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ABC boss backs Grace Tame contract despite fierce backlash. · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, I'm Jay Fallon, and thanks for listening to The Slippery
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  Slope. So I'm I've got, OK, I'm
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  laughing. Don't tell anyone, don't tell
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  anyone. But I'll tell you a little story
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  which just happened. I just did an episode of the
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  Slippery Slope. Just, you know, I was sitting
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  here in front of the camera bringing up this story that I
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  wanted to talk about about the ABC and the Grace Time podcast
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  issue and all this stuff. I finished the I finished the
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  episode. I have my little spiel.
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  I'm Jay Fallon. Thanks for listening to The
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  Slippery Slope. And then I realised I hadn't hit
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  record. Yeah, yeah.
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  Awesome stuff. So, hey, don't tell anyone.
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  This is the kind of mistake that I made.
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  Crazy stuff. Hey.
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  So look, I just want to talk about this.
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  This the ABC Boss Big Call on time podcast Grace Time.
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  Absolutely despicable. Grace Tame was signed on for a
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  new ABC podcast before them before she made controversial
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  Israel chance. The ABC managing director Hugh
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  Marks has said the former Australian of the Year LED
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  globalised the Intifada chance during Israeli President Isaac
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  Herzog's visit to Australia earlier this year.
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  The ABC announced earlier this month that Miss Tame would host
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  a new four part series podcast. It's called Autistic AF.
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  This is one thing I don't understand.
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  Back in the day, I remember watching the ABC when I was a
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  kid. You know, my nan always had the
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  ABC on and he always was like, why watch the ABC?
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  You know, it's such a boring channel.
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  It just has news on. I did like watching in the
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  afternoons. You'd watch Monkey Magic, you
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  know, the Kung Fu show Monkey Magic or Doctor Who.
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  You know, back when Doctor Who was actually a good show.
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  So things like that, they had some good programmes on.
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  But yeah, but the ABC was always this kind of straight down the
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  line news broadcaster just stuck to the facts.
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  They didn't want to, you know, they weren't pushing boundaries,
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  pushing moral boundaries. They're just talking about
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  facts. So you wouldn't see something
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  like a headline or a show called Autistic AF because obviously AF
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  stands for Autistic as F. Why would you do that?
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  Why you just, you're a public, public funded broadcasting
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  network. You don't need to have headlines
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  like this. It's just why, Why anyway, this
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  is the kind of, this is where this is the road the ABC has
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  gone in. This is why you can't respect
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  the ABC. This is part of the reason why I
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  believe they should be defunded anyway.
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  So they've got this programme, she's got this podcast delving
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  into her experiences of being on an autistic woman with
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  interviews with, let's say in brackets, experts and other
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  women, because that's who we need to hear from so called
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  experts anyway, Mr Marks told the ABC.
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  Rash National Radio, Rational Rational National Radio,
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  National Breakfast that he understood why people felt Miss
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  Tame shouldn't have an ABC programme given the controversy.
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  So if you understand it, why are you doing it?
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  Because there's no consequences. There's never any consequences
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  for these people. We get our money from the
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  public. We just get a blank cheque, a
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  billion dollars. So it's not a blank cheque, we
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  get this billion dollars, it's handed to us.
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  We don't really have to answer to anyone.
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  We don't have to, you know, give any answer for anything that we
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  do, any of the decisions that we make is nothing.
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  No consequences. So I'm telling you, I'm telling
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  you, Yep, this is what's happening and who cares?
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  We do what we want to do because we get given the money and
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  there's nothing you can do about it, he goes on to say.
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  But I think if you look at the programme itself, it's a great
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  podcast that she's done. If it's such a great podcast, go
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  ahead and make it yourself is time without getting funded by
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  the public, by the taxpayer. If it's such a great podcast, go
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  ahead and do it that way. And then we'll see.
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  Then we'll see because a lot of podcasts just fail.
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  If it's such a great podcast, you know, take a gamble on
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  yourself, take a risk on yourself, fund it yourself.
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  We'll get someone to fund it for you, whatever.
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  And see if people really do want to hear from you instead of
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  getting all this funding from the ABC, from the taxpayer.
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  So anyway, so go on and say she's done a great job, great
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  topic, blah, blah, blah. I'm sure will be of real
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  interest and real importance to many Australians who suffer from
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  those conditions and particularly young Australians
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  and young Australian women, Mr Marks said.
