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The Kenny Report | 25 July · The Kenny Report

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  Speaker 1: Line from the Skying You Center. This is the Kenny Report.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Albanezi foreshadows a cabinet reshuffle as too senior ministers
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  Speaker 2: jump ship, but where's the accountability for labor ministers? The
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  Speaker 2: Albanezi government issues sanctions in the Middle East, not against
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  Speaker 2: Hamas terrorists, but against Israeli groups.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 3: This?
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  Speaker 2: As more Israeli hostages are confirmed dead and US President
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden forced into withdrawing from the re election contest,
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  Speaker 2: deliver as a feeble and deceptive address to the nation.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pretty sad and worrying situation. Kristen Tate, Alexander Downer,
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  Speaker 2: Zoe Mackenzie, Keith Pitt, Tim Blair, and Martin Nicholson will
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  Speaker 2: be all over it for you tonight. Let's get cracking.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start in the US, where we've finally heard from
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  Speaker 2: the President his Wednesday night address to the nation mid
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  Speaker 2: morning today. Our time was short, shallow and unsteady.
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  Speaker 4: My fellow Americans. I'm speaking from behind the resolute tesk
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  Speaker 4: in the Oval Office.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the last time we heard from Biden, he was
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  Speaker 2: committed to running for a second term. His party had
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  Speaker 2: delivered him the nomination through a largely uncontested primary run,
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  Speaker 2: and he was to be officially endorsed at the convention
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  Speaker 2: within weeks.
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  Speaker 1: He was insisting he was up to the task.
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  Speaker 2: But Biden was lobbied hard, publicly and privately by Democrat heavyweights,
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  Speaker 2: and he changed his mind, and he announced his withdrawal
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  Speaker 2: via social media, so the eyes of the nation and
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  Speaker 2: the free world were on his performance. His first explanation
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  Speaker 2: of his change of heart.
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  Speaker 4: In this moment, we can see those we disagree with,
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  Speaker 4: not his enemies, but as fellow Americans.
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  Speaker 5: Can we do that?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: The whatever, Biden made no concession about his own record
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  Speaker 2: as president or his own capability to do the job.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, he told us he was selflessly giving up
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  Speaker 2: a second term to save democracy.
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  Speaker 4: I believe I reckon as president, my leadership in the world.
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  Speaker 4: I visioned for America's future, all married it a second term.
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  Speaker 4: But nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving
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  Speaker 4: our democracy. That includes personal ambition.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not even a suggestion that he might not be
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  Speaker 2: up to it, or that he might lose to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Just a line about a time for change.
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  Speaker 4: There is a time and a place for long years
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  Speaker 4: of experience in public life. It's also a time and
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  Speaker 4: a place for new voices, fresh voices. Yes, younger voices
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  Speaker 4: time and places now.
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  Speaker 1: But he doesn't really believe that.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly, Biden plans to stick around till January to serve
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  Speaker 2: out his full term.
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  Speaker 1: That's nearly six months.
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  Speaker 2: If he believes we need a younger voice now, he'd
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  Speaker 2: resign and he'd see his vice president sworn in immediately. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: he's backing Kamala Harris to be endorsed as the Democrat candidate,
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  Speaker 2: and he's framing the election as a battle for the
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  Speaker 2: very future of democracy.
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  Speaker 4: When Van Franklin was asked as he emerged from the
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  Speaker 4: convention going on whether the Founders have given America a
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  Speaker 4: monorchy republic, Frankin's response was, a republic if you can
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  Speaker 4: keep it. A republic if you can keep it. Whether
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  Speaker 4: we keep our republic is now in your hands.
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  Speaker 1: Well, did you grasp what he was trying to say there?
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  Speaker 1: Did he grasp it?
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  Speaker 2: When we put together everything he said in the speech,
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  Speaker 2: it's a divisive and paradoxical proposition.
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  Speaker 1: It's about the future of democracy itself.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't sound there as even as if Biden really
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  Speaker 2: believes it. How can the election be about the future
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  Speaker 2: of democracy. The other side only wins if the people
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  Speaker 2: have their say, you know, through democracy, that's how it works.
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  Speaker 2: Biden made some wild claims trying to say he'd fix
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  Speaker 2: the borders, which clearly he hasn't. But this defensive democracy
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  Speaker 2: line is the key deception. It's a pretty illogical and
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  Speaker 2: irresponsible argument.
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  Speaker 1: I have more on this later with Kristen Tate.
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  Speaker 2: Now to the Middle East, because there's been plenty playing
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  Speaker 2: out in Gaza and linked to it in Washington and Australia.
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  Speaker 2: First up, the Israeli Defense Force has revealed that it's
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  Speaker 2: recovered the bodies of five more hostages. It's understood all
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  Speaker 2: were taken hostage from Israel by HUMM on October the seventh,
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  Speaker 2: last year, that day of Infamy. They were taken to
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  Speaker 2: Gaza alive, but have since been killed and were recovered
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  Speaker 2: near Cahn Yunis. They are orn Golden Maya, Goren, Ravd
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  Speaker 2: katz Kirol Brodsky and Toma Amas. May they rest in peace.
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  Speaker 2: There are still one hundred and twenty hostages unaccounted for.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I wear this badge every night.
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  Speaker 2: And the great fear is that while some of them
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  Speaker 2: are still alive, many will have met a similar fate.
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  Speaker 2: This news came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited
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  Speaker 2: the US and addressed Congress.
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  Speaker 1: He summed up the situation in stark terms.
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  Speaker 6: This is not a clash of civilizations. It's a clash
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  Speaker 6: between barbarism and civilization. It's a clash between those who
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  Speaker 6: glorified death and those who sanctify life. For the forces
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  Speaker 6: of civilization to triumph, America and Israel must stand together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and what a sad thing it was for Israel,
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  Speaker 2: for America, and for the free world that neither the
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  Speaker 2: President nor the Vice President were there for that address.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, many politicians boycotted the event, and activists, of course,
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  Speaker 2: deliberately set out to upstage it with their pro Palestinian,
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  Speaker 2: pro Hamas and anti Israel protests.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Incredibly, as this plays out, our own government has taken
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  Speaker 2: action imposing sanctions against individuals and a youth organization in.
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  Speaker 1: The Middle East.
