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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge twenty three or way too now. The Ossie

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Speaker 1: PM Anthony ALBERIZI, he's head out at Donald Trump. This

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Speaker 1: after the US declined today to make an exception on

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Speaker 1: tarifs for Ossie steel and aluminium.

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Speaker 2: Such a decision, ya, the Trump administration is entirely unjustified.

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Speaker 2: This is against the spirit of our two nations enduring

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Speaker 2: friendship and fundamentally at odds with the benefits that our

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Speaker 2: economic partnership has delivered over more than seventy years.

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Speaker 1: And here is Trump's spokeswoman, Carolyn Livett.

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Speaker 3: The President is unweavering in his commitment to restore American

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Speaker 3: manufacturing and global dominance.

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Speaker 1: Now, the Australian political strategist Bruce Hawker is with me tonight. Bruce,

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Speaker 1: good evening, Ryan, How are you good? Thank you. Any

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Speaker 1: surprises are on your side of the testment.

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Speaker 3: To this look, I don't think so, really. I think

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Speaker 3: people were preparing for the worst. That didn't really seem

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Speaker 3: to be any indication that President Trump was going to

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Speaker 3: give any exemption for any countries. Obviously the government was

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Speaker 3: hopeful and they had a lot of representations being made,

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Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, the tariff program

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Speaker 3: that Trump's putting in place is going to apply to

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Speaker 3: Australia as well.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon Turnbull had anything to do with this?

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Speaker 3: Well, I wondered about that. I mean, it was unfortunate

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Speaker 3: that those comments were made at the time. And Trump

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Speaker 3: is such a unique character when it comes to personalizing

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Speaker 3: his responses and the way in which he plays his politics.

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Speaker 3: It's not beyond doubt that that could have been the case.

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Speaker 3: But who knows.

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Speaker 1: How's it playing domestically, And I know Albanese is also

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Speaker 1: saying they're not going to hit back with any counter tariffs.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do people want strength from their ousipm at

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Speaker 1: the moment to stand up against Trump or was everybody

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Speaker 1: happy to be a bit more softly softly?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think they've seen what's happened in places like Canada,

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Speaker 3: where the response by the CANAE in putting tariffs on

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Speaker 3: America led to doubling of the tariffs on the Canadians.

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Speaker 3: So I think the similar sanguine view in Australia as well.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we just got to ride this one out for

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Speaker 3: a while. It's clear that there are going to be

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Speaker 3: very significant impacts on America with their tariff policy and

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Speaker 3: causing inflation and having effects on their stock market right now.

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Speaker 3: So who knows what Trump's next move or move down

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Speaker 3: the street you know a few months is going to be.

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Speaker 3: So I think that probably most Australians would be saying, look,

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Speaker 3: let's let this thing ride. It's not good. It's an

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Speaker 3: act of bassardry, I guess, I would think by some

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Speaker 3: by a country that's been very friendly and loyal to Australia,

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Speaker 3: as has been to New Zealand largely, but we live

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Speaker 3: in these very strange times. The opposition obviously has come

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Speaker 3: out and said that more should have been done and

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Speaker 3: so forth. So it's run down pretty predictable lines. But

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Speaker 3: I suspect that most people would think it just wait

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Speaker 3: and see how this event unfold in the coming months.

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Speaker 1: Bruce, thank you very much for that. Bruce Walker, Australian

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Speaker 1: political strategist with US. It's interesting to note, and I

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Speaker 1: are supposed to put it in some context that the

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Speaker 1: US only takes zero point two percent of Australia's still

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Speaker 1: and aluminium.

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