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Original Broadcast Date: June 1st 2012

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00:00hi before we begin tonight's show we would just like to take the opportunity
00:06to acknowledge the traditional owners of this time slot mother and son I'm Sean
00:13McAuliffe and I'm as mad as hell
00:43thank you thank you very much very nice audience thank you thank you you're a real audience aren't
00:58you yeah didn't sound sure well yin and yang this week Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest and
01:07nobody won the Egyptian presidential election I don't know whether it had anything to do with
01:12but there was a lot more violence during Eurovision than there was in Egypt Azerbaijan police seen
01:17here bringing a camera lens under control so commiserations to El and Nikki the deposed 2011
01:25Eurovision winners I also feel sorry for Jed would too but that's not anything specific that's just
01:31generally who I really feel for in all of this though is the former Egyptian president Hosni
01:37Mubarak not only has he never won Eurovision but for 20 odd years he was the dedicated public servant
01:44the president of Egypt and and where does it get him in jail to find out more about the election we
01:51sent Francis Greenslade to Cairo that's good but he obviously misinterpreted that so so that's about
01:58it in terms of reporting on the matter except to say that the two top remaining contestants now go
02:03through to the second round elimination final where presumably they'll have to make a crock and
02:07bush or something but it's not easy running a country these days as mrs. Conroy tells us it's
02:14not easy running a country these days just ask our own p.m. or if she's busy PNG's Prime Minister Sir
02:21Michael Samara and or Peter O'Neill even the most beautiful leader in the world former Ukrainian
02:27Prime Minister of Iceland Gerhard had to suffer the indignity of trial simply because he bankrupted the
02:41country there are however exceptions leaders who are loved and revered by the people who voted for
02:48them Robert Mugabe for example 32 years he served as president of Zimbabwe not even letting the fact
02:54that he was voted out of office four years ago get in the way of his sense of duty his philosophy is
02:59simple my people are my machine gun perhaps our own leader should take a leaf out of mr. Mugabe's tree
03:07yes my people are my machine gun it's a it's catchy it's very effective in fact Queen Elizabeth the
03:13second has the exact same motto and she's been running her country almost twice as long as Robert
03:18well there she is there meeting some of her terrified subjects Paul Paul particularly looks
03:25looks worried there you know last time I saw her she touched me with a sword thank you incidentally
03:32incidentally that three-second grab there that's as much coverage as the ABC were going to give the
03:36Diamond Jubilee until I had a word to them I'm not a royalist or anything I just can't stand Warren
03:41Beatty though it does see that real audience so that but that does beg the question doesn't it
03:49when should Australia become a republic 2026 25th December 1980 Christmas Day 1956
03:58can't remember either fear is important when ruling a country but occasionally if you go too far the UN
04:10will step in and maybe send in some monitors to watch you go even further traditionally the world
04:15likes its UN peace negotiators like it likes its coffee and on black and with some sweeteners but
04:21unfortunately unfortunately coffee doesn't seem to be serious cup of tea nor are they partial to
04:28even a small piece of his peace plan
04:30ineffectual inefficient impotent just some of the words starting with I that have been used to describe
04:46the UN but is this toothless tiger a leopard capable of changing its spots and while the UN's diplomatic
04:54measures and sanctions have failed their policy of having their wives upload a YouTube clip
04:59encouraging Bashar al-Assad's wife to intercede has had journalists who surf the internet for their
05:05stories doing even less work than they would normally but can asthma al-Assad appeal to her husband
05:12I think so I mean she's very attractive probably why he married her I meant could she appeal to her
05:18husband to change his government's tactic oh I see well my wife gets me to do things I don't
05:25particularly feel like doing all the time and she's not half as attractive as asthma al-Assad can beauty
05:31soothe the savage beast although the YouTube clip featuring Miss al-Assad has received over half a
05:37million hits it's still not quite as many as homes and Aleppo have been subjected to still history shows
