Australia

This is the final Word Daily.

For the final time, the South Africa Australia Daily.

Well, hopefully not the final time ever, but the final time for this test series.

It was an October baby and now it's the 1st of November and it's all done.

Always a privilege to do that type of work and all the various things I was doing out there, all the podcasts that we recorded and all the support we had.

But you're right, there is a need to do that the next day, because, well, there usually is, but today more than most.

There's obviously heaps more for us to do in the week that'll give us more bites of the cherry, but we're going to try and isolate today's conversation to the structural stuff with Australia and see whether we can make some sense of it.

South Africa I'm conscious that they are the team that won the series and should be talked about but this is primarily fundamentally an Australian show and there is a lot to talk about I wrote in the the recap for the Guardian that may or may not be up when this pod goes out that you know the knives were out in 2018 when the team went home and it won't be that bad it's not that bad but there are knives out for a bunch of people around this Australian setup and It's understandable.

I one time met Baz Luhrmann at a party, and he was like...

My Australian accent is terrible.

He was like, I'll give you one piece of advice.

Just smash it.

And you have to say that the better team won the series on this occasion in South Africa.

I think by and large, across the board, played better cricket than Australia.

And you're right, it is pretty raw.

And let's start to...

I'll try and keep it PG from a language perspective.

I'll try and keep my natural reactions of being just massively disappointed by the way in which the game finished for Australia and the repeated cycle of the same issues cropping up again and again.

But we'll unpack the game in its fullest, and I'll attempt to keep it as up-vibe and interesting as I can.

But I do want to open and give credit to South Africa because they played a terrific series against Australia, haven't played a lot of cricket at home of late, and were really the hunted going into this World Test Championship cycle.

People threaten you, saying, oh, you're a violent black dog that needs to be put down.

Then, in a case that shocked the world last month, an Australian female politician was targeted, then hit on purpose by a man driving an SUV.

Helen Haynes has since had both legs amputated.

Breaking news today out of Australia, where a member of parliament has been critically injured in what's claimed to be an attack near her office in the state of Victoria.

even hear there's black people in

Australia.

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they were the original ones by the way just to let you know that's another

He tries to make...

the Frenchman understand that he comes from the same well that the German comes from, that the Australian comes from, that the Norseman or Northman, uh, uh, Norwegian, sorry, that the Norwegian comes from, that the Scot comes from, that the American comes from, not just the American, but that the New England Yankee and the southern planter, all of these people come from the same source, come from the same well.

And Spengler talks about this.

He calls this Faustian civilization and decline of the West.

Well, my name is Bianca.

I'm originally from Australia.

I'm born and raised there, but I do have Italian heritage.

You probably noticed from my name.

Yeah.

So my family background, as I said, is Italian.

And my father was born and raised in Australia.

But after 20 years, his family decided to move back to Italy.

They're minute.

Stop worrying about Australia's overall debt.

Because, see, the economists do this tricky stuff.

You know, like they go, oh, Australia's debt's a trillion dollars.

And it's like, oh, my God.

And it's like, dude, we've got $2.5 trillion every year, right? The Japanese debt is 250%, right? China's is 300%.

Yeah.

You know, so of course there's going to be a general price rise.

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