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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: What a few weeks Our next guest has had six

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Speaker 2: weeks on the campaign trail, got COVID halfway through, wins

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Speaker 2: an election, becomes Prime Minister of Australia, jets off to

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Speaker 2: Japan to meet the likes of Joe Biden, comes back home,

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Speaker 2: moves home, gets Courtney's PJS, swears in a new government,

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Speaker 2: moves house, jets off to Indonesia. Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi, Hello, good.

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Speaker 1: Morning, it was.

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Speaker 2: Wow, it sure has. We saw that you were there

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Speaker 2: last night at the State of Origin. You attempted to

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Speaker 2: get one of those haircuts like Jack White and perhaps.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no one wants to say that.

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Speaker 3: Well, is it true that someone came up to you

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Speaker 3: and the dunny and said are you someone famous?

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Speaker 1: It is true. That's a great country, it.

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Speaker 3: Is, and you just say, yeah, well I'm the Prime

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Speaker 3: minister mate.

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Speaker 2: Well, speaking of being prime Minister and having to get

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Speaker 2: used to that, you were photographed going to collect the

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Speaker 2: newspaper at the front of your home in Marrickville. You

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Speaker 2: had your UG but you had your PJS on. Did

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Speaker 2: you say when you saw that picture printed, go, oh,

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Speaker 2: that's right. I'm Prime Minister. I have to dress like

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Speaker 2: a grown up now.

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Speaker 1: No, I just have to be made that's me keeping

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Speaker 1: my feet on the ground. I didn't know that photo

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Speaker 1: had been taken. I'm still in Marrickvil at the moment,

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Speaker 1: speaking to you from here, and I was wearing a

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Speaker 1: very old Newtown Jets jumper, had bits of red hanging

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Speaker 1: off and everywhere. But that's what people do, isn't it

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Speaker 1: early in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, that's what well.

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Speaker 2: I'm here usually, but I dress like I'm hosting the

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Speaker 2: logans every time I leave my home. But that's a

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Speaker 2: different story.

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Speaker 3: But you must have.

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Speaker 1: Been that's your great credit I got. I'm backing, pretty

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Speaker 1: slothful around the house.

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Speaker 3: A man's always camera ready. But it must have been

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Speaker 3: hard for you as soon as you won the election

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Speaker 3: and then next minute you're talking to Joe Biden. That

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Speaker 3: how surreal is.

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Speaker 1: That it was pretty full on. Because normal I'd be

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Speaker 1: sworn in around about now, after two and a half

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Speaker 1: or three weeks from the election. But because the Quad

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Speaker 1: leaders meeting was so important that we go to it.

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Speaker 1: We did have discussions with the Department of Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: and Cabinet the week beforehand in Canberra, and they were

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Speaker 1: very keen. It was clearly in Australia's interest to be

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Speaker 1: there with the leaders of the US, Japan, and India,

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Speaker 1: pretty important countries for US. So we put in place

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Speaker 1: the swearing in of a five person government on the

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Speaker 1: Monday morning at nine am, and then we were on

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Speaker 1: the plane and then were meeting the next day. I

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Speaker 1: think it sent a really good message about the strength

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Speaker 1: of our democracy here in Australia to the world that

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Speaker 1: there was just this smooth transition of a change of

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Speaker 1: government and there we were with many of the same

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Speaker 1: policies in terms of our natural security issues. Our aligns

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Speaker 1: with the United States is something that's not a partisan issue,

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Speaker 1: and our friendship with Japan and India is also something

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Speaker 1: that's not partisan. But we obviously have a different position

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Speaker 1: on issues like climate tanes and that was welcomed by

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Speaker 1: our partners internationally, as it's been welcomed when I was

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Speaker 1: in Indonesia this week and a big.

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Speaker 2: Week in Indonesia and there's Penny Wong bursting out of

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Speaker 2: Indonesian who knew.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, but Bahatha is of course, there's a difference

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Speaker 1: apparently between Bahasa Malaysian and Bahasa Indonesian, but they're pretty close,

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Speaker 1: clearly from the same family of languages. And there was

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Speaker 1: Penny and Luke Goslam as well our member Solomon in Darwin.

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Speaker 1: He's very fluent in Bahasa Indonesian. So it was pretty good.

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Speaker 1: And we had ed Husick with us as well, Industry minister,

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Speaker 1: who's the first Muslim Cabinet minister in Australia. And it

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Speaker 1: just shows the strength of Australian society and our mother culturalism,

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Speaker 1: the fact that you know, it's just one of the team,

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Speaker 1: and that was welcomed I think in Indonesia as well.

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Speaker 3: And of course you wore the shirt. Don't talk yourself down.

