Farmers. I mean this is Kmart,
25:54
Speaker 2: Big W Cole's, Bunnings. I mean it's a huge conglomerate.
25:58
Speaker 2: I mean, is this is West Farmer's policy across the board?
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Speaker 2: Is it happening in other stores? What do we know?
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Speaker 13: We don't know a lot. But I'll tell you what
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Speaker 13: is really really troubling, and that is the lack of consequences.
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Speaker 13: And we have seen this since the seventh of October.
26:18
Speaker 13: The people who rioted at the Opera House on the
26:20
Speaker 13: ninth of October. Zero arrests those that caused the disruption
26:26
Speaker 13: on the university campuses almost no consequences. And now we're
26:33
Speaker 13: seeing it at the retail level. And I agree one
26:38
Speaker 13: hundred percent with the demands of the customer, and that
26:43
Speaker 13: is that there should be proper consequences someone who adopts
26:48
Speaker 13: Nazi style practices denying a person servers simply because they
26:55
Speaker 13: don't like their religion or their politics or whatever. I mean,
27:00
Speaker 13: we could fall apart as a society if this spread.
27:04
Speaker 13: We'd have Ukrainians and Russians who were involved in another
27:08
Speaker 13: conflict which should be denying them service depending on where
27:12
Speaker 13: you've used fall et cetera, et cetera. So we need
27:17
Speaker 13: our community leaders and in this case the corporate management
27:21
Speaker 13: to make a really strong stand, and they're not doing so.
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Speaker 13: And that's very troubling for Australia broadly.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is exactly where West Farmers needs to
27:32
Speaker 2: step up on behalf of the wider corporation put a
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Speaker 2: line under this. We learn there's a statement that office
27:38
Speaker 2: Works have put out that the employee is still employed
27:42
Speaker 2: in that store. By office Works. They have we're told
27:45
Speaker 2: undergone training that training and education includes through the Melbourne
27:50
Speaker 2: Holocaust Museum. I don't know, worries me enormously, David Adler,
27:56
Speaker 2: thank you for your time. We'll stay across that issue
27:59
Speaker 2: and come back to if we know more, particularly relations
28:02
Speaker 2: with the decat legal action or at after the break.
28:04
Speaker 2: Proof that not much has changed under Labor when it
28:07
Speaker 2: comes to deporting foreign criminals, despite assurances to the community
28:12
Speaker 2: and the Parliament that safety was paramount. Plus a rare
28:16
Speaker 2: instance where I actually agree with Malcolm Turbule. I don't
28:20
Speaker 2: often say that, but I'll explain more after break. Welcome back.
28:28
Speaker 2: Still to come. The climate change posturing my big corporates exposed,
28:32
Speaker 2: as I said, what always happened, a growing number of
28:35
Speaker 2: them declaring they've got no intention of meeting their twenty
28:38
Speaker 2: thirty emissions targets. The first more proof that not much
28:41
Speaker 2: has changed under this government when it comes to deporting
28:44
Speaker 2: foreign criminals. Today we learn that a convicted child sex
28:48
Speaker 2: offender and a Lebanese man it was part of a
28:50
Speaker 2: large scale drug operation, have been spared deportation and will
28:55
Speaker 2: remain in Australia, despite the former Immigration Minister Andrew Giles
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Speaker 2: telling the Parliament he had fixed his notorious Ministerial Direction
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Speaker 2: ninety nine. Now both men in this instance were assessed
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Speaker 2: by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal under giles replacements direction, so
29:12
Speaker 2: the second direction, but it seems it's no better than
29:16
Speaker 2: the first one in terms of keeping Australian safe for
29:19
Speaker 2: more of these damaging revelations. Let's bring in Shadow Attorney
29:22
Speaker 2: General mckayley Cash Senator welcome. I mean this was a
29:26
Speaker 2: firestorm for the galment earlier in the year. Andrew Giles
29:29
Speaker 2: tells the Parliament he's fixed things, He's had a mop
29:33
Speaker 2: up direction put in, and then we find this happens
29:37
Speaker 2: clearly is not fixed anything.
