Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Peter Dutton announcing a frontbench reshuffle ahead of the Australian election

Ahead of the Australian election, opposition leader Peter Dutton has confirmed some political shakeups - and named David Coleman for the key shadow foreign affairs portfolio.

The foreign affairs job was previously held by  Simon Birmingham, and a high number of frontbenchers were looking to claim the position for themselves.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Dutton is looking to make more key changes if he wins the election.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And finally, this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is per one thousand people, you're freezing their butts
off waiting to worship a rat.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Animal rights group Peter has called for the town of
punk Satawny this is to abandon its annual Groundhog Day tradition.
This is in Pennsylvania and the United States. So every
year the town holds a ceremony where a man chats
to a groundhog live on stage to see if spring
will come early that year. Is this real? Peter says

(00:32):
it's cruel to subject a groundhog to a noisy announcer,
screaming crowds and flashing lights, and the townspeople should bake
a vegan weather reveal cake every year instead. International correspondence
with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind for New
Zealand business hope me in the eye with a burnt stick.
Twenty two to five. Murray Olds is here our Australia correspondent,

(00:55):
Murray Good afternoon could be worse.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
They could shoot it. At least they just asking students.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I don't think Peter would approve of that. No, I
think Peter would approve of that. Somehow, Murray, the Aussie
tex stocks have taken a hit from this deep seak news.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, that's right. Australia has not to the same extent
as in Vidio. But I mean who would have thought it?
As Laura said, I mean, gee whiz China making cheap stuff?
Who would have thought that? Anyway, Australian text talks haven't
been belted the I just grabbed some notes, I ran
out of the newsroom. You've got an outfit called next DC.
It's a giant data center mob that's down nearly eight

(01:33):
percent in early trading, the lowest share price fourteen and
a half dollars lowest in about fifteen months. You've got
Newick's biggest fall down to three dollars thirty clothes on
Friday five dollars forty, so that's twenty percent in the
last five days. And there's an outfit called Megaport. And

(01:53):
you know, you get the picture and that clip you
played from that guy. It is like a casino. It's
the ties bit pumped up with a video like you
just can't believe. And there was one story and now
I won't go down that path because I haven't got
the direct quote in front of me, but suffice to say,
and video was just enjoying this massive honeymoon, and there

(02:14):
was a guy who read this morning that it was
never going to last. And sure enough and on comes
this Chinese mob and they've just pulled that air right
out of the balloon.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I mean it's still worth let's not. This company's
only been around a few years. I think they were
founded in twenty twenty one or twenty twenty two or something.
So to go from that to three trillion American dollars
and market cap even after the cut today is pretty
incredible stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
But it happened about four hundred years ago with tulips
in Holland.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well true, quite right, Hey, Peter Dutton. So he's on
his way to becoming the Prime minister and now he's
threatening the UN for a shakeup.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh mate, he's just look. I think he rang up
Donald Trump and said, ay, Donny, would you mind sending
me an email of your playbook because he's cranking out
the you know, in my first one hundred days, all
this sort of stuff. And here he is, he's named
this bloke, he's you know, he's really risen without without
a trace. And the coalition to guy called David Coleman.

(03:12):
He's now the new shadow Foreign Affairs minister. I mean
he wouldn't say boot too a goose anyway, he's busy
there wonking away like that big goose from the big
table at the top of the room with Dutton's and
Promata saying oh, look, we have to improve the United Nations.
Oh yes, yes, yes, the UN has immense room for improvement.
The multilateral body far from effective. It's an organization, says Coleman,

(03:36):
with important goals. When it works effectively, it's good. But plainly,
when you look at some of the UN resolutions on
issues such as the Middle East, is not always effective
and as far often and is often far from effective.
So we're going to get a lot more of this
stuff between now election day. It really is. It's Trump

(03:56):
light over here with the opposition. He's every every single
card he can play.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
He is fair enough. I suppose firefighters have put out
a warning about we've got this problem in New Zealand
as well, but the e bike batteries.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, absolutely, Now, there was a stat Christmas time. I
did a couple of stories on this in New South
Wales last year they had more than one of these
fires a week and two people died when their apartment
caught fire because the people are going home with their
e bikes and their e scooters, plugging him into the
wall and then going to bed. And the thing is

(04:31):
if these things catch fire, and they can. As we've
all seen, people are getting trapped, they're jumping out of
windows and so on. One really bright sparkle on the
Gold Coast. He came home after a big day out
in the scooter. Gee wherez it feels pretty hot, I
might wack it in the freezer. So that's what he's done.
Bomb for some reason. I mean, I don't know why.

(04:51):
I'm not a chemist, but I mean, this thing is
literally blown up in the freezer. There's one guy who's
climbed out under a balcony. Another one had to jump.
You've got fire officers up there saying, listen, these rechargeable batteries, right,
you're supposed to look after them. You're not supposed to
soup them up so they can go faster. You're supposed

(05:13):
to not charge them up on soft furnishings like under
blankets and whatnot. Because there's a thing called a thermal runaway,
which sounds pretty dramatic, but it can kill people. And
look at it explodes, it catches, look at, heats up,
explodes and the joint is all of a sudden burning.
So if any more warnings had to be put out,
this case up in Queensland certainly has underlined that significance.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Sounds like it. Murray, thank you very much for that.
Great to have you on the show. As always, for
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