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Speaker 1: Murriold's Ossie correspondents with that Amas, very good afternoon, Eaver thanky.

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Speaker 1: So what's going on with the Nationals. Well, it's a

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Speaker 1: bit of the case of the tail wagging the dog.

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Speaker 1: I mean the last election they were flogged, not the

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Speaker 1: Nationals per se. The Nationals in fact hung under their

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Speaker 1: nine seats. But when I explained that, the Liberals, even

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Speaker 1: though they were absolutely creamed by Labor, they've still got

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Speaker 1: in the low thirties. So it's very much the tail

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Speaker 1: wagging the dog, or attempting to here after every election.

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Speaker 1: The coalition agreement which has survived in its current form

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Speaker 1: I think since the Second World War. It's been around

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Speaker 1: for about one hundred years. They've had a couple of

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Speaker 1: three breakups previously. So after the election shellacking, the deal

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Speaker 1: that holds them together was to be renegotiated. Well, David

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Speaker 1: little Proud, hang on a second, we've hung under all

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Speaker 1: our seats, you clowns. The Liberal Party have lost so many.

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Speaker 1: Labour's got ninety three seats in the House, the Coalition

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Speaker 1: forty three. It's a fifty seat Argent. So anyway, the

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Speaker 1: Nationals went end of the talks with Susan Lee who's

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Speaker 1: the new Liberal leader, of course, the first female Liberal leader.

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Speaker 1: And they said, well, have I guess what we've done?

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Speaker 1: Pretty well? We want more representation on the shadow ministry

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Speaker 1: front bench. We want some of our policies to be

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Speaker 1: drafted in as coalition policy, namely, for example, met zero,

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Speaker 1: scrap that by twenty fifty. And by the way, we

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Speaker 1: really love nuclear reactors. Well, Susan Lee said, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: there's the door. Don't let it bang on the bum

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Speaker 1: on the way out. So David little browd stood up

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Speaker 1: there like a bandam rooster going cluck cluck, cluck, cluck cluck.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's just there. He's been plucked, he's got

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Speaker 1: no feathers to fly with, and he's got his bully

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Speaker 1: bully boys and girls behind him. It's just a farce.

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Speaker 1: It's a complete fast. I think both sides are forgetting

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Speaker 1: that neither can govern without the other. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: just the bald facts of political life over here. So

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Speaker 1: the sooner they get back in bed, the better. How

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Speaker 1: do you see what the RBA has done, Yeah, they have.

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Speaker 1: The below US has been now the official cash rate

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Speaker 1: in Australia for two years. Since May twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: It's the second cup this year by the Reserve Bank

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Speaker 1: of Australia. The cash rate now, the official interest rate

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Speaker 1: in the country is now three point eight five percent.

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Speaker 1: Every economist was tipping it was going to be exactly that.

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Speaker 1: Very welcome news obviously for Australian mortgage holders and for

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Speaker 1: the government which wants to get the economy moving along

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Speaker 1: while keeping a decent, you know, a tight rerain on inflation.

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Speaker 1: There are other factors that play as well that would

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Speaker 1: have been factored in by the Reserve Bank and the governor.

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Speaker 1: You've got things, you know, the American China upheval, what's

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Speaker 1: you know, the global trade situation, what's that going to

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Speaker 1: be like? And they're also the interest rate on ten

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Speaker 1: year government debt in the United States that's rising four

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Speaker 1: percent a minute ago, now four and a half. How's

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Speaker 1: that going to impact world trade and the world economy.

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Speaker 1: So there are many many balls up in the air

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Speaker 1: over here. But suffice to say it's a modest cup

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Speaker 1: if you've got a standard mortgage and great optics the government.

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Speaker 1: How stoked do you reckon elbow? Is that the Pope

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Speaker 1: has blessed as beads. Only a lot those that rosary

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Speaker 1: belonged to his mum. Oh is it? And oh yeah?

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Speaker 1: And I mean his mum, Mary Anne, a lifetime Catholic,

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Speaker 1: very devout. I'm I'm sure young Elbow was all that devout.

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Speaker 1: He was raised by his mom, as we all know it.

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Speaker 1: A government in a state, a state government flat in Sydney,

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Speaker 1: and for him to be there not only at the

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Speaker 1: papal the first papal mass with Pope Leo, but then

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Speaker 1: to be granted a private audience that wasn't given to

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Speaker 1: every world leader, and then to have the hutzpah or

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Speaker 1: you know, the humility to say, listen, while I'm with you,

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Speaker 1: these are my mum's rosary beads. Would you bless them

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Speaker 1: for me? Please? And the Pope, being the good sort

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Speaker 1: of guy that he is, he said, of course, and

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Speaker 1: so he's blessed them. So I'm sure Anthony Eldeneasy, the

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Speaker 1: Australian Prime Minister, is very very happy. Indeed, I bet

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Speaker 1: he's absolutely Thank you mothers always, it's Murray Old's are

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