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Let's bring in the Liberal MP
Tim Wilson. Now Tim good to see

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you. Thanks for your time this
morning. We'll gotta start with

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news poll today. On current
trends it shows that you're

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going to get pummeled in the
election. It's been wrong

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before though as we all know so
is it accurate this time? Well

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I was out on the in Hampton
Street in the electorate of

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Goldstein on the weekend and
you know there are people who

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are grumpy about the situation
around coronavirus and they're

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holding those in positions of
power and responsibility you

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know responsible for the
various decisions that are

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being made and people people
are grumpy but in the end the

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treasurer's right when he says
the only thing that matters is

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the decisions that are made on
voting day because I think

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Australians when they actually
understand what the future is

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about and the future of the
country know full well the

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choices between a weak Anthony
Albanese or a strong Scott

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Morrison and that's the choice
they're going to be making. Are

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you worried about it though
because there seems to be quite

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the trend emerging? Well I what
I'm conscious of is making sure

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I continue to represent the
good of Goldstein in Parliament

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and that we give voice to their
concerns and their issues. And

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Australia faces big challenges.
Let's not kid ourselves Peter.

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Whether we look at the
challenges geostrategically and

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around national security
obviously the challenge we face

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economically and what's
going to be happening with

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inflation and interest rates.
All of these things mean we

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need strong government in
Canberra focused on the core

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job. You you mentioned
Goldstein there because the

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projections are that up to 25
seats could possibly even your

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own. So how confident are you
that you can hold on? I'm very

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optimistic and very confident
about holding a federal

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electorate of Goldstein because
at every point I've given voice

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to the constituents of
Goldstein in the Federal

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Parliament and prioritise
representing him in the Federal

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Parliament and will continue to
do so and in fact the the

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concerns that I've just
outlined to you when I go on to

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Hampton Street or whether it's
the other streets in the

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electorate the issues that
people raised to me is the

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future economic challenges the
country faces. The national

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security challenges. Covid as
well of course. Ah but what

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people want us to do is be
focused squarely on the job of

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governing the country. Okay but
how much of a thorn in your

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side is Simon Holmes of Court's
climate 200 group? Ah well

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they're they're out there
making a lot of noise and ah

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drawing a lot of tension cells
trying to buy an election. Ah

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Simon Holmes of Court is trying
to throw around his trust fund

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money ah to try and buy an
electoral outcome. I'm sorry

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I've got one message for you
Simon. Our community is not for

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sale and you are not buying it.
We are going to stand loud and

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proud and give voice to the ah
to the concerns and the issues

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fronting the Goldstein
community. You're not going to

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buy it with your Sydney big
tech billionaire mates as a

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fake front for the Labor Party.
Okay Tim Wilson you're under

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the pump for quite the taxpayer
bill that you've racked up by

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spending a lot of time in
Canberra. Some $37, 494 to be

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precise in travel allowance.
That's quite a bill. Well last

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year we had this perennial
challenge where ah Victorian

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MPs couldn't just jump across
the border because there were

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border restrictions. If you did
went back to Victoria there was

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a two week quarantine
restriction. If you came back

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there was another two week
quarantine restriction and

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often Parliament the gap
between sittings was one week

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or two weeks so it wasn't
possible. So I absolutely

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prioritise Parliament
prioritised constituents and

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ultimately said I am going to
make sure that there is not a

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single week in this parliament
that the people of Goldstein

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are not represented and I don't
ah I don't back from that for a

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second because there are some
technical realities. You need

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40 MPs in Parliament physically
in Parliament to have a quorum

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for it to sit and because I
don't have kids. I'm young and

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I'm healthy by turning up it
made it easier for some MPs,

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Labor and Liberal and Greens
and everyone else to be able to

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spend time more with their
families. So yes I absolutely

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stood by the constituents
represented in Parliament and

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that's why they've always had a
voice. Okay so no holiday for

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you? Sorry No I can assure you
go through the committee

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hearings that I had at the time
I had intelligence security

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hearings dealing with the
national security risks. I was

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chairing economic committee
hearings ah exposing the

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corruption in industry super ah
as well as what our regulators

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are doing. I can assure you it
was pretty jam-packed. Tim

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Wilson thanks for your time as
always. Talk to you soon.

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Thanks very much.