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Credlin | 18 June · Credlin

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Speaker 1: Peter Krendland live on skying In's Australia.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Welcome to Credlin. Steve Price with you this
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Speaker 2: week and the news that Peter will be back with
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Speaker 2: you next Monday. Here's what's coming up on Credlin tonight.
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Speaker 2: In the middle of a youth crime wave in Victoria,
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Speaker 2: what does the Victorian labor government do to fix an
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Speaker 2: issue that's forcing people to install Fort Knox like security
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Speaker 2: and who are fearful of machete wielding intruders? What do
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Speaker 2: they do well? A plan to increase the age of
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Speaker 2: criminal responsibility from ten to twelve on the way to fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Absolute madness from an australbanze. He's much vaunted visit by
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Speaker 2: senior Chinese Communist Party premier has been marred by protests,
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Speaker 2: heavy handed tactics on our own cheng Lai and even
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Speaker 2: today in Perth, the PM kept waiting for over half
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Speaker 2: an hour for his guest to arrive. It's all turned
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Speaker 2: pretty sour. Andrew Clenell will update us on that shortly.
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Speaker 2: Our kindergarten kids are being force fed programs focusing on
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Speaker 2: indigenous rights, sexuality, and a local study finds that's exactly
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Speaker 2: what's happening in the IPA coming up with some information
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Speaker 2: on that, plus interest rates on hold but inflation sticking.
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Speaker 2: As we head to the end of the financial year,
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Speaker 2: we check in with Sky's Ross Grimwood with a New
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Speaker 2: South Wales state budget out today as well, but first up.
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Speaker 2: As we tear into a new week, and as Melbourne
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Speaker 2: shivers through its coldest start to the day for the
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Speaker 2: entire year, the argument on affordable, reliable baseload power has
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Speaker 2: today gone to a new level. Peter Dutton, the Opposition leader,
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Speaker 2: is being relentless over pushing his alternatives and prosecuting the
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Speaker 2: case for nuclear While on the south coast of New
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Speaker 2: South Wales, and we'll talk at length about this coming
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Speaker 2: up shortly, a planned massive and I mean massive wind
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Speaker 2: turbine offshore that dwarfs anything we've ever talked about ever.
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Speaker 2: While in Victoria on a very basic air on the
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Speaker 2: ground example of the roadblock's renewable energy development is going
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Speaker 2: to encounter the CFA, the Victorian equivalent of the RFS
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Speaker 2: in New South Wales. They've announced today that they will
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Speaker 2: refuse to fight fires on land hosting high voltage transmission lines,
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Speaker 2: solar or wind farms over what they call the state
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Speaker 2: government's reckless renewable expansion. Now, according to the Herald Sun,
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Speaker 2: today at least twenty four brigades will take what amounts
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Speaker 2: to a firefighting boycott around such projects, with most covering
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Speaker 2: acreage hosting the giant New South Wales to Victoria interconnector
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Speaker 2: transmission line. Now, Victoria, by the way, has an even
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Speaker 2: more pie in the sky renewable timetable. They're aiming for
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Speaker 2: ninety five percent of renewable energy in Victoria by twenty
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Speaker 2: thirty five. That's about ten years one as of today,
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Speaker 2: by the way, with the no wind cloud cover, and
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Speaker 2: eighty five percent of electricity in the state of Victoria
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Speaker 2: today was being generated by colon gas. So what will
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Speaker 2: this boycott or ban mean in practice, Well, the CFA
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Speaker 2: units will only enter renewable energy sites if lives are
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Speaker 2: at risk, and they will restrict the fighting to otherwise
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Speaker 2: property perimitted defense. In other words, a bushfire would be
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Speaker 2: allowed to burn down a solar farm, but stock and
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Speaker 2: crops and property nearby would be protected as they are
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Speaker 2: now by the CFA. This is a big stick from
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Speaker 2: the CFA, but remember the vast bulk of CFA firefighters
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Speaker 2: are volunteers. They're from the bush, from local farming communities.
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Speaker 2: They lived there quite properly. They're using this threat to
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Speaker 2: say to the Labour government in Victoria, Look, you are
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Speaker 2: riding roughshd over our towns and our farms and you
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Speaker 2: need to stop and talk to us or else. Now.
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Speaker 2: I say good luck to the CFA crews. And I've
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Speaker 2: been warning as peace has been that this rush to
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Speaker 2: renewables with no regard to farming communities was always going
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Speaker 2: to end in tears. And what about that quote from
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Speaker 2: a CFA member from Sanana today, He said, quote, our
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Speaker 2: brigades are not prepared to defend renewable infrastructure that destroys
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Speaker 2: our communities, carves up our land and reduces our productive
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Speaker 2: capacity and divides people. Well said, the brigades went onto
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Speaker 2: warn they have no hope of fighting wind turbine fires
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Speaker 2: and are struggling to deal with fires sparked by isolated
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Speaker 2: power lines that could turn Victoria into a new Ash
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Speaker 2: Wednesday or Black Saturday. Those deadly blazers caused billions of dollars,
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Speaker 2: killed hundreds of people and cause massive, massive damage forever.
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Speaker 2: You can't underestimate the seriousness of this threat. There are
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Speaker 2: already twoy three hundred wind turbines in Victoria, thousands more
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Speaker 2: around the rest of Australia, especially in New South Wales,
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Speaker 2: and we will talk offshore turbine and shortly the CFA
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Speaker 2: promise not to fight fires on these towers makes sense
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Speaker 2: when you study engineering reports that show that once one
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Speaker 2: of these things catches fire or light, the chances of
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Speaker 2: externally fighting that fire are quote very slim due to
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Speaker 2: the height of the turbine and the remoteness of the locations.
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Speaker 2: So in simple terms, we are planning. We as in
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Speaker 2: Canberra and state governments are planning to carpet bomb regional
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Speaker 2: Australia with turbines and solar panels and then plow high
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Speaker 2: voltage transmission lines right through the middle of farms, national
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Speaker 2: parks and native forests to connect it all together. And
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Speaker 2: then we're going to sit back, hope and pray that
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Speaker 2: in a country where summer temperatures naturally reach forty degrees
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Speaker 2: plus that a fire doesn't start. What madness is that?
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Speaker 2: And you watch these city based green tinge pollis run
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Speaker 2: for the hills. The first time we get another ash Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: you won't see them for dust or should I say smoke.
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Speaker 2: Imagine what the installers of these things, the renewable companies,
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Speaker 2: will be charged to actually ensure them against turbine and
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Speaker 2: solar panel fires. And guess where that costal land? Yep,
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Speaker 2: right on your power bill. Incredibly, the Victorian Emergency Services Minister,
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Speaker 2: a woman by the name of Jacqueline Symes, in reaction
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Speaker 2: to the CFA threat her office said today quote, there
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Speaker 2: are no records of transmission lines ever starting a bushfire
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Speaker 2: in Victoria. Well, granted, the Minister is correct in saying
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Speaker 2: there's no record of transmission lines causing a bush fire,
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Speaker 2: but for God's sake, the Black Saturday Bushfire Royal Commission
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Speaker 2: found that the fires began with the Kilmore East Fire
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Speaker 2: when fallen power lines started a blaze on farmland at
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Speaker 2: eleven forty seven am. But it's not hard to see
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Speaker 2: why regional communities might be living in constant fear of
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Speaker 2: more potential hazards, especially when they're given so little consolation.
