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Speaker 1: Busier than Prince Harry on the Worldwide Privacy Tour as

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Speaker 1: our Prime Minister, Anthony Open Easy.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, great to be lovely to.

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Speaker 1: Have you back in the studio. You flew in on

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Speaker 1: the weekend for the launch of the Resources Technology Showcase.

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Speaker 1: How was that?

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Speaker 2: That was fantastic fun. All the extraordinary breakthroughs that are

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Speaker 2: happening in technology, in robotics and in using information technology

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Speaker 2: and really to drive productivity new equipment, big machines, but

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Speaker 2: also fun stuff as well that engages all these kids,

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Speaker 2: like there were thousands of them. It was the best

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Speaker 2: I've seen, the best I've seen, Barnann and the kids

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Speaker 2: were so enthusiastic.

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Speaker 3: There was this.

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Speaker 2: Scram I was worried going around with all the TV

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Speaker 2: cameras that some of the little kid was going to

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Speaker 2: get knocked over by a camera. But it was just

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Speaker 2: good fun, the enthusiasm that was there, and the beauty

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Speaker 2: is that it was really showing practically what the application

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Speaker 2: of science is and that's the future for this state

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Speaker 2: and this country is becoming the smart country. And if

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Speaker 2: even two percent of the kids who were there yesterday

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Speaker 2: afternoon and then outside as well with the big equipment,

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Speaker 2: building things with their families. If two percent of kids

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Speaker 2: who are there get inspired to study science, to become engineers,

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Speaker 2: to become technicians, to go and work in these vast industries,

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Speaker 2: that will grow. Looking at as we shift to cleaner technologies,

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Speaker 2: you know, making batteries and making more things here, then

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Speaker 2: that will be a great thing.

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Speaker 3: Anthony, you told us on the hustings the federal election

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Speaker 3: you'd come back to perthon You'd come back to West

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Speaker 3: Australia a lot of times, but your schedule is must

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Speaker 3: be what's grueling. I felt like you were sitting there

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Speaker 3: in the seat of Aston and Victoria after the win

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Speaker 3: for Mary on the weekend, then all of a sudden

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Speaker 3: you're here. It's pretty I was.

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Speaker 2: And I wake up in Hobart. Yes, but I look,

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Speaker 2: it was important that we acknowledge Mary's win was an

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Speaker 2: extraordinary thing, once in a century event. And Mary's such

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Speaker 2: a humble person. She's done it tough in her life.

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Speaker 2: She's grew up in public housing, she's raised kids on

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Speaker 2: her own, she's looked after her niece as well. She's

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Speaker 2: a cancer survivor. She's got this extraordinary story and I

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Speaker 2: think her genuineness and warmth really shone through. If anyone

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Speaker 2: was watching her speech on Saturday night, she was genuinely

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Speaker 2: humbled by it. And she'll be a great voice in

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Speaker 2: the Parliament, not just for Aston, but I think people

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Speaker 2: will really warm to her and it's good to have

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Speaker 2: people like that in the Parliament. She's certainly not someone

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Speaker 2: who who expected to be there. She ran last time

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Speaker 2: when it was the margin was above sixty percent, so

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Speaker 2: she got this big swing and then she got another one,

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Speaker 2: and I think in part that is because of who

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Speaker 2: Mary Doyle is and to her credit. And then I'd

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Speaker 2: given the commitment about the showcase, so I don't break commitments.

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Speaker 2: So we dashed across here and then I got to

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Speaker 2: go to the Derby.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, you have kept true to your election promise

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Speaker 1: about you know, visiting w Way. This is your tenth

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Speaker 1: trip eleven eleven trip county within a year as Prime minister.

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Speaker 1: How is the first year gone? Oh well it's up

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Speaker 1: to judge. Will you get curveballs thrown it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No one thought the Russian invasion of you would continue

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Speaker 2: for so long and have that impact on global inflation

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Speaker 2: that it has, so we've had to deal with that.

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Speaker 2: Those pressures, but it's a great privilege. I'm very cognizant

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Speaker 2: of the great honor that I have of leading this

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Speaker 2: the best country on earth. But it's also the best

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Speaker 2: thing is getting out and about and meeting people and

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Speaker 2: engaging with people. We took the entire cabinet to port Headland,

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Speaker 2: as I promised we would. I've been to Calgoli, I've

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Speaker 2: just about every suburb of Perth. Now, I think over

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Speaker 2: the eleven months that i've been PM, and we're working

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Speaker 2: constructively and the good thing I think the feedback I

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Speaker 2: get is that they say it's good that the adults

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Speaker 2: are in charge. And they might agree with every everything

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Speaker 2: that my government has done, but they know that we're

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Speaker 2: trying to address things, and they know that we're engaged

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Speaker 2: and we're looking for solutions rather than looking for arguments,

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Speaker 2: which is what people want. People had conflict fatigue, I think,

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Speaker 2: and so the fact that we've got so much legislation

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Speaker 2: through the parliament. Cheaper medicine, cheaper childcare begins on July one.

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Speaker 2: There's eighteen thousand people benefiting from our fee free tape

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Speaker 2: just here in Wa and visit a tape not far

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Speaker 2: from here, just up the road, and talking to students

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Speaker 2: who are going to become electricians or become age care

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Speaker 2: workers or childcare workers who are benefiting from that fee

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Speaker 2: free tape just really warms your heart. It shows that

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Speaker 2: the effort that's put in can make a difference to people.

