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Speaker 1: We open the week with a prediction, Eh, this is

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Speaker 1: the week the government will call an inquiry into the

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Speaker 1: accusations around the Murray Party, the Mariah and the use

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Speaker 1: of COVID and census information. Now, the trouble with the

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Speaker 1: trouble is that the government doesn't call an inquiry. Too

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Speaker 1: many questions start to get asked around transparency and trust,

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Speaker 1: and the allegations are too specific. They're not heresay from

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Speaker 1: people who heard from people. They're very specific, detailed allegations

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Speaker 1: from people who were there. The denials are fine, but

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Speaker 1: the questions ryan uninvestigated and they are too serious not

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Speaker 1: to be Now, whether a Privacy commissioner and the Stats

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Speaker 1: Department hiring a bloke to do it, I doubt it

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Speaker 1: from the government's point of view, passes the test because

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Speaker 1: do remember, although this goes directly to one party in Parliament,

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Speaker 1: it potentially involves everyone in Parliament. I mean that those

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Speaker 1: running the country can't be seen to be scrupulous. Then

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Speaker 1: that's trouble. Surely the Maurray Party themselves have not helped

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Speaker 1: to this point, with the President John Tammerherry rolling out

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Speaker 1: his standard line about all this being a race thing.

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Speaker 1: John's too angry to be credible these days, he has

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Speaker 1: this enormous chip on his shoulder and everything's a conspiracy

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Speaker 1: around Race. I mean the irony here being the people

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Speaker 1: making the accusations, as far as I know, are Maray.

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Speaker 1: So it's not about Mary. It's about rules and laws

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Speaker 1: and whether they've been broken or not. Not helping is

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Speaker 1: the food and voucher giveaway. I mean, although Maury can

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Speaker 1: argue this sort of thing's cohr the previous government set

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Speaker 1: a damning precedent where bribes because that's exactly what they are,

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Speaker 1: were handed out for vaccines and census participation. They muddy

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Speaker 1: the waters. But what is clear is using census and

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Speaker 1: vax information to campaign or to recruit four elections is illegal,

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Speaker 1: and that is what we need to find out did

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Speaker 1: it happen or not. There is also the matter of

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Speaker 1: SEID information then being used to contact people via text

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Speaker 1: four votes and not following the prescribed electoral laws. So

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Speaker 1: does the government pull the trigger and when they do why?

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Speaker 1: But most importantly for us is does it pass the

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Speaker 1: pub test? Answer? Not even close. For more from the

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