05:44the tyrants have often been held in check for many years by their beautiful companions Liberian
05:50president Charles Taylor and Naomi Campbell president Gaddafi and his bodyguards president Vladimir Putin
05:56and Ksenia Sojak and of course president of Hawthorne Jeff Kennett and his wife Felicity so as long as
06:04Bashar al-Assad has asthma the UN may breathe easy Charlie on a strip tank mad as hell homes
06:11yes interesting stuff powerful stuff it's probably a little unfair to Jeff Kennett um you know he has
06:17mellowed a lot since he retired time makes you cuddly uh like Malcolm Fraser and uh Charles Manson
06:23listen to how reasonable he is now on the subject of prayer rooms at football stadiums to put prayer
06:30rooms into sporting venues uh is not part of the Australian uh lexion it's not the way in which
06:38we've behaved I think it is an overreaction I think it's political correctness I think it's absolute
06:43rubbish and go Hawks personally I think prayer rooms are a great idea I mean your team's not doing well
06:49so you pop inside ask God for a six goal wind in the last quarter I have no idea what that means I I'm
06:55sorry I I can't lie to you I can't stand sport but I will defend to the death your right to leave it so you can
07:01go and pray
07:02they're uh they're wonderful rooms though um this is uh this is one of the MCG and I think their best feature
07:12is that they don't have any
07:13they're deliberately non-denominational which uh means that any faith can use them and uh this sort of
07:20shared space for worship works really well in other parts of the world and I'm thinking of uh the
07:25Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem where uh Greeks and Armenians often come together despite
07:30their differences and uh and pray in the same room I think it works out really well you know and this is
07:35what life's all about really just need to embrace that um still to come Greeks demand to be taken
07:43seriously and authorities claim Vatican scandal is like a Dan Brown thriller very poorly thought
07:50through hey who wants to talk about Chappelle Corby why not Chappelle Corby uh could soon be free of
07:59her Bali hellhole and back home in a Gold Coast one thanks to President Sucio Bang Bang Yehudi Oh No
08:04the more easy to pronounce Bob Carr has denied that the early release has anything to do with
08:09Australia releasing some Indonesians it had in jail um what do you think about that free Chappelle
08:13advocate Gollum Monfries well it doesn't really matter why it happened Sean it just matters when
08:18and yeah it looks like July or September and how has Corby reacted to the news oh we usually refer
08:23to her as Chappelle rather than Corby surnames are more for your male or less attractive female
08:28members of the Bali nine right but yeah she's pretty stoked yeah so her attractiveness or how she
08:34looks is important is it oh absolutely if you have a look at this um shot for the latest t-shirt
08:39campaign yeah I gave you a picture yeah yeah no it's based on the movie uh girl with a pearl
08:44earring by the meal sure I really like Scarlett Johansson too yeah yeah she's she's fantastic so how do
08:51you feel about the uh well you know morally about the whole uh swap issue oh there's a big difference
08:55between an Aussie being jailed for drug smuggling and an Indonesian being jailed for people smuggling
08:59well Corby was found uh you know guilty Chappelle Sean is a really important part of the campaign
09:05okay so Chappelle was was found guilty of smuggling four kilos of marijuana well that's right but the
09:11people smugglers smuggled in far more than four kilos worth of people i mean they're all fully grown
09:17people too weighing like 70 or 75 kilos each sure yeah but my point is it's a lot four kilos is a lot
09:24isn't it yeah exactly but imagine how much more four or five 75 kilo humans away imagine the number
09:31of boogie boards and how big they'd need to be to hide the people it's the scale of it is mind-boggling
09:39well do do you think they'd use boogie boards well the smugglers couldn't secrete them on their
09:44person could they you can't hide people on your person you can't swallow them and you can't strap them to
09:50your leg well if you'd like to learn more about Chappelle Corby's early release go online and google it
10:00because there's not a lot going on here too often i think we ignore the lessons learned by a forebears
10:08time now though to redress that with our salute to the past by those who lived in a segment we call
10:13wisdom of the elders
10:27bill this week is the 12th anniversary of the walk for reconciliation yes yes that's right quite right
