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00:001, 2, 3!
00:30Thank you very much.
00:36You know what, folks?
00:40You know, can I just say one thing?
00:42I don't think there's anything that makes an Australian prouder
00:46than the sight of their prime minister standing next to actual world leaders.
00:53No, you agree.
00:55It makes him seem more real, in a way.
00:57Even this shot of Egypt's President El-Sisi shaking hands
01:01with a mannequin of Tony Abbott looks more impressive.
01:05But when the real-life Mr Abbott took to the stage at the UN General Assembly,
01:09I think it was then that my heart burst from my chest
01:12just so it could point to the TV in case I was missing anything.
01:16Yes, I'm getting a little emotional now.
01:19But when Tony Abbott said those words that I think defined our national character,
01:24I truly believed that we, as a nation, could achieve anything.
01:29We're strong enough to be useful,
01:31but pragmatic enough to know our limits.
01:37Now, why the hell isn't that on our national coat of arms?
01:42Useful, pragmatic, limited.
01:44Words that rip into your soul like splinters of steel.
01:54So tonight is not about me venting my spleen about nothing, like I usually do.
01:59It's about me filling your chest with pride over everything we've done this week
02:03on the international stage.
02:05OK, first up, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in New York,
02:11we had world leaders like Barack Obama, David Cameron and Leonardo DiCaprio
02:16controversially contradicting Network 10 personality Andrew Bolt
02:20by declaring climate change a global threat that must be tackled before it's too late.
02:26As the Chinese delegate put it...
02:28Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was there representing the Prime Minister.
02:34He couldn't be there, of course, as he was on the other side of the city at his hotel.
02:38But all of the buzz around the conference was about Australia's direct action plan,
02:42which has captured the imagination of the world
02:45as evinced by the turnout for Ms Bishop's address.
02:48The message from this council.
02:50One, two, three, four...
02:53Is that footage from the United Nations or from the Fringe Festival?
02:56But, of course, it was an entirely different matter
03:00when our Prime Minister was addressing the UN General Assembly.
03:04And to uphold our values.
03:07To us, this is all part of being a good global citizen.
03:13Yes, when Australia speaks, the world sends several people along to listen.
03:19Now, I don't know why, but for some reason,
03:21more people tended to turn up at the rallies demanding government action
03:24on climate change instead of the summit itself.
03:27But I've been confused by some of the protesters' messages.
03:30Have a look here.
03:31For a start, why would Mr Abbott be in a protest march
03:34demanding that he take action on climate change?
03:37I mean, even if he's blindfolded and can't see the protesters' signs,
03:39he'd hear their chants, surely.
03:42I don't understand.
03:44Mick Onk is one of the Abbott puppet operators.
03:47Mick, thanks very much for your time,
03:49although I'm guessing you've got quite a fair bit of it.
03:51I'm interested in the message behind your protests.
03:54Namely, if Mr Abbott is, as you portray him, a puppet,
03:57who's controlling him?
03:58Me and Dirk.
04:00No, symbolically, though, who's controlling Mr Abbott?
04:04Oh, big business.
04:06OK, and so is it big business that's put the blindfold on him?
04:10No, me and Dirk.
04:11No, no, symbolically, though.
04:14It's just saying he's blind to the facts of climate change.
04:17Well, why is he even at the protest march?
04:22Because me and Dirk took him.
04:24No, no, not the puppet, the real Mr Abbott.
04:26Why would he be there?
04:29Because he doesn't even know where he's going.
04:33He doesn't know where the planet's going
04:37because he's blind to the facts of everything.
04:41He cannot see them.
04:43All right, all right.
04:45Mick, just trying to follow the logic of this,
04:47did Mr Abbott put the blindfold on himself?
04:50That's not Mr Abbott, Sean.
04:51It's a puppet.
04:53I do know that, Mick.
04:54What I'm asking is, did the puppet Mr Abbott in your puppet world
04:58not want to see the facts about climate change
05:00and put the blindfold on himself?
05:02I reckon you're overthinking this.
05:08Not an accusation I'd be levelling at you.
05:11Is your point that Mr Abbott has blinded himself
05:13to these climate change facts or has someone else done it?
