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Episode 322 - Just 35 topics

The 35 topics we discuss are:

  1. Court Case
  2. Nativity Scenes
  3. On Democracy
  4. John Mearsheimer
  5. Neo-Liberalism
  6. Barnaby and Julian
  7. Julian Assange
  8. Morrison and ICAC
  9. Pork Barrelling
  10. Dickson has a very good member
  11. A broken system
  12. Morrison advocating for religious candidates
  13. Bercow on Johnson or Morrison?
  14. The two highest-taxing governments of the past 30 years have been Coalition
  15. Sam Kerr
  16. USA teachers in a gross Dash for Cash
  17. USA Stamp story
  18. Smoking Ban in NZ
  19. Smoking in Australia
  20. Birds aren’t real
  21. Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos
  22. California to let citizens enforce ban on assault weapons
  23. Olympics Boycott
  24. Murdoch Inquiry
  25. A Murdoch consigliere to run the ACCC?
  26. Covid ep 322
  27. The Gap Vaccinations Rate
  28. Today just 6.4% of eligible Victorians are unvaccinated and yet they make up 88% of all patients in ICU.
  29. Covid Cheat had a fake arm
  30. #NotAnOrganDonorAnymore
  31. Omicron
  32. Libertarians and House Cats
  33. Furniture Removalist Job
  34. Austria
  35. Only 1.7% of people in PNG are vaccinated
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Suburban Eastern Australia, an environment that has over time

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evolved some extraordinarily unique groups of homosapien.

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Despite the reputation of their Homeland, some are remarkably thin skin.

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Some seem to have multiple lifespans.

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A few were once thought to be extinct in the region.

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Others have been observed being sacrificed by their own, but today we observe a small

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tribe akin to a group of mere cats that gathered together a top, a small amount

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to watch question and discuss the current events of their city, their country, and

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their world at large let's listen keenly and observe this group fondly known

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as the iron fist and the velvet glove.

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Well, hello deal is now episode 322 on the iron fist and the velvet glove

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podcast got the panel back this week.

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And it's tough.

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You more days until Christmas, just a few sleeps.

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I've caught some Trevor Iki.

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Well with me whenever she can squeeze us in between flights and work, the

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working class, a shy welcome back shy person and J and J the tech guy evening.

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All right, dear listener.

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If you're in the chat room, say hello, dire straits, is their hair going, John?

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Good to see you there.

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If you're in the chat room, say hello.

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And if you're in the chat room, look, we've got lots of videos

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and different pictures that we'll be putting up on the screen.

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So I think as this podcast is evolving next year, there might be more and more

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videos and clips and pictures and things.

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So become more of a visual experience, not just audio, but we'll try and always

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make it so that if you are listening to the podcast, you will understand what's

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going on, even if we are using a picture, but we'll just add a bit more to it.

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So.

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All right, well Shay, welcome back.

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First of all, you've been working in your job as a hostess.

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Is that what, what's the technical term for your job?

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I think we prefer having cruel flight attendant now.

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All right, good.

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Sorry.

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Yes.

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I knew I was committing some sort of transgression there.

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Surely Dolly biscuit Slinger.

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Right.

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And I was just curious what's the atmosphere like in the planes that

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people more or less pleasant or angry than normal or what's it like there.

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Business as usual, I've found them to be maybe more tense.

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Certainly.

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People never liked it when they had people sitting beside them, but they're

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even more annoyed about that now.

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Right.

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Okay.

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I would've thought most of the flights would be fairly full.

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It varies.

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I think Queensland is actually aren't moving around that much, but I think lots

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of people coming in were empty on the way out and then we're full coming back.

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Very good.

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So I know my daughter is planning on coming up from Sydney and she

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was very nervous because you have to provide a, I clear COVID test.

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That's no more than 72 hours old.

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By the time you take the flight.

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And the problem was that it was taking longer than 72 hours to get the tests.

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It was one of those classic catch 22 situations, but she's got a test

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result back it's negative, and she's going to be on a flight tomorrow night.

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So that'll be good.

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So it's just a really nervous time for normally a holiday.

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It has to be PCR.

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I think so.

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I don't because you can get the rapid tests.

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No, that wasn't the pharmacy.

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No, I think it had to be something else.

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So it's quite a nervous time for everybody trying to get away and worried

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whether they gonna get on the flight.

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And then if they get on the flight, the idea that the guy in front of

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you, the row in front or behind.

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Might have COVID and therefore you are then put into quarantine.

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That's scary.

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So, yeah.

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Oh, you know, what was really interesting as I was having conversation with

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my today, who was saying that people want people are really fearful of

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is Anastasia shutting the border.

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And I said, no, I think it's a deadly virus

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worried about them shutting the border.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I understand.

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It's a consideration, but then I think anesthesia is the whole point of it.

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Surely not in this age of personal responsibility.

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My main worry would just be being forced into quarantine.

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The fact that somebody in another row had done and just out of an abundance of

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caution, I'm having to be in quarantine.

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I need to be in Sydney at the end of January, potentially.

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I think I might drive rather, rather than fly I'm solid yet.

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So although I've noticed on the contact tracing thing, they've

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actually put it down to rows

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instead of the whole airplane.

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Yeah.

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But it could be the row in the front of behind.

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Yeah, that's true.

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That would be annoying.

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How long in the chat room to Brahman essential law Dawn and grant Clark.

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Grants is the white time for visa to get into Australia is eight to 20 months.

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Let's say out of China, I would assume grant, is that the case?

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So boy, that's a long wait time for visa.

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Yeah, because there were people today going we flew them into

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Sydney from Melbourne and they were going to Fiji or going to Canada.

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Yep.

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So there's a few people that are willing to risk it.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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You can make it, you can leave.

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But getting back in at a friend was G to come from the UK

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to Australia in March, 2020.

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And this is the second year that he's now not being able to, or the third

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time he's been trying to plan the trip

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and he's going March 20, 22 is looking no better at the lower.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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All right.

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Well, another velar chit chat about our COVID experiences.

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What are we going to do and talk about tonight?

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A little bit of an update on a satanic court case.

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We're going to talk a little bit further about what I was mentioning

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last week with my democracy rant.

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So hope you enjoyed that.

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There's some kinda keep ranting about it for a little bit.

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Juliana Sanje Polk barreling.

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Oh, of course.

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Scott Morrison and what he's been up to Sam Kerr and the way she

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shoulder charged in pitching.

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A whole crazy number of things.

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Plus COVID stuff.

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I look at the list and there's about 35 topics.

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I've checked with Joe and shy, neither a mess to get up early in the morning.

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So we're just going to keep going and see how many we get through.

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Yeah, so let's let's start off.

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First of all, the court case for religious satanic instruction in

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Queensland, and I got a message from the judge's associate early last week,

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which was, are you available on Friday?

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Which is the Friday just go on.

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Because the judge might be able to give his decision and we're all

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available, but unfortunately the judge then said he wasn't able to do it.

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So it was close.

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I thought I was going to be able to give you a decision, but now it's

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not going to be until the new year.

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So by the time we get it in mid January, that's going to be five

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months since the court case.

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So I don't know, obviously the case had some there it's taken five months.

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So so anyway sometime mid January now I would suspect for an answer on that one.

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So hanging out for that other things that have happened, I had

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to visit a customer at QUT the Queensland university of technology.

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And as I walked past yeah, old parliament house building.

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What did I spy, but I nativity scene at the front.

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So of course I had to take a photo of that and obviously Christian nativity scene.

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And I've put that on the list for next year.

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If we are successful with our satanic political action is to start working

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on nativity scenes and saying, well, if you want a Christian nativity scene

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somewhere now, I don't think we'll ever be able to do anything in parliament

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house because it's essentially a law unto itself, what they're doing

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there, it's up to them, what they do.

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But anyway, if I get if I get half a chance, then we'll be having a

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nativity scene with this character.

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You can see on the screen and it's a baby Beth and my, so hopefully

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that'll be one of the things we'll we'll sort of look at next year is a

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Christian nativity scenes and equal rights for other sorts of things.

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So that's on the agenda, so.

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Alright.

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Did you guys happen to listen to my rant about democracy and at all?

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Or maybe not?

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So that's all right.

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I'm about half an hour into it.

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Are there you go?

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Okay.

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It wasn't too long.

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So essentially what I was saying was that when you have to, when you're looking

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at the success or failure of different countries, you just have to look.

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Whether the USA treats them as a friend or a foe.

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And it didn't really matter whether they were democracy or not.

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It was a weather.

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The current arrangements were favorable in the, in the

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self-interest of America or not.

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And if you've got the right of America, you're in trouble, that was essentially

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a save yourself, listening to it, show that you have it in a nutshell.

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And I don't know, it's a little bit like if you're holding a hammer,

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everything you see is a nail.

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And so since doing that little rant, I've, I've come across

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a number of different things.

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And one of them was a little segment by an economist called Michael Hudson.

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So I'm just going to play that clip for you.

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So let me just find that, and I'll play this clip by Michael Hunt.

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Is going to end America's ability to control other countries.

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So yes, the CIA's job is to promote what is America's means that

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have financial leverage, as we're seeing now over Argentina which

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is now running into trouble again.

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And the pro us Argentina and government looked like it was going to lose the

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election that IMF lent an enormous amount of no money to Argentina, so that all of

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the wealthy Argentines and the American companies there could move their money

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out of Argentine currency into the dollar.

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And then after the left Britain took over the IMF, let Argentina drop and foreign

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speculators moved against Argentina.

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And so the United States can say, you know, whether your country has an

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oligarchy or democracy, if you have a democracy, we're going to crush you.

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If we support oligarchy, we said and that essentially I think is a Biden his

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hand having the summit between next week between a democracy and authoritarians, he

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said, look, America is backing autocracy.

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We're the autocracy, our enemy, our democratic countries

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that actually a follow up.

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Okay.

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And so that's Michael Hudson and I've read different things by him,

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which are quite interesting when it comes to currency and the U S dollar.

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And I just happened to come across another one.

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And so what are you going to hear from here as a guy, John mere Shimer and

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he's actually speaking at an event held by the center for independent studies,

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which is a right wing think tank.

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So for people what's that I said, Susan T yes.

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Yes.

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RT that would have been Russia to die was Michael Hudson.

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Yes.

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So from the left, you've got that view.

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And I'm about to give you from the rides.

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Well, you know, Santa Fe, independent studies, you can't get

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much more right-wing than that.

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Can you maybe the Institute of public affairs?