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  Speaker 2: This action by Foreign Minister Penny Wong was not taken
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  Speaker 2: against any Hamas or other Islamist terrorist group, but wasn't
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  Speaker 2: taken against a nation like Iran that supports terrorism no,
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  Speaker 2: it was taken against settler activists in Israel.
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  Speaker 7: We've made this decision because it's the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 7: Settlements in the West Bank are an impediment to a
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  Speaker 7: two state solution.
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  Speaker 2: This is a disgraceful action from a government that for
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  Speaker 2: months and months has done nothing to stamp out anti
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  Speaker 2: Semitism and hate preachers here in Australia, but now it
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  Speaker 2: interferes in Israel as an obvious sop to radical leftists
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  Speaker 2: and pro Hummus activists here in Australia. Now, this is
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  Speaker 2: not to say that aren't people in Israel who overstepped
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  Speaker 2: the mark, but Israel is a democracy and it operates
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  Speaker 2: under the rule of law, and it's perfectly capable of
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  Speaker 2: prosecuting any of its own people who break the law.
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  Speaker 2: Australia needs to stand firmly behind Israel, and it isn't.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get a federal cabinet reshuffle next week.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be announced on Sunday and they'll be sworn in
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. Such is the way of the Labor Party
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  Speaker 2: that the Prime Minister was able to make that announcement today,
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  Speaker 2: but he's unable to say who'll be in the cabinet
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  Speaker 2: because that's up to the factions. He has to wait
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  Speaker 2: and see who the factions give him instead. Anthony Albernezi
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  Speaker 2: revealed who'll be making way with two ministers leaving cabinet
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  Speaker 2: and retiring from politics at the upcoming election, Indigenous Affairs
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  Speaker 2: Minister Linda Bernie and Skills Minister Brendan O'Connor.
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  Speaker 7: You couldn't ask for a better colleague and friend than
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  Speaker 7: Brendan O'Connor, and you won't find a more decent human being.
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  Speaker 7: All of us I've served alongside. Linda knows that she's
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  Speaker 7: someone who gives her heart and soul to the causes
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  Speaker 7: that she champions.
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  Speaker 1: Look to be.
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  Speaker 2: Frank Labor is not going to miss these two. They
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  Speaker 2: were not great performers. I've had a bit to do
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  Speaker 2: with both of them over the years, and they're good people,
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  Speaker 2: well intentioned, but neither can really point to great achievements
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  Speaker 2: as ministers. Bernie was ineffectual in the Voice debate, but
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  Speaker 2: then the way Albaneasy handled it, it never really gave
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  Speaker 2: her a chance. We wish them well and their resignations
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  Speaker 2: give the government a chance to refresh and regroup.
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  Speaker 1: But listen to this boast.
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  Speaker 7: We've also been an incredibly stable government. No government in
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  Speaker 7: living memory has had the same cabinet and ministerial positions
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  Speaker 7: for its first two years in office.
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  Speaker 2: Hang on a minute, albat. That doesn't mean you've had
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  Speaker 2: a good team. That just means you've stuck by them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, who's seen a worse effort a worse effort
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  Speaker 2: in government? And the Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, he's overseen
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  Speaker 2: nearly one hundred and fifty convicted criminal non citizens released
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  Speaker 2: willy nilly into the community where allegedly many have reoffended,
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  Speaker 2: and he's seen the people smuggling trades start up all
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  Speaker 2: over again.
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  Speaker 8: What we have here are decisions of an independent tribunal
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  Speaker 8: to overturn the cancelation. There was a decision of the
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  Speaker 8: aat an independent tribunal to overturn to overturn the cancelation
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  Speaker 8: of the visa. These were decisions made by an independent
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  Speaker 8: tribunal law.
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  Speaker 2: What's that about not responsible? I mean pointing out that
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  Speaker 2: Giles has stuck around is a hollow boast. Let's hope
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  Speaker 2: he gets punted on Sunday. But then there's the Finance
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  Speaker 2: Minister Katie Gallagher, dubbed as one of the so called
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  Speaker 2: mean girls by late labor Senator Kimberly Kitching. Here's Gallagher
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  Speaker 2: attacking liberal Linda Reynolds and denying prior knowledge of the
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  Speaker 2: Britney Higgins allegation.
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  Speaker 1: I know where this started.
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  Speaker 9: I am now going to go to Senator Sheldon and
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  Speaker 9: give him the call to return to his questioning.
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  Speaker 10: Order.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, on the handside, we'd like to understand.
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  Speaker 11: What she's just He said, where this?
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  Speaker 1: I know where this started? What do you mean, Senator wrong?
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  Speaker 12: If you want, I really don't think we should be
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  Speaker 12: doing this here, but if you want me to do that, yes,
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  Speaker 12: I think I was told by one of your senators
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  Speaker 12: two weeks before about what you were intending to do
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  Speaker 12: with the story in my office. Two weeks before.
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  Speaker 1: I had no knowledge of this.
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  Speaker 11: No one had any knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, how dare you order? Now?
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  Speaker 9: We will move.
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  Speaker 2: No one had any knowledge. That was exposed to be untrue,
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  Speaker 2: as were the claims of a political cover up, and
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  Speaker 2: Gallagher eventually had to make this admission.
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  Speaker 9: I was provided with information in the days before the
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  Speaker 9: allegations were first reported, and I did nothing with that information,
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  Speaker 9: absolutely nothing. I was asked to keep it to myself,
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  Speaker 9: and I.
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  Speaker 2: Did Yep, she said something in parliament that was not true.
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  Speaker 2: Yet Galligher claimed she didn't mislead parliament, maintaining she was
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  Speaker 2: denying making the allegation public.
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  Speaker 1: That's some story. We all heard what she said, but
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  Speaker 1: she stayed in cabinet.
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  Speaker 2: Misleading parliament normally means you resign, So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: That's why Albo has had a steady team. The standards
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  Speaker 2: of accountability have been thrown out the window. Let's bring
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  Speaker 2: in Liberal MP Zoe Mackenzie joining us live from Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: Good to talk to you, Zoe. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on the Anthony Albanezi reshuffle. Surely has to shift Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Giles out of immigration.
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  Speaker 11: Look, it's about time you could shift half the cabnet
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  Speaker 11: I reckon and the country would be grateful for it.
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  Speaker 11: There are a number of low performing ministers in both
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  Speaker 11: cabinet and out of ministry. There will be an opportunity
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  Speaker 11: to move too. Sadly they're both from the same faction.