10:33300 000 people walked across the harbour bridge that day i know it's amazing isn't it when you think of it
10:39it was an historic show of support for indigenous australians everywhere and particularly in this
10:44country powerful memories yes yes well very powerful i mean you have to remember that uh way back when i
10:51was young there was no real understanding of aboriginality no real understanding of the way that they
10:56live their lives and we had no books around the house on that particular subject and there's only so
11:01much one can learn from a an aboriginal motived cushion or a boomerang on the wall now but of course
11:06then the 50s came along and lionel rose taught us uh that aboriginals could uh fight and swim if
11:13necessary and a few medals for that didn't do that was murray rose exactly and albert nemanjira you
11:18know taught us they could paint and uh neville bonner politics of course yvonne corley showed there
11:23could be a demon with the tennis racket if necessary right up till kathy freeman and her incredible
11:28running tell us about the walk though well kathy was capable of many gates i'm sure but it was her
11:33running that was world class that's what she was best known for and she won medals for it of course
11:38and the swimming yes well what do you remember though about the day of the the reconciliation
11:43wall ah yes yes it was a grand day i remember hearing about the reconciliation book on the wireless
11:49and i thought what a good idea what a good way to build bridges building bridges by by using a
11:54pre-existing bridge save time save money it seems sensible to me plus back then of course there was no
12:00harbour tunnel so there really was no way of crossing the water unless one used the bridge
12:04although i'm sure that lionel murray could have probably swum it and in good time too yes he was
12:10a judge too wasn't he i think you're thinking of lionel murphy i think you're probably thinking of pat
12:18o shane he was the one in the cowboy hat wasn't he no that's patrick dodson pat o shane is a woman
12:24as is lois o'donoghue i think they'd be the first to admit that ah yes they're all there weren't they
12:30yes 300 000 people you know when you think about it that's 600 000 legs 600 000 legs walking as one
12:38across that beautiful sydney opera house that's a that's a symbol not to be ignored 600 000 legs
12:45walking as one yes yes a sort of massed leg hopping i suppose it would have been doing rather than
12:50walking hopping along like our beautiful national symbol does onwards towards reconciliation and
12:56beyond the wonderful day was a beautiful gesture the kangaroo majestic can swim and a beautiful memory
13:06for you and for all australians what's that the reconciliation walk oh yes yes i remember that
13:16there was a while ago there wasn't it yes yes yes yes i think unless i'm greatly mistaken the
13:22anniversary is in a month's time come with me there there's something i'd like to show you
13:33captain cook's skull captain cook really yes yes yes it's authentic too you can see
13:39where he's autographed on the top there i think it's time we sent it home don't you
13:46push it in there
13:53william duffy would return captain cook's skull by post to england where it belonged
13:58a long overdue wrong made right the past reconciling with the present as only it can be
14:05through the wisdom of our elders
14:06still to come butcher of antarctica arrives for trial in the hague and aussie olympic cycling team
14:18bound for glory also coming up we interview a prostitute it's something the whole family should watch
14:24if we could ask you um how much do you charge for your shall we say your services oh well uh that
14:31depends uh for fifty dollars it'd be hand only i see and how much to do the whole arm
14:37we'll be back right after this break
14:54this friday on an all-new miss fisher murder mystery
14:58uh-huh we have the villain bang to rights constable do your duty it wasn't me i i've been set up
15:12i deny any wrongdoing in relation to this issue whatsoever set up we heard the gun go off that
15:19is an allegation based entirely upon hearsay and i deny it absolutely i am a victim of smear and innuendo
15:29but look the fact of the matter is it wasn't me i wasn't at the place where it happened
15:34and nor am i here now either and i have several witnesses who weren't interviewed who will back me
15:38up on this you're still holding the murder weapon somebody must have hacked into my gun i
15:44shall be making a statement in due course we're going to mount an inquiry into this
15:52consider yourself suspended from the party we're having upstairs
15:58miss fisher's murder mysteries friday night 8 30.
