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Speaker 1: Hello, my name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud Yr

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Speaker 1: the Order Kerney Whoalbury and a waddery woman. And before

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Speaker 1: we get started on She's on the Money podcast, I

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Speaker 1: would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land

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Speaker 1: of which this podcast is recorded on a wondery country,

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Speaker 1: acknowledging the elders, the ancestors and the next generation coming

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Speaker 1: through as this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing

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Speaker 1: and the storytelling of you to make a difference for

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Speaker 1: today and lasting impact for tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it.

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Speaker 3: She's on the Money, She's on the Money.

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Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money, the podcast

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Speaker 4: for millennials who want financial freedom. You guys might have

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Speaker 4: noticed this episode is out a little bit late today,

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Speaker 4: but that is intentional because we did record it this morning,

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Speaker 4: fresh off the back of the Australian federal budget getting

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Speaker 4: handed down last night by Treasurer Jim Chalmers. That's such

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Speaker 4: a political name, Like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's made really official. Yeah, he's like orient divine,

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Speaker 2: sounds like a stage name. Jim Chalmers, sounds like he's

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Speaker 2: in politics exactly.

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Speaker 4: Your Future was written for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And to be honest, this is not the future

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Speaker 2: they thought I'd have with this game. But that's okay

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Speaker 2: because guess what we get to do.

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Speaker 4: What do we get to do?

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Speaker 2: Talk about my version of Eurovision? Which is the budget?

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Speaker 2: Like I mean, lots of people would have like said, oh,

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Speaker 2: isn't it your version of like the Errors Tour. No,

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Speaker 2: there's no such thing as my version of the Errors Tour.

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Speaker 2: The RAS Tour is gold level.

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, can't reach to that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but like Eurovision, I feel like it's comparable because

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Speaker 2: people don't care about Eurovision either, So I just feel

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Speaker 2: like it makes sense. But I'm very excited about this

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Speaker 2: because we get to dive into breaking up what happened

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Speaker 2: this year in the federal budget. We're going to do

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Speaker 2: it in a really approachable way. So you go, oh,

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Speaker 2: that makes sense as to why they might do that.

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Speaker 2: But we aren't going to be getting into all of

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Speaker 2: the nitty gritty. We are just going to be getting

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Speaker 2: into the things that we think are important for our community. Sure,

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Speaker 2: and also, we didn't want this to be too lengthy, Like,

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Speaker 2: if you wanted it to be lengthy, why didn't you

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Speaker 2: just plaunch the budget last night?

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Speaker 1: Or you know.

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Speaker 4: Exactly exactly, so hopefully you can E L I five

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Speaker 4: explain like I'm five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do we care?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a Reddit term. That's really I'm really out

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Speaker 4: of myself. Yeah, I probably I'm not on Reddit all

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Speaker 2: I am, I am, I was finance, I'm there, I

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Speaker 2: live there. I mean, you and I probably on different

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Speaker 2: sides of Reddit. But TLDR, why do we care about

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Speaker 2: the federal budget?

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Speaker 4: Basically is what I'm asking? Why do we care so

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Speaker 4: much about it?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 2: The federal budget is essentially the government's plan for how

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Speaker 2: it's going to collect and money for the coming financial year.

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Speaker 2: It's a legit budget. It's not a different complex term.

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Speaker 2: They're sitting down and they're doing their budget and their

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Speaker 2: cash flow just like we do. And it's a pretty

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Speaker 2: big driver for behind how we vote. So for you

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Speaker 2: and I, we might look at it and go, well, actually,

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Speaker 2: if this is what this government is proposing with the budget,

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Speaker 2: do I align with that or not? Is this in

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? Because in some way, shape or

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Speaker 2: form is going to impact us all irrespective of whether

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Speaker 2: we do get some cash, so you should be interested.

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Speaker 2: But the opposition is also going to announce their proposed budget,

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Speaker 2: they might go, oh my gosh. For housing, this government

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Speaker 2: essentially the oppositian want to get your votes as well,

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Speaker 2: so they're trying really hard to get people on side

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Speaker 2: they're not that good at marketing.

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Speaker 4: Hey, that's okay. It's very hard to make the budget

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Speaker 2: But I've been trying for literal years to make budgets

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Speaker 2: taxing to banking. They talked about superannuation, they talked about

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Speaker 2: hex's debts, which is very nice, cool and Australia's federal

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Speaker 2: budget announcements. They impact literally everybody. So buckle up because

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Speaker 4: Okay, I just really quickly want to ask you because

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Speaker 4: the budget is currently, this is implemented like, this is confirmed,

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Speaker 2: Is that going to be nothing set in stone? Ok

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Speaker 2: it's your fun part about the budget, right, So this

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Speaker 2: is a budget that our current government is working towards.

