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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. Unclaire Harvey with the

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Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines, Fuel relief is coming for the Bush.

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Speaker 1: Energy Minister Chris Bowen says fuel quality standards will be

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Speaker 1: temporarily lowered to get more fuel into the market quickly. Basically,

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Speaker 1: it means more sulfur will be allowed. Sulfur is a

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Speaker 1: natural part of crude oil, which, when burnt in engines,

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Speaker 1: causes air pollution and can lead to acid rain. Most

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Speaker 1: of it is refined out of the diesel and petrol

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Speaker 1: we buy it the pump. Until last year, Australia had

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Speaker 1: some of the world's dirtiest fuel for the labor Government,

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Speaker 1: led by Bowen, imposed a stringent improvement of standards that's

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Speaker 1: only been in effect for a few months, dramatically slashing

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Speaker 1: the sulfur limits on petrol and diesel. Now, Bowen says

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Speaker 1: relaxing those standards in the short term will prevent us

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Speaker 1: running out of fuel.

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Speaker 2: This will, as I said, enable that supply to be

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Speaker 2: blended into the Australian existing supply and we'll see one

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Speaker 2: hundred million liters extra of fuel each month for the

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Speaker 2: two months for which I will have provided the relaxation.

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Speaker 2: I have asked for and received an assurance from AMPOLE

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Speaker 2: that this extra supply will be prioritized for regional Australia

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Speaker 2: and for the spot market to take pressure off those

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Speaker 2: regional areas feeling such pressure. Such pressure, mister Speaker and

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Speaker 2: I have received that.

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Speaker 1: The International Energy Agency has agreed to the biggest ever

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Speaker 1: release of public emergency stocks of oil and it sent

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Speaker 1: oil prices up instead of down, as jittery markets interpret

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Speaker 1: the release as a sign the Iran war really is

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Speaker 1: going to create an energy crisis. Sixteen hundred at Lassian

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Speaker 1: employees are back on the job hunt after the Australian

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Speaker 1: tech giant sacked ten percent of its workforce. About a

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Speaker 1: third of those are based in Australia and they were

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Speaker 1: told they've been let go via email. At Lassian founder

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Speaker 1: Might canon Brooks is blaming rapid advancements in artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 3: It's an incredibly hard decision, but I still believe that

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Speaker 3: it's the right one. We're focused on moving faster, staying

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Speaker 3: disciplined on costs, and proving that we can grow profitably

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Speaker 3: over the long term by staying responsive to the world

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Speaker 3: that we have to operate in.

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Speaker 1: The redundancies are expected to cost at Lassian as much

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Speaker 1: as one hundred and seventy four million US dollars. You

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Speaker 1: can read the inside story of how at Lassian's massive

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Speaker 1: job cuts unfolded right now on the Australian dot com

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Speaker 1: dot AU. Intelligence agencies say they might not be able

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Speaker 1: to produce full evidence to the Antisemitism Royal Commission, and

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Speaker 1: some information has been redacted. That's as former spyboss Dennis

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Speaker 1: Richardson abruptly quit the investigation, saying he was surplus to requirements.

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Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at the Australian

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