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So so John Mearsheimer is going to be speaking next.

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He's an American political scientist in international relations scholar who

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belongs to the realist school of thought.

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He's the, our Wendell Harrison distinguished service professor

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at the university of Chicago.

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If you've heard of university of Chicago economic center, you'll know

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we've got a right wing center there, I'm speaking at the right wing think

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tank center for independent studies.

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And he's known for his developing a theory of offensive realism, which

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describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the

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rational desire to achieve regional.

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In an anarchic international system.

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So he was a I've got it in the show notes there.

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So this is what this guy was saying while addressing the right wing think tank.

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And he is from the university of Chicago economic school.

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So let me find him here.

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Now, the question is, what does this all mean for Australia?

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You're in a quandary for sure.

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Everybody knows.

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Everybody knows what the quandary is.

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Security wise.

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You really want to go with us.

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It makes just a lot more sense.

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Right?

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And you understand that security is more important than prosperity

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because if you don't survive, you're not going to prosper.

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So Bibles of the utmost importance, because you can't pursue any

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other goals, if you don't survive.

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Right.

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So security has got to be number one.

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So you'll sacrifice prosperity for security, right?

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That's what will happen.

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That's why you'll be with us.

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Now.

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Some people say there's an alternative.

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You can go with China, right?

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You have a choice here.

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You can go with China rather than United States.

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It's two things I'll say about that.

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Number one, if you go with China, you want to understand you are.

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You are then deciding to become an enemy of the United States, because

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we're, again, we're talking about an intense security competition.

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You're either with us or against us.

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And if you're trading extensively with China and you're friendly with

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China, you're undermining the United States in the security competition.

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You're feeding the beast from our perspective, and that is

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not going to make us happy.

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And when we are not happy, you do not want to underestimate how nasty we

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can be just as Fidel Castro nervous laughter from the crowd there, but

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I'm just quoting Caitlin Johnston.

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She said, so that you have it.

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Australia is not aligned with the U S to protect itself from China.

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Australia is aligned with the U S to protect itself from the U S so

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anyway, a left-wing and a right-wing view, sort of in alignment with what

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I was saying in my rant last week.

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And essential law dances of the ranch was very Ren tequila.

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What does that mean?

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Essential law daunting.

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Okay.

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And also as part of that rant or spiel I was talking about, neo-liberalism and

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some people really don't understand, or I've never heard of the term Neo liberals.

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And George Monbiot wrote a piece, which was when, like the Russians

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who have never heard of communism.

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So imagine if the people of the Soviet union had never heard of communism, the

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ideology that dominates our lives has for the most of us, no nine mentioned it in

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conversation, and you'll be rewarded with a shrug, even if you'll listen to this,

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even if your listeners have heard the term before, they will struggle to define it,

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neo-liberalism do you know what it is?

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And in a nutshell, it's a sort of free market deregulation pro globalization

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reduce government spending, sell off government assets promoted by

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Frederick Hayek, Milton Friedman, and the Montpellier on society.

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That's in a nutshell neo-liberalism, which was, again, Reagan

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promoted by Reagan and Maggie.

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And essentially that's been accepted as, as the dominant theory of how economics

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works and should work in the world today.

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And what's people just don't know that, but it sort of has a way of insidiously

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sort of seeping into our culture where it's accepted those sort of principles.

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And, and we don't even see it.

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And there was an article here from independent Australia, which talked about.

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Journalists have the power to frame reality for audiences because they set

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the standards for what is considered good, bad, normal, or controversial.

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So we all know what framing is, is is, is where you ask a question or you make

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an initial statement in such a way that you sort of set it up to be in a, in a

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certain direction from the very beginning.

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So in this article it says, you know, journalists have the power

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to frame things and, and gave a really interesting example.

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I thought and I'm going to apply it now.

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It's not the guys for 30 seconds.

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And it was a recent interview between Lee sales on the seven 30

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report who was about to interview the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg.

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So let me just find this one.

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And here we go.

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Rottenberg joins me now from Cambra.

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Thank you for being with his treasurer must be with you.

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He's your March 29th budget.

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Next GA going to be about starting to recover the nation's balance sheet

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and pay down debt, or are you going to be unable to resist taking the

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nation even further into debt because you'll want to splash cash around

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because you heading into an election?

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Well, the buck, so this article gives that as a really interesting example

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of framing because the writer says there's nothing neutral about this.

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It presents without question the ideologically loaded idea that government

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debt is bad for the economy and that the government spending is politically

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problematic rather than desirable.

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It doesn't matter what Frydenberg responded because the question itself

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presents a bias view of the world.

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It presents a neoliberal assumption and thoughts is not balanced, but instead

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privileges conservative free market ideology ahead of competing perspectives.

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For example, it it elides over the opposing perspective of Canadian

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economic theory, which argues that government spending is good for

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the economy because it stimulates growth, particularly in tough times.

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So the way this writer says the questions set a standard for the respondent in the

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same way that when I asked my husband, if he has put the bins out, I'm asking

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because I want him to put the bins out.

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Not because I'm leading him to say yes, I have.

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At the end of the day, the audience was served up a boss,

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representation of reality.

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And this is subtle.

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And she goes on.

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She could have framed the question like this.

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Can you please explain for your audience, how you plan to manage the economy to

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ensure there is enough demand to stimulate economic growth and to make sure there is

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a job available for everyone who wants one and the writer would have been interested

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to hear the treasuries of response.

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I thought that was all very good.

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I think they're all about jobs and growth.

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Yes.

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But in which case, why not ask it in that fashion, but Lee sales

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definitely framed it as debts.

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Bad.

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You need to pay this down.

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If you're not doing that, then you obviously pandering to something else.

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So it was a set-up and yeah, I, myself might have spotted it.

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I don't think if I was just watching it, but this rod is gone all

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day, guy classic vise question.

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And I think the rider is correct.

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So, so again, I thought that was interesting.

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Right.

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That's enough of ongoing about my rant.

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Finish on that now.

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Julian Assange, sorry.

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If John was asking you, if you could define Neo liberal.

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Well, I think we did just earlier, like Neo liberal theory is that

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you must allow free markets.

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You cannot regulate them or you should not regulate them.

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There should be no tariffs.

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Globalization must be allowed.

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So multinational countries must be allowed to operate.

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Government spending on social services has to be reduced if the government

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owns assets like water and electricity or other things, it should sell

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them off because governments should not be in the business of business.

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Even if it's essential services.

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You know, that's, that's what neo-liberalism is about is, is a total

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reduction in the government of virtually nothing except defense and as few

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polices necessary, preferably you should hire your own security guards, you

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know, that's, that's near liberalism.

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I think somebody wants to add to it.

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Anything I've missed there, but that's, that's it in a nutshell, I think dice

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strain unless the question was why new liberalism, as opposed to old

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liberalism, what is the no, how it got the actual terminology neo-liberalism

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but they don't like to use it because it's seen as being a little bit evil.

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So you won't find people openly saying I'm a Neo liberal they'll

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tend to say Neo as in Neo Nazi or Neo nationalism may be, it's

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definitely got a negative connotation.

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They would prefer to say it's revisionist, isn't it.

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It's taking the original concept and almost turning it on its head.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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Next time I might look up the origins of the term.

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Neo-liberalism how it sort of came together.

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I did, I do recall seeing it somewhere, but I can't remember

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what the details were saying.

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Oh, essential dark central law.

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Don says and rant rant.

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Tacular means it was a spectacular rate.

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Yes.

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I just made that word up, Don.

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Okay.

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Julian Assange, there was an appeal where the us argument got up and

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now there's a further appeal.

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And so he's still in that terrible prison doing hard time.

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They're waiting for this appeal process to go through.

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Did you see who's Barnaby Joyce's comments at all about Julian Assange?

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Yeah.

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A few years ago out in front of parliament house, and now he's locked up in a hotel

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saying it again, basically Prius launch.

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I don't lock the door, but so deputy prime minister is saying, it's not right.

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The son shouldn't be held there.

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It should be, you know, all the reasons the left assigning it.

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Of course he says it because he comes from a libertarian approach I think,

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and also a sovereignty of approach.

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So I think he's genuine, very genuine in it.

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And this is the part I don't get the guys, the deputy prime minister, like,

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well, that's what I, that's what I was going to say is they approach

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he is approach this issue the way he's approached everything else.

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Like, Hey, he didn't hate.

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Didn't actually didn't occur to him.

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How absolutely stupid.

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When it came out saying, oh yeah, but who's got a plan.

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Who's got a detailed plan about climate change and everyone's going, you're

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the deputy prime minister maybe.

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Right.

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Like, I don't know what to do about it.

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I think should something should be done, but I don't know what to do about it.

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He thinks he's an opposition.

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Doesn't mean

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he's the deputy prime minister and he can't wrangle a

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wine to get this done with.

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Julia sounds mean him, you know?

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Yeah.

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I just, yeah.

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So I just, I just find that I'd never say anything where

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somebody says, well, hang on.

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You're the deputy PM like do something about it.

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You are, you are powerful, man.

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You should be able to move this issue in your direction.

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Is he though?

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I think at the moment, it's kind of just keep your Dick in

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the pants and keep out of the

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people just avoid and meetings.

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He's also, he's also deputy chair of the powerful national security committee

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of cabinet, which considers the major foreign policy and national security

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issues for the federal government.

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He's the deputy chair.

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Anyway, according to this article from the Sydney morning, Herald

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asked for a response to Mr.

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Joyce's.

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I government spokesman said its position was unchanged.

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Australia will continue to respect UK legal processes, noting that

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these are ongoing proceedings.

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The spokesman said, I just don't get this.

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And this, this journalist, how you could write this, that

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the deputy PM says one thing.

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And they asked the government for a response and he is the government.

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And they say an online government spokesman said, well, we're just

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going to let the UK legal process run.

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What sort of journalism is this?

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I'm just, I'm bemused by the whole thing.

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And I'm just appalled by the whole thing.

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And, and the thing I don't get, like I said, I can fully understand

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a, a sort of a libertarian type of guy, like Barnaby, Joyce being a

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supporter of Julia . You know, these guys are supposed to be free speech.

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That's one of the mantras and say, whatever you like, and

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whether you're offend somebody or not, doesn't really matter.

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And we are a sovereign nation they're big on free speech and sovereignty.

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Like, it makes sense that Barnaby Joyce is kind of in support of this.