05:15I.e., who put the blindfold on Mr Abbott?
05:19And if you say me and Dirk, I will arrange to have you injured.
05:25Someone else did it.
05:27All right, well, presumably whoever controls him.
05:29Yeah, me and Dirk.
05:30Is Dirk available?
05:33No, he's shit-ass of doing media.
05:38But, of course, global warming is not going to threaten our way of life
05:41until about 2050.
05:43There is instead a more immediate threat to deal with.
05:45One, two, good God!
05:51ISIS or ISIL, depending on which is correct,
05:56is something that we, in our own useful, pragmatic and limited way,
05:59need to deal with.
06:01And as much as I think Mr Abbott's the cat's pyjamas right now,
06:04I do think his language could be a little stronger when it comes to these guys.
06:08I know he came up with a witch's brew of complexity and danger
06:10and death cult, which was fantastic.
06:12I mean, everybody is saying it now.
06:14But this is how he refers to the joint international effort
06:17of 40 countries around the world.
06:19A coalition of the concerned.
06:22Now, if you're going to call dealing with an old boat full of refugees
06:26Operation Sovereign Borders,
06:28then I think dealing with an international terrorist organisation
06:30needs to be a little punchier than Coalition of the Concerned.
06:33It sounds like we're sending the friends of the ABC over there.
06:37But one thing is very clear.
06:40Whatever's going on and whatever our involvement,
06:42rest assured that it's not a war.
06:44This is a mission.
06:45This is a fight.
06:46This is a mission.
06:47This is a fight.
06:48It is a mission.
06:49They will be combat operations.
06:50Combat operations.
06:51Combat operations.
06:52Combat operations.
06:53Combat operations.
06:54Combat operations.
06:57It's a simple combat fight mission operation.
07:00Which, incidentally, is also the name of a new PS3 game
07:04coming up next month.
07:10But the stakes are higher now, aren't they,
07:12Vice, Rear Cabin Boy, Sir Bobo Gargle?
07:14Yes.
07:14Let me finish.
07:16With us taking part in airstrikes,
07:18how do we reconcile Mr Abbott's pledge
07:20at the UN General Assembly
07:21to work for the betterment of mankind,
07:24not just at home, but wherever we can lend a helping hand,
07:26with his pledge back home
07:27that our role in Iraq will be minimal?
07:29Well, Sean, yes, it is true
07:31that our forces are now dropping humanitarian bombs on Iraq.
07:36But rest assured this does not fly in the face of our pledge
07:39to provide as much minimal help as we can.
07:42And rest assured, though,
07:43that the moment there is any real threat
07:45to Mr Abbott's preferred PM rating of 41%,
07:48we will withdraw our helping hand,
07:50extinguish the light on the hill,
07:52and go back to inadvertently arming the PKK
07:54and teaching the Ukrainians how to paint their genitals
07:56with Vegemite.
07:56Should the fact that we're arming and training insurgent groups
08:01in these countries worry us?
08:03Well, Sean, it reminds me of the original Afghanistan,
08:06where we helped build up the Mujahideen
08:08in order to fight the Ruskies.
08:10And that went pretty well.
08:11Apart from 9-11, we've had very little trouble with them at all.
08:14Well, thanks very much, Bobo.
08:16And on a lighter note,
08:18I suppose you're looking forward
08:19to the release of Combat Fight Mission Operation
08:22almost as much as the rest of us.
08:23Not at all, Sean.
08:24But I am looking forward to when they release...
08:27THE CRACKER!
08:28It's the head covering, Sean.
08:43Corey Bernardi was quite right.
08:44Yes, quite right, Bobo.
08:46Well, that's not to say that our government
08:49hasn't been covering itself in old glory back home.
08:51Our Attorney-General, George Brandis,
08:54announced an amendment to the counter-terrorism...
08:56LAUGHTER
08:57Anyway, he announced an amendment
09:04to the counter-terrorism laws last week.
09:07The words,
09:08Constitutes Torture, semicolon, or,
09:11will be added as subparagraph Roman 2
09:14to section 35 C E.
09:18Now, that announcement,
09:20which, as you'd expect, went viral,
09:22was intended to allay fears
09:25that the legislation could have allowed torture,
09:27fears that were expressed in protests like this.