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  Speaker 11: I'm terrible at understanding Labour's factions, but I understand it
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  Speaker 11: means a bunch of talent that's in different factions has
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  Speaker 11: got no chance to get on the front bench. So
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  Speaker 11: you know he's got to pick from a third of
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  Speaker 11: his party or whatever that left faction is, and I
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  Speaker 11: suspect it'll be more of the same. You did just
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  Speaker 11: take us through the greatest hits of Labour's failures, so
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  Speaker 11: let's hope they're on any more in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think sadly the one who's likely
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  Speaker 2: to stay in his current job is Chris Bowen. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's a policy area where they're inflicting enormous damage on
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  Speaker 2: the country, but they seem to be lockstep behind Chris
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  Speaker 2: Bowen and this grand renewables plus storage experiment.
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  Speaker 11: Absolutely right. So Chris is renewables or bust, and specifically
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  Speaker 11: wind and solar or bust. And yet we know all
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  Speaker 11: their plans for rolling out renewables projects are running at
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  Speaker 11: twenty percent thirty percent of where they need to be.
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  Speaker 11: By now. In my own electric I've got a number
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  Speaker 11: of actual renewable projects that aren't going anywhere. They're renewable
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  Speaker 11: energy terminal in Hastings kiboshed by the Environment Minister and Plibasik.
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  Speaker 11: She wasn't telling the state government, the Labour state government
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  Speaker 11: in Victoria, what she was planning or doing. It's an
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  Speaker 11: absolute share mozzle. They're not making progress. They need to
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  Speaker 11: look broader. We have an all options on the table plan.
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  Speaker 11: That's where they need to be focusing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course we're seeing electricity prices going up again.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't hurt the people who are doing well, but
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  Speaker 2: working families it's a real, real crunch around the family
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  Speaker 2: budgets and this all plays into the cost of living.
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  Speaker 2: There are fears now we'll see another interest rate increase
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  Speaker 2: next month, which will be another hit on families with mortgages.
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  Speaker 1: I heard you.
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  Speaker 2: Earlier today talking about families in your own electure at
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  Speaker 2: outside supermarkets. Tell us just how dire it is the
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  Speaker 2: cost of living crunch.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, so standing out in front of coals on mondays
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  Speaker 11: having a chat with people about what was going on,
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  Speaker 11: and so small businesses doing it really tough, getting smashed
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  Speaker 11: by again labor, state government taxes, particularly on land tax,
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  Speaker 11: payroll tax because we're treated like Metro Melbourne even though
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  Speaker 11: we're eighty kilometers from the city. And then just the
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  Speaker 11: explosion in grocery bills. This one beautiful woman, single mum
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  Speaker 11: of three kids, was taking me through her grocery basket.
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  Speaker 11: She said, this has never cost me more than turn
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  Speaker 11: of bucks before this is like two twenty. Like, I
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  Speaker 11: hope I don't have to come back anytime soon. Right,
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  Speaker 11: So with teenage kids, it's just backbreaking. At the moment,
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  Speaker 11: I've got lots of small businesses closing down. All their
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  Speaker 11: businesses are backed in by their home mortgage. The average
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  Speaker 11: time mortgage is costing twenty five thousand dollars more a
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  Speaker 11: year just in interest for payments. And the thing that
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  Speaker 11: blows me away, Chris, is that labor keeps patting themselves
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  Speaker 11: on the back. Anyone you talk to, Oh, you know,
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  Speaker 11: narrow path. You know, we're doing such a great job.
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  Speaker 11: Everything's going so well. They clearly don't step out of
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  Speaker 11: their beautiful book lined offices and have a chat to
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  Speaker 11: people about what's going on on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, look.
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  Speaker 11: There's anyone with a particularly good, strong story at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a worry, And the great fear is it's
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  Speaker 2: about to get a lot worse.
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  Speaker 10: Now.
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  Speaker 2: If there's a narrow path through this, let's hope labor
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  Speaker 2: picks it. But I mean, if interest rates go up again,
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  Speaker 2: the mortgage crunch is really going to hurt. And the
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  Speaker 2: thing that really worries me too, we congratulate the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we've still got low unemployment. But analysis this week
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  Speaker 2: has shown that most of those jobs are going in
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  Speaker 2: the non productive parts of the economy. In fact, huge
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  Speaker 2: percentage of them in the public sector and through the ends.
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  Speaker 2: So these are all jobs that were actually paying for
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  Speaker 2: as tax payers, and the private economy is really suffering.
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  Speaker 2: That means that if a crunch comes, we could see
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  Speaker 2: drastic consequences unfold very quickly.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, they turn up and lift job So the trade
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  Speaker 11: based jobs, the light manufacturing, the middle manufacturing jobs. There
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  Speaker 11: orders a period. Why because energy costs are absolutely killing
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  Speaker 11: business at the moment, and you're right, we're in a
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  Speaker 11: process of making guests harder to get, harder to find,
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  Speaker 11: harder to buy. And at the same time, these renewable
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  Speaker 11: projects aren't coming online, and frankly, lots of residents don't
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  Speaker 11: want these renewal projects next to them. It's not a
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  Speaker 11: reason not to try and develop the sector. We must,
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  Speaker 11: but we must do it in lockstep with people and
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  Speaker 11: how they live and where they go and where they
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  Speaker 11: want to live. And that's the problem with this plan.
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  Speaker 11: It's their way or no way. Frankly, it's just getting
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  Speaker 11: much harder for people to create real jobs in small business,
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  Speaker 11: backing there in entrepreneurship and getting ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, spot on, a bit of a worry. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining us, Zoe, I appreciate it. Zoe mackenzie. There, Victorian
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  Speaker 2: Liberal MP joining us from Sydney. I want to get
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  Speaker 2: back to the US now. As I mentioned the big
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  Speaker 2: address to the nation by Joe Biden, we've been waiting
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  Speaker 2: days to hear from him, and as I discuss discussed
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  Speaker 2: with the Kristen tape, it was a pretty dismal affair. Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, he was on air for all of eleven
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  Speaker 13: minutes and did not give any of the millions of
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  Speaker 13: voters who did cast their ballots for him a reason
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  Speaker 13: as to why he was dropping out of this race.
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  Speaker 13: And of course he stumbled, he bumbled, he had trouble
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  Speaker 13: actually speaking, and he told lie after lie, particularly about
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  Speaker 13: the border, because he was trying to protect Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 13: The border has been her big failure. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 13: just a pointless address, full of lies and bumbling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to some aspects of that, and
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  Speaker 2: one of them is what he said about the border.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have a look at this.
