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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: A very important guest on the phone, Ryan James.

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Speaker 3: Or only a few weeks away. Saturday, third of May,

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Speaker 3: we will go to the polls. It's a federal election.

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Speaker 3: And the man thirty first Prime Minister of Australia joins

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Speaker 3: us right now, Anthony albanezy.

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Speaker 1: Hola, what a nice welcome.

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Speaker 2: Promised to be with you. Where are you this morning?

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Speaker 1: I mean beautiful Melbourne today that's a bit overcast.

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Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha. Well we can look after things here as

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Speaker 2: things are heating up now. There was a little bit

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Speaker 2: of panic we need to touch on this last Thursday.

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Speaker 2: We saw a slight slip of the foot on stage

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Speaker 2: as the body pulled up or off.

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Speaker 1: It was all good. It was all good. I felt

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Speaker 1: the new past on a long time ago. It was

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Speaker 1: all good.

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Speaker 3: You were straight back up, Prime Minister. You did quite well.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Albo. Did you see years and years

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Speaker 3: ago there was a very funny there was a guy

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Speaker 3: who was doodling in the newspaper and it was John

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Speaker 3: Howard was in Parliament. There was three different photos of

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Speaker 3: him doing He was quite animated in Parliament and the

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Speaker 3: guy put headphones, drew headphones on John Howard and said Howard,

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Speaker 3: DJ's like a madman. I had to change a word

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Speaker 3: at the end.

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Speaker 1: There someone I'm aware of that. You've seen that.

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Speaker 3: Well, someone did that with you over the weekend. As

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Speaker 3: you were getting up, it looked like you were djaying.

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Speaker 3: You had your fingers out, Prime Minister, and it looked

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Speaker 3: like someone had done it with you.

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Speaker 1: Well. The good thing about being a tennis player, I

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Speaker 1: reckon was I went back and there wasn't That was

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Speaker 1: the end of the stage. So my foot went down,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't go down, and I reckon it was strong,

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Speaker 1: strong legs from playing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what it. Straight back up, straight back up, Aber.

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Speaker 4: I've got a question, and I thought, I've never spoken

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Speaker 4: to you before, so I'm thrilled to do. And I thought,

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Speaker 4: I ever get in front of Anthony Alban I would

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Speaker 4: ask on.

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Speaker 1: Your program, Christie.

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Speaker 4: I know, I know Albert.

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Speaker 1: I'm a regular here.

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Speaker 4: I know I did see you. I did see you

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Speaker 4: one morning. My god, you travel with a posse. It's

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Speaker 4: about eight your role in eight Deep you'll be given Drake.

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Speaker 4: But I just thought I would ask you where we're

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Speaker 4: right in them we're facing school holidays right, and they

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Speaker 4: happen four times a year. It seems like kids are

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Speaker 4: always on holidays. When will a government, not saying yours,

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Speaker 4: but a government address the fact that parents get four

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Speaker 4: weeks four weeks of holiday a year and kids get

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Speaker 4: twelve It is fresh hell elbow four times a year.

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Speaker 4: You just don't know what to do possib them. It's impossible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it is hard. I remember it very well,

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Speaker 1: and that's one of the reasons why we've done issues

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Speaker 1: like working from home. Put that in the Industrial relations legislation,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not quite sure where they are at the moment,

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Speaker 1: but the Coalition certainly said they'd stop working from home.

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Speaker 1: They didn't want to support it. Today they've gone from

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Speaker 1: defending to pretending that they won't. But that's one of

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Speaker 1: the things that we need where possible. For some places,

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Speaker 1: that's not the case. Obviously. If you're in construction and

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Speaker 1: you're building something, or in my job, I have to work,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind four days annually. But at the moment

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Speaker 1: I've got to say that four works.

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Speaker 4: But give your kids are grown up.

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Speaker 1: The workplaces are important, but they weren't. I've been in this,

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Speaker 1: I was a member of Parliament where my son was born,

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Speaker 1: so I'm certainly aware of the juggling exercise. And my

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Speaker 1: son's mum worked full time as Welsh as as Debi

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Speaker 1: premier in New South Wales. We've had a pretty life

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Speaker 1: and juggling kids is a really true which is where

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Speaker 1: it's possible. Flexible workplaces are a good thing, not a

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Speaker 1: drain on the economy. That actually helped people to be

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Speaker 1: able to work. And that's why where regarded this is

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Speaker 1: really important and how out of touch I think the

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Speaker 1: Coalition have been by saying that they get rid of it.

