2024 The Year That Was

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Welcome to Why Is It So? Your last defence for common sense with your co-hosts

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Paul Zammett and Vince Locizzano.

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Welcome to Why Is It So? My name is Paul and with my co-host Vince,

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we are going to have a look back over the year that was 2024.

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I find it hard to concede that we are about to celebrate our second Christmas

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with our podcast and you, our listeners.

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So let's go over to Vince to start us off. And where are we going from there?

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Well, we don't know yet, but we'll find out.

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So, well, Vince, the year that was 2024, we got to the end of it. We've almost made it.

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We haven't got there yet, Paul. We've got another 15 days or so, yes.

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But we will get there eventually. Yes. So it's a beautiful time of year that we're approaching.

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Yeah. Let's have a look at what happened over the year, not only here in Australia,

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but the world, I suppose, as well.

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Mm-hmm. It's been a difficult time for everybody.

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I guess it all depends on how you want to look at things, whether the glass

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is half empty or glass is half full.

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We tend to remember the dramatic things, whether they were dramatically good

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or dramatically bare, but we tend to look back on the year that was and look

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at the things that made big news and a big impact.

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I think personally, the most important thing that's happened this year for the

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sake of the world and for the sake of the future is the re-election of Donald

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Trump back into the White House.

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That's my own personal view. I think that this will have wide ranging ramifications

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and impact on the rest of the Western world if they're smart enough to take his lead.

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And I've got a lot of confidence in the future of America, that's for sure,

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because I think that the economy now will start to really improve as a result.

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I think he's going to clean up a lot of the waste, a lot of the mess in Washington.

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There's clearly a lot of people who are very nervous in the deep state,

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if you like, the swamp, as they often refer to it, that know that their positions

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in government are unjustifiable.

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They've probably been corrupting the place beyond belief, beyond what any of us can imagine.

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So I think he will clean all of that up.

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And put America back on the right track and get the borders closed and do all

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the things that he was elected to do.

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So I think there's a message in that for Australia.

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There's a message in that for many of the European countries and other Western world countries.

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And I think it's also signified in some ways that people have had enough of

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the woke far left wing culture and indoctrination.

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I think they're rejecting that now and saying it's gone way too far,

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and I think it's time to bring the pendulum back to the sensible centre.

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What do you think of that? Well, yeah, look, I agree to you to a certain extent.

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The saying has always been there with America and Australia.

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America could catch a cold. No, they snooze. They snooze.

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Australia gets a cold. And that's for the rest of the world too now.

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Everyone's looking towards the US to see what is going to happen.

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You're right. Well, the other thing about it is, of course, it also impacts

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on a lot of other things that are happening in the world. The Israeli-Palestine

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war, the Russian-Ukrainian war.

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We've already seen a lot of countries in Europe start to go to the right as

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well. A lot of governments are now starting to correct themselves in terms of-

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There's been a Jewish war with Hamas. Yeah.

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We've got that, with the Hezbollah thing, there's all that Middle East area.

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And they've been fighting for hundreds of years, let's feel like this is just

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our alternative, so you look at it. But it's all happening together.

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Well, the reason I have confidence is because when Donald Trump was first in,

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during those four years, he did not start any wars.

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In fact, he dismantled a lot of wars and brought the troops back home from a lot of wars.

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And I think he will do the same thing again in these next four years.

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He's someone who's not interested in all that.

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A lot of the people that have been in Washington who have, in my opinion,

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instigated these wars are people who are clearly making a lot of money out of them,

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or are connected with a lot of people that make money out of them and we've

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got to stop all this because it's just the endless wars and the endless amount

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of money that's being poured into them at taxpayers' expense.

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Yeah, I think, look, we've really gone into the.

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But anyway, that to me is the most important thing that's happened in the year 2020.

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There's a lot of other things that have happened. I mean, that is in the future,

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and we'll be able to see what the hell happens now. Yeah.

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And hopefully it's going to go the right way, and everyone's going to be happy

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at the end of the four years.

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But even with the other disaster that we had with the Olympic Games,

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that was, to me, absolute trash.

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What they did with the opening ceremony, and after the world went crazy on it,

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we never heard much more about it.

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They just sort of stayed out of it and sort of said, no, it didn't happen.

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Yeah, but this is what the left-wing media does.