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Speaker 2: And for the first time, these massive electricity lines are
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Speaker 2: being plowed through remote bush land and national parks, and
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Speaker 2: we all know too well how little real government money
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Speaker 2: goes into backburning in these locations. Praying you won't get
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Speaker 2: a fire during construction or a really hot summer. Is foolish.
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Speaker 2: I'd start if I was the state government dealing with
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Speaker 2: the farmers, dealing with the CFA as a matter of urgency.
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Speaker 2: If I were, you, can you people actually read? What's
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Speaker 2: the point of a multimillion dollar royal commission if you
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Speaker 2: ignore its findings about power lines, global warming hysteria from
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Speaker 2: highly paid people who've got absolutely no clue, Let's said
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Speaker 2: to Cameron for tonight's political headlines With Sky News Political
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Speaker 2: Report at Treaty Macintosh.
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Speaker 3: The Chinese premier wraps up his high stakes tour of
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Speaker 3: Australia today, the focus on the resource rich West Lee
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Speaker 3: Chang visited a lithium factory, met big business bosses before
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Speaker 3: dropping by Kings Park's iconic lookout prayer from Walk hung
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Speaker 3: Low and a hurrying over here.
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Speaker 2: Thank you?
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Speaker 4: Have you reprimanded your people? Premier leave for what happened
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Speaker 4: in Parliament House.
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Speaker 3: Today's events overshadowed by the treatment of Sky Newe journalist
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Speaker 3: Chung Lay by Chinese officials in Parliament yesterday.
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Speaker 5: Our officials have followed up with the Chinese embassy to
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Speaker 5: express our concern.
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Speaker 6: Please grow a backbone stand up for our country.
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Speaker 3: A sigh of relief for borrowers after today's Reserve Bank meeting,
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Speaker 3: but be warned a rate increase could be on the cards.
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Speaker 3: The cash rate remains steady at four point three five percent,
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Speaker 3: but the Governor revealing.
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Speaker 7: The board did discuss the case for increasing interst rates
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Speaker 7: at this meeting.
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Speaker 3: Ultimately, the RBA decided against it, concerned on the one
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Speaker 3: hand about the jump in monthly inflation, but noting the
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Speaker 3: economy appears on the brink of recession. The next meeting
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Speaker 3: in August will take into account the crucial June quarter
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Speaker 3: inflation figures.
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Speaker 7: It's very difficult to get a read on momentum, and.
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Speaker 3: The fight within the coalition over the role of renewables
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Speaker 3: to reduce emissions is heading up. The Nationals leader wants
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Speaker 3: to abandon large scale renewable projects, so.
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Speaker 8: Why wouldn't we spread our energy eggs across different different baskets.
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Speaker 3: He argues prime agricultural land as being sacrificed to achieve
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Speaker 3: Australia's emission reduction goals.
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Speaker 8: Just say to those viewers that are from Tilsey's, just
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Speaker 8: take a little visit out west and understand the burden
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Speaker 8: you're asking us to bear.
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Speaker 3: Not all of his colleagues are on the same page.
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Speaker 1: There is absolutely a place for large scale renewables. It's
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Speaker 1: an important part of the mix that will help us
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Speaker 1: to reduce our emissions over time.
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Speaker 9: We need to make sure that as we decarbonize and
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Speaker 9: as the as the economy transitions, that we have to
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Speaker 9: do it in a sensible way.
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Speaker 3: And the weight may nearly be over for the Coalition's
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Speaker 3: nuclear plan, the Financial Review reports. Shadow Cabinet will meet
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Speaker 3: tonight to lock in the proposal. Trudy Macintosh Sky News Canberra.
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Speaker 2: Another huge day in federal politics, with the leaders on
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Speaker 2: either side of the country, the Prime Minister, of course,
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Speaker 2: in wa with the Chinese Premier, and Peter Dutton on
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Speaker 2: the south coast of New South Wales. SCHO Political reporter
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Speaker 2: editor Andrew Clanel has been all over this, he joins us.
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Speaker 2: Now let's start with the Chinese visit. I mean, obviously
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Speaker 2: things went downhill yesterday. You had those big demos out
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Speaker 2: the front of Parliament House and then that disgraceful behavior
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Speaker 2: toward cheng Lai. Has the Prime Minister managed to navigate
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Speaker 2: through this for the general public to think that this
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Speaker 2: visit's been worthwhile.
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Speaker 6: You think, No, I don't think so.
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Speaker 5: Unfortunately for him, that cheng Lei thing admirred the whole
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Speaker 5: visit really didn't it the behavior of the Chinese officials.
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Speaker 5: So this he thought would be a win, particularly good
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Speaker 5: with the Chinese Australian community who are key in a
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Speaker 5: number of marginal seats, whether it be Bentelong or Aston
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Speaker 5: or Red or Tangny And instead it looks like what
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Speaker 5: Don Farrell, the Trade Minister tonight on Sunday agenda. They
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Speaker 5: were doing that we're cow telling to the Chinese. So
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Speaker 5: he went from up today the PM. He kind of said, look,
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Speaker 5: it wasn't acceptable that behavior towards cheng Lai. But once
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Speaker 5: that occurred on our shores in our parliament, it kind
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Speaker 5: of summed up the problems with the relationship and that
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Speaker 5: they haven't gone away.
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Speaker 6: It's an extraordinary moment.
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Speaker 5: I think this is one of the most difficult issues
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Speaker 5: to navigate and the debate is always going to be
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Speaker 5: are we giving away too much to them to keep
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Speaker 5: up this relationship with them? And that debate will go
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Speaker 5: on on. The Australian government clearly needs to keep condemning
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Speaker 5: wrong behavior. It just needs to do that, and once
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Speaker 5: Premier Lee's gone, I think it'd be prudent of the
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Speaker 5: PM to do that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a manage it a hell of a
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Speaker 2: lot better. Just on the wider federal discussion about climate,
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Speaker 2: we're in the middle of another climate war, you would
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Speaker 2: imagine in the lead up to the election. I opened
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Speaker 2: the program today talking story about broke down here today
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Speaker 2: where the CFA is saying, well, we're not going to
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Speaker 2: fight fires if they break out where you're putting these
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Speaker 2: wind turbines and solar panels, because it's too dangerous for
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Speaker 2: us to do so. They are local farmers where these
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Speaker 2: things are being plowed through the middle of their farms.
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Speaker 2: And then you've got this wind turbine project. I don't
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Speaker 2: know about you, Andrew, but I love the South Coast
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Speaker 2: and New South Wales. The size of that thing that
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Speaker 2: they're talking about off the Illawara just absolutely beggars belief.
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Speaker 2: And I know David little Proud, the National Leader, was
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Speaker 2: out today. Let's have a look at what he had
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Speaker 2: to say about that.
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Speaker 8: I just say to those viewers that are from Tilsey's
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Speaker 8: just take a little visit out west and understand the
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Speaker 8: burden you're asking us to bear for you to put
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Speaker 8: your head on a pillow at night and think that
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Speaker 8: you've saved the world. You've actually destroyed much of the
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Speaker 8: environment where I live, and you're asking us to have
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Speaker 8: our livelihoods taken away.
