Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese locking in first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump

Anthony Albanese is set to meet US President Donald Trump face-to-face for the first time at the G7 summit in Canada.

It's expected Albanese will use these discussions to make the case for an exemption to trade tariffs and talk up the AUKUS agreement.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says Trump will use these discussions to encourage Australia to boost up their defence spending.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Olli Peterson six pr Perth Life Presenters with us Oli. Hello, mate,
get ahead. So what's Elbo going to say to Trumpy.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, he's going to tell him that he should put
his big boy pants on and just to get along
with Orcus because he says, a safe Australia in this
part of the world is what America requires to for
each other's security. That's a bit of a tough talk
that he's trying to tell Australian reporters in Canada at
the G seven before they have a chin wag tomorrow.
I'm just hoping that Donald Trump remembers his name because

(00:29):
he's had a little issue in the past, you murmer
when Malcolm Turbule went met him and he expressed Prime
Minister to Trumble. So let's just hope he knows who
he is.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
And I mean only fair to Trump. Biden, remember, but
it didn't Biden for pet Somo's name, So you guys
are forgettable.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well maybe it's a bit on New Zealand, but I
think that you'll find that Donald trumple just basically say hey, mate,
lift your defense bend of three percent or you can
get stuffed.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
So that's probably where.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's going to light land.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
That's that's probably How were you guys feeling about this
Orchestra review. Do you see this as just sort of
going through the motions and the thing will survive.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I think that's the optimistic view form most Australians. But
when we see what the United States is now all
about under Trump two point zero, maybe we do need
to have that wider conversation about all of our allies
and what our objectives are and who we want to
work closely with. Not saying we say goodbye to the
US no way in the world, but yeah, sure, let's

(01:27):
go through the review process. The issue is, though we've
upset the French, they're not going to give a submarines,
So there's not too many other people or countries that
we could go to that might want to build our submarines.
I don't think we'd go to China. I just don't
think that's going to happen. So this is a huge
This is a really really I'm being flippant, but this
is such an important meeting that Anthony Albernezi is about
to have with Donald Trump and just how that relationship

(01:51):
is going to continue to stand the test of time.
I think ultimately the right people would be in Donald
Trump ere to say how important Australia is and by
extension New Zealand is too, obviously still being friends in
our region.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Now, how does Chap end up getting shot in Bali?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, this video is it's really confronting. From it from
a neighbor, it's something like thirty odd shots and you
can hear it. But police have just a short time
ago hither arrested a suspect related to that shooting incident
which has killed an ossie and another injured another in Bali.
Zivan Radmanovich was killed on Saturday when two men broke
into the villa he was staying in the tourist hot

(02:28):
spot of Cango. They do have or the dead man now.
Zevan Radmanovich has links to the Melbourne underworld, so we
all think of when I say that Underbelly and that
successful series of about fifteen years ago, those gangland shootings
in Melbourne have now moved to Bali, which is for
all sorts of reasons very worrying. But Bali police that
they now arrested a suspect related to that shooting incidents

(02:52):
and they have not released any more information at this moment,
witnesses heard men with the Aussie accents fleeing the scene.
So it is believed the shooter may be known to
the victim. But obviously that is just breaking news which
is coming out of den Pasar as we speak. Ollie.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now this business with Amazon investing all this money and
data centers, why why Australia.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, they say our demand is growing over here, the
fact that we need it. We need a bigger data center.
We're going to be a regional data center. So look,
maybe some of what you're going to get out of
out of these Amazon data centers will be feeding across
the Pacific, and maybe we're going to hold some of
some of your data over here as well.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Heather, I will trust you with it. Thank you, Oli.
I appreciate Oliver Peterson, six PR Perth Life Presenter. I
feel like that was supposed to sound slightly sinister from him.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
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