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Speaker 1: Steve Price, correspondent out of Australia with US.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hey Steve, Hey have the good morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning. See what's the latest with the firebombing.

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Speaker 2: Well, they still haven't found the two men, the two

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Speaker 2: masks men that went into the Dath Israel Synagogue in

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Speaker 2: Melbourne at about four point thirty in the morning on Friday.

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Speaker 2: There's CCTV footage of them spreading accelerant around with a broom,

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Speaker 2: but there's been no leads yet. Now this has obviously

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Speaker 2: caused major political risks in the country. The Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: has been in Wa, Western Australia since Friday. He gets

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Speaker 2: back to the East Coast this morning, I think or overnight.

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Speaker 2: He's been refusing for two days to call this an

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Speaker 2: act of terror. He finally did it at a media

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Speaker 2: briefing yesterday and he's coming for widespread criticism, particularly from

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Speaker 2: the Jewish community, that a that he stayed in Wa

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Speaker 2: and didn't come back to Melbourne and b that he

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Speaker 2: refused to use the word terror. Well he finally did it.

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Speaker 2: And when we talk shortly about a news pole, you

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Speaker 2: might work out why the synagogue itself had a new

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Speaker 2: pictures released this morning. It's basically been gutted. There's not

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Speaker 2: much left there Gutorian government's already pledged one hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars to help rebuild the site, and they've had an

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Speaker 2: online campaign raising funds that's raised aout two hundred and

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Speaker 2: eighty five thousand dollars. But when you see the excuse me,

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Speaker 2: before and after pictures, it's quite extraordinary how much damage

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Speaker 2: has been done. And the outcry right across the Jewish

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Speaker 2: community has been huge. Former Treasurer Josh Froedenberg, himself a

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Speaker 2: proud Melbourne Jew, has caught on the Prime Minister to

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Speaker 2: stump up with some courage and call this out for

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Speaker 2: what it is, and it is a major blow to

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Speaker 2: the Jewish community in that area. They think they can

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Speaker 2: rebuild it. Luckily, they saved some ancient scrolls known as Tora.

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Speaker 2: They managed to have them in a fire for is

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Speaker 2: safe and they got them out of the synagogue before

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Speaker 2: it was destroyed by fire. But it was a hell

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Speaker 2: of a mess.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Now this poll that you just mentioned, how bad

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Speaker 1: is it Albanesi worse?

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Speaker 2: Well, if you go to the question who's the preferred

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Speaker 2: Prime minister, Anthony Abernezi now trails badly to Peter Dutton.

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Speaker 2: So Anthony Abernese has dropped five points, headed down to

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Speaker 2: forty four preferred PM to Peter Dutton, who's sitting on sixty. Now,

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Speaker 2: that's the lowest score since news poll began in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and eight. Measuring that actual question, Peter Dutton's got

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Speaker 2: the highest score since Tony Abbott ten years ago. And

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Speaker 2: this is where it's really going to sting for Anthony Albanesi.

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Speaker 2: And I mean you mentioned there that your election's not

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Speaker 2: for a couple of years yet their way, the election

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Speaker 2: in this country is probably going to be held in

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Speaker 2: what will be held in the first quarter of next

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Speaker 2: year latest can be May, but where most people are

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Speaker 2: now thinking somewhere around February March. But Anthony Aberanzi is

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Speaker 2: considered less likable, less trusted, and less in touch and

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Speaker 2: weaker and less decisive than Peter Dutton. How would you

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Speaker 2: like to wake up, Heather and have your character assessed

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Speaker 2: in that way on a Monday morning?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if the shoe fits, and the shoe fits.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't it well, it does and it hasn't been helped

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Speaker 2: of course. And this pot was taken by the way

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Speaker 2: prior to what happened on Friday at that synagogue, so

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Speaker 2: it'd be even worse for him if they asked that

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Speaker 2: question today. I think he'd dropped another five points, which

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Speaker 2: is just you know, a disaster for Labor. And the

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Speaker 2: thing about it is our system here now and this

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Speaker 2: happened under Kevin Right. Labour can't change just change leader.

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Speaker 2: I mean in the old days, what you could do

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Speaker 2: is you you know, you could get someone in on

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Speaker 2: your front bench and decide they're very ambitious and they

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Speaker 2: want to become prime minister. You could call on a

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Speaker 2: spill of the numbers. But the Labor Party change that

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Speaker 2: system whereby the leader is now elected by both members

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Speaker 2: of the wider labor community, so Labor Party members plus

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Speaker 2: the members of Parliament, and so you can't just dump

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Speaker 2: a leader out the door. If they could do that,

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Speaker 2: I reckon they would.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably Steve So in New Zealand, we've got the

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Speaker 1: same rules at the Labor because the Labor Party as

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Speaker 1: thinks the same across the world. But there is a

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Speaker 1: little period I think it might be about three months

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Speaker 1: before the election where you can do with Jacinda and

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Speaker 1: you can swap them out. You guys don't have that I.

