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US, Saudi Arabia unite in strikes against Iran · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian I'm Christinamia with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. The pressure is on Donald Trump to
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  Speaker 1: make a deal with Iran after the United States and
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia conducted their first joint strikes on Iranian assets.
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  Speaker 1: The joint operation comes after Iran launched a surprise attack
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  Speaker 1: on US troops in Jordan and rejected a proposal by
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  Speaker 1: Oman to evenly divide control of the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: It's the vital shipping route through which about twenty percent
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  Speaker 1: of the world's oil passed before the Iran conflict kicked
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  Speaker 1: off in February. The situation has prompted a new push
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  Speaker 1: for mediation between the warring nations as the global economy
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  Speaker 1: wears the effects of the hostilities. Just today, after Reserve
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  Speaker 1: Bank boss Michelle Bullock warned more rate rises could be
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  Speaker 1: on the cards, inflation has taken a dive. Headline inflation
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  Speaker 1: dropped from four percent to three point eight percent in
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  Speaker 1: the year to June, a bigger fall then expected. Treasurer
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  Speaker 1: Jim Chalmers said the new numbers approved. The Albanese Labour
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  Speaker 1: government is making inroads on skyrocketing inflation as the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East conflict drags on. The Reserve Bank likes headline inflation
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  Speaker 1: to sit between two and three percent before it starts
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  Speaker 1: cutting the cash rate, but the trimmed mean that's the
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  Speaker 1: RBA's preferred inflation number, is holding steady at three point
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  Speaker 1: six percent. The Central Bank is expecting that number to
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  Speaker 1: rise this year. Australia's Commonwealth Games gold rush continued in
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  Speaker 1: Glasgow overnight, with nine athletes scooping up gold medals in
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  Speaker 1: the pool, athletics and gymnastics. Sprinter Lachlan Kennedy ran a
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  Speaker 1: narrow second place in the men's one hundred meter finals,
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  Speaker 1: but smashed Australia's national record to become the fastest one
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  Speaker 1: hundred meter runner in Australian history. Kennedy on the line,
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  Speaker 1: at the latest development in a legal saga that's enveloped
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  Speaker 1: successive governments. It's the settlement reached between the Commonwealth and
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