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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: What just a couple of years ago Anthony Albanesi, prime

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Speaker 2: Minister actually was in the lead up to the election,

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Speaker 2: was greeted like this when you went out in public. Gang,

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Speaker 2: that's right, Chog chog, we love you. So on the

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Speaker 2: weekend at the men's tennis final, when Anthony Alberanize was introduced,

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Speaker 2: he heard this.

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Speaker 3: Austraight and Prime Minister, the Honorable Anthony Albanesi, the Deputy

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Speaker 3: Victorian Premier, the Honorable benjam It's tough, isn't it the

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Speaker 3: Deputy Premier? So how about I think that's for you.

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Speaker 2: It seems our Prime minister might be fighting a battle

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Speaker 2: to win Australia back and he joins us this morning,

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister, Hello.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good to be with you, great Anthony.

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Speaker 3: I just wonder how does it affect you when you

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Speaker 3: hear that, because I know if I was in a

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Speaker 3: room and everyone was just doing me, I think what

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Speaker 3: am I?

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Speaker 1: Am?

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Speaker 3: I doing? The wrong? Theme here?

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Speaker 1: Part of an Australian tradition is what I've heard before,

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Speaker 1: and the difference is the year before. Of course, someone

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Speaker 1: give us a wave Albo when I was on the

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Speaker 1: screen and I did a wave and prepre reacted very positively.

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Speaker 1: I think that during a presentation. I've never yet seen

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Speaker 1: anyone welcomed from public life during a presentation. That's fine.

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Speaker 2: It seems that I'm confused because there's lots of discourse

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Speaker 2: around you having broken an election promise in these tax cuts,

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Speaker 2: but the tax cuts are benefiting ninety percent of Australians.

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Speaker 2: I'm confused at the rhetoric here.

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Speaker 1: Oh, exactly, because the opposition haven't got any criticism of substance.

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Speaker 1: This is about every taxpayer getting a tax cut, all

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Speaker 1: thirteen point six million of them. And previously, if you

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Speaker 1: earned under forty five thousand dollars, you weren't getting a

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Speaker 1: single dollar, but people like myself politicians were getting a

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Speaker 1: very good deal. Now this is about responding to the

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Speaker 1: cost of winning pressures that people are under Your listeners,

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Speaker 1: who are lower middle income owners under pressure. And I

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Speaker 1: have a responsibility as Prime Minister not to make that

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Speaker 1: easy decision, but to make the right decision for the

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Speaker 1: right reason. That's precisely what we have done here. So

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Speaker 1: the people on the average income, which in Australia for

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Speaker 1: an individuals are seventy three thousand dollars, I'll get double

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Speaker 1: the tax cut. For people on one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars where mum and dad are both working, they'll

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Speaker 1: get more than double the tax cut. So providing that

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Speaker 1: cost of living relief, you can't just identify the problem.

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Speaker 1: You've got to do something about it. And my government's

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Speaker 1: determined to do that.

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Speaker 3: And there's good news with inflation coming down. So Jim

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Speaker 3: Chums alluded to an interest rate drop happening around May.

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Speaker 3: Is that going to happen?

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Speaker 1: Do you think, well, that's a decision of course for

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Speaker 1: the reserve being. But yesterday's figures were really positive news.

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Speaker 1: The monthly indicator going dropping to three point four percent

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Speaker 1: in the twelve months to December, down from four point

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Speaker 1: three a very good figure. Inflation moderating to four point

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Speaker 1: one percent over the year in terms of the December quarter.

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Speaker 1: That's down from five point four that in the September quard.

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Speaker 1: That is a very very significant drop and it shows

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Speaker 1: that the government's plan, which is how do we provide

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Speaker 1: cost of living relief whilst putting that downward pressure on inflation,

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Speaker 1: is working and that's the key to what we want

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Speaker 1: to see, which is people being better off. In addition,

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Speaker 1: to that. The last two quarters we've seen real wages

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Speaker 1: increase for the first time. Didn't happen under the previous decade,

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Speaker 1: but now wages going up. We want to see people

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Speaker 1: earn more, and we want to see them more of

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Speaker 1: what they earn, and that is what our plan is.

