Speaker 1: Now everyone, you might have seen this in the news recently,
Speaker 1: so Victorian MP Georgie Purcell. She has been working, I
Speaker 1: mean she works for lobbying to end duck shooting of Victoria.
Speaker 1: She's an animal activist. But she's made it into the
Speaker 1: news for some very unusual reasons. Now, there was a
Speaker 1: feature on Channel nine which had her in the feature,
Speaker 1: and you know all the good work that she's doing.
Speaker 1: But the thing that spiked Georgie's attention wasn't so much
Speaker 1: the feature. It was the picture that they used of her,
Speaker 1: which had been artificially enhanced or photoshop to say the least.
Speaker 2: Now, it's actually wild when you look at the original.
Speaker 1: Photo versus the photo that was used in this promotion
Speaker 1: side by side, because they've cropped in like a they've
Speaker 1: put her into like a crop top.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've artificially enhanced her breasts in this as well.
Speaker 1: Channel nine have and Georgia came out and spoke about
Speaker 1: it on her own socials as well. But we actually
Speaker 1: have her on the line because I would love to
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of how this has even happened.
Speaker 3: Hi, Georgie, welcome to the pickup. This is crazy.
Speaker 4: Good day mate, Thanks for me on.
Speaker 2: I was so ausy. Hi, Georgie, how are you well?
Speaker 4: It's been a crazy forty eight hours to say the least.
Speaker 5: Georgie, how do you feel when you look at this
Speaker 5: and you're like, wow, looks like I've been in Bali
Speaker 5: for a while. I've got a bit of a tan,
Speaker 5: got my crop top out, it looks like I've got
Speaker 5: some conjuring on my face. Did you recognize it before
Speaker 5: anyone else or did somebody else send this to you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I did recognize it straight away for a pretty
Speaker 4: unique reason. My whole stomach is actually tattooed, and I
Speaker 4: definitely don't have jigglebats. So I just pulled up in
Speaker 4: the original and I had a look and I was like, well,
Speaker 4: I'm actually in a dress in the original, not even
Speaker 4: a crop top, because like I do wear crop tops,
Speaker 4: but I certainly wasn't in the image that they used.
Speaker 4: And then that, of course, side by side, I'll also
Speaker 4: noticed that they've given me a boob job as well.
Speaker 4: On top of everything else, They're just like giving you a.
Speaker 2: Bit more volume, haven't they.
Speaker 1: This is wild to me though, because when you look
Speaker 1: at these two images side by side, the left of
Speaker 1: it looks like maybe you've applied married at first sight,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't look like the picture of someone who's
Speaker 1: a member of parliament. And also, I mean the things
Speaker 1: that the articles are saying, they're saying that you've lashed
Speaker 1: out at Channel nine, that you.
Speaker 2: Were furious about this.
Speaker 1: But I was just reading your posts and it said
Speaker 1: I endured a lot yesterday, but having my body and
Speaker 1: outfit photoshop by a media outlet was not on my
Speaker 1: bingo card. Note the enlarged boobs and outfit to be
Speaker 1: made more revealing. Can't imagine this happening to a male MP.
Speaker 1: What gives I wouldn't really call that lashing out, would you?
Speaker 4: No, certainly not. And I think it's a good example
Speaker 4: of the way that female politicians are often portrayed to
Speaker 4: be hysterical and emotional. Totally, I was just highlighting them
Speaker 4: very clear. I guess sexism and misogyny that's right within
Speaker 4: our political systems where we were treated differently, and this
Speaker 4: is just another really bizarre example of it.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, this is, in a weird way, the
Speaker 6: best promotion ever for n duck shooting in Victoria.
Speaker 3: I mean, do we need to end duck shooting sheds
Speaker 3: the light on that, Georgie. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, so the reason that I said I had a
Speaker 4: terrible day at work was that I've actually been really
Speaker 4: working hard on that campaign. I've been on it for
Speaker 4: ten years now as a duck rescuer before I entered Parliament,
Speaker 4: and it was looking like we were going to get there,
Speaker 4: and then the government rejected it, even though they were
Speaker 4: recommended to do so by their own inquiry. And so
Speaker 4: I was watching the wrap up of the day because
Speaker 4: I was doing so much media, and that's when it
Speaker 4: appeared on the news. And you know, of course nine
Speaker 4: have blamed artificially intelligence or photoshop errors for this, but
Speaker 4: I think in the end of the day we need
Speaker 4: to ask why they didn't pick up on it anyway,
Speaker 4: because in the image you'll fee, I'm actually pictured next
Speaker 4: to our female premier here in Victoria, and I'm pretty
Speaker 4: sure that if it spat out a picture of hair
Speaker 4: in a crop top, they would have noticed.
Speaker 2: Georgie.
Speaker 5: It's such rubbish that they are trying to blame this
Speaker 5: on AI, like we didn't know it automatically did that. Ali,
Speaker 5: There is no way that it automatically does that. It
Speaker 5: might automatically like change the different sizing of a picture.
Speaker 5: If it has to, it's something else. But it doesn't
Speaker 5: give you a crop top and contour your face like
Speaker 5: absolutely does not. Has nine?
Speaker 2: Has nine said anything to you?
Speaker 4: Yes, they did reach out to me and apologize, and
Speaker 4: you know, I'm not convinced on the reasoning for it,
Speaker 4: but I have accepted their apology because they have handled
Speaker 4: it sufficiently, sufficiently in every other way in my opinion.
Speaker 4: But something that I wasn't expecting was actually for Adobe
Speaker 4: to then enter the chat and say, your excuse is
Speaker 4: not possible. So they've come out and said wow, right.
Speaker 3: As well as a photoshop have come out.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can only imagine it must be pretty
Speaker 1: disappointed because of what it does is like it almost
Speaker 1: works to discredit you and to like make you look like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, here's a silly lady. She's wearing a crop
Speaker 1: top and she's you know, like a fighter for the ducks.
Speaker 1: It just really undermines what it is that you've achieved,
Speaker 1: and also it undermines, you know, your intelligence. It makes
Speaker 1: it about something that's completely not what it's about. And
Speaker 1: I think that that's a really crappy thing to have
Speaker 1: to deal with.
Speaker 5: But also, a crop top doesn't change your intelligence. Like
Speaker 5: it's twenty twenty four. When are we going to realize.
Speaker 4: That that's absolutely right. I'm sort of known for being
Speaker 4: a different politician. I'm pushing boundaries because I want to
Speaker 4: make politics more accessible and visible for young people because
Speaker 4: they don't see ourselves in our political systems. But that
Speaker 4: doesn't give media outlets of right to alter my body
Speaker 4: when I don't consent to it.
Speaker 3: And you know what, I'm looking at this photo channel
Speaker 3: and I'm put up.
Speaker 6: There's ducks in the background, and they've actually photoshopped a
Speaker 6: rack on one of these ducks, and that's horrific.
Speaker 3: Looking zoom in one of these ducks. They've given ducks boobs.
Speaker 1: I thought one of them was a plane, and I
Speaker 1: was like, that's really poor photoshops.
Speaker 3: Channel.
Speaker 2: We're just doing the graphic designer.
Speaker 6: Channel nine needs to go well and duck shooting in
Speaker 6: Victoria and lovely to meet your Georgie Purcell.
Speaker 3: Really really sorry this happened to you, but thanks for coming.
Speaker 4: On the pick up, Thanks so much for having me on.
Speaker 2: Thanks Georgie, Thanks for.
Speaker 3: A much story. Isn't that insane?
Speaker 2: Wild?
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