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Speaker 1: Across the Tasman Steve Price, Happy new week to you,

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Speaker 1: you two, Michael, and how many Mondays do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: Alban Easy has to get up and things aren't going

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Speaker 1: too well before he gets a bit sick of it.

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Speaker 2: I think he's sick of it already. I mean you

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Speaker 2: can tell it in his body language. I reckon, you

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Speaker 2: talk it. Excuse me? You took it. At the latest

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Speaker 2: newsport and in the Australian newspaper this morning, it's got

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Speaker 2: the Coalition in front for the first time since the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two election. They're now leading Labor fifty one

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Speaker 2: to forty nine. That would not be a good headline

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Speaker 2: to wake up to for the PM, as you remark,

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Speaker 2: the reason this has happened, it seems, is that, as

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Speaker 2: you know, we have this crazy electoral system where preferences

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Speaker 2: flow to the major parties. It looks like some of

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Speaker 2: the minor parties, like One Nation, they're now changing their

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Speaker 2: preferences and putting them up there. For Peter Dutton, Labor

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Speaker 2: Party is not getting as many preferences from the Green

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Speaker 2: that they would normally get, so the primary votes are

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Speaker 2: about the same. Labors at thirty one now when they

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Speaker 2: went to the last election, that primary vote was thirty

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Speaker 2: two and a half, so they've gone backwards, while the

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Speaker 2: coalition's primary vote hasn't changed. It's at thirty eight percent,

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Speaker 2: two points higher than the last election. So it's very

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Speaker 2: very interesting. We now, of course, are going to probably

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Speaker 2: see an election in May next year. The two point

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Speaker 2: shift in two party preferred, as I said, it shows

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Speaker 2: Pauline Hansen's One Nation going to seven and the Greens

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Speaker 2: now their supports at twelve percent. How it is at

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Speaker 2: twelve I've got no idea, but this is a very

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Speaker 2: bad poll for Anthony ALBANIZI and the.

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Speaker 1: Fares from the side of the tasment it looks like

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Speaker 1: he deserves it. He looks a mess. Is that a

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Speaker 1: fair observation?

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Speaker 2: Body language? As I said, it's not good, is it?

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Speaker 2: I mean he doesn't look strong and Australians like to

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Speaker 2: elect someone they believe is going to be a strong leader.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Albanize last week was in in Laos, as he

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Speaker 2: should be. Peter Dutton was back here campaigning as he

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Speaker 2: has been for the last few months. Now. Yesterday where

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Speaker 2: do you think Peter Dutton turned up to do his campaign?

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Speaker 1: He was at Bathurst.

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Speaker 2: On the grid at Bathurst, he spent the whole day

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Speaker 2: watching the race, which is sort of Bogan Heaven for

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Speaker 2: Australian's bathist It's a great event and fifty thousand people there.

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Speaker 2: He was seen on the grid before the race started.

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Speaker 2: National anthem has sung. He was singing it. Anthony Alberneazy meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: was at a major football stadium in Sydney celebrating Greek

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Speaker 2: Easter or Greek Orthodox with a Greek Orthodox preacher. You

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Speaker 2: could not get a bigger contrast between the two exactly.

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Speaker 1: So when we're having an election next year as late

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Speaker 1: as possible.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because they've now put out the sitting dates for

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Speaker 2: next year and there is a date in the Federal

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Speaker 2: Parliament for a budget in March, which would mean you

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Speaker 2: wouldn't go to it. You wouldn't think you'd go to

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Speaker 2: an election before that budget's handed down because you've got

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Speaker 2: the opportunity in government to hand out money, so you're

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Speaker 2: going to be able to what they're hoping for labor

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Speaker 2: is an interest rate cut sometime in February probably next year.

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Speaker 2: Then you have a budget which you'll dole out door

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Speaker 2: to people, and then you go to an election in May,

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Speaker 2: and that's as long as they can go. He can't

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Speaker 2: go any later than May next year.

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Speaker 1: Okay, when you went to Greece recently, and this is

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Speaker 1: as regards Charles, who's d you at your place any

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Speaker 1: day now? When you went to Greece, did you take

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Speaker 1: your own doctors in your own blood or did you

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Speaker 1: just take some luggage just a doctor.

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Speaker 2: I didn't take any blood, but because he could have

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Speaker 2: sort of that out of it was a problem. Now

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Speaker 2: are you still annoyed that Charles King? Charles?

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Speaker 1: I am having to see you, Yes, I am, because

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Speaker 1: I love Charles and I was at the coronation and

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a thing that we'd bonded over.