09:30What do we want?
09:31The noise, Constitutes,
09:32Torture, semicolon, or,
09:34and, as, subparagraph Roman 2
09:37to section 35 C
09:39over carbon E,
09:41will be added as a threat.
09:42When do we want it?
09:43Now!
09:44What do we want?
09:45Refer to our previous charts!
09:47When do we want it?
09:48So, what does...
09:49What does all this mean?
09:51Well, as usual,
09:52as usual,
09:53the Prime Minister explained it beautifully.
09:56Listen
09:56to this.
09:59Regrettably, for some time to come,
10:01the delicate balance
10:02between freedom and security
10:05may have to shift.
10:07There may be more restrictions on some
10:09so that they can be more protection
10:11for others.
10:13All right, so what's going to be done
10:14with the freedoms we surrender?
10:16Attorney-General, Office Manager,
10:17Sylvie Diablo.
10:18Well, Sean,
10:19it's a bit like your super, yeah?
10:21You put a little away now
10:22for when you need it.
10:23All right, well, how much
10:24are we talking about
10:25in terms of our freedoms?
10:26Say, 9.25% of our freedoms
10:28now invested in regulated institutions
10:30like ASIO or the AFP,
10:32with future increases in deductions frozen
10:34until it's politically expedient.
10:35Do we get our freedoms back
10:37at some stage?
10:38Will our freedoms have increased
10:39because of interest?
10:40Well, absolutely,
10:41you'll get them back.
10:42No guarantees on whether
10:43they'll be worth more
10:44when you get access to them.
10:45It depends on the market.
10:46But like super,
10:47your freedom will become available
10:48to you when you most need it.
10:50When you're much older,
10:51more frail,
10:52and less likely to be going out
10:53and using any of it.
10:55Miss Diablo,
10:55please accept,
10:56on behalf of Mattis Hill,
10:57a full-bodied,
10:58vintage French loaf from Coles.
11:00I, uh...
11:01I think you'll find
11:03it's a very, very good month.
11:05We'll post it to you.
11:07But I don't want to give the impression
11:09that it's all work
11:10for our politicians
11:11when they're representing us.
11:12There are moments
11:13when they let their hair down.
11:14Uh, not George so much,
11:16obviously.
11:16I'm thinking more of
11:17Labor's shadow defence minister,
11:19Stephen Conroe,
11:20who thought he'd ignore
11:20his portfolio for a moment
11:22and have a bit of fun
11:23at George's expense.
11:24And I refer to the report
11:26the Attorney General
11:27has joined the Melbourne Savage Club,
11:29which declares on its website,
11:31membership is offered
11:33to gentlemen only.
11:35Based upon the criteria
11:36of good fellowship
11:37and shared interests.
11:39Now, personally,
11:40I think it's great
11:41that men have shared interests.
11:42And if one of your interests
11:43is excluding women
11:44from your organisations,
11:45then more power to you.
11:46I don't go to clubs myself,
11:48although I can see the appeal
11:49in going to one
11:50and spending the evening
11:51surrounded entirely
11:52by male members.
11:55You can, uh...
11:56You can understand...
11:57You can understand George's position.
11:59Clearly, the lone presence
12:00of Julie Bishop in Cabinet
12:01has made the whole government
12:02way too girly for it.
12:06Still to come!
12:07Oh, excuse me.
12:08That's, uh...
12:09My new, uh...
12:11iPhone 6.
12:12Hello?
12:20Hello?
12:21Yeah?
12:23Yeah, okay.
12:24Okay, bye.
12:29If only my plan
12:30was that flexible.
12:31Incidentally,
12:37that was the, uh...
12:38That was the managing director
12:39of the ABC, Mark Scott.
12:40He said, uh...
12:40I should watch myself.
12:43I assume he meant
12:44for the ratings.
12:45Anyway, as I was saying,
12:46still to come!
12:48World's most eligible bachelor
12:50on his way
12:50to break the hearts
12:51of millions of women
12:52and too much cheese
12:54may thwart despots' plans
12:56to launch secret missile.
