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Speaker 1: Marry Old's Ossie correspondents with us.

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Speaker 2: Now he mus very good afternoon, Heather.

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Speaker 1: So what is this latest on this underworld war in

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Speaker 1: Sydney that's now claiming lives.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's nuts. I mean a new stat from police

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Speaker 2: this morning here in Sydney. There've been twenty five organized

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Speaker 2: crime murders in New South Wales since twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: They have solved twenty of them, so five outstanding. But

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Speaker 2: we've had three incidents in the last few weeks that

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Speaker 2: police have said wow, enough's enough. You had that dreadful,

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Speaker 2: dreadful incident of the of the young mother. Her husband

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Speaker 2: was we understand a drug cook for a Vietnamese crime gang.

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Speaker 2: We're making drugs. She was bashed up in her house,

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Speaker 2: stripped naked, dragged outside, one of her children bashed on

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Speaker 2: the way out. She was shoving in the back of

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Speaker 2: the car, shot dead and then the car was set

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Speaker 2: on fire. Last week we had a twenty three year

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Speaker 2: old young fellow just got home from work. He practiced

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Speaker 2: car and the driveway of his mum and dad's house.

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Speaker 2: Out of the car. A gunman gets out of a

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Speaker 2: second vehicle, runs up, shoots ten shots at this kid.

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Speaker 2: Hitsing four times. He dies where he stands and that's

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Speaker 2: mistaken identity, according police. And then on Sunday afternoon, five o'clock, busy,

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Speaker 2: busy part of Sydney near Paramatta, you've got this bizarre situation,

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Speaker 2: like out of a film. A black Mercedes pulls up

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Speaker 2: alongside a yute with four men in it at a

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Speaker 2: set of traffic lights. Bang bang bang bang bang, and

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Speaker 2: you've got the two people on the front seat are

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Speaker 2: both hit, two in the back aren't and the fellow

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Speaker 2: who was shot in the head will not be is

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Speaker 2: not expected to live. So police have just said, bugger this.

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Speaker 2: We cannot keep going like this. They say, this is

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Speaker 2: a gang war over Sydney's underworld drug traffic. It's a

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Speaker 2: multi multi billion dollar industry. These a serious drug importers,

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Speaker 2: manufacturers and distributors who are fighting each other over a

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Speaker 2: turf war basically. And so police have set up a

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Speaker 2: task force. One hundred and fifty dedicated coppers are going

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Speaker 2: to be involved in this and you're going to have well.

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Speaker 2: This morning they had thirteen separate investigations all being folded

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Speaker 2: into this one umbrella organization. They're serious, they said, I

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Speaker 2: don't care if you've pulled the trigger or you've stolen

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Speaker 2: the car that's been used in the getaway, you're all

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Speaker 2: going to be rounded up as fast as we can go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck to them sorting that out. What's going

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Speaker 1: on with the coalition? Are they making up?

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Speaker 2: Well, they're going to kiss and make up. They have

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Speaker 2: to because both of them, you know, there's much, you know,

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Speaker 2: as much use as a two leagued stool, you know,

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Speaker 2: because they can't do anything on their own. And he's

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Speaker 2: David little Proud of the Nationals Party leader. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what happened. He must've got a rush

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Speaker 2: of blood to the head when he saw how many

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Speaker 2: seats the Liberals had lost, the senior coalition partner, and

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Speaker 2: he said, right, He puffed up his little pigeon chest,

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Speaker 2: said right, oh, I'm going to go and I'm going

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Speaker 2: to give her a piece of my mind. And the

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Speaker 2: new female leader of the Liberal Party. Well that lasted

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Speaker 2: forty eight hours. Coller heads prevailed. They said, listen, David,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you can't do that. He had to back

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Speaker 2: Down's humiliating back down. He says, oh no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: no no way, we back down, no way, we flip flopped,

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Speaker 2: but they are going to be getting back together, maybe

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Speaker 2: as early as tomorrow. They've had some pretty productive talks.

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Speaker 2: We understand the liberal parties agreed to at least look

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Speaker 2: at the four non negotiable policies the Nationals put up.

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Speaker 2: And it's not going to be harmony by any means.

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Speaker 2: And Little Proud may yet lose his leadership, but at

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Speaker 2: least the coalition is going to be roughly on the

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Speaker 2: same page.

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Speaker 1: That's just really quickly. How's that clean up going?

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Speaker 2: Dreadful? I mean just dreadful. You've got ten thousand homes

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Speaker 2: have been inundated in northern New South Wales. They've inspected

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Speaker 2: five three hundred of them as of this morning, nearly

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Speaker 2: nine hundred. You can't live in them anymore, so maybe

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Speaker 2: double that by the time they've finished these assessments. That's

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Speaker 2: the best part of fifteen sixteen hundred homes that cannot

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Speaker 2: be lived in. So that's dreadful. You've got people still

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Speaker 2: cut off by the floodwaters that are out there at

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Speaker 2: the dropping off food and medicine, the dropping off ay

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Speaker 2: for stock, and you've still got now another weather event.

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Speaker 2: You've got strong winds up there, that were threatening this

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Speaker 2: morning to ground every helicopter up there that's been used

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Speaker 2: to get this medicine, food and fodder out and about.

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Speaker 2: It's just horrible. They're Prime Minister up there today. They're

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Speaker 2: going to throw all sorts of money at it. But boy,

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Speaker 2: oh boy, you can't. You can't bribe mother nature, can you. No,

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Speaker 2: not at all.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Mars, thank you, look after you. So it's Marie

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Speaker 1: Old's Australia correspondent.

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