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Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends in eye Insurance Peace of Mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 2: Murray Old's Australia correspondent with US now he mus very

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Speaker 2: good afternoon herea. So when is Julian Nosaje due to

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Speaker 2: land in Australia, well beyond by the end.

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Speaker 1: Of the week, is the thinking here? Left London last night,

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Speaker 1: going we understand, via Singapore to fly then out to Saipan.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Saipan. The Battle of Saipan one of the

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Speaker 1: most violent of the Second World War. It was considered

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Speaker 1: by Japan, of course, to be one of the last

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Speaker 1: lines of defense of their homeland, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: American Marines and Army took on a lot of Japanese

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Speaker 1: soldiers there, so there's a lot of history. Anyway, it's

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Speaker 1: an American protectorate. The plan is for for Assange to land,

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Speaker 1: to go to court, plead guilty to one felony, be

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Speaker 1: sentenced to sixty two months in jail the precise amount

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Speaker 1: of time he's been held in jail in London, and

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Speaker 1: then on the next plane out via back via Singapore,

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Speaker 1: we understand, and then home to Australia. So could be

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Speaker 1: by the end of the week.

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Speaker 2: So if he's only I mean, if he's appearing in

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Speaker 2: court tomorrow at nine am, which is what like eleven

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Speaker 2: Amur time and whatever type mid morning, early morning your time,

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Speaker 2: what's stopping him from jumping on a plane and just

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Speaker 2: hitting home straight away and being home tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, he might be. I just don't know what

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Speaker 1: airlines he's flying, and I don't know the the you know,

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Speaker 1: the connections out of Saipan back to mainland Asia. But certainly, look,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of excitement here. I don't think anyone

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Speaker 1: much cares exactly when he touches down, just as long

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Speaker 1: as he does. I heard you make reference there to

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Speaker 1: what if they say, well, gotcha now, Because that's what

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Speaker 1: he's been fighting for. That's what he jumped into the

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Speaker 1: Ecuadorian embassy for, and that is why he has been

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Speaker 1: held in jail for five years and two months because

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Speaker 1: he would not be he would not accept extradition to

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Speaker 1: the United States, where he faced hundreds of years in jail. Basically,

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Speaker 1: in my view, is a you know, it was a

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Speaker 1: lifetime journalist. He was simply exercising freedom of speech. He

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Speaker 1: didn't steal the documents, he simply published them in the

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Speaker 1: same way as the was the New York Times, the

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Speaker 1: Washington Post published the Pentagon papers. I mean it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's documents out there in the public domain. For me,

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Speaker 1: I think putting stuff out like what we saw in

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Speaker 1: the in the in the wiki leaks, leaks, I think

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Speaker 1: it did. It did everyone a big, big favor. It

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Speaker 1: exposed what was going on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough. Hey, what do you make of the

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Speaker 2: Matt keen appointment.

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Speaker 1: Well, uh, look, I don't know Matt Keenan all that. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've spoken to him Harvard dozen times, you know, interviewed

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Speaker 1: him and so on. It was estrange for the New

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Speaker 1: South Wales Liberal Party because he was such a lefty

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Speaker 1: he could almost have been a labor politician to be honest. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: he served as you know, he was a very young

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Speaker 1: Minister for Energy, Minister for climate change, and he was

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Speaker 1: at odds of course with some on the hard right

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Speaker 1: wing side of the Liberal Party, the Conservatives over here.

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Speaker 1: It didn't seem to bother him. He was busy taking

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Speaker 1: potshots at anyone about the need to go renewable energy.

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Speaker 1: He was always an opponent of nuclear energy. So he

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Speaker 1: was about to quit. He's still a member of Parliament.

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Speaker 1: Actually just quit the Shadow Ministry. I think he leaves

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Speaker 1: on Friday. Anyway, he's been appointed to the chair of

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Speaker 1: the Climate Change Authority by Anthony Albanisi. And look this

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Speaker 1: outrage on the right hand side of politics over here,

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Speaker 1: you turncoat, you traitor left he's a saying well, beauty,

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Speaker 1: I mean Albanisi an inspired master stroke to blunt Peter

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Speaker 1: Dutton's push for nuclear We have to wait and see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, he's not a pin up boy for

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Speaker 1: the right. I can assure you of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah too, right, Muslssen, thank you as always really appreciated,

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Speaker 2: and we'll talk to you in a couple of days. Again,

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