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Speaker 2: Don't believe, so I stand a bit corrected on that,

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Speaker 2: but I don't believe.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, well regretting that now probably Hey, how much

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Speaker 1: of these Woolies workers taking to end the strike.

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Speaker 2: Well it's taken weeks for it to happen. Willworth Is

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Speaker 2: now say they're back up and running. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: if you think about going into your local Woolworths, there

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Speaker 2: was Woolworths supermarkets around Australia that had empty shells, completely empty.

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Speaker 2: It was like revisiting COVID. Remember when everyone ran in

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Speaker 2: and panicked and started grabbing toilet rolls. That's what it

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Speaker 2: was like. There was stuff that simply wasn't there. They

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Speaker 2: now they say one hundred and eighty thousand cartons of

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Speaker 2: product to be delivered across Victoria in the next week

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Speaker 2: or so. And we were just two weeks out from

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Speaker 2: Christmas when people were absolutely panicking. So these fifteen hundred

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Speaker 2: star feather went on strike on a twenty perst of

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Speaker 2: November over low pay and the introduction of this system.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if this happens in New Zealand where the

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Speaker 2: system would automatically penalize slow employees. How does that work?

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Speaker 2: You ask well, when you clock on to work in

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Speaker 2: one of these warehouses, you put on a headset and

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Speaker 2: that headset tells you which area to go to to

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Speaker 2: start loading stuff up on a trolley to get distributed,

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Speaker 2: and it times you so if you're slow at the

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Speaker 2: end of your shift, it goes into a computer and

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Speaker 2: presumably the boss of that distribution center can say, well,

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Speaker 2: Heather's not been great today. Heather's had a big weekend,

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Speaker 2: she's been on the turfs over a Sunday and she's

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Speaker 2: very slow today. We're going to have a bit of

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Speaker 2: word to Heather, or otherwise she would be out the door. Well,

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Speaker 2: not surprising. The union weren't very happy about that, and

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Speaker 2: so they have argued for a pay rise and for

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Speaker 2: that practice to stop. The Federal court ruled the strike

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Speaker 2: action was illegal and that's why the centers have reopened

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Speaker 2: the negotiations to when that practice is still underway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that kind of stuff does happen here.

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Speaker 1: Steve Good, got on you, thanks mate, have a nice day.

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Speaker 1: That Steve Price, our Australia correspondents. Hey, by the way,

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Speaker 1: sticking with Australia, there was supposed to be a Raygun

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Speaker 1: musical last night it was a stage show was supposed

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Speaker 1: to PREMI you know who I'm talking about, the breakdancer,

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Speaker 1: you know, the one who went to the Olympics and

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Speaker 1: done it. Not breakdancer, the one who's not actually a breakdancer,

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Speaker 1: who hopped around like a kangaroo and then slithered like

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Speaker 1: a snake on the ground.

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Speaker 2: It was awful.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, to continue the theme with things being awful awful,

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Speaker 1: there was supposed to be a musical in Sydney last night,

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Speaker 1: but it was shut down at the last minute, like

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Speaker 1: hours before the show actually kicked off the premiere by

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Speaker 1: Raygun's lawyers, and they've put out a statement like they're

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Speaker 1: not even ashamed of that. Yep, absolutely shut it down.

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Speaker 1: The management has put out a statement saying we were

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Speaker 1: committed to protecting her IP intellectual property and ensuring that

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Speaker 1: her brand remains strong and respected. Now I'm bringing this

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Speaker 1: to your attention because I feel like this an idea

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Speaker 1: has taken hold here that Raygun is somehow a victim

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Speaker 1: of online trolling after she did the hopping and the

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Speaker 1: slithering and stuff. Just be aware, she's not right. She's

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Speaker 1: not a victim here. She is milking it for all.

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Speaker 1: It's worth, and she is protecting her IP and making

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Speaker 1: sure her brand remains strong and respected. And I would

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Speaker 1: have liked to actually have seen this musical because there

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Speaker 1: was a song entitled I would have won, but I

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Speaker 1: pulled a muscle, just how that works. I would have

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Speaker 1: been keen to see it. For more from the mic

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