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Speaker 1: You never know who's going to call. You never know

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Speaker 1: who's going to call.

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi's with us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Hello, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Who's been happening.

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Speaker 2: You've had a bit of a cabinet tetris game this week.

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Speaker 2: This is your first reshuffle. Why the switch up?

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Speaker 3: Well, we've had a couple of retirements and the wonderful

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Speaker 3: Linda Bernie who's made such an incredible contribution, the first

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Speaker 3: Indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives ever in Federation,

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Speaker 3: and then the first female Indigenous Cabinet minister, and so

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Speaker 3: her and Brendan O'Connor who's done a great job with

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Speaker 3: half a million free free takee places doing a national

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Speaker 3: skills agreement. They decided basically as not everyone gets to

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Speaker 3: decide their time of retirement in my profession, but they

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Speaker 3: had decided to not contest the next election, and they

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Speaker 3: spoke to me about that and decided to step back,

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Speaker 3: which gave us the scope to get some new people in.

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Speaker 3: Josh Wilson, a great West Australian there the Member for Frio,

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Speaker 3: has stepped up to the front bench, adding to our

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Speaker 3: WA contingent and enabled us to get some new ministers

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Speaker 3: in Malandaria McCarthy is an arnham Land woman who's stepped

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Speaker 3: up to be the Indigenous Affairs Minister and do a

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Speaker 3: bit of a refresh of the system. Were the first

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Speaker 3: government since federation, a little fun fact that had a

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Speaker 3: new government that has had no changes whatsoever in its

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Speaker 3: ministry for more than two years, so it was time

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Speaker 3: to do a bit of a refresh for some of

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Speaker 3: the team. But now we're all in placed for the

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Speaker 3: election which will be held sometime in the next year. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now, as the captain of the team, PM, you

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Speaker 1: have to go to bat for you some of your

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Speaker 1: teammates sometimes and you've done that with Tony Burke having

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Speaker 1: a bit of a crack at the medius and opposition

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Speaker 1: criticism of his immigration record. You do have to stand

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Speaker 1: up for your teammates, Satan.

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Speaker 3: You do, and I'm the captain of a great team

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Speaker 3: and they're a team that are united, absolutely focused on

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Speaker 3: doing the right thing by Australians. We know there's cost

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Speaker 3: of living pressures there, which is why we've got tax

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Speaker 3: cuts for every taxpayer and the energy bill relief. We're

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Speaker 3: rolling out cheap patrol care, the thief free takee all

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Speaker 3: aimed at making a difference whilst putting downward pressure on inflation.

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Speaker 3: We've produced now two budget surplaces in a row. That's

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Speaker 3: two more than the entire ten years or almost of

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Speaker 3: the previous government managed to deliver none. And so they

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Speaker 3: is all assisting with the economy and with cost of

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Speaker 3: living pressures that we had to deal with. So we're

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Speaker 3: doing all of that whilst rolling out additional medicare, urgent

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Speaker 3: care clinics and other support for people according to our priorities.

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Speaker 2: Of course, everyone's a little distracted at the moment. All

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Speaker 2: eyes are on Paris for the Games. Did you people

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Speaker 2: are still talking about the opening ceremony.

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Speaker 3: What did you think of it? I thought it was

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Speaker 3: a bit of fun, you know. I think Paris is

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Speaker 3: such a great city and no matter what Paris did,

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Speaker 3: it was going to look pretty good with the Eiffel Tower,

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Speaker 3: the wonderful natural setting that they had there, a bit

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Speaker 3: like Sydney. Of course, in two thousand was an extraordinary

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Speaker 3: time for my home city. So I think it's just

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Speaker 3: fantastic that Australia's once again showing that we're punch above

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Speaker 3: our weight when it comes to sport. We're third on

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Speaker 3: the metal tally, which is incredible given our population twenty

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Speaker 3: seven million, a lot smaller than we're certainly not the

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Speaker 3: third largest population in the world, but we punch way

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Speaker 3: above our weight. We've put record funding into the Australian

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Speaker 3: Institute of Sport. One of the things I like about

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Speaker 3: these athletes over there, whether they be our Olympians or

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Speaker 3: our Paralympians, is unlike footy players, or unlike tennis champs

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Speaker 3: or golfers, they don't get paid a lot of money. Overwhelmingly,

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Speaker 3: they work incredibly hard. The idea of getting up when

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Speaker 3: we see our swimmers, we watch them do one hundred

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Speaker 3: meters or two hundred meters, and we cheer them on

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Speaker 3: even up to fifteen hundred meters. These are people who

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Speaker 3: a love for their sport. But they don't get often

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Speaker 3: a great financial compensation, and so I think it is

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Speaker 3: a great thing that the whole of Australia is cheering

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Speaker 3: on our camps and they're doing so well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very very well, Anthony. Last time we chatted, Lisa

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Speaker 1: and I were very impressed because you said that Nick

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Speaker 1: Kay was around your place for coffee cake and keyboards,

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Speaker 1: so we know you love your music. And we've been

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Speaker 1: focusing on the Perth pub scene and the pub crawl

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Speaker 1: we've been calling it and catching up with musos, particularly

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Speaker 1: in the eighties and some of the nineties here in Perth.

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Speaker 1: You've got a busy schedule. Can you recall the last

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Speaker 1: band you saw it at a pub or at a venue?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Well, the last band I saw was Radio Birdman. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: at the Manning Theater in Sydney, anywhere I went as

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Speaker 3: a student. I saw them a few weeks ago and

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Speaker 3: their farewell tour. I knew they might dadis Tech and

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Speaker 3: co my rob younger, they might go around again, who knows.

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Speaker 3: But I saw them and it was fantastic. Everyone was

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Speaker 3: of my age, all vintage, A fantastic band. But I

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Speaker 3: saw some great bands when I was over in Perth.

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Speaker 3: Of courses produced some extraordinary bands and still doing so

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Speaker 3: with Jebediah and a range of fantastic I saw the

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Speaker 3: Triffids when I had my great Falling in Love with

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Speaker 3: the West tour was in I spent in December. I'm

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Speaker 3: trying of the year December nine to eighty three. In

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Speaker 3: January eighty four I traveled over. I had a mate,

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Speaker 3: we had no money. Myself and my then girlfriend got

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Speaker 3: a free lift from someone who was traveling back to

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Speaker 3: and then drove back with him at the end of

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Speaker 3: him visiting his family. I had Christmas on right new stylent.

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Speaker 3: But I saw the Trippers at a pub in Frio,

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Speaker 3: which was awesome because it was at their absolute peak

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Speaker 3: and there was a great experience. Nothing beats live music

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Speaker 3: in a pub, and certain that era was particularly particularly awesome.

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Speaker 3: I've got to say I'm looking forward to seeing col

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Speaker 3: Chisel in there yet again. Fair work toward I don't

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Speaker 3: know what they call it. They had the Last Stand

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Speaker 3: to maybe this is the really last stand tour.

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Speaker 1: The last dam was a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: Now well, we will will let you go. Inflation data

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Speaker 2: is out today. You've got a busy day at the office.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for calling.

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Speaker 3: No all good and have a great day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you from minister.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe you. You told us a Nick Cave story,

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Speaker 1: then you topped it by seeing the tripids envious before

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Speaker 1: you hit the wide open road mat and headed back.

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Speaker 3: That's unreal.

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Speaker 2: Well done,