Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Prime Minister Albanese holding talks with Donald Trump

Reports indicate the US is pushing ahead with the AUKUS deal, with Australia getting nuclear powered submarines from the US.

President Donald Trump's held talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the White House today on defence and trade.

Trump also cleared doubt on the deal between Australia, the US and UK.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says concerns were raised ahead of the meeting, but the deal worked out well for Australia.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business and just in case you were like,
what was up with the music?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
It was Smashing Pumpkins. That's that was as Yeah, no,
come ons, that's not bad my yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Pump he's really gonna lift his musical game, I'm afraid.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
That was.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
His game was busted. Your word streak was busted. That's
your first word word?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
ADU A D I EU. What's yours?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Radio?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
R A D not bad, but I think we've used radio.
So what you're doing by doing that all the time
is that you're never going to get it in one.
But ADI is still it's yet to come up. So
there's the chance that I still get that in one.
And when it comes up, then I'm going to switch
to snort.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
There you go. We's not enough vowels and snort nah.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
But then what you do is you go snort first,
and then you follow it up with a second one
that's got all the other vowels, and then between the
first two you've got enough to kind of carry on
form that I usually get it in the three. What
about you?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh no, no, I'll bug it down to six some days.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh do you oh rough amte anyway, listen, tell me
about elbow. That willn't that bad in the end.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh wow, if you consider you know, like poor old
Zelenski and Syriah Ramafos from South Africa, they were absolutely
creamed by Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I mean he was just a bully today. I mean,
let me do share some quotes.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Donald Trump described Australia as quote a fantastic place. It's
prime minister quote highly respected, who had done a fantastic job.
I would say, there's never been anybody better than mister
Albanez than Anthony.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
He said this to the camera.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's a great honor to have you as my friend,
and a great honor to have you in the United
States of America. So all the gushing, I mean everybody
was terrified here was he got to go in there
and get the Ramafo treatment and get the Zelensky treatment.
It couldn't be further from that. And some very it
wasn't just all about gushing praise. Some significant, significant deals

(02:00):
have been done as a multi billion dollar minerals deal.
I mean, it couldn't have happened that the timing for
Anthony alban easy, Heather could not have been better. China
played that exotic minerals card last week. There's alban Esi
the in the oval, we're not in the cabinet room today,
signing a deal to eventually the plan is to replace
all of the all the stuff China's stockpiling. There's also

(02:23):
a brand new recommitment to Orcus from the United States
that means we're going to get nuclear submarines. And Anthony
Albanese said, well, if you love us so much, what
about a visit down under? So look, from the Prime
minister's point of view, Eather, it could not have gone
more smoothly, as you say, a bit of a bit
of a backhanded for Kevin Rudd. And you know the

(02:43):
opposition here really clutching his straws oh sacking.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Second, that's not going to happen. I mean, it's just
not going to happen.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
How do we feel about Albow when when Donald Trump
sort of like, oh is he here? Elbow just points
and just like immediately he's just like there he is.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, I know he threw him under.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
He threw him out of the biggest boody bus you've
ever seen, didn't he He didn't even.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
He didn't even say anything nice. Theory is there's Kevin
Rudd wonderful.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Ambassable policy is mister president.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
This new research it sees breastfin breastfeeding can prevent breast cancer.
Is this credible?

Speaker 1 (03:17):
They say it is.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
They look and I mean this link has been around
for some time, this suggestion that breastfeeding mums actually raise
their immunity levels against breast cancer. There's been this new
work done down in Melbourne, the Peter McCallum Cancer Seine.
They're one of the best in Australia. And what they're
saying down there, as you breastfeed as a mum, you

(03:40):
are creating these little specialized immune cells that apparently settle
in breast tissue. And these cells are now acting as
a I guess, a protective barrier if you like, and
any abnormal cells that come along, and they're presenting themselves
as as cancer cells. The the fear thing is that

(04:00):
if you get enough of these cells you can turn
them modern some way, these cells that have been built
up because of breastfeeding, we'll be able to attack these
these horrible cancer cells.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
There.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's only a small shample. Heather two hundred and sixty
women who had a breast reduction or a mastectomy to
avoid the chance of cancer. But women who have had
children are much more likely to have these immunity cells.
So they're very excited and they're going to be building
on this research for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
That's very very cool and please to hear that. Murray,
thank you very much. Murray Old's Australia corresponding, then, Yeah,
gives you another reason to get the old boob out
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