Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent speaks ahead of Albanese's meeting with Donald Trump

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is due to meet with Donald Trump soon, off the back of his visit to the Pacific.

This follows Albanese’s failure to secure a defence treaty with Papua New Guinea delayed amid concerns about sovereignty.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says the pressure's on for the Prime Minister. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with NS and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business. Oliver Peterson, six pur perp Life
Presenters with us. Hello, Oali, Hello Heather. Okay, so Albanezi
crunch time. He's meeting with Trump. Yeah, he is.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
He'll get over there asap after just announcing today with
the Treasury of Jim Chalmers and the Climate Change Minister
Chris Bowen that the government's target to cut emissions by
sixty two to seventy percent by twenty thirty five. He
reckons this is a responsible measure and it is supported
by science. We've already heard from the opposition here that
the announcement made today will not be achievable. We have

(00:37):
no costings around this. The modeling from Treasury shown that
the economy will be two point two trillion dollars bigger
if the nation adopted Nordly transitioned by twenty to fifty.
So there's a lot of cold board already being thrown
onto the government's climate change targets they're signing up to.
He wanted to get this done, as you say, before
he heads off to this meeting to catch up with
Donald Trump and g is any under pressure because he's

(00:59):
returned from Specific Island's visit. He hasn't managed to sign
up the security packs with the Puppy and New Guinea
government hasn't. He hasn't managed to sign up that security
pack with the government of Vanawatu last week. So he's
been left fairly red faced. And I know that ABC
journalist John Lyons is upset Donald Trump as he's over
there in the United Kingdom at the moment's ahead of

(01:19):
four corners stories saying he's an embarrassment to his country. So, Heather,
what does this do for a meeting and a showdown
with Donald Trump? He's never had the ear of the
US president face to face. He's obviously failed to shore
up regional security. Will that actually help or hinder the
Orchest arrangement? I think Donald Trump, being the businessman that
he is, will be asking Anthony Albanisi.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
For even more.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
He'll be doing the old Oliver twists. Please, sir, can
I have more and more money at your defense forces?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, it's certainly going to be an interesting one to
watch because I don't know that any of us can
call it. Listen to other masks back, are they?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, So we've got a hospital here in New South Wales,
which has issued a mask mandate. This is not over COVID,
it's over a measles outbreak. Now this is escalated in
Queensland and New South Wales and in the last hour
or so in Western Australia it's now infecting people who
are in the mines. Now. In measles is something Heather

(02:13):
that we really haven't taken much notice of for quite
a number of years because nobody really thought that there
was measles anymore, because everybody used toet vaccinated against measles.
But we've got three cases confirmed in Cans so far.
North Queensland they've got six, so that's the number that
have obviously doubled in that part of Australia. Officials are
now issuing alerts at Cann's Hospital's maternity ward. You go

(02:35):
down the coast then into New South Wales and mask
mandates are being ordered at some north coastal hospitals as
a result of this measles outbreak. So it's almost sort
of the COVID years back again. And you know they're
shuddering thinking about mask mandates, Yeah, totally.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Now you're emissions targets. How realistic are these.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, that's what's going to be interesting. That's what's going
to be difficult. The government wants to cut a missions
by sixty two to seventy percent by twenty thirty five.
Albo is saying that it's a responsible measure, Jim Chalmers
calling the transition of gold and economic opportunity for Australia.
But it's being pointed out by the opposition that the
target will not be met, that they have already failed

(03:17):
to reduce the current targets. There's no chance that twenty
thirty five target will be achieved, says the opposition, because
they've got no credibility because they're failing to meet their
twenty thirty targets. So the government's trying to have a
little bob each way, right, They're going to go out
for a little while then they're going to come down.
But look, this will be very interesting. I think he
wanted to make this announcement, as I said before, headed
before he went off to see Donald Trump, to try
and wrestle back the National conversation.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Listen. I mean, this is nonsense, isn't it. There's no
way you guys are going to cut your emissions by
potentially seventy percent in the next ten years, and surely
by now voters as we get closer and closer to
these targets and we see we don't meet them, voters
are going to start to see through this crap, aren't they.
I reckon they would.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I don't know why you lock yourself into this sort
of stuff, Like why do you have this target?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
How are we going to do it?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Heather, Like, we've already looked these massive warnings this summer
that we can't keep the lights on of the air
conditioning systems running, So how are we going to do it?
All ride bicycles and have windmills in our own backyards
and all these batteries, Like, it's just until you have
a concrete baseload solution, you know, this is all just
Lala land, correct, Lala Land?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Okay, listen, Ollie, thank you. I do appreciate that. That's
Oliver Peterson ou six PR Perth Live presenter. For more
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