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Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday, December nineteen, twenty twenty five. Anthony Albanezi is

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Speaker 1: pivoting hard to deal with the problem of anti Semitism.

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Speaker 1: After an exhausting week in which we've all felt what

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Jensen calls a continental shelf of rage and grief,

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Speaker 1: the federal government will legislate a crackdown on anti Semitism

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Speaker 1: and hate preachers from universities to border force.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: Yonnie Bachan and Nicholas Jensen join me to debate how

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Speaker 1: things will play out from here. For this episode, I

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Speaker 1: was joined in the studio by two of the Australians

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Speaker 1: most thoughtful people, opinion editor Nicholas Jensen and senior journalist

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Speaker 1: Yonnie Bashan. The first voice you'll hear is Nicholas.

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Speaker 3: Everything still feels very raw and I think the emotion

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Speaker 3: is kind of ratcheting up.

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Speaker 4: What's been both your reads. I suppose that the last

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Speaker 4: twenty four.

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Speaker 5: Hours disappointment after disappointment after disappointment until today, I felt

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Speaker 5: that the Prime Minister's announcements today and the government's announcement

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Speaker 5: on what they were going to do were welcome, overdue

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Speaker 5: and still clearly in development. They're clearly scrambling for answers

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Speaker 5: to this. But I think these are solutions that should

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Speaker 5: have been supplied months ago. I don't know why he

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Speaker 5: had to wait another four days to announce them, but

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Speaker 5: here we are.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, overdue. I think a lot of people are thinking that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think the Prime Minister's attitude from the beginning of

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Speaker 1: this crisis has been shock and horror, like so many

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Speaker 1: of us felt initially. But then I think he went

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Speaker 1: very quickly and probably too quickly, towards But isn't Australia great.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it wonderful that brave people stepped up and more

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Speaker 1: lives were not lost. Then he started talking about gun

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Speaker 1: law reform, and that's where I think he completely misread

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Speaker 1: the mood. So it is only on Thursday, four days

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Speaker 1: after the crisis, that the government, the Commonwealth Government, has

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Speaker 1: begun talking seriously about recalling Parliament and indicated that they're

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Speaker 1: now working on hate speech laws, cracking down on anti

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Speaker 1: Semitism in terms of language and acts, new visa rules,

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Speaker 1: and dealing with the hate preachers who have helped create

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Speaker 1: so much of this environment.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday I looked at the transcripts of some of the

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Speaker 3: interviews he did doing the media rounds, and when he

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Speaker 3: got up today at Parliament, he was reproducing a lot

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Speaker 3: of those stock lines that he has about what the

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Speaker 3: government's doing.

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Speaker 4: And you do get the sense that he's.

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Speaker 3: Kind of almost like an earnest bank clerk, is running

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Speaker 4: Checklist that he's satisfied that he's got right.

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Speaker 3: But my sense is that he's not tapping into the

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Speaker 3: mood or tapping into an emotional register that people want

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Speaker 3: from their national leader. There's this continental shelf of rage

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Speaker 3: and grief, and people want that reflected, I think in

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Speaker 3: their leader.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the.

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Speaker 5: Other grave misstep that I think he and other ministers

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Speaker 5: have made is defending their record on this for the

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Speaker 5: last four days, saying well, we've done more than any

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Speaker 5: other government has done, and we've done this, we've done this,

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Speaker 5: and we've thrown money at this and that, and then

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Speaker 5: a few days later saying well, we clearly haven't done enough,

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Speaker 5: and now we're going to scramble in, pull all these

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Speaker 5: other resources together and enact all of the solutions that

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Speaker 5: you've been asking for for months. I think that just

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Speaker 5: betrays a leader and a government that is in a

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Speaker 5: tactical war to try and bet this down, rather than

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Speaker 5: a government that actually sees and diagnoses a problem and

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Speaker 5: tries to fix it. I mean, if I had to

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Speaker 5: use a word to describe the government over the past

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Speaker 5: few days, it's that it's misdiagnosed the problem the entire time.

