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Speaker 1: So Luxeon's out of touch. Apparently, name me one politician,

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Speaker 1: one prime minister, one president in the world who's in touch.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter which side of politics they're on. Albanesi Labor,

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Speaker 1: He's just bought a four million dollar cliff top mansion

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Speaker 1: north of Sydney. Keir Starmer Labor, He's worth ten million

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Speaker 1: New Zealand dollars excluding all the donor Freebi's Karmela Harris

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Speaker 1: worth thirteen million New Zealand dollars dollars. Tory Farno one

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Speaker 1: Lotto Richie soon acts a billionaire just into are doing

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Speaker 1: gets three hundred thousand dollars per speaking. Chris Sipkins has

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Speaker 1: multiple properties, so they are all rich. The question is

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Speaker 1: does it really matter and why the question in the

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Speaker 1: first place. Would we rather they only got rich through

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Speaker 1: public office, as Albanese seems to be admitting. He says,

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Speaker 1: I'm fortunate and much better off as Prime minister. Personally,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather they manage to build a business, run a company,

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Speaker 1: or do something productive first to earn their wealth, rather

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Speaker 1: than just walk into a job as minister and get

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Speaker 1: rich that way. Or when lotto, if somebody had experience

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Speaker 1: running a charity or something like that wasn't paid very well,

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Speaker 1: but was skilled and motivated and strategic, then I'd vote

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Speaker 1: for them too. It's about experience. It's not shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: about surely how wealthy you are or how poor you are.

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Speaker 1: What matters is how well you can run an economy

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Speaker 1: so that hard working people can get ahead. Just ask

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He's about to be re elected despite being

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Speaker 1: born with a silver spoon in his mouth for exactly

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