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Speaker 1: And six, pur Perth Live present to Oli Peterson is

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Speaker 1: Weathers this afternoon, killed Olie.

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Speaker 2: Jack, you are trending right across Australia over the last

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Speaker 2: forty eight hours or so, am I Yeah, your interview

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Speaker 2: with the PM. Everybody's saying this is how we should

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Speaker 2: talk to prime ministers. Look at you go, Jack, Well.

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Speaker 1: I can assure you that not everyone is saying that, Oly,

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Speaker 1: Not everyone is saying that. No, it's always a good

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Speaker 1: wealth and my line of works. Sometimes it's a good

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Speaker 1: idea to turn the notifications off, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I never read any of the comments on social

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Speaker 2: media about myself.

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Speaker 1: What was the point? No, no, no, no, no, that's it. No,

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Speaker 1: that's news to me. Well, making it big in Australia, right,

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Speaker 1: we all have dreams. Hey, The National Energy Regulator wants

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Speaker 1: the ability to remotely switch off rooftop solar and given

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Speaker 1: how many homes have rooftop solar in Australia, this is massive, huge.

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Speaker 2: So we we're talking now about four million homes in

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Speaker 2: Australia that have rooftop solar and it's really been a

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Speaker 2: big push, particularly over my side of the country in Way,

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Speaker 2: where we have an abundance of sunshine, and we've been

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Speaker 2: some of the earlier adopters of this technology. In fact,

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Speaker 2: they already have the ability to be able to turn

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Speaker 2: off for one of a better term, that power being

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Speaker 2: generated which can be sold back into the grid. So

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Speaker 2: that is what is being proposed here by AMIO, which

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Speaker 2: is the national Energy market operator, that they can just

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden pause, the fact that you can

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Speaker 2: send that energy from your rooftop solar back into the

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Speaker 2: grid for everybody else to use because they're just going

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Speaker 2: to have too much of it. It seems really odd,

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Speaker 2: you know, in theory, to be honest with Jack, because

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Speaker 2: we have an energy crisis in this country. We are

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Speaker 2: being told on the Eastern States at the moment to

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Speaker 2: prioritize this summer. You can't really put your washing machine

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Speaker 2: on at the same time as you want to cook

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Speaker 2: and perhaps watch the television and have your conditioning system on.

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Speaker 2: So this sort of stuff just blows your mind when

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Speaker 2: you think, hold on, you're all telling us to go

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Speaker 2: and get rooftop solar, try and give us some subsidies

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Speaker 2: for batteries, and if we want to sell it back

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Speaker 2: into the grid, you're telling us you don't have the

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Speaker 2: capacity to elect it. Something is massively flawed with any

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Speaker 2: system's infrastructure. Here Jack that while people are doing the

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Speaker 2: right thing, going down the path and putting rooftop solar

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Speaker 2: in their homes and try to generate their own power

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Speaker 2: and will sell it back to Australians, they're being told

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Speaker 2: they can't. It's just madness.

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Speaker 1: Just like it seems like a real failure of kind

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Speaker 1: of infrastructure planning or something, right, like, what is an alternative?

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Speaker 1: Could they basically need to have large capacity battery storage

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Speaker 1: or something like that?

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Speaker 2: Right? Yes, yes, and there are some subsidies for those batteries,

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Speaker 2: but you know we're talking homes having to then go

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Speaker 2: and spend potentially another ten thousand dollars to put those

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Speaker 2: batteries into their homes. They don't have that. So they

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Speaker 2: can make a couple of bucks selling it back to

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Speaker 2: the energy regulator.

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Speaker 3: Why not?

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Speaker 1: So to be totally clear, so that's for a battery

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Speaker 1: at home. But is there not like a larger scale

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Speaker 1: grid option, you know, like in New Zealand over recent years,

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Speaker 1: for example, they've been talking about having a lake that

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Speaker 1: essentially you use when you've got when you're generating heaps

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Speaker 1: of electricity, you can push the water up, use that

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Speaker 1: energy to push the water up pill and then let

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Speaker 1: it flow down until later on, so that you have

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Speaker 1: it as a battery and you can use it when

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Speaker 1: the sun isn't shining, for example, there's no spot like that.

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Speaker 2: No, and that's what we need. We need that on

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Speaker 2: a large scale infrastructure, you know, project there's more people

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Speaker 2: have decided to put solar on. You'd think that you

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Speaker 2: could be able to store what is being generated there

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Speaker 2: to then share it around when you need it.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, Okay, So three colleges have been closed down for

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Speaker 1: issuing fake diplomas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're talking here about seventeen thousand students. So

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Speaker 2: these are based in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne and people

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Speaker 2: who might have qualifications in early childhood education, the disability support,

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Speaker 2: age care, community services and first date. It's long been

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Speaker 2: argued that a lot of these so called education colleges

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Speaker 2: have just been set up as a route to bring

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Speaker 2: in international students, to not only line the pockets of

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Speaker 2: the educators, but to also provide an opportunity for migrants

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Speaker 2: to move into Australia and not really get the qualifications

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Speaker 2: they thought they were going to get. But it could

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Speaker 2: be advertised at a price that they can get the

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Speaker 2: mid of the country. So these ghost colleges have been

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Speaker 2: shut down. The the whole sector is on notice. And

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Speaker 2: really this plays into the hands of the government which

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Speaker 2: is saying it will crack down on migration, and it

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Speaker 2: turns its attention towards international students and colleges because ultimately, Jack,

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Speaker 2: they don't vote, so that they're the easy solution, not

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Speaker 2: the structural problems that we have with migration at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Just get rid of the students because they're not going

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Speaker 2: to vote either way. So you know, the government looks

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Speaker 2: like they're doing something when they're not really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, fascinating. Now, a company that owns about two

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Speaker 1: hundred pubs and bars around Australia is it's not going

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Speaker 1: to be holding any Australia Day celebrations at any of

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Speaker 1: its venues.

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Speaker 2: What yeah, well, this is you know, the annual debate

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Speaker 2: in Australia about whether or not we should celebrate on

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Speaker 2: the twenty sixth of January.

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Speaker 3: I just you know what, I call it Invasion Day

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Speaker 3: eight correct, right, But I didn't really have it on

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Speaker 3: my bingo card for December one and two. You know,

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Speaker 3: I just thought let's get let's get Christmas out of

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Speaker 3: the way and return to the airwaves in the.

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Speaker 2: Middle of January and start. So I'm sure we move

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Speaker 2: the date or not? No, Australian venues co. And we're

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Speaker 2: talking here some of the most popular pubs and bars

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Speaker 2: in locations like Darling Harbor. You've got Cargo Bar, which

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Speaker 2: is one of the most famous bars in Sydney. Plenty

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Speaker 2: of pubs, as you said, right across the country, including

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Speaker 2: a dozen or so here in Perth. The Clermont Hotels

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Speaker 2: one that I go to, So you know, people are

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Speaker 2: saying I'll never go there again, you know. And the

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Speaker 2: irony here is, you know, they do call themselves Australian

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Speaker 2: venues Coe. They don't want to celebrate Australia Day. Look,

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Speaker 2: I think ultimately again it's the same issue.

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Speaker 1: That pops up every year.

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Speaker 2: Do we celebrate on the twenty sixth of January or not?

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Speaker 2: Now that this pub group's going early, it's reignited the debate.

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Speaker 2: Will anybody actually move the date? No, because no one

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Speaker 2: can find an alternative date. But we go round and

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Speaker 2: round in circles.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for your time, Mollie, appreciate it as always

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Speaker 1: that is Oli Peterson six PR Perth Live Presenters.

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