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Speaker 1: Jomb mission with Jones and Amanda. It's been a.

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Speaker 2: While since we caught up with opposition leader Anthony Albanesi.

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Speaker 2: So between Freedom Day, Scott Morrison in hot water for

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Speaker 2: having a curry in home quarantine, Prince Charles saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: come to the climate change conversation. There's a lot to

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Speaker 2: talk to him about. Anthony Albanezi. Hello, good morning, h

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Speaker 2: good morning. We recovered from the excitement for you of

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Speaker 2: Well South in the Grand Final, disappointment they didn't win.

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Speaker 1: It was it was very disappointing, but it was great

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Speaker 1: that we got there and the Panthers have had a

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Speaker 1: great couple of years, so congratulations to them. But we'll

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Speaker 1: fight on. It's only our second grand finally fifty years.

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Speaker 2: So you need to get better at it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed it was a difficult one to watch from home.

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Speaker 1: I've got to say I was there in twenty and

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Speaker 1: the Cst Beach Saint George. But this was one wa'tsing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in lockdown of the rest of us. It's not

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Speaker 2: often that a member of the royal family says, you

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Speaker 2: guys aren't doing enough. And this is what Prince Charles

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Speaker 2: has said. We need to be part of the conversation,

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Speaker 2: the worldwide conversation before it's too late. Urging Scott Morrison

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Speaker 2: to attend the Climate conference, you're urging him too.

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Speaker 1: Well. It's pretty pretty sad, isn't it when you have

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Speaker 1: our national leader. We have an important conference before the

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Speaker 1: Climate Conference is the g twenty, the world's twenty largest

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Speaker 1: economies are meeting in Rome, and then the Climate Change

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Speaker 1: Conference is probably the most important one that's been held

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Speaker 1: this decade. And of course it's not just about the environment,

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Speaker 1: it's about the future shaping of our economy. It's about

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Speaker 1: jobs and everyone every state and territory government, including the

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Speaker 1: one here in New South Wales, recognizes that we need

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Speaker 1: to do more. The Business Council of Australia are calling

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Speaker 1: net zero by twenty fifty. The National Farmer's Federation, all

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Speaker 1: I've got to wait to see what Barnaby Joyce lets

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Speaker 1: me do. It's it would be tragic if Australia wasn't

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Speaker 1: represented at Glasgow. I'm sure Scott Morrison will go and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure eventually they'll weed all their way into saying

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Speaker 1: net zero by twenty fifty. But when they're so reluctant,

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Speaker 1: I had to be drag kicking and screaming there. I

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Speaker 1: think people will bear that in mind as well. Is

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Speaker 1: our future in nuclear or is it hydrogen green hydrogen?

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Speaker 1: I'd certainly green hydrogen. If you look at the work

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Speaker 1: that's been done in places like Bluescope Steel. I've visited

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Speaker 1: there in Port Kemberler last year. They're looking how they

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Speaker 1: produce green steel into the future. If you look at

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Speaker 1: the announcements that have been made from New South Wales

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Speaker 1: this week Gladstone in Queensland, there's major, major gains to

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Speaker 1: be made in terms of employment and it's in renewables.

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Speaker 1: We have the largest solar farm in the world about

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Speaker 1: energy to Singapore. We can be a renewable energy superpower

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Speaker 1: for the world and really have an advantage by that

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Speaker 1: cheaper energy to once again get back into high value manufacturing.

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Speaker 1: I was out in Smithfield yesterday with Chris Bowen and

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Speaker 2: Here in New South Wales, as you know, we've gone

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Speaker 2: It seems that the federal Labor MP Anthony Byrne, you're

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Speaker 2: branch stacking. You can see why people are cynical about

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Speaker 1: Oh. Absolutely, we need to clean up politics. That's why

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Speaker 1: we need a National Anti Corruption Commission to provide faith

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Speaker 1: faith in our political system. And next week we'll have

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Speaker 1: Christian Porter sitting there in the Parliament who received up

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Speaker 1: to a million dollars of donations from people or companies

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Speaker 1: unknown and without disclosing it for a private legal matter.

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Speaker 1: Now that's not on that's the sort of thing that

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Speaker 1: I'll intervene to clean it up, and I'll have a

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Speaker 1: in New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: Well good on you, Albot. You're like a superman without

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Speaker 2: the underpants on the outside, type of formeruption, all those things.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, I'm certainly trying to and you know I

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Speaker 1: within within weeks of becoming leader of the Labor Party,

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Speaker 1: I took action who expelled John Seca from the party.

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Speaker 1: And that, of course, you know, when you challenge these

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Speaker 1: existing systems you have I've been taken a court by

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Speaker 1: over the Victorian branch intervention by a range of unions

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Speaker 1: backed by some individuals, but we've stared that down. We've

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Speaker 1: got on with the job of cleaning up the branch.

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Speaker 1: And that's the great credit of Daniel Andrews and those

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Speaker 1: decent Rent Control members who joined the party to do

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Speaker 1: the right thing. That's why overwhelmingly people who joined political parties,

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Speaker 1: they deserve to know that their efforts aren't being diluted

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Speaker 1: by manipulation.

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Speaker 2: Well there you go, Anthony Albanesi, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Good luck with everything in the future, good luck with

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Speaker 2: South's next year.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you guys. Yeah, well it hasn't ring

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Speaker 1: to it. Next you. We'll be shooting for our twenty

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Speaker 1: second premiership in twenty twenty two, so I see all

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Speaker 1: as part of the grand plan and before the season starts,

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Speaker 1: I always thought we were going to win it when

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Speaker 1: we went forty three years during that long drought.

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Speaker 2: You're away after.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for joining us. See you, guys.

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