Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Donald Trump snubbing Anthony Albanese at G7 summit

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese missed out on an upcoming meeting with Donald Trump after the US President left the G7 summit early.

Trump completed an earlier meeting with UK Prime Minister Starmer, where the pair were able to discuss the future of the AUKUS alliance.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds said Albanese will have other chances to meet with Trump.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Marry Old's Ossie corresponds with us now.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Mars, Hello, good afternoon, Heather.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
How's elbow feeling about this?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
We don't know. We don't know, but I think perhaps
maybe in his deepest heart of hearts, he might think, wow,
I've dodged a bullet, because you never know what you're
going to get, do you when you go into a
room with Donald Trump, when you shake hands, you got
to count your fingers. But certainly he was very encouraged
by those remarks from Saquias Starmer, the British Prime Minister.
He had a one on one with Trump and he

(00:28):
came out of that saying, listen to the Orchestra. Submarine
Pact is in good shape as far as the UK
is concerned. And of course ORCUST stands for Australia, the
United Kingdom in the United States. So Sakias Starmers come
out of that meeting with Trump saying, look, it looks
pretty good. We had a review. Australia for its part,
is saying well, no, we don't need a review. It's
full steam ahead. But of course it's not until Donald

(00:51):
Trump says it is. So perhaps Anthony Albinizi has dodged
a bullet. He did want to obviously bring up the
Orchest submarine deal. He also wanted to talk about tariffs,
because I mean, the fact of the matter is, either
Donald Trump doesn't understand how trade works or he doesn't
give a rats because the trade surplus is all in
America's favor when it comes to Australia. So that's the

(01:14):
point that, no doubt Albanez he wanted to make. He
will have a chance to see him twice later this year.
There's the UN Meets Leaders meeting in New York in September.
The Quad Dialogue's going to be held in India. So look,
it's not all it's not all doom and gloom as
far as the Australians are concerned. I'm sure Maz.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Have they finished the summing up of the arguments in
the mushroom chift Trump not yet.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
The prosecution finished this morning. Defense was getting under way
around lunchtime. Basically, what the prosecution has said, Aaron Patterson
is a multiple murderer, and she's told so many lies
it's hard to know where they start and where they finish.
They say. The prosecution's accuser of killing three relatives with
a poisonous meal, attempting to kill a fourth. They say

(01:58):
she's basically lied through a tea in main areas while
she fabricated the claim that she had cancer. To get
them to the lunch, she made individual portions of beef
Wellington rather than a great big beef filet, and then
served them on different plates. The four plates that the
dead and injured eight their meal off were different to
her plate. She also pretended to be ill after the lunch,

(02:19):
so it wouldn't be suspicious. In fact, as I say,
the prosecutions had so many lives it was difficult to
keep up. Defense says, well, you've just cherry picked all
the evidence, and there was quite a bit of it.
She was in the witness box for six for eight
days a bit your pardon, and the defense lawyer asked
the jury to consider if deathcaf mushrooms could have gone
unto the meal by accident, and secondly, would it be
a reasonable possibility that she did not intend to kill

(02:41):
her injured her guests, and if either of those propositions
was acceptable to the jury. Defense maintained, you were obliged
to find miss Patterson not guilty. So when our last
checked it was ongoing. Not sure how long it will go.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
For, but so basically we can say today or tomorrow
it should wrap up.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Ay, oh gosh, yeah, I would absolutely say so.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yes, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing what happens here. Listen,
what's going on with you people in Sydney. So you've
got three people shot in broad daylight?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yep. It was a kebab shop in Western Sydney, quarter
past one on the afternoon at Auburn. It's a very
busy part of the city. And two guys and they
believe a stolen Audi with fake number plates. They simply
jump out of the car and broad daylight walk up
at the front of the shop. A couple of handguns
bang bang, bang, and eight shots and all were fired,

(03:31):
they say. Police believe well in terms of the victims
of fifty five year old woman who was just working
in the shop, she's got shot twice in the body,
and they say there was an underworld figure known to police.
He was shot in the arm and his elbow. And
the third person was a man. They understand it may
have been the guy's bodyguard. He was shot in the

(03:52):
face and he's in a very serious condition. And all
this is over the underworld drug trade in Sydney and
the fact that there apparently is been like a minor
gang that was available for killings for hire. Well that
gang is split up. Some freelancers have gone out on
their own and this is apparently caused turmoil in the
underworld drugs and freelance killers. I mean, it's like something

(04:15):
out of a movie, but it's happening in the streets
of Sydney.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, it's your next episode of Underworld, isn't it. Whatever.
It was called Underballet, Underbelly remember, and that was real.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
That was real down and Melbourne. That was fascinating too.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Totally muz listen, thanks very much, appreciate it. Murray Old's
Australia correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
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