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The only reason you wouldn't be is that you are so much a lapdog

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of the U S that you will just do whatever they say, no matter how much

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that compromises your own personal principles just to keep them happy.

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So that that's the only sort of hang on.

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Are you saying Scotty has principles?

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Well, well, you're you're well, he does like religion promoting

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religion would be one of them.

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So so yeah, so I still get, look, I still get emails from spite and the spectator,

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even though I unsubscribe all the time, but they're still coming through.

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I still haven't seen anything in those magazines that supports or

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says anything about Julian Assange.

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So so much for freedom from the freedom of speech loving publications of spite and

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the spectator and Caitlin Johnson, Jack Caitlin Johnson is an interesting one.

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Dear listener, if you're looking for stuff for independent blogs

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and writers and thinkers outside of mainstream media, and we've

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mentioned before, crikey is very good.

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John Mina do blog is very good.

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Previously have liked Kennan Malik.

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He's still good.

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Lady called Caitlin Johnston, follow her on Twitter or follow her on sub stack.

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She's got lots of good things to say.

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And she just says in relation to a song.

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What's the difference between how the U S deals with journalists

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at Heights and how Saudi Arabia deals with journalists at Heights.

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And the answer is speed, and that's a pretty fair summation of it.

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So so yeah, that's Julian Assange I'll move on to now.

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Last week I had my rant the week before that I think we were talking

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about Morrison and ICAC and how appalling it was that he came out

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and called ICAC a kangaroo court.

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And I think we all agreed.

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Isn't that terrible?

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What's the world coming to in virtually the next day a central

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report came out with a survey to that and I put it on the Facebook page.

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And the survey question was the prime minister has described the new

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south Wales ICAC as a kangaroo court and suggested that premium Gladys

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Berejiklian was handed out of office.

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To what extent do you agree or disagree with the prime minister and in terms

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of disagree or strongly disagree?

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The title was only 31%, 36, neither agreed nor disagreed and 34%.

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Either agreed or strongly agreed.

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So only 31% of the people who was surveyed could say, I disagree

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with Scott Morrison, hauling new south Wales ICAC, a kangaroo court.

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I'm depressed.

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It's anyone else equally as depressed?

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It just goes to show it's all about who your party preferences

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and nevermind the rest.

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Yep.

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That's

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we're up.

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They'd rather a corrupt premiere then Dominic parenthood.

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No it wasn't asking.

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What's your preference.

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It was just saying he called it a kangaroo court, says she was handed out.

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Do you agree or disagree?

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I think it's a pretty well-worded question to get the proper response.

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Even now they're still banging on about how great she was bringing it back.

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Yeah.

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So anyway, it seems that the efforts to put her in as a candidate in the

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next selection of a forum, by the way.

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So I'd say maybe he did that as a distraction and just ran it up the

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flag pole, see how it flies ups.

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That'd be the heat on that.

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I'll try something else.

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It could have been as simple as that.

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So

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It's great to say that Gladys is corrupt enough to be in federal poetry.

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So I think Leiba is making noises about if they get into power, they will

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be creating an ICAC and there'll be asking it to look at, in particular,

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the routings that have been going on allegedly with Polk barreling of, of

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electrodes by this government side.

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That would be good if that happens, sign

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well.

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I mean, it's helping isn't it.

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In fact now I wonder if I've got this Scott Morrison one.

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I don't know if I've got him here, but there was an incident where the prime

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minister was being interviewed and what that was doing was the there's

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been reports in the nine newspapers.

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I'll read this article actually.

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Analysis found that coalition held states got nearly four times

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as much grant funding as ones.

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The prime minister has shrugged off the controversy climbing coalition seats.

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Far more money than nearby labor seats, simply because they

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have quote a good local member.

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So this was a defense rejected by labor MP who climbs at every single one of

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her funding proposals has been rejected by the government at the last budget.

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Despite months of work in contrast, Peter Dutton's neighboring seat got more than

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46 times as much government funding.

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Now this seems to be funding, which is inherently discretionary.

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So it seems to be funding that doesn't have the same process that

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Gladys Berejiklian fallen foul of.

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That's what it seems to me.

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So, but it's just a blatant use of that discretion to favor your own

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seats that you hold so that your own politicians can look marvelous because

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of the things that you buy for them.

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So our reports in the nine years papers analyze the allocation of

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19,000 federal grants in the past three years, for which the government had

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discretionary power to allocate coalition electorates were given 1.9 billion

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labor seats got less than 530 million.

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And when he was asked about it, We said Dixon must have a very good local member

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and he just sort of laughed it off.

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And they've done a he's he's, he's worried that the potato is coming for him.

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He's trying to buy him off.

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Well, now the potatoes now they're just giving them money left, right.

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And center to every electorate that they have in the hope that, that I

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can hold onto that electric assigned.

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But Dawson, Dustin is inching closer to leader of the liberals.

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That's what the talk seems to be.

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Yeah.

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But that's what the talk seems to be, but I, well, it was in Dutton's

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interest that he got so much money.

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So if Morrison was doing something, he might've done something to reduce

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the amount of funding that dicks that seek, or is it just, just a stop

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to him to try and keep him sweet?

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Not, well, that's not going to work.

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Isn't Dutton's not going to say, oh, I won't challenge you for later because

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you gave lots of money to my lecturer.

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I'm going to do that.

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Do you feel like you live in a $40 million seat?

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No, I, I, I you were in Dixon, auntie.

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Yeah.

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I I'm forever shocked that they keep returning him even

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after he ran off to the post.

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Because he's still for pre-selection of the gold coast and these then took

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him back when he didn't get selected.

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Anyway, then the neighboring electorate not one of the 30 proposals was funded.

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So she was pretty upset when it was suggested that she wasn't a good member.

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She just said, I'll just go knock back 30 times.

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So right.

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Now case statistics are the largest grant was $90 million to the salvation

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army for drought payments to households.

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What the hell are we doing?

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Giving $90 million to the salvation army so that they can then give

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money to drought affected households?

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What is going on?

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Well, let better place to determine who is worthy or not.

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And obviously who is worthy is based on how religious they are and

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whether they're the right sort of religious, the largest grant and

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an electorate 35 million in Dixon.

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Let's see.

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So the salvation army got 90 million St.

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Vincent DePaul, but 7,200.

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To give $3,000 a piece to struggling households in drought stricken reasons.

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So, ah, we've, we've spread it around, you know, not only have we given it to

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the salvation army to give to drought households, we've given 72 million to St.

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Vincent DePaul and said, here, you guys are clearly better at this than

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we can you hang out this money for us?

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Goodness, psych for Christmas, I got a subscription to the

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monthly, which is the, yeah.

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These paper magazine connected to the 7:00 AM podcast.

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I just glanced at it then.

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And LPs has done a interesting article on how that sort of funding

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and almost sourcing how charity is another impact of realism.

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So you just got out a bit then shine.

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He's still with us.

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You've frozen.

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Can you just say that again?

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Now Pearson said what no PSN positive or put forward that that's

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another impact of neo-liberalism.

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So were most thing ask services to charities and then the

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charities need the money.

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So it's just, it's almost a cycle of, because we don't have a government

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department, that's got people that can actually hand out stuff.

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And we've got a government department that's quite good

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at taking money off people.

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And could quite possibly do the reverse

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the suggestion.

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So I think it was for UBI, the suggestion was the tax department would do it.

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Yes.

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Like the drought affected farmers.

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Surely you arrived.

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Surely the tax department could be best placed to say with, with some other

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data about where droughts have been in the country, are you in this area?

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Has your income drop significantly?

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Okay.

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We can give you this amount of money.

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Rather than the salvation army walking around, beating their tambourines, as

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I decide whether to hand out money or not on vulnerable Brodmann says holy

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Roman, our seat, which is the second most marginal seat in Australia.

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And they got about 4 million obviously a liberal member.

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Isn't a very good member.

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Okay.

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Still on that topic of the top 20 grants, five went to professional football

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clubs for, for swimming pools for winter private manufacturing businesses, an

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ammunition factory, a brewery, a fruit processing plant, and a dairy cooperative

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seriously and ammunition factory.

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And one went to a property developer to build a marina in Townsville.

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Wow.

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Well the ammunition factory, possibly, because that increases

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our ability in case they'd time before to create our own ammunition.

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Yeah.

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In lieu of the submarines.

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Yeah.

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Possibly.

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Yeah.

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But you know, even then they wouldn't give it to an ammunition

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factory that was in a library.

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Electric.

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I can tell you that now.

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Yeah.

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Yup.

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Okay.

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I presume the grants or loans.

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No, these are grants.

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Like grant is a grant.

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It's just money.

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Just dull down these people who are yeah.

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We'd like to go spend it.

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Yeah.

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I've always wondered about these grants to government school or sorry,

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not the private schools, so yeah.

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Here's $5 million to build whatever facility.

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And then the school goes bust.

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He gets the money.

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The schools go by.

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It's too good.

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It's too good.

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, it's good to go past.

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But if they did, if they decided to wind up who gets to keep the asset,

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it's a private school with the government paying all that money.

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Well, Oh, look, all these entities are owned by different things.

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Aren't they insane being operated entity and then a, and a land holding entity.

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And it's the operating entity that goes bust.

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But the land is going.

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Yeah, I was going to say usually it's the church.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think that's quite a hypothetical where a school goes bust, you know,

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I think they just take the, yeah.

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The taxpayers are effectively giving money to the churches though.

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It's improving the value of their land indeed.

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And ammunition factories, and property developers to build marinas.

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You didn't have to build the Murena surely you'd have to

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send them a photo or something.

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I'll send marina.

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Yeah.

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But you know, if someone's going to give you the money, it makes it easy.

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You're right.

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They might even go a step further, not even build the thing and just

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put the money in their pocket.

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You know, I'm sure that the case will get discounted.

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Right.

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So for boring.

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Anyway we've talked about the caliber of candidates in our federal parliament and

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the liberal party is without confirmed candidates in Hughes, Gilmore, Bennelong

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Dobell McQuarrie paramedic, green lion, Eden Monaro, and indeed bell on the new

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south Wales central coast dire straits.

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Is that your territory?

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Morrison is backing Pentecostal preacher Jamaima glean.

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In what multiple state officials described as I captain's pick that

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continues to deadlock the negotiations.

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So fear not Ms.

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Gleason is a worship leader with the hope unlimited church and she is Mr.

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Morrison's preference over cardiologists.

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Michael Fennelly has got the boxing backing of moderate

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and conservative leaders.

