Speaker 1: Why from Toowoomba. This is Paul Murray live now town.
Speaker 2: Not again.
Speaker 3: Let the means proceeds. Good on you guys, your fire
Speaker 3: leading for.
Speaker 4: A big night.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2: We have got our jeems show warp hands.
Speaker 5: Such a great weekend into Woomba.
Speaker 1: It's got to be on your list. Of course.
Speaker 5: You can fly straight into weld Camp from all over
Speaker 5: the country and get into all of the action that's here.
Speaker 5: The wonderful food, the beautiful people. This is a place
Speaker 5: that is just kicking goals, more and more of the
Speaker 5: meat every year. It's a beautiful place to visit and
Speaker 5: maybe a place if the time is right, come and
Speaker 5: move here. It is a great place to bring up kids, right,
Speaker 5: good place to be with people, the community that takes
Speaker 5: care of each other and they're taking care of us tonight.
Speaker 5: Now what about the news. I mean, this was quite
Speaker 5: fortuitous that we came here and it was just by
Speaker 5: luck timing wise, but he pleased that to Womba is
Speaker 5: going to be hosting part of the twenty thirty two Olympics.
Speaker 6: Event.
Speaker 5: One of the events, one of the venues it'll be
Speaker 5: the equestrian Now I think one of the local papers.
Speaker 5: They did a little bit of an AI version of it.
Speaker 5: I don't think this is exactly how it's going to look,
Speaker 5: but still this is the closest we could get for
Speaker 5: some sort of an idea of what the futuristic thing
Speaker 5: is going to look like when it comes to the showgrounds.
Speaker 5: But I think they just wrote Equestrian AI twenty thirty two. Bang,
Speaker 5: that's what appeared. The Jetsons will be feeding everyone. It'll
Speaker 5: be fun to see in the next little while. Now
Speaker 5: this weekend was Mega two. Now we've had everything. We've
Speaker 5: had everything from the local show, the races, the King
Speaker 5: of the Mountain, the fog from Melbourne was fun for
Speaker 5: a couple of days and we made our most that's
Speaker 5: me treating the kids to the belting they deserve sometimes
Speaker 5: on the Dodgers and plenty of fun that we had.
Speaker 5: And yeah the pink hat why not. Hay just did
Speaker 5: turn the odd head once we got to the wood chipping.
Speaker 5: But other than that it was great and fun. Now
Speaker 5: before we celebrate everything that's here and we talk about
Speaker 5: some of the politics that's around, the good times that
Speaker 5: are being had into Woomba, well out west, there's some tough.
Speaker 1: Times that are happening right now.
Speaker 5: Huge floods, biggest rains that have happened in decades, and
Speaker 5: the floods. The expectation is that these things which announced
Speaker 5: it are bigger than some European countries are going to
Speaker 5: stick around for a while. There's lots of consequences that
Speaker 5: come from this mental note. Wasn't it interesting that when
Speaker 5: there was a flood in southeast Queensland the Prime Minister
Speaker 5: was there.
Speaker 1: Don't think he's visiting there at the moment in Western Queensland.
Speaker 1: You should remember that.
Speaker 5: But one of the big issues is apart from people, businesses, livelihoods,
Speaker 5: of course, livestock, plenty of them have been lost in
Speaker 5: the last little while. The Premier, who has been in
Speaker 5: the region over the past couple of days, had this
Speaker 5: to say it and I just wanted before we started
Speaker 5: and celebrated, just to send strength and love to everyone
Speaker 5: out west.
Speaker 7: It's early days, but the initial assessment assessments suggest that
Speaker 7: there has already been significant stock losses into the tens
Speaker 7: of thousands, which is why mobilizing quickly to make sure
Speaker 7: that starvation doesn't become a factor is really really important
Speaker 7: to us.
Speaker 5: Now, remember lots of different charities that you can give to.
Speaker 5: Farm maid dot org dot au is the one we
Speaker 5: often point to because they can help with feed, they can.
Speaker 1: Help with financial assistance.
Speaker 5: You can do a one off donation, you can do
Speaker 5: the monthly donation, which means you can help for future
Speaker 5: situations like this because regardless of the size, this stuff happens.
Speaker 1: In our country. So again, strength and love to everyone there.
Speaker 5: All right, bitter politics before we get into celebrating to womba.
Speaker 5: Today marks thirty four days to go in the federal
Speaker 5: election Saturday just gone four more after that and we
Speaker 5: will find out who's going to be running the joint
Speaker 5: for the next three years. The Prime Minister will he
Speaker 5: spend the weekend, as always, blaming somebody else, this time
Speaker 5: the supermarkets.
Speaker 8: I got asked today by someone as well, how do
Speaker 8: you know what's price gougy? Price gougy is when supermarkets
Speaker 8: are taking the piss off austral and consumers.
Speaker 3: That's what it is.
Speaker 8: That's what price gouging is. Everyone out there knows, consumers
Speaker 8: know will take action.
Speaker 5: Of course, the Prime Minister has been taking the piss
Speaker 5: for the past three years. But okay, we get it.
Speaker 5: He thinks that the people are going to fall for it.
Speaker 5: But that's the way it is, all right. As for
Speaker 5: Peter doudn't he was trying to not just respond to
Speaker 5: the announcements of the government. He's trying to keep the
Speaker 5: focus on the national gas reservation for the East Coast
Speaker 5: and how that brings down power prices, meaning it's easier
Speaker 5: to run business and the price of everything starts to drop.
Speaker 1: I want to get prices down.
Speaker 9: I want to make sure that we can stop the
Speaker 9: wreckage of Cris Bowen and Anthony Alberanezi in relation to
Speaker 9: their energy policy, and that has forced up the price
Speaker 9: of electricity and there is a big difference as we
Speaker 9: go into this election. The Prime Minister is promising to
Speaker 9: increase the cost of electricity in gas, but he has
Speaker 9: broken his promise in relation to reducing power prices.
Speaker 5: And speaking of Chris bow and unconfirmed reports has been
Speaker 5: locked in the bood of the Prime Minister's car for
Speaker 5: the next five weeks now. Theme of tonight's conversation a
Speaker 5: week is a long time in politics. It was an
Speaker 5: American politician, I think Harold Wilson who ended up saying
Speaker 5: it a long time ago.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, of course, they googled it.
Speaker 5: But yes, that was something that remains pretty true now.
Speaker 5: February twenty five you gov poll headline Coalition best place
Speaker 5: to form government, currently falling just two seats short of
Speaker 5: a majority. They said the coalition would be on its
Speaker 5: way to seventy three seats Labour sixty six, the Independent six,
Speaker 5: the Greens.
Speaker 1: Wiped out to one. Cattera Australian Party.
Speaker 5: Center Alliance the only other people making it into the Parliament.
