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Speaker 1: In Australia see price.

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Speaker 2: Very good morning to you, Michael good eight.

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Speaker 1: Garage carpet at your place?

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Speaker 2: Steve no Well, I would you put carpet in a garage? Okay?

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Speaker 1: And that's been the debate this morning. So have you

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Speaker 1: always had an uncarpeted garage?

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Speaker 2: My father had a pool table in his garage note

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Speaker 2: cars and a dark board, and I think he had

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Speaker 2: a like a big rug, right and all the blokes

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Speaker 2: from the neighborhood wud come over every night and drink beer,

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Speaker 2: play darts in pool.

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Speaker 1: There you go. A survey out this morning done by

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Speaker 1: our Kia who were just setting up a big store

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Speaker 1: in this country. What percentage of garages in this country

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Speaker 1: do you reckon at a guess a carpeted? According to

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Speaker 1: the survey ninety three?

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Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. That's what's like Kia trying to sell carpet.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what we've concluded somehow. Anyway, Morrison and Court,

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Speaker 1: and this is the Britney Higgins case, the Reynolds case.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine what he said was fairly effective.

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Speaker 2: Here. Look, you and I how long have we been

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Speaker 2: talking about this caseful? And it's just extraordinary that it

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Speaker 2: goes on. In fact, earlier this week, Senator Linda Eld's from,

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Speaker 2: a defense minister in the Morrison government, admitted that whatever

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Speaker 2: way this case goes, whether she wins in her defamation

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Speaker 2: case or loses, she will lose her house. That's where

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Speaker 2: she's at. That's why she is so determined in this

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Speaker 2: case to prove her point, being that she was defamed

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Speaker 2: by Higgins and Chiraz over the handling of the rape

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Speaker 2: allegations following the alleged rape. That of course has always

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Speaker 2: been denied by Lemon. Now ex Pm Morrison, people have

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Speaker 2: video link. I mean I find that given what happened

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Speaker 2: to this poor woman. I mean, and you know our

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Speaker 2: sympathies with Higgins as well, why wouldn't Morrison not go

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Speaker 2: to Perth and turn up. I mean, I don't get that. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: he had to keep being interrupted by the judge essay

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Speaker 2: because he was refusing to answer questions. He was doing

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Speaker 2: the old politician line of waffling on. But he did

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Speaker 2: say that he believed that the Higgins rape allegations were

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Speaker 2: weaponized to discredit him, and that during this period he

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Speaker 2: feared for Linda Reynolds' life. She herself has admitted suicidal thoughts.

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Speaker 2: So he then demoted her from defense, he says, to

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Speaker 2: protect her health. Now, at the time when Linda Reynolds

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Speaker 2: was done as Defense Minister, the labor then labor opposition

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Speaker 2: said that look see what's happened. I mean even Scott Morrison,

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Speaker 2: who doesn't believe this woman and nation has been demoted.

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Speaker 2: This case will go on for some weeks, and as

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Speaker 2: I said, the costs mean a lot of people are

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Speaker 2: going to be severely financially damaged. You just wonder why

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Speaker 2: this case had to end up in court in the

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Speaker 2: first place. Why someone couldn't settle it out of it.

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Speaker 1: And when Adan said, if there's appeals and so it goes,

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Speaker 1: now that's pro Palestinian rally. So if they know this,

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Speaker 1: eighteen hundred police required to handle it. So what have

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Speaker 1: you got? The great democracy debate and you know the

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Speaker 1: right to protest.

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Speaker 2: Extraordinary. I didn't even know this military organization was holding

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Speaker 2: this rally next month in September Ghos from September eleven

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Speaker 2: to thirteen. It's called the Land Forces Expo. Now, I

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Speaker 2: don't know if you remember the World Economic Forum all

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Speaker 2: the way back in two thousand, I was in Melbourn

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Speaker 2: at the time, and the scenes outside that that forum

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Speaker 2: were unbelievable. Police on horseback, thousands of protesters. It got

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Speaker 2: very violent. Police are predicting that it's going to be

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Speaker 2: the same this time around. Up to twenty five thousand

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Speaker 2: protests planned to blockade what's described as a major international

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Speaker 2: military fair. The forty groups include Pro Palestine and TIFA,

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Speaker 2: a number of anarchist activists. They've already began identified planning

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Speaker 2: what they're going to do, how they're going to pick it.

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Speaker 2: There's all sorts of stuff up online, activists to take

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Speaker 2: it to social media urging their supporters to join the

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Speaker 2: mobilization and shut this shi Tea down. It is going

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Speaker 2: to be completely disruptive and eighteen hundred victory of police

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Speaker 2: are going to be required to keep the peace, which is.

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Speaker 1: Extraordinary, unreal. Did they ban the council last night? All

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Speaker 1: e scooters they had gone? Or are their exceptions?

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Speaker 2: No, no exceptions. They've ripped up the contracts with the

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Speaker 2: two operators. Now this is odd because the acting Lord Mayor,

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Speaker 2: who's standing for Lord Mayor in an election later in

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Speaker 2: the year, was Allays a fan. He was a regular

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Speaker 2: on Sky TV progound Nicholas Reese. Suddenly he's changed his

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Speaker 2: mind because he saw that his opponents were also going

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Speaker 2: to try and get these things banned. Council voted last

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Speaker 2: night in a split decision. Now I don't up as

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Speaker 2: upland got these things.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, yeah, the whole one. I was going to

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Speaker 1: say the whole country. Metropolitan centers do. But there's been

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Speaker 1: an angsty debate and some get their licenses pulled and

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Speaker 1: some are allowed, and some come and go and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, but they are around.

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Speaker 2: Well, the two operators here are Lime and Neuron, and

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Speaker 2: councils given the companies thirty days to quote cease operations.

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Speaker 2: They've also been told they need to retrieve all East

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Speaker 2: scooters from across the municipality. Now that doesn't mean that

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Speaker 2: you're not going to have these operators bob up in

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Speaker 2: other councils. In fact, they're already in places like Port

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Speaker 2: Phillip Council and another number of others, so they will

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Speaker 2: still be around. But they are a hell of a mess.

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Speaker 2: And if you listen to health authorities, the number of

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Speaker 2: people turning up in emergency departments in Melbourne City, City

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Speaker 2: of Melbourne with wrists broken and concussion. No one's wearing helmets,

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Speaker 2: two kids up on one scooter at one time, drunks

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Speaker 2: ride in them and then they guess, just get dropped

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Speaker 2: in the street. There's no return based for these things.

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Speaker 2: So I think the majority of people probably think that's

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Speaker 2: a good idea.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, mate, ketch up next week. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a classic theory versus reality thing, the

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Speaker 1: last mile thing. You know, you get off your bus

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Speaker 1: to get off you train and take the last mile

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Speaker 1: into the office. All of that in theory was fine,

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Speaker 1: but in reality we have experienced exactly what they have,

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Speaker 1: just piss people falling off all over the placement.

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