{"id":578535,"date":"2026-04-01T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578535\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:43:10","slug":"anthony-albanese-addresses-the-nation-spruiks-public-transport-use-australia-fuel-excise-cut-comes-into-effect-trump-says-us-wont-be-involved-in-strait-of-hormuz-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578535\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese addresses the nation, spruiks public transport use; Australia fuel excise cut comes into effect; Trump says US won\u2019t be involved in Strait of Hormuz reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a look at some of the reactions to the PM\u2019s address.<\/p>\n<p>Nine\u2019s chief political editor, Charles Croucher, thought the prime minister was trying to alleviate fears of a COVID-style response.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Charles Croucher is Channel Nine\u2019s political editor.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/87ae3f359e263b6fc2761aef898cf95f628adaae.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Charles Croucher is Channel Nine\u2019s political editor.Wolter Peeters<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a collective PTSD from countries and states right around the country of what went on last time. I think they\u2019re trying to avoid that,\u201d Croucher said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not so much about plans and policies, but to me, this is about addressing rumours and stopping any kind of whispering campaign, WhatsApp messages or Facebook status updates that say we\u2019re going back into lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStopping that now before the Easter long weekend, when everyone goes home, or goes to family functions, or just goes and enjoys themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nine, which broadcasts Nine News, is also the owner of this masthead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s take a look at some of the reactions to the PM\u2019s address. Nine\u2019s chief political editor, Charles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-578535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}