Speaker 5: The headline's pretty obvious three short of a majority. Labour
Speaker 5: was ten short of a majority. And as for the
Speaker 5: preferred Prime Minister, well, Peter Dutton leading thirty five to
Speaker 5: sorry thirty nine to thirty five in the News poll
Speaker 5: released just last week having a look at how the
Speaker 5: year has gone thus far, Coalition fifty one to forty nine.
Speaker 1: Well, apparently this is the way.
Speaker 5: That you connect with average Australians who knew that this
Speaker 5: was the way to change their mind was to talk
Speaker 5: to them like preschool students.
Speaker 10: Now in maths context, Labour's tax carts are like Ree
Speaker 10: and Jeff. Rie and Jeff arrived on maths to discover
Speaker 10: they knew each other, they weren't marrying a stranger. They're
Speaker 10: dead it before they've gotten along, And the second time around,
Speaker 10: after a few dinner parties and a conversation with the experts,
Speaker 10: they're ready to commit and like were and Jeff Labour's
Speaker 10: tax cars are the real deal of their heresday.
Speaker 5: She's the aged Care Minister and has earns four hundred
Speaker 5: thousand dollars. But the poles have changed. Fifty one to
Speaker 5: forty nine is according to Newspop Big Day of polls
Speaker 5: that have dropped this evening fifty one to forty nine
Speaker 5: in favor of Labor. That of course would see them
Speaker 5: easily returned to the majority position in terms of being
Speaker 5: able to form a minority.
Speaker 1: But I have a look at preferred prime minister. Remember
Speaker 1: what I showed you before.
Speaker 5: Dunne up by a few now Albanezy forty two, Dote
Speaker 5: thirty three according to this poll. That's a week as
Speaker 5: a long time in politics. Remember the Yugov poll saying
Speaker 5: that it was the Libs a couple short of a majority.
Speaker 5: The one that dropped this weekend now shows Labor one
Speaker 5: seat short of forming the majority. Labor allegedly is at
Speaker 5: seventy five seats, Coalition at sixty Independence with eleven, Greens
Speaker 5: would be able to hold on to two Center Alliance
Speaker 5: and Catter Australia Party Labor one short of a majority.
Speaker 1: What seats would change hands?
Speaker 5: Now, whatever you may hear from somewhere, big upping, what's
Speaker 5: a marginal seat, what's a tight seat according to YouGov?
Speaker 5: And that's a pole of tens of thousands of people.
Speaker 5: It's not just about voting intention, but it's demographics and
Speaker 5: trying to work out this and that. Well, the Liberal
Speaker 5: Party would win Ben along Gilmore, Werrower and Robertson. They'd
Speaker 5: also win lions in Tasmania, but the Labor Party would
Speaker 5: win Deacon off the Libs. They'd get two off the
Speaker 5: Greens one and in Victoria would go from Liberal to
Speaker 5: win de Pea and kauper On. The mid North of
Speaker 5: New South Wales apparently would go independent but simply Lives
Speaker 5: win five but end up losing a collection off the.
Speaker 1: Back of it.
Speaker 5: Labor win five and end up again losing, Sorry, lose five,
Speaker 5: but end up winning three to replace it. Essentially a
Speaker 5: little bit like if you remember the West Wing from
Speaker 5: a long time ago. If the election was held this weekend,
Speaker 5: not a lot changes. All the noise, all the lies,
Speaker 5: all the ads, all the gas lighting, all the bears,
Speaker 5: all the billions and a trillion point to one point
Speaker 5: two trillion dollars in debt will pretty much not move
Speaker 5: the needle. But of course we are only just at
Speaker 5: the start of the election campaign. So before you start
Speaker 5: thinking twice about whether you want to stick in with
Speaker 5: this for the next five weeks, can I show you
Speaker 5: another pile, this one from the Red Bridge one which
Speaker 5: is showing the movement towards labor. But these are the
Speaker 5: sorts of things that I think can change people's minds
Speaker 5: when you are having a chat around the barbecue, kitchen, table,
Speaker 5: backfence or the shops. Can you name a single thing
Speaker 5: that the federal government, led by Anthony Obernezi, has done
Speaker 5: since May twenty two that made your life better in
Speaker 5: way fifty four percent, no majority of the country, No,
Speaker 5: twenty eight percent of labor voters, no, seventy three percent
Speaker 5: of Coalition voters, no, forty four percent of Green's voters know,
Speaker 5: And amazingly, sixty five percent of the everything else, everyone
Speaker 5: from one Nation to Victorian socialists and teals and fake
Speaker 5: teals in between, sixty five percent of people not being
Speaker 5: able to name it latest betting odds. Sports Beds say
Speaker 5: Labor favorite, just Ladbrokes say Labor favorite just tab Well,
Speaker 5: they've now gone to a dollar ninety each, but depending
Speaker 5: on when you check it, they had the libs in
Speaker 5: front a little bit earlier today. Cos Samaris is the
Speaker 5: man we like to talk to stated of the race
Speaker 5: each and every Sunday, we'll do a big and proper
Speaker 5: version of it in a couple of days time, after
Speaker 5: our Peter Dutton pub test tomorrow night now celebration of
Speaker 5: to woomber Tonight is of course the boss of the
Speaker 5: Red Bridge organization, who, like me, loves the data dump,
Speaker 5: and there was one hell of a one this weekend.
Speaker 5: Coz love you to see you, mate, Because there seems
Speaker 5: to be a lot of noise, and by that I
Speaker 5: mean lots of different polls show us lots of different things.
Speaker 1: The trend is pretty obvious.
Speaker 5: But as a bloke who's making these poles himself and
Speaker 5: swimming through everyone else's data, what are you saying about
Speaker 5: the noise?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I can almost guarantee you Labor's not winning Deacon in Victoria,
Speaker 11: that's for sure. The only thing's going to be happening
Speaker 11: in Victoria's Labor's going to be losing please to the
Speaker 11: Coalition at the moment. On a good day, Labor loses
Speaker 11: about three federal seats to the Coalition in Victoria. So
Speaker 11: look the polls, if you step back and you look
Speaker 11: at them, it's fifty one forty nine Labor's way.
Speaker 4: Three weeks ago it was the other way around.
Speaker 11: We're dealing within the margins right now because the electorate
Speaker 11: is so fractious and there is a very big group
Speaker 11: of Australians out there who know frankly, don't have any
Speaker 11: lawties to anyone, are swimming in the mix. So right
Speaker 11: now they're in most parts of the country willing to
Speaker 11: part their vote on the Labor Party more than the
Speaker 11: Coalition obviously in a number of key seats. That doesn't
Speaker 11: mean the thing is actually done and dusted.
Speaker 5: Yet if most people around the country and bigger margins
Speaker 5: outside of the Labor vote so that can't name a
Speaker 5: single thing that's made your life better in three years?
Speaker 1: How is it fifty one forty nine in either direction?
Speaker 11: Yeah, because basically, when you speak to voters, as you
Speaker 11: say to them, all, what do you think of the
Speaker 11: current mob?