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Speaker 2: The opposition will put out what they think is a

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Speaker 2: better option for the budget in the hopes that more

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Speaker 2: people support them next time we vote. Okay, however, nothing

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Speaker 2: set in stone is politics until it happens. Okay, until

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Speaker 2: it happens. At the end of the day. How many

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Speaker 2: times will we see governments promise things they never come

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Speaker 4: So true?

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Speaker 2: Sorry Elbow, sorry elbow, sorry Albow. We still like you, Albow.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So really quickly, VD, let's go through a quick

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Speaker 4: wrap what was actually promised.

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Speaker 2: Lots was promised, lots and lots. But let's divide this

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Speaker 2: last night in the budget. Definitely money win. Every single

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Speaker 4: Great, just once off. I'm assumed, like.

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Speaker 2: Not consistently, it would be nice. It was consistent, it

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Speaker 2: about three and a half billion dollars, So that's a

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Speaker 2: pretty big spend. But cousey, lives are high and pretty

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Speaker 2: sure everyone's going to be pretty happy to have an

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Speaker 4: That's really cool. And I'm assuming like you probably google

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Speaker 2: So for you, it's just going to come off your

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Speaker 2: And the same thing is true for small business owners.

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Speaker 2: Probably for the best, I would spend that on absolutely

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Speaker 4: Good for the economy though that.

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Speaker 2: Happened, But at the moment, we're not trying to boost

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Speaker 2: our economy because inflation is just rising and rising. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: next topic I've got under Cozy Leaves BABS is rent.

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Speaker 2: Rent is so so expensive and hard at the moment,

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Speaker 2: And they proposed last night the one point nine billion

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Speaker 2: for welfare recipients. So I think that's very exciting. So

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Speaker 2: that's going to happen over the next five years, so

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Speaker 2: implemented from September this year. Australians who receive government assistants

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Speaker 2: they're going to get an extra ten percent of rent assistance.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's really cool.

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Speaker 2: I think that's elite because we know that inflation last

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Speaker 2: least this rise is higher than inflation, so that's important. Like,

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Speaker 2: least they're doing a bit more than that. But as

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Speaker 2: this space. Last year, though notable, the government in their

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Speaker 2: by fifteen percent. So this is a five percent decrease

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Speaker 2: Like it's still good that's true. Better than zero, yeah, exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 2: the baseline, they're going to pay less tax from July

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Speaker 4: Cool money win.

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Speaker 2: So for example, those who earn between eighteen thousand and

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Speaker 2: percent less tax on every dollar that they earn. Great

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Speaker 2: in the coming year, which I think is really important.

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Speaker 2: But I think they could have done more.

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Speaker 4: M because it's only for that bracket, is it, No, it's.

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Speaker 2: For all brackets. For every single Australian earning more than

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Speaker 2: eighteen two hundred dollars is going to get a tax cut.

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Speaker 2: Great bar. I'm of the opinion tax reach. I so

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Speaker 2: like they got the tax cuts as well, and I

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Speaker 2: would have you know, this is just me pitching to

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Speaker 2: b PM. I would have liked to see a bit

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Speaker 2: more of a step tax cuts. So those people on

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Speaker 2: lower incomes got a higher tax cut than those on

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Speaker 2: higher incomes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that would make so much sense, right, I.

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Speaker 2: Would have thought so, But that is not how it happened,

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Speaker 2: My love, that it's not how it happened. But we're

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Speaker 2: not getting into that at the moment because we still

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Speaker 2: have so much to go through job seeker. So if

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Speaker 2: you are on job seeker, anyone on income support payments

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Speaker 2: who can work up to fourteen hours a week are

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Speaker 2: going to be eligible for a higher job seeker payment

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Speaker 2: compared to their current rate. So the budget forecast's unemployment

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Speaker 2: which is genuinely a massive increase, Like that's not little,

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Speaker 2: Supermarkets, This is exciting. This is exciting because we keep

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Speaker 3: Know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: It's actually better to go on to send a link.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that as a flippant like halh ah senink.

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Speaker 2: Great, minimum wage means they can afford technically on minimum wage.

