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Speaker 1: Marry Old Zossie, corresponding with us now hamas Hello, Heather,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. Okay, what do you make of Labour's move

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Speaker 1: with the fuel Well, I think inevitable. Really, the political

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Speaker 1: pressure was on four days ago the Opposition was calling

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Speaker 1: for this, you know, as an immediate and let's have

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Speaker 1: a look at it. I mean they're saying it's going

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Speaker 1: to be in the order of maybe saving twenty dollars

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Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a tank of fuel. So it's not

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Speaker 1: insignificant in households where budgets are already stretched by high

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Speaker 1: interest rates, big mortgages and all the rest. So a

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Speaker 1: fuel excise cut for it's actually cut in half. So

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Speaker 1: for three months, as you say, nearly three billion dollars

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand two point six billion dollars Australian. The

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Speaker 1: opposition says, oh, I told you so, I told you so. Well,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because we're all going to be saving. Look,

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Speaker 1: and the saving significant for trucks using diesel, and Australia

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Speaker 1: runs on diesel. Without diesel, we don't have food being

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Speaker 1: delivered to the cities, we don't have stuff moving around

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Speaker 1: the country. So, as you heard Jim Chalmers there say

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Speaker 1: it's very significant ill on the bottom line of the

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Speaker 1: budget and it has obviously fueled worries about inflation. We've

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Speaker 1: got inflation climbing over here and this isn't going to help.

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Speaker 1: But look it's a political move. It's been really demanded

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Speaker 1: by the opposition and the governments responded. And at a

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Speaker 1: time when I just got the quick figures here for

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Speaker 1: the latest News poll, Labor's on the nose a bit.

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Speaker 1: Is primary vote down to thirty one percent. It was

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Speaker 1: thirty six last November. The escalating cost of living crisis

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Speaker 1: doesn't help economic challenges created by Iran. What's happening there.

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Speaker 1: Elbow's personal popularity too, Heather has also taken a bit

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Speaker 1: of a thumping. He's still more popular though than Angus Taylor.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. The coalition primary vote up to

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Speaker 1: twenty one one nation, Pauline Hadson twenty six percent, so

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Speaker 1: Labor in front thirty one percent one Nation twenty six,

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Speaker 1: the coalition, the two parties twenty one. Is he Freeman

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Speaker 1: apparently was holding a gun, he'd take it from one

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Speaker 1: of the officers he'd murdered. Right, that's right, yep, that's right.

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Speaker 1: And they were talking to him for quite some time, Heather,

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Speaker 1: and you know they wanted obviously the police. I mean,

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Speaker 1: no one was to shoot someone, right, I mean, even

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Speaker 1: a guy like Desi Freeman was pretty much publicly going

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Speaker 1: to be number one for Victorian police. He shot dead

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Speaker 1: to two of their own, wounded a third, and tried

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Speaker 1: to shoot a fourth. So if anyone's going to be

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Speaker 1: anti Desi Freeman, it's going to be the Victorian police.

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Speaker 1: In the end, he came out with a blanket over

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Speaker 1: him and he was holding a handgun he'd taken from

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Speaker 1: one of the police officer he'd shot dead about six

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Speaker 1: months earlier. What they're trying to do now, Hea, there

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Speaker 1: is pieced together who was looking after this guy, because

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Speaker 1: he clearly had help. He was hiding out on a

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Speaker 1: property about two hours north of where he shot the

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Speaker 1: police officers six months ago. Freeman himself was aunt the authority.

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Speaker 1: He was a sovereign citizen, would not recognize any government.

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Speaker 1: All the sort of you know, nutty conspiracy stuff that's

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Speaker 1: out there across I suppose every country these days. On

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Speaker 1: the Internet, you don't have to dig very far and

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Speaker 1: you find this sort of conspiracy theory. But the big

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Speaker 1: thing now police want to do who has been helping him?

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Speaker 1: That's the thing they're after right now. I think Jackie

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Speaker 1: Oh has finally launched her own legal action against AARN.

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Speaker 1: But why is she taken so long? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: there's been some disputation about was she let go or

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Speaker 1: was she not? AARN has released a statement to this Australian.

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Speaker 1: Australian AARN actually, now you've asked me, oh, you haven't,

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Speaker 1: but I don't. I just forget what it stands for

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Speaker 1: Australian Radio Network, Australian Radio Network. But it's got it's

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Speaker 1: got a whole lot more. It's ARN Media, so there's

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch more. But the stuff we're talking about

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Speaker 1: is KSFM. That's one of the stations under that umbrella,

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Speaker 1: and that's where Sandaland's and Henderson ruled the roost for

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Speaker 1: over two decades. So Sandaland's came out swinging. He said, listen,

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Speaker 1: you paid me to be nasty to her on air.

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Speaker 1: I was nasty. She started to cry, what's the big

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Speaker 1: deal now? Jackie Henderson, she came off here that day,

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Speaker 1: it's four weeks ago, and she said to the bosses,

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Speaker 1: I can't work with that sob anymore just push me

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Speaker 1: too far. So they said, right, okay, we've accepted that.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, we'll find you a new job. Kyle,

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Speaker 1: you've got two weeks to prove you didn't. When that happened,

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Speaker 1: they served him the sack at about three minutes past midnight,

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Speaker 1: he says, hang on a second. You know, I'm challenging you.

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Speaker 1: And now she's come out as well. She says, quote,

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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of speculation misinformation about my departure

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Speaker 1: and so I'm now suing as well. She wants eighty

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Speaker 1: two million dollars. That's the balance of her contract. A

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Speaker 1: RNs told the Stock Exchange it disputes the claim. It

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Speaker 1: will be contested, as is Kyle Sandaland's claim. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just ridiculous money. And I think what the bottom

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Speaker 1: line here is. I want to get rid of the

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Speaker 1: cost on their bottom line. Yeah, two right, it is

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Speaker 1: ARAN is the Australia Radio Network Males. They just bought

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Speaker 1: all the other stuff. You're welcome. Marie Old's Australia corresponds.

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