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Speaker 1: International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand business, Mariel's.

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Speaker 2: Argo correspondence with us right now heymas.

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Speaker 1: And very good afternoon, Heaven.

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Speaker 2: So tell me more about the Victorian government apologizing for colonization.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is being reported over here this afternoon by

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Speaker 1: Sky News. Has been a news release from the government

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Speaker 1: saying that yes, an apology will be made formal apology

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Speaker 1: in the Parliament to indigenous people from Victoria. The apology

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Speaker 1: will be made for quote the harm inflicted upon them

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Speaker 1: through the actions and inactions of the state and the

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Speaker 1: colony that came before it. Now, the apology is a

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Speaker 1: key recommendation of the europe It's called a europe Justice Commission,

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Speaker 1: and it was a key part of the treaty that

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Speaker 1: was recently signed to law a couple of weeks back now,

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Speaker 1: the first such treaty in Australian history ever, and it

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Speaker 1: does formally acknowledge past and justice. It sets up new

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Speaker 1: institutions for accountability and telling the truth about what really

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Speaker 1: happened centuries ago. And basically it allows First Nations people

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Speaker 1: to actually have a bit more of a say in

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Speaker 1: the decision making that directly affects them. Now, critics are

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Speaker 1: all over this. I was wishy washy, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just it's that it's the federal decision that was knocked

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Speaker 1: back by the people. But at the state level, the

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Speaker 1: supporters say, it's actually a wonderful achievement, the great outcome

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Speaker 1: and the process that started here the back in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: the state governments also committed to including a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of new stuff in the education curriculum, which I suppose

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Speaker 1: in a way that mirrors what's happened in New Zealand

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Speaker 1: in terms of using traditional names, indigenous names for areas,

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Speaker 1: for regions, for waterways and the like, and other measures

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Speaker 1: to basically improve outcomes for Victoria's Aboriginal people. So I

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Speaker 1: suppose the proof's going to be in the eating right there, pudding.

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Speaker 1: It looks pretty nice according to the supporters, But let's

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Speaker 1: see how it actually young.

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Speaker 2: But so are they. So it's not so much that

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Speaker 2: the apologizing for colonization. They're apologizing for what they consider

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Speaker 2: to be the evils that were done in the process

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Speaker 2: of colonization very much.

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, what's my interpretation of it. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: the way the treaty reads that. Yes, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, but James Cook, the first fleet was not

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Speaker 1: the first people in Australia. They've been there for sixty

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Speaker 1: five thousand years. And the you know, the Europeans who

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Speaker 1: arrived on the first eleven ships, most of them convicts.

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Speaker 1: It was the start of you know, many people say oppression,

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Speaker 1: the start of dispossession of land and waterways and the

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Speaker 1: things that matter to Indigenous Australians. So it's a very

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Speaker 1: divisive issue, as you might expect. Those and the rights say, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's buddy nonsense, it's rubbish those who are more progressive.

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Speaker 1: So it's actually it's a very good thing. It's a

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Speaker 1: good thing the state can acknowledge past injustice. So it

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Speaker 1: just remains to be seen how this, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: how's it going to play out?

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Speaker 2: That's what we all want to Yeah, yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 2: We've got to see the wording of the thing to

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Speaker 2: really judge it. Now, what's happened to Barnaby Joyce that

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Speaker 2: he hasn't gone off with his girlfriend Pauline?

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Speaker 1: Well, she cooked a misteak dinner the other night in

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Speaker 1: the sandwich maker, would you believe it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 1: Sandwich. But be that as it may. Yes, he is

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Speaker 1: now formally ended. He's been in Parliament twenty years. He

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Speaker 1: is one of the safest seats in Australia. The people

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Speaker 1: of Northern New South Wales and his seat, and you

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Speaker 1: that they love him even though he's a fair nakhm.

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Speaker 1: You're thinking a guy's just a lunatic. And I mean

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Speaker 1: even as one of his own supporters when it was

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Speaker 1: closest mates in Parliament accused him the other day of

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Speaker 1: having attention deficit syndrome. I mean, he just wasn't being

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Speaker 1: talked about enough. So, yes, he's quit after twenty years

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Speaker 1: with the Nationals. He's going to defect from the party.

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Speaker 1: Looks like he's going to sit as an independent for

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Speaker 1: the moment. He'll keep trailing his coat with Pauline looking

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Speaker 1: for a headline here and there. Anyway, it's it's what's

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Speaker 1: it matter. I mean, the guys that has been really

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Speaker 1: I mean, his people up in his electorate love him.

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Speaker 1: No one in Parliament does. He's just a bit of

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Speaker 1: a joke, sad joke, sadly maz.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, I appreciate it. I'm looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 2: how that goes down with the two of them, Murray

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