Murray Olds: Australia Correspondent talks ISIS brides and neo-Nazis heckling at ANZAC ceremony

A group of four women and nine children have secured flights to Australia from Damascus over the weekend, re-sparking conversations about ISIS brides returning to their home countries. 

Additionally, associates of a recently disbanded neo-Nazi group were removed from an ANZAC ceremony for booing and heckling the speaker.

Despite the group officially disbanding in January due to hate speech laws, Australian correspondent Murray Olds says the individuals are still active.  

"They still hang out together with secret handshakes and, you know, code words and whatnot, because they've all got IQs of about room temperature," he told Andrew Dickens. 

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
To go to Australia. Murray Olds joins us not on
holiday today, Murray, very good morning, Andrew.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
I know it's public holiday here. I've always objected to this.
I think it's a portable patriotism. You don't need a
holiday of the ANZAC days on Saturday or Sunday. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
You'll be pleased to know that. You'll be pleased to
know that most of the audience has been saying executly
the same thing on this program today. I mean, it's
not the day, it's not the day.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
It's about what the day represents. And if it's on
a Saturday, you don't have a holiday on Monday. This
thing is absolutely silly. And I mean, you know you're
going to talk to any employer organization Andrew over here,
they say the productivity lost today is they have of
a lot of money, right, And it's true, it's true,
we don't need another day on the source.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, but then again, then there's the hospitality places here
that charge a searcharge and they go all the productivity
just went through the roof. Thank you so very very much,
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, for the proprietor exactly right to.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Start with Anzac Day because of the story of Uncle Ray,
whose brothers and grandfather fought in wars. But on the
Anzac Day service in Martin Place in the middle of Sydney,
Uncle Ray got booed.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
He was booed. And I don't know if you know
Martin Place John Service that must have been there a
dozen times over the years, and echoes up and down
there and Unreah is there giving the welcome the country.
Boo boo. To his credit, he looks up and just
kept going. He did not phase him at all. He's

(01:45):
been there before, He's had booing before. And in Melbourne
it was even worse because then in Melbourne there were
in front of the Shriner Remembers, there were about fifty
thousand people down over that. Anyway, a bunch of Halpwicks
recently disbanded Neo Nazis, the Neo Nazi group, the National

(02:06):
Socialist Network. They garily pulled the pin on their ridiculous
organization when they were threatened with prosecution. Anyway, you know
that they still hang out together with secret handshakes and
code words and whatnot, because they've all got IQs of
about room temperature. Anyway, they start doing, he's Nazis up

(02:26):
the front and the lead up to ANZAC Day in Melbourne,
Nazi social media accounts and you know, TikTok and Facebook
and all the rest of it, all the social media stuff.
The followers of these of these people were encouraged to
turn up and boom during this welcome for country, now
for the for the elder delivering it in Melbourne. It

(02:49):
was very distressing. He was booed last year as well.
So it's not helped when you get the federal opposition.
Lead to Angus Taylor going on national television yesterday saying,
I think it's ever done a bit. You know, it's
ever done half wit politicians trying to pander to the
right wing rump that has left the Liberal Party. Angus,

(03:11):
wake up, angers. No one likes you anymore. They're all
going to Pauline Hanson and the lady's poll points to
her winning points to Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party winning
the by election down in southern New South Wales in
a fortnight. That's how bad it's covered. The Liberal party.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
All right, yes, and of course the leader opposition Nada
Angus Taylor. As you said, he says, welcome to country.
Ceremonies have been devalued through over use.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, well thanks for that rich white person in a
blue suit bug her off.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
All right, Hey, let's go to Sydney Hospital where there's
been an attack. It had been an attack by a patient.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Oh, there's shocking stuff. It was only about a month
ago that a woman managed to conn her way into
a different hospital the quarter past midnight. I have to
speak to a patient. She was told she couldn't. She's
just pushed past the nurse had gone in and hit
this fellow on the head with the hammer. She's now
been charge of the tempted murder. Said something about that

(04:10):
the person, the victim, the guy in the sixties, stole
her brother's ashes, whatever that means. Anyway, fast forward to
this weekend, to Saturday night and a patient fifty one
years old. He's in the Prince of Wales Hospital at
Ramwick Over in the Eastern suburbs and for some bizarre
reason he's just gone off his trolley. He's assaulted three nurses,

(04:32):
broke the leg of one of them. He's attacked the
police officer, a security guard and even a visitor to
the hospital. He's about habast eight on Saturday night. Now
he's attacked this a first nurse and broken her leg.
The woman visiting a relative at the time was attacked
with a garbage bend. She was twenty six years old.

(04:54):
The police were at the hospital Andrew on unrelated matter.
They've obviously got the word quick, you know whatever ward
it was. This fellow is on the rampage. They've gone
running to that area. He's attacked one of those police officers.
They don't the taser him twice anyway, He's now in

(05:15):
a secure facility inside the hospital. And it emerges. I
don't know if it's the same in New Zealand. It's
emerged that eighty eight percent in a recent survey conducted
by the Nurses and Midwives Association of New South Wales,
eighty eight percent of members who responded reported being subjected
to violence in the previous twelve months. Bugger, it's called

(05:37):
it ninety percent. Imagine that and know what they're saying.
It's all about. It's about the long waits we have
to endure in emergency departments. They're all over work like
billyo in there staff and kicked, spat on, bitten, attacked
with scissors. I mean, it's just dreadful, dreadful, dreadful. Apparently

(05:59):
it's not out of it's not unusual for these poor
people to be subjected to stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's the same here, mate, it's the same here. You've
also got people who are ill and they're a little
bit emotionally, you know, on the edge, and then they're
told to wait and then they just snap and terrible
things happen. So yeah, there we go.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
One final but we don't have we haven't got you know,
a thousand emergency nurses looking after you as soon as
you walk in the door.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
It is treatful. One final story though, isis brides are
back in the news.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well there are, yes, there are four of these women,
three from Melbourne, one from Sydney and nine children in total.
Apparently they have left a this it's pretty dreadful refugee
camp in northern Syria and they've been taken to Damascus.
This a weekend just gone and they're all trying to

(06:51):
get to Australia.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Now.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
There are thirteen people involved. The Federal government this year
issued them with passports because as Australian citizens they are
entitled to an Australian passport. But the government again silly
under pressure from from voters and paul En Hansen the
right working over here. They're not coming in. They're they're Australians.

(07:14):
The Australian government will not give them a single cent
a single dollar to help them get home. But if
they get home, I think to stop them coming in. Right.
So there are thirteen apparently that have been taken to Damascus.
They're going to be put on a plane within forty
eight hours. They are going to stay there for a
day or two and then they're going to be heading
to Australia. Now there are seven more women and fourteen

(07:35):
of their children are still apparently in that refugee camp,
so this could be an arrival. The federal government doesn't
want to see political mana for people like Angus Taylor.
They'll say, oh, you're not doing enough to keep Australian
safe sports. They are Australian centizens, whether you like it
or not. Yes, they made some pretty dumb decisions if

(07:55):
the kids didn't. And now both sides of mainstream politics
here are pumping a little chest saying I will be
tapping the new.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
All right, Marie, thank you so much for joining us
on this ANZAC day. Really sorry that all our sporting
teams bet all your sporting teams all weekend long, whether
it was rugby or league, but.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Don't worry about that.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
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