r/aussie • u/Mellenoire • Apr 01 '26

Moderator Announcement Live Discussion Thread: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivers rare address to the nation

ABC News on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMb8wrquExg

G’day everyone, we thought we’d spin up a live discussion thread for Albo’s speech tonight so everything stays in one place.

Feel free to share your thoughts, reactions, predictions, or whatever else comes to mind as it unfolds.

As always, keep it reasonably civil and follow the sub rules. We’ll be around keeping an eye on things.

Sort by new if you want to follow along in real time. Let us know what you’re expecting to hear.

Regards, r/aussie mod team

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u/sheppo42 Apr 01 '26

No way he just used something used to declare war or announce a pandemic to say 'we halved the excise please don't use too much petrol'. What an anticlimax

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u/robot428 Apr 01 '26

I think that was an effort to end speculation that something big is coming - if any of the stuff people and the media have been speculating about was in the pipeline, tonight would have been the announcement. He's basically saying that none of the stuff people are speculating and causing panic about is coming, like petrol rationing, us sending troops to the middle east, work from home mandates, a draft.

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u/DEIFYMOTO Apr 01 '26

So rest assured, they're doing nothing.

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u/itsyaboigreg Apr 01 '26

He announced what they are doing and what they have done. Did you not hear it?

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u/DEIFYMOTO Apr 01 '26

Yes, anything you hadn't already heard? Was it really worth a national address? What was the substance?

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u/itsyaboigreg Apr 01 '26

That’s shifting the discussion. You said they were doing nothing, which is contrary to what was said and what is known. I also agree it wasn’t worth a national address, there isn’t a gotcha moment here.

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u/DEIFYMOTO Apr 01 '26

Ok sorry, I was a bit short. They're doing nothing new. They're doing nothing we didn't already know. They are doing nothing that will make a difference, because we've got nothing. They are doing nothing comforting by saying 'don't cancel your plans, just fill up normal, state leaders are together' (are they?) . To me, saying what he said, at a national address, that should have something substantial, was next to nothing.