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Speaker 7: Well, not only that, mister Albinizi, as the Prime Minister,
29:44
Speaker 7: should also be taking responsibility for the failed direction. Peter
29:49
Speaker 7: at the time, Peter Dutton said, the direction as drafted
29:54
Speaker 7: by mister Giles will fail because you are not making
29:58
Speaker 7: ties to the commune unity a secondary consideration.
30:03
Speaker 10: So Labor were on notice.
30:05
Speaker 7: Despite the warnings from Peter Dutton and the Opposition, despite
30:11
Speaker 7: saying to them this is what you need to do
30:15
Speaker 7: all talk, they told the people of Australia they'd solved
30:18
Speaker 7: the problem.
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Speaker 10: But what have we now seen.
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Speaker 7: A child sex offender, one of the many released out
30:25
Speaker 7: into the community by Andrew Giles, is allowed to stay
30:30
Speaker 7: in Australia. If I was mister Albanezi, I would be
30:34
Speaker 7: fronting the Australian people and saying I have directed my
30:38
Speaker 7: new Minister Tony Burke to withdraw the Giles direction and
30:44
Speaker 7: implement what the Coalition had said, what Peter Dutton had
30:48
Speaker 7: said needed to happen. So this is quite frankly, it
30:52
Speaker 7: is failure on behalf of Giles, but more than that,
30:56
Speaker 7: it is failure on behalf of mister ALBERNISI to keep
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Speaker 7: Australia and Australian safe. Peter, this is a child sex offender.
31:06
Speaker 7: Quite frankly, you don't get more disgusting.
31:11
Speaker 2: If you can drive a truck through the first direction
31:14
Speaker 2: and then under pressure he issues another direction. Why eight
31:18
Speaker 2: months on are they not even trying to use the
31:22
Speaker 2: preventive detention orders that you pass through the Parliament in
31:25
Speaker 2: a rush in December. They have not even put an
31:28
Speaker 2: application in Makaya cash.
31:31
Speaker 7: And this is the issue, Peter, and I'd say to
31:34
Speaker 7: the Australian people, judge them by their actions, not their words.
31:40
Speaker 7: Labor are not committed to the safety of the Australian community.
31:46
Speaker 10: Labor have clearly shown they.
31:49
Speaker 7: Are prepared to put the alleged rights of child sex offenders, pedophiles,
31:56
Speaker 7: murderers and a contract killer before all the best interests
32:01
Speaker 7: of the Australian community. Peter Dutton told Anthony Albernizi what
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Speaker 7: he needed to do to ensure that the AAT had
32:11
Speaker 7: the clear ability to deport these people. Mister Albernizi did
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Speaker 7: not listen, But Peter, he deliberately did not listen because
32:22
Speaker 7: their heart is not with the Australian people, it is
32:26
Speaker 7: with protecting the rights and their actions show this. Pedophiles,
32:31
Speaker 7: child rapists, murderers.
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Speaker 1: And a contract killer.
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Speaker 10: Judge them by their actions, not their words.
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Speaker 2: By moving Tony Burke out of Industrial Relations, that's the
32:44
Speaker 2: other string to your bow, your other responsibility as a
32:48
Speaker 2: shadow minister. By moving him out of that portfolio in
32:51
Speaker 2: and around all of these revelations about the CVMU, he's
32:56
Speaker 2: not going to get any questions asked in the Parliament.
32:58
Speaker 2: He's changed portfolio. And this talk that they're going to
33:02
Speaker 2: get tough with this militant union, I mean, it's all
33:04
Speaker 2: snoky mirrors just to buy them time to get through
33:06
Speaker 2: the election.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely Again, judge them by their actions, not their words.
33:14
Speaker 7: Tony Burke had one job for Anthony Alberanzi when he
33:19
Speaker 7: was appointed Minister, and that is to deliver the construction
33:23
Speaker 7: industry to John Setka and the militant CFMU.
33:28
Speaker 10: He's ticked that off.
