CANBERRA, ACT, March 5 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Subjects: repatriation flights, Middle East conflict, effects on economy
Peter Stefanovic:
Let's get some more information now from the government via the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, who joins us live now from Canberra. So can you shed any more light or any more information or detail this morning, Treasurer, on the repatriation flights so far; how many more to come, et cetera?
Jim Chalmers:
Yeah, well, first of all, I mean those scenes are just wonderful, aren't they, to see those very relieved Australians touching down in Sydney; that's a really good thing. We've got about 115,000 Australians in the region, and so to start to see people coming hom...