Speaker 4: Not much?
Speaker 11: What about the other blike not much right, and so
Speaker 11: Dunton's real challenge here is to actually offer millions of
Speaker 11: Australians who quite peeped off at the moment some hope,
Speaker 11: a plan that actually gives them an alternative. You know,
Speaker 11: if he does that, he does that successful in the
Speaker 11: next two or three weeks, he could.
Speaker 4: Reverse this situation quite quickly.
Speaker 11: It's you know, I make the point that about forty
Speaker 11: two percent of the voter's role is made up of millennials.
Speaker 11: That he's people forty four years and under. And these
Speaker 11: individuals only half will tell you they have a values
Speaker 11: connection to a single register political party in the country.
Speaker 11: So fifty percent of them they have no connection to
Speaker 11: anyone and so it doesn't take much to move them.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: You obviously do focus groups as well, where you get
Speaker 5: to talk to the people who participate in the surveys.
Speaker 5: What are they saying and what has changed say in
Speaker 5: the past couple of weeks, not just about leaders, but
Speaker 5: about what they're looking for, hoping for.
Speaker 1: And demanding of our debate in the next four weeks.
Speaker 4: It depends where you are.
Speaker 11: If you were in the inner parts of Melbourne and
Speaker 11: Sydney and Brisbane, you're going to get a very different
Speaker 11: response to to Dutton's cuts to public the public service
Speaker 11: for example. However, if you were in outer suburbs, the
Speaker 11: most most of the feedback will get is, look, you know,
Speaker 11: the tax cuts are nice. I'm not going to feel it.
Speaker 11: I'm it's not only going to touch the size to
Speaker 11: my problem. What about in moston the question what do
Speaker 11: you think of the opposition's policy? I don't know anything
Speaker 11: about them, so they're not getting any cup.
Speaker 1: For it right now.
Speaker 11: The few excise policy that was announced last Thursday may
Speaker 11: indeed have some cumfort, but they need to do a
Speaker 11: lot more of that in the coming weeks to actually
Speaker 11: get their attention. And this is the key thing, get
Speaker 11: their attention because they're not tuned in at all.
Speaker 5: Dumb question, But you've been on the inside of campaigns,
Speaker 5: You've been watching things from the outside for a while. Yes,
Speaker 5: we know about the role of everything outside the quote
Speaker 5: unquote traditional media and a lot of that stuff when
Speaker 5: it comes to socials. As a hardcore political person, does
Speaker 5: your stomach turn a little bit like mine when you
Speaker 5: see government ministers sort of talking like play school presenters,
Speaker 5: trying to link the federal budget to maps because we're
Speaker 5: down with the kid is Yeah.
Speaker 4: The problem is I mean the sort of end.
Speaker 11: The way I can describe what they do sometimes is
Speaker 11: it reminds you of some old like on the dance
Speaker 11: floor trying to act like they're at twenty five years
Speaker 11: years of age. Right, you just go, just cringe, you
Speaker 11: just go. Don't stop it, Please don't do it again.
Speaker 11: And then my message to them is, yeah, don't do it.
Speaker 11: You come across as crass, You're not authentic. There are
Speaker 11: better people out there online who could do this a
Speaker 11: lot better.
Speaker 4: You should go and talk to them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with you completely because on fine with a
Speaker 5: little bit instead of dad dancing at a wedding, a
Speaker 5: bit of this and a bit of that. But I'm
Speaker 5: not going to be pretending to know any of the
Speaker 5: words to anything. And obviously when horses by Daryl Braithwaite,
Speaker 5: we just stand on this because it's one of the
Speaker 5: national anthems.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Chaus.
Speaker 5: We'll see on Tuesday, mate for longer and proper version
Speaker 5: of state of the race.
Speaker 1: Give me random applause cause some mars and red brick.
Speaker 5: All right, let's sell it, right, Tala, Let's talk about
Speaker 5: this right place all right, so talk wm Bars, you know,
Speaker 5: a couple of hours away from Brisbane. For those that
Speaker 5: need to know where it is on a map, it's
Speaker 5: in place called Queensland.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 5: It's a wonderful part of Australia that's got a whole
Speaker 5: bunch of things, including one of the greatest cultural buildings
Speaker 5: in regional Australia is the Empire Theater. That thing is
Speaker 5: so special. I know it had its problems in the past.
Speaker 5: I know, rebuilding it all the rest of it controversial,
Speaker 5: while ago it's spectacular. There are, believe me, country towns
Speaker 5: around the country that would dream of what that sort
Speaker 5: of a facility is. It can bring everything from the
Speaker 5: ballet of stand up comedy to think. It was a
Speaker 5: rotary conference this weekend which was great, the Quarters Flight Academy.
Speaker 5: Huge fight to get that here, and it's excellent that
Speaker 5: that's in regional Queensland as well. You can take a
Speaker 5: look at a whole bunch of beautiful places around here,
Speaker 5: including what I think is the best and biggest Australian
Speaker 5: flag in the country.
Speaker 1: I love that thing.
Speaker 5: Never take it down, all right, even if in fifty
Speaker 5: years they vote to change the freaking flag. Keep that
Speaker 5: one up because I like that one. Lots of fun
Speaker 5: things here history to see as well. Population about one
Speaker 5: hundred and twenty eight thousand people. Median age is about forty,
Speaker 5: so it's right at the prime of people's lives.
Speaker 1: They've got kids, they've got parents, they.
Speaker 5: Want to get on with things and they know how
Speaker 5: to have a good times. This was part of what
Speaker 5: we did on a big weekend into Womba. There's no
Speaker 5: place I'd rather be than in country Queensland, and I
Speaker 5: can tell you this is the weekend to be.
Speaker 1: In too, Womba. The local show is on.
Speaker 5: This weekend and the biggest race day in regional Queensland.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the show and here at the showgrounds.
Speaker 1: It's not just big news this weekend.
Speaker 5: It's big news for the twenty and thirty two Olympics
Speaker 5: because Mighty Old to Woomba is going to be hosting
Speaker 5: the equestrian This.
Speaker 1: Will be an Olympic venue.
Speaker 5: It already looks great, but it's going to look a
Speaker 5: million bucks when the foreigners roll in in just a
Speaker 5: few years time. All of my favorite food groups are here.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much, appreciate it. Come I get a
Speaker 5: pink cowboy hat place. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Come on horse, pardon, let's get bubbles of crack.
Speaker 1: Come on your bag, Come on your bagga.
Speaker 6: Ah tag with the Country show y.
Speaker 1: You may will have.
Speaker 5: Noticed by now two things are very different. This is
Speaker 5: a real man, but this is a champion real man.
Speaker 1: Brighton. Congratulations mate. How long have you been swinging in
Speaker 1: X Since I was nine years old?
Speaker 5: But obviously as a young foller you know, don't have
Speaker 5: a mass my hand since I could walk so a
Speaker 5: long time.