33:30
Speaker 7: The only losers here are a the members of the Union,
33:34
Speaker 7: but be the Australian people who are being robbed blind
33:38
Speaker 7: by Anthony Alberesi. Because mister Albernizi knows exactly how much
33:43
Speaker 7: more the Australian mums and dads are paying for their hospitals, Peter,
33:47
Speaker 7: their roads and their schools. It's thirty percent more because
33:51
Speaker 7: of his actions Tony Burke, big tick to Tony did
33:55
Speaker 7: exactly what Anthony Alberzi needed. And what happens to Tony
33:59
Speaker 7: He gets a prom So what mister Albernizi has said again,
34:02
Speaker 7: judge them by their actions, not their words.
34:06
Speaker 10: If you deliver to see if they may use.
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Speaker 7: Agenda, big tick and then I give you a promotion.
34:13
Speaker 7: What an absolute disaster for mum and dad Australia.
34:19
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister today was under questioning about moving Asio
34:24
Speaker 2: out of Home Affairs and back to the Attorney General's portfolio,
34:28
Speaker 2: and he even took a swife at Malcolm Turnbull.
34:30
Speaker 5: Have a listen, yep, Malcolm Turnbull's wrong, and every expert
34:36
Speaker 5: in national security says that he's wrong. What every national
34:40
Speaker 5: security expert and people I spoke to, including people who
34:44
Speaker 5: were national security advisors at the time, past and present
34:48
Speaker 5: ASIO Director generals, have all welcomed the move.
34:54
Speaker 2: Now it's rare that I agree with Malcolm Turnbal, as
34:56
Speaker 2: you know, Senator, but I think putting a Razio into
35:01
Speaker 2: Home Affairs creating contestability around the cabinet table with Contorney
35:06
Speaker 2: General who signs off and warrants. I think putting it
35:08
Speaker 2: all under the one minister is dangerous. I think that
35:11
Speaker 2: was the right move, and I disagree with the Prime Minister.
35:14
Speaker 2: A lot of national security experts supported that move at
35:16
Speaker 2: the time. But again, judge Labor by their record. They
35:19
Speaker 2: have gutted Home Affairs. They have gained when we've never
35:24
Speaker 2: had more serious threats.
35:27
Speaker 10: And this is the issue.
35:28
Speaker 7: In the first instance, you actually now have the Attorney
35:31
Speaker 7: General marking his own homework Caesar judging Caesar. That is
35:35
Speaker 7: the practical reality of this move, and I don't think
35:39
Speaker 7: Australians believe that the Attorney General of Australia should.
35:42
Speaker 10: Be allowed to mark his own homework. But you are right.
35:45
Speaker 10: All this does, again judge.
35:47
Speaker 7: Them by their actions, not their words, is deliver on
35:50
Speaker 7: labors long held belief that they do not want a
35:55
Speaker 7: strong and powerful national security agency. They do not believe
36:02
Speaker 7: in strong national security. You look at the reasons, Peter,
36:05
Speaker 7: and you're all over them as to why we created
36:08
Speaker 7: this agency, because we always believe on the Coalition side,
36:12
Speaker 7: the fundamental responsibility of any Commonwealth government is to keep
36:17
Speaker 7: Australia and Australians safe. That is why we created a
36:21
Speaker 7: strong and powerful portfolio of Home Affairs. Labor fought against
36:27
Speaker 7: us every step of the way. Their commitment to national
36:31
Speaker 7: security I would have fought in relation to releasing one
36:34
Speaker 7: hundred and fifty hardcore criminals out into the Australian community
36:38
Speaker 7: is pretty clear. They must be thrilled with this portfolio change.
36:44
Speaker 7: And all mister Albernez is doing is trying to rewrite history,
36:47
Speaker 7: quite frankly, because not everybody agrees with this move. And
36:50
Speaker 7: if you're a call under rud and Gillard, they actually
36:54
Speaker 7: also at that time had this on their agenda. They
36:57
Speaker 7: just never implemented it, you know wrong.
37:02
Speaker 2: Makata Cash, thank you as always she is spot on
37:06
Speaker 2: an all of this all right, coming up, all those
37:09
Speaker 2: companies who you know bang the drum about climate change
37:13
Speaker 2: and now say they've got no intention of ever meeting
37:16
Speaker 2: the targets. Plus Chris Bowen throwing more millions today at
37:19
Speaker 2: electric vehicles at the same time as global sales are tanking.