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When the left goes too far, the left-wing media just shuts up and says,

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oh, we've pushed this a bit too far.

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Everyone's upset. We just won't talk about it anymore. Yeah.

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But the opening ceremony where they mocked Christianity with that scene of the

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Last Supper, and that was just the tip of the iceberg as far as I'm concerned.

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They've gone way too woke with all of this stuff. And the fact that they actually

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had biological men competing in women's sports and they allowed that to happen,

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and those particular individuals won the gold medal,

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just proved that, you know, it's just skewed way too far towards this radical ideology.

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And it's not fair on girls and women who often spend years training and preparing

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for things like the Olympic Games and to have it hijacked from them by biological men.

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It's just not right. And I think most people in the world would recognize that.

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Well, one of them had, or both of them had, the males.

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Yeah, XY chromosomes. Chromosomes.

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And they should have at that stage said, well, hang on a minute,

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this is not an even contest.

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Yeah. And that's, as you say, that's why a lot of these girls that were fighting

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in that, in the boxing, they got the hell belted out of them because they just

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didn't have the strength to compete.

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Most sane people, most logical,

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sensible, sane people would say that

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is just simply not fair to have that sort of disparity between the physical

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attributes of genuine females versus these transvestite females who are really

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biological males competing with them.

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Now, that's just, by all means, give them their own category if you want,

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but they should not be competing with girls and with women.

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And the thing that makes me cringe is that often you'll hear these people from

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the left very, very vocal when it comes to issues like abortion.

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You know, oh, it's a woman's right and it's my body, my choice.

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What about when it comes to transvestites in women's sport?

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Whatever happened to protecting women's rights there? All of a sudden,

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there's crickets. You can't hear them at all.

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And it's just hypocritical beyond belief.

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But anyway, you're right. The Olympic Games was tarnished in a big way because of that issue.

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And it's a shame. I hope they correct that for the next one.

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Well, I was happy that at least the rest of the world stood up and sort of said,

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you're wrong. Yeah, it was a very vulnerable outcry about it. It was. It was.

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Well, so far, all we've done is talked a bit, you know, very negatively about

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what has been a bad year in a lot of cases. And what we haven't mentioned is

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really just as important.

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We've lost some very talented people here. Yeah, which so much gave us a lot of fond memories.

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They did. They did. And the funny part about it, I noticed that most of them

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are in their 80s, and that's a bit of a worry. Especially in my case.

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But they all seem, and just to give you an idea of who are the most recent,

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if you like, John Blackman for one, who was a very, very funny man. Yes.

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And he was on Hey, Hey, It's Saturday.

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He was. He was a good part of it. I love John Blackman and his voiceover work

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on Hey, It's Saturday was brilliant.

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And he was a very competent and popular radio presenter, mainly on breakfast radio.

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Probably his halcyon days were at 3AW back in the 1980s.

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He also worked at 3AK as well after that. But, yeah, John Blackman, sadly missed.

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Another person everyone would know would be George Negus.

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Yes, the original George. At the age of 82. One of the original members of the

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60 Minutes crew in Australia when it first started here in the 1970s,

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in the late 1970s. He was one of the originals, and he had a great career, didn't he? He did.

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I also really enjoyed him when he did breakfast television for a period there

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in the 80s when he took over from Steve Liebman on the Today Show in the mornings on Channel 9.

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He used to do the breakfast gig there. There was our sporting person,

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Ian Redpath, the cricketer.

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Yes, very famous Australian cricketer, Ian Redpath.

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Just only recently, in the last few days, passed away here in Melbourne.

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Yeah, he just made the cold.

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Frank Diefeld. Now, there's a name. You'd have to be a fairly senior person

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in this country to remember that name. Frank Ophel, the singer.

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Yes. He was very fondly remembered too. Yeah, he died in May.

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Brian Wenzel. Brian Wenzel. Yes. Before, actually.

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Sergeant Frank Gilroy, most of us would know Brian Wenzel as because he played

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that character in that famous Australian soapy called A Country Practice.

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Remember that? Yes. He was the local cop.

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Yeah. And, of course, Maggie Taboroth, she was 89. She nearly made the 90s.

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Well, yes, she was very famous in the world of women's magazines,

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especially with, I think, the Australian Women's Weekly.