Speaker 1: Well a dad would dog at lead to Woomba Show.
Speaker 1: The race just starting for days only getting started off
Speaker 1: to the races.
Speaker 5: Not a day nothing like a country Queensland race day.
Speaker 1: But the King of the.
Speaker 5: Mountain this is a special one for the Womba.
Speaker 2: It is a special one Hall.
Speaker 12: This is the third running of the King of the Mountain.
Speaker 12: We're really excited to have it here on the Timber
Speaker 12: Show holiday, which is a race day of tradition. Here
Speaker 12: into woman, all these people they love racing. Country racing
Speaker 12: is just flying at the moment. The weather has not
Speaker 12: been kind to us today, but Warber have come out
Speaker 12: and I have supported Rising and supported the club.
Speaker 1: It's been pumping for hours.
Speaker 3: G I fashions on the fielder, what's on? Off and
Speaker 3: running in the King of the Mountain?
Speaker 5: Steady ready in front fifty the guy with rushing the lines.
Speaker 1: Of my line, jodging.
Speaker 3: My bas steady ready.
Speaker 2: Jess what did I but.
Speaker 1: What did I?
Speaker 2: Had the risis?
Speaker 1: Would you recommend country rights to everyone? Bloody eye? That's
Speaker 1: the King of the Mountain. A race day into Wombo
Speaker 1: It was great. It's fun.
Speaker 5: And I personally think that looking like a dround rat
Speaker 5: rat is my best look. Don't you think just a
Speaker 5: heavily soaked fat bloke in the rain.
Speaker 1: It's just a beautiful look.
Speaker 5: Thank you to everyone who hung out with us. Will
Speaker 5: show you some other fun stuff around. Can I also
Speaker 5: give a particular shout out to some very special people
Speaker 5: I had dinner with last night, John Wagner, of course
Speaker 5: ahead of the Wagner Corporation, to do such incredible work.
Speaker 1: Round of applause to your good self John family as well.
Speaker 1: This bloke is committed to Woomba.
Speaker 5: He loves it and I tell you what, he was
Speaker 5: absolutely clear about. Pump up the joint. Pump up the
Speaker 5: joint because he believes in it. He's made it for
Speaker 5: the better. You should be proud of him and everything
Speaker 5: that he's done, along with the team of Gusts and
Speaker 5: everyone else at Harvey Norman who've done a great job
Speaker 5: with us in the past little at fore youw days.
Speaker 5: So thank you John, thank you family, thank you to Womber,
Speaker 5: thank you Harvey Norman.
Speaker 1: Plenty more On a sec here I'll pull my real life.
Speaker 5: Glad you're watching live into Wimber in Queensland. Hight hot start.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, holiday for that.
Speaker 3: Let's get into this now now.
Speaker 5: Harving Normal, of course, are the people who have supported
Speaker 5: us since the very first outtown, which was in so
Speaker 5: Woomba years ago. We've grown it and grown it to
Speaker 5: the size it is right now and so many people
Speaker 5: turning up. And one thing that's really different this year
Speaker 5: and great this year is that we're asking or Harvey
Speaker 5: Normal i should say, is asking locals in the places
Speaker 5: that we go to to nominate the people in their
Speaker 5: community who deserve just a little bit of extra support.
Speaker 5: I had the chance to meet them now. Normally when
Speaker 5: we go and do this, the local store puts it on,
Speaker 5: but I got to say the one into Woomba, they
Speaker 5: lay out the best morning tea I've ever seen and
Speaker 5: some of the best people that were met in a
Speaker 5: very long time.
Speaker 1: To Warma is a.
Speaker 5: Really special place because it's the very first location we
Speaker 5: ever picked when it came to our towns. The good
Speaker 5: people of Harvey Norman mean a lot to me as well,
Speaker 5: because they have been with us since day one.
Speaker 1: And this year they're asking locals.
Speaker 5: In the places that we visit to nominate the local
Speaker 5: heroes to get a big reward from their community. Tell
Speaker 5: us who have we got and what are they about
Speaker 5: to get.
Speaker 13: It's really exciting to see so many people voting for
Speaker 13: so many charities.
Speaker 4: But there's always got to be three winners.
Speaker 13: And the first one is we've got to adapt mentorship
Speaker 13: with Adam and Susie.
Speaker 4: Second, we've got Hope Horizons Rachel.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, are well done.
Speaker 13: Last we've got Either's Placed Juliet.
Speaker 1: Well done.
Speaker 14: So we work with young people who are disengaged from
Speaker 14: school and the New Justices and Child Factory system.
Speaker 1: We create safe.
Speaker 14: Spaces for them so they can come on a weekly basis,
Speaker 14: a consistent basis, and so we can build trust and
Speaker 14: let them know that they're actually value and they are part
Speaker 14: of our community.
Speaker 5: We also had a sensational mourning tea with spectacular people
Speaker 5: who are from the Organization's Harvey Norman help in the
Speaker 5: community as well.
Speaker 1: Tell us about life flight. What do you guys do?
Speaker 3: All right? So we are air Wrecker.
Speaker 5: Aeromedical Matrieval Services out in the community of Broadest, Starling
Speaker 5: Downs North through Queensland, because we're delivering essentially our flying
Speaker 5: icudd to.
Speaker 1: A remote area on the side of the road somewhere now.
Speaker 15: Over time, businesses like Harvey Norman have come on board
Speaker 15: with support and they've been involved with us about five
Speaker 15: years now. I'm in all different levels of support from
Speaker 15: helping out at our gala to providing some finance and
Speaker 15: goods and services you name it.
Speaker 5: Gus he's in charge of the operation here at Harvey
Speaker 5: Normana to Womba. You are a local champion and I
Speaker 5: mean this when you talk to the charities, you talk
Speaker 5: to community groups. What does it mean to you to
Speaker 5: not just be a business in this community.
Speaker 1: But to be part of this community.
Speaker 13: Well, I think businesses like Harvin On when it comes
Speaker 13: from the top down. This is built into our DNA.
Speaker 1: Jerry and Katie have started this a long.
Speaker 13: Long time ago and it does filter down to this community,
Speaker 13: but get caught up. They caught up in the most
Speaker 13: generous community in all of Australia.
Speaker 8: I'm kind of.
Speaker 13: Saying that because no matter what happens, we've got businesses
Speaker 13: right now every single day that are taking care of
Speaker 13: our own.
Speaker 5: What a mega day for us and Harvey Norman here
Speaker 5: into Woomba. Now we spread the love all over the country.
Speaker 5: And next month we are in cal Gooley. So if
Speaker 5: you can think of somebody who is helping your part
Speaker 5: of the community, come into the store and nominate them.
Speaker 5: How how what has it that's from Harvey Norman.
Speaker 1: I've got Gussie from Harvey Norman, ripping in love him,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you all right. Garth Hamilton is the
Speaker 1: local federal MP for the Center.
