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Original Broadcast Date: June 29th 2012

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00:00One, two, three!
00:30Thank you very much indeed, thank you.
00:42Well, you know, I've got to be honest with you and tell you that I've got mixed feelings this week.
00:47Black Caviar wins her race, gets to come home.
00:49Julian Assange loses his appeal and doesn't.
00:52And I do wonder what kind of message we're sending to our children.
00:55That you can run circles around the US Justice Department, you're not welcome back in this country.
00:59But if you can run in a circle around Royal Ascot, please, by all means, come back and live out the rest of your life in a field, eating hay, being impregnated by stallions.
01:08And it's double standards, though, because horses are notoriously bad at keeping secrets.
01:12What do you think they're all telling those horse whisperers?
01:14It's all about how the CIA faked the moon landing.
01:17And how's this for conspiracy?
01:18The UK says Julian can't come home and they're going to arrest him for breaching bail.
01:22200 years ago, if he stole a loaf of bread, England would have been perfectly happy to send him to Australia.
01:26Yeah, the thing that's made me flip my wig this week is justice.
01:32Of course, a big question is, will Julian be handed over by the Swedes to the Americans?
01:37A question I might very well ask the original Frida from Bjorn again, Kayleen Muir.
01:41Sean, people always think Sweden is some kind of cliche fantasy land where you hop in your Volvo and drive to some free love Ingmar Bergman meatball festival.
01:52For whacking up a set of Ikea shelves and being awarded a Nobel Prize for pornography.
01:57And it's not like that.
01:59Sweden is a really nice, normal country and a lot less likely to do what America wants than Australia.
02:04Hey, we don't let America tell us what to do.
02:06Oh, you'd bend over backwards to kiss their bum.
02:09I think you'll find we don't have to bend over backwards to do that.
02:12Australia would go to any unnecessary lengths to please the US.
02:15Just think of how many times pink appeared on Rove.
02:17Look, the question is really about justice, isn't it?
02:20If Julian Assange ends up in Ecuador, will the Swedish secret police send in a team to get him?
02:25A bit like the way Mossad sent in a team to kidnap Adolf Eichmann back in 62.
02:31I don't know.
02:32I think you have to ask an Israeli singer tribute act about that.
02:36All right, I will.
02:37Unfortunately, there is no tribute act for Fiddler on the Roof star Topol, unless you count Topol himself.
02:44So instead, I spoke to local Barbara Streisand impersonator, Becky Stote.
02:49Let me tell you, Sean, when the Mossad went in to get Eichmann, it was like when I directed Prince of Tides.
02:54Nobody was prepared to acknowledge it.
02:56Such doings.
02:58We went in, we kidnapped him, we snuck him in the boot of the car, we drugged him, we schlepped him in the airport,
03:03we shoved him in a plane, and we put him on trial.
03:06It was like the release of Yentel.
03:08It was all over so quick, like it never happened already.
03:11Hey, you know something?
03:12I like Yentel.
03:13Oh, boobala.
03:14I love this kid.
03:15So cute, I should die.
03:18Thank you, Becky.
03:19But what about the US?
03:21Bob Carr says there's no evidence of a secret warrant to arrest Julian Assange and try him for espionage.
03:25But remember, there's no real evidence for the existence of the Yeti either.
03:28But we know he's alive and still working in Memphis as a gas station attendant.
03:35Derbyshire Greenback is a press officer from the US State Department.
03:38Derbyshire, is there a secret warrant?
03:40No, there's not, Sean. Not to my knowledge.
03:42Ah, so there might be one, but you don't know about it.
03:45Sean, it is not the practice of the United States government to issue warrants for the arrest of those who pose a real and present threat to national security.
03:53Sorry, yes, that's right. You just usually abduct them, don't you, and take them to Guantanamo Bay?
03:56No, sir. It is the policy of the Obama administration to close down Guantanamo Bay by the end of 2009, Sean.
04:07That's three years ago.
04:09And we're on track, Sean.
04:11Although I should add, just for clarity, that it is not the sworn pledge of the Homeland Security's secret skull and bone society to torture and kill, if necessary, those who may or may not know anything about whatever it is we might be investigating.
04:24OK, one final question, Derbyshire. Do you have an arrangement with Sweden for the rendition of prisons to the US or to illegal CIA black sites?
04:32Not that you're aware of, Sean.
04:34That's good. That's a relief. Thanks very much, Derbyshire.
04:37Of course, ultimately, the safety of Julian Assange depends greatly on the justice system of whatever country he ends up in.