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And fashion stuff. And fashion world and all that sort of thing,

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yes. So, yes, she did very well for herself and lived a very full life.

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Yeah, there was Bob Rogers.

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Yes, well, Bob Rogers was one of the most famous radio presenters in this country.

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He started at only the age of 15 in Melbourne radio station 3XY and continued

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being on radio even in a Sydney radio station up till the age of,

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well, certainly into his 90s.

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I think it was Sydney station 2CH from memory.

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But yeah, I mean, an icon in the radio industry in Australia.

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And we had one infamous person, of course, who was Roger Rogerson.

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Infamous. Infamous. You would know more about him because he's a crook.

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He was a crook. He was a crook. And he put up quite a fight towards the end

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as well. He died in January of this year.

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What was he most famous for, Paul? He was most famous for being a... A crooked cop.

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A very crooked cop. In New South Wales. In New South Wales, yes.

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Back in the 70s, in the days of... Let's just say colourful characters that

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emanated out of, especially Sydney, in fact, in the 70s.

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Yeah, well, we had the King's Cross, you know, the King of King's Cross.

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George Foreman and all those sorts of people. Yeah.

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He was – Some very shady characters. Yeah, what's a good place?

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Well, it's like Las Vegas, actually, because – What, King's Cross?

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Yeah. Without the casinos?

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Yeah. Well, they had the casinos, but they were underground.

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Oh, they were underground.

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But the thing is, too, that the normal Australian person walking down the street

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was reasonably safe. It wasn't then thereafter.

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No. The fighting was in – and killing was in between – A bit like the gangland

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wars here at Melbourne in the last 25-odd years. Yeah.

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They'd be unlucky to be. You'd have to be unlucky to get in the way of one of

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those bullets because they're actually after certain individuals.

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They're not after the average member of the public, are they?

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So they're knocking themselves off.

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But that was, yeah, there's quite a few people there that were good people,

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I suppose, like in what they did and how they lived.

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Well, they're famous mainly for good work and for good things,

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but the odd one, like Rogerson, famous for all the wrong reasons.

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Well, he's infamous, isn't he? Infamous, yes.

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Exactly right. So, yeah, we remember them as people who passed away in the year 2024.

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The year 2024 has been very difficult for everybody. It's not only here in Australia,

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and Victoria are probably one of the worst places in the world,

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but the whole world seems to be going that way.

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The cost of living has gone up. here,

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unbelievably, and again, not

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only here, but a lot of places have taken the opportunity, if you like,

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to increase prices where I can't see, and I must admit I'm not an accountant,

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but I can't see how they can justify some of the costs that they've added on

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and said, oh, yes, we're now going to go up on like 20 cents and we're giving you 10% less of the item.

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Well, look, without becoming overly political here right now,

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what makes me shake my head is governments of all persuasions who continue to

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pursue these so-called climate change-based policies,

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renewables and all this sort of business.

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If you only knew the facts behind how much taxpayer funds are going into subsidizing

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all of this, and there's someone at the end of the chain, collecting a lot of money out of it.

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But it's increasing the cost of energy so much for a country like us,

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who are so rich in natural resources, and especially coal and uranium.

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How we are not providing cheap, reliable energy to our population with using

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coal-fired power stations and nuclear power stations is beyond me.

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I really cannot understand it.

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You know, for every coal-fired power station that we shut down here,

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it really affects what level of power and how reliable that power is to our population.

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And yet in places like China, they're opening one of these coal-fired power stations every week.

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So I don't know what people think we're achieving out of shutting our coal-fired

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power stations down. It's craziness.

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It's absolute lunacy. And without going on about it, all I can say to you is

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this. You mentioned the cost of living.

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It can be improved so much, so much better if we start using our own resources

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for our benefit rather than selling it all overseas and certain corporations

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benefiting at taxpayers' expense.

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The main problem with Australia is we just do not have the population to carry such a big country.

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This not only goes for power and for energies and all that sort of thing,

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but also with our roads. You have a look at our roads, really.

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Well, they've been left completely unattended. There's potholes everywhere in

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Victorian roads. And there's only 27 million.

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27 million? Well, it clocked over 27 million earlier this year,

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but I dare say with the amount of immigration we've got coming in,

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it'll be nearly 28 million very soon.

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Let's say it's 28. Ridiculous. Let's face it, 28 million people.