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  So that's a picture of Grace Tame right there if you're
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  listening to this anyway. So right wing media figure Arvi
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  Yemeni, who is a Jewish Australian, he's asked ABC
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  entertainer Charlie Pickering whether he felt Time's
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  appointment was appropriate. Pickering has said.
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  I do actually think it's problematic.
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  That's my personal opinion as a Jewish Australian.
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  There's a complete misunderstanding of a lot of the
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  words that were said, a lot of the words that were said and
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  what the true meaning of them are.
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  A lot of people are using words and phrases that have meaning
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  well beyond what they think they do.
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  The Australian Institute, the Australian Institute of Chief
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  political analyst. Amy, how do you pronounce her
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  name? Remicus sure said I'm sorry,
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  Amy, for butchering your name. Anyway, I said a tax on his time
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  in the wake of Pickering's comments had been unhinged.
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  In a blue sky post that tells you all about this Amy, She did
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  it in a blue sky post, Precious moments.
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  So yeah. Anyway.
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  Which is so there's a picture of Pickering right there.
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  So Charlie Pickering, the attacks against Grace Time have
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  been disingenuous and unhinged, deliberately lacking context to
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  cause fear and harm. Enough she said.
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  Well, I would say that Time's Time's comments, they are
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  disingenuous and unhinged and totally lacking in context and
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  totally lacking in any facts. They are factually biassed
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  because they don't rely on facts going on.
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  The podcast was launched months after Miss Time lost speaking
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  gigs around the nation and what she described as an ongoing
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  national smear campaign. I don't think it's a national
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  speak smear campaign. Time said.
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  Some things which are factually just untrue.
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  They were just downright lies, downright lies.
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  And she's paying the consequences.
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  But yet we always wanted, we have these people stand up and
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  they always want to blame honour.
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  They was going to blame everything else.
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  And they don't look at well, what the person actually said
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  was not true. People just really don't want to
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  hear from liars. People don't want to hear
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  genuinely generally people who just tell these absolute lies.
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  And so that's why she got, that's why she lost all these
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  speaking gigs. If she was speaking the truth,
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  if she was telling some facts, she might lose a couple of gigs,
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  but she'd find her somewhere else.
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  But people can't associate with people who just say blatant
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  lies. This is the big issue.
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  But these kinds of people don't want to face those facts.
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  So she's defended. She's gone on to defend her
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  actions in an interview with ABC radio host Hamish McDonald,
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  saying she was a human rights activist and advocated for the
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  safety of all human beings, no more, matter their background.
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  So we'll see in a second that this is just another lie.
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  This is just some more propaganda because she, she's a
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  human rights advocate and activist, but only some humans,
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  not all humans. She's picks and chooses.
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  So if you're Israeli, if you're a Jewish, Jewish person, and if
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  you live in Israel, you, you know, you're an Israeli citizen.
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  She doesn't advocate for your rights.
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  OK. The women who were raped,
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  murdered children, unborn children ripped out of the
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  ripped out of the the bellies of Israeli women.
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  She doesn't advocate for them. No, as we'll as we'll see in a
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  second. So opposition communications
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  spokesperson, spokeswoman Sarah Henderson said last week the AB
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  CS decision was deeply offensive in a lengthy media release.
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  So the ABC, the ABC's shock decision, this is what she's
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  saying. Sarah Henderson's shock decision
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  to employ as a podcast host Grace Time, who described
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  corroborated reports of Hamas's. So these are corroborated
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  reports that Hamas sexually assaulted, had sexual violence,
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  committed sexual violence against Israeli women.
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  It's been corroborated yet Grace Time described it as propaganda
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  which has been debunked. And then she LED a pro Palestine
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  Palestine rally chanting globalise the intifada is
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  untenable. So these reports has been have
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  been corroborated. There is video evidence, video
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  evidence that was filmed by the Hamas people themselves when
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  they were carrying out the attack on Israel.
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  In what year was it now, 20, 23? I think when they were 22.
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  I can't remember when it was now.
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  So when they were carrying out this attack in October of that
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  year, what had happened at the music festival and they killed
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  over 1000 people, they raped women, committed extremely
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  grotesque violence acts and they filmed it themselves.
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  There is video evidence which has been corroborated.
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  It's all been corroborated, authenticated.
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  OK. And yet, Grace Time comes out
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  and she believes this is just propaganda.
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  So she. Yeah, yeah, she's a human
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  rights, great human rights activist.
