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Speaker 1: Murray Olds is our Australia correspondent, Murray cyclone Alfred heading

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Speaker 1: towards Australia. Are people taking this seriously?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 1: Are Ryan?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Good afternoon. Is the first tropical cyclone to hit

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Speaker 2: southeast Queensland in a generation since nineteen ninety prior of

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Speaker 2: that nineteen seventy four. And some very wild weathers on

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Speaker 2: the way. One hundred and twenty hundred and thirty k

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Speaker 2: and our winds up to half a meter of rain

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Speaker 2: in some parts, waves up to nine to ten meters high,

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Speaker 2: belting into the coast. Well, that's going to cause a

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Speaker 2: lot of flash flooding erosion as well from the mid

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Speaker 2: North Coast way up past the Sunshine Coast in Queensland,

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Speaker 2: the mid North coast of New South Wales. Now that's

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Speaker 2: it's well over one thousand kilometers, so it's a very

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Speaker 2: very big storm. Locals have been belted, as you know

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Speaker 2: in recent years, a very very serious string of bad

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Speaker 2: weather events. Shops are busy, some shelves are empty, people

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Speaker 2: being urged to buy just what you need for say

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Speaker 2: seventy two hours. You've got State Emergency Service volunteers. They

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Speaker 2: are on standby up and down the coast. You've got

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Speaker 2: special flood rescue teams and play and locals are being

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Speaker 2: urged to download the latest apps. That's the emerge now

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Speaker 2: is the most effective way to stay in touch with

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Speaker 2: all the warnings that are going to be flooding out

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Speaker 2: as soon as this big bad boy hits.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, you've got your Defense minister giving an update on

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Speaker 1: when the shipment of tanks is going to be sent

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Speaker 1: to Ukraine. Sounds like they could use them now.

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Speaker 2: No kidding, it's right with Trump slamming the brakes on

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Speaker 2: any more military supplies from the United States. But I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure that Ukraine's really going to I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: what they're going to say about forty nine Abrams tanks

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Speaker 2: near the end of their operational lives. Ukraine wants them,

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Speaker 2: of course, and before the northern summer they can get

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Speaker 2: them up to speed and the people trained up to

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Speaker 2: run them and get them on the front line by

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Speaker 2: big year now, Miles Richard Marles, the Defense Minister did

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Speaker 2: not give a timeline. He just said, oh, look, you

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Speaker 2: know it's going to be soon. Well that's not good

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Speaker 2: enough for Key. You visited an Albanezi. The Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: again has restated in support for ves suggested he's open

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Speaker 2: to sending peacekeepers. This is interesting if requested by Britain.

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Speaker 2: Australia is provided to this point one and a half

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Speaker 2: billion dollars in aid to Ukraine. And these these Abram tanks,

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Speaker 2: forty nine of them, well, they could be on their

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Speaker 2: way pretty soon. That's what Ukraine is hoping for.

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Speaker 1: These tariffs that Trump's announced today had a bit of

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Speaker 1: a hit on your stock market.

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Speaker 2: No kidding. Yeah, the Australian market followed Wall Street down,

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Speaker 2: the ASX down that one percent is out of the opening,

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Speaker 2: lost four point two percent in February, and that's the

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Speaker 2: worst month we fall in more than two years. Veiggus

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Speaker 2: falls and miners over here worried that China won't need

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Speaker 2: as much high all of American tariffs start belting Beijing.

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Speaker 2: Iron all down two point two percent out of night.

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Speaker 2: Also down energy tech stocks, the big banks as well.

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Speaker 2: Investors also over here Ryan waiting for the minutes of

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Speaker 2: the Reserve Banks board meeting last week. They decided that

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Speaker 2: that board meeting to cut official interest rates by a

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Speaker 2: quarter of one And what these boffins, these pointy heads

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Speaker 2: far above my plate, grave mate, They are looking for

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Speaker 2: clues in the notes about another rate cut, and also

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Speaker 2: waiting as well on some pretty important data out later

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Speaker 2: this week the latest Carrot account and retail sales figures.

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Speaker 1: Nice on, Murray, thank you for that and we'll look

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Speaker 1: forward to getting those updates. That's Murray Old's, our Australia

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Speaker 1: correspondent with us.

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