12:57Seriously, though,
13:01it was a great wedding
13:03by all accounts.
13:04I couldn't go
13:04because I had to prepare
13:05for this bloody show.
13:07But, uh...
13:07The guest list
13:08was pretty impressive.
13:09We had Matt Damon,
13:10uh...
13:10Bill Murray,
13:11Anna Winter.
13:12Even Bono was there.
13:14He wasn't actually invited.
13:15He just turned up
13:16the same way
13:16his album did on iTunes.
13:20Mind you,
13:21this week has not been
13:22all undiluted adulation
13:23for our elected officials.
13:24Plenty of people
13:25got mad as
13:26over their plans
13:26to extend
13:27Team Australia
13:28to include
13:28other countries.
13:32Great news
13:33for the refugees
13:34resting up in Nauru.
13:35Soon they'll be
13:36safer than ever before
13:37from a terror attack
13:38on Australian soil
13:39by not actually
13:40getting the chance
13:41to ever set foot here.
13:42Thanks to a deal
13:43inked Friday
13:44by Scott Morrison,
13:45resettlement
13:45will take place
13:46in Cambodia,
13:47a nation that
13:48historically has
13:48more skulls per head
13:50than any other country
13:50on Earth.
13:52Immigration Minister
13:53mouthpiece
13:53Rosemary Kifler
13:54is,
13:54I don't understand.
13:55Before the election,
13:56Mr Morrison
13:56opposed Labour's
13:57Malaysia solution.
13:58Correct,
13:59Sean,
13:59because Malaysia
14:00isn't a signatory
14:01to the UN's
14:02Refugee Convention.
14:03Also,
14:04we were in opposition.
14:06But now the Minister
14:08seems quite happy
14:08to send these people
14:09to Cambodia.
14:10Correct,
14:10Sean,
14:11because Cambodia
14:12is a signatory
14:12to the UN's
14:13Refugee Convention
14:14and now we're in government.
14:16Well,
14:17maybe she's right.
14:18I mean,
14:18I think we're thinking
14:19about this all wrong.
14:20It isn't about
14:20a country's human rights record.
14:22Any country looks bad
14:23if you concentrate
14:24on their worst features.
14:25You could say
14:26Australia was nothing
14:27but a haven
14:28for sex tourist
14:28mosque vandals.
14:30But the truth is
14:31these things rarely
14:32happen at the same time.
14:34Resettlement opponent
14:35Nina Nina Nana
14:36and for balanced
14:37backpacker Tim Neckbeard,
14:38what do you reckon?
14:39Sean.
14:40Cambodia is a gorgeous country
14:42filled with spirit-enriching temples
14:44and tuk-tuk rides
14:45and hostels
14:47full of hot gap year Swedes.
14:49The asylum seekers
14:50are going to love it.
14:51Sean,
14:51it's one of the poorest
14:52countries in the world.
14:53One third of people
14:54live on less than
14:55one dollar a day.
14:56Sean,
14:56you could live there
14:57for less than a dollar a day.
14:59Cambodia has
15:00substandard health facilities,
15:02a systemically corrupt
15:03and brutal government
15:04and virtually no experience
15:06in handling refugees.
15:07Sean,
15:07there's a shooting range
15:08in Cambodia
15:09where for 200
15:10bucks,
15:10they will let you
15:11shoot a rocket launcher
15:12at a cow.
15:14Sean,
15:15reprises from
15:16Cambodian locals
15:17could see asylum seekers
15:18put in danger worse
15:19than the persecution
15:20that they originally fled.
15:22Oh, yeah,
15:22well,
15:22I wouldn't go outside
15:24the touristy areas
15:25of Cambodia
15:25because they do not
15:27like foreigners.
15:28But if they head out
15:29to Laos,
15:29there's this place
15:30where you can drink
15:30snake venom
15:31while tubing down a river.
15:34But what are we doing
15:35to look out
15:35for the care and safety
15:36of the refugees
15:37who decide to join
15:38Australia's away team?
15:39Later on,
15:40I speak to a refugee
15:41relocation scout
15:43with a lot of experience
15:44in the Indochina region.
15:45I watched a snail
15:52crawl along the edge
15:54of a straight razor.