37:28
Speaker 2: Welcome back calls to end Victoria's Upper House election Racker
37:32
Speaker 2: gets support as Labor tries again to ban the Lord's
37:35
Speaker 2: Prayer in Parliament, but first following a New Zealand's decision
37:39
Speaker 2: to drop their twenty thirty emissions target, it's been revealed
37:42
Speaker 2: that nearly thirty percent of Australian companies don't have any
37:45
Speaker 2: intention at all of meeting their own targets. A new
37:48
Speaker 2: survey from Schneider Electric has found that twenty eight percent
37:51
Speaker 2: were not intending to meet their Paris Agreement commitments. Join
37:55
Speaker 2: me now to discuss this, Australian's Environment editor Graham Lloyd.
37:59
Speaker 2: They also found gray and that forty two percent of
38:02
Speaker 2: the companies hadn't even begun decarbonizing. What do you make of.
38:07
Speaker 14: This, Well, it's an extraordinary result. Peter, and it shows
38:15
Speaker 14: that in New Zealand effectively has been caught making promises
38:18
Speaker 14: it's got no hope of keeping. So it's decided to
38:22
Speaker 14: back out now rather than fail. And we're seeing the
38:25
Speaker 14: same thing right across corporate the corporate world generally that
38:30
Speaker 14: it's a lot more fun making pledgures and promises than
38:33
Speaker 14: it is figuring out how they can be achieved. As
38:37
Speaker 14: you said in the introduction, there is an issue here
38:41
Speaker 14: with new regulations that are coming up where companies are
38:44
Speaker 14: going to have to report their performance and they'll be
38:48
Speaker 14: subject to government of meeting these targets that they've set.
38:52
Speaker 14: So the punchline in the survey was that the government
38:56
Speaker 14: should provide more money.
38:57
Speaker 6: To help people to do it.
39:00
Speaker 14: This is all becoming quite quite a mess.
39:05
Speaker 2: When we say government should provide more money, we're talking
39:08
Speaker 2: about poor Rock taxpayers. Yet again, Hey, today Chris Bowen
39:11
Speaker 2: announced an extra twenty million dollars to increase the ev
39:15
Speaker 2: fleet of a ride share provider called Splend. That brings
39:19
Speaker 2: a total now to around forty million dollars. Now I
39:23
Speaker 2: want to know, Graham, this is a private company. Is
39:26
Speaker 2: this a grant or a loan? We're going to get
39:29
Speaker 2: our money back.
39:31
Speaker 14: That's right now. This was provided by the Clean Energy
39:35
Speaker 14: Finance Corporation, which is effectively a thirty billion dollar fund.
39:39
Speaker 14: And what's really lacking in this announcement is any transparency
39:43
Speaker 14: at all. It's described as an investment. It's a second
39:48
Speaker 14: lot of twenty million dollars. We're not told whether we're
39:51
Speaker 14: investing in the company or we're investing in the cars
39:54
Speaker 14: they are going to be leased out to ride share drivers.
39:59
Speaker 14: It really is something that needs a lot more clarity,
40:03
Speaker 14: and I think taxpayers it's reasonable to ask the question
40:06
Speaker 14: why are they investing in this sort of thing. It
40:10
Speaker 14: really looks like a bit of a sop to the
40:13
Speaker 14: electric vehicle makers.
40:16
Speaker 2: Well let's go to them now, because you know, I'm
40:19
Speaker 2: reading all the international reports around the world that are
40:22
Speaker 2: on the brink of collapse. This is despite billions in
40:24
Speaker 2: suber cities. Tesla their profits had drops on forty five percent.
40:29
Speaker 2: Ford has been losing almost seventy six thousand dollars on
40:34
Speaker 2: every ev itsels. I mean, if it's going so poorly,
40:39
Speaker 2: if demand's not there with customers overseas, what the heck
40:43
Speaker 2: are we doing here in Australia.
