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Speaker 1: And it's a holiday in Australia today. Of course it's

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Speaker 1: King's birthday. We had ours last week they do, there's

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Speaker 1: today and Stee prices with us. Very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: So you have two birthdays in a week. The King

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Speaker 2: does he.

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Speaker 1: Well here, but he appears to be because funnily enough,

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this last week and why don't

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Speaker 1: we sort of align them? But you're on. Have you

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Speaker 1: had the opportunity to just just text a little message

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Speaker 1: through to Dan and say good on your mate, well done,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the lockdown.

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Speaker 2: It's from my premier. You're referring to Daniel Andrews. Now

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Speaker 2: he's got the highest award in the country today he's

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Speaker 2: become a Companion of the Order of Australian and as

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Speaker 2: an AC Now. News of this leap within media circles

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Speaker 2: last week. Now, I was doing sky TV all last week,

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Speaker 2: but you couldn't talk about it because these are under

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Speaker 2: heavy embargo. As you know, what happens is you get

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Speaker 2: the list. You've probably got it a couple of days

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Speaker 2: early and you can line up to talk to people

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Speaker 2: on the day it's announced. But the anger that's going

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Speaker 2: to erupt today once the wider public understands what's happened

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Speaker 2: here will be palpable, do you. This is the bloke

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Speaker 2: who I'll just give you The Herald Sun's reported the

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Speaker 2: numbers here, just to remind ourselves about what this bloke did.

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Speaker 2: During COVID seven hundred and sixty eight Victorians died because

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Speaker 2: of the bungled hotel quarantine they were. The Victorians were

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Speaker 2: lockdown for two hundred and sixty two days, the longest

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Speaker 2: lockdowns in the world. The economy was forecast to crash

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Speaker 2: up to the value of one hundred and seventy one

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Speaker 2: billion dollars, and of course you've got all these infrastructure

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Speaker 2: blowouts that I've talked to you about before. So it

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Speaker 2: is people will just shake their heads. I mean Mark McGowan,

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Speaker 2: the premiere of Wa Eurocle Wa was locked up for

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Speaker 2: quite a while, but they loved it because that kept

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Speaker 2: esky people from the Eastern States out and they just

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Speaker 2: went about their business. They weren't lockdown in their homes.

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Speaker 2: They just said their border lockdown. But in Victoria you

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Speaker 2: couldn't go and even play golf on your own on

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Speaker 2: a golf course. So there will be a lot of

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Speaker 2: angry people when they find out that Daniel Andrews has

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Speaker 2: got this award. It's supposed to be a watered by

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Speaker 2: an independent body. It's got the federal Labor government stamp

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Speaker 2: all over it. It's going to be very.

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Speaker 1: Very exactly speaking, which this poll is morning at fifty

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Speaker 1: to fifty two party preferred. That increasingly this government is

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Speaker 1: in trouble, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is. And it's interesting you mentioned the drift

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Speaker 2: to the right in Europe when you've got in Australia

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Speaker 2: every government bar Tasmania is of the of the center

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Speaker 2: left and there are moves against those labor governments right

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Speaker 2: around the country. But federally, Newsport today highest rating for

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Speaker 2: the coalition in three years. You mentioned fifty to fifty

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Speaker 2: two party preferred. That's always a problem for the coalition

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Speaker 2: because the Green preferences lead to Labor Labour's primary votes

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Speaker 2: at thirty two point six, which is way below the

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Speaker 2: coalitions on thirty nine percent. And it all comes down

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Speaker 2: to this discussion about the economy, particularly visa. The rows

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Speaker 2: over the visa. People are really annoyed that these criminals

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Speaker 2: have been let out of prison to roam around without

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Speaker 2: being watched and the handling of that by the Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister himself Anthony but easy. His leadership is increasingly being

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Speaker 2: portrayed as being weak. Yes, and people are starting to

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Speaker 2: pick up on that. So they are in a fair

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Speaker 2: bit of trouble.