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So so yeah, Scott Morrison is trying to work in some of his favorite picks and

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it said here a federal source said Mr.

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Morrison is not seeking a captain's pick in die bill.

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And the prime minister has never spoken to Ms.

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Gleason.

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Well, he doesn't have to knowing that she's a worship leader with

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the high-fat limited church.

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I've never met in displacing, but I can tell you a lot of Ms.

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Gleason already I'd have to meet her.

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She's a Pentecostal preacher called Jamaima Gleason and a worship leader.

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Funnily enough, I've got a pretty good idea.

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And we go, yep.

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Okay.

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Now there was an interesting interview with Is going in the UK parliament

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was the former speaker Berkow Berko.

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And if you'd ever seen sort of question time in UK parliament, you would have seen

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this guy he's no longer in the parliament.

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I don't think as the speaker, but I've got what he had to say.

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So he's talking about Boris Johnson and what you've got when you're

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listening to him, talk about Boris Johnson, ask yourself, could this

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be said about Scott Morrison.

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Here we go.

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Person who is in charge of the ship is regarded as a serial

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assembler as an a bitch.

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You a liar as somebody who has made his career through ducking and dodging and

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diving dissembling and deceiving people.

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That's the difference.

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And that is why it is so incredibly serious and enormously damaging.

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I'm sorry to say it, but I ran 12 prime ministers in my lifetime and by a

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country mile, Boris Johnson is the worst.

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His natural instinct is not to be open, not to be transparent, not to be

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accountable, but narcissistically to think what suits me, how can I extricate

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myself from this awkward situation?

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By what means can I aggregate blame somewhere else?

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Apply that to a number of people just insert nine there.

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So seems to be current right-wing politics.

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Yes.

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English speaking states.

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Yes.

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That's what we've been lumped with.

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So so that was him now.

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I was talking to my next door neighbor and he you know, is a traditional liberal

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five-time and we have great discussions and we're discussing the pros and cons

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of Morrison and Albanese and he said, oh, Albanese, he's just an old lefty.

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You know?

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These, these guys don't change.

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And I, I said to him, name me one policy.

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What's the most left-wing policy that Alvin EASI has that Scott

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Morrison does not also support.

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And this guy is quite, well-read very smart, like w and he couldn't answer.

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He said, I have to get back to you.

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Like, this is the thing.

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People get impressions about people.

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And, and when they give you an argument like that, it's, it's really, sometimes

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when people fire hose you with a bunch of things, side of them, what's the best one.

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Like you've just said a thousand things in one sentence, what's your

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strongest, best argument for something.

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And if I deal with that, then you know, the rest of it Paul's white,

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but often of people are having a bit of a rant about something.

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If you really put it on them and say, 9 1, 1 policy.

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Because let's face it every time that liberal comes out with some

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statement at the moment or in the last three years, labor just agrees

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how hardly with whatever it is.

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They are so determined to be a small target that I just can't just can't think

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of anything that they have stood up for.

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And, and I was genuinely curious, like it just nine, one thing that

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you think is left wing that Albanese stands for and he couldn't name it.

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So if you're having arguments with people or discussions, then try that tactic.

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I would hope workers' rights, but you know, but it's not

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a specific policy, is it?

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No, you can't, you can't think of that particular thing.

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So so, and just in terms of the other arguments, if you're having with people

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about, you know, if you're not arguing over COVID and you've moved on to,

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on to just politics in general, every Christmas with your favorite relatives,

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and you've had a few too many drinks and your right wing uncle is just going off

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about that high taxing labor government, then introduce them to this concept.

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So The government has sought to paint the opposition as the party of high taxes.

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But according to the labor is the coalition, his track record on taxes

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fall short shadow treasurer, Jim charmers tweeted whenever treasury,

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Josh Frydenberg bangs on about tax.

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Remember that the two highest taxing governments of the last 30 years

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have both been liberal national governments, including his, and

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the question is, is that correct?

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That the two highest taxing governments in the last 30 years have been liberal

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national governments, including the current defined highest taxi

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we'll get to that, is he correct?

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And in this article from the IVC, they had a little fact checking sort

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of thing that they did and their response was the claim is a fair call.

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Tax revenue, as a share of the economy was highest under prime minister.

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John Howard next was the current coalition government elected in 2013, then the Hawke

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Keating government, and then Rodan Gilad.

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So but direct comparisons are complicated.

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So the introduction of the federal goods and services tax the GST in 2000,

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that distorts things a bit because.

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The federal government said we'll collect, we'll collect GST in return for state

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governments, not collecting a bunch of other taxes, sales taxes, for example.

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So, so the GST sort of artificially bumped up what the federal government

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got prior to the GST years also that tax figures are subject to factors

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beyond the control of governments, including resource prices, for example.

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So so yeah, in assessing it, they've, they've looked at the Australian federal

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government's tax take as a share of GDP.

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That's how they've ranked the government's total tax received as

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a share of gross domestic product.

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That way you can deal with the economies that are getting larger over time.

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So the problem with that measurement is that in, for example, the Howard

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Costella years, there was a mining boom, where resource prices skyrocketed,

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and as a result, the governments tax take on those resources skyrocketed.

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So one of the reasons why Howard and Costello's government was the

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highest tax in government wasn't because they actually write.

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Texts percentages, but it's just that the resource boom was so big

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that they collected all of these tax money from resource companies.

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And they took it right at tax time.

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So, so when you are having your argument, you have to concede, okay, the GST

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effected things, introducing it increase the federal government's texting.

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And there are things beyond the government's control that

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affect it's textile like price of resources, but on the other.

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But that's why, you know, when you talk about, well, was a government high

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taxing or not, there are things beyond their control, but if you just want to

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go with the actual statement of a high tax in government the tax collected as

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a percentage of GDP how to Castillo, where the highest the current government

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started in 2013 and second, then it's all CADing and then it's rod Gilad.

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So do you have any idea that would be the case shine?

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No, but I'm, I'm glad, right?

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So I'm not even glad about it because to some extent you could

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argue, well, Texas should be higher.

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Like there's not enough tax.

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Like you might as a lefty argue that for example.

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But I'm curious where the burden of the tax is lying, correct.

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It's just a total tax collected.

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So it's corporations resources during.

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A coalition governments that falls more proportionately on the middle and lower

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classes than during labor governments.

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Yes.

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Although again, when you look at Howard and Costello, he is as, as

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Paul Keating said about Costello, he was kissed on the ass by rainbow.

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Like the, just the money was flowing in from the resources that

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personal income tax rates could be cut because of that resource.

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Boom, that, so everybody got, you know, middle and lower classes got tax breaks.

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The problem was it's the higher income levels also got tax breaks

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and, and, and those breaks have been kept in place even when the

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resource boom stopped and we arguably needed more money for other things.

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So so yeah, it's it's complicated, but it's also a fun thing to do if

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you want to poke fun at a sort of your right-wing uncle, he talks about the

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high taxing, loving labor governments.

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Try that one around the kitchen at the dinner table when the Turkey served

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and and just say, Hey, fun fact, everybody who recommends the highest

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tax in government in the last 30 years checked by the left leaning ABC.

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So it doesn't matter if it's fake news.

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Yeah.

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But the fact that you can actually deal with it's total tax collected GDP, it's a

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pretty it's one you can actually measure.

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So so yeah, I like that one.

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All right.

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Now, did you guys see Samantha Kerr, the soccer player at

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all with her hip and shoulder?

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You probably haven't seen it.

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Well, didn't mind nifty clips that I've got here.

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I can show it to you.

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So so you want to be out?

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Well she is our best female soccer player and, and this was her

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and a match with a pitch invade.

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I came onto the field.

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So check this.

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and she's playing a soccer match fits in five accounts on just the layout.

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Obviously it's geared off and he's got his phone out.

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He's taking a selfie of himself.

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He's taking his time getting off.

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And Samantha has just come in from the side with the hip and shoulder

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and knocked him onto his back.

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So I heard the reaction there.

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This is interesting shy because Sam, Kerr's knocking this according

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to an article from Michael Bradley and crikey Sam Kerr's knocking down

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male entitlement raises ethical questions, but feels so right.

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Sam Kerr, Taka team, captain executed a perfect hip and shoulder drop on a

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pitching Vader putting anomalies ass and earning a standing ovation from the crowd.

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She also got a yellow card by the way for that presumably full on gentlemen.

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The writer says, I imagine many people shared my immediate reaction, give

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her a metal micro strain of the year, a good old fashioned data argue.

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Could anything be according to our cherished self image,

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Australian, but violence is bad.

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Always.

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What if she'd been a bloke in that pitching Vader or a woman all hell

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would be breaking loose right now?

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These points are not illegitimate, nor is it wrong per se, to watch the video

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of curd delivering her Kuda CRA to the smirking fool and feel unalloyed joy.

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The standard ethical position on violence, whether retaliatory righteous

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or not is that it is unjustifiable except in either self-defense

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or defense of the defenseless.

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Otherwise violence is reserved exclusively to the state,

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which defends us collectively.

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Once we begin allowing for exemptions or exceptions to the slippery slope,

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ah, the slippery slope runs all the way down to the gladiatorial

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equivalent of love island.

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Then however, there are Nazis and can be controversial, but in my

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view, well justified argument that it is always okay to punch them.

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The basis for that principle is essentially look what happens when you

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don't the motivations and impacts of your average football pitching Veda are a

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long way from genocidal totalitarianism.

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So it's difficult to find a general principle which supports Curtis.

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She wasn't in any personal danger, nor was anyone else there was security

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albeit less effective than her.

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And the only immediate downside risk was delay of the game.

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So I want someone who is, I know someone who is on the wrong

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end of one of those, right?

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There was a Brisbane, Sydney footy match, I think, at the Gabba.

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And he rang it up, ran on during one of the during the match.

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He was pissed and tackled one of the Sydney players who put him

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in his place and he was there probably arrested and charged.

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Right.

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Okay.

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So in that case, it was the pitch invader who tackled a player and the player then

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retaliated by doing what, by thumping him.

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This was a mate of yours, a former colleague.

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Right.

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So he was, he was young drunk and stupid.

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Right.

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It was kind of a lesson learned.

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Yeah.

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I sort of, I was interested in the sort of gender lens.

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So I had tried to have a poke around to see what stats of men running onto the

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field versus women running onto the field.

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I couldn't find anything, but there's certainly plenty of cases

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of women getting on fields as well.

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So not sure that running onto a field is about male entitlement.