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Speaker 2: It does seem that we are going down that American

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Speaker 2: way of just being divided along party lines that even

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Speaker 2: if something is better for you, the fact that it's

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Speaker 2: a broken promise is an easier argument to have. It's

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Speaker 2: quite weird to see. Do you get alarmed that we're

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Speaker 2: doing the same thing that America seems to be doing.

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Speaker 2: There's no middle ground, you're for or against.

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Speaker 1: I am concerned about the conflict based politics where the

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Speaker 1: I did that. I used to say, I'm the labor leader,

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Speaker 1: the right thing. So, for example, throughout the pandemic, even

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Speaker 1: where we thought the government's measures weren't perfect, we said

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Speaker 1: we won't let the perfectly the enemy of the good,

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Speaker 1: and we voted for we support it all the that

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Speaker 1: is disappointing that all of the measures that were put

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Speaker 1: the center of our health system. And just one of

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Speaker 1: the measures that we're put in post a tripling of

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Speaker 1: the bulk billing incentive has meant that three hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty thousand additional people have seen the doctor for free

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Speaker 1: as a result of that measure in just November and December.

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Speaker 1: This morning, I'll be on the Central Coast visiting the

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Speaker 1: urgent care clinic there. They've been incredibly successful. But all

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Speaker 1: of those measures cheaper medicines have cost the budget two

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Speaker 1: as have free take cheaper child care. Figures came out

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Speaker 1: this week saying that on average, costs of decreased by

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Speaker 1: eleven percent. The energy price relief plan, all of these

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Speaker 1: measures have made a difference, but this cost of living

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Speaker 1: tax cut will make a big difference going forward, and

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Speaker 1: I think that it should be supported by everyone in

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Speaker 1: the Parliament because it's still in the right thing.

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Speaker 3: And I guess with that it's all with the gift

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Speaker 3: of hindsight when you think back to the voice, what

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Speaker 3: have you rather if you had your time again, what

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Speaker 3: have you wanted? More bipartisan support from the opposition, and

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Speaker 3: you would have gone through with it knowing what you

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Speaker 3: know now.

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Speaker 1: Well that's another example. Frankly, you know, the voice wasn't

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Speaker 1: my policy. It was something that came out of the

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Speaker 1: earlier statement. In twenty seventeen, after five year process, most

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Speaker 1: of which occurred under the coalition government, pay Dutton appointed

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Speaker 1: Julian Lisa as he spokesperson on Aboriginal affairs but also

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Speaker 1: as Shadow Attorney gen and he was a big supporter.

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Speaker 1: Of course he resigned from the front bench as a

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Speaker 1: matter of principle. That was a very courageous thing that

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Speaker 1: mister Lisa did, and he has my respect. You've got

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Speaker 1: to be able to be consistent, and it had had

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Speaker 1: both parties went to the elections saying they supported constitutional

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Speaker 1: is a lost opportunity. But we respect the decision. But

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Speaker 1: I think you know, every measure that the government puts

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Speaker 1: forward the coalition I safe become the nolition. They just

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Speaker 1: say no to everything, and that's not a way to

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Speaker 1: advance the country. And we see any United States, we

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Speaker 1: do see a real polarization that is not helping them.

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Speaker 1: It's not helping their economy, it's not helping their social

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Speaker 3: And we don't want to go down the path of America. Well,

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Speaker 3: Prime Minister is always great to catch up with you.

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Speaker 3: Might I suggest next time you're at a big function,

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Speaker 3: just scull a beer as they're about to yield your

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Speaker 3: name out because that seems to work.

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Speaker 2: Australians love shoey.

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Speaker 3: No one's going to boo you doing that. So that's

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Speaker 3: just my hot tip. That's the gote even in parliament.

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Speaker 3: Do a shoeing sculler.

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Speaker 1: Beer a shoey in parliament. I think that might have

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Speaker 1: a cut through impact.

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Speaker 3: You'll definitely get another term out of that one. Anthony Albanezi,

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Speaker 3: thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks so much. Guys, have a wonderful day.

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Speaker 3: Thank you too.