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Speaker 1: This guy doesn't so when he started out, they said

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Speaker 1: completely unelectable, weird looking guy at the best of time.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly he's in play and I'm reading over the weekend

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Speaker 1: that he's going to scrap that Paris Agreement, the climate change.

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Speaker 1: He goes, there's no point in signing up to something

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Speaker 1: that's unrealistic, and he's probably right on that. Is he

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Speaker 1: more credible than he's ever been or is he sort

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Speaker 1: of winning but a fault.

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Speaker 2: No, it's more credible than he's ever been. He's been

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Speaker 2: very measured. He's been working extremely hard. He's in the

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Speaker 2: media every day. He's still not popular in the most

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Speaker 2: left leaning state, which is Victoria, but they don't need

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Speaker 2: to win, particularly in Victoria. I mean they'd like to

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Speaker 2: clawback a couple of seats from those tials. But in Queensland,

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Speaker 2: New South Wales and in Wa in particular, he is

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Speaker 2: very popular and the weaker Anthony Albert Easiest portrayed the

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Speaker 2: stronger pit button looks on issues just like the one

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Speaker 2: you talked about, which is, well, we're not going to

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Speaker 2: sign up to mission reductions by twenty thirty because you're

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Speaker 2: not going to get that right.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this question. I was also reading

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. Let me just give you some of

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Speaker 1: the headlines. ABC reporting on Brumby's lacked accuracy and impartiality.

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Speaker 1: According to The Almudsman, seenior seven journalist on leave amid

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Speaker 1: investigation into inappropriate behavior in URL personality, Paul Kent drank

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Speaker 1: twenty one schooners before a led street brawl. Court told

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Speaker 1: and nine board chairman Peter Costello, having run over a

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Speaker 1: bloke and being in charge of a station that looks

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Speaker 1: completely dysfunctional, quits what's going on.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've still got a job and I'm not in

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Speaker 2: the headline, so I'm pretty happy about that. Castillo uses

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Speaker 2: his shoulder to shirt. There's a saying in AFL called

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Speaker 2: shirt front, which is not a popular term in regard

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Speaker 2: to rugby, but it's when you hit someone straight up

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Speaker 2: in the chest with his shoulder. Peter Castello dropped his

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Speaker 2: shoulder into a reporter from the Australian who was simply

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Speaker 2: trying to ask him some questions about the shonky behavior

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Speaker 2: at Channel nine and lack of leadership over one of

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Speaker 2: their news bosses and what he was doing to young

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Speaker 2: female reporters who worked for him. So Costello tried to

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Speaker 2: bluff his way out of it and say I never

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Speaker 2: touched the bike. There's CCTV fit footage. There's three other

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Speaker 2: witnesses saw it and said, yes you did, and so

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Speaker 2: he's had to resign. Well, Paul Keent, I mean Paul

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Speaker 2: Kent covers rugby league in Sydney. I mean drinking twenty

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Speaker 2: one skinners a beer is something you do every day

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Speaker 2: before lunch alone after lunch. It's been a very strange time,

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Speaker 2: but the nine network in a lot of trouble now

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Speaker 2: they've got to find a replacement.

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Speaker 1: Exactly where I might go, Well, see Wednesday. It's the

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Speaker 1: price out of Australian. By the way, the afore mentioned

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Speaker 1: Andrew Giles, which is direction one ten, So direction ninety

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Speaker 1: nine is the one that affects us. It's the people

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Speaker 1: they boot out of Australia and it all went pear

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Speaker 1: shaped and we'll get the five oh one. So they

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Speaker 1: came up on Friday with Direction one ten Gilds for

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Speaker 1: reasons that no one can understand outside of the fact

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Speaker 1: that his elbows mate still has work. But and when

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Speaker 1: we last talked to the Prime Minister before he took

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Speaker 1: off to Fiji, he wasn't happy. But what we can

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Speaker 1: do about it and we'll catch up with him tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: our Prime minister what he can do about it, as

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Speaker 1: far as I can work out, basically nothing.

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