04:43Special envoy to the Ecuadorian embassy in Britain, Consuelia Manatee, happens to be on holiday at the moment.
04:48But fortunately, she's here in Australia and joins me now.
04:52Sean, you've got to understand that if Julian come to Ecuador, he'll be protected by the UNESCO World Heritage status that extends all over our beautiful country.
05:00In fact, if Julian goes and lives in the Galapagos Islands, he will be even more protected by our biodiversity laws.
05:06We've got the little turtles there that have been living happily there unmolested since Charles Darwin come to visit back in 1836.
05:13So Charles Darwin molested turtles?
05:15Yeah, sure. He was a pretty swinging guy, you know.
05:18But people don't judge. We don't judge people because what they do or don't do it is none of our business, you know.
05:23That's why we've got no free press in our country.
05:26Tell me about it. We're installing paywalls even as we speak.
05:29Thanks very much, Consuela.
05:30No problem.
05:31But perhaps other countries who happily lock up our citizens are doing this country a favour.
05:36The strain on the public purse over here is beginning to stretch the shoulder strap, and that's hurting our hip pocket.
05:42Xanthi, Kalamazoo.
05:45The man in the street wants tougher sentencing.
05:49He should, according to some people, at least be put in a cell.
05:53The answer, though I haven't actually asked a question, might just be more private prisons.
05:59It's a bloody awful life.
06:01And don't let anyone tell you any different.
06:04And just because it's a private prison, so what, you know?
06:07Still a nightmare to run.
06:08Jim Boop is the owner-manager of Manderley, a privately run minimum security prison in New South Wales, North West.
06:16In terms of modern reform attitudes, it's a prime example, which means it's only divisible by itself and one.
06:22Well, here we, uh, we have had a few teeth and problems.
06:28Opened the door's here a month ago.
06:31Big mistake, obviously.
06:32Everyone ran away.
06:33Yeah, I mean, for five years, for car theft.
06:38But being in here has taught me a lot, you know?
06:40Um, arson, drug trafficking, murder.
06:44But when I get out, I'm going straight.
06:46Um, yeah, straight to this, uh, little ANZ in Hirsville.
06:50They tell me it's a real doddle to knock over.
06:51Marie Spoon, sociologist, what do you reckon?
06:56It's a cycle with these kids, yeah?
06:59They get born into poverty, their parents can't look after them, they go to prison, they get out, they get born again, et cetera.
07:07It's, it's a cycle of violence, and we need to smash that cycle.
07:12Really, take it apart and lose some bits so that it can't be reassembled and ridden again.
07:17Yeah?
07:18Get them off that cycle immediatement.
07:20Sorry, excuse my French.
07:22That way, they can't get back on it and start peddling drugs.
07:27Security is, of course, a number one priority.
07:30Jim Boop again.
07:31Scrump the blood.
07:32Get the blood out.
07:33Yeah, yeah, all right.
07:34We lock the doors for an hour every day to clean the rooms.
07:37And those out on community work orders have to be backed by 11.
07:41If they're not, we just don't let them back in.
07:43And I don't apologise for that.
07:45Sorry, but I don't.
07:47Make it really clean.
07:48You're going to make one in it.
07:50All right, that'll do.
07:51People who know say that rehabilitation and retribution just don't work together.
07:56But what about people who don't know?
07:58Very much as I thought.
08:20Sean?
08:21Thanks, Anthony.
08:22But what do you think?
08:24And about things generally?
08:25Let's have a look at the top of the Vox Pops.
08:27Bloody disgusting.
08:38Could have been any more than 16.
08:40Don't you speak to me like that, I said.
08:42He turned around.
08:43He gave me the finger.
08:45Gave me the bloody finger.
08:47I don't want to see that when I'm walking down the streets bad enough on the television.
08:50And I don't think I should have to listen to that sort of f***ing language either.
08:55The thing I love most about Christopher Pyne is that he's just...
08:58Forget that, knobhead.
08:59What about me?
09:00I've just paid $300,000 for a newspaper around two weeks ago.
09:04Now they're saying they might not even bloody print newspapers anymore.
09:07What am I supposed to do, you Fairfax bastards?
09:09Drive around chucking USB sticks into people's front yards?
09:11That's not going to work.
09:13Shit.
09:14I'll just get out of the typewriter business now this happens.
09:19Yeah, you know, I don't really care that print is dead.
09:22Because, you know, I write mainly in cursive.
