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Speaker 1: Want to get to the bottom of what's going on

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Speaker 1: over in Australia with the sheer scand or Murray olds

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Speaker 1: as our Australia correspondent, Hey Murray, afternoon, Ryan, so's what

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Speaker 1: is going on? Did he? Is he guilty of what

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Speaker 1: they say he's guilty of?

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Speaker 2: Wait, this is just a phony war. We haven't even

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Speaker 2: had the election date announced and busy blazing away. We

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Speaker 2: had maybe the election date this weekend and yet the election,

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Speaker 2: the electorate's already drowning in all the cash both sides

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Speaker 2: are splashing around anyway, I mean seventeen and a half

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Speaker 2: eighteen billion dollars on health spending justin twenty four hours

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Speaker 2: this week. Anyway, today that was Murray what he's one

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Speaker 2: of the hard heads in the government and that clips

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Speaker 2: you played the line on the short of it is

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Speaker 2: over here. Maybe it's the same in New Zealand. Our

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Speaker 2: parliamentarians state and federal have to reveal their financial interests

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Speaker 2: in a parliamentary register to allow and order to take

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Speaker 2: place to make sure that they're not getting tip offs

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Speaker 2: from I suppose you know, pertical insider trading. Let's leave

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Speaker 2: it at that. So today Labor says what happened back

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Speaker 2: in the day before in the global financial crisis. The

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Speaker 2: banks were under enormous, enormous pressure. So twenty four hours

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Speaker 2: before the government moved here to bail out the banks,

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Speaker 2: giving them billions of dollars in guarantees. Peter Dutton, then

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Speaker 2: a young, thrusting backbenure, I think he was a backbencher,

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Speaker 2: was certainly young and thrusting. He goes out and snaffles

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Speaker 2: up massive amounts of Combank, Westpac and National Australia Bank shares.

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Speaker 2: Now the following day the government bailout has announced those

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Speaker 2: shares he bought for about twenty three dollars, sells them

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Speaker 2: twelve days later, or twelve days later, they were worth

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Speaker 2: almost thirty Now this, according to the government, smells to

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Speaker 2: high heaven. Now it smells to me that the government

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Speaker 2: has on a fishing expedition year. The government is looking

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Speaker 2: to hurt Peter Dutton. Dutton is riding very, very highly

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Speaker 2: opinion polls over here. The fact of the matter is

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Speaker 2: Dutton is a multi multi millionaire, but he hates people

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Speaker 2: thinking about that. He likes to be known as you know,

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Speaker 2: the humble Queensland cropper who's done good. Wants to look

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Speaker 2: after mums and dads and their money. The fact is

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Speaker 2: he's rolling in cash and so's his wife. They're very

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Speaker 2: successful couple. Now Labour's trying to paint him, you know,

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Speaker 2: as this dreadful conservative crook. He says, Labor's just looking

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Speaker 2: for dirt and smearing the muck around in the lead

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Speaker 2: up to an election. They're going to get lots and

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Speaker 2: lots of this. It becomes a bit tightome after about

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Speaker 2: forty eight hours, honestly, because both sides are throwing as

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Speaker 2: much as they can find, as hard as they can.

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Speaker 1: Ten has been ordered to pay Lisa Wilkinson's court cost.

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Speaker 1: This is from the Luhman saga. What exactly are they

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Speaker 1: paying for? Do we know how much?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have to pay one point one five million

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Speaker 2: dollars to cover her legal costs. You may remember that

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Speaker 2: Bruce Lherman took Ten and specifically Lisa Wilkinson, she was

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Speaker 2: then working for the Ten network. Lherman took them to

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Speaker 2: court alleging he had been defamed. He was to famed,

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Speaker 2: he said in an interview, that Lisa Wilkinson did with

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Speaker 2: Britney Higgins. Now, of course, Higgins claimed that she was

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Speaker 2: raped by Luhrman at part of the house. They were

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Speaker 2: colleagues at the time in the media team of one

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Speaker 2: of the ministers there, Linda Reynolds. Now, his criminal trial

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Speaker 2: ended with no findings against him after dura misconduct, and

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Speaker 2: the Director of Public Prosecution said, we're not going to

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Speaker 2: put the Britney Higgins through another trial. So he then

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Speaker 2: went the defamation route and he lost. He lost the

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Speaker 2: defamation case last year that now was subject to an appeal.

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Speaker 2: Wilkinson and Ten of course defended themselves. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Wilkinson decides that oh no, no, no, I don't want those,

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Speaker 2: you know, the lawyers that Channel ten's got. I want

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Speaker 2: my own lawyers. And now the court's rule that her

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Speaker 2: own legal team has to be funded in very very

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Speaker 2: large part by Channel ten. Why. I'm not sure it

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Speaker 2: was her decision to go with her own legal team,

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Speaker 2: but the court has ruled that that's fair enough and

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Speaker 2: it must be up to tend to actually pay over

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Speaker 2: a million dollars for her legal costs. I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: how that works, but I'm a little lawyer.

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Speaker 1: No sounds like you need to be though that for

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Speaker 1: that money, Murray, thank you for that. Murray helps our

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