Speaker 5: Groom Jiff McDonald is the mayor of these parts and
Speaker 5: they're both joined us now.
Speaker 1: Lads, Hello, love.
Speaker 16: You to see you in the capital of the world.
Speaker 1: Mate, right here, bloody spot, I'll take it the spot.
Speaker 5: It The show's fantastic and I love that not you
Speaker 5: know a mayor, but a woodship, a wood chopping mayor,
Speaker 5: a mayor who's been in that for a long time.
Speaker 5: And the bloke we had a chat to was what
Speaker 5: do you say but queen.
Speaker 16: Right now, Lord lives in Kingstook twenty minutes away World
Speaker 16: Championship On Friday, won the World championship. He's won five
Speaker 16: out of seven World championships and then Saturday Queensland champion
Speaker 16: twenty minutes strive from here.
Speaker 1: Good an Olympic sport.
Speaker 2: This is Yes, it's guy to watch.
Speaker 1: Well, you've got the venue twenty thirty two.
Speaker 2: What happens, We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: I'd love to say, how was the show for you?
Speaker 1: I saw that you and the team were there for
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 17: Yeah, look, it's a great show. It's a great way
Speaker 17: to say, celebrate everything that happens in our region. Now,
Speaker 17: we've got so much in our region. I know Jeff's
Speaker 17: a big supporter of this, but we've got the most
Speaker 17: feed lots in our region here, we've got eggs, pork, everything.
Speaker 17: You go out and see that show, you get to
Speaker 17: see the best of regional queens and we're the gateway.
Speaker 17: We're the gateway to all the stuff that lines your
Speaker 17: shelves all the way down the East coast. That's us
Speaker 17: and we're really very.
Speaker 1: Proud of it.
Speaker 5: So also, what I love about a Queenslander won't hold
Speaker 5: back right, They'll look you're right in the eye and say,
Speaker 5: all right, mister mayor, fix this traffic light, do this?
Speaker 1: Do that?
Speaker 5: What's it like representing people that want to be that honest.
Speaker 5: They're not going to hide, They're not going to be
Speaker 5: keyboard warriors. They'll get right up in your face.
Speaker 1: And I love it.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 16: The greatest strength of our region of the people.
Speaker 1: You hear it here.
Speaker 16: Listen to these seriously inspirational. You've mentioned John Wagner twice.
Speaker 6: You must be on commission or something.
Speaker 16: Johnts three times.
Speaker 2: But you know you need to back up job driving
Speaker 2: your truck one day. I've already said I'm willing to put.
Speaker 1: Your doser if necessary.
Speaker 16: All right, name, I have a plan B exact, thank you,
Speaker 16: name me. Anywhere else in Australia, Regional Autrava, anywhere else.
Speaker 16: You can learn to be a pilot Connors Pilot Academy.
Speaker 16: You can discover new planets at University of Southern queens
Speaker 16: Then you can learn a trade at TAFE. You can
Speaker 16: be part of Queensland's largest agriculture. You can learn to
Speaker 16: be a doctor, a nurse. You can then be part
Speaker 16: of an education sector that's beyond anywhere else in Australia
Speaker 16: that all happens here. And now we're inn Olympic region.
Speaker 1: Now we're an Olympic region. I love it.
Speaker 5: I love it Garth again as somebody who gets to
Speaker 5: go to Canberra, and obviously much of the media they
Speaker 5: only talk about regions like this in times of disaster.
Speaker 5: How do you keep it? How do you keep it
Speaker 5: on the front foot so that a minister, a Prime minister,
Speaker 5: an opposition leader shadow, they don't forget that this isn't
Speaker 5: a place that just turns up every three years, that
Speaker 5: you need to take care of it in between.
Speaker 17: It wasn't surprising you've been a regular guest here, but
Speaker 17: I've had I think I've had thirteen the front bench
Speaker 17: of our team come across just this term because they
Speaker 17: want to come here and they want to be taken
Speaker 17: photos with the feed lots out. They want to come
Speaker 17: in and see the Empire Theater. Yes, what a great
Speaker 17: display that is. They want to come to the cow
Speaker 17: have a beer with everybody down there and be part
Speaker 17: of this great city. We've got such a great story
Speaker 17: and I think people don't realize just how close we
Speaker 17: are to bridge and that connectivity is really important. But
Speaker 17: I think this is one of these places that's really
Speaker 17: the heartbeat of queens and politics.
Speaker 5: But also when you've got i mean at the state level,
Speaker 5: we've got treasurers, you've got you've got plenty of great
Speaker 5: connections which is going to help the area. But also
Speaker 5: what I have seen with my own eyes and obviously
Speaker 5: in the preparing of this, that it's a very caring
Speaker 5: community right where and everywhere all say, oh, we take
Speaker 5: care of each other, but it's so visible and so
Speaker 5: vocal right that. I mean literally the number of people
Speaker 5: that we're handing stuff over at the Harvey Norman store
Speaker 5: about who they thought they should back in For those
Speaker 5: organizations as well, they do the work on top of
Speaker 5: what government stands up and announce its How important is
Speaker 5: that And what's an example of the types of organizations
Speaker 5: that you're proud of?
Speaker 17: You one, and you've met a couple of guys here
Speaker 17: and they've got a lot of credit to gus from
Speaker 17: Era with Life Side, and you could talk to any
Speaker 17: number of organizations that raise money here for charitable goods
Speaker 17: in Tomboe and we outperform, We do better than what
Speaker 17: they do down in Britain because we get together. We
Speaker 17: are a little bit outside of that little southeast Coinsland click.
Speaker 17: Sometimes we have to look after ourselves and we do
Speaker 17: as one of the best places for that, Tom was great,
Speaker 17: go outside to Oki. It's exactly the same, little town
Speaker 17: where people look after each other. Pittsworth exactly the same.
Speaker 17: We can go right across our region. That's what makes
Speaker 17: us special and I think that's.
Speaker 1: What makes us Tea.
Speaker 5: So let's look forward to that future. We know twenty
Speaker 5: thirty two and that venue is such an obvious thing
Speaker 5: to be working towards. But tell us about the future
Speaker 5: for this area, the types of things that you'd like
Speaker 5: to see that are right on the verge of being
Speaker 5: opened up.
Speaker 16: What you had probably three care areas for us, Paul,
Speaker 16: to be honest, the first one is as unlocking more Land.
Speaker 16: We're a solution to the problems in the southeast and
Speaker 16: we're a service and have been for since eighteen sixteen,
Speaker 16: actually hundred nine year when Alan Cullingham came through here
Speaker 16: and discovered this place first European settlement. We've been doing
Speaker 16: that to our west, we've been looking after them, so
Speaker 16: we've been at a service to them, we're a solution
Speaker 16: to our which we need to unlock all of our land.
Speaker 16: Our industrial land will be a solution to the east.
Speaker 1: That's the first one.
