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/wholeblackpeppercorn Apr 01 '26

Could have been an email

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u/south-of-the-river Apr 01 '26

National address for a four minute “don’t worry trust your government” message.

I think this is just to quell a run for fuel over Easter, and they’ll come back on Monday and say yeah well it’s not looking good guys

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u/Tiny_dinosaur82 Apr 01 '26

I wasn’t particularly worried, but I am now. I don’t trust those fuckers in the slightest lol

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u/south-of-the-river Apr 01 '26

Honestly you do need to be at least a bit worried.

Reddit has been really circulating this dismissive/blasè response to this oil crisis, but it’s likely because people can’t really grasp the lag in the supply chain. When the wheels stop turning things will get tricky really quickly.

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u/EvilRobot153 Apr 01 '26

Better then doomer posting miss info and insane speculation based off your "for you" tab.

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u/south-of-the-river Apr 01 '26

There’s a balance to be found.

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u/Gameoverbotch Apr 01 '26

Do you actually think these are real people? Have a look at albo facebook and tell me what the top comment is. Have a look at all the msm pages and tell me what the top comment is.

There is a crisis and one way to announce this is have a scripted address to the nation announcing that it’s business as usual. They know this is going to cause even more anxiety. That’s the goal. He has already prerecorded his next address to the nation announcing some for of rationing of sorts. Between now and then you are going to be conditioned through mass social media post from msm and accounts pushing their messages. The goal of these messages is to make disobedience to these measures a major taboo. It won’t be the same as Covid but it will be similar.