16:01welcome back welcome back people don't uh yeah they wrap me up in a couple of minutes
16:15excuse me yeah yeah no no it's a government job they paid me in cap charges excuse me
16:20hang on a sec love what is it now yeah sorry could could you just wind that up please because we're
16:25we're recording a show here oh oh sorry sorry gorgeous sorry hey love i've got to go yeah nick low
16:32wants to use the phone hello uh people don't read books anymore parents have no control over their
16:40children our world and religious leaders don't set us a good example so the only way left to learn about
16:45life is through the prism of pop culture
16:48well marvel made marvel made the announcement last week north star and his boyfriend kyle jindu
17:01are getting married no doubt this week x-men fans all over the world will be checking the groomal
17:05registry and choosing what to wear to the wedding but not everybody is happy for the happy couple
17:11the members of american conservative group one million moms to name just a million they say they're
17:16they say they're shocked by the news mind you let's be honest even kyle looks a bit surprised
17:22my problem with the relationship is it's a mixed marriage
17:31i mean look at them north star is a mutant and kyle is a non-mutant
17:35what sort of children are they going to have as for which dc character is going to come out there's
17:41been a lot of speculation uh superman has been suggested but but have a look at this comic book cover
17:45from as far back as 1987. i mean i i think he's already out that eye makeup is very heavy and uh
17:54that outfit's very sheer and he's flaming so it's a bit of a giveaway i have my own theory about who
18:00the new one is i've been uh i've been collecting comic books uh since i was in my 30s and uh i have here
18:07in this edition of uh the flash meets jerry lewis uh we uh we have barry allen aka the flash he meets jerry
18:14lewis uh they get to know each other and uh and then jerry ends up wearing the flashes clothing so
18:21any love is good love as far as i'm concerned still to come wayne swan charm offensive
18:28and i speak to a real live interview guest rachel perkins director of mabo plus my exclusive interview
18:35with representatives from the awu and the mining lobby i mean why is there any need to bring these
18:42workers in in the first place well we considered having the mining done offshore but continental
18:46drift is way too slow to rely on and the cost of towing a region the size of the pilbara out to say
18:51malaysia would be far too expensive gina reinhardt earns two million dollars an hour she is a single
18:56mother with four children to support oh come on well she's got to put food on the table where in
19:01paris and new york and london and hong kong in case she happens to be in town
19:05now i love today tonight and a current affair they're great shows and they're very popular and
19:11and from time to time they do a neighbors from hell story and it's great entertainment there's
19:17no question about that and normally on our show we wouldn't do that sort of tabloid garbage out of
19:22respect for these other shows but this story this story we just couldn't resist sharon lola brigida has
19:29more it's a little over a year since the navy seal of disapproval was put on this man osama bin laden
19:36and only a few weeks since three of his widows were deported back to saudi arabia from pakistan
19:42are we going all the way to riyadh in this bus god i hope not it's a show of belated support from
19:49the pakistan government to its american neighbors still next door in afghanistan but the question remains
19:56how could the most wanted man in the world have lived here in the garrison town of abatabad not too
20:03far from gillardabad for five years undetected by authorities the answer again is the neighbors
20:10what type of car did he drive uh datsun 200b yeah he was always polite it smelled nice they'd often
20:32come over to our house and borrow hair dye yeah all fertilizer yeah he was a nice bloke whenever we went
20:38away for a long weekend he used to take the bins out for us used to bring them back in without us even
20:43asking bins laden we used to call him hey so you knew it was osama bin laden oh yeah we knew but you
20:54didn't tell the authorities don't like to dob on people some pakistani boy osama bin laden may be the
21:01leader of al-qaeda and the world's most notorious terrorist but he'll be remembered here for establishing
21:06neighborhood watch and for the many fundraising barbecues he and his wives hosted sharon lola
21:13brigida abitabad and also here in the studio sean thank you very much sharon uh it's good to have a
21:21nice story about neighbors occasionally isn't it but would you please welcome our first real guest
21:25of the series the director of mabo rachel perkins
21:43hello rachel i'm dreadfully sorry i dropped my notes now look mabo a wonderful film i got a chance to see
21:48it uh just last night um can i say it's the uh in case you don't know it's it's the well you'd know
21:53obviously because you'd drink yeah um but it's the story it's the story of a man who takes his fight
21:59for his home all the way to the high court yes uh in that respect very much very much like the castle
22:04well you know in the castle there is that great reference um uh the lead actor says now i know
22:10what eddie mabo went through that's a fantastic reference which i love the castle because of that
