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Speaker 1: Ah Man. Murray Olds is in Australia for US this

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Speaker 1: afternoon and Murray, the Australian government has given up on

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Speaker 1: legal action against Elon Musk. Yeah good, after the India Jack,

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Speaker 1: I suppose it was really always, even though it was

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Speaker 1: a government agency involved, it was always a bit like

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Speaker 1: you know, a Don Quixote chilting at a giant Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk powered windmill. And now what's happened. Yes, the E

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Speaker 1: Safety Commissioner has dropped this legal battle to have X

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Speaker 1: formerly Twitter of course takedown graphic footage globally of a

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Speaker 1: stabbing in a church in Sydney back in April. Young

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Speaker 1: Man radicalized online runs to the front of the church,

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Speaker 1: it's all being live streamed and stabs the Assyrian bishop

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Speaker 1: in the head and the face. Now it's been on

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Speaker 1: websites all around the world and the E Safety Commissioner,

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Speaker 1: which is an independent regulator funded with the government, said

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Speaker 1: listen X this stuff down or we're going to find you. Well.

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk says ho ho ho, you know, do your best.

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Speaker 1: He dubbed her a censorship commissar, not the E Safety Commissioner. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: It was seen as a test of Australia's ability and

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Speaker 1: I suppose sovereign nation's abilities to enforce online safety rules

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Speaker 1: in the world against these giant companies. Now they did

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Speaker 1: have a partial win. The video was removed here in

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Speaker 1: Australia from easily accessible from being easily accessible online. But

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Speaker 1: the fact is it was very easily access access to online,

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Speaker 1: no worries at all, and X said, we're not taking

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Speaker 1: it down worldwide. It's an attack on free speech. So

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Speaker 1: Emmon Grant says, you know what, dropping a case is

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Speaker 1: the best outcome for the online safety of all Australians.

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Speaker 1: Not sure exactly what she means there. X says, well,

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Speaker 1: it does not allow people to praise it or call

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Speaker 1: for further violence, but it is a win for free speech.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Musks follow apparently have piled on

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Speaker 1: to Julian m Grant death threats, millions of followers of course,

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Speaker 1: death threats and the personal information of a children being

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Speaker 1: exposed online. So very very messy mate. The Greens have

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Speaker 1: gone after the Attorney General. Yeah, pardon me. Very rare

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Speaker 1: sight in Parliament yesterday afternoon to see the Labor government

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Speaker 1: led by Anthony Albanesi and the Federal opposition led by

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Speaker 1: Peter Dutton, howling and screaming in Unison about the Greens. Basically,

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Speaker 1: what the whole issue was about was about ongoing protests,

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Speaker 1: pro Palestinian protests outside the electorate offices of federal MPs.

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Speaker 1: Now Anthony Albanesi and his staff have not been able

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Speaker 1: to get into his office in Sydney for months because

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Speaker 1: there are protesters camped outside. Now, it was pretty willing

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Speaker 1: in the Parliament, which of course is covered by parliamentary privilege.

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Speaker 1: You can say anything in parliament, you can't get sued.

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Speaker 1: But of course the Attorney General Mark Dreyfuss went on

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Speaker 1: to National Radio in the afternoon and basically said that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Greens and their leader Adam Band have

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Speaker 1: got something to answer for. The Greens, you know, allegedly

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Speaker 1: were inciting pro Palestinian protests. Well not so, says Band.

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Speaker 1: He makes the point. Listen, it's not about you, and

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Speaker 1: it's not about the opposition leader, mister Albanizi. This is

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Speaker 1: about the thirty six thousand Palestinians have been killed since

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Speaker 1: the Israeli invasion. You know, the government says that basically

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Speaker 1: the Greens are sort of waving through this all the

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Speaker 1: wave of pro Palaestinian protest. The Greens are accusing both

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Speaker 1: the opposition and the government are basically turning a blind

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Speaker 1: eye to Israeli atrocities and going away over the top.

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Speaker 1: So I've not heard this afternoon whether Drapus has apologized.

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Speaker 1: He probably will, but we'll just have to wait and

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Speaker 1: see him. Murray. We think of the Australian economy as

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Speaker 1: performing relatively well compared to our own at the moment,

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Speaker 1: but your economy's on life support. Sure is on its knees.

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Speaker 1: It's at a thirty year low bar for the few

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Speaker 1: years of the COVID pandemic, and that's prompted jack a

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Speaker 1: Reserve Bank warning that interest rates might have to go up.

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Speaker 1: Now that sounds a bit counterintuitive. New figures show the

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Speaker 1: economy grew just barely in the first three months of

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Speaker 1: the year zero point one percent, half of what was expected,

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Speaker 1: and annually it's grown just over one point one percent.

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Speaker 1: Now ahead of that data, the boss of the Reserve Bank,

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Speaker 1: Michelle Bullock, A like this woman more. Every time I

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Speaker 1: see her. I like her more. She's absolutely straight down

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Speaker 1: the line. She just tells it like she sees it,

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Speaker 1: and she's completely independent of government, so Wobertide. Any political

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Speaker 1: party has a crack at her, she'll just pull their

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Speaker 1: nose off. She basically told the Senate estimates the economy

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Speaker 1: is very very weak, especially many households in small business

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Speaker 1: are cutting their spending. But the labor market is still

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Speaker 1: going well. So what does all this mean? Wehill, She says,

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Speaker 1: the economy is on track for a soft land. The

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Speaker 1: economy will slow enough to beat inflation, but we'll still

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Speaker 1: have decent jobs growth, and that, she says, is the key.

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Speaker 1: But the blunt warning Listen, we'll pull the trigger on

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Speaker 1: interest rates again if necessary if inflation hangs around where

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Speaker 1: we don't like it. They want it down between two

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Speaker 1: and three percent. It continues to be up around the

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Speaker 1: four percent mark, and she's not happy. Yeah, that's interesting,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. It's still still threatening to pull the trigger

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Speaker 1: if they need. Thanks for your time, Murray. It's Australia

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Speaker 1: correspondent Murray Olds. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive

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