15:58That's my dream.
16:00That's my nightmare.
16:03Crawling,
16:04slithering along the straight razor
16:07and surviving.
16:11Yes,
16:11but what's that got to do
16:12with Scott Morrison's plan
16:13to ensure the well-being
16:14of these people?
16:16I think Scott Morrison
16:18pretty much
16:18had the same dream
16:19I had.
16:21Cheers.
16:21This is the end
16:22brilliant acting.
16:35Completely wasted
16:36on this show.
16:37The fact of the matter
16:38is there's been
16:39a whole raft
16:40of legislation
16:41introduced to Parliament
16:42to do with asylum seekers
16:43this week.
16:44Unlike most rafts
16:44involving asylum seekers,
16:45though,
16:46none are being turned back.
16:47An actual news program
16:49has more.
16:50Refugee advocates
16:51are also concerned
16:52about a change
16:53that would see
16:53the children of asylum seekers
16:55deemed to be
16:56illegal arrivals,
16:57even if they were born here.
17:00Rosemary Kifflers again.
17:01If the child
17:02is an illegal arrival,
17:03does that mean
17:04that the mother of the child
17:05is a suspected
17:06illegal entry vessel?
17:10That's right,
17:11Sean.
17:11Yes.
17:12Well, how is that
17:12a border protection issue?
17:13Because there's nothing
17:14maritime about the arrival
17:15of these babies,
17:16is there?
17:17I think you'll find
17:19that amniotic fluid
17:20is at least 70% water.
17:24Is the father
17:26implicated at all
17:27in any of this
17:28for his part
17:29in the original
17:29boarding
17:31of the illegal
17:32entry vessel mother?
17:34Or is his part
17:35in the whole thing
17:36an illegal entry
17:37in itself?
17:41Well, I can't see
17:43how it can enter itself.
17:47I just can't see
17:48how your border protection
17:49policy works here.
17:50How do you intercept
17:51and turn around
17:52any party or part
17:53illegally entering
17:55one of our detainees?
17:57I mean, do you hook it up
17:57to a Navy frigate
17:58and tow it back out to sea?
18:01Or do you unload it
18:02into an orange lifeboat?
18:03We seem to have lost
18:11Rosemary there.
18:12Well, from what's going on
18:13now to...
18:14From what's going on now
18:17to what went on then
18:18and two of our most
18:19former Prime Ministers
18:20have books out this week,
18:22Julia Gillard's
18:22My Story
18:23and John Howard's
18:24The Menzies Era.
18:26Unfortunately,
18:26my researcher hasn't had
18:27time to read them
18:28so I can't tell you
18:29what they're about.
18:29Instead, let's pop over
18:30to Wednesday night's
18:31Remainded Book Club.
18:37Joining us tonight
18:38are advertising guru
18:39Flournoy Quimby,
18:41high school intern
18:41Jennifer Stolls
18:42and colossal
18:43elemental beast
18:44from Greek mythology
18:45the Kraken
18:45out on bail.
18:47All right, Flournoy,
18:47let's start with you.
18:49You read Ms Gillard's book.
18:50What did you think of it?
18:51It wasn't what I expected
18:52at all, Sean.
18:53Julia has completely
18:54surprised us
18:54by revealing a side of her
18:56that I don't think
18:56many of us knew existed.
18:58For example,
18:58I never realised
18:59that she was a
19:00Labor government treasurer
19:01for six years
19:02and her own deputy leader.
19:06May I see the cover
19:07of the book?
19:09Yes, I see the cover.
19:11You've read
19:12Wayne Swan's autobiography
19:13by mistake.
19:14I'll give it a three.
19:15Jennifer,
19:15you read John Howard's book?
19:17No, Sean,
19:18I got the one
19:18by Bob Brown.
19:20All right,
19:21what did you think?
19:22A revealing portrait
19:22of our former Greens leader?
19:24Well, I tried to open it
19:25but I couldn't get it to work.
19:28Either the file's corrupted
19:29or there's something
19:30wrong with the app.
19:31The desktop is totally frozen.
19:32Kraken,
19:33if I could turn to you finally,
19:35you read both books
19:36as I understand it.
19:36Yeah.