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  Speaker 4: Pross of security in our border. Border crossings are lowered
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  Speaker 4: today when the previous administration left office. I've kept my
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  Speaker 4: commitment to point the first black woman to the stream
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  Speaker 4: court in the United States of America. I also kept
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  Speaker 4: my commitment an administration looks like America.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, incredible stuff, Christian As you say that, to claim
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  Speaker 2: about the border is just false.
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  Speaker 1: It's not true.
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  Speaker 2: The border has never been less secure, there's never been
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  Speaker 2: more people coming across it. And then he segued straight
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  Speaker 2: from that to identity politics, which of course is the
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  Speaker 2: basis upon which he appointed Kamala Harris, and he's still
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  Speaker 2: talking about it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Of course, we've seen how well DEI has worked out
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  Speaker 13: for us. Just look at the way the Secret Service
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  Speaker 13: handled the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, who had you know,
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  Speaker 13: women who are shorter than him attempting to protect him
• 19:17
  Speaker 13: from bullets. It was a disaster. But yeah, to say
• 19:20
  Speaker 13: that border crossings are lower today than they were when
• 19:22
  Speaker 13: Donald Trump was in office, he's insulting to the intelligence
• 19:25
  Speaker 13: of the American people. Illegal boarding border crossings were at
• 19:29
  Speaker 13: lows under Donald Trump. They are at all time highs
• 19:32
  Speaker 13: under Joe Biden. They've reached in all time high for
• 19:35
  Speaker 13: the history of this nation in twenty twenty two. Put
• 19:38
  Speaker 13: this into perspective, We've had about ten million illegal aliens
• 19:43
  Speaker 13: for ass our border. And those are just the ones
• 19:45
  Speaker 13: that we know of under Joe Biden. This is more
• 19:47
  Speaker 13: than the population of most US states. So that is
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: an outright lie. It's not even a half truth spun
• 19:54
  Speaker 13: into a sort of full truth. It is just a lie.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me go into what I I reckon.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: It is even a bigger deception, the grand deception at
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the heart of this statement.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: From Joe Biden.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Here he is about the power of the American democracy.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Great thing about America is here. Kings and dictators do
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: not rule the people do. History is in your hands,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: the powers in your hands. The idea of America lies
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: in your hands.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Now, this is a problem, Chris, and he's saying the
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: power is in your hands.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: But at the same time he's saying.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: If you vote for the other guy, then that's the
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: end of democracy.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: He's not saying us a free choice.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: He's basically setting this up as a battle for the
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: future of democracy in the US.
• 20:44
  Speaker 13: Yes, the great defenders of democracy forced out the candidate
• 20:48
  Speaker 13: that was put in place via votes from their own
• 20:51
  Speaker 13: constituents and now have coornated his replacement and told their
• 20:56
  Speaker 13: voters to just.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Deal with it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 13: And now these people have the nerve to sit there
• 21:01
  Speaker 13: and tell us that they are going to continue to
• 21:03
  Speaker 13: defend democracy against the other candidate, Donald Trump, who was
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: voted on by his supporters in the Republican Party. The
• 21:12
  Speaker 13: whole thing is a joke, but this is all they've got,
• 21:14
  Speaker 13: and this address puts Biden back in the good graces
• 21:18
  Speaker 13: of the leftists. Of course, he was a pariah with
• 21:21
  Speaker 13: donors a week ago. Now he's useful again in terms
• 21:24
  Speaker 13: of getting people to get behind Kamala Harris. So now
• 21:28
  Speaker 13: the media will tell us all, oh, he's so wonderful
• 21:31
  Speaker 13: and gracious to step down for the good of the country.
• 21:33
  Speaker 13: But the truth is he's just become a tool, a
• 21:36
  Speaker 13: useful one for the Democrats.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: The other point of course that struck me, of course,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: is that Joe Biden says the time for a new
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: and fresh voice is now.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: But it's not now.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: It's actually in late January next year, because otherwise, if
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the time was now, he'd be resigning. But now he's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: promising to stick around close to six months more of
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: his presidency to go, and rather than saying he'tly going
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: to hold the fort he's now promising even more radical
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: leftist reform.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Have a look at this.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: I'm going to call for a Supreme Court reform because
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: this is critical to our democracy.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court reform Kristen Supreme Court reform. In other words,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: that is code for the left getting more moderate or
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: more leftist judges onto the court. This must be deeply
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: worrying or the left will love it, but it's going
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: to be deeply worrying for mainstream America.
• 22:32
  Speaker 13: Yes, well, at this point, Biden has nothing left to lose.
• 22:35
  Speaker 13: I mean, he's going to be gone within half a year,
• 22:40
  Speaker 13: so he's probably just going to be as radical as
• 22:43
  Speaker 13: he wants to be. But to your point earlier, the
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: reason that he hasn't really given a clear reason for
• 22:50
  Speaker 13: stepping down is because if he did, he would admit
• 22:53
  Speaker 13: that he needs to come, you know, get out of
• 22:55
  Speaker 13: the presidency right now. If he's unfit to run, then
• 22:59
  Speaker 13: he's unfit to be president of the United States. That's
• 23:01
  Speaker 13: why he's not citing health concerns or any particular reason
• 23:05
  Speaker 13: as to why he's getting out of the race, because
• 23:07
  Speaker 13: that would mean he needs to get out today and
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: that today would be the time for a younger, newer generation.
• 23:14
  Speaker 13: But he simply can't have that messaging because it would
• 23:17
  Speaker 13: mean that everyone would start asking, well, if you're not
• 23:20
  Speaker 13: fit to run for president.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: What are you doing in the Oval office right now?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: The extraordinary times yet again, Kristin, thanks for joining us.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: We'll see what next week brings.
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: I'm kind of scared to see, but certainly exciting times.