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Speaker 2: Well, he's talking about his electorate in his area, but
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Speaker 2: this thing off the coast and they're whacking it in
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Speaker 2: the middle of a whale migration channel. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 2: no greenie, but it seems to me to be too big,
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Speaker 2: too quick, and it's just going to cause how's Labor
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Speaker 2: ever going to win a seat there when you're then
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Speaker 2: going to have, you know, people who don't like renewable energy.
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Speaker 2: You can have all the surfers in the community, all
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Speaker 2: of the greenies. It's just going to create a headache
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Speaker 2: and a nightmare for Labor, isn't it.
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Speaker 5: Well I look at that and I sort of think
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Speaker 5: they've lost Kilmore already. You know, it's one of the
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Speaker 5: most marginal sets in Australia. Andrew constas nearly one at
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Speaker 5: last time. Peter Dutton's out there making hey today, is
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Speaker 5: this another Chris Bowen schocker from an electoral point of view.
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Speaker 5: Last election, he was saying if you don't like it,
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Speaker 5: don't vote for Sorry. The election before that they lost
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Speaker 5: to wenty nineteen and now he's approved this thing right
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Speaker 5: near a marginal seat.
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Speaker 6: So it's the size of it. Look, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I've got an open mind of these offshore things,
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Speaker 5: particularly if you can't see them, which is the claim
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Speaker 5: that you wouldn't really be able to see it, and
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Speaker 5: it's so far out.
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Speaker 6: But it's the actual side.
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Speaker 5: Which seems extraordinary, and that's a hard one to get through.
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Speaker 6: And I'll tell you what else it does, Steve.
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Speaker 5: It kind of makes the nuclear policy more palatable on
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Speaker 5: Peter Dutton's side, if he's able to say, well, they
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Speaker 5: just kind of cover the entire landscape, land and sea
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Speaker 5: with wind farms absolutely everywhere.
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Speaker 6: This is an alternative.
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Speaker 5: It makes something that people might be a bit more
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Speaker 5: nervous about palatable. Now I can tell you that it's
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Speaker 5: my information that Peter Dutton will be releasing his nuclear
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Speaker 5: policy in the next two weeks, two to three weeks
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Speaker 5: before the midwinter break, and that will be a significant moment.
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Speaker 5: And then the climate wars are on for young and old,
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Speaker 5: and I think this has the potential to be an
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Speaker 5: election where energy is more dominant energy and climate is
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Speaker 5: more dominant issue than it's been in an Australian election before.
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Speaker 5: And that's quite a statement when you think about, you know,
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Speaker 5: the two thousand and seven Kyoto Protocol whether we sign
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Speaker 5: it or not, election and subsequent elections, including the vote
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Speaker 5: for the so called Teal candidates, based a lot on
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Speaker 5: climate and also women's policy. But I think this is
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Speaker 5: the biggest, this is the biggest climate energy battle yet.
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Speaker 6: That we're going to see at this election.
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Speaker 2: Steve, and we all remember, don't we, back when Tony
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Speaker 2: Abbott beat Kevin Rudd Mark two about things like bungled
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Speaker 2: pink bats and school halls and all that. This though,
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Speaker 2: is that on Steroidsandrew Well, I guess.
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Speaker 5: It's the private sector that does it on this occasion, though,
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Speaker 5: isn't it. But it's still Peter Dutton is using that language.
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Speaker 5: He's bringing up those examples. He's saying you can't trust
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Speaker 5: labor to engineer the polls and wires going out, the
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Speaker 5: projects going up. Well, I guess labor could say, well,
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Speaker 5: how can we trust you to build.
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Speaker 6: A nuclear powered plant?
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Speaker 5: You know, because Peter Dutton viewed on Sunday Agenda they're
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Speaker 5: going to have to be government owned or government subsidized,
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Speaker 5: it seems to me. So they both got arguments against
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Speaker 5: each other. That's what makes it so fascinating. I actually
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Speaker 5: think that a lot of Australians wouldn't be one hundred
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Speaker 5: percent comfortable with the policies on either side. Frankly, maybe
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Speaker 5: if you've got a policy in the middle of both sides,
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Speaker 5: somewhere in somewhere in between both sides, you'd be at
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Speaker 5: a place where people are more comfortable. For example, Peter
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Speaker 5: doesn't talk about six or seven nuclear power sites. The
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Speaker 5: key question is does he mean one or two reactors
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Speaker 5: or does he mean six or seven reactors? And to
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Speaker 5: leap to six or seven reactors is a big leap
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Speaker 5: for the Australian public. Equally, to build all these wind
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Speaker 5: farms everywhere, and I've just read tenure Plebaseka proved another
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Speaker 5: one in Queensland, and to have the renewables roll out
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Speaker 5: that Anthony Albanesi is talking about is also a big
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Speaker 5: ask for Australians to get their heads around. Gee, this
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Speaker 5: is where really you can imagine this playing every single
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Speaker 5: day of an election campaign and both sides working very
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Speaker 5: hard to pick massive holes in every one of the
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Speaker 5: proposed projects. I think it makes for a really fascinating
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Speaker 5: election campaign.
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Speaker 6: And a clear choice. And you do find in clear
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Speaker 6: choices in these elections.
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Speaker 5: They align their policies pretty close with a couple of
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Speaker 5: small differences.
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Speaker 6: This is a massive choice.
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Speaker 2: Just finally, and I'm going to talk to Ross Greenwood shortly.
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Speaker 2: Reserve Bank governor interestingly said the board didn't talk about
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Speaker 2: a rate cut, but did talk about a rate rise.
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Speaker 2: What's that due to the election timing?
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean originally after the budget when the government
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Speaker 5: had a bit of a bounce and they were handing
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Speaker 5: out this money and the budget, I thought they'd go
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Speaker 5: this year because they're inflation prediction says it will come
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Speaker 5: down this year and that's not apparent at the moment.
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Speaker 5: So to avoid that situation, you'd go in November December
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Speaker 5: this year, as the pole rankings of the government get worse,
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Speaker 5: and as it appears clear to me that the Reserve
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Speaker 5: Bank at the very least will hold rates where they
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Speaker 5: are for a year and may even hike in August
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Speaker 5: or September October. I think they'll go later the government
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Speaker 5: because they'll hope if we have to cop a hike
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Speaker 5: or if we have to cop the Reserve Bank sticking
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Speaker 5: with the current interest rate, We've got to wait until
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Speaker 5: May and hope something changes. So that's where I think
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Speaker 5: it is at. But those comments are significant, they are
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Speaker 5: very significant. They mean the only way is up or
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Speaker 5: just staying at this rate for a very long time
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Speaker 5: and very few Australians we'll be happy with that.
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Speaker 2: New Steve, great Analysisandra Clenell, Thank you as usual, make
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Speaker 2: good on you.
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Speaker 6: Thanks Steve.
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Speaker 2: Well after the break, talking about mortgage holders and the RBA,
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Speaker 2: we'll catch up with Ross Greenod The rates are on hold.
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Speaker 2: Plenty of economists though still predicting a rise before the
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Speaker 2: end of the year. Ross Greenwood joins us shortly. Plus
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Speaker 2: the federal government's early Learning framework it's turning toddlers into activists.