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Speaker 2: This isn't an argument we're starting. They could afford to

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Speaker 2: That amount of money is, from my perspective, a privileged

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Speaker 4: We need these people.

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Speaker 2: Did we not learn anything through COVID that our frontline

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Speaker 4: And anyone thinking is that. I'm like, I'm hoping that

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Speaker 2: That I haven't looked up the semantics because I didn't

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Speaker 4: More fair enough. Take my three hundred from the energy

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Speaker 2: students and education Beck. The government also announced a new target.

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Speaker 2: I'm also wondering why we are still prioritizing tertiary qualifications.

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Speaker 2: So about twenty five thousand students took prep courses in

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Speaker 2: So they're going to roll out a fee free UNI

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Speaker 2: people would go into university and like fail a few

438
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Speaker 2: courses or like a couple of semesters because they're just

439
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Speaker 2: not prepared to do the work. And it's not because

440
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Speaker 2: they're not motivated, it's because they just don't know how

441
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Speaker 2: So I think this is a good idea. But also

442
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Speaker 2: give it to the nurses, you know.

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Speaker 4: Yes, scrape some cream off the top of everything. Give

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Speaker 4: it to them.

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Speaker 2: How about instead of university ready courses, we just don't

446
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Speaker 2: charge nurses to go to school.

447
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's any frontline worker totally.

448
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Speaker 2: Oh you want to be a paramedic, go ahead, my friend,

449
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Speaker 2: you don't have to pay for that privilege because you're

450
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Speaker 2: looking after us.

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Speaker 4: I think you'd be a politician personally.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to be a politician because I'd be

453
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Speaker 2: canceled quicker than Pauline Handsome.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

455
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Speaker 2: But has she really been canceled because she's still still

456
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Speaker 2: out and about questionable. Do you want something sexy about education?

457
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Speaker 4: Yes? Please?

458
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Speaker 2: Fee free tafe?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah I like that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, cool? Cool. So we already know that a lot

462
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Speaker 2: of tape courses are free, but the government's going to

463
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Speaker 2: fund twenty thousand additional extra fee free tafe places over

464
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Speaker 2: the next three years, and that's going to cost them

465
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Speaker 2: about eighty nine million dollars. The other people that I

466
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Speaker 2: want to talk about who don't get enough credit childcare workers.

467
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Speaker 2: So the government's also going to put aside some funding

468
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Speaker 2: to increase wages for childhood education and care workers, which

469
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Speaker 2: very important, but they don't have the information on that

470
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Speaker 2: at this point in time. They're like, hey, we'll just

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Speaker 2: get back to you. But they are saying that purely

472
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Speaker 2: because there's actually a case currently before the Fair Work

473
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Speaker 2: Commission and they can't give us solid numbers yet. Okay,

474
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Speaker 2: the fact that there's a case currently before the Fair

475
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Speaker 2: Work Commission should tell you that they're not being paid

476
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Speaker 2: properly to begin with. Yes, exactly, So this shouldn't be

477
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Speaker 2: a little like, oh my god, we're finally budgeting for it.

478
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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, no, you've got to fix what you

479
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Speaker 2: best up. Yeah, unacceptable, But I think that that is

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Speaker 2: going to cover our education and students section. Okay, I

481
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 2: think it's enough for now. You're like, I'm done here.

482
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go off you.

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Speaker 4: That is so much information. Let's go to a really

484
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Speaker 4: quick break and on the flip side, we're.

485
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Speaker 2: Going to talk about health and housing and my spicy

486
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Speaker 2: opinion on the fact that women had their own section

487
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Speaker 2: of the budget. So don't go anywhere, guys.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back everyone, all right, b D, let's jump straight

489
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Speaker 4: back in. Yeah, let's talk about drugs.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sick, because that's where we're at. We're going to

491
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Speaker 2: talk about health.

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Speaker 4: Okay, cool topic.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I knew it would be. So we

494
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Speaker 2: already spoke about the medicine freezing, which is sligh. We

495
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Speaker 2: also spoke about Medicare. So the government has finally given

496
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Speaker 2: us there's some more details on how they're planning to

497
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Speaker 2: spend the one point two billion dollars that they planned

498
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Speaker 2: to spend on strengthening Medicare services. So this was agreed

499
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Speaker 2: late last year that they would actually increase the Medicare

500
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Speaker 2: services slay, but they've now announced their plans to increase

501
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Speaker 2: the number of Medicare urgent clinics. Which I think is

502
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Speaker 2: really important is that like, that's not that's different to Yes,

503
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Speaker 2: it's not an emergency department. They are essentially a center

504
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Speaker 2: that is designed to reduce the burden of hospital emergency departments.