19:43Kraken,
19:44is that Joe Hockey's book
19:46and the day my bum went psycho?
19:49I couldn't tell the difference, Sean.
19:50All right, well,
19:51thanks very much
19:52to our panel.
19:53Julia Gillard's
19:54My Story,
19:56a bit like Divergent
19:57except there aren't
19:58going to be any sequels
19:59and John Howard's
20:00The Menzies Era
20:01which is about
20:02a kilo and a half.
20:04The Menzies Era
20:27is a very well- Muy submarine-based
20:27yes yes all right yes okay goodbye
20:38I just got off the phone to the ABC board and apparently I'm leaning a little too far to the
20:46right this evening so for balance I'd like to spend some time taking off my hat to leader
20:51of the opposition who whenever he steps up to the mic is just as impressive as Tony
20:57Abbott he has a sly erudite wit here he is cutting Corey Bernardi down to size after after Corey
21:04suggested people remove their burkas as he appears to have done here when they enter Parliament House
21:10the government sees the term team Australia a lot I'm worried about the emergence of team idiot
21:15burn but this sort of intellectual raillery is a real throwback to the glory days of
21:27Australian politics when Paul Keating had referred to someone as a scumbag or Sir Robert Menzies who
21:32on the occasion of his knighthood according to John Howard told the Duke of Edinburgh to go f**k himself
21:39here's another Bill Zingers this time he's tearing strips off Joe Hockey for smoking a cigar on budget
21:51night are you serious Joe Hockey are you really the caricature the cigar chomping foghorn leghorn of Australian politics
22:00oh chihuahua and you know it's not an obvious sort of put down either because foghorn leghorn doesn't actually smoke cigars
22:10does he pop culture enthusiast crane girdle no he does not sure which is what makes that reference positively
22:15mystifying your foghorn leghorn as you can see from this mounted collectible cell from his first appearance in 1947 Looney Tune walkie talkie
22:25talkie talkie is a non-smoking rooster although I should point out that he did do a TV commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 1980s which could lay him open to charges of being flame grilled
22:37all right now a 67 year old cartoon character is an interesting choice for Bill isn't it to use to connect with voters uh he usually refers to the Simpsons I think we have parliamentary footage of it here um
22:48these people opposite are the cheese eating surrender monkeys of Australian jobs
22:53oh it's interesting isn't it yes yes that's right Sean there he is quoting groundskeeper Willie from the 1995 episode round Springfield
23:01yeah but we should remember of course that it made just as little sense for him to say that then as it does now
23:06although to further to your point about pop culture currency I should point out that foghorn leghorn did recently appear in an online Japanese hentai
23:14porn web series
23:16as the uh unlikely
23:18as as the unlikely but very enthusiastic partner of of marine boy
23:26really yes that's non-canon of course
23:28yes thank you very much crane
23:30but it's not so much what Bill says as the way he says it
23:34here he is yelling about the government's announcement not to build submarines in Adelaide
23:38they are playing with fire our national security
23:43they are playing with fire our national security
23:46a great economy of words there maybe even leaving a couple out that would have helped
23:50and even if he uses all the words he needs they don't have to be in the right order
23:54just when I thought nothing else could this government do surprise me
23:59if you think you can rearrange the words of Bill's sentence so they make grammatical sense
24:03write to us
24:04care you're the city ABC of in capital
24:07and uh
24:08and you could win a national broadcast dismantling kit with savings of over 50 million dollars
24:16still to come
24:18anyone like a spicy fruit muffin
24:20and cyborgs so lifelike you'd swear they were humans
24:25now it's traditional in Australia that well into a news broadcast stories dealing with countries other than ours be rushed through with insufficient detail
24:35so let's do that now
24:37brought to you by the memory of the now defunct Asia service
24:41to the United States first and in an extraordinary breach of White House security a man leapt over the fence and ran towards the front door with the intention presumably of playing knick-knock with the president
24:51sadly he was out
24:53you get a better idea of what happened by ignoring the actual footage and instead letting this Pixar quality animation of the incident from our friends at SBS blow your mind instead
25:02it's unlocked he gets inside with a three and a half inch knife
25:06now needless to say the secret service have copped a lot of shizzle over this
25:11the most basic uh task they could not perform and that was to tackle this guy send dogs after this guy
25:19intelligence experts say what should have happened is that dogs should have been deployed immediately to bring the man down neutralize him and control his movements
25:28they say these secret service dogs often working undercover as more benign breeds are highly trained animals extremely reliable and trustworthy and that this would have guaranteed no breach of White House perimeter
25:41a story
25:45a story oh hello
25:47a story about social media to please our younger audience who are probably on it instead of watching us on TV in the first place
25:53according to this screen grab from news.com.au's website the ACCC is to investigate online dating sites which they say have become a hotbed for scammers
26:02Pauline O'Grady who doesn't want to use her last name
26:05Pauline O'Grady who doesn't want to use her last name
26:08is one such victim Pauline thanks for sharing the story with us
26:11a bit of background to all this your marriage had ended due to sexual incompatibility if you're okay with me mentioning that
26:17and sometime later you struck up a relationship online with someone you believed quite naively if I may say so
26:23to be genuinely interested in you
26:26well that's right Sean we shared over the net very personal information and thoughts and feelings and
26:35became very close I believed and I thought we had a real future
26:40until?