• 23:35
  Speaker 13: Thank you, Chris.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, now you live in interesting times. I had the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: old Chawnese curse. We got Alexander Banner and Keith Pitt
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: coming up.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: But after this, Brig Tim Bleir and Matt Nicholson will
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: talk about the chaos in Paris as the Olympics are
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: about to get under way, and Prince Harry speaks up
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: what he's long running family feud. Let's sort out what's
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: really happening in the world now with joined by Mat
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Nicholson from Step and Makes Studios, joining us from Melbourne
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: and filling in for Tim Blair. Looks like we've got
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: a hipsteon from the Inner Wes. There the new haircut
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: from Tim make look looking mighty fine. Look you must
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: have must have tuned into this Joe Biden addressed to
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: the nation this morning and been absolutely overwhelmed by how.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: He struggled even to get through that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 14: Well, that's right, and the only reason I've kept the beer.
• 24:24
  Speaker 14: But by the way, is covers up my own facial bruising,
• 24:26
  Speaker 14: which is the big story out of the out of
• 24:29
  Speaker 14: the Joe Biden video that he had at least a
• 24:31
  Speaker 14: couple of facial bruises. Looks like he'd taken a tumble,
• 24:34
  Speaker 14: or as a few have suggested it on Twitter, maybe
• 24:37
  Speaker 14: Nancy Pelosi punched him. So the truth, the truth is
• 24:42
  Speaker 14: going to emerge about this, about this entire Biden episode
• 24:46
  Speaker 14: in probably five to ten years. But we're learning on
• 24:49
  Speaker 14: a day to day basis just how deceptive everyone has
• 24:52
  Speaker 14: been about this, and how cooperatively deceptive the media has been.
• 24:56
  Speaker 14: The media has been absolutely working as hard as they
• 24:58
  Speaker 14: can to conceal so much, so many of the facts
• 25:00
  Speaker 14: about Biden. And interesting enough, now they switched to switch,
• 25:03
  Speaker 14: they gave over to Protectingmala Harris.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been extraordinary to watch, and you're right, we'll
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: read it in the memoirs from Karine Jean Pierre or
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: someone or maybe from Hunter Biden in the future. Before
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I come to you, Mark, let's just have a look
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: at one of the presidents, perhaps perhaps one of his
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: better bits.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I'd like to thank our grief Vice President Kamala Harris.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: She experienced, she's tough, she's capable, She's been an incredible
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: partner to me and the leader for our country. Now
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: the choice is up to you, the American people.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there you go, Mark.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's reading all that from an auto Q
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: and it's a hell of a struggle, and he says
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: the time for changes now, Yet he doesn't resign.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I keep coming back to this.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, if he really wanted to help Kamala and
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the Democrats, he would resign tomorrow. She would be sworn
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: in as the first female president, and that would give
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: her some sort of impetus towards the election.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent, right, And that's it speaks to
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: how selfish a man he really is as well, because
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: that would be the best thing he could do for
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: the Democrats coming up to this election as well. You know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: replace a man who's basically brain dead with a person
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: who's got half a brain and at least then they're
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: in for a shot. Like it's game on for that
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: election then. But he won't do that. He won't step
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: down because he's an incredibly selfish man. That's what's got
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: me the most about this as well. Everyone's saying, you know,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: over there, they're saying, you know, he's like a Washington.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: He's refusing power. He is stepping down. What a beautiful man.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Washington was under so much pressure to stay in the
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: job and he's still refused the position and left because
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: he felt like that was the best thing for the office.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Ye Joe just crumbled to the enormous amount of pressure, saying,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: please go you're sick, you're not well, go to bed.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Have a nap, changing happy, whatever it is.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: It's just really sad, really sad to see.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: There's been many times over the past few years that
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I've shown some items of popular culture and says this
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: is a said this is a matter of life imitating art.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: And I really got a strong sense of that in
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the in the address this morning when he started talking
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: about the time for change, the time for someone fresh,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the time for someone younger, and it maybe remember.
• 27:15
  Speaker 15: This first comes spring and summer, but then we have
• 27:22
  Speaker 15: fall and winter, and then we get spring and summer again.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Just a brilliant movie being there, Peter Seller's last role
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: as Chancey guard there Tim where this dim wit ends
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: up being the president and they all hang on his
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: every word.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: And this is now playing out in real life for us.
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: Sadly, well, the thing is even dear Old Chelsea has
• 27:50
  Speaker 14: played by Sellers more coherent, more sensible, more rational, more
• 27:54
  Speaker 14: electable than the Carrent than the current boss.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 27:58
  Speaker 14: And he liked to watch an ability that elude that
• 28:02
  Speaker 14: Joe Biden. Ever he tries to climb up anything there
• 28:04
  Speaker 14: he goes right there, he's down again.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Chauncey at least get busy in the garden and like
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: to watch TV. Donald Trump. Things have changed for Donald Trump.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: He's got to have a contest on his hands against
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: a new candidate who's going to get a hell of
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: a wave of enthusiasm. And media supporters used to say
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: to him, but here's what the Donald had to say.
• 28:26
  Speaker 16: She is a radical left lunatic who will destroy our
• 28:30
  Speaker 16: country if she ever gets the chance to get into office.
• 28:34
  Speaker 16: We're not going to let that happen.
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 28:40
  Speaker 16: I was supposed to be nice. They say, something happened
• 28:45
  Speaker 16: to me when I got shot, I became nice. And
• 28:50
  Speaker 16: when you're dealing with these people, they're very dangerous people.
• 28:53
  Speaker 16: When you're dealing with them, you can't be too nice.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: He really can't be.
• 28:56
  Speaker 16: So if you don't mind, I'm not going to be nice,
• 29:00
  Speaker 16: I don't care.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I love it of b n Mark.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris has got rid of nice Donalds.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I still love him.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I know, I know you're not the biggest fan, Chris,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: but I still I still love him. I do think
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: he looked and he looked invincible coming up to the
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: r n C right up and you know, whole Cogan
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: ripping his shirt off and all that sort of stuff.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: And then I think he's ninety minutes speech. About forty
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: five minutes in, I think all the Democrats started calling
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: each other and said, look, I think he's actually kind
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: of beatable. It's those moments like that where he just
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: absolutely destroys it. But you know, at the RNC, I
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: feel like he did actually come across beatable. And it's
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: a scary thing, but you get to reintroduce Kamala Harris.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Now the Republicans are actually really struggling with how to
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: argue against.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Her, or to how to defeat her.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: It's it's game on boys. I'm excited, this is this
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: is I was I'm bumped.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it be terrific to watch and look, Kamala
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: how Us is going to be a stranger to most
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: of the American and public as she is to most Australians.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: You know who pays attention to the vice president.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: She is a radical lefty.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: She is hard green left tim And this is what
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I love about Donald Trump. He doesn't mince words, doesn't
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: say that she's a risky lefty or whatever. He says.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: She's a radical left lunatic.