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Speaker 2: So they're kind of like, let's go to the doctor

506
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Speaker 2: because I broke my arm, Like that's not life threatening,

507
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Speaker 2: but you could go to an urgent clinic and have

508
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Speaker 2: that fixed without having to go to an emergency department

509
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Speaker 2: where you know, someone could be having a catastrophic event. Right, Like,

510
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Speaker 2: it's going to take the pressure of those emergency departments

511
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Speaker 2: for real emergencies.

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Speaker 4: Essentially, so much sense to have something between the two,

513
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Speaker 4: because it's like either you're like you've got a cold

514
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Speaker 4: or you're about to die, Like there's something in between them.

515
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Speaker 2: And like, don't get me wrong, lots of people go

516
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Speaker 2: to the emergency department because they don't have any other options. Yeah,

517
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Speaker 2: but this will be that middle ground where it's like,

518
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Speaker 2: you know, you've got to sick kid, and you're like,

519
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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, what do I do? This feels like

520
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 2: an emergency and you want to go to emergent. It'll

521
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Speaker 2: be that little middle ground. So they're planning on spending

522
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Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty seven million dollars over the next

523
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Speaker 2: two years to fund a total of twenty nine new

524
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Speaker 2: urgent care clinics, including in Regional Australia COOL which very

525
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Speaker 2: important reproductive health. I feel like we talk about reproductive

526
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Speaker 2: health all the time in this community and it's finally

527
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Speaker 2: getting a little bit more attention. Beck. So the government

528
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Speaker 2: they're going to be investing fifty six million dollars over

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Speaker 2: the next four years to improve women's access to sexual

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Speaker 2: and reproductive health care.

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Speaker 4: Cool.

532
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Speaker 2: I think that is definitely the bare minimum. Yes, absolutely,

533
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Speaker 2: because it's yeah, I'll get onto this in a hot second.

534
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Speaker 2: As to why I started, I have thoughts and feelings.

535
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Speaker 2: But the other thing that is very cool is free

536
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Speaker 2: menstrual hygiene products are going to be offered in rural

537
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Speaker 2: and remote First Nations communities and it's going to cost

538
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Speaker 2: the government twelve point five million dollars to roll out

539
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Speaker 2: this game, and I think that is money well spent.

540
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Speaker 2: And then funding is also being directed towards research around

541
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Speaker 2: miscarriages and sexual and reproductive health, and that's gonna include

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Speaker 2: I don't think this is a lot, but seven million

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Speaker 2: dollars on miscarriage education and awareness and for women and

544
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Speaker 2: families impacted by stilbirth and miscarriages. Now, seven million dollars

545
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Speaker 2: is a lot of money, but in the government world,

546
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Speaker 2: that is not a lot of money to roll out

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Speaker 2: those schemes. And I just wonder if you're prioritizing that

548
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Speaker 2: how far is seven million dollars is going to go?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, yeah, just because it's like maybe it's like

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Speaker 4: the equivalent of seventy dollars in my world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a lot of s. And please don't

552
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Speaker 2: get me wrong, there are a lot of things that

553
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Speaker 2: are very very important to prioritize. But I think that

554
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Speaker 2: miscarriage awareness and you know, talking about stillbirth is really

555
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Speaker 2: really important. And seven million dollars just doesn't feel like

556
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Speaker 2: it's gonna, you know, cut the mustard.

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Speaker 4: It's just not a nus cut the mustard.

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Speaker 2: I like that cup mustard. Is that a word? Sounds

559
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Speaker 2: start a phrase? It is cup mustard?

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Speaker 3: All right?

561
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Speaker 2: COVID do you want to talk about COVID? Sure you're

562
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 2: not over COVID, are you?

563
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Speaker 1: No?

564
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Speaker 4: Not yet?

565
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Speaker 2: Going on five years back?

566
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Speaker 4: My good is for some reason, I thought it was

567
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Speaker 4: like two years ago.

568
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Speaker 2: I know, it feels like five minutes ago. But it

569
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Speaker 2: was called COVID nineteen because it happened in twenty nineteen

570
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Speaker 2: and it's now twenty twenty four, isn't that what? Yeah,

571
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Speaker 2: government's going to spend four hundred and ninety million dollars

572
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Speaker 2: over the next four years to continue its National COVID

573
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Speaker 2: nineteen vaccine program. About three hundred and thirty six million

574
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Speaker 2: dollars is going to go towards delivering more PCR testing.

