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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well Our Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi has made his way

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Speaker 2: to Washington to discuss a range of issues with President Biden,

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Speaker 2: including the rising tensions in the Middle East. Channel seven

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Speaker 2: News political editor Mark Riley is currently with the PM.

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Speaker 1: Hello Mark, Amanda Wellow.

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Speaker 2: Now, President Biden has a lot on his plate at

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Speaker 2: the moment. Has this trip been in the works for

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Speaker 2: a while, and was it always going to happen? Has

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Speaker 2: it been problems?

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Speaker 1: Look, it hasn't been. It works for a while, and

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Speaker 1: look at essentially Joe Biden saying sorry to Anthony Albaneze

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Speaker 1: for canceling his trip to Australia in May for what

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Speaker 1: was to be the quad Meeting, that's the Quadrilateral discussions

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Speaker 1: between the US, Australia, India and Japan. And Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: had to cancel that because he had a minor problem

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Speaker 1: with the trillion dollar debt ceiling issue in the Congress

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Speaker 1: and he had to attend to that. He's sort of

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Speaker 1: all this was very early in the Prime ministership for

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Speaker 1: an official visit, but the timing is awkward because of

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Speaker 1: what else is happening in the world, and particularly in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East. It'd be clinking glasses in the rose

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Speaker 1: garden talking about you know, how wonderful the bilateral relationship

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Speaker 1: at a time like this is. You know, it's very

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Speaker 1: delicate balance they've got to strike. And we've just come

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Speaker 1: from a press conference with the Prime Minister. I bumped

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Speaker 1: into a journalist from the New York Times who told

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Speaker 1: me that the President's been rushed to the situation room

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Speaker 1: here in the White House. So perhaps things are saying

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Speaker 1: that happened in the Middle East, well.

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Speaker 3: Because it's all about cost of living over back home here.

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Speaker 3: I filled up my motorcycle the other day. Cost me

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Speaker 3: fifty dollars to fill up a motorcycle of fuel, and

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Speaker 3: I thought, that's when it really hit home. I thought,

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Speaker 3: my god, feel has just gone through the roof.

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Speaker 1: It's truth, yes, and going to go higher. I suspect,

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Speaker 1: you know, the analysts are saying that they could go

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Speaker 1: as highs to two illars fifty just for underleaded in

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Speaker 1: Australia again because of what's happening there. And ran at

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Speaker 1: the moment, I ran, it seems to be playing ball

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Speaker 1: with ope, but won't for long. And the war in

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Speaker 1: Ukraine has already pushed up world all prices and they

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Speaker 1: spiked up to about one hundred and ten US dollars

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Speaker 1: a barrel and then went back down to the seventies

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Speaker 1: and eighties, now getting back up to one hundred. So

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid we might be stuck with that for a while. Jones,

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Speaker 1: you would be paying fifty bucks to fill you were

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Speaker 1: a fat boy out for a while.

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Speaker 2: Are there any implications for Australia for Anthony Albanezi being

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Speaker 2: there at the moment? Is it a good time for

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Speaker 2: us to be there in terms of anything?

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Speaker 1: Look to be frank Iman, I think it's a good

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Speaker 1: time to be seen at the highest level in America

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Speaker 1: for an Australian Prime minister at any time, because it's

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Speaker 1: our most important relationship, not just strategically, although it is

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Speaker 1: incredibly important strategically. It's a massive market for Australia. The

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Speaker 1: biolactual trades tens of billions of dollars and today there

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Speaker 1: was an announcement of a five billion dollar investment just

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Speaker 1: a half an hour ago. The Microsoft is making in

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Speaker 1: Australia in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, expanding its data centers,

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Speaker 1: those massive data centers that's got there. So he's going

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Speaker 1: to build another nine over the next two years. And

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Speaker 1: it's also going to be involved in training up three

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand sounds like a lot, but at three hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand young Australians into tech skills so they can enter

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Speaker 1: this great new world of AI and cloud computing. So

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Speaker 1: that's that's, I guess another example of the rich relationship

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Speaker 1: and how important it is for Australia to be here.

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Speaker 1: Frank Albert easy the first time that he's been here

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Speaker 1: as Prime Minister, the many times as the Minister before

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Speaker 1: of course, and has met Joe Biden nine times. This

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Speaker 1: is nine time they've been together in seventeen months, so

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Speaker 1: incredibly close relationship.

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Speaker 3: So Joe will actually remember, Albo you reckon, Well.

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Speaker 1: Let's not push things too far because you remember to

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Speaker 1: have for breakfast.

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Speaker 3: How's how's Joe Morrison?

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Speaker 1: The other guy?

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Speaker 3: Thanks?

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Speaker 1: Pound.

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Speaker 3: But when you see because you're there, you're there. How

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Speaker 3: do you feel Joe's going? What's your thoughts? Do you

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Speaker 3: think it like like he's just too old? He's too old,

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Speaker 3: isn't he?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Look what are we measuring him against? You know,

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Speaker 1: we're saying Trump Biden? You know. So it's the one

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Speaker 1: thing that just absolutely stuns me, mate, Frankly, is that

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Speaker 1: you We're here in Washington the moment. This is, you know,

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Speaker 1: the seat of the biggest, the most powerful developed democracy

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Speaker 1: in the world, and the two contenders for that, you know,

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Speaker 1: for the president of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. I

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Speaker 1: mean really, but anyway, that's that's that's where you are

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Speaker 1: at the moment. I can tell you just reading the

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Speaker 1: local papers in the in the in the day and

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Speaker 1: a half I've been he's getting rave reviews on his

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Speaker 1: messaging on the Middle East. So even now, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I hope you're sitting down, guy. So even Fox News

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Speaker 1: gave him the pat on the back. She's addressed at

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Speaker 1: the Nation last week, So that tells you something right.

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Speaker 1: You must be doing something right. But it was and

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Speaker 1: flows and you know they'll be on his case again

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Speaker 1: pretty soon.

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Speaker 3: Well, Mark, it's always good. Good to talk to you

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Speaker 3: for all your news updates. Tune into Channel seven from

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Speaker 3: six tonight. Pretty boy. Mark Ferguson is holding the desk,

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Speaker 3: but Mark Riley's out there doing the grunt work. That's

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying back.

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Speaker 1: Here, telling people that Jersey, you do keep talking. You're

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Speaker 1: that from the back of

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Speaker 3: Your fat Boy, thank you, Make thank you Marke Take

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Speaker 3: Care guys, thank you.