Speaker 16: The second one is around the Crestbrook Dam safety improve
Speaker 16: and upgrade. It's around safety disasked to ready downstream into Girlawa.
Speaker 16: We need funding for that two hundred and seventy million dollars,
Speaker 16: so push hard for us.
Speaker 1: Good good god, I love it to do list.
Speaker 16: And your budget's two hundred million capital. This is two
Speaker 16: hundred and seventy million, big impost into our community. It's
Speaker 16: a massive impost. So they're the first two. And the
Speaker 16: last one, which has been no surprise to everyone, is
Speaker 16: more funding into local government more broadly. And I know
Speaker 16: you have Australian Local Government Association on here. Regularly zero
Speaker 16: point five point one of one percent of the national
Speaker 16: tax take goes to local government.
Speaker 2: They're asking for more money.
Speaker 1: Surprised he's in there baton front dating for his community.
Speaker 16: It's for all these people and one hundred and eighty
Speaker 16: two thousands are out there across our thirteen thousands were kilometers.
Speaker 16: That's what it's for. Because they're going to be hit
Speaker 16: with this. They're going to be hit with it and
Speaker 16: it's really hard for them. We shouldn't have to and.
Speaker 5: I support because the demand on council greater than it's
Speaker 5: ever been. I completely agree Garth again, where you want
Speaker 5: this joint to be in the next next five to ten.
Speaker 1: Well, I say this all the time.
Speaker 17: We are a place that has all the things you need.
Speaker 17: Now we've got wonderful hospitals, wonderful schools, and I've got
Speaker 17: a couple of boys and some of the best schools
Speaker 17: you'll find. I think what we're turning into is a
Speaker 17: place that's going to have the things you want. I
Speaker 17: think we're going to turn into a really special city,
Speaker 17: a genuine regional city, sitting out looking across that Brisbane
Speaker 17: valley there, and it's going to be such an attractive place.
Speaker 17: Jeff is right where the solution. It's a hard time
Speaker 17: finding a place in Brisbane.
Speaker 1: Come up here.
Speaker 17: This is a fantastic place. We're growing, we're getting ahead,
Speaker 17: and look, I think the future you come back here,
Speaker 17: you get coming back.
Speaker 1: Every couple of years.
Speaker 17: You're just going to see this place go ahead further
Speaker 17: and further.
Speaker 1: Now, did you get a prize in the local show?
Speaker 1: Please you mention that pool.
Speaker 2: How did that happen?
Speaker 1: Learning your prize place is in the audience, Get on your.
Speaker 18: Lessa Pembroke County.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you Pembroke County people. There we go.
Speaker 16: We're very proud of that.
Speaker 2: Thanks good.
Speaker 1: You might have got a prize you too, Paul.
Speaker 17: Yes, oh hello, it is a Grand Champion Champions, Grand
Speaker 17: Champion session, best of breed.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, yes, thank you.
Speaker 1: Satus you might be a sass Sason, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to be sas.
Speaker 5: I'm lago ready all right, Sam, Thank you much, thank you,
Speaker 5: thank you, appreciating, Thank you boys good. I love it,
Speaker 5: money Moore for a second, look comes, I'm best in brain.
Speaker 1: Tast get brain.
Speaker 5: I love their putting in Queensland and the bill us
Speaker 5: are doing their bit at the moment when it comes
Speaker 5: to representing us your best and brave they are.
Speaker 1: Harvey Norman wants them all away.
Speaker 5: We all know how important sport is to regions like
Speaker 5: Tawomba and we want to make sure that the next
Speaker 5: generation of athletes get the support they need, which is
Speaker 5: why our mates at Harvey Norman come in to support
Speaker 5: women from pathways to the elite version of the sport
Speaker 5: and This is what we mean when we say elite
Speaker 5: rugby league is in the entertainment capital of the world,
Speaker 5: Las Vegas and literally lighting up the globe. A massive
Speaker 5: part of that is going to be the biggest game
Speaker 5: in the history of women's rugby league. The Jillarous, supported
Speaker 5: by our great mates at Harvey Norman, are about to
Speaker 5: take to a field with a stadium of tens of
Speaker 5: thousands of people, so many people watching at home. And
Speaker 5: these girls deserve every bit of our support because I
Speaker 5: have worked their backsides off and they're going to put
Speaker 5: on the best show in town.
Speaker 16: This is a beautiful place to showcase what our female
Speaker 16: athletes are doing down that side of the world.
Speaker 18: What's the way your Robinson A Why she's a truck
Speaker 18: story free Kelly and Robinson gorgeous pass Kelly.
Speaker 1: Won't you stuff from there?
Speaker 4: Isabelle?
Speaker 1: Kelly is over.
Speaker 18: Congratulations to the Australian jilarus A seventeen trying to one demolition.
Speaker 19: I've told girls to think about their first jersey and
Speaker 19: what that looked like and where that was and mine
Speaker 19: was in the backstreets of New Zealand with hard lany lights.
Speaker 19: And then when we were on the stadium today, there's
Speaker 19: lights everywhere, there's people everywhere. It's a moment, but it's
Speaker 19: just going to be an absolutely huge time for the
Speaker 19: Jilarus to spread our game.
Speaker 5: What made this event even more special was that the
Speaker 5: NT Titans women's team was part of this incredible landmark
Speaker 5: EVN in Vegas. We actually first had the chance to
Speaker 5: meet these wonderful players through their assistant coach, Biancha Scrimdaw,
Speaker 5: who was one of the Spirit Award winners of the
Speaker 5: Harvey Norman Schine Awards last year. It was absolutely incredible
Speaker 5: to see these players present their jerseys to their heroes
Speaker 5: in the Jillarrus.
Speaker 20: So I'm actually going to invite up Erin from the
Speaker 20: Northern Territory team to present our number one jersey to
Speaker 20: Tamika Upton Jillery number one seventy four five test matches.
Speaker 9: For the Jilare.
Speaker 21: It's like, it's a bit surreal. I've been in the
Speaker 21: pathways since i was a teen. I'm now twenty one,
Speaker 21: so yeah, we used to just go to national CompCert
Speaker 21: like just over to Queensland and stuff, and nowhere around
Speaker 21: the world.
Speaker 5: Within any sporting club, it's crucial that players feel support
Speaker 5: across the board, from the psychologists to the dietitians and
Speaker 5: in particular the coaching staff. And it's clear this team
Speaker 5: absolutely loved their coach Leon.
Speaker 21: Leon's is an awesome person.
Speaker 11: He is.
Speaker 21: It's done a lot for me and my family. You know,
Speaker 21: I just I really enjoy working with him and being coached.
Speaker 4: HEMI has a head on his shoulders.
Speaker 7: They knew there was a job to be done over here.
Speaker 7: They were determined to put.
Speaker 4: Their best foot forward on the footy field, but.
Speaker 3: Also enjoy themselves or say yeah, I.