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Speaker 2: We'll have more on that shortly. Welcome back Steve Price
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Speaker 2: in for Peter Credlin. Now let's turn our attention to
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Speaker 2: the Reserve Board. Today the bank said that they were
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Speaker 2: going to keep interest rates on hold at four point
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Speaker 2: three five percent. That's for a six straight month. Joined
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Speaker 2: now by Sky News Business editor Ross Greenod. Ross, thanks
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Speaker 2: for your time. I raised this with Andrew Clenell earlier
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Speaker 2: where you have Michelle Bullock today and we learned so
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Speaker 2: much more about this these days. She revealed that the
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Speaker 2: interest rate cut was not even discussed by the Reserve,
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Speaker 2: but a rise was. Here's what she said in that
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Speaker 2: idiot conference for us.
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Speaker 7: No, the case for a cut was not considered. I
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Speaker 7: think I should say, because I haven't said it yet today.
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Speaker 7: We're not ruling anything in or anything out.
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Speaker 2: At the moment, so not ruling loss, do we or out?
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Speaker 2: We need to know that. No, No, we do know that.
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Speaker 10: I think she was tongue in cheek at that point
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Speaker 10: because she said it so many times. But what is
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Speaker 10: instructive about that is the for everything that we've heard
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Speaker 10: about three interest rate cuts this year, and remember even
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Speaker 10: with the government, the plan originally was to have two
20:36
Speaker 10: interest rate cuts at least this year, then call an election.
20:39
Speaker 10: They would have had cost of living relief coming as
20:41
Speaker 10: a result of the budget from July one, plus tax
20:44
Speaker 10: cuts coming. A whole lot of stuff was building up
20:46
Speaker 10: to give consumers more money in their pockets, more relief
20:50
Speaker 10: as it were. That was the finalizing on the cake,
20:53
Speaker 10: the cherry on top for the government to then call
20:56
Speaker 10: an election. Well, it ain't going to happen because the
20:59
Speaker 10: fact of the matter is the Reserve Bank at no
21:01
Speaker 10: point has considered cutting interest rates. At no meeting have
21:06
Speaker 10: they ever considered cutting interest rates. It has only been
21:09
Speaker 10: either keep them on hold.
21:10
Speaker 6: Or raise interest rates.
21:12
Speaker 10: And what happens right now is unlike the government actually
21:15
Speaker 10: getting a chance to maybe consider going into an election
21:18
Speaker 10: with interest rate cuts. We're the government that gave you
21:20
Speaker 10: interest rate cuts. It now may be the government that
21:23
Speaker 10: gives you interest rate rises.
21:25
Speaker 2: And the reason for that is.
21:26
Speaker 10: Because it appears as though, as we keep on talking
21:29
Speaker 10: about inflation is higher than what was anticipated and not
21:32
Speaker 10: disappearing that the number of jobs being created in this
21:36
Speaker 10: country is much stronger than anticipated.
21:38
Speaker 6: And so from that point of view, you know, you heard.
21:41
Speaker 10: Michelle b Look today talking about this narrow path that
21:43
Speaker 10: we're on that's getting narrower and narrower, and what that
21:47
Speaker 10: basically means is they're running out of room to really
21:51
Speaker 10: keep these rates on hold because the economy is outperforming
21:54
Speaker 10: what's expected. And really that leads to August potentially seeing
21:59
Speaker 10: a right and interest rates, especially if the next inflation
22:03
Speaker 10: number we see out next month is going to be increased.
22:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, the EPM will be real happy about that. As
22:10
Speaker 2: you know, Ross, when you plow into these minutes from
22:13
Speaker 2: these board meetings, you dig out some nuggets. The Australian
22:17
Speaker 2: Late Today's reporting that the Reserve Bank Board has actually
22:21
Speaker 2: been critical of big spending budgets, both federal and state
22:25
Speaker 2: that have been released recently. And I guess they refer
22:28
Speaker 2: to obviously Charmer's federal budget and the particularly the Queensland
22:32
Speaker 2: state budget and will lead up to an election there
22:34
Speaker 2: with free public transport discounts on everything from your power
22:40
Speaker 2: bills to whatever. So the Board is saying, well, some
22:44
Speaker 2: of this inflation at least is due to government overspending
22:49
Speaker 2: well well effectively.
22:50
Speaker 10: And what you're seeing now and I've got my hot
22:52
Speaker 10: little hand here Moody's ratings. It does the ratings for
22:56
Speaker 10: Australia and also for the states. After the New South
23:00
Speaker 10: Wales budget, the Day is really saying right now that
23:03
Speaker 10: the balance of risks in New South Wales' interest and
23:07
Speaker 10: financial strength is right now negative and that's because of
23:10
Speaker 10: that big spinning where within four years effectively there's going
23:14
Speaker 10: to be another fifty sixty billion dollars worth of debt
23:16
Speaker 10: piled on top of what they've got to two hundred
23:19
Speaker 10: and forty billion dollars. And remember that New South Wales
23:21
Speaker 10: is in a far better position than what Victoria is in,
23:25
Speaker 10: where effectively they're having to suspend infrastructure projects simply because
23:29
Speaker 10: a they don't have the financial capacity to build them,
23:32
Speaker 10: and b there is also the mounting problem of basically
23:36
Speaker 10: these projects coming in way way over budget trying to
23:39
Speaker 10: get the workers for them. So in many ways you
23:41
Speaker 10: can see that Australia is almost grinding to a halt
23:44
Speaker 10: right now. And notwithstanding the fact that the economy is
23:47
Speaker 10: barely teetering above a recession right now, with the last
23:50
Speaker 10: quart of just zero point one of a percent in
23:52
Speaker 10: this court of probably negative, the reality is that you'd expect,
23:56
Speaker 10: in a normal circumstances, the Reserve Bank would come to
23:59
Speaker 10: the rescue, start to cut interest rates and get some
24:01
Speaker 10: economic growth going. Well, it can't do that right now,
24:04
Speaker 10: and mainly because of this strange experiment that Australia's got
24:08
Speaker 10: to try and keep as many people in a job
24:10
Speaker 10: as they possibly can and so therefore allowing inflation to
24:14
Speaker 10: remain above the target and also try to keep interest
24:17
Speaker 10: rates higher for longer. That's an experiment. It hasn't worked
24:21
Speaker 10: anywhere else in the Western world before. Australia's on this experiment,
24:25
Speaker 10: and so at a time when Canada, Europe, maybe the
24:28
Speaker 10: UK and the near future cut interest rates, here in
24:31
Speaker 10: Australia we've got the prospect of rates rising and not falling.
24:38
Speaker 2: You've got great historical perspective on these things. We're seeing
24:41
Speaker 2: increasingly day by day, week by week, business is falling over.
24:45
Speaker 2: I think a couple of largish businesses today fell over.
24:49
Speaker 2: That means people out of work, That means that the
24:52
Speaker 2: economies is not growing. Are you worried about the future
24:58
Speaker 2: of business has being able to keep their doors open
25:00
Speaker 2: if the interest rates stay where they are they are.
25:03
Speaker 10: I'm worried about the bold experiment just not having worked,
25:06
Speaker 10: and that when you saw, say, our neighbors in New
25:08
Speaker 10: Zealand raise interest rates much more aggressively than Australia, put
25:12
Speaker 10: themselves into a recession, have unemployment higher than what it
25:17
Speaker 10: is here in Australia, but get to the end of
25:19
Speaker 10: the process much more quickly.
25:21
Speaker 2: Here.
