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Speaker 1: Murray Olds is here our Australia correspondent. Murray, the new

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Speaker 1: South Wales Transport minister, has resigned. We spoke about this yesterday.

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Speaker 1: The use of the personal use of the ministerial car

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Speaker 1: has got her.

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Speaker 2: That has Indeed, they're very good afternoon. Not the first

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Speaker 2: minister to fall in this way. It's as though when

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Speaker 2: you've become elected to a state or federal parliament, all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden your hands sort of stopped short of

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Speaker 2: your own wallet because guess who's paying the bills, taxpayers.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that is differently the case in the

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Speaker 2: case of Joe Hayman. I've interviewed to probably have it

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Speaker 2: as in a dozen times. You know, she's mid early forties,

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Speaker 2: a mum, and as we all know that anyone who

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Speaker 2: has covered politics and you know any way at all,

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Speaker 2: you know how hard MPs do work. I know it's

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Speaker 2: easy to bag them, but particularly ministers. It's twenty four

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Speaker 2: to seven and she was caught out. Well, let me

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Speaker 2: just to sit the stay. She's been in for two years,

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Speaker 2: for almost all of that time a very bitter dispute

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Speaker 2: with the Combined Rail unions who were demanding twenty five

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Speaker 2: percent pay rise. On the Australia Day Long weekend, she

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Speaker 2: and a bunch of friends took a government van from

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Speaker 2: her holiday home up to the Hunter Valley for a

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Speaker 2: long lunch. The government driver had a thirteen hour day

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Speaker 2: and she had to repay seven hundred and fifty bucks

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Speaker 2: when this came to light. Then she find we learn

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Speaker 2: as taxpayers the driver has been dropping off her children

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Speaker 2: the weekend's sport as he's been taking her down to

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Speaker 2: Sydney for the Parliament, for her parliamentary work and ministerial work.

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Speaker 2: And now there's the third indiscretion, another Hunter of belly

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Speaker 2: get away, this time with a hobby. So she's gone

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Speaker 2: this afternoon. But there are two questions here where did

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Speaker 2: all the information come from? It was leaked to the media,

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Speaker 2: and I guess I'll be knocking on the door of

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Speaker 2: the Combined Rail Union for a lot of this. And

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Speaker 2: the second question is, let's now see the logbooks of

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Speaker 2: every menu of every MP, because they've all got perks

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Speaker 2: and lurks. Let's see how a lot of them spending

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Speaker 2: are spending our money, because it's not gonna find to

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Speaker 2: the New South Wales Parliament, you'll find it's the same

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand, same in Queensland, Salmon, Britain. They're all

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Speaker 2: on the public teat.

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Speaker 1: In her defense, Murray, could you not argue because she

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Speaker 1: was Minister of Transport right that she was just you know,

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Speaker 1: she was being transported.

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Speaker 2: Oh good luck with that one. Yeah, I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's gonna fly.

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Speaker 1: Hey, the Aussie football is and Sam Kerr on Trumper

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Speaker 1: racially aggravated harassment. We've all seen this video. That's been

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Speaker 1: seen video.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, it's a bad look for one of

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Speaker 2: the most high profile women in world's sport. I mean

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Speaker 2: she is one of the most hope, well, she's certainly

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Speaker 2: the highest profile female athlete in Australia right now. We've

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Speaker 2: had Kathy Freeman of course in the past and others

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Speaker 2: like that. But Sam Kerr is a household name over here.

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Speaker 2: She earns three million bucks plus a year. So for

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Speaker 2: the London taxi driver to suggest for a second that

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Speaker 2: he was frightened they weren't going to pay her, well

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Speaker 2: pay him, Well, that's just ridiculous. But we've all seen

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Speaker 2: the video. It looks terrible. Apparently a curR has vomited

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Speaker 2: in a taxi on the way home after a big

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Speaker 2: night out with her partner. The taxi driver is insisting

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Speaker 2: they pay up, but they're having a fight. He rings

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Speaker 2: the cops and starts driving off to twicken And police

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Speaker 2: station in London. The women in the back know that

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Speaker 2: they're not going to their home, so she's on the

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Speaker 2: phone as well, and when they pull up outside the

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Speaker 2: cop shop, there are two other police officers who just

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Speaker 2: got back from another job. Helloa la lallo, the old

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Speaker 2: sort of standard approach, and all of a sudden, Sam

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Speaker 2: Kerr is saying as she's accusing the guy of being

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Speaker 2: white and using that word in a very derogatory way,

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Speaker 2: to the point where the police officer arrests her and

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Speaker 2: charge and charges her with racial vilification. So this isn't

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Speaker 2: about vomiting in a taxi that's been cleared up. The

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Speaker 2: women are arguing that they felt they were being abducted

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Speaker 2: and kidnapped. The driver says he was frightened because he

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Speaker 2: had these these women bommiting and shouting and carrying on

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Speaker 2: the back seat. But basically the prosecutions told the court,

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Speaker 2: Miss Kerr, identifies as white Anglo Indian, was obviously upset

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Speaker 2: and angry about what happened and how the police were

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Speaker 2: handling it. But it's unless she became abusive and insulting

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Speaker 2: and specifically insulted the police officer by reference to his

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Speaker 2: ethnicity by E's white and the issues. According to the prosecution,

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Speaker 2: it's not about what she said, but it's what she

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Speaker 2: meant by what she said, and how did that make

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Speaker 2: the policeman feel? So go figure, there's a wee way

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Speaker 2: to go on this.

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Speaker 1: Yet, how was he feeling about it? Because you know,

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Speaker 1: if you were to flip the script and use the

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Speaker 1: you know, if it was the other way around, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there would be a huge outrage about it. How Yeah, no.

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Speaker 2: Kidding, I mean, is it simply a case of another athlete.

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Speaker 2: I mean, hello, the rugby league season starts in a minute,

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Speaker 2: und into a brick, someone's up before the court inside

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Speaker 2: the first month. I mean, it's it's just the way

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Speaker 2: it's like leaves changing color in autumn. So yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's a good point you make. But Sam Kerr has

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Speaker 2: it going down here? Well look, I'm not sure. I

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Speaker 2: haven't really taken the temperature, but certainly she's a much

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Speaker 2: loved figure here. I think a lot of people would

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Speaker 2: be sympathetic towards him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Murray, thank you for that. Murray Old's are Australia correspondent.

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