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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business twenty two away from five Oli

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Speaker 1: Peterson six PR Perth Live presenter with us OLI. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Ryan. So what's the justification for Australia recognizing

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Speaker 1: Palestine's statehood?

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Speaker 2: Well, the Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi believes that this will

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Speaker 2: send a message to Palestine.

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Speaker 3: That's obviously Australia believes.

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Speaker 2: That we can have peace in the Middle East on

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Speaker 2: the proviso, of course, that all the hostages are returned

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Speaker 2: to Israel. The PM, obviously there at the United Nations,

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Speaker 2: hoping to catch up with Donald Trump, says a recognition

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Speaker 2: of Palestine is a step forward towards Israelis and Palestinians

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Speaker 2: living side by side in peace and security and advancing

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Speaker 2: the prosperity of both peoples.

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Speaker 3: I highly doubt that, with.

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Speaker 2: All due respect to the Prime Minister of Australia, that

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Speaker 2: anybody in Israel or Palestine is going to take too

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Speaker 2: much notice of his hopes and desires for peace in

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Speaker 2: the Middle East. But look, it is just fascinating at

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Speaker 2: the moments when the Prime Minister has failed in his

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Speaker 2: negotiations with both Vanawatu and Papia New Guinea. He's in

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Speaker 2: New York, as I said, for the United Nations Assembly.

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Speaker 2: He's hoping to catch up with Donald Trump. He doesn't

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Speaker 2: have a meeting scheduled with the US presidents, and he

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Speaker 2: has a lot of demands which have come through from

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Speaker 2: the Republicans. You may have seen this over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: Ryan where a number of Republicans have co signed a

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Speaker 2: letter basically saying if Australia were to recognize a Palestinian state,

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Speaker 2: which is what we have done, then.

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Speaker 3: The orcust agreement should be scrapped.

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Speaker 2: Is effectively what they are threatening, and that there would

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Speaker 2: be consequences for the relationship between Australia and the United States.

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Speaker 2: The fact that the PM has not been able to

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Speaker 2: get the ear or confirm that he will get the

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Speaker 2: ear of the US President with how important orcus is

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Speaker 2: for Australia right now, and he's never actually had a

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Speaker 2: face to face conversation with Donald Trump. G I would

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Speaker 2: hate to be him right now without securing that meeting

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Speaker 2: over the next couple of days, because we have got

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Speaker 2: a lot of questions being asked in this country today

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Speaker 2: about what exactly our foreign policy.

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Speaker 1: Is what's the in game for Australia now, the optus

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Speaker 1: the Triple zero outage, the fallout from this, is the

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Speaker 1: CEO going to survive? You reckon?

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Speaker 3: Probably not.

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Speaker 2: Stephen Roue has really handled this appallingly on a number

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Speaker 2: of fronts, not just the fact that we've had four

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Speaker 2: people die as a result of the outage of the

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Speaker 2: triple zero telephone number. He did it at about six

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Speaker 2: o'clock Eastern Standard Time on Friday, so you know, Ryan

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Speaker 2: and our listeners would know that you take out the

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Speaker 2: trash on a Friday, try and bury a story that

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Speaker 2: it might not get as much coverage. He has done

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Speaker 2: this as the national news services on the East Coast

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Speaker 2: are going to air this continues to Biden. It has

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Speaker 2: all over the weekend, it does again today. But not

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Speaker 2: just the fact that the timing of the announcement was poor.

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Speaker 2: Nobody had opt this, had actually informed anybody within the government,

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Speaker 2: either the federal government or the State government of Australia.

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Speaker 2: So when Stephen Rude made this statement on Friday afternoon.

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Speaker 3: In front of the cameras, that was the first time

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Speaker 3: that the Federal.

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Speaker 2: Communications Minister Annik Wells found out about this.

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Speaker 3: So look Stephen thereho's only been in the job for

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Speaker 3: about a year.

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Speaker 2: Optic has gone from controversy to controversy after the data

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Speaker 2: hack and now this. He came from the National Broadband Network.

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Speaker 2: He has been asked about his future, saying it's not

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Speaker 2: about me. It is about the lives that have been

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Speaker 2: lost and we need to get to the bottom of

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Speaker 2: what actually happened. The Prime Minister, though, has said that

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Speaker 2: he be surprised if the boss wasn't considering his future.

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Speaker 3: So I don't see how Stephen Rue survives this.

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Speaker 2: But a terrible example of public relations and communications when

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Speaker 2: they're in that business. Ryan, they're a telco, they're in

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Speaker 2: the communications business, and I kind of get the communications right.

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Speaker 1: No, exactly, olive very quickly before you go. There's stopping

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Speaker 1: e bikes from going on trains in New South Wales

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Speaker 1: because of a fire risk. Is this any old e

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Speaker 1: bike e bikes that have been modified by people, Well.

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Speaker 3: That's the fine print.

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Speaker 2: They wanted them all, but it's going to be the

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Speaker 2: e bikes that have been modified. Or if you've got

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Speaker 2: a normal pedal bike and you've put a little motor

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Speaker 2: on it, that won't be allowed on You can get

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Speaker 2: a fine of eleven hundred bucks if you are caught

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Speaker 2: bringing one of these onto the trains, But don't be

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Speaker 2: surprised if the e bikes will also be banned soon

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Speaker 2: from trains. Imagine being a train guard. All the things

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Speaker 2: you got to look at for now damn e bike.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've got to figure out who's modified, who's

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Speaker 1: g I wired them or who's you know. Sounds like

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Speaker 1: an it mere. Thanks Olli Peterson, our Aussie correspondent.

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