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Speaker 1: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm christinami.

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Speaker 1: It it's Monday, November twenty four, twenty twenty five. Australian

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Speaker 1: Federal Police Commissioner Chrissy Barrett will work with her international

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Speaker 1: counterparts to track down people she says are undermining social

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Speaker 1: cohesion in Australia, including gangs who traffic, elicit tobacco and

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Speaker 1: Nazi supporters. The Coalition is stuck at a record low

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Speaker 1: approval rating of twenty four percent. That's according to new

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Speaker 1: data from Newspoll and it's despite a decision by the

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Speaker 1: Liberal and National parties to dump a net zero emissions

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Speaker 1: goal from their policy platform and a promise to get

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Speaker 1: tough on immigration. You can read our experts analysis right

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Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot com dot AU. US President

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is fuming over a decision by more than

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Speaker 1: a dozen world leaders to defy his policy agenda. They

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Speaker 1: went big on the Paris Agreement and net zero at

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Speaker 1: the G twenty leader's Summit, and it's assigned the US

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Speaker 1: President's global influence is on the wayne. That's today's episode.

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Speaker 1: In May, during a meeting with South African President Cyril

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Speaker 1: Ramaposa at the White House. US President Donald Trump made

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Speaker 1: a startling claim.

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Speaker 2: So we take from many locations. If we fail, there's

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Speaker 2: persecution or genocide going on. And we had a lot

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Speaker 2: of people. I must tell you, mister President, we have

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Speaker 2: had a tremendous number of people, especially since we've seen this.

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Speaker 2: Generally they are waite farmers and they're fleeing South Africa,

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Speaker 2: and it's a very sad thing to see.

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Speaker 1: A week earlier, the United States granted asylum to sixty Africanas,

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Speaker 1: despite denials by South African officials from across the political

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Speaker 1: spectrum that any such persecution was occurring. But Trump felt

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Speaker 1: so strongly about the issue that he boycotted the annual

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Speaker 1: G twenty Leader summit, which happened in Johannesburg over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Ramaposa said it was a missed opportunity.

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Speaker 3: It's always best to be inside the tent than being

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Speaker 3: outside of the tent. The tent is the G twenty.

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Speaker 3: All countries are here, and the United States, being the

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Speaker 3: biggest economy in the world, needs to be here.

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Speaker 1: And the White House, well, they disagreed. He is Press

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Speaker 1: Secretary Caroline leave It.

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Speaker 4: I saw the South African president running his mouth a

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Speaker 4: little bit against the United States and the President of

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Speaker 4: the United States earlier today, and that language is not

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Speaker 4: appreciated by the President or his team.

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Speaker 1: In Trump's absence, world leaders who attended the summit, including

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi, united in an act of defiance

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Speaker 1: against the US president's agenda.

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Speaker 5: Now the world's largest economies have to fight Donald Trump

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Speaker 5: by agreeing to a leader's declaration of the G twenty,

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Speaker 5: a unified plan the place's strong emphasis on accelerating global

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Speaker 6: One by one, the leaders of major economies representing eighty

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Speaker 6: five percent of global GDP and two thirds of the

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Speaker 6: world's population rejected Donald Trump's view of the world.

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Speaker 7: You know, the odds saying is that if you don't

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Speaker 7: attend the lunch, you are lunch.

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Speaker 1: Cameron Stewart is the Australian's chief international correspondent.

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Speaker 7: And to a degree, that's what we saw play out

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Speaker 7: in Johannesburg. We had the G twenty leaders there talking

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Speaker 7: about their own agenda and they put out a very

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Speaker 7: very traditional, if you like, rule of law kind of

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Speaker 7: old fashion statement which really strongly backed the climent change

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Speaker 7: initiatives of the Paris agreement, even talked about net zero,

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Speaker 7: talked about the importance of free and fair trade across

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Speaker 7: the world, and basically just how important multilateralism is, the

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Speaker 7: multilateral institutions. Of course, all of that is very anti Trumpian. So,

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Speaker 7: if you like, we are seeing in this one of

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Speaker 7: the very first examples of Donald Trump's waning influence on

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Speaker 7: world bodies. It was really quite striking that the G

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Speaker 7: they wouldn't have done it in this manner. Donald Trump

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Speaker 7: is having a tough time at the moment on his

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Speaker 7: signature economic policy. He is tariffs, which he levied across

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Speaker 7: the world. He's finding, not surprisingly, that they're not helping

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Speaker 7: in lowering consumer prices. In the United States, a grocery

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Speaker 7: price is still very high, and in fact, earlier this

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Speaker 7: month he actually signed an executive order removing tariffs on

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Speaker 7: was because he's worried about high crisis of grocery products

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Speaker 7: and that's leading to a demise in his popularity. So

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Speaker 7: that's the first plank. The second plank, of course, is

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Speaker 7: United States Supreme Court is reviewing the legality, the constitutional

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Speaker 7: legality off his tariffs. Now they had a quick look

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Speaker 7: at it the other day, the Supreme Court and asked

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Speaker 7: a lot of very hostile questions, which made a lot

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Speaker 7: on that front, Trump is taking a bit of a