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I think the reason that people love it and even I've watched it 15 times is

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more like, I kind of say it as a almost underdog sort of clap down where yeah.

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She it's like YouTube is just full of these types of videos where

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someone gets put in their place.

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And I know that there's yeah.

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I think putting a gender lens on it might be over-analyzing it.

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I'm trying to justify it because obviously you look at it and you just want to go.

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Yep.

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That is the right.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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And I think my justification is that it wasn't actually a violent act.

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Like what was that?

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Was he seriously?

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He dusted himself off and off.

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He went.

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So, I mean, there's a risk that he was, you know, had an eggshell

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skull and could a dog or something.

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But I mean, at the end of the day, it just wasn't a violent act.

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I think, I think calling that a violent act is either stating

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it and essentially it was like a parent smacking a two-year-old he's

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just having a tantrum in a sense.

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It don't see it as a violent act.

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So I think that's where I can justify it and saying good on you.

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Whereas if a big beef.

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120 grand footballer shoulder charged or hip charged a female 70 kilos.

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You know, I think, I think then the risk that C could have actually broken

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something would be much higher and general risk of you got to see as the

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genuinely more violent if they picked them up and just carried them off the

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pitch as if they were a naughty child.

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Would you object to that?

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If the security did?

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No.

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No, no.

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If the player, so if, if, if, if some, the beefy footballer picked

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up, I a 70 year old female carried her off the field, a pitcher Vader,

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no, I wouldn't have a problem with that because that's what sometimes

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security guards have to physically do.

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So just be you know, you'd recommend against it because

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you might get injured doing it.

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Like Terry alderman was a cricketer in Australia who tackled a pitch invader

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in a cricket match and he busted his shoulder and was out of action for a

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long time and affected his bowling.

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I think almost for the rest of his career.

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Like it was quite a significant injury for him because he tackled the guy, say

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to apply, you'd say, don't do it because.

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Tackling somebody might hurt yourself.

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I'm sort of contradicting myself there because if you admit that

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then maybe her giving a hit and Sheldon might've injured that guy.

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Anyway, I think that risk is so low.

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That good honor.

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I think showing any thoughts for the system, was that okay for that to happen?

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Think about the context.

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As part of my research on women running on fields, they're mainly streaking.

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Another reason why a male footballers shouldn't touch them,

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but the reaction is quite different from the crowd as well.

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And they seem to be fairly compliant when security sort of surrounds.

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What's a blanket on them,

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the punch, the punching Nazis.

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On the other hand, I do have a problem with I do as well because the definition

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of Nazi seems to be very loose and now seems to be anybody I disagree with.

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And I don't know, what's a punching now, ah, that is that if somebody

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was at a rally or something, and there was somebody stood up and made

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all these sort of pro Nazi comments, it would be okay to punch them.

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You know, some of these obvious there was, there was a Neo Nazi leader in

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America who was being interviewed on TV and somebody walked up in the

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street and punched him in the face.

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Yeah.

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And there was a meme that went around on that saying it's

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always okay to punch a Nazi.

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Yeah.

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But then I've heard the term Nazi banded around and arguments

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against everybody and anybody.

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So by the, as soon as you say, it's okay to punch a Nazi, you're basically

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saying it's okay to punch anyone.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Time.

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And you know, there's a difference between punching somebody in the

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face and her giving this guy hip and shoulder wary lens on the ground.

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The punch is differently violent.

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The other one, not so much.

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The other thing that happened once a few years ago was the egg boy.

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I remember there was a politician and egg boy came along and cracked an egg guy,

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raised his head and he wanted, I mean, Stuart, Robert or somebody like that.

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And lots of people were like, good on egg boy.

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Like that was okay.

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But now that wasn't something that was going to harm you, but

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what's that it was just a yes.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Thanks Jay.

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But you know, that was unacceptable because the guard was in a

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mess, then covered in an egg.

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Like he couldn't just dust himself off and keep going.

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And he had an invited, a pitch and asked for trouble, like he was just conducting

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it, press conference at the time.

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So quite different in that, in my opinion, Right.

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And you could argue with similar, the, the, the lots of

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people said good on egg boy.

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He was a bit of a hero to people and yeah, wasn't the

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politician sort of Pauline Hanson.

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Escalade.

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Yes.

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So everyone hated the politician.

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And so they felt like a bit like a Nazi.

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You could throw an egg at this person, but at the time we sort of said,

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well, no, that's not on, but yeah.

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So they were just conducting their affairs, Fraser running.

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Thank you.

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Fraser writing.

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Thank you, Julia.

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I got egged.

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Yup.

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So yeah, he hadn't invited a pitch and done anything wrong.

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He was just minding his own business sprouting, his usual nonsense and yeah.

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The people who were in favor of a boy and that it was a good thing really

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needed to think harder about again, what if it was a female politician?

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Who'd and some big burly guy had crushed an egg on her head.

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Maybe they might've thought the same thing.

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So, yeah.

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Alright.

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That same Kerr, that's an interesting conundrum.

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Ah, here's a depressing one for you.

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I think I've got this one on I've gone to town on video clips.

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Here's one for you.

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It's got sort of strange background to it.

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So what you saw there was about a skin to cash at the front.

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What you saw there was about eight people on a basketball.

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I know it's maybe it's an ice hockey arena and they're on carpet and

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there's all this money and they are grabbing obviously thousands of notes.

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They're stuffing them into their shirts and it's, you know, it's

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obviously some sort of competition grab as much money as you can.

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And whatever you can grab, you can keep, but the twist and the title of

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this one deal listener in his dash for cash, they're actually teachers on their

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knees fighting for $1 bills that they could use in a classroom for supplies

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while spectators watch and cheer.

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Oh, what's, what's a marathon, man.

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The devil is similar, seen in marathon man to die.

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I'm Steve.

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No, no, no.

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Stephen King it was one of the Stephen King films where basically it

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was just anything for entertainment and they were murdering each other.

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It was, it was gladiator.

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It was fight to the death, but it was the fact that American entertainment

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is getting to the point where.

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Basically, we're going to have people killing each other for money, just

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for entertainment, squid game, but actually televised sort of thing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Did you ever see marathon man shine?

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No, don't go before going to a dentist.

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There's this, there's a scene where he gets tortured by dentist.

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It's horrendous.

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It's horrendous.

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You'll just squirm.

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It's awful.

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Anyway well it's good with saying I recommend it.

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So yeah, that was a picture dear listener of about eight different teachers

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on their hands and knees scrambling around grabbing dollar bills, starting

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them into their shirts so that like, you'd use it for classroom supplies.

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All the audience watched him.

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You.

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Yeah.

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Running man.

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Mel says, Joe, there we go.

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Alright.

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Martin, remember our stance issue with the satanic temple where we created a

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satanic stamp Australia post knocked us back and said, we couldn't have it.

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Even though they agreed that we could have a new church of Christ

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stamp, we just couldn't have a noose of temple of sight and stamp.

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And beginning in the end, we decided not to pursue it at this stage because

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we just didn't have the energy.

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But next year we might order some stamps and good our loins and run with it.

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Let's see what else.

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But in America, they have a similar thing, customized stamps.

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And there was an artist who won a legal battle with the post office.

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So the artist wanted to print a stamp that had some sort of political message on it.

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It had a painting that featured the words.

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Democracy is not for sale, and it showed uncle Sam being strangled by a snake,

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bearing the name of citizens United.

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So I referenced to a Supreme court ruling that revoked limits on

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political donations from corporations.

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And there we go.

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He took it to court and the court found in his favor.

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So so that was an American customized stamp, free speech issue with

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some similarities to what we were trying to do within this template.

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Satan.

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So there we go, right.

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Do this.

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Now this could be the last podcast for the year I suspect.

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And look, I don't mention it enough.

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I should, because there may be more people would sign up and do it, but we have

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patrons out there who have gone to the website, iron fist velvet glove.com today.

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Probably the first time.

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I've mentioned that in all year, I really need to do a bit more

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self promotion on these things.

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So we have a website, you can go there, you can find all that old episodes and

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you can find the IFPG secular index.

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Whereas you can look up any federal politician and find

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out what religion they are.

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If it's publicly known and also a writing about their secularity.

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And you could leave a SpeakPipe message.

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If you are land hard and bottom, you could click on that and leave a

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recorded message, which is possible.

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So, and the other thing you can do is you can click on the link

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and become a donor to the show.

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So I subscribed to a number of different publications.

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Let me just see if I've got this handy.

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Cause I didn't have this ready, but I might be able to find it.

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So there's the hosting of the website.

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There's the media file that has to be hosted.

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There's this nifty restrain thing that we're using, but you can see the

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chat room and we can play these clips.

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There's a descript software that cuts out the ums and ours there's subscriptions

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to the guardian crikey an RSS feed up the Australian I've actually paid for

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the Sydney morning, Herald the Korean mile, New York times per episode, it's

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costing about 80 Australian dollars.

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By the time you add up all those subscriptions.

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So there's some patrons who contribute one or two or five or $10 per episode.

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And if you'd like to become one, that would be great to help me

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pay for some of these expenses because as you can see, they add up.

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So I'm going to call out the names of the people who have been supporters.

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Can you believe it?

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I think we've only lost a couple over the last 12 months, even though I never

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mentioned their names, they stay in.

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So thank you.

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I really appreciate it to the following patrons.

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And by the way, this was updated from patrial on this morning.

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And if I don't call your name, that it could be that your, and you think

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you're a patron, it could be that your credit card was declined and your

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payments haven't been coming through.

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So if you think you're a patron on Patrion and I don't mention your name, hop on

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there and update your credit card, please.

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So I'm going to start with the most recent patrons and then work our way to

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the ones who've been around the longest.

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So thank you to say thank you to warehouse guy, Tom Ricco, Greg P.

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Haven't heard from you.

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Are you back in Brisbane yet?

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And let's catch up.

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He was a patron.

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He disappeared.

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Now he's working again.

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Thank you, Alison and beat a patron since December, 2017.

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Why?

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only going all the way back to the 5th of February, 2016, Sean.

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Thank you, Sean.

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And there are some people whose support via by via PayPal rather than Patrion.

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And that is Mr.

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Thank you.

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It is appreciated.

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There are some shows and some podcasts where they rattled

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through those nines every week.

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And I think it sort of puts people off in my water fast forward.

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So you are unsung heroes.

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And even though I don't mention it very often, thank you very much.

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And if you'd like to become a patron hop on and and do that, that'd be good.

