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Speaker 1: Do you know what do you know what's more boring

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Speaker 1: than talking about a capital gains tax is talking about superannuation,

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Speaker 1: isn't it? And yet here we are again, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about it again and how we need to take the

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Speaker 1: super off the sixty five year olds again because of

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Speaker 1: what happened yesterday. Now, what happened yesterday was that for

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Speaker 1: a brief minute, the two major political parties almost found

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Speaker 1: consensus on super but it only lasted a few hours.

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Speaker 1: So Nicola from National said to Barbara from Labor, we

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Speaker 1: should have a chat, and Barbara said, okay, we should

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Speaker 1: have a chat. And then Barbara thought about it over

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Speaker 1: the next few hours and then she's like, sh nah,

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Speaker 1: don't really We'll have a chat by sh nah, don't

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Speaker 1: really agree with that idea, which I think is a

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Speaker 1: wise move from Barbara actually, to be honest, because taking

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Speaker 1: super off sixty five year olds is unpopular and it's

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Speaker 1: probably always going to be unpopular as long as we

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Speaker 1: keep running a welfare system that's so generous in this

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Speaker 1: country that people are now pretty much expected to spend

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Speaker 1: an average of thirteen years on the doll It is very,

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Speaker 1: very hard to convince hard working tax payers that when

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Speaker 1: they get to their golden years, they should give up

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Speaker 1: that little bone that they get at the end of

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Speaker 1: their lives. They should give that up because we need

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Speaker 1: to save money. And then they look down the road

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Speaker 1: and they see some of them taking the mickey in

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Speaker 1: the sunshine forever on the doll. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: hard one to push that one. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: while we're on the consensus politics, I do not rate

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Speaker 1: this idea. I don't care whether it's in super or

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Speaker 1: housing or transport. I hate it. I think voters deserve choices.

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Speaker 1: I think you should be able to decide if you

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Speaker 1: want to cycle lane or if you want to road.

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Speaker 1: You might want to cycle lane. You should have that choice.

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Speaker 1: I might want to road. I should have that choice.

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Speaker 1: I think we should decide if we want to have

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Speaker 1: three story houses pop up next to us on the

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Speaker 1: property next door without any consent. I think we should

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Speaker 1: decide if we want super taking them away from us

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Speaker 1: or not. I don't want the politicians actually getting between

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Speaker 1: themselves and stitching up a little deal and then leaving

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Speaker 1: us no choice and saying deal's mate. We've reached a consensus,

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Speaker 1: just going to have to have it this way. That's

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Speaker 1: not what I want. It's counter to the very idea

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Speaker 1: of democracy, which is that you have ideas running against

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Speaker 1: each other and you as the vote to get to

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Speaker 1: choose which one of the ideas you like. So, frankly,

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Speaker 1: good call from BABS. Consensus politics can frankly take a hike,

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Speaker 1: and good luck pushing that stupid super debate again. For

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