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Speaker 7: battering within his own party. Kristin his MAGA loyalists are

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Speaker 7: asking questions of him that we haven't seen before. Of course,

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Speaker 7: we've seen the spectacular fallout between himself and Marjorie Taylor Green,

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Speaker 7: the very prominent MAGA congresswoman who now says she's going

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Speaker 7: There is a cohort of mega Trump supporters who are

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Speaker 7: disturbed by a he's fall out with her. He's handling

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Speaker 7: of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which of course he has

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Speaker 7: been reluctant to have released all the way through. He

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Speaker 7: and of course some isolationist MAGA identities are not happy

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Speaker 7: with America's involved in foreign conflicts still, from the Middle

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Speaker 7: East to Ukraine to even the Nezuela. So he put

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Speaker 7: all those things together their Christian He's having a reasonably

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Speaker 7: tough time at the moment, which we haven't seen him suffer,

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Speaker 7: if you like, since he was re elected, and in fact,

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Speaker 7: Royce's pole release last week, so he's approvalrating is now

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Speaker 7: thirty eight percent, which is the lowest of his presidency.

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Speaker 7: So it's certainly taking a toll.

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Speaker 1: He said there that if you don't attend the lunch,

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Speaker 1: you are lunch. Cyril Ramaposa said, it's his position that

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Speaker 1: boycott politics don't work. Was he right in this instance?

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Speaker 7: I think Trump wasn't wise not to attend the G twenty,

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Speaker 7: his favorite summit. You know, it's a lot about the

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Speaker 7: developing world wanting things from the developed world. It's a

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Speaker 7: very consensus bace grouping normally simply because it's hard to

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Speaker 7: Of course, he boycotted on the grounds that he believes

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Speaker 7: and that's part of the South African government's policy and

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Speaker 7: that's wrong. But that's not a massive reason for Trump

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Speaker 7: to boycott the actual summit. I don't think. I mean,

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Speaker 7: some of those claims are contested. You can take it

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Speaker 7: either way. But the bottom line is that Trump, I

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Speaker 1: This Joint Communica, as you said, was unanimously endorsed by

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Speaker 1: all G twenty member nations except the United States, that

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Speaker 1: includes the United Kingdom, Canada and China. Is Australia's participation

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Speaker 1: likely to have any impact on our bilateral relationship with

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 7: Look, I don't think so. I think there's enough cover

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Speaker 7: there if you like, for US. I mean, Anthony Albernezi

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Speaker 7: at the very successful meeting, of course, with Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 7: Trump hasn't beaten up on Australia with tariffs compared to

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Speaker 7: other countries. I don't think there's anything that's going to

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Speaker 7: interesting that as a group the G twenty, he felt

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Speaker 7: the collective protection if your life, of everybody pushing back

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Speaker 1: Prome Minister Anthony Alberanez he said at the G twenty

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Speaker 1: will support new gas projects as a backup in the

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Speaker 1: transition to renewables.

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Speaker 5: All of the energy experts so the cheapest form of

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Speaker 5: transition is renewables, back by gas, back by hydro, back

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Speaker 2: That's Australia's position.

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Speaker 1: But just last week at the COP thirty Climate summit

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Speaker 1: in Brazil, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen endorsed

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Speaker 1: degrees celsius. So how does that wash on the global stage.

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Speaker 1: Is the Albanese labor government trying to have its cake

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Speaker 7: An extent, you could interpret it that way. I think

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Speaker 7: Anthony Alberici's comments on gas definitely directed entirely at the

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Speaker 7: So I think his comments, if you like, are the

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Speaker 1: Coming up, what about Donald Trump's vision for Ukraine. The Communicy,

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Speaker 1: peace to nations afflicted by war. We've used AI to

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Speaker 8: We will work for a just, comprehensive and lasting peace

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Speaker 8: in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the occupied Palestinian territory, Ukraine,

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Speaker 8: as well as ending other conflicts and wars around the globe.

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Speaker 1: But ending the war in Ukraine is presenting a unique challenge.

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Speaker 1: Last week, a twenty eight point peace plan drafted by

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Speaker 1: the United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff was leaked to

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Speaker 7: Trump's persuasiveness, if you like, but also how willing he

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Speaker 7: it to Ukraine to Vladimir Zelensky, Ukrainian leader, as an ultimatum.

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Speaker 7: a week now. Zelensky's been a reasonably diplomatic I think

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Speaker 7: he's learnt from his previous fighting with Donald Trump not

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Speaker 7: to come out swinging. But nevertheless, Zelensky said a remarkable

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Speaker 7: are now facing a very difficult choice between surrendering some

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Speaker 7: would be very difficult for Lelensky to sign this and

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Speaker 7: Trump is under a fair bit of pressure to rebalance,

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Speaker 7: if you like this peace proposal. So it'll be really

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Speaker 7: fascinated to see what happens in the days ahead. How

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Speaker 7: stand his ground and say no, take it or leave it.

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Speaker 7: This is what you've got.

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Speaker 1: Cameron Stewart is The Australian's chief international correspondent. You can

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Speaker 1: read his commentary on Donald Trump's rough patch right now

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Speaker 1: at the Australian dot com dot au.