09:28Newspoll have done a not dissimilar survey themselves this week, the last sitting week for Parliament.
09:33And the results may astound you.
09:34Just 59% of Australians are dissatisfied with Ms Gillard's performance.
09:39However, the PM is still the preferred Prime Minister, 39 to 38, although not with this man.
09:46Dissatisfaction with Tony Abbott reached 58% and peaked at a high of 100% in this man's house.
09:51But the Coalition still leads the government 55 to 45 on a two-party preferred basis,
09:56which means Australians want a Coalition government, but they want Julia Gillard to be Prime Minister of it.
10:01An age Nielsen poll has Tony Abbott as preferred Prime Minister, but Malcolm Turnbull is preferred leader of the Coalition.
10:09Now, the only way this could happen is if Tony Abbott joined Labor.
10:12This is, of course, highly unlike, particularly as, according to this poll, Kevin Rudd is the preferred Labor leader.
10:18Although not with Tim Matheson.
10:20I know it's unfashionable among a lot of you lefty ABC-watching audience types,
10:32but I do admire a man who has the strength of his convictions to stand up and say to this government,
10:37whatever it is you're doing, I disagree with it 100%.
10:39Now, I don't mean to suggest that, you know, Tony's relentlessly negative.
10:44I mean, if the government said that this glass was half full, Tony wouldn't say the glass is half empty.
10:48He'd say the glass is too big and should be reduced to a size so the water ends up in surplus.
10:54See, that's why I'm worried about him.
10:56You know, his old passion and drive and intensity seems to have gone.
10:59He's operating in her office, under her nose, no doubt, with her express and enthusiastic participation.
11:13You see, something's missing. He's dead behind the eyes, isn't he?
11:16He's going through the motions like some sort of lobotomised zombie, and I mean that kindly.
11:21Now, I was wondering how this happened. What happened to the old Tony we love?
11:25And then I came across this footage, which I think explains everything.
11:29This was not about changing policy. This is about making excuses for failure.
11:36This is a Prime Minister who was looking for a photo opportunity as she flounders.
11:43Same thing happened to Malcolm Turnbull, you may remember.
11:46Well, whether it's hacking Hugh Grant's phone or going through Peter Slipper's diary,
11:49one thing that really gets my dander up is invasion of privacy by the media.
11:53OK, case in point. This week, a nine-year-old boy was charged with cultivating and trafficking $20 million worth of cannabis.
12:02His parents, who have not been charged, requested that the media respect their right to privacy during what is, obviously, a very difficult time.
12:08But do they listen? Kate Moss is at their Gippsland home.
12:11Kate, are they leaving the family alone?
12:13No, they're not, Sean. The media have been camped out the front of the family home here for most of the day.
12:19They've been swarming all over the house. There's been choppers hovering overhead.
12:23Kate, I can only see just behind you there, but there don't appear to be any media there now.
12:28No, the media all left about three hours ago, Sean.
12:30It's just us here now, and we're only maintaining a presence to see if the media will stay away and leave this family alone.
12:38They certainly deserve to be.
12:39How do you think they would be feeling now about the media's refusal to respect their privacy?
12:43It's a good question, Sean, and it's one I put to the boys' family earlier today.
12:47Is there anything you'd like to say to the media about them ignoring your wishes for some privacy?
12:52Please go away. This is a very difficult time, and it's being made a lot more difficult by the media surrounding our house.
13:00OK. I'll let them know.
13:03All right, thank you, Kate. Let's hope sanity prevails, and the media do, in fact, leave that poor family alone.
13:09If they do, we'll bring you any updates live from the house, along with any reaction from the family.
13:14Thanks, Kate.
13:15But the media aren't all bad. Sometimes they even excel themselves.
13:19A couple of weeks back, we saluted Sky News' excellent coverage of a gun seizure in Sydney,
13:24and their invaluable explanation about what guns are and how they work.
13:28Well, Sky News have now proven that that quality news reportage was no fluke.
13:32Actual Sky News Melbourne bureau chief, Aaron Young, recently filed a report on Melbourne Water's overcharging of customers for their water use,
13:39but not wanting to arrogantly presume that their viewers knew what water was or where you could get it from or what it could be used for.
13:46And, hey, Sky knows its demographic better than we do.
13:49They put together this very helpful visual aid.
13:53All right, there's Aaron setting up the piece about water, and there you go.
13:56It can come from a tap.
13:57There it is, coming from a tap and going into the sink.
14:00Or it can come from a toilet.