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So, all right.

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Okay.

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Right now, Mel Jay says updating credit card excavation there.

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We're good.

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Okay.

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Here we have the smoking ban in New Zealand.

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Yeah.

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What I say basically that they going to pass a law that passed

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it preventing Kiwis born from 2011 onward from ever buying tobacco.

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It will be come a fence to sell or supply tobacco products to

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anyone aged 14 or under when the legislation kicks in from 2025.

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And they're also going to Wiccan weaken the nicotine content.

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So you know, in 2050, they're going to say, you want to buy.

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I'm sorry, you're younger than 39.

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We're not going to give you a pack of cigarettes, but you might there who's 40.

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We'll let him buy it.

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Like the, Tetes find it thoughts on whether this is a good idea or not.

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It's been suggested that this is the fairest way to ban smoking is to figure

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out a demographic that aren't yet smoking that aren't yet hooked and make it illegal

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from that demographic onwards shine.

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Is it a lawyer pass?

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If you're yeah.

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Yeah.

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I actually suggested this ages ago and it was my son who found the article

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and said, look, dad, the finally did what you suggested years ago.

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It's going to be, it's going to be a little bit tricky a little bit tricky

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because tourists, like, I suppose they could lose a lot of tourist trade, but if,

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and you just get you cigarettes duty gray, if you're going to get through all the

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NACARA and then your holiday, that's true.

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You could bring in your own cigarettes.

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That's true.

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That's answers that I would imagine.

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Probably not.

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Yeah.

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So they're going to say at the.

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If you're a distant 18 year old and you've come in from some cigarettes, then they're

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just going to let you come in with them.

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Is it, is that what you're saying?

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It's cause it's not going to be illegal to possess them.

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It's just going to be illegal to sell or buy them.

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Correct.

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There we go.

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That answers that.

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Okay.

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That solves, that, that strange thing is, and they're going to sort of

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weaken the nicotine content as well.

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And the strange thing is that it's not going to fake vaping, so they're

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still gonna allow people to Vipe.

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Yeah.

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And the question is how vaping is very much aimed at a younger demographic,

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especially with all the flavors.

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So yeah, I I'm sorry to interrupt, but there was a good interview by, I think

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the man who has been putting forward this policy is the professor of public

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health at the university of Auckland.

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And he did a very good interview where he said that it's recently

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been a study come out that says 25% of young people, something vaping.

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And that that research has been, it was very poorly designed and he wouldn't

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bank any sort of serious factual evidence from that study at all.

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And that primarily what they're seeing is that vaping is used

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as an aid to give up smoking.

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And I see it as less harmful than cigarettes smoking.

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Very good.

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Didn't see that.

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But anyway, so public, so you could Google him.

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That makes, cause it just didn't make sense.

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I didn't understand why they had to let vaping out.

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So there you go.

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Ricky, Ricky and the chat room says, great idea.

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Can we do it for religion?

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If only dire straits is trouble is prohibition never works.

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I don't think it will work.

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Sadly.

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It's going to make it difficult for people to get hold of it.

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It depends what, what you're looking for as a result.

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Doesn't it say it doesn't work.

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Yeah.

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I'm in this concern about the long-term health risks of vaping.

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And if it's used as a stop gap for cigarettes, it's probably not bad,

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but if the tobacco companies are using it as a revenue filler to ma

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to make up for the revenue loss from cigarettes, then that's a good turn.

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I guess I can always watch it, see what happens.

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And if vaping sort of takes over as a substitute, then I could do something

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about it and just own that as well.

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The supply of nicotine over here is now illegal to import because

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people were buying it from an Zed.

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Right.

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You now need a doctor's script to get nicotine.

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So if you're vaping, it's nicotine free.

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Ah, okay.

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Right.

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No that there we go there.

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Okay.

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Let's do it in the chat room, says have a read of John Safran's new book puff piece.

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It looks at vaping, the cigarettes and finds big tobacco

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has their hands all over it.

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Yeah.

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So I'm sure they do.

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Anyway, but then I'm sure that medical professional had some valid

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reasons for it in New Zealand.

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So interesting to see where that ends up.

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I think crikey article, I've got a link here to, to while

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since I read it was against it.

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Saying that basically we've texted people as much as we can.

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My dad was a smoker, but he quit cold Turkey.

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When packets of cigarettes reached a dollar, a packet,

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he said, that's outrageous.

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I'm not paying that.

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And he stopped at that point.

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I gave up when I was on a training course in Belgium and

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I ran out of English cigarettes.

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Right.

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And I couldn't smoke the Belgium ones.

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They were disgusting.

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They, again, I gave up shy.

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Are you a smoker at any point?

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Yeah, this is the pandemic.

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It

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relieves pressure on my lungs.

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All right.

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How old were you when you started?

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14.

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There we go.

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It's saying a law like this presumably would have made difficult for you to

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get a hold of cigarettes unless you had older brothers and sisters or

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friends who could have supplied you.

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I started smoking at 10 and it definitely wasn't legal.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I guess it just gets progressive.

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The point is it will just get progressively harder and harder.

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Okay.

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In the first few years, as a 14 year old, it's easy for your 16 year old

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mates to get cigarettes and to supply.

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But 15 and 20 years later, a 14 year old can't get their 16 year old

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friend to buy-in for them is going to have to some 40 year old to do it.

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He's going to say piss off, like, and the big leap all we had was the cafe

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that was, I don't know, a mile down the road, had a vending machine in the lobby.

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Right.

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And of course it doesn't ask for proof of age.

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Yes.

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Presumably vending machines are no longer allowed anywhere.

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So, alright.

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Smoking rates just out of interest Australia, smoking lights are smoking

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rights, a low by global standards at 10%.

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He countries have squeezed smoking lower than that.

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New Zealand is aiming for 5% by 2025.

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So there's a chart there.

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I don't know if you've got that one gel on smoking rights globally.

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I don't want to be able to put this one up myself.

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Hang on a second.

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Oh, actually hang on.

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Yeah, I've got that one.

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There we go.

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The big pink line is Spain.

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19.8%.

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Astonia Luxembourg Finland, 12% Australia, 10.3, New Zealand, 9.4

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Canada, 9.1, Norway nine and Iceland 7.3.

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So international smoking rates.

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Oh, hi.

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It's smoking rates are falling in Australia.

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Still.

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The pandemic has accelerated the, the trend because smoking is for many, a

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social activity, not being able to go to the pub meant fewer chances to smoke.

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Quitting smoking has been like baking sourdough, a trend of the pandemic.

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Are you baking sourdough as well?

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Okay,

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there we go.

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All right.

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It was basically another chart here that shows that smoking

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rates have declined significantly.

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Actually put that one up if I can put that one up.

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So back in the two thousands, the smoking rates look to be around

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20 to 23% to just over 10%.

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Now that's a big drop.

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Excellent.

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So the fallen smoking rights has been acute enough.

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That major supermarkets are calling out the impact of

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cigarette sales on their revenue.

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So tobacco use is in free fall already without having to rely on a band

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that could create opportunities for organized crime and unfair employment.

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According to this article and crikey, that is a significant decline.

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According to that chart in smoking rates from 2000 year, 2000, it was 20 to 22%.

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Now just over 10.

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That's a lot.

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It's interesting.

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It was from crikey.

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What else we go in?

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Okay.

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Now the topic, how are we going for time?

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Right.

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We've got shy out of the shark tank already with a three minutes ago.

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Joe, you would have heard of birds.

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Aren't real.

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Like I have heard of birds.

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Aren't real.

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They're actually government drones that are monitoring everybody.

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Yes.

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And you would have heard of the story, cause it would be up your

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alley of the thought this is a, of the tech guy sort of story.

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True.

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So there's this, I love conspiracy theories and the wackos that follow them.

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Yeah.

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So in Pittsburgh, Memphis, Tennessee, and Los Angeles, massive billboards

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recently popped up declaring birds.

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Aren't real.

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And on Instagram and tick-tock birds, aren't real accounts have racked up

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hundreds of thousands of followers and YouTube videos about it have gone viral.

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So it's all connected to a gen Z field conspiracy theory that posits that

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birds did not exist in our really drone replicants installed by the

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us government to spy on Americans.

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So hundreds of thousands of young people who joined the movement wearing

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birds, aren't real, t-shirts swarming rallies and spreading the slogan.

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So it might smack of Q Anon except the creator of the movement and

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its followers in on the joke.

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Imagine that a political movement that's in on a joke anyway.

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So it's a parody social movement with a purpose.

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And essentially the guy who started it was watching some Trump rally, I think.

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And he thought these guys are just nuts.

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This is crazy.

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And he just grabbed a sign and just wrote what came into his head, which was birds.

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Aren't really.

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It's just started marching up and down the street.

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Cause he was like, if people can coming out with a rubbish,

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these people are coming out with all the state birds aren't real.

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And anyway, he was sorta videoed on and a YouTube video went viral and then

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he and his mate went well, he's a gig.

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And I sort of milked it for as much as they could and started selling

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t-shirts and the actually remained in character saying genuinely

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of course birds aren't real.

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And but in recent times they've had to admit openly that of course birds

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are real and this is a satirical movement just to demonstrate the

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knotty conspiracies that are out there.

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So you've heard of Poe's law.

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Yes.

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Cause you've told us this is the one there's nothing you could say.

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So crazy that I, something about Christie's the creationist couldn't

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say it or something like that.

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Is that it?

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Basically?

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Yes.

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And have you seen behind the curve yet?

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No, it's brilliant.

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It's up on Netflix.

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Eighties, a documentary who very respectfully went and talked

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to a bunch of creationists and their experiments to prove.

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And a lot of creation is flat earthers and they're prove the earth is flat.

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And it's the fact that they perform these experiments and come out with the exact

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answer that you'd expect if the earth was round and it's, they're explaining

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away of these results that somehow the experiment had been performed wrong.

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It couldn't possibly be that they were wrong when the

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earth was round the experiment must've been done wrong somehow.

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And it's this mindset of how, even when presented with evidence, people

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will justify, they will rationalize their rationalize of where the

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evidence to square with their beliefs rather than change their beliefs.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Melon and chat room talking about birds.

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Aren't real says I knew it was a piss take when the apostrophe was used correctly.

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What are you doing now?

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Are you and Ricky, just sitting back with a beer, just watching the shower.

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Are you, is that what's happening there that you too okay.

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Shy.

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I don't get this one.

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Did you want to skip out Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of

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theranostics and this whole story?

