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Speaker 1: Well, we haven't spoken to the Big Boss since he

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Speaker 1: was re elected in a landslide. Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi

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Speaker 1: is with us now.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, wonderful to be back in person.

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Speaker 2: I've brought the rain.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but look you know, I'm I for one,

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Speaker 1: am enjoying it, although Barra's not because his kitchen flooded

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Speaker 1: from the earliers of this morning.

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Speaker 2: Oh what brings you good?

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Speaker 3: What brings you to town this week?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yesterday I brought the entire cabinet here. I had

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Speaker 2: a terrific meeting with the Premier and we announced further

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Speaker 2: upgrade of the Quanana Freeway. And I went down to

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Speaker 2: Freo Or near their Billia and went to the urgent

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Speaker 2: care clinic there. We're going to open another fifty there.

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Speaker 2: And it's been a real opportunity to come back and

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Speaker 2: just say thank you to the people of Western Australia.

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Speaker 2: We had a very successful election. Of course, we elected

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Speaker 2: two new members in More and Bullwinkle, and it was

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Speaker 2: very much a part of our re election. And I

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Speaker 2: want to make sure that here in WA, which helps

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Speaker 2: to drive a national economy, that we continue to work

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Speaker 2: to create jobs and that economic activity here.

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Speaker 4: Mister Alban easy, or do we call you mister Prime

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Speaker 4: Minister or Albo? What do you prefer?

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Speaker 2: Call me?

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Speaker 4: Whatever you like, I get called Barra. I'm not so

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Speaker 4: great on the barre thing, but Albo, it's.

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Speaker 2: All of those are acceptable.

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Speaker 4: It's great to speak to you, I believe as well,

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Speaker 4: like you launched your campaigns see the last two elections,

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Speaker 4: didn't you, So you obviously love it over here, and

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Speaker 4: it's probably going to be a permanent thing. I'd reckon

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Speaker 4: as long as you keep winning.

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Speaker 2: I reckon it's a you'd be a brave person who

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Speaker 2: suggested to me we should ever launch a campaign anywhere else,

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Speaker 2: given we're too campaigns that have ever been launched here

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Speaker 2: in the West.

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Speaker 4: Oh, sorry, I was going to I was just going

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Speaker 4: to say, I was impressed that you revealed that you

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Speaker 4: gave up drinking as well during that whole process. So

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Speaker 4: how's that that of January?

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Speaker 2: Well, that that went okay. Obviously it was a matter

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Speaker 2: of I mean, I'm not a big drinker anyway, but

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Speaker 2: it was just a part of discipline, and I was

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Speaker 2: getting up early every morning, late night. She did really

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Speaker 2: long days. It was a thirty seven day campaign, but

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Speaker 2: It really began on January fifth. I went around the country.

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Speaker 2: I went up Queensland Coast, through Mount Isaa, through Northern

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Speaker 2: Territory to Kannanara down to here in Perth, and that

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Speaker 2: going all the way through and it was just a

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Speaker 4: I've got to tip your elbows. Well, it's you know,

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Speaker 4: you have Cougi and Kuji. It's Cougi here if you're

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Speaker 4: ever there as well. And Karen yup, don't say Karen yep.

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Speaker 2: I always have to check a couple of d renunciations.

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Speaker 4: Our hanger, I'm the I'm the Catholic in the room.

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Speaker 4: Can I ask the Pope as the pope.

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Speaker 3: Coust did you have the payas?

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Speaker 4: Okay, well not yes now, but your mum raised you

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Speaker 4: with three great faiths. So I heard you say, the

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Speaker 4: Labor Party, Sydney Rabbits and the Catholic Church. So that

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Speaker 4: trip to see the pipe that must have been really meaningful.

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Speaker 4: Was it what you learn from man?

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Speaker 2: It was awesome. It was such a privilege to represent

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Speaker 2: Australia at the inaugural mass there in Saint Peter's Square

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Speaker 2: and we had a real opportunity to hit it off

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Speaker 2: with each other. It was great hit it off.

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Speaker 4: He loves tennis? Does he love tennis?

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Speaker 2: He does like tennis. That they did get to mention

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Speaker 2: as well. I tried and played tennis. I actually got

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Speaker 2: to play in the Sydney Bad's Comp on Saturday. I

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Speaker 1: Say he has a standing invitation to the Australian Open,

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Speaker 1: the part he.

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Speaker 2: Has a standing invitation wherever he wanted to go.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not in a couple of years, Prime Minister.

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Speaker 1: The minimum wage around the country is going up next

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Speaker 1: month by three point five percent. What real life impact

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Speaker 1: does this have on some of Australia's Households's.