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Speaker 5: I mean, what was the first thing that Anthony Albinizi did.

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Speaker 5: He started looking at gun law reform. That's great, but

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Speaker 5: that's scratching at the age. It's the root course of

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Speaker 5: the problem is this anti semitism issue. And for whatever reason,

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Speaker 5: and we all have our theories on it, the government's

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Speaker 5: just been in and dial about how to handle this.

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Speaker 1: It was only on Thursday that the Prime Minister admitted

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Speaker 1: that he's done things wrong. He hasn't done things perfectly

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Speaker 1: since October seventeen, twenty three, and the change in tone

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Speaker 1: in twenty four hours is remarkable and I think I'd.

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Speaker 2: Love to know what you guys think.

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Speaker 1: There can be no denying that this is because Josh

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Speaker 1: Frodenberg went down to Bondi Beach and made a speech

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Speaker 1: that hit all the notes that the Prime Minister has

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Speaker 1: failed to hit in the past few days. It was raw,

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Speaker 1: it was angry, it was emotional, and it's set out

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Speaker 1: very logically the intellectual progression from antisemitism as an idea

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Speaker 5: I almost feel in my cynical heart of hearts that

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Speaker 5: talking more about ISIS and magnifying the role of ISIS

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Speaker 5: in this provides an escape patch for the Prime Minister

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Speaker 5: not to talk as much about anti Semitism, because Isis, yes,

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Speaker 5: is anti Semitic, but ISIS is actually just she had

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Speaker 5: us an anti Western and I worry that that has

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Speaker 5: been strategic and possibly tactical in its deployment outwardly. What

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Speaker 5: this government has done is push Israel away further than

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Speaker 5: any other Australian government has done in generations. And that

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Speaker 5: would suggest that Anthony Albinezi, which is talking about him,

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Speaker 5: just doesn't like Israel very much. And he was also,

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Speaker 5: i believe, the convenor of Labor Friends of Palestine several

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Speaker 1: That's right, This is student politics kind of for grown ups,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. You know they were both labor from their

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Speaker 1: adolescence and labor left, and one of the shibbiliths of

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Speaker 1: the labor left is that Israel is a colonizing state

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Speaker 1: and is illegitimate. Free Palestine is kind of what they

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Speaker 1: bang on about at Young Labor meetings on university campuses.

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Speaker 1: The difference in October seven, twenty twenty three is that

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Speaker 1: that idea then spilled into the mainstream and became a

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Speaker 1: thing on social media that Abby Chatfield was talking about.

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Speaker 1: But why then, when most are the kind of sensible

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Speaker 1: uni leftism to sensible center, why were they not able

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Speaker 1: to go with the grown ups.

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Speaker 3: It's often said that since he's been PM that he

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Speaker 3: is trying to find a more consensual position and more

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Speaker 3: centrist position. I should say that appeals to a broad

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Speaker 3: Australian electorate and not be too politically left or so on.

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Speaker 3: But I suppose when it comes to issues like Israel

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Speaker 3: and other things too, you do wonder whether the old

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Speaker 5: My take on it is they don't hate Israel. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: they like Israel. I don't know why Anthony Albanezi hasn't

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Speaker 5: just gone to Israel. That really amuses me. I'm still

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Speaker 5: confused as to why Penny One went to Israel and

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Speaker 5: didn't go to the southern villages. That just makes no

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Speaker 4: I think they like Jews.

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Speaker 5: I don't think there's any reason for them not to.

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Speaker 5: I just think they're political animals and they want to

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Speaker 5: win elections, and I think that's what this is about.

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Speaker 5: At the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: One of the saddest things that's unfolded in the past

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Speaker 1: couple of days is seeing people being targeted for either

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Speaker 1: being Jewish or for helping Jews. Mister Ahmed, the hero

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Speaker 1: to back and as who crash tackled the shooter, has

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Speaker 1: been criticized by people in his own Muslim community for

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Speaker 1: helping Jews. Jewish businesses a smoke salmon bagel shop in Bondi,

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Speaker 1: Various bakeries have been publicly targeted with one star reviews

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Speaker 1: or zero star reviews just because they are Jewish. And

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Speaker 1: you can see that there is a targeted campaigning going on.