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Was it when you wanted to do talk about, or do you want they're an

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OSCE just to give that background is this young woman who she's part

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of the Silicon valley and she did a startup where she well, it's not yet.

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But I think she pretended that you'd had this amazing scientific discovery where

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she could do blood tests, just take a drop of blood and it's been no, not COVID

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whole thing, diabetes, a whole, she said this one drop of blood could accurately

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test for a whole range of diseases.

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I'm not sure, but I do remember the hype.

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Yes, it didn't work.

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So she got funding from people like Rupert Murdoch, a whole

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range of wealthy benefactors.

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She had very influential people supporting her and then it started

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to become clear that it didn't work.

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And how she's mounting her defense is she is saying that her boyfriend at

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the time was using coercive control.

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She, that she is just a victim in a coercive controlling relationship.

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And I just wanted to.

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As a woman just sort of call that out.

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We cannot be pushing for seats at the table as leaders, as entrepreneurs.

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And then as soon as the going gets tough, say he made me do it.

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It's buying into the sexist rhetoric that we can't be cutting.

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We can't be strategic.

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We can't be, you know?

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Yeah.

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Is her name Gladys wanting to, I just wanted to put that forward,

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hopefully in a constructive way, just as I'd expect any bloke to call

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to account these sorts of things.

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Yeah.

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We're another bloke.

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Okay.

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So that's kind of a little bit in line with, or similar to the politician, Alan

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Tage and his mistress, who was like a staffer who, who basically said are,

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you know there was a power imbalance and I knew he was married, but I ended

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up having an affair with him and, and she sort of excused herself because

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of a power imbalance that was there.

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Did you hear that one or that story?

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There was the power imbalance woman.

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There wasn't a parent balance.

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She was the same.

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It's been widely covered.

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It's been very well investigated.

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People raise the alarm with her on a number of occasions.

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It was at the helm of this debacle where, whereas that other, a woman, she

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was constrained by a power imbalance.

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She may not have had the conditions where her choices were made,

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where they made as freely.

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I'm not sure actually liking it more to what's happened with Gladys, Gladys.

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It's just, you know I w wanted to give her a fair game before, because you know,

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she's a woman and I'm biased, but when all the recordings came out, I just thought

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she had, she's taking the piss here.

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Big time playing into this thing.

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Finances fell in well as though she's not canning, she's not strategic as though she

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wasn't, you know, potentially in on it.

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It's not possible.

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No, no, no.

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She wasn't in love because she, she denied it being anything more

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than a fuck buddy relationship.

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I just think it takes.

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Y it's a very costly case.

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It's a very costly argument to make for these seats, that these important

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tables that we be of entrepreneur and leadership material, and then at the

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first sign of trouble, it's his fault.

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Okay.

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So just getting back to the, okay.

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So I, okay.

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I can see the distinction between the Allen Taj case.

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I give you that, but accepting that distinction, I'm just a little bit

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uncomfortable with her saying there was a pallet, a power imbalance on the victim

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here, but she knowingly had an affair with a man who she knew was married and

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it was kind of like, can you really fight?

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You know, like I can, there might've been a pairing balance, but you went and had

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a family, the man that he was married, like some, it was almost like she could

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say, Aw, I'm, I'm the victim here because of the parent balance without, without

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taking any responsibility for knowing the God was already hitched up and

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hadn't yet exited his first relationship.

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Like, dude, I don't know, am I crazy or not?

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I just sort of thought I'm having trouble finding sympathy for the

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lady was what I was feeling as I was.

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Yeah, I think you'd probably not on your own there.

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Was it a, a case of a power imbalance or a case of it had to be in secret?

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She wasn't arrays, you know, some of her concerns with her

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girlfriends about certain things, because it was a secret affair.

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Like yeah, I have I have sympathy for her after she came out and

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said he kicked her out of bed and stuff that seemed awfully yeah.

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Same terrible, awful guy.

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Yep.

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But, but she's also like a jaded ex as well.

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She's well, intentioned parliament house seems to be a very toxic place.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So Julia says a guy can be married and not exercises advantage in a relationship

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in which there is a power imbalance touch seems to have been abusive sign.

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Yeah.

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But there's also what was her responsibility?

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Like what point is it?

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It's whether she could have said no you're merit.

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I don't want to be with you.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm surprised women fall for that one.

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I was gonna say I'm surprised women that engage in affairs.

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Men who are married, you know, are surprised to find out it's gum.

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Yes.

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Surprised to find that he doesn't actually leave his wife and run off.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, across to Kara, it's not a burden for us to carry.

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It's like fun.

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Joe, you found this one, I think about California and a ban on assault weapons.

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So dear listener with the abortion law issue in Texas, where the court said,

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look well, at that point in history, it was, we can't overturn Roe V.

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Wade.

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We can't legalize that we can't make abortions illegal, but if you describe

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it to me, Joe, I so the, the Texas law basically said the Supreme court stops

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the states from enforcing the law.

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However, if we allow private citizens, then we haven't

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created or enforce this law.

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It's down to the private citizens to then, to effectively Sue the

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people who provide the abortions or who are tangentially involved.

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And people said, this was opening a can of worms.

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This effectively was mob control.

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And predicted that the left-wing, if this went ahead that the left wing

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would do the same in effectively a.

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Set of rules to implement their policies, which the Supreme court

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have said they can't implement.

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Yep.

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And so this is the mirror legislator.

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Yep.

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Which is essentially with guns where California governor Gavin Newsome has

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played to empower private citizens to enforce a ban on the manufacturing

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sale of assault weapons in the state.

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We will work to create the ability for private citizens to Sue anyone

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in manufacturers distributes or sells an assault weapon or a ghost

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gun kit in parts of California.

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So drawing inspiration from the controversial Texas law.

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So that was anticipated and that's, what's coming about in

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the failed states of America.

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It will be very interesting to see what the Supreme court have to say on

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it, whether they managed to find some loophole to ban one and not the other.

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Yep.

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Okay.

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So that was a California gun control Olympics.

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So the U S and its lapdog Australia have decided not to send officials sort

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of diplomatic officials or government officials to the Beijing winter Olympics.

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The athletes can still go.

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But I mean, cause we wouldn't want our diplomats to.

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Talk to the Chinese at all.

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Would we, I mean, it's not like we complain that they won't pick

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up the phone and hear that invited it happened with the, the Moscow

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Olympics back in the eighties, certainly America, Bali costed here.

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A lot of countries made it optional for their athletes, but they

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put a lot of pressure on them.

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So from memory Australia, didn't make it didn't ban athletes from competing,

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but they really put pressure on them, not to say lots of poor let's

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face it, a swimmer who spent half their life head down, bum up in a

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swimming pool, holding a black line.

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Isn't in much of a position to argue about the rights and wrongs of whether they

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should have attended the Moscow Olympics.

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I think like Tracey Wickham or someone like that.

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And didn't go cause that's sort of pressured not to go.

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So anyway, athletes can go, but so this is, this is the, you know, this

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is the government that's complaining.

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The child is not talking and won't pick up the phone and says, well diplomatic

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representations won't be going.

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And what does the life of a party do roll over and completely agree.

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Anyone and Don feral of the Australian labor party put out a state.

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Labor supports the decision not to send officials and dignitaries to the Beijing

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winter Olympics in February, we hold deep concerns about the ongoing human

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rights abuses in China, including towards a week is another ethnic and religious

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minorities and about isolate safety.

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Given questions about the treatment of tennis player, Pang Schweiger, oh,

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for God's sake, you're not worried about the human rights in China.

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It's nothing to do with human rights.

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You've been winging and bitching that you can't have a diplomatic conversation

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and you decided not to show up and lie.

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Shame on you, labor shame on you.

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How hard would it have been to say these guys are arguing

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about not being able to talk.

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Let's go and talk after Jesus Christ, just pathetic labor prophetic.

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Ah, there was a call for a Royal commission into rhythm Murdoch's

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news Corp, and a Senate environment and communications reference

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committee published its report.

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And it said that there should be a Royal commission, but the government and labor

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have agreed that they shouldn't be once again was rolled over on that one as well.

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As to whether there should be press.

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Yes.

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What'd you do anyway?

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Yes, exactly.

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Friday in the middle of press.

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Meanwhile, we've got a new head of the, a triple C Australian

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competition and consumer commission.

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This is the, this is the group that is supposed to look into monopoly

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power, where it is detrimental to the interest of Australia and good news.

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Well, that's a woman.

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Yes.

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Good news.

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Good news.

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Gina CAS Gottlieb is a woman.

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Bad news is she's not just a mate of the Murdoch.

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She's the director of the Murdoch family trust to get it to go wrong.

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And she's the chair of Australia's competition.

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Regulator.

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He's been a lawyer for Lockland Murdoch that's in itself,

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not enough to disqualify her.

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This is an article I'm reading from crikey top lawyers work for the biggest clients

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in the specialized field of competition law, any serious contender for the top

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job who isn't a lifetime public servant is going to have a history with some of

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the biggest companies in the country.

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So fair enough that she has worked for the Murdochs.

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But she's the director of the Murdoch's family trust crude and

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financial services with a 12.5%.

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Ah, so that's not just a role for a talented lawyer, but a trusted insider.

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I mean really, and that's who the government has put in

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as the chair of the Australian competition regulator, but it's, isn't it?

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Well, the Australian financial review put a glowing review about it.

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The joke, first time we ever had a female chairperson.

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So,

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so I haven't read labor's response.

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Have you, are they even going to respond?

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But I've got a feeling they'll just roll over, so, okay.

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All right.

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Let we've we have to finish off with the COVID stuff.

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Let's let's just go through a few COVID things.

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So I deal this now.

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I live in the leafy Western suburbs of Britain in a suburb called the gap,

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and there was a thing from John D.

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Bush, our state member where the premier spoke about the vaccination

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rates in different suburbs.

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And.

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Now this was last week.

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So there's probably about four or five days old.

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So 95.1% of residents in the gap have had both doses and a

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staggering 99.4% of residents of the gap have had at least one dose.

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So 99.4% is a high figure.

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Now there's roughly 13,000 people in the gap, age, six, 15, or over.

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And if you work out the maths, that means of the 13,136 people only

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79 have not had at least one jab.

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That's an amazing figure.

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We're very white.

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Middle-class law-abiding citizens here at the gap.

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That's in a nutshell, I'm surprised there aren't more libertarians in that.

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We're very no, not here.

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So there you go.

