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Speaker 1: Golus a Tasmhen we go. Steve Price, very good morning

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Good Ada.

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Speaker 1: Now, well the pole we got a bit hard to

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Speaker 1: believe that Albanezey's scene is incompetent. Where on earth did

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Speaker 1: that come from?

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Speaker 2: Well, it is an unusual pole. It's not the normal

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Speaker 2: news pole. So we've going to make that very clear.

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Speaker 2: But it's published in Australia this morning. It's not great

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Speaker 2: for Peter Dutton either, I should point out, but this

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Speaker 2: new poll says the Prime Minister has seen is incompetent

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Speaker 2: and useless, while for Peter Dutton he's seen is untrustworthy

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Speaker 2: and bad. So it's not great for either leader. But

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister's had the week from hell. Last week

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Speaker 2: we spoke about the upgrade issue. Of course that is

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Speaker 2: still bugging him. He can't believe it. He went to

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Speaker 2: Adelaide yesterday and I'll mention what he did with the

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Speaker 2: UNI debt. At the moment he had adoring crowd, they

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Speaker 2: were cheering for him. But in the wider public, this

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Speaker 2: whole thing about getting airline upgrades for ministers and the

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister in particular is going to dog him all

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Speaker 2: the way to the election. I think so we learned

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Speaker 2: yesterday that of his senior colleagues, Jason Claire very much

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Speaker 2: a supporter of Prome min Australb and Easy. He suddenly

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Speaker 2: after eight days miraculous. You remember, Oh yeah, okay, yes,

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Speaker 2: I got an upgrade on a flight on Connis between

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Speaker 2: Sydney and Singapore. It was all the way back in

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, that's not that long ago. And he said

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Speaker 2: he actually asked for it. He picked up a phone

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Speaker 2: and rang somebody. He can't remember who he rang, of course,

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Speaker 2: as if you wouldn't remember. He said he'd had surgery

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Speaker 2: on his leg for some sort of melanoma or something,

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Speaker 2: had it cut out. His family were already traveling, and

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Speaker 2: so he rang Desplokeing Connus and said can I get

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Speaker 2: an upgrade? And they gave it to him. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the public just look at that and go, these guys

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Speaker 2: are just gone.

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Speaker 1: Or wrought exactly. And that's the problem he's opened up.

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Speaker 1: First of all, he copped it up by taking so

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Speaker 1: long to deny it all if in fact he has

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Speaker 1: been able to deny it in the way that people believe.

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Speaker 1: But you've now got this can of worms of every politician,

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Speaker 1: and you know they're going to have to cough detail,

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Speaker 1: aren't they correct?

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Speaker 2: And interestingly the Australian sent questions to all of the

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Speaker 2: Tiel independence These are the independent MPs who've got elected

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Speaker 2: at last election on making Parliament a better place, all

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Speaker 2: very much about honesty and transparency. None of them would

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Speaker 2: respond to any questions about airline upgrade.

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Speaker 1: Ye. Interesting the debt you mentioned we did it here.

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Speaker 1: When I say we, the Labor government did it a

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Speaker 1: number of years ago. They suspended interest on the debt

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Speaker 1: and that got them an election. Biden's busy for giving

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Speaker 1: debt left right and see that doesn't appear to have

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Speaker 1: worked for him necessarily. But this is just a blatant

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Speaker 1: I need something for Australians to feel better about me

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Speaker 1: type policy.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it pretty much here? What they're what he announced

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Speaker 2: in Adelaide yesterday was anyone with a student debt will

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Speaker 2: get a twenty percent discount on their loans, which will

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Speaker 2: wipe out around sixteen billion. Well wipe out it's a

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Speaker 2: good phrase because the government's got to find sixteen billion

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Speaker 2: to wipe that debt out. So you take making taxpayers

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Speaker 2: money and handing it from one pot to another pot really,

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Speaker 2: but it is a chase for the younger vote. Well,

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Speaker 2: the younger vote's probably already there, although it might pull

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Speaker 2: some people away from the Greens. To give you an example,

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Speaker 2: an average university student debt with an average twenty seven

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Speaker 2: six hundred in debt, we'll have five hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: dollars wiped off their hext. Interestingly, I mean, this is

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Speaker 2: a disgraceful thing for a father to admit. I rang

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Speaker 2: my eldest daughter who did a law degreet a and

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Speaker 2: U took five years. She's now got a very well

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Speaker 2: paid job working for one of the big accounting service

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Speaker 2: as a nin house lawyer. She's got a sixty five

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars hex debt. I had no idea.

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Speaker 1: What's her old man, what's her argument for not having

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Speaker 1: paid it off?

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Speaker 2: Well, she started to pay it off, but I mean,

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Speaker 2: you don't pay it off until you get to a

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Speaker 2: certain salary level. That's the other thing he changed yesterday.

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Speaker 2: They'd start paying it until you get over sixty seven

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. But how the hell is she ever going

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Speaker 2: to pay that off? I mean, I'll put my hand

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Speaker 2: up here. Can't see me, but I'm putting my hand up.

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Speaker 2: Who do you think is going to pay that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I'm going through the same thing at the moment.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Give give me some advice.

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Speaker 1: What do you do with kids in debt? Do you

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Speaker 1: do if you can? And we might well be in

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Speaker 1: lucky positions if you can, do you or not?

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Speaker 2: We're in very lucky positions. Yet, well, well I think

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Speaker 2: you do, because I mean, how are they ever going

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Speaker 2: to get into the housing market, Because if you've got

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Speaker 2: a heck'stead, the bank looks at that and says, we're

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Speaker 2: not going to lend you enough money that you want

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Speaker 2: to buy that house or unitalt or whatever.

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Speaker 1: And do you vary it based on you go, well,

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Speaker 1: they've got an arts degree, or they got a law degree,

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Speaker 1: or they are a doctor or there or whatever. You know,

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Speaker 1: therefore you'll be earning millions versus fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: You're a father, Just pay the debt.

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Speaker 1: This is true. By the way, if you have a

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Speaker 1: holiday tomorrow, do you take Monday off?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Everyone is? I mean, you know, I live outside

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Speaker 2: of Melbourne. The town's packed with people. No one's working tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: no one's working today. I should say, everyone's taking a

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Speaker 2: forward week. You speak of the Melbourne Cup of Book.

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Speaker 2: Now I always give you five horses for a box trifector.

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Speaker 2: We've done this every year, So here we go. Everybody ready.

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Speaker 2: A horse called Volban which is at seven dollars at

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Speaker 2: the moment, Bukarou which is at five dollars fifty. You've

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Speaker 2: got a horse called Zardozi which is at nineteen dollars

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Speaker 2: an absurd ending in a knee eleven dollars, and I've

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Speaker 2: thrown in a Hosking special. This is just for you

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Speaker 2: to top it up. Okay, smooth, smooth operator, which is

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Speaker 2: what you are, of course, one smooth operator. I should say.

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Speaker 2: It's all one word, one smooth operator. Brackets Husking. That's

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Speaker 2: your box trifector.

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Speaker 1: And that that's going to pay me enough not to

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Speaker 1: do the show anymore, or it's going.

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Speaker 2: To pay you enough to pay off your hex step.

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Speaker 2: That's what it's going to do.

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Speaker 1: All right, mate, We'll see you on us election day

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Look forward to your company. Steve Price.

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