14:02That's very good.
14:02Or a shower.
14:04They should have explained what a shower is, really.
14:05It's a bit confusing, isn't it?
14:07Into a washing machine.
14:08It can go, water, and you can wash your hands with this stuff.
14:12Who knew this?
14:13This is very interesting.
14:14And different types of taps, and you can put it on your garden there.
14:17You can put it safely on your garden.
14:18It's a miracle ingredient, isn't it?
14:20And there they are, just reinforcing the gardening message there, I think.
14:23It comes from a hose.
14:24It can come out of a hose, of course, in one direction there.
14:26And I'm not sure what that is.
14:28Oh, I see.
14:28It's a hose again.
14:29Sorry.
14:29A bit confusing.
14:30Glad they did the pan.
14:31And there's another hose there, just in case, just to reinforce the hose message there.
14:35And that's great.
14:36And there's some more taps there.
14:38More coming from taps out of the tap, of course, in a vertical direction there.
14:42Or you can put it in a glass rather than let it go down the plug hole.
14:46So, all up, that is 35 seconds of educational instruction on the wonder substance, water.
14:53So, on the back of the gun story, by my reckoning, that's two Walkleys that can be put aside for Sky News.
14:59Or, to present that in a Sky News kind of way, it's not just one award, it's two.
15:05It's one and then another one.
15:07A second one in addition to the first one.
15:10So, it's like a pair.
15:11A duo of things.
15:13A companion piece to the original.
15:15It's not a single thing on its own.
15:16It's a combination of two single things together, which make up the duality of the items in a twosome of numbers.
15:23So, as far as I'm concerned, that's two Walkleys.
15:26And remember, these two nostrils are seldom incorrect.
15:29So, well done, Sky.
15:31Coming up after the break in sport, another drug scandal as Wimbledon hopefuls admit to playing on grass.
15:37And new linesman uniforms for David and Albandian matches.
15:41By land, by air, by sea, whether we're meeting enemy fire, or the Prime Minister, sharing intelligence with Japan, or displaying very little of it in China,
16:00the Australian Defence Force, deferring to the US in almost every regard.
16:07What am I supposed to do now?
16:08Simon, can you photocopy any amendments to the WorkSafe legislation and get that up to the third floor?
16:16Copies?
16:18What are copies?
16:20More than one.
16:23I reckon I could do that.
16:26What do they call this thing?
16:28A photocopier.
16:31Well, I guess you just open it, like...
16:33Yes, it's a pie in the face for one of our sacred cows when Australia's most outspoken backbencher, Kevin Rudd,
16:57learns that public support for the government has not been affected by this Sunday's carbon tax.
17:02Oh, a bloke would have to be a flaming galah not to come a raw prawn over that.
17:07Well, really.
17:07But I'm sorry, Mr Speaker, I was just saying...
17:10Political satire just the way we think you like it.
17:13Backbenched.
17:14Wednesdays at 8.30.
17:15Hey, you know something?
17:22Sometimes you get lucky and a camera is there to record a unique moment in history.
17:28This world first happened at the G20 summit just last week.
17:30Now, not only is that the first time anybody has complimented Julia Gillard about her clothing,
17:42I understand it's also the first time an international dignitary has ever commented favourably
17:47on the dress sense of an Australian Prime Minister.
17:49Apart from when this footage went viral.
17:54Kurt Waldheim tweeted,
17:56And another perhaps even more noteworthy moment at the G20 was this.
18:07Smooth operator.
18:11Smooth operator.
18:13Yeah.
18:14Actually, that's not the first time an American president has kissed an Australian Prime Minister.
18:19That occurred in 2009, just after this.
18:21Actually, we've also got some dynamite footage of Billy Hughes and Woodrow Wilson,
18:31but we can't show it in this time slot.
18:37Kissing and compliments aside, both the Rio and G20 summits were generally considered not to have achieved much.
18:42Although, if it's any consolation, the world is heading for economic oblivion faster than it's heading for environmental oblivion.
18:48So, at least when we run out of food and water, we won't have any money to pay for it in the first place.
18:53Personally, I think they should have got the Mexican drug cartels to address the G20 on the Eurozone crisis,
18:58because you say what you like about those guys, they know how to turn a profit.
19:02Also very, very good at supporting sustainable farming.
19:06Might also have meant that the Prime Minister could have come home a day early
19:09and not missed her own fundraising dinner for Olympic athletes.
19:11Mrs Conroy has more.