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Speaker 3: You wore the Indonesian shirt.

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Speaker 2: Did you bring it home?

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Speaker 1: You've got to wear the well. I took that one

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Speaker 1: up there. I wore a couple. I got the shirt

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Speaker 1: done for President Wodode's visit to Australia when he addressed

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Speaker 1: to Parliament. It's actually a batique from his village of Solo,

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Speaker 1: which is on Java, and so it was it was

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Speaker 1: very much welcome. So I brought that back and I

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Speaker 1: also brought back the bamboo bike. I think it's probably

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Speaker 1: in custom somewhere.

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Speaker 3: It's getting fumigated as we speak, but.

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Speaker 1: We brought it back on the on the on the plane,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was a really nice, warm gesture from

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Speaker 1: the President to go on a bike ride where we

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Speaker 1: had our one on one discussion before we sat down

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Speaker 1: for a one on one and for him it was

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Speaker 1: of great significance that symbolized both of our humble beginnings

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Speaker 1: given the positions we now hold. And the bike is

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Speaker 1: really important for Indonesia because it's not just a form

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Speaker 1: of transport in whole parts of Indonesia, it eats everything.

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Speaker 1: So everything happens with the bicycle.

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Speaker 3: And he didn't spring that. He didn't spring that. Didn't

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Speaker 3: spring it on you though you knew that you were

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Speaker 3: going to go for a bike ride, because imagine if

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Speaker 3: you got all this way and you couldn't ride a bike, or.

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Speaker 1: You were wearing your floors the night before through our

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Speaker 1: bass I said, Preme Minister, can you ride a bike? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I used to get around. We didn't have a car

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Speaker 1: in my family, so I had nothing but a bike

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Speaker 1: is what I got to. I only learned to drive

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Speaker 1: in my mid mid twenties or early twenties. As you know,

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Speaker 1: if you live in the in the in the west,

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Speaker 1: you can get around on a bicycle a bit, and

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Speaker 1: so it was. It was good fun, although I must

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Speaker 1: say we went really really slowly at the beginning, and

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Speaker 1: I did say the President we maybe a bit. It's

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Speaker 1: really hard to ride a bike at one kilometer an

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Speaker 1: hour with cameras all around you.

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Speaker 3: Have you got that? Have you got the bamboo training.

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Speaker 1: Wheels we needed? When they said a bamboo bike, I

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Speaker 1: was like, what's a bamboo bike? Actually, like you know,

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Speaker 1: but it was yeah, no, it's a sustainable bike as well,

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Speaker 1: which was a part of him sending a message that

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Speaker 1: the President was very keen on cooperating with Australian businesses

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Speaker 1: on what they want to do, which is to reduce

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Speaker 1: their emissions. And of course for them, it's not just

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Speaker 1: about climate change, it's about air pollution as well. That's

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Speaker 1: why they're very keen on cooperating with us, which means

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Speaker 1: there are investment opportunities for Australian businesses as well. Well.

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Speaker 2: We've been speaking about how your life has changed in

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Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks for your partner Jody as well.

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Speaker 2: Is she annoyed that you don't want to go to

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Speaker 2: Kurribilly House. Are you going to settle in Canberra?

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Speaker 1: Not at all. No, we'll be hosting tonight just into

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Speaker 1: Odurn at Kurabilly. I haven't been there yet, and I've

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Speaker 1: been there with former prime ministers. Didn't score an invite

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Speaker 1: off the last one, but I have been there in

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Speaker 1: the past. But we're hosting just in there. It is inevitable.

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Speaker 1: I think that you spend more time as prime minister

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Speaker 1: in Campbell than you do in Sydney. But when I'm

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Speaker 1: in Sydney, I will stay at kira Billy. But at

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Speaker 1: this point I haven't stayed there yet. But the lodge

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Speaker 1: is pretty nice. I've got to say it's a better

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Speaker 1: form of public housing than the one I grew up.

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Speaker 3: Well fair enough to Yeah, and if you need someone

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Speaker 3: to look after Kirabilly, we can do that.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: If you need someone that does look after it while

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Speaker 2: you're not there, just give us a call.

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Speaker 3: Can we actually just look at putting a jet ski

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Speaker 3: dock in there and perhaps putting jet skis back into

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Speaker 3: Sydney Harbor just while.

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Speaker 1: We got you there. I'm not sure anyone wants to

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Speaker 1: wants that to happen before I do know well, that's

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Speaker 1: a part of one besides yourself.

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Speaker 3: Well, Prime Minister Anthony Albanezy, it's great to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations on your win and good luck in the future.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll be.

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Speaker 2: To catch up bring you before too long.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, thanks very much, God, thank you,