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Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Australia facing higher tariffs from the Trump administration · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way it used to be, writing, not talking.
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  Speaker 2: Murray Old's Ossie Correspondent with us. Now, I mus you
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  Speaker 2: went to that you like a bit of Six in
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  Speaker 2: the City.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I'm afraid I don't.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good time. It was a good time,
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  Speaker 2: it really was. Now, how's your government feeling about the
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  Speaker 2: old tariffs with Trump?
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  Speaker 3: Again? Well, to be honest, not bugget of mine know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they know either. I mean, depending on
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  Speaker 3: the day of the week, which way the wind is blowing.
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  Speaker 3: If Donald Trump's come over is still in place, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: how do you pick this guy? He says, where's the quote?
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  Speaker 3: I've got a new tariff for the world. Well, what
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  Speaker 3: does that mean? You're weirdo. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how countries around the world are supposed to try and
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  Speaker 3: run economies. Your country, Australia, but he you know, India,
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  Speaker 3: how are you supposed to run when he changes from
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  Speaker 3: Monday to Tuesday. You don't know what you're dealing with.
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  Speaker 3: And even the opposition over here, which has been howling
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  Speaker 3: growlb and easy to go and bend the knee in
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  Speaker 3: the White House and go to the Oval Office and
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  Speaker 3: get dressed down like everybody else. Even the opposition is saying,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, it's a bit strange with what we're
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  Speaker 3: dealing with now. I mean, Donald Trump's just blown up
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  Speaker 3: all the rules. Australia's got a massive trade surplace in
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  Speaker 3: the United States. I mean, you know, I mean, a
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  Speaker 3: Trump's tariff should not apply to Australia full stop. And
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  Speaker 3: yet hear we have the European Union bending the knee,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, everybody else that are falling. Look Japan
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  Speaker 3: falling over themselves to try to pease there's weird. So
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  Speaker 3: the Australian government really doesn't know what's going on. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Donald Trump does that?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think? Do you think muzz? I mean there is.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to me there are two potential ways to
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  Speaker 2: deal with this, you know adequately. One is that you
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  Speaker 2: do the kistarma and you suck up like you wouldn't believe.
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  Speaker 2: The second is that you do in New Zealand and
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  Speaker 2: you just you just try to hide away and don't
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  Speaker 2: ruin any attention. But has has Albo run the risk
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  Speaker 2: of potentially maybe just antagonized Trump just even so slightly
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  Speaker 2: like you know, he's not doesn't sound like a Trump fanboy.
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  Speaker 3: He's not a Trump fan boy. But you know, to
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  Speaker 3: be honest, I mean, does Donald Trump even know where
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  Speaker 3: Australia is? Is he sure we're not Austria? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the guy is just the weirdest duck in the whole pond,
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  Speaker 3: don't you think. I mean, how the hell do you
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  Speaker 3: deal with the guy? Well? How do you draw up
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  Speaker 3: policies to try and deal with Washington?
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  Speaker 2: He don't ask me. This is baffling the most smart
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  Speaker 2: people in the world. I've got no bloody idea. Jeez,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just weird. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, is this pro Palestinian protest march going to happen?
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  Speaker 3: Well, not if the government has its way. This is
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  Speaker 3: a proposed march across the Sydney Harbor Bridge on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: The group here in Sydney is called the Palestine Action Group.
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  Speaker 3: It's been protesting for the last couple of years, just
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  Speaker 3: about every weekend and places like Hyde Park. But given
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  Speaker 3: what's going on in Gaza now, the images we've seen
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  Speaker 3: of starving children alike, the Palestine Action Group has applied
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  Speaker 3: for permission, as is required out of the law, has
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  Speaker 3: asked the police for permission to march on the Sydney
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  Speaker 3: Harbor Bridge on Sunday. The state government has said not
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  Speaker 3: on your nelly. The bridge is a major artery through
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  Speaker 3: the city. We can't have a block for a protest.
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  Speaker 3: The group itself says, right, if that's the case, if
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  Speaker 3: we're not going to be allowed to be going to
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  Speaker 3: go to the Supreme Court to challenge that decision. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, don't you think that closing the bridge
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  Speaker 3: for a movie scene a couple of three weeks back.
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  Speaker 3: The Sydney Marathon's coming up in two weeks. That's going
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  Speaker 3: to be closed for that. Yeah, the Pride March, that
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Alberanizi March than a year ago. The bridge was
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  Speaker 3: shot for that as well. So don't tell me you
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  Speaker 3: don't close the bridge for big events. We're planning a
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  Speaker 3: big event, so it's going to go to the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like that's a fair point that you make. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Now tell me what's been going on with this childcare story?
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  Speaker 3: Oh dreadful, just beyond measure. This is on top of
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  Speaker 3: what's happened down in Melbourne. That guy Joshua Brown charged
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  Speaker 3: with more than seventy child abuse offenses. That guy you
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  Speaker 3: know here, they worked at more than twenty I think
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  Speaker 3: twenty three or twenty four child center in about four years.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how many jobs have you had? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this guy's gone for.
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  Speaker 2: He's Yeah, maybe we're gonna have to leave it there.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that. Murray Old's Australia Cross. Wonder what's going
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  Speaker 2: on here? To give you the you don't need too
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  Speaker 2: much detail, do your work as been accused of bashing
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  Speaker 2: a one year old in Queensland. So maybe they just
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  Speaker 2: need to have a good old look at who their
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  Speaker 2: letting look after children. What do you think?
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