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Speaker 2: Extra dollars in people's pockets, and together with the income

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Speaker 2: tax cuts that we're done already, but the ones to

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Speaker 2: come aimed at that first marginal tax rate that kick

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Speaker 2: in for low income earners. It will make a difference.

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Speaker 2: We know people have been doing it tough. It's cost

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Speaker 2: of living pressures there, and we wanted to see a

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Speaker 2: real wage increase, and real wages have now increased for

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Speaker 2: the last eighteen months. And what that's doing is making

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Speaker 2: a real difference to people. And of course those people

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Speaker 2: spend money as well. They're not in a position to

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Speaker 2: so we really welcome it. It will make a practical difference,

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Speaker 2: not an enormous increase. Three point five percent of the

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Speaker 1: I just I mean, it's sort of that, coupled with

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Speaker 4: There is one fellow you've got to watch, though, isn't

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Speaker 4: it that you like Rita Safiotti. When you wake up

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Speaker 4: in the morning at five am, you see what trump

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Speaker 4: he's been up to you and go, oh my god,

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Speaker 4: what's he done today? Is that how it works?

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Speaker 3: He's broken up with his bestie.

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Speaker 2: It is that I do see there's a bit of

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Speaker 2: tension between mister Mark and President Trump. But look, with

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Speaker 2: it's just something that we're dealing with. We'll do with

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Speaker 2: it respectfully. He's been elected. We respect that outcome and

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Speaker 2: the United States order for the global economy, and it's

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Speaker 2: not so much directly what will impact on us of

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Speaker 2: some of these tariffs. That's a slow down in the

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Speaker 2: global economy that will have an impact, and that's why

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Speaker 2: we've said it's an active economic self harm tariffs. All

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Speaker 2: they're doing is increasing prices for American consumers. So it's

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Speaker 2: a strange economic strategy in twenty twenty five, but it's

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Speaker 2: one that we're having to deal with.

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Speaker 3: The G seven summit is later this month.

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Speaker 1: In fact, that's where you will meet with President Trump.

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Speaker 1: Have you met him in person before?

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Speaker 4: What's he like?

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Speaker 2: No, I haven't. I've had three phone conversations with him,

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Speaker 2: and there've been really good conversations, constructive and of course

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Speaker 2: he has a particular style of speech. Of course, there

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Speaker 2: are lots of adjectives that he uses to describe things.

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Speaker 2: There's never half measures, and.

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Speaker 3: It was the mossy slang.

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Speaker 4: I say, that'll try.

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Speaker 1: What are the dinners like at those things, you'd.

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Speaker 4: Have a WhatsApp. You'd have a WhatsApp with him as

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Speaker 4: well with you for sure.

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Speaker 2: The well, one of the things that I find in

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Speaker 2: talking at forums like that is I engage the same

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Speaker 2: way that I'd engage at any forum here. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think people appreciate the fact that Australians are pretty down

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Speaker 2: to earth. We say what we mean, We're respectful, but

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Speaker 2: we engage pretty directly. Yeah, they do. And I just

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Speaker 2: you know, I'll go up, say gooday and talk about

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Speaker 2: what we have in common. Where there are some differences,

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Speaker 2: we'll try and talk those through and get some solutions

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Speaker 2: in the national interest.

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Speaker 3: I think Bara wants to wrap things up.

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Speaker 4: Godspeed, here we go here if you need me, can

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Speaker 4: I just be frivolous for one second, because I know

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Speaker 4: you're a huge music fan and you used to be

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Speaker 4: a DJ and all that sort of stuff. But you're

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Speaker 4: also a big fan of my friend Lisa, one of

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Speaker 4: her bands, the Ramones. Right now, the absolutely now, be honest.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever wanted to yell out in Parliament? Hey, who,

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Speaker 4: let's go.

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Speaker 2: Let's go. You know what? In the twenty twenty two

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Speaker 2: election campaign, when it was announced by mister Morris and

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Speaker 2: I stood at the press comments and I finished off

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Speaker 2: with right out as as the great Ramones would say, Hey, ho,

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Speaker 2: let's go like campaign director, who's a real wowser. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and hopefully he sees this transcript, said mate, you've got

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Speaker 2: to stop the music reference. They're really obscure. And I said, no,

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Speaker 2: it is what it is, and to keep doing it.

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Speaker 1: You know what I say, if you know you know? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, Well on that note, that's good.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy your time here is always should I go.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you when you were djaying, what

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Speaker 4: was this song that really filled the dance floor that

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Speaker 4: you pulled out? But anyway, that'll be another day.

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Speaker 2: Am I ever going to see your face audience participation?

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Speaker 1: You are the man that could change that as the

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Speaker 1: national anthem officially.

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Speaker 3: FRA MINSTRABANSI, thanks for chatting to us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks very much. God