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Speaker 1: Murray Old's Ossie correspondents with us. Now, Haymas, Hello, Heather,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. All right, so talk me through what's happened

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Speaker 1: at this protest then, well.

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Speaker 2: God a bit ugly.

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Speaker 3: There's a bunch of different sort of moving parts to

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Speaker 3: set the scene. And meant, look, on the back of

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Speaker 3: what happened at Von Dai Beach, Anthony Alberanezi and invited

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Speaker 3: the President of Israel, Isaac Hertzog to Sydney for an

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Speaker 3: official state visit to I guess, you know, share the

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Speaker 3: love and the support from Israel to Sydney's Jewish community

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Speaker 3: and more broadly Australian Jews, because of course it was

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Speaker 3: a shattering event. Well, that didn't go down well, the

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Speaker 3: invitation did not go down well. But you know, they've

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Speaker 3: pushed ahead onto the stage march is an outfit called

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Speaker 3: the Palestine Action Group. Now Ever, since October seven, the

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Speaker 3: Palistine Action Group has held almost weekly protests in the

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Speaker 3: city of Sydney, much to the disgust of many people

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Speaker 3: who are say, can you get off the bloody streetsf

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Speaker 3: we want to going to Hyde Parks.

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Speaker 2: Ay.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, they wanted to have a big rally against the

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Speaker 3: Herzog visit at town Hall right in the center of

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Speaker 3: town and Sydney and the CBD, and then marched to

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Speaker 3: State Parliament up up on the Quarry Street, that's about

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Speaker 3: a kilometer away, perhaps one and a half kilometers. Well,

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Speaker 3: the laws that were passed after Bondai Beach prevented that.

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Speaker 3: They challenged that in the Supreme Court. Supreme Court said

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Speaker 3: forget it, You're allowed to have a static protest. And

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Speaker 3: about seven or eight thousand people turned up here the

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Speaker 3: last night at the town hall, a bunch of speeches

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Speaker 3: and then police say one or two more decided they

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Speaker 3: were going to march anyway. Well that's when things got

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Speaker 3: very willing. There were punches thrown, Police were punching protesters,

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Speaker 3: there was a capsicum spray and the like.

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Speaker 2: There was a group of Muslim.

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Speaker 3: Worshipers who were actually praying and they were moved on

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Speaker 3: by police, physically moved on. So it became a real

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Speaker 3: bloody battled. In fact, seven arrests, ten for allegedly assaulting police.

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Speaker 3: Tony Abbott, the former Prime Minister, ever helpful, he said

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Speaker 3: police who punched protests and should receive a commendation and

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Speaker 3: obviously the future demonstration should be armed with tear gas

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Speaker 3: and rubber bullets the safeguard against the pro terrorist protests.

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Speaker 3: We've seen too much. Anthony Albanezi devastated Chris Men's in

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Speaker 3: New South Wales, prebably of defending police because just down

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Speaker 3: the road, only a few blocks away, there was the

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Speaker 3: Israeli president and a very big reception for the Jewish community,

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Speaker 3: lots of political leaders there, governors as well.

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Speaker 2: Only a few blocks away.

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Speaker 3: Here the police said we cannot let them roam the

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Speaker 3: streets of Sydney.

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Speaker 2: That's why they got tough.

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Speaker 1: If you had to make a call as to whether

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Speaker 1: the police were too heavy handed, could you or is

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Speaker 1: it too early?

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Speaker 3: Well, you see, I wasn't there. I don't know, and

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Speaker 3: it depends who you talk to. I mean that there

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Speaker 3: were some people there at the protest who were pro Palestinian,

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Speaker 3: who said the police were obliged to do what they did.

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Speaker 2: I heard few of those on Torkpack radio this morning.

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Speaker 3: Many people were calling a Torpat radio those and they

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Speaker 3: were saying police did overreact. The underpinning all of this were,

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Speaker 3: I suppose two main considerations. Police did not want to

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Speaker 3: have one big group of protesters marching off like Brown's

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Speaker 3: cars through Sydney with placards and whatnot. They didn't want

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Speaker 3: them to leave the town Hall precinct. And they certainly

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Speaker 3: the second part of it, I guess they certainly did

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Speaker 3: not want protesters heading down to the International Convention Center

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Speaker 3: on Darling Harbor, as I said, because goodness knows what

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Speaker 3: could have happened. There very tight security for this visit.

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Speaker 3: There were snipers on rooftops, all sorts of stuff going on.

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Speaker 3: And you know, to be fair, the protesters were offered

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Speaker 3: a safe space in Hyde Park and then you can

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Speaker 3: march your faces off go down to Central Railway station.

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Speaker 2: But would you believe.

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Speaker 3: Josh Lee's the head of the head of the Palace

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Speaker 3: At Action Group, said well, look, we don't want that

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Speaker 3: because high profile enough.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we wouldn't get enough publicity.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, I mean Lisa's being honest. Now, what's

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Speaker 1: Angus Taylor's plan.

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Speaker 3: Well, we understand there's to be a spill, a leadership

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Speaker 3: spill of the Liberal Party Thursday or Friday this week.

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Speaker 2: We've got Senate estimates.

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Speaker 3: It's just not enough time for anyone to get stuck

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Speaker 3: in and have this leadership contested.

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Speaker 2: It's just got to be had. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: you look at some of the figures.

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Speaker 3: The Liberals down to fifteen percent in the latest News poll,

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Speaker 3: the Nationals three one Nation twenty seven, Susan Lee the

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Speaker 3: least popular leader of any major party for nearly thirty years.

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Speaker 3: Not that Angus Taylor's anybody oil painting. I mean, don't

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Speaker 3: get me wrong. You know he is a Rhodes scholar,

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Speaker 3: a bit like Tony Abbott, but completely underwhelming when he

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Speaker 3: was shadow treasurer for Peter Dutton.

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Speaker 2: Underwhelming is some other shadow ministry. I can't even tell

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Speaker 2: him what the hell he had.

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Speaker 3: His colleague says bone idol lazy And you know who

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Speaker 3: wants the job, Heather, really, who wants this job?

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Speaker 2: For goodness sake? Look at it.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's like just get up in the morning,

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Speaker 3: hit yourself in the face and go to work.

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Speaker 2: Just dreadful.

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Speaker 3: But we think Thursday or Friday and mate is going

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Speaker 3: to be the leadership challenge.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, you asked the pertinent question, Maz, thanks so

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