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Speaker 1: To tell you what, if this government wants a money

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Speaker 1: saving idea, then they can cancel the two COVID inquiries

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Speaker 1: we've got under at the moment and simply adopt Australia's.

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Speaker 1: Australia's released yesterday's damning as indeed will ours be, and

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Speaker 1: ours will be pretty much the same as Australia's because

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Speaker 1: within a margin, we did pretty much the same thing.

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Speaker 1: The irony, if there is one, is that they had

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Speaker 1: versions of theirs, and here's a major lesson. Even with

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Speaker 1: the versions, it's broadly accepted none of them turned out

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Speaker 1: to be much chop. If we were a state of Australia,

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Speaker 1: we would have come in at the tighter or more

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Speaker 1: restrictive end of the Australian version. Places like Victoria were

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Speaker 1: very much like us because they were run by two

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Speaker 1: very similar sort of people, Dan Andrews and Jacinda Adun.

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Speaker 1: They were hard left control freaks. Western Australia was an

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Speaker 1: outlier in the sense they had a lot of rules,

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Speaker 1: but not many of them applied inside the state. In

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Speaker 1: other words, they locked themselves off from the rest of

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Speaker 1: the world. But because they were self reliant, they got

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Speaker 1: on with life. New South Wales run by conservatives had

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Speaker 1: the most lenient response, But and I would have thought

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Speaker 1: this is the biggest outtake. No matter what the response,

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Speaker 1: faith and trust has been lost. The rallying cry post

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Speaker 1: COVID has been to learn the lessons, so we're ready

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Speaker 1: for next time? Are we ready for next time? No?

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Speaker 1: Will we ever be? No? Will it be worse? Yes? Why? Because,

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Speaker 1: as the report suggests, the big lesson we have learned

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Speaker 1: is that the people who run us aren't up to much,

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Speaker 1: and they did a lot of things we would never

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Speaker 1: go along with again, which does, of course present a

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Speaker 1: very real issue. I would have thought, because it's entirely

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Speaker 1: possible there will be a next time. These reports are

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Speaker 1: also predicated on the idea that those who run it

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Speaker 1: all learn their lessons. Will they course not. The public

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Speaker 1: service is full of Ashley's and j Cinders and Dans

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Speaker 1: and Gladyses, and if it's them or their milk running things,

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Speaker 1: next time will look exactly like this time, except and

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Speaker 1: this is where the carnage will ensue, we won't be

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