25:21
Speaker 10: It's almost death by a thousand cuts in some ways
25:25
Speaker 10: try to maintain full employment, which is honorable and it's
25:27
Speaker 10: a good thing, but the fact of the matter is
25:29
Speaker 10: that there is no productivity growth in Australia. If all
25:33
Speaker 10: of the workers out there were highly productive and we
25:35
Speaker 10: had an economy that was actually pumping and booming along
25:39
Speaker 10: right now, you probably have inflation low on what it is,
25:41
Speaker 10: you wouldn't have me talking about this argument.
25:44
Speaker 6: But the fact of the matter is.
25:45
Speaker 10: That Australia's economy is not productive. We don't have a
25:48
Speaker 10: flexible labor force because of guess what, many of the
25:51
Speaker 10: laws that have been bought in by the labor government
25:54
Speaker 10: which makes bargaining sort of on an industry wide basis,
25:57
Speaker 10: which means that people can't easily get a job in
26:01
Speaker 10: the gig economy or part time work or casual work
26:04
Speaker 10: without potentially having to become full timers in the future.
26:07
Speaker 10: So this is where Australia is almost creating rules that
26:11
Speaker 10: actually work against the economy rather than working for the
26:15
Speaker 10: economy to make it flexible to get through these tight times.
26:20
Speaker 2: You got to say, Roscoe, just finally, that would mean
26:23
Speaker 2: probably an election later rather than sooner. We were starting
26:26
Speaker 2: to talk about the end of this year. But the
26:28
Speaker 2: Reserve Bank, probably today Michelle Bullock probably put a kaibosh
26:32
Speaker 2: on that.
26:33
Speaker 10: You'd have to think so now, Anthony Albanezi would be
26:36
Speaker 10: wanting to stay in power as long as he possibly
26:39
Speaker 10: can to try and see out this term because the
26:43
Speaker 10: prospect of having an economic situation by the end of
26:46
Speaker 10: this year that is really conducive for the Labor Party
26:50
Speaker 10: to win favor, especially at a time when it seems
26:53
Speaker 10: to be losing a bit of skin in the poles,
26:55
Speaker 10: becomes more difficult.
26:56
Speaker 6: And do bear in mind that by the.
26:58
Speaker 10: End of this year, if you're get to rate RYE
27:00
Speaker 10: in August, I mean, there will be many parts of
27:02
Speaker 10: our economy that will erupt. The small business sector, there's
27:05
Speaker 10: no doubt we'll find it even tougher. You'll certainly find
27:08
Speaker 10: that many households will also find it tougher. And if
27:11
Speaker 10: jobs start to be lost, that's generally a very dangerous
27:14
Speaker 10: time historically for governments. And so really, as I say,
27:19
Speaker 10: when you see what corporate reputations can do so quickly,
27:22
Speaker 10: it can also happen to political reputations. And that's why
27:25
Speaker 10: right now, the stewardship and the messaging and even to
27:28
Speaker 10: a certain extent, the cohesiveness of the Labor government is
27:32
Speaker 10: absolutely vital to its future survival because on the other
27:36
Speaker 10: side of it.
27:36
Speaker 2: You've of course got.
27:38
Speaker 10: Peter Dutton talking about energy and energy policy and talking
27:41
Speaker 10: about trying to bring down prices at a time when really,
27:45
Speaker 10: right now many people continue to feel the cost of
27:47
Speaker 10: living crisis.
27:49
Speaker 2: Ross Greenwood, Thanks very much. Yeah, just some breaking news
27:55
Speaker 2: the Australian reporting some details around the CFMU and John Seca,
28:00
Speaker 2: I'll have some details for you on that shortly now.
28:03
Speaker 2: Change in tact. There's no denying that social justice and
28:06
Speaker 2: gender ideology has infiltrated our schools. We've been looking and
28:10
Speaker 2: talking about that for some time, but the Institute of
28:13
Speaker 2: Public Affairs now warns us that it's creeping into early
28:17
Speaker 2: childhood learning centers, which of course are kindergartens. The IPA's
28:22
Speaker 2: analysis of the Federal government's Early Years Learning Framework found
28:27
Speaker 2: that diversity, inclusion and equity mentioned one hundred and forty times,
28:32
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty nine times actually Aboriginal and Torres
28:34
Speaker 2: Strait Islanders and reconciliation was mentioned in that report ninety
28:39
Speaker 2: six times, while mother, father and parent were not mentioned
28:43
Speaker 2: at all. In addition, the framework encourages centers to perform
28:47
Speaker 2: a daily acknowledgment of country and display both the Aboriginal
28:51
Speaker 2: and Torres Strait Islander flags on their premises. For more
28:54
Speaker 2: on this, we're joined by the Director of Foundations of
28:58
Speaker 2: Western Civilization program at the IPI, Billbrera Bella. What happened
29:03
Speaker 2: to just going in coloring and plying with toys during
29:07
Speaker 2: kindergart What are we doing to our children?
29:12
Speaker 11: Oh, good evening, Steve. You're absolutely right. Early early learning
29:15
Speaker 11: has now been infiltrated, unfortunately along the same lines that
29:18
Speaker 11: our primary schools and secondary schools have been infiltrated. What
29:22
Speaker 11: we uncovered in our research is that, you know, parents
29:25
Speaker 11: should be very worried about what is going on in
29:28
Speaker 11: early learning centers. So you have a document that is
29:31
Speaker 11: essentially an education syllabus for under fives, and within that
29:36
Speaker 11: document you have diversity, equity and inclusion mentioned one hundred
29:39
Speaker 11: and forty times, and you have Indigenous issues mentioned over
29:42
Speaker 11: ninety times. But as you mentioned, mother and father doesn't
29:45
Speaker 11: feature at all, and parents don't feature at all. You know,
29:48
Speaker 11: there's basically no place for indoctrination in early learning centers.
29:52
Speaker 11: But unfortunately, this is what is going on across Australia, so.
29:57
Speaker 2: Bella, we're talking children age what three to five years old?
30:03
Speaker 11: It's worse. It's worse than that studive. It's zero to five.
30:06
Speaker 11: So the document has been designed for and is called
30:10
Speaker 11: an early learning framework for zero to five year olds.
30:12
Speaker 11: So it's as soon as that child is conscious and
30:15
Speaker 11: able to sort of take in take in pictures, and
30:18
Speaker 11: take in what's going on around it, and so you know,
30:21
Speaker 11: there's there's They've divided the program into years, so when
30:26
Speaker 11: the two year olds come in, they're expected to dance
30:29
Speaker 11: and sing, you know, along sort of aboriginal songs. And
30:32
Speaker 11: then when they're three they should be starting to talk
30:34
Speaker 11: about dream time and when they get to six, when
30:37
Speaker 11: they get to five and six, they basically have to
30:40
Speaker 11: start talking about reconciliation and understanding that they are active
30:44
Speaker 11: citizens in a journey of reconciliations. This is exactly what
30:47
Speaker 11: the document tells early learning centers should be the purpose
30:51
Speaker 11: of earlier early education.
30:55
Speaker 2: And you just wonder bella where the parents actually know
30:57
Speaker 2: what's going on inside some of these kindergartens. That document
31:00
Speaker 2: says that in the early years, Quoitte, it's an exciting
31:04
Speaker 2: opportunity to explore issues around gender, sexuality, race and culture.
31:10
Speaker 2: What the hell are two three four year olds wanting
31:14
Speaker 2: to find out about gender, sexuality, and race and culture.