19:12A table cost $25,000, a price that would have made even Grant Hackett think twice about overturning it.
19:21And while our Prime Minister flew in just in time to misattending,
19:25all up, the night raised about $2 million,
19:28more than enough money to keep a professional athlete in EPO growth hormones and amphetamines
19:33for a sporting calendar week.
19:36But of course, Australia's Olympic dreams will be woken up from not here, but in London.
19:40And who better to find on the pillow next to us when we do
19:43than our ABC commentary team headed by Maggie Bathysphere.
19:46Much happening there, Maggie?
19:48It's still a bit quiet here at Olympic Stadium, Sean,
19:50but rest assured we've been keeping ourselves busy watching YouTube clips
19:54of people falling over while using their mobile phones.
19:57Check these out.
19:59Oh, the lady in the fountain's a classic.
20:04As is this bloke. Look at him.
20:06Bam!
20:09Dougie loves the one with the bear.
20:10Yeah, have a look at it.
20:12Pretty funny.
20:13Oh, yeah.
20:14Look at it.
20:15But the one we've been emailing everyone is this ripper
20:18with the bloke crossing the road.
20:20Watch him go.
20:21Texting away.
20:23Here he goes.
20:24Keeps texting.
20:25Pretty funny.
20:25Did you get down to see black caviar at Royal Ascot?
20:36Read about it online, Sean, yeah.
20:38Fantastic stuff from a legendary horse who, in my view,
20:42will go down as the far lap of Aussie racing.
20:44She's the people's champion, the problem gambler's friend,
20:48the sort of horse you could put your house on.
20:50And if you did, wouldn't slow her up as much as Luke Nolan managed to.
20:53I can't go on enough about her.
20:55Well, I think you have.
20:56And can I just add that I'm glad they've decided against the proposal
21:00to put her out to stud with British champion Frankel.
21:02The UK's ban on arranged marriages has come in just in time, in my view.
21:07Popping over to catch the Tour de France, Maggie.
21:09Oh, well, we've had a satellite dish put in on the commentary box, Sean,
21:12so we'll be listening to it on the BBC World Service here.
21:15Three countries, 23 days, 3,500 kilometres,
21:18which in the old measurements is about four and a half contigui tours.
21:22Less gruelling, obviously.
21:24OK, now, Maggie, Wimbledon.
21:25Oh, yeah, we've been watching it on Fox Sports feed.
21:28Yes, I know Stozer lost his second round match,
21:31but we had a massive contingent of nine Australians in the singles.
21:34How did they go in the first round?
21:35Say, Hewitt.
21:36Nah.
21:37Tomek?
21:37Nah.
21:37Ebden?
21:38Nah.
21:39Delacqua?
21:40Nah.
21:40Barty?
21:41Nah.
21:41Matossovic?
21:42No.
21:42Guy De Sova?
21:43Nah.
21:43Rodionova?
21:44Nope.
21:45OK, fair enough.
21:46Thanks, Maggie.
21:47And just a serious warning about texting.
21:50Maggie mentioned it before.
21:51Texting while driving, it's dangerous,
21:53although not quite as dangerous as texting while carrying a missile launcher.
21:58Perhaps avoid both of them and certainly don't combine them.
22:00It's a deadly cocktail.
22:01Of course, the big story this week, Olympic-wise,
22:05is yet another ticketing scandal.
22:06Aussie journo Miriam Chops, posing as a black market scalper,
22:10secretly filmed this meeting with an authorised Olympic rep from an unnamed Serbian country.
22:16OK.
22:16So you have tickets flying?
22:20This cannot come back to me.
22:22Of course not.
22:23I'm serious.
22:23If this ever gets out, then I will deny ever having met you.
22:25I understand.
22:29So I have 100 tickets.
22:31Flying what event?
22:33Cano slalom.
22:34How much money?
22:3520,000 euro.
22:3620,000?
22:37OK.
22:39Deal.
22:43There are your tickets.
22:48There is your money.
22:49Thanks.
22:50I still don't think it's enough to get 100 people onto the canoe slalom.
22:53What is your problem now?
22:54We never met.
22:58And considering there's also the rhythmic gymnastics and sailing,
23:02this sort of corruption is just the tip of the iceberg.
23:05Oh.
23:07Oh, for simpler times when people were honest
23:09and values meant a man's integrity,
23:11not commodity prices and gold standards.
23:13When money meant little compared with the wisdom of the elders.
23:16Bill, 24 years ago this week, almost to the day,
23:34the old $2 note disappeared and was replaced with this.
