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Albanese says price caps ‘already’ having impact

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is speaking with ABC News from Canberra after returning from Burwood yesterday where he attended lunar new year celebrations.

A happy lunar new year for all those who celebrate it. For people of Chinese background, of course, it’s year of the rabbit which is particularly auspicious for a South Sydney supporter. And for people of Vietnamese background, it’s year of the cat, the zodiacs are a different different this year. So I had that explained to me last week and now hopefully we’re right on top of it, but happy new year to everyone.

That’s the good news in what is otherwise a difficult story because of what we’re seeing in global prices. When you look at the caps that are there in the futures market, the prices have come down substantially.

I mourn my family, I mourn the police officers and I mourn the neighbour and I developed acute traumatic distress disorder from it because grieving, um, three of your family members is hard enough, but then finding out what they did and then seeing everyone’s reaction to what they did.

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