31:22
Speaker 11: Well, I mean that's a very persinent question and it's
31:24
Speaker 11: a question that all parents should be asking. As I
31:26
Speaker 11: said earlier, the kindergartens is absolutely no place to be
31:31
Speaker 11: talking to children about social justice and radical gender theory.
31:34
Speaker 11: It's completely wrong, and parents need to start really looking
31:39
Speaker 11: into what is going on in the childcare centers that
31:42
Speaker 11: they're sending their children to. You know, they trust, they
31:45
Speaker 11: trust that they're probably just playing in a sand pitce
31:47
Speaker 11: or you know, drawing with crayons, whereas actually it's activism
31:51
Speaker 11: being pushed on their children. And what we've found is
31:54
Speaker 11: that this is just a pipeline of indoctrination. You know,
31:56
Speaker 11: it starts, it starts in early childhood, it goes through
31:59
Speaker 11: primary school, it gets straight into secondary school. And I've
32:02
Speaker 11: talked a lot on Sky about the National Curriculum and
32:05
Speaker 11: how work it is, which is actually why I'm working
32:07
Speaker 11: on a very important project now so de clutter the
32:10
Speaker 11: National Curriculum and take up all the work elements. But
32:13
Speaker 11: unfortunately starting very young, it's starting when they're still in nappies.
32:20
Speaker 2: Outstanding work by you Bella Devera from the Institute of
32:23
Speaker 2: Public Affairs, thank you very much for a larning as
32:25
Speaker 2: to that, and I alert parents to ask the questions
32:27
Speaker 2: of their children now after the break, anger mounts on
32:30
Speaker 2: the New South Wales south coast locals left out of
32:33
Speaker 2: the loop as Chris Bowen pursues his green agenda. Plus
32:37
Speaker 2: when reality is mug by ideology with the Victorian government
32:41
Speaker 2: illadvisedly raising the age of criminal responsibility, admit a crime crisis.
32:52
Speaker 2: Welcome back sleep price in for Peter Kredla now on
32:55
Speaker 2: the south coast of New South Wales. I mentioned this
32:57
Speaker 2: at the start of the program. In the Illawarra, another
33:00
Speaker 2: dividing line has emerged between the Albanezy government and the Coalition.
33:04
Speaker 2: Peter Dutton was there today the Opposition vowing to scrap
33:08
Speaker 2: a controversial offshore wind farm that was given the green
33:11
Speaker 2: light by Chris Bowen. That happened across the weekend. The
33:14
Speaker 2: maps of it are unbelievable. Concerns vary from the impact
33:18
Speaker 2: the wind farm will have on the local fishing industry,
33:21
Speaker 2: marine life whale. The whales use that highway super Highway
33:25
Speaker 2: to go north and many of it view it as
33:27
Speaker 2: a sham consultation process. Joining me now one of the
33:30
Speaker 2: locals pushing back. Alex O'Brien from the Illawar chapter of
33:34
Speaker 2: the Responsible Future Group, Alex, thanks for giving us some time.
33:38
Speaker 2: How big is this thing?
33:40
Speaker 9: Oh, it's massive, you know, it's one point three times
33:44
Speaker 9: New York City. So you're talking about a large floating
33:48
Speaker 9: offshore wind farm right smack bang in the middle of
33:52
Speaker 9: a whale migration area.
33:54
Speaker 4: And it's going to cause a lot of hurt to
33:58
Speaker 4: the community.
33:58
Speaker 9: But a lot of our low industries, you know, like
34:01
Speaker 9: our commercial fishermen and our tourism industry.
34:06
Speaker 2: What's the consultation being, like, Alex.
34:09
Speaker 4: What consultation, Steve?
34:11
Speaker 9: The reality is that, you know, well, according to Minisobaan,
34:17
Speaker 9: there's been some consultation with select groups. But if you
34:20
Speaker 9: look back in August when he proposed his own regionally,
34:23
Speaker 9: within weeks there were some rapid fire community sessions. Now,
34:27
Speaker 9: the pamphlets that were delivered to the community, many reported
34:31
Speaker 9: that they did not receive them.
34:33
Speaker 4: And you know, the community really wasn't aware of the
34:36
Speaker 4: complexity of these projects.
34:38
Speaker 9: And look, even the panel there that was present were
34:42
Speaker 9: ill equipped to properly.
34:43
Speaker 4: Understand the questions and the concerns.
34:45
Speaker 9: That were raised by the community. Now, since those sessions,
34:49
Speaker 9: you know, months past eight months in fact, and there
34:52
Speaker 9: was no engagement. Now, Responsible Future, the association I'm part
34:57
Speaker 9: of which is supported by sixteen thousand and people in
35:00
Speaker 9: the Illawara and some of those important stakeholders in the
35:03
Speaker 9: commercial fishing space and tourism didn't.
35:06
Speaker 4: Get one core.
35:07
Speaker 9: And we've reached out to the minister and it's no
35:10
Speaker 9: different to our lobster fisherman Mark Horn, who is invited
35:15
Speaker 9: Minister bon On several times now to come down on
35:18
Speaker 9: his boat and actually go around and see the wildlife
35:21
Speaker 9: that's out there in this proposed.
35:26
Speaker 2: Alix. I love that part of the world. I think
35:28
Speaker 2: the south coast of New South Wales is God's country.
35:31
Speaker 2: What's the northern edge of this thing and the southern edge?
35:35
Speaker 2: To give our audience that perhaps are not as familiar
35:38
Speaker 2: with it as you and I are, what's the top
35:40
Speaker 2: and the bottom.
35:41
Speaker 4: Well, it's going all.
35:42
Speaker 9: The way from Wombara all the way down to Cayama.
35:45
Speaker 9: So it's literally going to litter our coastline with three
35:49
Speaker 9: hundred turbines that are the size of ceter Point Tower.
35:53
Speaker 9: Now the reality is at the moment in Europe they're
35:55
Speaker 9: building these even larger up to four hundred meters.
35:58
Speaker 4: But these are the proposed all the way down the coast,
36:01
Speaker 4: you know, Ola dullah Eden have also been a proposed zones.
36:06
Speaker 9: So there's probably going to be nowhere on the New
36:08
Speaker 9: South Wales. It's going to be safe, maybe Sydney. But yeah,
36:13
Speaker 9: it's a terrible thing that's happening.
36:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine what it was like if it was off
36:18
Speaker 2: Bondo or Manly. Just finally, Bowen says, Okay, I hear
36:22
Speaker 2: your concerns. I'll make it twenty kilometers off the coast
36:25
Speaker 2: instead of ten. Two things I'd have to say about that, Well,
36:29
Speaker 2: that then probably doubles the cost and so the energy
36:32
Speaker 2: that is generated by this thing is going to go
36:34
Speaker 2: straight onto your power bills. But does that make you
36:37
Speaker 2: feel any more relaxed at this thing's twenty k off shore?
36:41
Speaker 9: No, it doesn't, because we expected that it would be
36:44
Speaker 9: twenty kilometers off you know, we saw that they originally
36:49
Speaker 9: said ten kilometers, but then some of the wind farm
36:51
Speaker 9: developers were talking about it being twenty and we thought
36:55
Speaker 9: this would just be something that they would promote as
36:57
Speaker 9: if they consult with the communitymi where they've consulted.
37:02
Speaker 4: Community groups like our show.
37:04
Speaker 9: Me where they've consulted those commercial fishermen, the tourism industry,
37:08
Speaker 9: and again you've got to understand the Illauora.
