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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian I'm christinami it with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Donald Trump has declared the war

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Speaker 1: with Iran a quote decisive, overwhelming victory and says America's

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Speaker 1: objectives in the Middle East are nearing their conclusion. In

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Speaker 1: an eighteen minute national address given on Thursday morning Australian Time,

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Speaker 1: the US president claimed Iran's nuclear and military ambitions have

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Speaker 1: been stymied by Operation Epic Fury, which began four weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive,

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Speaker 2: overwhelming victories on the battlefield, victories like few people have

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Speaker 2: ever seen before. Tonight, Iran's navy is gone, They're air

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Speaker 2: forces in ruins. Their leaders, most of them terrorist regime

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Speaker 2: they led, are now dead. Their ability to launch missiles

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Speaker 2: and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons factories and

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Speaker 2: rocket launchers are being blown to pieces, very few of

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Speaker 2: them left. Never in the history of warfare has an

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Speaker 2: enemy suffered such clear and devastating, large scale losses in

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Speaker 2: a matter of weeks.

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Speaker 1: But Trump vowed the United States would engage in further

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Speaker 1: military action against Iran before the conflict reaches its conclusion over.

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Speaker 2: The next two to three weeks, we're going to bring

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Speaker 2: them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. In

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Speaker 2: the meantime, discussions are ongoing.

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Speaker 1: The president urged Americans to keep the comparably short duration

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Speaker 1: of the war with Iran quote in perspective and blamed

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Speaker 1: his predecessors for allowing Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 2: For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons would be an

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Speaker 2: intolerable threat. I will never let that happen, and neither

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Speaker 2: should any of our past presidents. This situation has been

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Speaker 2: going on for forty seven years and should have been

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Speaker 2: handled long before I arrived in office.

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Speaker 1: Trump reportedly previously told AIDS he's happy to end America's

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Speaker 1: military campaign before the Strait of Hormores is reopened, and

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Speaker 1: said on Wednesday allies could fend for themselves in securing

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Speaker 1: oil supplies. About twenty percent of the world's oil needs

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Speaker 1: passed through the Strait of Hallmors every day, and experts

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Speaker 1: say that could push the global economy into dangerous territory.

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Speaker 1: But in his national address, Trump said the strait will

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Speaker 1: quote open up naturally and oil prices, which have skyrocketed

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Speaker 1: as a result of the disruption to global shipping routes

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Speaker 1: would plummet.

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Speaker 2: Go to the street and just take it, protect it,

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Speaker 2: use it for yourselves. Aran has been essentially decimated. The

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Speaker 2: hard part is done, so it should be easy. We

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Speaker 2: have not hit their oil though that's the easiest target

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Speaker 2: of all because it would not give them even a

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Speaker 2: small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit

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Speaker 2: it and it would be gone and there's not a

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Speaker 2: thing they could do about it.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Albanesi has foreshadowed an ambitious reform agenda ahead of

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Speaker 1: next month's federal budget. Speaking at the National Press Club

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, the Prime Minister said Labor is working to

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Speaker 1: balance cost of living relief with long term economic prosperity.

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Speaker 3: It is our government's most important budget to date and

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Speaker 3: it will be our most ambitious. It has to be.

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Speaker 3: The scale of the challenge facing us and the breadth

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Speaker 3: of opportunities ahead of us demands that ambition and that urgency,

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Speaker 3: and our Australian character demands that ambition too.

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Speaker 1: It comes less than twenty four hours after Albanzi gave

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Speaker 1: a national address in which he urged Australians to do

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Speaker 1: their part in the government's response to the conflict in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East and avoid buying more fuel than they

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Speaker 1: need over the Easter long weekend. In his press club address,

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Speaker 1: the PM resisted calls to establish a ninety day fuel reserve,

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Speaker 1: saying it's an expensive and outdated policy.

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Speaker 3: We've moved on and will continue to examine what is

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Speaker 3: the best policy to further increase that security, says a

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Speaker 3: range of measures as biofuels is arranging new technologies as

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Speaker 3: well that can add to our security.

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Speaker 1: But Albanesi announced his government has struck a deal with

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Speaker 1: state and territory leaders to cut fuel costs by a

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Speaker 1: further six cents per liter at the petrol bowser and.

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Speaker 3: This morning, importantly, we have reached agreement with the states

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Speaker 3: and territories to deliver a further cut in the fuel

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Speaker 3: tax by returning their GST windfall to Australians. This will

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Speaker 3: mean a combined saving of thirty two cents on every leader.

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Speaker 3: The Treasurer, Jim Sharma says, already signed that change in

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Speaker 3: the law.

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Speaker 1: A judge has denied a bid to conceal the identities

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Speaker 1: of the family members of alleged Bondai gunman Navid Akram.

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Speaker 1: Judge Hugh Donnelly told the Downing Central Local Court on

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Speaker 1: Thursday such a suppression order would be impossible to enforce.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four year old Navid Akram and his father, fifty

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Speaker 1: year old Sajid, allegedly opened fire on a Hunnaker festival

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Speaker 1: at Sydney's Bondai Beach in December. Sajid was shot dead

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Speaker 1: by police at the scene, while Navid is awaiting trial

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Speaker 1: on more than fifty chargers, including terrorism offenses, at Golban's

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Speaker 1: Supermax Prison. He has yet to enter a plea. Navid

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Speaker 1: Akram requested for names, addresses and other information that could

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Speaker 1: identify his family members to be concealed for forty years

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Speaker 1: after they allegedly received death threats, but Judge Donnelly said

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Speaker 1: the suppression order would not be granted because quote no

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Speaker 1: one has been assaulted and none of the threats have

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Speaker 1: manifested physical violence, and because there are da identities are

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