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Speaker 1: Being Australian Prime Minister Antony Albanezi and his election rival

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Speaker 1: Peter Dutton faced off last night in their first debate

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Speaker 1: before the federal election, which is to happen on the

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Speaker 1: third of May.

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Speaker 2: The world has shown a lot of challenges at Australia

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Speaker 2: in the last few years, and we've responded the Australian way.

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Speaker 2: What this selection is about, though, is what happens next.

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Speaker 3: People have seen the government make mistakes priorities, but just

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Speaker 3: having accorded with your own priorities.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So the cost of living issues dominated the debate,

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Speaker 1: but there were some good one liners on energy.

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Speaker 2: The only gas policy that the coalition have is the

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Speaker 2: gas sliding of the Australian public.

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Speaker 1: Ah. And they were asked about US President Donald Trump's tariffs.

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Speaker 2: When you impost tariffs, it's a tax on the country

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Speaker 2: that is imposing it.

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Speaker 3: Whatever is thrown at us. The Prime Minister of the

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Speaker 3: day should have the ability and the strength of character

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Speaker 3: to be able to stand up against bullies, against those

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Speaker 3: that would seek to do us harm, to keep our

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Speaker 3: country safe and to make sure that we can make

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Speaker 3: the right economic decisions for our country.

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Speaker 1: So Australian corresponded Leslie. The Yeomans has been getting the

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Speaker 1: reaction for us and we've got her up very early

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Speaker 1: indeed in Australia. Thank you so much. Easy good morning

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Speaker 1: to you. Good morning Andrew Skycoarder for ALBERNIZI was he

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Speaker 1: the obvious winner?

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Speaker 4: It appears so. Yes. One hundred undecided voters were invited

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Speaker 4: to this first debate and they were the ones who

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Speaker 4: were asking the questions and then would eventually at the

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Speaker 4: end of the debate give their assessment of who won

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Speaker 4: and possibly who they would vote for. Mentioning those tariffs

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Speaker 4: from the US Donald Trump was the first in the

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Speaker 4: first question that was put to Alberanisi. It was the

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Speaker 4: only time he was ever mentioned, So he got one

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Speaker 4: mention and that was it, and then they moved on

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Speaker 4: to other things. The debate basically was sort of policy driven.

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Speaker 4: I guess all the questions that were asked were about

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Speaker 4: the main policy issues from both parties, immigration, health, education,

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Speaker 4: and yes, cost of living.

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Speaker 1: Is cost of living the number one issue?

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Speaker 4: Yes? It is, Yeah, because that's what's hurting people the most.

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Speaker 4: And there's so much going on with what is going

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Speaker 4: on overseas that I think also a lot of people

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Speaker 4: just don't get that. Sometimes it doesn't matter what anyone does,

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Speaker 4: things are going to sort of be going downhill because

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Speaker 4: of overseas influences. A lot of stuff that can be

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Speaker 4: done over here as well in your home country, but

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Speaker 4: there are a lot of outside influences that are going

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Speaker 4: to cause some issues. Just like watching the stock market

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Speaker 4: go down. People's over here, their superannuation, which is invested

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Speaker 4: in goodness knows what is sort of being affected. Yes,

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Speaker 4: so there was a lot of cost of living issues

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Speaker 4: mentioned last night, and concerns regarding energy policy as well,

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Speaker 4: and how the government is going to try and help

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Speaker 4: people cope with those those growing energy bills.

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Speaker 1: Is it going to be a close one.

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Speaker 4: Most elections are these days, particularly saying that there are

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Speaker 4: other With the two major parties, one of their main

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Speaker 4: concerns now is what's going to happen with some of

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Speaker 4: the independence what we call over here the teal independence,

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Speaker 4: and they're sort of growing in number, and it's going

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Speaker 4: to be interesting to see if some more of those

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Speaker 4: teal independence can middle away at the major parties in

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Speaker 4: some of some of those seats and more of them

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Speaker 4: are coming forward.

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Speaker 1: Years and are you going to be able to get

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Speaker 1: back to seat this morning. Yes good and I thank

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Speaker 1: you for your time today. These are yeomens as our

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Speaker 1: Australian correspondent. I mean just look at the time. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe she got up for us. Thank you so much.

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