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Speaker 1: And murry Old's Ossie corresponds with us hamas.

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Speaker 2: Good here they're going to appen into you.

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Speaker 1: Hey, So what's the latest with these floods?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, bloody terrible to be to be quite frank,

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Speaker 2: I mean in now I just lost the name of

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Speaker 2: the town. Nineteen twenty nine was the flood record. Nineteen

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty nine has been exceeded in the last

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours. As you said there in the intro,

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Speaker 2: one dead, five missing, and fifty thousand people evacuated from

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Speaker 2: homes and businesses. The rain has not stopped. It's the

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Speaker 2: worst flooding, as I said, in almost one hundred years. Now,

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Speaker 2: here's the thing. These people that are missing may not

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Speaker 2: be in fact casualties of this. They may be on

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Speaker 2: these isolated properties. And there are scores of farm properties,

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Speaker 2: even entire small towns that have been basically cut off.

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Speaker 2: More than one hundred emergency warnings that have been scores

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Speaker 2: of emergency flood rescues from absolute bloody clowns who have

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Speaker 2: been driving through flooded roads and guess what happens. The

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Speaker 2: cars stop and they get washed away. So they are idiots.

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Speaker 2: The state government's called in for federal government help to

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Speaker 2: try and get some assistant to these people. The army's

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Speaker 2: being deployed in some parts, but some people who were

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Speaker 2: cut off are likely to be in that position for

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Speaker 2: quite some days. How much longer will the rain's going

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Speaker 2: to keep on going? At least till the weekend some centers,

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Speaker 2: are you sitting down? They've had half a meter of rain,

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Speaker 2: half a meter of rain in seventy two hours, man

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Speaker 2: a lot?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally is hey? So Susan lay Lee rather is

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Speaker 1: she trying to patch things up with the Nationals.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the other way around, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: Susan Lee. Look that they may have kissed and made

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Speaker 2: up in the last few minutes. I know that Susan Lee,

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Speaker 2: she agreed to hold off naming her shadow cabinet. Let's

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Speaker 2: make no mistake here. The Nationals Party is the junior

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Speaker 2: coalition partner, always has been, always will be. But they

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Speaker 2: went into the talks after the election shellacking and David

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Speaker 2: little Proud said, oh, look, we need cast iron guarantees

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Speaker 2: on four policies. Oh and by the way, any Nationals

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Speaker 2: MPs that you happen to name in your shadow cabinet,

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Speaker 2: I want them to be able to breach shadow cabinet

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Speaker 2: decisions and go public with their opposition. Well, that's never

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Speaker 2: going to fly, Heather, That's not the way the parliamentary

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Speaker 2: system works. Susan Lee said, you forget it, you're out

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Speaker 2: of your mind. That's not going to happen anyway. Eminence

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Speaker 2: degrees like John Howard, Tony Abbott, even Barnaby Joyce came

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Speaker 2: lumbering into all of this and said, listen, you've got

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Speaker 2: to kiss and make up because individually they will never

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Speaker 2: be able to form government. Simply won't happen. So it

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Speaker 2: looks like they've actually come to some agreement. The details

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Speaker 2: are yet to be made public, but maybe they've kissed

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Speaker 2: and made up, because certainly that's what the Conservatives over here.

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Speaker 2: They are desperate for that coalition to get back together.

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Speaker 2: They're looking at years and years of labor government without

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Speaker 2: that coalition agreement. Ah.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, Now what's going with PwC. Do we think that

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Speaker 1: things have all we have been cleaned up after that

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Speaker 1: big tax scandal.

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Speaker 2: Well that's what it looks like. The Australian newspaper, the

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Speaker 2: Murder National newspaper here has spoken to the guy he

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Speaker 2: was called in to kind of fix things up and

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Speaker 2: it was a mess. PwC humiliated, not just here globally.

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Speaker 2: What they did as senior partner was privy to government

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Speaker 2: plans to change some tax laws. They're all, you know,

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Speaker 2: top secret, secret, spiral stuff. He shared that confidential information

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Speaker 2: with clients of p WC. Well, gee, that went over

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Speaker 2: well not They had to sell their Candorra business and

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Speaker 2: there were tens of millions of dollars that were being

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Speaker 2: earned from government contracts. They dried up overnight. Well, PwC

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Speaker 2: had to call in the cavalry. The guy. Two years on,

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Speaker 2: he's told the Australian newspaper Listen, it's not perfect, but

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Speaker 2: it's a bloody sight better than it was when I

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Speaker 2: was called in. We've still got, you know, a few

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Speaker 2: things to make right, but we're on the way. It's

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Speaker 2: a whole lot better now. We're promising to make it

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Speaker 2: completely better in the not too distant future. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: maybe pw season the good books again.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Hey Mars, as always, thanks so much, really appreciated.

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