Let's move on now because energy
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minister Chris Bowen, well, he's going
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to be joining the prime minister in New
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York to announce Australia's 2035
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emissions reduction target to the world.
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Before jetting off, he went on the ABC
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and repeated Jim Chararma's charge that
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those who disagree with the government's
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climate change catastrophism are cranks
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and crackpots.
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Do you think those who say we should
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abandon Paris, drop the net zero target
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are um cranks and and um crackpots? I
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think there's both. I think there's
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there's people of bad faith in
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Australian politics exploiting this
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issue. The National Party, you know,
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they are, in my view, betraying readrill
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Australia, which there are people with
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genuine concerns and issues which need
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to be worked through and we've got to
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communicate to those people and correct
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the disinformation that people like
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Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan and Colin
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Boyce National Party this week MP this
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week said climate change isn't real.
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Denied climate change member of the
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alternative government of Australia.
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There are people who engage in climate
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change denial uh who just ignore all the
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science and I think that's deeply
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unfortunate. I don't have any respect
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for that.
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So there you go. But Chris Bowen
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repeatedly refused to agree that 90% of
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the nation's energy would be supplied by
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renewables within the next 10 years as
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recommended by the climate change
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authority.
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Certainly shows what's possible in the
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women's game now. Um if you play with
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the right tempo and the right
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Okay, that was obviously that was not
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Chris. Unless he's changed.
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Unless he's changed. But uh no, there
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you go. But no, he did say that he's
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he's refused to put a timeline on any
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further target. Meanwhile, Barnaby Joyce
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accused Chris Bowen of pursuing a vanity
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target, which is exactly what it is, to
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which climate change authority Matt
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Keane replied that people living through
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floods and fires would disagree.
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Net zero is devastating for our economy
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and will have absolutely zero effect on
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the climate. It's really important.
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Everybody understands it. It has no
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effect on the climate whatsoever. All
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it's doing is a sort of vanity project
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that us and some European countries are
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participating in.
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Well, Barnaby Joyce called this a vanity
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exercise. I don't think that the uh
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fishermen in South Australia that are
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getting smashed by an algaoom think this
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is a vanity exercise. I don't think the
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thousands of people who lost lives and
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livelihoods uh during the worst floods
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our country's our country has ever seen
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up in Lismore or the worst bush fires
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that our countries have ever seen in the
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Black Summer bush fires. Um I don't
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think they think this is a vanity
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exercise. Uh
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please spare us. Why should Australia
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James do all the heavy lifting when we
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emit 1% of the world's greenhouse gases
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yet we're being asked to do a bazillion
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things? And for what? It's not going to
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stop the rain. It's not going to stop
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the sun. Uh and what we just sitting by
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waiting for this what climate change
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Armageddon to hit us. I mean, give me a
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break. Seriously. Firstly, point about
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Bowen. He repeatedly refused to agree
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that 90% of the nation's energy would be
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supplied by renewables in the next 10
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years. So then what exactly is the point
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of being on board this magic carpet ride
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fantasy to net zero? If you cannot set a
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target, if you cannot guarantee that
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one, our energy bills are going to go
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down. Two, you can't actually put a
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price on it. Three, you can't even
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guarantee a target. Then why are we on
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the carpet ride? Secondly, he's talking
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about the National Party are in, he goes
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in my view, betraying regional
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Australia. Has Chris Bowen set foot in
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regional Australia to actually know
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what's going on? I'll give you a hint,
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Chris. Right now in New South Wales, in
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a regional town, you've got wind
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turbines 250 meters tall being proposed.
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It's literally ripping regional
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communities apart. Over in Victoria,
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they have allowed people if you if you
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say no to transmission workers coming
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onto your property, then you can be
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fined. So, these people are coming on
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there to connect solar and wind to the
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grid. And guess what? If you refuse,
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because of course it's razoring up your
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land, too bad, you're going to get fined
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tens of thousands of dollars. But Chris
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Bowen will tell you that the Nationals
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have absolutely no idea about regional
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Australia.
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There's a whole lot of problems with
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what the government is doing. Firstly,
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they're not going to meet their 2030
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targets, which begs the question, why
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set 2035 targets that are particularly
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ambitious. You're not meeting the ones
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you've got. Second, as you mentioned on
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the key question of cost, the government
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doesn't want to talk about what this is
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going to do to our energy bills. In
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fact, Anthony laughed during the press
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conference when asked to nominate a
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figure and then became tet when asked
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again. And he just told reporters, well,
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refer to the report. And as you said,
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Denica, we produce 1.1% of the world's
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emissions. If we got rid of all of those
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emissions today, it would make zero
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difference to the world temperatures
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because the world is continuing to
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increase its emissions. So the only
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difference it's going to make is to our
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economy. And one more point, the
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discussion on this topic continues to be
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infantile. We saw earlier Chris Bowen
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saying yes, there's crackpots and uh
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what was the other thing? Cranks. Um I
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was going to say crackheads, but uh Same
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same. Um they they continue to demonize
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anybody who dares to disagree or have a
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debate. And one more point on that. It's
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shocking that the leader of the Liberal
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Party seems scared of having a debate
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and has delayed any kind of conversation
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for a year while they do research.
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Meanwhile, Chris Bowen is getting away
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with this because there's no opposition.
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Well, the thing is that Chris Bowen,
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even on Friday, James, he was asked
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several times by Sky News reporters
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actually, "What does this mean for
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energy bills in this country?" He could
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not answer. He kept just saying, "Refer
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to the modeling." The prime minister was
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asked the same thing. He said, "Refer to
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the modeling." Remember what the
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modeling told us last time, it told us
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that our power bills would go down $275.
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Fast forward to this year's election.
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Suddenly, oh no, that was Repex
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modeling. That was irrelevant. That was
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to the the modeling of the day. So,
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Labour cannot be trusted with this
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modeling line, but that is that that's
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what they're going with now.
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They can't be trusted with it. They
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don't trust it. Otherwise, they don't
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know that. Well, that's the thing. They
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don't know. But I agree with you.
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Said a $1,000 decrease in prices over 10
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years. It's there in black and white,
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but antidi
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own advice.
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Exactly. And that's why he's scared.
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But, you know, I do agree with you. Who
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else is scared? It's Susan Lee. And this
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if this is not more evidence for the
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Liberal Party to drop net zero alto
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together, nothing will because you've
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got the fumbling Labor Party. They don't
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know what they're talking about. Now is
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the time to set the standard. Get the
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get the ball rolling now. Put an agenda
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forward and put a campaign forward,
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James, to to go to the next election
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with clear policy differences. Well,
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that's that's what I think. They went
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