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Speaker 1: You told me earlier today about businesses you know who

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Speaker 1: you feel are retreating from public Jewishness. Is that a

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Speaker 1: new development because of the violence, or is it exhaustion

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Speaker 5: I don't think we can discount the exhaustion, that's certainly true.

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Speaker 5: But what I can tell you is that after October seven,

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Speaker 5: Jewish business has experienced a wave. For some it would

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Speaker 5: have been a trickle one. For others it would have

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Speaker 5: been a wave, but they would have received a lot

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Speaker 5: of hate either of their eyes, you know, people spitting

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Speaker 5: in front of their shop, or it would have happened

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Speaker 5: online in the ways that you described. And I think

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Speaker 5: the difference now is that whereas then the worst that

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Speaker 5: could happen is words can never hurt me. It's you know,

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Speaker 5: unlike sticks and stones. After an incident like we had

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Speaker 5: more real than any.

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Speaker 2: Of us have dreamed.

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Speaker 5: And so I think that's why people having second thoughts

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Speaker 5: think that's one of the saddest parts about all this.

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Speaker 1: The Prime Ministers now appointed David Gonski, who is proudly Jewish.

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Speaker 1: He's a very senior Australian businessman. He's been Chancellor of

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Speaker 1: the University of New South Wales for twenty years to

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Speaker 1: lead a review and a forward looking report recommending how

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Speaker 1: universities should handle antisemitism in the future.

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Speaker 2: God, there's a lot to do in universities, isn't there.

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Speaker 4: Nick, Yeah, there is. I know we've all spoken a

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Speaker 3: I suppose on the Gonski appointment, from what I've read

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Speaker 3: about this. Two weeks ago, Jennifer Westercott at Western Sydney

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Speaker 4: So that's kind of my take.

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Speaker 1: How does either Anthony Alberanezi or Josh Freedenberg persuade Australians

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Speaker 1: that they're going to have to accept some limitations on

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Speaker 1: free speech? For example, are we going to be allowed

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Speaker 1: to chant globalize the interfata anymore? The UK has now

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Speaker 1: banned that phrase and said that people will be arrested.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, who else chances that phrase the

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Speaker 5: Union movement Unions for Palestine will hold up science saying

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Speaker 5: quite globalized, the anti fighter, but Unions for antifarter that's awkward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've already accepted the banning of Nazi symbols of

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Speaker 1: the Heil Hitler gesture. Yeah, so now it's about persuasion

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Speaker 3: But I think this problem exists right across the spectrum.

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Speaker 3: I think there's also a massive reckoning here on the right.

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Speaker 3: It's a massive reckoning among those that might identify themselves

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Speaker 3: associate myself with that, And I think that means that

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Speaker 3: you have a very high bar for free speech, and

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Speaker 3: that means you have people like David Irving allowed to

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Speaker 3: come into Australia, you know, probably the world's most infamous

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Speaker 1: Who has been banned over the past forty years from

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Speaker 3: Yes, and then also we had Candae Owens that recently

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Speaker 3: provably wrong on their substantive points, their falsifiers of history,

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Speaker 3: in the past that position has kind of been okay

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Speaker 3: because social media didn't really exist in the same way,

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Speaker 3: Now I do not think that exists, and I'm not

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Speaker 3: coming here with answers to that, but I think this

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Speaker 4: How do we stop what happened on Sunday?

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Speaker 3: People are going to have to change, you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: Coming up more of my conversation with Nick Jensen and

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Speaker 5: Can I ask you, Claire, you know one thing I'm seeing,

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Speaker 5: there are certainly some people out there who would be

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Speaker 5: thinking to themselves, why isn't that guy our prime minister?