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Speaker 2: I think that's important. Aged care, let's talk about that.

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Speaker 2: The government is going to continue to invest two point

577
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Speaker 2: two billion dollars in response to the recent Royal Commission

578
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Speaker 2: into Aged Care Quality and Safety, which very important. More

579
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Speaker 2: than half of this will be used to improve digital

580
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Speaker 2: systems in the aged care sector because that is a

581
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Speaker 2: massive stumbling block. Funding has also been set aside for

582
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Speaker 2: an expected wage increase for aged care workers, so I

583
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Speaker 2: think that's really really important. And then the last thing

584
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Speaker 2: that came up in the budget that I think is

585
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Speaker 2: of note is HIV. So over the next three years

586
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Speaker 2: to support HIV care and treatment in Australia, forty four

587
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Speaker 2: million dollars has been allocated, so most of it is

588
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Speaker 2: going to be used on HIV prevention medication for those

589
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Speaker 2: who don't have access to Medicare, which I think is

590
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Speaker 2: really important.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really nice. Yeah, he's not a batble.

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Speaker 2: It's not bad that.

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Speaker 4: I haven't heard about yet the people that don't have medicare,

594
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So I'm glad to hear

595
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Speaker 4: that someone's thinking, yeah, I think it's really important. I

596
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Speaker 4: also want to touch on here. I guess women's safety

597
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Speaker 4: was definitely prioritized. So we'll segue into women now because

598
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Speaker 4: we're talking about health, and in the budget last night,

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Speaker 4: you know, information about prostate cancer came up, and then

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Speaker 4: we obviously heard, you know a bit about reproductive health,

601
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Speaker 4: but that was put under the bracket of women. Women

602
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Speaker 4: have also been I guess segregated out and I think

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Speaker 4: this is so important. So please don't get me wrong

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Speaker 4: when we're talking about this, because you might go, oh,

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Speaker 4: V you don't think women should have their own section

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Speaker 4: in the budget.

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Speaker 2: I do, and I don't. So Leaving violence was a

608
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Speaker 2: topic that was discussed last night. Earlier this month, we

609
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Speaker 2: know that our Prime Minister pledged nine hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: five million dollars to establish the Leaving Violence Program, which

611
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Speaker 2: is genius. It followed a crisis meeting between the PM

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Speaker 2: and state and territory leaders, which if you're on social

613
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Speaker 2: media you would have seen people begging for this to happen.

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Speaker 2: This has been something that I think took way too

615
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Speaker 2: long for them to introduce. They announced that eligible participants

616
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Speaker 2: will receive up to five thousand dollars in financial support

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Speaker 2: to leave domestically violent relationships. And the program is also

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Speaker 2: going to include support and planning services. And they're making

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Speaker 2: a national plan essentially to support women. Say why this

620
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Speaker 2: didn't happen earlier? Trying not to go off topic too much,

621
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Speaker 2: But it's part of a ten year plan to end

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Speaker 2: violence against women and children. So the plan for this

623
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Speaker 2: was launched in twenty twenty two after the plan that

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Speaker 2: was introduced in twenty ten failed to meet its goal. Okay,

625
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 2: so last time we failed. And one of the key

626
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Speaker 2: targets is to reduce the number of gender based violent

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Speaker 2: deaths by twenty five percent.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good. Yeah, I mean how about one hundred percent?

629
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Speaker 2: Like a hundred percent would feel right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I feel like that's so funny. I mean I

631
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Speaker 4: don't know, I don't understand any of it. But I'm like, why, hm,

632
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Speaker 4: why just a quarter of the amount of women.

633
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Speaker 2: That Why do we only care about a quarter?

634
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Speaker 1: Yeah?

635
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Speaker 4: And like, don't get me wrong, like I obviously don't

636
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Speaker 4: know much about this stuff. Get I get that's right.

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Speaker 2: I get that we're never going to be able to

638
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Speaker 2: prevent one hundred percent right, like, and this isn't a

639
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Speaker 2: conversation for now. We can't prevent one hundred percent, but like,

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Speaker 2: I would have liked to see them try a little

641
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Speaker 2: bit harder than twenty five percent. And I feel like

642
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 2: we should be advocating for reducing one hundred percent. I

643
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 2: know that we won't get there, and that goal is

644
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Speaker 2: honestly unachievable. Perfect world it would be, but it is unachievable.