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  If you're Hamas committing atrocities, she'll stand by you.
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  If you're an Israeli woman who's been brutally attacked, unborn
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  child murdered, just some propaganda according to Grace
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  Time. So this is This is why people
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  are so offended at the appointment of Grace Time and by
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  the ABC funding her podcast. And like I said, you know, the
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  ABC being funded by the public purse, by taxpayers.
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  If you're Australian funded by us.
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  Look, when it comes to people like Grace Time and people of
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  her ilk, it doesn't bother me that they have, they have these
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  opinions and they say these things.
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  This is this is what happens in the world.
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  People have different opinions. Some people seem to be able to
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  chase down the facts and find out what really happened and
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  understand the big picture and understand what's going on.
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  And other people are weak minded individuals who don't seem to
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  understand the bigger picture and don't seem to understand
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  facts. They don't understand truth.
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  They are just deluded and delusional.
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  But this is you. You can't be scared of people
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  speaking out, saying these things.
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  The real issue I have with all these things is we have the ABC
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  which is funded by the Australian public.
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  Public they should not. If they're going to continue
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  down this road of left wing, left leaning propaganda, they
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  should be defunded. They should not be supporting
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  someone like Grace Time. They should be having shows on
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  which just talk about facts, just facts, OK, And not going
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  down left, left wing propaganda shows.
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  That should not be what the ABC is about.
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  It should just be about the facts, news, facts.
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  If you're going to have opinion pieces on there or you have to
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  have from both sides opposing opinions.
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  But this isn't what the ABC does.
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  It time and time again just shows that they are, they are
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  one eyed. It is left leaning propaganda,
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  left wing propaganda and that's what they believe.
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  They support anything that is anti anti Israel, anti Judeo
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  Christian principles, then they're all in support of it.
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  All in support of they are just all in.
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  That's and if that's why you want to be well, then you don't
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  get funding from the public. You get defunded and then you
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  sink or swim. You know, if people really want
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  to hear from you, well then people will watch.
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  You'll get funding from other what other areas.
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  But I think you will find very quickly that a great deal of the
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  public in Australia don't support your vision for news and
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  the way you present the way you present the news.
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  They don't support your left leaning ideology.
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  And what made this country great is that it was founded, it is
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  founded on Judeo Christian principles.
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  And yet the ABC constantly, consistently shows that they are
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  anti Judeo Christian principles. They are anti family, they are
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  anti anything Christian, anything moral, anything
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  ethical, you know, anything which if it's all supporting the
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  degradation of the family unit, the ABC is all in support of it.
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  That's what they want, that's what they love.
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  But if it's anything that would support a biblical viewpoint of
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  view of of the family unit and of the way society should run,
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  the ABC is against it. That's why they support someone
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  like Grace Time. And like, like I said, I'm not
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  against Grace Time, particularly having a podcast.
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  Great, have a podcast, but don't get funded by the public purse.
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  Go out and see if you can do it. And people really do want to
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  hear your voice. Well, then people will listen.
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  But get the funding from other places.
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  You don't get the funding from taxpayers.
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  But this is the problem that we have in Australia.
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  We're realistically just a socialist nation at this point,
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  completely socialist in my opinion.
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  And you know, when you've got a government like our current
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  Labour government, you see, obviously this is we brought
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  this upon ourselves. Anyway, let me know what you
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  think. What do you think about Grace
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  Times Little podcast? More importantly, I believe,
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  what do you think about the ABC and the funding situation?
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  Again, I'll say that the ABC should be defunded.
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  See if you can keep going it alone, doing it without public
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  funding. Then we'll see.
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  Then we'll see how things go for you.
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  Then we'll see. Maybe things change from being
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  this completely left leaning ideological monster that you
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  are. Anyway, this is all just my
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  opinion. I'm not funded by the ABC or
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  anyone else. I'm defund.
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  I'm defund. I'm funded by my own, my own
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  monies. So please support me.
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  Check out my music, JJ space, Fallon, FA Double LON on
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  Spotify, Apple Music, J Felon Music.
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  Yeah, YouTube. Check out my music on YouTube,
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  Spotify, Apple, all that good stuff.
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  Give me a couple of streams or something.
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  That's the way. Anyway, I'll get my funding for
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  this stuff, not from the ABC. Just saying this is all just my
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  opinion and let me know what you think.
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  I really do I check out I look at all your comments, all the
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  comments that I can and very interesting.
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  So thanks for listening to the slippery slope they.