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Speaker 1: Two Australia. We go to Perth. He's working today from

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Speaker 1: six pr Oly Petersonello.

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Speaker 2: Good Andrew, great to be here.

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Speaker 1: Happy Australia Day yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was brilliant. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 3: The fireworks here in Perth last night, the sky show

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Speaker 3: one hundred thousand people, very multicultural events and it was

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Speaker 3: just sensational. But we feel weird saying Happy Australia. You

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Speaker 3: feel weird seeing Australian flags on Australia Day. We've got

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Speaker 3: to sort something out so people can just enjoy, embrace

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Speaker 3: and celebrate it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it does cause some consternation. Indeed, it was

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Speaker 1: a great Australia Day for some people, but not monuments.

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Speaker 2: No, And this has happened across the country.

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Speaker 3: So in Melbourne over the weekend of memorial for John

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Speaker 3: Batman was vandalized and the ANZAC Memorial in Parkville and

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Speaker 3: an outdoor stage in Ringwood North. In South Australia, there

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Speaker 3: was a gathering of the far right activists at a

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Speaker 3: war memorial in Adelaide yesterday and in New South Wales

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Speaker 3: in Sydney we had the monuments here. The Wall of

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Speaker 3: Remembrance in Sydney was scratched into saying evil on Saturday morning.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is disgusting, the New South Wales premier

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Speaker 3: saying the act was lower than low. Police have obviously

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Speaker 3: launched an investigation into all of these incidents, but I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is not the country that we live in, or

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Speaker 3: that you'd expect in Australia for these sorts of activities

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Speaker 3: to be going on in Adelaide, in Sydney and Melbourne

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Speaker 3: over the week, and it makes your stomach churn.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you used to be not anti semitic as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's you put it all in there, that's right,

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Speaker 3: But you can put it all in there that this

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Speaker 3: is what is possibly going to cause the downfall of

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Speaker 3: the Prime Minister Anthony Alberisi when we go to the polls,

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Speaker 3: probably in April or May. There's news poll out today

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Speaker 3: Andrew which actually says for the first time Peter Dutton

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Speaker 3: is not only the preferred prime minister, most people believe

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Speaker 3: he's going to win the election, which I think even

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Speaker 3: Dutton himself would be very surprised about only three months ago.

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Speaker 3: This is all going one way in that South for

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Speaker 3: the Prime Minister at the moment, and he can't seem

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Speaker 3: to get on top of the situation and people are

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Speaker 3: blaming him for this.

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Speaker 1: That's right, and then they'll vote for what they seem

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Speaker 1: to be the less evil, which is not necessarily we

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Speaker 1: prefer him, but we prefer him more than that other bloke,

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Speaker 1: and that's for sure. Can I ask you a question

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Speaker 1: about the Australia Day thing, because I didn't watch the

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Speaker 1: Australian Open yesterday because I was busy watching Cold Shizzle,

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Speaker 1: which was so good at Ice House. But anyway, I've

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Speaker 1: always been confused when the Australian opens playing and then

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Speaker 1: it's Australia Day and then they have the fireworks and

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Speaker 1: then they stop the games for like fifteen minutes. Did

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Speaker 1: that happen again?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? You got to schedule it better, haven't you.

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Speaker 3: Like you've just got to sort of figure out when

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Speaker 3: the match is going to start, when the fireworks are

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Speaker 3: going to be on. I got to be honest, site,

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Speaker 3: I didn't catch the final my self because I was

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Speaker 3: down here at the fireworks here in Perth. But I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if they press the pause but not

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Speaker 3: it because it just becomes so distracting through the players.

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Speaker 1: All Right, What happens. If you get caught with cocaine

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Speaker 1: in Australia these days.

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Speaker 3: Well you think you go to court or you think

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Speaker 3: you might have the threat of jail time. But because

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Speaker 3: the New South Wales courts are just chock a block,

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Speaker 3: they're just giving gap fines because they're trying to get

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Speaker 3: rid of the backlog at the moment in the court.

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Speaker 3: So there was a record number of fines issued last

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Speaker 3: year instead of chargers.

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Speaker 2: So twenty three percent of.

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Speaker 3: People who've been caught in cocaine with cocaine last March

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Speaker 3: walked away with a four hundred dollars criminal infringement notice.

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Speaker 2: Ninety nine percent was sent to court the month before.

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Speaker 3: So I mean, if you're thinking about what dealing this stuff,

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Speaker 3: or you're thinking about consuming this stuff, you've got a

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Speaker 3: one in four chance of just getting a fine, and

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Speaker 3: you probably think, well, stuff it, I'll do it. I

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Speaker 3: think this seems a really poor message Andrew to the

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Speaker 3: criminals and also the people who want.

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Speaker 2: To take this stuff, that it's basically a white.

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Speaker 3: Flag moment that the authorities are giving up on catching

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Speaker 3: the criminals and catching the people who were pedaling this stuff.

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Speaker 1: And it's also unfortunately because Over the last year, they've

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Speaker 1: been headlines saying that Colombian cartels are currently targeting Australia

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Speaker 1: and New Zealand. They see it as a fresh and

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Speaker 1: untapped cocaine market. Particularly if you guys aren't doing anything about.

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Speaker 2: It, well that's it.

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Speaker 3: And there was I know there was a big sting

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Speaker 3: recently in Sydney where there were hundreds of people arrested

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Speaker 3: or charged as a result of pedaling this stuff and

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Speaker 3: paraded before the cameras and colin inches in the newspapers

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Speaker 3: and obviously talked about here on radio and thought, well done,

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Speaker 3: tough on crime. You're doing really well. Then you go

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Speaker 3: and get this stuff and you think, well are you

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Speaker 3: or was that just a pr exercise because you knew

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Speaker 3: what was coming.

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Speaker 1: Now hopes that Donald Trump will go to Vegas to

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Speaker 1: watch rugby league.

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Speaker 3: This has to be the most bonkers story out of Australia.

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Speaker 3: I've got to give Peter Velandi's the chair of the AARLC,

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Speaker 3: a little bit of credit here Andrew because he loves Hollywood,

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Speaker 3: he loves a headline. He's obviously gone and met King

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Speaker 3: Charles before, he's met the former president Joe Biden. Now

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Speaker 3: he reckons he's going to be able to get Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump to fly from Washington to Vegas for obviously the

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Speaker 3: first round of the Rugby League to be played there

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Speaker 3: in Vegas as it was last year and this year

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Speaker 3: again and they're going to market Nathan Cleary. Is that

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Speaker 3: Tom Brady of the National Rugby League? This is just nuts,

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Speaker 3: as if the President is going to be in Vegas

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Speaker 3: watching National Rugby League.

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Speaker 2: I got it again. Got to give PVLL credit here

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Speaker 2: for a bit of publishering.

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Speaker 1: Nothing ventured, nothing games. But of course that first weekend

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Speaker 1: the Warriors are player. So I'm if we could get

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump to say up the Wars, that would make

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Speaker 1: my day.

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Speaker 3: I reckon you should you got to be on a planet.

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Speaker 3: You've got to be going over having you here.

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Speaker 1: Haha, Yeah, dreams mate, Hey, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: your time.

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Speaker 2: Pleasure anytime over.

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Speaker 1: Peterson six pr and yeah, if he does turn up,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if the Warriors are sending Donald Trump a

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Speaker 1: jersey as we speak as well, because that would just

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Speaker 1: be fun to see. Let's just do it anyway.

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