• 30:20
  Speaker 14: Absolutely, and she is and more frightening as well. And
• 30:24
  Speaker 14: we haven't heard it in the show so far, but
• 30:27
  Speaker 14: the laugh, the laugh will drive a lot of people away.
• 30:30
  Speaker 14: But I'd also say that that clip that you just
• 30:32
  Speaker 14: showed of Trump, it was very similar that Tony he
• 30:36
  Speaker 14: adopted throughout twenty sixteen when he was victorious over Hillary Clinton.
• 30:40
  Speaker 14: And a lot of it is bouncing back and forth
• 30:42
  Speaker 14: between him and the him and the audience. And it's
• 30:45
  Speaker 14: why a lot of the transcripts of his speeches look
• 30:47
  Speaker 14: so disjointed. They didn't take into account these dramatic pauses
• 30:51
  Speaker 14: and these builds and all the rhetorical tricks that he uses.
• 30:54
  Speaker 14: And when I say tricks, I just meant, you know,
• 30:57
  Speaker 14: this is a real skill. He could work a crowd
• 30:59
  Speaker 14: beauty and we saw a little example of it there.
• 31:01
  Speaker 14: It's back and forth and it's very motivating for the
• 31:04
  Speaker 14: people he's speaking to and with Yeah.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Look, he's a master communicator. Almost monosyllabic at times, but
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: a master communicator, never the same. I watched all of
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: that ninety minutes at the RNC and I thought it
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: was just captivating and he moved people through through various
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: moods and emotions. But he's got to just before we
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: move on from American politics, I just do want to
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: remind people in case they've forgotten about this.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I was told we had it.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Tim, we're talking about Kumala's laughing. I thought we
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: had a bit of Kumala's laughing there, and the thing
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: about her laughing at a cackle at the cackle. But
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: the problem with it is it happens at the most
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: in the opportune moments. Right she's meeting with the leader
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: of NATO or might have been the Polish president and
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: they're talking about refugees from Ukraine and she doesn't know
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: what to say, so she fills the moment with a cackle.
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: You wouldn't want to be delivering a eulogy at the funeral,
• 32:00
  Speaker 14: would you of anyone? It's a it's a piercing sound.
• 32:05
  Speaker 14: Maybe maybe you can be weaponized against the enemies currently
• 32:08
  Speaker 14: circulating around Watchington DC. If we speak, there's a lot
• 32:11
  Speaker 14: of Marsites out there. You might need a bit of
• 32:14
  Speaker 14: stnic coresions. Let's see.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Now, I want to move to the second biggest show
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: in the world, and that is what's about to unfold
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: in Paris, and the Olympic Games are starting kicking off
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Friday and night our time, with the opening ceremony a
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Saturday morning. Really, but Mark really worrying what's happening in Paris.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of crime, personal assaults and sexual
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: alleged sexual assaults, gangs roaming the streets, police from all
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: over the world trying to help out the French police there.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: But it's got to be a worry.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: And on top of that, you know, we don't like
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: to talk about it too much, but the threat of
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: terrorism must be immense in that place at this time.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Percent right, mate, and look controversial take, you know, personal take.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: But I think Paris stinks. I went there twelve years ago.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I thought it was.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: It was terrible then, and it serves as a warning
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: actually for this whole like open border policy, it's out
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: of control migration. Twelve years ago, I had my phone stolen,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: I had you know, blokes harassing my missus at the time.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: There's scams, bloody everywhere, you know. That's why I've brought
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: in forty five thousand police, fifteen thousand military to shrine
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: and get this city under control. And before the games
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: have even started, it's buddy falling apart. It's going to
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: be really interesting. But like you said, it's almost scary.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: At the same time, the threats that's going on. You're
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: already seeing protesting happening all around the places. Tensions are
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: high that the whole world's looking. It's it's really scary.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: So your proposal in the City of Love was rejected,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: was it?
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Mate?
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I thank god I'm not athletic talented, because I'd be
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: fight boing into in and out of Paris every day.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I'd be staying in the Netherlands whatever.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't stay in Paris.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: No fly to the vers palace there competing the horse
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: riding and then get the help back to Italy or something.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I want to get onto the royal family because this
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: is a lovely little snippet.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: People have been talking about how Prince Harry's viewed with
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the family.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: He happened, and well, here's one theory that he's given
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: a bit of a kick along.
• 34:28
  Speaker 12: To what extent do you think that your determination to
• 34:31
  Speaker 12: fight the tabloids destroyed the relationship with your family?
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: I think there's yeah, that's that's certainly a central piece
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: to it. But you know, they's that's a hard question
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: to answer because anything I say about my family results
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: in a torrent of abuse from the press.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Honestly, no, I don't think begging the tabloids is his problem.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Tim has been bagging his family. That's what kicks along
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: a feud with your family.
• 35:03
  Speaker 14: He's sort of talking in loops, now, isn't he. It
• 35:05
  Speaker 14: began with, you know, the dispute of the family. Now
• 35:07
  Speaker 14: it's about you know, the dispute of the family gets
• 35:09
  Speaker 14: mentioned in the press, and then he takes the press
• 35:11
  Speaker 14: to call it and then there's some more despitualle he's
• 35:12
  Speaker 14: talking about that, and you just keep talking in smaller
• 35:14
  Speaker 14: and smaller circles. It's all ridiculous. Although I will give him,
• 35:18
  Speaker 14: I will give him points for foresight. It was a
• 35:21
  Speaker 14: very good idea to name that book, spare, considering how
• 35:24
  Speaker 14: many of them ended up in remaining.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Cool, It remainder.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: I just go quickly finished with you. Mark in Melbourne,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: because of course, the great city of Melbourne hosts the
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: AFL Grand Final every year. Now, I love footy, as
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm obsessed with footy, but I couldn't tell
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: you and couldn't care less who turns up to sing
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: a song before the Grand Final. But apparently everyone's excited
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: that this person is going to be there this year.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: One hundred thousand passionate fans roring Pat the mighty mcgs.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to hear that.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie Perry will get you through the turnstiles.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Mark, Oh mate, The AFL has kicked anotherir own goal here.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: This is a terrible another, another sheer example of the
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: AFL executive just completely out of touch with their audience.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: They nailed it last year with Kiss.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Actually you would have thought, like, no, the group thread
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: is not fired up about Katie Perry. The boys are
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: not excited about Katie Perry before the mcg grand File.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: They're they're not pumped at all. It's just out.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: It seems like a counterfeit Taylor Swift thing. That's what
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: it seems like to me. You've just tried to cash
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: in on that and they've just got something in and
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: jam it in there or trying to be inclusive. Would
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: have been nice to see an Australian act personally, that
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: would have been nice.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Last year they just kept the Crows out of the
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: finals with some dodgy call on from the goal umpire.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: This year is Katy Perry and I can't work them out.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining his guys to you next week, Tim
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Blair and Martin Nicholson. They're always going to wrap up
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: the week with them. Got to take a break. On
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: the other side, I'm going to catch up with the
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: former foreignerst to Alexander Downer and also the Israeli Prime
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Minister's bold speech was met with hostile.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Protests in Washington.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Now, aside from the President's address, the other big story
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: in Washington has been the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Benjamin Nettan Yahoo. He was there to meet with President
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Biden and address Congress and an event that neither Joe
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Biden or Kamala Harris actually attended, and the visit sparked
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: a series of protests inside the capital. The Prime Minister
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: attacked the protesters.