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Speaker 2: Good Prime Minister KaiOS too. I mean things have really

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Speaker 2: swung your way. I mean the recent polls have shown

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Speaker 2: you're sitting in a great position heading into the election.

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Speaker 2: What do you reckon has been the swing? Why the swing?

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Speaker 2: Why are we seeing the uplifting interest in the two

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Speaker 2: party preferred and also your leadership.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a long way to go, that's the first

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Speaker 1: thing to be said. And I'm certainly not measuring up curtains.

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Speaker 1: My opponent's doing that at Kirabilly House. I think that

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Speaker 1: elections are tough to win. They're always close, they always

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Speaker 1: close up at the end as well. But I do

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Speaker 1: think that the Coalition haven't done the hard work on

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Speaker 1: policy over three years. They've just been against everything, all

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Speaker 1: the cost of living measures that were put in place,

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Speaker 1: and these have been really difficult economic time. The Governor

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Speaker 1: thor right around the world. We've had the biggest global

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Speaker 1: inflation issues since the nineteen eighty the biggest energy crisis

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Speaker 1: since the nineteen seventies, and we're now turning the corner.

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Speaker 1: We have got inflation down, we've got wages up, interest

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Speaker 1: rates have started to fall. We've given tax cuts for

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Speaker 1: every Australian and I think the issue of US giving

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Speaker 1: further tax cuts and the Coalition saying that they will

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Speaker 1: actually legislate to increase income tax for all fourteen million

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Speaker 1: taxpayers is is jarring with the Australian people. But will

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Speaker 1: continue to put forward our really positive agenda, and I

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Speaker 1: think people are worried about the cuts that will come

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Speaker 1: in to pay for their six hundred billion dollar nuclear

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Speaker 1: plan as well, and they know that last time cuts

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Speaker 1: to education thirty billion dollars, cuts to health fifty billion

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Speaker 1: dollars is what they have at government did after they

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Speaker 1: said there wouldn't be.

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Speaker 3: Anyhow Albot can I tell you why. I think you've

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Speaker 3: the popularity has gone up because you're not kicking footballs

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Speaker 3: in the cameraman's heads, which is having over Peter Dutton

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Speaker 3: over the week and you make and runs at Kurabilly House.

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Speaker 3: Now back our creat game the other one as well.

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Speaker 3: I just want to I just want to congratulate yourself

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Speaker 3: and also Whipper while we're on the show as well,

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Speaker 3: because you both made Time Magazine over the weekend and

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Speaker 3: this is global recognition on your stance on kids with

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Speaker 3: social media and upping the age to sixteen years of age.

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Speaker 3: That must have been I mean, Time Magazine is obviously

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Speaker 3: a very well respected magazine, but it's good to know

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Speaker 3: that you know that everybody else around the world is

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Speaker 3: taking notice with that olboat.

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely Fitzzy and cutos to Whipper for the thirty

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Speaker 1: six Months campaign a News Corp for the let Them

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Speaker 1: Be Kids campaign. Importantly as well, the mums and dads

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Speaker 1: who have turned what our personal tragedies into not wanting

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Speaker 1: that to happen to any other parent to lose a

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Speaker 1: young one. They've shown courage and dignity and it's been

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Speaker 1: quite extraordinary. And I want kids off their phones and

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Speaker 1: out on the sports field. Social media companies have a

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Speaker 1: social responsibility and we need to just recognize that this

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Speaker 1: is causing social harm. And I'm really proud of what

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Speaker 1: my Governor's done. Australia can lead the world. We lead

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Speaker 1: the world in giving women, not just the vote, for

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Speaker 1: the right to stand for Parliament. We've led the world

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Speaker 1: in Medicare, the best healthcare system in the world and

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Speaker 1: we're going to make it even stronger. We've led the

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Speaker 1: world in superannuation, giving proper retirement incomes for Australians. Who've

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Speaker 1: led the world in the National Disability Insurance scheme. And

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Speaker 1: here we're leading the world. I have no doubt. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: other countries will follow world.

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Speaker 3: I'm mate weld Im. We're less than a month away

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Speaker 3: now from the federal election and now they we'll talk

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Speaker 3: to you closer to the date. We appreciate your time.

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Speaker 3: We know how busy you are, Prime Minister.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, team and all the best for a

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Speaker 1: great I hope it's a great day in Sydney.

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