40:46
Speaker 14: Look, this is the big question, and this is a
40:49
Speaker 14: slow motion train wreck that's been coming for a long time.
40:53
Speaker 14: The established carmakers, that's Ford, that's Mercedes, Benz, that's Porsche,
40:58
Speaker 14: and others, they are at a complete loss where the
41:02
Speaker 14: electric vehicle thing is going. They're losing money, they're cutting production,
41:08
Speaker 14: they're trying to get out of there as quickly as
41:10
Speaker 14: they can, and they're going to be caught in the
41:13
Speaker 14: same bind that governments are mandating that this is how
41:17
Speaker 14: people will behave. People are finding that the running costs,
41:21
Speaker 14: the insurance costs, other things involved with an EV are
41:25
Speaker 14: much higher than they thought, and they're resistant, so it
41:29
Speaker 14: could potentially end in tears, not to.
41:34
Speaker 2: Say anything about the huge fire risk, and how when
41:38
Speaker 2: the battery goes it's forty fifty dollars to replace the battery.
41:42
Speaker 2: People tend to just get themselves in a new car,
41:45
Speaker 2: and you've got a vehicle and a battery in that vehicle,
41:49
Speaker 2: it can't be recycled or it's very expensive and difficult
41:52
Speaker 2: to recycle. I tell you, I don't think we will
41:54
Speaker 2: go electric the way we thought we might have fifteen
41:57
Speaker 2: years ago. Graham. I think we'll have something else in
41:59
Speaker 2: the market when we end up getting rid eventually of
42:02
Speaker 2: combustion cars. Thank you for your time. You'll take my
42:07
Speaker 2: MS off me, Chris Bowen at the very very end,
42:11
Speaker 2: if then all right? The Queensland Premier in the hot
42:14
Speaker 2: set over comments he made in relation to Ekka, sticking
42:18
Speaker 2: up for his mates to the CFMU, and they push
42:20
Speaker 2: to reform Victoria's Upper House voting systems. Gaining momentum up
42:25
Speaker 2: the break, welcome back, let's be in my panel for tonight,
42:32
Speaker 2: joining me. Liberal senator from Queensland James McGrath and spectator
42:36
Speaker 2: Australia Columbus Terry Barnes. I should say James ll and
42:40
Speaker 2: p senator, not just liberal senator. I'll get that one right.
42:43
Speaker 2: The Master Builders Association today calling for a new regulator
42:46
Speaker 2: to be set up to oversee the building industry. But
42:49
Speaker 2: they don't believe the CVEM you should be de registered
42:52
Speaker 2: and that's a surprise to me. They want a new
42:55
Speaker 2: construction industry compliance and corruption agency. They've put a plan
43:00
Speaker 2: to the new Industrial Relations Minister Murray wat he's sort
43:04
Speaker 2: of sitting on the fence. He's certainly not declared a position.
43:07
Speaker 2: But they gutted and got rid then of the ABC
43:10
Speaker 2: C I'm not so sure that's where they'll go. What
43:13
Speaker 2: do you think of this plan? Do you think it
43:15
Speaker 2: should be what's put on table by the master Builders
43:18
Speaker 2: or should it be the ABCC? And what about their
43:21
Speaker 2: comment they don't think the union should be deregistered.
43:27
Speaker 6: Oh, this is a rare instance where I'm going to
43:29
Speaker 6: disagree with the master Builders. We've got a body that
43:33
Speaker 6: has existed. It's called the Australian Building Construction Commission. Bring
43:37
Speaker 6: it back. Bring it back because it was the cop
43:40
Speaker 6: on the watch. Bring it back to make sure it
43:42
Speaker 6: does its job. But also the cea of human you
43:45
Speaker 6: does need to be deregistered. It is a cabal of
43:48
Speaker 6: corruption and dodginess, and the Labor Party are still running
43:52
Speaker 6: a protection racket trying to stop proper bodies like the
43:56
Speaker 6: ABCC from investigating the actions of those union thugs.
44:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll come act to you in a moment, because
44:05
Speaker 2: your premier in Queensland was an apologist for them today.
