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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. Statham joining us this morning.

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Speaker 1: He's had a challenging few months, not at the best

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Speaker 1: start to twenty twenty. But the Prime Minister joins us

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Speaker 1: this morning, Scott Morrison.

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Speaker 2: Hello, good Amanda, How are you very well?

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Ll scamer how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good, Jonesy, jiez.

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Speaker 3: A hell of a month for you, mate, seems to

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Speaker 3: be the big thing at the moment. How do you

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Speaker 3: turn around the perception that you've become an ineffectual leader.

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Speaker 3: It seems like you're always on the back foot all

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Speaker 3: the time.

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Speaker 2: Well, what everything is about is what's happening to the

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Speaker 2: Australian people. I mean, they've just gone through the worst summer.

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Speaker 2: Forgured about me. They've gone through the worst summer. People

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Speaker 2: lost their lives, lost their homes, they've lost their businesses,

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Speaker 2: their livelihoods. That's the only thing that matters.

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Speaker 3: But still, you know, you must have seen it, like

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Speaker 3: you talk about the Canberra bubble all the time, and

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Speaker 3: then you went from the bubble straight to the firefront.

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Speaker 3: It must have been very confronting.

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Speaker 2: Well it was, and it was very raw and people

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Speaker 2: were hurting a lot. And that's why we took the

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Speaker 2: action we did to get the defense forces out there

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Speaker 2: at a much greater scale. Mean that, I mean they

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Speaker 2: were responding to the requests that we had, and we

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Speaker 2: had around about eight hundred and I think it was

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Speaker 2: an eight hundred and ninety five Defense Force personnel out there.

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Speaker 2: I then took the decision that we weren't going to

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Speaker 2: wait for requests. We're going in and six and a

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Speaker 2: half thousand boots on the ground, which made a huge

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Speaker 2: difference in those communities. It wasn't because the States weren't

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Speaker 2: doing the right thing, of dough doing the right thing.

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Speaker 2: They just needed more people out there, and we got

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Speaker 2: them out there, and I think it's made a massive difference.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Defence forces were fixing the roof at the

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Speaker 2: Mogo Zoo, they were cleaning up the Eden mill, they

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Speaker 2: were clearing roads, they were getting water people, they were

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Speaker 2: evacuating people out of very difficult spots. They did an

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Speaker 2: amazing job and they're still doing it.

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Speaker 1: I feel that there's been a real shift in the

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Speaker 1: way Australians are looking at things since our horrendous summer

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Speaker 1: and feeling that we're moving towards alternate fuels too. Slowly.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Carla said that we have everything we need to

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Speaker 1: get emissions down to zero. We've got the science, we've

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Speaker 1: got the technology. The only thing missing is political will.

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Speaker 1: We can transition to fossil fuels if we want to.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to, I mean from But I agree

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Speaker 2: that there are alternative fuels, and that's why we're investing

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Speaker 2: in hydrogen. The technology. The thing is, you've got to

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Speaker 2: make it commercial and scalable to get it everywhere. And

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Speaker 2: we've done that work and it shows that a lot

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Speaker 2: of those fuels won't be really commercially scalable and available

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Speaker 2: for about a decade. But if we weren't talking about

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Speaker 2: getting gas out from under the ground. And I went

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Speaker 2: into the deal with New South Wild Class and that's

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Speaker 2: over seventy pedadules of gas, and that is an important

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Speaker 2: bridge fuel to get us to the next phase. So

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Speaker 2: we're doing so many practical things, but we don't need

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Speaker 2: to tax people more or put their electricity prices up

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Speaker 2: to do No. How can I just.

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Speaker 1: Say, though, but I gas is I know you're saying

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Speaker 1: that's a gateway to the future. That still is a

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Speaker 1: fossil fuel. But in Germany, for example, they looked at

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Speaker 1: this years ago, and they had symposiums with economists and

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Speaker 1: scientists and politicians and they have transition without losing a

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Speaker 1: single job. I think it's time we need to do that.

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Speaker 2: They had nuclear energy for a long part of that

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Speaker 2: period and that's not something we have in Australia. But

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Speaker 2: also what we've done this is our rate of renewable

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Speaker 2: investment per person in Australia is more than double that

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Speaker 2: of Germany. I think people sometimes don't really understand how

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Speaker 2: much is happening in Australia. Our renewable investments have been

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Speaker 2: leading the world. We're going to meet and beat our

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Speaker 2: Kiator commitments for missions reductions. I don't know if people

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Speaker 2: understand that where others haven't met these commitments around the world,

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Speaker 2: we will have met and beat them. Our omissions will

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Speaker 2: have fallen by twelve point eight percent since two thousand

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Speaker 2: and five. And that's better than Canada, that's better than

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. It's about the same as the United States.