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Speaker 1: One of the big issues at the moment is the

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Speaker 1: Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which you're campaigning for. Of course,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't understand exactly what it is

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Speaker 1: because they say the wording may be a little vague.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain just in layman's terms, exactly what we're

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Speaker 2: Yes, Look, the wording if they actually look at it

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Speaker 2: is really clear, and it's up there on the website

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Speaker 2: and on people can google it and see the words

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Speaker 2: that will be put the constitutional change, and it's about

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Speaker 2: two things. Firstly, recognizing Aboriginal Torres straight island of people

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Speaker 2: in our constitution. That's the first thing at the moment

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Speaker 2: that our nation's constitution, which is like a burstiate if

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Speaker 2: you think of it that way, should recognize that we

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Speaker 2: share this continent with the oldest continuous culture on Earth

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Speaker 2: sixty five thousand years. That should be a source of pride.

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Speaker 2: So just simple recognition, that's the first thing. The second

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Speaker 2: thing is just consultation. That's what the voices that where

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Speaker 2: matters affect average on Torrestraate Island of people, they should

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Speaker 2: have a they should be consulted. So it's not a

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Speaker 2: right of veto. It doesn't change the power of the

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Speaker 2: Parliament or the way that decisions are made. It won't

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Speaker 2: be a funding body. It will simply be a body

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Speaker 2: that can representations and the wording is very clear it

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Speaker 2: may make representations so they don't have to. And then

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Speaker 2: it's clear that the Parliament will determine the structure, functions

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Speaker 2: and operations of the Voice. So it's really about good manners.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to have a policy that impacts Aboriginal Australians,

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Speaker 2: then us them their views. And we know that what's

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Speaker 2: happened up to now isn't working. There's a ten year

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Speaker 2: infant mortality, there's gaps when it comes to incarceration rates.

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Speaker 2: Are the most incarcerated peoples in the world, so we

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Speaker 2: know that with the best of intentions. I think governments

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Speaker 2: of all persuasions have tried to do things for average

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Speaker 2: That's an important distinction and I really.

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Speaker 1: Hope it's like a common sense.

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Speaker 2: It is a common sense and we know that when

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Speaker 2: we do that, you get better outcomes. Justice reinvestment, Indigenous

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Speaker 2: you get better outcomes. And that's what it's about. So

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Speaker 2: the No campaign will try to raise a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of furfees of what it's not about, but it is

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Speaker 2: pretty straightforward. It is pretty simple, and I sincerely hope

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Speaker 2: that we wake up the day after the referendum, average

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Speaker 2: on Australians will have been given respect. All of us

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Speaker 2: can be walk a little bit taller. I reckon if

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Speaker 2: we acknowledge the fullness of our history well with a

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Speaker 2: as well, saying well, they've acknowledged their history. And the

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Speaker 2: counterfactual to that is I think problematic. So if not now,

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Speaker 2: when this has been promised for a long period of.

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Speaker 3: Time, it feels like about time, Anthony. We're driving to

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Speaker 3: work at four in the morning, so we get a

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Speaker 3: different view of things and unfortunately we drive through, we

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Speaker 3: is worse than ever as far as we can see.

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Speaker 3: And we're not just talking about people who haven't got

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Speaker 3: a roof over their heads. It's the working poor as well.

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Speaker 3: Then we know all about the rising cost of living

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Speaker 3: right now, but it would be lovely to snap your

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Speaker 3: fingers and solve an issue. It's such a difficult thing

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Speaker 3: to solve. But what are the things that you see

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Speaker 2: Well, for start, we've got legislation before the Parliament which

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Speaker 2: we'll see a doubling of the number of social and

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Speaker 2: affordable housing new stock coming online thirty thousand additional through

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Speaker 2: our Housing Australia Future funded ten billion dollar fund to

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Speaker 2: make a difference, including funding specifically for four thousand of

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Speaker 2: those reserved for women and children escaping domestic violence, some

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Speaker 2: for our veterans as well, a specific program for them,

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Speaker 2: funding to fix remote housing, funding for emergency housing as well.

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Speaker 2: We've got our Housing Accord going forward, which is about

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Speaker 2: encouraging private sector investment. That's been done with the Master

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Speaker 2: Builders Association and the Housing Industry Association and state and

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Speaker 2: territory governments we want to work through as well. We

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Speaker 2: know this is a big problem, but we have a

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Speaker 2: comprehensive plan. Unfortunately, the Housing Australia Future Fund are our

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Speaker 2: opponents in the Liberal Party and indeed in this case

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Speaker 2: the Greens Party as well are not supporting that going forward.

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Speaker 2: It should have passed the Parliament last week. We're hopeful

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Speaker 2: Saturday's ask and by election is that the Liberals realize

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Speaker 2: you can't just sit there and say no to everything,

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Speaker 2: which is what they're doing at the moment, and this

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Speaker 2: is a really practical measure that will make a difference.

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Speaker 2: And I can't understand why anyone would vote against it.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to have to let you go. Time

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Speaker 1: is against us, of course, and I know you've got

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Speaker 1: a million places to be, but thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for popping in and seeing.

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Speaker 2: Great to be in the studio rather than just.

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Speaker 3: You always end up on the phone. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: wonderful to see you and.

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Speaker 2: Great to be back in Perth. It's been I've got

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Speaker 2: to say, pretty stunning weather. Yesterday was gorgeous day for

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Speaker 2: the derby.

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Speaker 3: You didn't get the Blues Fest as well. We know

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Speaker 3: you love your tunes. Yeah, well next time.

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Speaker 2: Missed all that