Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Canadian PM Mark Carney's visit to Australia

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney joined his Australian counterpart to call for international co-operation following 'consecutive crises'. 

Carney says Canada and Australia should work together as 'strategic cousins' and team up to boost  sovereign capabilities including in the areas of critical minerals, defence and AI.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Carney called for smaller nations, or 'middle powers' to lead the way in repairing 'what's left of the world order'.

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Murray olds Ossie correspondents with us amass very good afternoon, Heaven.
How's the Carnie Is it going? Yeah, looked pretty well.
I think looks it was always going to go well.
I suspect him. And there's a bit of a bromance
between mister Kearney and Albanezy and you know, I think
it was underlined by Mark Carney when he addressed the Parliament.

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It was a pretty somber warning. I think about the
demise as he sees it of the global architecture that's
really sort of helped the thing together since the end
of the Second World War. He says that he told
Parliament that the global architecture is breaking down under the
weight of crisis after crisis. He said, Canada and Australia
helped build the post war world and delivered you know,

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global prosperity. But that's under threat, he says, like never before.
But he has express confidence that countries like Canada, like Australia,
those Middle powers he referred to remember that terrific lne
about if you're not at the table, going to be lunch.
He says that you know, the nations like Canada, like Australia,
I guess like New Zealand as well, can lead the

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way in repairing what's left of the world order. He
spoke of very strong ties, both proud democracies that navigate
the world and share the same values and a common heritage,
a common perspective, and he says we can build a
common future. So I think, all in all, it's been
a pretty successful visit here for the Canadian Prime Minister,

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and I think to a lot of us strangers saying
bloody good he stood up the Trump and gave them
both barrels. I see, you've got the first couple of
hundred of your lot back from the Middle East. Yeah,
they got in last night, and I'll tell you what,
they were very very happy to get in, and so
were their loved ones and their families. But that leaves
about one hundred and fourteen one hundred and fourteen and

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a half thousand. I he's still up there, and we
understand this afternoon that the Australian Defense Force is drawing
up plays to go and get them if they have to.
Penny Wong, the Foreign Minister, is still saying, listen, commercial
flights remain the best option. We've had. One out last
night to Australia. Others are leaving for the much closer

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ports up in Europe. Of course, it's not an easy
thing to bring people in military aircraft down from the
Middle East to Australia. I mean it's a long long way.
It's like in a Hercules. Goodness me, you'd have to
stop there three times, I suspect. But in any event,
they've got crisis teams up there right now. They left

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I think yesterday up there to help local consular staff
try and make some sense out of what's happening, because
all these people want to get out. Aviation experts are warning,
by the way, that Australians just postpone any European travel
plans for five or six months because it's going to
be a mess. There's going to be all sorts of
potentially very expensive trips that might have to be canceled

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because of war breaks out. You're not covered travel in durance,
so you've done so if you've bought you know, tickets,
imagine buying business class flights to and from Europe will
be twenty thousand dollars and you've kissed that money. Good buy.
If there's more conflicts, So they're saying hang on, Penny
Wong saying hang on. They're all saying we're doing our best,
and the Australian government is, as I say, scrambling consular

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staff to fly to the Middle East, fly into trouble.
If you like to try and make some sort of
sense on the ground for all the osnies, for all
the Australians who are there, can you explain to me
this business about the school telling the kids, filming the
kids going into the toilets and whether this is okay. Yeah,
well the parents seem to think it's okay. The school
of Saint Leo's in Wurrunga, which is up in Northern

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Sydney now recently Saint Leo's spent a great deal of
money refurbishing bathrooms for the kids. And it's a private school,
they can do it. They're like, there's no CCTV inside
the toilets, obviously, but there is CCTV across the school,
which I guess most schools have these days. And according

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to Saint Leo's, they don't want their bathrooms to be
trashed by unrule these students because they've spent a lot
of money on them. And what they're doing is monitoring
kids who go to the bathrooms during class time. All right.
I mean it sounds like there are teachers on duty

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when the you know, it might be morning recess or lunchtime,
afternoon tea time or whatever, there are going to be
staff there patrolling the place, looking at, you know, just
where the kids are and what are they doing. You
can't do that, of course, when teachers are actually teaching.
So if these kids are going to the bathroom heaving
toilet rolls around, shoving toilet rolls down the toilets, and

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some blocking them up, the school says bugger that. And
most parents have said, you know what, We're entirely on
your side. We don't want little Johnny coming home with
a detention because he's bunged up the bog. And I think,
you know, I think the school's getting thumbs up from
most parents. Yeah, brilliant. Good to hear, Melz, thanks very much,
looking after yourself, Married Old's Australia correspondent. For more from

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