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Speaker 1: Together do for Sea Allen.

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Speaker 2: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Alberanizi has announced he will address

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Speaker 2: their nation on the around fuel crisis tonight. The statement

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Speaker 2: will happen at nine pm Our time. It will be

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Speaker 2: simall craft across TV and radio stations over in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Charles Crautcher is nine News as chief political editor in

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Speaker 2: Canberra and with US high Charles get ahead. What's he

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Speaker 2: going to say?

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Speaker 1: I think this will be outlining what the problem is,

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Speaker 1: what the plan is, what the government will do, and

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Speaker 1: what he wants Australians to do. So far there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of confusion and chaos and all the stuff that

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Speaker 1: comes out of the Middle East. This is an attempt

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Speaker 1: to put everyone the same page before we go into

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Speaker 1: that Easter long weekend and then school holidays over here,

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Speaker 1: and you kind of lose the audience if you're the

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Speaker 1: PM at a time when over the next two weeks

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Speaker 1: on the President's timeline, the war will end in on Australia,

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Speaker 1: and I dare say in New Zealand's timeline that the

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Speaker 1: real fuel crunch will come. So I think this isn't

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Speaker 1: going to be announcing troops. It's not going to be

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Speaker 1: announcing shutdown, a lockdown or in COVID. This is from

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Speaker 1: what I have heard from his office and from him.

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Speaker 1: This will be his everything on the table and a

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Speaker 1: call for Australians to conserve petrol while also going about

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Speaker 1: their usual easter lized but to break a holiday, whatever

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Speaker 1: you do, catching up with family or if the law

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Speaker 1: gets through, going to the pub. This is about putting

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Speaker 1: everyone on the same page before things get messy, both

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Speaker 1: overseas and with holidays.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but Charles, I mean, this is quite a drastic

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Speaker 2: step to take.

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Speaker 1: I g.

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Speaker 2: It is a big deal to call a national address

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Speaker 2: across your TV and radio stations. Why has he taken

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Speaker 2: such a big step instead of just doing it like

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Speaker 2: our government in New Zealanders donet doing a press conference

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Speaker 2: last Friday at normal business hours and we all got

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Speaker 2: on with our lives. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We don't often see this. I mean, this is usually

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Speaker 1: reserved for times of financial crisis. I apologize about those

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Speaker 1: bells that a ring in. There's a boat going onto

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Speaker 1: the Parliament which is causing that happened all throughout the house.

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Speaker 1: This is usually reserve for times of national tragedy, financial crisis,

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Speaker 1: declarations of war and a like. I think the issue

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Speaker 1: here is during COVID Australia broke down into little five terms,

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Speaker 1: our premiers of the states became emperors, and the nations

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Speaker 1: that have turned on each other. There is a real

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Speaker 1: desire amongst the cabinet and everyone you speak to that

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Speaker 1: this is a national crisis that needs to have a

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Speaker 1: national response. This is the best card the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: has in his deck to make it clear that there

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Speaker 1: is a national response, and he's going to do it

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Speaker 1: now because at the moment they're sort of rolling and

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Speaker 1: ramping up of some of the talk of fuel caps

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Speaker 1: or shutdowns or force work from home. It's starting to

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Speaker 1: get away from the government and this is a chance

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Speaker 1: to well the best chance they have to at least

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Speaker 1: put everyone on the same page and make it clear

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Speaker 1: we're not sending troops, or we're not locking down, or

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Speaker 1: we're not going to have states turn on each other

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Speaker 1: like they did six years ago.

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Speaker 2: Right child, It is always good to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you if your time. I'm Charles Croucher, nine News chief

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