Inflation Falls & The PM Says He'd Gladly Ban Spam Election Texts

PM Anthony Albanese says he'll work to secure a call with Donald Trump to negotiate tariffs if they win the election; Peter Dutton has been asked about a secretive sect called the Brethren who have been seen supporting Liberals at polling stations despite their ban on voting; A political activist says those spam election texts we've been getting are more likely to turn us off than change our minds; Inflation has dropped into the RBA's target band for the first time in 3 years raising hopes for more rate cuts; The Prince and Princess of Wales are spending their 14th wedding anniversary back in Scotland where they first met.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hi. I'm Claire Murphy from Mummamea's twice
daily news podcast, The Quickie with your evening headlines for Wednesday,
April thirty. Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi has said that if
his party wins at Saturday's election, one of his first

(00:32):
acts will be to seek a call with US President
Donald Trump to discuss tariff negotiations. The US President has
confirmed that he's aware the Australian federal government has been
working to set up a conversation after we were hit
with a ten percent tariff on all goods we export
to America. Trump told Whitehouse reporters they are calling and
I will be talking to them. Yes. The Prime Minister

(00:52):
said the comment was a throwaway, but indicated he would
aim for a phone conversation depending on the outcome of
Saturday's vote, and that he'd already had a couple of
phone calls with the new president. Liberal Senator Michaylia Cash
says the fact that mister Alberizi has not been able
to secure another one on one call with the President
shows there's no relationship with the US under Labour, saying

(01:13):
if the coalition wins, they look forward to speaking to
our greatest ally, the United States of America. Meanwhile, Peter
Dutton has today been asked about allegations a secretive Christian
sect known as the Brethren, have been campaigning for the
Liberal Party. Videos have circulated online of Brethren members at
polling stations, the women removing their traditional head scarfs and

(01:34):
long skirts in favor of more modern dress. Some have
been accused of intimidating other party representatives by blocking them
from people who are entering to vote. The sect is
known for not allowing its members to vote. Mister Dutton
said that Australians of all faiths support the Liberal Party
and that in Australia we have freedom of speech so
they can vote or not vote and make a decision

(01:55):
to support a party or not support a party. When
asked how he felt about the sect treating women as
second class citizens and not tolerating homosexuality, he said again
his point is that people will support parties for different
reasons and the people of his life faith are also
involved in this election. A political analyst says those parties
who spam voters with text messages and more likely to

(02:17):
turn them off than change their minds. Voters have been
posting to social media they've been receiving unsolicited text mostly
from the trumpet of Patriots Party, the group backed by
mining magnate Clive Palmer. The Australian Electoral Commission says they're
unable to tell where they manage to get people's numbers
from as they do not provide that information. Political parties

(02:37):
are also exempt from the Spam Act and the Privacy Act,
so they can send those messages without an opt out option.
Parliament itself would have to change the laws to enable
that to be stopped. Political analysts Caused Samaras says sending
those messages is probably one of the quickest ways you
can send a message to people that you are impersonal
and that you lack the capacity to speak to them

(02:58):
at a face to face level. He said it also
lacks understanding that people's phones are quite a personal item
and people find that intrusion annoying. Mister Samaras says most
political parties are yet to conduct research to see if
the tactic actually works. Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi admitted that
his fiance Jody Hayden, had received one of the Palmer
backed text saying he would be happy to ban them

(03:20):
from political parties, but he isn't sure if it will
fit in with other legal requirements. Inflation has fallen into
the Reserve Bank's target ban for the first time in years.
It's the first time in three years the inflation rate
has fallen into the bracket between two and three percent,
now sitting at two point nine down from three point
three percent annually in the previous quarter. The level aims

(03:41):
to maintain a stable economy by preserving the purchasing power
of money and encouraging sustainable growth. Headline inflation has remained
steady at an annual rate of two point four percent,
but the RBA prefers to use the measure of mean
trimmed inflation as a measure of consumer prices. The decrease
has many economists predicting another rate drop at the RBA's
May twenty meeting. The Prince and Princess of Wales have

(04:04):
returned to Scotland to celebrate their fourteenth wedding anniversary. William
and Kate got married in Westminster, ad beyond April twenty nine,
twenty eleven. They'd met ten years earlier when both were
students at the University of St Andrews on Scotland's East coast.
They started this troop in the town of Tobermory, smiling
and waving to the crowd before strolling through an artisan
market and speaking to stallholders while posing for pictures. They're

(04:26):
planning on spending their anniversary night in a small, isolated,
self catered cottage on the Isle of mull. That's the
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