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Speaker 1: And he just can't even be bothered turning up here.

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Speaker 2: Well, forty one years ago, I spent a month on

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Speaker 2: the road with him and Lady Diana, so I know

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Speaker 2: I got to know him quite well as well. Now

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Speaker 2: I think he should immediately rethink what he's doing here.

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Speaker 2: He should come to New Zealand and cut out Sydney

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Speaker 2: from his Australian visit. Because it was revealed in the

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Speaker 2: Sunday Papers yesterday that he arrives King Charles arrives Friday

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Speaker 2: night and he has a night of a day of

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Speaker 2: rest Saturday. Then he's in Sydney on Sunday, Canberra on Monday.

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Speaker 2: But guess what all of our great premiers, including I

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Speaker 2: might say a Liberal premier, have decided they're too busy

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Speaker 2: to attend a reception in Canberra Monday Night hosted by

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Speaker 2: King Charles, featuring a lot of famous Australian sportspeople, charity workers,

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Speaker 2: people who do great things for the nation. Justinder Allen said, oh,

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Speaker 2: I've got cabinet on that day. I don't think I'll

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Speaker 2: be able to get up to Canberra. Canberra is forty

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Speaker 2: minutes by air from here, and she's decided it's more

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Speaker 2: important to talk to her cabinet about how she sent

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Speaker 2: Victoria broke and going in see.

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Speaker 1: She'll be a Republican, won't she?

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Speaker 2: Oh, one hundred percent, so's Anthony Albanizer. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: bending Anita King Charles boy albow is probably going to

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Speaker 2: make him feel as sick as reading this morning's news.

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Speaker 2: Polk quite frankly, Yeah, it's a shame.

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Speaker 1: And then he's got to go to Sarmara. Of course.

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Speaker 1: By the way, let me give you these numbers. I

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Speaker 1: read over the weekend about Victoria and rental stock in

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Speaker 1: Victoria and whether you would agree with this or would

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Speaker 1: have answered the question. The number back to rentals and

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Speaker 1: Victoria has fallen by twenty two thousand properties this year.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's selling up. It's a result of higher rental standards,

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Speaker 1: increased land taxes, so it's a tight market for rentals.

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Speaker 1: Sharpest fall in rental stock since record keeping began in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. Only ever recorded two quarters of rental

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Speaker 1: bond falls and both occurred in twenty twenty four. So

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Speaker 1: they buggered the rental market. Is that your assessment of

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Speaker 1: what's going on in your hometown?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, completely blown it up. I mean, you go for

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Speaker 2: a walk in any of the inner Melbourne suburbs and

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Speaker 2: you'll see for sale signs on every apartment. What are

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Speaker 2: they in common? Most of them are one betters And

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Speaker 2: the reason the people are selling them is because they

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Speaker 2: have slapped land taks on all of these places. No

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Speaker 2: one wants to play the land tax so landlords are

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Speaker 2: going or bug of that. I'll sell up in Melbourne

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Speaker 2: and I'll buy a two bedroom unit cheaper in Queensland

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Speaker 2: rented out up there, and I don't have all these

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Speaker 2: taxes on the properties that I own. They have completely

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Speaker 2: stuffed the real estate market in the state they run.

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Speaker 1: And so the government don't recognize this as being a problem.

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Speaker 2: I need the money. They can't rethinks it's a problem

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Speaker 2: because they need the money. Without the money, we'd be

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Speaker 2: even more broke than we already are.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that if you know the answer. But

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Speaker 1: I have followed with a great deal of fascination this

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Speaker 1: business of extracting Australians out of Lebanon and none of

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Speaker 1: them turn up for the flight. Why are people insistent

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Speaker 1: on staying in Lebanon?

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Speaker 2: Do you know the pull of Lebanon is too strong

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Speaker 2: for a lot of them? A lot of these people.

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Speaker 2: We had massive immigration, as you know, from Lebanon under

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Speaker 2: Paul Keeping in the eighties when the Civil War was

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Speaker 2: at its peak. We've got a massive Lebanese community, particularly

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Speaker 2: in sid southwest. The people get to retirement age and

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Speaker 2: they go, Okay, I'm going to get a pension from

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Speaker 2: Australia and go back and live in my village in Lebanon.

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Speaker 2: That's why they're not rutting on a plane, because they

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Speaker 2: don't want to come back.

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Speaker 1: For you, unreal all right mate, go well, see you Wednesday.

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