37:11
Speaker 4: You know, yes, you know, everyone.
37:12
Speaker 9: Says their place in world's God's country, but it is
37:15
Speaker 9: quite remarkable. And after the steel works, you know, reduce
37:19
Speaker 9: their employment numbers from forty thousand to three thousand direct,
37:22
Speaker 9: the Illora had to reinvent itself. You know, when you
37:26
Speaker 9: go to the suburbs of you know, Thrull and you
37:29
Speaker 9: know bull you know, it's not the area of high
37:32
Speaker 9: views and hard yaka boots, it's linen and bergenstocks, you
37:35
Speaker 9: know that are in those areas.
37:37
Speaker 4: You know, this community has changed, you know, quite a
37:40
Speaker 4: bit over the number of decades.
37:43
Speaker 9: And you know that sees huge amounts of tourists come
37:47
Speaker 9: with billions of dollars coming into.
37:49
Speaker 4: The tourism industry every year.
37:51
Speaker 9: So we're sacrificing that for a very expensive, if not
37:55
Speaker 9: one of the most expensive forms of energy and one
38:00
Speaker 9: that doesn't have many around the world.
38:04
Speaker 2: Alex, you're doing great work. I'd love to keep in
38:06
Speaker 2: touch with you on this. Good luck with your arguments
38:09
Speaker 2: about that and more power to you. And I think
38:11
Speaker 2: it's just disgraceful what they're doing to you. Thanks for
38:14
Speaker 2: joining us. All right, let's move now to Victoria. I
38:16
Speaker 2: was pleased to read this morning that the Victorian government
38:18
Speaker 2: was finally going to give police some extra power. They're
38:21
Speaker 2: going to be able to conduct random weapons searches, money
38:24
Speaker 2: for knives so they can crack down on knife crime
38:28
Speaker 2: and then low and behold. A few hours later, the
38:31
Speaker 2: Attorney General revealed that they're going to introduce legislation quickly
38:36
Speaker 2: to raise the age of criminal responsibility from ten to twelve.
38:39
Speaker 2: And they're all in the way, all the way to fourteen,
38:42
Speaker 2: keeping in mind in your South and Wales and Queensland
38:45
Speaker 2: is still at ten. For more, Let's bring in Victoria's
38:48
Speaker 2: shadow Minister for Major Infrastructure Projects, David Southold. Good to
38:52
Speaker 2: talk to you again. What's it a government in the
38:54
Speaker 2: middle of a what sort of government in the middle
38:58
Speaker 2: of a teenage youth crime? Crime takes the age of
39:02
Speaker 2: criminality up.
39:05
Speaker 1: Well, when you see statistics just going up and up
39:08
Speaker 1: when it comes to youth crime, the government's response is
39:11
Speaker 1: just raise the age and then unless people will be
39:14
Speaker 1: caught up in any crime whatsoever, you can't deal with
39:18
Speaker 1: a crime situation here in Victoria. By just raising the age,
39:22
Speaker 1: we know young people are getting caught up in crime.
39:24
Speaker 1: There needs to be consequences for that violent crime, and
39:28
Speaker 1: there just isn't. People are getting out on bail, doesn't
39:30
Speaker 1: matter what age it is, and reoccurring these offenses. It
39:34
Speaker 1: turnstile effect in terms about crime. They go in, they
39:38
Speaker 1: get caught, and they're back on the streets. And we
39:40
Speaker 1: need to ensure that we have work and programs to
39:43
Speaker 1: ensure that these young people have a life of education,
39:47
Speaker 1: of sport, of all kinds of activities that they need
39:50
Speaker 1: to be doing, not holding people up with machetes on
39:53
Speaker 1: the streets and in schools.
39:55
Speaker 6: It's appalling, and there's.
39:57
Speaker 1: Already the ability for judges discretion when it comes to
40:00
Speaker 1: a young person not knowing what they've done in a crime.
40:03
Speaker 1: But a violent crime, regardless of the age, needs consequences.
40:07
Speaker 1: If you attack murder using a weapon, a dangerous weapon
40:11
Speaker 1: like a machete, and you're a young person, which we've
40:14
Speaker 1: seeing young people doing, it needs to be consequences and
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Speaker 1: there's just none of that in this state. The government's
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Speaker 1: turn their back on law and order. There's no funding
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Speaker 1: for it, not enough police on the beat, and not
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Speaker 1: enough consequences in our legal system.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. I saw the Attorney General Jacqueline
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Speaker 2: Simons today when asked about this legislation, which you won't
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Speaker 2: have yet, so you have to get your head around it.
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Speaker 2: But she was going on about how, oh, well, you know,
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Speaker 2: police will still be able to if they're confronted by
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Speaker 2: one of these youngsters, they'll still be able to put
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Speaker 2: a hand on them, ask them to step into a vehicle,
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Speaker 2: come with them to police station. I mean she's kidding herself.
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Speaker 2: I mean, once the crime gangs realize that the kids
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Speaker 2: they can use, they can go all the way up
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Speaker 2: to eventually fourteen. Who does she think is going to
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Speaker 2: be being paid by these crime gangs to commit the crime.
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Speaker 1: You're absolutely bang on. We've seen and even locally in
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Speaker 1: my area, where these young people they're being utilized by
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Speaker 1: these crime gangs, these older people that are indoctrinating them
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Speaker 1: into a system of unfortunate a life of crime. It
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Speaker 1: starts with stealing a bag, stealing a mobile phone of
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Speaker 1: another young person, and then the violent of crimes that
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Speaker 1: we're seeing. In Glenara College, we had a young boy
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Speaker 1: that was with an interview losing his life, that was
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Speaker 1: dragged from a car and held up with a machete.
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Speaker 1: And this was done by these young thirteen fourteen year
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Speaker 1: old kids.
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Speaker 2: This is appalling.
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Speaker 1: We've got to have consequences for these young people and
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Speaker 1: we've got to have a better system and it's just
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Speaker 1: not happening in Victoria and the government just thinks by
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Speaker 1: raising the age we can ignore it. You can't ignore it.
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Speaker 1: If people do the crime, they've got to commit some
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Speaker 1: kind of consequences and ultimately be response with their actions.
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Speaker 2: Some breaking news on the CFMEU which I'll bring the
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Speaker 2: audience in a moment, but I just want to ask
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Speaker 2: you about that deal done last week for a twenty
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Speaker 2: one percent increase in over four years for the CFMU.
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Speaker 2: What's that going to do to the costs of these
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Speaker 2: major infrastructure projects in Victoria that are already overtime and
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Speaker 2: over budget.
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Speaker 1: David, Victoria is being run and our major projects are
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Speaker 1: being run by one person, and that's John Setker and
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Speaker 1: the CFMAU. We already have over a forty billion dollars
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Speaker 1: budget blowout in our major project, major projects, and that's
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Speaker 1: largely labor higher. You even have indigenous labor higher firms
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Speaker 1: that can't get onto work sites because they're locked out
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Speaker 1: by the CFMAU. They literally run the show.
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Speaker 6: And what we saw even.
