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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation from The Daily Ozma Gillespie is.

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Speaker 2: Here, good morning, Well what a time, What a time.

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Speaker 2: Peter Costello, who apparently was working at Channel nine for

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Speaker 2: those of us who missed it, has resigned as chairman

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Speaker 2: of nine Entertainment Media Company after a very awkward public

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Speaker 2: viral moment where he pushed allegedly a journalist down the

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Speaker 2: stairs at Camera Airport. So down the stairs. Yeah, he

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Speaker 2: fell back down the stairs. I don't know if you

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Speaker 2: guys have seen this video. It's a bit difficult to watch.

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Speaker 2: It's shocking. There's this guy from The Australian. His name's

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Speaker 2: Liam Mendez. He's at Camera Airport and Costello pushes him. Well,

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Speaker 2: he rejects that idea, but this guy goes back down

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Speaker 2: these stairs. It's really intense. Costello said, immediately after I've

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Speaker 2: walked past him, he walked back into a placard and

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Speaker 2: he fell over. I did not strike him. If he's

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Speaker 2: upset about it, I'm sorry. But he made no effort

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Speaker 2: to help him, to see if he was okay, or

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Speaker 2: to ask if he was all right. It was really

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Speaker 2: awkward this vision. Now in case, he used to Peter Costello,

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Speaker 2: who yes, the guy who was the treasurer of the

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Speaker 2: country from ninety six to two thousand and seven in

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Speaker 2: the Howard years. He became the nine chairman. Eleven years ago,

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Speaker 2: there was this big scandal over the kind of reaction

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Speaker 2: the fallout to this video. He had doubled down and said,

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Speaker 2: you know, it was rubbish that it was going to

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Speaker 2: impact his career. But then lo and behold. Over the

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Speaker 2: weekend we got a statement he has indeed resigned. He's

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Speaker 2: a very long statement saying that after nearly eleven years

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Speaker 2: on the board of nine Entertainment, more than eight years

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Speaker 2: as chair, he was going to retire soon. But he's

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Speaker 2: brought that forward and he'd informed the board that he

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Speaker 2: would be pulling forward the timing and standing down his chair,

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Speaker 2: resigning as director effective immediately.

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Speaker 1: Well, the reason that journalist was asking him very valid

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Speaker 1: questions about the governance of Channel nine in light of

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Speaker 1: things that have happened in their newsroom and a million

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Speaker 1: dollar allegedly a million dollar payout to the head of

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Speaker 1: the news department, and he had already he'd left under

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Speaker 1: a cloud of suspicion and accusations from women about his

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Speaker 1: bullying and maybe some sexual advances allegedly, so the questions

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Speaker 1: that have been put to mister Costello were absolutely valid

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Speaker 1: to put to a chairman of that organization. But it's

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Speaker 1: long being said that Peter Costello, even when as a politician,

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Speaker 1: doesn't like journalists, and even in his resignation announcement he said,

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Speaker 1: don't bother camping outside my house, like, hey, this isn't

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Speaker 1: a news story. The head of a news organization, we

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Speaker 1: know how news works.

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Speaker 2: It's okay, And he's just said some young reported tits

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Speaker 2: over ours down the back. Yeah, there's a camera airport.

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Speaker 2: But it is interesting the timing. It comes at a

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Speaker 2: sort of time when newsroom's commercial or otherwise, you know,

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Speaker 2: we see what's happening at the ABC really are under

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Speaker 2: a microscope. Channel seven in light of all the Bruce

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Speaker 2: Lherman revelations and what happened with the producers of the

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Speaker 2: Spotlight program. Now Robert Evadi are one of their most

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Speaker 2: senior reporters. He's under investigation over all these alleged assault claims.

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Speaker 2: The ABC dealing with the fallout from the Antoninella two stuff,

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Speaker 2: you know, really interesting time in these big news and the.

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Speaker 1: Laura Tingles stuff. She said not in her not in

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Speaker 1: her ABC capacity, but at a writer's function, she said

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Speaker 1: Australia was a racist country and she's been vilified because

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Speaker 1: as someone from the ABC she's not allowed to apparently

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Speaker 1: to have an opinion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't agree with her. Whether or not

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Speaker 2: you agree with her, I think is it separate issue

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Speaker 2: to whether or not she deserves to be effectively canceled

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Speaker 2: for sharing an opinion? Well, we are a free country.

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Speaker 2: You can you know? We are a free country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's apparently as an ABC personalities a newsperson

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Speaker 1: not allowed to have an opinion, even when she's not

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Speaker 1: in her capacity as a newsreader as a commentator. Is

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Speaker 1: it a lucrative with Peter Costello's position on the board?

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Speaker 1: Is that lucrative?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Is that he would have wanted to hold on to that?

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Speaker 1: How much do you get a year for being on a.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he was making an eye ordering amount of

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Speaker 2: money and it would be lucrative for him to stick

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Speaker 2: around a little bit longer. But I'm sure there would

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Speaker 2: have been that's some kind of an arrangement, a deal.

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Speaker 2: He won't be walking away empty handed or out of pocket.

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Speaker 2: You would think I shouldn't be on a board I

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Speaker 2: think that'd be a good gig, because what do you do, really,

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Speaker 2: what do these guys, Well, see, this.

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Speaker 1: Is the thing they're supposed to be in charge of

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Speaker 1: the governance and anything. They haven't been. No, that's right,

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Speaker 1: they haven't been. And that's why all those questions were

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Speaker 1: being booked in were extremely valid.

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Speaker 2: I think they're good at delegating, passing the buck, wearing

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Speaker 2: nice suits. I can do that.

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Speaker 1: I think you could eating little sandwiches and meetings.

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Speaker 2: I'm going straight down to Kelly Country after the show

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Speaker 2: and that's what I'm going to do. M thank you.

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Speaker 2: Check her out of the Daily Eyes