23:39Ah, yes, yes, yes.
23:43You'd grown up on the old $2 note.
23:45What was it like not having it anymore?
23:47Well, I should correct you there.
23:49I was never on the $2 note.
23:51That was an honour accorded to John MacArthur,
23:53without whom we would not have wool,
23:55and also John Farrar, who invented the ute.
23:59Invented a type of wheat, I think.
24:00Exactly, quite right.
24:02I do miss that about the coins.
24:04They don't have such famous people on them as appeared on the notes.
24:07Who's on the $2 coin, for example?
24:09Oh, well, the Queen on one side and...
24:12I don't know who that is.
24:14Mayor? Thank you.
24:17Yes, the $1 had Her Majesty on it,
24:20and the original $10 had Greenway and Lawson on it.
24:23The $20 had Kingsford Smith on it,
24:25but the original $5 note, that was my favourite.
24:28It had Chisholm on it.
24:30Well, it may have, yes.
24:32I mean, money went through many hands
24:33and came into contact with many services.
24:36Obviously, we would destroy any currency that had become too soiled.
24:39You worked at the Royal Mint?
24:42I did, yes.
24:42Yes, yes, I did.
24:44Forty years in there, in the furnace room.
24:46You know, sometimes they'd let us take the currency home.
24:49Really?
24:49Oh, yes, yes, yes.
24:50Some of it, you know, just for the kids to play with.
24:52I wouldn't have thought that was legal.
24:54But when they decided to bring in the $2 coin back in 88,
24:56they ran a competition at the Mint
24:59to see who'd come up with the best design,
25:00and we were all encouraged to enter.
25:03Amazing.
25:03That's your design, is it?
25:05Well, it's very similar to the one they used.
25:07Yes.
25:08Well, we should compare it, shouldn't we?
25:09Yes.
25:11Yes.
25:11Both are circular, and have a two on them,
25:15and the milled edges are very reminiscent
25:18of the South African Cougaran.
25:19The main difference is the composition and scale.
25:23Mine was the size of a dinner plate,
25:24and instead of being 92% nickel, it was solid gold,
25:28and they said it was too impractical,
25:29and that its actual value was $3,050 more
25:32than the coin was worth.
25:34Which was $2.
25:35More or less, yes.
25:37I thought they were being unreasonable.
25:39My design, I think, was original and brave,
25:42two things we could afford to see more of in this country.
25:45Unfortunately, we couldn't afford the coin itself, apparently.
25:48Well, I hope they let you down gently.
25:50They sacked me.
25:51Well, I had made 20,000 working prototypes of my design.
25:55They said I'd almost bankrupted treasury.
25:57Come with me, though.
25:58There's something I'd like you to see.
26:02When I left work that day for the very last time,
26:05all my friends got together, and they chipped in,
26:08and they bought me this.
26:11Collector's Edition Set of Mint Condition Australian Coins.
26:15Beautiful gesture.
26:16Would you like to see them?
26:18Very much, thank you.
26:19All right.
26:20Nick!
26:23Sorry, I think it's...
26:24Oh!
26:26Pat!
26:28There's one over there.
26:30That's the penny.
26:31That's very rare.
26:32And that one is the Mint Condition 50-cent piece, I see.
26:40And not coming up, because we've run out of time.
26:43New president for country with no parliament or constitution passes for democracy in Egypt.
26:49And bomber command veterans to destroy one more German city as part of Jubilee celebrations.
26:54And so ends a week in which Saudi Arabia announced that for the first time a woman will represent their country at the Olympics.
27:03Apparently she's doing the 4x200 freestyle relay.
27:06And if she can cut down the time she spends climbing out of the pool and then jumping back in every couple of hundred metres,
27:11she should do well, in my opinion.
27:12Here's tomorrow's talkback.
27:15I'm glad our politicians didn't meet with that Tibetan Prime Minister this week.
27:19Not only would it have offended our Chinese overlords, but...
27:23No, that's about it.
27:25Sean, it was great to hear that the government's approved parental leave for fathers $606 a week.
27:31Well, my dad left when I was six, so can I get that backdated?
27:34Yeah, but Sean, the sky's not going to fall in because the carbon tax is coming in.
27:39It can't. It's being propped up by all the greenhouse gases.
27:43Giant baby.
27:50Actually, we've also got some dynamite footage of Billy Hughes and Woodrow Wilson.
27:55It's a threesome with the Kaiser.
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