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Speaker 1: Mary olds is our Australia correspondent, Marry Good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Hey a Ryan, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Good to heavy here. Now wispec's boss has said, stop

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Speaker 1: the whining about these tariffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you know, and there's a caveat on there.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget that there may be more tariffs and posed

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Speaker 2: on Australia and other countries in the next few weeks ahead.

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Speaker 2: But when you look at what has happened to Australia

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Speaker 2: and just in you know, we'll confine our remarks to Australia.

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Speaker 2: The twenty five percent tariff on Australian steel and aluminium

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Speaker 2: is negligible. Really, the two commodities together are worth around

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Speaker 2: one billion dollars last year in exports to America. Total

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Speaker 2: exports from Australia six hundred and fifty billion. Now, the

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Speaker 2: United States only makes fifty percent of the steel that

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Speaker 2: needs every year, so it's going to get the balance

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Speaker 2: from somewhere. And guess what, all of a sudden, there's

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Speaker 2: twenty five percent more expensive for American manufacturers and consumers.

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Speaker 2: So not sure where where trup's going with this. And

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Speaker 2: this is the context for a statement this morning Sydney,

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Speaker 2: the Westpac chief executive guy called Anthony Miller. He says, listen, listen,

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Speaker 2: don't start crying about Washington. Have you guess what's an

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Speaker 2: air doorstep? For example, Indonesia two hundred and eighty four

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Speaker 2: million people, just a stone throw way. It's a drive

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Speaker 2: in a nine eye. He says, we should focus on

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Speaker 2: the Asia Pacific. Look at India one point four billion people,

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Speaker 2: a bloody sight closer than the United States. He said, listen,

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Speaker 2: don't bite back. And Anthony Aubanize already said we're not

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Speaker 2: going to. But it's very interesting that Miller said this

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Speaker 2: at the Institute of Finance event here in Sydney. He said,

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Speaker 2: have a look at agriculture and education, two supremely important

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Speaker 2: commodities for Asia. Agricultural goods and education. Australia already makes

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Speaker 2: about thirty five thirty six billion dollars a year from

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Speaker 2: hosting international students here. It's a huge export industry. Okay,

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Speaker 2: And Miller's also said coal, iron gas very important. But listen,

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Speaker 2: we've got to stop crying about Washington and towards Asia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough point too. Now, Peter Dutton, he's denying

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Speaker 1: claims that his party's looking to knife him that's about.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right. I mean, in the context of the

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Speaker 2: upcoming election, I'm not surprised to see these stories as

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Speaker 2: a phony election campaign on right now. And I hear

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Speaker 2: the opposition in Canberra whining away about Alban Easy, saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: we should have we should have had a carve out

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Speaker 2: special for Australia. It doesn't work that way, and the

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Speaker 2: opposition knows that it's just cheap politicking trying to make

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Speaker 2: alban Easy look hopeless. Well, the Dutton's apparently, according to

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Speaker 2: some reports, he had notably in the Murder Press, Dunton's

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Speaker 2: looking pretty hopeless. For members of his own back bench.

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Speaker 2: They say, listen, pal, what are you doing? Where are

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Speaker 2: the policies and what about that half what you've got

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Speaker 2: as a shadow treasurer. I mean, please, honestly, it wouldn't

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Speaker 2: feed that fella. His name is now. But Dutton's hit back.

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Speaker 2: He said, listen, we're going to release our policies in

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Speaker 2: our own good time. And you know, I'm expecting to

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Speaker 2: see the bulk of Dutton's Budget reply speech, which would

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Speaker 2: be later this month. The Bulka BET's going to be

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Speaker 2: laying out some of us wares for the election. But

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Speaker 2: you know the government's really belting Dutton and he's the

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Speaker 2: key focus for a lot of the attacks from the government.

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Speaker 2: For example, the Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong says, listen,

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Speaker 2: Dutton's just not cut out to be prime minister. You

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Speaker 2: know his colleague are saying, we don't know what Dutton

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Speaker 2: stands for, never real leadership. That's what I'll tell you.

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Speaker 2: He's just not cut out for the job. So the

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Speaker 2: gloves are off. It's on for young for one and all.

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Speaker 2: And we haven't even had the election campaign call.

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Speaker 1: Don't even have a date yet. Yeah, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: this hideous woman who American apparently a hunting influencer. Have

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Speaker 1: you heard of a hunt? What there was before any

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Speaker 1: were hunting? And no, no, what's she doing with?

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Speaker 2: Call me stupid, Ryan, I've never heard of it.

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Speaker 1: What's she doing with your one bets?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, she's apparently wandering around the outback with an

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Speaker 2: Australian fellow who's taking photographs of her interacted with Australian wildlife.

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Speaker 2: She's a you say, a hunting influencer. She goes with

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Speaker 2: the name of Sam Strays Okay strays is and stray

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Speaker 2: animals and here she is. She's apparently hear and this

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Speaker 2: footage comes from last year. We understand. She's shown in

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Speaker 2: the footage catching a little baby wombat on the side

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Speaker 2: of the road during the night. An Australian man is filming,

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Speaker 2: laughing like a drain. She runs across the road holding

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Speaker 2: this little baby wombat up in front of the camera,

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Speaker 2: the little feet of dangling in the asses, and the

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Speaker 2: man says, look out, the mum's chasing her. Look out,

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Speaker 2: look out, well please, and she posts this on wherever

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Speaker 2: the hell they post these things and a partly designed

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Speaker 2: to influence people anyway. The penalties for this up to

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Speaker 2: a quarter million dollars if you don't mind, you silly woman,

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Speaker 2: and up to seven years in jail. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: to be fair, the wombat wasn't hurt. Mother and baby

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Speaker 2: are reunited pretty quickly. But I mean for stupidity. It's

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Speaker 2: a bit hard to think anything more stupid, really, isn't it,

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Speaker 2: don't you think?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? That is completely stupid. In fact, the only thing

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Speaker 1: dumber than doing it was putting it on social media.

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Speaker 1: You'd have to say, Mary, there you go, thank you

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Speaker 1: for that. Murray Old's our Australia correspondent. For more from

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