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: They stand with hamas they stand with rapists and murderers.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: They stand with people who came into the kibbutzim, into
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: a home. The parents hid the children, the two babies
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: in the attic, in a secret attic. They murder the families,
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: the parents, they find the secret latch to the hidden attic,
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: and then they murder the babies. These processes stand with them.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: They should be ashamed of themselves.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: They should.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Indeed, I caught up with the former Foreign Minister Alexander
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Downer in California to his take, well, I thought.
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: He made a very powerful speech, not only in support
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: of Israel and it spite against ultimately against the Iran,
• 38:24
  Speaker 10: which is what it basically is, but showed great gratitude
• 38:29
  Speaker 10: towards the United States for its support. But it was
• 38:34
  Speaker 10: very disappointing that some of the Democrats, and just the
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: Democrats decided to boycott his speech. It's partly for party
• 38:43
  Speaker 10: political reasons. They see him as right wing. And also,
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: of course they're anxious about making sure they get Muslim
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: votes in the United States at the presidential election, so
• 38:57
  Speaker 10: boycotting boycotting the Prime Minister was a way of trying
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: to win support from Muslim voters.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: But it's a very.
• 39:06
  Speaker 10: Bad look, actually, and I don't think it did any
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: credit to the Democrats behaving in that way.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Of course, the dominant political story in the US would
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: have been the address to the nation by Joe Biden.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: We've been waiting a long while to hear from him
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: since he announced his withdrawal from the race for re
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: election via Twitter.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: What did you make of his address?
• 39:29
  Speaker 10: I thought it was a very strange address because he
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: was saying he was standing down as a candidate for
• 39:36
  Speaker 10: the Democrats in order to protect democracy.
• 39:39
  Speaker 13: That was the.
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: Argument he made. We suddenly make any sense. Lets you
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: look at it through American eyes, which is that if
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: the Democrats don't win the election, which after all, is
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: an exercise, a grand exercise in democracy, then somehow that
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: will be a threat to democracy.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: See.
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: It's an extraordinary point to make, and I thought a
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: very divisive point to make, because it's divisive to say
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: that if you don't win an election, that's a threat
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: to democracy. It's a strange thing to say. It's a
• 40:15
  Speaker 10: very partisan thing to say. And the speech was for
• 40:18
  Speaker 10: a man who's the president of the whole nation calling
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: the unity to inject such a devices and patsisan component
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: into the speech, So I thought it was poorly judged myself.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fascinated to hear that, because that's the paradox
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: that I thought it was at the heart of the address,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: and I mentioned that earlier in the program. There was
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: another aspect to it that I thought was fascinating. It's
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: born out in this segment.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Have a listen.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: There is a time and a place for long years
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: of experience in public life. There's also a time and
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: a place for new voices, fresh voices, Yes, younger voices,
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: and that time and now now.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: If he says the time and place for a fresh voice,
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: a younger voice is now, wouldn't he be resigning from
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: the presidency altogether so that Kamala Harris would be sworn
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: in as president rather than saying he's going to stick
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: around for almost six months and been president right through
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: it all.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Late January.
• 41:20
  Speaker 10: Well, he's definitely not going to do that. He enjoys
• 41:23
  Speaker 10: the presidency too much to stand down right now. After all,
• 41:29
  Speaker 10: a tote huge effort by the Democratic Party to get
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: him to stand down at all. So when he says
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: it's a time for younger voices, he didn't think that
• 41:41
  Speaker 10: until apparently last weekend when he made the decision to
• 41:46
  Speaker 10: move on. And he made the decision to move on
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: because he was persuaded that he wouldn't be able to
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: win the election. So this is all about whether the
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: Democrats can beat Donald Trump or whether they can't, and
• 42:00
  Speaker 10: he's decided he can't or others have persuaded him that
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: he can't. So his whole speech was about how you
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: should all get behind Kamala Harris. And I don't know
• 42:12
  Speaker 10: how that will go down with the American people, but
• 42:15
  Speaker 10: it was a very partisan exercise.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: The whole thing just finally on that there's a groundswell
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: of support for Kamala Harris. Of course, the media are excited,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: there's some good pulling for her. You'd expect that initially,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: and she's going to be running to be the first
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: female president of the US. Do you believe that she
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: can sustain this through to November or will.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: The scales fall from people's eyes.
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: I think it's a fifty to fifty proposition.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Really.
• 42:41
  Speaker 10: It depends what arguments the Republicans are able to make
• 42:45
  Speaker 10: against Kamala Harris. They're going to focus very much on
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: her being left wing.
• 42:50
  Speaker 15: You know, she was an attorney.
• 42:53
  Speaker 10: In San Francisco, which is the most left wing part
• 42:56
  Speaker 10: of the United States. She was the attorney general of California, ditto,
• 43:02
  Speaker 10: very left wing parts of the United States, and so
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: the Republicans will target her left wing views and her
• 43:11
  Speaker 10: left wing record, and we'll see how that plays out.