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Yeah, on the 14th of December in Victoria the, the population that

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was fully Vaxxed was 91% and unpack.

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6.4% that doesn't add up.

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It was 91.9% fully Vaxxed and 6.4%.

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3% percentile partially boxed or whatever.

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Ah, oh, okay.

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So that's a high proportion of people in Victoria fully vacs, 91% 91.9.

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Let's say let's call it 92%.

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And in the ICU unit at that time, the the percentage in ICU that were

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fully VAX was 9% and the was 88%.

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So that's a pretty good indication of the value of getting vaccinated.

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So I should put that one up.

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There we go.

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So yeah, but vaccines don't work.

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No, cause people still get COVID and I can still transmit it.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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But the whole point is they don't get as sick and they don't

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end up in ICU nearly as often.

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So only 6.4% of the population on vaccine, but they make up 88% of the

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people in ICU, presumably for COVID.

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That's an interesting statistic I thought.

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Hm Hmm.

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Take that one off the screen still on COVID good story.

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Out of Italy.

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The stratagem was the lightest and perhaps most original episode of vaccine

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evasion in the struggle between Italy's government and the country's anti-vaccine

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faction on Thursday morning at a vaccination center, a veteran nurse face,

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something she had never seen before.

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She was preparing to give the man a dose of COVID vaccine.

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When she realized that the small patch of army offered in a gap

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between sweatshirt and t-shirt looked much Pinker than his face.

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When she touched it, she realized what was wrong, rubber foam.

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She said it was made of rubber foam.

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The man whose identity is not disclosed, wore a thick theater

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course had covered in rubber foam to which two foam arms were attached.

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She said it was quite well-made.

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His goal was to obtain a vaccination certificate and Eileen to get to work

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without actually getting the shot.

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So the had lots of people was to go to work whilst being potentially infectious.

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Yes.

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And the syringe would have been put into the fake foam.

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Then I like this one, the nurse, the nurse said it was so humiliating

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thinking that a nurse cannot tell the difference between rubber foam and skin,

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but just you idiot.

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But like you bust to get through all that stupid.

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Well, he was that stupid.

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He thought everyone else was.

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Yeah.

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It was just insulting and humiliating for her.

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It would be insulting.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's like the story of the Dunning-Kruger.

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Yes.

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Are you aware of that one?

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Yes.

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Dunning Kruger is the people who aren't very smart, ended up killing

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themselves, taught people who don't know people who are dumb.

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Don't know how dumb they don't know what they were.

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They was the guy who robbed a bank and there's clear security footage

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of him from the police pick him up.

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And he goes, but how did you know?

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It was me?

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I used the lemon juice and they're going what he said, how did you know it was me?

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I used the lemon juice.

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Apparently he thought, because lemon juice is invisible ink.

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It would make him invisible to the security cameras and he'd sprayed it

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on his face and taken a photograph.

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But you'd miss saying the camera.

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And so the photograph he took was of the ceiling behind him or the wall behind him.

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I'm not of him.

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And he thought it had made him invisible to the camera.

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And so he was absolutely certain that he could hold up the bank.

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Hey gang hashtag not an Oregon diner anymore.

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So people who are anti-vaxxers and who were previously organ donors, and

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now revoking their status as an organ donor because the government is saying

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that you need to be vaccinated if you want to receive an organ donation.

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So that's been trending hashtag not an organ donor anymore.

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Let's say it.

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So hang on.

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The government is saying that people who have suppressed immune

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systems should be vaccinated.

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Yes.

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What a surprise.

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Yes.

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And G the government with organ donations has been putting restrictions

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on people for a long time saying you want a lung transplant.

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You've got to quit smoking.

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Guess what?

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You don't get a lung unless you quit smoking terrible invasion of civil

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liberties, but that's the way it is.

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Yeah.

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Want to live a transplant, quit drinking.

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Yep.

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Army Cron is the latest variant.

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That was interesting that they skipped over and in the Greek alphabet new,

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because it would confuse in new, as in new would confuse people.

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If they called it the new variant, then people would think

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just means different to old.

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And they also had to skip over sheet XR, which in the Greek

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alphabet and comfortably close to the name of the Chinese leader.

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Isn't high in Greek.

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I don't know.

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That was all a bit messy in Chinese.

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So they skipped over new and Z and went straight to army crime.

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Next one will be PI that's any reason maybe I'll skip over that

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because pie is used so much.

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If pirates, Glade, et cetera, people will want the PI

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variant tasty Rho, R H O would.

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They need to skip over that one Sigma Sigma variant.

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Anyway maybe you sent me this one in your own words, how would you describe

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the battalions housecats they are convinced of their fears, independence

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while utterly dependent on the system they don't appreciate or understand

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might have got that from Ugo Austria.

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This one's interesting.

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Austria is reaching the point where they're going to force people to

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get the vaccine or they'll be fined.

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So most countries seem to have taken a position where if you don't get the

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vaccine or you can't work or when you can't visit these places, but Austria

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seems to be going to the position of saying you have to be vaccinated.

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Otherwise we'll find you.

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I'm not so sure on that one.

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Anybody thoughts on that one?

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I'm fine with that.

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You find with that one that was just upon.

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Ah, got me.

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That seems to step too far.

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Does anyone wanna support that, that Austrian idea of mining the courts

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so far with the mandates have said effectively, there is a blanket

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ban on people moving around, but there is an exemption to that ban.

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If you take precautions and the precautions are that you're vaccinated.

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So they're saying that excluding people that the effectively the not

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allowed to, to shops, not allowed into cafes, whatever it is, is not

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picking on the, the, the unvaccinated.

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They're saying that is a blanket across the board, but you can get an exemption

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and the exemption is get a vaccine.

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Yes.

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So you are opting out of the exclusion of the exemptions.

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Correct.

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Does that make sense?

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This does.

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I mean, my argument, my thoughts are like, we're trying to protect the commons here.

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So we're saying if you want to use the facilities that civilization

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has built up the commons, then we have the right to regulate it.

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But if somebody just wants to stay at home in their underpants, in their mother's

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basement and play video games and not get vaccinated and shouldn't be allowed

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to, if that's what they want to do, I think you can, you can order online.

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There are plenty of ways that you can not interact.

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But the second you start coming into places where the flip of it is you are

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a risk to people who are high risk and either they should exclude themselves

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or you should exclude yourself.

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And why should the burden be on the people who cannot avail themselves

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of the vaccines when the people can avail themselves of the vaccines?

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We're also going to reach a point where you know, why we're doing

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all this is because we don't want the hospital system to be overrun.

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And that's the real risk in my mind as to a real justification.

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And if we got to a position where there were so many people vaccinated

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and really the handful of people left to are unvaccinated, wasn't going to

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cause a problem with that hospital being overrun, then I'm, I'm kind of

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okay with them not being vaccinated.

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Sorry.

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I had to finish that off here.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The mayor of London yesterday declared a major incident because the number of

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AMR Crohn's cases has risen so quick.

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They now have so many emergency service workers off sick that they cannot respond

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to emergency calls in their usual time.

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Yeah.

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So it's not even these people are in hospital yet.

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These people are just off with a cough or whatever, but so many of them

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are off that it's having an impact.

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Yeah.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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So anyway in the chat room, I think Julius said in reference to this

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Austrian law, I think that goes too far.

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Dolly Austrade said, well said, mill says it takes a lot of

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work from a state to ensure they are staying in their basements.

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Well, you don't have to ensure they're there.

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You just checking that they're not in the pub, aren't you, and we're

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sort of setting up systems for that.

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So anyway, I think Austria has gone too far with that one myself.

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And last but not least only 1.7% of people in PNG have vaccinated.

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They were in for a terrible time.

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Once things get going, they say it's all right, Jesus will say, yeah.

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Well the role of Christianity nearly all Papa new Guinea wins, 99.2% are Christian.

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And the religious landscape in the country is powerfully influenced by

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Pentecostal and evangelical churches.

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And.

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In P and G Christianity provides not only the promise of eternal salvation,

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but biblically inscribed frameworks and prophetic ideas and inform how people

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live and view the world around them.

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And they've got a strong interest in the end of the world as the signals, the

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return of Jesus Christ and crucially, the imminent return of chromosomes is

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heralded by the world's rapid moral decline and humanity being branded with

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the mark of the beast, a process mandated by Satan as such many Papa, new Guinea

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and Christians continuously and fearfully scan the horizon for the definitive sign.

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Anyway, religious got a lot to do with the problems in poverty.

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Guinea.

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There we go.

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All right.

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9 31.

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That's a two hour podcast.

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That'll keep you going for a while.

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Thank you.

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Shy.

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And Joe fuel efforts so far, I don't know when we will be back cause I'm

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going to be having Christmas and I'm going to be down the case for a while.

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We'll just miss each other privately and see who's around and what they're doing.

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I'd say by early January, I'll have been outraged by enough things that I will

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feel like getting behind a microphone and raining about and you probably will turn.

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So I'll keep collecting my articles and bits and.

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You back at some stage, if you're not following us on Facebook, then

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you should, because that will tell you what's going to be happening.

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And yeah.

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Final word.

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If you are not a patron, then think about becoming one.

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Again, watch the Facebook page because if I get a decision on that court case, then

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that's where you'll find out about it.

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And holy smokes, if it comes out in our favor, my goodness,

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it's going to be a big year.

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And yeah.

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Thank you to everybody in the chat room in particular, it's really good.

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Having people in the chat room really adds a lot to it, knowing that

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there's somebody actually listening rather than just the three of us tech

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amongst ourselves and not knowing.

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So it's, it's really fun having the chat room there with people commenting.

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So thank you for that.

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And so it's goodbye for me.

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Talk to you sometime in three weeks or so.

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Ish, talk to you then Shay and J say goodbye.

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That's a good night from him.

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All right.

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That was a very awkward goodbye for the last show of the year.

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But anyway, it'll do for the moment.

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Talk to you next year.

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Bye for now.

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Well, you probably wonder what our politicians do on Christmas save

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well, when it's drought cattle,

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now you don't have to convince me that the climate is not changing.

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It is changing.

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And my problem's always been, whether you believe a new tax is going to

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change it back, but I just don't want the government any more of my life.

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I'm sick of the government being in my life.

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Yeah.

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And the other thing is, I think we've got to acknowledge is, you

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know, there's a higher authority.

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That's beyond our comprehension and run up there in the sky, unless we understand

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that that's gotta be respected, then we're just fooled and we're going to get nailed.

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