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Speaker 1: Olli Pederson's with US six pr pers Life presenter. Hey Ollie,

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Speaker 1: get a Ryan, So tell us the Treasurer Jim Chalmers

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Speaker 1: heading to the US to fight tariffs.

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Speaker 2: He is he's looking to try and catch up with

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Speaker 2: his counterpart there in the United States. So he's tried

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Speaker 2: to plead to the US government to Scott bessont do

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Speaker 2: not put these tariffs on Australian's deal, help us to

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Speaker 2: become exempts. Now we've sort of had a bit of

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Speaker 2: a little bit of positive news that way, I suppose

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Speaker 2: from what Donald Trump had to say last week after

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Speaker 2: he had that phone call with Anthony Albineasi. But nothing's confirmed.

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Speaker 2: What is being speculated here, though, Ryan, is that the

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Speaker 2: US government, the Trump administration, is going to turn around

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Speaker 2: and say, but why do you want to charge all

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Speaker 2: of our social media companies now a fee to operate

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Speaker 2: in Australia. So look, this will be a very interesting

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Speaker 2: conversation between the Treasurer and Donald Trump's treasury representatives. I

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Speaker 2: would love to be a fly on the wall in

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Speaker 2: this conversation. It might be that we are still in

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Speaker 2: that trade surplus for everything else that we do with

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Speaker 2: the United States, So it might sort of even itself out.

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Speaker 2: But I think that Donald Trump, when he likes to

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Speaker 2: do something, he likes to follow through with that. So

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Speaker 2: I don't know that Australia will be exempt from absolutely

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Speaker 2: everything on this one.

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Speaker 1: No, but at least you've had some warm murmurings from him.

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Speaker 1: You know, very few others have had something like that

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Speaker 1: the federal So this is Dutton and Elbow going at

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Speaker 1: each other again, but this is over healthcare and the

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Speaker 1: bidding war that's emerging now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so both of them have promised yesterday it was

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Speaker 2: obviously going to be It's felt like we were already

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Speaker 2: in a federal election campaign. We just don't have a

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Speaker 2: date yet. But Anthony Albinezi standing there in Tasmania on

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Speaker 2: the weekend promising to drastically increase funding to Mediicare by

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Speaker 2: eight point five billion dollars and then he hopes by

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Speaker 2: twenty thirty that nine in ten visits to your GP

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Speaker 2: can just be bolk builled. So I think that is

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Speaker 2: a great policy in theory that all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: you don't have to go and clog up emergency departments

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Speaker 2: which are inundated with patients at the moment for you know,

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Speaker 2: scratches or for common coal because they say they can't

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Speaker 2: afford to go and see their GP. So it's great

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Speaker 2: having universal access to medical care and it should be

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Speaker 2: at your GP. But then a couple of minutes later,

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Speaker 2: Peter Dunton's out there saying you can do eight point

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Speaker 2: five We're going to do nine billion dollars. And in

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Speaker 2: the clip you played in the World Wise it is

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Speaker 2: a thorn in the side of the Liberal Party. They've

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Speaker 2: always been seen to be Week on health or a

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Speaker 2: medi Scare style campaign. The multi billion dollar question here, though, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: is how do we pay for it? You say it's free,

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Speaker 2: it's not really free. Taxpayers have to fund this, but

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Speaker 2: how do you pay for it? And neither the government

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Speaker 2: or the opposition are providing any further detail on how

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Speaker 2: they're going to inject a further eight and a half

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Speaker 2: or nine billion dollars into the healthcare system. We just

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Speaker 2: we can put it on the Medicare card. Are we

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Speaker 2: just going to put it on the credit card to

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Speaker 2: pay for it? That's what we want to know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting, I have a lot of same problems you

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Speaker 1: have with our GPS here, and I'm just thinking of

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Speaker 1: them listening to that now thinking maybe there'll be more

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Speaker 1: money in Australia. Just stay here, stay here, GPS. Finally,

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Speaker 1: today McDonald's is going to start offering at staff university

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Speaker 1: degrees sort of.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sort of, so you can get you know, a

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Speaker 2: burger friars and a university degree when you go to

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Speaker 2: mac is. Now. I think this is quite clever because

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Speaker 2: the opportunities through the McDonald's training program. It's now about

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand different people have been through that where they've

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Speaker 2: got food safety leadership management through their own training organization.

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Speaker 2: So they're going to trial what's called the Archways of

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Speaker 2: Opportunity program. Don't you love that term, Ryan. It says

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Speaker 2: it's going to shave about three and a half grand

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Speaker 2: off a university degree for every micro credential earn. And

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Speaker 2: I think it's funny you say a shift away in

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Speaker 2: education in Australia at the moment, we always talk about

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Speaker 2: your high school certificate and getting that ATAR result when

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Speaker 2: you finish your twelve Well, now less than fifty percent

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Speaker 2: of Australian students actually ever get an ATAR. And you

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Speaker 2: know the emphasis again needed to go to school to

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Speaker 2: then perhaps going to university to go and get a job.

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Speaker 2: I think we're really breaking down the stigma associated with

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Speaker 2: the one size fits all approach with education. So I

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Speaker 2: actually really like this approach from Macers, and I think

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Speaker 2: it's quite innovative. I think it could work and hopefully

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Speaker 2: it opens up a few more doors and opportunities for

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Speaker 2: more Australians.

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Speaker 1: All Right, nice, OLLI, thank you for that. Olli Peterson,

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