645
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Speaker 2: But twenty five percent, it's like that just feels uninspiring,

646
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Speaker 2: Like it just feels like anyway, moving on, the government's

647
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 2: going to continue with their thirty five billion dollar five

648
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,479
Speaker 2: year investment to fund welfare payments for eligible single parents

649
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 2: with children up to fourteen years old, that's under women.

650
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Speaker 2: It's also going to progress a two hundred and fifty

651
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Speaker 2: three million dollar four year program to boost funding for

652
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Speaker 2: one hundred respect So I think that that is very,

653
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Speaker 2: very important. They are the National Domestic Family and Sexual

654
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Speaker 2: Violence Support Service, which we recommend on the podcast all

655
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Speaker 2: the time when it comes to women's safety. Housing was discussed,

656
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Speaker 2: so almost thirty two million dollars is going to be

657
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Speaker 2: spent on an assistance package to support low income earning renters.

658
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 2: So just over half of Australians who receive rental assistants

659
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 2: are actually single women, and accommodation for women and children

660
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Speaker 2: fleeing domestic and family violence will be built in as

661
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Speaker 2: a part of the government's tenant billion dollar Housing Australia

662
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Speaker 2: Future Fund. Cool important, I think, really important. But I

663
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Speaker 2: was saying off air before we got here. I get

664
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Speaker 2: so frustrated that we talk about women in their own category. Like,

665
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Speaker 2: you know, we're talking about housing, and we're talking about

666
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Speaker 2: students and mental health, and all of those things are categories.

667
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Speaker 2: But somehow women becomes a category, but men doesn't. So

668
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Speaker 2: their health and their discussions get lumped into health. But

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Speaker 2: women somehow are put outside of that bracket and put

670
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Speaker 2: outside of you know, the conversation about health, reproductive health,

671
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Speaker 2: our lives in demetriosis. Why is that not just under

672
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Speaker 2: health and as important as prostate cancer? Like, please, don't

673
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Speaker 2: get me wrong, Like all of these things are important,

674
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Speaker 2: but I don't think women should be a sub section

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Speaker 2: of a budget.

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Speaker 4: That's true, it's like the default, the average the norm

677
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Speaker 4: is Yeah, like.

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Speaker 2: By having a heading, yes, you're saying that we need

679
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Speaker 2: to prioritize women more, But why don't we just do

680
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Speaker 2: that as a default under health. Why don't we just

681
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Speaker 2: do that under a default of safety. Why don't we

682
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Speaker 2: do that under a default of mental health? Or students

683
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Speaker 2: like I don't understand, especially if we're not going to

684
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Speaker 2: call out men, why are we're calling out women? And

685
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Speaker 2: demetriosis and reproductive health is a health issue, not just

686
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Speaker 2: a women's issue. Yeah, reproductive health services better our entire world,

687
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Speaker 2: not just the world for women.

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Speaker 4: Exactly. Without it, exactly, we may cease to exist. Does

689
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Speaker 4: this feel like a kind of like a box ticking,

690
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Speaker 4: like a political sort.

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Speaker 2: Of exercise, I mean yes and no, Like I feel like, yes, absolutely,

692
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Speaker 2: people are going to use women and supporting women as

693
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Speaker 2: a marketing campaign to get our votes, because you'll get

694
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Speaker 2: my vote, like one hundred percent. I'm not saying that

695
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 2: I don't support it. I unequivocally support it. However, it

696
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: does feel a bit like they're trying to use this

697
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 2: as leverage when in reality we aren't asking for more

698
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 2: than men get. We are asking for equal. If men

699
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 2: experienced endometriosis, it would have been studied, it would have

700
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 2: been valued, it would have been a problem that we

701
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Speaker 2: solved years ago. But it's not so it just to

702
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Speaker 2: me it's insane that we're not prioritizing.

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Speaker 4: No, it's like we're a different species. It's like we're

704
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Speaker 4: a different I don't know, like it just kind of

705
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 4: feels a bit alien that.

