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Speaker 1: Very Sope is here, senior political correspondent. Very good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Right now, I'm dying to know what you

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Speaker 1: think of a four year term because I'm all for it.

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Speaker 1: I think we need to look a bit more longer

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Speaker 1: term when we're planning.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd be all for it if I didn't think

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Speaker 2: about the unbridled power of the Labor Party in the

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Speaker 2: last three years they were in office. But you know

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Speaker 2: the thing is, I remember voting in nineteen ninety on

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Speaker 2: a four year term and there was an eighty two

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Speaker 2: percent turnout for that referendum and sixty nine percent voted

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Speaker 2: to keep it at three years. The one before that

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Speaker 2: was a long time before nineteen sixty seven turnout was

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Speaker 2: seventy percent. Sixty eight percent voted to keep it the

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Speaker 2: same at three years. So there doesn't seem to be

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Speaker 2: the appetite. Although what I would argue is the three

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Speaker 2: year parliamentary term leads to what we see now the

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Speaker 2: boom bust election cycles, because first year is getting used

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Speaker 2: to being in power, second year, as see, third year

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Speaker 2: is winning re election. Yeah, so it's it's it is

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Speaker 2: boom bust and it doesn't give you much time to

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Speaker 2: develop decent policy. You mentioned in your introduction about infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: You know, you've got to have you've got to have

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Speaker 2: more solidity when it comes to policy through government and

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Speaker 2: four years would do that. But you know it would

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Speaker 2: take it'd be an entrench vote in Parliament as well. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it would be a binding referendum. But entrenchment means that

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Speaker 2: seventy five percent of Parliament would have to agree to

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Speaker 2: change the amount of time. But politicians, of course they're

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Speaker 2: going to vote for four years of rather nice for them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, exactly, and I think they'd get that, all

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Speaker 1: agree on that quite happily. Yes, seventy five quite quickly. Yeah, okay, interesting,

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Speaker 1: but it's a very complicated how this actually, how it

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Speaker 1: works and what needs to happen, according to David Seymour

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Speaker 1: before it even gets there. So we'll talk to David

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Speaker 1: Seama after five about that. But Lux's of Vietnam. He's

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Speaker 1: talking about the risks in the region.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. There was one point he made and I've heard

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Speaker 2: it being made before, and I think he's absolutely right.

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Speaker 2: He said, it's become starkly apparent that we're in a

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Speaker 2: world where rules are being subsumed by power as the

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Speaker 2: key determinant of advancing states interests. Now, the media that

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Speaker 2: were with them asten whether he is referring to China there,

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Speaker 2: I would think he was probably referring to the United States,

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Speaker 2: whereas the rule base has gone with the US and

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Speaker 2: Trump is ruling in his own way. But look, he

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Speaker 2: gave a speech in Vietnam. He talked about sending one

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Speaker 2: of our naval frigates that will put the woolies up

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Speaker 2: the Chinese. Of course, car going to the South China Sea.

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Speaker 1: The thing is, we'd probably take it there, sink it

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Speaker 1: and make a new island. They hate new islands in

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Speaker 1: the South.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you know, I don't think that'll

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Speaker 2: be that'll be threatening to the Chinese. But nevertheless, he

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Speaker 2: was talking about going to Vietnam and maybe doing some

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Speaker 2: naval excess in the area. It would be in the

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Speaker 2: South China Sea, but it would be away from the

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Speaker 2: strait the Taiwan straight, I would think, and.

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Speaker 1: The controversial islands that they protect so closely. Yes, now,

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Speaker 1: this is the video has been doing the rounds. It's

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Speaker 1: Ai generated video of Donald Trump the gars of Riviera.

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Speaker 2: Oh honestly, you'll remember earlier this month, during a joint

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Speaker 2: press conference with Netanyahu at the White House, Trump made

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Speaker 2: the surprising announcement that the US will take over the

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Speaker 2: Gaza Strip, own it, and undertake economic development there and

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Speaker 2: create it, create unlimited numbers of jobs and housing. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you've only even look at the Gaza Strip to see

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Speaker 2: how bad it is at the moment. But look, he

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Speaker 2: doubled down on that within He posted this video himself

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Speaker 2: on Instagram and on another platform as well. But here's

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Speaker 2: the music that goes with the video, bringing.

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Speaker 3: The light to see no more tunnels, no more fear

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Speaker 3: to right shop, Guzzer number one, chop guzza number one.

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Speaker 2: I mean, can you believe that the President of the

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Speaker 2: United States would post that? And there are visuals that

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Speaker 2: go with it. They've got this guy gantuan state statue

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Speaker 2: of Donald Trump in gold on the Gaza Strup. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he probably really thinks that. Look, he could make a

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Speaker 2: difference in the Gaza. Forget the Palestinians that just moved

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Speaker 2: them out at the moment, almost two and a half

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Speaker 2: million of them. Where do you put them? Well, he

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Speaker 2: says they're gonna and Turkey. You know, they're all happy

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Speaker 2: to have them. I mean that it's apostos.

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Speaker 1: The video itself was made. Someone else must have made

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Speaker 1: it on air. You can because you can go on

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Speaker 1: AI and make videos now I've only just learned about

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Speaker 1: this in the last week, and you.

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Speaker 2: Could say you're making them now. Periods.

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Speaker 1: Well, you could put in like and it makes things

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Speaker 1: more and more extreme. So you could say, I want

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Speaker 1: a video of I don't know, Let's say Peter Dunn.

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Speaker 1: You know how, we would have his funny hair combed

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Speaker 1: over and he'd have his bow ties. Yes, So it'd

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Speaker 1: have a video, an aid video of Peter Dne. And

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Speaker 1: then you could say more Peter Dunn, and the bow

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Speaker 1: tie would be twice the size and the hair would

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Speaker 1: be twice as big, and you could say more and

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Speaker 1: more and more, and it creates these things, and by

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Speaker 1: the end of it, you've got your Trump Gaza Revere.

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Speaker 2: And you've got the president taking it seriously and posting

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Speaker 2: I mean, how could you do that if you're a

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Speaker 2: president and you see tens of thousands of people having

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Speaker 2: been killed in the Gaza strip and post something that's

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Speaker 2: as frivolous as this, I mean, it does raise questions

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Speaker 2: about leadership. Then I'm the last one to talk about Trump.

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Speaker 1: No, that's true, Barry, thank you very much. Nine minutes

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Speaker 1: away from five. That's Bearing Soper Scene, their political correspondent

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