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Speaker 1: Speaking watch in Australia see Price, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Good you've been watching on like the rest.

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Speaker 2: Of us, I sure have. I mean, it was an

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Speaker 2: extraordinary day yesterday, wasn't it. To witness that unfold live,

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Speaker 2: and you know, takes you back those of us old

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Speaker 2: enough to remember back to the bad old days when

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Speaker 2: routinely in America people were shot dead, whether they be

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Speaker 2: presidents or or you know, religious leaders. It was just

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Speaker 2: an extraordinary day in the Australian government. I was really

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Speaker 2: surprised to really interested to watch what exactly was the

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Speaker 2: reaction of people like Anthony Albanesi. I mean Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: obviously clearly he's not a favored you know, made the

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Speaker 2: Labor Party, and I thought Anthony Abenese's reaction was pretty strange.

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Speaker 2: He said, oh, well, you know, these are very different,

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Speaker 2: difficult times, and we need to think about exactly what

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Speaker 2: we're going to do in regard to to keeping all

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Speaker 2: of us safe, in our other politicians safe, and he

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Speaker 2: then started referring to I've told you about this, the

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Speaker 2: officers that were actually being daled with red paint by

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Speaker 2: anti pro Palestinian protestperants. He didn't say, look, you know

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Speaker 2: I feel sorry for Donald Trump and all. He didn't

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Speaker 2: really make a massive comment about the fact that the

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Speaker 2: persons had been child I mean it was almost as if,

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Speaker 2: well as Donald Trump, does it really matter? Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: found that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a funny thing, isn't. I just wonder how

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Speaker 1: did your media handle it? By the way, I note

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Speaker 1: the channel team Sky, who you work for, among other things,

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Speaker 1: I know, throughout their programming yesterday and went live with it.

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Speaker 1: Did the other networks go live as well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all but ten and I do work for ten,

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Speaker 2: So they stuck with normal programming for about an hour

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Speaker 2: and a half and then went live. But everybody else

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Speaker 2: threw everything out and went live with it, which, of

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Speaker 2: course it would crazy if you wouldn't do that. It's

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Speaker 2: the biggest story probably, but we witnessed for the last

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Speaker 2: twenty years or so. And look, it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 2: see when Anthony Albaniez asked again, which he will be

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Speaker 2: whenever he goes out today, exactly how he feels about it.

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Speaker 1: Exactly what I was speaking of television. I was watching

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Speaker 1: you on Friday night eight o'clock New Zealand Time, six

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Speaker 1: o'clock your time. The SEC guy that you've got the

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Speaker 1: breaking news on Just explain for the background, because the

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Speaker 1: unions have been crooked for years and they seem to

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Speaker 1: have finally sprung them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. This is the CFMU, which stands for Construction, Forestry,

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Speaker 2: Mining and Engineering Union, and it is completely corrupt and

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Speaker 2: John Setca resigned on Friday night. We broke that story

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Speaker 2: on Sky just after six o'clock. And the reason it

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Speaker 2: was so important is that all of the major infrastructure

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Speaker 2: projects in Melbourne are manned by members of that union.

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Speaker 2: All of them are over budget, all of them are

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Speaker 2: over time, and it's sixty minutes last night on nine

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Speaker 2: and the nine newspapers today revealed that the deals at

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Speaker 2: the CFM you were doing but basically standover tactics. I

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Speaker 2: mean they're saying to the state government, Okay, we donate

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Speaker 2: money to you when you get elected, and what we

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Speaker 2: are going to do now is put our hand up

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Speaker 2: for all of these jobs and you're going to pay

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Speaker 2: us very well. He managed to get his workers people

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Speaker 2: in his union major pay rises over the last two

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Speaker 2: or three years, and Sepker himself has now been revealed

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Speaker 2: to be actually threatening fellow union members that if they

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Speaker 2: don't stay with his union then he's going to come

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Speaker 2: and get them. His vision of him going to someone's

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Speaker 2: house on the other union member's houses dropping a suitcase

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Speaker 2: off with the inscription on top of a case of

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Speaker 2: case itself that you're a dog. And so he stepped

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Speaker 2: down Friday night and as you know, we we broke

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Speaker 2: that story on sky.