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Speaker 2: They are acting like we are some kind of sub

707
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Speaker 2: section to society and we're not a sub section. We

708
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Speaker 2: are the main headline, bab Mike drop. But let's move

709
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Speaker 2: on to other topics I want to talk about when

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Speaker 2: it comes to the budget. First things first, to our

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00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 2: First Nations communities. They need a lot more support, and

712
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Speaker 2: obviously closing the gap was a very big topic that

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Speaker 2: we talked about in the budget last night. The government

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Speaker 2: is spending two point four billion dollars over the next

715
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Speaker 2: five years to support First Nations communities, some of which

716
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Speaker 2: is going towards the closing the gap targets. So right

717
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 2: now there are seventeen targets to close the gap between

718
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Speaker 2: First Nations people and non Indigenous Australians, which include supporting

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Speaker 2: things around health and education and jobs, as well as

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Speaker 2: initiatives that have the plan to reduce the rate of

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Speaker 2: First Nations people in prison, which is very very important.

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Speaker 2: Let's just call out here though that the government is

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Speaker 2: not on track to meet these targets right now. Ah okay, well,

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Speaker 2: which you said, so nice that you're planning all of

725
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Speaker 2: that and you will continue to do that because that

726
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 2: is really bloody important. Yes, but you're not on tra

727
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 2: right now. So where is the readjusted budget to get

728
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Speaker 2: you back on track? Didn't see that interesting point. The

729
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Speaker 2: next is Northern Territory housing. So the federal and Northern

730
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Speaker 2: Territory governments have announced a four billion dollar fund to

731
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Speaker 2: build new homes to address overcrowding in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: They are planning on building two hundred and seventy homes

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Speaker 2: a year every year for the next ten years, and

734
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Speaker 2: some of that funding has been allocated to urgent repairs

735
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Speaker 2: on existing homes. Ye cool, Smart digital hubs are going

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Speaker 2: to be established, So the government said that they are

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Speaker 2: going to allocate sixty eight million dollars to connect First

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Speaker 2: Nations communities to Wi Fi, which a lot of us

739
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Speaker 2: probably just take as a privilege and take for granted,

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Speaker 2: but it is something that a lot of remote specifically

741
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Speaker 2: remote communities don't have access to. And this rollout is

742
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Speaker 2: going to include digital hubs to develop online safety and

743
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Speaker 2: digital literacy. Skills within remote communities. Also call out here

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Speaker 2: if you know someone who can help me, help them

745
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 2: get more financial literacy. Call me bad Yeah, I mean

746
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 2: call me, call me. I want to be involved. I'll

747
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 2: do it for free, Like I will do it for free.

748
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 2: Let me be involved. And then jobs. The government is

749
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Speaker 2: developing a remote jobs program to employ an additional three

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Speaker 2: thousand people in regional communities. The program's going to cost

751
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Speaker 2: seven hundred and seventy seven million dollars over the next

752
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Speaker 2: five years. Seven hundred and seventy seven. That's an angel number,

753
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Speaker 2: So I'm hoping that that light goes really really well.

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Speaker 2: Omen The jail to Job program very important. The government's

755
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Speaker 2: announced seventy six million dollars for a program to be

756
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Speaker 2: set up to help First Nations people transition into employment

757
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 2: after serving time in prison. Important, really important, because that

758
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 2: transition is often really rocky and means that a lot

759
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 2: of First Nations people end up back behind bars because

760
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 2: they don't have the right integration tool. So it's a

761
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Speaker 2: volunteer program that's going to connect people with the services

762
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Speaker 2: after their release. Really really important. Yes, And the last

763
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Speaker 2: thing that's really important under the First Nations heading is health.

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Speaker 2: Their health is significantly worse than non Indigenous Australians, and

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Speaker 2: it's good to see that the budget has included twelve

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Speaker 2: point five million dollars to provide First Nations women in

767
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Speaker 2: remote communities with access to free period products. We discussed

768
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Speaker 2: that before, but I think that it's the bare minimum.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I completely agree, and you know, I think it's

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Speaker 4: a good start, but we've got heaps to go.

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Speaker 2: I agree. Last topic that I'm going to discuss with

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Speaker 2: you today is Disability Support so NDIS. The NDIS it

773
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 2: was actually launched only in twenty thirteen, which I feel

774
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 2: like it's been around for a really long time. But

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Speaker 2: maybe that's because I assumed that we cared more about

776
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 2: our community, true than we do anyway. NDIS was launched

777
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen to provide financial support to eligible people

778
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Speaker 2: with a disability. A review of that scheme was actually

779
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 2: launched in twenty twenty two and a final report was

780
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Speaker 2: handed down in December to identify a heap of flaws

781
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Speaker 2: in the system which we knew existed, including concern over

782
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Speaker 2: the quality of care that was being provided to NDIS recipients.