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Speaker 4: This just for the week?

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Speaker 5: What is it about men's that makes him different from

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Speaker 2: He's phenomenally articulate. Mins.

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Speaker 1: He's in the labor right as opposed to the labor left,

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Speaker 1: that was a moment for Mens. Frodenberg said, well, Premier,

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Speaker 1: the marches over the harbor Ridge happened in you state.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he did try and stop him.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but as Fredenberg said, he did try and stop it.

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Speaker 1: The police went to the Supreme Court and got rejected.

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Speaker 1: Frog said, will change the law. What have you thought

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Speaker 1: as everyone says, wow, Christmas is amazing this week.

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Speaker 4: Well, he just seems to.

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Speaker 3: As we were talking before about the kind of emotional

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Speaker 3: the public, he seems to do that in the way

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Speaker 3: Albanezi just can't. And he speaks very fluently, and also

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Speaker 3: before this crisis though whenever there were questions about anti

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Speaker 3: He seems like he's someone who's prepared to respond on instinct,

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Speaker 3: and that serves him very very well.

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Speaker 2: He never talks about the rules based global order, does he, or.

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Speaker 4: Programmatic specificity or anything like that. But contrast that to Elbow.

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Speaker 3: I mean the thing with Elbow to some extent is

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Speaker 3: when the Pope died, it was very clear that he

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Speaker 1: He was very articulate too about the social media ban

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Speaker 1: for under sixteens. He spoke about the grieving families who'd

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Speaker 1: and he was doing it. You don't often get two

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Speaker 1: opportunities in public life, Yanni. Do you think we will

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Speaker 1: see him visit Israel in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: I think it would be prudent if he did. I

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Speaker 5: always wondered, again Penny Wong, our foreign minister not going

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Speaker 5: way about Anthony Albanezi. What is lost by visiting Israel.

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Speaker 5: What is betrayed by visiting Israel? But what is given

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Speaker 5: up by not going? Well everything, No one believes that

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Speaker 5: you truly identify and connect with this issue if you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I see yourself. I know that that's important.

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Speaker 3: But I would really like to see whether he might

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Speaker 3: see what would happen here if he did that. Now,

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Speaker 2: An interfaith service at the Catholic estrue.

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Speaker 4: He did he did? Now?

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Speaker 3: Actually, I think yesterday was kind of a big day,

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Speaker 4: Had a lot happened.

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Speaker 3: You know, Friedenberg's down there delivering this huge speech that

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Speaker 3: that you referred to, where the archbishop is chiding the

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Speaker 5: In many years from now, we're going to be looking

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Speaker 5: back on these events. You'll be recounting them to maybe

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Speaker 3: One image that I won't forget is of one of

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Speaker 3: the gunmens seeming to water away are passers by as

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Speaker 3: he was shooting into the crowd of Jews celebrating Haneker,

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Speaker 3: as if to say, I'm not interested in killing you,

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Speaker 3: I'm only interested in killing Jews.

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Speaker 1: That's the moment that shows that this was connected to

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Speaker 1: anti Semitism, right that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, can be no other can be no other response

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Speaker 1: I suppose I'll never forget people sprinting in terror from

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Speaker 1: the sand at Bondai Beach.

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Speaker 2: We've seen shark alarms before.

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Speaker 1: We usually think the peril is in the water and

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Speaker 1: we've all got the jaws them in our head when

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Speaker 1: you know, so deer all of our hearts as Australians.

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Speaker 1: It's holidays, it's summer, it's Christmas and you know, Australians

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Speaker 5: I think I'll remember Ruven Morrison, one of the older

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Speaker 5: gentlemen who didn't know he was being filmed and confronted

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Speaker 5: And I'm just awestruck by the bravery of him, and

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Speaker 4: I just think it's outstanding. Well, Thanks Johnny, Thanks Claire.

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Speaker 2: Thanks me.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Nicholas Jensen is the Australians Opinion editor and Johnny

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