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Trump ‘never asked’ for Australia’s help: Albo · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Donald Trump and Benjaminett Yaho never
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  Speaker 1: asked Australia for help of any kind in the Iran War.
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  Speaker 1: According to Anthony Albanesi, the PM is responding to Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's repeated claim that America's allies, including Australia, fail to
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  Speaker 1: help deal with the threat posed by Iran to shipping
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  Speaker 1: in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical stretch of the
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  Speaker 1: Persian Gulf that the rest of the world depends on
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  Speaker 1: for oil supplies. Australia is importing more fuel from the
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  Speaker 1: United States, though, according to the Prime Minister, as he
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  Speaker 1: seeks to diversify our sources of liquid fuels including petroleum,
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  Speaker 1: jet fuel and diesel, Argentina and Algeria are now supplying more,
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  Speaker 1: along with the Asian fuel refiners who he's been visiting
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  Speaker 1: in recent weeks to ensure a continued flow. The PM
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  Speaker 1: says a campaign to get Australians to use less fuel
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  Speaker 1: is working and says rationing is quote not in an
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  Speaker 1: The annual general meeting of Energy Giant Woodside has descended
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  Speaker 1: into chaos and confusion. After a group of protesters crashed
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  Speaker 1: and addressed by chief executive Liz Westcott. Boyscott's only been
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  Speaker 1: in the top job for about a month and was
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  Speaker 1: just beginning her presentation when whale sounds could be heard
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  Speaker 1: coming from the crowd at Crown Towers in Perth. A
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  Speaker 1: group of protesters who've targeted Woodside repeatedly in recent years
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  Speaker 1: stood up, clapping and singing. Another group blue whistles, and
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  Speaker 1: one demonstrator storm the stage as security guards bundled thirty
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  Speaker 1: people out of the meeting. Woodside, which is a major
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  Speaker 1: supplier of liquefied natural gas, doesn't want the Albanese Labour
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  Speaker 1: government to bow to a campaign for a new gas tax.
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  Speaker 1: Woodside's chairman Richard Goiter told the meeting Australia must have
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  Speaker 1: a quote stable fiscal and policy environment. The boss of
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  Speaker 1: Microsoft says artificial intelligence could be the antidote to Australia's
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  Speaker 1: productivity problems. Satya Nadella told The Australian Microsoft will invest
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  Speaker 1: twenty five billion in Australian supercomputing over the next three years.
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  Speaker 1: That's on top of the five billion dollars Microsoft has
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  Speaker 1: already spent on building data centers here. Nadella says the
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  Speaker 1: tech giant will train around three million Australians but acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: some jobs will be quote displaced by AI. Check out
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  Speaker 1: those stories live right now at the Australian dot com
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  Speaker 1: dot au and come back to the front first thing
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  Speaker 1: in the morning for a close look at the idea
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  Speaker 1: of a gas tax that's got energy giants like Woodside worried.
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  Speaker 1: That's right here, Friday morning,