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: I mean, obviously a lot of the population don't like
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: Donald Trump's vulgarity, and that's the negative for him. But
• 43:25
  Speaker 10: I think it's a fifty to fifty proposition really. I mean,
• 43:28
  Speaker 10: the Democrats are running the line that she's a woman
• 43:32
  Speaker 10: and she's a woman of color. Whether voters care too
• 43:35
  Speaker 10: much about that, I doubt.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: I doubt that's.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Going to be a women argument in the end.
• 43:42
  Speaker 10: In politics, it's a battle of ideas, not a battle
• 43:47
  Speaker 10: of your race or a battle of your gender, and
• 43:51
  Speaker 10: so I suspect she'll have to come up with strong
• 43:54
  Speaker 10: policies in order to win.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Fascinating times ahead as ever, thanks so much for joining us,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Alexander Chris. Oh yeah, what a show. Hey, imagine what's
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: going to unfold next week. After the break, we'll get
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: back on to domestic issues with a Labor Party reshovel
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: happening in Canberra on Sunday, and we'll talk about how
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: households are feeling the crunch as power bills saw.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Bunderberg.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: What better place to go to on a Thursday evening
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: than Bunderberg and Queensland. We catch up with Keith Pitt,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: former Resources minister and LMP member. Good to talk to you, Keith.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Tell us about your thoughts of this reshuffle. I always
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: find the labor process is quite amusing, for old Albow
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: doesn't really know what cattle he's got to work with
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: until the factions tell him. But who would you be
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: punting if you were Albow.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Chris.
• 44:54
  Speaker 17: It's amusing until you discover it's actually really serious. I mean,
• 44:57
  Speaker 17: congratulations to the two who have been announcers retiring and
• 45:00
  Speaker 17: good luck to them in retirement. But I still can't
• 45:02
  Speaker 17: believe that a prime minister of this country can walk
• 45:04
  Speaker 17: up to a microphone and say it's not up to
• 45:06
  Speaker 17: them who goes into the ministry, it will be decided
• 45:08
  Speaker 17: by factions and union bosses.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: It's just incredible.
• 45:12
  Speaker 17: The Prime Minister of Australia can't decide who's going to
• 45:15
  Speaker 17: be in his own ministry.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: And in terms of who.
• 45:18
  Speaker 17: Should be part of it, Well, I've had an option.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I'd put them all. I kept it a lot, I'd
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: put into the College and government. Well, but I'll tell
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: you what, if.
• 45:24
  Speaker 17: Andrew Giles survives, that is a miracle because it just
• 45:29
  Speaker 17: means that it doesn't matter how poorly you perform, you
• 45:32
  Speaker 17: will never ever be sacked from a labor ministry.
• 45:35
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Well, the two I highlighted at the top of the program.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Mar Andrew Giles, you're some competence and mismanagement of that portfolio, surely,
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: But also Katie Gallagher on that misleading of parliament, which
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: she denies, but any on any rational examination of the facts,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: she should have lost her cabinet position over that. But
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: the one that you'll be interested in, and I'm interested
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: to get your thoughts on, given our ongoing energy crisis.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: We've got a supply crisis and a price in crisis,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: and everything the government's doing is only going to make
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: it worse. How does Chris Bowen keep his job? Chris
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Bowne needs better than Christmas for the coalition.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: He's fantastic.
• 46:13
  Speaker 17: But we've seen reports today that wholesale prices are up.
• 46:17
  Speaker 17: But I mean that surely can't be right, Chris, because
• 46:20
  Speaker 17: I've been telling us how low power prices are going
• 46:23
  Speaker 17: to be.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: He's told us.
• 46:24
  Speaker 17: Forever and over and over and over how low they'll be,
• 46:27
  Speaker 17: and yet they're not. And every single person's energy.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Costs are going up.
• 46:31
  Speaker 17: And that is absolutely wrecking the Australian economy. And for
• 46:35
  Speaker 17: all those individuals who can't pay their bills, they're going
• 46:37
  Speaker 17: to get it in the neck again.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: And what's changed, and you keep coming back to it.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: We have a labor.
• 46:43
  Speaker 17: Government who are making their decisions based on ideology and
• 46:46
  Speaker 17: nothing to do with fax engineering and economics, and the
• 46:49
  Speaker 17: results are there for all to see, massive increases in
• 46:53
  Speaker 17: gas and power prices.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Now there's a big argument to be had about nuclear
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: power and also big problems for the government in rolling
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: out transmission and renew major renewable energy projects. So put
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: that to one side. Whatever we do, we need two things.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: When it comes to gas. We need more gas fired generation.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: We're going to need that no matter what, but also
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: to supply that and keep prices down.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: We need to exploit more gas in our own country.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: There's stacks of it.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: We've just had governments of all persuasions refusing to exploit it.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Now here that the New South Wales Labor government is
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: very keen after years of inaction, very keen to get
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: the narrowb Rye Santos gas project up and running as
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: soon as possible.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Surely that'll be a step in the right direction. Well,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: look at what the New.
• 47:40
  Speaker 17: South Wales Labor government's done. They've poured extra millions into
• 47:45
  Speaker 17: a rarring to keep that cul fired POWERstation on because
• 47:47
  Speaker 17: they have to.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: And if now they're going to ensure that the.
• 47:50
  Speaker 17: Gas supply at an arabroad has actually developed and put online.
• 47:54
  Speaker 17: And you compare them with what happened under the previous
• 47:56
  Speaker 17: coalition government in New South Wales now have previous buthers
• 48:01
  Speaker 17: who are looking up the climate change etc. It's a
• 48:06
  Speaker 17: really strange outcome. But in Victoria gas is still kryptonite.
• 48:09
  Speaker 17: They won't develop it and yet they desperately need it.
• 48:12
  Speaker 17: And all of those poor people in Victoria.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Who are finding things very worried and in fact cold,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: they've all got to wake up. They've all got to
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: wake up the way the New South Wales is starting
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: to we think. Thanks for joining us, Keith, I appreciate it.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: You just want to wrap up quickly and share some
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: of your feedback about US politics. Paula says, poor Americans,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Heaven help them if she wins. Veronica says, is come
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: unburdened by the burden of intelligence.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Good point.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: One other viewer says the passage of time will significantly
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: help us forget this stupid period in history. And finally,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: how about this viewer, I'm an American. I think I'll
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: move to Australia. Well, come on over, there's plenty of
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: room here. We're letting in as many immigrants as turn.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Up at the moment. Thanks for joining me up. Next
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: is Steve Price for Peter Kreblin. I'll see you Monday.