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Speaker 1: Fits in with But it is that Tommy, you get

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Speaker 1: really excited about this because you know Christmas is just

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Speaker 1: and we thank him every time he comes on the show.

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Speaker 1: It's our Prime Minister, Scutty Morrison.

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Speaker 2: How are you very well?

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Speaker 3: Mate? Now, normally I wouldn't say this to another man,

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Speaker 3: but what are you wearing? I mean those photos that

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Speaker 3: came out of where you were just shirt and jacket

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Speaker 3: on top and board shorts and thongs below. My question

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Speaker 3: is how off mullet?

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Speaker 2: It's a form of it's a closed mallet.

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Speaker 1: It is a closed mullet, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's business on top.

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Speaker 1: Business on top and then it's just letting it go

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Speaker 1: on the back.

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Speaker 3: How often do you wear that, Prime Minister?

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Speaker 2: Not very often. I'm going to say it was a

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Speaker 3: But happened to Yeah, understandable.

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Speaker 1: We were just looking at the paper today. There's a

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Speaker 1: all these jobs are being created. In the film industry,

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister, which is great news. A lot of big

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Speaker 1: Hollywood films coming over here. Sasha Baron Cohen is in

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Speaker 1: a year and living here in Australia. Yeah, well, do

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Speaker 1: you get nervous?

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Speaker 2: Do you get nervous?

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Speaker 1: Though, Prime Minister, he's spent the last two years targeting

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Speaker 2: It could be one.

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Speaker 3: You heard they were flying in. Did you do you

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Speaker 2: The very high walls here at the lodge.

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Speaker 3: Have you have you met Sasha Baron Cohen before?

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Speaker 3: Thing could happen.

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Speaker 1: Actually, what was your first phone call, like the Joe Biden,

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Speaker 3: Did you have any one?

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Speaker 2: It was? It was very early on in the piece.

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Speaker 2: And he knows a lot about Australia. He's very experienced

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Speaker 2: Happened four years ago too, and so we'll just work

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Speaker 1: Pay Prime Minister he's gone now, well he doesn't want

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, your first phone call with Donald Trump? Is

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: No, that was Turnbulls. Yeah, that was turnbul But you

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Speaker 2: Well, not that I'm aware of. I mean I have

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Speaker 3: But when that swaps over, does that mean all the

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing about it the United States and

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Speaker 2: Everyone's gone through so much, but goss, Australians have done

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Speaker 2: Australias opening up again. The vaccine progress is going really well.

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Speaker 2: The jobs are coming back. Three quarters of the jobs

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Speaker 3: Having a few strategic meetings with the heads of the

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Speaker 2: Look, we're meeting all the time, and just because there's

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Speaker 2: That we had that hiccup the other week, but I've

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Speaker 2: So those systems have got stronger and stronger as the

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Speaker 1: The summer of cricket kicks off today too, Prime Minister,

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Speaker 1: Australia versus India at the seg which is very very exciting.

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Speaker 2: I haven't rung and after Buddy can come and join

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Speaker 3: In the field.

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Speaker 2: We hadn't written the field by dog Buddy.

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Speaker 3: I think you want it for been.

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Speaker 1: A horrible year as well because we haven't been able

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Speaker 1: Can we confirm from your Prime Minister that twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'd love to and we can do it kh

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Speaker 3: Yeah. What will the Morrison family be doing at Christmas time?

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Speaker 3: Will you get a chance to catch your breath?

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Speaker 2: I hope. So we're actually going to be down here

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Speaker 2: in canber this year, yep. Just a close family and

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Speaker 2: this year. This will be our first Christmas without my father,

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Speaker 2: spent a difficult year, but they still got each other,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, world, I mate, I appreciate it. We know it's

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Speaker 1: been a very busy year for you. Yeah, enjoy that

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Speaker 1: time with the family. Have a great Christmas, Prime Minister,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for coming on the show.

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Speaker 2: Well, Marry Christy Merry Christmas to your mum.

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Speaker 3: To with her of course, mate, she'd be listening, all.

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Speaker 2: Under control for Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. She'll even back you a special pudding

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Speaker 3: and send it to Canberra made okay, so.

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Speaker 2: I'll be fantastic. All the best of Tommy, Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 2: apparently it's my last day.

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Speaker 3: He gets a Friday every Friday.

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Speaker 2: But I'm going to miss talking to the team. Well, Tommy, yeah.

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Speaker 1: It comes debatable, Prime Minister. I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: That in Parliament. On your side, Tommy, you don't let it,

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Speaker 2: don't let him get to you.

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Speaker 1: Three guys fits in with her.

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Speaker 3: Never