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Speaker 1: The case of that Australian neo nazi Thomas Sewell, who

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Speaker 1: was arrested yesterday. There's now a petition online with over

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand. In fact, it's close to sixty thousand signatures

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Speaker 1: calling for him to be deported back to his birth

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Speaker 1: country of New Zealand. Now, Lydia Thorpe is an independent

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Speaker 1: Australian senator. It's the state of Victoria and with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Lydia, Hello Heva, thanks for having Menia.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, welcome back to the show. Now you want him

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Speaker 1: to port.

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Speaker 2: It, do you? I don't think that that is the answer.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, there is a problem with white supremacy

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Speaker 2: in this country and that's what we need to be

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Speaker 2: dealing with. I understand that the people signing that petition

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Speaker 2: want action. They want some kind of action, and that

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Speaker 2: is because we have a federal government that have said

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Speaker 2: nothing about this. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi has said nothing.

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Speaker 2: This is a hate crime and I'm calling on the

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Speaker 2: Federal Parliament to address it as a hate crime from

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Speaker 2: the Australian Federal Police. I don't think sending a white

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Speaker 2: supremacist to my brothers and sisters, my Mardi brothers and

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Speaker 2: sisters of atier Row are is going to solve anything

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Speaker 2: here because you know it's one Nazi. There's plenty more

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Speaker 2: where that comes from. And we need to address the

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Speaker 2: absolute racism that is rife in this country.

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Speaker 1: Literally, Wow, thank you. I'm really grateful because I was

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Speaker 1: really I really don't want them to come here either. Listen,

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Speaker 1: what is the situation with you people?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 1: Why have you got so many neo Nazis over there?

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Speaker 2: Well, they've always been here. I mean since invasion, we've

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Speaker 2: been dealing with white supremacy and you know we see

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Speaker 2: that in the Parliament, the Federal Parliament. The racism that

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Speaker 2: particularly black and brown people have to deal with is.

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Speaker 1: Every day something else. I mean, this guy's going around

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Speaker 1: punching people and you know, doing weird stuff and High

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Speaker 1: Australia and stuff. Where's this where's all this radical stuff

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Speaker 1: come from?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's very found of this so called great nation.

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Speaker 2: You know, it might be great for some, but it's

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Speaker 2: not great for us. We're the poorest, sickest people in

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Speaker 2: our own country. And white supremacy has been a longstanding problem.

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Speaker 2: I myself, since I entered politics, have been subjected to

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Speaker 2: neo Nazi threats, neo Nazi violence, and they have been

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Speaker 2: on top of the list for the Australian Federal Police

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Speaker 2: for many years. It's just not taken seriously and usually

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Speaker 2: it's just swept under the carpet with a slap on

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Speaker 2: the wrist like what we're seeing right now. And that's

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Speaker 2: just the racism that still exists in this country, unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: and that's what needs to be addressed.

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Speaker 1: Lydia, thank you for talking to us. Lydia Thorpe, Independent

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Speaker 1: Senator for Victoria. Didn't think we'd be agreeing with Lydia there,

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Speaker 1: did we?

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