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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy and Lander watching the

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Speaker 1: news last night, and I went, well, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: World common sense has finally prevailed with this story.

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Speaker 2: We have breaking news. The state government has just scrapped

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Speaker 2: its plan to spend twenty five million dollars on a

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Speaker 2: new flagpole for the Sydney Harbor Bridge. The Aboriginal flag

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Speaker 2: will instead replace the new South Wales flag, which will

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Speaker 2: be moved to a new home on Macquarie Streets.

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Speaker 3: Now, interesting movie.

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Speaker 2: How do you like me? Now?

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Speaker 3: How you made this about you? I'm not sure it's

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Speaker 3: not about me. I think you're trying to make it

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Speaker 3: about you.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes in a city like this, it's run by idiots.

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Speaker 1: You need a voice of reason and that's you. Of

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Speaker 1: course it is, of course it is. We don't need

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Speaker 1: a third flag pole. That's my point. Get rid of

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Speaker 1: the new South Wales state flag. No one cares about it,

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Speaker 1: No one knows what it looks like.

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Speaker 3: So you're not even you're not even going to enter

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Speaker 3: the debate about how we put up the third one.

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Speaker 1: No, because there's no need for it. It's what your

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Speaker 1: debate is that it doesn't need to be to pay.

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Speaker 3: Because you've decided personally yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and you don't have And you know what, we

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Speaker 1: have just saved twenty five million dollars. Boom, right there,

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Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars has just been saved through common sense.

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Speaker 3: Why are you you're running out of breath? You're so

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Speaker 3: right again to why you're so well? No, I just

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Speaker 3: on the morning where it was mooted, there was a

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Speaker 3: discussion and suddenly everyone, mostly men, were saying, I think

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Speaker 3: I know how much it costs to put a flagpole

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Speaker 3: on the bridge. Some everyone was an expert, and I thought, well,

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Speaker 3: let's just find out what people wanted to want to do.

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Speaker 1: We put it to our pub test. We did, and people,

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Speaker 1: people that listened to this show I like to think,

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Speaker 1: have a lot of common sense.

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Speaker 3: They did, and they did absolutely bush to spend that

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Speaker 3: money on the flag.

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Speaker 1: What's this South Wial state flag?

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know we had one.

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Speaker 2: Get rid of the New South Wales flag. If you

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Speaker 2: look at it, when they do fly the indigenous flag.

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Speaker 1: They always pulled down the New South.

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Speaker 2: Wales flag to put it up.

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Speaker 3: No need to the New South Wales flag. No, no, no,

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Speaker 3: I've never even seen that flag on the breach.

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Speaker 2: I'm one hundred percent behind Jonesy plus then Queensland will

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Speaker 2: have nowhere to hang their clag you say, win.

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Speaker 1: The origin exactly, spades of sense. We haven't had the

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Speaker 1: flag lady on excuse me.

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Speaker 3: Flag lady was Natalie Ward, the Minister for Metropolitan Roads.

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Speaker 1: And I put my proposal to her. Can you run

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Speaker 1: it past don run it past you just Natalie, just

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Speaker 1: go in there and say look and dolement sates min line.

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Speaker 3: Does you have to run it past the men because

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Speaker 3: he's the premier. He's the premier, isn't it or Natalie's

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Speaker 3: the minister for this?

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Speaker 1: Well okay, well past the guys. Just spitball and say

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Speaker 1: hey guys, I know and you know when the PowerPoint

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Speaker 1: presentation is going, what about we don't put up the

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Speaker 1: third pole and we just take down the New South

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Speaker 1: Wales one put out front of the Government House. We

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Speaker 1: all appreciate New South Wales and then we got the

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Speaker 1: two flags boom money saying.

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Speaker 3: Well Natalie, now you see what I have to work

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Speaker 3: with every day, and I appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: Common sense, I see, I see and look you know

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Speaker 2: I love the blokes having a say we all want

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Speaker 2: to I want everyone out there, but you know, I

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Speaker 2: think the people that know how to do.

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Speaker 3: This should do Natalie, I don't know what.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, the people know how to do this.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're talking about whether we're going to put up

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Speaker 3: a third pole and how much it would cost. You

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Speaker 3: were saying no need. In the end a decision has

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Speaker 3: been made and I'm all for it as well. You

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Speaker 3: know what's interesting I saw that Ben Fordham tweeted exclusive

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Speaker 3: the new South Walest governments exclusive to him. Well, he

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Speaker 3: tweeted this last night exclusive The new South Walest government

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Speaker 3: has backflipped on a plan to spend twenty five million

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Speaker 3: on new flag pole, effective immediately, the original flag places

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Speaker 3: in New South Wales, one which will fly in a

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Speaker 3: new location at Cuarry Street. The Premier has listened. Common

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Speaker 3: sense wins. Thank you, Ben.

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Speaker 1: I think what ben Fordham wanted to say was Jonesy

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Speaker 1: was a big part of this.

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Speaker 3: Well he could have said it if he wanted to.

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Speaker 3: He had enough space in there and the Twitter feed out.

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Speaker 1: Of characters, there's only one hundred and forty characters. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that's what happened there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that must have been what happened there. Well, Brendan, congratulations,

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Speaker 3: you're welcome. Maybe you can put your capacious brain to

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Speaker 3: other things now