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I mean, that is less people than there are in major cities all around the world.

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Yeah, but Paul, what you have to understand is that despite the overall landmass in Australia,

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the habitable land, the land where we actually have the vast majority of our

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population centres is all on the coast.

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And what we're finding, in fact, is that despite having record levels of immigration,

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We just simply do not have the infrastructure to be able to support that level of immigration.

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And these people that are coming into the country are forcing up rents.

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They're forcing up the price of housing.

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And they're also a massive drain on government services.

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And it's just craziness, in my opinion, to have this level of immigration.

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I'm not knocking that, but my argument is still the same. In fact,

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because what you've just described is Australia being all around the coast.

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Yeah. The fact is that between there's more than what?

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There would be around about 11,000 to 12,000 kilometres if we left Melbourne

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and then around the coast of all of Australia and finish in Melbourne again.

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You're looking at probably something in the region of 12,000 kilometres, so yeah.

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It's a lot of roads and a lot of areas you've got to cover, whereas $27 million

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is no one, and they have them in a block in other countries smaller than Victoria.

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And this is the problem. If you use the money for $27 million just to run Victoria,

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you're not going to have a problem.

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But if you stretch that out all around Australia, a country as big as the U.S.,

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I mean, they've got to go spread it out thinner.

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So 27 million, just do not cut it.

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That's the problem. What are you suggesting? That we should have a vastly increased

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population? We should import 10 or 15 million people and bring it up to 40 or 50?

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If you're going to do that, then you're going to have to supply your facilities.

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You can't just bring them in and say, here you are.

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Exactly. What they've got to do, it's got to be done properly.

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You can't just sort of just, like before this, after the last war,

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they had to bring a lot of people here and they were putting them in camps.

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But there was plenty of work to be done and they were working to get this done.

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Nowadays, you're not getting the work out of the people that are coming here.

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They're just coming in here because there's a war going on in their country

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and they're coming here for safety and whatever have you without being checked

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some of it, unfortunately.

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But they're still there and they've got to eat, they've got to drink,

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they've got to sleep somewhere and their jobs are not there.

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They cannot afford to do these things.

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One of the problems we have with our immigration system is that we are bringing

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in a lot of people from parts of the world who come here and are an immediate

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strain on our social security.

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They are an immediate strain on our infrastructure.

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They are not necessarily coming here and immediately contributing to society

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in a meaningful, productive way.

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And a lot of it is based on humanitarian grounds and, you know,

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refugees, asylum seekers, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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And the other thing that bothers me is I do wonder how thorough we are checking

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the backgrounds of some of these people.

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We've seen the controversy this year where the Albanese government have allowed

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thousands of people from Palestine, for example, to come here.

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And you just do wonder how many of them may have links to terrorist groups and

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the types of people that will create war and create violence in this country.

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That's what worries me about taking people from those parts of the world.

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But of course, the bleeding hearts will say, oh no, we have to open up our arms

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to these people and embrace them and let them come here.

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The problem with us is that not only do we do that, but once they're here,

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then we do everything we can to appease them and bow down to their cultures

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rather than actually insisting that they embrace our culture.

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And I think that that's another whole issue that we can talk about another day.

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But this is where, I'd say, government after government, both mostly federal.

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You're finding that they're not giving it the priority that they should.

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There are so many other things they're looking at doing and wanting to spend money.

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Oh, and they're not really doing the checking, as you say, on these things.

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Look, a lot of these people, average people, they want somewhere to go for peace.

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But that doesn't mean that there aren't people who want to harm our country.

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Well, I've got to ask you, what do you think's been causing in Victoria?

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Let's talk as Melbournians and Victorians for a moment. What do you think has

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been largely behind the crime epidemic.

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That's happening right now in Melbourne and in Victoria, especially in the,

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in the area of youth crime.

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It's just seems to be out of control.

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Nearly every day we, we, we look at the news and there's a robbery or there's

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a break in or a carjacking or someone's been held hostage or whatever.

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I know where you're coming from. And I agree with you.

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You have to really, the buck stops with the government, firstly.

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Secondly, the judiciary are not being too lenient on this. The judges.

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Well, the judges. And the bail justices and people like that who let people

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out on bail time after time after time.