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Speaker 2: It's better than Japan, it's better than Korea. We have

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Speaker 2: we're doing the job. We're getting on with it and

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Speaker 2: we're meeting and beating our targets, but we're also going

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Speaker 2: to be sensible and not take away people's jobs, will

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Speaker 2: put up their electricity prices or wipeout industries that regional

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Speaker 1: So you're making an announcement today, I'll be looking at

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Speaker 1: this in the paper and I think this is a

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Speaker 1: great thing, looking into the horrendous suicide rate of our

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Speaker 1: armed forces.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're establishing a National Commissioner, and we're also stambling

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Speaker 2: seeing a family's advocate with the Department of Entrance Affairs.

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Speaker 2: We've been carefully considering this over the summer. I've spoken

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Speaker 2: a lot of parents who've lost kids I've lost, spoken

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Speaker 2: to veterans themselves and all the various organizations, and what

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Speaker 2: we've come up with is the way you've got to

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Speaker 2: look on this continually into the future, and that means

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Speaker 2: there will be a National Commissioner. They will have what

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Speaker 2: is effectively the powers of a Royal Commissioner. That means

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Speaker 2: they can compel evidence and people could be charged with

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Speaker 2: perjury and things like this if they don't comply. And

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Speaker 2: that means we can get to the bottom of each

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Speaker 2: and every case and learn every lesson that you need

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Speaker 2: to learn from every case. I mean, you've got to

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Speaker 2: do this literally, case by case, and this is about

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Speaker 2: prevention of suicide as well as acting where these horrific

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Speaker 2: events have taken place and to learn from them. They're

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Speaker 2: complex issues. Suicide is a very complex issue, and we've

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Speaker 2: got a whole of government approach towards zero goal on suicide.

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Speaker 2: Too many of our young people taking their lives, too

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Speaker 2: many young Indigenous kids taking their lives, too many of

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Speaker 2: our veterans taking their lives. And so in each of

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Speaker 2: these areas and across the board, we're just putting in

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Speaker 2: practical things that we think can get that down in

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Speaker 2: this National Commissioner that look at each and every case

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Speaker 2: both are looking backwards but importantly into the future, will

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Speaker 2: help us get this right.

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Speaker 3: Do you ever think Scott like, jeez, I wish I

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Speaker 3: just went down the South Coast this Christmas holidays because

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Speaker 3: it would have been.

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Speaker 1: A whole different South Coast was on fire.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what I mean. But you're usually down this,

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Speaker 3: You're usually down the.

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Speaker 2: South Point, and mate, we're going down going to go

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Speaker 2: down there for two weeks in January and we had

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Speaker 2: and in Japan, so we changed it. But look, look,

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Speaker 2: when I came back from that trip, let me be

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Speaker 2: honest with people. I mean, you don't get every decision right, okay,

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Speaker 2: And Jenny and I we regret that we went. Of

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Speaker 2: course we wanted to go away with our family and

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Speaker 2: our kids at that time. Of course we did, like

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Speaker 2: so many families did. It's been a rough year and

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Speaker 2: tough year, but you know, we wish we didn't and

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Speaker 2: we're sorry about that. And I thinks are big hearted

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Speaker 2: and when people are up front about these things, you

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Speaker 2: just move on. And since we've been back, I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you we haven't stopped. And we've been everywhere. We've made

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Speaker 2: the decisions. We've put two billion dollars into bush bire recovery,

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Speaker 2: front foot over the coronavirus and ensuring we're keeping Australian safe,

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Speaker 2: and we're just getting on with it. And so I

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Speaker 2: know some people will continue to talk about that, and

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Speaker 2: I get it, and I understand it, and I understood

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Speaker 2: it made people angry, but you know, we're sorry about that.

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Speaker 2: We just got to get on with it. None of

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Speaker 2: us are perfect, but when we're not, we say we're not.

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Speaker 2: And that's what I'm saying there.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: From here on, let's hope the year gets better.

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Speaker 2: For us all. Now, before I go, can I wish Lily?

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Speaker 2: Who is my daughter? She's with They're on their way

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Speaker 2: to the swimming carnival and listening. They always listen to you. Guys, Lily,

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Speaker 2: You're going to go really well today? Good luck love?

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Speaker 1: What's so special?

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Speaker 2: Do you think she's in everything? But at fifty meters

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Speaker 2: freestyle here is Dawn Fraser and she's met Dawn. She

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Speaker 2: loves Dawn. And so go out there like the Dawny today, lil,

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Speaker 2: and you'll smash it.

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Speaker 3: You're not going to sing her another song.

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Speaker 2: Are just going she knows the song as you know.

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Speaker 2: You talk over that.

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Speaker 3: Well, good on you mate, look after yourself and here's

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Speaker 3: to twenty A great twenty.

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Speaker 1: Twenty, Thanks Prime Minister, Thanks guys, Jeess.

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Speaker 2: Join the end, Amanda in the morning one at one

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Speaker 2: point seven, tell you m