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We're ready for the Gulf, says new defence boss · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Kristin Amiot with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. The Australian Defense Force has a
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  Speaker 1: new boss and he's ready to wade right in to
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  Speaker 1: the conflict in the Middle East. Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi
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  Speaker 1: announced Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, the current head of the
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  Speaker 1: Australian Navy, as Chief of the Defense Force on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Hammond said the Navy is ready and able to deploy
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  Speaker 1: warships to the Strait of Hormuz if requested by the
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  Speaker 1: United States.
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  Speaker 2: Let me start by saying we've got ten surface combatants
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  Speaker 2: right now. Eight of them are at sea today. That
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  Speaker 2: navy is as ready as it ever has been, and
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  Speaker 2: they are fitted with one of the most advanced radars
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  Speaker 2: in the world CEA radar and some of the most
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  Speaker 2: advanced missile and point defense systems in the world. Are
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  Speaker 2: they capable of performing the mission as Emiral Johnson said
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  Speaker 2: last week? Absolutely. The question of a contribution is one
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  Speaker 2: for consideration by the Australian government should they receive a requests,
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  Speaker 2: and there's been no such request as yet.
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  Speaker 1: US President Donald Trump announced a naval blockade of the
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  Speaker 1: vital shipping route in an attempt to wrest control of
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  Speaker 1: the strait from Iran. Trump said in a truth social post,
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  Speaker 1: any Iranian forces that try to stop the blockade will
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  Speaker 1: be quote blown to hell, and the President said he'd
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  Speaker 1: instructed America's navy to limit the movements of any ship
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  Speaker 1: that's paid what he called an illegal toll to Iran
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  Speaker 1: in order to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The
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  Speaker 1: blockade is due to begin at midnight tonight Australian time,
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  Speaker 1: and comes after peace talks between the US and Tehran
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  Speaker 1: collapsed over the weekend. Anthony Albanesi also announced on Monday
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant General Susan Coyle has been appointed Chief of Army.
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant General Coyle will be the first woman in our
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  Speaker 2: nation's history to command the Australian Army.
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant General Coyle was most recently the Chief of Joint Capabilities,
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  Speaker 1: having served, among other things, as Commander of Joint Task
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  Speaker 1: Force six' thret to three And commander Of Task Force.
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  Speaker 1: Afghanistan Donald trump's outrage over The Middle east conflict has
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  Speaker 1: a new. Target On, monday it Was Pope leo who
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  Speaker 1: copped a. Lashing in a truth social, Post trump accused
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  Speaker 1: the pontiff of being quote weak on crime and terrible
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  Speaker 1: for foreign. Policy speaking to reporters after a trip to
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  Speaker 1: the masters At Augusta National Golf club In, Georgia trump doubled,
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  Speaker 1: down we don't like.
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  Speaker 3: A pope that's going to say that it's okay to
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  Speaker 3: have a nuclear. Weapon we don't want a pope that
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  Speaker 3: says grime is okay in our. CITIES i don't like.
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  Speaker 3: It i'm not a big fan of Pop. Leo he's
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  Speaker 3: a very liberal person and he's a man that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: believe in stopping. Crime he's a man that doesn't think
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  Speaker 3: that we should be toying with a country that wants
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  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapons so they can blow up the. World
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  Speaker 3: i'm not a fan Of.
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  Speaker 1: Poplia Pope leo previously Criticized Donald trump's threat to the
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  Speaker 1: story The iranian civilization and urged the president to work
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  Speaker 1: for peace through, diplomacy not. Force trump also hit out
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  Speaker 1: at The North Atlantic Treaty, organization Saying AMERICA'S nato allies
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  Speaker 1: weren't there when they were. Needed check out those stories
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