44:08
Speaker 2: But I'll go to Terry on a related issue. It's
44:12
Speaker 2: a housing issue and it's working from home and getting
44:14
Speaker 2: people back into our cities. Stats out today Terry, I
44:17
Speaker 2: found this very interesting. Brisbane's effectively ditched working from home.
44:22
Speaker 2: Their office vacancy rates very very low, under ten percent now,
44:27
Speaker 2: this is a decade low. But on the other hand,
44:30
Speaker 2: in Victoria they're increasing. They've gone from almost fifteen percent
44:35
Speaker 2: now to eighteen percent last month in July. And she
44:40
Speaker 2: walks through the Melbourne CBD terry. It is obvious the
44:44
Speaker 2: lack of workers in the city is killing Melbourne.
44:49
Speaker 15: Yes, indeed, certainly Cinra Allen as premier down here in Victoria.
44:53
Speaker 15: I mean she's not driving her public servants back to
44:56
Speaker 15: work in the CBD either. But on the other hand,
44:59
Speaker 15: on me, why would you. I mean, it's a dirty place,
45:01
Speaker 15: it's expensive to be here talking to you now, public
45:07
Speaker 15: transports are lottery. And don't get me started on parking.
45:10
Speaker 15: I mean it's a if you don't have to come in,
45:13
Speaker 15: why come in? And you haven't really got to the
45:15
Speaker 15: real point here is that the Melbourne City Council seems
45:19
Speaker 15: to be more concerned about proving how woke it is
45:21
Speaker 15: than providing worrying about pronouns, but not providing good council services.
45:26
Speaker 15: So why would you want to actually come in if
45:28
Speaker 15: you can avoid it?
45:31
Speaker 2: Well, just on that, are you surprised? And I declare
45:35
Speaker 2: an interest. I'm a voter in the Melbourne City Council area.
45:39
Speaker 2: But you don't have to be an Australian citizen to
45:41
Speaker 2: vote in the upcoming Melbourne City Council election. You can
45:45
Speaker 2: be a foreigner. You just have to be an international
45:48
Speaker 2: student or someone who's renting a place here. Were you
45:50
Speaker 2: surprised by that, Terry?
45:53
Speaker 15: Well, it's actually not just Melbourne City Council, Peter, it's
45:57
Speaker 15: actually all a Victoria local governments all across a state.
46:01
Speaker 15: If you own a property in a council local council area,
46:05
Speaker 15: you can actually be a voter, but you have to
46:07
Speaker 15: register the vote. Now you used to be able to
46:09
Speaker 15: do it automatically. But the thing is, I don't really
46:13
Speaker 15: sort of mind about that too much. In ternance of citizenship,
46:15
Speaker 15: if you're a property owner and a rate payer, you
46:18
Speaker 15: want to make sure that the people will go on
46:20
Speaker 15: counsel people then spend your money.
46:22
Speaker 2: Wise they're not wasted. Well these are tenants as well, well,
46:27
Speaker 2: they're not just land owners.
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Speaker 15: Understand that. But I think, well, actually when it comes
46:33
Speaker 15: to tenants, I think it's different. I think there is
46:35
Speaker 15: a citizenship issue there as it is with state and
46:37
Speaker 15: federal elections. But when it comes to rate payers, I
46:40
Speaker 15: mean I'd like as a property owner in other council
46:44
Speaker 15: areas myself, I'd like to know that the council that
46:47
Speaker 15: I'm actually paying good money to is actually not going
46:50
Speaker 15: to waste it. And I think that's what a property
46:53
Speaker 15: owner having a vote is all about.
46:57
Speaker 2: Let's go back to Queensland to your premier. Even Miles
47:00
Speaker 2: which I foreshadowed, was out there today. If you've been
47:03
Speaker 2: to Queensland, you've been to Eka. You love Ecker. It's
47:07
Speaker 2: hugely popular. It's part of the soul of Queensland. And
47:10
Speaker 2: he's got a bit of a mess coming up on
47:13
Speaker 2: his hands in terms of transport. People get into Eker.
