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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Tony Abbott: 'This is a Very Difficult Task' [Watch (HLS stream): Tony Abbott: 'This is a Very Difficult Task'](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/efHi1CCG.m3u8) (1:39)  _Published 2014-03-31. Tony Abbott: 'This is a Very Difficult Task'_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:21 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Tony Abbott Voted Out As Australian Prime Minister](/video/suaKtFZm/) ### Tony Abbott Voted Out As Australian Prime Minister [Tony Abbott's St. Patrick's Day Message](/video/F99SI4Yd/) ### Tony Abbott's St. Patrick's Day Message [Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott - Determined to Work for You](/video/4iZpNaOK/) ### Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott - Determined to Work for You --- ## Transcript It's the best information we have. It's the best analysis that we can get. And it's the most professional search that can be mustered. Okay, and you're confident in the information you're getting and that you're searching in the right place? We are searching a vast area of the Indian Ocean. This is a very, very difficult task. It's far more difficult than the search for the Air France aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean a few years ago because we had very precise information as to where that aircraft had come down. We've just got very general information about where this aircraft has come down. But nevertheless, we are giving it the very best shot we can. And if anyone can find this aircraft, it's us. It's a tremendous effort. There's ten planes in the sky today, as many ships, but it's also exhausting everyday. So how long can this be sustained, realistically? The effort is ramping up, not winding down. We'll have more aircraft in the sky tomorrow we've got more ships in the area. So we are ramping this effort up. We owe it to the families of the 239 people on board. We owe it to the anxious governments that want to know what happened to their citizens. We owe it to everyone who travels by air and wants the skies to be safe. We owe it to the whole world which has been transfixed by this mystery now for some time. We owe it to everyone to find out as much as we can. And that's exactly what Australia is doing. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Tony Abbott: 'This is a Very Difficult Task'","description":"Tony Abbott: 'This is a Very Difficult Task'","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/efHi1CCG/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-03-31T13:05:07.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/efHi1CCG.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/efHi1CCG/","duration":"PT1M39S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/efHi1CCG/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```