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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody, and welcome to the Daily ODS. It

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Speaker 1: is Tuesday, the twenty sixth of April. I hope you

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Speaker 1: all had a wonderful long weekend. If that was indeed

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Speaker 1: the way that you spent your time, if you were

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Speaker 1: part of the retail, hospitality sectors or any other sectors

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Speaker 1: that worked, I hope everyone spoke to you nicely. Zara,

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Speaker 1: we are back for another week. It's another week on

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Speaker 1: the campaign trail. Anthony Alberanezi is still in isolation for

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Speaker 1: a couple of days, but that hasn't stopped the political

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Speaker 1: news from coming. Before we talk about the French presidential election, Zara,

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Speaker 1: what is making use this morning?

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Speaker 2: This morning, we're still talking about the Liberal candidate in

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Speaker 2: Waringa because Swimming Australia has threatened legal action against a

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Speaker 2: conservative activist group called Advance for It used images of

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Speaker 2: Australian swimmers in an ad that said women's sport is

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Speaker 2: not for men. This was in response to some of

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Speaker 2: the critiques of the candidate for Waringa, but in a statement,

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Speaker 2: the organization that is Swimming Australia clarified that Women Australia

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Speaker 2: believes in a competitive environment that is inclusive fair and

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Speaker 2: equitable for all athletes at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Defense Minister Peter Dudden has compared Russian President Vladimir

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Speaker 1: Pusian to Adolf Hitler in an interview on Anzac Day yesterday,

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Speaker 1: saying quote, we have to be realistic that people like

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Speaker 1: Hitler and others aren't just a figment of our imagination

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Speaker 1: or that they're consigned to history. We have in President

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Speaker 1: Pudin at the moment, somebody who is willing to kill

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Speaker 1: women and children.

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Speaker 2: US Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln and Defense Secretary Lloyd

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Speaker 2: Austin have met Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski in Kiv, this

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Speaker 2: being the first meeting since Russia's invasion. The US announced

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Speaker 2: after the meeting additional military assistance for Ukraine and the

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Speaker 1: And today's good news, a World War One medal has

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Speaker 1: been returned to the family of a First Nation soldier

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Speaker 1: it belonged to. The medal was discovered in a locked

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Speaker 1: box and returned to the family of the soldier in Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: While you were out spending time with your loved ones

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Speaker 2: over the long weekend, there were some big political news

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Speaker 2: from across the other side of the world, and that

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Speaker 2: was of course the election in France. So French president

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Speaker 2: Emmanuel Macron was returned as France's president after beating far

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Speaker 2: right candidate Marine Lapenn in the national presidential election. It

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Speaker 2: was an election that the entire European continent and indeed

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Speaker 2: the world was watching, and for very good reason. Sam

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Speaker 2: stuff from the beginning and talk us through the results

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Speaker 2: and then what it actually means.

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Speaker 1: So Emmanuel Macron beat Marine la Penn fifty eight point

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Speaker 1: five five percent to forty one point four to five percent.

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Speaker 1: It was, however, the biggest share of the vote a

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Speaker 1: far right candidate has ever received in the country. So

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Speaker 1: Marine la Penn is a far right candidate. She runs

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Speaker 1: on a very far right platform. And that's a really

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Speaker 1: important part to take out of this result. That forty

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Speaker 1: one point four to five percent of France voted for her.

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Speaker 1: So despite the size of Macron's projected victory, this victory

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Speaker 1: fell well short of his sixty six to thirty four

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Speaker 1: that Macron became the first sitting French president to be

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Speaker 1: reelected in twenty years. They tend to go through presidents

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Speaker 1: was the lowest turnout for a French presidential election since

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Speaker 1: is in a second. According to partial results, six point

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Speaker 1: four to five percent of voters in the election voted

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Speaker 1: that there was a very unhappy French populace this election.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean I hope that we have lower levels

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Speaker 2: our federal election. But moving on, what did we hear

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Speaker 2: from the French leaders after the result was announced? There

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Speaker 2: were some amazing photos of Macron addressing the crowds.

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Speaker 1: It's a funny one, Sara, because the photos of Macron

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Speaker 1: percentage that Marie La Penn received, Macron's speech was quite subdued.

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Speaker 1: He addressed the trend in the victory speech, and he

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Speaker 1: that the result represents a brilliant victory. She said, this

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Speaker 2: All right, So I foreshadowed this at the beginning, But

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Speaker 2: can you talk our listeners through why this election results

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Speaker 1: Well, I was just hinting at the point there, but

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Speaker 1: it really is less about what Macron is going to

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Speaker 1: how close Europe got to what Lapenn would have done.

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Speaker 1: Even Macron in his speech said, quote, many of our

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Speaker 1: compatriots voted for me not out of support for my ideas,

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Speaker 1: but to block those of the extreme right. What would

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Speaker 1: a la Penn presidency looks like. Ultimately, she would have

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Speaker 1: advocated for France to leave the EU. She even wanted

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Speaker 1: to restore France's alliance with Russia once the Ukraine conflict

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Speaker 1: of the French election. There was a loan that Marie

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Speaker 1: Lapenn took from a Russian bank closely associated with Vladimir Putin,

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Speaker 1: that she's never paid back. So one of the catchphrases

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Speaker 1: Lapenn's bank. This is a really important point. Macron was,

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Speaker 1: according to all analysts, especially effective in tying Lapen to Putin.

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Speaker 1: In the eyes of the French people. The election result

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Speaker 1: in mainland Europe. Macron's reelection is also a sign of

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Speaker 2: Okay, and was there any reaction from here from Australia.

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Speaker 1: We heard from the Prime Minister yesterday who welcomed Macron's

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Speaker 1: election win on Twitter. He said, congratulations Emmanuel Macron on

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Speaker 1: in action in uncertain times. Obviously referencing the tensions that

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Speaker 1: Australia's decision to scrap a multi billion dollar submarine contract

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Speaker 2: How could we forget? And the whole of Twitter decided

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Speaker 2: it was a good time to dig up that vision

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Speaker 2: yesterday to wrap up, can you just tell me a

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Speaker 2: bit about France's political system and kind of what happens

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Speaker 1: It's a really weird system. It's kind of got two

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Speaker 1: A VERSU B. But once they had those two, it

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Speaker 1: away for these legislative elections so that he can actually

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Speaker 2: So will the National Assembly then just be the major

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Speaker 2: focus for the newly re elected president. Surely there with

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Speaker 2: at least two things high on the priority list.

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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. He needs to make sure he is

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Speaker 1: in fighting form for those June elections. But he has

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Speaker 1: to address the escalating inflation triggered by the impact of

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Speaker 1: of living price. You know, we're having the same discussions

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Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you for making us all pros

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Speaker 2: in French politics. But there is of course a lot

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Speaker 2: happening here domestically, so we're going to be dual Australian

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