26:41until about two hours later
26:44and what happened then?
26:46that's when the request for money started
26:49how much money are we talking about here Pauline?
26:52I sent him about a hundred thousand dollars
26:56and then he stopped communicating?
26:58yes I thought that amount must have offended him so I sent him another hundred thousand dollars
27:05but you've heard nothing since?
27:07no nothing
27:08and do you have anyone in your life now?
27:10no one no
27:11no
27:12ok well we should send you something for talking to us
27:15what ABC shows do you like?
27:17do you like Rake?
27:20oh I love Richard Roxburgh
27:23yeah he's good isn't he?
27:24yeah I really liked him in Moulin Rouge
27:26I thought he was fantastic
27:27oh yes
27:28yes I love a musical
27:30yeah yeah
27:31what other sorts of films do you like Pauline?
27:33oh um
27:34well
27:35I like the Coen brothers
27:36I like all their films
27:37yeah I love the Coen brothers
27:39especially Leonard
27:40oh no no he's not
27:42oh you're pulling my leg
27:45yeah I just have to
27:47and music what sort of music do you like?
27:49oh I love James Blunt
27:51oh
27:52yeah yeah so do I
27:55big fan of Blunty
27:56oh wow
27:57look maybe I'll get my producer to send you my email address after the show
28:01is that that be weird I mean is that ok Pauline?
28:04sure that'd be lovely
28:06yeah cause you seem like a nice person
28:08oh
28:09and in fact you look very much like
28:11I have an aunt
28:12and when she was a young younger woman
28:14she looked just as lovely as you do
28:16oh really?
28:17oh that's nice
28:18yeah
28:19although you know she's not doing too well now at the moment the poor old woman
28:23oh
28:24yeah she um she needs an operation and uh
28:27can only be done overseas
28:29and you know it's forty thousand dollars and we were just
28:33don't have that kind of money so
28:35oh let me pay for it
28:37what? oh no no no no
28:41no no please let me do it I can afford it
28:44no no Pauline I just I wouldn't hear of it no
28:46look get your producer to send me your bank details and I'll transfer it tonight
28:52well thank you
28:55um look I've got to go now Pauline but lovely to meet you and I'll be in touch and take care with the BSB number will you?
29:00sometimes people get it wrong
29:05well not coming up because utopia is on followed by reality check would I lie to you agony of life
29:11late line
29:12that show about business that I always forget and a repeat of Wednesday night fever
29:16ISIS tanks impounded under Iraq's tough new anti-hoon laws
29:22e-cigarette smokers cough hacking claims cyber terrorism watchdog
29:27and Christopher Pyne's self-fulfilling prophecy fulfills itself
29:31my comments get on the telly
29:35before we go a final thought
29:37yes the federal government are paying the Cambodian government forty million dollars but they're also taking fifty million dollars from the ABC
29:43so in terms of investing in systemically corrupt organizations the tax pay is still ten million dollars better off
29:51goodbye
29:54giant baby
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