Speaker 11: Can't think them enough for what they've done over here
Speaker 11: for us.
Speaker 5: And while I was over there, I got a chance
Speaker 5: to catch up with a few of the Jillaru stars
Speaker 5: to find out what the experience meant to them.
Speaker 22: Hey, everyone was so supportive with the women and I
Speaker 22: think that's that's amazing and it's just to see how
Speaker 22: father women's games come. It's it's pretty special that we
Speaker 22: get to have this opportunity to play and showcase our
Speaker 22: women's rugby league at Allegiance Stadium in such a big event.
Speaker 22: But hopefully after this the game on Saturday, our games
Speaker 22: is going to go to another level and we're going
Speaker 22: to get more support and more sponsors are putting into
Speaker 22: our game to make us become professional athletes, and then
Speaker 22: where our game can just go to another ten levels
Speaker 22: above that.
Speaker 5: It is the biggest game of rugby league the team
Speaker 5: has ever played, the jill Arruse in front of that crowd,
Speaker 5: with all that exposure, that is such a testament to
Speaker 5: the hard work you guys have put in for a
Speaker 5: long time.
Speaker 22: All right, don't maybe know it's just yet.
Speaker 5: All right, So now that the Jillarus have played the
Speaker 5: very first women's NRL game in Las Vegas, with the
Speaker 5: help of our mates at Harvey Norman, it's incredible to
Speaker 5: imagine how far the women's game.
Speaker 1: Has gone, is going and will thrive into the future.
Speaker 1: This is number five. I love putting in Quaint Player.
Speaker 5: I love particularly hearing for Wimbre two women who are
Speaker 5: really incredible things in here haped you Mintel who is
Speaker 5: with the Qing CWA, and Amanda Dalton with an organization
Speaker 5: called pro to Your Place, both special women who are
Speaker 5: doing special things. You'd love you to see you both
Speaker 5: now a matter. I've got the chance to meet you
Speaker 5: yesterday when we're at Harvey. Mormon locals have nominated you
Speaker 5: with somebody doing something special, tell us a little bit
Speaker 5: about the place and what you do.
Speaker 23: So I created Pardia Place, which is a women's support center.
Speaker 23: Nearly six years ago. We didn't have anything into Womba
Speaker 23: that was a place where women could just go, whether
Speaker 23: it be domestic and family violence, or homelessness or any
Speaker 23: other life trauma. So I decided to start something up.
Speaker 23: And I think because of our amazing community that we
Speaker 23: have here in too Woomberg, we've been completely community funded
Speaker 23: for the past five and a half years, which is
Speaker 23: phenomenal and testament to our Tawoomba community.
Speaker 1: And part of what you do apart from a safe
Speaker 1: space when it may be needed.
Speaker 5: And again this is a great place, but as every place,
Speaker 5: there's times that are.
Speaker 1: Tough for people.
Speaker 5: But also I've heard stories about what you do that
Speaker 5: you in the middle of the night are willing to
Speaker 5: go and meet somebody and bring them to the place.
Speaker 5: What does it mean to you on that personal level
Speaker 5: if you can help one woman for one night. Yeah.
Speaker 23: So obviously domestic and family violence has a massive impact,
Speaker 23: and particularly in the homelessness space. That is the largest
Speaker 23: reason that women and or children are becoming homeless is
Speaker 23: because of domestic and family violence, and unfortunately with a
Speaker 23: housing crisis on us, it's made it a million times
Speaker 23: worse and a lot harder.
Speaker 1: How much money do you need out of the Queen's
Speaker 1: name Government?
Speaker 23: Six hundred and thirty six thousand, All.
Speaker 5: Right, Premier, deliver it tomorrow. All right, deliver it tomorrow, Treasurer,
Speaker 5: local MP, deliver it tomorrow. If not, I'll kick your us.
Speaker 1: All right. That's the way it's going to work, all right.
Speaker 1: That's called advocacy, Amanda or now, of course, Phoebe.
Speaker 5: We met you the very first time that we were here,
Speaker 5: and it's lovely to see you again. The CWA is
Speaker 5: known nationwide, the Queensland branch of it. What have you
Speaker 5: guys been focused on in the past, of the world?
Speaker 1: How do you help?
Speaker 24: Okay, So at the moment we're the quiet achievers. We're
Speaker 24: in the background doing a lot of work on the
Speaker 24: ground helping emergency crews. At the moment, we're providing food
Speaker 24: in central Queensland to emergency crews who are helping out
Speaker 24: those in flood. We're also giving packages of food vouch
Speaker 24: just that type of thing out around a Amanga. We've
Speaker 24: got one of our members who's actually provided housing for
Speaker 24: people to come into In Tambourine, we're doing the same.
Speaker 24: They're providing food on going. It's not royal while now
Speaker 24: while it's happening, we're there for months after as well.
Speaker 24: So that's one thing that's continued on from Cans on
Speaker 24: from all of them. The other space that we're working
Speaker 24: in at the moment, and it's early stages for us,
Speaker 24: but that is there's a huge has Amanda said, women
Speaker 24: and poverty and homelessness is huge, and so where we
Speaker 24: are as QCWA is we're actually in the process at
Speaker 24: the moment. We're actually lobbying to government in all areas
Speaker 24: to try and change some of the policies around around
Speaker 24: women and around the availability of assistance for women. And
Speaker 24: then also not only the policy, we're advocating for a
Speaker 24: whole lot of changes in that space all together. On
Speaker 24: the ground stuff that we're doing is that we're because
Speaker 24: we have over between two hundred and three hundred branches,
Speaker 24: we have women on the ground all over the place
Speaker 24: who are actually doing things like dB connect packs, so
Speaker 24: there making up packs, they're delivering them to the local
Speaker 24: DV connect places, etc. They're putting together emergency toiletries, emergency
Speaker 24: kits for children and that type of thing. So that
Speaker 24: goes on all year, every year, and we've been doing
Speaker 24: that for some fifteen years now.
Speaker 5: I ask a dumb question, but it's my role at
Speaker 5: this moment to do so how do blokes help?
Speaker 1: How to blokes?
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously there are things that need to change
Speaker 5: in attitudes and all the rest of it. I believe,
Speaker 5: as a person who would die for the women in
Speaker 5: my life that that's a majority of people. I know,
Speaker 5: you guys see a different picture in an area, But
Speaker 5: how do men help?
Speaker 1: What you do?
Speaker 24: So behind every woman there is actually a man usually
Speaker 24: who's helping or a partner who's helping in the background.
Speaker 24: That's one way they help is actually assisting our members.
Speaker 24: But the other way that they're actually helping is that
Speaker 24: we actually have what we call Friends of QCWA, which
Speaker 24: is open to all men and sponsorship ands. So we
Speaker 24: have two main two main areas that are tax deductible
Speaker 24: that we get only funding. We don't get any funding
Speaker 24: at all government funding. We're completely and in this last
Speaker 24: month we've given out forty thousand dollars in aid to
Speaker 24: those who need it in food vouchers in clothing, in
Speaker 24: that sort of thing. And that's just from our Disaster
Speaker 24: Fund and our Public Real Crisis, both of which tax
Speaker 24: deductible and both which you can actually donate to us online.
