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Speaker 1: Murriol's Asie corresponds to us. Now, hey, mus get a heather.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't want to cross your father, nor would you

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Speaker 1: if you. Now, well you're a boxer two. So it

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Speaker 1: could get quite exciting, couldn't it. Yeah, well that's true. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Now what are you guys doing? You're building lasers,

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Speaker 1: are you? Well? This is the news story out of

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Speaker 1: Canberra today and this is a company in Campra called EOS.

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Speaker 1: No one's known much about it until today, and the

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Speaker 1: story goes, there's a brand new deal for Australia to

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Speaker 1: sell a homemade laser, a laser that's capable of destroying

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Speaker 1: up to twenty drones a minute, as I say, developed

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Speaker 1: in Canberra and apparently at least one NATO countries that

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Speaker 1: has bought it for delivering in eighteen months. It's faster

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Speaker 1: and cheaper. The current way to get rid of drones

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Speaker 1: apparently used to hit them with cannons or missiles. Now

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Speaker 1: that this drone, you know, like a standard warfare drone,

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Speaker 1: say a thousand dollars, but it takes a half million

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Speaker 1: dollar missile to bring it down. EOS says it's new

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Speaker 1: laser can killer drone for one dollar a shot, and

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Speaker 1: it can knock over multiples in a minute. Now is

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Speaker 1: this too good to be true? So many stories over here,

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Speaker 1: as you well know how that have been reported down

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Speaker 1: the years about this new or this new widget, or

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Speaker 1: you know, some other little object that's going to revolutionize

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Speaker 1: Australia's defense industries. They all come to nothing. They've hyped

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Speaker 1: up beyond measure. But I'll tell you what, if it's

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Speaker 1: got any legs at all, it makes a nice counterpoint

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Speaker 1: for Anthony Alben easy to take to the Oval office

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Speaker 1: this month. Well in October, I beg your pardon to

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Speaker 1: tell Donald Trump we are doing a bit more than

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Speaker 1: you maybe are aware of. What is this retail chain

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Speaker 1: from the Middle East that's going to come and break

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Speaker 1: up your supermarket situation? Again, never heard of it until

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Speaker 1: this afternoon, but apparently Lulu lu Lu is the biggest

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Speaker 1: player in the Middle East in the supermarket business. Now

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Speaker 1: you know it's over here. It's basically a duopoly. Wilworth

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Speaker 1: controls almost forty percent of the supermarket business, Coals around

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Speaker 1: thirty percent. Eldie's been here, if I said a decade,

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Speaker 1: maybe a whisker longer, Heather, They've got nine percent. The oldie,

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Speaker 1: the German company, and IGA's got around the same. So

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Speaker 1: a new player would hopefully drive down prices because, as

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Speaker 1: I say, Coles and Wilworth have got the whole joints

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Speaker 1: sewn up, very very profitable. In fact, according to the

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Speaker 1: Competition and Consumer Commission over here among the most profitable

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Speaker 1: SEP markets anywhere in the world. So we're paying for

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Speaker 1: the nose for the privilege of shopping at Wolworths and Coals. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's may be another little stick the government can bash

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Speaker 1: the big ones with Anthony Albanez. He stopped over on

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Speaker 1: the way home from London, was given the red carpet

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Speaker 1: treatment there in the United Arab Emirates, and he's invited

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Speaker 1: in becoming set up in Australia. And have they seek years?

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Speaker 1: I think it's too early on the way home, so

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Speaker 1: at this point in the afternoon, I'm not sure if

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Speaker 1: they've said yes or not. But it wouldn't surprise because

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. They've been involved in talks for a while.

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Speaker 1: This is like the cherry on top of the cake

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Speaker 1: with the icing. Okay, let's see how that goes. I'm

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Speaker 1: quite interested in that. Now, what's gonna happen with Optus. Well,

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Speaker 1: Goodness knows, this is a company in buddy crisis. I

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Speaker 1: mean this month, right, they had a routine standard security upgrade.

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Speaker 1: It was getting driven out of India and out of

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Speaker 1: Australia and for some inexplicable reason they think it's human error.

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Speaker 1: But for about thirteen to forteen hours, the triple zero

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Speaker 1: emergency call service was not working. The rest of the

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Speaker 1: network was working. The standard calls between you and your husband,

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Speaker 1: the children and whatnot, they were all working. So it

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Speaker 1: wasn't for quite some time before they worked out the

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Speaker 1: emergency calls weren't getting through and three people died. Another

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Speaker 1: outach on Sunday just gone. Now Optus is in a

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Speaker 1: mile of trouble, a mile of pain. Goodness knows what

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Speaker 1: consumers think of it. If they're not running away at

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Speaker 1: one thousand miles an hour, there's something wrong with them.

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Speaker 1: And the federal government saying listen, you're a major carrier

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Speaker 1: in the Australian marketplace. You've got to do better. You

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Speaker 1: can't do this. They had another big outage back in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, another fourteen hour shutdown. Now, good you

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Speaker 1: know the government is insisting now on more transparency. It

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Speaker 1: wants an external regulator to oversight the whole business, and

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Speaker 1: it wants a hell of a lot more robust system

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Speaker 1: that if Telstra or voter Phone or any other business

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Speaker 1: is upgrading their security systems and for whatever reason there's

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Speaker 1: a blackout, it automatically switches to another carrier with no

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Speaker 1: webs or butts. You can't have people dying, Heather for

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Speaker 1: want of someone picking up the phone to a triple

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Speaker 1: zero call. That's a very good point that you make.

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Speaker 1: Miss thank you is always appreciate it. Murray OL's Australia

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