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Speaker 1: Our Australia correspondent is done tomorrow this morning, just gone

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Speaker 1: thirteen minutes away from top of the r and on

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Speaker 1: a good morning, Good morning to you. Good to have

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Speaker 1: you on the show as always. Now the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: brushing off a US push to spend more on defense.

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Speaker 1: How much do they want?

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, the United States has very very strongly suggested

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Speaker 2: that Australia lift its defense spending to almost one hundred

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Speaker 2: billion dollars a year as soon as possible. They're saying,

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Speaker 2: because Australia must do more to support the US in

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Speaker 2: the Indo Pacific, as it's been put. Now we know

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Speaker 2: that the US Defense Secretary Pete heiks Eth conveyed this

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Speaker 2: message to the Defense Minister. They were on It was

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Speaker 2: a chat on the sidelines of a recent conference or gathering,

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Speaker 2: let's say in Singapore, and you know they did talk

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Speaker 2: about perhaps the increasing US tension with China. And so

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Speaker 2: now we've heard that they think that we should lift

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Speaker 2: Australia should lift its defense spending now it currently sits

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Speaker 2: at about two percent of and the US says, oh no,

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Speaker 2: it should lift to about three point five percent of

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Speaker 2: the GDP, adding about forty billion dollars. Now we've heard

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Speaker 2: from the PM and he says the country will not

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Speaker 2: be dictated to on defense spending. And they already had

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Speaker 2: planned to increase the defense spending from about two to

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Speaker 2: two point three three percent of Australia's GDP over the

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Speaker 2: next eight years. And so the PMS actually said, what

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Speaker 2: you should do in defense is decide what you need

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Speaker 2: your capability and then provide for it. That's what my

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Speaker 2: government is doing, so pretty much brushing off what the

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Speaker 2: US is suggesting Australia should do.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And what about this warning for Ozzie's heading to Indonesia.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, hundreds of thousands of Ozzi's love going to Indonesia,

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Speaker 2: particularly Bali. But there's an update from the Department of

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Speaker 2: Foreign Affairs and Trade Smart Traveler website urging travelers to

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Speaker 2: exercise a high degree of caution when they holiday in

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Speaker 2: this popular destination. As we know, and so we know

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Speaker 2: that there's been some incidents lately. Australians have drowned unpatrolled

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Speaker 2: beaches due to rough seas and strong rib currents. But

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Speaker 2: there's also been a caution against leaving food and drinks

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Speaker 2: unattended due to a risk in getting a drink spiked

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Speaker 2: and methanol poisoning, and there's been several cases reported in

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Speaker 2: Bali and nearby Lombok of late. So just be careful

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Speaker 2: out there tourists.

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Speaker 1: All right. Probably a good warning for us too if

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Speaker 1: you guys are telling you a lot that. Hey, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much, Don and tomorrow our Australia correspondent. Nice

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Speaker 1: to have you on the show as all well. For

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