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Speaker 1: On Labor and the situation with the Middle East. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to sort themselves out of over this. I'm

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Speaker 1: obviously talking about Damian O'Connor's tweet. Just sort of had

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Speaker 1: a little bit of media coverage in the last few days,

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Speaker 1: but actually, frankly, not enough for how offensive it is.

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Speaker 1: I was surprised yesterday when I was listening to Carmel

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Speaker 1: Seppaloni being interviewed on this. She's being interviewed as the

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Speaker 1: leader at the deputy leader of the Labor Party, given

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Speaker 1: that Chippy's away at the moment, she's in charge, and

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Speaker 1: she was asked if Damian O'Connor should apologize for his tweet,

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Speaker 1: and instead of saying the obvious thing, which is yes,

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Speaker 1: because that's the only answer to give, started making excuses

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Speaker 1: for him. Oh, he feels very strongly about the situation,

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Speaker 1: as if that makes it okay for him to say

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Speaker 1: what he did. Now, let me just remind you what

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Speaker 1: it was that he retweeted. Palestinians have every right to

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Speaker 1: do what they did on October seventh, and let me

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Speaker 1: remind you what Ramas did on October seventh. They raped

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Speaker 1: and murdered innocent people. Now it doesn't really matter where

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Speaker 1: you stand on this conflict. No one, especially a senior politician,

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Speaker 1: can say or think that it's it's okay for terrorists

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Speaker 1: to go and kill teenagers who are out at a

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Speaker 1: dance party. It's not okay, il, and care how much

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Speaker 1: you are angry with the State of Israel or whoever,

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Speaker 1: it is not okay for terrorists to go and do

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Speaker 1: that to innocent kids. Absolutely, Damian O'Connor needs to apologize

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Speaker 1: for endorsing that sentiment. Now, I get that this conflict

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Speaker 1: is making people feel very, very upset, and it appears

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Speaker 1: to be scrambling people's better judgment. Right Just this week

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Speaker 1: in Australia, we had the case of a young reporter

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Speaker 1: questioning why Australia doesn't treat Israel in the same way

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Speaker 1: that they treat Hisbola. All the answers obvious. They're not

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Speaker 1: the same. One is a state and one's a terrorist organization,

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Speaker 1: and there is no equivalence between the two of them,

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Speaker 1: no matter how much you may disagree with what a

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Speaker 1: state is doing. But that is exactly why Damian O'Connor

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Speaker 1: needs to set an example by apologizing, because right now,

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Speaker 1: when people are as angry and confused as they are

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Speaker 1: about what's going on. What we actually need from our

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Speaker 1: major and serious political parties and our MPs, and especially

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Speaker 1: the senior ones who are holding senior portfolios like Associate

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Speaker 1: Foreign Affairs spokesperson. What we need from them is to

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Speaker 1: set an exam of how to behave with decency, not

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