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Speaker 1: Explain to me how you can have bikings and criminals

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Speaker 1: acting as delegates employed on federal and state government funded

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Speaker 1: projects and there's not a politician, including somebody who's hung

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Speaker 1: around a long time Daniel Andrews not doing something about that.

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Speaker 2: Well, the current premier just Cinda Allen's husband is a

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Speaker 2: former CFMY you member and her grandfather was head of

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Speaker 2: the Tradeswall Council in Bendigo. I mean, the Labor party

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Speaker 2: here doesn't survive without donations from the union movement. It's

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Speaker 2: as simple as that.

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Speaker 1: Unreal. Are you catching a plane?

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Speaker 2: I mean Sydney airbook that's catch a plane to Melbourne? Yes?

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Speaker 1: No, no, just just checking? Did you need to check

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Speaker 1: in it? Are they leading you straight through to the

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Speaker 1: lounge or you got some problems here?

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Speaker 2: Or I mean I can't mention the name of the

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Speaker 2: landy and I've had this discussion before. Haven't made so

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Speaker 2: exclusive to talk about her.

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Speaker 1: There, Brittany, you know, yes, I do know that Brittany

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Speaker 1: Higgins in announcing she's pregnant is when does she stop

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Speaker 1: becoming a story?

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Speaker 2: Never? Probably? I mean she's still got that court case

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Speaker 2: against Linda Reynolds, her former boss, the minister, and that

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Speaker 2: case is going ahead in Perth. But she's back with

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Speaker 2: her husband, David Chiraz in France, as you know, bought

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Speaker 2: themselves a house in the little village in France and

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Speaker 2: today they've announced their happy news that they're going to

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Speaker 2: have their first child and that she is pregnant, So

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Speaker 2: that will make big news all day. People still want

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Speaker 2: to know what Britney Higgins is up to. That's just

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Speaker 2: that's how it is.

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Speaker 1: Safe mate, we'll see Wednesday. Appreciate a very much steep

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Speaker 1: price out of Australia. Yes, if you've not followed the

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Speaker 1: union movement in Australia, particularly in Victoria, it's been going

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Speaker 1: on for decades, literally decades, and it's been widely known

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Speaker 1: that they're all crooks in everything they do and build

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Speaker 1: in Australia is conducted in some way, shape or form

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Speaker 1: by a nefarious activity, and yet they've only that's now

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Speaker 1: really blown the whole thing wide open. Wasn't that interesting

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Speaker 1: what Steve said about, you know, one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: stories in twenty years and why on earth wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: throw you format? I go back to what I said

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Speaker 1: earlier on about TV one and TV three. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what the arrangement is with stuff in TV three

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Speaker 1: these days, But does TV three want a new service

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Speaker 1: or maybe they don't care anymore, or maybe maybe was

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Speaker 1: that part of the contract. Did they say, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: if something big happens, we expect you to cover it

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Speaker 1: live throughout the day. Because that didn't happen yesterday. A

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Speaker 1: number of people defending TV one and TV three by

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Speaker 1: saying it was on their app. That's not what I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about. That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about is it was a televisual story. It was

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Speaker 1: the biggest story of the years. It's a moment in history,

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Speaker 1: and you throw everything out and you go live and

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Speaker 1: you run the pictures.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, I'm wondering if that was the problem they've

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Speaker 2: thrown everything out, or well if they put it on

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Speaker 2: they just don't have the gin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that is the problem, Maybe they don't know

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Speaker 1: how to go live anymore. But you cannot claim to

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Speaker 1: have a news service and be a news organization if

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Speaker 1: you can't cover the news when it happens all day,

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Speaker 1: every day until it's exhausted people. I mean, what else

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Speaker 1: were they doing yesterday on a Sunday at one in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon. What's the audience on Sunday one in the afternoon,

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Speaker 1: apart from no one. There's no advertising, there's no audience.

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Speaker 1: Go for broke. I've got the biggest story in the

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Speaker 1: world right in front of you, and I'm switching to one.

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Speaker 1: I'm switching to three. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and nothing.

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Speaker 1: How you justify that? I've got no idea For more

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