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The John Batchelor Show

#Australia: New Zealand vs the Norway Rats. Scott Mayman, CBS News

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🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Australia: New Zealand vs the Norway Rats. Scott Mayman, CBS News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65039451.amp

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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world.

0:07.0

I'm John Batchett, a squatter, leaving a Russian claim of an embassy grounds in Canberra,

0:15.2

Australia, the subhead for NBC.

0:18.2

A lawyer for Russia's head of men who left the site of the proposed embassy after occupying

0:23.4

it for more than a week was a security guard.

0:27.1

This requires an explanation.

0:29.2

I have Scott Maiman of CBS News who's to spend a lot of time at Canberra.

0:33.8

Scott, Russia says that's their land.

0:37.7

And he was squatting on it to make the claim that is now rejected by your courts.

0:45.0

What did what does Russia want with that land?

0:47.6

What did they want to do with it?

0:48.8

They were making such noise about it.

0:50.6

Good day to you.

0:51.7

You know, John, they were getting a lease on that land to buy the land in the future,

0:58.8

which is situated next door to the Australian Parliament House.

1:03.4

For years, they had that land but did nothing with it.

1:06.5

Suddenly, just at the end of last year, they decided to build a new embassy on it.

1:16.0

The details were released.

1:17.6

And the Australian authorities said, no, you can't build an embassy right next door to Parliament House.

1:23.8

It's too close together.

1:25.0

There are security issues at risk here.

1:27.1

And it was moved and through the court system, as well as an act of parliament to stop the Russians having that land.

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