Speaker 5: Well, it's that thing we're across the country right now.
Speaker 5: That's how you can help male, female or anything else.
Speaker 5: That's how to do it. We'll make sure all the
Speaker 5: details are up on the websites. Again, Government, listen to
Speaker 5: these ladies. They're at the cold face. They know what's
Speaker 5: going on. And to Woomba, be very proud that they're
Speaker 5: doing it in your community. Thank you, ladies, we really
Speaker 5: do appreciate it. All right, take a quick break and
Speaker 5: then I'm going to tell you some of the great.
Speaker 1: Sites of filmomm want to see. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: So we are here in Twombar. Big shout out to
Speaker 5: everyone in mirth precint what a great dinu this is.
Speaker 5: Thank you to everyone.
Speaker 1: Helping us out in the coffee bars up the back.
Speaker 5: Look at that. Not only are they serving the coffees
Speaker 5: in the back, they're clapping and cheering along as well
Speaker 5: with the studio audience.
Speaker 1: Good on you guys.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right now
Speaker 5: Tomorrow Night gove you a little preview. Don't forget. We
Speaker 5: didn't realize that the timing would be like this, but
Speaker 5: we know Anthony Abernez. He always wants to do me
Speaker 5: a favor. And the favor that he's done us is
Speaker 5: calling the election on Friday. So the first big event
Speaker 5: of the election when it comes to Peter Dunton, is
Speaker 5: going to be the pub test, where again huge room
Speaker 5: full of people who watch this show, they get to
Speaker 5: ask him whatever questions that they want or follow up
Speaker 5: here and there. But the event is not about me.
Speaker 5: It's about those questions. And I love all of these
Speaker 5: in pub tests or people's forums or debates where you
Speaker 5: watch the body language go okay, how do they deal
Speaker 5: with this?
Speaker 1: How do they do their decision making? All of that.
Speaker 1: So that'll be.
Speaker 5: Fun, and that's of course tomorrow night. Here on Sky
Speaker 5: News eight o'clock Queensland time. What's this nine pm Australian
Speaker 5: Eastern Daylight standard rubbish? It's eight o'clock in Queensland, the
Speaker 5: only joint that matters. And I had the chance to
Speaker 5: walk around with one of the local council's councilors here Edwena,
Speaker 5: because a new segment that I thought up before this
Speaker 5: our town, and we'll do it in Calgoley, and we'll
Speaker 5: do it everywhere else. Is show us three really cool
Speaker 5: buildings around the town, because well, I don't pretend to
Speaker 5: be any sort of architecture of Fifth Leonardo.
Speaker 1: I do like a good building.
Speaker 5: I can work out a form and Edwin it tells
Speaker 5: us three of the ones worth remembering here.
Speaker 1: There's many, many more, but three of the best.
Speaker 2: They're just lovely old and new, which keeps a place alive.
Speaker 1: So give me an idea about.
Speaker 5: The three things when you come to to Woomba you've
Speaker 5: got to see with your own night.
Speaker 25: The Empire Theater, the most beautiful Art Deco building in town.
Speaker 25: Almost it burned down a number of years ago. They've
Speaker 25: council voted to rebuild it and it almost divided the town.
Speaker 25: No one wanted it, and now it is the jewel
Speaker 25: in our crown.
Speaker 1: Gorgeous.
Speaker 5: We got the chance to see it last night with
Speaker 5: all of the fog around, which just was this really
Speaker 5: beautiful dream thought.
Speaker 1: Today it's plenty of it.
Speaker 2: Part of Talma all right.
Speaker 25: Number two, we've got a gorgeous courthouse, or it used
Speaker 25: to be the courthouse. It's now been turned into a home.
Speaker 25: We've got residents now moving into town, and that's something
Speaker 25: that we're also trying to encourage here at Timber's Shop top.
Speaker 25: Living more people living in town. They can then walk
Speaker 25: to work, keep off the roads, but also visit all
Speaker 25: the shops and businesses downtown.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you agree with me, but we've
Speaker 5: got to talk about a toilet.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about one toilet right now.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: It's not going to take long to visit. But it
Speaker 1: looks really cool.
Speaker 25: Yeah, and it is cool, and it's so random, but
Speaker 25: it was built in nineteen nineteen, and it was so
Speaker 25: sturdy that it stood the twenty eleven floods. The inland
Speaker 25: tsunami washed all the way through town and building. That
Speaker 25: toilet is still standing and it's there today.
Speaker 5: I repeat and dozens of things to see, hundreds and
Speaker 5: hundreds of things to do, But if a toilet looks
Speaker 5: as good as that, I have to talk about it,
Speaker 5: all right. I'm a bloke, and that's the way that
Speaker 5: it works, all right. Thank you to everyone into one,
Speaker 5: but thank you for being so kind to us this weekend.
Speaker 5: Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for the
Speaker 5: support that you have, not just for the show but
Speaker 5: the station. We've got plenty of fire up when it
Speaker 5: comes to the election. But the most important thing about
Speaker 5: these shows is these are great people. And I say it,
Speaker 5: whether it's the smallest part of Tasmania or it's big
Speaker 5: regional centers like this, whether it's going to be Calgooli
Speaker 5: in Western Australia in a few weeks time, or it's
Speaker 5: country capitals. Australia is a magnificent place. It's a massive place.
Speaker 5: It's a different place. And if you're somebody who is
Speaker 5: just sick and tired of taking an hour and a
Speaker 5: half to get from one side of a capital city
Speaker 5: to another.
Speaker 1: There's this place called the rest of Australia.
Speaker 5: Okay, come and visit it, move to it, bring business here,
Speaker 5: bring big ideas, and particularly in a place like to Woomba,
Speaker 5: this is a can do join. This is a can
Speaker 5: do join that has connected itself not just the rest
Speaker 5: of Queensland, but of the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: Through the airport.
Speaker 5: It connects itself through business parks, through people who are
Speaker 5: hard working and wanting to work harder. There are people
Speaker 5: who have worked hard their whole life and will welcome
Speaker 5: you with open arms. To Woomba is a very special place.
Speaker 5: That's why it was our first, our town, that's why
Speaker 5: it's the place we've been to more than anything else.
Speaker 5: And again on behalf of myself and everyone at sky News.
Speaker 5: Thank you to woman. We love you guys, honestly, thank
Speaker 5: you for that's our shape.
Speaker 4: All night.
Speaker 2: We will see you again.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night we're telling up.
Speaker 5: We'll be taking the pup taste, taking questions from the
Speaker 5: Sky News viewers, and I'm up for another big night
Speaker 5: in the great town of the Pan Time.