47:17
Speaker 2: It all goes down to the CFMU for things that
47:20
Speaker 2: they have been doing in terms of blowouts in construction.
47:22
Speaker 2: But he today was making excuses for them.
47:30
Speaker 6: He's an apologists for the CU, he's an apologist for
47:35
Speaker 6: the CMU. He's fully owned by the CMU. We've got
47:38
Speaker 6: a labor premier in Queensland who won't stand up for Queensland.
47:41
Speaker 6: He won't stand up for the unions. He'll make him
47:43
Speaker 6: a cup of tea, He'll write them a check. This
47:46
Speaker 6: is why in eighty five days time. We've got to
47:48
Speaker 6: vote L and P and get rid of him. We
47:50
Speaker 6: can't just hope for a better future. As Margaret Thatcher said,
47:52
Speaker 6: we've got to vote for one because it is a
47:55
Speaker 6: massive boondogle here and we've got to get rid of
47:57
Speaker 6: this Labor CFU coalition guver.
48:02
Speaker 2: He's also still taking their donations. I make that clear
48:04
Speaker 2: to Queenslanders. Other states are not, or they say they're not,
48:08
Speaker 2: but Queensland Labor is Victoria's Electoral Matters Committee. This is
48:12
Speaker 2: a parliamentary committee. They are calling for an end to
48:16
Speaker 2: the way in which the Upper House in the States voted.
48:18
Speaker 2: These are group voting tickets. They're a racket. I don't
48:22
Speaker 2: think they exist anywhere else other than the Victorian Upper
48:24
Speaker 2: House in the same form Terry, this is a well
48:28
Speaker 2: confinding but I mean in these Turkey's going to vote
48:31
Speaker 2: for Christmas.
48:34
Speaker 15: I don't think so. But really they should, and certainly
48:37
Speaker 15: I think the other parties in the Victorian Parliament, including Labor,
48:42
Speaker 15: should actually make sure it happens. Because when you put
48:44
Speaker 15: that to tick that or put one in the box
48:47
Speaker 15: above the line for that group, how those preferences are
48:51
Speaker 15: exchanged has got nothing to do with you, but it's
48:53
Speaker 15: got everything to do with them, and the fact that
48:55
Speaker 15: there are people who can trade and make money and
48:59
Speaker 15: exchange money to go sure that preferences flow in a
49:02
Speaker 15: particular way. I think it's legal, let's get that right
49:06
Speaker 15: at the current time. It is legal, but it is
49:09
Speaker 15: a moral and it is unethical and it must stop.
49:14
Speaker 2: Just quickly. James, I know you used to be the
49:15
Speaker 2: chair of this committee previously. What's happening to electoral reforms federally.
49:20
Speaker 2: I'd love to see voters have to show ID. I'd
49:24
Speaker 2: love to see them marked off a role that's electronics
49:27
Speaker 2: so they can't vote multiple times. What's on the table.
49:33
Speaker 6: Well, sadly we won't be seeing voter ID and sadly
49:36
Speaker 6: we won't have an electronic role because Labor don't want that.
49:40
Speaker 6: It's a long standing commitment of our movement. But what
49:43
Speaker 6: you are going to see is probably truth and political advertising.
49:46
Speaker 6: So Labor wants a bunch of bureaucrats to decide what
49:49
Speaker 6: is true and what isn't during election campaign instead of
49:51
Speaker 6: the voters. What you are going to see is Labor
49:54
Speaker 6: doubling the number of senators for the territories, effectively effectively
49:58
Speaker 6: locking in a left wing Majorit already in the Senate,
50:01
Speaker 6: and the danger is and the coalition will always sit
50:04
Speaker 6: down with other parties and look at electoral reform. We
50:06
Speaker 6: do not want to bring it in a financial jerrymander
50:09
Speaker 6: similar to Queensland.
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Speaker 2: Not at all. Got to leave it there. Gents, have
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Speaker 2: a lovely weekend. Thank you for your company tonight. Thank
50:16
Speaker 2: you to at home. I'll see you Monday at six.
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Speaker 2: Have a lovely weekend. Here's Andrew