Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have agreed to properly manage their nations' differences during a visit.
This follows an era in which minister-to-minister contacts were banned and trade barriers cost Australian exporters up to 20 billion Australian dollars ($21.5 billion NZD) a year.
Australia Correspondent Oliver Peterson told Heather du Plessis-Allan “On the one hand: keep buying our iron ore and wine, but also we don’t really want you to talk to our Pacific neighbours and - get out of the South China Sea.”
Peterson said “It doesn’t really fit in with the narrative of our two nations at this stage.”
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Olli Peterson six pr pers Life Presenters with Us.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Hey, Ollie, get ahead.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How did it go with the Chinese premiere?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's just weird, Like international diplomacy in our relationship with
China is weird. It's really really odd how we roll
out the red carpet. There are so many issues at
the moment between our two nations, but we just stand there,
the Prime Minister sucking up to the premiere of China
about repairing those relationships. On the one hand, you know,
keep buying our iron or keep buying our wine, but
(00:34):
also we don't really want you to start talking to
our Pacific neighbors and get out of the South China Sea.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
So look the optics of this thing.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And I understand I'm not trying to be blase about it, Heather,
but at the moment, as we know, the relationship between
Australia and China is not anywhere here is what it
was pre COVID.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Let's just be blunt about that. But at the.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Moment we've just got every possible scenario with a state
reception in Canberra going on. As you and I speak
yesterday in Adelaide the pandas at the Zoo, which, by
the way, those pandas are awesome, but like it's just weird.
And then he comes to Perth tomorrow and he's going
to go visit a lithium refinery in Counanna, which is
about an hour away here from Perth, so you know,
there's more stuff we can sell to China. It's just
(01:13):
really really odd at the moment. I think that's and
I understand why we're doing it. I understand that, you know,
they're a big trading partner, but it just doesn't really
fit in with the narrative between our two relations at
this stage.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Have you guys got over the snub because it was
a snub that they came to visit us first. Did
you realize that?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh no, I wasn't aware of that, because I know
Jerry Seinfeld came here first to Perth before he went
to the rest.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Is he coming to New Zealand cuz.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You just look to take the Chinese money over Jerry's jokes.
I know which I take. But tell me about what happened.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I'll tell you what He was here in Perth on
Saturday night unbelievably good, really funny goo seam.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But yes, last night in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Now he's got a heckler who's going for him, and
he's going after Jerry Seinfeld, obviously linking. It's a pro
Palescetine heckler, obviously linking, of course, Jerry being a Jewish comedian,
saying that you are a Zionist, you support Zionism, you
support the King of Palestinian's forty thousand people, they had
fifteen thousand children.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And here's a little of what Jerry Seinfeld replied.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Tomorrow we will read in the paper Middle East one
hundred percent. So thanks to man at the Trudo Serena
stopping to the.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Comedian and they stuck and everyone in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The Middle East went, oh my god, let's just general law.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So it's a comedy show. He said, you moron, get
out of here.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
So he didn't want to try and get into the
politics of all of this, understandably and having seen his
show on Saturday night, he really steers clear of the
issues in the Middle East. He's funny, but this is
obviously making worldwide headlines. Now. It was a good interaction
from Jerry Seinfeld to be honest in this pro Palestinian
protest there. He didn't lose his marbles or anything. But yeah,
it was a heated exchange in Sydney last night.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
How much did it cost you to get a ticket?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Mine was contra Oh okay, how much would it cost
a normal counter to get it?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't know. I didn't look it up.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I think it's pretty expensive. They saw that pretty quickly.
It's a few hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But it's worth it.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Like it's laugh out loud for the exiting here, I
don't really have a voice to as I laugh so hard.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Oh okay, that's a pretty good recommendation. Actually, say hey, now, okay,
so what would the Human Rights Commission have to do
in intervening to stop a cycle way being built?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Why would they get involved?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Because this is nuts, Like, you know, we have people
that obviously don't like houses being built next to them
or the fact they might be a pub.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
This might take the cake.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So Oxford Street and Sydney one of the busiest therapies,
and the CBD.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
There are a couple of when I say, a couple
of about five people.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Have got together to write to the Australian Human Rights
Commission to say they want to stop the construction of
a cycle way because they believe it is discriminatory against
the elderly and the disabled. They are not happy about
the fact there's one particular bloke who has got some
vision impairment issues and that's obviously hard, difficult, and I'm
not trying to downplay the issues that some people obviously
face and their disabilities, but to ask the Australian Human
(03:48):
Rights Commission to intervene. They have looked back in Canada,
where the equivalent body in that nation decided to intervene
and the bus stop being constructed and they got the
bus stop reconfigured and it cost a lot more.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I just think, if we're going all.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
This way with Human Rights Commission about cycle ways on
major thoroughfares, they must have too much time on their hands.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh mate, don't they disband them. I'm all for that, Okay, Ollie,
thank you. I appreciate it. Olli Peterson six PR Perth
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