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Speaker 1: So whatever you want right about Trump, but his demeanor

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Speaker 1: and his influences now genuinely global. Why well, Peter Dutton,

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Speaker 1: Peter Dutton has been accused of his Trumpian stance on

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Speaker 1: everything from public service to immigration, and there are election

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Speaker 1: campaign at the moment and now we got Winston Peters

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Speaker 1: all over. DEI made the announcement on Friday. DEI not

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Speaker 1: new of course, and the New Zealand first move to

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Speaker 1: change the rules and the public service could easily have

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Speaker 1: been part of the government deal, but it isn't. And

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Speaker 1: given it isn't, it's private members bill that will have

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Speaker 1: to be drawn. And even then do they have the numbers?

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Speaker 1: There's your question that in and of itself, I would

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Speaker 1: have thought it's an interesting proposition. Act I'm assuming would

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Speaker 1: be behind it. But what about the nats is DEI,

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Speaker 1: mainstreamers at NICHE. How many do they risk offending if

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Speaker 1: they take a stance A it's got a touch of

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Speaker 1: the old rock and a hard place about it that

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Speaker 1: a part of the issue is the fraudulent behavior of

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Speaker 1: the corporates. Of course, if America's anything to go by,

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Speaker 1: most of them will dump it as quickly as for

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Speaker 1: the simple reason they never believed in it in the

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Speaker 1: first place. I mean, apples seem to be a kind

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Speaker 1: of a holdout if you follow this story in America

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Speaker 1: at the moment, despite what the shareholders have been telling them,

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Speaker 1: it's actually very like BP if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: and climate zero the other week. Everyone's on board until

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Speaker 1: they realize it's all theory and the bottom line might

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Speaker 1: actually count for something. The fact, the basic principle that

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Speaker 1: the best person for the job has been largely ditched

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Speaker 1: as we genuflect our way around a series of invented

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Speaker 1: nonsense speaks not to just how way would we become,

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Speaker 1: but just how weak willed we are and how easily

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Speaker 1: we can dispense with common sense in a desire to

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Speaker 1: not be seen as out of step with the theory

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Speaker 1: of the day. Age, gender, height, sexuality, left handedness should

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Speaker 1: have little of anything to do with your employment. Skills, determination, dedication,

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Speaker 1: and performance are your beginning, middle and end. Your results

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Speaker 1: are your ticket to promotion, not a pronoun. Feels are

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Speaker 1: not a guiding principle in the workplace. As always, humanity

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Speaker 1: has allowed the pendulum to swing too far. For all

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Speaker 1: the old ways, we grew tired of what replaced them

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Speaker 1: has increasingly been proved to be farcical. DEI only ever

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Speaker 1: belonged on a whiteboard when someone uttered, oh, come on,

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Speaker 1: there's no bad ideas except they were. For more from

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