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Speaker 1: Today in Parliament is Labor running a protection racket for
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Speaker 1: the CFMAU and there's little wonder with this. The CFMU
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Speaker 1: at the last election donated a million dollars to the
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Speaker 1: Labor Party, so that's massive money of which the government
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Speaker 1: is getting from the CFMU themselves and literally they're being
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Speaker 1: silenced by their CFMU mates. And Victorian's are all paying
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Speaker 1: the price for this because every time these budgets blow out,
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Speaker 1: whether it's a suburban rail loop that you know twenty
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Speaker 1: percent on top of that in terms of labor high
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Speaker 1: will mean each one the suburban rail loop, Northeast Link,
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Speaker 1: every one of these projects blow out and we don't
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Speaker 1: get I know this is a big topic of yours.
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Speaker 1: We don't get to do things like the airport rail
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Speaker 1: that misses out because Victoria is broke. Victoria doesn't have
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Speaker 1: the money because they can't manage not only these major projects,
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Speaker 1: but they can't manage the labor higher because the CFM
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Speaker 1: you're in charge, John Setgar is in charge of the
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Speaker 1: major projects and the big building Victoria.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Miss David, thanks for giving us some time tonight.
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Speaker 2: That's David soudaup there coming up after the break O
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Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin Nett and Yahoo. He's dismantled his war cabinet.
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Speaker 2: We'll find out what impact that's going to have. Blas says.
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Speaker 2: Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump prepare for that first
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Speaker 2: presidential debate. Questions still remain over whether Joe will even
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Speaker 2: be in a state to show up. We'll have more
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Speaker 2: on that in the moment. Steve Price in for Peter
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Speaker 2: welcome back. Just on that CFM he used story The
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Speaker 2: Australian reporting that the federal government might introduce some legislation
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Speaker 2: to try and break that union up after the John
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Speaker 2: Setka threats to the AFL last week. They are suggesting
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Speaker 2: they may let the manufacturing part of that union go
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Speaker 2: its own way. That story will developed during the night.
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Speaker 2: Danika de Giorgio filling in for Andrew Bolt. Shortly. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's have a look at what's happening around the world
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Speaker 2: with our international panel tonight, Scott News contributor Koshergada and
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Speaker 2: former Liberal MP Michael Danby. Welcome to you both. Let's
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Speaker 2: start with Israel. Prime Minister netanyaho I mentioned this dismantles
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Speaker 2: his war cabinet was set up to bring a unified
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Speaker 2: approach to the war against Hamas. Michael not a good look.
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Speaker 2: Probably disagreements within a war cabinet, What do you make
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Speaker 2: of it?
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Speaker 12: Definitely a labor member, by the way, But I think
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Speaker 12: Guns has left the government. He is not going to
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Speaker 12: get an election, unfortunately, because Bibby still has sixty four
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Speaker 12: of the one.
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Speaker 4: Hundred and twenty members of their parliament.
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Speaker 12: Now, the army says that in the next two weeks
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Speaker 12: the last two organized battalions of Hamas will be ground up.
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Speaker 12: But and then they could theoretically switch to counterinsurgency warfare
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Speaker 12: and then Israelis could go to an election. But that
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Speaker 12: can't happen unfortunately, because he runs proxy in northern Israel.
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Speaker 12: Hezbollah has got one hundred and twenty thousand Israelis displaced
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Speaker 12: from their homes and they may start another war.
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Speaker 2: So it's a.
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Speaker 12: He's got a narrow majority, but I don't think they
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Speaker 12: can be progressed on the Israeli side to a change
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Speaker 12: of government.
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Speaker 2: Kosher imagine me calling Michael a liberal. I need to
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Speaker 2: go home, wash my mouth.
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Speaker 9: There.
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Speaker 2: We've got two weeks from the first presidential debate twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four. The Trump and Biden campaigns now they've agreed
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Speaker 2: on the rules. I find this fascinating. A ninety minute debate,
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Speaker 2: the candidate's microphones will be muted. I wonder who that's for,
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Speaker 2: and there will be no audience and no props on
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Speaker 2: the stage and in the studio. I think that's probably
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Speaker 2: designed for Joe, don't you.
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Speaker 13: I think not having the studio audience certainly mutes one
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Speaker 13: of the competitive advantages of Trump, because he tends to
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Speaker 13: feed off the energy of crowds, for sure, But he
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Speaker 13: also has a lot of other competitive advantages in general,
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Speaker 13: and certainly as it compares to Joe Biden. One is
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Speaker 13: that he is very used to and actually thrives in
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Speaker 13: adversarial situations, whether it's with a hostile media or with
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Speaker 13: other adversaries or judges and courtrooms.
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Speaker 6: And all of that.
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Speaker 13: And the second is he really does have a genuine
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Speaker 13: constituency love him or hate him. He actually has real
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Speaker 13: organic support at scale, and I think everybody would agree
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Speaker 13: that does not seem to be the case on the
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Speaker 13: other side. And so even if those people are not
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Speaker 13: in the room in a studio audience. He can channel
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Speaker 13: that he's battle tested, he's road tested, he can think
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Speaker 13: quickly on his feet, and I think he will be
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Speaker 13: just fine. He'll probably be fighting one on two because
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Speaker 13: the moderators everybody expects, as they tend to be, will
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Speaker 13: probably come in and intervene and on behalf of Joe
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Speaker 13: Biden more than they do for Trump.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: One of the other advantages he has over Joe Kocher,
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Speaker 2: of course, is he will actually know he's in a room,
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Speaker 2: as opposed to Joe Biden, who probably hasn't got any
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Speaker 2: clue where he is. That debate, by the way, will
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Speaker 2: be on CNN, the presidential Debate. You'll be able to
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Speaker 2: see it live here on Sky News. That'll be from
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Speaker 2: eleven am on Friday, the twenty eighth. Russia, the President
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Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin mica Le's off to North Korea first time
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Speaker 2: in twenty four years, is for a friendly state visit.
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Speaker 2: I imagine it won't be all that friendly, would it be?
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Speaker 12: Look at this is big news to sieve the Australians
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Speaker 12: and other people in democracies have to focus on the
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Speaker 12: fact that the authoritarians are all working together. North Korea, Iran, China,
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Speaker 12: and Russia. So previously, even the Russians and the Chinese
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Speaker 12: stayed away from Korea because they regarded them as mad.
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Speaker 4: As cut snakes.
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Speaker 12: But the Uranians provide Russia with the drones to murder
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Speaker 12: civilians by the hundreds in Ukrainian cities, and the North
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Speaker 12: Koreans provide them the broken Russian manufacturing sector with the
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Speaker 12: basic artillery show one hundred and fifty five millimeter. So
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Speaker 12: all of these people are working very closely together, and
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Speaker 12: we all have to be very mindful of the fact
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Speaker 12: that they oppose a danger toward us. The Uranians go
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Speaker 12: for the Israelis, the Russians go for the Ukrainians, and
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Speaker 12: God forbid, before the American election, some Chinese general besides,
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Speaker 12: it's time to launch a blockade of Taiwan.
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Speaker 2: Kosher, it's going to be a very interesting presidential debate.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait for that to come up, Joe Biden
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Speaker 2: versus Trump. I think they're going to have three of
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Speaker 2: these debates. It's going to be absolutely fascinating. Thank you
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Speaker 2: very much both of you to join us tonight. That's
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Speaker 2: kosher YadA and Michael Danby coming up. The Bolt Report
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Speaker 2: Tonight is going to be hosted by Danika de Giorgio.
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Speaker 2: I'll be back for Peter Kretlin the same time tomorrow night.
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Speaker 6: Have a good evening.