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Speaker 2: So in response to this last night, the government announced

784
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Speaker 2: that they are going to increase NDIS funding by one

785
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty million dollars. The federal government also introduced

786
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Speaker 2: legislation to improve the NDIS back in March, and its

787
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Speaker 2: proposal it's still before Parliament so it hasn't passed yet,

788
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Speaker 2: hoping it does, and an NDIS committee and working group

789
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Speaker 2: is going to be established to oversee all of this

790
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Speaker 2: because right now there's not a lot of ownership over

791
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Speaker 2: the process. So if we're going to send one hundred

792
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Speaker 2: and thirty million dollars here to make sure that the

793
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Speaker 2: care being provided to NDIS recipients is actually happening, there's

794
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Speaker 2: going to be a working committee for that. Okay, more funding, Sexy,

795
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Speaker 2: About one hundred and sixty one million dollars is going

796
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 2: to be spent over the next four years to upgrade

797
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 2: the NDIS technology, So like all of their IT systems,

798
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 2: obviously that's really important, but the funding is actually aimed

799
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Speaker 2: at better protecting the safety of NDIS participants from cybersecurity

800
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Speaker 2: threats and reducing regulatory burden on NDIS providers.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, I like this.

802
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 2: Next one a lot. I feel like it is not

803
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: just about employment, but it's also about quality of life.

804
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Speaker 2: The government has announced a two hundred and twenty eight

805
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Speaker 2: million dollar plan for a new specialist Disability Employment service.

806
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 2: So this is going to replace the existing Disability Employment

807
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 2: Services program next year. So in July next year they're

808
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 2: going to do that and the new program is going

809
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 2: to be designed to increase the flexibility of support services

810
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 2: to meet individual needs because at the moment it's a

811
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 2: little bit too niche, like a lot of people aren't

812
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,919
Speaker 2: actually able to engage in that just doesn't work for them.

813
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 2: And leaving on a bang Royal Commission. That's a big

814
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 2: word or it's a big praise.

815
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Speaker 4: It isn't pose never know what this means, but it's

816
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Speaker 4: a scary.

817
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Speaker 2: Term, right Yeah, Like you hear Royal Commission, you're like,

818
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 2: that's big, big dog. That must be a very big inquiry.

819
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Speaker 4: It's the biggest of the commission.

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Speaker 2: So frustratingly, the budget didn't offer any real detail in

821
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 2: response to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and

822
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: Exploitation of People with Disability. Okay, I was really disappointed

823
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,720
Speaker 2: with that. The Royal Commission released its final report last

824
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 2: year in September, which included a total of two hundred

825
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 2: and twenty two recommendations to make Australia safer and more

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Speaker 2: inclusive for people who have disabilities, and I'm a bit

827
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Speaker 2: disappointed to see that none of that was discussed last

828
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Speaker 2: night because budgets should have been allocated towards it. So

829
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Speaker 2: that was a bit disappointing. But we are expecting the

830
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Speaker 2: federal government to issue a formal response in the middle

831
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Speaker 2: of this year. But I really think it should have

832
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 2: come up in the budget. Yeah, so I guess that's

833
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 2: leaving it on the low, But overall, do I like

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Speaker 2: what the budget has provided for us com se COMPSA.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, no one mentioned dental, which I'm actually shocked

836
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 4: and appalled still to this day that dental's not covered.

837
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Speaker 4: But anyway, as a story for another.

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Speaker 2: Time, I agree. Actually, like I didn't expect you to

839
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 2: say that in that moment, so I'm a bit like,

840
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: hold up, that is so true, but like, dental health

841
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 2: is so innominantly expensive, but it impacts every other aspect

842
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 2: of life totally. I've been living in pain, baby girl.

843
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 2: The wisdoms can't come out till I have two three

844
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. That's insane and have that kind of money anyway,

845
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 2: that's you know, maybe one day that'll happen. Oh my god. See,

846
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 2: we will take this conversation off of you because we

847
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 2: have really blown out the budget on time when it

848
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 2: comes to talking about the budget. But as always, we

849
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 2: would love it if you joined the conversation over on

850
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 2: our Facebook group. We're obviously on Instagram you can blind

851
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 2: us everywhere. So guys, we will see you on Friday

852
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 2: for a little bit of a recap of our week.

853
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 2: But till then, have a great week and thanks for

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Speaker 2: listening to our budget combo.

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Speaker 4: Bye guys.

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