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There's people out there, the kids that have been out there,

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for eight and nine and they're still on bail and they bring them back in again. Eight and nine?

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Do you know that there was a recent case here in Melbourne where a young guy

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was given bail for the 50th.

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Yes, you heard that right, the 50th time.

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Yeah, but that is the fault of the judiciary.

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What sort of message is that giving to these people? And the government really

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should pass laws without holes in them that the judges don't have the facility,

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if you like, to put people on.

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It's got to be more like America had the system of three strikes. you're out.

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We should have that, free strikes. There's no argument about where you're going.

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You're going for a holiday. You've got to...

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Get someone in power who is going to say enough is enough. Yep.

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And that is the biggest problem.

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Well, let's see what the issues are coming up in May because next year,

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by no later than May, we're having a federal election.

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So that'd be less than six months away? It'll be interesting.

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Well, let's not do politics again. We've really done enough politics.

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Yes. And we want to look forward to 2025.

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Yep. And hopefully, as they say, someone's been saying the interest rates are

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coming down, but every time that happens, it seems to be moved forward another six months.

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Well, when the Reserve Bank governor says, well, the current federal government

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is spending money that's creating inflation and trying to prop up the economy,

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which is clearly in recession, certainly on a per capita basis,

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we are absolutely in recession.

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They're not going to reduce the interest rates while the government is out of

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control with their spending.

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Look, the thing is, too, that with the Victorian government,

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they've actually accessed the funds of the old CES, the Fire Brigade.

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What do you call them? The Country Fire Brigade. CFA. CFA.

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Now, they've had all this money that they're holding onto for buying trucks

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and for looking after their stuff.

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And our Premier has gone in and picked up that money and said,

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well, you're not using it. We can put it to good use and we're taking it.

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Yeah, we can put it to good use like we have with all of the other billions

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of dollars that we've blown and thrown down the drain.

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These people have saved that money to buy trucks and to buy equipment to fight

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fires, and yet the government goes in there and says, we haven't got enough

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money here, so we'd better take yours. And this has been happening on a lot of things.

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The only thing they haven't had a chance to have a go at is take the money out

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of superannuation. So, look, you're not investing it properly.

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Invest it with us. And if that happens, we're all in trouble.

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Well, the sad thing about things in Victoria is that we still have another two

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years or so before we have another state election.

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One state election that did happen this year was the Queensland one.

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And finally, after 10 years of Labor mismanagement in Queensland,

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we've seen the election of a Liberal National Coalition government.

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And let's hope that that means a better future for Queenslanders.

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But South Australia had an election also and they went back to a Labor government.

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So what do you do? Yeah. I mean, look, you live and die by the sword, I suppose.

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If you want to keep voting in Labor governments, you get the people that you vote in.

00:25:06.824 --> 00:25:10.024
Yeah, they're the people you want. This is what I have no confidence in the

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future for Victoria because despite 10 years of mismanagement,

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we've just clocked over the 10th anniversary of when Daniel Andrews was first

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elected in Victoria, we have seen a plethora of instances where this state has

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gone backwards, whether it's the state debt, whether it's the level of services,

00:25:29.424 --> 00:25:33.144
the situation in our hospitals and schools, I could go on forever.

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But nevertheless, that's the situation we find ourselves in.

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That's for another day. Yeah. That's for another day.

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Yeah. So, look, we wish you all a very, very happy Christmas holiday.

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They? And I will say, Merry Christmas.

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Yes, Merry Christmas to everyone, whether you're Catholic or Christian or not.

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Yes, and may all your dreams come true, and hopefully next year will be a happier

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year, in the sense that people will be able to get around a little bit more

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than what they have been lately.

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Let's hope that the world becomes a safer, more peaceful place.

00:26:06.844 --> 00:26:11.704
That part of it, I am more confident about, because of recent developments in America.

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And let's hope that in Australia we start seeing some common sense come back

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to our world here and in Victoria start praying because I think we need to pray

00:26:24.685 --> 00:26:26.385
a lot harder for a better future here.

00:26:26.585 --> 00:26:32.625
Anyway, apart from that, well done to the Brisbane Lions for winning the AFL Premiership.

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Go Carlton in 2025. It's about time we win one. It's been 30 years.

00:26:37.645 --> 00:26:41.285
Go Carlton 2025, 2026, 2037.

