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Speaker 1: Well, what we heard and what we maybe didn't hear

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Speaker 1: from the Prime Minister Anthony Albanezy overnight. It is Charles Scroutcher,

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Speaker 1: nine News Political Editor, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning to you, rat Hey Katie, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very good mate. I'll tell you what. Very mixed

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Speaker 1: reactions this morning to the Prime Minister's address last night,

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Speaker 1: most people saying, well, why did he have a national

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Speaker 1: address to say not a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, gilltail was lacking that, There's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: Would have been nice to hear a little more about

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Speaker 2: what the plan was. I think this was really in

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Speaker 2: one way, it was an effort to be the anti COVID,

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Speaker 2: particularly for all the states down south, where we used

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Speaker 2: to every morning tune in for an hour to watch

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Speaker 2: a premier tell us if we could leave a house.

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Speaker 2: This was more a sending a message there is the

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Speaker 2: federal government, the national government in charge of what is

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Speaker 2: clearly a national problem. But also that this was here's

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Speaker 2: what you can do to make things better in those stays.

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Speaker 2: Was it here's what you must do everyone again, particularly

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Speaker 2: down south. I know that you guys went through a

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Speaker 2: bit up there, but there is a collective PTSD from

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Speaker 2: that COVID period and the restrictions and the lockdowns and

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Speaker 2: the homeschooling and travel restrictions. So part of this was

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Speaker 2: to try and get away from that. I think when

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Speaker 2: everyone heard there was a national address yesterday, there was

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Speaker 2: this collective clenching because we were all worried that it

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Speaker 2: was either lockdowns or restrictions, or fuel caps or even

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Speaker 2: like we're off to war. Because it wasn't that, and

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Speaker 2: perhaps because we had such a long wait to hear

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Speaker 2: what it was, it was so you could we had

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Speaker 2: more details. Certainly there is more detail out there about

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Speaker 2: what the plan is, but this was, in some way,

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Speaker 2: I think the message of there is a plan and

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Speaker 2: despite what you know, your uncle may say at Easter,

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Speaker 2: or the WhatsApp group may say, or the Facebook status

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Speaker 2: you see might say, no restrictions, no lockdowns, no war, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but things are hard ahead.

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Speaker 1: I guess a lot of people were going, could he

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Speaker 1: have just done that in a social media post rather

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Speaker 1: than a national broadcast? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Possibly. I guess the problem with the social media post

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Speaker 2: at the moment is that they're immediately jumped upon and

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Speaker 2: the comments become so much worse than what's actually said,

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Speaker 2: and you know, like the old joke about this could

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Speaker 2: have been an email, I think, or a lot of

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Speaker 2: the emails I get every day very true. So I

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Speaker 2: totally agree that would have been a much better email.

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Speaker 2: I just I just can't promise I would have read it.

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Speaker 2: So I think that was you know, this is a

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Speaker 2: pretty powerful card in only the Prime Minister's hand, then

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Speaker 2: a person that can do this and can draw you know,

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Speaker 2: the three minutes on every television network and every radio station.

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Speaker 1: He forced us to listen. He forced us, and you know,

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Speaker 1: fair enough, like you said, at least we weren't, you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of you know, feeling really anxious and thinking, oh no,

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Speaker 1: we've got all these restrictions now that we've got in place,

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Speaker 1: I guess, you know, for different industries, the Road and

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Speaker 1: were maybe hoping for a bit more detail, as I understand,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we will see a bit more. I

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Speaker 2: mean that there is a plan. The plan's pretty vague

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Speaker 2: even so, like there's no here's the red line. If

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Speaker 2: is what those restrictions would probably look like. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: that would be nice, but that's something that again has

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Speaker 2: to be agreed to by all the states and territories

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Speaker 2: to get on board at the same time, which, again,

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Speaker 2: Grandma like that kind of stuff. Is that you must

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Speaker 2: homeschool the kids. I don't have kids, but god, that.

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Speaker 1: Would have been oh mate, telling you now, I don't

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Speaker 2: I I think everyone agrees on that, right, So this

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Speaker 2: If there are those few restrictions that come in, likely

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Speaker 2: But there is a warmth, particularly from Canberra for that

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Speaker 2: all to be done together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess, you know, all hoping that people

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of that. So the promise, ay, Like

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Speaker 2: I found out he was doing his national address late

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Speaker 2: we heard that the President's giving an address, and so

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Speaker 2: We're bringing the boys home, to there's fifty thousand marines

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Speaker 2: going into Iran tomorrow. That is the scope of what

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Speaker 2: the President will say. Now, given the lack of popularity

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Speaker 2: date is how we get out. But it's Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: and I gave up guessing what he was going to

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Speaker 2: too many times exactly. So look, we'll see what he says.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Kirstarma has spoken this morning, next morning as well.

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Speaker 2: It's clear that and the other thing. Just to get

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Speaker 2: He sees the day of taking everyone in and saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: here's the plan. That's what the promise of the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Well, Charles Crutcher, I guess we'll wait and see what

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Speaker 1: else happens today that at that press club, you know address,

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Speaker 1: you could have said that in an email. But the

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Speaker 1: fact is there's so many you know, there are so

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Speaker 1: many business owners, you know, people just wondering what this

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Speaker 1: think for a lot of people they were hoping for

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Speaker 1: a little bit more direction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I think that there might be more

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Speaker 2: of that coming. The instructions of having good Easter is important.

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Speaker 2: It's important not just for all our sanity to go

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Speaker 2: and see grammar and have that family time, but also

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Speaker 2: for the terrorism and the small business and the businesses

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Speaker 2: that need the extra sales. But keeping the back of

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Speaker 2: the mind that you know, what your uncle says he

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Speaker 2: saw or hurt from the neighbor of the fence may

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Speaker 2: not be entirely true. However, we will have to wait

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Speaker 2: and watch because there are is going to be touching

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Speaker 2: pretty hard, and then this will last. Whenever this ends,

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Speaker 2: there'll be a tail on it and something can get

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Speaker 2: back up and going.

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Speaker 1: So spot on, well, Charles Croutcher, we will all be

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Speaker 1: waiting to see what Donald Trump has to say in

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Speaker 1: a couple of hours, and then of course what the

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister's got to say at that Press Club event.

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Speaker 1: Always appreciate your time. Thank you very much for having

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Speaker 1: a chat with us this morning Monday.

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Speaker 2: Will chat with Good News Cardie, I promise, I know.

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Speaker 1: But it's you know, it's always interesting, isn't it. Where

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Speaker 1: we're covering the politics, it is, Charles Scrutcher, you too,

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Speaker 1: Thanks mate,