22:15it's a good it's a great film but how did they know about eddie mabo before your film came out
22:20well i suppose you know they must have you know been uh watching the television in 1992 when it all
22:26hit you know the headlines so um yeah i mean i really love the way that the castle sort of talks
22:31about home in this australian thing it's my backyard my place um you know how could they do this and then
22:37they do compare it to eddie mabo and was his place you know it was his block of land that his father said
22:42was his and then suddenly the government uh said actually it's not yours even though you know you
22:48can recite 16 generations of your forebears who passed it down they're like no we're just ignoring
22:54that it's not yours so um yeah so it's sort of you know it's comparable it's yes there's probably less
23:00laughs in in mabo well there are laughs in fact there's a music there's a musical number in mabo yeah look
23:06i have to just i just can't help myself i've got to put a musical number in everything i touch has to have
23:11some sort of so because rachel did brand new day so so you know you're obliged don't you yeah well
23:15i do love a song and dance routine did that really happen though in eddie's life did you really do a
23:19song and dance number on the railway tracks um fiction possibly added yes that's all right that's
23:26most of it's true 99 of the film is true yeah everything except the fact that you've pointed out
23:33that can i can i just say though that it's and look i should mention the casting it's wonderful casting
23:37uh jimmy barney plays eddie mabo and uh abc audience would know him from from the straits and
23:42of course deborah mailman who ought to know from everywhere plays bonita we were when we were casting
23:47this film we were thinking well who's going to play eddie you know because it's such a pivotal role
23:51obviously in the film he carries he's in every scene and he has to you know the film sort of
23:56basically lives or dies on his performance and so we knew we wanted someone brilliant and you know
24:01there's not a huge array of torres strait island actors out there um for a number of historical
24:07reasons um and and so i see well who who's the best you know black actor in the world and i was
24:12saying well maybe you know forrest whitaker who's amazing you know last king of scotland brilliant
24:18academy award and he's not even scottish no and luckily we cast jimmy barney who actually
24:25is extraordinary and there's many times on set when he was performing and i was seeing him to myself you
24:30know thank god this isn't forrest whitaker because he's doing such an extraordinary job he did he
24:35uh yeah unarguably so but but really would it have mattered much i mean if if if you had cast you
24:42know forrest whitaker would it have mattered that because if andrew bolt has taught us anything it's
24:46that it's that race has has nothing to do with skin color no no well i don't really look to andrew for
24:53my you know boundaries of what to do but jimmy barney fantastic thank god he exists in the world and he
25:00nailed it well thank heavens he exists in the world and specifically in australia yes for your
25:04purposes well i think i'm going to ask you about uh the i mean you know what attracted you to this
25:10story and did you feel any as you must have felt some responsibility because benita uh mabo is is
25:17still with us and uh and her children obviously um what sort of obligation did you feel uh to please
25:23them well i did feel that i wanted them to be happy because it's their story and um you would hate
25:31them to feel that it was inauthentic or it didn't you know deliver um what they felt was their experience
25:38and you know they gave up you know benita 10 years of her life was spent on this case so um
25:44um you know i did feel that i absolutely wanted to please them first um but i didn't feel that as a
25:52burden because i think that their involvement made it more authentic and they're okay with the dance
25:57routine yeah that's good that's that's fantastic well it's it's a it's a fine film and i and uh i
26:03should you know mention when it's on it's uh it's on sunday june 10 it's on abc one uh 8 30 pm and a
26:09spoiler alert uh terra nullius doesn't exist rachel perkins ladies and gentlemen
26:21and not coming up because we've run out of time guests paying six thousand dollars get to have
26:26dinner with tony abbott while others paying four dollars fifty get dinner without him
26:32and so ends a week in which vogue magazine pledges to use only models that don't have eating disorders
26:38and are no younger than 16. so i guess with the closure of cotton mills in the 19th century that's
26:43it as far as jobs go for undernourished children it's enough to make yourself sick eh kids here's
26:50tomorrow's talkback yeah listen all those do good is saying jeff kenneth's got a conflict of interest
26:54with beyond blue and star city casino they should get a life the man wants to help people with
26:59depression he's going to the right place to find them yeah if the government's offering jobs to
27:03aussies before overseas workers then i'll put my hand up for alan joyce's spot at qantas thanks very
27:08much yeah listen you hear julia gillard talking about minerals being for all australians you never
27:13hear a talk about vitamins vitamins are just as important as minerals it's typical labor joe baby
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