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Do you have more ahead of me to go? Oh, well, look, let's just hope that Cesar arrives. That's on air.

00:26:49.325 --> 00:26:52.665
I'll be back against Carlton. Oh, yeah, right.

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We're going to come back in the new year and give everyone our predictions for

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the AFL season? We all do. Okay. We all do. Bore the hell out of everybody.

00:27:03.385 --> 00:27:08.865
Actually, our AFL podcasts have been coming out pretty good.

00:27:09.005 --> 00:27:12.125
They've been popular. Oh, that's good. So, you know, people keep going back

00:27:12.125 --> 00:27:15.045
to them to sort of say, did they really say this? Can I ask you something?

00:27:15.345 --> 00:27:19.385
Which ritualisation is more woke, the AFL or Cricket Australia?

00:27:19.565 --> 00:27:21.165
They're all the same. Or Tennis Australia?

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Everything. They're all the same. And that's what's got to change in this country.

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But now I think the average population now is starting to get, you know.

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You know the most recent thing that's happened that gives me also a bit of hope?

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Recently, the company called Australian Venue Company, which owns and controls

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over 200 pubs in the country, came out and made an announcement that they weren't

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going to celebrate Australia Day.

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Because it's a sad day for so many people in this world, apparently.

00:27:53.270 --> 00:27:57.310
The backlash that they got, within 24 hours, they reversed that decision and

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said, oh, we're sorry, we're sorry, we're sorry. No, no, no.

00:27:59.790 --> 00:28:04.350
Look, we're just going to let you celebrate it if you want to celebrate it. Well, guess what?

00:28:04.730 --> 00:28:08.490
They're only doing that because they realized that they were going to lose hundreds

00:28:08.490 --> 00:28:11.890
of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue as a result of that. Absolutely.

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And that's the only reason. Don't be under any illusions. That's the only reason.

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Don't think that they all of a sudden had this awakening of,

00:28:19.470 --> 00:28:20.790
oh, geez, we didn't realise.

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No, you did realise. You made a conscious decision to appease the woke brigade,

00:28:26.330 --> 00:28:30.110
but now you've reversed it because you realise how much it's going to cost you

00:28:30.110 --> 00:28:32.070
in your hip pocket. Good on you, Australia.

00:28:32.490 --> 00:28:37.230
Let's keep fighting these idiotic organisations. The one that came to mind earlier

00:28:37.230 --> 00:28:43.070
this year was Woolworths when they decided to ban Australia Day merchandise in their stores.

00:28:43.070 --> 00:28:48.630
And that provided such a backlash that they have not since recovered as a result of that.

00:28:48.750 --> 00:28:52.970
And I, for one, have not stepped foot in a Woolworths ever since. Vince, you know what?

00:28:53.250 --> 00:28:56.370
The managing director of Woolworths rang me the other day. Oh,

00:28:56.450 --> 00:29:00.710
did he? Why hasn't Vince been into our shop?

00:29:00.930 --> 00:29:06.650
Tell him that if he comes in, he will give him all the rewards points at once and he'd be able to buy.

00:29:06.830 --> 00:29:12.930
And when the current union thing is going on with them, who are on strike,

00:29:12.950 --> 00:29:16.870
only when they get back to work because the shelves will be full then.

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They're not, I think we've wound you up enough. Good. We'll unwind you now.

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I don't know if I'll be back next year, but if I'm not, I've been extinguished by Paul.

00:29:27.890 --> 00:29:32.370
We'll put you back into your box and re-wind you again in the new year.

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All right, I'll take a break.

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See you on Australia Day, Paul. I can't wait to celebrate it.

00:29:39.350 --> 00:29:43.030
We will be celebrating on the 25th. Oops, the 26th.

00:29:44.170 --> 00:29:50.750
I thought you'd give me that dirty look. I need to calm you down now and really unwind you.

00:29:50.850 --> 00:29:56.790
No, that's right. Because we don't have clinical stuff here if anything happens to you.

00:29:56.910 --> 00:30:00.630
Vince, thank you for your monologue. Merry Christmas.

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Happy New Year. And happy Australia Day. To you and your family.

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To everyone. And everybody that's listening. All the best.

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We'll talk to you again next year. Have a very, very happy, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Thank you for listening to Why Is It So? Make sure you tune in to our next episode.

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